Corsair AF140s On A Radiator?

[TerabyteTech]

Hi,
In December I am upgrading my system's case to a CaseLabs SMA8 and adding a custom water cooling loop. The loop contains two rads, a 480 and a 560, and has a red/black color scheme. I would like to use SP120s (non LED) for the 480, and AF140s for the 560. Would the AF140s, alongside the SP120s, be able to to cool an overclocked 4790k and GTX 980ti? Any help is greatly appreciated!

 

[Dunlop0078]

Yes of course you probably can go with the silent versions if you wanted to and still get stellar cooling with all that radiator space.

 

[Saberus]

AF is Air Flow optimized, and don't do well when trying to move air through obstructions like radiators. SP, or static pressure, do better on rads. They should be similar in price.

 

[datguy20]

Hi,
In December I am upgrading my system's case to a CaseLabs SMA8 and adding a custom water cooling loop. The loop contains two rads, a 480 and a 560, and has a red/black color scheme. I would like to use SP120s (non LED) for the 480, and AF140s for the 560. Would the AF140s, alongside the SP120s, be able to to cool an overclocked 4790k and GTX 980ti? Any help is greatly appreciated!

While the AF140 could work, it's static pressure is very low. For the best performance I would recommend going with something that has higher static pressure, like a Noctua NF-A14 PWM (or if you don't like brown, the NF-P14s redux is nearly identical).

But with that much radiator, you'll have good temps even with the AF140's on radiators, unless you have some serious heat output.

 

[Dunlop0078]

The difference in temps is so minuscule between AF and SP fans it almost doesn't matter unless you have a rad with A LOT of fins that are close together. Ill try to find the video i saw comparing them on rads.

EDIT: here is the video it has some good info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXAFYNE7Cl0

 

[EK Luc]

You also have this possibility : http://www.corsair.com/en/air-series-sp140-led-red-high-static-pressure-140mm-fan