Fans
Okay, you might be wondering why I have a section dedicated to just the fans. Typically I talk about the fans later when we dive into all of the cooling details. Well for one, Thermaltake jumped up to support us on this one as well and I figured if I’m going to talk about the Case and power supply today I might as well talk about the fans they sent as well. Thermaltake all the things apparently!
So remember the plan has always been to do something crazy and colorful like a rainbow. So while early on I didn’t have the exact colors locked down. I knew if I went with RGB fans we could set the lighting to match whatever color scheme we went with. Now there are a few RGB fan options out there and really most are great. I think I would have a hard time picking between NZXT, Corsair, and Thermaltake normally but these match the case and Thermaltake was quick to support this build so I decided to support them by including them in the build. Not to mention my wife saw them up and running and fell in love with them, before any programming.
So they sent over a 3 pack but for this build, we only need two. You get the fans and then a small control box. We have to mount the control box around in the back of the case, then both fans plug into that. The box requires power to run and if we want to make changes it also needs to be plugged into USB. They support full 16.8 million color RGB so finding the exact colors we need when it is time to do that should be fine as well.
So here is a look at the fans up and running in the Core P1 with an AIO water cooler. Talk about bright and colorful. I think that is a perfect fit for Iris. I can’t wait to get them color matched with everything else we have planned in the near future.
If you are still reading all the way down here you might be wondering what is next. Well, here in a few weeks I’m going to get into what I call the go fast parts. That would be things like the motherboard, CPU, video card, memory, and storage. My wife gets a fair amount of gaming in when she can so it needs to be fast enough that she isn’t hunting me down saying things are slow. Plus she is the best!
(is she still looking? Help I’ve been held hostage and forced to build this amazing rig)