cooling a fractal design r4

smilertoo · 8 Oct 2012 at 16:16

Hello,

I just got this case and I'm wondering the best way to increase the cooling slightly without adding noise. It comes with 1 intake and 1 exhaust so would i be better adding another intake or another exhaust?

Thanks

Tealc · 8 Oct 2012 at 16:41

If you add an extra fan you'll create additional noise. To compensate you'd need to slow down your existing fans slightly.

Exhaust or Intake? Well that rather depends on which slots you have available and what needs the extra cooling.

BrianB · 8 Oct 2012 at 18:04

I think adding a bottom 140mm fan will help your GPU temps considerably. Being at the bottom it's harder to hear as well if your case is on the floor. I find top exhaust fans aren't amazing, and are easier to hear.

I also found that the stock fractal fans are very whiney at full RPM in my Arc. I have to run them at 7V.

Do you want more GPU cooling or more CPU cooling? Intake will help both more than another exhaust in my opinion.

Do you have the top hard drive cage removed to improve airflow from the front intake?

smilertoo · 8 Oct 2012 at 19:00

First thing i did was remove the middle cage and route all cables so the airflow from the front fan is pretty much direct to cpu/gpu.

Trusty · 8 Oct 2012 at 19:23

If i were you you, i'd just get two decent 140mm fans, one exhaust, one intake, that really should suffice with ambient temps.

BrianB · 8 Oct 2012 at 22:01

My arc mid is loving my Corsair AF 140's.