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Any addition of fans?

Hyungbae

I am soon hopping on the Corsair air 240 white case for my MATX board. I felt that it's compact size and convenience of my parts to have clearance is beneficial to me. Using from this image as reference, http://www.comx-computers.co.za/i/CORsair/ch-c240-k_2.jpg I have some issues figuring out some fan placements. Actually, I know where to place the fans, just that I am not sure which fans I can use because of my mobo limitations.

 

Specs here:

i7 4790k @4.00Ghz

MSI 960GTX Gaming 2GB

8GB Revengance Corsair 1600mhz

1TB 7200RPM Western Digital Black

EVGA 430W

Gigabyte gaming 5 motherboard MATX form factor http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4968#ov

 

I will eventually overclock, but I won't be overclocking to the point where watercooling is a must.

From the reference image from Corsair Air 240, I was thinking of geting the Corsair AF series blue 120mm fans to replace the fronts, then at the top, I will have one fan be exhaust (the fan near the 80mm fan placements) then the other fan will be an intake (near the front). It will be where a part of the top and front will be taking in cool air, and then the 80mm fans and the other top fan will be exhausting heat. 
The fan near the PSU would be holding the fan that was included with the case.

 

The issue here is the motherboard supports 3 system fans, and 2 CPU fans, one CPU fan port is optional. I know 80mm is also optional, but I would like a best opinion if 80mm would benefit me more for airflow. (NOTE) Noise is not a problem. Is there any problems if I connect the top fan exhaust to the CPU OPT? I would filled the other 3 fan ports with the intake fans, as for the fan near the PSU, I suppose they do nothing.. since I have no more ports for it.. Would you guys think this is over kill, which mean just keep the 3 included fans, or go as planned, but find a fan that can take the cable power from the PSU? I believe its called molex, I forget the names..

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You could just test out different configs and report back. The pre-installed config should be fine, though.

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As someone who has this case I think you're wasting your time adding fans to the case. Unless you're just wanting better (quieter) fans or have an ITX board and want to have some are blowing into the GPU I wouldn't bother. It's a very, very open case and your GPU will be pulling in fresh air from outside of the case anyway.

 

If you want my advice I'd say put some money into a better CPU cooler. Either one of those all-in-one water coolers, which this thing was built for, or a small tower cooler. Just be aware of the height restrictions if you're going the air-cooler route, you'll basically have to restrict yourself to HTPC coolers. This thing was basically built for the H100i/H105/H110....

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For the build I wouldn't recommend the gtx 960. If anything get an r9 280x for around similiar price. Or just go up to a 970.

My Main PC:

CPUi5 3570k CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper T4 Motherboard: Asus p8z77-v pro  RAM: Crucial Balistic 2x4gb  GPU: Two PNY GTX 680's in SLI Case: Some rando Antec one  PSU: Thermaltake 1000w  Display: HP Elite Display 321i 23''  Storage: Samsung 840 Evo 128gb, Seagate Barracuda 1tb

 

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For the build I wouldn't recommend the gtx 960. If anything get an r9 280x for around similiar price. Or just go up to a 970.

 

 

I just got this 430PSU and I plan to stick with it for quite a while.

 

AMD GPU's is listed to be very power-hungry, and a 430W PSU will just not cut. 

I would like to see confidential proof of AMD isn't actually power-hungry and I will take into consideration.

 

I was told a 960 fits my needs due to the PSU. 970 is just pushing it since its minimum watt is 500, which is 70 difference.

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I just got this 430PSU and I plan to stick with it for quite a while.

AMD GPU's is listed to be very power-hungry, and a 430W PSU will just not cut.

I would like to see confidential proof of AMD isn't actually power-hungry and I will take into consideration.

I was told a 960 fits my needs due to the PSU. 970 is just pushing it since its minimum watt is 500, which is 70 difference.

depending on the 970 they can get power hungry too, overclocked especially. You really don't want to run your psu at max load all the time too. 80% or so is when they're at their best.
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As someone who has this case I think you're wasting your time adding fans to the case. Unless you're just wanting better (quieter) fans or have an ITX board and want to have some are blowing into the GPU I wouldn't bother. It's a very, very open case and your GPU will be pulling in fresh air from outside of the case anyway.

 

If you want my advice I'd say put some money into a better CPU cooler. Either one of those all-in-one water coolers, which this thing was built for, or a small tower cooler. Just be aware of the height restrictions if you're going the air-cooler route, you'll basically have to restrict yourself to HTPC coolers. This thing was basically built for the H100i/H105/H110....

 

 

I took your advice and instead go for a H100i. I plan to have it in pull as what I decided by this video from linus:

 

 

I thought, putting the radiator mount to the front, then the fans in the back of the radiator would pull cool air slower? I am not too sure, but I know for a fact that 2 80mm didn't benefit me at all (tested with my old mATX case, just a loud fan if I want an exhaust).

 

Cost effective really, especially that I don't have to forcefully fill in the fan slots, when buying a h100i basically fills them all up excluding the 2 80mm slots.

Also helps with the future overclocking I want to do with the cpu, which I don't know how yet.. ^^;; 

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http://puu.sh/gofya/4101c22b35.JPG

 

I absolutely love the case, and I will just leave the two 80mm fans alone.

the included 3 fans and the soon H100i CPU cooler will be enough!

 

I do have an GPU clearance issue.. Length is not a problem..

It's that beefy heatpipe pressing on my display case window.. What can I do to fix this?

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