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No, no, no... modern cases put the radiator at the TOP of the box, pulling from the case and exiting upward so the CPU doesn't heat anything up. The MB & GPU actually run cooler, and the difference in the efficiency of the cooling of the CPU... it's really a no-brainer dude. I've been seeing AIO solutions in servers for years now, they're that reliable. I mean, yeah... if you started talking liquid-cooling on your MB and GPU, I'd say you were going the wrong direction for sure. But a good sealed AIO is reliable, it has PWM feedback just like a fan, and in most cases you're looking at a solid copper plate for thermal transfer.
This, BTW, is a
Thermaltake V200 Mid-Tower case. It comes with 4 120mm fans and supports 120x240mm radiator in front or top (or BOTH, if you want to do a second AIO for your GPU
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); the other two came with this generic $60 AIO cooler I decided to take a chance on. I got my V200 because it was on sale for $60; if I had it to do again I'd probably go for a more expensive box with hinged front & sides so hot-swap HDD bays wouldn't have been such a pain in the tuchus to realize.
But as a functional case, thanks to the small amount of space taken up by the AIO pump there's just oodles of room and I have NO worries about it keeping cool, even with my house hitting 25° in the afternoon now. Idles at 35°, hits 40-45° according to my front-mounted thermometer. Internal monitoring indicates individual core temps sometimes as much as 7° warmer than it shows; it takes a minute or two for that thermo to catch up as it senses from direct contact with the side of the CPU lid. Very old-school; but I like having at least one hardware thermometer that MS Update or a hung CPU can't fuck up.
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And before you say it... yes, I realize that means the radiator for the CPU sucks all the GPU & MB heat through it. Liquid-cooling is simply that much more effective that it doesn't matter; just like your car that cools the engine, transmission and even oil (and, in the case of a hybrid, also an electric motor & motor controller and battery) all the while sucking all the heat generated by your AC condenser through its radiator first.
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