Building a new PC!
The one I have I love..other than working on it. The Inwin A1 case is tiny tiny. And awesome for putting on a desk, it's like the size of a toaster. But it really is a "Build it and look at it" case:
This is what I am replacing.
I put these 4 fan (2 case and 2 under GPU thats hard to see) in last week, it took me 1 1/2 hours...LOL. Removing nearly everything out of it, because everything is in everything else's way.
The back IO side fan? CPU Cooler is in the way (Which I have to take back off to remove the plate of too). The back case fan? GPU and PSU is in the way so have to take them out.
I love this case, but would rather be shot than try to build in it again.
(ignore shitty cable management, I was DONE with fucking with this case..lol)
Spoiler:
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Building a new one in a Lian Li O11 Dynamic EVO.
This case is AWESOME. you can config it upside down if you want the window on the other side, tons of cable management room. Fuck loads of options for layout and placement of things. A dedicated Harddrive rack you can get to without opening the case, PSU and such behind the MB for super clean wiring.
Going with a 7900X CPU with a kraken AIO, cannot see the need for 7950X for myself. 6400 ddr5 ram, and a 7900XTX when they release.
MIGHT have went overboard on the aRGB. 10 fans like the ones in the case above (3 bottom, 3 top on rad, 3 on the vertical wall and one in back IO) along with 2 RGB fogged strips, gskill aRGB ram, and a RGB GPU anti-sag.
Still waiting for the rest of the parts to get here, but this is what I got so far.
This is the upside down config, since I want the window to be like on the one I have above, and the cables to all come out where my monitor is, vs all ugly out the back like they are in the above pics of my current PC.
Seriously considering adding the LCD to replace the rear IO fan like this has to display temps and drive data etc using rainmeter. It runs on a raspberry PI mounted in the back of the case (this is the same case as I have)
Spoiler:
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
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I really don't have the need to put together a good looking case. All I care for is good airflow in the case but otherwise it just sits under my desk out of my sight.
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
Only reason I am is because its one of my only two hobbies : PC and bumbling around in my garage wood workshop.
So might as well take the time to make the thing I spend 1/2 my free time on looking nice. (Well more like 80% of my free time the other 20 is in the garage).
That and one of my friends I've known for 20+ years, owns a custom PC shop that does over the top custom water loop type machines you would see on subreddit 'pc master race' posts, for customers. So I can't just slap together some parts without getting ragged on for it..LOL
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.
I LOVE the old case too. its so tiny and out of the way.
But man, it takes a lot of convincing myself to work on it if I want to change anything.
The only reason I still have a 1TB NVME in it with a 2TB sitting on my desk for 8 months, is because I dont want to take it apart to put it in. It goes on the back of the MB which means taking the entire thing apart down to nothing to get to the m2 slot. Then rebuilding it all, which I assume Inwin thinks everyone has baby hands to do it. LOL
Testing my sons ram in my PC took 20 minutes. You can SEE the ram, but good luck getting to the clips to take it out without poking at them with a long skinny thing. Then putting them back in is putting your hand in a place 1/2 the size it needs to be to push them in. Its a situation of: Try to lean them in hoping its close, then pushing with tip of your finger praying its in the slot and you can get enough leverage to make it click.
Doing anything in this case feels like trying to fish your car keys out from under your car seat blind using only 2 fingers.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.
The yellow and red? It because it's in my office where I sleep sometimes when oncall for work, and its a nice accent color for the glow is all
Normally it's the cyan/white like the spoiler video one. Unless I am in a dark room then it is WAY too bright.
If anyone wants super bright ass fans, get these. Bitspower Touchaqua Notos O RGB Hydro. That video is thru a tinted window dark enough you can't see in it at all when they are off, and they are STILL that bright.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.
From what I gather from my friend that deals with them everyday at his shop, it does help a bit. Nothing mind blowing but the auto OC AMD does benefits from it a bit from it if you use an aggressive auto OC bios setup. As it will try it best to overclock as much as it can before hitting the 95c ceiling.
Or if you turn the dynamic overclock down/off and undervolt it helps keep the temps in a lower range if you like and a BIT more stable undervolted as the temp range doesn't ramp up so quickly as much on intermittent spike loads, as the water cooler has more room to heat saturate than an air cooler.
Again nothing earth shatteringly major in difference. But more so to have a slightly bigger margin of wiggle room on which direction you want to go: SLIGHTLY higher clocks at OC ceiling temp limits, or slightly lower temps at conservative auto settings.
I got it mostly for three reasons:
1.) It was free. I was debating on getting it myself until that friend I spoke of that has the shop, found out and has one sitting around in his house he is sending me.
2.) I wanted the cheesy LCD temp display on the water block.
3.) So the CPU heat is directed outside the case directly out the top vs into the case then case fans removing it.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.
AIO or air fan won't help with the heat in the room. it still makes the same wattage of heat, it's just how you remove it.
Like if you have a space heater, or a space heater with a fan behind it. Both make the same heat output, just one cools the heater off more while moving it to the room.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.
Its done!
The GPU white cable with combs I will do after I get the new card. They are too much a pain to get right and straight so just ran the PSU one out.
But pretty happy with the result. Did not expect it to be THIS bright. I have to turn the lights to 'grey' so it doesn't blind me, as its about a foot from my face on my left on top of my desk:
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.
Let us know how it goes. If an AIO actually is better I would get one in a second.
I don't mind what the temps get to at the moment, but this CPU makes the room as hot as fuck much quicker than the last one did.
After some testing it seems the AIO helps a bit.
These chips seem to run balls to the wall and if you do precision boost they will try to auto overclock until PPT or max temps are reached.
With air cooler it goes right to 95c and boosts to around 5.2, with the kraken it jumps to around 86-89c (depending on my room temp) at 5.5 and maxes out trying any higher because of the default ppt limit.
ECO mode peaks temp in the mid 60c but boosts rarely go over 5.0. More usually 4.7-4.9 range.
All these are temps it gets to within 5 seconds of OCCT starting. There is no ramping up, its "Start, BAM highest temp reached"
Only air cooler I had to test with is a Cooler Master Hyper 212. Which is 205w TDP so SHOULD be an appropriate one for the 7900x.
I got both a Kraken Z73 360, and a Lian Li Galahad 360 here, both seem about equal on AIO cooling after testing an hour with OCCT on both.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.
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