Dual GTX 780 ti ACX Case Cooling Advice Pls

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So im currently rocking my all time favorite case but its been feeling a lil old now that i dont need all this extra cooling and and monstrous internal fan management.

Right now im using my cooler master HAF X with a bitfenix white led 230mm? or 200mm? fan in the front as an intake. Ive cut up my VGA fan shroud or what have you to let the 2nd card have some air to breath, but im thinking of just lowing the bracket thing to give both cards better air flow(opinions?)
Im talking about the shroud thing with the 120mm fan mounting, not the vga bracket thing.

So thats 1 front intake pulling through the HDDs, above that is a mount i bought that allows me to smoothly mount a 120mm fan to pull more air in from the bottom 3 5.5" bay slots. Currently using my old school favorite cooler master excalibur fan.

So both those intakes push the air through to the shroud with another 120mm fan(CM Jetflo) which then takes the air right to the GPUs.

Above that is a rear 140mm exhaust, im still trying to figure out what 140mm i like best so atm its an Aero Cool Shark?

And above all that was have an h100i in push pull config with 4 cooler master jetflos.

Other than the side fan which is why im writing this thats, 2 front intakes, 1 internal "intake", 1 rear exhaust, 1 rad top exhaust, and a 200mm bitfenix exhaust above the rad(this is on the front half so hardly any interference with the push pull exhausting)

So since this is my first time experimenting with a non blower style cpu setup, im wondering what 140mm fans you guys like best, if you had to pick one that had an LED, and one that could be anything on the market what would it be?

Also what do you guys think of the bitfenix fans? Is it just me or do the 200m spectre pros feel like theyre not pushing enough air. I get that its a lot of volume and feels like less air and i hear its better cooling than say 2 140mms pushing the same cfm/static pressure or what have you, but should i be sticking with these spectre fans i have?
Since it feels like very little air i almost wanna try using the side fan as an exhaust since i have so much intake and was even considering rerouting cables and adding a fan for another intake where the cpu cover would be located....
What would you do with all these scenarios, what would you do instead? I know im crazy, but cmon be crazy with me XD

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Sorry had to cut the post a lil short. Future plans for the build once its all perfect and shiny =D will be to use the nzxt kraken g10s to cool my 2 780s. But to comfortably do that i want a case with modular HDD bays. I have my eyes on the corsair 750d and nzxt swtich 810, i love both cases equally for different reasons. But i dislike being forced into nzxt fans, but it looks like i wont have to with the switch 810 by using all 140mm fans.

I also had my eye on that amazing phantek enthoo tower since i love their fans but man i just couldnt pull that off. On the other hand the nzxt phantom 630 also looked nice if you like those 200m fans of theirs :p
 
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Personally, i find cougar or noctua to be about the best airflow/quiet fans around. (cougar is about the same quality as noctua for a little cheaper, and you can get really cool colors and great build quality
as far as led goes, cougar and corsair are about the creme of the crop in terms of build quality (personal favorite being cougar because they are honestly a fan reviewers wet dream in terms of silence and build quality).
Corsair has some really good fans for airflow, and are pretty highly reviewed.

sorry for the unstructured response, i'm in class lol

but yeah, in terms of literal best fans you can get, noctua is a good buy (but their beige and brown color scheme looks like shit in most cases)

Cougar is my next favorite, and seriously look just so cool in either their led or non led forms, and they make up to 200mm fans as well

As far as cases with modular hd things, the cm storm trooper or stryker are pretty cool, and cougar also makes cases that are quite modular on the inside
 
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No worries on the lack of format, thats how i like to read and write, as long as 2 people can understand eachother why slow things down :p
Im a huge huge cougar lover here no pun intended. I had only cougars in my older cooler master cases and even this current one except for the default 200mm and 230mm fans which i upped to bitfenix fans.
When i stumbled across the cooler master excalibur 120mm fans to throw in my optical drive bay mount and use for my h100 push pull config i just lost it. Unbelievable fans, but i still love that orange look of the cougars.
I do find the noctuas to be hidious vut i did get 2 grey 120mm ones that im very looking forward to testing on an older rig's rad. I hear noctuas are the best everywhere i go but of course cougar and cooler master get mentioned plenty.



