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Congrats on another year without replacement parts

My CPU/Case/HDD (WD Red 2TB) turned 10.

Notebookcheck will list the models they (or the external sources they aggregate have) reviewed.

If you go the extra step using NotebookCheck's search option, you can select fanless, laptop, and age (say 2020 to 2022) and find a handful of devices. Using the processor generation option seems to fail. You'd have to sort thru the Atom stuff to find the few higher performance devices.

To a point, I disagree. The 120x25mm fans I strapped onto a gfx card were whisper level audible at 500rpm when used as case fans. With the added resistance of the gfx card heat sink, they'd be louder at the same rpm. So, for over engineered solutions like the NF-A12's on a gfx card, 500rpm wouldn't ...

Yeah. We'd also get back to the discussion on it'd be nice if gfx card bios permitted fan speeds down in the 500rpm range.

yep, it's big.

If your thermal paste is as old as your current CPU, consider getting some new stuff. Arctic has come out with MX-5.

Try the Kotetsu and see if it meets your needs. No harm no foul.

Pg 16 of the manual : PCI_E3 will be unavailable when installing M.2 SSD in the M2_2 slot. SATA2 will be unavailable when installing M.2 SATA SSD in the M2_2 slot. ** SATA5 & SATA6 will be unavailable when installing M.2 SSD in the M2_3 slot. Looks like a nice motherboard. Intel NIC and good audio ...

Also, I'm thinking of getting the Asus PRIME Z690-P D4 ATX LGA1700 Motherboard. Is it compatible with my 2 hard drives? You have 2 SATA SSDs + 2 (I'm assuming) SATA Hard drives. The mobo has 4 SATA ports. If you have an Optical drive or something else that needs a SATA port, then you will be short....

Under $50? not really. Under heavy loads, the i5-12600K can consume a fair bit of power. I'd lean toward a larger cooler than the Kotetsu, like the Fuma 2 @$60 +$8 for the LGA1700 adapter ( SCMK-1700 ). Or, the Noctua NH-14S for $80 plus the free adapter you'll need to get from Noctua . Some Noctua ...

Looking through the Asus boards..if this is a preference for you...

The Asus PRIME Z690-P D4 has a Realtek 2.5G NIC and the TUF GAMING Z690-PLUS WIFI D4 uses Intel. Neither lists which Realtek audio solution they use...other than the TUF has a cover shield.

Just a quick note for right now: New CPU = New socket (LGA1700). Everyone is rolling out socket adapters for existing inventory as well as updating the new production runs. What this means to you - Scythe isn't supporting the original Kotetsu with their adapter. So, you'll need a new cooler and adap...

I think the implication is new production runs of existing models will come with the new adapter plate, but there is still a lot of inventory out there w/o it.

hum and noise: looks like you need to check them out

Scythe announces socket upgrade kit for $8.

In addition to the mounting upgrade kit, most current Scythe coolers will also include LGA1700 mounting materials soon.

It'll be interesting to see how performance improves with the Snail fan and whether it causes Scythe to also have an S version of the Fuma 2 and Ninja 5.

press release

Wonder Snail fan specs
Fan retails for $20.

Thanks for that!

Most of the cards start their fans with 700-800 rpm and I don't know why it's like that compared to coolers and case fans usually starting with ~300 rpm. Maybe lower speeds are not effective on quite closed, built-up GPU coolers and would sentence cards to thermal throttling. 60-something on chip s...

The question is how "loud" is this ~1000 rpm on this heatsink. NF-A12x25 are one of the fans with smallest noise increase with the speed and need of them running is only during load when anything other make some noise, so maybe it just doesn't make sense to make this card even quieter. On the other...

I bet you could simply change the fans for the Noctua NF-A12x25 LS-PWM , and very likely end up with much lower rpms, probably around 600rpms. Don't think it'd work. The sensor reports the fan speed and the pwm controller would just adjust the pulse width for the min 1k speed. This is what I saw on...

Yeah, I strapped a couple of 120mm PWM fans onto an old MSI GTX 760 Gaming (I think) card. Did wonders...but was limited by the cards min 1k fan speed. 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 ...

Glad you were able to resolve it. Anytime I update the BIOS, it also requires a reset - I always remove the battery before the reset. Seems to work for me.

In case you were curious

Asus/Noctua @ Techpowerup.

If your storage needs remain "low", you could try a 2.5" drive. Seagate BarraCuda 5TB goes for ~$160 and list specs of idle 26dB, seek 27dB. Stuck with SMR, though.

My 2TB Red from the same era (might be 2 years younger) is still running fine.

Here's that same cpu comparison with the I3-10105 added.

Your video led me to this one by Major Hardware. He includes the Gentle Typhoon and the NF-A12x25.