AlienALX
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lmao ! when all else has turned to dust their fans will still be sat there looking new
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lmao ! when all else has turned to dust their fans will still be sat there looking new
KingNosser
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Dice is already in talks with MSI for an RGB version lol
Dicehunter
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scubasteve
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I didn't know Noctua made shark teeth. I bet it's well made !
tell you what , if you run finger down the side the serrations still will slice you open if you put a bit of pressure
Meg tooth is more impressive than anything else. Would fit nice in a case with the MSI MEG mobo
i like that idea :dribble:
AlienALX
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Holy crap dude. Like seriously, holy crap. No wonder AMD are struggling !
So the time has come to upgrade my "PUBG" rig. Even though I don't use it for PUBG lol.
Obviously three feet away is the rig I do use. It kicks its ass in every way. Z690, 12700K and a 6800XT.
The PUBG rig is actually struggling. I connected it up to my TV but the CPU was out of its depth. I have my old 1920x in there, and it's slow. Even at 4k it was holding the 2080ti KP back.
None of this would matter, but Dead Island 2 is coming. And I've bought it. So with one PC here with the chops I had a choice. Play it at my desk on my 32", or, stick a better CPU in the PUBG rig and connect it back up to the TV. I want to put castors on it too, so I can roll it into the bedroom. Dead Island 2 being an RPG will mean long play sessions, and like Fallout I do not want to be sat at a desk ffs.
If you followed Modular recently you will see I bought a cut price Z590 ITX board. For £130. I also bought a cut price 11400F for £120.
I will be honest here, for value it is quite probably the best gaming combo I have ever bought. It absolutely chews through games, given it's really meant just for that. It absolutely destroys my 3950x at all resolutions. I mean really, it's almost as good as the 12700K given I play at 1440p or in this case 4k.
So I immediately found this for around £160.
And was like "OK cool let's order it". Then I did what I always do, and started to get irresponsible lmao. I had a look around and Scan have the Z590 dark for £360. TBH in the end I had to concede that it was a really daft idea. Putting a 11400F in that LOL.
I then found a Strix Gundam for £220. Brand new like. Had a look at the pics though, and tbh it didn't push me to buy it. It would look super daft in the PUBG rig.
I then run into an Asrock for £170. But even though it was a very high end board it just looked kinda cack.
And then it happened.....
LOL F me what a brute ! It's basically exactly the same as the Z590 EVGA. Only it was £199 brand new with Prime. So I bought it lol. I then got a 11400F for £119.
Now I knew it was a stupid high end board. You can see it merely by looking at the pics. What I had no idea of was the original RRP.
Hory shet. So for £318 I got those.
I will take that. Dead Island 2 on the couch here we come !
So the time has come to upgrade my "PUBG" rig. Even though I don't use it for PUBG lol.
Obviously three feet away is the rig I do use. It kicks its ass in every way. Z690, 12700K and a 6800XT.
The PUBG rig is actually struggling. I connected it up to my TV but the CPU was out of its depth. I have my old 1920x in there, and it's slow. Even at 4k it was holding the 2080ti KP back.
None of this would matter, but Dead Island 2 is coming. And I've bought it. So with one PC here with the chops I had a choice. Play it at my desk on my 32", or, stick a better CPU in the PUBG rig and connect it back up to the TV. I want to put castors on it too, so I can roll it into the bedroom. Dead Island 2 being an RPG will mean long play sessions, and like Fallout I do not want to be sat at a desk ffs.
If you followed Modular recently you will see I bought a cut price Z590 ITX board. For £130. I also bought a cut price 11400F for £120.
I will be honest here, for value it is quite probably the best gaming combo I have ever bought. It absolutely chews through games, given it's really meant just for that. It absolutely destroys my 3950x at all resolutions. I mean really, it's almost as good as the 12700K given I play at 1440p or in this case 4k.
So I immediately found this for around £160.
And was like "OK cool let's order it". Then I did what I always do, and started to get irresponsible lmao. I had a look around and Scan have the Z590 dark for £360. TBH in the end I had to concede that it was a really daft idea. Putting a 11400F in that LOL.
I then found a Strix Gundam for £220. Brand new like. Had a look at the pics though, and tbh it didn't push me to buy it. It would look super daft in the PUBG rig.
I then run into an Asrock for £170. But even though it was a very high end board it just looked kinda cack.
And then it happened.....
LOL F me what a brute ! It's basically exactly the same as the Z590 EVGA. Only it was £199 brand new with Prime. So I bought it lol. I then got a 11400F for £119.
Now I knew it was a stupid high end board. You can see it merely by looking at the pics. What I had no idea of was the original RRP.
Hory shet. So for £318 I got those.
I will take that. Dead Island 2 on the couch here we come !
