Recent content by titan253

No need to go with another cooler, Noctua will send you a free kit to rotate the cooler 90 degrees so that it'll fit. As far as i know this is only a concern with the Aorus itx board, the other x570s have sockets closer to the middle so stock position doesn't extend past the top panel.

I'm not running the C14s anymore, i went with an EVGA AIO. However, no modification is necessary to run a C14s on an Aorus X570 board but you will need to email Noctua to get a special bracket kit that will rotate the cooler 90 degrees. This is because the cpu socket on that specific board sits...

AIO and Silent are just about mutually exclusive, almost all of them use an Asetek black/pump combo so noise is just about the same no matter who you go with unless you can get an Alphacool Eisbaer 240 (which is not a traditional AIO). If near silence is your goal, a noctua c14s is going to...

Correct, the 140mm fan will work but you need to get a bracket pack from Noctua (they only include the smaller AM3/4 bracket when you buy new) that will rotate it 90 degrees and it will then clear the top panel. Depending on your GPU's backplate it may end up touching the heatpipe tips so keep...

You don't need to use the ATX bracket (that rotates the mounting position to the front) and an ATX->SFX adapter to mount an SFX PSU in the front postion anymore, in v6 there are mounting points that allow for either SFX orientation

But you're forgetting $ to performance ratio, normalized around 40dBa are lower temps really worth the diff in price? Given a c14S is ~$80 vs. an H100i Pro or x52 that land closer to $120-$130 (plus significantly more if you add two noctuas to the equation) you quite quickly make AIO's look less...

Would there be anyway to mod the pegs (simply a spacer of sorts) from the top panel to give enough clearance? I realize it'd leave a gap, i'm just trying to determine if it's worth the hassle or if i should just go with an AIO

as rfarmer said, you need a CPU no avoiding that, unless you return that motherboard and try to find one that has the Ryzen 3000 ready sticker on it which means it's already updated. You can also take the board to a Fry's or Microcenter (or a similar PC parts store if you're outside the US)...

It's very important to note that in that scenario Ali was running an Accelero heatsink that is fanless, if you keep the GPU stock you'd run the bottom fans as intake otherwise you'd be pulling against the GPU fans.

CudB pretty much nailed it, save some money on the CPU as a 3600 will not be a bottleneck at 4k and put the savings into the ti, especially if you're only running at 60hz (even at 144hz a 3600 shouldn't slow you down). Can't comment on the U9S but I put on the C14S on my 3600 and in an open air...