Need advice on two case fans or three.

Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by Hauler, Jan 11, 2014.

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Need advice on two case fans or three.

Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by Hauler, Jan 11, 2014.

  1. Hauler

    Hauler .

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    I don't care about them being quiet so please don't worry about that. I also need them to be 140 mm. I bought two bgears and have them in there with the three stock ones from Cosair, but the Cosair ones are so shit. Don't move a lot of air and to be honest not very happy with them. I also have a fan controller for six fans I love it. Now my main thing is that I really want something badass and they have to be three pin for the Controller. I saw this thing for Noctua like a demo and it was crazy how much air those moved. I would love to have another four pin fan as well for my cooler master to move more air through that as well.

    I might get three more Bgears in short as I really like them and the RPM's are nuts. And then get two really great CPU fan coolers and stick them on.
     
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  2. HIGHLANDER

    HIGHLANDER Administrator,Motivational speaker,van dweller

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    I would liquid cool, IMHO i have it and son my my son and we are running hot machines. I run on avg 75 degrees or pretty close to room temp.
     
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  3. Hauler

    Hauler .

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    Not a big fan :). I just like fans more and bought significant stuff for fan cooling. Right now at idle my just doing basic things like watching vids on yt it is 30 C. Load on BF4 it gets up to 43 or so with two OC 760 GTX. So adding better fans that move more air in my case is the way I'm going to stick with it. Liquid stuff can break and I don't want to risk it as I can't afford to replace broken or damaged parts and liquid is pricey while fans are tops 20 bucks per fan.

    I have a duel chamber case so the PSU goes into another compartment which really helps keep everything else really cool I think.
     
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  4. Kowlefe

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    The more fans the better if you ask me. I loaded my case with the biggest fans it could fit
     
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  5. DiscoPotato

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  6. icebalm

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    If you don't care how they look, noctua fans are pretty much top dog.

    If you do care how they look then I do recommend the corsair series fans, I know you have some junky ones, but the AF fans are really good for air flow (exhaust/intake) and the SP ones are good for static pressure (heat sinks, radiators). You have to use them in their intended roles. I liquid cool my system and use SP120s for my radiator, an AF140 for intake, and an AF120 for exhaust.

     
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  7. ILoveBuzzCut

    ILoveBuzzCut .

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    How hard was that to setup? I've only got individual coolers for my GPUs, but am looking at a full liquid setup.
     
    ILoveBuzzCut, Jan 12, 2014
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  8. icebalm

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    It's extremely easy to liquid cool as long as you make sure all your tube and fittings are the same size (!). It's pretty expensive though. I listed all my equipment in the video description, but I'll just put a couple pointers here:

    1. Don't cheap out, use compression fittings.
    2. Use colored tube, not colored coolant.
    3. A D5 pump is overkill, get a PWM controlled DDC pump.
    4. Most water blocks perform within a few degrees of each other, go for looks.
    5. Liquid cooling anything more than CPU(s) and GPU(s) is a waste of time and money.
     
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  9. ILoveBuzzCut

    ILoveBuzzCut .

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    Currently I have a Rosewill ATX Full Tower, I'm running two 660tis with aftermarket Air Coolers, and an i5 3570k overclocked to 4.5 GHz, using a Hyper 212 EVO air cooler. I have two 130mm case fans, and a 230mm case fan. Idling, my stuff runs at 25-30c. At load, I usually go up to like 70-80c (My GPUs in particular), so I kinda wanna switch to something cooler. My house is kept at like 73ish Fahrenheit.
     
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  10. DiscoPotato

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    It's not all that uncommon for Gpus to operate normally around 80c. Check with your manufacturer and see what the normal operating temp is under full load. The threshold is much much higher than most Cpus, so if that's going up to 80 or even close to I would be concerned.
     
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