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alexgcabal

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  1. @c-attackmy bad, the rear fan is NOT a corsair one, it's a no-name one with RGB, but not usable with corsair hubs. I did recover it from my old pc till I will receive my SP 120 Elite one, so in this way, all of them will be an 8-led type. I didn't know about how the coolant temp works togheter with CPU temp, will take in mind to not ramp up too much my other fans for nothing and just modify the aio custom curve to my likening; hopefully the coolant temp won't sky-rocket over a long sesion under load. About the Commander, I had no problem installing the lightning part, did run the setup wizard in iCue app and I've selected the correct fan types, the ligthning works nice & smooth. As for Cooling/Fan part, I do remember that after I did power cycle a few times, the extra fans were indeed spinning, however I couldn't see them in Cooling section of iCue app. I had only the 2 aio fans, the pump and the coolant temp widget, which means I couldn't control/see how the SP fans do work. Maybe this is a software limitation of the commander being paired with the aio? Is there a wizard setup for the fans also, like the one from lightning part? I will try today a little more to test them and hopefully will be shown.
  2. To be honest, the trade-off is not really worth it, I will put again my AIO fans to exhaust mode. I did tweak a bit the fan curve of my front intake fans to run on higher rpm, hopefully it will help a little bit. As for the gpu performance, made a benchmark before & after the change, even if running on higher temperature, my clocks didn’t suffer. What will continue from now on, I will monitor how high the AIO fans do go, before the change they were sitting at 1800-1900 RPM and coolant had a max of 38C, mostly staying at 36, will play a bit with the custom curve to see what I'm getting. Anyway, leaving aside the AIO performance, today I played a bit with the corsairs Hubs, which i have the Lightning Core Node (from the case) and the Commander Pro (from the AIO). I did plug the rgb connectors from case fans from the core node to the commander pro and to my surprise, it works, the iCue app detects all the rgb fans, which means I am safe to remove the lightning core from my case, more space and less wires( as long as I have max 6 fans, which the case supports). However, what I didn't understand, why the fans don't spin up if I connect them to the FAN slots on the commander pro. If I close the iCue app, they do start to spin up, if I reopen iCue, the still spin up but on Cooling tab I see still the same 2 fans from my AIO and coolant reading, no extra fans. Is there a logical limitation here?
  3. I did change my AIO fans to intake, there is an improvement, the fans RPM didn't exceed 1650, also, the cpu package temp was cooler. However, the downside, my gpu temp did go up, for the first time I saw 76 degree C, which I only had 73 back, which it does ramp up my gpu fans up to 2.4k very often, I don't remember ever exceeding 2.2k. So in terms of noise, it's better, my 2 gpu fans are quiter than my 2 radation fans at max speed, but still it's disappointing. Should I put one fan on the radiator 1 exhaust and 1 intake, does it sound stupid? When I had my air cooler build (Hyper 212), on the case I had attached 2 exhaust fans, one on the rear and one on the top.
  4. I think I have my fans as exhaust (facing the gpu), since I saw many pictures online as this way mounted, however the manual does recommend intake setup. More or less it does make sense, that it takes hot air from the gpu below. By searching online I saw that there is no actual difference between setups, but will get it a try since I have nothing to lose. Thanks.
  5. That's a point, but I prefer not to do it. I don't get it how a poor hyper 212 evo, bought back in 2013, could behave good in the same setup. As I said, besides looks and some little better cooling performance(however under really loud conditions), the performance of the AIO is kinda poor.
  6. Hello guys, yesterday I bought an h100i elite caliper white and I'm new to water cooling. Once I entered a random game, after 15 minutes of warm-up and load, my fans did ramp slowly up to 2.4k RPM making my pc sound like an airplane. My cpu temp was fine, the max was 64 degree C, but it was sitting around 55-60 most of the time. My idle cpu temp is around 38 degree C. My GPU temp is around 73 degree during gaming. All good besides the sound itself from the fans, the pump is dead silent. Before my AIO cooler, I had an old Hyper 212 Evo, which my temps were not very much different (max was 72 C, average 63 C), and it was really quiet, so I'm quite disappointed about the AIO cooling performance itself. I did follow some suggestion and put all the fans & pump on the AIO to Quiet preset, indeed, the maximum RPM was 1800-1900, the temp are a little bit higher, but slowly, after long session the coolant temperature keeps rising and RPM's keeps getting higher, so it's the same evolution, but takes more to build up. Are there other new suggestion or this is how the AIO should behave? Someone told make a custom curve and cap my fan up to certain value, but doing so, based on my understating, the coolant temp will keep rising, resulting in higher cpu temp, so not really a solution I see it myself. Thanks for reading
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