H440 h105 cooling setup, good or bad?

Imam Bagus · May 20, 2016

Hi, mind my manner, here I want to ask u about my coolinh setup using h440 case and h105 liquid cooling

my rig i7 3770, asrock z77 pro3, gtx 970 gigabyte g1 gaming, 24gb ram, some hard drive, and PSU seasonic p860w

Until I wrote this, my rig cooling setup still using stock fan and stock Intel CPU fan and I want to upgrade so my rig doesn't suffer heat problem when I play games, my consideration for upgrade, FRONT PANEL I want to use h105 with push and pull fan placing in front intake, using four corsair sp120 performance edition, it takes two block lower front fan, with upper front fan I use a corsair af120led quiet edition, UPPER PANEL for the upper fan, I want to use two corsair af140 led quiet edition or is it better using three corsair af120led quiet edition? And last REAR PANEL, of course I want to use a corsair af140led quiet edition

So, what do u think about my setup, is it good or bad? I afraid causing airflow problem, since the exhaust fan so care-free, meanwhile the intake must get through radiator obstacle, but if I don't put h105 in front, I can't perform push and pull configuration, so your thought?

Lutfij · May 31, 2016

When trying to setup your case with best airflow, always make sure your intakes equal to your exhaust. Since we're dealing with an NZXT H440, you can populate 3x120mm fans at the front behind the fascia while you can have 3x120mm fans at the top under the cover/frame and a single 120mm at the rear. You will need to be mindful of your HDD placements though since the drive caddy's will be rendered useless if you have the H105 in the front set to push/pull. The thickness alone will prevent your array of 3.5" HDD's. If you have 1x3.5" HDD in your system then you can mount it to the bottom.

Ideally I'd have the H105(sans push/pull) setup to the top of the chassis. This way you can see if there are any clearance issues(by the help of a ruler) and if not then you can go ahead and order a pair of 25mm thickness fans of your choice to stick onto your CLC cooler. IMHO, you would be far better off going for an aircooled system then to stick an AIO in your chassis which would be cheaper and net near similar results.

I would hate to break it to you but Corsair's fans aren't very fond in the community since they tend to break within a short period of purchase. They can also seem to rattle when at higher RPM's. Something I thought I'd mention since you're stacking up on a lot of Corsair fans and you did state using Quiet edition fans for the top which will be moot once they begin to rattle.

Per your question with 140 and 120mm fans, the air moved by a 140mm fan is more than that made by a 120mm fan due to the surface area of the 140mm fan blades against air it bites into so with fewer revolutions you get the same if not more air flow than a 120mm fan at the same RPM.

Imam Bagus · May 31, 2016

Yeah, for your solution, I prefer placing the rad on top panel, where I put push fan as exhaust hoping cumulative heat in rad doesn't make overall heat in h440 case rise up, maybe later if I tried to using liquid cooling for vga, which I gain 70-72 deg c when I play far cry 3

Thanks for the straight answer about corsair fan, what do u prefer for my setup? 3x12 fan front intake 2x12 top radiator exhaust and 1x14 rear exhaust, I think, I'll go to pick noctua fan, 2xnf-f12 iPPC 3000rpm for radiator,nf-a14 iPPC 3000rpm for rear exhaust, and 3xnf-f12 iPPC 3000rpm for front intake, but the question is, I don't have enough pwm socket in my asrock z77 pro3, only 2x4pin pwm and 2x3pin, where one 3pin used by h105 for pump, only remains 1x3pin and 2x4pin, what do u suggest? Is it going loud enough even i try to connect it to pwm socket?

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