Does anyone know a PC Case with plenty of fan and rad spaces? [ANSWERED]

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EnergyEclipse

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Hello!

I, currently, use the NZXT H320 PC Case for my beastly rig. However, I recently realised my mistake in buying the case once I began to find how poor the airflow inside the case actually is.

I currently have the Stock Intel cooler which came with my i7 4790 and I wish to swap it out for something such as the Be quiet! Silent Loop as my motherboard is far to compact and a large air Cooler with easily hit the RAM I have despite the heat spreader being quite low. The Stock Intel cooler from my research is not the greatest at cooling efficiently and I can not change it because of how risky it is as I seriously do not want to ruin a £340 CPU. So therefore, I have to get a bigger case to add extra cooling equipment to help the cooler along and get better airflow into the case.

So my main question is, would anyone possibly be able to suggest a few PC Cases with tons (Loads) of room for Fan placements and Rads if I doe eventually change the Stock Cooler? I plan on throwing quite a few fans on the front so room for 3 fans on either the front or roof of the case would be great as I can get a totally overkill AIO cooler in that way. Thanks! :D
 
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AIO coolers are not better coolers than good air coolers.
Whatever, if you want better cooling, the intel stock cooler is not the way to go.
There are several variants of the stock cooler. Those with copper bottoms perform better.
Look at the scythe kotetsu $35. Here is a review from spcr.
It performs competitive to even a noctua NH-U14s which is known to be one of the best.
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1391-page1.html
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Cryorig's H7 has great RAM clearance and will fit with most modules. Also, even at ~$35-45, it outperforms most AiO coolers under $100.

How do you know your case's airflow is inadequate? What's the temperature inside compared with outside? Also, why do you want to replace the stock cooler on your CPU? It shouldn't be thermally throttling with the stock cooler, and you can't overclock a non-K CPU, so I see little point in spending more than maybe $15-$20 on a cooler, if that.
 
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geofelt

geofelt

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Your case has perfectly adequate airflow.
I would relocate the rear 120mm fan to the front as an added intake.
All intake will exit somewhere and you will have a cleaner case.
If your temperatures at idle are higher than 10-15c. over ambient, likely your stock cooler is not mounted well.

I would second the cryorig H7 recommendation, it will be quieter.
Since your cpu can not be overclocked, there is little need for extra.

My canned rant on liquid cooling:
------------------------start of rant-------------------
You buy a liquid cooler to be able to extract an extra multiplier or two out of your OC.
How much do you really need?
I do not much like all in one liquid coolers when a good air cooler like a Noctua or phanteks can do the job just as well.
A liquid cooler will be expensive, noisy, less reliable, and will not cool any better
in a well ventilated case.
Liquid cooling is really air cooling, it just puts the heat exchange in a different place.
The orientation of the radiator will cause a problem.
If you orient it to take in cool air from the outside, you will cool the cpu better, but the hot air then circulates inside the case heating up the graphics card and motherboard.
If you orient it to exhaust(which I think is better) , then your cpu cooling will be less effective because it uses pre heated case air.
And... I have read too many tales of woe when a liquid cooler leaks.
google "H100 leak"
-----------------------end of rant--------------------------

Your pc will be quieter, more reliable, and will be cooled equally well with a decent air cooler.
 
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Thank you for replies! :D I hugely appreciate that you have spent you own time to answer my rather odd question. My CPU (Intel i7 4790 @ 3.6ghz) on idle is around 40oC with only NZXT CAM running so I could check it (I had only installed it to check my CPU temps as I couldn't get to grips with my complicated BIOS layout), with my GPU at 65oC which I know is not good for idle. However I did quite a lot of research into the fan configurations and positive/negative/neutral air pressure which can appear inside of a case with certain configuration of fans inside. I had realised after I opened my PC case (The NZXT H230, known to have terrible airflow if fan configurations are poorly laid out) that the poor old intake fan on the front my case was struggling to move much air into the more open part of my case as the air somehow just seemed to disappear once I couldn't get the tissue I placed to blow at all at the end of the drive bays positioned in front the front intake fan. Now yes, some may argue that is meant to happened and that you shouldn't really be able to feel air from a fan as it is only really meant just to move cold air into the case, although I wasn't convinced. And so I brought a cheaper fan controller, along two newer static pressure fans to help move air directly into the case's more open area so the GPU wasn't drawing loads of un dust filtered air into my case through any rear grilles. I recently installed the new ones with this configuration:

Front of case - Two 120mm front fans in taking air, one being one of the stock NZXT case fans located on the top mount, and another being the one of the newer Static pressure fans on the bottom, both connect through a 2 way 3/4 pin fan connector splitter which is then connected the fan controller on the front of the case in a drive bay, both covered by dust filters.

Bottom of case - One of the original 120mm NZXT case fans moving air out of the case.
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Rear top - The second new static pressure 120mm fan exhausting air at the back of the case

But still, the temperatures haven't changed one bit and have remained extremely hot on Idle.

Please help! I don't know what has gone wrong! Also, I will no longer be getting a new cooler after getting the new fans and everything else. Goodbye and thank yu!
 
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AIO coolers are not better coolers than good air coolers.
Whatever, if you want better cooling, the intel stock cooler is not the way to go.
There are several variants of the stock cooler. Those with copper bottoms perform better.
Look at the scythe kotetsu $35. Here is a review from spcr.
It performs competitive to even a noctua NH-U14s which is known to be one of the best.
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1391-page1.html
 
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