Hello this is the Provoked Prawn and in this video I'm revisiting the Corsair 4000d airflow
now this is a case that I originally built back in 2020 but I have now revisited two years later by
throwing in some Noctua fans in place of the Corsair fans that I originally set it up with
this is a slightly different build as you can see from these shots quite striking in its differences
the original design had a lot more RGB lighting going on and it also had some things about it
that I wasn't quite happy with so for example I front mounted a 360 mm Elite Callipex cooler
from Corsair which means that the radiator was mounted on the front which I thought was
potentially blocking some of the intake this is obviously an air case the whole point is it
has good air flow that is in the name of the case and I felt like I was restricting a bit
the performance of the case because of this by putting the radiator on the front with the fans on
the front of that reducing the amount of airflow going into it now you can mount it like this it's
perfectly acceptable and actually my temperature tests as you'll see at the end of the video and
in the original video which I'll link to in the description if you're interested it turned out
okay it wasn't bad it looked good it ran well it looked really nice with that dominator RAM and
other things but what I wanted to do was strip the entire case down as you can see here I've actually
got a different motherboard so this is an extreme edition motherboard now a core i9980xe CPU it has
32 gigabytes of RAM in it still an NVME SSD and at the end it will also have a 3060 ti so it's
changed a little bit from the original specs I'll leave the specs of both setups in the description
as well as a link to the original video but what I wanted to do was basically swap it out and install
a new setup with these Noctua fans obviously the idea here is actually in two parts because
essentially what I'm doing is I'm making the build a lot easier by using Noctua's fans there are no
plugs for the RGB connectors so I didn't need to worry about a Commander Core or a Commander
Pro or anything like that the fan power is simple because you just have a single connection and also
with Noctua's fans you get y cables which allow you to connect up two fans into one connection
they then simply need to be connected up to system fan headers on the motherboard so they're
remarkably easy to install now they're not to everyone's taste the brown aesthetic obviously is
very subjective whether you like that or not it is not particularly nice looking I'm not a massive
fan of the look of it I'll be honest however they are one of the best known for airflow in the
industry and they are fantastic for that they also run quietly but when they need to they can really
ramp up and it's not in an obnoxious way either now the other reason I wanted to do this is I also
wanted to mount a 240 mm rad on top so this is the Corsair h100i RGB Pro XT which I've done a video
on separately and the installation process for that which is actually a fairly affordable cooler
that I purchased myself I wanted to do a new and updated video on that to show how you could use
non-Corsair fans on it and non-RGB fans and set it up remarkably easily in this case
and with this socket of motherboard and also other sockets which I covered in that video
and end up with a little tiny bit of RGB lighting because as you've seen at the beginning shots
essentially all you're getting at the end is the RGB lighting from the vengeance RAM and also from
the pump head itself so very small amount of RGB and this is actually a pretty powerful PC
with an extreme edition CPU in it although it's a couple of generations old now still a bit of a
beast 32 gigs of RAM on it as well and obviously a really good cooling now because of those Noctua
fans now I'm going to show you some benchmarks and tests that I did in terms of the temperature
differences in a minute but as you can see the end aesthetic is very different to what I had in the
original setup it was a heck of a lot easier to put together now you will have to forgive
some things in here for example I have misplaced the cable hiding tray that goes on the rear of
the motherboard at the back so some of the cables are a bit messy this actually isn't going to be
the end result because I am actually going to take this apart again soon and build the Corsair 4000
q case so subscribe if you're not already to see that in the near future in that case we'll
have a lot more RGB in it and I'll also be doing a video separately on all the complexities of course
there's RGB lighting and how you connect up the cables so come back for that but the joy of doing
these Noctua fans is there is no RGB connectors so actually plugging them in is remarkably simple
they just plug into system fan headers on the motherboard the two and the AIO radiator are
actually connected directly to the pump head as well so they're even easier and everything is
just really simply controlled by the motherboard software and by iCue and then gives you a very
nice finish and obviously maximizing the airflow because of the design so I've got the three front
fan set to intake and then I'm simply exhausting through the radiator out the top and that extra
fan at the back now as I said Noctua's fans I've done a video on separately and I've used these
in a few different cases now actually although the overall aesthetic might be very subjective
the cooling power of them is definitely fantastic and they are also very quiet and remarkably easy
