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Have you started building in it yet? If so I'm curious to get your impression on it.I ended up sticking with the luxe.
Honestly, the reason why I wanted to change the 200mm fan in the front is because I've heard from numerous other posts from people who also own this case that the 200mm in the case isn't good. They all suggested to switch it out for 2 quality 140mm to move much more air for better airflow. Now, when your comparing 2 140s to the single 200, it may make the 200 look bad, but overall is the 200 actually "bad"? Like is the 200mm good and that 2 140s is better(?) Or is the 200mm actually useless?
They all called it useless but there is a difference between these two scenarios in that its actually a good fan but when compared to 2 quality 140s, it's useless.
I think for now I should stick with the 200mm to see how it goes with my 980Ti and if needed I'll swap in 2 140 3-pins.
These people you mention are either never pleased or lacking information. Useless? There are numerous reviews of the Luxe beating most of the competition. I would not doubt if one exists because most reviews leave out their test conditions but I have yet to see a review showing bad temps on the Luxe. If the 200mm fan was useless that wouldn't be the case. Is it because the 200mm fan doesn't sound like a turbine? Or because these people don't feel a vortex whirling inside the case? The air its moving is not going to feel like focused bursts. As rtwjunkie said, if component temps (e.g. GPU, CPU, chipset, etc.) are good than its good. Not much more to it than that.
That's not to say the 200mm fan in this case is the best solution and can't be improved upon, but so many things can affect the temps they are seeing. The biggest one is ambient temperature in the room like rtwjunkie said. So many reviews leave this out and I don't know why, their tables should show what the ambient temp was during the test. The ambient temp is the starting temperature, outside of the extreme cooling methods no component is going below the ambient temp in the room. I think a lot of people envision actual "cooling" from a fan rather than heat dispersion. Having lived in both humid and arid climates I would also like to know the humidity at the time of the test. How is their cable management? Are they doing a push/pull strat or strictly push or strictly pull?
Ya, just keep on the path you are going down. Try it out first and if you see something you don't like than fix it. I don't like the idea of spending money simply because some people said some stuff.
