Howdy!
So, in the neverending quest for a little better cooling, I have a bit of an "in the weeds" question.
So, I have a Corsair SPEC-02 mid-tower case. It has three stock fans on it, two on the front for intake and one for exhaust. I've recently installed a new Arctic eSports 33 cooler, but that necessitated the removal of the two additional Riing 12 fans that used to be providing exhaust on top...these can no longer fit due to the space the Arctic takes up with its own Push/Pull dual fan setup. I still have one Riing fan on the bottom of the case as exhaust to even out the intake/exhaust number.
I've tried looking all over for any specs on the SPEC-02 case fan cfm rating and can find nothing on them. I don't even see a model number or other identification on the fans themselves. The Riing 12 fans I have in reserve shows an airflow rating of 40.6 cfm. I've no clue what the stock Corsair fan rating is.
I have (potentially) two options that I've thought of: Removing one of the Arctic fans from the CPU cooler and making it either simply push or pull, which would provide room to reinstall one of the Riing fans on the top as an exhaust. Or, attempting to replace all three of the Corsair fans with the three Riing fans, assuming they might provide more air movement through the case.
Not knowing anything about the stock fans...would I gain any benefit in terms of better temps from either option? Or, if it would be better at all, would it be any improvement of consequence where the CPU and VRMs are concerned? Average temps on the 3950X are around 77C for the most part under almost continual F@H CPU only loads.
Hopefully this isn't too far out there. Thanks in advance!
So, in the neverending quest for a little better cooling, I have a bit of an "in the weeds" question.
So, I have a Corsair SPEC-02 mid-tower case. It has three stock fans on it, two on the front for intake and one for exhaust. I've recently installed a new Arctic eSports 33 cooler, but that necessitated the removal of the two additional Riing 12 fans that used to be providing exhaust on top...these can no longer fit due to the space the Arctic takes up with its own Push/Pull dual fan setup. I still have one Riing fan on the bottom of the case as exhaust to even out the intake/exhaust number.
I've tried looking all over for any specs on the SPEC-02 case fan cfm rating and can find nothing on them. I don't even see a model number or other identification on the fans themselves. The Riing 12 fans I have in reserve shows an airflow rating of 40.6 cfm. I've no clue what the stock Corsair fan rating is.
I have (potentially) two options that I've thought of: Removing one of the Arctic fans from the CPU cooler and making it either simply push or pull, which would provide room to reinstall one of the Riing fans on the top as an exhaust. Or, attempting to replace all three of the Corsair fans with the three Riing fans, assuming they might provide more air movement through the case.
Not knowing anything about the stock fans...would I gain any benefit in terms of better temps from either option? Or, if it would be better at all, would it be any improvement of consequence where the CPU and VRMs are concerned? Average temps on the 3950X are around 77C for the most part under almost continual F@H CPU only loads.
Hopefully this isn't too far out there. Thanks in advance!