Ooooooooo Shiiiiineeeey! Are those chrome painted or polished aluminum panels?
Chimera Industries Cerberus: The 18L, mATX, USA-made enclosure
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Ooooooooo Shiiiiineeeey! Are those chrome painted or polished aluminum panels?
Polished aluminum with chrome handle and feet. It's glorious! (but way too expensive)
I will have it tomorrow or wednerday
ohh.
I will have a lot of problems them.
What temps do you have actually?
Thanks for the pics!
with side panel removed, as much as 6-7 degrees C increase over fans at 0 RPM. this is worst at mid RPMs (1200-1500) and goes back down somewhat at max RPM (2000).
i only have a solid (non-vented) side panel to test with (packing error), but with that panel in place, the effect is milder. 0 RPM temps are higher than they were with no panel, low RPM (800-1100) are 1-2 degrees cooler than 0 RPM, mid-high RPM temps are 2-4 degrees higher again.
i would really like to test out some flow plates! i am not an aerodynamics engineer and i don't have a 3d printer, but it seems like the right part would make a big difference here. i'm not sure i could live with them aesthetically in this particular build, but it'd be nice to have hard data to apply to future builds.
and actually, you can see in the pictures that i'm using phanteks halos RGB rings on top of the bottom fans. these have a slightly smaller ID than the fan housing, which would generally be a bad thing, but in my case it actually seems to help a little bit.
i only have a solid (non-vented) side panel to test with (packing error), but with that panel in place, the effect is milder. 0 RPM temps are higher than they were with no panel, low RPM (800-1100) are 1-2 degrees cooler than 0 RPM, mid-high RPM temps are 2-4 degrees higher again.
i would really like to test out some flow plates! i am not an aerodynamics engineer and i don't have a 3d printer, but it seems like the right part would make a big difference here. i'm not sure i could live with them aesthetically in this particular build, but it'd be nice to have hard data to apply to future builds.
and actually, you can see in the pictures that i'm using phanteks halos RGB rings on top of the bottom fans. these have a slightly smaller ID than the fan housing, which would generally be a bad thing, but in my case it actually seems to help a little bit.
i've seen as high as 84C in furmark, using the "OC" setting (+25/+90) and 120% power target in GPU tweak, with the panel closed and the fans running at exactly the wrong speed. still much better than the founders edition card, but much worse than usual for the strix.
Have you tried setting a fan blowing in from front of chassis perpendicular the rear of the GPU?
yes, briefly, with side panel removed. temp was the same as with no fan. i'm sure it would be better than no fan with the side panel in place.
i should also add that placing a single 140mm fan in the bottom center (instead of 2x140) improved temps across the board. there is also a noticeable sweet spot when you slide it side to side where it stops making loud turbulence, gets quiet, and temps go down. so i think my problem is specifically using two big fans to blow onto the 3 small fans on the strix cooler. it might be totally different with a 2 fan cooler like most aftermarket cards.
unfortunately, i like the way 2x140 bottom fans look, so i had to keep trying different speeds and configurations until i found something that worked at least a little bit. it still runs super quiet and maintains safe temps when OC'd at full system load, so it's still a success, just not as big of a success as i was imagining.
I may be able to source a 3-D printer to test print a couple of these. If the quality looks good, and they have extra space on the print bed, I'll shoot you a PM to try and get you a couple.
that would be awesome! i'd gladly pay shipping+materials. i will promise a comparison test if this pans out.
Got to be that guy, but can you give me a hint as to what something like that costs lol?
I paid $125 to get them polished, not horrible, but that's right on top of panel costs so... ~$200 for polished panels
FWIW I really like the hybrid GPUs in this case. Tubing is mildly irritating but the cards are on the small side compared to the typical 2 or 3 fan air cooled GPU arrangement, making cabling easier. I guess this is technically a "water cooled" build 
(yes, cheating).
(yes, cheating).
FWIW I really like the hybrid GPUs in this case. Tubing is mildly irritating but the cards are on the small side compared to the typical 2 or 3 fan air cooled GPU arrangement, making cabling easier. I guess this is technically a "water cooled" build
Love it! Replace that EVGA fan and cut your noise in half, it's good pressure but obnoxiously loud (least on mine it was)
Yeah I did actually, it has a Corsair ML120 on it now and I plugged it into the motherboard. Much better. It's inaudible except when playing games that have high GPU utilization. Old photo, I keep meaning to go back in and do a better cable job and then take new photos haha.
Omg, I think I will cancel my AIO and get a tower cooler.
Sorry for the posible repeated question. Max height?
Sorry for the posible repeated question. Max height?
SHINY AND CHROME!
That's... not that bad actually. Tempted to swap from the beige Amiga-retro look to All Chrome All The Time (and give me the impetus to use chromed brass hardline rather than wimp out with Norprene).
::EDIT:: Also, because we're clearly in the future (regularly landing orbital rocket boosters, developing medical micromachines, etc), and everyone knows everything is chrome in the future.
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got reminded of the time when there was a lesson on shaders and they brought up reflections. everything was chrome for two weeks because why the hell not
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