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I use whatever configuration works best in a given situation. It's not difficult to gather temperature measurements in various fan configurations. The most effective pressure design (positive, negative or [approximately] equal) can be determined through a trial-and-error process. There are...

My only pseudo-mod is a "top hat". It's a 140mm Noctua that sits above the SLI configuration and exhausts upward. I always try flipping the fan over to push air in from the top. It's easy to measure temperatures both ways. For this SLI configuration, the "top hat" is exhausting hot air out...

Final Assembly

The "E" in "EVGA" Is "Eventually" Waiting is the hardest part. After six weeks that included a four-day slip in the estimated ship date, EVGA finally began shipping on May 5th.

Sorry, I am anti-mod, as you have already noticed and noted. How about a video?

Just finished building a new system featuring two EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 GAMING cards in SLI. This video documents the build and provides benchmarks at the end:

EVGA Pre-order Apocalypse "The horror!" From past experience it is folly to rely on EVGA pre-order email notifications. By the time the email arrives the product is invariably already sold out; pre-order windows last just a few hours. I've received email notifications the day after...

Raise The Ryzen I am eager to see how the CoolerMaster HAF XB/Noctua air configuration performs under load... Cable management on the simpler side of the chassis... Good HD-15 clearances and air flow... Cable management on the busy side of the motherboard... Half...

The Ryzen Also Rises It is now time to execute "Noctuaization Procedure 13". For this procedure the following parts are required: Noctua NH-D15 Noctua NM-AM4 Mounting Kit Grass skirt and pineapples for the Mt. Noctua-toa volcano sacrificial rituals The mounting kit: typical Noctua...

Ryzen Or Bust! I have long fantasized about a sub-ten second Windows boot sequence, and this 960 EVO is going to make that dream come true-- finally! I can remember when 64-GB of physical memory required major organ donation to afford. Now, there's plenty of 16-GB modules to choose from...

Roll Ryzen Tide All motherboards should have THE RED BUTTON... Yes, the memory slots are also shiny... This looks like a diorama for a new symphony house or something... I just realized most of this bling will be covered up when I install the behemoth Noctua NH-D15 and two...

Ryzen It Up! It's time for "Noctuaization Enhancement Procedure #9". CoolerMaster makes great cases for sure, but those fans are already for sale on eBay... First things first: The Noctua "Top Hat" in preparation for the crowning of Yori . . . TRADITIONS MUST BE FOLLOWED! AH, much...

UNBOXING

INCEPTION Yori handles demanding 4K digital content using a small form-factor, air-cooled design. The system supports full-stack software development using multiple VM sandboxes, video/photo editing, bulk encoding, 3D rendering, streaming, folding and occasional gaming. The goal is to...

UNBOXING