Question 7000x side fans

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Good day guys and gals, I recently updated my PC case to the Corsair 7000x and I got all the components installed except the side fans. I got a 13700k, RTX 4080, Asus Rog Z790-E and H170i cooler. So my question is do I reallly need those side fans as I have 3 140mm fans on the front, one 140 exhaust and 3 140’s on the rad up top. Just looking for peoples opinions and would it make any big difference to cooling. Thanks

 

[Lutfij]

What sort of temps are you getting with your current setup? I would leave them as is if you're temps are acceptable.

 

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To be honest I’m getting good temps I just don’t want to waste money on new fans if it’s not necessary. My CPU under load while gaming will spike to 90 with intels latest Bios update on default. But according to Intel that’s normal and acceptable for the 13700k.

 

[Crosslhs82x2]

What are the Gpu temps during gaming ?

 

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GPU temp hardly goes over 65 on full load it’s a cool card Asus Tuff 4080 super.

 

[Crosslhs82x2]

That seems pretty good for having the heat from the H170i dumping it's heat into the center.
Looks like you have headroom there with no other place for the H170i.
To me adding the side fans would really only help the other components (overall inside temp) with no effect in lowering the Cpu temp.
If your top and exhaust are Rgb then you could add more Bling doing so.

My son's rig is in the 7000d airflow with 3x 140's fans front, 360mm top and 480mm rads cpu only custom loop because there are No Wblks for a str8 4070.
His 5900x runs low to mid 50's and the vertical mount gpu temps 58c - 63c.


And Before we added the 480 rad and vertical Gpu.

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[navigation2015]

Nice setup I just under volted my CPU and got good performance with way better temps. So far so good. Hits 80 now under load instead of 90

 

[Crosslhs82x2]

Cool 10c lower always helps.

 

[Crosslhs82x2]

Thanks
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