The Scythe is a turbulent fan so it's ideal as an exhaust! Personally I like my intake fans to blow in to the case uniformly and the Be Quiet! Silentwings USC is perfect for this. Unfortunately it can only be installed in the bottom 120mm fan slot as the front of the Fractal will not accommodate the Be Quiet! Silentwings USC, so the next best thing is the Akasa Apache 120mm fan. That's my way of thinking anyhow! If you do have a rear exhaust graphics card or get one in the future, I'd be tempted to try a Silverstone Penetrator in the bottom which if aligned with the GPU would pump air directly through it. I would predict a few degrees at least should be trimmed off the GPU with one of these coupled with a rear exhausting card.
What's the noise like on these fans? I hate fan noise with a passion, so my R3 (currently running stock) is on lowest settings. Any recommendations for fan models, with the rig in my sig (560Ti is rear exhaust )
I have Air penetrators as intakes, outtakes and on CPU cooler (btw i don't get why someone on internet complained about them and Mega Shadows, they work rather nice). At stock, 100% fan speed on all above mentoined fans i get 45-48°C on all i7-2600K cores (with HT on) and Prolimatech Mega Shadow. Of course i'm not stupid and i don't run fans normally at 100%, so the temps are a bit higher, according to the curve i set in bigNG. But i must say, Air Penetrators are nice choice as well.
Well i went with your suggestion and ordered those 3 fans from scan so now i can completely blame you if they are gash Just gotta wait for 2 of them on pre order...
Don't care, I'm happy with the way my rig works, so naa! Seriously though let me know how you get on! Also for the most part I set the fan profiles to low through the ASUS motherboard BIOS which is nice and quiet. Since I have a couple of GTX 460s in SLI which is really demanding temperature wise, when doing some intensive gaming I simply bang the fans on maximum in the BIOS. It is a little more noisy but not at all irritatingly so, then factor in each GTX 460 which has dual fans knocked up to 70% (maximum for the factory GPU BIOS) and in my opinion the Fractal R3 manages the noise very well.
Well like George Michael I have faith anyway Out of interest what V is your overclock running at? You running it at offset yah? Oder constant V?
Voltage set to 1.30, haven't tried too hard to reach a lower sweet spot to be honest. Might give it a go soon!
I am running 4Ghz @ 1.2 vcore with a tranquillo. Prime95 tops out at 62 with the stock fans + 1 extra Fractal 120mm at medium speed. I haven't tweaked the voltage, could probably run it lower. My ambient is quite high, this room is always hot!
Yea my ambient is high too, problem with being the loft, it's always one of two extremes! Hmmm interestingly, while waiting for the 3 case fans I've ordered to replace the fractal ones to arrive, I've been messing about with the overclock and this is what I've got... (Don't know why load says 0% these readings are while prime 95 has been running) So what am I missing... that seems pretty good to me... surely I'm missing something... is it about to blow up?
Try a high Intel Burn Test, it will load the CPU up much more than Prime95 will ever do. Then see how your temps get on. If you run FurMark at the same time you will also see if there is any heating up of the air in your case from the GPU affecting your CPU temps. Useful information to know if you are a gamer.
I ran Intel Burn Test at custom (don't have 64bit windows 7 /fail) with 1650MB Ram (dunno why!) 20 times (again dunno why) and it peaked at ; Core 1 67C, Core 2 72C, Core 3 72C and Core 4 72C. So yeah I see what you mean about the heat shooting up! But still it seems like decent temps seeing as though I'm getting 3 markedly improved case fans (Blogins recommendation!) and I have my fan profile on Silent because I'm allergic to noise (unless It's some banging tunes ) What you reckon? Safe temps for a 24/7 overclock at 4.4GHz with that Voltage? (and when I say 24/7 overclock I mean It'll be throttling back when idle )
I ran both Intel Burn Test and Furmark at the same time on the most extreme settings possible. GPU peaked at 74c CPU peaked at 70c tbh I would be amazed if my temps ever got that high gaming. That really is worst case scenario
