Corsair h80i Thermal Paste

Good job, Gav.

Appreciate your guidance Steve, just those two fans have made an unbelievable difference. I wish Corsair would fit their Hydro units with proper fans and just charge the relevant amount for the whole unit. I'm hooked on these performance fans though now, got to get some more...

I think they make some regular case fans too. Those are SP fans (Static Pressure for radiators). They will probably work about as well as a case fan though unless the case fans put out more air.

Many people think fans are just fans until they try a quality fan.
Once tried they don't complain about the price.
When I installed my H80 with the stock fans I only run it a few minutes and went to using the other computer until new fans came in.

I use Phantek fans in my Primo case and they are also great fans. They are a little hard to come but because they seem to be sold out all the time.

Fans | Phanteks

The next fans I going to try is the ones Steve uses.
The new Noctura industrial fans. I will have to add a fan controller because 3000 rpm is way to high. I can live with up to 1600 rpm.
14 fans at 3000 rpm would make my case fly and do it noisily.

I just bought some of these, I'll be installing them in an hour or so.

Next up is the 980 Classy. I'd better ask Derek to move this to custom builds, the thread's morphed a little bit...

All fitted. The difference in my HDD temps is pretty noticeable (around 5°C) and it's knocked a couple of degrees of my CPU temp too. It will be interesting to how it affects the CPU temps while gaming, I've only run Battlefiled 4 once since fitting the i7-4790k and the H80i and temps peaked at 55°C on a full 64-player map on Zavod 311.

And the nest step in the PC evolution.

Looking real good Gav

Can't wait to get benchmarking that with the 4790k Doug. I'm going to have to look at learning about OCing my CPU now.

I just picked these up this afternoon these are the best fans for the job ignore the ram though that is for that AMD rig I have