You remove the hatch and move the drive cage to the rearward location.
Then the airflow will blow onto the drive cage and be deflected upwards.
The exhaust fans help steering the flow from there.

... This is why I take exception to cheap coffee lake boards which have a sustained power delivery cap of 65 watts (and yes some do): they might be fine for "every day" use, but they cannot supply even an 8400 with enough juice to sustain an esoteric load to the best the CPU is capable of. Or one c...

How much heat do a couple of HDDs produce compared with a CPU + GPU? Is allocating nearly one third of your air intake to cooling them effective use of your fans' output? You don't allocate the fan to cool the HDDs only . You have some air cooling the HDD before cooling the other stuff, which is be...

Vicotnik wrote:... I've used Arctic Silver Ceramique for the last decade or so, the large syringes lasts forever. ...

I've used a small syringe of it, and only had to get new paste recently.

TDP for Intel desktop CPUs is simply intended to be a relative guide as to how much cooling a particular CPU needs. ... That's true in general. If you look at a range of CPUs they typically have the same TDP but not the same power consumption. But ... the TDP is essentially the same as the maximum ...

I haven't come across any paste that's aged poorly in a significant manner, so all of them?
... although most of the very old CPUs I've been using didn't need a heatsink in the first place.

... the diagram in the manual shows that most of the bottom fan would be blowing underneath the PSU shroud, potentially severely reducing its effectiveness. Not really reducing the effectiveness: 1. It will help cooling any HDDs mounted at the bottom intake. 2. There's a hatch in the top of the shr...

I'm experimenting right now with an 8500 and it WILL, if asked to, go well over its 65W TDP indefinitely . ... TDP is over 100w without any throttling. :) How do you measure the CPU's power consumption? What motherboard do you have? Some high end motherboards have a setting that by default allow th...

A follow-up from my post of yesterday: Last night we replaced the power hungry old graphics card, (Asus Radeon R9 280 DirectCu II) the very reason for adding lots of case fans, in that computer with a new leaner one (Palit GeForce GTX 1060). When I started the computer after the switch I had to chec...

I'd rather suggest: Go with what your fan controller can handle! If you use the motherboard to handle the fan speed, as is increasingly common, it's the fan headers and UEFI on the mobo that define what type(s) of fan to use. If the controller only support voltage control for a case fan then use a f...

I think you'll need to adjust the shroud at the bottom to fit three fans at the front. I got a Define C for my kid and needed more than the stock ventilation. Opted to buy two 140mm fans to mount in the front, moving the stock front fan to act exhaust at the rearmost position at the top. That solved...

One can also be very knit-picky and point out that heat pipe is a form of water cooling, so all of the recommended coolers are in fact water coolers!
What makes them better than the AIO variety is that the water loops are driven by thermal dynamics instead of a mechanical pump.

... can you please simplify it to me ? "With a higher limit the K-version will make use of more power and reach a higher temperature if/when exposed to a sizeable workload that the non-K-version can't complete in a few seconds." The faster CPU will get hotter at full load, but if the load is moment...

nimo11 wrote:... make difficult to reach the ram sticks.

And how often do you add/remove RAM?
It's not an issue.

The motherboard will allow the two to draw different amounts of power. With a higher limit the K-version will make use of more power and reach a higher temperature if/when exposed to a sizeable workload that the non-K-version can't complete in a few seconds. Extended low load and/or a high load with...

"The case you'll have for the next ten years..."
To me a $100 case is good enough for just ten years.
My P183 was purchased eight years ago and I don't see that one beeing retired in the next five years. I will likely keep it for ten more years unless something revolutionary happens to computing.

I'd love to have that case!
I've considered mounting HEPA filters on the intake of my current chassis, but not gotten around to it.
The dust entering past my pollen filters stick fairly hard to all heatsink surfaces...

The Alpine AM4 Passive is, as the name imply, a passive cooler for Socket AM4 (only).
Don't know quite what to think of it. Being made of aluminium only it's not super efficient, and it still cost more than I'd be willing to pay for a complete computer with such a low power CPU...

Overclocking will increase the power consumption. Question is what performance you want? All cores or single core? Overclocking the 2600 (all cores) to 3.7 GHz probably won't reach 95W, but will also give you less performance (than 2600X) when fewer cores are utilised. You get the best efficiency by...

whispercat wrote:Required storage space for what?

Most software. Games and such. Nowadays a game can require 150 GB install space while 30 GB was plenty ten years ago.
Also if you do any photography or filming the resolution and thereby filesize has grown considerably.

You most probably can't boot your computer through the network port. What kind(s) of RAID can be used is up to the specific NAS. In my view the primary advantage with a NAS over external HDD (connected by USB or eSATA) for you could be placing it in another room. That way you won't hear it and it ca...

Hrafn wrote:Vortez review

Wow! I want some of these, NOW!

whispercat wrote:So, in ten years, the price per GB on a SSD has come down by $2.34. or nearly 80%.

And in the same time the required storage space has also roughly five-folded, resulting in the cost for a useful amount of storage to stay approximately the same.

... I suspect we're unlikely to see a particularly quiet fan. My guess is it depends on the circumstances. My bet is that these Noctua fans will be relatively more quiet at higher pressure gradients where the competitors will have to run at twice the speed (give or take) to generate the same pressu...

Exhaust fans are more effective - pulling air through the case is easier than pushing it. ... Exhaust fans are more efficient when dust is not an issue . The reason they are more effective is that thay suck air through all openings of the case (except the parts used for exhaust). That reduces the r...

1) Depends on the number of threads used and which end of the i7 spectrum you compare to. The Kaby Lake i5-7100 generally won't beat an overclocked i7-2700K. Only the latest Coffee Lake i5 can be said to beat the early generations i7 in multithreaded applications. 2) Depends on your definition. A la...

... The cost-benefit of watercooling on CPU's is already not very good, so it's especially not worth it for GPU's. I disagree. Given that you do use water cooling for the CPU it's almost stupid to not also include the GPU in the loop. I have a bunch of water cooling components waiting for installat...

Now it's gone so far that even Tom's Hardware rates Ryzen 7 2700X as the very best CPU for gaming ! They've had Ryzens as "optional" in most price brackets before, but not as the primary option. Kyle Bennett at [H]OCP also has a deep analysis of Precision Boost 2 and AMD's new Prism cooler . In shor...

Airflow is simply displacement; for air to come into case, air must be leaving case ... Think of the air around us as water... No, this is wrong/bad. Air is a compressable gas, water is not. Airflow is something that nature creates sponatneous when there's a difference in air pressure between two p...

The 1000-series is cheaper for now. Most of the varieties are (soon) out of production, so they will be out of stock or available at higher prices. There's no need for them any more. While the new non-X models can be reasonably overclocked, for most users it's better to get with the X versions and l...