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Hey everyone,
I'm installing fans into a modded case, and i was wondering what is a
good number of intake/outtake fans to have.
The case can hold 5 fans.... 1 top, 1 rear, 1 front and 2 on the side
Thanks
Populate all fan openings. Fans are cheap. Then either leave
unconnected the ones you find that you don't need. You monitor
temperatures with just the CPU, northbridge, and PSU fans running as a
baseline. Then connect the rear fan and watch temperatures. Then
connect another fan and monitor for awhile again. When you see no
decrease in temperature then you know that last fan connected and any
more won't help you cool any better. You then don't need the noise of
fans that won't provide any more cooling capacity. You can use one of
those bay-mounted fan controllers to control the fans other than the
CPU, northbridge, and PSU, so if you decide to overclock then you can up
the speeds of the ones you normally have running or startup the others
(or leave them all running really slow at whatever speed maxes out the
cooling at normal loads and then rev them up when you overclock and heat
up the parts). Some fans are more stealthy than others so I'd get a set
that are super quiet, like down to 21 dB (usually rated at their slow or
normal speed).
If the case is going to get stored in a ventilated closet far away from
your desk or work area or you're putting it off in another room (where
no one else resides that you care about), you work next to a jet engine,
or you are very deaf, take into consideration that more fans will make
more noise.
