Recent content by aaaadrian

Hi there, I recently purchased a ZS A4S V3 case and it arrived today! I spent the day putting the parts into it and was overall satisfied with the build quality. However, there are two issues that I'm facing: 1. the second fan of my GPU (I bought a PNY 4070 verto dual) is slightly rubbing the...

Folks, Best Buy has PNY RTX 3060 Single Fan in stock since last week! It's not cheap but $620 is also not terrible considering how hard it is to find 30-series ITX cards nowadays. According to PNY's website this card is even shorter than MSI Aero ITX cards by a few mm. I grabbed one for my Velka...

Hey guys, I bought the new 5cm LINKUP PCIE 4.0 riser cable and managed to fit it into Sentry 2.0 properly. I can't find this kind of information anywhere on the internet thus sharing my experience so you guys are informed. If you want to try this, you will need to cut off the PCB on one side...

I've been enjoying my 3080 xc3 and 5600x for almost 2 months now, played CP2077 for 70+ hours. Everything works perfectly fine and temps are also reasonable. I undervolted my 3080 to run at 1905mhz on 850mv and set a more aggressive custom fan curve so my gpu temp never exceeds 80 degree Celsius.

You should be fine. If you jump a few pages back I reported that my asus b550i mb has separate pcie speed control for each pcie and m2 slot.

Oh so happy to see that LINKUP released a 5cm riser! However this still doesn't seem compatible for another reason: Biggest issue is the PCB width underneath the socket. Sentry 2.0 comes with a reinforcement bracket that holds riser with 2 screws, and in order to fit within the bracket, the PCB...

Good news guys, I updated my gigabyte x570i mb bios to the latest (f31o) today and found that gigabyte has separated out pcie x16 speed from m2 slot speed. There are now 2 separate options: pcie x16 slot speed and pcie slot speed. I set the first one to gen3 and left the second one as auto. I...

No it's incompatible unless you remove the chipset fan. I have the v2 cooler with newer mounting bracket. In terms of temperature, my 5600x stabilized at 86 degree after more than 10 minutes of stress test, and my 3700x would break 90 degree and start thermal throttling without undervolt.

Hey guys want to post a quick update on my Sentry 2.0 build with all kinds of information. So I also bought an ASUS B550i motherboard for my wife's future build a while ago, and I've been using that in my Sentry 2.0 with 3700x. What I found is that ASUS BIOS allows me to set PCIE speed for each...

It's the j-hack 10mm one.

Finally got my 3080 XC3 Ultra and put it into my Sentry 2.0! First thing I did is undervolting, and I used what Optimum Tech suggested: 1845mhz at 850mv, card is running great. I played SOTR for about an hour and graphics card temp stabilized at 79°C, with fan speed at 75% (didn't touch fan...

Hey I have the exact same motherboard and BIOS version and I set this option to "Gen3" in preparation for 30-series card. Your reply made me curious so I benchmarked my SSD with this option set to "Gen3" vs. "Auto". My SSD is Corsair MP600 1TB, which is a first-gen PCI-E 4.0 SSD. From the test...

3090 in a Sentry 2.0:

Guys, gigabyte listed the first blower style RTX 3090: https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N3090TURBO-24GD/sp#sp This is crazy, wondering how thermals would look like.

I tried to grab a EVGA XC3 this morning, but no luck newegg website gave up under immense load and I was able to add some cards to the cart, but they all ended up being removed automatically when inventory ran out in seconds. Who knows, maybe I'll try my luck on EVGA RTX 3090 XC3 next week...