HAF X/GTX680

tintin82 · 29 Jul 2012 at 20:20

Looks good, your pretty much doing the same set up as myself.

I purchased the kit as one from XSPC as it was on special.

Only other change im making is changing out my silent 800rpm fan on the 140mm rad to a BitFenix Spectre PRO blue LED (hooked up to my fan controller) for that extra ommphh when needed!

horrorwood · 30 Jul 2012 at 00:06

TheHound said:
Any comments on the parts I've chosen to go with?

Yeh, why not use 200mm fans? :confused:

Cleeecooo · 30 Jul 2012 at 00:39

horrorwood said:
Yeh, why not use 200mm fans?

They won't be as efficient as 3x120 fans

horrorwood · 30 Jul 2012 at 09:04

Cleeecooo said:
They won't be as efficient as 3x120 fans

Can you explain how please?

As far as I can see the 120mm fans do 58CFM, 3 of those is 174CFM. 2 x 200mm spectre pro's is 296CFM?

Cleeecooo · 30 Jul 2012 at 11:24

horrorwood said:
Can you explain how please?

As far as I can see the 120mm fans do 58CFM, 3 of those is 174CFM. 2 x 200mm spectre pro's is 296CFM?

I should have said, they won't be as efficient as GTs.

Also, remember, a fair bit of the 200mm fans' air isn't even veing used on the rad.

TheHound · 30 Jul 2012 at 18:52

The 200mm fans are wider than the rad. So at the edge the fan where most air is moved is actually by passing the rad completely.

Or so is my understanding.

horrorwood · 30 Jul 2012 at 21:06

Ah ok thanks, but oh well, i'll stick with it since just having one of the 200mm fans turned on keeps my GPU at 42degrees massively overclocked, hardly terrible