This is why full cover blocks for MB are awesome. Normally you would just add unnecessary heat to the loop by cooling the not so temperature-sensitive VRMs, but when there's no airflow in a tiny case, cooling them with water works well.
In Steve Carrell's Gru Voice: "TEENY-TINY VENTILATORS" I was actually thinking swapping the chipset's fan on my ASRock X570 ITX TB3 with one of these, gonna give it try if the stock one is going to be too loud! Maybe I even remove it completely since I'll have the CPU cooler blowing over it anyway. 🤔
Excellent Idea!!! I'd been looking for a solution to excess VRM heat in my ITX build. I didn't know Baby Nocs existed. The only issue is not having enough headers so this baby's airflow can be individually controlled. Excellent video. New sub.
This would be less of a concern if we had finned and heapiped cooling solutions like the old Gigabyte 775 boards. Giant aluminum chunks are not the same.
if that is the case, get one of those old boards and mount their solutions on newer boards. where there's a will there's a way. i made a m.2 heat sink out of a old gtx 460 silent gpu's heat sink. from a 8 gram m.2 heat sink i now have a 16gram m.2 heatsink. and it made a big difference.
I sent an email to ordervone,3 days later they said they are swamped with orders. I will check back in the summer,I still have a my Dan A4 V2(R5 3600X/32Gb/RTX 2080S Black/B450 ITX Asus/1Tb 960Evo) but want the Sidearm T1 badly!
The NF-A4x20 is a beast! One of the best fans Noctua makes, for real. I have bunch of 10GBps switches at work that were crazy loud, and it turns out they had those industrial Delta 40mm fans.. Great fans, but LOUD. Replaced them all with the A4x20 and now they're almost silent while still performing well within spec. Completely amazing! Great video. :)
I installed the passive EKWB M2 Heatsink on my 960 Evo which sits underneath my Vega56 - it brought Temps down a whopping 30°C from 85-90°C down to 50°C! o.O
I enjoyed this video a lot. I have thought about doing this myself at one point or another on certain builds. Thank you for sharing with us what you found from your work.
Hello, may I ask what brand of tape did you use for the tiny noctua fans? I want to use the same because it seems like a good brand while directly sitted on a high heat vrm heatsink.
As a general rule of thumb, "Fanless" and "Desktop components" really should not go together in the same sentence, unless you like to throw money at a problem.
Asrock A300 user here! As far as I interpret my hwmonitor right my vrm temps are pretty high(tmpin 6 and 8 are consistently showing over 110 and 118 at idle although it goes down for a couple degrees (about 5) when gaming a little bit on my 3200g thanks to the l9a, so I guess that those are the vrm temps, correct me if i´m wrong). Does anybody consider this mod useful or would I just block the exiting air from the cpu cooler if I mount a fan on the fin array which is located above the cpu cooler, where the air exits the case?
OOoooo, I was wondering what was causing the stuttering! I placed these small fans over my 4-channel RAM DIMMS and that fixed the issue of BSoDs I was seeing while gaming, and *helped* with the stuttering [guessing the nearby increase in airflow is doing some VRM cooling?]. My board (ASUS PRIME X299-DELUXE) has a pretty beefy heat-sink on the VRMs, would it be best to leave that in place and add a fan that blows over it, or remove the heat-sink and add the fan?
If you remove the heat sink, you also remove a lot of thermal mass as well as surface area for cooling the VRMs. You are better off with cooling the heatsink itself, unless the heatsink is not conducting adequately, which might be an issue with thermal pads instead.
@@MonMalthias Thanks for the advice! On my ASUS MB, I have a VRM heatsink which is basically a solid block of aluminum with only 7 "fins" that are only cut into the block about 1/16" deep. I put a 4" fan blowing down onto that block, and I'm seeing no more in-game stuttering! Unfortunately, I just have the fan sort of precariously hanging above, so I'd like to try a better design, which brings me back to the idea of using individual heatsinks with more surface area per MOSFET, vs the single block as thermal mass. If I use two of the smaller Noctua fans, blowing up over the individual heat sinks, do you think that would be better or worse than using the existing thermal block? THANKS!
@@ZacMorris In general, more surface area = more cooling, so it's worth a shot. Heatsinks are quite cheap, especially small ones, so the more the merrier.
