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internet fame will do that to you @Sauron @Geography @fasauceome

yea, esp if you dont want to appear as a super anonymous person age is relative to the person perceiving it (chronologically aside; when i was young i felt old, now that i am older i feel young...) yea valid points i do feel a lot of the younger crowd skips over these introductions, and their own faults lead them to failures/unsuccessful attempts to wrangle crowd sourced info in a forum

yea i try my best to show people with under 20 posts, how to do that if they start replying without the things.. i like @Geography for not having to quote, i like to quote the specific part i intend to reply to, and a mention just means this i meant for you. but also if i am active in the thread i will usually notice if its 'bumped' and go check it out I didn't know about it for awhile too, then i was on my phone in the work van stuck in traffic one day, and the drop down menu is more condensed/etc and i found these other functions (like that)

if you go into your activity page, and choose the posted in function you can see if there has been a reply in the thread, regardless of whether they quoted you, or even was a response to oneof/your post.

just meant that this case aside that the info i gave., if you can only mount it one place.. then you dont have much choice, so i described fan orientation effects to a very minimal scale.

this can mean two things... i am assuming you are recommending that the fans should be Push Numerous people have studied fan push/pulling debate, and in the end the pull is slightly worse, not really a concern if you have poor air flow in your case. also a restrictive case is is better to push the air out of the case rather than into it if its small/restrictive. and only modest increase for push+pull config over either or. @SaltShakerOW in the case of mounting on the bottom or front of your case, in-between the case and the radiator pushing air through the rad, OR they should be mounted on the inside of the case, on the radiator; if you are mounting the radiator to the top or the back as exhaust.

i watched a video and it can fit up top and mostly likely clear the mobo+stuff near it

i was hoping the question would be like Why is RGB still a thing -snip- bad info link not ring only. the more mainstream the producer, the more likely they will be using some sort of 'proprietary' connector and or software in-order to give you 'all the options' Since RGB is actually a non-sale point for me i cant offer you much more advice than that, Beyond a controller, and good software: since i've heard getting all your RGB to do the same thing at once can be difficult once you start mixing brands.

You can find out with the fan specs. Ie: a 12v 1800 rpm fan will run at 1800 at 12v; if the spin up voltage is 2.66v then it won't start spinning till 2.66 or greater voltage is applied. PWM uses this concept to adjust voltage input according to a specified input reading. Without the 4th pin your fan will just run at what ever percentage you set it to run at (75%)... The one you linked and the picture the last guy shared are both good. I used a similar one they work well; and are great if you are just looking to wire manage all the fan cables out of sight.

thanks for the clarification. been using the fan controller in my 5.25 for too long i guess, happy holidays

@freakyyyydo What woodenmarker says, Yes you can, but Bios control wont work with 3 pin fans. Use a Y split to run 2 fans off a single mobo plug (if using 3 pin) that box you linked will work, but you wont get any control;100% always as wooden says.Unless its a manual control device like my 5.25 bay 6 channel fan controller. you cannot set a custom fan curve for a 3 pin fan. the 4th pin is what regulates the input voltage (for the curve) If you dont care, using one of the boxes to power the extra fans, although they are designed for 4 pin fans wave modulation there is no reason why you cannot use it as a simple fan hub.

i will clean up some things and jump a psu and give it a whirl, i'm curious to see what its movement is like compared the the D5. which is honestly the only pump i have used in my computers. i have messed about with quite a few pumps but none of them ever got into my system. Vertical?- Do you mean like how its orientated in the picture? or as if it were lain flat on its back side?

yeas thats exactly what i was describing, just never looked for a silverstone version. when you use that thing, you only have to set one curve in the bios, and any fan connected will run at that curve.

