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[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I'm going to put in some fan filters on those bottom fans.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

I'm going to put in some fan filters on those bottom fans.

There should be a removable filter on the bottom of the case already... or is it just for the PSU?

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

There should be a removable filter on the bottom of the case already... or is it just for the PSU?

My case came with 2x 3-stack 3.5 hard drive cases where those bottom fans are, no filters. I modified that part, only supposed to be 2 120's down there anyways. But I did the 2 140's and drilled the holes out, so that's what I'm putting the filters on.

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

My case came with 2x 3-stack 3.5 hard drive cases where those bottom fans are, no filters. I modified that part, only supposed to be 2 120's down there anyways. But I did the 2 140's and drilled the holes out, so that's what I'm putting the filters on.

Feel around on the back under the PSU... nothing?

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

Should look like this:

 

[LsGuy]

40c at idle is fine. Don't put the aio in manual, let it run in auto and make sure the fans for the aio are plugged into the cpu fan slot so they can ramp up when the cpu gets hot. Pull your water block and redo the thermal paste. Not because it's bad, but because with the ryzen installs I have done for some reason the pre-applied thermal paste on water coolers does not cover the entire cpu. I personally run thermal grizzly kryo. Used to run arctic silver 5. Either will be fine. My ryzen idles around 40, and they holds that 40 even when pushing it. Your motherboard is designed to monitor cpu Temps and ramp the fans up on the aio when needed.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Feel around on the back under the PSU... nothing?

Yeah I have a filter there, that's not what I mean. I know it's ugly lol. Not done, just had to tape it with what I had atm, because the bottom isn't flat, there's ridges, so the sides weren't sealed. This is on the bottom.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

40c at idle is fine. Don't put the aio in manual, let it run in auto and make sure the fans for the aio are plugged into the cpu fan slot so they can ramp up when the cpu gets hot. Pull your water block and redo the thermal paste. Not because it's bad, but because with the ryzen installs I have done for some reason the pre-applied thermal paste on water coolers does not cover the entire cpu. I personally run thermal grizzly kryo. Used to run arctic silver 5. Either will be fine. My ryzen idles around 40, and they holds that 40 even when pushing it. Your motherboard is designed to monitor cpu Temps and ramp the fans up on the aio when needed.

Well I did my own curve on it for the moment that's a little more agressive. All I have to do is rotate the block slightly on the top and it'll switch back to auto from PWM mode.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Yeah I have a filter there, that's not what I mean. I know it's ugly lol. Not done, just had to tape it with what I had atm, because the bottom isn't flat, there's ridges, so the sides weren't sealed. This is on the bottom.

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The filters are screwed into the bottom, I didn't want to have to remove the fans everytime I cleaned the filters.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

40c at idle is fine. Don't put the aio in manual, let it run in auto and make sure the fans for the aio are plugged into the cpu fan slot so they can ramp up when the cpu gets hot. Pull your water block and redo the thermal paste. Not because it's bad, but because with the ryzen installs I have done for some reason the pre-applied thermal paste on water coolers does not cover the entire cpu. I personally run thermal grizzly kryo. Used to run arctic silver 5. Either will be fine. My ryzen idles around 40, and they holds that 40 even when pushing it. Your motherboard is designed to monitor cpu Temps and ramp the fans up on the aio when needed.

Yeah, both my fans are in the CPU slots. It was wanting to crawl past 42C just sitting there. I ordered some MX-4 paste, gonna give it a try. If it doesn't work, well, I'll buy something else.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I definitely want to do two more 140's in the front. I can fit them, tie the 2 CPU fans now into one and put them in one CPU fan slot, then do the same with the front two and put them in the other CPU slot.

 

[LsGuy]

Honestly brand doesn't matter much as long as you avoid IC diamond.

5.5 degrees total difference between first and last here. Just make sure to get the application right.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

That came in very quickly, ordered it yesterday