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Hi, Thinking of upgrading my monitor from a 27'' AOC AG271QG4 to a LG 34GN850P-B. Any thoughts on whether the LG is a good monitor?

:D, its more of a I wanted to fiddle with shit kind of a deal, which I consider worth it. also for anyone who reads this later and tries to find answers to the questions i had: 1. In the Meshify 2, a 280mm EK radiator (45mm thick) will fit in the bottom of the Meshify 2, with a Rm850x psu, with no room to spare. The rad needs to be on the bottom, with fans in pull. While the radiator is currently not yet added to the loop (waiting on some fittings to change the location of the drain port), with 2 140mm noctua f12 fans, there does not seem to be any measurable difference in air flow with or without the radiator added for the rest of the case. 1.1. My fan setup is currently such that normally the case is under a slight positive pressure, but if water goes above 30c, the case will gradually change to a slightly negative pressure to help with intake from the bottom fans. 2. Before buying the Meshify 2, I should have gone with a O11. I didn't bother to measure my runs exactly and i have gotten lucky so so many times with stuff fitting when they shouldnt have.

Yeah i feel the funds part, house loan payments have increased by almost 100% and a fresh father (so gotta save up for daughters pc obviously).

Thanks, that's very helpful feedback. The entire thing is a experiment just for fun and I also don't plan to overclock anything. I guess i'll leave the 240mm rad out for now and see if i get the urge to add it back in in the future. I'll just add some 140mm fans at the bottom, so that the existing rads get more fresh air :D. On the rest of it, at least the CPU block should be quite good (its an EK vector something), the GPU block is a some chinese firm one, cause it was the only one i could source for the 1080ti (its an asus strix card). That said, thermal paste should be updated indeed, it's been there for around 2 years now. On upgrading stuff, I should upgrade the gpu at some stage, but in order to justify this, I kinda need to also have time to use the pc or play any new games at all. Otherwise it's just a "i can wait for the new gen stuff to arrive game". Currently I don't really do either of those things and the main reason I open my pc is to reply to personal e-mails over the weekend and play some destiny 2 with friends 1-2 times a week for like 1-2 hours at a time.

Since winter is coming, I figured I would port my custom loop from my meshify 2 compact into a meshify 2. Current build was running a 240mm 30mm thick rad and a 280 45mm thick rad. Was going to add another 360mm (30mm thick) with the meshify 2. Here is the question: I was gonna put the 240mm into the bottom of the case as intake, however how much benefit is there actually to it? The background is that I started the build yesterday with 0 loop planning and found out that in order to have the 240mm at the bottom, i'd have to do some janky shit to make it look nice, including getting new fittings for a lower profile. The entire reason i'm moving to a meshify 2 is that i wouldn't have wierd shit in the build. So what do you guys think, power through it and add the 240mm or make due with a 280mm thick and a 360mm rad. For context, im cooling a 5800x and 1080ti (i don't play any new games :))

Thanks! seems i can ramp my fans way down , cpu has been around the 60c mark (rare spikes up to 75) (with -25 curve optimizer thingi), with gpu around 44, not seen it go higher.

Wanted some advice on fan orientation and fan settings on custom loop. System is a 5800x along with a asus strix 1080ti, cooled by a single loop 280mm and 240mm. Currently front is 2x 140mm intake, top is 2x 120mm exhaust and back is 120mm intake to provide the top rad with some fresh air. Questions are: - should any of the fan orientations be altered for more optimal cooling? - what should the liquid temp be at? Currently under load it goes to around 35c with fans quite noticeable.

Hey all - I'm trying to look for a water block in Europe for the strix 1080ti. Anyone got any ideas on where to find one?

Hey, I'm in need of some advice regarding planning my first custom loop. The aim of the loop is to increase the silence of my pc and currently only involves cooling the cpu. The reason being that the games I play will most likely run on my phone, but are cpu intensive. Thus the only thing that really makes proper noise is the 240mm aio cooling my 5800x. At some point, once my gpu is due for an update (currently using 1080ti), I plan to add the gpu to the loop as well. If need be, I can expand the loop at that point as well. My case is the fractal define C, which I would I would like to keep using. My question is whether to go with (i) a single 240mm rad on top, (ii) a 280mm rad in the front, or (iii) both. The aim being a significant reduction of noise in comparison to my current 240mm aio (x52 kraken). I also currently already have 2x 140mm noctua fans in the front which I think I can keep reusing for a potential 280mm rad. And 1 more note, that 280mm option would have clearance issues due to the length of the GPU, thus 1 of the fans would need to be located inside the space of the front cover and airflow to that fan would consequently be restricted. For comparison, the 5800x seems to be a hot one and to keep the cpu temp below 70c, my aio runs at full pump speed and about 75% (@65c) - 90% (@70c) fan speed when gaming. Under a gaming load, the coolant goes ~20c over ambient (22c room temp, vs 42c coolant temp). Any advice is appreciated.

Processor: 5800x Cooler: NZXT x52 240mm aio Single core boost: 4.840Ghz Single core Cinebench R20 score:N/A All core boost: 4.624 (with curve optimizer at -30, it did 4.750, with peak temp at 78c, but it wasn't completely stable) All core Cinebench R20 score: 6122 All core peak wattage: N/A Single core peak wattage: N/A Highest reported temperature: 84c

Have had my 5800x for 3 days now, cooled by a 240mm aio. Have got my temps down to high 30’s low 40’s on idle and high 70’s low 80’s during a cinebench run. This was made possible via the curve optimizer under pbo, by setting the stacks or what ever they are to -25 on all cores. also tried -30 on all cores which results in even lower temps and higher all core boost clocks (4.75 ghz sustained during cinebench) but the pc is unstable at idle (1-2 crashes during 5-6 hours) no problems during load thought.

@rice guru, @Tigerleon, have gotten my soundblaster g6 and the dt 990's and they are fantastic. Thank you very much for the recommendations!

Thanks for the comment on the 990's. Been off the deep-end on reading about headphones for a day and had a follow-up question. What would be the alternatives to the 990 pro's in Europe and is there any plausible rational to have more than 1 set of headphones? On the alternative options, lets up to budget to 200 - 250 eur for the headphones alone. The 990 pro's were only 115 eur.

Thanks! just ordered the suggested combo.

Hey, I'm looking for a replacement for my current steelseries arctis 3's. Would like the headphones to sound great and have decent surround sound for gaming. Mic quality is not important as I've got a standalone mic. Budget is up to ~350 eur, if they are worth the sound. Main use is listening to music while working and gaming in the evening. Also they need to not look wierd :). I know nothing about headphones so appreciate any assistance on this.