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As far as I know the mounting plates for the EK-Velocity are interchangeable. Due to the fact that the Velocitop is wider than the Velocity in one direction you'll only be able to fit it in two orientations (if the mainboard permits) - with the inlet/outlet either facing right or left - as the...

I'm curious, did you by chance try what would happen if the flow through the EK coldplate is reversed? I've heard a lot of conflicting statements if this has any noticeable adverse effects on cooling performance and at least to me it seems it would simplify the fluid-path inside the block by...

So I was off by 0.5cm - the Kingpin is 19% bigger than the Rad-Card instead of 12%. They are very much comparable size-wise. The Rad-Card is 100% bigger than a standard 2-slot blower or open air GPU. Those are very much NOT comparable size-wise. A setup with the Kingpin radiator drawing air...

They are as much comparable as a blower to an open-air gpu - because they are blower and open-air AIOs - both keeping the gpu cool. ;) In what way is the 240mm considerably larger than the rad card? From what I can tell the rad card takes up 2 slots for the actual GPU (4cm) + a bit more than 2...

That a cooling solution that has about 7cm "width" to work with outperforms one that has about 3cm and is generally considered to be inferior efficiency wise ("blower") isn't really much of a surprise. The thing takes up about 2.5 liters by itself (by my estimation), so it better be at least as...

not if you try to stuff 2x18AWG+1x16AWG into it. ;)

It depends on what you mean by "combining them at the plug by crimping the wires together". You can of course use something like a butt connector to crimp the wires together instead of soldering them. This is also suggested as an alternative in the op. If you mean to use the crimp connector at...

If you are looking for risers that support "odd" placements of PCIe card in relation to the motherboard slot take a look at the risers ADT-Link offers. I'm personally using an R33UF-TU type to place a GPU beside the motherboard with both CPU and GPU heatsink facing on direction and the riser...

It's not listed as such on amazon, but what I can gather from neweggs listing those are Reg ECC, thus won't work in most desktop boards.

Try limiting the pcie slot speed to pcie gen3 (or even gen2) in the bios and see if it makes a difference. There were some reports with nvidia gpus misbehaving on x570 due to pcie gen4.

I don't want to be to nitpicky, but... As far as I know FDBs generally don't have a spinup-stabilizing magnet at all. The (also proprietary :D ) Matsushita FDBs Scythe is using are design wise about as far removed from a SSO2 bearing as they are from a sleeve bearing. The rating of the Scythe...

I love my Big Shuriken 2B to bits, so please don't take this as a diss on Scythe. But I would be careful with a conclusion, from a few hours out of the box experience, that Scythe fans are on the same quality level as Noctua fans. Noctua fans have in my experience never been the absolute...

I quickly took a multimeter to my Archdeamon Limited Edition and at least all 22 caps on the "TaCap armor" are decoupling the 12V line. Can't reach the other ones on the memory side to measure. Can't tell how useful those are to actually remove AC ripple from the line, as they all seem to have...

You can view/download the report directly from Mean Wells site - they publish one for each of their PSUs. EPP-500-12

If you have a drillpress to align and fix the workpiece in relation to the drill you could just drill a fine line of connected holes and file down the rest for a nice finish with a metal rasp. Considering the softness of aluminium, that the case is probably only a few mm thick and you only want...