[PLUG] Desktop case cooling fans

[Tomas Kuchta]

You should be fine with what you have. If it is not enough you the
components will either spin up fans producing noise or trottle down to
produce less heat.

If you observe the noise or throttling - you will know what to do then.

Tomas

On Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 16:18 Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> I'm assembling a new desktop in a Thermaltake V100 case. The case comes
> with
> a 120mm fan attached to the rear and accommodates additional 120mm/140mm
> fans on the top and front panel. The manual shows 2- and 3-unit fans (the
> latter for the front) but I don't find such units in my web searches.
>
> The components include an Asus Prime X470-Pro motherboard with a Noctua
> NH-D15 CPU cooler on a Ryzen7-2700, 64G RAM, Radeon Pro WX4100 GPU card,
> Creative Technology model SB1570 Sound Blaster card, and a Corsair RM-750X
> power supply, optical drive, one SSD for the OS and 1 or 2 2T hard drives.
>
> I'd like your thoughts on whether to add more fans and, if so, how many.
> Should they be built for low noise or high airflow? Placed on top, the
> front, or on each? Other than Noctua what other brands should be
> considered?
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
>
>
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