How to create good Airflow for the Sapphire R9 390 TRIX in a Cooler Master Haf 922 Cabinet

Sunny Kapoor · Nov 2, 2015

Here is my setup

I have ordered a sapphire r9 390.

I just got 4 sickle flow cooler master fans 2000 rpm, 120mm.

I have set-up two of my new cpu fans.

One on the side and other on the top. Removed the TOP 200 big fan for exhaust.

I will put one more at the bottom once I get my filters delivered.

Now the issue is what should I put at the top right area? In way or exhaust Fan?

With this setup also when rendering with Blender CPU is going over 84 degrees. I think the heat paste on the CPU might have worn off. I might get a liquid cooler for it later and replace the rear stock exhaust with liquid cooler fan.

So the main focus right now is the GPU. The fan on the side is below the GPU, should I put another one on top of that? It will be clearly above the height of the GPU. Will that help decrease the Temp of the R9 390?

I am still waiting for the card to be delivered.

Cabinet currently using Nvidia quadro 4000 and GTX 520.

These are my current temp. while running the chrome and photoshop

Intel Core i7 950 @ 3.07GHz 41 °C
2047MB NVIDIA Quadro 4000 (NVIDIA) 58 °C
1023MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 (XFX Pine Group) 34 °C

TechyInAZ · Nov 2, 2015

I personally would have all the front and bottom fans as intake, and the top and rear fans as exhaust.

JasonL265 · Nov 2, 2015

I'm using the same case, I have the front as intake (the case should have came with a 200mm intake fan by default). The side (200mm) and bottom (140mm I believe) i added intake fans.

The top I have exhaust (200mm) and the back is also exhaust (for my CPU cooler though).

I actually got extra 200 mm fans for the top and side, the sickle fans I tried and they were super noisy so I had to change them out.

Also switched out the PCI covers with vented ones from SilverStone

http://www.amazon.com/SilverStone-Maximum-Vented-Covers-AEROSLOTS-BP/dp/B0040JHMIA/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1446479537&sr=8-13&keywords=silverstone+pci

I also added a cooler master drive cage to my case, it looks really nice with the Blue LED, but not sure if you can still find it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817993002&cm_re=cm_drive_cage-_-17-993-002-_-Product

At idle my temps are:

CPU (i7 3770k) - mid 30s
GPU (GTX 680 in SLI) - ~35c

Sunny Kapoor · Nov 2, 2015

JasonL265 :

The issue is when doing heavy GPU work like Playing even a simple game like path of exile, is bringing my Quadro temp up to 89 degrees. Before the fans they were going up to 97 degrees, and I had to simply press esc.

I am using After burner with auto and user defined settings on.

if I can control some more heat, it will not be that much a problem later for sapphire with 3 fans.

So should I put another 120 mm on top right as exhaust, or I should follow this instead

BTW: Sickle fans are not noisy at all. You need to make sure thier wings are not touching some part of cabinet and the screws needs to be very tight.

My table fan is making triple noise than these sickle flow ones, they are very silent.

RCguitarist · Nov 2, 2015

Those cases are very open and flowing so you don't need a ton of fans. In my HAF 912 I have 4 fans. Two 120s in the front both running at 85% speed and one 120 in the rear running at 100% and lastly a 120 on the top rear position running at 65%. This keeps my entire system nice and cool under intense gaming. I have never seen any of my components get above 61C.

I would however, recommend putting your hard drives in the very bottom slots of the hard drive rack and cutting the hard drive rack off just above where the drives sit. Those racks block so much airflow.

Sunny Kapoor · Nov 2, 2015

RCguitarist :

Cannot set up two 120 for front inflow, no holes for 2 x 120. So I have to setup two on side for inflow, one at the bottom and 2 exhaust in the top all 120 mm.

Should I replace my stock 1200 RPM rear exhaust with the cooler master sickle flow?

Sunny Kapoor · Nov 3, 2015

I have added another exhaust on the top. Removed the stock rear fan and placed it at bottom face of cabinet for inward flow. replaced it with another sickle flow.

Now even when running games the Quadro temp. is 80 degrees constant with some peak at 86 degrees.

Can anyone suggest how to bring the temp. further down?

I have just one slide slot left for just one fan now.

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