H440 Case Temps - My 2p

Gangster · 25 Mar 2014 at 08:47

Knew this would be the case (lol), this is exactly what put me off buying it!

Born_2_Kill_83 · 25 Mar 2014 at 09:02

Biomorphs said:
You can only fit 2 x 140mm fans in the roof though FYI - my X60 is 2 x 140mm and it fills up the top almost (sorry about bad light - my White LED's rape my iPhone camera lens):

Oh yes saw I made this error soon after, thanks for pointing out. Purchased some Artic F12 120mm X3 Fans, will post back with the results, hopefully doubling the air intake will sort things out.

Dragon512 · 25 Mar 2014 at 10:41

Lovely case. Shame about the airflow though, would have been better to add some more vents

DoneADougalOnSofa · 25 Mar 2014 at 10:46

Make said:
Has anyone tried static pressure fans like SP 120's in the case front to push air in?

Only issue with this is noise: sucking lots of air at high pressure=whoosh!

Wizzfizz · 25 Mar 2014 at 12:23

Lovely looking case but it was always going to have temp issues. As for taking the front off, well, it just looks incomplete and ugly imo (taking away that minimalistic look).

Biomorphs · 25 Mar 2014 at 16:27

TheyCallMeAndy said:
Case looks great all blends well, sorry for off topic what's the far right monitor?

Both left and right are Dell P2414H 24" IPS monitors.

middle is a Asus VG278HE 27" 144Hz monitor

Born_2_Kill_83 · 25 Mar 2014 at 19:42

Should make this thread the official H440 thread OP

rare · 25 Mar 2014 at 19:49

Still tempted by this case, just wish the temps were a little better.

smilertoo · 25 Mar 2014 at 21:15

Does the top panel come apart in a way they could release a modified vent section?

Biomorphs · 26 Mar 2014 at 10:44

The top comes off from the case, then with a few screws - and bending out some metal clips, the metal section comes off, much the same as my pic of the front. So if they wanted they could probably make a top & bottom with vents in. But they probably wont :eek:

ATM I'm considering buying a High static pressure fan - But am not sure what one to get, there seems to be 'low noise' 'performance' and 'Quiet' versions :confused:

I think realistically I'll buy 1 fan, and place it in the middle - were I need the air to be pushed over my GFX cards - and see how that helps then either:

Buy a Dual pack and replace the remaining 2 x 120mm fans, and see how that goes
- OR -
Make a fan cut out for the middle fan so that fan can suck in all the air it needs.

So if OCUK or anyone else can help with what the difference is between the 3 versions of the fan? that would be lovely, and also I guess the 'performance' one is loud - is there any kind of 'in-line' fan controller I could plug in for it?

katinacooker · 26 Mar 2014 at 14:11

I managed to solve my heating issues by putting two TY-147s in the front. The most air gets pushed where the two fans meet, and thats pointing directly at my GPU, lowering temps by 5-10C. I'm using the x3 120mm as top intakes, but they only come on when my system temp gets above 40C, my GPU gets above 60C or any of my CPU cores get above 55C. Yay speedfan

http://imgur.com/jTvlUD8

Born_2_Kill_83 · 26 Mar 2014 at 15:43

Good work on that, how do you get the top fans to kick in at a certain temp, just about to install my top 120mm's and could perhaps do with this myself.

Biomorphs · 26 Mar 2014 at 16:38

katinacooker said:
I managed to solve my heating issues by putting two TY-147s in the front. The most air gets pushed where the two fans meet, and thats pointing directly at my GPU, lowering temps by 5-10C. I'm using the x3 120mm as top intakes, but they only come on when my system temp gets above 40C, my GPU gets above 60C or any of my CPU cores get above 55C. Yay speedfan

http://imgur.com/jTvlUD8

Loving this news! So perhaps just ill-equipped fans is the problem!

*and OCUK are out of stock*

I'm not good with fans, any close alternatives?

katinacooker · 26 Mar 2014 at 17:10

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Good work on that, how do you get the top fans to kick in at a certain temp, just about to install my top 120mm's and could perhaps do with this myself.

A program called speedfan. I should warn you that its not very user friendly. Its taken me ages to figure out how to work it properly. Also, i have a MSI z87-g45 which is able to control 3 pin fans. I have no idea if speedfan can control normal 3 pin headers, so you'll need to look into that.

Biomorphs said:
Loving this news! So perhaps just ill-equipped fans is the problem!

*and OCUK are out of stock*

I'm not good with fans, any close alternatives?

Umm. Another person who has one used x2 phanteks 140mm http://imgur.com/vBCf6iY.jpg . The most important thing is to get a 140mm fan that uses 120mm mounts, as theres no mounting points at the bottom for a 140mm fan. I only have 6 screws for the 2 fans, and used twisty ties to finish it.

http://imgur.com/mmYr4bI

EDIT: The plot thickens.

Now i know that my GPU is getting enough air, i decided to test different fan speeds to see how low RPM i could get the fans to go and keep temperatures in decent ranges. Turns out that i could turn off the 3 top 120mms and put the front 140mms down to 50% and its almost exactly the same temperatures as having all 5 fans running at 100%. Obviously thats not what i expected so i'm going to test it some more.

Biomorphs · 27 Mar 2014 at 09:56

Any air the top fans are pushing in, will just be getting chucked out straight away by your CPU fan/rear exhaust fan. None of it will find its why past those 2, and past the air current made by your font fans, to the graphics cards!

It wouldn't surprise me if you can turn the speeds down, as long as you are getting any kind of better airflow, it seems like the 120mm fans just don't push any air around the case!

Biomorphs · 27 Mar 2014 at 11:42

Really tempted by the Noctua NF-A15 : 150mm fan in a 140mm socket.... I would simply MAKE these fit, the static air pressure / dBA seems like it would sort it out

*ordered 2 of these fans for delivery Friday*

katinacooker · 27 Mar 2014 at 13:18

Biomorphs said:
Really tempted by the Noctua NF-A15 : 150mm fan in a 140mm socket.... I would simply MAKE these fit, the static air pressure / dBA seems like it would sort it out

*ordered 2 of these fans for delivery Friday*

You should be ok with those actually, according to the site my TYs are L152 mm x H140 mm x W26.5 mm, and your noctuas are actually smaller at 140(W) x 150(H) x 25(D) mm.

Gonna swap the top lot as exausts in mine and see if that makes any difference to the temps. Running them all at 50%, 100% or just the front two at 100% gave me the same temps all round when benching. (71 GPU, 39 SYS), and only running the front two at 50 was different, by 1C

Biomorphs · 27 Mar 2014 at 13:32

Personally I would keep the Positive Pressure that is caused by having more intake fans than exhaust fans, it helps to keep the air being forced out all the vent holes it can (mainly in our case the vents around the graphics cards)

katinacooker · 27 Mar 2014 at 14:15

Biomorphs said:
Personally I would keep the Positive Pressure that is caused by having more intake fans than exhaust fans, it helps to keep the air being forced out all the vent holes it can (mainly in our case the vents around the graphics cards)

Aye, the temps were worse by 1C by having the top lot as exausts.Think im going to keep two of the top ones at intakes, but remove the 3rd and plug the 140mm exaust into the spare header so its not running at 100% all the time.

I pure love footering about with computers!

EDIT : aye, it seems to be working out best with 2 top 120mm intakes, 2 front 140mm intakes and one 140mm exaust.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 27 Mar 2014 at 22:32

Im think of running 3X 120mm on top and front pushing air in, with just 1X 140mm at the rear pulling it out, will this work? Need to get the temps down by a lot!