Managed to buy a 3080, now I need the rest of it

[Jeff_Nevington]

Looks great, how much did you pay for the 3080 out of interest?

I got it for £650. A friend of mine just managed to get one for the same. I can't say where, but I've started to notice more frequent stock drops and the crazy second hand prices are starting to come down so hopefully that's a good sign.

 

[Jeff_Nevington]

You are very lucky you didn't destroy that motherbooard. Never power it up on top of an anti-static bag. They're designed to let electricity flow around them.

I didn't realise the bags were conductive, it looks like the outer coating isn't though so that's maybe why it was fine. Won't risk it again though, thanks.

 

[mickyflinn]

Not sure about the fans but i found this hope it helps.

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/lancool-2-mesh-performance-fan-hub.3642945/

 

[Preytheon]

BTW, this case has a switch on the front to control fan speed, there's low, medium, high and a 4th setting which I think should be controlled by the motherboard. The 4th setting is always the same as high, so I find myself manually adjusting the speed depending on what I'm doing. Any idea how to set this up so it's adaptive?

Not sure on your exact case setup, but fan speed is usually controlled via the fans being plugged into the fan headers on the motherboard or in more complex setups, where the fans are plugged into a fan controller, which is then plugged into a USB controller and/or fan header on the motherboard - these will be controlled via the software from the motherboard or fan controller manufacturer.

The only other option is the more basic once where they plug into a case "controller", where they will be fixed speed (or controller via a manual "slider" on the case) - some of these will use the motherboard header style of power connector, but if you're unlucky, the fans connect via molex / SATA power - this is why people frequently swap out the fans for aftermarket ones (and noise/airflow as stock case fans are usually junk - LianLi might be using better kit, but my Corsairs-supplied ones all went in the bin!

I've got a very basic motherboard (entry level B450) where the two case intake 120mm fans are on a case slider (set to ~500rpm) and the three 140mm exhaust fans (and the two 150mm CPU fans) are all plugged onto fan headers, so they're at ~300rpm most of the time, but once I start gaming the CPU ramps to ~60C and the CPU fans go to ~1500rpm pretty quickly to keep it 55C-60C and the case quite quickly warms up (I think the case trigger point in ~45Cc), so the exhaust fans also kick in and ramp to 1500rpm. All these ramp points are controlled via the ASUS fan controller software - MSI is a good brand and an X570 is a more premium product, so I'm sure it will have something equivalent!