Recent content by joconnell

sorry, it's sold!

Heya Folks! I've swapped to a bigger case since I need a larger gfx card for vfx work so I've got a black dan a4 sfx v4.1 with an asetek 645lt, two slim noctua black fans and custom cables for a corsair sfx psu. All working well and it performed perfectly for me with an amd 3950x cput with no...

Mounting the be quiet in the h20 is a little tricky btw, it's definitely not an under the psu situation, if you pull the cables that tight to make it stretch around the ram, the external pump gets pushed up into the fan and jams it. Sound wise with all the sides off the case there's no pump...

It’s not specific to the a4 but what might be worth a look is a large dslr backpack. They have moveable internal Velcro dividers that you make little squares to fit all your things in so you can make a well protected hold all for plenty of things.

Thanks for that tpm! I’m trying to find out more about peoples routing, you’re going behind the pus to the bottom of the case and then up by the ram chips?

Ah cool! So this positioning of the aio tubes are what’s meant by “under the psu”? So down the back of the psu and then underneath it down by the ram slots?

@dondan finally getting around to transferring from my a4 to the h20 and after a load of research on the quietness of pumps and wanting to avoid the asetek whine I got a be quiet pure loop - now looking at it in the case before the psu block goes back in it looks like the external block in the...

I’ve had zero problems with a 16 thread 3950x on b550 or x570 boards - the single thread clock / pic is a little lower than the 12 thread 3900x clocks so it’s got more grunt but at lower temps. The 5000x cpus had an upswing in ipc so will likely run hotter.

You'll avoid a lot of customs tax if you don't get it from ali!

Mine's arriving end of week, 70 cad dollars import tax with ups on a 202 cad purchase :o

Same with aliexpress.

@astr0s Any pump noise / whine coming from it if you have it up higher? You said you're on a kraken x53 over the psu -@dondan is the over the PSU route harder as it's the only one available for pump cables less than 400mm so you've less slack? Cheers all!

I'd imagine this'd take them quite a while to organize and wouldn't really happen in the next few weeks before I jump on something...

Any chance you could record a few seconds of the pump with a few mouse clicks al la ali optimum? The be quiet seems pretty good from one video on youtube so far! https://youtube.com/shorts/CEeQ5KCxtHs?feature=share and another: Now this is the EK elite so maybe not the exact same:

@dondan just ordered using the aliexpress link above, many thanks for that! I also read that you're using the ek basic in your build. I'm on vengeance lpx ram and I prefer going for a simple black look so this looks like it'll fit me nicely - how do you find the pump for noise? And would you...