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Question and statement in one thread if that's ok?
I have installed a G12 on an ASUS RX 480 Strix and to be fair, it was quite painless.
I had to remove the metal plate on the Vram (covers some, not all anyway) and the plugs for the fan and led on the fan shroud were an absolute pig to depluggerise!
Otherwise a pretty easy install.
I bought an Arctic Liquid Freezer 120 on a very good deal and hoped it would work with the g12.
On the face of it, it does not fit, however, I descrewerized the 4 screws to the plastic on the rim of the cold plate and eased the shroud back and fitted the G12 frame then rescrewerized. Simple and easy.
Temps on Heaven have dropped from early to mid 70's to mid 40's. pretty good, but the noise.......... it's silent! I have the fans running 50% and cannot hear the fans or the pump. Just lovely.
Well almost. VRM temps on the Strix cooler have run at 3-4 degrees higher than core and I had been getting a peak 85 degrees with 43 degrees on the core with the G12/Arctic.
Turns out the fan on the G12 is not spinning. I had a splitter on the mother board connecting the NZXT G12 fan and the Noctua nf-s12b redux on the side case. The Noctua was spinning but the NZXT was not.
I have swapped the connections over and same thing. I unpluggerized the splitter and plugged the Noctua directly to the motherboard and it ran. I unpluggerized the Noctua and plugged in the NZXT and it tried to move on startup but would not spin. I repeated and got the same. Little jerk on power up but no spin.
Can I assume the fan is dead? If I get another 92mm Noctua, Is it ok to split a 120 and 92?
Down side to fitting NZXT G12? if the fan is dead, you have to dismantle the cooler to change it. Would have been nice to only have to remove the gpu from the PCIE and swap out.
On the whole, recommended set up and pretty painless install.
I have installed a G12 on an ASUS RX 480 Strix and to be fair, it was quite painless.
I had to remove the metal plate on the Vram (covers some, not all anyway) and the plugs for the fan and led on the fan shroud were an absolute pig to depluggerise!
Otherwise a pretty easy install.
I bought an Arctic Liquid Freezer 120 on a very good deal and hoped it would work with the g12.
On the face of it, it does not fit, however, I descrewerized the 4 screws to the plastic on the rim of the cold plate and eased the shroud back and fitted the G12 frame then rescrewerized. Simple and easy.
Temps on Heaven have dropped from early to mid 70's to mid 40's. pretty good, but the noise.......... it's silent! I have the fans running 50% and cannot hear the fans or the pump. Just lovely.
Well almost. VRM temps on the Strix cooler have run at 3-4 degrees higher than core and I had been getting a peak 85 degrees with 43 degrees on the core with the G12/Arctic.
Turns out the fan on the G12 is not spinning. I had a splitter on the mother board connecting the NZXT G12 fan and the Noctua nf-s12b redux on the side case. The Noctua was spinning but the NZXT was not.
I have swapped the connections over and same thing. I unpluggerized the splitter and plugged the Noctua directly to the motherboard and it ran. I unpluggerized the Noctua and plugged in the NZXT and it tried to move on startup but would not spin. I repeated and got the same. Little jerk on power up but no spin.
Can I assume the fan is dead? If I get another 92mm Noctua, Is it ok to split a 120 and 92?
Down side to fitting NZXT G12? if the fan is dead, you have to dismantle the cooler to change it. Would have been nice to only have to remove the gpu from the PCIE and swap out.
On the whole, recommended set up and pretty painless install.
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