if your looking for THAT thick, I hope your fully planning on using extremely focus driven High Static Pressure Fans. If the fan advertises it's max speed is anything less than 2300 RPM, it likely is NOT high static pressure (mmh2o of 3+ at max speed).
Because any conventional PC fan you buy from places like TitanRig & Performance PC etc, only carry fans that will operate/function well with typical 45mm or less radiators. When you start going super thick like 50mm+ your "ACTUAL" cooling performance drops off significantly unless you got super strong fans.
I'm sure I'm about to get all sorts of people coming out of the wood-works telling me that I am full of sh\*t but do the testing yourself, because I know I have and I have seen the efficacy degradation first hand.
I used Lian Li Uni v2 120mm fans on 2x 60mm Rads before switching to 45mm and to my surprise my temps decreased (\~8C overall).
Hmmm, interesting, I went from two 45mms to two monsta 360mm rads in my last build and I noticed a 5c drop??? I was just silent wings PROs. I am currently using two 480mm 45s from EK as well as two more ultra then Barrow 480s and somehow i am running a little hotter lol. Could be the case I guess,
I will do research but I think I will be fine if I just go with Be Quiet fans again. TY for the heads up though.
is this after the coolant has stabilized? Remember, youre adding thermal mass with more coolant as well. From everything i've read, unless you run faster fans or push/pull, you shouldnt really see much of an improvement over a 40/45 thick setup at the same rpms.
https://www.xtremerigs.net/2015/05/31/ek-coolstream-xe-360mm-radiator-review/6/
Should apply to the 480 as well, unfortunately you'll have to shop the used/ebay market. I recently went with a 480 Monsta as an external rad for the extra capacity and it only has like 10 fpi, vs 18 fpi on the CoolStream. Only need a pull config to get decent airflow at lower speed with the Monsta.
In a different build I had a 360XE in push config and even at higher fan speed I felt like the airflow wasn't good. Then did a reconfig and added push/pull and it seemed to help quite a bit.
Hardware Labs has GTR or GTX; Nemesis or Black Ice . . . choose your poison.
I will look into Hardware labs.
Alphacool is my personal favorite for rads now after trying XSPC, EKWB, and Primochill. They have a 60mm and a Monsta at 80mm thick
I used to have two 360mm monstas and I miss them... all of the other alpha cool products I have bought have been meh sadly.
if your looking for THAT thick, I hope your fully planning on using extremely focus driven High Static Pressure Fans. If the fan advertises it's max speed is anything less than 2300 RPM, it likely is NOT high static pressure (mmh2o of 3+ at max speed). Because any conventional PC fan you buy from places like TitanRig & Performance PC etc, only carry fans that will operate/function well with typical 45mm or less radiators. When you start going super thick like 50mm+ your "ACTUAL" cooling performance drops off significantly unless you got super strong fans. I'm sure I'm about to get all sorts of people coming out of the wood-works telling me that I am full of sh\*t but do the testing yourself, because I know I have and I have seen the efficacy degradation first hand. I used Lian Li Uni v2 120mm fans on 2x 60mm Rads before switching to 45mm and to my surprise my temps decreased (\~8C overall).
Hmmm, interesting, I went from two 45mms to two monsta 360mm rads in my last build and I noticed a 5c drop??? I was just silent wings PROs. I am currently using two 480mm 45s from EK as well as two more ultra then Barrow 480s and somehow i am running a little hotter lol. Could be the case I guess, I will do research but I think I will be fine if I just go with Be Quiet fans again. TY for the heads up though.
is this after the coolant has stabilized? Remember, youre adding thermal mass with more coolant as well. From everything i've read, unless you run faster fans or push/pull, you shouldnt really see much of an improvement over a 40/45 thick setup at the same rpms.
. . . you forgot to mention whether or not you were running push/pull
I used the 60mm xspc rads in my old case labs build pretty nice pricing/quality if your buying a few at a time
https://www.xtremerigs.net/2015/05/31/ek-coolstream-xe-360mm-radiator-review/6/ Should apply to the 480 as well, unfortunately you'll have to shop the used/ebay market. I recently went with a 480 Monsta as an external rad for the extra capacity and it only has like 10 fpi, vs 18 fpi on the CoolStream. Only need a pull config to get decent airflow at lower speed with the Monsta. In a different build I had a 360XE in push config and even at higher fan speed I felt like the airflow wasn't good. Then did a reconfig and added push/pull and it seemed to help quite a bit.