Corsair Water Cooling/Fan Swap Out

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I erased my previous post and copy and pasted my same thing on another forum, fyi.

Hey guys, I need some help. To start off I have an Azza Solano 1000

How many of you have the Corsair H50 water cooling kit? I was looking into it but had a few questions. First, would it be better to take off my case's rear exhaust fan and just the one that Corsair provides? Or would it be better to use the one that comes with my case?

Secondly, I was reading this installation guide (don't have it yet) and it said that the manual says air needs to be blown ONTO the radiator, meaning my rear exhaust would need to become a rear intake. So if that's the case, would it be wise to turn my front intakes into front exhausts?

Another idea I had was turn the front AND rear into intakes, and just turn the huge fan on the side into an exhaust, removing all of the heat in the middle. I would do the same with the top fan, turn it into an exhaust.

How's those ideas sound?

EDIT: I just watched a YouTube video, and the guy reviewing it said there can be a 120mm fan on BOTH sides of the radiator. Meaning I could keep my case's stock, and mount the radiator between that and the one it comes with. But what direction of airflow would be best?
 
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Heres a small diagram (i tried)

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Outside |Case Fan|Radiator|Fan| <-------Direction of Airflow Inside
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This all leads to outside the case acting as an exhaust basically. Yes you can replace the Corsair H50 radiator fan with a better one, it will ultimately lead to better cooling because its only a 120mm radiator which is pretty weak for water-cooling. Thats why the Corsair H50 only performs about the same as mid-range Air cooling products and not as good as high end air-cooling. Putting in something like a Noctua fan will yield you better temps, something like i think 5-8C better probably.
 
So you're saying I should just mount the radiator and the Corsair fan on top of my rear exhaust one, and keep everything how it is?
 
Putty said:
So you're saying I should just mount the radiator and the Corsair fan on top of my rear exhaust one, and keep everything how it is?
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yes pretty much, make sure the fans blow in the correct direction though. The case fan you leave alone, you said you can mount the radiator onto the case fan so do that, then mount the radiator fan onto the radiator and you will have
Top of case

Outside case case fan | radiator | radiator fan Inside case


Bottom of case

The airflow will all be directed outwards so it acts as an exhaust still.

Usually all you do is take out the case fan and then mount the radiator with the radiator fan where your case exhaust fan used to be. But if u do the way you said with case fan/radiator/radiator fan, you should get better performance.
 
There is little gain if you use the radiator to SUCK air into the case.... most who have it switch it so the air is blown out of the case through the radiator...
 
I-Die-Often said:
There is little gain if you use the radiator to SUCK air into the case.... most who have it switch it so the air is blown out of the case through the radiator...
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Correct, the air pulled through the rad is warmed & pulling warmed air into a case is counter productive when cooling is the goal :)
 
Stinky Wizzleteats said:
Correct, the air pulled through the rad is warmed & pulling warmed air into a case is counter productive when cooling is the goal :)
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well its not that the radiator pulls in warm air, its technically taking air from outside which is cool but then when it passes through radiator is warms up and thus u bring warm air into the case which is a no-no.....so yea they are all made as exhaust fans and thus replace the case exhaust fans most of the time
 
So I should have the fan attached to the radiator as an exhaust? Sucking air out from my case?
 
thats how the fan you have there should be already, pushing air out. attach the radiator to that, then on top of the radiator attach another fan that is blowing up against the radiator.
 
If you have an exhaust fan located on top of your case then have the fans on the radiator intake air. If not, then use it as an exhaust.
 
Use it as a intake, the Azza has a really nice exhaust at the top. Keep the font as intakes, two 140mm fans will make a difference when intaking air.
You could also have the fan set as a exhaust, the Azza once again has two 140mm fans infront and a giant 230mm instake for the side. So the air leaving the case would be pretty cool.
 
they are pretty much always used for exhaust.......rarely do u ever see them being used as intake, intake would technically be a bad idea because the air would be used to cool down the radiator but in the process the air itself gets heated up and as an intake it brings this inside the case and your essentially bringing hot air into the case.....
 
PewPewBangBang said:
they are pretty much always used for exhaust.......rarely do u ever see them being used as intake, intake would technically be a bad idea because the air would be used to cool down the radiator but in the process the air itself gets heated up and as an intake it brings this inside the case and your essentially bringing hot air into the case.....
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Research before you speak. Corsair even recommends to use the H50 with intake fans. Assume you case is well ventilated, you will get much better results.
 
FreakingHell said:
Research before you speak. Corsair even recommends to use the H50 with intake fans. Assume you case is well ventilated, you will get much better results.
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alrite.......idk just common sense makes it seem not right, not arguing with you so u don't really need to sound so harsh.......
 
you need to have enough exhaust fans. fine use the cooler with an intake fan, no problem, but you need to have enough exhaust fans to get the hot air out. i don't recommend having 4 intake with 1 exhaust.
also you want the flow to be just that...flowing, consistent. don't have 2 intake fans at the front and another intake at the back, it will push against each other and you'll basically just be waiting for it to be sucked up or eventually move up to the exhaust at the top.
 
What I'm going to do is have the front and rear as intake, so that fits the the Corsair recommendation; then have my big side and top fans as exhaust.

Sound like a plan?
 
Putty said:
What I'm going to do is have the front and rear as intake, so that fits the the Corsair recommendation; then have my big side and top fans as exhaust.

Sound like a plan?
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well no, as junk said, you don't want a front intake and a back intake.......the common airflow is front intake, side panel intake, top exhaust, and back exhaust so you have a consistent airflow, there are diagrams out on the web that show this, cold air coming from front and side and the hot air leaving through the top and back.

http://www.quietpcusa.com/images/products/galleries/fullsize/zalman-gs1000-air-flow-full.jpg

this is the basic diagram on airflow in a PC
 
do it that way. and you want your side fan as intake for sure, that is where the majority of your cooling comes from if you ask me. it touches all of your components. also i don't even think you can make that side fan go as exhaust on that case, not sure but its preset as intake i guarantee
 
PewPewBangBang said:
alrite.......idk just common sense makes it seem not right, not arguing with you so u don't really need to sound so harsh.......
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It's just that I've seen you spew false information more than your fair share of times on these forums. A little research goes a long ways.
 
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