Alien, in this really crappy time to be a PC geek, you are one of the only people capable of finding a decent deal, LOL!
Oh and if that Threadripper board is free and you want to make some of your money back, PM me.
He finds the deals, but still spends 3 times the amount the rest of us do! I think hes leading the charts on most items in last couple of months.
AlienALX
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TBH I used to have no issue spending all of my spending cash on PC stuff. And then it all just became a blatant rip off, which put me off of the hobby in general. You know? when it is as blatant as morning that companies are just using things in order to rip you off. For me, in any hobby, that ruins the enjoyment. Totally.
Being honest here I need redundancy. Like, literal whole spare PCs. Because if one goes down I am screwed. 90% of my life is done online. My shopping, my bills, my medications, pretty much everything. If I decide I want to upgrade for example my PC could end up out of use for a week, maybe two. Which would destroy me.
Case in point? well if the PUBG rig was my only rig right now and I even left it until the last minute I would have ran into this problem I have now. My cooler, this one.
I have lost the Intel arms. These things.
Usually it would be no problem, just buy some. Only the ones I need are only available in China and would take weeks to arrive. Even more annoyingly they are being scalped, so cost £10. I don't have the rest of the mounting hardware either
no thumb nuts that fit, and no stand offs.So, I would either have to spend an entire day undoing all of the undoing I did yesterday, or, go without a PC for a random amount of time. Which can't happen.
To make this all even more annoying and or confusing I spend a lot of time with my mother doing the same crap for her. Shopping, her bills, her medication, etc etc. So I can't even go over there and play with PCs without needing one working 100% of the time.
Phones don't cut it. As much as people think they do they just don't. Hardly any of the stuff we use (like the shopping etc) has an actual app, and doing it via a browser is painful and annoying given they run on stupid watered down pages for mobile.
Then of course we come to the least important thing. Gaming. I call it that because I could do without that, but my friends live 100 miles away and I only see them in person 2-3 times per year. Meaning all of my socialising and laughter is with them online.
Recently because of this glut of over priced hardware that did not sell? my interest is back. Because basically? I managed to get a kick ass little gaming board and CPU for less than the cost of a new 6 core Ryzen. And it isn't that much slower, either, and I got a high end board for around the same as AMD's new totally cut down basic boards.
Don't get me wrong I love PCs. Always have, and it is likely now at nearly 50 I always will too, but I am not a mug. If they carry on like that? fine, but they won't be selling anything to me.
Bart. I have listed it for sale. I didn't think you wanted it any more.
I will hit you up with details in a bit. It hasn't sold yet, but a pal has been asking what he needs to mount a cooler to it. I will post a sale thread here, and you can have first refusal. In fact, you can have first refusal over him too, given we tried to make a deal on it a while back.
Have you had a look on the Corsair website for the mounting kit, not sure which cooler that is but I know they have the Mounting Kit's for sale for quite a few.
You may have to import it from America but it will be the full kit, I had to do it a while ago for the original H100.
You may have to import it from America but it will be the full kit, I had to do it a while ago for the original H100.
AlienALX
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I did mate yeah. The problem is that right now it looks like this.
Like, all of the Intel ones are confusingly named and there is no pic. If it were £3 or something I would take the chance, but at £15 and up nah. I can get an air cooler for about £25, I might just go that route. I sold some parts today, so I might get a new case too considering how stuffed in it was without a huge ass EATX board, which I think will run into that cover piece on the NZXT case.
Like, all of the Intel ones are confusingly named and there is no pic. If it were £3 or something I would take the chance, but at £15 and up nah. I can get an air cooler for about £25, I might just go that route. I sold some parts today, so I might get a new case too considering how stuffed in it was without a huge ass EATX board, which I think will run into that cover piece on the NZXT case.
AlienALX
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It's a H100x. It's a bit of a b*stard child. It isn't made by Asetek or Corsair, it was done by Coolit. It's not that old, though. It was just devoid of any RGB and stupid tax. Basic fans etc.
That is what I need there. I have a back plate (an EK one I can sort out) and the stand offs and thumb nuts also.
There are just so many though that it's a bit of a crap shoot.
That is what I need there. I have a back plate (an EK one I can sort out) and the stand offs and thumb nuts also.
There are just so many though that it's a bit of a crap shoot.
AlienALX
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Right sold a few items so have ordered everything. Well, apart from an NVME drive. I could use my U.2, but it needs a converter board that will not fit under the board's armour and it would look super jank if I removed it and had that hanging out of it. They're so cheap right now it doesn't matter, and I only need a 240gb. Will pick one up next week.
