No side window - Amazing airflow/silent - suggestions please.

markiejt · 20 Jan 2023 at 11:44

sparkymark75 said:
I have a couple of 140mm Noctuas in the bottom of my Torrent Compact. I just keep them on 20% to feed air to the 4090 FE. The only issue with the FE in this case is the hot air from it are fed into the path of the CPU. Since switching out my 6900 XT for the 4090, my CPU temps have went up avg 3-5c.

I have a BeQuiet Dark Rock Pro 4 on my CPU. The front fans only go up to 50% when the CPU gets into the 60s. It’s still super quiet. The FE fans at 30% are the purest thing in my case.

Does it fit fans in bottom of compact? I thought it would be too small with a 4090?

markiejt · 20 Jan 2023 at 11:47

Also, with airbuild, do you set your gpu and cou fans to constant speed?

For my water cool build that's all I do. Just all fans constant regardless of temps. The main issue I have with fans is when they ramp up and down. Constant noise doesn't bother me

sparkymark75 · 20 Jan 2023 at 14:24

markiejt said:
Does it fit fans in bottom of compact? I thought it would be too small with a 4090?

Yeah, I've got 2 Noctua fans in there. Can't recall if they are 120 or 140. But they do fit.

sparkymark75 · 20 Jan 2023 at 14:25

markiejt said:
Also, with airbuild, do you set your gpu and cou fans to constant speed?

For my water cool build that's all I do. Just all fans constant regardless of temps. The main issue I have with fans is when they ramp up and down. Constant noise doesn't bother me

I use Fan Control for my fans. The bottom case fans I keep at constant speed, the rest I have on a custom curve. You can set it so they don't throttle up and down all the time unless they go up/down by a certain amount over a certain period of time.