Bitenix wise ive only ever had the 200mm spectre pro fans, i like them a lot better than the stock cooler master mega flow led and non led fans i got with my HAF ATX, HAF X, and HAF 913. I dont feel they are loud at all but they just dont feel like they move any air. Thats one of the reasons i ask if i should attempy trying the side bitfenix fan as an exhaust since the 780s ncx cooler seems to have more air resistance lol.



While i do like corsairs fans im not a big fan of their stock hydro series fans or their high pressure fans, yeah they have the lip which you can change the color of, and i believe they have led versions now but they just seem just above if not on part with what id expect or want or recommend? Sorry its getting late :p
The thing is if were talking 120mm fans here id have to say the cooler master jet flos just blow everything else except maybe the cougars for silence out of the water. The LEDs are amazing, the air flow is crazy, the level of volume is insanely low for the level of air theyre pushing, and when theyre tuned down (i use corsair links cooling node) or even using a basic single fan 3 pin controller they dont have any hum or weirdness to them. I cant find any faults except that they are jus the slightest bit louder than the top gun fans out there theyre duking it out with.

I just really need 200m fan recommendations tho i wanna try something better if not way better than these bit fenix fans especially from the sound of things.

Ive been thinking i wanna go with the nzxt switch 810 however. That will allow me to use a corsair h110 rad on top with 2 or 4 fans, i think im gonna go with the blue LED 14cm cougars unless i like these phanteks PH-F140HPs that i just got in the mail to try. I believe these are white with blue LEDs, while the cougars are clearish blue with white or blue LEDs. The Cougars look sorta like the aero cool sharks but not as nice as the jetflos.
If all works out ill have 3 of those cougars lighting up the top with the rad up top in a simple pull config. Then using th kraken g10s ill be able to have the same fans on the front of the case as intakes straight to those gpus rads, and possibly 2 more of the same if not just non LED version cougars, im still not sure. Hell i might just have one of the rads on the bottom for the gpu and then had the HDD rack with the fan mount near the front for some more fan fun XD
 
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I have red cougar 120mm fans on my 240 rad and seriously, it's the coolest looking thing i've ever seen XD not to mention moves a surprising amount of air with no actual fan noise, only the noise from the air moving through the rad and out the case.

as far as 200mm fans go, yeah, the bitfinex are sure quiet, but they just don't do anything noticable.

now, i can't see where to buy actual cougar 200mm fans, but they DO make them, as my old cougar challenger came with a red 200mm one in the front that actually moved a lot of air with their typical low noise.

I'm sure you could call cougar and ask about this but yeah, i loved that damn 200mm fan and wish i had remembered to switch it out before i sold the case to my friend lol
 
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Sorry to sound immature but, "No $***?!" I might just have to do that, red fan sounds awesome, 200mm no less, and it actually moves air... pffft im in! XD

I was actually just about to filter through newegg and see what option they have there, the nzxt fans that i hate so much because i hate companies that make proprietary components *grumble grumble* arent too bad, but i have yet to compare them side by side with my bitfenix ones let alone with that neat shroud my CM HAF X came with. The 230mm led bitfenix oddly enough pushes more air than the 200mm without any noticeable increase in sound, and its got LEDS!!!!! :p but yeah i think it might even be out preforming the nzxt 200mm fans.

I wish i could source that damn thing i read about how the bigger fans like these are somehow better for airflow over say having two 140mm or 120mm cougars cuz it just doesnt make sense, and if it were me id be using the latter option. Thats what im doing with my HAF 913, screw the 200mm.

BTW hows this rad setup your talking about setup? Is it using shrouds to convert from 140 to 120 or hows it doing it extactly? Just mounted to the chassis and pulling enough air through? I would love to know more.
 
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Using push pull with 4 120mm cougar red led fans, keeps my 3570k under 70 @ 4.8 and looks. Yes i know fans with a shroud will be more effective on a radiator, but i find the cougars push enough air with 4 of them that it really doesnt matter and it keeps the system nice and quiet. it's the h100i


I actually just fired cougar off an email last night regarding the fans...worst case scenario, go buy the cougar challenger and snag the fan out of it XD then try to return it lol
 
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and they push more air as bigger fans simply because the fan blade surface area is HUGE compared to the 120mm or 140mm fans, so even though they spin at a lower rpm, the huge surface area allows them to push mass quantities of air, but not with a whole lot of pressure. I find they work really well as top exhaust fans and bottom intake fans if your case supports it (takes some modding in my case, cm storm trooper)
 
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