I’ve bought a NZXT kraken x63 and I have a Corsair Carbide Series 275Q chassis and Gigabyte Aorus Master X570 motherboard (links to specs are at the bottom).
But I have two questions regarding installation:
- What is the correct (or best) physical placement of radiator and fans.?
- How to connect fans and pump to MB?
More details:
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Basically, I have both fans and radiator inside chassi sucking the air from inside. I’m not sure though, whether the order should be: chassis, fans, radiator, rest of the PC (motherboards, power…) or it should be chassis, radiator, fans.
Also, I’m not sure what should be the best airflow direction in that case. It’s not clear to me from the pictures in the manual.
I found few videos of how to install kraken x62 (i guess it’s pretty much the same with x63), but they all say different things (fans out of the box, airflow shoud go out or in, somebody even have each fan on radiator having different direction)
Currenty I have it like this – forepart of the chassis, radiator, boths fans sucking air from inside the PC and blowing it out (throught the radiator).
Is this correct? Or would another configuration be more suitable?
I also have another two fans at the end and at the top of the PC case, both sucking the air and pumping it outside. -
Also, I wanted to ask how to connect the cooler to the MB. I connected the pump to CPU_FAN (altough some instructions say it should be CPU_OPT) and both fans to SYS_FAN[5|6]_PUMP. Is this the preferred way?
This is my box:
https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Cases/Mid-Tower-ATX-Cases/Carbide-Series-275Q-Mid-Tower-Quiet-Gaming-Case-%E2%80%94-Black/p/CC-9011164-WW
This is my MB:
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/X570-AORUS-MASTER-rev-1x#kfh
And here is the cooler:
https://www.nzxt.com/products/kraken-x63
Any other advice regarding cooling would be welcomed
Thank you for any help
Here are the photos of how it’s installed:
