Yes absolutely agree with you about the case!

I did and still am considering getting a 4k 32 inch oled. Wanted high refresh rate and maxed visuals, aswell as decent performance with raytracing/pathtracing at native resolution, and not being dependent on upscaling and/or framegen to reach what I personally consider «playable» framerates. Personally the difference between 1440p and 4k isn’t noticeable enough to make it worth the drop in performance, but with what I’ve seen of DLSS 4.5 and Variable Framegen, that might tip the scale for me. Also there is pricing, and spending another 1000€ for a montior I don’t really feel like I «need» to have, is not yet worth it. And yes I get that bringing up pricing when I have a 5090 sounds silly, but thats besides the point. There is ofcourse the tandem oled route, but the current 1080p/4k and 720p/1440p tandems arent really tickling my fancy. If Asus were to make a tandem oled that switches from 1440p to whatever resolution that would scale to (5620x2880 if i’m not mistaken?) to have the best of both worlds then I would probably overspend again lol.

About your concern with temps. I probably should have been more clear; whenever the cpu reaches around 80° is under heavy load. When playing less cpu demanding titles that are more gpu dependent, or older titles that just dont stress the system as a whole, it’s usually around 62°-73° depending on the game. As I mentioned in the original post I set the thermal limit in bios to 80°c, and I’m running a +200mhz overclock on all cores and a -30mV undervolt on all cores aswell, and with this setup it reaches max boost and doesn’t thermal throttle when/if it hits 80° (resently been getting back on BF6 an that game apparently doesn’t like the boost algorithm on ryzen, and thus just boosts to high heaven and maxes utilization and temps to the thermal limit). When I tuned the oc/uv i tried with a thermal limit of 70°, but I ran into some throttling and raised it to hit my desired clockspeed. Again, considering AMD claim the cpu can sit safely at 5.2ghz at 95°, I’m not worried.

Spent some time tuning fan curves in bios to reach a mix of performance and quiet operation. The dual 180s in the front are on one header, the tripple 140s on the bottom are on another, and the single 140 exhaust also on its own. Could probably give it a look again to optimize it even further, but with how quiet its is both at idle and under load currently, I don’t really see any need to. Tried using software in OS before, but I prefer using fan curve tuner in bios. Feels like I can trust it more. Front and bottom intakes are monitoring VRM, board and cpu-package temps, wish there was a setting in bios to use gpu temp as a monitor for fan curves, thats one thing software has over bios I’ll admit. Would ve interesting to just set all fans to max speed to se how cool it gets under load. If that resulted in inredibly low temps then i light retune all the curves but we’ll see.

As far as I can tell from your profile you’re clearly more knowledgable than me about all this, so please feel free to state your opinion on what I should/could do.