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Dark Sakul

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About Dark Sakul

  • Birthday August 13

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Maryland US

System

  • CPU
    AMD Ryzen 7 1700 X
  • Motherboard
    ASUS PRIME X370-PRO
  • RAM
    CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4
  • GPU
    ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 8GB ROG STRIX
  • Storage
    1 PNY 500GB SSD, 1 Toshiba 4TB HDD
  • PSU
    CORSAIR AX860i
  • Display(s)
    Ben Q RL2455HM
  • Cooling
    Corsair H110i w/ 2 Noctua NF-A14 PWM Fans
  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Pro

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  1. It's also a quote from Men in Black https://youtu.be/kkCwFkOZoOY Take it as you will.
  2. Now you are just cherry picking and taking the statement out of context.
  3. One thing no one bother to mention is some games have a Xinput requirements for Game Controllers. PS3 Dual Shock 3 and PS4 Dual Shock 4 typically lack Xinput compatibility but are fully Dinput compliant. Out of the box Microsoft Xbox 360 and Xbox One game pads supports Xinput. There are various software tools that can be used to fix this
  4. I would argue the same thing when it comes to supply and demand. Individually people are smart, but as a group people act quite dumb (or possibility in this case a computer algorithm ) ; hence the price discrepancy we see here.
  5. I do know mineral oil cooling rigs do get very, very heavy. So be aware of that, if you move your PC alot, you might want to consider something else.
  6. Tough question, and there alot of factors to take in. Does the screws for your H55 fit in and screw correctly to your metal AM3 back plate? If it does, then you can get away with your metal back plate. If not then you want the backplate that provided with your H55. I know this works on some Corsair AIO coolers (as I done it myself a number of times), mostly more recently sold units as the changed thew screws out on most of their models for this purpose. Some of the older batches don't work as the threads are different. As for getting off the old backplate; if its help in with some adhesive use a hair dryer and see if you could soften up the glue.
  7. One thing everyone forgets about these very large air coolers is that it requires alot of clearance. The Cooler could be incompatible with your case (not having enough clerance) or having your Ram too tall and getting in the way. You also want to have decent case air circulation, as the massive air cooler needs a good amount of air flow in the case to work
  8. I have replace the fans of my Corsair H110i. I swapped out the stock Corsair fans with a pair of Noctua NF-A14 PWM fans. I do notice a increase performance and noise reduction over the stock fans. To be fair, Corsair didn't pair the AIO with High Static Pressure fans ether. Corsair just use their own bottom tier case fans that just happen to just do the job and nothing else. Even if you don't grab a fan design for High static pressures like a EK Vadar fan and instead use a high air flow fan your doing better than the stock fans included with the AIO.
  9. These AIO coolers typically have some kind of anti freeze in the coolant mixture. I want to say the fluid in your AIO is mix of distilled water, Some sort of antifreeze (such as propylene glycol or some other sort of alcohol), and then trace amounts of anti-corrosives and biocides. Methyl alcohol, ethyl alcohol, and propylene alcohol been used in the past as antifreeze in automotive coolant. Alcohol is the actual key antifreeze compound; the biocide compound is most likely benzalkonium chloride, copper sulfate, calcium sulfate or some other salt compound with a toxicity to bacterial and fungal life. The Corsair H100i is a Asetek made cooler, most of Corsair, NZTX, Antec, and Thermaltake AIOs are by Asetek. All of those AIOs all have the same fluid. The exact compound use in the AIO I am not sure of, and I don't want to take apart my AIO and buy test strips to figure out the exact formulation. There is enough Alcohol in the AIO to allow it to ship reasonably safe during the winter months. But if someone wants to be cautious, you can wait till the AIO warms up to room temps before installation and just watch carefully for about 15-30 min for any leaks.
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