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Coincidence?

Those spacers worked a charm - exactly the right size. Temps have now dropped significantly and even under full load the noise is barely noticeable. My card is now running at +15% overvolt and doesn't get above 80 degrees under benchmark, before it was hitting the 90 degree limit. I've just done my best Timespy score ever. Totally recommend for anyone - much cheaper way of getting better GPU performance than open loop.

Done it - got two NF-F12 attached to the bottom of the case and removed the MSI shroud and fans. Made up a connector so that they're powered and controlled by the GPU. Noticed great results already, much lower frequency noise now from the case when at idle and load and thermals seem to have improved. I think it might be able to improve a bit more with a couple of spacers to move the fans up flush against the card.

This is probably what I'd do - removing the fans and shroud and putting something a bit beefier in. I've seen some photos of builds in this case where they've put fans that are literally touching the GPU and I couldn't help but assume that this would choke air to the fans, not improve it. That being said I'm pretty happy as is - it's a fantastic case. My only caution for anyone considering it is that the cables that come with SFF power supplies are a bit too short for this case with it's standard layout. I'd recommend using longer ones from a regular PSU if you are concerned about tidy cable management.

Closer picture of the GPU to show how close it is to the bottom of the case

Just moved my system into an SFF (Lian Li TU150A) - 8700K + MSI 1080Ti. The GPU airflow for a case of this size is pretty good, especially with the vent on the side, but i'm wondering if the two radial fans have enough static pressure to bring enough air in from the bottom of the case on their own. There is just enough room for a couple of NF-A12x15 fans underneath, but I'd like to hear if anyone has had improved performance with fans so close to the GPU, or whether it will actually be counter productive.

I've had a 32GB Optane cache with my 6TB HDD for just over 3 years, and I'm thinking about selling it now and getting rid of the spinning rust all together. The final nail in the coffin for it was a recent MSI BIOS update which stopped the RST from working correctly. Intel has also made the Optane Memory application EOL as I think they've accepted that its time has passed. Was certainly interesting from an enthusiast perspective but you'll get far more performance for your money with just putting games on a big SATA SSD.

Signed up yesterday, new to F@H, haven't had any WU's since, just came back to my PC and saw this which made my day

I've set myself a challenge of building a ZFS server in an SFF PC - and have immediately run into the first hurdle, which is finding a decent, inexpensive ITX board which supports ECC memory. As I'm not planning on having multiple encodes or anything too workload intensive, the motherboard is probably going to dictate my CPU choice, rather than the other way around, and with PC Part Picker being a bit gaming-centric I'm having a challenge finding anything which looks reasonable. Anyone got any ideas?