question on air flow through sff watercooled pc

[Elerek]

Theoretically if I wanted a sff boutique watercooled system that was as clean as possible with a full side window, could I have intake fans on one half of the radiator(s) and exhaust on the other half, or would 120mm fans right next to each other blowing in opposite directions ingest too much of each others air to be efficient?

Second half of the question would be if a system could survive with 0 actual airflow over the components themselves.
Would the am4 chipset survive in that environment or would it need a monoblock (obviously something like x299 would, it basically needs it by default ) What about ram, vrm, etc? Do those components need air flowif the heat from gpu/cpu is taken away from them?

 

[Biowarejak]

Theoretically if I wanted a sff boutique watercooled system that was as clean as possible with a full side window, could I have intake fans on one half of the radiator(s) and exhaust on the other half, or would 120mm fans right next to each other blowing in opposite directions ingest too much of each others air to be efficient?

Second half of the question would be if a system could survive with 0 actual airflow over the components themselves.
Would the am4 chipset survive in that environment or would it need a monoblock (obviously something like x299 would, it basically needs it by default ) What about ram, vrm, etc? Do those components need air flowif the heat from gpu/cpu is taken away from them?

You absolutely need airflow over your components. Even with, you can get burns from touching the motherboard heatsinks. Without could eventually outright damage them, affecting long term stability and limiting the builds potential.

And yeah your fans would be ingesting a fair bit of their own air in that set up really depends on case layout.