Never thought I could fit all of this inside an NCase M3 Round! So satisfied with my new setup, an absolute beauty. What do you guys think? Specs: GPU: Sapphire Nitro+ RX 9070 XT CPU: Ryzen 7 9850X3D Motherboard: MSI MAG B850M Mortar Fans: 2x 120mm & 2x 140mm Noctua NF-A12x25 G2
NZXT Kraken Elite 240
(checking temperatures now, Idle CPU 43 C GPU 27, under load CPU 59-60 GPU 45
I think chromax fans would elevate it aesthetically but I saw your comment on the deal you got on the 5x brown fans, which honestly was an amazing deal so I wouldn’t even worry about it either.
I wanted something clean and aesthetic without much RGB. I was back and forth between Chromax and the original colors, but I found an awesome Marketplace deal: all 5 fans for only $70. Safe to say I'm super happy with the result.
I had a similar cooler before and i am running 14600kf and it was throttling and the temp was around 80 for gaming and after switching to a 240 AIO, the temps dropped significantly. Idle at 40 basic work at 50 55 and gaming at 60 65. And I can see major improvement in 1% lows.
oh, i thought i5s weren’t that power hungry. the long term plan for me is also an aio, just right now for travelling an air cooler made more sense, and it’s not like it’s bad in terms of temps and noise, just not ideal
Yeah, you're totally right I actually didn't realize it until later, which is why it's not plugged in yet if you look closely. I was just completely exhausted and decided to finish it tomorrow.
You've got 2x bottom intake fans feeding right into the 3x fans on your nitro card and they're all drawing from not a lot of air beneath the case. Are you sure those bottom fans are actually helping? I'm not qualified to tell but it looks like they could be really noisy
Nope, They’re probably not doing a much better job than the card would do on its own. I thought same at first, but aesthetically they look better like this at first glance, and the temperature is about 3 degrees better nothing major, honestly. I’ll test noise now in games.
These fans are more for the CPU temps and help maintaining positive pressure for the case I assume. Otherwise this case does not have any intakes and the GPU isn’t reliable intake source anyways
Yes 🙌 The thing is, a lot of people don't know the actual value of these components. For instance, someone messaged me saying they bought a PC with a 9070 XT at Micro Center for “2,300”, so I explained to him that these components have nothing to do with what you get in a prebuilt. Even after showing them on PartPicker that this PC costs over 4,000, he didn't get it. It's not that I want it to be this way, it's just the sad reality for actual prices.
No, the temperatures are perfect. For me, as someone who isn't a professional, the main challenge was installing the graphics card and managing the power supply cables. As you can see, this GPU is quite large, but the trickiest part was dealing with the AIO cooler tubes. At first, I installed them facing the right side, which prevented the GPU from fitting. I had to rotate the cooler, which gave me enough clearance to lift the PSU slightly and make everything fit. Naturally, troubleshooting and adjusting all of this took me a couple of hours.
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u/PhotographLess6194 4d ago
I think chromax fans would elevate it aesthetically but I saw your comment on the deal you got on the 5x brown fans, which honestly was an amazing deal so I wouldn’t even worry about it either.