Case air cooling?

[John066]

I have the coolermaster H500 (not M or P). It currently has the stock 2x200mm fans in the front (rated at 90 CFM each), however I recently noticed that about a 1/3rd of the fans are blocked by the metal radiator bracket in the front (see picture). The main hole through the support is 120mm wide. I'm thinking that 3 120mm fans would push a whole lot more air since the 180cfm of the 2x 200mm fans is 1/3 blocked and the 3x 120mm fans would not be blocked at all. What do you guys think?

 

Also was looking at replacing the fans with the new sickleflow 120mm fans as they have 62CFM each (186 CFM total), have higher static pressure, and are supposedly just as quite as the 200mm fans if cooler master is to be believed. (https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/coolers/case-fan/sickleflow-120-rgb)

 

thoughts?

[TVwazhere]

Honestly I think you'd just be throwing money at the case, adding more noise (since three fans rated at 27dba wil be louder than two fans at 28) while maintaining similar CFM levels, even with parts of the 200mm fans being blocked by the case frame. 

 

It's not worth it. 

[Algebruh]

I have the same case, and I absolutely hate that Cooler Master decided to be lazy on the case design.

I replace those 200mm fans with three A12x25. 

The difference is small, the temperatures only decrease by 1~2 C for CPU and GPU. The noise is slightly lower though. 

 

The new sickleflow 120 seems to be pretty good on heatsink (the only review I can find is written in Chinese).

[Gorilla Warfare]

Sickle Flow fans are loud and poorly made, avoid them.

[John066]

4 hours ago, Gorilla Warfare said:

Sickle Flow fans are loud and poorly made, avoid them.

they updated them to a new version a couple months ago. not sure why they kept the same name as i know the old ones are kinda crappy. The new ones have the best stats on paper for any coolermaster fan but i know that doesn't equal real world necessarily

[John066]

5 hours ago, Algebruh said:

I have the same case, and I absolutely hate that Cooler Master decided to be lazy on the case design.

I replace those 200mm fans with three A12x25. 

The difference is small, the temperatures only decrease by 1~2 C for CPU and GPU. The noise is slightly lower though. 

 

The new sickleflow 120 seems to be pretty good on heatsink (the only review I can find is written in Chinese).

thanks for the reply! yea i've looked everywhere for a review. Glad you were able to find one even if its in Chinese lol. And i agree 100 percent about coolermaster's laziness. I can't imagine more that a coupe people are using the front for a radiator. seems like a useless bracket

 

I'm rocking a Ryzen 3800x and a msi 2080 ti gaming x trio so a couple degrees might be worth it, but probably not lol (hate water cooling).