First off, been lurking here a while and this is my first post so go easy LOL
I just purchased this kit and am wondering a couple things.
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ZQFQBZ
My questions are about air flow, or rad placement. This is my first AIO or liquid cooler and while i understand I may need to test several fan/rad configs was wondering if there was a good starting point.
In the R6 I have (all being controlled by the Fractal PWM controller plugged into the CPU PWM Mobo input):
Front: 2x140 fans that came with the R6, which seem decent quality.
Rear: 1x140 fractal supplied fan
Top: 2x120 Noctua NFP-12 900RPM fans (I obviously have the R6's top sound panel removed but this case is still super quiet!)
Bottom: currently nothing
Plan 1:
Front: leave as is with 2x140 fractal fans
Rear: leave as is with 1x140 Fractal fan
Top: Replace 2x 120 Noctuas with the H115i Platinum 280mm rad/fans (not a huge fan of installing liquid over top of electronics...)
Bottom: Install the 2x120 Noctua NFP-12 900RPM
Plan 2:
Front: replace 2x140 Fractal fans with H115I rad/fans (not sure if hoses will reach CPU in this config)
Rear: Leave as is with 1x140 Fractal fan
Top: leave as is with 2x120 Noctua NFP-12 900RPM
Bottom: Install the 2x140 Fractal fans
Plan 3:...Swap top and bottom layout of plan 2?
Second question is about whether or not to install the 2070Super in the vertical position while leaving it as an air/stock cooler.
I will try it to see if I get a big negative difference in temps running vertically being next to the case wall...I expect it to be higher temp, but we shall see.
I do not plan on overclocking at the moment, but let me know if you see any issues with OC if I choose to do so.
This is a gaming and image processing rig (astrophotography images which requires a lot of cores/threads and RAM to handle stacking 100s of images at a time).
Coming from an 8+yr old FX-8120/MSI 970A/24Gb mixed RAM(shame!lol)/GTX-1070. So should be a nice step up.
Also using the R6's massive HDD support for building a media/Plex system since my wife and I have over 1400 movies/DVD/BR. May end up replacing with a separate NAS system in the future...we'll see.
Anyways, love this forum and the helpful people in it.
Cheers!
Brent
I just purchased this kit and am wondering a couple things.
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ZQFQBZ
My questions are about air flow, or rad placement. This is my first AIO or liquid cooler and while i understand I may need to test several fan/rad configs was wondering if there was a good starting point.
In the R6 I have (all being controlled by the Fractal PWM controller plugged into the CPU PWM Mobo input):
Front: 2x140 fans that came with the R6, which seem decent quality.
Rear: 1x140 fractal supplied fan
Top: 2x120 Noctua NFP-12 900RPM fans (I obviously have the R6's top sound panel removed but this case is still super quiet!)
Bottom: currently nothing
Plan 1:
Front: leave as is with 2x140 fractal fans
Rear: leave as is with 1x140 Fractal fan
Top: Replace 2x 120 Noctuas with the H115i Platinum 280mm rad/fans (not a huge fan of installing liquid over top of electronics...)
Bottom: Install the 2x120 Noctua NFP-12 900RPM
Plan 2:
Front: replace 2x140 Fractal fans with H115I rad/fans (not sure if hoses will reach CPU in this config)
Rear: Leave as is with 1x140 Fractal fan
Top: leave as is with 2x120 Noctua NFP-12 900RPM
Bottom: Install the 2x140 Fractal fans
Plan 3:...Swap top and bottom layout of plan 2?
Second question is about whether or not to install the 2070Super in the vertical position while leaving it as an air/stock cooler.
I will try it to see if I get a big negative difference in temps running vertically being next to the case wall...I expect it to be higher temp, but we shall see.
I do not plan on overclocking at the moment, but let me know if you see any issues with OC if I choose to do so.
This is a gaming and image processing rig (astrophotography images which requires a lot of cores/threads and RAM to handle stacking 100s of images at a time).
Coming from an 8+yr old FX-8120/MSI 970A/24Gb mixed RAM(shame!lol)/GTX-1070. So should be a nice step up.
Also using the R6's massive HDD support for building a media/Plex system since my wife and I have over 1400 movies/DVD/BR. May end up replacing with a separate NAS system in the future...we'll see.
Anyways, love this forum and the helpful people in it.
Cheers!
Brent