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On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 2:18 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm assembling a new desktop in a Thermaltake V100 case. The case comes > with > a 120mm fan attached to the rear and accommodates additional 120mm/140mm > fans on the top and front panel. The manual shows 2- and 3-unit fans (the > latter for the front) but I don't find such units in my web searches. > > This usually means you can mount more than 1 fan, aligned vertically in front or horizontally on top, each with its own mount points. As in, the fans just come separately not in 2-up or 3-up modules. >From the pics of this case on their website, it looks like you can mount (3) 120mm or (2) 140mm fans up front, and (2) of either size up top. You can also mount a radiator and fans for use with liquid cooling. For non-overclocked use, I typically would go with at least 1 fan in each sector- 1 in front, 1 up top, 1 in rear. But the more the merrier, more won't hurt anything. Plus with more fans you can keep them running a little slower, thus quieter. My current NZXT case I have 2 in front, 1 top, 1 rear, and the CPU has its fan. > The components include an Asus Prime X470-Pro motherboard with a Noctua > NH-D15 CPU cooler on a Ryzen7-2700, 64G RAM, Radeon Pro WX4100 GPU card, > Creative Technology model SB1570 Sound Blaster card, and a Corsair RM-750X > power supply, optical drive, one SSD for the OS and 1 or 2 2T hard drives. > > I'd like your thoughts on whether to add more fans and, if so, how many. > Should they be built for low noise or high airflow? Placed on top, the > front, or on each? Other than Noctua what other brands should be > considered? > > Noise vs airflow is a matter of preference really, especially with a non-overclocked setup. Overclocked you would want MAX SPEED and MAX FLOW and basically just use headphones to get over the 747 on your desk ;) Brands, well there are a lot. Some come with fancy shmancy "RGB" lights even (I don't bother myself). But the big name brands for cooling are typically, Noctua, CoolerMaster, Thermaltake, NZXT, Corsair, Fractal Design, Phanteks, Arctic... To boil it down, unless you are overclocking and trying to eek out every last iota of performance out of your system, you don't need to overspend on fans/liquid cooling etc. Get a set of decent ones that will last you a while and hopefully not wear out in short order, and let 'er rip. > TIA, > > Rich > > > Matt M. LinuxKnight _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
