NR200 Owner's Thread

That Barrow pump looks great. From glancing at the Aliexpress page it looks like Optimum Tech was incorrect by saying the RGB can only be controlled with the included controller - the specs say it can run from the motherboard direct. It definitely looks to be using a standard 5v RGB led strip inside it.
Shame about the price + difficulty of getting it from Aliexpress!

I like the idea of doing a waterloop in this build, but like @Darren_uk just said, it really gets expensive quickly. Especially as I'd want to watercool the graphics card at the same time!
 
@Darren_uk he is actually cooling the GPU in the same loop ;) But price is the main reason why I havent gone for custom loop myself so far. I'll spending a lot of money on all my hardware, but just a simple basic custom loop is often already £500 at least. I was also looking at a "EK-Quantum Kinetic FLT 120 D5 PWM D-RGB - Plexi" to mount vertically in front of the PSU mount, but I think vertically may just about not fit.
 
So he's even cooling the GPU, Holy them clear full-face blocks years ago start around £100, that put the price up :D
my self would not even bother now with GPU full-face water cooling
They very good with stock cooling fans & a good GPU would stay in 60s Temp & also & already OC a lot of the time to gain a few more FPS.

My Gigabyte 2070 super idle 34c, 0db fan tell 60c then slow-moving
stays in the mid-60s already fully OC out of the box.

All good if the cash is not a problem
A full-face block on the GPU would look lovely in vertical mounting position
& with that Barrow ;)

o dam the barrow would be behind the GPU mounted vertically


I Retired from custom cooling
Due to Price rising
& the pain of drain & discounting the loop & maintaining
buying the liquid also.
 
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Another thing that happens in China,
manufacture we all know would most probably have the product made in a China factory(s)
what I have seen happen is people in china copy a brand/modifier it & sale it in china only from the same factory,
& leak/sold on the website like Ali express & many other EU website that deal with China as a middle man.

Right i am getting back to the Case build
Catch you all later.
 
Components ordered. I have gone with:

Amd 3700x
Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO Black 16GB (2x8GB) 3600 MHz AMD Ryzen Tuned
Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240P Mirage (Addressable) AIO CPU Cooler
WD 1TB NVME drive
Corsair 750w SFX
Gigabyte 550i

Will be putting my Gigabyte 2700 super in vertically with the AIO at the bottom.

Looking forward to putting it all together. :)

edit: typo and inclusion of motherboard deets.
 
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Darren, what about using the back of the case as the bottom, turn it into a little tower? You'd need tall feet for the cables though, and it of course depends on how often you plug things in and out. However, it will allow you to use the front ports again lol.

Looking good Bazzards!
 
@SaiBork, funny you should say tall feet, I have some coming Friday,
The rear of the case as the bottom, I would pass as the width make it look like a bloated tower
the bloat would need to be added on the top. after cutting the case in bits, side panels, Rear & front would need to be cut shorter.

& @Ron_CM Rep faint if I did that to the precious.
 
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Will do Darren, I am not too fussed with having the rad at the bottom, had other systems with a similar setup and I had no issues. if air starts causing issues will look to removing the air from the closed loop.
 
Just where the pump is upon the CPU & the rad at the bottom the pump be working hard to push the liquid /flow around, as burnt out pumps
& RMA.
Air builds up making sounds I think mostly happens if you got the Rad say on a case front with
the IN & OUT ports facing up instead of down position,
But yep be nice to know the outcome
Risk it for the biscuit;)
 
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New to this forum but been following it closely. Just built my NR200P with the following specs but have one issue:
-Gigabyte B550 ITX
-Ryzen 3600X with stock cooler
-RX 570
-32GB Vengeance 3200Mhz
-512GB Sabrent M.2
-Corsair SF750

Since this is a first time Ryzen build, I’m a little confused with how the CPU fan speed seems to be reacting. The fan ramps up and sown aggressively very often, just opening up file explorer causes it to ram up. Is this normal?
-I’ve tried adjusting the windows power settings which did nothing. On newest chipset driver. Changing the fan curve does settle it down but it’s still revving up often.

The only thing that stops it is going into Ryzen Master and changing it to ‘Manual’ then setting it to 4200Mhz at 1.325v. Is this safe for my CPU to run at 24/7? No idea why this is the solution to the fan RPM changes though.

Any other suggestions? Looking to get a nice air cooler but not sure what to get as of now.
 
Hello Techtechw, If this is your first-time Ryzen build, I would not Try OC the 3600X & Ryzen master don't touch settings in that
Just leave it on default Auto OC,
CPU Fan speed can be changed in bios or the
Gigabyte B550 SIV "System information Viewer"
Calibrate the fan & then can set the fan curve in the graph.

4200Mhz at 1.325v is safe yes, 1.4 & over when your running into the danger

your CPU may do 4200mhz on all cores using fewer volts

some people run a 3700x all 8 cores 4300mhz on only 1.25 volts, depends on the CPU
Silicon lotto

My 3700x I not OC it yet, just left it on Auto
 
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Hi Darren
I’ve tried changing the fan curve in bios and in SIV software and although it quietens it, it still revs up whenever I click on something like file explorer or any link in chrome, just find it really annoying.

Only cure for me is to manually set a 4.2Ghz 1.325v overclock (which isn’t even technically an overclock for a 3600x is it?). No idea why this is, I’ll do some more research tomorrow and see what Auto OC is doing to cause this!
 
Have you checked the cooler fitting?
What are your temps like?

The only reason I ask is that before we suggest changes to the OC (or undervolt I guess), best to check the standard stuff I think
 
This is normal behavior and is quite annoying, its the fan reacting to the spikes in temps when the CPU is boosting.

You can iron it out a bit with a fan curve so that the fan doesn't react as quickly or aggressive or you can buy a larger and quieter cooler so the noise is not so obvious or a combination of both

In my experience there isn't any point in overclocking the X version, just leave it to do its thing and everything on auto. This new CTR tool by 1usmus looks really interesting and might be worth looking at when its released next month though
 
Depending on the noise of the standard cooler as well, you may be better of to change the curve so it already is higher to start off with. This may introduce a constant small noise instead of ramping up and down, which is more annoying and louder.
 
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