How is this case with cooling? I am not running anything crazy just a GTX 760 and Ill have a Antec 920. And would you need Static fans in the front?
1288635
This case has excellent cooling. The 3 fans in the front are more than sufficient to pull a large volume of air into the case, and the included filter makes dust a non-issue.
1288636
I'm running a i5 4670K (I'm not overclocking it) and a GTX 760 and all I have is a EVO 212... I have no problems with temps with only the CPU cooler and the stock fans.
1288637
Not necessary, I too have a 760. I did get fans to fill all the slots it has open and would recommend anyone to do the same. One can never have too much cooling...
1288638
It isnt that bad at all. My avg temps are in rhe 50s under load. Just mke sure you have the extra fans on top and do cable management for optimum airflow
1687281
This case is big and it can take whatever you trhow at it. The cool part is that it has enough room to support all kinds of water cooling, for example i use a h100i and it still has room for like 2-3 gtx 780s. If you get this case, it will serve you well and darn sturdy. Just its bigger than normal but its because it was built to take heavy builds and water crazy cooling.
1178660
I can only comment on the Asus...The Gigabyte does have the tri fan setup and supposedly quiet and runs cool. For me I have a large plexiglass window and asthetics are important and didn't like the lattice on the side and the Asus worked with my current theme. The Asus over clocks to 1300mhz and 8000mhz on the vram raising the voltage up to 1.21v. Runs not over 81*C. Not sure what the Gigabyte card does. Although I did have to RMA the Asus card twice for no display and was not an easy process. I now have the Asus GTX 770 4GB.
1132055
Stock cooler is fine. It's noisy, though. It may also depend on your case set up - you might have less air flow in your case and/or maybe running Crossfire or SLI with 2 hot GPUs. I have since bought a Coolermaster Hyper 212 EVO, which is awesome. I have a Coolermaster HAF Tower, so I have good air flow in my case naturally. In any case, I doubt you'll have over-heating issues with the stock fan and heatsink without overclocking it.
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I own this case and have also owned many cases with and without mesh/glass/tons-of-air-holes. This case will let more fan noise out but it really isn't that bad. I run 3 graphics cards inside my case (2 in a Sli, one for more monitors). If you can handle the subtle hum of fans then you'll be okay. A case without the mesh and is of solid material or some type of glass on the side will reduce the fan noise you hear. There are also many ways to reduce the fan speed on your video card when it is under heavy load, but you sacrifice its cooling. I'd also like to continue saying that I really like this case! If you have any more questions about this case I'll do my best to answer and I'll reply asap! I own this case and have also owned many cases with and without mesh/glass/tons-of-air-holes. This case will let more fan noise out but it really isn't that bad. I run 3 graphics cards inside my case (2 in a Sli, one for more monitors). If you can handle the subtle hum of fans then you'll be okay. A case without the mesh and is of solid material or some type of glass on the side will reduce the fan noise you hear. There are also many ways to reduce the fan speed on your video card when it is under heavy load, but you sacrifice its cooling. I'd also like to continue saying that I really like... » Read More I own this case and have also owned many cases with and without mesh/glass/tons-of-air-holes. This case will let more fan noise out but it really isn't that bad. I run 3 graphics cards inside my case (2 in a Sli, one for more monitors). If you can handle the subtle hum of fans then you'll be okay. A case without the mesh and is of solid material or some type of glass on the side will reduce the fan noise you hear. There are also many ways to reduce the fan speed on your video card when it is under heavy load, but you sacrifice its cooling. I'd also like to continue saying that I really like this case! If you have any more questions about this case I'll do my best to answer and I'll reply asap! « Show Less
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The answer to that would be quite subjective. It depends what you put inside of it. Mine is *very* quiet running a stock intel heatsink and a full sized GTX770 graphics card. Your cooling fans will contribute the most noise, generally, and the case is excellent on its own aside from any other fans you may choose to include (cpu heatsink, discrete graphics, etc)
471825
Nope, its known to be one of the coolest running gtx 770 cards. Definitely do not need a water cooling system.