@@MonMalthias Thanks! I decided to leave the heavy thermal-mass heatsink, but I just attached a bunch of tiny chip heatsinks to that, which seems to help dissipate heat more! I also use this specific little SSD heatsink/fan combos, and I didn't realize that it was sharing a thermal block that also cools the PCH [Which I was incorrectly reading as the PSU!] so I cut a new large fin heatsink that fits above my SSD and that brought the PCH down from 59C to 37C! I now have everything running in the 30C-40C range at full game load, and no more stuttering!
RAHHH chipset temperature monitoring, alternative fan, etc...just reminds me period of X58 chipset, 10 years ago...:D Well I'm far from being ready to come back to active cooling on chipset.
This can definitely happen on larger builds. I upgraded my PC to an AIO from the stock AMD CPU cooler and noticed performance go down greatly, which made no sense to me since my CPU temps we're much lower. Turns out the air cooler helped cool the VRMs and with the AIO my VRMs we're hitting 125°C, throttling my CPU greatly. It was a cheap a320 motherboard so the VRMs had essentially no cooling.
On ASUS Rog Strix Z790-E, it includes a bracket to mount on top of motherboard facing towards the bottom of your motherboard at DDR5. In the manual it’s 2.1.5 and 2.1.6 would you put that 50mm ram fan as intake and exhaust? I see the vrm 40mm fan in manual appears as blowing down on top of the black protective cover of the vrm area, is that accurate?
Nice content man! I'm not in the SFF camp yet (might switch when Ryzen 4000 comes out), but I love drooling over these crazy cool tiny ITX setups. And these useful tips are always appreciated.
Thanks for the vid. Just did my first build where my VRMs are actually overheating. Bad enough I have the cpus underclocked 50%. The motherboard even came with decent heatsinks which many motherboards lack entirely. Gonna try some of these little fans tomorrow. Crossing my fingers. Without active cooling, the vrms start to run away at ~90° which they hit instantly under a full load. Ironically the epyc milan cpus arent ever even reaching 70°. I'm really hoping I don't have to buy a new case solely chosen for providing optimal VRM cooling. Last resort will be getting a case with mesh top/bottom or vertical mobo mounting to add airflow focused over the VRMs instead of. Lesson Learned! High TDP = always research the mobo VRMs and have a cooling plan for them ahead of time
Commenting 3 years later when Gen5 M.2 SSD's have EVEN WORSE thermal performance and now require stupidly massive metal heatsinks just to function below the throttling point. These little fans now seem like a great idea for even a mid to full size case.
thast what i wanted to know if there Loud? my motherboard came with the Mini fans Backets but NO!!! fan why🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️ no idea but only Requiers when Overclocking Maybe but still like to add see if there's differences in temps. Ty for ur video Maestro .
100% passive is silly. The best of both worlds is a semi passive build in a relatively open and big case. Any massive low density tower cooler can hold up to 65w of load of a modern Ryzen bellow 85c without the need of any spinning fan. If you need the extra power, just change the profile in Ryzen master and let a custom fan curve spin the fan ups above 85c with a high hysteresis threshold. win-win. Also, needless to say that calling a watercooled rig "passive" is also not correct either.
Funny that this is not a well known thing. That's why everybody should start out with FX systems xD in my case, you MUST cool those vrm's, otherwise they reach 105 degrees celsius in 5 seconds flat, and the cpu gets throttled to 1.4GHz also the thing with speedfan is that it sometimes doesn't want to control fans based on different sensors. For example, if i try to control my fans using the VRM temperature sensor, the fans just go full blast.
I putted a tiny fan on the backplate, of the CPU. this help reducing the heat there, and few points on the CPU too. the SSD attached on the back of the case are also cooler now. conclusion: fans everywhere!!!!! :P
So my question is and I am new to building computers especially one with fans. For the nvme you have the fan blowing towards the heat sink? Is it not better to buy an nvme active cooler? Last time I built a computer was 2001, just in case you are wondering.
hmm, could 4 of these (4500 or 5000rpm) be better than one 80mm 2200rpm noctua fan on radiator? connecting them with zip ties could do the job, for experiment...
I actually need those fans hahaha this is great Noctua is the gift that keeps giving. I washed my case badge in the washer like a dumbass and they sent me a new one for free!
