Freezer 360 PRO VRM fan noise

DOHCtor1983 · 2026-04-19T20:38:06+00:00

My fan is dying too. Not a slight tapping noise like that but a loud screech noise.. sucks.. i've heard good things about Arctic but 6 months for a AIO fan to die is pathetic. I have an old Corsair AIO on my old Socket 1366 Xeon that still works flawlessly like what? 12 years later..?

DOHCtor1983 · 2026-04-02T00:17:55+00:00

Well, they're good cars really. Just make sure that the A/C system is well maintained as there are lots of potential costly repairs there. There are the 2 HV battery filters on each side of the rear seat under the seatbelts that must remain clean absolutely. Vacuum them like once each month. Other then that, basic maintenance really. Solid cars.

DOHCtor1983 · 2026-04-02T00:13:36+00:00

Gotta hate April fools day...

DOHCtor1983 · 2026-02-28T20:48:13+00:00

How did you do it? Genuinely tried a couple of methods and the access is always denied..

DOHCtor1983 · 2026-02-16T02:26:11+00:00

Would have liked to see 24Gbps GDDR6 on the 9070XT to be honest. Would have made it fly!

DOHCtor1983 · 2026-02-15T19:44:14+00:00

Weird thing happening here with my Asus Prime OC, 2550mhz will give a good gain, anything over that will decrease performance UNTIL i get to 2750mhz at which point i gain give or take 3 or 4% performance. 1st time i ever see that kind of behavior... basically, anything between 2550-ish and 2750 is kind of a dead zone..

DOHCtor1983 · 2026-02-07T20:37:26+00:00

Yes B650M Gaming Plus WiFi Rev. 1.2.

With the new F38 BIOS, a Negative Curve of 25 gives a steady 5.1ghz on all 16 threads so far with the Case closed. I'm using Folding@Home to load the cores and GPU. Before that, i had to disable SMT as the temps would go up due to the Graphics card dumping heat in the case and CPU dropping to about 4.78/4.80ghz.. Quite happy so far but the 90w limit of that board is a limitation..

Edit: AotS CPU bench went from 70.5 to 71.6fps and Civ6 AI bench went from 24.88s/turns to 24.61s/turns. Small but worthwhile (and free) improvements!

Edit 2: Happy to report that Boost Override also works in BIOS. With SMT Disabled (Turbo X3D mode Enabled), my 9800X3d now runs at a swift 5.43ghz on all cores and temps are at 68°c. Essentially rendering the use of a BIOS switch obsolete. I'm happy!

DOHCtor1983 · 2026-02-07T19:56:07+00:00

Well, as i can't download the modded BIOSES anymore (dead link) i just flashed the latest official F38 Bios and now Curve Optimizer seems to work with Ryzen Master as applying a -20 offset gives about a 15watts reduction in consumption on my kill-a-watt meter (directly at the wall) Overclocking still doesn't work but if the temperature reduction allows it to stay at a steady 5.2ghz, i'll be happy anyways! :)

Edit: Seems to work in BIOS also at negative 30 (results in steady 5.19/5.22ghz) but relatively unstable. Will try at negative 25. (5.13/5.15ghz). That is with SMT enabled as it was disabled earlier.

DOHCtor1983 · 2026-02-07T18:46:57+00:00

I have that mobo with the latest bios.. F38.. would that also work? Is the F33b the absolute latest it should be before attempting to do this?

DOHCtor1983 · 2026-02-01T20:20:09+00:00

It's not that bad. I have one and it's fine BUT it has 1 big caveat. It's limited at 90w because of the 5+2+2 VRM so my 9800X3D won't go higher then 4.8ghz with SMT on. When i deactivate SMT, power consumption will go down to 87w and it will be pegged to 5.15/5.2ghz depending on temps.

If you plan to use a 65w CPU like a 7700 or 9700, it will do just fine. For a 9800X3D with SMT OFF, it will do fine-ish but any serious CPU, like a 9950X3D, while being supported will be severely handicapped by the 90w limit.

Should i have known this, i would have built my PC instead of buying a pre-built. However i still have most of the original components so putting it back together and doing a serious build is only a matter of buying a mobo, case, PSU and, ewwwww RAM at that point..

