Recent content by boundary-stone

Don't buy anything until you can build / test the full system right away. If your GPU is DOA, your motherboard has annoying coil whine, your RAm / mobo don't play well together you'll want to know asap so you can return/ exchange the affected parts quickly. This is even more of an issue with...

You could save another +/- $60 going for the Thermalright Silver Soul 135 instead of the D12L too. It's also featured on the C4-SFX "Recommended Heatsinks" list (https://www.dan-cases.com/c4sfx_spec.html). There are also cheaper / similarly performing NVME drives for your 2TB / 4TB boot /...

Not worth $100-150 for 1-2% performance boost? Also, the X3D chips aren't eligible for the free Jedi Survivor game promo so if you value that game at anything close to the $60 retail pricing that widens the price gap even further.

Wild. It looks like the 7950X performs significantly better at 125W. The reviewers 125w numbers for the 7950X are almost identical to what I'm getting from my air cooled 7950X in 105W eco mode. The 7950X also appears better at 170w (7950X's stock TDP) although the reviewer doesn't actually...

If you're ok losing 10% performance on the 13900k to limit heat output wouldn't a 13700k or better a 7950x in 105W eco mode make more sense? Unsure what bursty workloads you mean. The 13900k only takes ~80w when gaming which is no issue to cool quietly. For multicore workstation loads in sff...

Under full load for what? A Ryzen 7000 CPU with ~120w TPP should be reliably easier to cool quietly at full load with a D12L than with liquid since the liquid cooling setup would be total overkill for the wattage and would require a higher minimum fan speed to push an acceptable amount of air...

For clarity if you want silence air cooling is the only option - if it has a pump it's not silent. That said plenty of builds can't be cooled sufficiently, especially at full CPU / GPU load, with silent air cooling options at which point water cooling could definitely offer better noise...

Wouldn't this depend on your build goals? Air cooling is best for silence, liquid cooling for maximum watts. Guessing liquid cooling in this case would only make sense with a 13900K or overclocked 4090 using a 600W capable bios. The C4-SFX's recommended air cooling configs seems to be designed...

Will a 92mm rear fan fit with a C14S? Or maybe a 92mm slim fan (14/15mm)?

Those are my thoughts as well. Just to confirm - rear 92mm fan would work with D12L with single stock A12x25r, but you wouldn't recommend bothering with mounting one? And you also would recommend bothering with adding a second A12x25r fan to a D12L if you're using a D12L unless you actually...

Could you get a semi dual fan D12L setup this way without needing ULP RAM like you need if going the 2x A12x25r fan route? That is to say will a D12L with the single stock A12x25r fan combined with a rear mounted A9 (or similar 92mm fan) for intake allow for full RAM compatibility?

Would the 92mm fan *fit* with a 280 rad installed though? And which air coolers would it fit with? As far as I can tell the majority of the air coolers on the C4-SFX recommended air cooler list are dual towers or top down coolers that would obstruct the 92mm rear fan mount. If that's correct...

Which cooling setups would a 92mm fan be useful for / compatible with? In these setups which orientation would the fan be used (intake or exhaust)? Maybe intake with a 240/280 rad? Or exhaust with a C14S? It's hard to imagine the 92mm fan actually fitting with either of these cooling configs...

What is the weight of the A4-H20 itself - for all of the included components that form the actual case (and excluding any additional components)? Trying to total up weights of a few different builds inc different SFF cases and can't find a weight for the A4-H2O that isn't the full packaged weight.

Interesting. To me the difference between 10L and 15L doesn't seem significant since the weight isn't enough to be problematic in a small backpack and the dimensions are still small enough to fit into most bags easily. I do feel like 18-25L is clearly pushing the limit of portability though -...