Phantom Nzxt case fan setup?

Scratchy1215 · June 5, 2014

What would you all recommend for a cooling setup? I have the stock fans but I plan on buying more fans to have max air flow. I removed one side fan and put it in the front, and left the top as exhaust as well as the back. I read some people made the 2nd top fan a cooling fan and the one closest to the back exhaust. Also what cpu coolers do u guys recommend that fit and aren't a ton of money and are a tad 'showy' or would u guys recommend a all in one water cooling instead? System is built and my graphics card runs VERY cool surprisingly right now, running valley benchmark on maxed settings as a radeon r9 280 after about a hour it was 70-75 degrees C. I'm not sure what my cpu ran as idk what software to use, any recommendations on that as well? Thanks in advanced

loccilucas · June 6, 2014

What would you all recommend for a cooling setup? I have the stock fans but I plan on buying more fans to have max air flow. I removed one side fan and put it in the front, and left the top as exhaust as well as the back. I read some people made the 2nd top fan a cooling fan and the one closest to the back exhaust. Also what cpu coolers do u guys recommend that fit and aren't a ton of money and are a tad 'showy' or would u guys recommend a all in one water cooling instead? System is built and my graphics card runs VERY cool surprisingly right now, running valley benchmark on maxed settings as a radeon r9 280 after about a hour it was 70-75 degrees C. I'm not sure what my cpu ran as idk what software to use, any recommendations on that as well? Thanks in advanced

well I would say replace all your fans for some silent fans (I have noiseblocker blacksilent pros in my 410) just have 2 front intakes and 2 top exhausts, thats all you need and adding more wont decrese temps.

For CPU cooling I would say get the 212 EVO if you dont want to spend much, but If you have more money get any high end aircooler. NH-U14s,D15,D14,phanteks ph-tc14pe, be quiet! dark rock pro 3. then that will act as an exhaust too as the CPU fan(s) will blow out the back.

WoodenMarker · June 6, 2014

I'd keep the side fans at the side since the front doesn't have a good dust filter solution and can bring in dust.

I'd either make the 200mm at top near the front intake to keep positive airflow or just screw dust and add 2 140mm's at the front using the 5.25" drive bay and something like duct tape for a ghetto mount intake so the far back 200mm can be exhaust. If you don't have an especially tall cpu cooler, you can add 2 200mm's for intake at the top near the front and the side.