480x60 in push/pull is surprisingly effective.

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My rig currently has XE360 and XE480 rads in push/pull with the fans set to 50%. I am currently converting all of the long Vardar fan leads to short Noctua-style pigtails, so I disconnected the fans attached to the 360, so I could remove them and do the pigtail conversion, and thought I would run CBR23 to see how effective the 480 is by itself.

No difference in CPU thermals or CBR23 score. In fact the score went up slightly within margin of error. So now I'm thinking of removing the 360 and run on the single 480, to simplify the loop and make draining/maintenance easier. The waterways within the thick 360 are probably providing some degree of passive cooling, but the test results were still somewhat surprising.

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