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by Abula
Sat Nov 27, 2021 7:44 pm
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: New Motherboard Help
Replies: 23
Views: 14396

Re: New Motherboard Help

Steve from Hardware Unboxed recommends the MSI PRO Z690-A DDR4 as one of the best value oriented motherboards for the 12600k, i left the video at the time of his remark How Bottlenecked Is Battlefield 2042? CPU Benchmark feat. 128-Player Battles , the board has been getting very good user reviews on...
by Abula
Mon Nov 08, 2021 8:55 am
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Scythe Mugen 5 S with new fan
Replies: 7
Views: 8685

Re: Scythe Mugen 5 S with new fan

Nice find Steve, still dont like how new CPU Coolers cant come with it, but i do have Mugen5, Fuma2 and Ninja5 that could use those mounts in time. Btw im not liking what im reading on Amazon about the snail fan, Too loud These are loud even at low speed. I guess it is the motor but they were unusab...
by Abula
Sat Oct 30, 2021 8:14 am
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Scythe Mugen 5 S with new fan
Replies: 7
Views: 8685

Re: Scythe Mugen 5 S with new fan

Generally i would see this as a plus, but this time.....
CPU Sockets: (for Intel LGA 1700 socket, an additional mounting upgrade kit is required)
Its being released at the same time as alder lake, charging more and not having the support... its a let down.
by Abula
Sun Oct 24, 2021 12:00 am
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: Strapping NF-A12x25's to a RTX 3070
Replies: 20
Views: 16672

Re: Strapping NF-A12x25's to a RTX 3070

Asus stuck with the ~1000rpm min fan speed for this card, even though the fans can go much slower and it would allow for a much lower speed vs temp profile for non-max use cases. Kinda stupid. I bet you could simply change the fans for the Noctua NF-A12x25 LS-PWM , and very likely end up with much ...
by Abula
Fri Oct 22, 2021 11:24 am
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: Strapping NF-A12x25's to a RTX 3070
Replies: 20
Views: 16672

Re: Strapping NF-A12x25's to a RTX 3070

Very nice GPU with very low noise.

Interesting that TechPowerUp can measure to 21.9db now.
by Abula
Sun Sep 19, 2021 4:20 pm
Forum: Fans and Control
Topic: Phanteks T30-120, a new King is rising
Replies: 11
Views: 13629

Re: Phanteks T30-120, a new King is rising

Adding the Bitwit video, while not a pure T30 review, its one of the fans he tests and practically wins all the tests. Sadly he didnt had a NF-A12x25, which imo should preform very close.
by Abula
Wed Aug 25, 2021 4:17 pm
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Help find a R6 replacement with better cooling
Replies: 20
Views: 12158

Re: Help find a R6 replacement with better cooling

I agree with Japanese Capacitor, open the R6 frontal door and remove the filter, thats as good as it will get in any of the airflow oriented cases. If you are not happy with your temps and noise like that, a new case wont fix your issues. Personally i reach the point where i cant cool a 5950x quietl...
by Abula
Thu Aug 19, 2021 8:34 am
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Fractal Define Torrent
Replies: 14
Views: 15252

Re: Fractal Define Torrent

SilverStone like month or two ago launched new Fortress - Alta F1 - but short time before launch changed their mind and make it China-only product with limited availability in USA and Germany. If I'm not wrong, USA buys by SilverStone's site, Germany in Case King store. With Alta F1 they resigned f...
by Abula
Thu Aug 19, 2021 12:22 am
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Fractal Define Torrent
Replies: 14
Views: 15252

Re: Fractal Define Torrent

Its seems a good concept, i do think Fractal did a great job on the case... now on the pricing i think they went a little higher than they should have, there are so many airflow oriented cases today, that cost half of what the Torrent cost, given that it already comes with the fans... still don't li...
by Abula
Thu Aug 12, 2021 8:29 am
Forum: Fans and Control
Topic: Phanteks T30-120, a new King is rising
Replies: 11
Views: 13629

Phanteks T30-120, a new King is rising

A new fan was just released from Phantek, the T30-120 official webpage , promotional video Phanteks T30 - The Ultimate Performance Fan Available on Amazon: Phanteks (PH-F120T30_BG) T30-120 Fan, Premium high-Performance Fan, PWM, Black/Grey $29.99 Seems another clone on the Gentle Typhon, that adds t...
by Abula
Wed Jun 30, 2021 7:24 am
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Thermalright Frost Spirit 140
Replies: 18
Views: 35603

