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CuriousBro
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This post is partly to showoff cord management, but mostly to discuss the best fan setup. Front fans face in, back fans face out, and CPU fan faces the back fans. I'm thinking of replacing the stock front fans with Noctua NF-A14 which are 140mm compared to the 120mm stock fans. Any thoughts?

 

 

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Motherboard: Asus Tuf X570-Plus | CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800x Eight-Core Processor | GPU: Zotac GeForce RTX 3080 10gb  | RAM: G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL14 | Case: ATX Mid Tower Case | Storage: Samsung 970 Evo 500GB & 1TB M.2 | Display: Samsung C27HG70 27" 2560x1440 144Hz 1ms | Operating System: Windows 10

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39 minutes ago, CuriousBro said:

This post is partly to showoff cord management, but mostly to discuss the best fan setup. Front fans face in, back fans face out, and CPU fan faces the back fans. I'm thinking of replacing the stock front fans with Noctua NF-A14 which are 140mm compared to the 120mm stock fans. Any thoughts?

 

 

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Looks good.

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18 minutes ago, aDoomGuy said:

That's good. Maybe adjust the lower front fan a little will give your video card a bit more air but thats fine.

The Fractal Meshify C tower won't let the be fan any lower. It's one of the reasons I want a 140mm fan, because there's a mount option lower down. I can't even drop the fan all the way down and use only the top screws because the height of the fan is taller than the top of the lower mount. 140mm fans solve this issue. Side note, I do like this case, it's clearly better than my Corsair 200R, but still some design issues.

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Motherboard: Asus Tuf X570-Plus | CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800x Eight-Core Processor | GPU: Zotac GeForce RTX 3080 10gb  | RAM: G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL14 | Case: ATX Mid Tower Case | Storage: Samsung 970 Evo 500GB & 1TB M.2 | Display: Samsung C27HG70 27" 2560x1440 144Hz 1ms | Operating System: Windows 10

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You can take that cover off and drop another fan there or a 360 rad. Or 2x 120s and a 140 😄

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1 minute ago, freeagent said:

You can take that cover off and drop another fan there or a 360 rad. Or 2x 120s and a 140 😄

I had the thought. My god that would look so ugly.

Motherboard: Asus Tuf X570-Plus | CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800x Eight-Core Processor | GPU: Zotac GeForce RTX 3080 10gb  | RAM: G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL14 | Case: ATX Mid Tower Case | Storage: Samsung 970 Evo 500GB & 1TB M.2 | Display: Samsung C27HG70 27" 2560x1440 144Hz 1ms | Operating System: Windows 10

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Yeah I wouldn't want to stare at a rad either 😄

 

2x 120s and a 140 dont look too bad.

 

 

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Asus Crosshair VIII Dark Hero | 32GB G.Skill Trident Z @ 3733C14

Zotac 4070 Ti Trinity OC @ 3060/1495 | WD SN850, SN850X, SN770

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6 minutes ago, freeagent said:

Yeah I wouldn't want to stare at a rad either 😄

 

2x 120s and a 140 dont look too bad.

 

 

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By the way, nice setup. Base so loud it cracked the floor!

Motherboard: Asus Tuf X570-Plus | CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800x Eight-Core Processor | GPU: Zotac GeForce RTX 3080 10gb  | RAM: G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL14 | Case: ATX Mid Tower Case | Storage: Samsung 970 Evo 500GB & 1TB M.2 | Display: Samsung C27HG70 27" 2560x1440 144Hz 1ms | Operating System: Windows 10

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Lol thanks man 🙂

 

I wish I could say that! Sadly no..

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