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Added a NF-A9X14 Chromax fan between the mobo and grill. It's a little loud so will probably need to do something about that, but 3DMark looks happier: https://www.3dmark.com/spy/18376348 Also added a simple grill on the NF-F12 to stop the AIO tubes getting in the way of the fan.

Agreed, I'm going the undervolt route (currently at -10 all core) @ stock clocks + adding some fans to see if that will tame the 5950x to more acceptable levels (specifically a 92mm slim to suck air from the side towards the mobo & an NF-A12X25 chromax under the rad as soon as Noctua releases...

Various 3DMark scores updated in second post with temps + power CPU+GPU power draw.

Here's the "final" pictures of the build with the added NF-F12AX25 fan below the rad. Routing cables & pipes becomes a bit of a challenge with the tall Trident Z RAM + the extra below fan rad. Fortunately there is enough space to pass on top of the RAM! Motherboard side. GPU side. Ready...

Some work in progress photos until I have time for proper pictures :) : Test run. Mobo side (extra under rad fan missing). GPU side during build.

I managed to cram an extra NF-F12A under the rad and temps + fan speeds look much better now. Coolant sits at ~35-36 C with mild loads. The 5950x peaks at ~90 C but that's as expected really. It's boosting to 5GHz which is fine, I'm on a -10 PBO2 undervolt now. Chipset is at 70 C which is a bit...

I mostly play World of Warships to be honest, which was just fine on my 7700k with a GTX 1080 :) Now I can DSR on insane resolutions and downscale to my 3840x1600 res screen... I did get Cyberpunk and the RT effects are nicer on the 3090, but if that stuff doesn't float your boat the only reason...

The Corsair H100i runs off a SATA & USB header, there's no fan header to control the pump. The fan header is only used for reporting (single wire reporting RPM). The pump is controlled through iCue. Also, you probably don't want to run it at 100% all the time, the pump is audible (although it...

Things I've learned so far, the auto-oc setup I had running in my piano white kitchen cabinet case is not good for the FormD (not really surprised since the previous case was open & AIO had bigger fans on it). So I've updated my BIOS, ditched auto-oc for PBO2 undervolting and things seem better...

I actually built it last night. The instructions for the T1 are helpful, but they're also wrong in many places! Took a while figuring out things that were wrong, but in the end it was fairly easy. I'll post pictures later along with some preliminary benchmarks.

Parts have started to arrive! Got the FormD T1 yesterday: As well as the Asus TUF OC RTX 3090 to replace the RX 6900 XT: Now I'm just waiting for the linkup gen 4 riser cable to arrive and I can start putting it all together!

Hey, with a hybrid configuration there should be no problems with a T1. I'm not planning to go full water, which would likely be an issue unless you go 2x rads, which is a very tricky build.

I've started a build log here: https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/formd-t1-first-itx-build-5950x-rtx-3090.15705/

Test scores in the FormD T1 with all fans installed. PBO2 undervolt -10 all cores applied, GPU +50 Core voltage, +45 Core, +250 Mem, Power limit 107%: TimeSpy 17 629, Graphics Score 19 138, CPU Score 12 185 TimeSpy Extreme 9 555, Graphics Score 9 858, CPU Score 8 138 Port Royale 12 534 Fire...

This is my first ITX build after numerous ATX builds in various forms. As the topic says, this is a FormD T1 5950x + RTX 3090 build. The build is evolving, the current state is this: Ready for action! Motherboard side GPU side Before receiving all my parts (FormD being one of them) the...