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- Sun Jan 13, 2013 9:36 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: SPCR-inspired quiet gaming rig
- Replies: 67
- Views: 53511
Re: SPCR-inspired quiet gaming rig
Which fans have you kept in the end ?
- Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:57 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: SPCR-inspired quiet gaming rig
- Replies: 67
- Views: 53511
Re: SPCR-inspired quiet gaming rig
I agree with kuzzia. It seems like the hot air is not being exhausted. It happened to me in an Solo II. The fans in the GPU spin like crazy but it looks that hot air recirculates again and again. Try raising your exhaust fan to cca 700 rpm and retest. You should look into the front fan. At that rpm ...
- Sun Dec 30, 2012 1:48 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Noctua NH-D14 flagship dual-fan CPU cooler
- Replies: 57
- Views: 58847
Re: Noctua NH-D14 flagship dual-fan CPU cooler
Moving my post from article discussion / recommended heatsinks here: I read that the genesis is the no1 HS for quiet/silent cpu cooling. I do not understand why it is not the NH-D14 because looking at the results from the Noctua test with 2 nexus fans: -12V/16dBA: 31 delta C - 9V/13dBA: 33 delta C ...
- Sat Dec 29, 2012 6:51 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Recommended Heatsinks updated
- Replies: 158
- Views: 264517
Re: Recommended Heatsinks updated
I read SPCR and forum every day. I read that the genesis is the no1 HS for quiet/silent cpu cooling. I do not understand why it is not the NH-D14 because looking at the results from the Noctua test with 2 nexus fans: - 12V/16dBA: 31 delta C - 9V/13dBA: 33 delta C - 7V/12dBA: 36 delta C These temps a...
- Thu Nov 29, 2012 9:02 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Antec P150 - replace or upgrade?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5036
Re: Antec P150 - replace or upgrade?
Passive psu is not a good ideea in a p150 case but rather in the solo 2.
Mugen 3 is decent after lapping.
Mugen 3 is decent after lapping.
- Mon Nov 19, 2012 12:26 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: New first build, would love feedback and tips on components!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8648
Re: New first build, would love feedback and tips on compone
Yes, were is the review?
- Mon Nov 19, 2012 7:24 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: New first build, would love feedback and tips on components!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8648
Re: New first build, would love feedback and tips on compone
The scythe needs sanding because of it's evident concave base and bad contact with your 1155 socket.. But if do that temps will improve big time. I gained about 8 deg C idle and around 10 deg C on load after lapping and artic silver 5 "burnout"
- Sun Nov 18, 2012 2:20 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: New first build, would love feedback and tips on components!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8648
Re: New first build, would love feedback and tips on compone
The stock Mugen 3 fan is superb. On my intel board it stays < 400 rpm on idle/moderate load. Obviously I can't hear it. One advice though: IT NEEDS A SERIOUS AMOUNT OF LAPPING.
- Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:36 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Prolimatech Genesis CPU Heatsink: Retaking the Crown
- Replies: 18
- Views: 15653
Re: Prolimatech Genesis CPU Heatsink: Retaking the Crown
Quick question: What should a 120 exhaust fan speed be like to effectivelly exhaust the air out of a solo case (for example) if your cpu would be cooled by a prolima genesis with both 140 fans on??? It seems sensible to me that the 120 fan should spin significantly faster than the 140 ones to keep u...
- Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:48 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: i5 3470 too hot?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16289
Re: i5 3470 too hot?
This is how the mugen's base looks after some lapping. I had to work hard for it to even up. Temps are now about 3-4 deg cooler. I ran some 30 min of prime95 and max temp was 57. I have to admit this is 5 minutes after reinstalling the cooler, with fresh artic silver 5. At 25-26 ambient temperature,...
- Tue Aug 28, 2012 12:59 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Two Noctua NF-P12 vs one NF-F12 PWM for CPU cooling
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6213
Re: Two Noctua NF-P12 vs one NF-F12 PWM for CPU cooling
No matter what you do, a fair amount of its heat is going to end up being transmitted to the mother board. Therefore you should consider one of the gigabyte boards with the double thick copper on the mother board... coupled with a down draft cooler, to help cool the board. or a prolimatech genesis
- Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:51 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Mugen 3
- Replies: 19
- Views: 14215
Re: Mugen 3
Just for the fun of it (and the experience) I will eventualy lap the base. I hate to mount - dismount - mount -....the cooler endlessly. Don't think is good for the motherboard. I believe that the concave base is the only problem. It is not the first cooler I mount on a MB. I believe there is enough...
- Mon Aug 27, 2012 6:33 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Mugen 3
- Replies: 19
- Views: 14215
Re: Mugen 3
Ralf Hutter and MikeC, I admit thinking about lapping but did so very briefly. For the joy of silence and safety I will replace the mugen 3 with a new cooler worth whatever money I have left. I thought Scythe were serious about their coolers, but it seems that they are not. It explains their recent ...
- Sun Aug 26, 2012 7:15 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Mugen 3
- Replies: 19
- Views: 14215
Re: Mugen 3
Just to revive an older thread, and to bring more info about this ignored cooler. There are very few reviews and no spcr interest to wright about it. My experience with the mugen 3 (3100, rev b) is bad. Just bad: 1. It has a concave base: verfied with my own eyes both with a metalic ruler and from t...
