QBX: Touch The Limits

[jiyeon]

9 minutes ago, _Hustler_One_ said:

I kind of managed to move the NH-C14S fan, from the front to the back of its heatsink.

Thankfully the SF600 24pin ATX cable not too stiff to bend, to give a bit more space for the NF-A14 to fit under the heatsink.

That seems super tight on airflow, is the cooler fan in push or pull? It must've taken you hours to get that fan down there, every dimension is ultra tight!

[_Hustler_One_]

20 minutes ago, seoz said:

That seems super tight on airflow, is the cooler fan in push or pull? It must've taken you hours to get that fan down there, every dimension is ultra tight!

It's in pull config. Surprisingly I only need to take off the PSU and bend the ATX cable further down, slipped the fan in from the space where the PSU was. The temps still same as before, nice and cool.

 

I tested with a very thin tissue paper to see if the cooler is sucking enough air from the side panel vents despite its new configuration, and it still pulling the air strong enough at less than 1000 rpm. The top dual 120mm exhaust fans takes the job for pulling the heat out since they're also very very close to the heatsink, so the heat is being exhausted instantly.

[_Hustler_One_]

This is the thermal performance of this PC under 4 hours Realbench stress test overnight with a little bump on the Vcore from 1.34v to 1.35v of 5GHz.

 

It was peaking at 85C with NH-C14S in pull configuration. The exhaust fans were mad during the test to dump the heat out faster, but it run at acceptable noise level while gaming with 70C on the CPU, not that dead silent but it's quiet enough.

 

I was surprised that it can maintain stable on the GPU despite it runs +230 MHz Core +550 MHz Memory with 90% power limit for 2114 MHz GPU clock, but it got 68C while gaming without crashing compared to the test which was 64C.

 

I got a cooler ambient temps as the climate here becomes chilly. Usually I have 29-32C ambient but now it's 25-28C.

 

 

[_Hustler_One_]

small UPDATE..

 

Got my custom sleeved 24pin ATX cable today..

 

It was pain to install the cable while I insist to put back the fan behind the heatsink, ended up get rid again the side plate and the additionall storage drives to put another fan on the cooler to be push-pull configuration.

 

Credit to "xinvicious" the local cable mod guy who made this for me..

 

 

 

 

[_Hustler_One_]

This "Noctua color is ugly" people complaints are echoing inside my head..

 

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I wish that thing under its claws is a cougar, but apparently it's not..

 

 

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......hypnocsis......

 

 

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[Jkawmi]

I have my eyes on this case + either C14s or the Dark Rock TF. However, according to an earlier comment of yours compatibility depends more so on the motherboard than the case. How would I check if the motherboard will fit fine in this combo? Or do I just have to test them myself? The motherboard I will be getting is the Asus B450-I