New questions! lol Using the stock 230mm case fans on RX360?

[Major]

Right now I have a RX360 in the top of my ATCS 840 with 3x 1850rpm GT's pulling air through the rad and out the top of my case. I'm about to rework my water cooling and adding a RX120 to either the bottom or front of the case and have 2x 1850rpm GT's to do a push pull on it.

So while I have everything apart I thought about using the two stock 230mm case fans from the top of the case WITH the GT's I already have in a push pull on the RX360. From what I've read the 230mm are 700rpm and move about 75cfm each.

Waste of time? any thing to be gained?

These photos are from a build that Coolmiester did some time ago. He didn't actually end up using this config so he could not comment on performance.


EDIT: Vapor and Churchy I'll look at optimizing case air flow when I rework everything and may end up drawing in fresh air through my top rad. Don't give up on me yet! lol

[Boulard83]

Miss matching fans isnt alwais good for push/pull.


Edit : And i dont think these 230mm fans gona be effective installed that way.

[Major]

It was just a thought, I guess I'll just pick up 3x more of the 1850rpm GT's

I wan't to get it right this time around since it's a PITA to remove the rad and change the fans.

Pretty sure I'll be reversing the air flow this time to draw fresh air through the rad.
So I guess I can go ahead and put the GT's on top pushing through the rad and just add the second set
later on. I can get to them from inside the case without much hassle.

[Boulard83]

I would go for Push/shroud if you can. I have very nice result on my TFC360 and my GT's.

[Major]

I would go for Push/shroud if you can. I have very nice result on my TFC360 and my GT's.

No room for shrouds, but I just got through changing all of the fans in the case so I have cool air coming into the top through the RX360 and all other case fans are blowing out of the case. Unfortunately my office AC unit has locked up and my room temp is around 80f so I can't really test to see if it made an improvement yet. I'm going to add 3 more fans to the rx360 for a push/pull later next week.

[Conumdrum]

Thiose fans are poor pressure fans. They might be 75 CFM but you put a rad on them and it'll drop greatly. But, if you can seal them off so all the air goes through the rad, you could consider them low RPM Yates maybe, maybe even mediums. Give it a try, but don't let it leak air anywhere.

[Major]

Thiose fans are poor pressure fans. They might be 75 CFM but you put a rad on them and it'll drop greatly. But, if you can seal them off so all the air goes through the rad, you could consider them low RPM Yates maybe, maybe even mediums. Give it a try, but don't let it leak air anywhere.

I've already moved on from the idea and just ordered some more GT's to put in push pull

[Conumdrum]

Yea, I read that but kinda wondered if you still wanted to try it someday. Needed a quality post count? I dunno......

[Major]

Yea, I read that but kinda wondered if you still wanted to try it someday. Needed a quality post count? I dunno......

LOL, well ya never know! I'll save the 230mm for some future project

The only thing I want is to squeeze 4.6ghz stable out of my 920 and get the rig ready for entry level 6 core chips this summer!

[Church]

Major: just like someone already noted here - if you gonna use these fans, seal fan parts that stick out of rad dimensions (probably you'll be able to think something how it's easier). Air partially behaves similar to water - it tends to go least resistance way, not just where it goes by inertia, so big part of air flow of those 230 fans might go not through resistive rad but skip straight by sides.