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[RemmRun]

terribly sorry ive been away from these forum for quite some time its a 3d printed
Fan Shroud for 150mm duct 140mm fan PC Case, GPU, High Temp ABS ( if you type that into ebay it should come up )
that i found on Ebay au..

does it work amazing MEH i dont know i just figured i could funnel the cold air sucked into the front of the case and blow into the air cooler to help CPU temps !!

Thank you. Maybe it works well or not, but it looks cool

 

[Karadjgne]

They do actually help somewhat at mitigating reversion of the airflow.

Depending on the fan. Some fans like Noctua F series have a directed flow to start with, so the flow is almost all perpendicular to the fan. Some fans, like the Noctua S series are high angle broadcast, so would see a large directional benefit from that shroud.

 

[SyCoREAPER]

I haven't used them myself or seen them except in passing but those funnels have to at least to some capacity be acting like megaphones no? Granted I probably wouldn't notice with all fans running at 100% all the time but for the average person I'd imagine it has to add some noise.

 

[ilukey77]

I know a rebuild of my 7800x3d and 7900xtx but im super impressed with what this case can handle and it looks super cool with the vertical mounting ..

Even more so with GPU temps and CPU temps ( well with a arctic freezer iii 420mm AIO its crazy to think the CPU would get hot )

somewhat diminishing returns with the 420mm

That said GPU is hovering around 60c 70c 4k ultra 100% load in dragon age

As sig says
Asus rog crosshair x670e gene 7800x3d arctic freezer iii 420mm argb corsair hx 1000i PSU 2 140mm fans blowing air in from the right hand side ( top if not vertical ) AIO 140s pulling air out and the side rgb 140mm fan is blowin / sucking air over the psu

7900xtx red devil is sucking cool air from the bottom though vented mesh panel ..

Call me very impressed with the temps and look ..

Sadly the 7900xtx is going bye bye as will the red rgb colour for green 5090 next year !!

 

[MJS WARLORD]

This is the spec of my 8 year old rig and it can still hold its own with the latest must have games and yes i know i should use better ram speed but as i said its 8 years old.

The tower COOLERMASTER HAF-X FULL TOWER GAMING CASE
The cpu is Intel® Core™i7 Six Core Processor i7-6800K (3.4GHz) 15MB Cache.
The motherboard is ASUS® ROG STRIX X99: ATX, USB 3.1, SATA 6 GB/s.
The ram is 16GB HyperX FURY DDR4 2133MHz (4 x 4GB) ....
The graphics card is 8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1080 - DVI, HDMI, 3x DP - GTX VR Ready!
The main drive is 480GB HyperX SAVAGE 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (up to 560MB/sR | 530MB/sW) for windows and all the items you can’t chose where they install.
The second drive is 960GB HyperX SAVAGE 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (up to 560MB/sR | 530MB/sW) for my steam client games and all other games.
The dvd/blue ray is 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM.
The power supply is CORSAIR 650W CS SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET.
The cpu cooler is Noctua NH-D15S Ultra Quiet Performance CPU Cooler

footnote i have recently added another 4tb ssd for my increasing games catalogue.

 

[cameraman]

 

[g-unit1111]

I know a rebuild of my 7800x3d and 7900xtx but im super impressed with what this case can handle and it looks super cool with the vertical mounting ..

Even more so with GPU temps and CPU temps ( well with a arctic freezer iii 420mm AIO its crazy to think the CPU would get hot )

somewhat diminishing returns with the 420mm

That said GPU is hovering around 60c 70c 4k ultra 100% load in dragon age

As sig says
Asus rog crosshair x670e gene 7800x3d arctic freezer iii 420mm argb corsair hx 1000i PSU 2 140mm fans blowing air in from the right hand side ( top if not vertical ) AIO 140s pulling air out and the side rgb 140mm fan is blowin / sucking air over the psu

7900xtx red devil is sucking cool air from the bottom though vented mesh panel ..

Call me very impressed with the temps and look ..

Sadly the 7900xtx is going bye bye as will the red rgb colour for green 5090 next year !!

That's sick! I love the Thermaltake fish tank style case.

