Please help with 2 quick questions on new Full Tower case

[linnemeyerhere]

Questions:

1) Going with Corsair H50 water cooler with dual 120mm fans.
Must I draw are from outside and exhaust inside case or can I get good results drawing air inside and exhausting outside ? CPU = AMD Phenom X4 9950 2.6 quad black edition.

2) May I unplug all my sata devices and hard drives and when building back in new case must I arrange the cables in the same ports to be seen or should the system see where the OS drive is and such no matter where there plugged into ? Oh FYI 3 drives internal non raid, drive 1 has Win 7 Ult. 64 and files, drive 2 has Win XP Pro 32 and files, drive 3 has all lossless music files.

3) New case is the Thermaltake Element V Black. FYI

Thanks in advance to all that answer me !

 

[MK2]

Hi,

1) It's a difficult one regarding the H50, Corsair recomments to use the fans on the H50 as intake, but you will be blowing hot air and without a dust filter dust over your motherboard.
I used to use the H50 in P/P and followed their advice because I had a dust filter on it and 3 exhaust fans right above it.
What i've read from other users the difference in using the fans on the H50 as exhaust or intake will only be a couple of degrees.

2) Don't know, maybe another member can help you with that.
I would connect them in the same order myself.

3) Nice case!

MK2

 

[linnemeyerhere]

MK2, Thanks for the tip on the H50. I'm going to mount it pulling air out of the case on the top panel next to the 200mm exhaust fan. Case has a 230mm side fan and dual 120 in front. I think my rig will be running much cooler if I promote good flow thru the case. I't the sata cables and ports I really need the help on !

Cheers!

 

[MK2]

I read up about it a bit (was curious myself) and it seems like it doesn't matter how you reconnect them as long as you set the right drive to boot from in the bios.

MK2

 

[linnemeyerhere]

MK2, That makes sense! I'll give it a try. I can't wait to build out my system in this new case, air flow is going to be vastly improved and cpu cooler will help tons as well !

 

[MK2]

I still number them just to be on the save side myself

I have a complete water cooling setup now but I was very happy with the H50 when I used it.
There is a lot of useful information on the corsair forum about it: Cooling - The Corsair Support Forums

Do you already know/have the fan's for it?

Also you'll have to find 4 screws to mount the second fan. they are 6-32 x 1"1/4

MK2

 

[linnemeyerhere]

I will be going with 2 Ultra premium ball bearing fans with a fan controlling each fan. That way I can find the best blend of speeds and sound on both sides of the radiator. Thanks for the screw info I will need to go to the hardware store to source 4 more. I've been all over the Corsair site as I originally had my sights on the 800 case but the pricing and shipping forced me to go with the swinging deal I got on the Element V. I like clean cases and I was just not happy with many gaming cases....just my style !

 

[MK2]

I know what you mean, have the 800D myself.
I have some pics in my profile if you want to have a look.

I tested different fans myself, finally used the Akasa Apache Black, good flow/noise ratio.

MK2

 

[Lordbob75]

Confirmed, any order on SATA ports. It doesn't matter the order, you can manually change boot device in BIOS.


~Lordbob

 

[A Guy]

These are both good fans (not the cheapest though)

Scythe S-FLEX SFF21E 120mm Case Fan

Noctua NF-P12-1300 120mm CPU Cooler and Case Fan

These are good , cheap case fans

Yate Loon 120mm Case Fan, Model "D12SL-12" Black

A Guy