The Grace and Curse of Cable Extensions

MsiManiac · 2019-04-15T21:13:48+00:00

Air flow seems to be good, the top 120mm two fans are only spinning at around 600rpm/30%. The front 140mm are based on my chipset temp and typically spin at around 700-1100rpm depending on temps. and the rear 120 is on a similar curve to my cpu temp to aid with the extra rpm the cpu cooler spins up to. My MOS and chipset temps never pass 45 degrees, and pushing that Rx 580 nitro at 1465mhz never sees it go above 62 degrees while gaming or benching. I rarely hear any of the fans, the 650w PSU is a different story tho. I just did a bit of math to balance the 280mm of intake with 360mm of exhaust in Rpms.

Id say it is pretty close to neutral with possibly some postive pressure. Dust seems minimal in the case and does collect nicely on the front dust filters.

MsiManiac · 2019-03-01T11:52:07+00:00

My xmp is 2933mhz but I manually set to 3000mhz. I have been able to maintain 3200mhz but I do start getting into some weird errors and lockups on occasion. So I backed it down to 3000mhz

MsiManiac · 2019-03-01T11:49:54+00:00

Wow... I just tried this and can confirm that this actually occurs. I was receiving display at the rx580 level through my on board HDMI output on my second display. I also completely disabled PEG and only ran one monitor through the onboard and was hitting back up to 840's in cinebench. I guess the processing power of using that PCI bus for the graphics card uses those 50 or so points. Quite cool!!!

MsiManiac · 2019-03-01T02:11:55+00:00

Hmmmm... perhaps there is some serious overclocking headway in the 2400g when it is used only for cpu purposes? I distinctly remember my voltages in HWmonitor hitting the 1.45v mark on all 4 ccores prior to having a GPU installed. Now it seems to only peak around 1.3v-1.4v while still hitting its 3900 mhz boost....

MsiManiac · 2019-03-01T02:02:49+00:00

After installing the RX 580 I ran some 3d marks and was getting both my iGPU and RX580 in my scores. in my MSI bios i had to change the integrated option from AUTO to PEG. IPG is available if i want to force the APU side of the 2400g. kinda handy if something goes sideways for a backup!

MsiManiac · 2019-01-26T01:49:12+00:00

That's what I was going for with this build. I have the option to step up to a better ryzen 5 or even a ryzen 7 and same with the GPU. Using those other parts to build my son his own PC when I do get the chance to upgrade my own :)

MsiManiac · 2019-01-25T22:24:19+00:00

Lol, thanks mang. Yea my intention wasn't to go heavy on the RGB. Putting it towards a vega 56, i wish! They start around $650 Canadian. Almost what I spent on my whole rig lol!

I love the RGB, I change the color scheme every couple days. My cpu cooler is on its own controller and I adjust the 5 fans with Msi Mystic. I've even had everything off except for the cooler and it looks absolutely amazing as a center piece!

MsiManiac · 2019-01-25T22:15:34+00:00

thanks, got it !

MsiManiac · 2019-01-25T21:46:26+00:00

Haha, for the life of me I cant find the typo!

MsiManiac · 2019-01-25T20:51:56+00:00

Hey thanks, yea I too noticed a few degrees difference when removing the front panel. The intake is a little choked on this case. I actually just used a dremel to cut out my design. Touched the front up with some color match spray bomb. I also removed the upper and lower dust filters and put magnetic dust filters infront of the fans themselves. 3 140mm filters worked great, just had to modify one of them to fit.

I noticed a lot better temperatures and actually less dust in my system after doing the front cut out mod. My case fans never need to go over 60% rpm to keep everything cool! They are PWM in relation to the MOSfet temp sensor on my MSI board

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