 

[Colif]

Guess its due for an update on photo since I changed the cooler and intake fans since last photo

One AIO fan died so I replaced them, then the AIO pump died. So back on air cooling.
Deepcool Assassin 4

 

[Darkbreeze]

Fine then. Hmm. LOL. JK.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Working on a new setup for my grandson: Nothing extreme: A few components I already had.



pic share





CPU: Intel Core i5-12600KF 3.7 GHz 10-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 90 SE 32.77 CFM CPU Cooler
Thermal Compound: ARCTIC MX-4 4 g Thermal Paste ($6.99)
Motherboard: ASRock B760M Pro RS/D4 Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory
Storage: Crucial P3 Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
Storage: Crucial P3 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
Storage: Klevv CRAS C910 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
Video Card: Intel Limited Edition Arc B580 12 GB Video Card
Case: Asus Prime AP201 MicroATX Mini Tower Case
Power Supply: Asus Prime AP-750G 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply
Case Fan: 6 - Thermalright TL-C12C X3 66.17 CFM k

 

[Darkbreeze]

Threw this together from some used parts I had on hand and a case I picked up off Marketplace for 40 bucks. Going to my sister's house. Just integrated graphics as it won't be used for gaming.

Lian Li Lancool 205 Mesh
i5-6400
32GB G.Skill Ripjaws V 3200MT/s CL16
Deepcool Gammaxx 400 v2 (With Cryorig H7 fan)
Antec VP-450
2 x140mm Lian Li case fans
1 x120mm Lian Li case fan

 

[bit_user]

Threw this together from some used parts I had on hand and a case I picked up off Marketplace for 40 bucks. Going to my sister's house. Just integrated graphics as it won't be used for gaming.

Lian Li Lancool 205 Mesh
i5-6400
32GB G.Skill Ripjaws V 3200MT/s CL16
Deepcool Gammaxx 400 v2 (With Cryorig H7 fan)
Antec VP-450
2 x140mm Lian Li case fans
1 x120mm Lian Li case fan

Unless you're going for positive pressure + dust filters to keep the thing clean inside, the amount of airflow seems way overkill. I'd bet You could ditch the intake fans and it'd be just fine. In fact, even losing the exhaust fan probably still wouldn't be enough to cause overheating.

Are the intake fans at least PWM (and on PWM headers)? If so, they might spin so slowly they're almost inaudible.

 

[Darkbreeze]

I'm aware. Fans came with the case and the curves are set so low you can't hear them at all. And with the low TDP of the CPU and the quality of the VRMs on this board you likely never will which is the intent. They are PWM and they are spinning at like 500rpm so yeah, inaudible. Same with the CPU cooler. You can't hear a thing from this system, even with the side panel off standing a foot away.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Threw this together from some used parts I had on hand and a case I picked up off Marketplace for 40 bucks. Going to my sister's house. Just integrated graphics as it won't be used for gaming.

Lian Li Lancool 205 Mesh
i5-6400
32GB G.Skill Ripjaws V 3200MT/s CL16
Deepcool Gammaxx 400 v2 (With Cryorig H7 fan)
Antec VP-450
2 x140mm Lian Li case fans
1 x120mm Lian Li case fan

Very nice!

 

[Darkbreeze]

Just put this one together as well. Picked up the NXZT case on CL for ten bucks if you can believe that. No controller and no fans, but so what. Totally happy with it for ten bucks. Put the B550 board, memory and 5700x that a very awesome friend on the mod team gifted me in there, and this is going to be my test bench system now. For a variety of purposes. And I'm super thankful for it. This is nice and I hope it will help me, help community, at some point.

 

[Colif]

My PC changed a little. I just swapped out 3 Lian LI fans for 3 Noctuas. The Lian LI fans were a little disappointing.
Only way to see them is to point lamp at glass since its dark tint (mistake I won't repeat)

One advantage to black tint and black cables is I don't see those in normal operation, but then I don't see the fans either.

raindrop rgb pattern makes me wish I had more than 4 sticks to use.

 

[Lucky_SLS]

^ Think that GPU definitely needs an anti sag bracket!

 

[Colif]

^ Think that GPU definitely needs an anti sag bracket!

The case doesn't have one.

Card came with

Which is normally in the box in front of the fans, but I hadn't put it in since swapping the fans. Its there now.

The motherboard has a strengthened pci slot so it might be okay.
The card has an anti sag protection built into its frame - can see it clearly running along top of card in above shot.

https://www.powercolor.com/product-detail115.htm

Angles can make it look like the Deepcool is resting on top of GPU but there is a gap there.

 

[valthuer]

My rig, has just changed. Sold my Inno 3D GeForce RTX 4090 24GB GDDR6X X3 OC and bought MSI GeForce RTX 5090 32G GAMING TRIO OC.

