Your PC ATM

[GC_PaNzerFIN]

First upgrade to personal PC since retiring from PC hardware reviewing. Two dream jobs collide and hobby had to take the hit; can't do reviews of PC hardware when you work as hw engineer at certain "small" company doing that stuff.

Very difficult to take photos in dark to capture the white LEDs with good quality. In reality brighter and even light. Ditched Corsair AIO liquid cooler for good and upgraded SSD to 400GB 750 Series NVMe drive. Gigabyte X99 motherboard died on me so had to buy my second R5E (first one recalled to Asus after a year! daym...)

 

[Spektre]

That Noctua heatsink looks so small in a large case like that.

The fans on it are only 92MM so it's not very big to begin with, but that case does have tons of room. Maybe my next motherboard will be E-ATX. Bought it because regular cases are too deep with the optical cages being on the front. This one doesn't stick out past my desk. It's fatter, but that doesn't matter. It's also so freaking quiet. I think I just hear the GPU and PSU fans and I have the fans all turned up to full speed. The air flow in this thing is amazing and the magnetic dust screen works wonders.

 

[Kanan]

The fans on it are only 92MM so it's not very big to begin with, but that case does have tons of room. Maybe my next motherboard will be E-ATX. Bought it because regular cases are too deep with the optical cages being on the front. This one doesn't stick out past my desk. It's fatter, but that doesn't matter. It's also so freaking quiet. I think I just hear the GPU and PSU fans and I have the fans all turned up to full speed. The air flow in this thing is amazing and the magnetic dust screen works wonders.

You'd really need a NH-D15 or D14 to fill that case

 

[Arrakis9]

what do you guys think? too much?

 

[stinger608]

Na, that is a bad a$$ fan box @Arrakis+9 !!!

Where did you find that puppy at?

 

[khemist]

What kind of temps are you getting with your 4790K? and what kind of voltage?, i have the same cpu but done a delid on it.

I have to spend more time and make sure i get all the old siicone off next time.

Mine hits 1.32v under stress test.

 

[Arrakis9]

Na, that is a bad a$$ fan box @Arrakis+9 !!!

Where did you find that puppy at?

got it from performance pc's its a lian li fan cover, going to strip the anodizing with oven cleaner and spray it black to match the case.

not sure if lian li makes these any more but here you go.
http://www.performance-pcs.com/lian-li-120mm-aluminum-fan-cover-red.html

What kind of temps are you getting with your 4790K? and what kind of voltage?, i have the same cpu but done a delid on it.

I have to spend more time and make sure i get all the old siicone off next time.

Mine hits 1.32v under stress test.

not sure if its just bad binning but i stopped at 1.36v for 4.6ghz because it was getting too hot under full load to even get remotely stable, seems like it wants more voltage.
i have it running at 4.5ghz right now with 1.29v rock solid

I've been thinking about de-lidding it myself but im not sure, would rather sell it and try my luck on another chip.

 

[khemist]

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/der8auer-delid-die-mate-hs-000-dr.html

Give the delid tool a shot, can't go wrong.

I just sold off a load of watercooling stuff inc a brand new delid tool.

Make sure you use clu or clp on the die though.

Sometimes if you delid and add clu or clp to the die you can sell for more.


Never had problems with temps before but wanted to give it a bash anyway.




Only had time for 15 min runs - this is before delid after 15 mins of realbench.


CPU @ 1.32v 4.8





And after.

 

[khemist]

I think i could reduce the temps more if i cleaned all the silicone gunk from the cpu.

I'm going back to watercooling though, i can't resist!.

 

[xfia]

mmm water cooling is the only way sometimes @khemist

 

[Toothless]

Getting the little guy ready to go since my main rig needs a new HDD in there due to.. games.. That's for later down the road.

 

[Red_Machine]

Here's my setup right now:

 

[Arrakis9]

Here's my setup right now:

need more of that rei poster on the wall...
also no oppai mouse mat ?

Heres a better idea of what the fan cover will look like, stripped both of them today and sanded em.

 

[Ruru]

Last time to this thread with this underpowered PSU

Don't say anything about the DIY PCI-e power adapter

 

[Red_Machine]

That GPU board looks awfully bent...

 

[Spektre]

You'd really need a NH-D15 or D14 to fill that case

Oh man, I just installed a D15 in my brother's computer. (He bought a new build, but I put everything together for him because he's a scrub) Holy crap that thing is massive. Presumably I'd get better temps, but would it be worth spending the money?

 

[sneekypeet]

Oh man, I just installed a D15 in my brother's computer. (He bought a new build, but I put everything together for him because he's a scrub) Holy crap that thing is massive. Presumably I'd get better temps, but would it be worth spending the money?

What sort of temps are you getting with the NH-U9 at load?

 

[Anarki]

How my PC looks like after installing $2 led strips.

Hope my Tundra gets sold soon so that I can get a decent cooler and start overclocking.

 

[Spektre]

What sort of temps are you getting with the NH-U9 at load?

ATM, OCCT is running a test. At 3910.3 MHz, I'm at 60 C for my highest temp. EDIT: After 20 minutes, by highest was 62.

 

[sneekypeet]

ATM, OCCT is running a test. At 3910.3 MHz, I'm at 60 C for my highest temp. EDIT: After 20 minutes, by highest was 62.

Honestly, those results are pretty damn good! I wouldn't go throwing near $100 at a cooler for maybe a couple of degrees. The only potential benefit would be slightly less noise from the fan, but you got plenty of thermal headroom to be able to stick the LNA in line and lower noise with the cooler you have for free.

 

[Spektre]

Honestly, those results are pretty damn good! I wouldn't go throwing near $100 at a cooler for maybe a couple of degrees. The only potential benefit would be slightly less noise from the fan, but you got plenty of thermal headroom to be able to stick the LNA in line and lower noise with the cooler you have for free.

Sweet. Noise isn't an issue anyway. The Noctua and Corsair fans are so freaking quiet, even at full speed.

 

[Jetster]

Absolutely hate the hair but how can you be mad at this

 

[Kanan]

Oh man, I just installed a D15 in my brother's computer. (He bought a new build, but I put everything together for him because he's a scrub) Holy crap that thing is massive. Presumably I'd get better temps, but would it be worth spending the money?

If you want ~AIO water-like performance on your cooling, yes. I got the D14 and its extremly quiet, yet powerful, I'm very happy with it and got it relatively cheap from ebay for 50 bucks instead 80 or 90. ^^ Depends if you want to do serious overclocking or not, too.

 

[Spektre]

If you want ~AIO water-like performance on your cooling, yes. I got the D14 and its extremly quiet, yet powerful, I'm very happy with it and got it relatively cheap from ebay for 50 bucks instead 80 or 90. ^^ Depends if you want to do serious overclocking or not, too.

I saw some charts comparing the coolers and the D15 was showing like 30 degrees cooler. I would like to overclock clock Mt current CPU. So far I haven't found stable settings...

 

[Arrakis9]

Honestly, those results are pretty damn good! I wouldn't go throwing near $100 at a cooler for maybe a couple of degrees. The only potential benefit would be slightly less noise from the fan, but you got plenty of thermal headroom to be able to stick the LNA in line and lower noise with the cooler you have for free.

Sweet. Noise isn't an issue anyway. The Noctua and Corsair fans are so freaking quiet, even at full speed.

You should check out some of Mr. Peet's cooler reviews over @ TweakTown i use his reviews for reference when i can find them, some of the best cooler reviews on the net IMHO