On that subject...
I was musing the other night whether you could fit and ATX motherboard into a BIG 560 with a redesigned rear panel and suitably enlarged motherboard tray.
Just asking for a friend
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In other news, I am working VERY SLOWLY on my BIG 560 mATX build
Fitting an standard ATX motherboard would be tight but should be possible if I move it towards the top. I'd have to sacrifice the fan mounts at the top though unless making the case taller. If your friend is interested I can prepare some modified drawings for the DIY edition.
I did not read and jumped right into the pictures. For 1 moment, I thought that is a new Thermalright cooler! My mind conjured up a Thermalright Sentinel somehow. But then, I read and saw it is a Silver Arrow. Well, at least I get the Thermalright part right! BTW, if anyone is going to challenge Noctua's NH-P1, it has to be none other than Thermalright. I really do not mind a passive cooler heatsink war between them.
Haha
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I feel honored you thought that is a real thing... But I agree, Thermalright should be able to do something like the P1. Maybe a new version of the
Macho?
Oh, I finally downloaded OCCT and did some more testing with the build today to find the sweet spot between noise and temperature:
First test with all case fans set to max and some OC on the CPU:
Next, all fans OFF - also with some OC:
After that I slowly increased the case fan speeds until the temperature would stabilize around 80C (which is the sweet spot for me). With the budget PHANTEKS fans this was around 1000 +/-150 RPM. If I would use
some better fans I could probably go even lower making it inaudible but still, it's working pretty well already.
Now the big question, can I make the Silver Arrow work totally passive... after playing around with PBO, PPT and cTDP I finally found some settings that work pretty good. Below are the results with PPT limited to 70W without any case fans on. CPU maintains a stable 3000 +/-100 Mhz clock while staying well below 80C.
IMHO not too bad for a heatsink actually meant for active cooling. Do you know any reviews of the P1 using a CPU with comparable specs
@tinyitx?