That is my setup - used to have an Antec Kuhler AIO in there but it had a few issues and I wanted less noise.
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30xx Series Founders Edition
- Thread starter Dirk Diggler
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That is my setup - used to have an Antec Kuhler AIO in there but it had a few issues and I wanted less noise.
Soldato
Ouch yes that would affect it directly. Can you resite the sound card at all?
Nope but doesn't really make much difference - it is the 3070 chucking heat out the top right into the CPU tower that stopped me being able to run it passively.
(Possible it is also dragging heat off the chipset into the CPU as well which wasn't happening before with my old setup).
Soldato
Fit a shroud on underside of the CPU cooler?
I'll probably just swap it out for an AIO again anyhow soon - this Xeon has more overclocking potential than the passive setup can provide (recently changed it from my old 4820K) - was just nice having a very quiet PC.
First thing I tried but wasn't enough - there seems to be a build up of heat, causing an increase in CPU temps, in the spot just above the GeForce RTX text between the GPU and CPU heatsink which needed higher RPMs to move.
Doesn't help the heatsink is oriented the wrong way either but it won't fit the correct way around.
My 5820K overclocked has a TDP well over 160W I'd say and barely got an extra 5 degrees with the 3090 gaming for over an hour, with my Noctua D15s.
Soldato
Ahh yeah I go through phases of quiet pc too, totally understand.
My setup was hanging on a knife edge really - shouldn't really be able to keep an overclocked X79 CPU cool with that heatsink passive (95 watt max passive) but it just about worked with the Air 540 case and enough case fans. The 3070 just tipped it over the edge.
Not the end of the world anyhow has the Xeon 1650 V2 I just put in has way more overclocking potential than that setup will support.
Soldato
Corsair Carbide? Man of taste I have same Case then..
Wanna see my modded window to address the mobo VRM?
Yeah that is the case.
Soldato
Any option of just strapping on a fan?
Oh ok I wont show the window then..
I assumed you would upload anyway.
There are fan mounts - I've now populated - just liked the old setup as it was practically silent unless you stuck your ear to the case and just about coped with an overclocked 4820K.
Don't understand my 3070 FE at all though - playing with the voltages just produces worse results though it seems to have plenty of headroom for lowering the voltage while still remaining stable at stock but doesn't give any higher frequency potential same with increasing the voltage... but if I ramp the core clock up with a slight increase to power limit while using maximum performance power setting the frequency goes up, the framerate goes up, but power draw... goes down! (any other combination of settings just produce worse results than stock with the power draw clipping the limit).
EDIT: With some more playing got it to +150MHz, 109% power comes back to stock power use - basically maxed out at 240 watt - not sure what is going on there (possibly a driver bug). Gives around 8-10% performance increase in games and ~2GHz frequency. At roughly +167 (I need to look up the bin steps) it loses stability but there is no real performance increase beyond +150 due to being on the power limit.
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Soldato
I found using AB didnt yield predictable results yet @Rroff testing some mining last night. Will have another bash at it. I did shave off 50w on one of the profiles which is what I would be after on daily use, full system load playing Warzone never went above 450w.
Caporegime
DPD finally delivered?
Soldato
DPD finally delivered?
I posted earlier the debacle. No text to say when it would arrive. Rang depot they said its out on the van but he has not scanned jobs in.. anyway he delivered it while I was out.. left it on doorstep lol. At least I have it now! Man it was heavy.
There is literally no point in taking preorders when the existing lines for each SKU for hundreds and in some cases thousands deep. Some people are still waiting for day 1 orders on some SKUS.
That said many people have multiple orders in all over the place and are waiting for whoever can supply it first.
That said many people have multiple orders in all over the place and are waiting for whoever can supply it first.