NZXT Phantom airflow help?

181jenkins

181jenkins

181jenkins

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hey guys just want some help with the airflow in my case, i have a seidon 240m, mounted on top, and on the side door i have a 200m, and the 2 stock 140m, i also have a sp120 at the front as intake, my question is should i put the 200m from the side and put it on the top, so i would have 2 200m fans on top, and just the 2 140m on the side?.


or have it as it is with 1 200m on top and 1 on the side?

edit: i have a cool master pwm fan from my cpu loop should i put that in the front and the sp120 at the back ?
or should i remove the 200m fan from the top and mount my seidon on the top as pull ?

thanks 181jenkins.


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Sorry, I just found this post from your other post in "Show us the Inside of your Case"
After you've been working your rig hard where are the hot spots inside your case?
Between the Gpu and psu, or by the gpu and hdd?
You can mount the Seidon at the top and remove the top 200 mm fan but I'm not sure about how much you'll gain in cooling, but you'll definitely make a gain with noise reduction.
 
well. there is no "hot spot" really... on the side of the case i have 2 140 mm fans, and a 200mm fan, i took the top 200m fan out and put it on the side, "removed the other 200mm fan, that was on the side" and it seams to be a bit louder. this might be because im on at night and there is no noise but before i struggled to hear it, to the point i could hear the water pump going.

edit: just had a look and the the least airflow i get is between the gpu and the cpu, also should i put my sp120 at the back or leave it at the front?


thanks 18jenkins
 
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I'd keep the Corsair SP "Static Pressure" fan up front. The SP fans are best where there is a restriction to airflow such as rads or cages etc. If your rear fan is totally pants, you can swap it out, but I don't think you'll see much in gains.
 
I'm a bit confused, you say you have two 140mm side intakes. Do you mean the 120mm stock fans or were you able to fit 140mm there?

Anyway, I have a similar setup with regards to a radiator ontop and also two 200mm fans up above. They don't necessarily seem to help much with cooling the radiator, surprisingly. They do still lower temps quite a lot around the top of the mobo according the the temp probes I have dotted about though.

I also have a side 200mm fan as intake. I experimented with that as both intake and exhaust and found that while it was a little bit better for my GPU temps as an exhaust by taking the hot air the card dumped in the case out, it was far, far better as intake for my CPU because it just feeds loads of cool air right to those radiator fans on my h100i (that same place you have your seidon) and compensates for the pretty poor airflow I get from the front intake.

Don't know if any of that helps but personally if you're worried about CPU temps at all, keep a side 200mm intake or if you want two 200mm on top, maybe consider changing your rear exhaust to an intake as the top fans will take care of all the exhausting.
 
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