Planning to change my current PSU, by the end of this month.

The rest of my rig, is as follows;

CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900K 3.00 GHz

Motherboard: ASRock Z790 PG Lightning

RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 64GB DDR5 (2x32GB) 6600 MT/s

Storage: Samsung 980 SSD 1TB M.2 NVME, Samsung 990 PRO SSD 1TB M.2 NVME, Western Digital Blue 2TB HDD

PSU: Zalman Watttera 1000W Full Modular 80 Plus Gold

Case: LIAN LI LANCOOL III RGB

 

[bit_user]

bought MSI GeForce RTX 5090 32G GAMING TRIO OC.

Congrats! I don't even want to know how much it cost.

Heh, those 4x power cables coming out of it look kind of like half of a spider has gotten sucked into the card and its 4 remaining legs are still dangling out.

 

[valthuer]

Congrats! I don't even want to know how much it cost.

Heh, those 4x power cables coming out of it look kind of like half of a spider has gotten sucked into the card and its 4 remaining legs are still dangling out.

I almost spit my coffee on my OLED TV 😂😂

It cost me 3,570 euros, which is roughly 3,704$.

Long story short, it doesn’t get any more scalper than this, here in Greece 😢

 

[SyCoREAPER]

I'm posting an AIO of my 2.5 Builds. Nothing flashy, I don't like Unicorn Diarrhea and haven't come up with a theme to go with except dark.

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1) Newest Build:
- MB: Asus TUF X670E-Plus
- CPU: AMD 9800X3D (UV) + Thermalright frame
- Paste: Noctua NH2
- Cooler: Corsair iCUE LINK TITAN 360 RX AIO w/VRM Cooler Mod
- RAM: Corsair Vengance 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5-6000 CL30
- GPU: MSI 4090 Gaming Trio w/SuprimX vBIOS
- PSU: MSI MPG A1000G PCIE5 1000W
- Case: Corsair 5000D Black;
•Fans:6x 120mm Corsair LX - intakes , 1x Noctua 140mm NF-A14 chroma - exhaust, 3x Corsair RX 120mm for AIO - exhaust

MISC
- Monitors: Main: MSI Optix MPG321UR-QD 31.5" | Secondary: HyperX Armada 24.5" 240Hz
- Mouse: Main: Logitech G502X | Secondary: Razer Basilisk V2
- Keyboard: ASUS ROG Strix Flare II Animate 100%
- Audio: Samsung HW-B550 or Audio-Technica ATH-ADG1X

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2) Short-Lived, Replaced by PC 3 below. Repurposed & Modified from Original Build.
Was used for SIM Racing as well as encoding but Assetto likes AMD X3D processors.
- MB: MSI Edge z690 DDR4 WiFi
- CPU: i7-13700K (lightly overclocked) + Thermalright frame
- Paste: Noctua NH1
- Cooler: Corsair H150 Elite Caprellix 360mm
- RAM: G-Skill DDR4-4000Mhz (4x16GB)
- GPU: AMD 7900XT - Reference
- PSU: MSI MPG A1000G PCIE5 1000W
- Case: NZXT H7 Flow (2021 Model, new one sucks)
•Fans: 4x Noctua NF-A14 140mm's. 3 IN/Front, 1 OUT/Rear.
Cooler: 3x Noctua NF-A12x25 (PUSH) {Yes, I know they aren't black, can't tell with the dark glass}

MISC:
See below

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3) Re-Repurposed using parts from PC2 as well as parts that never made it into PC1. Below is now purely my SIM Racing Rig.

- MB: Asus TUF B650 PLUS
- CPU: AMD 7800X3D (UV) + Thermalright frame
- Paste: Noctua NH2
- Cooler: Corsair H150 Elite Caprellix 360mm
- RAM: Corsair Vengance 2x16GB DDR5-6400 (running 6000Mhz)
- GPU: AMD 7900XT - Reference
- PSU: MSI MPG A1000G PCIE5 1000W
- Case: NZXT H7 Flow (2021 Model, new one sucks)
•Fans: 4x Noctua NF-A14 140mm's. 3 IN/Front, 1 OUT/Rear. Cooler: 3x Noctua NF-A12x25 (PUSH) {Yes, I know they aren't black, can't tell with the dark glass}

MISC
- Monitor: LG C1 OLED 65"
- Moza R12 Base
- Moza CS V2P
- Moza SRP 3 Pedal - Heavily Modified
- Logitech Shifter - Heavily Modified
- Audio-Technica ATH-ADG1X

Note: Cleaned up but formatting and typos.

