Hi! New member, questions about specific fan and case models
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 6:47 pm
Hi everyone, I was very happy to come across SPCR.
Long story short, I'm a sound engineer. A couple years ago I built a PC for my home studio, mainly running Pro Tools. Relevant things:
I had a look around the site, and checked out the tests and whatnot. I have formed a plan of attack, which involves replacing 2 of the front case fans with Noctua NF-S12A ULN. I plan to swap the Kuhler's fan with a Noctua NF-P1, and move it to the front of the case, in place of the third intake fan. From there, I will place one more Noctua NF-S12A ULN at the rear of the case.
Would the above work out, as far as keeping my system quiet and below 80º C under full load? Assume ambient temp is 20º C. I do quite a lot of spectral repair and noise reduction work, which is fairly taxing on the CPU. This can sometimes result in full load across all cores for several minutes.
Thanks in advance for your help, everyone.
Long story short, I'm a sound engineer. A couple years ago I built a PC for my home studio, mainly running Pro Tools. Relevant things:
- Antec 1200v2 case, stock fans (the two rear fans have been removed)
LGA 1366 motherboard (sabertooth x58)
i7 960 @3.2 GHz stock clock (HT off, no overclock or intel speedboost, all sleep and hibernation disabled)
Kuhler 620 (one stock fan pushing exhaust, mounted in place of one rear fan)
I had a look around the site, and checked out the tests and whatnot. I have formed a plan of attack, which involves replacing 2 of the front case fans with Noctua NF-S12A ULN. I plan to swap the Kuhler's fan with a Noctua NF-P1, and move it to the front of the case, in place of the third intake fan. From there, I will place one more Noctua NF-S12A ULN at the rear of the case.
Would the above work out, as far as keeping my system quiet and below 80º C under full load? Assume ambient temp is 20º C. I do quite a lot of spectral repair and noise reduction work, which is fairly taxing on the CPU. This can sometimes result in full load across all cores for several minutes.
Thanks in advance for your help, everyone.