newbie help

tez77 · 11 Jul 2011 at 20:08

hi bit of a newbie just got a new pc about a month ago specs are
COOLERMASTER HAF 912 PLUS MID TOWER GAMING CASE
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-960 (3.20GHz) 4.8GTs/8MB Cache
ASUS® P6X58D-E: DDR3, USB 3.0, SATA 6.0GB/s, 3-Way SLI
12GB KINGSTON HYPER-X TRI-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (3 x 4GB KIT)
1536MB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX580 - 2 DVI,mHDMI - DirectX® 11, 3D Vision Ready
120GB INTEL® X25-M SERIES SSD, SATA 3 Gb/s (upto 250MB/sR | 100MB/sW)
640GB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD6402AAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
CORSAIR 1000W PRO SERIES (HX1000) 80+ MODULAR PSU
COOLIT ECO A.L.C (ADVANCED LIQUID COOLER

Now i am not sure what my cpu and and graphics card should be on idel at moment my cpu is 35 c and grapics 41 c a person from coolit told me to turn my fan around in my case to blow air in and i have te large 200mm fan blowing in on the front. iI added 1 fan top blow out on the side and 1 to blow out on top is this the best way ?
the 2 fans i added where Coolermaster R4-L2R-20AR-R1 SickleFlow 120 120mm Case Fan - Red LED
Any help would be great

paradisiac · 11 Jul 2011 at 20:13

i decided to move the 200mm fan to the top as an exhaust. then i put in 2x120mm fans in the front sucking air in, 2x120mm fan on the side sucking air into the case and 2x120mm fan exhausting out the rear.

tez77 · 11 Jul 2011 at 20:32

Wow looks nice thanks i was going to change my front 1 to the 2 small ones dont think i can fit my 200 on top the radiator is in the way

paradisiac · 11 Jul 2011 at 20:34

to be honest the 200mm one that comes with it is a bit poor, i will at some point swap it for 2 decent 120mm fans, but one would be enough.
my motherboard temps dropped by around 5c with that configuration, and all the fans are £1.20-£3 so nothing special.

tez77 · 11 Jul 2011 at 20:39

LOL some time i think i have my fan wrong way round well i am in right place to learn from the pro s think i ll take some pics tomoz

paradisiac · 11 Jul 2011 at 20:43

they normally have 2 arrows on them to show air direction.

tez77 · 11 Jul 2011 at 20:56

Had a look nothing just a coolmaster sticker and a sticker like bardcode thing thanks for your help and them pics paradisac my cpu not to bad at 35 from what i been reading but be nice to get down more

jcr · 11 Jul 2011 at 22:11

i have a haf 922. standard 200mm front intake and top exhaust when i got it. added cooler master 120mm intake on front bottom and exhaust on top rear and it dropped my temps about another 5 degrees idle and around 10 degrees on graphics card when gaming. plus i like the extra red lights