200mm & 180mm rads.

[Mick Naughty]

Anyone have experience with either?

Fan options seem quite limited. Prefer noctua but not sure about modding a pair to fit together. 

Looking to start another project and want a dual and a single rad of either or one of each depending. Well aware of the static pressure loss, won’t be use 120mm conponents anymore. 

[W-L]

4 hours ago, Mick Naughty said:

Anyone have experience with either?

Fan options seem quite limited. Prefer noctua but not sure about modding a pair to fit together. 

Looking to start another project and want a dual and a single rad of either or one of each depending. Well aware of the static pressure loss, won’t be use 120mm conponents anymore. 

They exist but as you pointed out fan selection for those sizes is very limited for pressure optimized fans. Silverstone had some air pressure designed 180mm fans which were consider to be quite good. 

 

As for rads I believe Phyoba and Magicool are the only one that still carries those dimensions.

[Strator]

I just put together a loop with a phobya 400mm rad. As you can see I went with the notcua fans. I have some older NZXT and Bitfenix "200mm" fans and they do not fit, (not that I thought they would, I just was curious). I'm not sure of the current selection of 200mm fans and if they would work with this rad, but the fins are not dense so you don't necessarily need to find a high static pressure fan. If you are looking for one the silverstone air penetrator 180mm are the best and they do fit this rad. One thing to note this setup is thicccc, 45mm rad + 30mm fan, make sure your case has the clearance. I mounted mine on the back of my case, the P3, but thats not typically an option. 

 

As a performance note, Im running a 1700x at 3.9GHz and a vega 64, drawing about 450wats from the wall while gaming and with the low noise adapters on the they are silent, and I mean silent, and my temps are low 50s for the cpu and high 40s for the gpu with water temps reaching 38C or so. With the fans on full, still quiet and they have a nice low note to them, the temps drop about 5C all around.

 

 

[Mick Naughty]

5 minutes ago, Strator said:

I just put together a loop with a phobya 400mm rad. As you can see I went with the notcua fans. I have some older NZXT and Bitfenix "200mm" fans and they do not fit, (not that I thought they would, I just was curious). I'm not sure of the current selection of 200mm fans and if they would work with this rad, but the fins are not dense so you don't necessarily need to find a high static pressure fan. If you are looking for one the silverstone air penetrator 180mm are the best and they do fit this rad. One thing to note this setup is thicccc, 45mm rad + 30mm fan, make sure your case has the clearance. I mounted mine on the back of my case, the P3, but thats not typically an option. 

 

As a performance note, Im running a 1700x at 3.9GHz and a vega 64, drawing about 450wats from the wall while gaming and with the low noise adapters on the they are silent, and I mean silent, and my temps are low 50s for the cpu and high 40s for the gpu with water temps reaching 38C or so. With the fans on full, still quiet and they have a nice low note to them, the temps drop about 5C all around.

 

 

Ok that’s perfect. Wasn’t sure of those versions of the noctuas would fit. Guess I’ll have to get another case and give it a try.