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I've got a setup with 12 LL120 fans by Corsair in my case and today when I launched my PC, 5 of them stopped lighting up. They're all assigned to one lighting channel (the 2nd one) and are numbered 2-5 - meaning that if I change the setting from "6 fans are connected" to just "1 fan is connected", the single functioning fan remains functional. The fans are recognized in the performance section and their RPMs can be viewed in real time. I opened up the case, checked all cable connection to my Commander Pro and the two hubs that I have and everything seems in order. The fans do run, but they refuse to light up. The remaining fans light up fine and take the preset from ICUE with no issues. What could be the cause of this? Could five RGB fans have just... burned out or something? That seems highly unlikely to me.

Back when PCs had metal side panels that were slid in, many had bulges to the side that gave extra room in the middle portion. Think there are some tempered glass side panels with a bulge like that? That'd solve the problem too

Yes, this is precisely what I'm dealing with. And I didn't even have to put the outer fan as high as yours is, it's literally like one or two rungs on the heatsink above the middle fan! But turns out my case is pretty damn narrow and it's still too much for the side panel to close. That's why I need spacers. Or just throw out the damn thing and get an AIO. But in that case I'd need a good 360 with no RGB, since I've already got those 3 Corsairs at the top doing the RGB thing

I haven't seen big diffs in temperature with a completely open side panel tbh. So maybe it won't be a big problem after all.

They're Corsair LL120s. My problem is that I think I'm forced to consider water cooling because I just picked up new RAM and unfortunately it's too tall to mount the external fan of my NH-D15 air cooler in such a way that I'm able to close the side panel of the case. I'm considering spacers now, but that will leave my side panel open for air flow, which probably isn't good. I can't take off that fan off the heatsink because I've got a 5950x, so I kinda need both. Bit of a conundrum really

I've got 3 120mm exhaust RGB fans at the top of my case. If I wanted to buy some AIO water cooling for my PC and say, put the radiator under the fans so they suck air through it, and then put the AIO's included fans at the bottom to blow air into the radiator, would such a setup be worse than if the radiator was screwed directly into the top of the case with no case fans? Guess it's a question of aerodynamics: considering that the AIO's fans are probably stronger than the case fans, do their respective air displacement powers add up, or will the case fans that displace less air hold back and bottleneck the aio fans that displace more air?

Hey, I just got new RAM that's a bit tall and I had to mount one of my Noctua NH-D15 fans higher than previously, which unfortunately makes it impossible to close up the side glass panel of my case (the fan is simply jutting out too high). I'm thinking of picking up a few spacer screws and cylindrical rubber caps to add more space so I can mount my glass panel. The question is, won't this new opening for air mess up the airflow in my case? Previously the panel would fit snugly and close up the entire side of the case, so the airflow would be exclusively regulated by the intake fans (bottom and front) and the exhaust fans (rear and top). I know there is probably no other way to be able to close up the case right now, then again I might eventually switch to some water cooling so this problem will disappear. I've got a 5950x so that might be a good idea anyhow. But obviously getting a few more spacer screws and rubber caps for them is cheaper than buying an AIO right now, sooo again, will it mess up my air flow or is it harmless? Thanks

Watched one guy's video OCing his 3000MHz memory of the same brand and anything sub 70 was decent, the way he was talking. Anyway, getting 659.7 in single and 12535.5 in multi in CPU-Z, which is above average on both, but I have no idea if it's comparing to stock or OC.

Well, to be fair at the moment it's 63.8ns. That's what AIDA64 says, at any rate. Without overclocking the Infinity Fabric to match the RAM's speed, I'd be getting 75-78ns.

I have a problem with my 5950x. While most people report being able to get pretty amazing scores in cinebench with it (like 650 and thereabouts in R20), I got nowhere near that score (got something like 560). Then I moved to R23, and after OC'ing my RAM to 3800 16/20/16/38/60 with a latency of 61ns - I set up PBO with a curve optimizer offset of -10 on every core, 200mhz OC offset and max limits - I get the respectable but underwhelming 1563 in single core (people report easy 1650s). I'm not worried about multi-core with just over 28k there, but people report scores beating out the 2990wx not infrequently (so at least over 30k). I've tried tons of different things and OC configs and I haven't been able to get anything better than this. I've also noticed that any settings that improve my all-core score seem to be decreasing the single-core, and vice versa. The cooling is a Noctua NH-D15 and the mobo is a Gigabyte Aorus Master x570. Any advice? Thanks!

Ok, I've got the stuff - trying to OC the RAM now, but unsuccessfully. It's saving the profile in bios, but after saving and leaving, the machine reboots, tries to start up twice but immediately resets, and then launches successfully but says the ram is still 1200 MHz. Does that mean the system was not able to launch the RAM with the specs I put in it and I should just keep trying?

I've read about my Ballistix memory, and apparently it's super easily overclockable, 3600 is easily achieved with most sets and people say that with luck you can even get a lower CL like 14. I'm going to have to experiment when I get that new motherboard.

Ok fair enough. I must have misunderstood what I read before, that Ryzen benefits hugely from high speed memory, not that it doesn't run well with it. But yea, in that case I can just try to OC my 3200.

Yeaa, way too tall too, I want it to fit under the huge heat sink haha

Well 3200MHz on my current memory is the XMP profile, so it probably counts as OCing as is... But yea, you might be right that it's not worth it to buy new memory, I should probably easily be able to squeeze out like 3600 MHz out of this memory if I snoop around in the BIOS.