Phanteks Enthoo Pro M rebuild...

jamiehard1989 said:
Nice score and i can only get to a 5 figure when running both cards.
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yea I was fairly chuffed with it. as you can see in the gpu info it is just a moderate OC no voltage increase and even in valley it made an improvement.

Im still half tempted to go air on the cpu...

yea I know theres plenty of folk saying no stay AIO but I was having a dig around on the Noctua NH-D15 and it performs around the same as the H100i but comes in at around £30 cheaper and would be quieter in day to day use..
 
jamiehard1989 said:
Go for the d15 and with the other £30, you could buy some better case fans.
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this is my exact thoughts on it.
If I go for air then I can get 2 really good fans mounted up front to get cool air in to the system which will benifit the Air cooler. then get a good 140mm fan on the rear for getting the hot air away from the cooler and out the back..

I also saw a thread on here where a boy fitted an intake to the roof at the front and this also gave him an improvement on temps with his air cooler.
 
jamiehard1989 said:
Yeah air coolers love loads of air and yes your be better doing that.

For the rear fan make sur its a high cfm.
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yea heres my cooling lay out the now.
My thoughts would be to keep the fans where they are now but change them all to high cfm fans and obviously a high cfm fan where the H80i radiator is

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so after the threads ive read recently with the corsair AIO units failing its made me a little nervous of it..

Corsair do offer a good service if the unit was to fail and will replace any damaged parts but you need proof of purchase!!!
anyone that read my budget build will no my H80i was a car boot sale bargain!! it was sealed and had never been used but there was no proof of purchase

so bearing this in mind it made me a little uneasy as if it was to go Ive dropped more cash into this than ive ever dropped into a pc before!! so this made me think about air cooling.. but also worried me about my 4.5Ghz overclock..

well I bit the bullet.. Ive got the Phanteks PH-TC14PE and fitted it last night..

still to tidy up cables but I wanted to test it.
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H80i ( performance settings )
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Phanteks ( max fans to make it fair )
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Ive since set up a nice custom fan curve and its really quiet compared to the H80i under load. and even with a custom curve Im still only seeing 1 or 2c higher than it set to max!! so its cooler than the H80i and is still running at 4.5Ghz!! bonus :)
 
I might revisit the water cooling idea next year but I would like to try the Fractal Design Kelvin S24 on my system as through time I could expand the system and add a gpu block and a reservoir and even an extra radiator if required.

either that or I might take the jump and build a custom loop....
 
Im tempted to fit a smaller fan at the bottom to push some air in from the front over my harddrive as ive noticed that in this case my drive runs about 5c warmer compared to my old z9 case where I had a fan in front of the h/d
 
I borrowed a cheapo 120mm fan out of a tower I have sitting and tried a different fan combination.. Ive put the 140mm phanteks to the rear as an exhaust and fitted 3 120mm fans to the front which has lowered my hard drives temp by about 7c as ive now got a fan blowing over the hard drive again.
the cpu is down a few c on idle and so is the gpu so looks like ill be in the market for 3 good 120mm matching fans for the front of the case.

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tomekkk1 said:
It looks a lot better with air cooler, I glad you sort the temperatures :)
Have you been consider to use sleeved 24 Pin ATX Extension Cable to get rid of all rainbow colours there?
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yea Im planning on getting an extension for the 24 pin ATX and 2 6 pin PCIE extensions to get some nice braided cables on show.

I prefer the look of it with the air cooler I know some folk prefer the look of the AIO units but I do like the way it is now.
plus ive got better temps now which is a bonus.

Im still tempted to try and get the raised lettering done black or silver so it stands out.

I think black to go down the route of red and black theme but I think silver as the phanteks logo is normally done in silver.... :confused:
 
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