My town was recently hit by the powerful storms that swept throughout the Midwest on Monday. My house is still without power so I thought I'd show off my travel PC getup that is currently setup at my in-laws where my family is currently staying.
Ncase M1 V6.1
10900K with Noctua C14S
Gigabyte Z490i Aorus Ultra
16 GB DDR4 3200CL14 @ 3600CL15
Samsung 960 EVO 1TB
EVGA 2080 Ti XC Ultra
Corsair SF750 Platinum
Asus XG17AHP 1920x1080p 240Hz IPS
You may notice I have the Ncase sitting on top of some wooden blocks. I did this because I mounted the bottom 120mm fans outside of the case and not inside, they were making some turbulent noise when mounted inside with the thicker GPU heat sink. The Monitor is great since it has DP ALT mode on its USB C port so I can run video and power off the 2080 Ti USB port, it also has gysnc compatibility mode since it acts as displayport.
In my testing I've noticed that the C14S can handle about 200W max with the 10900K, this is using a slim 120mm on the fan bracket and the stock 140mm that comes with the cooler as intake. I have the PSU in the front mount position so that it doesn't interfere with the 140mm fan. I only game with the machine so the power draw of the 10900K isn't an issue but you would definitely do better with a 240MM AIO if you planned on doing some heavier CPU tasks with the 10900K in this case. I can get the 10900K down to about 170W to 180W if I drop the all core boost to 4.8 GHz down from 4.9 GHz with a 100 mV under-volt and the temps sit in the high 80s to low 90s at 100% fan speed which is noisy. I currently run the stock 4.9 GHz with a 60 mV under-volt for gaming but am still fine tuning it.
The gigabyte z490i has the defective intel 2.5gbe card but I don't have a 2.5gb switch, only a 1gb so I haven't seen any of the networking errors others have. The motherboards is pretty nice overall though the M.2 cooling solution seems to leave a bit to desired, the 960EVO is creeping up into the high 70C or low 80C under heavy load but that isn't an issue while gaming.
I'm hoping when NVIDIA's new lineup launches there a model that is easily de-shrouded like the current strix coolers. My EVGA card has a decent amount of coil whine when the power draw is above 250W so I currently run it at 1905 MHz @ 862 mV and this keeps the card around 65C with the GPU fans at 1000 RPM and the bottom 120mm fans around 700 RPM.
Overall I'm pretty happy with the build and the only thing I see changing in the near future is putting a new GPU when new cards hopefully release this fall or winter.
Ncase M1 V6.1
10900K with Noctua C14S
Gigabyte Z490i Aorus Ultra
16 GB DDR4 3200CL14 @ 3600CL15
Samsung 960 EVO 1TB
EVGA 2080 Ti XC Ultra
Corsair SF750 Platinum
Asus XG17AHP 1920x1080p 240Hz IPS
You may notice I have the Ncase sitting on top of some wooden blocks. I did this because I mounted the bottom 120mm fans outside of the case and not inside, they were making some turbulent noise when mounted inside with the thicker GPU heat sink. The Monitor is great since it has DP ALT mode on its USB C port so I can run video and power off the 2080 Ti USB port, it also has gysnc compatibility mode since it acts as displayport.
In my testing I've noticed that the C14S can handle about 200W max with the 10900K, this is using a slim 120mm on the fan bracket and the stock 140mm that comes with the cooler as intake. I have the PSU in the front mount position so that it doesn't interfere with the 140mm fan. I only game with the machine so the power draw of the 10900K isn't an issue but you would definitely do better with a 240MM AIO if you planned on doing some heavier CPU tasks with the 10900K in this case. I can get the 10900K down to about 170W to 180W if I drop the all core boost to 4.8 GHz down from 4.9 GHz with a 100 mV under-volt and the temps sit in the high 80s to low 90s at 100% fan speed which is noisy. I currently run the stock 4.9 GHz with a 60 mV under-volt for gaming but am still fine tuning it.
The gigabyte z490i has the defective intel 2.5gbe card but I don't have a 2.5gb switch, only a 1gb so I haven't seen any of the networking errors others have. The motherboards is pretty nice overall though the M.2 cooling solution seems to leave a bit to desired, the 960EVO is creeping up into the high 70C or low 80C under heavy load but that isn't an issue while gaming.
I'm hoping when NVIDIA's new lineup launches there a model that is easily de-shrouded like the current strix coolers. My EVGA card has a decent amount of coil whine when the power draw is above 250W so I currently run it at 1905 MHz @ 862 mV and this keeps the card around 65C with the GPU fans at 1000 RPM and the bottom 120mm fans around 700 RPM.
Overall I'm pretty happy with the build and the only thing I see changing in the near future is putting a new GPU when new cards hopefully release this fall or winter.
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