11-14-2022 11:37 PM - last edited on 03-05-2024 12:19 AM by ROGBot
11-20-2022 08:25 AM
Carlyle2020 wrote:
In the end i chose 1mm pad + paste as a replacement for the old 2mm dried up one.
since i had thermal epoxy around i did stick anything on it could find.
Afterwards i used a dremel on my ASUS 3070(Noctua ed) to cut a slit into the fan shroud to make space for my extras and to fan directly on the PCH.
Thanks to the marketing department having more sway than any other dept. my resell value of both my asus board and noctua card are plummeting due to hand made mods to compensate that awefull plastic and the brilliant cable binder idea.
They even cut into the PCH coolers mass to fit it nicer !
I will think of the sane engineers that nobody listened to. I feel your pain.
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11-20-2022 01:00 PM
JohnAb wrote:
I think putting in a new pad and removing the plastic cover is the best thing to do, but if you want a really fast and simple improvement, then just grab a small (80mm) fan or two and point them towards the PCH area. That what's did and you'll get at least a 10C reduction straight away. The fans were cheap and they aren't even mounted, they are just resting on the cover above the PSU which in my case extends all the way along beneath the GPU. I did add a metal mesh filter cover to stop dust being blown through the fans and deposited all over the motherboard. In fact, I decided to mount the 2 fans together in front of each other with bolts running through both fans and the metal mesh to hold it all together.
The whole assembly is more like a cube and it doesn't move about at all. Both fans run at between 2000-2500 rpm max. They do make a little bit of noise of course, but I don't notice it. Total cost was maybe 10-12 UK Pounds. They just run off the motherboard fan headers, so speed is adjustable in BIOS or through Armoury Crate. The metal filter cover does get quite dusty, so I just clean it about once a week. Not a big job.
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