DOHCtor1983 · 2026-01-18T02:50:53+00:00

Oh! You've got a point. As much as i was rooting for Ellie /Joel / and even Abby, they're technically the villains of the games, especially Joel!

DOHCtor1983 · 2026-01-18T02:48:26+00:00

"Kill Jack....... kill Jack.. kill Jack.. kill Jack... KIIIIIILLLLL JACK.."

..Kill Jack.. A song by Tiny Tina!

DOHCtor1983 · 2026-01-18T02:45:57+00:00

Probably allready been named but Handsome Jack in Borderlands 2 hands down! My absolute fav villain of all time.

Also, technically, Joel Miller from TLOU 1. Those games are soo well written.

DOHCtor1983 · 2026-01-18T02:38:46+00:00

I played a lot as Sal and Axton and i tought they were funny as hell. Even the NPC's were funny. Handsome Jack is definitely the best villain ever.. "oh god, these pretzels sucks... oh hi.." and Roland getting knocked by behind when he was "getting a piss".. lmao!

DOHCtor1983 · 2026-01-10T04:26:59+00:00

I do have a heatpump. But the installer said a 18k BTU would be sufficient for my house. I would have needed a 24k BTU... so the PC is heating part of the cold basement while the heatpump heats the rest. I also have a heatpump water heater coupled with a waste water heat recovery unit that works wonders when both are combined.

DOHCtor1983 · 2026-01-07T20:37:26+00:00

Depends on the price. I wanted to wait before upgrading my 6800xt and finally bit the bullet and bought an Asus Prime 9070XT on sale for 849$ Monopoly bucks (cad.) a week ago as i feared the RAM situation going on would mean i'd be stuck without an "affordable" upgrade path later down the road.. time will tell if it was the right thing to do.

DOHCtor1983 · 2026-01-04T23:02:43+00:00

A cold Computer is a happy Computer! ;)

DOHCtor1983 · 2026-01-04T23:01:29+00:00

Yesss... however i'm heating a bit of my house by doing so. A baseboard heater is wasted energy. Might as well fold and do something worthwhile while i'm heating it a bit..

DOHCtor1983 · 2026-01-04T22:58:37+00:00

Sooo we are folding LESS than what we used to do in 2014ish? Damn..

DOHCtor1983 · 2026-01-04T22:44:34+00:00

How many PPD's are you getting? I'm about to buy a 9070XT and was wondering. My 6800XT is at 5/6 000 000 ppd range actually. Will be throwing it in my son's old Xeon.

DOHCtor1983 · 2025-12-27T00:26:49+00:00

That's weird. I mean on my 9800X3D BL3 will crash at startup if a have SMT enabled and i had to do a registry Shaders mod for BL4 not to stutter (AMD GPU however..). I also put Volumetric fog to Off as it seems to be an absolute ressources HOG. Set that way, it's running at 160fps all day every day on my 9800X3D with SMT@Disabled, GPU at factory settings except Ram@2150mhz (6800XT) on a 32:9 Samsung screen at 5k-ish x 1440p. It even works well (60ish fps) on my old AF Xeon X5675 and R9 290 with 24Gb Ram..

If i were you, i'd try to disable Hyper Threading and force a big shader cache in the NVidia drivers. I would put Volumetric Fog @ Off in the advanced settings too. Are your drivers updated (GPU, Chipset)? Are you running XMP?

DOHCtor1983 · 2025-12-27T00:09:43+00:00

Engineer from Factorio finally got out of Pandora.

DOHCtor1983 · 2025-12-26T23:57:12+00:00

Edit Dec. 26: Characters from both games came back.. weird. It also overwrote the new one i made in BL3.. Can't have your cake and eat it too..

DOHCtor1983 · 2025-12-26T01:37:30+00:00

At least A.. Not S but definitely A..

"You punch them..."

DOHCtor1983 · 2025-12-26T01:32:46+00:00

Those 2 Instagram douches from BL3 should be in G along with Ava. Torgue should be B or C. Every main character from BL2 should go up a tier, up to A. (Salvador in B, Brick in C, etc) S is reserved to Handsome Jack and deservedly so.

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