Running a R9-3900x on a B450M-Pro4 (budget board). Got some nice fujipoly 11W/mK thermal pads for the vrm heatsinks, put 2 Noctua 40x10's on each vrm with some zipties. VRMs stay frosty and my 3900X boosts to 4.2GHz all core, all day long, no issues. Didn't see any zipties in the video though...how'd you mount them so cleanly???
My RAM is under OC, 3800MHz CL16 at 1.42V (not completely tuned yet). The backside of my RAM (the side not hit by direct airflow, on the side of the processor, which is itself under water) was getting quite toasty. I have mounted a 50mm fan on my RAM sticks, with tweezers... I mean, cable ties. It's janky, but the temps dropped. If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid, right?
Sooo, I built my own PC in a Fractal Design Meshify case, how do I test the temperature of the motherboard VRM or even the M.2 drive? My computer should be blazingly fast but in games like Overwatch I occasionally have a stutter in my otherwise 180 to 220 FPS gameplay.
If Speedfan doesn't support your motherboard, like I found, there's a lightweight program called FanControl I found on the LTT forums. Custom fan curves, manual or auto fan/temp linking and all sorts of wicked smart stuff.
I have a Louqe Ghost S1 system with a skinny Rtx 2070 card and i was thinking about buying those fans for gpu chamber at top side. However i didn't know about their speed and now i am shocked. 3500 rpm way too much and i can't believe that bearing will remain quiet. You say they are inaudible at 3500 rpm but i am still sceptical. I wanted those for lower gpu fan noise anyway. Thank you for the review. Cheers!
@Ziv Zulander I have this model: www.blacknoise.com/site/en/products/noiseblocker-it-fans/nb-blacksilentfan-series/50x50x10mm.php?lang=EN But there is also a(n even) more silent Pro model: www.blacknoise.com/site/en/products/noiseblocker-it-fans/nb-blacksilent-pro-series/60x60x25mm.php?lang=EN
That double side tape won't last long (a year or two if you're very lucky), especially if you didn't heat treat it during application. The gray 3m stuff is best here, avoid the white stuff entirely.
NOCTUA should develop a snail-type centrifugal fans in various diameters and thicknesses. It is very strange, however, that they have not yet introduced "snail" fans, which can be used in all sorts of different ways in various similar situations.
My Ghost S1 has watercooled gpu/cpu like yours. I have a small tophat in the bottom with a NF-A12x15 PWM placed under the motherboard as intake and the large tophat in the top with 2 NF-A12x25 PWM as exhaust above the radiator to pull the air trough. It works great!
I've considered having something like these mini Noctua fans or a laptop blower fan and some heatsinks added to lower spec motherboard VRMs. Purely because I want everything to run cool. But without spending 500 on a motherboard.
There is something like aftermarket pipeline VRM cooler/heatsink?
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can i replace my noisy x570 chipset fan? and how can i do this, i thought get the chipset thing off, then put a passive cooler+tiny 40 or 60 mm fan on it, but then i somewere seen people cant put it in because the videocard is in the way then.. is there a solution fot this? i already send my board for RMA, and they can;t hear the high pitch sound so i got it back, and i can still hear it. so i want to do something about it but, what should i do... ?
SpeedFan does not always work with some newer systems. So I personally use Argus Monitor. It's not free, but it's a very powerful tool and it gets updated regularly
Whats you opinion on Alphacool Solo vs Alphacool solo LT? My case has preety limited space, thats why i want sff pump res combo. I guess easyier to fill up the loop with the alphacool solo!?
Now to wait 5 years for chromax version of them
@Riley Makai nobody will fall for it, botting one positive comments doesnt really change anything
Optimistic.
May the prediction come true
Did they make em?
i bought 2 of those tiny little fans just because they so cute xD (and who knows maybe i'll need em one day )
😂😂😂😂😂😂🤦🏻♂️
@Ziv Zulander where
@Ziv Zulander I NEED IT
When i calculate the price o these two by directly dividing the currency they are 140 dollars in our country...
Super1di0t I have 1 that I got from computex
I wouldn't remove the back sticker, it keeps the lube of the spinning gear inside the fan ...
And dust out as well :)
The mounted double sided tape serves as the "sticker". It seals the hole.
