Recent content by desmou

After seeing Noctua claim on their site that the NH-L9i could supposedly handle a 9900k I thought it'd be fun to try. I'd like to see how powerful a chip I can squeeze into this size, so I can use it to offload bursts of heavy computation to, like compiling code. So I put the 9900k w/ the...

Thanks for the suggestions, guys. It's good to know I at least have options. That pig-tail isn't bad at all, though I'm a little afraid of it getting tugged on, since I'm planning on traveling with this machine a lot. I'll probably do this if all else doesn't work. I'm going to give the C8...

Exactly - that was my plan, but I was surprised to find it's just too tall to fit directly on the MB. I'd also need to remove the front heatsink to fit there, since it was up against the wall. I tried putting it in the 'back' side of the case too, near the 2.5" drive bays, but it wouldn't...

Hi all, I'm attempting my first basic case mod and could use a little input. I really dig the inwin chopin case for its size, but I'd like to be able to put some higher end, higher TDP cpus in it, and for this the 150W stock power supply just doesn't cut it. So I started looking around for...