I had to get a new case. The board layout of the Tachyon is nuts, with a side firing 24pin. It is also friggin huge, so would run into the "thing" in the NZXT case. I could remove it, but the NZXT is rather thin and would flex around a lot (I need to move it from room to room) and I cracked a rad doing that once So I relented, cleaned it up, packed it back in its original carton (because I am keeping) along with the PUBG coloured cables and bought this.
My mate got one last year. He got his B grade too for £80, and there was still one left. It's super roomy (same as the Strix IIRC) and has the carry straps on the top. Also nice and understated. So of course now I need new extensions.
£27 on Amazon. And they include 2 EPS (need) and 3 8 pin PCIE (also need).
Now I needed fans. I don't have a matching set of anything, and I don't want it looking like anus. Get it? Anus? never mind. Any way, I was going to get 6 white Eloops in the sale for a tenner each, then my beady eye spotted these. On sale, £25 a pack. So I got two.
Alu body Lian Li fans. I have one of these too.
So I now have all of the fans I need.
Total spent on that? £170. I do like me a bargain. The case costs that on its own.
I had to get a new case. The board layout of the Tachyon is nuts, with a side firing 24pin. It is also friggin huge, so would run into the "thing" in the NZXT case. I could remove it, but the NZXT is rather thin and would flex around a lot (I need to move it from room to room) and I cracked a rad doing that once
So I relented, cleaned it up, packed it back in its original carton (because I am keeping) along with the PUBG coloured cables and bought this.
My mate got one last year. He got his B grade too for £80, and there was still one left. It's super roomy (same as the Strix IIRC) and has the carry straps on the top. Also nice and understated. So of course now I need new extensions.
£27 on Amazon. And they include 2 EPS (need) and 3 8 pin PCIE (also need).
Now I needed fans. I don't have a matching set of anything, and I don't want it looking like anus. Get it? Anus? never mind. Any way, I was going to get 6 white Eloops in the sale for a tenner each, then my beady eye spotted these. On sale, £25 a pack. So I got two.
Alu body Lian Li fans. I have one of these too.
So I now have all of the fans I need.
Total spent on that? £170. I do like me a bargain. The case costs that on its own.
It's a H100x. It's a bit of a b*stard child. It isn't made by Asetek or Corsair, it was done by Coolit. It's not that old, though. It was just devoid of any RGB and stupid tax. Basic fans etc.
That is what I need there. I have a back plate (an EK one I can sort out) and the stand offs and thumb nuts also.
There are just so many though that it's a bit of a crap shoot.
Sorry not had that one.
Seems it is a not very popular model, although you can find the TR4 bracket for it :huh:
Seems the only kit I could find that included the Intel one was £40 including delivery from China, for that you might as well get a decent air cooler.
AlienALX
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Nah no way dude. Watch Tom's review. He had a nice white one.
AlienALX
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Yeah I don't know what the heck is going on dude TBH. It used to be so easy.
I've been thinking of going air for a long time. Mostly because you only get two areas to bring air in on modern cases and if you put rads in both it's far from ideal. I considered the 011 but I think the hardware I have is just too big. Meaning I needed the XL and it's £240.
I'm going to fit wheels to it so I can take it to the bedroom for evening sessions too.
The 11400F is a bit of a wolf in sheep's clothing too. It's slated as a 65w CPU but Intel messed up the lock and if you change the turbo power limits it will over clock all of its cores and threads to 4.4ghz and eat 150w lmao. I think that's why the one I already have is so quick, as Z590 boards do it automatically. They have locked that out now.
It absolutely decimates my 3950x. Well, in gaming.
At least on air I can deck out the front with fans bringing cool air in, and whack the GPU rad in the roof. I'm going to vertical mount that (will grab a ribbon soon) and hide the cards behind it (sound and Revo drive).
Alien: the 011 XL also has a downside that people rarely mention. It's a bit of a hot box (I have two, with triple 360s in each). When I first fell in love with the case, I thought it was ideal, triple 360s in a footprint only a little bigger than a standard case. But no matter how I orient the fans, they get warm after gaming for a few hours. The tempered glass is good at retaining heat it seems. The minute I moved my gaming rig out of the XL back into my Case Labs, CPU temps went down a fair bit, boosted better too. Ambient temps are a problem in the XL unless you run your fans all full blast.
AlienALX
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Yeah see that is the thing with modern case design. It's pants.
You have to have a set of intake fans. You can't fill every location with an actual rad because they just weren't designed to work like that. Same with the NZXT I had. I put rads front and top, there's nowhere left to put fans to actually bring air in.
We need a new, modern TJ07. Or a Corsair 900D or something, only a bit smaller. But no one seems to care about your hardware slowly cooking itself to death now, it's all about the look.
KingNosser
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I think thats why my 750D I saw such big drops, 2x140mm as intake no rad blocking and bigger space inside then just 240 at top and one back fan, temps down 10C at idle. Thou not exactly a portable case or small
