PC Cooling Advice Needed!

[Beege]

Back again, sorry (again), been looking at fans, fan curves etc til I'm blue in the face. The noise seems to just be a culmination of everything ramping up to max quickly from idling and then dying away quickly.

I've added fan curves via Fan Control to the only addressable fans currently, which is the gfx card and on iCUE set the H100i to "balanced".

As the front of my case is solid, I've settled on getting three Noctua NF-SB12 redux-1200s as intake fans and one Corsair ML140 as an exhaust.

My potentially last question on this would be, is it possible to use the Commader Core to enable the LED control only so that I can use the far superior Fan Control software for curves and mixes?

 

[B4zookaw]

Back again, sorry (again), been looking at fans, fan curves etc til I'm blue in the face. The noise seems to just be a culmination of everything ramping up to max quickly from idling and then dying away quickly.

Fans should never hit max, unless something has gone horribly wrong and CPU/GPU is on fire. You want to be aiming for ~60% RPM under load.

As the front of my case is solid, I've settled on getting three Noctua NF-SB12 redux-1200s as intake fans and one Corsair ML140 as an exhaust.

My reading of the NF-SB12 spec is they are best suited for low impedance, which your case is not with it's solid front. That, and your desire for quieter running, might mean that NF-A12x25 PWM are more suitable?

My potentially last question on this would be, is it possible to use the Commader Core to enable the LED control only so that I can use the far superior Fan Control software for curves and mixes?

Yes, this is what I do. I disconnected the PWM cables of the fans from the Core, and used 3 way splitter cables to connect to the MB fan header(s). I don't even run iCUE at all, I use OpenRGB to control the RBG via the Commander Core.

 

[Beege]

Perfect, thank you!