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But would it? I took the three RPMs available on the Notcua website, plotted Noise, Static Pressure, and Airflow, and added a linear trend line (it's an assumption, but fits pretty well). At 1300RPM and below, the NF-P12 is better in every category. It only starts to lose out on pressure above 1400RPM (not a big issue with low fin density), only gets louder above 1700RPM (not possible to reach), and has better airflow at all speeds. Thanks for prompting me to plot it out though!

They're destined for a Alphacool NexXxos Monsta Radiator 240 (80mm thick and 10fpi) so they seem like a pretty good solution to me, especially at $14 compared to $20 for the NF-F12. They're also going into a satin black + polished aluminum build so the color scheme is a plus, but black would also be acceptable. Do you have a recommendation you think would do better in that application?

Hello, I'm looking at picking up some NF-P12 redux-1X00 PWM fans and they come in 1300 and 1700rpm variants. I will likely be running these lower than 1300 so I won't need the extra headroom (for this build, who knows in the future). They're the same price so I'm honestly not sure why you'd buy the slower one unless there's a benefit or are splitting the pwm signal to fans of other models as well and want to match the speeds. Is there any difference in running a slow fan at max vs a faster fan at the same speed? Thanks

I had a TIL moment the other day while playing around to maximize PPD and wanted to share This was always the advice I had heard and followed. I have a 4790k and was folding on 6 threads, leaving two free. After playing around with my OCs and power settings, I wound up removing my CPU task entirely just to see what would happen. Not only has my PPD gone UP by an appreciable amount, but my thermals (and therefore noise) are better now as well since the CPU isn't dumping heat into my loop anymore. Obviously YMMV, but it may be worth trying

*clicks on link* *video already liked* Apparently my memory of LTT videos starts degrading around the 4 year mark... I'm honored to have the first comment of my first post hail from on-high Thank you both for the replies! It's great news to hear my $55 used cpu block I bought from a forum listing isn't holding me back. A de-lid and lap may be in my future, but that also may be the quarantine talking

If you don't want to RMA, another option would be to over/underclock your GPU Core Clock and GPU Memory Clock to see if you can find a frequency that doesn't cause coil whine. I had an old laptop that would whine really bad when the cpu ran at lower speeds when not under load or on battery. It got so bad that I turned off that feature in the BIOS. I got worse battery life, but hey, no coil whine!

I recently revisited overclocking my cpu and that's got me thinking... I've been rocking a Swiftek Apogee XT for 6 years now. Is it possible that cpu waterblocks have gotten way better in the 10 years since mine launched? It has a "pin matrix" design versus the more popular channels, but of similar dimension. Other than that it seems more or less identical to the top blocks on the market. I can't find a showdown that reaches that far back, but this one here is showing 4C differences between the best and worse performers and that's pretty compelling imo http://thermalbench.com/2016/12/02/alphacool-eisblock-xpx-cpu-waterblock/5/ This block has cooled 3 different CPUs for me and been cleaned and re-pasted each time. Has anyone upgraded from this block and seen significant improvement in temps?