With delay time, isn't it MSI board? They have thia stupid range from funny parts of secound like 0,1s to only 1s - it really doesn't make any sense below good 5 secounds. Also Gigabyte isn't much better here with their 3s max, but to be fair maybe both offer higher range in their Windows software ...

Generally tweaking should be always done first before replacing components. Not the best peformance is sometimes not on component's side, but lack of tweaking ;) Like you said with fan curves, if I understand well, they don't work ideally. My take here is to set case fans in bios for constant (0-10...

I don't know how are your temperatures after your experiments, but generally there tend to be few aspects warming Intel CPUs above the norm to always check and correct if needed. Setting power limits was one obvious due to air coolers just not being able to handle 300+W this chip is able to pull wh...

Got the PCIE lanes back as well by moving the card around a bit and then screwing it in position while it works.

And now I can even play BF2042 again.

But still would like to upgrade the CPU cooler to an AIO 360. And the GPU needs replacement as well.

Thank you for your replies! :) I guess I had some really bad fan settings before with the intention of making it silent. Now I get better results, just 5% below the average for this CPU type. However, when the CPU load goes up, so goes the fan speed and noise. I found something else concerning and t...

Oh....and now I got 52105 in the PassMark PerformanceTest. Had the wattage set lower to something around 220 and 200 long term. Now it is 288W, the default for tower coolers on this board. LOL. But still below average of 59464.

Hi Forum, I have recently upgraded my previously silent PC to an Intel 13900KF and an MSI Tomahawk Z690 (DDR4) Board. Am still using an old 1080ti (air cooled). I have plans to buy either a 4080 or a 4090 RTX. The case is a Fractal R5 (no windows). I bought a Noctua NH-15 as CPU cooler. The thing is...

I reccomend you finding formula of calculating cost of power draw according to PSU efficiency and your electricity agreement's costs. My point was, your load is so low, that you rather wouldn't see the noticable difference in bills comparing the same config with Gold and Platinum PSU. It would be b...

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Seems like I confused the Asrock A300 with the X300. Just mentioning it in case someones read this considering a similar CPU. The A300 requires a BIOS upgrade, before it can run these newer CPUs! The X300 supports them right out of the box. Tell, what for will be your computer (web browsing etc). If...

Hi! Am currently thinking about replacing a Zotac-531U unit that worked very well for the past 5 years running non-stop and being very energy efficient (10-30 watts only). It runs 3 VMs and has 2x500GB Sata SSD (Raid1) in it. The Zotac has 2 network ports, but we only use 1 at the moment. Unfortunat...

Delivery was increddibly fast, within 24h, so I got the stuff one day earlier. I just completed the move to the new case and it is very silent indeed. :) Am very happy with it. Installing the Ninja 4 wasn't easy because of the mobo and my specific RAM but I finally got it done. Had to remove the hea...

Hmm...you may run into issues with PWM fans and Asus case fan headers...on the standard Ivy Bridge mobos, the only true PWM headers were the CPU fans. Don't know about their IVB-E mobos. If this is the case, you can always run the fans off the CPU cooler fan profile and use PWM fan splitters. Also,...

Welcome to SPCR. Sorry to hear about your plumbing nightmare. In general, the Fractal Define R5 and Silverstone FT02/05 are great cases. The Fractal runs quieter, the Silverstone runs cooler. If you were running SLI, I'd recommend the Silverstone rotated mobo cases. As you aren't it's just up to yo...

Hi Forum, this is my first posting here. :) I had one of the most frustrating two weeks of my life behind me. Don't want to tell my life story, you can skip to the next paragraph if you like. It all started with a defective powesupply for a 4 monitor DVI switch. I replaced it and thought it was no b...