528902
There should be plenty of room for a GTX 780 if you remove the angled fan mount which is easy enough. It runs cool enough that combined with the vertical airflow channel it should be plenty cool.
2231602
Right now I have 9 fans in it total not including the fans on like the video card and stuff. Only 2 of them are the quiet edition fans, the rest are either the fans that come with it or other corsair static pressure fans I have had extra. It's honestly pretty friggin quiet even like that. I would think you would be safe filling it completely up, especially with quiet edition fans. I mean you may hear some slight noise cause of so many fans but that is normal really. Like I said, I have those 9 fans in it right now and it is super quiet, those fans take up all but like 2 or 3 spots in the case. Now I'm not including the spots at the bottom where you take off the cent stuff, but even then I don't think it would be loud. I'm kind of a quiet freak myself and it doesn't bother me, just make sure your fans have rubber one them to help with vibration haha. It's an amazing case, definitely worth the money. It's quiet, huge, lots of space for cards and cable management. I would definitely get it :)
1664510
By Default, there is 1 fan in the rear exhaust, its Blue led. I would highly suggest putting up to 4 led fans for maximum cooling effect as well as getting the most out of this case. It has Ports for 2x on the top(heat dissipation) 1 in the back(exhaust) 1 on the bottom(for lower motherboard components) and 1 in the front (for hard drive cooling). I have a Micro Atx build in this case and it does a great job with 4 fans. But if you are not gaming the stock fan along with proper cpu cooling should be fine.
1267330
a full sized video card can fit in this case (i've got a 6970 in mine) the only concern is cooling as the airflow design in this is quite bad just read a previous review saying that his GTX 760 wouldn't fit as it was too tall...that's news to me, but you may want to get some measurement specs on your card now... the case can fit 120mm tall heatsinks so go from there
2173970
When you say quieter, I would agree to that, but you need to consider the fan you use, you can use whichever fan you want, the stock cooler is junk, always get an aftermarket cooler unless you're using an i5 or i3 and never plan on pushing your CPU with anything, the 92mm cooler is one of the biggest coolers you're going to fit in this case and you can comfortably game with it if you have a solid gpu
1295914
Yes I own the case there is more enough just make sure you have enough space between the graphics card and the the next PCI slot becuase I had to get a new motherboard becuase my I could barely my gtx 770 into the main PCI slot becuase the WiFi card would block airflow to the GPU fan .Hope you have a nice build and also there is some cable mgmt but it is almost none present in had to hide most of my cable in the back side of the hard drive bay .HAVE A GREAT BUILD
1464564
It would have similar effect inside the case like my 7950 because it would also blow the heat back into the case. My case has the proper airflow to handle it, but I did not want that again and wanted to see how the EVGA reference cooler performed with all this power which is very impressive to me just like most of the web reviews said to be. If I really wanted to cool a hot video card to overclock it to its limits, I might as well go with a water cooling solution. And besides, if I go SLI with 2 of them it is ideal to use the blower type cooler anyway.
1027521
The cooling on the msi is far superior. It runs nice and cool with its factory oc. I also have the gigabyte windforce and had the nvidia version and this card was the coolest, while being the quietest. Also, MSI has has great software for managing the fans and osd. Get the MSI. That's my opinion from experience.
1267332
a full sized video card can fit in this case (i've got a 6970 in mine) the only concern is cooling as the airflow design in this is quite badjust read a previous review saying that his GTX 760 wouldn't fit as it was too tall...that's news to me, but you may want to get some measurement specs on your card now... the case can fit 120mm tall heatsinks so go from there
1949742
I actually had mine in a pretty small, mini-itx build. It stayed reasonably cool during most day-to-day operations with the stock fan, between 35C and 50C--and that's without any other case fans. As long as you aren't doing anything too CPU-intensive, I'd consider the stock fan pretty adequate. Good luck with you build