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I would recommend you get in touch with some bigger local corps (IT departement), I am pretty sure one of them will be able to negotiate some deal with the school. Companies usually really like to give you old stuff they would usually throw away and write it off as charity (which they could) or...

That is no heatsink, real heatsink have curves (or fins to be more precise), I would call this a slab of aluminium or a block of aluminium.

Very interesting, please post some pictures as soon as you have a build with MoBo and cables.

Wow, it is basically a cheaper version of the A4, that is incredible! Just look at how the insides look, they are basically the same. The main difference is in the construction of the outer shell and it looks to me like it doesn't require the same tolerances as the A4. Meaning that it is...

Oh and I did a thing. Dropbox-Link to video May the RGB be with you! I am gonna upload a better and a bit longer video when it looks a bit better.

Just for your information. If you are a proud owner of the copper AXP-100 do not attempt to bend it back after you bend it once. I did it with the normal version and it worked just fine and then I attempted it with the copper version (both for testing reasons by the way) and now I am a sad owner...

Adafruit also has multiple fitting heatsinks. One MOSFET is around 6x6mm which means your heatsink should preferably have a width and length of roughly 6mm. (0.25-0.27inch from Adafruit work for example). If I remember correctly Z270i has 11 MOSFETs which means you should use 11 heatsinks. I...

Rockit Cool Link This one is an alternative, they delivered it to me (Europe) in about a week.

You should make a survey where we can grade how much we would approve of each feature. So for example we could rate the clean front with 1-5 points and the branded front with 1-5 points. Then you can basically total up the points and you should see which version would have a higher acceptance...

I would say there that the alu fins where within the test variance of the copper fins. It is almost impossible for the aluminium fins to be better than the copper fins. It would have to be because of the colour (different radiation spectrum; effect is tinny though) or the surface finish (which...

Some more front IO would be nice (SD card reader anyone?) in a case this size.

Don't get me started (again) on those stupid heatsinks it annoys the hell out of me. These boards are so expensive and they can't even give you proper heatsinks.

How did the noise change?

Hey guys, I know this is kinda off topic but may of you guys have similar hardware so you might be able to help me. I just wanted to do some thermal benchmarking with the new instruments I got and with a replacement motherboard (Asus Z270i). The problem looks like this: The CPU POST LED turns...

they are more or less Z270s with better VRMs so they should work just fine.

This will strongly depend on the workload. If you hit it with Prime it will be much harder to cool. If you hit it with a game it might be easier to cool (depends on the game and performance will vary accordingly).

Maybe he is waiting for v2?

That is not how USB works at all. The entire USB lineup (protocol, not the connector) is fully backwards compatible. This means that with the appropriate adapter (which are easily obtained online for <10$) one could even connect a USB 2.0 capable motherboard connector to the USB-C connector. The...

Probably some degrees at most (1-3K I would guess) since the air is the bottleneck in this case, not the paint.

100% correct, forced convection is stronger by at least one order of magnitude than natural convection. Added to that is that natural convection requires much bigger fin gaps in the heatsinks than forced convection designs. Meaning that a densely populated PCB like a motherboard won't have a...

I would just like to say that I used to run two GTX 770 and an OCed i7-4770K with only one 240 rad (can't remember how thick it was but not absurd; I could meassure it if you want) and it ran fine. The liquid temps where in the low 30s and everything stayed well bellow Tjmax. What I want to say...

This basically means either the spikes are so short that it doesn't conduct through the resin or the thermal glue is shit. If you want you can place on 2-4 corners a small dot of woodglue (nothing stronger) and fill the rest with some cheap thermal paste. But before you do that I would log the...

That is pretty much the opposite of what I do with all of my electronic stuff, I have three different sized heatsinks which I can just slap on everything (low profile 12mm x 12mm, lp 6x6 and 8mm high 6x6). On my SSD I put four of the high heatsinks on the controller and on each memory chip there...

I had the same problem (though not as bad as you describe it) and someone in this thread found out that the problem might be that your graphics card is touching the back of your PSU (or almost touching) which will heat it up. He suggested putting some plastic or so between it. I just used some...

Welcome! I will put this in a spoiler to keep the thread smaller. (I would appreciate it if everybody would do this with pictures so I don't have to scroll like an idiot, thanks)

I also tested the PSU with professional equipment and I can confirm that its performance is amazing! Low noise, fast transient responses with almost no overshoot, high efficiency (way more than Gold) and good build quality.

Okay, my opinion on this: Ryzen will work better than Kaby lake (since you want to use it for CPU based rendering) but if you really need a fast machine (in the next few days) I would go for a X99 or Xeon build. If you can wait about one month you could go for AMDs Thread ripper which would...

This should work but I don't recommend it. The monitor (according to its user manual) implements the displayPort alternative mode for USB-C which is of course backwards compatible to HDMI, DVI and VGA over adapter cables. However, this is an additional step in outputing the signal, I would...

Rough STEP model Rough STL model good enough? Should be correct to at least 5mm I would say.

You have used it before and in my experience and my specific use and environment I have to reapply it maybe every two years or so. That doesn't mean it doesn't work anymore after two years, it just means your temp gains are gone after that time which means it ages just like silicon based thermal...

Are you f***ing kidding me? I can buy a used 1080Ti with this amount of money (Switzerland) and would still have some money left for ice cream. (all links bellow) I can also buy a Asus GTX 1070 STRIX O8G (I assume that is the card you are talking about) used for 460CHF (475USD / 420EUR) and I...

I don't think any company will bother with 90° Molex Jr. connectors. I also don't know of any official 90° Molex Jr. connectors in the first place, so your only way would be to follow the earlier posted German thread. If you have some translation issues just ask. There are many Germans in this...

Around the end of this year/ start of next year.

Get some heat shrink and a flammable glue with a low viscosity (I use some generic UHU plastic adhesive). Cut a small V shape in the isolation of your cable to be able to bend it more. Bend the cable exactly at the V (the V should close -> it faces inwards). Put some glue on the cable (only a...

It is not EVGAs fault, it is hard to measure something to a precision of 1mm especially if you have the CAD files which probably specify the length to an accuracy of +/- 0.1mm. xD

Very clean build I am impressed. The heatsinks from adafruit look way better than my copper heatsinks. xD Btw. a word to my dead Asus Strix board. It looks like my RGB strip killed the motherboard, I had an older one without the whole Aura certification thingy. Don't do that, it can kill your...

I need your help forum users! I just encountered a serious problem with my PC. My system ran without a problem for about two months now. Yesterday I connected an RGB-Strip to the AURA header on the motherboard to try it out. I started the AURA software on Win10 and tried some things, suddenly I...

It is the PH-TC12LS, I have one too. it fits in the case without any problems. I am gonna test this one too but I had to wait for a replacement GPU since mine developed a horrible coil whine (I started testing all the heatsinks I bought). Currently I am sick though but I am gonna retest the old...

You are a life. I removed my side panel so many times (probably around 40 times by know to test CPU coolers) that two of them broke off. I didn't know how to model them the right way and I already feared this would be another big time sink to figure out how it works best. Thank you very much!

I replaced all MOSFET heatsinks to get some better airflow and it does help. If I can trust my thermal camera the maximal MOSFET die temperature should be no more than 120°C (running Furmark and Prime95) without any heatsinks. With heatsink this will probably drop bellow 110°C. This is well...