to set up and a really good quality as well so here I am actually making the most of the airflow
element of the 4000d airflow because obviously there's no bottom intake so I have a much better
airflow setup now I have a lot more cold air being pulled in through the front of the case
where I was perhaps choking it a little bit with the original setup although that was still good it
wasn't as good as this and I'm gonna demonstrate that in a second the other benefit of this is once
all that's done much easier to close the back of the case without any Commander Core or Commander
Pro or any extra RGB cables at the back even with a mess of cables like I've got now because I don't
care about the cable management and this because it's going to come apart again soon it was really
easy to close the door and that in itself is a bonus now I want to talk a bit about thermal
performance obviously this is important part of it however I will know obviously a lot of things
have changed in this setup I have changed not only the fans but also the motherboard the CPU the RAM
the graphics card and even the room that it was in I've moved house since I did this original video
and a lot of things have changed I had to use this motherboard set up in a completely different build
so I couldn't actually replicate the original and ideal world I've really I would have reused
everything and just swapped out the fans and the radiator that would have been the better test
but this was more just to experiment around and see what it was like and demonstrate what's
possible with this case so bear all that in mind now when I did the original test I ran
a mixture of different tests I ran heaven benchmark and Cinebench and 3D mark and PC mark
and I also did a really heavy test with folding at home where I ran that on both CPU and GPU
all day long in the room with the door closed as well so it's actually really hot in that room and
you can see folding at home running here and this was actually using 100 processors at some points
quite an intensive test now this is on the 10 700k an i7 processor 10th series and you can see that
I was getting around 70-ish degrees centigrade in here and you'll notice the GPU is also up
to about 65 degrees it had peaked a little bit higher than that roughly around that area you
can see some of the testing data here using iCue software and that's giving you the information
on that but you'll also see just some of the pressure that I was putting the system under
with task manager so actually not terrible temperatures I mentioned earlier on I was worried
about their front rad sort of choking off the case actually the results weren't too shabby it
was doing a really good job of cooling performance and I think this is a demonstration of just the
power of fans and also the radiator and the setup in there and how it works and how good the case is
airflow now obviously a vastly different test now with actually an older generation CPU but an
extreme one so this is the 980xc which is a core i9 extreme edition CPU so a very different setup
but again I ran Cinebench on it and I also run heaven benchmark because the idea here is I wanted
to put the CPU and the GPU under pressure to test both the performance of the AIO cooler and the
fans in general with the airflow through the case so I'm running hardware monitor on the right-hand
side and Cinebench and also obviously recording the footage so don't forget that in both these
situations I'm using OBS to record as well so the whole system is being put on quite a lot
of pressure and more than you would usually use if you were just playing games on it for example
so both demos are a bit sort of unrealistic in terms of what you would do in the real world
but you can see a close-up look at the CPU temperatures we're peaking at around 79 degrees
so just below 80 degrees under this amount of pressure which actually seemed a little
bit warmer but don't forget different CPU setup so it's worth bearing that in mind and also it
is actually the summer at the moment so it's very hot and you have to take all these sort of thermal
tests with a pinch of salt because yes it's the same case but it's a different room different
time of year and other things the previous video was done in September this is now may
it's getting really hot in England at the moment and so things to bear in mind the results are
actually pretty good though and unsurprisingly now I think that the case actually runs a bit quieter
in this setup with the Noctua fans than it did with the original Corsair fans and that's one
thing to say is that despite running these tests and I ran heaven multiple times in order to get
this result so you can see the GPU temperatures there and we're getting somewhere around
70 degrees c on the GPU generally in about 86 maximum on the hot spot this is under quite a
lot of load again but perhaps that's on the high end and once again though this is repeated tests
regularly throughout the day over things that you really wouldn't do normally but an interesting
insight I think into what you can do with your case and how you have a lot of flexibility
in the setup of it and the ways to mount it now don't forget to check out the links in
the description to the AIO video I've also done a video separately on how you should mount your AIO
cooler and the differences that can make hit that subscribe button and come back to see the 4000
q which I'll be doing a video on shortly and let me know in the comments what you think this has
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