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[Nachmanowicz]

Yeah, I'll look into buying a VRM fan later, so I don't have to go the DIY route cause I'd fumble it for sure.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Yeah, I'll look into buying a VRM fan later, so I don't have to go the DIY route cause I'd fumble it for sure.

Take a photo of your motherboard VRM section and post it here, we might be able to tell you if you need one or not.

 

[Nachmanowicz]

Will do. I will switch CPUs right now and take a picture.

Weird, I switched CPUs, but I'm stuck at American Megatrends screen. I can get to the BIOS tho.

EDIT: NVM, after a million years it did boot Windows. Will run TimeSpy now.

 

[xtreemchaos]

i know that board well, the VRM will be ok but if your going to do a all core turbo bios mod you will need a fan on the VRM because that will make it toasty on high long work loads but you should be ok for gaming bud.

 

[Nachmanowicz]

There you go for those curious.

i know that board well, the VRM will be ok but if your going to do a all core turbo bios mod you will need a fan on the VRM because that will make it toasty on high long work loads but you should be ok for gaming bud.

Oh man, its going to be gaming only. Im srsly considering disabling 2 cores, making it 8/16, if I learn how to do it, that is lol

 

[xtreemchaos]

Go to Start > Run > msconfig > Boot tab > Advanced options > Number of Processors

 

[Nachmanowicz]

Damn I thought this was a BIOS thing lol. Thanks!

I think Ive unlocked turbo boost and I set it to 16 cores instead of 20. Running time spy again.

Btw, how do I up my memory frequency? I tried setting it at both 3200Mhz and 2400Mhz and it just won't take effect.

 

[xtreemchaos]

changing the mem speed if your lucky you may be able to up it to 2400 but thats only if you cpu supports " i carnt remember off the top of my head" it but if you can only get 2133 in quad channel its not the end of the world some boards let you tighten the timings.

 

[Nachmanowicz]

Yeah I think Im stuck at 2133 :/

 

[xtreemchaos]

yes some mainstream boards let you change the ram speed but not many chinese boards do they are just like cut down server boards with recycled chips.

 

[Nachmanowicz]

Interesting finding: Time Spy CPU score is very core hungry. After the unlock turbo boost with -2 cores the score was lower. But will all cores enabled, it was higer.

 

[Edwired]

Get Process Lasso that can help with performance side of the things as well you can set per core or disable core/threads/hyper threading and a bunch of other tricks to games and applications including setting performance mode or power saving per game/application I use it for alot of things on my pc as it does exactly what it said on the tin

 

[lexluthermiester]

Will do. I will switch CPUs right now and take a picture.

Weird, I switched CPUs, but I'm stuck at American Megatrends screen. I can get to the BIOS tho.

EDIT: NVM, after a million years it did boot Windows. Will run TimeSpy now.

You don't really need a fan for those VRMs. That heatsink is more than enough to keep them cool as long as you have good airflow in your case. You're golden. If that board supports it you could even do a decent amount of overclocking.

 

[dhdude]

Just brought a 2680v2 on a whim for £10 as I had a cheap parts/not working X79 Deluxe years ago, and could never get it working with 2680 v1 a number of years back. After years of being left in a box, lo and behold, it POST’d with the v2 straight away!

Got a cheap upHere cooler on the way, looking forward to building it into my spare Arc Midi 2!

 

[lexluthermiester]

Just brought a 2680v2 on a whim for £10

Nice deal.

could never get it working with 2680 v1 a number of years back

Weird.

After years of being left in a box, lo and behold, it POST’d with the v2 straight away!

Even more weird! Glad it's working for you though!

 

[Nachmanowicz]

You don't really need a fan for those VRMs. That heatsink is more than enough to keep them cool as long as you have good airflow in your case. You're golden. If that board supports it you could even do a decent amount of overclocking.

I finally built it into a case. Had a weird problem, the first USB 2.0 header when plugged in would make the PC turn on and off after like 3 seconds. Lots of testing with everything made me realize it. I just plugged it into the second usb 2.0 header and worked. Go figure. That's not my question tho. My question is:

I bought a case with only rear and top mounting for fans. It came with one rear fan. How should I set it? I'm thinking blowing it out to the front and reversing the cooler fan to also blow it towards the front. And then I could set exhausts on top after, since hot air rises anyways, fighting against it makes zero sense.....

 

[lexluthermiester]

I finally built it into a case. Had a weird problem, the first USB 2.0 header when plugged in would make the PC turn on and off after like 3 seconds. Lots of testing with everything made me realize it. I just plugged it into the second usb 2.0 header and worked. Go figure.

Weird, got a close up photo of the connector in question?

It came with one rear fan. How should I set it?

