Recent content by Khio

Hello Mr Zaber ! I'm very exited to hear about plan for a Sentry 3.0 ! So far my Sentry 2.0 have been rock solid and haven't disappointed me and I can't wait to see the new one ! As you said there isn't much things that can be changed without changing the overall design, wich is great ! I...

Hello, for those who have a "Gigabyte Aorus B450 I PRO Wifi" motherboard the new BIOS release, F60C, adds support for the news 5000 series Ryzen. I also noticed a few improvements that I thought worth notifying, my 3700 X seems to boost slighty higher with more consistency and the "ECO Mode" is...

Hello there ! Nice to see the 6800 XT will fit ! But will it be usable ? Does anyone here already tried a 2.5 slot GPU ? How is the noise ? I really have a bad memory about my C7 cpu cooler ?

What I meant is with that cooling setting the rear fan won't do much in a Sentry case, even if the RTX 3080 would somehow fit into the case the rear fan would just blow hot air onto the air pocket at the back of the case. Actually I even think if you don't use an AIO in a standard case you...

We are not even sure RTX 3090 will fit most of the full tower case, neither if current standard ATX PSU will support them lol Will have to wait and see for RTX 3080 but my guess is that this NVIDIA gen will be massive and power hungry so probably not fit at all for SFFPC I won't definitely go...

Haven't noticed any difference in noise ! I think the fan speed is the same

As promised I ran some test today ! I didn't know how to do that properly so I tried to run Unigine Valley, Unigine Heaven and Furmark, with and without the GPU duct ; The test system : Motherboard : Gigabyte B450 I AORUS PRO WIFI CPU : Ryzen 3700X ( all default settings in bios ) RAM : 3600...

You are the Airflow Master ! You think a duct middle to bottom, full lenght of the card would do better ? Yea I don't have Photoshop either ! I can try to draw that too and see how it goes

Nothing yet conclusive, I ran a benchmark to check if my duct don't melt and it didn't ! Got slightly more points than last time, but it's not same drivers version and probably not the same room temperature. The drivers 20.8.1 is supposed to release later today, I'll ran more test tomorrow, with...

So after my "I don't have a 3D printer" cheap CPU fan duct and the good result I seems to have... I wondered if I could do the same for my GPU, as it is a blower card it only have 1 intake, and the heat is pushed out at the back... So here is my "I still don't have a 3D printer" Radeon duct ...

I think I have something interesting ? So I just made this, that's the dummy made of tissue box, the plastic one is in the Sentry, it's 92 x 92 x 25, it sits on the NH-L9A heatsink : and i got really interesting temp actually, I ran x264 encoding with handbrake, last time I tried this was in...

Thanks for the testing ! I guess it's not worth trying to fit the C7 then ! I just made a square simple fan duct with an old black plastic file folder, it will probably have more effect than changing the heatsink then !

Damn are you saying I won't be running faster with those sports shoes I just bought ? I feel scammed :( haha Yea about the graphene coating there won't be much difference, the base itself is still copper so the CPU > Radiator thermal transfert will be the same. Then maybe, a big maybe, somehow...

3mm gap between top of the fan and the case is what we need ? So a C7g with a Noctua 14mm would have a 2mm gap, that would need to find a 13mm fan or to remove 1mm of the top C7g... tempting haha My C7 normal is resting in its box I think i'll scalp it to give it a try

I think the safest Ryzen is the Ryzen 3600 ( not the 3600X wich has a 95W base TDP ). I went with the 3700X in my Sentry for the 8 core 16 threads and because it's also rated 65W, with the Noctua NH-L9a it does throttle at 95 degres at full 88W. Wait for SaperPL to test how the Cryorig C7g...