Recent content by rfarmer

I would look for a decent B450, MSI had a really good one. If you can still find one for a reasonable price.

Overclockers UK has the Silver PCIe 4.0 version in stock and they do ship to the US, the black is on order.

Yeah you are right, if it has the narrow mounting might be a problem. The NH-U9DXi4 I linked has both square and narrow mounting.

5820K is actually socket 2011 v3. The Noctua NH-C14S is compatible and probably the best cooler for the Ncase. There is also the Noctua NH-U9DXi4 which is a 90mm tower cooler and should be similar to the NH-U9S.

Optimum Tech did a review a while back and tests with a 2 fan setup, cooling is very good.

How many SSDs are you talking about? You can fit a ton in the Sliger, 2 behind the front panel and up to 8 if you get the optional SSD brackets.

I agree, I am not a fan of exhaust out the side but with the peculiar exhaust of the FE it seems to work best. Yes just a 92x25 which you can also get in Chromax, I have one on my NH-L12 GE.

The best setup I have seen so far is rear fan as intake, NH-U9S blowing toward front of case, 2 bottom intake fans and a 120mm fan on the bracket as exhaust. This way both the CPU and GPU exhaust go out the side and the CPU isn't recycling the hot air from the GPU. I'm running a delidded 8700k...

Max width for GPUs is 140mm at it widest point, the EK block for the TUF is 148mm. You would probably do better with the FE.

The GPU is only 266mm and Dan A4 can fit 300mm so that leaves you almost 35mm for connectors, should be doable.

Nice job scoring one, hope it fits with no problem.

Corsiar SF750 Platinum, CoolerMaster does have a 850watt SFX PSU coming out but it hasn't been released yet.

You need either a different mother board or cooler. The MSI has a non standard back plate with 2 additonal cutouts for chips on the back of the board. The backplate used with the L9a would crush those components. So you either need a cooler that uses the included AM4 back plate or a different...

Hard to say on the 3090 atm, PCB is really small so hopefully the water blocks are as well.

Take a look at this video, gives you an idea of what is possible and what is needed for a dual loop in the Ncase.