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just missing on a man it's been a long time since I've actually done this kind of a video setup with the exception of Tech Talk I mean geez I've got that monstrosity behind me we've kind of moved forward in the whole YouTube sphericals testicles what did I say that get 10% off anything from Coolermaster at the cm store see the description for details so yesterday on Twitter I put up a straw poll asking you guys what you wanted my next video to be and I put up a couple of choices and I let you guys pick and so if you want to start getting more involved on the videos that I make here on this channel make sure you head on over to Twitter or Facebook because they link together and let yourself be heard on the videos that I make here on my channel now you guys spoke up and it was a narrow margin but the video topic that one over on strawpoll was learning more about my fan and fan cooling setup what I call it a fan cooling setup well obviously my system is water cooled but this video is going to be a little bit less about the water cooling and more about the fans I chose the type of fan they are why I chose them the sizes that I chose and the configuration to have them set in you know push-pull exhaust intake and why I went with that now first things first let's go ahead and get the obvious out of the way the two things that are obvious one the case is a 900 D by Corsair it is huge and so is the case yeah the case is pretty damn big and it can fit a lot of fans obvious point number two yes the fan rings are painted no they were not purchased that color no they were not dyed yes I painted them I get asked this question every single time I post a picture of my system and I don't know why more people can't really just see that they're painted but yes they're painted I used Valspar self etching primer included paint thing it's got primer and paint mixed in one and it's a goldenrod color because that's what perfectly matched the Z 77 OC formula from asrock so let's go and put that to bed yes the rings are painted you can paint yours to any color you want just go to get spray paint and spray clean them all right now what fans am I using they are all Corsair fans but we've got a mixture here we have got three that's how we Americans do three but if you're European we have got three of the Corsair AF 140 s airflow 140 s and they are the quiet addition I have got nine one two not nine of the Corsair SP 120 s that is static pressure 120 fans again quiet addition now let's go ahead and talk about the fan placements the three AF 140 s our exhaust fans I have two on the top and one on the rear pulling air across the motherboard and out of the case now I have two SP 120 quiet Edition fans on the front in taking now you guys have asked me why do you have SP 120 s where airflow would have made more sense we'll get back to them on the bottom of the case in the basement on my two radiators because i have a quad 120 radiator and a tripple 120 radiator I have seven SP 120 quite addition fans so there you go there's the rundown 12 fans in total 3 AF 140 s 9 SP 120 s now why did I put the SP 120 s on the front instead of the airflow fans well because the way the Corsair is when we have hard drive cage right in front of them and you've got the fan filter right behind it as well as a little block off plate with a little gap on the side we need as much pressure as we can to get the air moving air flow in that case in that situation did not perform nearly as well trust me I tried it with the included airflow fans and found the SP 120 finished threw up a little in my mouth I tried it with the airflow fans that are included with this case and found that the SPS performed a lot better not only that the SPS are generally quieter now when it comes to controlling dust in this them you guys asked me all the time how do you keep your system so clean I don't guys the system is filthy half the time I'm dusting it every single day it's very annoying and I went through practically an entire can of compressed air and use this guy this is how I keep my system clean this little ant I said electron expressional won't do that a little foam thingy there and that's how I keep the system clean but now when it comes to the noise of my system I am picky super picky about the noise in my system it must be quiet so that's why I have so much radiator space considering I only have one processor and one graphics card at the time of this video another graphics card is going to most likely be going in in the future when you have multiple radiators like this you can use slower speed fans because you make up for the cooling capacity of slower speed fans by having more radiator space so that's why I have seven fans on my radiator I don't go push-pull because honestly it's not necessary in fact I turn the fans off on my quad radiator unless the system is doing something otherwise my triple radiator is running passively passively actively at about 50% fan speed at all times now when it comes to controlling my fans the quad radiator is controlled by a program I use called speed fan it's a free piece of software it's not the easiest software to use in fact you have to configure it to work with your motherboard don't even ask me how to configure it for your motherboard I don't know how to configure it for your motherboard you're going to have to play within the settings and tweak it and make it work for yourself but it's free and it works with PWM and 3 pin headers and that's what I use I use the CPU header to control the 4 radiator fans on the quad radiator now unless the system is under load they are off which helps with air flow or dust or it doesn't help with air flow but it helps with dust and it helps with noise keeping the noise down and unless the system is under load then it turns on and they only run at about 50 to 60 percent depending on the temperature it is temperature controlled I use speed fan to say if the temperatures this run at this speed and it's a curve just like if you were using MSI Afterburner for your graphics card it's the same thing for that radiator the triple rad as I mentioned is running actively always at about fifty to sixty percent I think I have it set at fifty-five on a recall now when it comes to controlling the other fans in my system I am using the phobia touch six fan controller now the phobia touch six is pretty nice actually did a review of it and I'm going to put it up here somewhere so you guys can click on and go learn more about that controller but it's got temperature probes it's got automatic and manual settings it's got voltage it shows voltage it shows rpm and I tend to be keeping my fans right around 700 rpm at all times so I use a mixture of hardware control and software control for the twelve fans in my system and for the price that that fan controller is it is a pretty amazing piece of hardware so that's what I use to control the rest of my fans they're on a static setting they don't ramp up they don't slow down and they're sitting at about 60% speed at all times now let's go ahead and Auk about noise how loud is my system I've been told Jay you've got 12 fans in your system plus a power supply that thing must be so massively loud no you'd be surprised in fact to prove just how quiet it is I've gone ahead and put together this little bit this little demo so let's go ahead take a look anyway guys there you have it there is my fan set up for my radiators and my 900 D I'm not even utilizing all the fan space I could put another 140 millimeter on the top and I could put another 120 millimeter on the front if I wanted to flip my radiators around the other way not willing to do that because I don't need the extra cooling down there so what are you guys doing for cooling in your case keep in mind if you've got a smaller case with less fan slots than this case does you've got to use faster rpm fans to make up for the amount of airflow I like the 900 d because I can fit so many fans in it I can slow them down which allows me to keep the case nice and quiet while not sacrificing any of the cooling as you guys may have seen in the past my system never gets hotter than 65 or so degrees on the core 43 degree ish on the CPU socket and 41 degrees maxed with hacked voltage overclocked gtx 780 on water so there you have it guys that's my cooling setup that's how my fans are configured tell me all about yours I hope this video has helped you and remember you can give your input on what you think my next video should be by following me on Twitter and watching for the straw polls where I'm going to start including you guys more on the decisions I make on the videos I make for you guys as always I'm gonna get the hell on out of here and I'll see you in my next video