My First Custom Build/Upgrade time

So that gigabyte mobo was out of stock so I went with the Asus GRYPHON z87. Was slightly more expensive but from reviews it seems to be a good board. Picking it up tomorrow but im not allowed it till christmas! Although they may find me in the living room at 5am putting it in haha
 
bigfeetz said:
So that gigabyte mobo was out of stock so I went with the Asus GRYPHON z87. Was slightly more expensive but from reviews it seems to be a good board. Picking it up tomorrow but im not allowed it till christmas! Although they may find me in the living room at 5am putting it in haha
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It is a nice board, as long as you don't mind the colour :D
 
Ok picking up the mobo + cpu tomorrow but I cant have them till Christmas =P I have a question regarding case chassis fans.

here is my case http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-023-NX

I have installed
120mm fan at the front taking air in
2x120mm fans at the bottom right on the side panel taking air in
200mm fan at the top left of the side panel (blows onto the gpu + cpu)
2x200mm fans at the top of the case to take hot air out
120mm fan at the back of the case also taking air out

All the fan slots are filled although there's still room to put some in unconventional places. Any suggestions with moving these fans around or do you think these are placed correctly. Found an issue also with the case's fan controller. If you have both the 120mm side fans connected to the fan controller it will shut those fans off if you put it over 25% power. Fixed that by connecting one of those fans to the psu as I run my fans at 100% anyway (meh who cares about sound when you have awesome headphones ^^).
 
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bigfeetz said:
Ok picking up the mobo + cpu tomorrow but I cant have them till Christmas =P I have a question regarding case chassis fans.

here is my case http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-023-NX

I have installed
120mm fan at the front taking air in
2x120mm fans at the bottom right on the side panel taking air in
200mm fan at the top left of the side panel (blows onto the gpu + cpu)
2x200mm fans at the top of the case to take hot air out
120mm fan at the back of the case also taking air out

All the fan slots are filled although there's still room to put some in unconventional places. Any suggestions with moving these fans around or do you think these are placed correctly. Found an issue also with the case's fan controller. If you have both the 120mm side fans connected to the fan controller it will shut those fans off if you put it over 25% power. Fixed that by connecting one of those fans to the psu as I run my fans at 100% anyway (meh who cares about sound when you have awesome headphones ^^).
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With the number of fans you have exhausting air from the case you're likely to have negative pressure inside, which will increase the amount of dust you get in the case, hampering the cooling for all your components and potentially starving the coolers of air.

I would suggest you measure a load temps as things are (but load it for 15 minutes to get it stable then measure) and then remove the 200mm exhaust fan from the top nearest rage front of the case and repeat this test. You may be surprised with the results!
 
What would you suggest doing with said 200mm fan? well tbh thats irrelevent as soon there will be a radiator in its place as i plan to have watercooling for my cpu
 
bigfeetz said:
Just by unplugging it yeah. left prime 95 running whilst i got some breakfast came back to sub 60 temps opposed to 63 ish before
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As I thought, the front fan at the top was starving your CPU fan of air. More fans are not necessarily better and sometimes worse.

E.g my case (Silverstone Fortress FT02) has three 180mm intake fans at the bottom and only a single 120mm exhaust fan at the top.
 
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