Adding two 140MM Fans to side of Corsair 500R?

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Hi People,

I'm considoring to buy two 140MM fans to replace my stock 200mm fan in my corsair 500r as my old GPU basically fried itself not too long ago and i want to hopefully prevent it from happening again.. I was wondering where to plug these fans in..

My motherboard is a maximus VII Hero and i see theres ports CHA-FAN1 (These are 4 pin's which can also use 3pin from what i've read) to CHA-FAN4.. Which im pretty certain that makes me able to control fan RPM if im not wrong?

Anyway was wondering if someone can point me into the right direction.

Thanks,
Jack
 
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Having fans on the side panel isn't a sound approach if and when you have to remove the side panel for tinkering/cleaning since you're going to have to leave some cable as slack unless you have fingers like salamanders that can weave through crevices. That being said, if you're not using all your drive cages then you could remove the top row and have an unrestricted air flow path to your GPU. If you're dealing with a single GPU, running on the top most PCI-e slot then that would aid in drawing cooler air.

In fact a cases airflow is optimal when flowing from front/bottom(intake) to rear/bottom(exhaust) and it aids in heat dispersion more than just slapping fans on any given spot.

Yes the 4 pin CHA_FAN can accept a fan on each and I...
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Having fans on the side panel isn't a sound approach if and when you have to remove the side panel for tinkering/cleaning since you're going to have to leave some cable as slack unless you have fingers like salamanders that can weave through crevices. That being said, if you're not using all your drive cages then you could remove the top row and have an unrestricted air flow path to your GPU. If you're dealing with a single GPU, running on the top most PCI-e slot then that would aid in drawing cooler air.

In fact a cases airflow is optimal when flowing from front/bottom(intake) to rear/bottom(exhaust) and it aids in heat dispersion more than just slapping fans on any given spot.

Yes the 4 pin CHA_FAN can accept a fan on each and I know that you can control them via BIOS either as PWM or via voltage regulation/DC. You might need to go into BIOS to see if they are capable of either/or before you buy the fans though.

By fried, you sure the GPU didn't die from a failing PSU or perhaps a bad overclock?
 
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Surprisingly no, It overheated and fried itself.. Was cleaned a month before it fried.

 
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Prematurely selected my post as Best Answer or was it accidental?
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If you've got your answer then please follow up with your progress. A lot fo folks had complained of how the CHA_FANS weren't true PWM fan headers but rather pseudo 3 pin fan headers disguised as PWM fan headers.
 
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Will do, Going to buy some new fans hopefully tomorrow.

 
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