Re: Thermalright Frost Spirit 140

I'm very likely to buy one to test, still want to compare it to Gentle Typhoon and NF-A12x25, its still on my list, but as with Artic Cooling P12/P14, that sell for a very good value, were hyped a lot by youtube reviewer, but a lot of people start reporting hums around 1000-1200rpms, that the review...
by Abula
Tue Jun 29, 2021 3:21 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Thermalright Frost Spirit 140
Replies: 18
Views: 35603

Re: Thermalright Frost Spirit 140

The z height is less. So, that may impact things. Maybe some new spaces =P If so, I would interest in these ones: https://www.scytheus.com/wonder-snail-120 Rather not many reviews yet, I've seen only one heatsink test-comparison, but claiming it's on par in pure cooling or cooling/noise with superi...
by Abula
Tue Jun 29, 2021 12:46 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Thermalright Frost Spirit 140
Replies: 18
Views: 35603

Re: Thermalright Frost Spirit 140

I'm guessing we will see a new generation of socket adapter kits though for mount compatibility. Seems like the mounting holes of LGA1700/1800 is the same as LGA1200/1155/1151, but im not sure height wise, etc, but overall seems the mounting will be the same, more so if they want to make use bigger...
by Abula
Tue Jun 29, 2021 12:20 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Noctua NH-P1 Passive CPU Cooler
Replies: 10
Views: 12056

Re: Noctua NH-P1 Passive CPU Cooler

Have added some reviews, mostly video reviews.
by Abula
Mon Jun 28, 2021 12:12 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Thermalright Frost Spirit 140
Replies: 18
Views: 35603

Re: Thermalright Frost Spirit 140

The TA140 EX seems like a successor to the TSP140 / Archon, wondering if it will end up cheaper than the Assassin. The only thing that worries me, Intel LGA 1700 & LGA 1800 Socket Design Leaks Out, Designed For Alder Lake & Next-Gen CPUs , the IHS is no longer square, so not sure if heatsink manufac...
by Abula
Mon Jun 28, 2021 7:34 am
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Thermalright Frost Spirit 140
Replies: 18
Views: 35603

Re: Thermalright Frost Spirit 140

Seems Thermalight new line is aimed into competing for value, i just saw the new Thermalright Peerless Assassin retailing for $41.38, which would be a the price of the kotestu, for a twin tower with dual fans, this cooler probably will compete with the Fuma2 which is almost 50% more expensive.
by Abula
Wed Jun 16, 2021 8:27 am
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Noctua NH-P1 Passive CPU Cooler
Replies: 10
Views: 12056

Re: Noctua NH-P1 Passive CPU Cooler

I wonder how well it'd do with your boosty Ryzens :) The initial comments from GamerNexus, seems they are modding their test methodology to fit this cooler, probably out of not complying or sustaining high core count cpus. My guess, is that it will perform slightly better than the HR22, but not as ...
by Abula
Tue Jun 15, 2021 11:55 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Noctua NH-P1 Passive CPU Cooler
Replies: 10
Views: 12056

Noctua NH-P1 Passive CPU Cooler

While Noctua has been working on passive coolers for some years now, today was released to the public their new offering, Official website - Noctua NH-P1 Passive CPU Cooler Nocutas YouTube video - Introducing the NH-P1 Passive CPU Cooler It seems already available in mayor retailers like Amazon - No...
by Abula
Mon Jun 14, 2021 8:44 am
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: My AMD experience with Ryzen
Replies: 3
Views: 6036

My AMD experience with Ryzen

Its more a rant, but i have now my fair share of testing Ryzen with 5950x and 5900x for more than 6 months, marvelous cpus, faster and more efficient than Intel 10/11gen, its nice to see AMD really putting some hard competition with intel, but not all is great with them. The problem for me with AMD ...
by Abula
Tue Jun 08, 2021 7:04 am
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Thermalright Frost Spirit 140
Replies: 18
Views: 35603

Re: Thermalright Frost Spirit 140

I just wonder, how it would be when noise normalized on few speeds. Sorry I don't have the equipment or the chamber to do this accurately. How would you rate the quality of build? I would say about even with the past iteration, i always seen the craftman of Thermalright to be top notch. One thing w...
by Abula
Sun Jun 06, 2021 6:41 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Thermalright Frost Spirit 140
Replies: 18
Views: 35603

