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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.

yes

Apologies if this has already been posted, but I just found out at least the Gigabyte Gaming OC 4070 TI has a very short PCB. Has any SFF lunatic managed a single fan mod yet? Picture courtesy of TechPowerUp.

also their xc3 / ftw3 cards were some of the very few higher end 2 slot gpus :S

i mean you can always limit the PPT if it gets too spicy

So while running benchmarks, I discovered that at stock settings, the power limiter heavily gimps the card. Even with power limiter set to 108% (the maximum this card's vbios allows), undervolting just to get average 3060 Ti FE performance was a must. After some meddling and testing, I settled...

does installing the two bottom fans to the case help gpu temps any in you guys' experience?

not to sound like an nvidia fanatic but in my experience fsr 2.0 is still a far, far cry from dlss. motion artefacting is awful with fsr. i find the two technologies hardly comparable in all honesty.

just a little status update - i gave up on the noctua and reinstalled the original fan. turns out with a repaste the original fan was quite adequate after all - it kept the card cooler and no more noisy than the noctua really. i guess the moral of the story is dont go replacing a 100mm fan with...

just a little status update... I had a p12 slim lying around unused and i was able to fit it next to the gpu, snug fit but its there. i installed it as exhaust so its hopefully helping blow the hot air from the gpu out... temps didnt improve all that much though, maybe 2°C. thanks to that i was...

i tried making the diy cardboard shroud,but that seemed to make the temps even worse by a degree or two.

something i was musing over was lengthening g the heatsink's fan indent a little with a dremel, so i could fit my p12 slim fan there and just do away with the shroud. but im not sure if i should expect any real thermal improvement there, especially since some of the aluminum fin area would be lost.

So, I have the MSI's Aero ITX model of RTX 2060 Super. Its alright for what it is, but the fan noise is something else. Emboldened by the apparently successful stories of others before me, I went ahead and got myself an A9x14 Noctua fan + destroyed the frame to get to the fan, took apart the...