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Started by Syneteria | | 4 answers
Static pressure vs. airflow fans | Prolimatech MK-26 VGA cooler
MK-26 can hold two 140mm or 120mm fans. I'm currently torn between two options: Noctua's NF-A14 and NF-F12. The other has amazing capabilities and the other is great with static pressure. There's also the size difference. Which fans would be overall better choice for this application?
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a c 249 K Overclocking
October 17, 2014 6:14:42 AM

Syneteria said:
MK-26 can hold two 140mm or 120mm fans. I'm currently torn between two options: Noctua's NF-A14 and NF-F12. The other has amazing capabilities and the other is great with static pressure. There's also the size difference. Which fans would be overall better choice for this application?


Syneteria said:
Yeah, but MK-26 is a heatsink: http://www.prolimatech.com/en/products/detail.asp?id=16... so wouldn't a static pressure one be better?

But then again a 140mm would cover more of the heatsink.


What GPU are you intending mounting that MK-26 on, and why?

Are you overheating because even the 120mm fans will hang off the end of the cooler?

By the time you add the cooling fans to the mounted MK-26 heat sink you are adding quite a bit of weight to the graphics card which translates to possible graphics card warping, (Been there done that!), and undue PCI-E constant slot pressure.

Have you thought about that?

From one that has actually warped a graphics card before using a similar heat sink, and damaged the fingers in a PCI-E slot, I seriously suggest you do.

a b K Overclocking
October 17, 2014 4:20:35 AM

Yes static pressure would be better, my bad lol. Do not get airflow fans, you can mod it with 140mm PWM ones, but the core fans should be SP.

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