Soldato
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But it's costing you £100. Where your system is fine already. Not like you have 4GB RAM, dual core CPU.
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5820K to Ryzen?
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I know but if I'm, brutally honest with myself I just want an Asus motherboard, would it be better moving to something like LGA1151 to get a cheaper CPU/Motherboard or do I just need to settle that the X99-M WS is my only option?
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I want the fan control though, I had an Asus motherboard before and the fan control was great, I guess I don't "need" it but it would be nice to have something that just works
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You're wasting your money. Keep what you have till it's rubbish and slow
Get a fan controller
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What about automatic ones/programmable ones, what are your thoughts on the Grid+?Any that lowers the fan speeds
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Buy better fans, buy a fan controller?
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Yes but what controller is the question? Overall goal is to minimise noise (Heck I don't even mind a new air cooler)
Dunno check reviews online...post in the cooling section for recommendations ?
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5.25" bay fan controller. Or just replace with <20dB fans.
Or just turn your speakers up lol
Or just turn your speakers up lol
There's not even any good mATX ones at launch, the ones with VRM heatsinks look a bit half hearted and most have none at all 
Hope asus makes a rog mATX for am4
Can't recall how long ago they were discontinued.
With some compromises I'm sure you could still get some.
Didn't like them personally, fitted out my case, didn't like the high tone of the fans and sold the lot again.
Hope asus makes a rog mATX for am4
Can't recall how long ago they were discontinued.
With some compromises I'm sure you could still get some.
Didn't like them personally, fitted out my case, didn't like the high tone of the fans and sold the lot again.
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Looks like I might have to "downgrade" to Z270 for ITX thenThere's not even any good mATX ones at launch, the ones with VRM heatsinks look a bit half hearted and most have none at all
Hope asus makes a rog mATX for am4
Can't recall how long ago they were discontinued.
With some compromises I'm sure you could still get some.
Didn't like them personally, fitted out my case, didn't like the high tone of the fans and sold the lot again.
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Running a delided 6700K @4.5Ghz with a corsair H100i V2. Used to run at 4.7 but prefer the silence under load.
I use a gigabyte ATX board with the fan options set to silent.
I use a cheap plastic adjustable fan controller to slow the pump down to 900 rpm. The pump stays constant at that rpm. I have to stick my ear right next to it to hear it otherwise it's silent.
The two other fans are 120x15mm. They run at 500'ish until CPU temps go over 60c, and 800'ish under prime95 with temps around 70 something.
Graphics card fans are off until the GPU goes over 70c.
Most of the time the computer is totally noise free. If I play a game, then I can't hear the system over the game. When I'm working in Lightroom, the fans never go over 500'ish.
However regarding Zen. Something like a 65 Watt TDP 1700 would be way easier to cool than the CPU you are currently using. You could probably have a decent air cooler with the fan off most of the time, and only have it come on at very low rpm when under load.