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Can SpeedFan do something like; if GPU or temp hits 60C or 80c respectively ramp chassis fan to 100% for five mins?

Here're some temp measurements. Idle (silent): After an hour of FurMark GPU + FurMark CPU burn test (sounds like a hair dryer): One thing that bugs me is the fan curve of the be quiet fan: Which means the fan speed varies like so: I'd expected a much smoother fan profile, instead I see...

Well...finished, took all day and into the night. Quite possibly the trickiest machine build I've ever done. First things first, dry fit of the be quiet Silent Wings 3 fan and the ASRock mainboard. It's a tight fit for the mainboard and you really have no clearance either side: Dry fit of...

Yeah agreed, it's a gorgeous case. Just finished my build last night (3am!). This has to be the hardest build I've ever done (and that includes a dual CPU water cooled Xeon setup!). Working on this case is up there with replacing a home button on an iPhone 4. It's very fiddly. I have the...

Heheh, GMTA. Exactly the cooler I ordered. Plan on doing just that. Will report back on temps and noise levels. Aiming for a build as silent as a Mac Pro 2013 at idle and at load well...probably get quite a bit louder than Apple's boutique computer but we'll see. Wondering if anyone thinks it's...

Yep, HG confirmed as did a guy at SFF: https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/black-osmi-rev-2-build.1765/ Does require a lot of disassembly though.

History repeats itself. In 2003 I gave up waiting on a decent Opteron board and bought a Xeon system instead. In 2017 I'm going with a Z270 Intel setup after seeing the lottery that is buying an AM4 ITX motherboard. Ordered the following: Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming-ITX/ac PSU...

Thanks for all the feedback, just an update. Updated Brother drivers on macOS Sierra resolved the quality problem. Ensuring that BRScript is active rather than PostScript has made a big difference in speed. As an aside haven't been super happy with the quality (the odd splatter on the page) of...

Thanks for the tip, it narrowed things down. Originally I was using a Mac, with the Brother BRScript (PostScript emulation) driver. Printer starts showing 'Receiving job' instantly but takes a very long while before it actually prints. Tried printing via Windows 10 and it was lightning fast...

I try to repair and maintain my stuff way after the manufacturer stops supporting it. Have a Brother laser which I've had for nearly 10 years now. Whilst it's been relatively trouble free, it's taking 5 mins or more to print a page. Any ideas what part might have worn? The printer itself...

Few pics below. Never seen an SFX PSU before - so tiny! Case comes with a be quiet! Pure Wings 2 fan: Graphics card slot cover, seems a new addition: Spent far too much time on this, but basically wanted to calculate the distance between CPU and PSU to get an idea of how big a cooler I...

Case and power supply arrived. The case has great fit and finish and it came with a shiny double blanking plate in case you don't use a graphics card. Unfortunately the fan arrived with the impeller separated from the motor, must've been knocked loose in transit. Will photograph the case...

My rather ridiculous setup. 1x maxed out hex core Mac Pro - D700, 64GB RAM, 1TB SSD. 3x overpriced (and now endangered) Apple Thunderbolt displays. It's a good bit of kit, but not without its issues.

Case ordered (expensive stuff!). Also purchase the PSU. Holding fire on board and CPU until the AMD Ryzen launch at the end of this month. Want something a lot faster than my quad core Macbook which has a Geekbench of 4269 single threaded and 13879 multi threaded. That means at least a 6 or 8...

My rather ridiculous setup. 1x maxed out hex core Mac Pro - D700, 64GB RAM, 1TB SSD. 3x overpriced (and now endangered) Apple Thunderbolt displays. It's a good bit of kit, but not without its issues.