Upgrade or new rig?

ATMINSIDE · Nov 19, 2014

Theocnoob said:
Agreed. Although I have lost one Noctua fan. The same 140mm thats on the D14. Use them as case fans. One has gone into an uncontrollable vibration that can not be rectified after a mere 3 years of 24/7 service .

I would contact Noctua, that's not normal at all.
Their heatsinks (and of course the fans with them) have a six year warranty. Same for just the fans.

Their support is very good, and very easy to work with.
I contacted them once for a mounting kit for an old heatsink.

Silver_Pharaoh · Nov 19, 2014

ATMINSIDE said:
I would contact Noctua, that's not normal at all.
Their heatsinks (and of course the fans with them) have a six year warranty. Same for just the fans.

Their support is very good, and very easy to work with.
I contacted them once for a mounting kit for an old heatsink.

That's good to know actually, thanks!

Yeah hey, ya never know eh OCnoob?
They might give you a new fan :thup:

ATMINSIDE · Nov 19, 2014

Silver_Pharaoh said:
That's good to know actually, thanks!

Yeah hey, ya never know eh OCnoob?
They might give you a new fan

I would be surprised if they didn't give him one, honestly.
They gave me the mounting kit for free, and I didn't even have proof of purchase.

Silver_Pharaoh · Nov 19, 2014

ATMINSIDE said:
I would be surprised if they didn't give him one, honestly.
They gave me the mounting kit for free, and I didn't even have proof of purchase.

Wow, that's something you don't hear customer service doing everyday!

Sweet!

Silver_Pharaoh · Nov 24, 2014

Cooler arrived today

No pics yet as I‘m mobile, and there‘s no power at home right now :-/

And no TIM that comes with the cooler

Damn.... AS5 then?

Mandrake4565 · Nov 24, 2014

AS5 is fine

ATMINSIDE · Nov 24, 2014

Hope the power comes back on soon, at least you don't need more than a light to get that installed

AS5 will work just fine.

Silver_Pharaoh · Nov 25, 2014

I'll have to pick some more up today then. I only have enough for one more mount.

No instructions on the mounting bracket, but I think I have it figured out.
No I just gotta install it

And the power came back on at 2AM.......
We lost power at 5:30pm yesterday :-/

ATMINSIDE · Nov 25, 2014

Well that was a bit of an outage....

If you're picking up new TIM then grab something that doesn't have a huge cure time like AS5

Silver_Pharaoh · Nov 25, 2014

ATMINSIDE said:
Well that was a bit of an outage....

If you're picking up new TIM then grab something that doesn't have a huge cure time like AS5

I picked up some MX-4.
It was that or MX-2..... I had no idea and the best is only like 3*C cooler anyway

So I got it installed on my i5 2300 as a test to see how I should have it mounted.
I think it's good the way it is now

Did I mention my hard drives are louder than this Noctua? :shock:

And it's amazing - hottest core when folding is 41*C!
It used to be 68*C+ :thup:

I love this thing!
Those fans aren't all that ugly actually, I might buy one of those blue LED sickleflows for the "intake" fan for some lighting since I removed the other Corsair AF120 I had cooling the HDD's. (It didn't do much anyway)

ATMINSIDE · Nov 25, 2014

See what I meant by silent?

Why not get a PWM fan for the intake, then you can vary it as needed with software

Glad you're (very) happy with the cooler!

Silver_Pharaoh · Nov 25, 2014

ATMINSIDE said:
See what I meant by silent?

Why not get a PWM fan for the intake, then you can vary it as needed with software

Glad you're (very) happy with the cooler!

I dunno - Speedfan messed with the fan in the centre of the cooler. It was only spinning at 700 RPM, so I hibernated and rebooted without speedfan and it's now up to speed ~1100 RPM...

The sickleflow I am eyeing is only 19 DBA which is somehow lower than the stock fans Noctua ships with. :shrug:

ATMINSIDE · Nov 25, 2014

Speedfan is sorely out of date. Check Gigabyte's page for your motherboard and grab their software.

I can tell you, that Sickleflow is nowhere near as quiet as the Noctua fans.
There are a lot of fan companies that like to fudge their numbers.

Silver_Pharaoh · Nov 25, 2014

ATMINSIDE said:
Speedfan is sorely out of date. Check Gigabyte's page for your motherboard and grab their software.

I can tell you, that Sickleflow is nowhere near as quiet as the Noctua fans.
There are a lot of fan companies that like to fudge their numbers.

Perhaps I'll stick some LEDs in my case for lighting then eh?
Those fans aren't that bad, I mean I've been sitting here beside them looking at them for a few hours already

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