Silent cases performance fan arrangment. Fan controller nessesary? Asus h97-plus, 4790 cpu & 770 GTX. Please help a newbie!

[Nick Saf]

Im planing to get a 550d or 330r by corsair.
Most of the time im at idle but spend an hour or three gaming. Will it work fine with this Cpu/mobo combo? These cases doesn't have a fan controller. Will i be able to control the fans? I want to get Noctua's fans. How does it work? Will i be able to controll via software?

 

[C12Friedman]

I'm not seeing a mobo That'll depend upon your motherboard and whether it has the fan headers needed. Most full ATX sized boards have numerous fan headers, higher end boards will even feature PWM (4 pin) headers for the chassis fans. If 4 pin, you can set your parameters in BIOS, if 3pin, software such as speed fan can give you control from within Windows.

 

[Nick Saf]

Oh, sorry Asus h97-plus.

 

[Nick Saf]

Could you suggest best setup with this mobo?

 

[C12Friedman]

You have two 4pin PWM chassis fan headers on that board so that takes care of fan control for two fans (provided they are PWM fans). Any other case fans I will suggest are silent or quiet types but a fan controller may be used if control is wanted. Noctua is purported to have some near silent fans that move a decent amount of air.

 

[Nick Saf]

What about the case, is there much difference in airflow between say HAF cases?

 

[C12Friedman]

For your two PWM chassis fans, I'd want the lowest front intake as one and the back exhaust as the other. If needed, the two fans can ramp up together which should dump heat quickly from the case.
Cooler Master's HAF (High Air Flow) series are very popular - I'm not fond of the styling personally, although I do own one. It's a very nice case but I can't say how potentially quiet it is since I run a crap-load of noisy fans (three Scythe Ultra-Kaze's plus others). I like the styling of the Corsair models over the CM HAF's personally but that's just me.

 

[Nick Saf]

Thank you! My concern is im going to face heat problems withe 550D...

 

[C12Friedman]

I skimmed this review article about the 550D but you may find some worthwhile information there http://www.anandtech.com/show/5708/corsair-obsidian-550d-starting-to-specialize

 

[Nick Saf]

Thanks! Ive seen it actually, still somehow wasn't able to get a decision from this review... Well i guess i should try. Logically it has 2-4 fans which should suffice for normal temps