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Bought two more fans from OcUK!

I needed some airflow fans for the exhausts, one on the motherboard tray and one on the hdd cage at the front right. I didn't want just the PSU fan as an exhaust on that side so will be exhausting out the rear on the left side and front on the right side. I hope these will give enough exhaust flow as not to cause too much positive case pressure which may stall the intake fans at higher rpms.

Decided to try the Noctua NF-S12B REDUX 700RPM fans out as they can run at full voltage off the mobo or PSU and produce 53.5 CFM at only 6.9dB!


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I think the grey looks quite good in the all black case, I was looking for an all black fan but couldn't find anything of the same quality. These have a nice industrial kind of look but if I decide I don't like them when done, the plastic frames are easy enough to paint.

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Also a quick picture of the only spare PSU I could find to test things with. Anyone remember these ugly monsters? :D

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So the fan total is now 18 + PSU fan.
 
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Thanks!

I really am hopeful that by making all my own cables to the right length I can keep the right or behind motherboard side of the case as clean and tidy as possible. Even though I have a solid door on that side I may get a windowed one in the future if it looks good.
Right now I am slightly concerned about the tubing that will be in that side, getting the opposite side upper and lower rads linked together with the flow meters in there and going around the PSU and HDD cage is troubling. I hope once I have all the parts in it won't be so bad as the picture of it that I have in my head!
 
This is going to be good, get the popcorn ready.

I bought my first Aquacomputer res yesterday, and the quality is great. I went with the small 150ml, and the thing is just so cute looking.
 
The Noctua fans seems great but the CFM rating is not right somewhere.
On OcUK it says they are 53.5 CFM. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-038-NC
Noctua website rated them at 56,9 m³/h which I am pretty sure you divide by 1.7 to get 33.5CFM. http://www.noctua.at/main.php?show=productview&products_id=93&lng=en&set=1
The 1200rpm version is rated at 100,6 m³/h which would be 59.2 CFM so OcUK have that right http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-037-NC
I should have checked on Noctua first as the numbers on OcUK were too good to be true.
The dB rating of them must be right though because you just can't hear anything unless you put your ear right up to them.
So I am happy with the noise level as I plan to be able to turn all the rad fans off and pumps down very low at idle and just have these two Noctua exhausting the warm air. But OcUK really need to update the description as I was expecting a few more CFMs!
Remember these are "airflow" fans and not "static pressure" so not good for rads other than maybe 9 or less FPI ones.
 
I am not sure about the static pressure.
My Enermax fans have 0.98 static pressure and I use them on 38 FPI EK PE rads.
No problems there, air goes through the rad and isn't even warm, so they must be working well. And that is at 850 rpm.
The new ones I bought have a bit higher CFM than this Noctua ( 68 CFM ) and static pressure 1.21
I wonder if that 15.8 DBa will be audible at all, Enermax fans I use have 9 DBa rated noise level, but I use a total 18. Will be using 12 in new build. Anyway, I am not so fused about the noise, I listen to music on headphones or on my Microlab speakers most of the time.
 
The SP on these Noctua is only 0.44 mm H2O, I wouldn't use them as a rad fan personally.
That is why I bought them for airflow exhaust fans with no restriction.
As for noise, my headphones are very open and I get annoyed with humming sounds.
 
Cooling just got real!

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I noticed the boxes had a slight bulge to them and was worried that the fins could have been damaged but XSPC had that covered with well packed hardware.
Checked one out and the fins are perfect. In the past I have had rads where the fins are so mashed up I had to straighten almost every one of them.

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Just need a good way of flushing and cleaning them now.
 
I would like to try this method: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=26476782&postcount=33

But I can't find any reviews where people actually use the pH test Meter before and after cleaning to show the difference cleaning makes.
Obviously all the bits of flux and that will get flushed out but I can do that with water and distilled vinegar.

I would like to use coloured coolant to match MDPC-X colours that will be on my PSU cables and obviously I don't want pH to change the colour over time.
 
Nothing too exciting today.

I ordered some oversized DEMCiflex filters for the intakes, they will fit all the way over the upper and lower intakes as the overall size is 147 x 507mm with an actual filter size of 120 x 480mm.
Apparently when clean they reduce airflow by about 20%, I will try them out and if I don't like them, then easy enough to remove and leave the stick on magnet strips in place.

Pretty hard to get a good picture when leaving them in their sealed packaging.

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Close up of the medical grade wire mesh.

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Also decided to order a Mayhems Blitz Pro kit, free postage was Royal Mail so could be here tomorrow. Just hope that 2 litres of the Part 1 is enough to do 4x480 rads.
 
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That is good to hear, thanks for the comment!

Big post on cleaning the rads with the Mayhems Blitz Pro kit tomorrow night, just waiting for my final test to finish :)
 
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