Some fan technical notes ... on the top of the case are two Coolermaster 200mm fans each rated at 100CFM ... I wanted two fans mounted on the H100i radiator that equaled the total airflow being vented out the top through the 200mm fans. So, that required a 120mm fan rated for at least 100 CFM. This is a tall order, but the Delta 120mm case fan that pushes out 113 CFM ... close enough.

For radiator fans the static pressure it more important then the CFM. CFM refers to the volume of air moved, the static pressure refers the pressure put on the air it is moving. Since a radiator is a resistant path blocking airflow, the static pressure is the most important piece of data for a radiator fan. The same is true for fans on heatsinks.

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So an acceptable solution to this would be an SSO fan?

 

A good example being the Noctua NF-P12-1300 120mm Case Fans?

 

I think that 40 fan solution would provide some quality static pressure ... no ?

 

 

Thanks,

 

C. T.

The H100i arrived ... and the situation is as researched ...

 

Backplate (unmodified) properly installed (cutouts around screws) ...

 

Posts are too high ...

 

Washers installed on backplate ...

 

Washers in place ...

 

Posts flush with top of motherboard ...

 

Stand-offs installed ...

 

The nice thing about those washers is that two of them stacked up adds up to the perfect height adjustment.  Note that those standoffs only have to be finger tight ... snug even (for obvious reasons).

 

C. T.

So an acceptable solution to this would be an SSO fan?

 

A good example being the Noctua NF-P12-1300 120mm Case Fans?

 

I think that 40 fan solution would provide some quality static pressure ... no ?

 

 

Thanks,

 

C. T.

 

SSO is about the fans bearing, not the airflow it creates.  I don't think Noctua publishes static pressure stats on their fans.  I know Corsair (the High Static Pressure model) , Akasa and Bitfenix make fans with at least decent static pressure.  My favorite place to check out fan stats is http://www.frozencpu.com/cat/l1/g36/Fans.html, you will have to drill down to each product page, but if the manufacturer distributes static pressure data, they usually list it.  For liquid cooling: http://martinsliquidlab.org.  He has an article up discussing the CFM and static pressure ratings.  He isn't a fan of either spec it turns out.

 

There are a lot of things that go into a picking a fan depending on what you are looking for.  If noise is important then you need to consider that.  If you want to be the motherboard to control the fan then you may want PWM fans.  For some it is the look.

Good build, get a 780, Good motherboard choice,(I got a Sabertooth Z87)

Get a Samsung 840 Pro 128 for OS and a Samsung 840 Pro 256 for FSX and 1-2 TD hdd for data. Go 850watts for PSU. I got the same case. I went with 2x4gb mem.

I say err on the side of splurge rather than save if you have the money.

I am in the midst of setting it up. Despite all the negative publicity NickN is getting I wouldn't thrust anyone else when it comes to choosing hardware and setting up.

Here is my rig so far:

 

Hello Avi:

 

I did get an EVGA NVidia GTX780 (Newegg was sold out of the ASUS ... probably not a big deal as I wasn't planning on using the Hot Link).  As I alluded to before, Newegg only gave me store credit for the ASUS Extreme I bought ... so I returned the mobo and the 770 and added the two up and went with the GTX 780 ... as suggested by NickN.

 

Now that I have the H100i I'm not going to plug those Delta's into it.  They pull too many amps and I'm not going to risk the health of the pump for them.  I'm not going to return them either so I'll figure out some crazy place to stick'em ... I already have an idea.

 

I wish I'd gone with an 850W Seasonic ... but I did the power computations on two sites and since I have absolutely no desire to go with SLI, ever, this will be good enough (no Titan is in my future either ... the GTX 780 is powerful enough to support three monitors if I ever want to go that route).

 

I went with the 10,000 rpm 500GB WD ... but not for FSX.  This will also be a software development machine (can you say tax write-off B) )  ... this drive is where all of the databases will go.  Which, if I don't stop obsessing on this computer build, I won't have a use for the machine ... as my client will fire my a$$ if I don't meet deadlines. 

 

I've been told that the SSD is more than enough to handle both FSX and the scenery.  Time will tell.

