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Serephucus · 18-12-2012 01:19PM

If it's plastic it won't do anything, it's just for stability/ease of plugging in.

smileyj1987 · 18-12-2012 03:39PM

Serephucus wrote: »

If it's plastic it won't do anything, it's just for stability/ease of plugging in.

It will be very hard to plug in , you could buy a cheap extension lead and plug it in once and leave it plugged in .

PseudoFamous · 18-12-2012 04:15PM

corsair fans are bloody hard to mount, they don't tap the mounting holes in them

EDIT: used cable ties instead because screws were too finicky. Holy balls is this fan loud.

Eboggles · 18-12-2012 07:00PM

PseudoFamous wrote: »

corsair fans are bloody hard to mount, they don't tap the mounting holes in them

EDIT: used cable ties instead because screws were too finicky. Holy balls is this fan loud.

Which one?

PseudoFamous · 18-12-2012 07:10PM

Eboggles wrote: »

Which one?

corsair af120 performance. got one to test it out rather than jump the gun and replace them all in one go, it's pretty chilly but that one fan is louder than the 2 x 200mm, CPU fan, and GPU fans at idle.

Eboggles · 18-12-2012 07:13PM

PseudoFamous wrote: »

corsair af120 performance. got one to test it out rather than jump the gun and replace them all in one go, it's pretty chilly but that one fan is louder than the 2 x 200mm, CPU fan, and GPU fans at idle.

Oh right, I guess the clue's in the name? Have you tried the quiet edition?

Tea_Bag · 18-12-2012 07:14PM

i think the af120 performance runs at like 3000rpm @ full speed. no fan will ever be quiet at those speeds. dial it back!

EDIT: its actually the sp120 performance thats the speedy one, at 2350rpm.

Eboggles · 18-12-2012 07:16PM

Tea_Bag wrote: »

i think the af120 performance runs at like 3000rpm @ full speed. no fan will ever be quiet at those speeds. dial it back!

It says 1650 on the corsair website... Could just be an aggressive fan design?

PseudoFamous · 18-12-2012 07:19PM

Eboggles wrote: »

Oh right, I guess the clue's in the name? Have you tried the quiet edition?

Nah, wouldn't be making enough cfm gains to warrant swapping my current fans out if I was using the quiet ones.

Tea_Bag · 18-12-2012 07:20PM

why do you need more airflow? the 600T is probably the best ventilated case on the market.

PseudoFamous · 18-12-2012 07:22PM

Tea_Bag wrote: »

why do you need more airflow? the 600T is probably the best ventilated case on the market.

current build is in a bitfenix survivor which is pretty limited in the cooling department

indough · 18-12-2012 07:25PM

so i received the paypal invoice for the shuttle board + i/o panel today, 200 euro plus of course whatever irish customs charge me (which im not certain of yet)

Tea_Bag · 18-12-2012 07:28PM

PseudoFamous wrote: »

current build is in a bitfenix survivor which is pretty limited in the cooling department

oh right. for some reason i thought you had a 600T

next week ill be comparing my Gentle typhoons 1850rpm vs the quiet SP120's and will post up what i think of them. if youre in limerick you could borrow 1 or 2 to test if you like.

Tea_Bag · 18-12-2012 07:28PM

indough wrote: »

so i received the paypal invoice for the shuttle board + i/o panel today, 200 euro plus of course whatever irish customs charge me (which im not certain of yet)

your prodigy build is going to look so much more badass than mine

indough · 18-12-2012 07:32PM

Tea_Bag wrote: »

your prodigy build is going to look so much more badass than mine

i dunno about that now, the board im getting is a manky blue colour with pink-ish ram slots :P

have you seen the different front panels theyve released without the logo? now if they would only bring out one with no ODD bay thingy i would be very pleased

edit: sorry for the big image

PseudoFamous · 18-12-2012 08:04PM

Tea_Bag wrote: »

oh right. for some reason i thought you had a 600T

next week ill be comparing my Gentle typhoons 1850rpm vs the quiet SP120's and will post up what i think of them. if youre in limerick you could borrow 1 or 2 to test if you like.

