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Bungle11

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Hi

Need a bit of advice on cooling. I've ordered the Shift in Black, and i just wanted to have your thoughts on the best fan configuration; as i don't see the point in 140mm watercooling. I intend to swap over most of my parts and then get a 980ti or GTX1070 (both used), and a 700w psu. My budget for a gpu is £300 max. Looking at doing 1440p gaming with decent settings (high to ultra)

My current config is:

cpu - i5 6600
cooler - Silverstone AR06 - 95w TDP - current idle temp at 30c with fan set to low rpm. 70ish at load.
MB - Asrock Z170 (Bios updated to support 7th gen) - I originally had a i7 6700k hence the Z board
case - Silverstone FT03b with 400 sfx psu (Noisy and crap psu) - case and psu bought off ebay for £35.
GPU - GTX970
Fans- Noctua NF-F12 (pushing in air for the bottom.
Lighting - NZXT Hue+
Spare parts laying around - 1x Noctua NF-12, 2x 140mm Aerocool Dead Silence [No LEDs] @ fixed rpm (i think 800); and various cables etc.

I was thinking of in stalling my two aerocool fans, and a noctua at the bottom, all as intakes. Will this provide enough cooling? Given that the areocools are low rpm.

My other fan option would be to get 3 NZXT Aer RGBs, installing them all as intakes as the RGBs are only on one side. Would this be effective? or do you thank I should have one intake(bottom) and two exhausts?

Your thoughts very much welcome.

Thanks (ps. sorry for the essay :) )
 
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Sedivy

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Oh hey I remember watching a review on this case, looks pretty cool. I can't see all the fan slots on it but I think it mentions being able to 4 fans altogether? Try and do balanced, 2 intake, 2 exhaust in that case, with slight emphasis on intake (for positive presure). But I can't really picture where all these fans go as phanteks has no official product page yet I don't think so not sure if this is then the best config. If you do 2/2 and two fans are on the same side of the case, one below the other, then make sure if one intake and one exhaust, that the intake is on the bottom.
Be careful with the PSU as this is a very unusual case shape and it might not fit most standard sized psus. so make sure to confirm with phanteks before you buy it.
 
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angeal2690

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The shift has 3 fan locations. One at the motherboard and 2 located at the bottom. The larger shift x has 4 locations. Adding a 3rd to the bottom portion.

I own the larger shift x. I would recommend intakes for the 2 bottom fans and exhaust for the motherboard especially with air cooling. The top area can get warm during gaming and having that exhausting air helps with the heat build up from both the CPU and GPU. As for the fans themselves you should be fine with either choices. I use the stock phanteks fans and a fractal design gp-14 and works fine for air flow.

 
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Bungle11

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Hi thanks for the reply. I've already buit my system. Running the following:

cpu - 1700x
MB - Asrock A370 Fatality ITX
Ram - Patriot Viper 4 @3200
CPU Cooler - Cosair H80v2 - with push pull black Noctua fans
GPU - 1080FTW
Case fan - 14mm black noctua
All fans set to intake air, as i found that the there isn't enough space for the air to escape if the case fan is set to exhaust. the air hits the front panel and simply blows back into the fan - creating unwanted noise.

The FTW gpu fits with about 4mm to spare between the top radiator fan and the card.
system temps (21c room) are:

cpu idle - 41c with pump @700rpm (i think 1400rpm is the max for the pump). the MB has a water pump header which can control the pump speed, so i've set this to the lowest possible. Full load temsp are 65c

MB temps are 38 at idle and 54 max at load (4 hours gaming)

Radiator fans set to spin at 750rpm min - 1100rpm max
Case fan - 1000rpm max

Gpu (no overclocking) at load doesn't go above 65c.

In all, the system is quite, and the temps are ok with low fans speeds.
 
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