1 minute ago, scottb613 said:

Hah - sounds like you are deeper down the rabbit hole than I - thanks for the explanation ! I noticed those small mobile computer cases a few times and wondered what they would be like... Enjoy !

I used the Coolermaster HAF XB Evo case.  The mobo sits flat on the top deck, and with two mobo-mounted M.2 SSDs, there is nothing mounted in the lower drive bays (in fact I removed two of the three drive cages).  So it's just the mobo, GPU, and NH-D15 on top, plus cables to the PSU (the only component in the lower deck).  It's short and squat (15"d x 17"w x 13"h), can't fall over, and rides with the heavy NH-D15 sitting on top of the mobo not putting side stresses on the socket with each bump in the road.  Should be enlightening to see how it works while on the road.

Cheers

Again to all that have responded to the noise problem, thank you.

 

Bob,

 I think I have made some improvements to the cooling through re-locating equipment (computer box) and removing unnecessary internal hardware. I too use the new Samsung EVO 970 M.2 for my hard drive so all those (4 racks) needed to mount storage units were just in the way of the top front case fan blowing cool outside air over the motherboard and taking away some of the rising air off the RTX 2080 before it reached the CPU cooler. This now lets the cooler fans to idle at 1060 RPM and a water temp of 31C. Under load flying the 737 around ABQ, the fans now turn only 2000-2100 RPM and the temp is 38C. I have not overclocked anything so my i9 9900K is cruising at a nice 4.68 MHz in X-Plane 11. That is still enough to allow me to set all the sliders either full right or one notch back and still see 50-80 FPS on a Samsung 40 inch 1080P screen. Most likely this will drop some when I go 4K but for right now the textures and video are very nice. I do not have any additional add-on programs to the basic X-plane 11.

 

So from where I started about a week ago with this new build, my super noisy G-III has now been turned into a much quieter G-IV and hopefully into a new 550 or 650. I use to dispatch for a company that had some noisy birds.  (LR-35, G-III, DC-9-15F, BE-200, DH-6) In another life, I repaired and operated F-4E and F-111D sims in the Air Force and yes they had a lot of fan noise too.

 

Terry

On 7/17/2019 at 7:38 PM, Cat_Dad said:

 

 

 

 

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 Most of the folks I know using delidded CPUs are also running fairly high-performance custom water loops as well...it'd be interesting to see how the delid/AIO combo worked.

 

8700K delidded with Conductonaut. - does 5.2 GHz Max. At 5 GHz temps are in the high 70's during stress testing. 20C ambient. Very quiet in normal use. During stress testing it's my case fans ramping up I can hear. NH-D15S is cool, quiet, impressive.