is my rad placement affecting performance ?

[Ze@lot]

hi,

i should have maybe thought of this before but i have a front
mounted AC 360 airplex rad the design of this rad will only
allow me to place the fans on 1 side. with the fans
sandwiched between the grill & the rad, so i have ended up
with the fans pushing air over the rad rather than pulling air
over it. the rear rad is ok, but how much of a performace
issue is the front rad ?

[Pug]

hi,

i should have maybe thought of this before but i have a front
mounted AC 360 airplex rad the design of this rad will only
allow me to place the fans on 1 side. with the fans
sandwiched between the grill & the rad, so i have ended up
with the fans pushing air over the rad rather than pulling air
over it. the rear rad is ok, but how much of a performace
issue is the front rad ?It's how I originally ran my 240 in Hexadragon, it's fine. :-)

You can mount fans the other side too, what you need is the APE Docking Modules - it's hardly a performance issue (you can get a very slim improvement if you do it right) but with the fans the other side of the radiator, noise damping is somewhat increased by the radiator being between you and the fans.

[Ze@lot]

ahhh cool, lol i must admit i was panicing a bit there.

thanks for the quick reply pug.

[Pug]

No probs. :-)

[zer0]

yeah thats how i run my radiator and it works fine hell i even pushed bults though mine and it still works fine...