What temps should I expect?

[kalvindeane]

Running the i7 at stock (4ghz oc decided to fail, will retry next week). Running Prime95 temps are 55-60degrees
within about 5minutes. Using a Corsair H50 with 2 Akasa Viper's, with 3 more Viper's as case fans in the case in sig
(no other fans whatsoever). The H50 is mounted at the back of the case, which direction should the fans face?

I don't have enough time to test out every possibility, I don't even know wether my fans are pushing or pulling
air lol. There's one Viper at the front (logo facing the front of the case), one on the roof (logo facing down),
one on the left side-panel (next to the graphics cards, logo facing inwards), and the two on the H50 which have
the logo's facing inwards too.

I tried changing the fans on the H50 around a couple of times but didn't see much difference temp-wise, maybe the fans are
conflicting with each other too much?

Please note: when the cores are at 60degrees with stock speed, all 5 Viper's are at full whack. What at 4Ghz
it was reaching 75degrees max on all cores (with Viper's on full whack).

200BLCK 20 multi, 1.275 CPU Voltage, QPI/DRAM Core Volt 1.3 were my settings when overclocked. If the board
is capable of say 4.4-4.5ghz (no clue if it is or not!) I'd consider making my first custom water cooling settup
sometime before Xmas.

 

[Tealc]

Most fans will have two arrows on the outer casing letting you know which way the fan turns and also which way the airflow will travel.

Fans will push air from the open side to the framed side and out the rear. Some fans have labels both sides so you can't alwyas go by that.

EG. In this image the fan will push air down into the desk.

Front of the case will want to be inlet, top will want to be outlet, side will want to be inlet.

Some have push/pull H50 (check fans are pointing the same way) as an exhaust, while others have it sucking cool air into the case from the rear, through the radiator and then have the warm air sucked out by their top mounted fan.

As an aside that PC must be making a lot of noise with 5 vipers blasting away at 1900rpm.

 

[vectisitch]

i like my pc loud.drowns out the missus hoovering.lol