A few questions about water cooling and fan contollers

[kpat99]

I just recently moved to a water cooled 990x and I'm wondering if my setup is ideal. It has one fan behind the radiator pulling the air through. Would I gain much by adding another fan to push? Also right now the fan is controlled manually by the slider on my case, should I change fans to have it controlled automatically by the motherboard?

That leads me to my next question. I would like to get a 5.25 fan controller, do they make them that take temps from the motherboard the way cpuid does or do you need to run leads through the case?

 

[PP Mguire]

What radiator are we talking here (what water setup), and what fans?

They make both kinds of fan controllers.

 

[kpat99]

Canada Computers | Cooling | Corsair Hydro Series H40 CPU Cooler -- for Intel LGA 775, 1155, 1156, and 1366. AMD AM2/AM3/FM1 (CW-9060001-WW)

Here is my cooler, with a corsair (case) fan behind it. Which is controlled by my case

Is there a controller that you would recommend that hooks up to motherboard, not having leads to pick up temps?

Thanks

 

[PP Mguire]

I wouldn't be running a 990x at 4.4 under that little H40.

 

[kpat99]

I hooked up a second fan to it last night, keeps the temp lower by about 10%. But your probably right, I should back off the overclocked a little bit.

Again, is there a fan controller somebody could recommend?

Thanks

 

[PP Mguire]

I thought you might have been running an actual custom loop with that setup. Just run the fans and pump off your headers. Just make sure the pump is running 100%.

 

[kpat99]

OK thanks...again a link to a fan controller would be great...

Kevin