Thinking of upgrading my case - need help with suggestions.

Thanks Doomedspeed, but ended up getting some TIM from a local PC shop here. I had to go and buy 2 more 120 fans since I never thought of the fans in the H100i would have to be changed as well, which I realized after reading some build logs in the Project Log section. :o

Got the Case and assorted items today as well so now have everything needed to start moving it over to the new case, here is a little picture of the new stuff.

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Question though: The SP120 Fans are the ones I bought today and never realized it's 2 different ones. On the package it says they perform best attached to CPU heatsinks and low-clearance radiators, would it be best to mount those two on the H100i then and use the other AF120 elsewhere ?
 
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Two different ones? How do you mean? Put the SP120's onto your H100i, and the AF120/140's in the case as intake/exhaust. The H100i would be good exhausting out of the roof, one AF120/AF140 in the bottom/front as intake and one as exhaust.
 
Shivy011 said:
Two different ones? How do you mean? Put the SP120's onto your H100i, and the AF120/140's in the case as intake/exhaust. The H100i would be good exhausting out of the roof, one AF120/AF140 in the bottom/front as intake and one as exhaust.
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AF120 and SP120, slightly different ones in such way as I take it AF = Air Flow and SP = Static Pressure so the 2 fans works slightly different ?? :o

Let me see if I got this correct:
Radiator and fan compatibility:
- Top: 3 x 120mm or 2 x 140mm <= That's where the H100i goes and the fans as Exhaust [SP120 fans]
- Front: 2 x 140mm or 2 x 120mm <= 2 x AF140 as Intake
- Bottom: 2 x 120mm <= Which will be the two AF120 as Intake
- Rear: 1 x 140mm or 120mm (140mm included) <= 1 x AF140 as Exhaust

That's how you suggest them to be for best airflow ?? And to make sure I get them in the right direction, where the color ring is, would that be the intake or exhaust ? (Guess I can just plopp them in and switch it on and find out but if I can get it right from the start by asking would fell a bit better.. lol )

Sorry if I am asking n00bish questions but when I upgraded the mobo/cpu/gfx the other month I just didn't fell to content with the end result due to the "restrictions" (in my view or just me being very bad at cable management! lol) of the Silverstone TJ-09 hence why I bought the 750D and this time I want it all right, including Air flow and Color theme if I can manage that in the end. :o

I am grateful for all suggestions and advice that you guys and gals have giving me so far !! :D
 
TheSwede said:
AF120 and SP120, slightly different ones in such way as I take it AF = Air Flow and SP = Static Pressure so the 2 fans works slightly different ?? :o

Let me see if I got this correct:
Radiator and fan compatibility:
- Top: 3 x 120mm or 2 x 140mm <= That's where the H100i goes and the fans as Exhaust [SP120 fans]
- Front: 2 x 140mm or 2 x 120mm <= 2 x AF140 as Intake
- Bottom: 2 x 120mm <= Which will be the two AF120 as Intake
- Rear: 1 x 140mm or 120mm (140mm included) <= 1 x AF140 as Exhaust

That's how you suggest them to be for best airflow ?? And to make sure I get them in the right direction, where the color ring is, would that be the intake or exhaust ? (Guess I can just plopp them in and switch it on and find out but if I can get it right from the start by asking would fell a bit better.. lol )

Sorry if I am asking n00bish questions but when I upgraded the mobo/cpu/gfx the other month I just didn't fell to content with the end result due to the "restrictions" (in my view or just me being very bad at cable management! lol) of the Silverstone TJ-09 hence why I bought the 750D and this time I want it all right, including Air flow and Color theme if I can manage that in the end. :o

I am grateful for all suggestions and advice that you guys and gals have giving me so far !! :D
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Yes, exactly like that. SP fans are not so good for airflow, but are designed to be good in restricted areas such as radiators, so the SP fans for the H100i are perfect.

You will have to take the HDD cages out to put the two AF120's in the bottom however - one HDD cage can be mounted under the optical drive cages :) The other you will have to put away somewhere
 
Shivy011 said:
Yes, exactly like that. SP fans are not so good for airflow, but are designed to be good in restricted areas such as radiators, so the SP fans for the H100i are perfect.

You will have to take the HDD cages out to put the two AF120's in the bottom however - one HDD cage can be mounted under the optical drive cages :) The other you will have to put away somewhere
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whopsi do .. and here for some reason I had got the impression the HDD cages could go on top of the fans but having browsed through the 750 thread again and had a proper look inside the case, I realize it's not fans under them just a raiser for the cages. :o

Guess I have to rethink it a bit, since was going to have 2 SSD (which can be put at the back I noticed) and 4 normal HDD's. Seen someone stacking them at the corner though, might do that and hope it wont restrict the air flow into the case to much and have just 1 at the bottom which will be unrestricted then.
 
ahh good idea, yeah can go down and see if I can get a 5.25 to 3.5 adapter tomorrow. My idea was to have 2 in each cage so they got a bit more air flow around them but that would probably restrict the front intake bit to much anyway so will do a HD in the top bays.. =)
 
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