For putting 2 fans on a single MOBO spot that's good. But for more than 3 fans you should use something that gets alternate power from a different connector. Link the one you want to use

most quality pasted perform in the 4-7 w/mk yes it displaces the most heat, but it is also inherently riskier if you over apply. there are some things to consider beside the OBV no aluminum, But that it does 'stain' a copper plate(block face) and if the chip runs hot enough it could make the copper 'absorb' it until the surfaces become saturated. i can only really think of two, conductonaut and Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra, there might be other brands available in some places. but those two, Coollaboratory and Thermal Grizzly are the main suppliers that are mentioned

I think you are asking if you can put a fan on the back near the I/O panel that usually is exhaust? or an extra fan where the 240mm rad is not covering the last 120mm hole. In both cases yes adding a fan where a fan can mount is not a bad thing it wont steal the other fans air

if you can fit that much then you should be able to easily fit one more Reservoir and Pump. that way you can have 2 loops IE; one for cpu/vrm/ram other for GPU's

looking at that specs for the 3 variety's you can have a 600mm on the top of both the small one and the big one, So yes Dual 600mm if you wanted, But i only see that the Small one has 560mm side mount. and both the sizes support multiple Right-sided 560/600mm rads so yes. if you get both or just the W200, you can use :4(560mm) OR 3(600) OR 2(560mm up top)+2(600mm right side)

ive used mx2, mx4, as3, as5, ceramique, thermal pad, ghraphite pad, LM , Kryonaut, and probably more variety's that i cant remember, and i even usually give the mystery 1 use squeeze bags you get with some coolers to install it. and even though i've never seen it on the market here, the Zalman tubes i've got with coolers are decent paste. oh and the cermaique thermal epoxy, and i even messed with mixing excess paste into a epoxy resin before the catalyst and got ok results. (mind you this was with a lot older hardware era)

more than likey you can easily put 1 splitter on each head where needed The ONLY differnce between connecting to the MOBO headers and any alternate powering, is (and there are work arounds) are where the fan wires get power from. (fans only require 2 wires to run black+red, Yellow is generally Speed reporting (rpm) and blue is obv PWM or more technically wave modulation (its the same as a rheostat). Main difference being that when you have a 4 pin fan connected to your mother board (or a workaround that i will get to) you can in your bios or with other software set a custom curve of fan ramping to your own specification, which is nice if thats your thing. when using a 4 pin splitter only one connector will be 4-4 the rest will be 4-3 (without rpm) because of reasons i cant really explain but it causes fault reporting if you have multiple fans reporting rpm, even if both fans are the same. In that respect in a 3 pin splitter, one is 3-3 and the rest are just supplied with +/- there are things that have a molex or sata power plug and a cord that you plug into one 4 pin header that way you can set a single curve for a single fan, and any fan connected to that header will run at that curve.

Sounds like you have done it right then and have less to worry about that way. And I don't mean moving at all. I mean jarring movements (in backpack running down stairs)....

when you let it drop by accident.. not really an issue if you barely move it/ are paranoid and careful to begin with, Also only an issue if you apply to much as well (applying more= checking tim absorption less)

it wont de-grade its structure like aluminium, but it does sponge up the liquid, due to the properties of metal in a liquid state, saturation could never happen, or happen soon, But absorption is also affected but operational temps partly why gpu don't benefit as much from LM, you will re-apply a lot more since they tend to run hotter, and reasons such as already being 'de-lidded' @Wardaddy755 the best you can really hope for at this point is to keep using it: you can re-apply a decent paste if you'd like (the copper may already be stained) Since the IRL w/mk you can really expect from a LM tim is 15-20 ( the 70+ claims im not sure how they are sussed, and cant find any real supporting studies that reflect these claims.) IMO i wouldn't recommend LM in a frequent moved laptop since applying just the right amount can be tricky, without risking drips. Also laptops nowadays tend to have a lot more aluminum in them to cut down on weight.

Any one have exp with bluetooth headphones on computers? i'd like to use these blue tooth ones i just got as a gift. dongle is in, and i made sure to enable the bluetooth option after plugging in the dongle for the computer, i made it discoverable and paired them. but i cant use it as playback am i missing something?

They don't bother me. I just don't understand aiming for that without actually learning advertisement. It's like pushing fake news.... They fake being out so they can get paid to do it. If any thing they don't bother me, but the people that make it possible by adopting trends and fads trying to keep 'up on every thing' instead of actually learning to make the most out of what they have/can actually afford. After reading your last post again(yesterday).I think you deserve an apology from me. My thoughts were all over the place. And I certainly could have formed my paragraph better and left my idea less vague. Kids aspiring to do this scares me since they will shape the world in the wrong way. Or fail horribly and need to get a real skill if they want to succeed.