Those fans don't have such hole on them
This is the kind of information that any custom builder needs to know. It's so useful as it's not obvious. Thank you for sharing
Asus strix x570i mod with these, cause the pch fan is so loud
Arctic's AIOs with fans in the pump blowith towards the vrm are the future
omg, those small fans is more expensive than two of my 120mm fans lol
Noctua quality
And well worth it.
Worth every penny
@@GewelReal worth every nickel
@@SangheiliSpecOp worth every dime
This is why full cover blocks for MB are awesome. Normally you would just add unnecessary heat to the loop by cooling the not so temperature-sensitive VRMs, but when there's no airflow in a tiny case, cooling them with water works well.
When Optimum Tech uploads my heart overheats.
This is heart warming☺️
Stick a fan on it, superfan!
In Steve Carrell's Gru Voice: "TEENY-TINY VENTILATORS"
I was actually thinking swapping the chipset's fan on my ASRock X570 ITX TB3 with one of these, gonna give it try if the stock one is going to be too loud! Maybe I even remove it completely since I'll have the CPU cooler blowing over it anyway. 🤔
They are so cute!
Excellent Idea!!! I'd been looking for a solution to excess VRM heat in my ITX build. I didn't know Baby Nocs existed. The only issue is not having enough headers so this baby's airflow can be individually controlled. Excellent video. New sub.
This would be less of a concern if we had finned and heapiped cooling solutions like the old Gigabyte 775 boards. Giant aluminum chunks are not the same.
if that is the case, get one of those old boards and mount their solutions on newer boards. where there's a will there's a way. i made a m.2 heat sink out of a old gtx 460 silent gpu's heat sink. from a 8 gram m.2 heat sink i now have a 16gram m.2 heatsink. and it made a big difference.
Sounds like a great way to get full speed Gen 4 pcie storage flowing w/o backing up the pipeline!
When will you do a custom loop in the ncase m1?
Floris De Vries my build will be in the Sidearm T1 next, but maybe the Ncase if I need a more powerful CPU.
Would you build in the ncase if threadripper came to DTX?
Cool video! Waiting for updates on the Sidearmd T1 :)
I sent an email to ordervone,3 days later they said they are swamped with orders. I will check back in the summer,I still have a my Dan A4 V2(R5 3600X/32Gb/RTX 2080S Black/B450 ITX Asus/1Tb 960Evo) but want the Sidearm T1 badly!
Dude, you should check out Arctic Liquid Freezer II, that too has a tiny VRM cooler.
Came only here for the noise tests, as I'm planning to replace the fan in my network switch with a quieter one. Still a good and interesting video.
The NF-A4x20 is a beast! One of the best fans Noctua makes, for real. I have bunch of 10GBps switches at work that were crazy loud, and it turns out they had those industrial Delta 40mm fans.. Great fans, but LOUD. Replaced them all with the A4x20 and now they're almost silent while still performing well within spec. Completely amazing!
Great video. :)
Love these hack tips,
Keep this stuff up.
Cute lil Noctuas
I installed the passive EKWB M2 Heatsink on my 960 Evo which sits underneath my Vega56 - it brought Temps down a whopping 30°C from 85-90°C down to 50°C! o.O
Wow so cute where can I download them
I have an Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280mm which has a built in VRM fan. It's pretty good :)
I enjoyed this video a lot. I have thought about doing this myself at one point or another on certain builds. Thank you for sharing with us what you found from your work.
Hello, may I ask what brand of tape did you use for the tiny noctua fans? I want to use the same because it seems like a good brand while directly sitted on a high heat vrm heatsink.
why would such a vid have 5 dislikes is beyond me
what software you using to check the VRAM temp ?
As a general rule of thumb, "Fanless" and "Desktop components" really should not go together in the same sentence, unless you like to throw money at a problem.
Nam Yun I had the cryptig h7 with a celeron with no fan and had no problem
Asrock A300 user here! As far as I interpret my hwmonitor right my vrm temps are pretty high(tmpin 6 and 8 are consistently showing over 110 and 118 at idle although it goes down for a couple degrees (about 5) when gaming a little bit on my 3200g thanks to the l9a, so I guess that those are the vrm temps, correct me if i´m wrong). Does anybody consider this mod useful or would I just block the exiting air from the cpu cooler if I mount a fan on the fin array which is located above the cpu cooler, where the air exits the case?
