dondan if you mean mount it upside down, that's what I've done.
Even if it were possible to mount it the right side up, the HDD is too flush with the case for the power cable to fit
Is there a consensus that fins parallel to RAM is the way to go, as opposed to heat pipes parallel to RAM?
My L9i is mounted with parallel fins, heat pipes running perpendicular, pointing out towards the I/O.
I've seen some posts showing heat pipes pointing up (parallel to RAM) has better...
Following up on this, as I mentioned before, my SF450 fan spun quite loudly after 5 min GPU load. The fan also spun on idle (though slowly) most of the time. Swapped for an SF600 and the fan never spun on idle and took a while to turn on during full GPU load, even then it's very quiet. I've now...
My SF450 sounded like a vacuum after 5 mins on full GPU load (mind you it's a 1060). Swapped it for an SF600 and the difference is night and day. Maybe I had a terrible 450 and a great 600, either way, try another PSU if yours is loud. Mine's no longer the loudest component.
In the thread, thermalright rep mentions tootling needed for full copper (and freight) makes the price basically double. Material cost by itself is a very small part. So think about it, is there a market for this cooler where it costs twice Dan's estimate?
I think we're crossing over too far...
Higher voltage + higher frequency = too much heart for little coolers. You can scale back the K processor to behave like non-K. You're all saying the same thing. Let's stop going around in circles.
As for the PC not booting Wezelkrozum dondan mine wouldn't boot with my graphics card because...
Anyone looking to go with custom cables, unless it's 100% for aesthetics reasons, I'd wait and see how you fare. I was fairly certain the cables would be so long to be airflow restrictive. And the first time I put everything together (following Dan's instructions) that was the case. But after...
You guys are focusing to much on Intel's 'TDP'. As can be confirmed by SPCR, there's no magic to Intel's 35w or 91w chips. These are mere suggestions for the type of cooler needed. A 91w chip underclocked and undervolted will act like a 35w chip if specced the same. There's no binning. All the...
vAro: bottom of PCIe to top of card is the same for all MSI gaming cards (140mm). Bottom of PCIe to top of PCB is different for each. Compare close up photos of the power socket relative to the rest of the cooler for each card. Bit-tech has some good shots.
After some googling seems like the release dates were:
470 ~Sept 27, 2010
830 ~Oct 25, 2011
840pro ~Sept 21,2012
Late Q3/early Q4 it seems, Q2 is definitely too optimistic. Though I'm assuming the barrier to next gen introduction would be the NAND process itself (for which I can't find...
We can readily find out when new stuff is coming out/what to expect for CPUs and GPUs, but when it comes to SSDs things get a bit more nebulous.
Anyone want to take an informed stab when and what we can expect for the next gen of SSDs?
I'm hoping for a Samsung 850 Pro in Q2-3 on a sub...