Lian Li/DAN A4-H2O
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Techpowerup: " Even when watercooled by our 360 mm AIO from Arctic, the temperature reached close to 100°C when fully loaded."
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-core-i9-12900k-alder-lake-12th-gen/24.html
The problem is not the case it is the fact that a 240 AIO can't cool a 12900k under heavy load. What use case do you have? Handbreak, Keyshot or what other CPU intensive load? Another option could be undervolting or Power Limiting the 12900k.
We are aware. Hence just "thermal issues", NOT "thermal issues with the case". Thus also the though experiment (in reaction to other comments in this thread). As you may have or have not read, I already mentioned power limiting as an option, too.
Our particular use case / scenario is: Audio / Video editing, and streaming (ie. primarly DJing). Specifically, doing all that on CPU, because of all the funny driver issues with both AMD (OBS + AMD GPU encoding apparently is the worst choice, but Linux support is much much better) and NVidia (lets not open that can of worms).
A secondary use case is running multiple VMs and browsers during development. We've been doing a lot of really heavy-load backend development in the last few years, and the more CPU power, the merrier.
Third use case obviously is the reach for perfection
cu, w0lf.
ps: Originally I wanted to reply: lets maybe wait on the 12900 non-k, but the tests I could dig up so far look very.. naaaah. As in: Making the 12700k look much better.
Congratulations @dondan!
We're starting to see the A4-H2O available for local preorders* and of course it's been hitting the popular review sites, too.
* with delivery ETA of 28 April 2022
We're starting to see the A4-H2O available for local preorders* and of course it's been hitting the popular review sites, too.
* with delivery ETA of 28 April 2022
loving the look of this case, just a question, is the front i/o swappable to the other side of the case? would like to put my pc on my left rather than my right.
There shouldn't be much difference in push or pull. A benefit of a pull configuration would be easier cleaning of the radiator, since the dust will be exposed, rather than sandwiched between it and the fans.
If you meant intake vs exhaust, intake would likely result in higher GPU temps, lower CPU temps. Exhaust would result in the opposite.
Given the PSU exhausts into the radiator, I'd think having the radiator fans also as an exhaust would be the best idea, that way you're not fighting the PSU fan.
Sry this isn't possible.
He does come from Taiwan. Maybe he directly ordered it from LianLi or it is available from taiwanese resellers.
Oh I got this directly from Lian Li.
Came back to my hometown Keelung from stateside. They’re like 20min away. DM’ed them even before it got listed and they happily sent it to me on listing day. 12hr shipping
I’ll post once I’m done building tonight. 
Caseking lists it as being available from Feb 14th already (https://www.caseking.de/en/lian-li-...euse-pcie4.0-riserkabel-schwarz-geli-902.html). Do you expect that to be accurate as well?
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