Originally Posted by Minigun
I want to say with that h100 you should be getting relatively cooler temperatures than that maxed from what I've read, but I could be mistaken.
Great setup.
How's the noise? That's a ton of fans I know my rosewill case is fairly noisy with 3 fans but the one I just peiced together for my brother has 3 also but is not nearly as loud even when they're wide open.
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Well, yes, with most benchmarks out there you see the h100i giving noticeably better temperatures - my current sub-par temps are partially because I'm not running the fans at anywhere near max RPM (Corsair Link ramps them up to around 1.8k (auto) at around 100% load, whereas the theoretical maximum is 2.7k - I could change this manually but with the stock fans being quite loud and temps being reasonable as it is, I didn't want to do that), and partially because I haven't replaced them yet (the Corsair SP Performance fans are a bit better, but significantly quieter, so I can easily run them at higher RPM)
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The noise is currently not too bad (currently running stock case fans + radiator, so in total 6 fans, 1 less than what I will be running when I replace them all), unless I'm running something like PS2, I leave the case fans running at low (just over 5V), and the CPU Radiator and GPU fans run pretty quiet too. *
This is the main reason I want to grab a fan controller before I start replacing any fans - there is absolutely no need to run the case fans permanently at 12V, in fact you could get away with running them at 5V under load, and still have decent temps on your components. That said, by replacing fans in the first place I am both gaining airflow and static pressure, and, more importantly, losing a lot of sound. **
The fans I'm putting in are significantly quieter than stock fans, and I won't be surprised if they run at around the same noise levels at 12V as these fans do at half that (they use fluid dynamic bearings, and come with a bunch of sound-dampening features out of the box).
This is especially true with custom radiator fans. The ones included with the h100i are based off of the SP design, but with no rubber mounts for sound dampening, and usually running at higher RPM to compensate for worse quality overall.
When everything gets replaced, the loudest component by far should be the GPU, which already runs at around 26.5DB lower than the Nvidia reference cooler, clock for clock.
In the end, It's definitely not going to be really quiet (aside from when not under load, in which case even the stock fans run extremely quiet), but it shouldn't be nearly as loud as you might think, taking into account the sheer amount of fans that are being used.
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* NOTE: I haven't set up a custom fan curve for my GPU yet, so far the default auto-detect has been working just fine for me, but I might do that in the future.
** NOTE2: The stock fan controller that comes with the 500R is not bad at all, some people might be uncomfortable with the idea of only 3 speed presets, but I honestly couldn't care less since I only use min and max; however it is not compatible with any other fans aside from those that come with the case, because it uses the 3rd pin for LED control, which is the only real reason as to why I'm having to buy another fan controller.
2013-12-28, 06:27 PM
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