Recent content by Vrekgar

At Idle my 3700x with the 645lt bounces between 45c and 55c. The clock speeds also spike up on a few cores as they do this and I've yet to figure out the exact reasoning behind this behavior. It might be something to do with PBO as it was doing the same behavior with the box cooler sticking out...

Just got through with some fiddling around. Managed to make the 645lt fit but because I installed the fan backwards there was a rather annoying temperature spike to like 80+c so after some futzing and slapping my forhead after I flipped the fan the temperatures are very nice. Can probably futz...

I was encountering something similar with my new 5700xt and it took a little jiggleing to find the right angle to get it deeper in. I found it helpful to remove the PSU to get angle to it. Also the Riser was exerting some pressure on the backplate but a bit of squishing and gentle tugging got it...

Its there to act as a shield between the motherboard and graphics card so any protruding bits dont accidentally contact each other and ground something out.

Also saw a thread on reddit linking to a german tomshardware article where you can use the registry to alter the power play tables and enable the card to boost up to 2.3ish ghz and set the power target to like +90% as well as alter how much voltage the die is given. With that modding it...

Your correct. the 5700xt is no faster than the Rad7. But in a case like the Dan, I really wouldn't suggest something like a axial fan because you want some way to get hot air out. But your mileage may vary.

Well shoehorned my 5700xt into my Dan v4. Bit of a tight fit, had to remove the 645lt I had as the tubes are just a few MM too close to the card to allow it to actually seat in the riser. Its not the actual tubes its their connectors. I also had to pop out my PSU but once the graphics card was...

I believe the problem isn't sufficient intake, but rather exhausting the hot air. Depending on how you have the fan setup it changes the dynamic. Ideally if you wanted to cool components on the board you would want to blow directly straight down on them, but thats not exactly very easy, plus...

From what i've heard there would need to be a new riser to get full gen4 speeds but im not sure on that point.

Im betting the new Asus crosshair VII impact wont fit in the dan, But its looking like the Strix should.

Trick is that hot air exhausted out the sides from the positive pressure will tend to disperse rather quickly into the surrounding ambient air as its not moving very fast and has no real quick path that doesn't involve it being heavily diluted with ambient air. This is because it has to overcome...

Whelp got my sf600 platinum unit and took this opportunity to begin some assembly. Mounted the 645lt first as I read that was the way to go about it, and boy howdy am I glad I heeded that advice. Its Tight AF in there, I had to use a bit of force to get the PSU in place and it actually popped in...

It would make the gap higher pressure. It's not going to cause the air to reenter the case from there as it's always being pushed down. The air will instead seek other egress by spilling to the sides. There is a "Slight" possibility of the air then making 3 90deg turns to get sucked back into...

Yeah thats a downside to using a M.2 on the back of the board. Tiny heatsinks exist that can help with problem. Another is to just switch to a more standard two and a half inch drive SSD, but that involves more cabling.

Heatpipes dont really transmit much heat at all through radiative cooling, they are more for transfering heat via conduction directly to finstacks attached to em. So having a gap like that shouldn't pose a problem at all.