Corsair Carbide Spec 01 Fan help

[boofstien]

Hi All,

I need a little help with my fan setup please. on my current setup temps are within range but im sure they could be better and I have plenty of fans lying around I could use.

This is not my setup but an example picture I found

Im running a 8320 @ 4.4 stable, 16 gb Hyper Fury (1600) and an MSI HD 7990 GPU.

If you see the attached sketch fans 1 and 2 are pulling air in these are reasonable quality corsair high airflow fans.

3 is a high airflow fan and this is where I have my main question (later)

4 is a corsair H55 rad which I have replaced the fans in push pull config with Corsair SP120s which are great fans!

My question I had 3 as an exhaust but temps were getting too high ( I guess it was creating low pressure adjacent the radiator?) if I put my had over this area it is really cold at all times. With that in mind should I have fan 3 setup as an intake? I have a fan controller and can run this really low.

Many thanks for any input.

 

[volcanoscout]

Are you running 120s or 140s in the front? What model?

With that configuration, I'd guess your top fan is just disrupting the front to back flow. As exhaust, it steals air from your cooler and as intake, it's interrupting the flow from your front fans.

I would replace your hi-flow front fans with high static pressure fans to help push cool air through the drive bay frame on bottom and help the top fan push air through the long axis of the case to where your cooler can benefit from it.

 

[boofstien]

Thank you that is a good idea. I actually have a spare high sp fan, should I replace number 1 or 2 for Max effect?

1 and 2 are currently 120s

 

[volcanoscout]

I'd do a temp benchmark as is first, then swap the SP in for #1 and rerun the benchmark. See what kind of differential you get. Then unplug your top fan and see how that affects things. Then reverse the top fan and add it back in to the mix. It's possible that a top intake combined with a front SP will work better than without the top fan. Stick with whichever config has the biggest drop in temp over your current setup.

Then change out #2 when you have the opportunity. 1 will do the most good for the system as a whole, 2 will make your GPU happier if you can drive the air past the HD bay.

 

[DcoyHD]

@boofstien what sort of temps are you now getting with cpu mb and gpu after best solution answer?

My system is running quite hot i have an i7 4790k stock with a corsair h55 cooler attached with push pull configuration on rad exhausting out of rear i have another fan exhausting from top and two 140mm sp corsair fans as intake on front.

My mb is msi z97 gaming 5 with a msi 980ti gpu and 16gb vengeance corsair 1866mhz ram

My mb hits 48 degrees
Cpu at 50 degrees
Gpu gets to 71 degrees

When running games at very high 60fps (using tv atm)

Think it would be worth getting 2 static pressure fans for rad?

Any advice welcome thanks

Dcoy