Photo of the case or at least a model number we can look up would be useful. However, as a general rule, the fan in the rear nearest the CPU socket area should be setup to force air out of the case(exhaust). Same with the top fans. Thermal aerodynamics apply. Hot air rises, cool air descends. Always work with physics and gravity. So always set your fans at the top & rear of the system to pull air out of the system(exhaust).

since hot air rises anyways, fighting against it makes zero sense.....

Exactly!

 

[Edwired]

I finally built it into a case. Had a weird problem, the first USB 2.0 header when plugged in would make the PC turn on and off after like 3 seconds. Lots of testing with everything made me realize it. I just plugged it into the second usb 2.0 header and worked. Go figure. That's not my question tho. My question is:

I bought a case with only rear and top mounting for fans. It came with one rear fan. How should I set it? I'm thinking blowing it out to the front and reversing the cooler fan to also blow it towards the front. And then I could set exhausts on top after, since hot air rises anyways, fighting against it makes zero sense.....

It best to intake from the front and top and rear to exhausting all depends on the available room you have inside the case and what cooler is used will dictate the air flow path otherwise you be fighting against postive and negative pressure by messing with the flow direction with the fans that my honest opinion. Ah the USB 2.0 connector on the case connecting to the motherboard he was referring to since there's another connector on the board looks similar like 1394 I think has a similar pin layout as it not recommended to connect the 1394 connector to the USB expansion ports on the case as it can damage the board in the process from what I read online

 

[Nachmanowicz]

But this case has no support for front fans. Its this one:

Gabinete Gamer Pichau HX300M Glass, Mid-tower, Lateral de Vidro, Branco, PG-HX3-WHM1

Gabinete Gamer Pichau HX300M Glass, Mid-tower, Lateral de Vidro, Branco, PG-HX3-WHM1, Material Plástico ABS, Aço SPCC 0,7mm, Placa mãe suportada Mini-ITX, M-ATX, Pichau info

www.pichau.com.br

It looks pretty cute, gotta say. I set it up as I said. I inverted the CPU fan too, so its also pushing air forward, so the rear and CPU fan arent fighting with each other, you know? Ill post a picture of the my case as is soon. I'm just finishing it off.

 

[lexluthermiester]

But this case has no support for front fans. Its this one:

Gabinete Gamer Pichau HX300M Glass, Mid-tower, Lateral de Vidro, Branco, PG-HX3-WHM1

Gabinete Gamer Pichau HX300M Glass, Mid-tower, Lateral de Vidro, Branco, PG-HX3-WHM1, Material Plástico ABS, Aço SPCC 0,7mm, Placa mãe suportada Mini-ITX, M-ATX, Pichau info

www.pichau.com.br

It looks pretty cute, gotta say. I set it up as I said. I inverted the CPU fan too, so its also pushing air forward, so the rear and CPU fan arent fighting with each other, you know? Ill post a picture of the my case as is soon. I'm just finishing it off.

Oh yeah! That is a good case. You will most definitely be best served with that rear fan blowing air out, as shown in the photo. Same with the top fans!

 

[Edwired]

But this case has no support for front fans. Its this one:

Gabinete Gamer Pichau HX300M Glass, Mid-tower, Lateral de Vidro, Branco, PG-HX3-WHM1

Gabinete Gamer Pichau HX300M Glass, Mid-tower, Lateral de Vidro, Branco, PG-HX3-WHM1, Material Plástico ABS, Aço SPCC 0,7mm, Placa mãe suportada Mini-ITX, M-ATX, Pichau info

www.pichau.com.br

It looks pretty cute, gotta say. I set it up as I said. I inverted the CPU fan too, so its also pushing air forward, so the rear and CPU fan arent fighting with each other, you know? Ill post a picture of the my case as is soon. I'm just finishing it off.

There is holes in the front of it so it should have mounting frame for intaking from the front unless it was designed to have no intake in front at all is what I'm guessing.
I see it only support three fans @ 120mm including AIO 120mm at the the rear seems tight for space for expandability

 

[Nachmanowicz]

Oh yeah! That is a good case. You will most definitely be best served with that rear fan blowing air out, as shown in the photo. Same with the top fans!

Problem is then you have no intakes at all

I set the rear fan a bit higher so its blowing air directly on the VRMs

 

[Edwired]

Problem is then you have no intakes at all

I set the rear fan a bit higher so its blowing air directly on the VRMs

Certain board have heatsinks that is usually air cooled by the cpu heatsink fan if you have the down firing style heatsink like this as a example it helps with the cooling on the vrm depending on the case if it allows the space to fit it

 

[Nachmanowicz]

Yeah I'm aware, but that's not the type of cooler I have
it would be pretty good.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Problem is then you have no intakes at all

I set the rear fan a bit higher so its blowing air directly on the VRMs

You have the whole front panel that is perforated with vent holes. That's more than enough to provide proper intake.