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I am confused, do you want the numpad or not? You can get an mx brown keyboard in just about any config you want. You can even get the CM Storm Quickfire TK with mx browns. Just search amazon for mx brown.

Aesthetics and silence is the main advantage of going with a custom loop. Air cooling can usually get you to 95% of the clock speeds that even custom water cooling will deliver.

The UBNT stuff seems to be widely inconsistent with performance on gigabit. I have been reading their forums trying to decide on the best router to buy and there are threads all over the place of performance problems with different models, and different firmwares. Sometimes they will issue a...

Really interesting design, with 3 nvme m.2 slots!! Of note, the add in cards will pretty much require the cpu gets watercooling, will be hard to fit a normal air cooler of any size in that. Also not sure how good ddr4 so dimms are. Some concerns and potential drawbacks, but a damn interesting...

Another thing to add, all of the waterblocks will get equal flow.

So I am tempted to upgrade my FiOS to the gigabit. Out of curiosity what is the price you are paying and were you an existing customer? My new job I start soon is giving me $100 a month to cover cell phone and internet expenses... might splurge.

Thing is VR can't be designed towards a $700 video card. It needs to have more mainstream $200-300 video card support for it to be commercially viable. Which is why we won't see higher resolution headsets for a few more years.

It is the opposite actually. For a larger loop the tubing plays a smaller proportion of the overall restriction. More blocks will always be much more restrictive than additional tubing.

There is a sticky in this forum from 10 years ago testing tubing sizes impact on temperatures. 5 years ago Martin's Liquid Lab did testing of fittings, elbows, tubing etc... It basically all shows that there is no real impact to performance from something as small as a slight bend in your...

The bends on hard tubing are much more gradual than a 90 degree fitting, and as such do not have nearly the impact on flow rates.

There is no performance penalty from rigid tubing.... it will have the same performance as any 3/8 ID tubing. In fact it is probably better because the fittings don't restrict the flow further like they do for soft tubing fittings. The only penalty you pay is a convenience penalty.

I just put that all in the Ncase M1 tonight, but that likely isnt doable with the time it takes to ship, and the price isnt cheap.

Some suggestions: Swap the nameplate and the power extension on the back of the case. It will not interfere with the heatsink. Get RAM without heat spreaders, it helps minimize interference and RAM heatsinks are really just for looks anyways. I agree the overall mounting solution for the...

That is my similar build. A couple notes, you probably want the CPU to go into the far top radiator port, just for simplicity sake. Also the long run on the left worked out to make everything else pretty clean, but it does make changing the video cards harder ;)

HWLabs has been doing this for a long time. Their QC is as good as anyone else, I wouldnt worry about leaks with HWLabs anymore than anyone else.

I would say a 30mm radiator is slim. They dont really come much slimmer. 45 is average and 60 is thick. As for aesthetics, why not just stealth the drive with the cover? Edit, the 1300 says it supports radiators of 31mm thickness in both spots, you should be just fine

Hardline tubing looks nice, but I agree it sucks big time to work with. I will not be doing it on my next watercooled build. Just is not worth the hassle.

Not using m.2 is a serious miss

A few I could think of / find easily Fractal Design Arc Mini Fractal Design Core 1300 Corsair 350D NCASE M1 (if you get a slim drive) << this will be the smallest most likely Bitfenix Prodigy M Lian-Li PC-A04 Cooler Master Masterbox Lite 3 There are probably a bunch more if you don't mind...

I did it with the PSU in, mobo in the case, and power cables already plugged in. Then I mounted the Dark Rock. You have to carefully line it up, apply some pressure and screw in at the same time. Once you get one of the screws to catch go to a second, with two screws it is all home free from...

They claim in the review that it could just be sampling error as I said. Their other explanations are as they said grasping at straws. For such a small difference in results I would say the blocks perform the same.

Plating it will not increase performance. I would wager that any testing showing otherwise is merely natural variance in mounting consistency and other environmental fluctuations. Copper is a better conductor of heat than Nickel, so there is no way a layer of Nickel could improve performance...

TBH I am not sure whether lapping it will actually hurt performance on current CPUs. IIRC that was because of the bowing which was pretty common awhile ago and addressed some specific problems with IHS interfacing. I havent kept up but I dont think bowing is really used all that much anymore.

Yea it looks great, really a shame about the 1-2mm of interference. I can live without RAM heatspreaders since you can't see them anyways. I should also add that the backplate is a giant PITA due to the AMD compatibility. The Strix board has a number of decent sized components on the back side...

Here are some crappy shots of the Dark Rock TF on the Asus Z270i Strix I will post better pictures when I find a GTX 1080ti and finish the build. Basically if you look at the first picture you can see that the one ram stick is deflected ever so slightly, like a mm maybe. That is the...

Do you have a UPS you can use as well? Different motherboards exhibiting the same odd flaky behavior like that is a bit odd and I would try to rule out commonalities before determining it was a fluke simultaneous failure of both motherboards. The biggest commonality here is the power delivery.

It is probably better to just get a larger case that is designed to support watercooling. 900d supports dual 480 radiators easily.

For anyone curious, I do have the Dark Rock TF working on the Z270i. I had to switch to G.Skill Aegis RAM which has no heat spreader. Even then there is still some interference between the bottom heat pipes and RAM but not enough the break anything. The backplate is annoying to work with because...

You're off your rocker if you think that is the minimum. 1) You don't need $10 fancy ass compression fittings. You can get like $2 straight barbs and worm clamps, hell worm clamps used to be a luxury we used to just use zip ties or undersized tubing and no clamps at all! I would say you can get...

For anyone curious the Dark Rock TF cooler is preeeety dicey with the Asus Z270i motherboard. It interferes with the memory. I think it may work with memory with no heat spreader but there is still definitely contact and some deflection, I will have to decide whether or not to chance it.

Probably because there isn't really anything yet to justify needing more than 100mbps on the wired port. There is only theoretical 108mbps on 4k bluray but in actuality nothing really reaches that yet. We might see it in the next Roku but until now they were better served putting the budget into...

You would have to get a usb 3.0 to 2.0 internal converter cable to connect it. Asus decided to put that weird usb 3.1 connector in the corner that I cant find being used anywhere yet.

Can you test it with a hardwired roku? I think it still might be a wireless issue.

Have a look at the new vr fcat tool from nvidia

Delta is the temperature difference between the coolant and the ambient air. Basically, you are within a logical range for your cooling capacity, turn the fan speed higher or lower to fit your personal cooling and noise preferences. I was just pointing out that you dont *need* a 10C delta, that...

Keep in mind, you dont need to maintain a 10C delta. That is a good performance target for overclocking and great cooling, but you can easily go much higher on the delta and still cool very well.

Which is why you probably just want the reference design. Cheaper and will work with the standard blocks.

^^^ Gentle Typhoon is pretty much the undisputed best fan ever made. You can get the PWM version now too if that is something you need/want to have.

Dude Nvidia has done this same release schedule for like 3 years now.... you have nobody to blame but yourself if you expected anything different.

I saw no mention of it ... then again I had to hop between twitch, youtube, ustream, and facebook live to watch it.... So I missed quite a bit.