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Fan recommendation/Temp critique

Hi, I am currently water cooling my i7 4790k with a h105. That have the default Fans given to me by Corsair exhausting Through the top of my case. My case is a h440 with 3 jetflo 120 fans in the front that act as intake and a default fan that was pre installed in my case that exhausts in the back. My 980 that is air cooled Temps are no issue to me. However I would like to improve the temps on my cpu. I idle in a 21c room at 33c to 35c. And with prime 95 I get around 70c. With demanding games I get 50c give or take, I run my fans 100% all the time with my fan controller . I am planning on upgrading my radiator fans to sp120 performance And a jetflo 120 in the back. However I have heard about NF-12s and am willing to give them a try. I would like some recommendations about what fans to buy like stick with what I want or get something else. Also if my temps are abnormal, caused by human error because people are telling me my cpu

Temps are bad.

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Unfortunately I don't think new noctua fans will improve your temps more than 5 degrees. If you got 2 to 3 degrees cooler I would say that's pretty good, but I think you'll get 1 to 2 degrees cooler instead. I say this because I've seen Linus videos where they use stock corsair fans and then noctuas.

I would think a larger unit with 140mm fans and a bigger rad would be better instead. 70 degrees max temp on load is good if you have it overclocked. Is it overclocked? Anything under 85 max on haswell is fine. 78 to 80 average temp is where you want to keep it at or under.

Don't forget, you have an i7 haswell chip. They all run hot.

BigDay

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