Just rebuilt my rig in my sig below with an 800D and now going to order some new fans. Would be interested in hearing from people with this case who are aircooling and what fans they are using, specifically the 140mm variety and how they are mounting their H50's too.
My proposal is as follows and am wondering if this would be an effective approach.
Top of case - all fans exhausting :
Mount H50 rad in top of case (top rear positiion) with Akasa Apache 120mm mounted on bottom of rad exhausting upwards through rad. Also mount 2 more Apaches in the other 2 top positions. All 3 coneected via Akasa pwm fan cable. Was going to go push pull on the Apache but then that would mean 4 pwm fans in total and cable only supports 3 fans.
Back of case - replace stock Corsair 140mm intake. Thinking of getting a Noiseblocker SilentBlackPro 140mm 1700rpm or maybe 1200prm fan.
Specs
http://www.noiseblocker.de/en/documents/Datasheet_BSP_PK1_2_3.pdf
The PK2 is 1200rpm, 1.295 mm static pressure, 54cfm and 20db but the PK3 has 90cfm, 1.781mm static pressure, and 27db. Thinking of 1700rpm one as can run it off the 3pin power fan header on the mobo and automaticallty speed control it as board lets you set the minium percentage speed for fan to run at, and at what temperature. And the same for max. However I don't know what temperature the classified is using. I assume it's case temp. So maybe the 1200rpm would be enough at constant speed.
Bottom of case - leave stock 140mm Corsair fan to cool HD's. Only using hotswap bay and cooling 2 SSD's (which don't need cooling really) and a couple of F3's. Also replace stock 140mm intake on bottom of case with another Noiseblocker. Either 1200rpm or 1700rpm model again. Would plug it into 3pin system fan header on bottom of motherboard. But once agian I don't know what temperture it uses to adjust the fan speed. Probably the case temperature.
The way I see if, this should generate positive airflow as I will have both Noiseblockers pushing a lot of CFM and have a fair amount of static pressure too. While the only 3 exhausts will be the Apaches which have lower cfm and static pressure.
So my question is whether this will be a good setup for aircooling. Plan to overclock the 930 to 4ghz soon. GPU's all running at stock.
Also, on the subject of fan controllers I have read on various forums that unless the fan controller is full depth like DVD drives, it won't mount properly because of the way the 800D toolless latching system for 5.25" bays is designed. Does anyone have a fan controller mounted securely in the 800D ?
Thanks
My proposal is as follows and am wondering if this would be an effective approach.
Top of case - all fans exhausting :
Mount H50 rad in top of case (top rear positiion) with Akasa Apache 120mm mounted on bottom of rad exhausting upwards through rad. Also mount 2 more Apaches in the other 2 top positions. All 3 coneected via Akasa pwm fan cable. Was going to go push pull on the Apache but then that would mean 4 pwm fans in total and cable only supports 3 fans.
Back of case - replace stock Corsair 140mm intake. Thinking of getting a Noiseblocker SilentBlackPro 140mm 1700rpm or maybe 1200prm fan.
Specs
http://www.noiseblocker.de/en/documents/Datasheet_BSP_PK1_2_3.pdf
The PK2 is 1200rpm, 1.295 mm static pressure, 54cfm and 20db but the PK3 has 90cfm, 1.781mm static pressure, and 27db. Thinking of 1700rpm one as can run it off the 3pin power fan header on the mobo and automaticallty speed control it as board lets you set the minium percentage speed for fan to run at, and at what temperature. And the same for max. However I don't know what temperature the classified is using. I assume it's case temp. So maybe the 1200rpm would be enough at constant speed.
Bottom of case - leave stock 140mm Corsair fan to cool HD's. Only using hotswap bay and cooling 2 SSD's (which don't need cooling really) and a couple of F3's. Also replace stock 140mm intake on bottom of case with another Noiseblocker. Either 1200rpm or 1700rpm model again. Would plug it into 3pin system fan header on bottom of motherboard. But once agian I don't know what temperture it uses to adjust the fan speed. Probably the case temperature.
The way I see if, this should generate positive airflow as I will have both Noiseblockers pushing a lot of CFM and have a fair amount of static pressure too. While the only 3 exhausts will be the Apaches which have lower cfm and static pressure.
So my question is whether this will be a good setup for aircooling. Plan to overclock the 930 to 4ghz soon. GPU's all running at stock.
Also, on the subject of fan controllers I have read on various forums that unless the fan controller is full depth like DVD drives, it won't mount properly because of the way the 800D toolless latching system for 5.25" bays is designed. Does anyone have a fan controller mounted securely in the 800D ?
Thanks
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