Well I bought the Arctic F12 PWM CO for RM25 hope it as good as the White fins one

Yea the F12 are super great at their price

I choose swiftech helix cuz cyntrix no sell arctic.. but swiftech helix great too

Ok guys..need some pointers... Now I have many fans installed and I get decent 2-5 C drop in temp.... my configurations are as below:-
1) CPU fan push pull setup 2 Arctic cooling F12 fan chain connect to CPU_Fan header
2) Case fan back side CM fan come with my Hyper 212 cooler connect to CPU_Opt Fan Header.
3) Case fan front come with the CM USP 100 case connect to Case_fan header.
4) Case fan side 2 Arctic Cooling F12 fan and Bottom 1 CM standard fan all chain connected to case_fan 2 header.
My question is...
So with all these 7 fans connect to motherboard will it stress the motherboard too much and shorten its life and is it necessary to invest on a fan controller?

Thanks

Fans require little power so no worries about them eating up wattage, adding a fan controller will not help in terms of power draw, but they do provide you the control over the speed of the fans at all times

Thanks for that input... clear my worries on stressing to much on motherboard

Glad I could help

Hi guys...if I want to buy a 5.25" external fan controller but no 5.25" slot can I put in the casing instead?

why not? just use your imagination, so long as you like where it is it shouldn't matter where you place it in your chassis

I'm currently using a Cooler Master Silencio 450 with stock 120mm x 800rpm front and rear fans.

I recently upgraded my GPU and I'm wondering if switching to the Arctic F12 PWM fans would be an upgrade, or whether there's no difference?

assuming that the Artic F12 PWM is always running at max speed of 1400rpm, I think you will see some improvements but not by much, all you will be doing is to speed up the air flowing inside the chassis after all and you did upgrade to a more powerful GPU didn't you? and it'll be probably get toasty if you changed from a blower type to a downdraft type cooler for your GPU

Both my previous and current cards are downdraft, but Max TDP has increased from 80W to 230W.

In BF4 my GPU is at about 50% load, 50% fan speed, 70C. I worry that it will run hotter when I upgrade to a 120Hz monitor. So I'm proactively looking for ways to cool it.

The rear exhaust fan pushes out a trickle of air, and yes it does feel toasty

haha well it's limited what changing fans can do to help, but expelling the hot air faster should be your priority so a higher CFM fan will help in a way.. the silencio series isn't one for airflow is another downside else you may wanna consider the Artic Accelero Hybrid for your GPU... which will cost a bomb

I just ordered the fans. Will take before/after measurements when they arrive

hope it helps

instead of making BIg 12cmx12cm holes to put fans instead can i just drills Alot of small holes for fan circulation.

You can, why not? but do take note that having just holes will block some airflow to the fan, unless there is little gap between your drilled holes.

I'd suggest that you just cut a hole and get a fan grill, you can get the basic ones like these for about RM8 in LYP



or you could make one like this out of arcylic... or aluminium if you have milling machine

im using as intake fan. do i have to put air filter? if use fan grills

I would recommend you to do so, helps minimize the amount of dust but it's totally up to you, some people don't because they wanted the fan to look nice lolz

well i dun really care about nice. and my casing is on the floor. and i wan use as side panal air flow intake

a filter is needed if you wish to reduce dust intake, since your case will be placed on the floor.