Case Fan Question For Desktop Machine

Out of curiosity, what temp is your 10700 running at? While cooler is better as a textbook standard, CPU's are designed to run safely within a certain range thus you may not gain anything by pushing it down ever lower. Obviously, if you are overclocking heavily you gotta pay lots of attention to cooling, but you already mentioned you weren't going to be overclocking.

On my wife's computer, she wanted a RGB fan in the back of her case. So, when I pulled her fractal fan that her case came with, I just went ahead and place it as a top exhaust right next to the back exhaust fan...so the upper rear corner of her case exhausts all of the air. From a cooling perspective, she didn't really need it, but i had the fan so why not use it. She is running an AMD Ryzen 5600x with the stock cooler. Other than being a bit noisy, that cooler is fine for her rig.

I'm preferential myself to air tower coolers. My box runs the Be Quiet Dark Rock 4 Pro cooler. I like the air tower coolers better because they are simple and they are pretty much silent. At max fan speed, my cooler is 24.3dB(A). I am also not an avid overclocker so getting the absolute lowest temperature is not my primary goal.

I don't have to worry about the pump failing, or the system leaking, or having room for the radiator. I'm not into RGB myself, so i don't miss being able to run colorful fans on the radiator or the cpu block itself.

On my setup, I have the 3 stock fans from my Fractal Meshify S2 case. 2 x 140mm in the front, and 1 x 140mm in the back. I have the Dark Rock Pro 4, which has a 135mm and a 120mm attached. My video card is an EVGA 3080 FTW, and I have the fans running at about 30% all of the time on the card. My video card maxes out around 62C while playing Call of Duty.

Well sometimes in gaming i've seen temps as high on the 10700 93-95C, though yesterday after added the Noctua exhaust fan highest got to then was 87C after 2 hour gaming session of Battlefield 4

Case isn't the best i guess in terms of cooling

Thermaltake V200 RGB 2020 Edition

believe video card fans only run if it's over a certain temp on my Geforce 1660 Super

My primary goal for cooling is to keep it within specs, and cool enough not to overheat

yeah, the 10700 does run hot. I'd be okay with it in the 80's, but anything over 90 indicates a cooling problem. For sure, replace your stock cooler with anything...and it will improve. Sounds like your case is struggling with air flow. might consider some better intakes as well to pull cooler air through.

Yeah gonna look into better Intakes, Right now just using the stock RGB front fans 120mm intakes, does support 140mm intakes x2, and 3rd 120mm i'd have to remove or place up top possibly

Max CPU Cooler height in this case is 160MM, so a little limited on what can fit comfortably, or i'd go with Be Quiet Pure Rock 2 possibly, don't really need something too huge for cooling, or Pure Rock Slim maybe possibly as well, Noctua Chromax black i did consider, but don't think it would fit as max cpu height on that one is 158mm lol, might be too close to the glass side panel maybe with that one lol

Pure Rock Slim Max Cpu height is 135mm, so possibly could go with that one, and be fine, but will see in the coming weeks

Or Option C:

Whole Better Case optimized for Airflow, I've done case transfers in the past of former Micro ATX AMD motherboard, and all components from an old OEM case shop used to build a system in at the time, to my old AMD Sempron Case i had at the time, I imagine transferring an Intel system would be just making sure the Mounting points line up with board, putting in the I/O Panel, Running all the Power supply cables to various parts, reinstalling the drives.

I just had Shop build this one since my old I7 7700 OEM system was in the shop at the time, and figured having them build it then was fine to do, as old system was already there and such