Which cooler is best for Intel i7 ?

Ghot said:

Or go crazy....

I notice your case has two 5.25" bays... for a mere $16...

Aerocool F6XT 6 Channel Fan Controller / 5.25" Bay / Multi LED Color Display - Black - FrozenCPU.com

Looks possible can use other headers besides chassis fans to operate more chassis fans hopefully through BIOS

Geneo said:

You will have to clarify this question a bit. Look at each section for each fan. Substitute the names (e.g. chassis 1 vs m.2) and does the description change? No.

So meaning page i posted tells me i can change the M.2 fan header to be used for a chassis fan ? Any fan header except VRM can be changed ?

Ghot said:

There are many more 5.25" fan controllers, but this is about the cheapest I could find that will run 6 fans.

5.25" Controllers | Page 1 | Sort By: Product Title A-Z - FrozenCPU.com

Both my 5.25 bays are occupied. One with Blu-ray other with Multi card reader. If needed already have a controller, bays controllers will use same USB 2.0 header

Ghot said:

That's why I picked that one that controls 8 fans, and just uses one of those removable PCI slot blanks on rear of case.

Last board had more chassis headers, but if true and i can change other non-chassis headers on this new board then i am okay nothing else needed

Geneo said:

Yes, I believe so. I have done this before. Also, I have used the water-in and water-out temperature probe headers for with sensors to monitoring my aio radiator input and output temperatures for example. Anyhow before you put that NZXT hub in there, try it.

Have to wait till everything it setup ready to go before i know, but already have NZXT in my case that i am using now.
One thing say about BIOS manual might not be completely correct to every board, says at the beginning somewhere.

Just starting reading BIOS manual today because had some question on other stuff will mention too.

Preliminary question 2

Also bought M.2 want to use for Windows 10 installation and boot.

Board has (2) M.2 slots capable of PCIe 3.0 x4 and with either SATA mode or PCIe mode which we know PCIe is faster and would rather use that mode. Diagram shows board with the configs for each port. Which to use ? Usually would use 1st M.2_1 slot if only one M.2 used.


Not sure from settings in BIOS showing both port configurations one has Auto or SATA and PCIe mode while other M.2_2 has Auto(2x) and 4x configurations and why there showing support for NVMe M.2 device and PCIe x4 x2.

For me to be able to boot from this device after installation i am guessing need to press F8 during reboot and select Boot Menu under Advanced Mode in BIOS as shown in diagram and go to Boot Option Priorities and change to the M.2 as boot option #1. Correct ?