Building a PC - Choose case or cooling first?

ArrZarr

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Nov 30, 2013
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Hi,

I'm looking into building my new PC. It'll be the second PC I've built and the first has had occasional cooling issues. I've read a few guides about cooling, like the one on Tom's hardware, but I still have one question that I haven't found an answer for.

Should you choose a case to fit fans to or should you choose fans to fit a case? If it's the latter, is it worth acquiring the case and then acquiring fans after getting hands on with the case and other components?

I don't have either a case or fans in mind but from the guides I'd expect that I should have a negative pressure setup.

Decided upon components below:
CPU - i7-5930K
GFX - GTX-980
mobo - asrock x99 extreme4
HDD - Seagate 2TB Barracuda Internal Hard Drive
SSD - Kingston SSDNow V300 Series SV300S3D7
RAM - 1x8GB DDR4
PSU - once cooling is decided

Thanks,

Arrzarr
 
Solution
you should choose fans to fit a case. I personally think that if you stuff enough fans into any case it'll be approximately the same in terms of cooling.

EagleDesignInc

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As far as case, there are a big variety depending on the appearance you like. Most new cases have a good air flow, just make sure to have at least 3 or 4 120mm or higher fans to keep the system with positive air flow. Mostly new motherboards have the fan control build-in.