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Y'all need to learn how to love the Noctua color scheme which is all the color there is to be seen through my O11D's transparent surface area, which is large. I haven't learned to love it, but I love the case.
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v1ld posted:Y'all need to learn how to love the Noctua color scheme which is all the color there is to be seen through my O11D's transparent surface area, which is large. you have to fully commit to the noctua lifestyle for it to look good  
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Nov 7, 2022 23:27
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Tag your pornography.
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Nov 7, 2022 23:29
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repiv posted:you have to fully commit to the noctua lifestyle for it to look good Seeing a top-mounted PSU feels weird nowadays.
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Nov 7, 2022 23:36
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repiv posted:you have to fully commit to the noctua lifestyle for it to look good Fractal really should do a noctua partnership to release an official version of this.
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Nov 7, 2022 23:40
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:Fractal really should do a noctua partnership to release an official version of this. partnership falls apart after noctua spends 4 years developing their own 180mm fan to go in the front
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Nov 7, 2022 23:46
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Seeing a top-mounted PSU feels weird nowadays. the fractal torrent is easily one of the best cases to come out in the past few years, also god /drat/ that noctua brown one looks good
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Nov 8, 2022 00:01
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(giving Videocardz the click instead of Jay on purpose, lol) https://twitter.com/VideoCardz/status/1589741791506415616 drat, thats a pretty slick design. I like the squared off XFXish design langauge, and the BIOS LED and plug placement are good touches. Rip EVGA.
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Nov 8, 2022 00:05
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How did no other company put the power plug on the end like that, it makes so much more sense
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Nov 8, 2022 00:07
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Good news! Steve got one as well and did a teardown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYzJf71WUcM
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Nov 8, 2022 00:09
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Yeah, the 3080 12GB is pretty drat powerful. My jump from a 2070 Super to a 3080 12GB was definitely noticeable. Now that I have a 3080 10GB on the way, I find myself wondering what I might end up doing where I’d really miss the extra 2GB of VRAM. Looks like the original Stable Diffusion repository had 10GB as a minimum requirement, but there have been memory efficiency patches since then? My Meshify 2 is 100% Noctua fans now, so I would be a customer for that case. Amazon still has some Noctua 3070s in stock too!
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Nov 8, 2022 00:14
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Fats posted:How did no other company put the power plug on the end like that, it makes so much more sense it precludes having a short PCB and blow-through cooler, unless they put the power cable on an extension, which would effectively force users to use the included heatsink assembly (no waterblocking)
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Nov 8, 2022 00:18
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it also just moves the case clearance issue in the other direction. Granted, I think there are probably more cases that have issues with the top-mounted connector, but the side-mounted connector could still be an issue given how long that card already is.
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Nov 8, 2022 00:22
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Do we have a thread for talking about cases? I’m probably in the market in the next year and don’t want to poo poo this one up when I start window shopping.
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Nov 8, 2022 00:24
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nvidia did actually do a short PCB with extended power connector on the GTX1060 FE and i recall everyone hating it, and they never did it again
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Nov 8, 2022 00:25
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Cyrano4747 posted:Do we have a thread for talking about cases? I’m probably in the market in the next year and don’t want to poo poo this one up when I start window shopping.
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the pc part picking thread is probably the closest thing, there isn't much to say about cases outside of "which one should i buy" so it kind of fits there
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Nov 8, 2022 00:28
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repiv posted:it precludes having a short PCB and blow-through cooler, unless they put the power cable on an extension, which would effectively force users to use the included heatsink assembly (no waterblocking) Wasn’t there also something about nvidia not liking end on power plugs since it made cards easier to use in server chassis?
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Arivia posted:Wasn’t there also something about nvidia not liking end on power plugs since it made cards easier to use in server chassis? yes but if the card is deeper than standard, which all 4090s are, they won't fit in a server regardless of where you put the power connector so it's moot in that case
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Cyrano4747 posted:Do we have a thread for talking about cases? I’m probably in the market in the next year and don’t want to poo poo this one up when I start window shopping. Tbf this is a good thread for case chat now especially with how large the newer cards are lol
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I think computer cases are cool and if we had a thread about them I'd like to see discussions about cases from yesteryear and which would be good and cool for modern builds. New cases are very efficient and nice but also kind of generic. Older cases had more style put into them, sometimes to their detriment, and I miss that. My current case is an almost decade old, and heavily modified Lian Li V354 and I love it. I'll probably keep it going forever because there's really nothing like it anymore. E: with the ever increasing weight of these graphics cards, I'm surprised there hasn't been a resurgence in cases that lay the mobo flat. That would simultaneously put the weight of the card vertically on the mobo and also allow for easy side viewing. Seems like it would solve the problem of needing 90 degree PCIE extensions and DARK OBELISKS all in one swoop. SpartanIvy fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Nov 8, 2022 |
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the stimulus check etc during lockdown/wfh probably really lit a fire under case manufacturers' asses, and things are pretty great nowadays. if you go by phanteks, be quiet, corsair or lian li, you're probably in good hands, as long as they're more recent models
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Well I’ll just ask here then. What’s the current hotness in like the $100-ish ballpark? (Pretty hard limit at 150) I’m currently running a mini-atx board w/ a 2700x. I figure I’ll upgrade that in the next sooner or later and when I get a new board/cpu/etc it’s time for a new case. Dgaf about rgb but I’m not allergic to it either. I like the mini-atx form factor but if bigger is better I’m not size constrained any more.
