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PaperclipPerfector  10d ago (text post)   2153 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for December 20, 2024

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How do you have it aligned? Is it venting case air over the radiator and up out the case? That seems to be about as good as you can get.

With most gpus venting directly into the damn case now, I've been struggling to come up with a system that doesn't end up with hot air being used for cooling. At least drives have gotten so small it's easier to pull a ton of air in through the front.
My ideal would be a side-mounted external radiator with its own intake filter.

It's top mounted in a NZXT H9 Flow, and the top of the case has lots of small holes. I don't think I made any mistakes during installation. My build as a whole should be pretty optimal at this point. Unless I'm missing something.

To keep the case generally ventilated and somewhat cool, I've got Noctua PWM fans for intake from the bottom of the case, and one for exhaust out the back of the case. I've got curves set up to use multiple controllers for these, so they can react in two fashions to gpu heat and cpu heat.

I'm seeing reports that the Arctic LF III can produce issues when using the 3 cables for 3 headers connection, instead of using the all-in-1 cable. I wanted more control over the several parts of this thing. But the pump may not like that. That's the scuttlebutt.

Edit: I swapped the connections. I thought I had VRM on cpu_fan1. It was on 2. Radiator fans was on 1. Now, with vrm on cpu_fan1 and radiator fans on cpu_fan2, the noise is mostly gone, only appearing briefly during ramp-up! Yay! Hardware idiosyncracies. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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