Have I Overdone it with Cooling?

overchecking · 14 Jan 2012 at 12:39

I currently have 2x 200mm fans, 6x 120mm fans is that plenty?
Zalman Twin Memory cooler and CPU cooler.

Kind of got a thing for fans :rolleyes:

The case feels like an ice box now.

CPU idle 26c , Memory idle 22c

Before additional fans, 32c - 31c

Tealc · 14 Jan 2012 at 13:08

Yes you have.

Razargh · 14 Jan 2012 at 13:16

Yes that is way overkill.

sehcure · 14 Jan 2012 at 13:21

I'm idling on 29-30 degrees c with a 2500k overclocked too 4.3Ghz.
That's two 120mm input fans and one 120mm output. All three are the cheap antec tri-cool fans that were on offer a few days ago.
Aswell as a Gelid Tranquillo rev2 cpu cooler

Max under load is always under 52 degrees..

Louis_Y · 15 Jan 2012 at 01:25

That's a lot of fans, but if you can live with the noise then be happy. However, idle temps don't mean much - you'd need to post load temps (say a 10 run IBT on max) to give us a better idea.

FiXiT · 15 Jan 2012 at 01:33

Have you got your rig bolted down? if not you may find it will start to fly around the room with that many fans

Gashman · 15 Jan 2012 at 13:13

don't worry I also have quite a few fans, but the 120mm ones are nice and quiet, infact would go as far too say virtually inaudible, can never have too much airflow!

pgi947 · 15 Jan 2012 at 13:26

Louis_Y said:
That's a lot of fans, but if you can live with the noise then be happy. However, idle temps don't mean much - you'd need to post load temps (say a 10 run IBT on max) to give us a better idea.

This, idle temps don't mean squat. You never know it might not even stand up very well in terms of cooling at stress, has to be some amount of airflow distortion with that many fans.

Edit: also as its a 600T I'm presuming you have put 4 x 120mm on the side mesh rather than a single 200/230mm? In which case unless those are some fairly high rpm 120mm fans you'd probably find that a single 200/230mm would be more efficient while pushing just as much if not more air.