Calling all Corsair 800D Owners: Whats Your Fan Setup?

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Title says it.

I Plan on buying the 800D but im a bit cautious of the bad airflow reviews its been getting

I've been planning a build for the last 3 months and come the end of November im gonna leap form the rig in the sig to most likely a I7 860 on a Max III + 5870 setup.

Now I have this monstrosity of a case

http://computer-reviews.net/files/Aspire X-plorer ATX case with clear sides.jpg

Which I got over 4 years ago and now I feel like I want something more grown up for a case plus my current ones knackered to hell and Im taking a shining to the Corsair 800D and all its expensiveness :eek:

Now ive been reading and watching a lot of reviews for the 800D and generally the consensus is the air cooling is horrendous but then people who buy the case say the air cooling isnt the best but its still very good.

Now I intended to run a Corsair h50 on a push-pull config and i accept that the case fans need replacing and mixing around re approving the airflow in the case.

So im asking all the 800D owners what fan config do you have eg intake outtake, what fans also?

IF your running a H50 also please state if you have it intaking or exhausting on a push-pull?

Diagrams using said photo would be nice :) gives you something to do :)
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I have 3 x 120mm fans in the roof as exhausts.

The 140mm intake fan has been replaced with a faster fan pushing more air into the case.

The rear 120mm fan is set as an intake with a Corsair H50.
 
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Thats one place ive been looking BFG 9000


I was thinking something like These at the bottom and on the h50 to maximus air input into the case.
With 3 of these at the top venting.

Im not overly fussed about noise as my current fan setup is like a hoover.

Im also tempted to make some ally brackets when i get it. Something like a clamp on bracket and getting it powdercoated black for free (pays to have family connections lol) and mounting a 120m fan on it aimed at the rear of the graphics card (which will be a 5870) to keep it cool.
 
No need to add a 120mm fan for the graphics card,just replace the lower 140mm fan with a better one...trust me it gives excellent results as my card temps have dropped by 8-10c.
 
I have 3 apache fans top outtaje 1 Xigmatek 140mm XLF-F1453 1000RPM - White LED
intake bottom and will soon have the H50 in the case intake out take debatable.
 
I replaced two of Corsair's 14 cm fans and have a 12 cm Noctua NF-P12 as rear exhaust and an Akasa 14 cm on the intake (slightly higher airflow than the stock fan). On top I added a 12 cm Noctua NF-S12B FLX as an exhaust on the furthest back vent. Another Noctua NF-P12 pulls air in from outside on the top middle vent (with a dust filter). The latter I found helps to cool the NB and extra air for the CPU cooler and graphics card.

CPU Cooler is a Noctua NH-U12 with two Akasa Apache fans in push-pull config. I have these under system control (PWM) and yet to see them go above 500 rpm while load temps on my i7 950 have yet to exceed 60. Took a bit of tinkering and trying various configs but this one seemed to work out as the most efficient. Should add that I'm using both the main and lower drive bays. I used a 12 cm Noctua NF-S12B ULN for the bottom bay. Both fans are on ultra-low noise resistors. No sense running these fans at high speed provided they move a little air over the drives. I have a photo which I will post when I get in from work.
 
Hybrid,

It's a very nicely engineered case and just looks so classy! Very easy to install your components and tinker with afterwards. The cable management is fantastic and having removal HDD racks means much less fumbling around and not having to navigate through SATA cable spaghetti.

Airflow it has to be said is definately not the best however, but not bad at all. I felt the stock config needed a little TLC but it was worth it I think.

I see you are considering the H5O. Most folks with that cooler tend to run with more exhaust fans on top, since ideally you want to pull air in and push it over the rad according to Corsair. Obviously my own is tweaked for air cooling (although i'm open to suggestions on improving my own setup of course) and I tried two exhausts on top but did little for my particular system.
 
Doh! I just remembered that a friend of mine posted a shot of an alternative fan setup I'd tried initially when he was spamming for free delivery, the post whore.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=15079128&postcount=28

Didn't work out so well for an air cooled system (although better than stock) but it might actually be more suitable for the H5O. Naturally you'd have the rear fan reversed, but the exhausts would throw this right back out. If you do go for a water cooled CPU don't neglect the mobo. The chipset will need air too but something like that above should get air moving over the NB and RAM.

You'll see I've also used sound dampening blocks not only to qiuet the DVD drives, but to fill some of the dead space. There's a helluva lot of room in there, maybe too much!

Hope that helps.
 
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I had considered putting something like a 70-80 CFM fan where ive highlighted on your picture ziggy then replacing the stock fan above it with something along the 50 cfm line.

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Idea being to get as much air into the case as possible.
 
Sounds like a plan. It would be fairly easy to shoehorn a fan on there I think. The vent should make it a fairly easy task to mount a fan there. There is a sliding dust filter tray right under there too so it should keep most of the crap out.

There is a single VelociRaptor hiding in that lower bay. WD in their wisdom chose not to make the first gen drives backplane compatible. I had considered removing the 3.5" heatsink (which you can just make out in the pic) and mounting it in the isolated bay above. The lower fan is a Noctua ULN with the higher value resistor but it's probably still competing to some extent against the main intake. Your idea sounds like much less hassle with the added bonus of not wiping out the warranty on the drive.

Right now the main cooling issue is the dual graphics card throwing warm air out into the case. The 9800 GX2 is a pair of 8800's which run notoriously hot. Just waiting on NVIDIA to pull the finger out and release the Fermi cards which hopefully have moved to a smaller die fab and generate less heat.

If you do go water cooled, Deadman's suggestion makes sense and along with your added lower fan should keep the graphics cards(s) fed with cool air.

Be interesting to see your own setup when you pull the trigger on the case. Go on, you know you want to!
 
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