different fans on each side of rad? (push pull)

[donimo]

Hey all, I was just wondering if it is ok to have different fans on each side of a rad? I have the sapce to fit 2 more fans on the back, and the filters on the front I put on restrict the flow quite a bit so it may make a difference.

Question have is that I have Noctua p12's on the front, but I have 2 spare antec tri-cools (no more p12's) and on low they are quiet so I was wondering if that is ok?

Cant find any infor to say one way or the other...

Noctuas are rated at 54cfm, tri-cools at low are rated at 39cfm, my line of thought was that the resistance from the filters plus the rad should slow that down quite a lot from the rated 54, so 39 from the tricools should help it out instead of slowing it down, thoughts?

[MpG]

It should help things out. If the two fan speeds are different enough, the slower fan will be pretty much useless, but there has to be a pretty large difference in their speeds before that point is reached.

[donimo]

I figured, the noctua on my 120 rad (no filter) is putting out a fair bit more air (by the hand-o-meter) compared to the amount coming out the 240 rad (with filters).

There is less than 30% difference between the 2 fans, and I think the filters+rad slows the air by at least 30%...


cool, the tricools are led fans to so much more baller...