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Post Date: 2016-05-19
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    Posted: 19 May 2016 at 5:33pm
So as the weather warms up. I have noticed my shiny new system starting to get warm. I have been monitoring temps and have noticed spikes over 80c while gaming. But over all the temps are all over the place.

I have the "digital storm brand" liquid cooling system in my rig, with sandwiched fans on the rad. After doing a lot of digging around I discovered the fans are both trying to pull air out of the rad. Is this normal? The fan on the "inside" side of the rad is trying to pull from outside the case through the rad, and the "outside" fan is trying to pull from inside the case and blow out.

I have a support ticket open as well. But they are closed for the night and I just want to make sure im not totally crazy here.

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If you have the 120mm rad that mounts against the inside back, then both fans should be blowing toward the rear and out. Inside fan thru the rad and outside fan pulling the air thru the rad and out.   It's called push/pull. Both fans in the same direction.

Remount the inside fan to blow thru the rad.

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Ok thats exactly how I thought it should be. It came from DS this way. I figured I should ask before doing it.
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Yeah, both fans are fighting each other, otherwise.

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Do I need to clear it with DS support before I do it? I dont wanna mod the system and screw up any warranty. I just got this thing.
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You may want to have DS management look at pics of your computer for quality control.
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