Antec 1200 fans advice

Aedus

Aedus

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Kay, I've been trying to sort out the temps in my antec 1200 to see if i can lessen them a bit, and I think 1 of the causes for it being higher may be too many fans (As crazy as it sounds)

Currently I have everything attached possible, I have the 3 front fans blowing in, the 2 back fans and 1 top fan as standard blowing out, then on my TRUE I have 2 fans in push/pull, and the 2 additional fans you can put in which are: 1 on the side of the case, and 1 infront of 1 of the front fans both blowing onto my GPU.

What kinda configuration is optimal for the case? Is there a few too many fans? (I don't mind about noise) and if there is, which should I remove?

Any advice welcome. Cheers.
 
I'm not overly familair with the case but in general you want to keep airflow in one direction. Try removing the side fan as a start.

That's all I've got I'm afriad, hopefully someone with a better idea of the case will be along soon.
 
GPU is idling at 58c, freshly cleaned and new thermal paste on it, don't think it should be that high, loads at around 92c, good old 8800GTX, the hot block. The thing that gets me is it never used to run this hot in my old case, that was when it was also freshly cleaned.

CPU seems to be fine, idling at 39c at 3.8GHz clock, more the GPU I'm concerned about.


I'll try the side fan and see if it effects the temp soon.
 
A side fan will effect temps not sure why they have given the option, the antec has prob has the best air cooling to date, I have the front fans set to min, the big boy set to low and the 2 rears at med.
 
BigBruiserAl said:
A side fan will effect temps not sure why they have given the option, the antec has prob has the best air cooling to date, I have the front fans set to min, the big boy set to low and the 2 rears at med.
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What about the other additional fan which can be placed at the front where you use the clip for the hard drive tray? Is that 1 useless also?
 
Aedus said:
What about the other additional fan which can be placed at the front where you use the clip for the hard drive tray? Is that 1 useless also?
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That one is quite handy. Place it so its blowing onto your GPU or CPU and it should reduce temps a little as it will get the air from the front fans and push it over them.
 
Alright I've taken the side fan out and switched the PSU upside down, so far seems to be slightly cooler, will test it shortly on MW2 without the side fan and see if it makes a difference, still have the 4 fans at the front blowing in, and the 3 exhaust.

Any ideas what would be good for my TRUE? Should I try with just using a push fan since there's 2 at the back pulling? Or shall I keep push and pull on it?


Thanks for the advice so far :)
 
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Aedus said:
Alright I've taken the side fan out and switched the PSU upside down
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Which way is your fan now pointing?

Aedus said:
Any ideas what would be good for my TRUE? Should I try with just using a push fan since there's 2 at the back pulling? Or shall I keep push and pull on it?

Thanks for the advice so far :)
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Push/Pull is generally better even if there are two fans at the back pulling. How much it knocks of though, Depends. Normally only a few degrees at the most.
 
UnworthyBean said:
Which way is your fan now pointing?


Push/Pull is generally better even if there are two fans at the back pulling. How much it knocks of though, Depends. Normally only a few degrees at the most.
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The PSU fan was against the bottom of the case, well not entirely, it had those rubber stoppers between it but it only had like 1cm of gap, so I flipped it so the fan is pointing up into the case and drawing more air in.

If the temp differences are minimal I guess I will leave it as it is in push/pull, I wonder if limiting the push fan to a lower voltage and keeping the pull fan maximized will cool the heatsink more, since the airflow will be slower through the heatsink itself, but it'll still have the pulling power to pull the hot air out through the back.
 
Aedus said:
The PSU fan was against the bottom of the case, well not entirely, it had those rubber stoppers between it but it only had like 1cm of gap, so I flipped it so the fan is pointing up into the case and drawing more air in.

If the temp differences are minimal I guess I will leave it as it is in push/pull, I wonder if limiting the push fan to a lower voltage and keeping the pull fan maximized will cool the heatsink more, since the airflow will be slower through the heatsink itself, but it'll still have the pulling power to pull the hot air out through the back.
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PSU will definetly be a lot cooler, But you wont notice that :p as you have no way of monitoring it.
 
Yeah true, overall my load temps have dropped 4c on my GPU which is a nice result from removing 1 fan, still it's a bit too hot for my liking, but it's better than it was for sure :D

In total between adding new thermal paste and changing the fans I've dropped my GPU temp by 14c at load and 5c idle :)
 
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I also have a true mate and used 2 fans push/pull but the true sits so close to the rear fans i removed it and i get 1c diff which to be fair could be due to ouside room temps. I put my spare apache fan in the caddy on the second to bottom front fan and 120mm blows into both 5870 intakes perfect!
 
BigBruiserAl said:
I also have a true mate and used 2 fans push/pull but the true sits so close to the rear fans i removed it and i get 1c diff which to be fair could be due to ouside room temps. I put my spare apache fan in the caddy on the second to bottom front fan and 120mm blows into both 5870 intakes perfect!
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Apache fans? Are these the best fans you can get for airflow/temps?
I assume you mean these:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-057-AK

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-056-AK

Is there any difference between those 2? Except for the colour of course.


Edit: These are the ones I have currently: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-021-SY
 
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Aedus said:
namely in the form of this beast: http://www.scythe-usa.com/product/acc/022/dfs1238_detail.html (The 3000rpm version of course)
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Beast noisemaker, not air mover.

The 3000 RPM model is the loudest 120mm fan
we've tested. Its acoustic quality is poor, droning and buzzing at low speeds, and shaking and vibrating at high speeds. It also clicks throughout its entire range and one of our samples had an unpleasant resonant spike at 7V. It is nowhere close to our standards for a silent fan, and unfortunately doesn't offer any performance advantage either.

It pushed less air than the Slip Stream 1200 RPM and 1600 RPM models while producing the same level of noise (24 dBA)...
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article832-page5.html#ULTRA-3000
 
I'm thinking of replacing the front 3 fans with the apache ones to make it quiter. Is it easy to do this? Not sure where these fans are connected. Don't really want to pull my case out from under my desk to check!
 
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