 

[valthuer]

I'm posting an AIO of my 2.5 Builds. Nothing flashy, I don't like Unicorn Diarrhea and haven't come up with a theme to go with except dark.

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Newest Build:
- MB: Asus TUF X670E-Plus
- CPU: AMD 9800X3D (UV) + Thermalright frame
- Paste: Noctua NH2
- Cooler: Corsair iCUE LINK TITAN 360 RX AIO w/VRM Cooler Mod
- RAM: Corsair Vengance 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5-6000 CL30
- GPU: MSI 4090 Gaming Trio w/SuprimX vBIOS
- PSU: MSI MPG A1000G PCIE5 1000W
- Case: Corsair 5000D Black;
•Fans:6x 120mm Corsair LX - intakes , 1x Noctua 140mm NF-A14 chroma - exhaust, 3x Corsair RX 120mm for AIO - exhaust

MISC
- Monitors: Main: MSI Optix MPG321UR-QD 31.5" | Secondary: HyperX Armada 24.5" 240Hz
- Mouse: Main: Logitech G502X | Secondary: Razer Basilisk V2
- Keyboard: ASUS ROG Strix Flare II Animate 100%
- Audio: Samsung HW-B550 or Audio-Technica ATH-ADG1X

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Short-Lived, Repurposed & Modified from Original Build. Replaced further by Part 3.
- MB: MSI Edge z690 DDR4 WiFi
- CPU: i7-13700K (lightly overclocked) + Thermalright frame
- Paste: Noctua NH1
- Cooler: Corsair H150 Elite Caprellix 360mm
- RAM: G-Skill DDR4-4000Mhz (4x16GB)
- GPU: AMD 7900XT - Reference
- PSU: MSI MPG A1000G PCIE5 1000W
- Case: NZXT H7 Flow (2021 Model, new one sucks)
•Fans: 4x Noctua NF-A14 140mm's. 3 IN/Front, 1 OUT/Rear.
Cooler: 3x Noctua NF-A12x25 (PUSH) {Yes, I know they aren't black, can't tell with the dark glass}

MISC:
See below

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Re-Repurposed from to below from original parts never used in NEWEST Build at the top. My SIM Racing Rig.

- MB: Asus TUF B650 PLUS
- CPU: AMD 7800X3D (UV) + Thermalright frame
- Paste: Noctua NH2
- Cooler: Corsair H150 Elite Caprellix 360mm
- RAM: Corsair Vengance 2x16GB DDR5-6400 (running 6000Mhz)
- GPU: AMD 7900XT - Reference
- PSU: MSI MPG A1000G PCIE5 1000W
- Case: NZXT H7 Flow (2021 Model, new one sucks)
•Fans: 4x Noctua NF-A14 140mm's. 3 IN/Front, 1 OUT/Rear.
Cooler: 3x Noctua NF-A12x25 (PUSH) {Yes, I know they aren't black, can't tell with the dark glass}

MISC
- Monitor: LG C1 OLED 55"
- Moza R12 Base
- Moza CS V2P
- Moza SRP 3 Pedal - Heavily Modified
- Logitech Shifter - Heavily Modified
- Audio-Technica ATH-ADG1X

Your 9800X3D rig, looks very impressive!

I like how the black colour dominates the entire build.

 

[SyCoREAPER]

Your 9800X3D rig, looks very impressive!

I like how the black colour dominates the entire build.

Thanks 😁 appreciate the kind words.

The case is however the one thing I both really like and is a weak point.
It's not as well constructed as I would have expected and the dingus only supports 120mm fans though I forced a 140mm on the rear. Otherwise I can't complain.

Temps are very good, Indiana Jones (most GPU intensive game I have, ~100% GPU utilz. Only hits 66C. CPU under CPU tasks has reached 76C.

Would have liked the fans to be all black on both builds but realized I already spent a entry-midlevel GPU worth of cost in fans alone. I like the all black look and appreciate the compliment. To me there's something very appealing to the minimalist and clean look of a blacked out build.

 

[valthuer]

CPU under CPU tasks has reached 76C.

Sounds like your situation is a lot better than mine.

I have seen my 13900K repeatedly hitting 100 °C, during building shaders in games.

Yikes!😳