Hey guys, I currently have an arorus gaming 3 motherboard x299 with the i7 7740x CPU, I have been using an h100i cooler for quite some time now. I managed to easily overclock my CPU to 5.1ghz stable at only 1.27v and I also have my corsair vengiance 3000mhz I XMP profile overclocked to 3200mhz. Currently I run about 28c at idle and on average 50-60c during gaming. I have pushed my CPU to 5.3ghz at around 1.4v stable but it gets around 80-85c when stress testing. I love my h100i it does very well but my plan is to run a pushpull setup, if I'm amble to squeeze another 3-8c cooler temps out of it I would be happy for the money, cuz temps are everthing when overclocking and noise does not bother me.
I'm currently running my radiator at the very top of my case with two Fans on the bottom of the radiator pushing air through the radiator and out though the top of my case (as an exhaust) so I would like to add two more fans on top of the radiator as pull which will be hidden underneath the top panel of my tower which can wailer be snapped on or off for cleaning and fan mounting.
My current delemma... the two fans I am currently using are the grey and black stock SP 120 fans that come with the cooler, at first I was just gonna buy two more of those exact fans and run them up top in pull, but when i looked online I saw corsair has sp120 (high performance fans) as well as (sp120 quite fans.) the performance fans have a higher rpm as well as a higher amperage .8amp each I think, and the quite ones are around .5amp each I think. MY QUESTION to you guys is will I be able to just run a splitter off the corsair pump and plug in all 4 fans to the corsair fan controller and then into my CPU fan header? From what Iv read online the fan controller is only a 4amp, so I feel I will be pushing the limits of both the corsair fan controller as well as the CPU header on my motherboard. I really don't wanna burn it out but I would really like to have all 4 fans controlled though the corsair software. I also found a splitter cable that has a molex on the one end for a sata power cable, would that work? Would I then be able to run all 4 fans off the 1 corsair controller and the 1 CPU fan header? I would think that the molex adaptor would allow for this to happen while not overloading the single CPU fan header with too many amps..
If neither of these solutions work, then I was thinking about connecting all 4 fans to the fan controller on my tower, I have two fan controller knobs that can control up to 3 fans each, so what I was thinking was connecting my push fans to one knob and my pull fans to another knob, eliminating the corsair controller all togeher; This way I would be able to find that perfect balance of rpm for both push and pull fans separately.
Last option of mine would be to leave the two Fans controlled though the corsair controller and then just simply plug the two other fans into the motherboard fan headers (which I really don't wanna do)
I also plan on buying some 1/8" rubber door sealer from a local hardware store and using it between the fan and the radiator so that there is less static pressure being lost. The rubber foam has a sticky backing so I plan on lining the frame of the fan with it before mounting the fans back onto my radiator, this way there is a much greater seal between the radiator and the fans thus making for better airflow across the fins of the radiator resulting in cooler CPU temperatures.
Let me know what you guys think about all this.. also are the grey and black fans that came with my water cooler basically the same as the (sp120 high performance fans) cuz from what I saw I think the RPM is the same. The only real difference I noticed was that the high performance fans have the color changing rings as well as tubby bushings to quite the sound of the fan. I think they use the same amperage tho as the grey and black stock cooler fans.
If you guys have any input or can help me with my delemma I would be greatly appreciative. Also if you have any other SP fan suggestions that would possibly cool even better than the corsair sp120s then please let me know. Like I said I'm not so worried about noise as I am performance, After all cooler temps is what I'm after.
I'm currently running my radiator at the very top of my case with two Fans on the bottom of the radiator pushing air through the radiator and out though the top of my case (as an exhaust) so I would like to add two more fans on top of the radiator as pull which will be hidden underneath the top panel of my tower which can wailer be snapped on or off for cleaning and fan mounting.
My current delemma... the two fans I am currently using are the grey and black stock SP 120 fans that come with the cooler, at first I was just gonna buy two more of those exact fans and run them up top in pull, but when i looked online I saw corsair has sp120 (high performance fans) as well as (sp120 quite fans.) the performance fans have a higher rpm as well as a higher amperage .8amp each I think, and the quite ones are around .5amp each I think. MY QUESTION to you guys is will I be able to just run a splitter off the corsair pump and plug in all 4 fans to the corsair fan controller and then into my CPU fan header? From what Iv read online the fan controller is only a 4amp, so I feel I will be pushing the limits of both the corsair fan controller as well as the CPU header on my motherboard. I really don't wanna burn it out but I would really like to have all 4 fans controlled though the corsair software. I also found a splitter cable that has a molex on the one end for a sata power cable, would that work? Would I then be able to run all 4 fans off the 1 corsair controller and the 1 CPU fan header? I would think that the molex adaptor would allow for this to happen while not overloading the single CPU fan header with too many amps..
If neither of these solutions work, then I was thinking about connecting all 4 fans to the fan controller on my tower, I have two fan controller knobs that can control up to 3 fans each, so what I was thinking was connecting my push fans to one knob and my pull fans to another knob, eliminating the corsair controller all togeher; This way I would be able to find that perfect balance of rpm for both push and pull fans separately.
Last option of mine would be to leave the two Fans controlled though the corsair controller and then just simply plug the two other fans into the motherboard fan headers (which I really don't wanna do)
I also plan on buying some 1/8" rubber door sealer from a local hardware store and using it between the fan and the radiator so that there is less static pressure being lost. The rubber foam has a sticky backing so I plan on lining the frame of the fan with it before mounting the fans back onto my radiator, this way there is a much greater seal between the radiator and the fans thus making for better airflow across the fins of the radiator resulting in cooler CPU temperatures.
Let me know what you guys think about all this.. also are the grey and black fans that came with my water cooler basically the same as the (sp120 high performance fans) cuz from what I saw I think the RPM is the same. The only real difference I noticed was that the high performance fans have the color changing rings as well as tubby bushings to quite the sound of the fan. I think they use the same amperage tho as the grey and black stock cooler fans.
If you guys have any input or can help me with my delemma I would be greatly appreciative. Also if you have any other SP fan suggestions that would possibly cool even better than the corsair sp120s then please let me know. Like I said I'm not so worried about noise as I am performance, After all cooler temps is what I'm after.