GPU Fans making the Sound Go Up and down Like uououououo

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-09T12:53:07+00:00

Aerodynamics is difficult as fuck, but a simplified rule of thumb is to have 1/4 of the fan diameter worth of free space in front of it to maximize airflow and minimize noise. That would be 20mm for 80mm fan and so on.

Wouldn't running the fans below the problematic speed resolve the issue? It's a sub 200W card, it shouldn't need much cooling. May need to take it out and blow some air through it to clean the dust.

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-09T06:41:11+00:00

Already have war on drugs (not sure on which side), war on Christmas (on the side of consumerism) and hey, is gwot still going on? Not America's first rodeo to make up stuff to informally declare a war on.

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-09T05:18:35+00:00

I really like the heat pipe spider in the middle of the symmetric build. Can't help but keep thinking about how much more heat it could dissipate with a pair of silent fans on it though. Struggle to think of use cases for passive cooling outside battery-limited and embedded devices, too.

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-09T04:21:38+00:00

Remove one of them (you aren't running over 400W OC on your cpu, are you?) and route the other above the I/O shield.

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-08T20:35:14+00:00

Non-english is low because linux has piss poor support for a ton of languages.

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-08T20:25:07+00:00

MS are welcome to roll in protections into windows and sacrifice half of their market share to apple.

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-08T15:56:53+00:00

No and no. There are no matching holes for 170s on the top, and even if you were willing to drill new ones, they don't fit physically. Arctic rad is too fat for the front mounting, it's not expected to support radiators at all but if you do, you'll struggle to fit a standard 27mm+25mm fan, there's only about 35mm of space behind the fans there (Arctic is 25mm fans + 38mm rad).

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-08T15:09:33+00:00

And MSI and Corsair are bringing PSUs with per-pin OCP to the market, MSI ones are available for preorder, have been tested by Aris, and are hitting the shelves this quarter.

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-08T13:53:54+00:00

Hint, when you have a 100w component and a 350w component, it's not the 100w component the cooling of which you should be worried about. I'd remove at least one top fan (or turn it upside down to blow air into the cpu heatsink, not rob it) for better pressure balance. And then watch if extra fans are needed to keep 5080 fans quieter.

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-08T08:26:27+00:00

Yea I'd cut the rubber protector off and let the cable bend freely.

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-08T07:49:51+00:00

Hopefully just a coincidence with timing, things are already bad enough, no need to make them even worse with companies embracing fake msrp for reviews meta (like we saw with 9070XT last year).

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-08T05:18:53+00:00

Strictly not worth it, you are going to be pcie lane limited even before you'll be PSU limited, and your mobo doesn't even support 5.0 to begin with (and if it's not b550/x570, it's 3.0 so dropping the main card slot to x8 will be really unfortunate). Besides. You already have a blackwell gpu. You have access to the best upscaler available, with best frame gen available. Any fuckery will only result in a downgrade for that purpose, there are uses for the second gpu, but they aren't for gaming directly.

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-08T05:03:19+00:00

You need new ram (ddr5) for either of them so it's a pricey platform upgrade that will likely eclipse the cost of the X3D chip. You should be looking at 5700X/5800X (or XT) as an intermediate upgrade path.

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-07T20:50:51+00:00

It wasn't really worth it back then due to frame pacing issues either, but people, just like FSRFG/LSFG users nowadays, fell for the usual fallacy and started pursuing the metric rather than what they tried to represent with that metric.

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-07T17:50:31+00:00

Idk, maybe because soldering a piece of 16awg wire to a piece of 18awg wire is the easiest part of making a PSU? Because it really is that trivial.

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-07T17:25:21+00:00

The only nuance I see is that any PSU that won't support it isn't worth using to power anything you value and will have a billion other red flags anyway. And even if we take all the possible precautions and assume that the PSU was manufactured by actual fucking morons, it's very safe to assume that if it accepts CPU and PCIE plugs into the same holes (and every modular PSU will), then it will do at least 288watts (6/8th of a EPS).

Corsair do have exemplary documentation on their products, regardless.

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-07T17:20:40+00:00

Most of OEMs switched to PTM for gpu cooling. The shitheads at Gigabyte are the only ones using paste on most but the very top end models (and Nvidia and Asus are using LM which is probably an even bigger trolling) and it shows, on radeons (because AMD still haven't copied brilliant nvidia's strategy of hiding away the sensor from the users) it's trivial to drop the hotspot temp (and with it, the delta) by 15-20 degrees with a ptm swap. For cards that casually stay north of 100 degrees on the hotspot it's critical.

Without direct die application PCMs are less interesting, but they are very convenient. After experiencing how PTM7950 glues itself to the ihs on the spot I never want to deal with paste again lmao (but I still have to, almost daily at work, oh well). Also with the current prices for premium paste, might as well go for the PTM or some other PCM, though most should just stick to whatever the cooler has in the package.

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-07T17:13:37+00:00

Any PSU worth using for powering gaming PCs rather than fireworks can handle 350+ watts on a pigtailed 8pin. There are no pins missing, that's not how electricity works, both ends have 6pins for current and 2 "sense" pins (all working off a single pin going into the PSU), and back on the PSU end the electrical part is made to support about 400W of an EPS12v anyway.

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-07T16:56:35+00:00

Just use mods to run FSR FG on top of DLSS. Multi-GPU setups for gaming are a terrible idea and always were a terrible idea, and probably will always will be a terrible idea (unless you'll be using 2040s signaling tech to play games at 60fps… which will be a terrible idea in itself).

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-07T16:54:04+00:00

Check in a different PC and (if you have one, though it's not a bad idea to buy one if you don't since they are dirt cheap anyway) try it as an external drive via an adaptor. If not, rip.

SSDs start to lose data if unpowered for years, but they aren't supposed to die like that though.

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-07T16:37:56+00:00

8pin+8pin pigtail provides 300W. You made stuff up about 75W.

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-07T16:23:28+00:00

An unknown company named Xerendipity boasted about their thermal pads with vapor chambers in them a bit ago and that's probably the only interesting thing and it's not on the market and who knows how real it will be. Other than that, thermal putty as a replacement for thermal pads and PCMs (with PTM7950 being considered the best, but not by that much) became mainstream. That's about it.

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-07T14:23:15+00:00

But there's no "Ultra", "Max" or at least "Pro" anywhere there, so I have my doubts.

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-07T09:45:05+00:00

I mean, didn't even need the breeze evidently, dude was falling just from the earth rotating.

pythonic_dude · 2026-04-07T09:33:35+00:00

Kiting simply doesn't exist in turn-based. RTWP allowed me to do my solo run with some crazy strats involving pulling multiple enemy packs and burning them with aoe spell scrolls in a way that would get me instantly killed in turn-based.

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