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Here's a WiP pic of my build. Going to make own PSU cables soon.
2 x NF-P12 PWM
1 x NF-F12 PWM
1 x NF-A9x14 PWM
Here's a WiP pic of my build. Going to make own PSU cables soon.
2 x NF-P12 PWM
1 x NF-F12 PWM
1 x NF-A9x14 PWM
Do those bottom fans actually help ? It seems like you're blocking most of it and having fans close to eachother running at different speeds isn't optimal.Here's a WiP pic of my build. Going to make own PSU cables soon.
2 x NF-P12 PWM
1 x NF-F12 PWM
1 x NF-A9x14 PWM
i need your help to decide which cooling route to go: air or water.
i am planning to buy a ASRock Z87E-ITX (given its price in Canada [as compared to US], and the price difference between that board and ASUS Impact). i will be doing a lot of big-data analysis and some Battlefield 4 gaming on my computer, and i think for the CPU, i'd go with i5-4670K (again, given the price/performance difference between that and i7-4770K) and overclock it (not all the way to 4.6GHz, but perhaps to 4.3GHz or so). which cooling route do you guys suggest, air or water (and i mean only AiO solutions)? if i go with a AiO water cooler, i want something on the smaller side (e.g., radiator size being about that of Corsair H60 rather than that of Corsair H100). i personally am leaning a bit towards a small AiO cooler given that it also makes managing cables in M1 a bit easier. any brand and/or models?
this is my first DIY build in 7 years (the last one was a very old Pentium III-S-based computer which i assembled from used parts i bought off eBay to tinker with FreeBSD), and my knowledge about modern cooling technology is very limited, so i thought i should ask the experts here.
any help is greatly appreciated
Exactly. They only make more noise and block the graphics cards standard fans...
My first post here at HardOCP. Hello from Australia
And now for the sad realization; looks like I may have to delay my M1 build because I don't have the appropriate cooler, even though I have everything else sitting here in their boxes begging for me to unpack em and put them together
I am seriously considering going to town and picking up a Corsair H100i whilst I wait for the Cooler Master Glacer 240L so I can also put my GPU underwater.
Stock cooler? Where do I get one? All I got with my CPU was a fancy door stopper lolStart with stock cooler as I
Hmmm, an NCASE M1-sized package from our Taiwanese friends at Lian-Li... Any guesses on what it is?
[EDIT: Removed humongous photo]
Probably nothing important.. maybe catalogs, or something. I'd just mark it "return to sender" and ship it back without looking.
You can also send it my way, I'll PM you my address, and I'll dispose of it for a small fee
EDIT: Damn, you already opened it.. nice even s/n, though!
Yeah, I really wanted No. 0666 or 0777, but I'm very happy with No. 0600 (original IGG production limit right?) Go for it! Just monitor your CPU temps so you can stop using it if you have a major problem - with thermal shutdown it is pretty hard to fry a CPU anyway.
