April 2, 20251 yr Well, I guess it depends on your perspective, but we certainly don't need a great big one. A small one does the job. I am of course referring to the Mini ITX system I just built. (What did you think I meant?) Ncase M2 Enclosure Asus Mini ITX board Intel 12900K (infamous for heat) 64GB DDR5 4TB 990 Pro One of the new Corsair 1000 watt SFX PSU's. Tiny little guy. My old EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3. A couple of slim 15mm Noctua fans at the bottom feed in air to the card. Another slim Noctua at the top. All cooled with a mere Noctua NH-D12L. No issues with temp, that's with Intel power limits in place. Yes, if I run Cinebench R24 then one of the cores, after a long run, gets to 99 degrees, but no issues in games or anything else I run, much lower, well away from throttling. Despite no issues with temp, and because I'm very scary, I may delid and replace with liquid metal and a Thermal Grizzly heat spreader, the combined heat spreader and contact frame guy. Should drop temps by 15 degrees. I got sick of dealing with a huge Phanteks Evolv X that weighs six million tons and takes up half an acre. To be honest, I cant see me ever going back to massive cases. Edited April 2, 20251 yr by martin-w
April 2, 20251 yr Administrators Martin, it all depends on how you use it! 😜 Charlie AronAVSIM Board of Directors-ADMIN/Moderator-RegistrarJust going to run a Chromebook and not upgrade to a Windows computer. Too many problems with the new Sims! 😱Trying to keep peace and harmony and the will of Landru on the site seems to be a full time job!
April 2, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, charliearon said: Martin, it all depends on how you use it! 😜 That's what the other sex says, but i think they're just being polite.😃 MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Plus | Intel Core i9-10900K @ 5.3GHz | 64GB Corsair Vengeance | Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3090 | 500 GB M.2 NVMe for win | 2TB M.2 NVMe for FS2024 | TrackIr v5 | Honeycomb Alpha & Bravo | Thrustmaster Hotas Warthog Eric from EHAM, a flying Dutchman.
April 2, 20251 yr Author 4 hours ago, charliearon said: Martin, it all depends on how you use it! 😜 Charlie, your personel experience with your teeny tiny thing is much appreciated. 👍
April 7, 20251 yr Author Well... latest news. One of the cores, in R23, was 99 degrees, not uncommon for R23. But... in COD it was 93 on core 5. Games should be a lot lower than R23 multicore of course. My suspicion is that because its a small case, the RTX 3090 it's blasting it's heat into the location of the air cooler. And I'm thinking that one core so much hotter is due to the Intell mounting system issue, whereby a small degree of bending occurs due to most of the pressure being in the middle on LGA 1700. Have a Thermal Grizzly delid tool on the way, liquid metal and Thermal Grizzly heatspreader. In theory, could drop temps by as much as 15 degrees. Moving house soon, so after the move and my credit card has recovered, may experiment with an external custom loop. Yes, I am scary. 😾
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