Stalfos

Got it, thanks for the feedback.

Cool, thanks. Any thoughts about using TDP to predict average heat generated by components (not accounting for overclocking and real world heat generated) to get an idea of how much air would have to be replaced by ambient air to keep the case temp as close to ambient as audibly comfortable.

Sorry, the reason I ask is because on most research I've done there seems to be two arguments. On one hand some say that two fans, in parallel, with the same capacity to move air will only move that amount of air. On the other hand some say that fans in parallel of the same capacity will increase their efficiency and create a sort of exponential growth in the capacity of air they can physically move, but by only a small amount. I would appreciate if you could provide additional information, links to articles or anything like that.

Yes, this is what I was missing. So even if you "replace" the volume of air within the case every second, there is turbulence that will occur because of the fans of the components within the case. This will cause the ambient temperature to mix with the heat generated by the components, and that will lead to a temperature difference within the case than that of ambient. That though can be included in the calculation using the tdp as an average. Though I don't think maintaining ambient within the case will be possible without having delta fan level noise. Or maybe a blower style GPU and a CPU cooler that functions like a blower directing air straight out of the case.

So then you believe two 60 cfm fans actually generate 120 cfms?

I want to discuss this because it could be a valuable tool for someone who is not clear when choosing fans for a certain case. This way all they would need to know is how much air they need to move against the volume of the case they choose. From there they can choose size and number with relation to the aesthetic they are aiming for. Here is the question. Mid towers with a basement usually have less than 1 CF of volume within the space where the motherboard and their components would be. Not taking into account restrictions like stacked mesh filters and restrictive front panels. I believe having a 60 CFM fan on intake as well as exhaust should be sufficient to replace the volume of air within the case every second. Or at least that's what the math tells me ( on a case with 1cubic foot of volume ). It sounds too good to be true in my opinion, there must be something I'm missing. Now the second question is this. If I have two fans on intake, not stacked both with 60 cfm of airflow. I have one fan on exhaust with the same 60 cfm of airflow. To my understanding I'm still only pushing 60 cfm on intake as well as exhaust. Although I have read that this could be slightly more, something like 80 CFM.

Hello everyone, So I just encountered something strange. I just bought an rx580 8gb. I'm running an a7? With Radeon 7 Apu. And 8gb of ram at 2133. So, while I had my Apu Auto enabled I was getting around 40 to 50 fps high settings on shadow of the tomb raider. Looking at temps I was getting 75c on the package with the Apu pumping out 120c so I decided to see if disabling it could bring temps down, and it sure did. Although, this also brought my fps down to 30 and barely 40 on low settings. I'm going to keep playing around with settings to see if theres a fix. If not I will have to hold out until I can upgrade my CPU cooler (which is stock btw). Thanks for your time, any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Hey everyone, new here at the forum. Last build I did was with a Pentium 4 just to let you know where I'm at lol. So my build is a 8700k 1080ti 16gb ram on an Asus z370 board. My question is about storage, for my boot drive I'm thinking an Intel m.2 128gb and a wd blue with 1tb also m.2. I'm wondering could I pull this off without an SSD or hdd. I thought price wise it would be more expensive but it's similar to a SSD setup or a SSD hdd combo. I'm not sure about performance gains I'm sure they are minimal but would it be possible. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.