JohnVincente

Hey everyone! Don't know how many of you need this, but I figured I'd post here in case someone out there runs into a similar situation as I did. I have the Corsair SF600 and a little over a year ago, the fan started to make a horrible grinding noise. I didn't want to take the fan apart to try to figure out the source because the fan noise was a little too much for me to begin with, even before the grinding sound. So as a temporary solution, because I didn't want to shell out money for a new SFX psu or replace the fan with a brown and ivory Noctua NF-A9x14, I removed the Corsair fan, popped a 92mm BeQuiet fan on top of the SF600, and connected it to the CPU fan header on my motherboard. In terms of noise and temps, this solution worked very well, but because the clearance between the tempered glass and the BeQuiet fan was so tight in the Lian Li PC-O5SX, I opted to do without the tempered glass until I found a more permanent solution... That permanent solution was the Noctua NF-A9x14 HS-PWM chromax.black.swap! Noctua sneakily released the chromax version of the NF-A9x14 back in November 2019 and I had no idea they were even a thing until I checked randomly late last Friday night. I was waiting forever for Noctua to release this exact fan so I immediately ordered it directly from Noctua's ebay page. They shipped from Austria to New York in just 3.5 business days, even with all the crazy shipping delays happening in New York because of the coronavirus, how awesome is that?! Anyways, I was finally able to ditch the BeQuiet fan and replaced it with the NF-A9x14 chromax fan and it fit inside the SF600 like a glove! I still plugged it into the CPU fan header though because I was not trying to splice and solder the SF600 fan connection to the Noctua fan...especially because I read on another forum that the Noctua fan may not spin up until the psu is under a heavier load, which I prefer not to happen...But now, after over a year of looking pretty janky, I was finally able to put the tempered glass side panel back on and my SF600 is cool and whisper quiet thanks to Noctua. Before and after pics below! TL;DR: You can replace your Corsair SF series power supply fan with the Noctua NF-A9x14 HS-PWM chromax.black.swap. You may want to do this even if the fan isn't broken for the aesthetic and wayyy quieter fan

I would love the NEW Blade 14 and I prefer it over the Stealth because I think having an HQ processor in a gaming laptop is a MUST, I love the size of the laptop itself (packs a punch and isn't bulky like a lot of gaming laptops out there), and a desktop class 1060 is perfect for my gaming needs and will do VERY well at 1080p. Also, is it sad that I'm geeking out and I'm more excited about the 1 TB NVME SSD? My friend has a m.2 ssd in his system and it's BLAZING fast..very jealous

Haha well my current peripheral setup already includes a Feenix Nascita, Dimora, and I have a Razer Deathstalker Chroma (I'm not really a big fan of mechanical keyboards). I'm entering anyways because I would love to win this and give this to my friend who I recently helped convert to the PC master race...he didn't leave room for good peripherals in his budget