Fractal Pop Air Mini Build

[Eric Kazer]

I5-13500

Asus Prime B760M-A DDR3 Model

32GB Corsair LPX 3200MHz

Creative RX 7.1 Sound Card

Corsair HX850 PSU

Currently: RTX3060Ti MSI 2 fan Ventus

2 x Samsung SSD 980 Pro M.2 Drives 1 TB each (currently)

Pioneer Blu ray Writer

Generic Card reader in 5.25" adapter

5 Noctua NF-F12 case fans

NH-U12S with NF-F12 pull fan added

RTX3060Ti MSI Ventus

 

1. I want to install a PCIe M.2 card for more M.2 drives. My concern is GPU ventilation. I'm looking for a Duel M.2 PCIe card (not one with SATA). 

2 I think that a RTX 4070 or 4070Ti would work OK. Trying for 2 Slot card. Strix is 2.75 and would cover neighboring PCI slot. Was lookin at duel fan TUF card.

 

Problem with cards are that they are not available with 16GB VRAM that I can see, on 12. Triple fan card is not out of the question. As for PCIe dual M.2 card, may be modding the bracket for the 2.5" drives with a PCIe M.2 card laying flat on stand offs wit a x8 extension may work. I've done stranger stuff.

 

[Eric Kazer]

I forgot that I have the cheapest Airgoo "Digital-RGB Strip Kit" installed in the case. I'm running the off of Asus's Armory Crate Horrible software because I snapped off the pins on the RGB controller in the case. I would prefer not to have Horrible Crate But I need RGB control

 

I guess I'll show some benchmarks as it is now.. Just need to do them..

[Eric Kazer]

Well,

Benchmarks.

[Eric Kazer]

Here is Cinebench CPU test, 1 pass, Multi Core and single core.

[Eric Kazer]

I did a 10 minute throttle test. 4.680p and 3.491e and 74C on the CPU. Does not appear to throttle. 74c was peak in a room the was 72f. This should be fine for this system.

[Eric Kazer]

Score and HD Monitor on my old 11th gen I5-11600k. Just thought I would compare them.

[Eric Kazer]

Package power was 25.78 Min power draw and 147.72 with I5-11600k under load. The I5-13500 was 6.28 Min and 167.51 under load. Max temp for the I5-11600k was 79c Package Single fan NH-U12S and the temp for the I5-13500 was 74c with NH-U12S with push pull fan config.

 

The I5-13500 uses less power at Idle at 6.28 watts than the I5-11600k at 25.78 at idle. However under load the I5-11600k uses 147.72 watts and the I5-13500 uses 167.51 watts to almost double the score in a Cinebench R23 10 minute run. The I5-15500 seems more efficient that the I5-11600k at least at idle.

 

Next I'll compare Single core on R23.

[Eric Kazer]

The I5-11600k got a 1430, and the I5-13500 got 1762 for single core. Power was around 54 watts during test on the I5-11600k and the I5-13500 was unknown at this time. More than likely lower. I5-13500 seems to win all of the CPU tests. As for power test in the real world I think that the I5-13500 will draw less. Need to test power in the Single core test on the I5-13500. I5-13500 seems to be a good value for 250 USD. What Is the Ryzen 7600X scoring? 13500 is ahead of the Thread Ripper 1950x on multi core, also ahead of the Thread Ripper 2990WX in single core, that score is 1109 for the Thread Ripper 2990WX. Thread Ripper 2990x will win multi core because it has 32 cores. Coming down to Earth Ryzen 7600 is a 14540 Multi Core and 1920 Single Core. I paid 250 for Intel I5-13500 and the Ryzen 7600 costs 226 USD on Newegg, and I5-13500 costs 245 USD Date, 7-29-2023. Just CPU price.