Any PC Builders Out There?

In my experience, whatever side the sticker or label is on the fan center, is usually the end that receives air flow

 

https://faqs.noctua.at/en/support/s...e-direction-of-airflow-and-sense-of-rotation-

 

Yep

 

I could have looked at Amazon pics & figured it out, but didnt

 

There's no report anywhere that states someone had a problem simply for double checking something!

 

Maybe this is one reason to buy Noctua

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CLgs_nsyyl8

 

I'm about 3 beers away from saying screw it and dropping $200 on case fans and a black D15

 

Do it.

 

LOL, catch up!

 

username checks out

 

Alright, ordered a thermalright peerless assassin 120 in the grey, a couple 140mm noctua redux's for my front, and a 80mm to feed under my gpu, and some anti vibration pads for them all. Just under $100 to basically overhaul everything except for two fans of my case. Fingers crossed its real quiet. My tower went from under my desk to on my desk when I swapped cases so I'm a lot more aware of the noise than I was before.

 

Why not go AIO if noise is a concern?

Yes I know budget played a role in going with Peerless but...noise? You're going to get some if you do any gaming, blender, etc lol

 

AIOs still need fans lol I also just removed an aio that crapped on me in the swap that was only probably 3 years old. Left a bad taste in my mouth. MSI mag something 280R

Also the peerless apparently still cools amazingly with fans on minimum speeds. This is the article that put me over the edge on it: https://gamersnexus.net/coolers/best-air-coolers-cpus-2023-thermals-noise-value

Tom’s Hardware published a very similar review and best of claim, too.

 

Gamer's Nexus?

Who do you think I was referring to when I said 'recent videos of Deep Cool, Peerless, and other coolers' doing well

Yeah I know AIO's use fans as well, I've run them for over 10 years. But the radiator/water setup dissipates heat faster thus the fans work less in keeping the radiator cool vs keeping a heatsink cool.

That Peerless will serve you well! I almost bought one, but will if the need arises for another build.

 

Yeah, I’ll be happy with it i think.

And in case anyone sees this in the future, the fans included in the fractal north are NOT quiet. They are straight up helicopter loud. Before I had a chance to mess with fan curves they spun to 100% and my wife came in from the other room to make sure I was ok they were so loud. Computer was about to lift off.

 

OPPOSITE reaction here!

When I was running an RTX 3080, my wife would go to sleep and I would jump on to game.

It wasn't until I yanked the 3080 out and put in an RTX 4070TI and one night when she went to bed, I fired up my game. Well, apparently since my PC was so much quieter she thought I was just browsing or something so she had called out to me a few times (had my headphones on).

Apparently she didn't realize I was gaming and even told me it was weird not having the PC so loud anymore when I gamed

 

My montech case came with a lot of fans & I bought more montech fans for the top of the case. Theyre pretty quiet and you cant beat the price because of the included fans. I bought the case @ Microcenter & then the extra fans off newegg

https://www.newegg.com/p/1YF-00Y5-00013?Item=9SIAK91JV30410

 

@spencermarkd

Before I forget, toss one of these in your cart





They're available for both the AM4/AM5 platform.

I've seen a consistent 4-6 degrees better cooling after having installed it. At under $2 per degree of better cooling, it's a no brainer.

 

What keyboard are you all using? I'm not super picky with my keyboards, but I tried to save money & bought a keyboard I ended up hating. It's not ergonomic at all & it just doesn't fit my gaming style

$43 SteelSeries Apex 3 RGB Gaming Keyboard – 10-Zone RGB Illumination – IP32 Water Resistant – Premium Magnetic Wrist Rest (Whisper Quiet Gaming Switch)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZGDPT4M?ie=UTF8&th=1

 

I've been using the Pro TKL (wired) for over a year and I love mine