CORSAIR Hydro Series H80 Liquid CPU Cooler fans?
January 28th, 2020
Noctua NF-F12’s are a no brainer.
If you want the best performance and don’t care if the fans sound like a hairdryer, Delta makes a few fans that you must connect to molex, the motherboard can be fried by it as it draws way too much current.
The Corsair SP120 is not bad, but its bearing is just a basic sleeve one, so not that great.
I used many different fans for many purposes.
Corsair stock radiator fan.
Corsair SP120’s.
Coolermaster Sickleflow’s.
Fractal Design case fans.
In the end its all basic sleeves and they last around a year and start to develop a noise due to poor lubrication.
Gets noisy and transmits its vibration to the case and gets amplified by the metal.
yea i think i might get NF-F12 iPPC-3000 PWM Fan with Focused Flow™ and SSO2 Bearing you think this is going to be better then the stock fans?
yea i think i might get NF-F12 iPPC-3000 PWM Fan with Focused Flow™ and SSO2 Bearing you think this is going to be better then the stock fans?
Oh yeah, it is a proper Fluid Dynamic Bearing fan, with Noctua fans, once you open the packaging, you know you got the good stuff. It is expensive (30 AUD per fan), but for something that you don’t replace all the time, it is a worthwhile investment. You only need one per radiator fan mount, either push or pull, but not fans on both sides as it is a waste of money and extra noise. The NF-F12 is of course a fan designed for high static pressure, which is essential for radiators.
With radiators, you have a cramped space (the fins) which you have to get the air through, normal case fans with high CFM just won’t do it.
The air gets pushed back at the blades and leaks through the sides. PWM is somewhat better, the fan gets full power via pulse cycles, this ensures the fan blades get the right propolsion so it won’t unbalance it to cause undue wear. Just make sure your motherboard has the 4 pin connector, otherwise you can’t realise its true potential. Since you got a H80, you only need one fan. I have a H55 and I use the pull configuration, less dust gets trapped in the radiator fins so you don’t have to clean it that often. I set the duty cycle to 70% and I can barely hear it (less than 25 decibels). Right now the buz is just from my hard drives. I got them replaced.
I also run 2 intake fans, Noctua NF-S12 1300 pwm’s. Both set at 70% duty cycle as well, via bios of course.
You’d thank me later, FYI: harddrives also use FDB, its just that good.
if you have the money to afford it.. is there anything wrong with having fans on both sides? thanks
if you have the money to afford it.. is there anything wrong with having fans on both sides? thanks
So do I, the fact of using water cooling is to make the system more quiet.
If you want better cooling performance, more fans isn’t the way.
You want your own designed cooling loop with a massive radiator or multiple radiators.
A push pull config will just make more noise and benefits only 1-3 degrees. Doesn’t justify the cost factor. Hot air will find its way out, you don’t need a second fan to drag it out. The first fan will do 10 degrees celsius plus in Heat removal, the second can’t even manage half of that and gives you more annoying noise.
If you consider ease of installation and removal, make things simple.
I have a H55 with 1 fan and I can’t even be bothered to clean it. Its annoying as hell to clean. You try compressed air with little effect, the weak fins are fragile.