What PC fans do you use and prefer?

[elmariachi]

The 3080 on air 75degC is good enough already. As long dont go over 84degC i think is really a good job. I think if any one wants it below 75degC in a bad airflow case like enthoo evolv gotta look at custom water cooling already. lol

Actually we all can see, custom water cooling is the way to go for gpu ba. The benefits of direct die cooling is something very worth it imho.

Straight line boosting, no fluctuating, also dont really have to worry about over volting. But then again if one chooses to UV further becomes a much cooler card also haha.

These cards above 350W TDP is at the limit of air-cooling. Once you cross 400W, it becomes really hard to have sane temps unless you go watercooling. That's why UV is the way to go on air like you mentioned. Even for water, anything above 500W TDP is useless. Just dumping heat in the loop with no scalable increase in performance. I think 460W-480W is the sweetspot for custom cooling with stability. Usually the added wattage from my experience helps with sustained and consistent boosting without being all over the place because of the additional 3rd pin GPU power. But 100W extra is no joke to cool if you're on air. Rather very challenging to get temps under control.

 

[kimsix]

imo before arctic, a good vfm brand is thermalright tyr fans. got 2 140mm, cheap and nice sound signature
compared to noctua old 140mm, tyr are better perf/value

also have silverstone ap181 and 183, very solid feeling but hard to clean because of built in grill. but can push volume of air

first fan i bought separately was scythe sflex with sony bearings! but their GT was better imo, still using 2 GT in service.

wasn't pleased with CM and TT fans that came with heatsink

 

[Yongkit]

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Just test my system under the following condition:

1. Non AC room
2. Sensor Minimum = System startup
3. Sensor Current = Idle
4. Sensor Maximum = 30 min of Ace Combat 7 gaming session
5. CPU 3800x = Undervolted
6. GPU 3080 = Undervolted

Phanteks Enthoo Evolv with Case Fan (Front cover removed) :
1. Front Casing - middle placement: XPG Vento Pro (120mm) connected to Water Pump header = blowing directly to GPU
2. Front Casing - bottom placement: Phantek original case fan (PH-F 140SP) = blowing directly to SSD & HDD
3. CPU fan = Cooler Master MasterAir MA410M
4. Cooler Master 140mm Air Balance fan for back exhaust

my summary was 3080 GPU really hot hot if playing without AC. UV is best for your GPU nowadays.

Updated status:

All setting remain unchanged, with AC on (25c) and Stand Fan blowing to PC case in the afternoon hot sun

overall the maximum temp reading was reducing by 2 or 3 degrees for both CPU & GPU as well as the GPU memory Junction temp & GPU Hotspot, still very happy with the current setup.

Currently was thinking if I add 1 additional XPG Vento Pro (i bought 2 previously but only use 1) as from intake does it help better ?

 

[Yongkit]

I managed to test out the temps in Controls for a like for like load comparison.

Stock cooler and fan - Max temps I saw was 69 degrees with the GPU fan at 50%
Deshroud mod with Vento Pro - Max temp I get is 73 degrees @ around 60 to 70% fan speed

Fan noise is slightly lower with the Vento Pro. I opened the case, and the air inflow from the bottom is immense as compared to previous fan config. But I think the air is not effectively flowing through the dense fins given the gap between the fan and heatsink is around 11.2mm.

care to share a snapshot of how is the system mod like, abit difficult for me to imagine

 

[Yongkit]

The temps I see for the GPU is very decent actually. Considering the high boost clockspeed to a max of close to 2Ghz, the max temp with no AC is in fact impressive.

Many thanks, it is the effort of tuning using 3Dmark of Timespy and stress test (total over 100 hours ) to understand the characteristic of my 3080 and fine tuning to the sweet spot I think is good for my overall UV setup now.

 

[Yongkit]

The 3080 on air 75degC is good enough already. As long dont go over 84degC i think is really a good job. I think if any one wants it below 75degC in a bad airflow case like enthoo evolv gotta look at custom water cooling already. lol

Actually we all can see, custom water cooling is the way to go for gpu ba. The benefits of direct die cooling is something very worth it imho.

Straight line boosting, no fluctuating, also dont really have to worry about over volting. But then again if one chooses to UV further becomes a much cooler card also haha.

you are absolutely correct enthoo evolv really challenging for air flow as I have try many fans before mostly does not have the power to deliver the air flow from the front panel to even reaching the middle of the case.

for now I can feel the air from XPG Vento Pro manage to at least blow the air from front panel to my 3080 open air vent.

 

[Yongkit]

Above photo showing my current casing fan air flow setup.

The arrow was my estimated air flow of maximum reach of each fan in my case.

 

[hg2]

For non-RGB... got $$$ go noctua, no $$$ go Arctic.. cheap and cheerful....
Got lots of $$$, like RGB, hate cables, go LianLi ...

 

[Lastwishes]

I managed to test out the temps in Controls for a like for like load comparison.

Stock cooler and fan - Max temps I saw was 69 degrees with the GPU fan at 50%
Deshroud mod with Vento Pro - Max temp I get is 73 degrees @ around 60 to 70% fan speed

Fan noise is slightly lower with the Vento Pro. I opened the case, and the air inflow from the bottom is immense as compared to previous fan config. But I think the air is not effectively flowing through the dense fins given the gap between the fan and heatsink is around 11.2mm.

