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Little rack

WantoN said:
Lovely little build mate, might have missed it but what's that hub on the top of the unit in the last picture?
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Cheers!

It’s the Asus Hive 2 control module that comes with the motherboard. It plus in via special usb type C and has a power button, volume control and various USB hubs built in.
 
Now I hooked up my Corsair Xeneon Edge screen, I could monitor the temps more closely and noticed the CPU (7600X3D) was sometimes running a little toasty. I tweaked it as far as I could in terms of undervolt, but this specific chip does tend to run hot in other chips, to the point whereby I wondered if something was wrong with it because my more powerful 9800X3D runs so much cooler.

Anyhow, I removed the top panel to see if it made a difference and it did, by almost 20C.

I would ordinarily do this myself, but haven't had the time so 2 days at the local car body shop, and £50 cash later, I had the top panel modified, so having more holes in to allow more airflow.

With it on it runs about 15C cooler than a before, so it's making a difference. I only asked the body shop to drill some holes and smarten it up, but they followed the pattern from the front panel, which I also gave them for reference. So really happy with what they did.

Old panel:
https://i.~ibb.co~/Kc0Xrw67/IMG-3283.jpg

New panel:
 
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