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  1. I died at $4000. Maybe remove a zero?
  2. Gamersnexus just reviewed the bigger Q500L if you want real data showing how awful those holes are for airflow.
  3. Yes everyone will have this issue with the cooler master Q300L and the newer Q500L. Those holes are are terrible for airflow and an awful design choice as a whole. The same fan will blow more air and make less noise in a proper fan mount with honeycomb cutouts. If this entire case was honeycombed instead of holes it would be a pretty awesome case. They would probably need to use thicker steel but still.... I'd just sell it but if you're set on keeping this case you might need to go with the old school hole saw + wire grill solution. Just make sure that's where you want the fan mounted if you do this. old article related to this topic : https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Effects-of-Grill-Patterns-on-Fan-Performance-Noise-107/
  4. Thanks for making this thread. I was also a little worried about the loud popping coming from my Corsair rmx 750w during shutdown.
  5. https://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Carbide-Tempered-Mid-Tower-Gaming/dp/B07PF1TBZF/ref=sr_1_37?keywords=corsair+case&qid=1554011723&s=gateway&sr=8-37 This page has been up for three weeks on Amazon but I can't seem to find any information from Corsair about it. Maybe i'm just missing it?
  6. If you're still interested in tweaking more It looks like your memory speed or uncore speed is slowing you down. My x5670 is scoring 1955 at only 4GHz (167 x 24). Memory is at 1670MHz and the uncore is at 3507MHz.
  7. That small heatsink on top is usually the coolest because it's right up against the top case fan. The NB is only hitting 50c during hours of prime small or blend so I don't think that's a worthwhile investment. The ram was definitely running hot, hotter than anything else on the board but I think that was because on this budget board there's only four ram slots causing two of the sticks to sit really close to each other causing a heat pocket. Flipping the front top fan to intake fixed that problem. the 120w figure I gave was from the reported CPU only power consumption during prime95 small fft in hwinfo. I do have a killawatt meter and the entire system uses around 101w idle, never checked load as I was just testing the differences between power saving settings such as c6/c1e/eist etc. If I had a better board I would definitely push harder but I think I'll just stick with the current OC to stay on the safer side. Going for 4.2Ghz would get me what? 1000 points in cinebench R15? Would I notice the difference from my current 944 at 4GHz? Maybe. It still feels bad to leave so much potential on the table. The i7 920 C0 that was pulled from this system was an absolute dumpster fire compared to this x5670 when it comes to silicon quality. Truly shocking difference between the lower binned 45nm to higher binned 32nm.
  8. Hello, I was hoping someone could offer their advice on how much power I can safely pull through my GA-EX58-UD3R (rev1.0) not to be confused with the upgraded X58A-UD3R variant. Since it was the cheapest X58 motherboard at the time I assume the VRM design is rather weak. The board was never pushed hard but its very used, a very rough guesstimate would be around 14k hours powered on with an i7 920, a quarter of those hours at high loads. I ebay'd a $24 X5670 and everything runs fine, since the board is so old I went with a soft offset overclock of 4GHz(167 x 24) uncore is at 3507. These settings produce a score of 940 in cinebench R15. At the current vcore offset it's showing 1.184vcore during prime95 small fft and hwinfo shows the maximum power at around 120w. Temps are under 70c, voltage is well under Intel's maximum but can this old board handle much more than this without going poof? There isn't a VRM temperature sensor on this board but there is a north bridge sensor which reads around 50c during stress testing. Touching the VRM side of the heatsink doesn't feel much hotter than it does when I touch the north bridge heatsink but this is far from accurate.... TL;DR, I'm pulling 120w through a very used low end motherboard, can I safely push more or should I leave it be? I need to ride this out until 7nm drops.
  9. Thank you for taking the time to answer my question with such detail. It felt like nobody was reading the details of my question.
  10. Hello, I recently purchased the 2018 version of the RM750X and I only now realize this power supply is forced into hybrid mode without a switch which is a problem if I want to have the fan facing downwards based on what I have read the past couple years from Seasonic. https://seasonic.com/how-to-position-your-power-supply Aris Mpitziopoulos (amazing reviewer) also had something to say about this specific power supply https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/corsair-rm750x-v2-psu,5585-12.html As far as I can tell Corsair doesn't have any advice on this topic. In this specific NZXT H500 case which way should I place the power supply? Follow the advice above and let the heat radiate up into my video card or turn it upside down and let it cook? My previous power supply even from 2012 had a switch for the hybrid fan mode so this wasn't a problem.
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