- Sat Aug 25, 2012 1:30 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: i5 3470 too hot?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16289
Re: i5 3470 too hot?
SebRad:
All you said makes perfect sense.
I will lap though the mugen's base and run the system on 3 fans (1 intake+gpu, 1 cpu and 1 exhaust).
Still thinking of replacing the mugen with...(the better mounting systems for noctua, tr and prolima just keep me awake at night)...I'll see.
Thanks!
All you said makes perfect sense.
I will lap though the mugen's base and run the system on 3 fans (1 intake+gpu, 1 cpu and 1 exhaust).
Still thinking of replacing the mugen with...(the better mounting systems for noctua, tr and prolima just keep me awake at night)...I'll see.
Thanks!
- Fri Aug 24, 2012 11:51 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: i5 3470 too hot?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16289
Re: i5 3470 too hot?
But if I rotate the cooler 90 deg. it will face the PSU
- Fri Aug 24, 2012 11:50 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: i5 3470 too hot?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16289
Re: i5 3470 too hot?
Thank you...never crossed my mind: I will look into that and rotate the cooler if needed!
- Fri Aug 24, 2012 8:25 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: i5 3470 too hot?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16289
Re: i5 3470 too hot?
I could try to lap it but I believe the problem will persist since there's the unsolvable problem of the mounting system: just simple wing that bolt on the sides of the base and then extensions that link with the backplate; they just do not assure enough pressure. Lapping the base will certainlly ma...
- Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:23 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: i5 3470 too hot?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16289
Re: i5 3470 too hot?
To clarify some things. for me, load temps mean gaming (plus some background applications running) I run 1 hour of prime 95: with cpu and exhaust fans full on (1500/1100 rpm) temps stabilised within 2 minutes and remained around 55-57C. Vga rose to 60. Everything else was ok (pch, ram, vrm, hdd) Abo...
- Wed Aug 22, 2012 10:32 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: i5 3470 too hot?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16289
Re: i5 3470 too hot?
OK, so I did a couple of changes: - reinstaled the mugen, reapplied as5 (I put to much the first time around) and removed the nexus sandwich "push-pull" fans - mugen is now cooled by the scythe pwm fan (cca 800-900 rpm, MB control) - moved one nexus to rear exhaust (again cca 800-850 rpm, MB control...
- Mon Aug 20, 2012 8:26 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: i5 3470 too hot?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16289
Re: i5 3470 too hot?
Thanks for the replys! t100: I will reapply the grease and reseat the mugen; the seasonic faces up the top vent of the solo2, as intended; I agree that maybe all the heat from the VGA is pushed directly into the cpu air flow; I will change the orientation of the fan. mkk: all power management for th...
- Mon Aug 20, 2012 11:44 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: i5 3470 too hot?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16289
i5 3470 too hot?
I just finished my new system and I find the temperatures of the CPU a bit to high for idle. List of components: CASE: Antec Solo 2 PSU: Seasonic X460 MB: Intel DZ77SL-50K CPU: i3470 cooled by a Scythe Mugen 3 VGA: HD 6770 pasive (Gigabyte) RAM: 2 x 4G OCZ Agility 3 64 GB SSD system drive 2xStorage ...
- Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:23 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: My Antec Solo gaming rig
- Replies: 25
- Views: 12304
- Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:32 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: First silent build: SOLO, Q9550 & Scythe Ninja, etc.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6697
- Sun May 10, 2009 12:40 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Silent Solo SSD
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9460
Minor upgrade: - added a mesh intake (infact the scythe kama bay - fan not plugged in) - moved the storage HDD at the base of the case - better cable management http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/4300/img2614u.th.jpg http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/1008/img2616s.th.jpg http://img10.imageshack.us/img1...
- Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:18 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Silent Solo SSD
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9460
- Thu Apr 23, 2009 3:06 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Silent Solo SSD
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9460
The answers: - the PSU fan never ramps up: the power consumption does not reach the 150 W limit (see the review) - I've got the xFi sound card for 5 years and I agree that it's not the best buy ever but is definitely better than any on board sound; can't tell if the heatsinks are really needed but w...
- Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:07 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Silent Solo SSD
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9460
Silent Solo SSD
Hello everybody!!! I've been reading for the past two years now...found enormous help in the forum...THANKS!!! This is my third build from scratch: Antec Solo with 1 rear, soft mounted Nexus case fans spinnning around 740 rpm - using the Noctua ULNA adaptor (brutal removal of the rear grill :oops: )...
- Sat Apr 11, 2009 5:34 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Ninja + Thermalright AM2 bolt thru?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1716
Ninja + Thermalright AM2 bolt thru?
Hi, I'm going to upgrade my system and I'll be instaling a Ninja Plus rev. B on a C2D E8400 - intending on runing it fanless meaning very firmly secured - Wich is the best/firmest mounting method: - the Scythe UNIVERSAL RETENTION KIT "SCURK1" which I already own http://www.scythe-usa.com/product/acc...
- Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:53 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: e8400 + Solo + Sonex Mini Willtec Foam
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6162