 

The build starts hot and heavy tomorrow ... I'll be posting pictures as I go ... hopefully this will help build up the confidence of another simmer that they too can build their own machine. 

 

I'm especially looking forward to working with the Coollaboratory Liquid Pro ... that is some dangerous stuff if I'm to take the reviews to heart.  As a side note:  the pictures show that the syringe comes with a needle at the end ... it didn't ... this would have made applying the substance a bit more surgical.  But I have some precautions in mind that I'll illustrate tomorrow as the stuff is applied.

 

More to come ...

 

C. T.

It seems you got a dynamite computer, yes I bought my computer about 4yrs ago from Digital Storm. They have excellent quality, but you pay for it!!! Good luck....

Just performed a 4 hour burn in on the new computer ... i4770k @ 4.4GHz ... Corsair H100i ... using Coollaboratory Liquid Pro TIM ... temps averaged around 70C.  This overclock was a one click process with ASUS AI Suite 3 ... it optimized my case fans as well. 

 

The H100i coolant (provided by CorsairLink) never reached over 34.5C. 

 

The Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR3 2400 is running at 2400 with the ASUS MAXIMUS VI HERO motherboard.  The only thing I had to do was go into the BIOS and use their provided XMP profile ... the timing is 10-12-12-31 ... just as NickN said it should be.

 

People have complained about the H100i's fans making too much noise ... this rig is virtually silent. 

 

So far, the processor is staying so cool that the H100i fans never have to spin up to their full speed. 

 

I almost ordered four Noctua NF-F12s to set up a push-pull with the H100i radiator ... there was no need.

 

One thing I didn't know about the H100i is that it comes with two y-splitters for the CPU fan hook ups.  This means you can not only power the two fans that come with the H100i radiator, you can power two additional fans as well.  I'm sure this is for people who want to set up a push/pull arrangement.  I simply used it to control the two fans at the top of the case as well.  The pump then connects to the CPU_FAN header, leaving the CPU_OPT fan header for other things.

 

I did add an additional 240mm fan at the top of the case.  I also had one 120mm fan left over.  The 942 case comes with a VGA fan mount that is used to cool SLI video cards.  I simply mounted a 120mm fan in it and then mounted that VGA fan mount to the bottom of the 942 (since I'm using a relatively small 760W PSU there was enough room to do so).  Now there is an additional 40 to 60 CFM of air entering the case through the bottom.

 

In another thread I'll be posting all of the details of how to use the Coollaboratory Liquid Pro ... this is their claim "Liquid PRO does not contain any non-metallic additives such as silicone. Due to this composition it out performs the best thermal compounds on the market by a factor 9."  I'm beginning to believe it.  Once you get used to how much (actually 'little') you have to use and the process it takes to apply to the surface, it actually feels safer than using a paste ... which has a tendency to gush and smush around.  This stuff is like painting with mercury.  When you are done, it feels like the thickness of the application is much thinner than a sheet of tin foil.

_{One final note ... there was a comment above that stated no data drive is necessary.  There is one small caveat to that statement ... after going through the suggestions by NickN there are three steps for moving windows and user and IE temp files OFF of the SSD ...  as everyone probably knows, the SSD can only handle so many read and write actions ... moving those temp locations to the data drive saves a significant amount of wear and tear from the SSD (or so says NickN).}

So an acceptable solution to this would be an SSO fan?

 

A good example being the Noctua NF-P12-1300 120mm Case Fans?

 

I think that 40 fan solution would provide some quality static pressure ... no ?

 

 

Thanks,

 

C. T.

 

Noctua Focused Flow NF-F12 fans are high static pressure. 

 

Great for cases and rad's.

 

I have four of them, very pleased with them.

As a follow up ... just in three days of use my E:\UserTemp subdirectory ... which was moved from the SSD ... has accumulated 1,332 files in 534 folders for a total space of 326MB. 

 

It appears that moving those temp files off of the SSD was a stellar one.

Well, the deed is done ... the $340 i7-4770K has been delided and lapped ... here is the documentation of my trek through the darkside ... scroll down to the end of the post.

 

C. T.