Hi
I run a watercooling loop in a Silvestone Fortress case (the one with the motherboard rotated 90 degrees like the Raven). The motherboard is an Asus Maximus V Gene and the cpu and graphics card waterblocks are attached to an external radiator.
At present I have the three 180mm bottom case fans running on low and the single top 120mm fan above the cpu socket at medium. I was considering whether I need the bottom case fans at all? The only thing they are really cooling are the motherboard VRMs etc near the cpu socket. They already have big chunky heatsinks which don’t seem to get very warm. The other items in the case are SSDs, a 5400rpm green hard drive (neither of which get very warm) and the psu which is effectively isolated from the case interior and draws air directly from outside and exhausts it out the top.
My idea is to turn off/remove the fans at the base and rely on the single fan above the cpu socket to deal with VRM cooling. Does anyone know if this is sensible? Are there any temperature monitoring apps that can be used to tell me the changes I am making to the VRM and motherboard temperatures?
Thanks in advance
Mag
I run a watercooling loop in a Silvestone Fortress case (the one with the motherboard rotated 90 degrees like the Raven). The motherboard is an Asus Maximus V Gene and the cpu and graphics card waterblocks are attached to an external radiator.
At present I have the three 180mm bottom case fans running on low and the single top 120mm fan above the cpu socket at medium. I was considering whether I need the bottom case fans at all? The only thing they are really cooling are the motherboard VRMs etc near the cpu socket. They already have big chunky heatsinks which don’t seem to get very warm. The other items in the case are SSDs, a 5400rpm green hard drive (neither of which get very warm) and the psu which is effectively isolated from the case interior and draws air directly from outside and exhausts it out the top.
My idea is to turn off/remove the fans at the base and rely on the single fan above the cpu socket to deal with VRM cooling. Does anyone know if this is sensible? Are there any temperature monitoring apps that can be used to tell me the changes I am making to the VRM and motherboard temperatures?
Thanks in advance
Mag