I think you're right about the air flow not being effective. Other than the gap between the fan and the heatsink for your case, I think there's the sizable deadzone of the 120mm fans (due to the motor hub) to consider.

I had Control installed as well, so I fired it up for half an hour or so to get a gauge of the temps.

Your card at stock is actually pretty good in terms of cooling if you get max 69 at 50% rpm. I remember my Ventus would hit 74 degrees+ in the game with fans at 75% rpm (this was basically the threshold before the fan noise became very obvious) even after a repaste and replaced thermal pads, and this was undervolted at 1800mhz/825mv.

For a rough gauge, the same Ventus 3080 repasted with TFX, replaced thermal pads, deshrouded with 3x Noctua A9x25s, with the UV readjusted to 1875mhz/837mv would max out at 67 degrees with the Noctuas at 90% rpm (inaudible and quieter than the stock MSI fans at 75%). At 1800mhz/825mv, it maxes out at 62 degrees, which means in a like-for-like test, the change in my fans for the gpu dropped temperatures by over 10 degrees, with a reduction in noise.

No AC for all the temps mentioned.

 

[royfrosty]

you are absolutely correct enthoo evolv really challenging for air flow as I have try many fans before mostly does not have the power to deliver the air flow from the front panel to even reaching the middle of the case.

for now I can feel the air from XPG Vento Pro manage to at least blow the air from front panel to my 3080 open air vent.

Is a sad thing that i did love this case before. But after i went custom water cooling with it, i was totally upset about the temperature.

I mounted 240mm thick rads at the front, 360mm top and im getting weird temps. Back then i was using 5820k with 1080. Temps go crazy. After 1hr of gaming. My 1080 goes up to 83degC. My cpu hit 80degC. Lol

I remember Jayz2cents also mentioned about it.

 

[Yongkit]

Is a sad thing that i did love this case before. But after i went custom water cooling with it, i was totally upset about the temperature.

I mounted 240mm thick rads at the front, 360mm top and im getting weird temps. Back then i was using 5820k with 1080. Temps go crazy. After 1hr of gaming. My 1080 goes up to 83degC. My cpu hit 80degC. Lol

I remember Jayz2cents also mentioned about it.

That is surprising hot with custom water cooling setup

I like this case because of its solid material but never though of air flow important when I bought it 3 years ago
Until I upgrade to 8 core cpu + 3080 gpu

 

[hg2]

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Above photo showing my current casing fan air flow setup.

The arrow was my estimated air flow of maximum reach of each fan in my case.

Maybe your answer... RTX-3080 best with 3 in 2 out combo for front intake case...

 

[Yongkit]

Maybe your answer... RTX-3080 best with 3 in 2 out combo for front intake case...

Many thanks for sharing, I will try to playing around again with the fans I have and see how it improving the overall air flow

 

[royfrosty]

That is surprising hot with custom water cooling setup

I like this case because of its solid material but never though of air flow important when I bought it 3 years ago
Until I upgrade to 8 core cpu + 3080 gpu

The airflow gets circulated back into the case.

The problem with that case is, the upper radiator mount has a considerably big gap to the top panel. Hence the hot air could not get out from the case.

Same goes to the front. The front panel is way too close to the fans. Leaving not much gap for the fans to pull in air.

The revision 2nd model did try to improve the front intake. But yet the top portion still no improvements.

There are even people that done mods with the top portion like using aluminium foil to prevent the hot air circulating back in. Haiyo.

 

[Yongkit]

The airflow gets circulated back into the case.

The problem with that case is, the upper radiator mount has a considerably big gap to the top panel. Hence the hot air could not get out from the case.

Same goes to the front. The front panel is way too close to the fans. Leaving not much gap for the fans to pull in air.

The revision 2nd model did try to improve the front intake. But yet the top portion still no improvements.

There are even people that done mods with the top portion like using aluminium foil to prevent the hot air circulating back in. Haiyo.

ya i do noticed the gap for the top and front panel really inefficient to release the hot air.

Currently i removed my front panel only leaving the filter to get as much cool air as possible and I clean my filter every week to remove the dust accumulated for better air flow.

 

[royfrosty]

ya i do noticed the gap for the top and front panel really inefficient to release the hot air.

Currently i removed my front panel only leaving the filter to get as much cool air as possible and I clean my filter every week to remove the dust accumulated for better air flow.

Actually, the best is remove the TG side panel lol.

 

[说好不打脸的]

CPU Max Temps : 71 degrees @ 236W CPU Package Power

GPU Max Temps : 42 degrees @ 455W GPU Package Power

Total System Peak Power Draw from Asus 1200W PSU : 753W

System Setup :

* 11900K CPU @ 5.1Ghz all core @ 1.5V VCORE default LLC

* 4800CL19 @ 1.55V VDIMM

* 2 X EKWB PE 360MM Rads w/ 6 Adata XPG Fans at full speed.

looking at this spec steaming with 8 fans at full speed like watching a Ferrari 812 Superfast on race track

Not only that, if you want to play with such a monster system. You must 1st learn how to wear sexy under 1 hor....

 

[Yongkit]

Actually, the best is remove the TG side panel lol.

mine is acrylic panel version, I am not a fan of TG panel

 

[elmariachi]

Not only that, if you want to play with such a monster system. You must 1st learn how to wear sexy under 1 hor....

Good memory!!!

 

[Ark Law]

GTs. 1850rpm, 2150rpm, 3000rpm. Noctua's replica are fairly ex, at $60-ish/fan.