Did a build for a friend in a 600T a while ago, so you've not gone mad.

Am in Wicklow myself, but I'll keep an eye for your comparison anyway as I'm holding out on the fans for another while until I decide what I'm actually doing.

On another note, got the USB drives for the deaddrops today, gonna get some PTFE and find somewhere to leave them tomorrow.

glynf · 18-12-2012 08:19PM

PseudoFamous wrote: »

Did a build for a friend in a 600T a while ago, so you've not gone mad.

Am in Wicklow myself, but I'll keep an eye for your comparison anyway as I'm holding out on the fans for another while until I decide what I'm actually doing.

On another note, got the USB drives for the deaddrops today, gonna get some PTFE and find somewhere to leave them tomorrow.

Front wall of Roundwood Garda station:D

Andy!! · 19-12-2012 06:48AM

indough wrote: »

i dunno about that now, the board im getting is a manky blue colour with pink-ish ram slots :P

have you seen the different front panels theyve released without the logo? now if they would only bring out one with no ODD bay thingy i would be very pleased

edit: sorry for the big image

Is that mini-itx?

Why not go for the ASRock Z77e-itx. Nicer visually than that.

indough · 19-12-2012 11:14AM

Andy!! wrote: »

Is that mini-itx?

Why not go for the ASRock Z77e-itx. Nicer visually than that.

because i want 6 cores

glynf · 19-12-2012 12:03PM

Review of the Ouroboros on tech tips is up.

ED E · 19-12-2012 12:15PM

Merry christmas boardsies.

Andy!! · 19-12-2012 12:17PM

indough wrote: »

because i want 6 cores

Ah. Does the Z77E-ITX not cater for that? What you using 6 cores for?

indough · 19-12-2012 12:22PM

Andy!! wrote: »

Ah. Does the Z77E-ITX not cater for that? What you using 6 cores for?

there is nothing beyond 4 cores on z77 unless you count hyper-threading, which isnt the same

im using it for editing 2.5k footage in davinci resolve and adobe so the x79 platform is well worth it in performance gains

Andy!! · 19-12-2012 12:25PM

Hope you have a lot of RAM for that too. for loading it all into cache

That CPU will be great come render time though.

indough · 19-12-2012 12:30PM

Andy!! wrote: »

Hope you have a lot of RAM for that too. for loading it all into cache That CPU will be great come render time though.

yeah ill be throwing in 32gb of 12800 quad channel, now just have to find a set that matches the colours :pac:

Tea_Bag · 19-12-2012 01:34PM

indough wrote: »

yeah ill be throwing in 32gb of 12800 quad channel, now just have to find a set that matches the colours :pac:

i have a few of these lying around from an abandoned project:

The idea was to slowly turn my housemates PC into an a homosexual counterpart without him knowing, working from the inside out.

challengemaster · 19-12-2012 01:51PM

Pangea · 19-12-2012 03:01PM

Trying to put motherboard back in here lads,Done the hard work.
Whats bothering me now is the silver part that fits into the case and then the sockets from motherboard fit into it ,
there are little silver pointy things sticking out everywhere, what do you do with them, do you just flatten them or do you pull them back so the motherboard fits in?

indough · 19-12-2012 03:07PM

Tea_Bag wrote: »

i have a few of these lying around from an abandoned project:

The idea was to slowly turn my housemates PC into an a homosexual counterpart without him knowing, working from the inside out.

ha thanks ver'much but i dont think that will be happening! :P

NTMK · 19-12-2012 03:11PM

Tea_Bag wrote: »

The idea was to slowly turn my housemates PC into an a homosexual counterpart without him knowing, working from the inside out.

Ya sure :rolleyes:
how many do you have?6?:pac:

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