WW Block, Via 1300 Pump/Reservoir, Dtek Pro-Combo Rad and a Panaflo 120mm H1A. Now should I have the fan mounted on the rad in the front of the case pushing air through, or the fan mounted at the end of the rad sucking the air out and pusing the air over my PCI slots? Which one is best?
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Push or Pull?
- Thread starter Bobaroo
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For temperatures, I don't think it matters hardly at all. Personally I'd have the fan push air through.
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push pull is the best, but if you don't have the capability, i'd have to say pull is better because it obstructs it less, push pull works sooooooo much better though 
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Pull is always the best when in comes in 1 fan situations, by having a shroud on the fan pulling, you are sucking air through more of the heatercore then you would trying to blow air through. The reason push pull works so well is because the fan pushing feeds the fan pulling on the other side meaning more air gets through. Mind you this only works well on a setup with shrouds, which can be cheap and easy to assemble as detailed in several quides on the forum.
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This is why. In your case, you would only have one fan pulling, but it would still have a more positive effect then one fan pushing. This also deminstrates why shrouds are importand for airflow.