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mini-atx isn't a thing, do you mean mini-itx or micro-atx?
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Cyrano4747 posted:Well I’ll just ask here then. Probably a used 1070?
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oh yeah, there's an sff/mini-itx thread, too! it's so specific that i didn't think of it at first
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Sorry yeah micro atx
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Cyrano4747 posted:Sorry yeah micro atx Hey if you live in LA I have a Coolermaster 120 that you can have for free lol https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/legacy-products/cases/elite-120-advanced/ It’s still new in the box because I never ended up building a Pc with it. Edit oh it’s mini itx I have no idea what to do with it lol MarcusSA fucked around with this message at 01:12 on Nov 8, 2022 |
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that's mini-itx, their micro-atx board won't fit
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repiv posted:that's mini-itx, their micro-atx board won't fit Yeah shows what I remember about it. Well if anyone in LA wants it let me know it’s been sitting unused forever.
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repiv posted:it precludes having a short PCB and blow-through cooler, unless they put the power cable on an extension, which would effectively force users to use the included heatsink assembly (no waterblocking)  or they could just put a bigass hole in the pcb
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:it also just moves the case clearance issue in the other direction. Granted, I think there are probably more cases that have issues with the top-mounted connector, but the side-mounted connector could still be an issue given how long that card already is. I think there could be more options beside sticking the connector at the end of the card. They could be at the end of the PCB with a recess in the heatsink for the cables. Even better if they were diagonal pointing upwards from the card. The problem is both of these options would require custom socket components, even the first option would require that the latch hook is towards the PCB unlike the standard sockets that have them away from PCB.
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as i mentioned the other day, just putting the connector on the PCB at a 45 degree angle would have helped a lot they already did that with the 30 series FE cards and then seemingly just forgot
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v1ld posted:Y'all need to learn how to love the Noctua color scheme which is all the color there is to be seen through my O11D's transparent surface area, which is large. Oh don’t let the fact that I have spent more on corsair RGB products then most gamers have spent on their GPU make you think that I am not into silence as well. I’m all brown and tan baby, even swapped out the fans on my AIO. When you have around 500 addressable LEDs in a rig it actually doesn’t matter what color your fans are.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Well I’ll just ask here then. The $100 case situation is kinda rough these days. The price of cases shot up when shipping prices shot up due to how disproportionately expensive they are to ship compared to their actual value. There are still some decent options here and there, but some of the many previous greats you could get for ~$80 are now over $100. For mATX, there's the Asus Prime AP201. It's sort of like a bigger, all-mesh version of an NR200. It actually has a similar desk footprint to many full-ATX compact midtowers, but it's shorter. It gets pretty good thermals for an mATX chassis due to the sheer amount of mesh, but you'll have to bring your own fans. It's mostly reliant on bottom intake, with the idea that you'll use an AIO mounted on top and intake blowing into your GPU from the bottom. CPU air coolers work too, but may be a bit warmer due to them not having any direct fresh intake. The Corsair 4000D Airflow is currently the most popular midtower on the market. It's just shy of $100, though you'll want to supply a couple extra front intake fans. The Phanteks G360A is another good sub-$100 option since it comes with three fans and is otherwise a perfectly decent airflow case. You can disable the RGB in the stock fans (just unplug the RGB cables, I assume). There are a ton more options once you get into the $100 - $150 range. My favorites are probably the Lian Li Lancool II Mesh and Lancool III series. I'm currently using the Lancool III, which I like a lot. There are a ton of nice convenience features that make it easy to work with, and they offer some of the best airflow out there. The mesh PSU basement is actually a pretty big deal, and GPUs run really cool in those cases.
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speaking of lancools, the 216 launches this week it's a cheaper, smaller counterpart to the lancool 2/3 https://twitter.com/GlobalLianli/status/1588879364661411840
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repiv posted:you'd better learn to love whatever fractal design is currently doing because they're pretty much your only option for solid side panels in newly designed cases at this point I guess the Torrent is the least worst option, but top mounting the PSU is weird. The compact seems just a little too small, but the regular size seems too heavy also. Basically I just want a modern version of my Antec Three Hundred Two. https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16811129180 Josh Lyman fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Nov 8, 2022 |
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Gamers Nexus also just recently released a video about their favorite cases for 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL5uttjPWZE
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repiv posted:speaking of lancools, the 216 launches this week Nice. This case seems pretty wild too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPUWSBn4Fys&t=88s Leave it to Lian Li to come up with poo poo like that expansion slot fan bracket.
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