1.Temps are same but the fan speed drops about 300 RPM, the temp of IO side is 25% more heat than the RAM side, so I think the best way is let the U-shaped heat pipe opening direction same with RAM side.
2.No, the colorful 1080TI CH has the vapor chamber cooler, same with Founders Edition. I...
I did it! I had changed the direction of Noctua L9i for AM4! Now the temperature has decreased. By the way, you still need the Noctua's AM4 screw and the backplane. I use a 12 X 12 aluminium profile and 4 riveting pressure screws, and here is the drawing if someone wants to build things like...
This is my Ryzen bulid, 1700 + 1080TI. Almost done, all nice! The only problem is how to rotate Noctua L9i 90 degrees, I decide to make custom plate with the aluminium profile.By the way, does anyone know what what screw AM4 boated needs? M3 or M4? How much is the height from MB to the CPU...
This is my 1080 ti, It is under 80°C when FULL LOAD and using custom fan setting, a little bit shortcoming is the noise. To say, 1582 MHz /1480 MHz in gaming mode is already good enough.
Could you please post me the AM4 hole spacing and NH-L9i hole spacing? I decide to make a custom plate, my Sentry has lain idle almost for a month and a half....
NH-L9i ‘s brackets seems not good for Sentry, I am still waiting for X370 Gaming-ITX/AC, hope that launch day there is a good AM4 cooling build for Sentry :)
I have a Sapphire Fury Nitro and I also doubt that it maybe not fit in sentry (Let's hope it can fit in...), by the way,this card is not bad, which performance is better than 480 8g and close to 1070.