OOoooo, I was wondering what was causing the stuttering! I placed these small fans over my 4-channel RAM DIMMS and that fixed the issue of BSoDs I was seeing while gaming, and *helped* with the stuttering [guessing the nearby increase in airflow is doing some VRM cooling?].
My board (ASUS
PRIME X299-DELUXE) has a pretty beefy heat-sink on the VRMs, would it be best to leave that in place and add a fan that blows over it, or remove the heat-sink and add the fan?
If you remove the heat sink, you also remove a lot of thermal mass as well as surface area for cooling the VRMs. You are better off with cooling the heatsink itself, unless the heatsink is not conducting adequately, which might be an issue with thermal pads instead.
@@MonMalthias Thanks for the advice! On my ASUS MB, I have a VRM heatsink which is basically a solid block of aluminum with only 7 "fins" that are only cut into the block about 1/16" deep. I put a 4" fan blowing down onto that block, and I'm seeing no more in-game stuttering! Unfortunately, I just have the fan sort of precariously hanging above, so I'd like to try a better design, which brings me back to the idea of using individual heatsinks with more surface area per MOSFET, vs the single block as thermal mass. If I use two of the smaller Noctua fans, blowing up over the individual heat sinks, do you think that would be better or worse than using the existing thermal block? THANKS!
@@ZacMorris
In general, more surface area = more cooling, so it's worth a shot. Heatsinks are quite cheap, especially small ones, so the more the merrier.
@@MonMalthias Thanks! I decided to leave the heavy thermal-mass heatsink, but I just attached a bunch of tiny chip heatsinks to that, which seems to help dissipate heat more! I also use this specific little SSD heatsink/fan combos, and I didn't realize that it was sharing a thermal block that also cools the PCH [Which I was incorrectly reading as the PSU!] so I cut a new large fin heatsink that fits above my SSD and that brought the PCH down from 59C to 37C! I now have everything running in the 30C-40C range at full game load, and no more stuttering!
RAHHH chipset temperature monitoring, alternative fan, etc...just reminds me period of X58 chipset, 10 years ago...:D Well I'm far from being ready to come back to active cooling on chipset.
This can definitely happen on larger builds. I upgraded my PC to an AIO from the stock AMD CPU cooler and noticed performance go down greatly, which made no sense to me since my CPU temps we're much lower. Turns out the air cooler helped cool the VRMs and with the AIO my VRMs we're hitting 125°C, throttling my CPU greatly. It was a cheap a320 motherboard so the VRMs had essentially no cooling.
On ASUS Rog Strix Z790-E, it includes a bracket to mount on top of motherboard facing towards the bottom of your motherboard at DDR5. In the manual it’s 2.1.5 and 2.1.6 would you put that 50mm ram fan as intake and exhaust? I see the vrm 40mm fan in manual appears as blowing down on top of the black protective cover of the vrm area, is that accurate?
Nice content man! I'm not in the SFF camp yet (might switch when Ryzen 4000 comes out), but I love drooling over these crazy cool tiny ITX setups. And these useful tips are always appreciated.
Thanks for the vid. Just did my first build where my VRMs are actually overheating. Bad enough I have the cpus underclocked 50%. The motherboard even came with decent heatsinks which many motherboards lack entirely. Gonna try some of these little fans tomorrow. Crossing my fingers. Without active cooling, the vrms start to run away at ~90° which they hit instantly under a full load. Ironically the epyc milan cpus arent ever even reaching 70°. I'm really hoping I don't have to buy a new case solely chosen for providing optimal VRM cooling. Last resort will be getting a case with mesh top/bottom or vertical mobo mounting to add airflow focused over the VRMs instead of. Lesson Learned! High TDP = always research the mobo VRMs and have a cooling plan for them ahead of time
Keep up the good work ali , more mods please 👍
Nice tips
Commenting 3 years later when Gen5 M.2 SSD's have EVEN WORSE thermal performance and now require stupidly massive metal heatsinks just to function below the throttling point. These little fans now seem like a great idea for even a mid to full size case.
thast what i wanted to know if there Loud? my motherboard came with the Mini fans Backets but NO!!! fan why🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️ no idea but only Requiers when Overclocking Maybe but still like to add see if there's differences in temps. Ty for ur video Maestro .
