Recent content by sneedster

i think the outward resemblance of the case to a densium 4 might give forum members ptsd...

"oh god" is the only proper reaction i have to this.

You're probably thinking of a different case again. The a4-sfx fits a 300mm 2.2 slot GPU at the most, so 4090 Fe is out of the question. The most powerful cards it can do are EVGA 3090 xc3 or Inno3D 4070 Ti. Someone crazy could maybe do a custom watercooling loop for the 4090 but it would be...

how much does a nf-a9 fan below the psu really help with temps in an air cooled build? is it just placebo or is there an appreciable difference?

Wanna know how that fan sounds....

Wasn't Black Ridge designed in cooperation with Alpenföhn for Dan A4-SFX? If that's the case, I hope it would be possible to do something similar for the A4-nano, since sub-39mm coolers aren't quite optimized. Particularly I fantasize that it would be possible to reach out to Thermalright, and...

i probably wouldn't pay 169 euros for a dan a4-sfx in 2023 tbh. its awesome in its own way but the design is a bit outdated with the GPU space no longer being enough for most new cards, and the cooling isnt the most optimized, lacking mounting for fans in the roof of the case. I'd probably...

Are the motherboard standoffs standard or a special measurement? I read online that standard standoffs may not work. I'm planning to try installing AXP90-X47, by sanding the heatsink a bit, using a9x14 and installing 1-2mm shorter mobo standoffs I hope I can get rid of the turbulence noise :)

Hmm, i just dropped a 5800x3d in my dan a4 -sfx cooled by a l9a and with CO at -30, im not able to score over 14000 in mt cb23 no matter how much i play with ppt/edc/tdc. i just settled at 95/65/95 to get a nice balance between performance and temps. im not complaining, but looks like @Runamok81...

Yeah thats not going to work. It will overheat instantly under load. If you must fit the card in the A4-SFX, consider a 3d printed spacer so give you more room. People like @REVOCCASES report that the 5800x3d is manageable with a L9a. You will need to undervolt it though.

I finally got my hands on a A4000, so I'm looking to do a heatsink replacement as well. Thing is, I have a Dan A4-SFX, so it would have room for beefier cooling than the cute little InRobert one. But it seems like doing that I would tread on unexplored terrain. Would the A4000 really even...

I think the EVGA RTX 3090 XC3 fits as well. It can be more powerful than the 4070ti in VRAM constrained gaming since it has 24gb vram: ray tracing, latest games like resident evil 4 remake, tlou and hogwarts, 4k gaming in general. But you will probably have to underclock / powerlimit it a bit so...

is it shunt modded? how does it do in benchmarks?

@dondan is there any plan for a followup to the a4-sfx? or even a v5?

Almost as if it was made for this case.