Help me with cooling

[Champ]

So I underestimated the cooling of my case. Can be seen in specs. It's designed to be quiet and that's where the problem comes in. My card, gpu, and ram were overclocked. I think my lightning 780 was the main heater. Hot enuff to bake cookies in my case. I plan to add more fans but I wanna use the same type. Can I adjust the speed of the internal fans any way? The gpu heat makes everything else unstable but the card can run well with the heat it's making. I had it to 1300/1700. I have everything stock now and it's doing fine. It actually plays well too. Maybe I shouldn't overclock

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

I like that case for HTPC use. It does have a lot of extra spots for fans but it didn't come with those extra fans. You can easily fit another 2 fans on the sides, and I believe there is room for a couple 120mm on the bottom. You could install the extra fans and then install a fan controller to ramp up speeds when gaming and lower when browsing/streaming. Or even use splits off the motherboard fan ports to control speeds in bios based on temps.

 

[Champ]

okay, my next question. I know nothing of fan controllers. What should I look for and who are the popular brands?

 

[RCoon]

okay, my next question. I know nothing of fan controllers. What should I look for and who are the popular brands?

Bitfenix, nzxt, lamptron, phobya, all decent brands I've used before. You're looking for a fan controller with at least 6 channels for 6 fans, may as well controll all the fans you can! As long as it provides 12v and around 30w per channel it will do its job

 

[Henkenator68NL]

okay, my next question. I know nothing of fan controllers. What should I look for and who are the popular brands?

Well the easiest way to take controle over your fans is to use the fan headers that are available on your motherboard.

According to the biostar site:
INTERNAL I/O :
1 x CPU FAN Header ----> this supports 4-pins (PWM) fans
4 x System FAN Header ----> these support 3-pin fans

So there seem to be at least 5 fan headers that you can use. The fan speeds can be set in the BIOS (see
attachment). My advice: connect the fans to the cpu fan header and set the fan speed profile in your bios:




If you want to use 4 pins fans you can easily split the connector in 3, 4, 5 and even more connectors.

For example this splitter (I use those and have 12 noctua fans connected to the main CPU_FAN header):
PWM 1-to-4 Splitter (CA-PWM-03)http://www.gelidsolutions.com/products/index.php?lid=2&cid=11&id=63&tab=1

This splitter allows the PWM signal input from the mainboard to control up to max. 4 GELID PWM fans.

Features: Connect 4 PWM fans to your mainboard’s CPU socket with direct power supply from PSU. Use multiple PWM splitter to connect 4 PWM fans and provide additional cooling as before. Power drawn into your CPU cooler is adjusted depending on its temperature. An idle CPU does not generate as much heat, requires less active cooling, and hence slower fan speeds will be sufficient. Further this also reduces the overall ambient noise of your PC and it's handled automatically with little risk to your PC components. While PWM fan controllers are very common in today’s PC industry and available on most mainboards, there is often only one or two such PWM headers, reserved for the CPU and or the chipset fans. One way this excellent noise reduction idea can be extended to the numerous case fans inside a typical PC is by utilizing a GELID PWM splitter.

The splitter provides a length of 420mm. This splitter includes: 4 x 4 Pin PWM Header, 1 x 4 Pin PWM Connector, 1 x 4 Pin Molex Header

 

[Champ]

that's actually not a bad thought