Moving hot air from left to right: Noctuas NF-S12 or else?

[thetempa]

Hi,

First some background:

I'm getting a new case tomorrow, the Cooltek W2. It's a case that can handle 2 front intakes, 2 bottom intakes, and 1 rear exhaust (no top exhausts).

My CPU cooler is a corsair H60. I'll put it as an intake as the upper front intake.
I'll keep the stock 140mm fan as the lower front intake and put two of my Corsair AF120 as bottom intakes.

The issue is that there's just one exhaust fan. So this one need to pull air out of the case very well. By the way that's partly why I won't use the H60 as an exhaust, as it will take all the hot air in the PC (=worse cooling), and the air flow will be limited by the radiator (=too much air in the case).


So now comes my question.
As an intake, the H60 will push hot air in the top of the case, and that's bad, so my idea is to put a Noctua NF-S12 (very high CFM, low noise) at the bottom of the radiator to pull the hot air directly towards the rear exhaust, which will be an other NF-S12.

So I need help to know if it's a good idea, and if so, is my fan selection good. I don't really know between the S12A or the S12B redux, the redux looks better but it's an older fan technology. I also thought of a Corsair ML120 PRO as the rear exhaust because they look damn good and seems to have a good airflow but I don't know if they'll perform well enough against a NF-S12 at same noise levels.

So that's it, a bit long sorry, thank you for reading it all.

 

[Lutfij]

1| You may want to stick to the original plan and have the H60 mounted at the rear of your case set to exhaust at the rear of your case while the front fans are set to intake. I've got an H50 set to push/pull with a shroud between the fans set to exhaust at the rear of a Thermaltake Armor Jr chassis and my temps are fine on an overclocked i5-750.

2| With the front and rear mounting points covered(with fans) the bottom mounting locations should be left alone and this will promote cooler ambient air to flow through naturally into your case.

3| You could also go with the originally intended plan of the case which is to have all lower and front points as intake with the same fans and due to positive pressure have air being pushed through the PCI-E ventilation brackets. Try and match your fans as best as possible instead of mixing and matching.

Or you could do what this fella did

But keep all the fans the same. You could go with all Noctua NF-F12 PWM's and be done with the case 😉