I think it’s a good time to swap the power supply fan in Velka 3.
He made a video on it previously
Holy crap, 12 C decrease! That is insane.
100% passive is silly. The best of both worlds is a semi passive build in a relatively open and big case. Any massive low density tower cooler can hold up to 65w of load of a modern Ryzen bellow 85c without the need of any spinning fan. If you need the extra power, just change the profile in Ryzen master and let a custom fan curve spin the fan ups above 85c with a high hysteresis threshold. win-win. Also, needless to say that calling a watercooled rig "passive" is also not correct either.
Funny that this is not a well known thing. That's why everybody should start out with FX systems xD
in my case, you MUST cool those vrm's, otherwise they reach 105 degrees celsius in 5 seconds flat, and the cpu gets throttled to 1.4GHz
also the thing with speedfan is that it sometimes doesn't want to control fans based on different sensors. For example, if i try to control my fans using the VRM temperature sensor, the fans just go full blast.
I completely forgot about that Speedfan program. I didn't even know it was still around to be honest.
I putted a tiny fan on the backplate, of the CPU.
this help reducing the heat there, and few points on the CPU too.
the SSD attached on the back of the case are also cooler now.
conclusion: fans everywhere!!!!! :P
Awesome video, superb fans
So my question is and I am new to building computers especially one with fans. For the nvme you have the fan blowing towards the heat sink? Is it not better to buy an nvme active cooler?
Last time I built a computer was 2001, just in case you are wondering.
hmm, could 4 of these (4500 or 5000rpm) be better than one 80mm 2200rpm noctua fan on radiator? connecting them with zip ties could do the job, for experiment...
Great video Ali.
If pairing amd apu's, to avoid the issue, just avoid the Asus b450 itx.. MSI b450i is way better but just has one nvme slot though.
I don't understand the craze with VRM-cooling... My VRM reaches a max of 41 C after gaming for 4+ hours.
Your videos are incredibly shot. Kudos!
I have 4x 40mm Delta fans running at 8.500rpm each.
There is nothing custom about your water-cooled PC. It's just an AIO...
Have you tried with the NF-A6x25 - if it is possible or if its worth it over the NF-A4 fans?
Argus Monitor is a much better alternative to Speedfan that I highly recommend btw.
Got one of these lil fans on my OG GameCube.
If you run them at the same RPM side by side, which is quieter, the 10mm or 20mm version?
There was a time when asus p35 mobo was coming whit 2 mimi blower fans to attach to the motherboard heatsink...
you always sound like you're gonna break out in laughter
I actually need those fans hahaha this is great Noctua is the gift that keeps giving. I washed my case badge in the washer like a dumbass and they sent me a new one for free!
use this fan for overclocking. it can avoid blue screen error
Noctua dont build fans, they breed them, this one is just a little baby they cut from the brown fan tree before it was ripe.
5V Versions are perfect for Raspberry Pis :)
yeah, along with the heatsinks :)
Hey are you able to do a video with these fans cooling the GPU side of the NZXT H1
If ur living in alaska put it outside and your good -10 degrees celsius all overclocked
Noctua be trolling us....we make the best fans in the worst colour.....because we can
Are there any sub $200 dollar itx case options that don't suck?
What utility were you using to see all those sensors? i use open hardware monitor but i dont have as many sensors as that
Speedfan hasn't been updated in ages and only supports certain fan controllers.
I don't get why noctua still produces the shitty brown colors...
Using fan. Not cool anymore.. find better option or better hsf :D
is it possible to swap the x570-I chipset fan with a noctua fan?
THOSE FANS LOOK SO CUTEEEEEE
Brilliant as always... 👍😎
Running a R9-3900x on a B450M-Pro4 (budget board). Got some nice fujipoly 11W/mK thermal pads for the vrm heatsinks, put 2 Noctua 40x10's on each vrm with some zipties. VRMs stay frosty and my 3900X boosts to 4.2GHz all core, all day long, no issues. Didn't see any zipties in the video though...how'd you mount them so cleanly???
