PC What do you think of this new PC build

[bobrpggamer]

I am putting more negative fans than positive. I was trying to get an even flow but the case I will be using, Fractal Design Meshify 2 XL, makes it hard not to add more fans to the top and back.

I will have the CPU fans adjusted via the motherboard and the case fans via a corsair fan controller.

Case fans will be 5 noctua 140mm @ 2000rpm. I guess the back 3 fans should run @ 600rpm and the front 2 case fans @ 1000 to get positive flow to start.

The 2 CPU fans are 120mm and rated at 3000rpm and I know they will be loud but they will adjusted via the motherboard as they are PWM.

The PC will be in my computer room so it makes little difference about the noise the fans make. Until I play a FPS that I need the usual WASD and Mouse to play, like maybe one of the Metro games or Dishonored 2 (whatever the sequel is named).

I remember reading the whole positive, negative and equal fan setup in Maximum PC and II never payed whole lot attention to it on all of my builds. If I get my temps down with more positive pressure then I will go with that and vice versa on the negative pressure. I usually get 3 pin fans and hook the up to a 5.25 bay fan controller but the days of 5.25 bays are over I guess.

I just found this as to explain the temps of the 13th gen CPUs

I still do not know in ASrock BIOS what setting to mess with, but it is possible to run cooler that most cooler videos I have watched once you find the setting.

 

[Ananais]

Proper setup and you can have both. 

I'm using a Cooler Master MasterBox MB511 with a full suite of fans. I believe I'm using the Cooler Master SickleFlow 120 V2 fans in the rest of the case because they appropriately matched was included in the front. Four fans blow in, three and the GPU blows out, which sets me up with a modest positive pressure setup. CPU cooler is an EVO 212 with dual fans that is nearly as efficient as the Nuctua 12 for about a third of the cost.
Both my R9 3900x and the RX 6800XT are moderately overclocked as well. The CPU is "golden" so I'm able to OC it a bit more than most. For the 3900x the stock speed is 3.8, and it will run stable with a base clock of 4.44. I currently keep it clocked at 4.325GHz base, and it rarely gets above 62C. Same for the 6800XT Gaming Z with a stock overclock of 2065 MHz base and 2310 MHz boost. (Vanilla is 1825 MHz and 2250 MHz on boost.) When I'm playing games, I run it at 2476 MHz. I should also note that a lot of the stuff I'm playing lately is 7680x1440. Temps aren't much different than the CPU. 

It is extremely rare that the fans get loud enough that I can hear them, and my case is literally in arms reach. Ambient room temp is around 76-78F year-round. 

That's actually not too far from my setup as far as cooling, and pretty much what I meant with the cool, quiet and efficient leaning 

I have a Corsair Carbide air 540 with 4x140mm intake, 2 in front and 2 on the bottom (modded the case to fit 2 at the bottom in place of the 3.5" trays) and 3x140mm out, 1 on the back and 2 on the top, all just standard Corsair AF140's. Then an Evo 212, though only one fan on this one. I have actually been using 212's for many years, through the hyper, black, etc editions, they really are very good coolers.

This is really what I meant though, with this kind of setup, even with some overclocking, you can keep temps down at a reasonable level with fans at low rpm, even under load.

What I don't go in for is leaving systems with overclocks pushed as far as the components can go. I will give new components a good burn in test to see whether I get lucky with the silicone lottery, but will lower things back to a more moderate level for normal use, where I know many people do like to push things just short of having stability issues and leave them like that; I just never thought that the little extra you could get out of things was worth it, especially if overvolting, or getting into delidding, etc.

 

[Ananais]

I am putting more negative fans than positive. I was trying to get an even flow but the case I will be using, Fractal Design Meshify 2 XL, makes it hard not to add more fans to the top and back.

I will have the CPU fans adjusted via the motherboard and the case fans via a corsair fan controller.

Case fans will be 5 noctua 140mm @ 2000rpm. I guess the back 3 fans should run @ 600rpm and the front 2 case fans @ 1000 to get positive flow to start.

The 2 CPU fans are 120mm and rated at 3000rpm and I know they will be loud but they will adjusted via the motherboard as they are PWM.

The PC will be in my computer room so it makes little difference about the noise the fans make. Until I play a FPS that I need the usual WASD and Mouse to play, like maybe one of the Metro games or Dishonored 2 (whatever the sequel is named).

I remember reading the whole positive, negative and equal fan setup in Maximum PC and II never payed whole lot attention to it on all of my builds. If I get my temps down with more positive pressure then I will go with that and vice versa on the negative pressure. I usually get 3 pin fans and hook the up to a 5.25 bay fan controller but the days of 5.25 bays are over I guess.

I just found this as to explain the temps of the 13th gen CPUs

I still do not know in ASrock BIOS what setting to mess with, but it is possible to run cooler that most cooler videos I have watched once you find the setting.

I do prefer positive pressure, but honestly I don't think positive/negative is as important as overall good airflow, however you set it up.

Watching that video, it actually sounds a lot like the feature I had read about on the AMD chips, it would ramp up past rated boost clock speeds as long as it could pull the power and had the cooling. I really do not like the idea, especially being enabled by default, but seems it is the motherboards rather than the CPU's themselves, so I guess not as much of an issue as long as you are aware of it.