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I am getting a Corsair 450d case it has 7 places to put fans be realistically only 6 anyway I am also going to be getting 2x140mm corsair airseries fans and one 120mm airseries fan. What I want to do is basically take the stock 2x140mms that are in the front and put them on the top and then take the stock 120mm and put it on the bottom to suck air in.

I was wondering if that would be too noisy, and if my motherboard asus z97 hero could handle it as far as fan headers. I was concerned about lighting in the case thats why I bought the aftermarket fans and for better performance but I thought why not mount the extra fans on as well. what do you guys think?

Also I might be overclocking in the future so I have a stock cpu cooler for now and I was looking at the h100i or maybe a phanteck air cooler but I was trying to keep the initial PC cost down until I actually am going to oc. So with my new fans I figured airflow would be good and temp would be as well, but if I put the old stock ones in as well it would help make up for having a stock i7 cpu cooler.

What do you guys think? Any feedback is appreciated.
 
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More fans at slower rpm is better than less fans at high rpm. fans get audible at about 850 rpm .... the need for "High SP" fans is a thing of yesteryear. Today's 8 - 12 fpi radiators and air coolers simply do not need high SP.

I'd use 1200 rpm fans and set up Asus FanXpert to run them from 350 - 850 rpm

Right now .... I am offering peeps I build for 4 choices:

1. Stock Cooler

2. Phanteks PH-TC14-PE (color matched to their case or components)

3. Swiftech H240-X

4. Custom Water Loop(s)

I stopped offering the Hyper 212 after I did stock coolers on their original builds and 3 peeps came back w/ busted MoBos after upgrading to them. It's easy enough for a novice to overtighten and crack the MoBo or at least break circuit...
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More fans at slower rpm is better than less fans at high rpm. fans get audible at about 850 rpm .... the need for "High SP" fans is a thing of yesteryear. Today's 8 - 12 fpi radiators and air coolers simply do not need high SP.

I'd use 1200 rpm fans and set up Asus FanXpert to run them from 350 - 850 rpm

Right now .... I am offering peeps I build for 4 choices:

1. Stock Cooler

2. Phanteks PH-TC14-PE (color matched to their case or components)

3. Swiftech H240-X

4. Custom Water Loop(s)

I stopped offering the Hyper 212 after I did stock coolers on their original builds and 3 peeps came back w/ busted MoBos after upgrading to them. It's easy enough for a novice to overtighten and crack the MoBo or at least break circuit traces around the CPU socket.
 
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Yeah I was looking at the phanteks phtc14pe but it doenst fit my corsair 450 d case. But I was looking at air cooling options instead of water cooling when looking to OC. But yeah I figured if I had several fans at lower rpm it would be quieter and still displace the same amount of air. I was just worried about the fan headers. Because I have potentially 6 fans but I was wondering if I can use a CPU fan header for a regular case fan header.
 
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The best fans on the market (1200 rpm) are the Phanteks SP140s. The beat the venerable Noctua's in this test by 3C while spinning 300 rom slower

http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/phenteks_f140/3.htm

And top everybody here:

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1345-page7.html

You can run up to 6 of them with this (tho I personally have run 8) on an Asus Chassis (DCV) header (Z87). You can run 11 of them off a PWM Header w/ the auxillary power cable.

If it's a Z97 Asus Board, the CPU and CPU_OPT are PWM and the Chassis headers should all be capable of either PWM or DCV operation. Six (6) phanteks fans @ 0.14 is well enough under the 1.0 amp asus header rating at 0.84 amps.

Here's what I would do

1. Use this for the two (assumed) PWM cooler fans
http://www.swiftech.com/PWMsplittercable.aspx

2. Use this for the 3 pin DCV case fans using either PWM or DCV Control.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811984004

Under DCV control
Phanteks fans are 0.14 amps so can use 6 case fans
Corsair 1200 rpm fans are same
Corsair 1500 rpm and 2450 rrm fans are 0.18 amps so can use 5

Under PWM control w/ provided auxillary power cable
Use up to 11 fans





 
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Yeah Ill ahve to check out that phantek sp140s color coordinated and everything. So with my hero zp7 I could use my 2 140mm and my 120 after market fans along with the two stock 140mm and the stock 120mm fans?
 
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Top: 2 x 140mm
Bottom: 2 x 120mm
Rear: 1 x 120mm (included)
Front: 2 x 140mm (140mm included)

I'd leave the included fans where they are and put the two 140s ya buying and put them on top and the one 120 on bottom.....

Then:

1. Use this for the two (assumed) PWM cooler fans
http://www.swiftech.com/PWMsplittercable.aspx

2. Use this for the four 140mm 3 pin DCV case fans using either PWM or DCV Control on CHA_1 header
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811984004

3. Use CHA_2 for the Rear 3 pin DCV Fan

4. Use CHA_3 for the Bottom 3 pin DCV Fan
 
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I think that the aftermarket fans would work better in the front and back plus they would look cooler there because I could actually see them. lol But yeah I thought I might need a splitter but what was that part in 2 if the list you gave me? And what is CHA_1 and 2, and what are DCV fans? Sorry im a bit of a noob.
 
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