Corsair 800D temps

EsaT said:
Only thing guaranteed from side fan is that it affects lot to airflow pattern inside the case... often just messing it up:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18045074
Situations where it helps is when there simply isn't good existing airflow (=any extra airflow helping) or it happens to fit to overal airflow.
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Yes...I take your point and I've always avoided sidepanel fans until now...but airflow pattern in my opinion (front fan in, top rear fan out) is only upset if there is sufficient airflow from the front fans getting through to the rest of the case in the 1st place...I believe the CM 840 in stock form has the drive bays turned sideways so most of the airflow from the fan doesn't get past the drives. You are relying mainly on the top exhaust fans. There is no windtunnel effect to begin with. I have seen a couple of reviews which criticized the 840 case over this when it came to gpu cooling. Their position was that the case was using negative airflow (3 exhaust fans v 1 intake blocked by hard drive bay) and they maintained positive airflow would be much more beneficial to cooling hot gpu's. *plus less dust as you are not sucking air through every nook and cranny* Apparently that's why the HAF is so good (which also has front airflow blocked by the hard drive bays). The sidefan helps the GPU temps according to bit-tech, and when they reviewed the 840 they blamed poor gpu temps due to lack of said side fan. Of course I realise having a side fan can still upset the cpu cooling and the natural order of things, but for brute force cooling your gpu's, I think a side fan can be very beneficial.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cases/2008/10/16/cooler-master-haf-932/4
 
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Flanno said:
Apparently that's why the HAF is so good (which also has front airflow blocked by the hard drive bays). The sidefan helps the GPU temps according to bit-tech, and when they reviewed the 840 they blamed poor gpu temps due to lack of said side fan. Of course I realise having a side fan can still upset the cpu cooling and the natural order of things, but for brute force cooling your gpu's, I think a side fan can be very beneficial.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cases/2008/10/16/cooler-master-haf-932/4
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Antec 1200 doesn't have side fan as default... and it doesn't loose to HAF in any way with normal components: (lower graph with load temps)
http://plaza.fi/muropaketti/artikke...oler-master-haf-932-ja-thermaltake-armor-mx,4
And Thermaltack with big side fan but lacking overall airflow is clear last one, especially chipset temperature is high despite of it sitting straight under "side fan's airflow".

Bit-tech's test system gives advantage to case with fan close to graphics card because of passive cooler which needs airflow from external source to work well. ATCS's case temperature itself stays very low so any actively cooled graphics card would fare well.
Adding 12cm fans to inside of HDD cage might give direct airflow toward rear and (for example) cardboard airflow guide forcing top fans to draw their air past CPU would increase cooling of that area. Another experiment would be turning frontmost top fan to intake and piping its airflow to CPU/graphics card.
 
:Di have a corsair case with core i7 920 idles @ 34.31.35.29 with a corsair H50 cooler gets to a max of about 49C while gameing
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what fans where you using and what config did you have it all setup as push/pull on h50 ect,have you got more pics further away,reason for asking i am getting the case and the h50.

cheers
 
mmmmm! this is interesting I too am getting this and would love to know what fans are being used or people in general would recommend? SEEMS THAT EXTRA ONES ARE NEEDED TO HELP COOL!
 
well my plan is to change all the fans in the case as this seems to be the major problem as it not getting enough air flow so will be replacing all the fans with faster fans

120mm Enermax UCMA12 Magma TWISTER Fan (M.B.T.) Batwing Blades 1.5k RPM which blends in with my new colour scheme of red and black
and for the 140mm i will put these in
140mm Xigmatek XLF-F1453 LED 1000 RPM and 63.6 CFM and also with quite level (<16 dBA) and spray the fins red if needed.

hopefully this will solve the airflow problem,if not then time to get me tools out and mod the bugger.
 
hey snowblind! what temps are you getting for the gpu's?
Three gtx260's all being cooled by one 140mm fan! bet thats hot!
i really cant see how this case is anygood for cooling at all! am i missing something because on paper it just shouldnt work?
 
My i7 920 DO is idling at 29 32 29 33 in my 800D at stock,
At 3.5ghz on load it doesnt go above 55 degrees, and i have 3 enermax magmas on top and 2 xilence redwings on my h50

Magmas are exhausting and redwings intaking through the rad.

Im gonna replace the bottom and GPU fans next, Replacing the bottom 140mm should do some good
 
I have the 800D and I watercool my cpu and motherboard but keep my HD 5870 graphics card stock cooled. I use the rear fan as intake and I swaped out all the cases original fans (they arent good).

My gpu temps are 55c idol and max's out at 77c underload, thats after 2 or 3 hours of gaming.

Before I watercooled my motherboard I would get temps of 55-60c on my northbridge, 40-45c on my southbridge (but it is an overclocked i7 to 4.2)

If you not gonna watercool you shouldnt get this case, airflow isnt great my gpu and motherboard runs approx 5c-10c hotter than when I had it in my old antec 1200.

But if your thinking about watercooling in the future then this could be the case for you.
 
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