Post your gaming setup!

[Drunkenvalley]

What fans are you using? The Corsair ones should be quite audible in my experience.

[DeltrusDisc]

Xuvial you sell-out!!!

Nay I merely jest for the joke, seems like everyone is getting bloody H100s nowadays. >_< A lot of computers with fans plugged into the motherboard directly though or whatever will start out with the fans at full blast for the initial boot-up.

[Xuvial]

What fans are you using? The Corsair ones should be quite audible in my experience.

On the lowest speed they're alright.

Although I think I've finally said "fuck it, enough fans" and I will make my guild a TRUE storm sniper - only a 200mm intake, 2x120mm on H100 and 1x120mm exhaust - all running off fan controller on lowest speed. Should barely be able to tell that it's even on once I change the Corsair fans. Silence = golden.

[googz]

What fans are you using? The Corsair ones should be quite audible in my experience.

I second this... originally they were in my case, then my girlfriends and now in the "back up" box.

[DeltrusDisc]

Any idea which fans you plan to go with? I know TinyTomLogan put some Noctuas on his H100.

[Rickz]

Any idea which fans you plan to go with? I know TinyTomLogan put some Noctuas on his H100.

I hate the color on those, I want me some black fans

[Danno]

Noctua's color does get some getting used to, but they are really silent and push a good amount of air. I have about seven 240mm ones in my case since the 800D has mediocre air cooling if you don't add extra fans and it's really silent. The video cards make a ton more noise than them. I don't regret buying them at all, but there are other great brands out there as well.

[Rennadrel]

Scythe GentleTyphoon's are good, though some of the BitFenix fans have better airflow even if they are louder. Depends on which you want, great air flow or low noise. I don't mind the GentleTyphoon, I am using one along with a Fractal case fan in my H80 and it works fine. The Corsair fans suck, that much is for sure, they squeak and have horrid air flow.

[Xuvial]

Ended up using CM Sickleflows because I had enough goddamn fans lying around that I wasn't using :P no notable difference on temps.

Moar photos because I feel like..

[DeltrusDisc]

And now Xuvial your finishing touches will come from some black-braided Alchemy cable extensions. :3

[Notarget]

And turn the PSU so we can see the gold X

[DeltrusDisc]

^Yes seriously, fan grill up, gold X showing.

Otherwise? You're doing it wrong. =|

<3 Xuvial :P

[Xuvial]

Don't know what Seasonic was thinking making a bottom-mounted PSU with the big gold X on the other side -_-

[DeltrusDisc]

Silly Xuvial, they're made to go either way! It really won't make any difference anyways. =X



Do eet^^

[Cyanotical]

got some new parts in:

EK XTX-240, and a Black Ice 360, along with Koolance black tubing, and a serial pump adapter for the RP-402X2


also, to show how thick these are, on the left is a standard 35mm 120 radiator, the EK in the middle, and the Black Ice on the right:


the planned loop is:
RES>PUMP>PUMP>CPU>360RAD>GPU=GPU>240RAD>RES

[DeltrusDisc]

Damn that thing is massive! O_O

[Rickz]

Ended up using CM Sickleflows because I had enough goddamn fans lying around that I wasn't using :P no notable difference on temps.

Are they really that loud as everyone says they are?
At high speed they're at 45 decibels according to a random review :P

[Xuvial]

Are they really that loud as everyone says they are?
At high speed they're at 45 decibels according to a random review :P

I own 4 of them and there's no way they were that loud at max RPM's (I run them at low/medium anyway). They don't exactly smash records in quietness or pushing air, but that's why they're dirt cheap. I've seen plenty of people with whole cases rigged with nothing but Sickleflows.

[kidsafe]

Damn that thing is massive! O_O

60mm radiators best radiators... I almost got a 80mm 'monsta', but honestly the sweetspot for low RPM is 45-60mm thickness and 8-11 FPI.

Scythe GentleTyphoon's are good, though some of the BitFenix fans have better airflow even if they are louder. Depends on which you want, great air flow or low noise. I don't mind the GentleTyphoon, I am using one along with a Fractal case fan in my H80 and it works fine. The Corsair fans suck, that much is for sure, they squeak and have horrid air flow.

Here are some relative figures for a case with 6 120mm Gentle Typhoon 1450RPM fans plus 1 Kama Flex 135mm 800 RPM fan with an iPhone app SPL at ~1M distance.

1450RPM = 33.5dBA
1200RPM = 30.0dBA
900RPM = 26.8dBA
550RPM = 26.0dBA

Those are fantastic numbers, though there is slight caveat. They have a very noticeable drone at certain RPM...You can massage the voltages to get rid of the drone, but that requires a stepped/square fan curve rather than a smooth one.

If you don't mind less static pressure, I heartily recommend Scythe Kama Flow 2s...as far as I can tell they are quieter than the venerable S-FLEX fans they replaced.

[Marest]

Guys, please. If you want to discuss fans or fan noise just create a new thread. Also please note the computer chat thread (check the stickies) where you can have all your "chatter".

Just to clarify: don't "chit-chat" in this thread; this thread is for posting computer builds. As mentioned earlier you are very much allowed to comment and discuss the builds posted, but it gets a bit too off-topic when you start to compare fans and fan noise. It just doesn't belong here.