My RAM is under OC, 3800MHz CL16 at 1.42V (not completely tuned yet). The backside of my RAM (the side not hit by direct airflow, on the side of the processor, which is itself under water) was getting quite toasty. I have mounted a 50mm fan on my RAM sticks, with tweezers... I mean, cable ties. It's janky, but the temps dropped. If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid, right?
Sooo, I built my own PC in a Fractal Design Meshify case, how do I test the temperature of the motherboard VRM or even the M.2 drive? My computer should be blazingly fast but in games like Overwatch I occasionally have a stutter in my otherwise 180 to 220 FPS gameplay.
Infrared thermometer or thermocouple. Or touch ur dinky to it
The problem is within a week ur vrm area will clog with dust
On an AsRock Z390 Phantom Gaming-ITX/ac and a L12 with 120mm fan, this is unnecessary because of the fan blowing air onto the VRMs, right?
If Speedfan doesn't support your motherboard, like I found, there's a lightweight program called FanControl I found on the LTT forums. Custom fan curves, manual or auto fan/temp linking and all sorts of wicked smart stuff.
I have a Louqe Ghost S1 system with a skinny Rtx 2070 card and i was thinking about buying those fans for gpu chamber at top side. However i didn't know about their speed and now i am shocked. 3500 rpm way too much and i can't believe that bearing will remain quiet. You say they are inaudible at 3500 rpm but i am still sceptical. I wanted those for lower gpu fan noise anyway. Thank you for the review. Cheers!
you forgot to mention that speedfan does not support every motherboard
I have the 40x10mm Noctua Fan on a Dell PERC H200 RAID Controller, it's very quiet and prevents it from overheating :)
I fixed a tiny noiseblocker fan with zip ties in my Fractal Design R6 directly above my GPU to push hot air away from my M.2. It works well.
@Ziv Zulander 60x60x25 mm with about 2000 rpm, but that tiny beast is surprisingly silent.
@Ziv Zulander I have this model:
www.blacknoise.com/site/en/products/noiseblocker-it-fans/nb-blacksilentfan-series/50x50x10mm.php?lang=EN
But there is also a(n even) more silent Pro model:
www.blacknoise.com/site/en/products/noiseblocker-it-fans/nb-blacksilent-pro-series/60x60x25mm.php?lang=EN
How many fans will you have?
PC Gamers: yes
Ancient speedfan? *laughs in Argus Monitor*
That double side tape won't last long (a year or two if you're very lucky), especially if you didn't heat treat it during application. The gray 3m stuff is best here, avoid the white stuff entirely.
How about to mount something like Noctua NH-L12S / Scythe Big Shuriken 3 (or something like that) instead of watercooling and these small fans?
Why stay away from the 5 volts and not the 12 volts?
how loud or quiet is the alphacool pump water block?
NOCTUA should develop a snail-type centrifugal fans in various diameters and thicknesses.
It is very strange, however, that they have not yet introduced "snail" fans, which can be used in all sorts of different ways in various similar situations.
My Ghost S1 has watercooled gpu/cpu like yours. I have a small tophat in the bottom with a NF-A12x15 PWM placed under the motherboard as intake and the large tophat in the top with 2 NF-A12x25 PWM as exhaust above the radiator to pull the air trough. It works great!
I've considered having something like these mini Noctua fans or a laptop blower fan and some heatsinks added to lower spec motherboard VRMs. Purely because I want everything to run cool. But without spending 500 on a motherboard.
these fans are so expensive, but so good. Put two of these into my CCTV DVR. Fantastic performance, and hardly audible (with low voltage adapter)
There is something like aftermarket pipeline VRM cooler/heatsink?
can i replace my noisy x570 chipset fan? and how can i do this, i thought get the chipset thing off, then put a passive cooler+tiny 40 or 60 mm fan on it, but then i somewere seen people cant put it in because the videocard is in the way then.. is there a solution fot this? i already send my board for RMA, and they can;t hear the high pitch sound so i got it back, and i can still hear it. so i want to do something about it but, what should i do... ?
can somebody help me ?
SpeedFan does not always work with some newer systems. So I personally use Argus Monitor. It's not free, but it's a very powerful tool and it gets updated regularly
Whats you opinion on Alphacool Solo vs Alphacool solo LT?
My case has preety limited space, thats why i want sff pump res combo. I guess easyier to fill up the loop with the alphacool solo!?