air 540 cooling options?

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so im planning on getting the air 540 just a couple of things ive been thinking about before i buy it

im going to using air cooling in the case with the exception of the CPU wich will have a liquid cooler on it
i know the case can take 2 140mm fans in the front or 3 120mm fans, i have seen the case with 2 140's in the front and i noticed there is space above and below the two fans

is is possible to get 3 140mm fans with 120mm mounts in the front? i think this would move more air than 3 120's while being quieter

so the overall cooling would work something like this
3 x 140mm fans, front intake
1 x 140mm fan, rear exhaust
rad in the top with 2 x 120mm static pressure fans, exhaust

P.S.
if theres enough space i would probaly put the rad in push/pull, the rad im planning on using is 56mm thick
would i get any benefit from push/pull on a rad that thick? ive heard on thicker rads it doesnt really make any difference
 
You can only get 2x140 or 3x120 in the 540. Adapters will not work, you'll have no space for 2 140mm fans.

A thicker RAD will increase the cooling capabilities but at that depth, will take more room. PushPull is a great idea and again there will be a benefit allowing the fans to run at a lower RPM.
 
How much cooling do you need?

Buy the 540. At 107 or whatever OC have it for is brilliant, I paid 100 from mine on offer on another website and after having it, would not feel bad for paying the RRP of 130.

I just use the stock fans (2 front 1 rear) with a H100i on the top.

Graphics card is an MSI 290 (so not exactly a cool running card) and it gets close to 80 degrees, but doesn't quite get there.
 
badbiddy said:
How much cooling do you need?

Buy the 540. At 107 or whatever OC have it for is brilliant, I paid 100 from mine on offer on another website and after having it, would not feel bad for paying the RRP of 130.

I just use the stock fans (2 front 1 rear) with a H100i on the top.

Graphics card is an MSI 290 (so not exactly a cool running card) and it gets close to 80 degrees, but doesn't quite get there.
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well as far as cooling goes im running an i7 4770k at 4.5ghz (decent overclocker but it does abit warmer than i like on an h100i)
16gb of ram at 2400mhz
and dual GTX 780ti

with that setup i would like to push as much airflow as possible while keeping things as quiet as possible, and the h100i is getting swapped out for the ocuk techlabs fathom 240 with a much thicker rad
 
snips86x said:
You can only get 2x140 or 3x120 in the 540. Adapters will not work, you'll have no space for 2 140mm fans.

A thicker RAD will increase the cooling capabilities but at that depth, will take more room. PushPull is a great idea and again there will be a benefit allowing the fans to run at a lower RPM.
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thats a shame, it did look like there might have been space to squeeze 3 140s in the front :/
 
No chance of getting 3x140mm fans in the front. 3x120mm fans will fit though and take up all the space.

I swapped mine out for 3x120mm and it didnt really make any difference to temperature - around 25c idle and 40-50c on the cpu ([email protected]) with a h105 mounted in the roof with 2x120mm sp fans in pull setup controlled by mobo.

GPU is the same story, 25ish idle, 50-60 in game (BF4) on a 780 Inno3D Herc (1100core, 6500mem)

If you do go the 120mm route I would recommend a fan controller as its quite noticeably louder if you do have them on full wack - looking at the fan numbers, you do get more air flow but its substantially at the expense of sound, I swapped out as I wanted solid black fans and like the colour rings for the look factor.

Would not do it again though. :-O
 
Juggern said:
No chance of getting 3x140mm fans in the front. 3x120mm fans will fit though and take up all the space.

I swapped mine out for 3x120mm and it didnt really make any difference to temperature - around 25c idle and 40-50c on the cpu ([email protected]) with a h105 mounted in the roof with 2x120mm sp fans in pull setup controlled by mobo.

GPU is the same story, 25ish idle, 50-60 in game (BF4) on a 780 Inno3D Herc (1100core, 6500mem)

If you do go the 120mm route I would recommend a fan controller as its quite noticeably louder if you do have them on full wack - looking at the fan numbers, you do get more air flow but its substantially at the expense of sound, I swapped out as I wanted solid black fans and like the colour rings for the look factor.

Would not do it again though. :-O
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interesting, if it really doesnt make that much difference to temps then i might just stick with 2 140s in the front because i want a system thats cool aswell as quiet
maybe swap out the stock fans and get a couple of nice corsair quiet edition 140s
 
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