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Need advice on EVGA CLC 120 Please!

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Kyle23
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Thursday, July 26, 2018 5:56 PM (permalink)
System specs:
AMD RYZEN 7 2700X 8-Core 3.7 GHz
EVGA SuperNOVA 650
ASUS TUF X470-Plus Gaming
EVGA GTX 1070 SC
G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB
 
The chassis that I am using is by Corsair Crystal Series 570X and the CPU cooling is EVGA CLC 120. The chassis came with three intake fans at the front panel and there are no other fans at the rear or the top, but I do have extra fans that I could use.
 
I need some advice on where I should install the EVGA CLC 120? How should I configure the airflow in this chassis with this cooler?

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    Re: Need advice on EVGA CLC 120 Please! Saturday, July 28, 2018 3:48 AM (permalink)
    1) The top of case as intake, best choice

    2) Above where the MB rear panel pokes through the case  -- you could mount CLC 120 as exhaust
     
    You should have an exhaust fan at the rear of the case.
     
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    Re: Need advice on EVGA CLC 120 Please! Saturday, July 28, 2018 3:52 AM (permalink)
    I helped a friend with one of those and we used a CLC 280
    We swapped the top and front plates - placing the 3 air fans at top blowing down and mounted CLC at front blowing out.
     
    no metal cutting was needed but you could get a little more air with small trimming of the front holes.
     
    we added a small fan blowing out at the back top.
     
    So that ends up being air via 3 fans in at top and out the front and back.
     
    Top has a glass cover on stand offs and there is a filter so the non-standard flow even with 3 cats was not a problem
    Z320 - 8700k - and GTX 1080 ti    30 C  idle and almost 50 C folding test cpu .
     
    Power supple brings air in at case bottom and out the back.
     
    I wanted to use some longer stand offs to move the glass out more from the CLC fans but did not try that.
    you could leave the front glass off to test if needed.

     
     
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