PWM to 3-pin?

[aidanjt]

*SP fans, or Noctua NF-F12 or NF-A14 are also really excellent for pushing air through densely packed fins. But yeah, as I said, he shouldn't be able to hear a thing if he's configured the motherboard and used decent fans.

[Ttaskmaster]

He's got a Sabretooth. That's a Z77, or something, innit? I dunno - It's Intel. I'm in the other camp at the mo...

Well everyone says the AFs are not for Rads, but he seems to do alright. Certainly his Benchmark results are pretty good and come relatively close to some of the record holders... However, they do seem to seal against these XSPC rads well enough. The outer... err... casing 'bit' is shaped such that there are no gaps.

As is, I hated the noisy SPs and swapped to Noctua. He's just gotten the NF-A14s I accidentally* purchased and so far seems happy with those.

The Rad/fan assembly is also a pain to fit in the top of his case, so further mods like duct tape would be piggin' awkward.

As mentioned, he's not really having problems, just being a fussy git.
I'll see how he goes with the new Noctuas on the Fan Controller and go from there.
The GPU fan headers are obscured by the water block, but it may be possible to sort something out nonetheless...


I've certainly learned stuff from this thread, if nothing else!!



*I had a load of different tabs open and added the wrong Noctuas to the basket!!

[Ttaskmaster]

*SP fans, or Noctua NF-F12 or NF-A14 are also really excellent for pushing air through densely packed fins. But yeah, as I said, he shouldn't be able to hear a thing if he's configured the motherboard and used decent fans.

I'm using F12s on my H100. Pretty reasonable. I may swap my others around, just to see.
He's gotten my unwanted A14s too, so will see how that pans out.

I'd love to hear one of these 'properly quiet' systems people often claim to have... Even running just my PSU, GPU and H100 pump, I think my own rig sounds like a hairdryer!!

[Pob255]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk7JMOcypus

[herulach]

Yes, it's a single loop with 3 rads and I believe he runs it Res->240Rad->CPU->120Rad->GPU->200mmRad->Res.


I would have thought some kind of fan curve/profile would be best, but he doesn't really want software control either.
He's got twin 140s off the main CPU and secondary CPU headers, with the others on a fan controller.


Ooh, good point - He's obviously not using them with water blocks on those cards!
I wouldn't have thought to do that...


Interesting... How do you power them down?
Software control, like the MSI app?

Afterburner will let you change the fan profile, but only down to the minimum level of the GPUs. standard GPU Bios control would be pretty useless without a custom profile as it won't run the fans up till it hits the temps it would on air.

Honestly, he either needs to live with the noise, get better fans (I have done some rough tests and the Akasa vipers I use on my rads push more air through a rad at 30% duty cycle than the BeQuiet shadow wings I have as case fans at full chat. Its also a little more exaggerated but one of my rads is 15mm spaced and putting a gasket between the fans drops about 3 degrees.

At idle my system has 6 viper 120s, and a viper 140 at 20%, as well as 2*120 and a 140 shadow wings at 40%. I can hear the fridge downstairs over the case fans. Admittedly its quite a loud fridge, but still.

[Ttaskmaster]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk7JMOcypus

I like Linus's vids!
He did one that showed how push traps more dust than pull in a rad.

Afterburner will let you change the fan profile, but only down to the minimum level of the GPUs. standard GPU Bios control would be pretty useless without a custom profile as it won't run the fans up till it hits the temps it would on air.

I meant MSI Fan Control, but same idea I guess.

Honestly, he either needs to live with the noise, get better fans

I'm trying to convert him to Noctua!
TBH, his system is quiet enough as is unless he goes full chat for OC/BMing.

At idle my system has 6 viper 120s, and a viper 140 at 20%, as well as 2*120 and a 140 shadow wings at 40%. I can hear the fridge downstairs over the case fans. Admittedly its quite a loud fridge, but still.

I have 9 120mm fans, mostly Noctuas. With everything off and just the two fans on the H100 going, the AIO, GPU and PSU alone make over 45db...

[herulach]

I like Linus's vids!
He did one that showed how push traps more dust than pull in a rad.


I meant MSI Fan Control, but same idea I guess.


I'm trying to convert him to Noctua!
TBH, his system is quiet enough as is unless he goes full chat for OC/BMing.


I have 9 120mm fans, mostly Noctuas. With everything off and just the two fans on the H100 going, the AIO, GPU and PSU alone make over 45db...

The h100 pump makes a racket (the one on my h80 did anyway) PSU Fan is off at idle and GPUs will be in WC loop, but again, fans off at idle on these ones