Cooler Master HAF 922 Cooling test

[Mofoeskimo]

I have gone through many posts on people opinions and ideas about how to best cool your case. I have not come across any threads where it has been a experiment...so I thought I would start one, based off my case and fans I currently have and hardware inside. This pretty much only helps those with this particular case and set up, but hopefully it helps all with some insight. This will probably take me a week or two, possibly more because I have other things to do besides sit here for a couple hours re configuring the fans inside my case and running tests. Plus I might be purchasing a GPU cooler as well and we can test that next. I will tell you which program I am using to do the tests. I am not going to download 10 different programs, I will use what I have and you can download it to compare.

So this is what we are working with:

Cooler Master HAF 922
M5 A97 LE R2.0 Board
FX 6100 3.3
R9 290x GPU Stock Settings
Corsair 16 GB 1333
Coolmax 800w psu
H75 Liquid Cooling System 54 CFM Two 120 Fans and radiator
Two Corsair SP120 Performance Fans 62.74 CFM (As Corsair Site)
Two stock fans from case 1200 RPM 44.03 CFM (As Cooler Master Site)
Patriot Pyro SSD 120 G
WD Caviar Black 2TB

Let us start with how my rig is currently configured.
The two stock case fans are mounted in the front as intake. The middle cage is removed for additional hardware so the fan on top has direct access to freely cool the case while the bottom hits the cage with the SSD and HDD storage. There is a SP 120 mounted on the side as intake. The other SP120 is mounted on the top of the case as exhaust. The H75 radiator and two fans are mounted on rear of case. (I originally had both SP fans on top of the case but the one nearest the back wouldn't allow the H75 to be installed (I will post pics later)

Stress Tests:
Pass Mark http://www.passmark.com/download/bit_download.htm
Fur Mark http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
Unigine Heaven http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2205/unigine-heaven-dx11-benchmark-4-0/
GPU Z http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2359/techpowerup-gpu-z-v0-7-8-w-asus-rog-skin/
Core Temp http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/
I will run these three and post results after I get back from running some errands

 

[Mofoeskimo]

Okay round 1 of running the above stress tests above and this is what I got
With my system running at idle my CPU has an average temp of 20C and GPU 40C

Running Pass Mark BIT:
I ran the 3D graphics test and CPU test and adjusted both to 100% load GPU never reached more than 65 C and the CPU not more than 29 C The temperature read out from the Pass Mark program matched up exactly with GPU Z as well as Core Temp so there was not any discrepencies.

Fur Mark:
Running this I knew the GPU would be under heavier stress. My monitor atm on supports 1440x900 (weak I know) but the figures were as follows
GPU ran at 98 FPS with the 1440x900 and 117 FPS when I ran the preset 720p benchmark. Both tests ran the GPU up to 94 C (MSAA was off)
CPU temps remained at 26-27 C
Temp read out from Fur Mark and CPU z were exactly the same

Running Unigine Heaven:
I selected 1440x900 put all setting to ultra and AA to x8. This ran the GPU as well up to 93C and with MSAA at x8 I ran 70FPS

I think I will definitely be purchasing a Kraken GPU cooler and running that set up. I had my CPU OC to 3.8 before and ran these tests and the temps for the cpu were 3C higher.
Now I know under normal use and gaming my gpu doesn't reach that temp of 94C. I played COD Ghosts and Skyrim with both setting on Ultra and MSAA maxed and the temp never went above 70C
I will switch these fans around to see if another configuration displays different temperatures, but with the CPU even when I had it OC'd, at those low temps I don't think it's going to really matter. Check back later. Eventually I will get the GPU liquid cooled.

 

[Mofoeskimo]

Ok. I took a couple fans and changed them up. I took a Corsair 120 that was mounted on the side as a intake and flipped it around to exhaust. Re-ran the tests and the numbers came up the same. I moved the high performance fan, and put it on the top fan location for the front of my case and moved the Coolermaster fan to the side of my case and re ran the tests and numbers came back changed 1C cooler. This entire time I have had my house between 72-76F as I forgot to mention.
So basically all the temperature stayed the same with the different set ups. The GPU still cooked to 95C under max load. I downloaded MSI Afterburner because the 290X's fan basically will not go higher than 40% no matter how hot it gets, and you can't adjust it in Catalyst...which is BS. So I added my own custom fan speed setting depending on temps and re-ran the tests again and now the GPU under Fur Mark will not go above 77C and running Heaven it stays at a nice 68-70. The noise of the fan kinda sucks since the setting for it at those temps is 75% to keep it around 70C but since I play my games with head phones on it doesn't really matter, and when not gaming the card stays at 36C with the fan set at 40% minimum...which you can't really hear at all because the Corsair high performance fans are louder than that. I think I am going to stay right here with my testing for now. I will be getting a liquid cooler for the GPU as soon as I figure out which to buy that will be able to fit inside the case without having to MOD anything. If anybody has any questions, comments or advice I greatly encourage you to leave your replies. Thanks