RadicalxEdward

Can't speak to Enermax, but odds are if you're asking then yeah you'll need both controllers (as in you won't be fabbing your own solution). The first page to this post is a little outdated on Thermaltake. ThermalTake currently uses a 5 port hub with the same connectors (they look like repurposed USB-2 connectors) with a proprietary controller. The TT RGB software that works with the Trios allow you to do quick/customizable presets (preset pattern, custom colors) in the software or sync with Razer Chroma which requires the software to be left running. They still make (or at least sell) the 9 port hub which is basically just a splitter for their combined connector and allows you to use your motherboard to control the RGB instead. I was only able to find 1 new and had to have it shipped from the UK to the US. Not all of the ports on it work (luckily you can daisy chain non-fan TT stuff like their RGB fittings) and when i plug in a PWM cable it allows me to control fan speed through the motherboard as well, but causes all the TT rgb stuff to flash every few seconds. It's a really simple board that's basically just hard wiring things in a daisy chain with 1 capacitor and no chips so i'm trying to figure out if i can convert the fans to just straight RGB / PWM connectors and leave everything else connected to the hub since that adds in SATA power for all the RGB and complicates things for me.

IDK why this forum won't send me notifications. Anyway, the 3500 was a typo. 3200 was what I was calling "stock" because that's the XMP speed of the memory (though i didn't enable XMP timings at the time, just set the speed manually to 3200) So my initial test was at 3200Mhz and everything else was at 3600Mhz. But the memory speed/timings are the same between the 4K and sub-4K tests. I literally ran some tests with one monitor, unplugged it, plugged in another, ran them again and got better scores. Resolution is the only thing that changed after the stock one.

How is it not consistent? Test 1: 3840x2160, 3200Mhz RAM (Stock) Test 2: 3840x2160, 3600Mhz RAM (little faster than stock) Test 3: 1280x1024, 3600Mhz RAM (only change is resolution, but it's still faster than Test 2)

I ran several Geekbench tests yesterday before I returned a 4K monitor. Then I re-ran them today using an old 1280x1024 monitor temporarily. Considering Geekbench isn't using on-screen tests, why would BOTH CPU and GPU numbers go up almost across the board in a not-insignificant amount just from the lower monitor resolution? Results below. All I ran before returning monitor was Geekbench so i can't compare with anything else as precisely. System OS: Windows 10 64bit Mobo: Asus ROG Strix X570-E Gaming (Latest BIOS 1405) CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 4x8GB 3200 C16 - CMT32GX4M4C3200C16 Storage: Sabrent Rocket Q 1TB M.2 NVME SSD GPU: Sapphire Nitro+ RX 5700 XT Parameters Stock: 2666Mhz RAM, 1333Mhz FCLK, 3840x2160 3840x2160: 3600Mhz RAM, 1800Mhz FCLK, 3840x2160 1280x1024: 3600Mhz RAM, 1800Mhz FCLK, 1280x1024 (All other settings identical. Important comparison is 2nd test vs 3rd moreso than 1st.) Geekbench 5: CPU Single vsStock Multi vsStock 1. Stock - 4K: 1186 +00.00% 6570 +00.00% 2. 3840x2160: 1167 -01.60% 7138 +08.64% 3. 1280x1024: 1205 +01.60% 7122 +08.40% Geekbench 5: Compute - OpenCL Multi vsStock 1. Stock - 4K: 71452 +00.00% 2. 3840x2160: 77251 +08.12% 3. 1280x1024: 78618 +10.03% Geekbench 5: Compute - Vulkan Multi vsStock 1. Stock 4K: 47263 +00.00% 2. 3840x2160: 47126 -00.30% 3. 1280x1024: 55534 +17.50%

Yeah I was debating whether to use it for “case temp” or “ambient temp” sort of thing but I figure once anything is inside the case I only care about the hardware temps and I don’t have thermometers or anything for the room temp, so that would be more useful to know to see how high temps are over room temp. I just wasn’t sure if having it right behind the fan blades would affect the readings vs sticking it out the top or back (which might have hot air coming out.)

I just built my first gaming pc since ~2007 (I use a Mac / Xbox normally) and a lot has changed. my motherboard (Asus X570-E) came with a thermistor temp sensor but most of the hardware already has built in temp sensors, so I thought it might be useful to have this one measuring the temp of the incoming ambient air. the cable is only like 6-8” long and there weren’t a lot of mounting options so I mounted it in one of the cable channels behind the bottom intake fan of a Phanteks Evolv X (see pic). Q: This may be a really dumb question, but does anyone know for sure that the placement won’t affect the readings? my instinct is that the temp is the temp and whether the air is moving or not doesn’t make a difference to a sensor but I wanted to make sure and didn’t find anything searching google/YouTube. thanks! P.S. now that I see that picture it’s bugging me that the logo is sideways. Come on Phanteks!