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I’m gravitating towards the 5700 XT Nitro+ in silent bios mode (middle switch), with 0dB at idle and up to 31-32dB max at full load, because compared to the Red Devil - the backplate actually serves a dissipating purpose and I would throw fresh air at it from the Razer Core X side intake fan...

So the 5600xt is out and it’s basically within small% of a 5700 performance at 1080p, could the Strix one be the new silence king while keeping the GPU at cool temps and carrying the Asus Strix reliability (I read a worrying post about Red Devil RMA rates on reddit recently)...

Fact is on macOS I cannot do any windows-like assumption about being able to set the fan or underclock, and even if I could today I may not next year when I update to the next major OS release, etc. so I should probably go with something that works as intended out of the box. My current...

That’s interesting, didn’t think of that in those terms. I could definitely consider shaving 3db at load, some degrees, tens of watts, by going with the 5700 Red Devil. One doubt about the bios switch and quiet mode: should I just switch it to quiet mode the minute I take it out the box, before...

I see your point, but on the other hand once I’ve gone thru the effort of buying the enclosure, spend even more money to mod it with the Nightjar and the Noctua fan, maybe add a pricey active 2m thunderbolt3 cable, etc. nickel and diming the GPU may not be worth it and getting the best GPU macOS...

Thanks everybody. So the Red Devil is a solid choice. The Nitro+ was on my short list too. I mean to use it with an eGPU enclosure (Razer Core X, modded for quietness with a 450W fanless SFX psu and a Noctua case fan) under macOS. Actually there may be some convoluted way to undervolt it...

Hello, let’s say price is not a factor, what would be the absolute quietest but also very good quality built 5700 XT available? From a bit of google research, it would look like the quietest could be the Powecolor Red Devil with the bios in quiet mode, but what about quality and reliability...

Thanks, missed that.

The specs say 295mm max gpu lenght, would a 298mm gpu (asus rog 1080 strix) fit?

Is there a way to mount a Silverstone AR06 cooler to the narrow ILM socket? At 58mm it looks like the best option in the 50-60mm height range... Noctua counterpart (L9x65) is 65mm, too much for some cases.

No, just a lower power version of Maxwell GM206, in the form of a couple (both long and ITX-sized) of bus powered GTX 950. It's notable for two reasons - it's the first time in 2 years (since 750ti) a PEG-less nvidia card is out - contrary to 750TIs (and any AMD card), GTX 950s are perfect 4K...

This case is beyond awesome. 6700T + picoPSU + short GTX 950 v2 (75W PEG-less just released by asus/msi) + m.2 pcie 4x ssd makes a beastly low power 4.2L system with full HEVC decoding capabilities, and super neat cabling (more like "near zero" cabling with the picoPSU and the PEG-less GTX...

By the way the effect of (a bit of) heat on SSDs is probably the opposite than on HDDs. They're said to charge the cells better when the temp is a bit higher (but not high enough to make the controller throttle). (whereas heat is the number one killer for HDDs as shown in many studies by...

Good. Another bizarre idea for a laugh: - GPU chamber constant at 50mm - motherboard chamber available in two sizes, maybe called "115x" (50mm) and "lga 2011" (80mm) The motherboard chamber "cover" would come in the form of a clip-on "shoebox top" (a box minus a side) and you could order one...

Maybe flexATX PSUs are not that bad after all...they're the only way to go sub-4L..not sure how safe it is to mod them with a different fan, though... As for the asymmetrical design, it's safe to say we need at least 45mm in the GPU chamber (dual slot GPUs are 40-41mm at the bracket, itx-sized...