Doyll, your thoughts please?

[SiDeards73]

I know you have extensive experience with the Phantek Enthoo Primo case and various coolers.

I have an i7 4770k currently cooled via an Antec 950 which im taking out as im not happy with it.

Im going back to Air cooling, been looking at the Cryorig R1 Ulitmate, also the Phantek, Noctua and Silver Arrow SB-E is it? all seem around the same level of performance

Any recommendations from yourself? i know you have the same case, how have you orienated fans? any advice from you would be welcome mate

 

[setter]

Primo owner here and using a large air cooler. Alpenfohn k2, this cooler is very similair in performance to the noctua D14. Ive replaced the stock phanteks fans with a mix of silverstone air penetrators and corsair af/sp's. Fan setup below.

2x 140mm silverstone ap front intakes
2x 120mm silverstone ap on hdd cages
2x 120mm corsair sp bottom intakes
1x 140mm corsair af rear exhaust
2x 120mm corsair af top exhaust

The k2 is fitted with a pair of 120mm corsair sp 120mm PWM 2350 rpm fans. At 4.7ghz on 1.300 vcore, the cpu hits the low 70's in games. Gpu's at 72 and 55c respectively.

 

[SiDeards73]

I quite like the 140mm fans that come with the Phantek case but they can be a bit noisy when gaming it seems, I was looking at the Cryorig R1 Ultimate as it just looks so damn nice and reviews are extremely positive but part of me wants to pair the Phantek cooler with the case

Currently have my rad and fans in the exhaust place on back of case, 2 phanteks at the bottom inducting and 2 at the front inducting and then 2 at the top exhausting.

When I put an air cooler back in I plan on moving one of the bottom fans to the exhaust spot, I'm hoping I notice an improvement in cooling over the antec 950 as to be honest I don't rate it at all

 

[setter]

I have my 9 case fans on a controller which allows me to turn them off at idle, cpu fans are ran via the mobo PWM headers. Makes for a pretty quiet setup, the cryorig looks like a great cooler, but similar in performance to the phanteks. Id go for whatever one is cheaper.

 

[SiDeards73]

Seen the Cryorig for under £60 delivered shame OCUK don't stock them

I have everything running off the phanteks fan controller currently

Tempted to add an external fan controller actually to give me more control

 

[doyll]

The R1 Ultimate is a very good cooler. Especialy for for under 60 quid.

I'm using PWM fans on my cooler and the stock PH-F140SP fans on case with no problems or noise. They are good fans. The stock setup works quite well. I added a couple extra fans, but really didn't / don't need them. I got a deal on 5x F140HP fans I couldn't turn down and figured I needed to use at least some of them to keep the wife off my back.

I know lots of people with Primo, Pro and Luxe systems using the stock fans. Only complainted I've heard is the 200mm front fan in Pro & Luxe can be noisy, but I think that is more to do with all the mounting framework over fan for 140 & 120mm fans. If I ever get my hands on a Luxe I plan to modify the front and find out with something like this. Coloured area is what is removed from 200mm fan opening.

When setup correctly with modern fan software for motherboard and/or video card I see no reason for a manual fan controller. That said I do use an Aquaero 5 on one system .. but it is automatic, not manual control.

 

[Telecaster]

Yeah I use speedfan and it works a treat, if not very intuitive to use. Silent at idle and not very audible under load either, all be it with far fewer fans than most tower ATX builds most people have.

I have a bigger, pre noise dampened case I hope to use some time soon where I can go for real silence.