Best fan setup for my case?

Somepie · 17 Jan 2015 at 16:44

Hello, I have recently just moved in too an R4 fractal case and I decided not to put a side case fan on it because it's too noisy and it just sucks in loads of dust.

My gpu temps are quite high around 70DC when gaming, before in my old case they were around 50-60ish but I had a case side fan blowing air in to it.

The fan setup I have right now is 2 intakes at the front and 1 fan blowing air out the back.

Would it be better to have another intake on the bottom? Or have a another fan blowing air out the top.

Thanks in advance

Threepwood · 17 Jan 2015 at 17:27

Try putting the side fan back on, but have it blow air out instead of in.

NMBlack · 17 Jan 2015 at 18:02

Why not get a dust filter to go over the side case fan?

Bickaxe · 17 Jan 2015 at 18:23

New fans?
I put the front fan at the top rear as an exhaust as well as the one at the rear. Have put 2 Bitfenix Spectre Pro's in the front.
Removed the HDD cage.
GPU and CPU temp dropped by 10°
I also use EVGA Precision and Speedfan (a pain but once set up works well)

MrMD · 17 Jan 2015 at 20:04

What GPU do you have?

If you have say a 280x/290/x or 780/ti those are pretty standard load temps and nothing to be concerned about at all

Somepie · 23 Jan 2015 at 04:19

MrMD said:
What GPU do you have?

If you have say a 280x/290/x or 780/ti those are pretty standard load temps and nothing to be concerned about at all

I have an ATI 6870 MSI

Fan gets quite loud when playing games... much louder than I remember. I've had it for 3 years though but it's all clean and not dusty at all.

It just bugs me that my case is quite silent but when I game that fan just speeds up and is very noisy.

doyll · 23 Jan 2015 at 13:27

Couple of thoughts.

Are you sure there are no dust bunnies packed in behind the fan in the cooler fins?
How well is the case flowing cool air to CPU and GPU?

Here is a basic guide to tuning case airflow.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=26159770&postcount=7

Somepie · 23 Jan 2015 at 18:53

doyll said:
Couple of thoughts.

Are you sure there are no dust bunnies packed in behind the fan in the cooler fins?
How well is the case flowing cool air to CPU and GPU?
Here is a basic guide to tuning case airflow.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=26159770&postcount=7

I gave it a full good clean and couldn't see any dust bunnies anywhere.

These are my idle temps