You are right, but, from my tests with realbench and a strix rx 5700xt and ryzen 7 3700x, the best fan set up is 92mm in the back as intake and 140mm under the c14s as intake too. Putting the 92mm as exhaust = 5 degrees hotter cpu and 140mm as exhaust = also 4-5 degrees hotter if the 92mm is intake.
Hey, I also commented on your post in reddit! But no, stock strix in the v6 is perfect. And remove the fan shroud and you basicly have an Accelero.
That's what I have in mind, unless I possibly go custom loop. Get the gpu with the biggest heatsink and add 2x 120mm underneath
very clean build
Are you happy with the ASrock ITX?
At least you have thunderbolt
But yh, the Impact has USB C, but comes with the DTX drawbacks and has no TMP header (I will have to use firmware TMP). None of the x570 ITX have 2.5 / 5 Gbps NIC. Overall for what they cost, it's not all that great.
I bumped the memory up to 3300/16 from 3200/16. I don't fool around with it much because Intel isn't nearly as dependent on ram speed as ryzen.At least you have thunderbolt
Did you do any memory OC or tighter timings?
Pump noise. If you sit anywhere near your computer, even if you lower the pump to 60%, you're going to hear it. At least with air you can have the case completely silent while idle. Can't do that with a pump constantly humming in your face.
My low-rpm-at-idle case / rad push-pull fans are barely audible in my current H200i, and the pump at 60% at idle of my Kraken X52 is not audible given the case / rad fans. I cannot imagine this being much quieter with an air cooler at idle, and I am not even using Noctua but the NZXT Aer P 120mm x5 right now.
I think that's the difference. You can't imagine it, but until you experience it you won't have a frame of reference using the M1. I know several people that went to an AIO and then back due to pump noise. Maybe it's the pitch?
lol - I clearly meant that I doubt that to be true. I can imagine plenty in fact. At least my X52 pump has no weird pitch, just a faint hum, even at 100% with fans off, I tested that quite a while ago. I know my fans could be even more silent, but mostly at load, at idle even the Aer P are decent. I am sitting right next to my case and never thought twice about pump noise and I am very much not a fan of noise. DDC custom loop pumps are likely more of an issue, or cheap CLC. The Asetek 5th gen pumps are very decent (e.g. Kraken X52). If they rattle, they are likely DOA. But each to their own. With my 3950X and OC, I don't have much choice anyway.
The C14S only has brackets for the included 140mm fan. You'll need to contact Noctua and request the clips - part number NM-SFC14. These do not fit very securely since they were meant to mount 120mm fans to the original C14, but you can kind of get it to work well enough to hold the 120mm fan in place.
