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Just received mine, definitely has a fan. It's audible at idle with HDR off.

Can anyone please post their results of 92mm fan under motherboard in push/pull configuration? I would like to know how this affects CPU and GPU temps, thanks.

Good call for using a non-K CPU. Actually the performance gap between K and non-K was never huge even in previous generations. You can only expect to see ~2fps increase in games (perhaps a bit more on other tasks), but your system will be much louder, hotter and will require plenty of extra...

Waiting for Volta and 4K@144Hz monitors, 2018 is going to be epic... :)

Soo what was the justification for not using 4mm standoffs in the Dan design? :)

Ah yes. Only Silverstone then. I personally prefer AR05 for performance and looks as well, not a fan of brown fans, blue is sexier.

I suggest we all bombard Noctua and Silverstone for AM4 compatibility requests until they break! :D

Hold your hype, AMD may work some magic with Vega, like they just did with Ryzen. Rumors say that signature Vega will have 12 TFLOPS, which is more than Titan X. Le'ts just wait and see.

Well that one is 95W, might be a problem without a custom cooler, but good luck :)

AMD RYZEN RELEASE Hey guys, you might want to hold off from buying new Kaby Lake CPUs. Looks like Intel just got suckerpunched. Even the lowest on their release line, Ryzen 7 1700, is 46 % faster than i7 7700K at only 65 W for only $329. Just wow. I wasn't expecting that...

Surprisingly, SX500-LG is actually louder than SF450. 1) Inferior fan quality (even though it's bigger) 2) Most users experience a coil whine However, I bought SX500-LG before SF450 came out and I'm happy with it (GPU is a bit louder when gaming anyway). In addition, SX500-LG comes with...

This is genius. Pretty much any SFF build has a PCI-e extender these days, there is no reason not to use that area.

Also spec sheet for AR05, same thing. If you are lazy to tweak (like me), buy a 65W non-K and be happy forever :)

Some more info regarding K vs non-K with L9i / AR05. Here is a spec sheet from the Noctua site for L9i (should be similar for AR05). i7 K processors should be used with caution:

That's what I said, you can use it for gaming, but not for overclock. Regarding K vs non-K, there are some other games which are more CPU-intensive so you should be careful. Just look at the test by Meccabolix, you can reach 100 degrees with AR05 (should be similar for L9i). So be smart. If you...