Sorry for the late reply. I have the Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB, DDR4-3000, CL15-17-17-35. Maybe I will try to make XMP work with undervolt as some have suggested.
Do you mean the risk of cuttung yourself or to damage the CPU? Usually I am a little clumsy and would cut myself any time possible...
I did some tests because of my problem that the Asus z270i won't boot the first time after plugging in power:
After I needed to reset bios because XMP does not work, I set my old cpu settings (multiplier 39, -0,08 V offset) one stepp after the other and unplugged power between for a few minutes...
Same here. Since I set the multiplier in Bios I need to boot twice after switching on power. Bios settings run perfectly stable after boot. Haven't tried to set the multiplier to default because I like how it runs at the moment (except this problem).
I didn't use much time on testing, I just decreased the offset by 0,005 V and startet Prime for about 1 minute. It if worked, I decreased again, and so on. As soon as my system froze, I increaded offset by 0,005 V and run Prime for about 10 minutes (if that doesn't work, increase again by one...
I delid my i5-7600k today and got an improvement of about 11 °C (and removed the io panel). Realy amazing how cool my CPU is compared to the initial build.
96 °C (before I stopped Prime): Stock CPU + io shield
74 °C (50 °C delta): Undervolted by 0,075 (to 0,960) VCore, Multiplier 39
63 °C (38°C...
Which GPU do you use? As already wrote, my SF450 is the loadest in idle and under load. In idle I set the CPU cooler to about 500 rpm and the EVGA Gtx 1080 FTW cooler to about 200 rpm. Both are quiet, but only the PSU fan makes a little bit of noise, running at low speed all the time (the PSU...
I also undervolted mine with max multiplier 39 but turbo mode enabled (I5-7600, LH-N9i + NF-A9x14) using offset.
I tested a few things, using the Asus tool I set the multiplier to 39 and offest -0,15 and was able to run it stable (prime test), but as soon as I put those settings in bios I was...
As said in my last post I did a few tests:
PSU problem:
As my Corsair SF450 is passiv only for a short time, I unscrewed the GPU extender to maximize the distance between back of GPU to back of PSU. At a cold start the PSU was passiv, but after a few minutes the fan started spinning. The same...
I know that solution, but I don't like that the GPU backplate is partly covered and heat isolated (the EVGA backplate gets very hot). I am going to test if this is the problem in my case the next days.
I need to correct myself having a closer look yesterday. The PSU fan is running at 100% and is a little bit louder than the GPU. I don't know why, as the air coming out of the PSU is not realy warm. Will test if the GPU backplate is heating the PSU Backside (and the PSU fan cannot efficently...
Yesterday all parts arrived (except the liquid metal for delid) so I built my system:
i5-7600k
Asus z270i
32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000
Noctua NH-L9i with NF-A9x14 fan
EVGA GTX 1080 FTW ACX 3.0
Two Samsung EVO 960 m.2 (265GB + 1TB)
Corsair SF450
First of all, those parts are small! (except...
Looks great! With those results I might consider going for a watercooling myself :)
Can you please give me more details about your watercooling setup and maybe a few pics of the external parts? Where did you put the pump and tank?
I thought about putting the case on top of the radiator so air...
In the computerbase.de forum some had the same problem. It looks like the backplate of the GPU is heating up the PSU.
One suggested to put some isolation material (in his case of the PSU packaging) between PSU und GPU, which solved the problem in his case.
Here a link to his post including...
I am waiting for my kickstarter dhl notification, as I am from Austria and on the list above France, I gues I will get it soon :)
On the one side I am not in a hurry getting the case as I will wait for more builds and AMDs ryzen till buying hardware. I am still happy I backed this project on...