Recent content by Sandez

Unfortunately not, but I'm in the same boat as you. Would be interested in the results, but more from a FYI point of view

Have you thought of maybe 4 of the Noctua A4x10 fans together. A rather expensive solution but ticks the quiet and quality boe

Hi @IntoxicatedPuma I think it’s great what you are doing here and it’s really helping out the community, if only I had this information 2 months ago! Having a look at the results, there’s an anomaly that makes me wonder about a couple of things, being between the LP53 with the Noctua A8...

I've got a gaming laptop with a desktop CPU (8700k, GTX1060, 960 Pro, 32GB Ram) as a work PC. It's a beast and would be about twice as fast as my PC at home in CPU and general running speeds (3770k, GTX 970, SSD, 16GB Ram), but when gaming on it, it's noisy AF. I did it for a couple of weeks but...

I got the LP53 from eBay via Germany to Australia and it took a little over a week to get here. I was happy about that and you have buyer protection. Just be mindful that due to your motherboard, you have to mount the fins perpendicular to your ram, so you wont get as good temps. 3 coolers I...

@SRTtech theres 4 things you could do right now to reduce temps or noise: 1. Delidding the 7700k will help reduce temps, sometimes by a few degrees but could be up around 10-15oC 2. Undervolt the CPU. Some have seen up to 10-15oC better temps (with no performance decrease) but it's luck of the...

@CageyBoat @kviker I have some good news for you. I have test fitted a Zotac 1080ti Amp Extreme (2nd largest card available) and everything seems to fit just nicely. Theres just enough room for the power cables to fit (~15mm). See the photos as proof A little tight here Just enough for the...

I purchased the max GPU sized case that @kviker is referring to. My intentions are to fit a Zotac 1080ti Amp Extreme into the case which would probably be the same as your in terms of height but doesn't have the recessed power connectors. I haven't tested it yet (I won't get the card for a few...

A pic would probably help everyone out to picture what you mean by being completely blocked off at the top and the ram side. Going off a pic of your mobo, it looks like all directions are blocked in some way. I think your motherboard is the main culprit. Changing RAM is still likely to block the...

The main question was more or less to determine if the additional 0.11mm H2O was going to be more beneficial than an additional 43.7cfm. While I don't know if its strictly the better cfm winning in my case, but the A12 seems to be performing better. I think it's more likely due to the additional...

Thanks tinyitx, it's kind of what I was thinking as well. I think I will go with the 120mm as I think it will give me slightly more coverage and if it sticks out past the heatsink, then a little extra airflow to hopefully remove more hot air can't hurt either. Airflow wise, it's happened in 2...

Hey guys, I'm needing to get a new fan to replace the GPU reference style fan on my GTX 970 as it's just making way too much noise and it's still throttling while gaming. I've pulled the shroud off and I'm currently using a Noctua A9x14 at constant full speed but it's still throttling the GPU...

Very neat and clean build, nice photography skills too. Love the water cooling setup, only wish you had kept with air cooling so I could know what temps to expect with mine, but that's being selfish! I'm jealous you've got yours already though. The best part about this case is that you have a...

That last pic looks the best with the side cutout, followed by top I/O, then the side without the cutout. However, IMO it depends on if you can rotate the I/O to either side as @jtd871 mentioned. If it can't I would vote top I/O as the side I/O will restrict the orientation of the case on...

They are some very interesting and promising results @dondan You are getting very close to optimal levels by the looks of it. I saw another CPU cooler test where they used the Noctua NH-D15 on the 1700 with a room temp of 20°C and they were getting 42°C (in AIDA64 not Prime95, don't know if...