Ok I have been having some issues keeping my H440 cool, although my cpu (4790k) idles at around the mid 30’s and gpu (MSI 780 Ti) at around 30 the concern is more how warm the case feels and smells when I play games, my 780ti can hit 80c under load (which I gather isn’t that uncommon) but it really heats up the rest of my computer, I can smell the heat being dispersed from the case around the rear exhaust as well as in the vents on the roof, and when I open up the side panel it’s just lots of really warm air.
My setup is as follows…
Corsair H100i cpu cooler with 2 x Corsair SP120mm Red LED as exhaust in the top of the case
Corsair AF140mm Red LED exhaust fan at the rear (should I have gone with SP120?)
2 x stock NZXT FN V2 120mm fans as intakes in the front
Some notes…
The bottom stock case fan in the front doesn’t work and never has, not sure why but everything seems to be connected as it should be.
The rear exhaust and the front intakes are on a fan hub, powered by a molex connector, I am able to connect this whichever way round I want (bit weird?) one way resulting in lower rpm (my current setup) and the other way resulting in higher rpm but a lot more noise.
My H100i fans are connect to CPU_FAN via a splitter and are set in the mobo to run at a low rpm.
My graphics card is also set to run at a manual fan speed, ideally no higher than 42 (anything higher and I start to hear it) but hitting 80-83c at that fan speed doesn’t seem to be too bad (was testing using Just Cause 2, every setting max and no Vsync).
Now I know I have a lot of my fans set to a low speed setting and i have more exhausts than intakes so I realise the problem could be im not in taking enough air to keep the air in my system cooler thus when it exhausts out i can smell masses of heat, but my aim is to find that balance between quiet and cool, I honestly don’t think I could have my fans running noisy regardless of the cooling benefits.
One idea to fix the issues was to replace the rear AF140 with an SP120 or I could replace the 3 front intake fans (including the broken one) with 3 high quality AF120’s so I’d be getting an extra intake making it 3x exhausts and 3x intakes and ill be improving the existing airflow which would hopefully run quieter than my stocks do on the max 12v (connecting the molex the correct way) or possibly buy a fan controller to find somewhere between the two.
I did briefly switch my H100i fans to intakes so i had 4 intakes and 1 exhaust, it made the heat more bearable but i realise the ideal setup is to have roof fans as exhausts, or what would people think about me putting them back as intakes and just replacing the exhaust fan with an SP140?
Long post I know but I really could do with some advice on how to cool my system and keep it quiet, It doesn't seem normal that I can smell so much heat and that the inside of the computer is like an oven, it’s the last thing I need to solve before I can actually enjoy my new build.
Thanks
My setup is as follows…
Corsair H100i cpu cooler with 2 x Corsair SP120mm Red LED as exhaust in the top of the case
Corsair AF140mm Red LED exhaust fan at the rear (should I have gone with SP120?)
2 x stock NZXT FN V2 120mm fans as intakes in the front
Some notes…
The bottom stock case fan in the front doesn’t work and never has, not sure why but everything seems to be connected as it should be.
The rear exhaust and the front intakes are on a fan hub, powered by a molex connector, I am able to connect this whichever way round I want (bit weird?) one way resulting in lower rpm (my current setup) and the other way resulting in higher rpm but a lot more noise.
My H100i fans are connect to CPU_FAN via a splitter and are set in the mobo to run at a low rpm.
My graphics card is also set to run at a manual fan speed, ideally no higher than 42 (anything higher and I start to hear it) but hitting 80-83c at that fan speed doesn’t seem to be too bad (was testing using Just Cause 2, every setting max and no Vsync).
Now I know I have a lot of my fans set to a low speed setting and i have more exhausts than intakes so I realise the problem could be im not in taking enough air to keep the air in my system cooler thus when it exhausts out i can smell masses of heat, but my aim is to find that balance between quiet and cool, I honestly don’t think I could have my fans running noisy regardless of the cooling benefits.
One idea to fix the issues was to replace the rear AF140 with an SP120 or I could replace the 3 front intake fans (including the broken one) with 3 high quality AF120’s so I’d be getting an extra intake making it 3x exhausts and 3x intakes and ill be improving the existing airflow which would hopefully run quieter than my stocks do on the max 12v (connecting the molex the correct way) or possibly buy a fan controller to find somewhere between the two.
I did briefly switch my H100i fans to intakes so i had 4 intakes and 1 exhaust, it made the heat more bearable but i realise the ideal setup is to have roof fans as exhausts, or what would people think about me putting them back as intakes and just replacing the exhaust fan with an SP140?
Long post I know but I really could do with some advice on how to cool my system and keep it quiet, It doesn't seem normal that I can smell so much heat and that the inside of the computer is like an oven, it’s the last thing I need to solve before I can actually enjoy my new build.
Thanks
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