sillypenguin213

IMO, I used some blocks and fittings from them. Fittings are terrible but blocks are great

Bitspower has many colors for their fittings and tube. I wonder which one is the most reflective to make my rgb looks brighter? Black sparkle or silver shining?

Check CPU fan on CPU fan header

DDR3 works too. I tried with my i7-6700 on H170

Did you try other rams? some of ram don't work with Ryzen

actually, you could run i3 8100 on b150 with edited bios. i3 8100 has the same performance as i5 6500 and even cheaper

And the PSU is junk. it might fry your components someday

They are almost equal GPUs so don't bother with rx580 unless you want vega 56 or higher

Thanks for the help. I will send them one

Of course I did, the cpu and gpu are in a good range (40-60). From the signs of thermal paste and pad on cpu and MOSFETs, they are working properly.

Cuz I realized the chokes are much hotter than MOSFETs. And I saw the thermal pad on MOSFETs are well placed but not on chokers. Due to zero air flow, the chockers would reach 100 degree C or more I guess and cause win 10 BSOD with Machine Check Expection code

I have an Asus z370i motherboard with EK monoblock. After I installed it, my 8600k cannot reach 5Ghz. I guess the vrm is overheated while the cpu temp is around 70 degree C. I check the thermal pad and it turns out that the block could touch the chokes with 1mm thickness. Does anyone know what thickness the pad should be?

What motherboard are you using?

Nope, maybe you can try Newegg and ship overseas

I don't know. You are in South Africa while I am not