Need to upgrade case fans. Advise please

Nutbusta

Nutbusta

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I have this loverly new system but I'm a bit worried about the temps of the NB and RAM. Burning hot to touch.

I'm currently running the rig naked. Partly because I know I'll be tinkering (tempted to vmod the video card) but also for cooling and I'm also kinda lazy :cool:

My plan was to put a 120mm over the NB with a Zalman bracket, Corsair Airflow on the ram, 92mm in the exhaust holw over the PSU, and 1 or 2 120mm intakes. Probably one feeding cool air to the SB and GPU and the other just in the bottom right corner of the case. I'll have to Dremel the holes for these two so any tips/guides would be great.

All fans will be 7v'ed or Zalmans etc.
 
I have tried dremeling fan holes in cases before and I can honestly say:

USE A HOLE SAW!!!

Learn from my painfully time consuming mistake.

Jonny
 
Jonny L said:
I have tried dremeling fan holes in cases before and I can honestly say:

USE A HOLE SAW!!!

Learn from my painfully time consuming mistake.

Jonny
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Thanks for the heads up.

Any thoughts about the other details of the cooling solution?
 
I have some akasa ambers in my case and to be quite honest I love them :D they are great, the only thing that makes my computer loud is having the cpu fan (stock hsf) at 5000 rpm and my annoyingly loud psu.

Seriously, I put them in my test rig and just ran them on their own, they are almost silent, I had to put my ear right next to them (about 1/2 an inch away, I like having ears) to even hear them.

Jonny
 
Jonny L said:
I have some akasa ambers in my case and to be quite honest I love them :D they are great, the only thing that makes my computer loud is having the cpu fan (stock hsf) at 5000 rpm and my annoyingly loud psu.

Seriously, I put them in my test rig and just ran them on their own, they are almost silent, I had to put my ear right next to them (about 1/2 an inch away, I like having ears) to even hear them.

Jonny
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Is that at full whack? I had an Akasa Amber with a Evo33 and thought at full speed it sounded like a Harrier in VTOL :eek:

This machine is very quiet though, even with the case open.

<edit: It makes my Media Centre (which I'm told is quiet) sound like a football match>
 
No I love mine, they are very quiet, and when I swapped out the stock fans in my case for the akasas it was so much quieter.

DAMN THAT PSU!!!

Maybe you can notice it more than me because of the rest of your components being quieter than mine.

Jonny
 
Jonny L said:
No I love mine, they are very quiet, and when I swapped out the stock fans in my case for the akasas it was so much quieter.

DAMN THAT PSU!!!

Maybe you can notice it more than me because of the rest of your components being quieter than mine.

Jonny
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Maybe,

but are they not 7v modded or on a fan controller?
 
Ambers are quiet, but not the quietest. I have to run them on 5V for them to be inaudible.

Yate Loon or Nexus make much better fans in my opinion
 
Nope, They at a noise level that I like at stock. ATM I've got 2 80mm ones in my case with a normal 80mm aswell, I'm just finishing up a hole in the side pannel for a 3rd 80mm amber, I do have 2 120s aswell, but im cuttin the whole for the 80 so that if i begger the hole up I can expand it to a 120mm lol.

Jonny
 
p4radox said:
Ambers are quiet, but not the quietest. I have to run them on 5V for them to be inaudible.

Yate Loon or Nexus make much better fans in my opinion
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What about Zalman or Papst?

OcUK don't do the ones you suggest do they?
Jonny L said:
I have tried dremeling fan holes in cases before and I can honestly say:

USE A HOLE SAW!!!

Learn from my painfully time consuming mistake.
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Well I would do but my very old case has a one peice cover. Both sides and top from one rolled peice of steel. Kinda like an inverted U. Or is that just an N? :confused:

So I won't have any way to secure it enough for a hole saw.

Guess it's goto be the dremel and patients :rolleyes:
 
Nutbusta said:
What about Zalman or Papst?

OcUK don't do the ones you suggest do they?
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Of course there are other good fans, apart from the ones i mentioned:). Papst, Panaflo, YSTech - they're all good - but I've not tried all of them, and often they need to be voltmodded to be even close to being quiet.

I mention Nexus and Yate Loon because they are very quiet even at stock.
 
Yate Loons - Dont need volt modding on stock they are quiet - very quiet. also any fans from the artic cooling range - there just as quiet in my opinion :) if you really want quiet then look for any 120mm fan running @ 800rpm - okay wont shift as much air but they are so darn quiet. Have to get within a few inches to hear any sort of motor noise and becuase they dont much THAT much air they dont tend to make any noise once installed in a system :) my experiance anyway :)
 
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