Just one other thing to ask, can I just buy some extra Corsair RGB fans and install myself afterwards, will it have a built in controller already installed if I’m going for the 4000 case and H115 cooler ? seems PCS only want to sell 3 fans which won’t work in the build as it counts the rear fan as used
Cheers, Strix looks like it has better I/O, but i might be wrong, will see how much of a change a 1TB M.2 on the second M.2 will do to the price
The PCS 1TB M2's are quite cheap and work really well. From the guys on the forums testing them too they seem to be faster than the advertised speed which was a nice surprise as well
Ta, i actually meant to put the Cappelix H115i in there too.
Super build mate, fair warning the Ironwolf drives are pretty loud. They're usually designed for servers I believe and it'll work fine but I find they are quite loud
Ah, OK, worth going for the Baraccuda then ?
Out of stock at the moment, i may wait another few days and see if it appears again, then the case will probably be out of stock !
You could order and amend it if the cooler comes back in.
Note the 4TB Baracuda is only 5400RPM which in this day and age is a snails pace. I would go with a 3TB Barracuda if you need the space
For my build I went with 2x2TB Barracudas rather than a 4TB Ironwolf. It was actually cheaper
I like the idea of having it side mounted but looks like it September before the H150i Cappelix is due back in stock, is there really much difference between that and the H150i Pro XT ? Seems to be very similar performance looking at some comparisons online ?
OK, here it is the final config, dropped to the 3TB Barracuda instead of the Ironwolf, was actually tempted to just go 1TB 2.5" SSD and offload to cloud for bulk non moving storage, any thoughts on that ?
Looks great. With the H115i, though, it's a 280mm radiator, so it wants to go on the top of the case. If you want to add more cooling, you can then add 120mm fans to the side panel.
I think they're very similar indeed. I think the 465X might not fit with the RGB ram, but if the configurator allows it I presume it's ok. Technically the 5000 series is now flexible because you can actually buy replacement front panels, so you could change to an airflow panel if you want to. I think that's quite unlikely, though.
