Recent content by topgun505

I listed my case above. There are two fans up top. One as far back as it can sit and the other in front of it ... which places that one right in front of the cpu heat sink fan.

core i9-14900kf Noctua nh-u12a Gigabyte aorus elite ax Z790 4x gskill trident z5 32GB Gigabyte RTX 4080 super Corsair icue 4000d airflow If you look at the front from inside the case you can only see the top half of the bottom fan. The other half of the fan is blowing into the separated lower...

So in the process of seeing how all the fans will be set up in the new rig I encountered a possible issue. The CPU is air cooled with a Noctua setup (one heat sink with 2 fans on it blowing to the rear). One rear exhaust fan as per normal. 2 exhaust fans on top and 3 intake fans on the front...

Corsair icue 4000D Airflow

I have a Core i9-14900kf (do NOT intend to do any overclocking, at least not at this time). I initally had gotten a Noctua NH-D15 air cooler but it was just not going to fit over the RAM DIMMs and the housing over the rear IO ports cover. I scaled back to a NH-U12A and that fits (barely)...

Been a long time since building a system. I installed the CPU and put on the thermal paste (probably put on more than was needed but that's ok). Then put on the Noctua heat sink fins. I was having a bastard of a time getting both screws to catch to get it screwed down into place. One caught...

I am upgrading an Alienware Aurora R8 which came with a Nvidia 1070 graphics card that has a single 8 pin connector on it. However, when I inspected the system, the motherboard also has an 8-pin connector on it as well labeled GPU PWR. The original power supply was running an 8 pin connector to...

Are SSDs viable for an operating system drive at this point (working on the assumption it needs yo be able to last for 5-6 years)?

So I am in the process of building a new pc.  I tend to build a pc and use it for 6 years (doing only slight upgrades during that time as needed) and then build a completely new machine.  I’m thinking about going with a Z270 chipset-based motherboard in order to utilize the Smart Response...

DCS. Digital Combat Simulations.

There have been a couple (but few and far between, and expensive) boards that support 2 cards at full 16x. Is there a huge advantage to that (that would justify the expense) ... or is it generally not worth it? For 2 cards (let's say NVidia 970s SLI) ... is 850 watt psu sufficient or more...

Yes, it will be a 3 monitor rig. If I need two cards to drive them, then I probably won't spring for a top of the line video card (i.e. something costing $400+). So for doing SLI (or whatever is the equivalent for Radeon), what do I need to pay attention to for PCI slot bandwidth on the...

Up until now I have strictly had a single display at home. I'm running higher-end flight simulations and have plans to bump up to three monitors. I've been eyeing some GTX 970 4GB cards. My question is. How many cards would I need in order to run three displays at high def (not 4k)...

Had some health issues so had to take a break from this. I tried to download the ISOs Blackbird but while that link goes to a valid page ... all the links on that page lead to pages that no longer exist. I also tried going to MS website and there is a recovery option there where you can plug a...

So I have a friend who is asking a favor wanting her laptop to be wiped and have the OS (Win 7) reinstalled. Just clean slate it. The laptop is a HP 2000-416dx so it's several years old. It originally came with Win 7 Home but subsequently someone installed Win 7 Ultimate on it. She is not...