4 fan cooling layout

[Wolves4ever01]

I have 4 fans in my current system, 2 140mm front intakes and 2 120mm roof exhausts. My case also supports one top rear 120mm, should i move one of my top exhausts to the rear for better cooling?

 

[geofelt]

Two 140mm intakes is excellent. It should be all you need.
Since you already have two 120mm roof exhausts, why not try the experiment yourself?
Move one to rear exhaust and see.

I would be wary about using too much exhaust fans; it will tend to draw in unfiltered air from other openings.

Try just a single 120mm fan in the rear to direct the airflow.

 

[Wolves4ever01]

Two 140mm intakes is excellent. It should be all you need.
Since you already have two 120mm roof exhausts, why not try the experiment yourself?
Move one to rear exhaust and see.

I would be wary about using too much exhaust fans; it will tend to draw in unfiltered air from other openings.

Try just a single 120mm fan in the rear to direct the airflow.

Was just about to try it but then i realized my heatsink is too large and stops me from putting a fan there. It's beginning too annoy me so much that i might just buy an all in one water cooler because the heatsink is also blocking one of my ram slots, preventing me from putting in the 16gb of ram i want without purchasing an entire new set of 2x8.
Thanks anyway

 

[geofelt]

What cpu cooler do you have?

What is the cooling problem you need to solve?

My canned rant on liquid cooling:
------------------------start of rant-------------------
You buy a liquid cooler to be able to extract an extra multiplier or two out of your OC.
How much do you really need?
I do not much like all in one liquid coolers when a good air cooler like a Noctua NH-D15 or phanteks can do the job just as well.
A liquid cooler will be expensive, noisy, less reliable, and will not cool any better
in a well ventilated case.
Liquid cooling is really air cooling, it just puts the heat exchange in a different place.
The orientation of the radiator will cause a problem.
If you orient it to take in cool air from the outside, you will cool the cpu better, but the hot air then circulates inside the case heating up the graphics card and motherboard.
If you orient it to exhaust(which I think is better) , then your cpu cooling will be less effective because it uses pre heated case air.
And... I have read too many tales of woe when a liquid cooler leaks.
google "H100 leak"
-----------------------end of rant--------------------------

 

[Wolves4ever01]

What cpu cooler do you have?

What is the cooling problem you need to solve?

My canned rant on liquid cooling:
------------------------start of rant-------------------
You buy a liquid cooler to be able to extract an extra multiplier or two out of your OC.
How much do you really need?
I do not much like all in one liquid coolers when a good air cooler like a Noctua NH-D15 or phanteks can do the job just as well.
A liquid cooler will be expensive, noisy, less reliable, and will not cool any better
in a well ventilated case.
Liquid cooling is really air cooling, it just puts the heat exchange in a different place.
The orientation of the radiator will cause a problem.
If you orient it to take in cool air from the outside, you will cool the cpu better, but the hot air then circulates inside the case heating up the graphics card and motherboard.
If you orient it to exhaust(which I think is better) , then your cpu cooling will be less effective because it uses pre heated case air.
And... I have read too many tales of woe when a liquid cooler leaks.
google "H100 leak"
-----------------------end of rant--------------------------

Haha lol. I'm using the raijintek themis which is supposed to be slightly better than the evo 212 but people using the Evo with the same cpu (i5 4690k) are getting 4.5ghz+ whilst I'm stuck at a measly 4.2ghz.

 

[geofelt]

You hear from those who won the bin lottery, but never the ordinary or losing results.

I have become a bit jaded on the subject of haswell cooling for overclocking.
How high you can OC is firstly determined by your luck in the bin lottery.
I had high expectations from the Devil's canyon parts and their better thermals.
I found out that the thermals really do not matter unless, perhaps, you are a competitive overclocker.
Haswell runs quite cool, that is, until you raise the voltage past 1.25v or so.
Once you go past 1.3v, then you really do need very good cooling to keep stress loads under say 85c.
But, the consensus is that voltages higher than 1.30 are not a good thing for 24/7 usage.
I have been unable to find any official Intel recommendation on what is a safe vcore limit.

Even if you can handle the heat, how much do you really need that extra multiplier?

4690K is still a great cpu, even at stock.