6 Fans and H100i GTX Setup on a H440

[Nicolas Bolinaga]

Can someone please help me with fan setup on H440?
So i got 6 fans and a H100i which comes with 2 more for a total of 8 fans.
Should i do push, pull or push/pull on the radiator? And where should i mounted?
Negative or Positive Air pressure?
Should i use the H440s integrated fan hub?For which fans?

Note: the H440 has capacity for 7 fans so unless i do push/pull one will be left out.

P.S: if you could answer all my question it would be amazing. Thank You 😀

 

[blue_smoke]

Do pull on the radiator. Top two fan mounts.
Always positive air pressure. Every fan except for back and top should be intake
Yes. Front two and the back one.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

The H440 fan hub doesn't exactly "control" fan speeds ....

The basic guideline for fan placements is .....

1. Front, Sides and Bottom in
2. Rear and Top out
3. When using a radiator, ignore 2 ..... all radiator fans blow in.
4. There is no need to "balance" or care about having as many exhaust fans as intake. You don't actually *need* any exhaust fans. All air blown in will go out the grilles.

There may be exceptions in certain cases

Push versus pull depends on fan speed. In general push works better at slower speeds (< 1600) and pull works better at higher speeds (>1800). Push / pull adds about 21% cooling on average but depends much on radiator fpi and fan design,

Negative / positive air pressure is given way more importance than it deserves. Two factors to consider.

1st thing that matters here is dust. Generally, positive has an advantage as inlet fans are typically filtered..... but if they are not, then positive pressure isn't doing squat,. If you have negative pressure and put a filter over the case grille(s), problem solved.

The 2nd is if you have a blower style GFX card, the hot air exhausted could be sucked back in thru the rear grille.

One of the big differences between the NZXT fan hub and the Phanteks fan hub is that the Phanteks offers Motherboard speed control over all ya 3 pin fans. The H100i is pretty much stuck at doing what Corsair provides.

The H100i is extremely loud.... I am talking 1950 style vacuum cleaner loud. Unfortunately, swapping out the fans for lower rpm ones decreases performance substantially. Fans are audible at about 850 rpm .... if ya have much running above that, the higher you go and the more you add increases noise.

If the 6 fans are all 3 pin, you could run them off a Phanteks fan hub. If you are using Phanteks F140SPs, these draw 0.14 amps each (0.84 amps) and you wouldn't need the power cable and could use any CHA / SYS Fan header.