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Thanks c-attack for your reply.. You had me thinking.. I was also leaning towards the setup you mentioned, but it seems that I didn't do my homework right about the 140mm fans and the 011-XL. Maybe I should aim for the 360mm AIO? I could swap it in the local store I bought it, I have it less than a week and didn't even unpack it yet. I see they have only the H150I PRO RGB not the XT, (can't say exactly which is better), and it will cost me 40€ more and some days to arrive, but what can I say.. The 140mm QL's are a little difficult to swap, because I just purchased them from the Corsair official site, (they're have not even arrived yet), so I have to use them one way or another. Also you had me thinking to add another 120mm fan in the side/vertical row in the uppermost position, so it could blow fresh air to the rad above it. I was thinking to put some ssd's in that space in the first place, but I can install 2 of them below the fan instead, and the rest of them in the hidden chamber. I will surely make use of the T-sensor and see how it goes, maybe tape it in GPU's hard backplate (or that would spike the fans whenever there is gpu load?) Thanks again and stay healthy..

Hello to all, I hope you're doing well. I recently purchased some QL fans and a H115i RGB platinum AIO for my new build, and after years with AMD's FX8350 with H55 cooler (where things were simpler), now I have some questions about proper fan configuration. My build is: Lian Li O11 Dynamic XL ROG Certified ASUS ROG Strix X570-E AMD Ryzen 7 3700X G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32GB MSI RTX2080 super OC VENTUS H115i platinum RGB AIO 2 x QL140mm RGB fans 1 x QL120mm RGB fan plus 2 x M.2 NVMe and some SSD's. I plan to setup the 2 140mm at the bottom as intake, blowing directly to the gpu, the 120mm at the back as intake also, and the AIO on top, blowing air out. Corsair suggests that the AIO should be installed as intake, but after doing some research online, even inside this forum, opinions seem to differ.. So, what would be the proper setup for the particular case and config? Bottom intake, back intake and AIO top outtake? Or AIO intake and back outtake? That seems the best scenario (and closer to instructions), but in that case there would be 4 140mm fans as intake and only 1 120mm as outtake and the heat produced by the radiator and the monstrous gpu could make things worse. And where to put AIO fans in this case? Above the radiator, pushing air in (that would hide them and cancel every RGB purpose), or below pulling air? And what about fan speed control? How should I control the fans? (except AIO's that will probably be controlled by ICUE). RGB's will be controlled by the Node Core which is included with the fans, but how should I setup Q-FAN in my BIOS for proper curves? In this board I have the option to choose the temp reference for each fan header between CPU, Motherboard, T-Sensor (which is a header with a little cable sensor that I can stick anywhere to get temp, even in a GPU's crevice), and Multiple Sources. So, what is the best reference temp for controlling the chassis fans (in any scenario about the back fan, intake or outtake), for a balanced cool and quiet setup? Thanks in advance, any help would be appreciated. (also, a lot of questions about RGB and ICUE and Aura and how all these will play along but that's the story of another thread..)