First time AIO cooling - Corsair GTX H100i 240mm fan questions

Quantum Grape · 12 Oct 2015 at 20:12

First time posting on these forums, so hi all.

As the title says, this is my first liquid cooling product.
I'm excited about installing it but not sure what to do about the fans. Do I keep the stock fans or buy alternative ones? I've read different views so unsure.
If I did purchase alternative fans, would this do the job? Not sure if I'd need some with higher RPM.

Any advice / suggestions appreciated.

QG

monkentage · 12 Oct 2015 at 20:31

They'll be fine performance wise but I found the stock fans on my H105 made a terrible noise. The H1xxi coolers may have better stock fans though.

zeegy · 13 Oct 2015 at 09:53

just installed two of these for two different x99 setups, in quiet mode, and balanced mode they are fine, quite noise when you ramp them up, but should really be needed unless you are cooling something with a very high TDP.

Quantum Grape · 13 Oct 2015 at 16:06

I'll keep the fans that comes with them then.

Does the H100i come with thermal paste preapplied?

Quantum Grape · 13 Oct 2015 at 16:37

Got it, checked. It does.

Robzere31 · 14 Oct 2015 at 12:52

The H100i I had a while ago came with the paste preapplied but it looked like it was put on with a trowel!
I cleaned it all off & used AS5, I ended up with Temps around 60-65c while gaming.

As for fans, I tried the stock ones, SP120 quiet editions & piranha air rippers.
All performed similar, but if I had to choose I'd say the piranhas were the best.

Quantum Grape · 16 Oct 2015 at 18:55

Could you link me to the Piranhas?

Robzere31 · 16 Oct 2015 at 19:19

Quantum Grape said:
Could you link me to the Piranhas?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-073-AK

Greybeard · 20 Oct 2015 at 01:13

There are a lot of good after market fans out there, but I say you try the stock fans first and see if you like them. In terms of cooling performance, those stock fans are hard to beat. As for noise at higher rpm, you can always tweak them in Corsair link and have them run on a nice curve when you put your system under load.