Water Cooling Radiator Front Or Top

In the very least we can look at liquid cooler placement performance in a few different cases.

Water cooling radiator front or top.

Water cooling systems whether they are a custom loop or an aio all follow the same basic principles. I used two aio coolers for this test one is a 280mm evga clc 280 liquid cpu cooler and the other is a 240mm corsair h100i v2. 2 x 140mm fans in front can only be mounted behind the front plate. You have the reservoir the pump the radiator the fans some tubing a block for either.

Two 120mm or two 140mm fans and supports a 120mm or a 240mm radiator. The reason for the difference is that the top of my case cannot take a 280mm radiator. The standard layout is designed for maximum storage capacity and the open layout is for water cooling setup. All fans will be configured to 100 in our testing.

For water cooling it supports up to 420mm radiator on top 360mm in the front and 280mm on the base. All to ensure you don t have to compromise on performance. This includes measuring how much a front radiator might reduce cpu temperatures at risk of raising gpu temperatures or how a top mount might do the opposite. One 120mm fan or radiator.

I was using a 280mm radiator in the front initially i then swapped for the 240mm radiator to test my theory. The case features two different layouts.