Thermalright Frost Spirit 140

We have been given lots of CPU cooler options over the past decade, SPCR liked a lot the offering of Scythe like Kotesu and the Mugen, more so because they offer very good performance for the money. Thermalright in the past have been a very high end tower cooler with offering like Silver Arrow or HR...
by Abula
Thu Apr 22, 2021 2:56 pm
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Advice for FANLESS fast i3 or i5 PC
Replies: 19
Views: 15832

Re: Advice for FANLESS fast i3 or i5 PC

Nice setup, hope when you get the Akasa, you share with us your temperatures, im very tempted on building the same for my Surveillance camera setup.
by Abula
Sun Apr 18, 2021 11:20 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Advice for FANLESS fast i3 or i5 PC
Replies: 19
Views: 15832

Re: Advice for FANLESS fast i3 or i5 PC

i7 1165g is a mobile CPU, 28W TDP but very capable, also comes with intel XE 940 igpu, so all around is a very good CPU, it has started to come on NUCs and small pcs, wait for AKASA to release a passive case for it and you are set.
by Abula
Thu Apr 08, 2021 12:38 pm
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: New PC build
Replies: 103
Views: 58977

Re: New PC build

Asus bios fan control sucks, its very picky and a lot of times it doesnt work as we do the graphs. On the contrary, Asus FanXpert is pretty good, not only to recognize each fan but with fan tunning you are presented with a suggested graph that most of the time work well enough, but you can vary it t...
by Abula
Mon Apr 05, 2021 8:11 am
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: is there a more silenceproofing case than antec p183(2007)
Replies: 4
Views: 7315

Re: is there a more silenceproofing case than antec p183(2007)

P183 is still a good case today, its a little harder to work with than todays offering like the Define R7, but as long as you are fine with what the P183 offers there is no reason to upgrade, probably the fans overtime will wear down and a replacement might be worth it. As for the USB3, if you are s...
by Abula
Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:14 pm
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: New PC build
Replies: 103
Views: 58977

Re: New PC build

Find out first if you workflow benefits from more cores, not all workflows take more cores better, in some scenarios like most Adobe still benefit more from intel Quicsync than more cores, so check for your explicit workflow and programs if you really will get better experience with AMD than intel, ...
by Abula
Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:56 pm
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: ASUS Z87-Deluxe fake 4-pin headers & other fan control info
Replies: 60
Views: 179326

Re: ASUS Z87-Deluxe fake 4-pin headers & other fan control info

Now I´m debating whether I should keep Asus AI-suite or not. The Fan-Xpert did provide more settings, but I don´t like programs running in the background when I can do this from BIOS. This is the main reason i no longer run Asus motherboards, the bios fan control of MSI is much better, even Asrock ...
by Abula
Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:07 am
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: ASUS Z87-Deluxe fake 4-pin headers & other fan control info
Replies: 60
Views: 179326

Re: ASUS Z87-Deluxe fake 4-pin headers & other fan control info

So I´m still hanging on to my 4790k and recently got my hands on a Asus Z97-Deluxe board. The problem I´m having is the Q-Fan control. I have connected two fans with a splitter to the CPU_Header. Both fans are PWM --> https://www.bequiet.com/en/casefans/1636 brand new. I set the Q-fan control to PW...
by Abula
Wed Jan 27, 2021 8:09 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Quiet pc upgrade 2021
Replies: 10
Views: 11264

Re: Quiet pc upgrade 2021

Personally i dont see the 5800x so hot, with the 5600x/5800x/5950x you get $50 per core on MSRP (thats if you can find one at that price), while the 5900x around $45 per core, as long as you can use the cores this is best buy of this gen, i would even say that its a better investment for someone tha...
by Abula
Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:27 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Quiet pc upgrade 2021
Replies: 10
Views: 11264

Re: Quiet pc upgrade 2021

+ reused WD 2TB SSD + reused Seasonic Platinum 520 Fanless + reused Fractal Design Define R5 + 2 reused Scythe case fans As long as you are happy with the performance all seem fine. AMD Ryzen 5 5600X + reused Noctua NH-D15 (with the extra mounting kit) Really good combo, im cooling a 5900x with it ...