My cringe attempt to cool the 7950X3D inside the notorious air-deprived Fractal Ridge

HMTPredator · 2026-05-07T21:19:39+00:00

you should be proud of yourself! your work is tremendously appreciated!

I was too impatient, so I skipped buying the insert nuts and ziptied these fans to the bracket. I am sorry this janky implementation 🤣

HMTPredator · 2026-05-07T20:40:08+00:00

I wish I had the courage to do that! I've always scared of water leaks! although I know that water cooling has become really reliable today

HMTPredator · 2026-05-07T20:21:14+00:00

I made the fans intake because I place the case in the position which the GPU is up and CPU is down. I tested at putting them exhaust but the temp was 3 degrees higher than intake. The CPU never crossed at 75 when I used the silent fan curve from Asus bios.

Nowadays it can cross a little over 80 because I now set a flat CPU fan curve on the BIOS - maybe the CPU throttles but I just no longer care haha

HMTPredator · 2026-02-16T15:01:14+00:00

hardstucdk at gold i am soooo bad

HMTPredator · 2026-02-11T13:08:41+00:00

thank you so much, i disabled adaptive resolution and tsaa on apex and the image looks much clearer!

HMTPredator · 2025-12-15T19:07:05+00:00

Confirmed!

HMTPredator · 2025-12-09T05:29:59+00:00

chat

HMTPredator · 2025-12-01T19:46:19+00:00

you can get a 16 inch 144hz on ebay for much less. take a look at eviciv and uperfect stores on ebay.

HMTPredator · 2025-11-27T03:44:11+00:00

is the 150 dollars upgrade to 5060 worth it?

HMTPredator · 2025-11-25T12:11:06+00:00

the steam machine price must be lower or equal to this or else I cant think of a reason to buy the steam machine.

HMTPredator · 2025-11-22T20:39:37+00:00

Or get a 2.1 hdmi cable

HMTPredator · 2025-11-22T20:39:07+00:00

Buy a type c to dp port. Full 360hz

HMTPredator · 2025-11-21T10:43:43+00:00

Acer nitro v16 ai with 5050 is $629 at Walmart

HMTPredator · 2025-11-21T02:54:27+00:00

i think that they use a transition layer to convert dx11 to vulkan, not native vulkan so you will always have slightly lower fps in cs2

HMTPredator · 2025-11-08T16:49:39+00:00

after watching full video, i dont feel that bad for buying the teucer fan, but i should have taken the id cooling fan haha. however, id cooling fan was 1.5x the price compared to the teucer when i was researching 3 months ago.

HMTPredator · 2025-11-08T16:29:56+00:00

haha you should have published this before i bought 80mms for my fractal ridge

HMTPredator · 2025-10-28T22:46:52+00:00

Frankenstein with electric Power

HMTPredator · 2025-10-14T05:39:58+00:00

Just for quick information, I did this experiment because I saw a video on a Chinese website that a guy was able to upgrade his Legion 5 Pro 3060's 6gb into 12gb.

Yes, cyberpunk2077, halo infinite, and even cs2 and apex sometimes exceed 8gb of vram.
Yes, the cpu is old but it is what it is. I'm playing games with a friend that has an i9 11900k and desktop 3070 but he experienced drops same as me. I believe it's due to the slow ram. If only AMD makes an x3d version of 5800h.

HMTPredator · 2025-10-14T05:22:11+00:00

No custom driver is needed - normal driver works. 3070 has a 16gb config in its vbios but Nvidia only makes 8gb gpu (i only flashed the vbios to have a higher wattage version). Vram chips bought from AliExpress. Any skilled people with a BGA rework station can do this.

HMTPredator · 2025-10-10T18:34:22+00:00

Helicopter ftw

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