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Monday, December 09, 2013 0:19 PM (permalink)
What is the max safe i can push my cpu with this setup?
I plan to also change my case fans, what do you guys recommend as better fans?
Right now my cpu fan pulls air from the front and pushes it out of the back, some people say that they have flipped the rear case fan to bring more air to the cpu cooling fins, for that setup i guess the cpu fan must face downwards and push the air through the top case fan right? 
 
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    Re: Plan to overclock i5 2500k with zalman 9700, case antec 900 Monday, December 09, 2013 2:18 AM (permalink)
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    What is the max safe i can push my cpu with this setup?
    I plan to also change my case fans, what do you guys recommend as better fans?
    Right now my cpu fan pulls air from the front and pushes it out of the back, some people say that they have flipped the rear case fan to bring more air to the cpu cooling fins, for that setup i guess the cpu fan must face downwards and push the air through the top case fan right? 
     


    Turning your rear case fan around to blow cool air onto the CPU cooler is a bad idea because your case was designed for airflow in the other direction. Besides, the rear fan doesn't have a filter and your case and CPU cooler will get packed with dust. As long as your CPU temps don't exceed around 70°C under load you can push it as far as you want to take it. Most users are happy with 4.5 GHz. Many will recommend a large air cooler and I used a Cooler Master V8 for a long time and my temps never exceded 72°C. I just started using water cooling and my temps are about 10°C cooler. It's all up to you. Some air coolers are as much as some of the AIO(All in one) liquid cooling solutions available now.

     
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    Re: Plan to overclock i5 2500k with zalman 9700, case antec 900 Monday, December 09, 2013 10:38 PM (permalink)
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    What is the max safe i can push my cpu with this setup?
    I plan to also change my case fans, what do you guys recommend as better fans?
    Right now my cpu fan pulls air from the front and pushes it out of the back, some people say that they have flipped the rear case fan to bring more air to the cpu cooling fins, for that setup i guess the cpu fan must face downwards and push the air through the top case fan right? 
     


    Turning your rear case fan around to blow cool air onto the CPU cooler is a bad idea because your case was designed for airflow in the other direction. Besides, the rear fan doesn't have a filter and your case and CPU cooler will get packed with dust. As long as your CPU temps don't exceed around 70°C under load you can push it as far as you want to take it. Most users are happy with 4.5 GHz. Many will recommend a large air cooler and I used a Cooler Master V8 for a long time and my temps never exceded 72°C. I just started using water cooling and my temps are about 10°C cooler. It's all up to you. Some air coolers are as much as some of the AIO(All in one) liquid cooling solutions available now.




    Thanks for the reply, i've taken out the front filters the day i bought that case as i had a long ass 8800gtx that wouldn't fit otherwise lol.
    Having the top fan as the only exhaust fan of my case is that too bad of an idea? people say hot air likes to go up lol.
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    Re: Plan to overclock i5 2500k with zalman 9700, case antec 900 Friday, December 20, 2013 2:09 AM (permalink)
    My Antec 900 blew cool air in from the top right into the Noctua CPU cooler, Cool Air in from an add-in side fan and cool air in from the front fans.  The only exhaust was the rear fan.  The CPU Noctua fans blew toward the rear fan exhaust.  This worked very efficiently.  GLW your Overclock

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