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Denamian

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Lanx said:
naw, your 216 has that outside fan bracket
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Noodleface said:
Very ugly but I'll consider it
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Even with that extra fan mount, I suspect vertical GPU will be worse. You're still shoving the GPU pretty close to the glass and restricting the airflow from the GPU fans. Now if it had mesh there instead of glass, that's a different story.
 
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Denamian said:
Even with that extra fan mount, I suspect vertical GPU will be worse. You're still shoving the GPU pretty close to the glass and restricting the airflow from the GPU fans. Now if it had mesh there instead of glass, that's a different story.
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it is still kinda sorta drawing air from the bottom
 
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Denamian said:
Even with that extra fan mount, I suspect vertical GPU will be worse. You're still shoving the GPU pretty close to the glass and restricting the airflow from the GPU fans. Now if it had mesh there instead of glass, that's a different story.
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It's pretty offset towards the motherboard away from the glass but I agree there is probably a temp hit.
 
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Burren said:
I mean…if it’s there what’s the harm in being curious?
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naw it's nice i mean instead of having that constant on screen overlay, and the default overlay is stupid anyway, who cares how much ram/vram is being used, you just need to see cpu/gpu temps
 
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Noodleface said:
I feel it's worth mentioning how retarded I am. As some know I work in server hardware and I've built dozens of PCs for people. My latest being the 9070xt/9800x3d build for myself.

I was gaming this week and the 9070xt sounded like a fucking jet engine (I'll embed if it lets me). I was like damn this is the loudest card I've ever heard. Scoured reddit and people said basically yes. This card is loud.

Then at the bottom, a buried comment
"Make sure you're GPU brace isn't pushing on one of the fans and making it stop."

I thought lmao what retard would do that. Imagine my surprise when I was indeed that retard.

Noise went down 50%, and my temps went down 10C while gaming. It's still a somewhat louder card, but Jesus Christ I am retarded. I don't even think I need the GPU brace because while it's a big card it's not THAT big.
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Since I stole your build and we built virtually the same computer, it is crazy that I see you posted this. Not quite the same thing, but close.

A day or two after completing the build, I was playing the free Doom we got just to test things out, and all of a sudden there is this horrendous clacking noise. I quickly determine that it is from the video card, and the brace was pushing on the card so that one of the fans was hitting the front bezel or whatever you want to call it. Still spinning, but a godawful racket, and I'm sure not good for the fan at all. I just pushed the brace a tiny bit over and it fixed it, but between yours and mine it seems like that fan is incredibly touchy. I'll have to watch out for it, because with it facing down I doubt I'd ever even notice if it weren't spinning unless it made a noise.
 
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Lanx said:
naw it's nice i mean instead of having that constant on screen overlay, and the default overlay is stupid anyway, who cares how much ram/vram is being used, you just need to see cpu/gpu temps
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Even running Chrome, I should have enough ram, lol
 
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Void said:
Since I stole your build and we built virtually the same computer, it is crazy that I see you posted this. Not quite the same thing, but close.

A day or two after completing the build, I was playing the free Doom we got just to test things out, and all of a sudden there is this horrendous clacking noise. I quickly determine that it is from the video card, and the brace was pushing on the card so that one of the fans was hitting the front bezel or whatever you want to call it. Still spinning, but a godawful racket, and I'm sure not good for the fan at all. I just pushed the brace a tiny bit over and it fixed it, but between yours and mine it seems like that fan is incredibly touchy. I'll have to watch out for it, because with it facing down I doubt I'd ever even notice if it weren't spinning unless it made a noise.
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Lmao goddamnit. We are both retarded???
 
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I'm waiting for GPU manufacturers to add standardized support bracket contacts. I'm a bit surprised it hasn't happened yet, not even to the degree of someone does it this way, someone else does it another way, just none at all afaik.

I have a Lian Li 216 and ASRock 7800XT. I had to file down the support backet because it was poking into the middle fan blades. Took for fucking ever to figure too because none of the games I play were spinning up the fans, so I would only hear the clack clack clack on wake/boot.

The support bracket is kinda shit too, it's really easy to bend it when trying to reinstall it in a crowded case. I doubt it's actually doing much.
 
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Deathwing said:
I'm waiting for GPU manufacturers to add standardized support bracket contacts. I'm a bit surprised it hasn't happened yet, not even to the degree of someone does it this way, someone else does it another way, just none at all afaik.

I have a Lian Li 216 and ASRock 7800XT. I had to file down the support backet because it was poking into the middle fan blades. Took for fucking ever to figure too because none of the games I play were spinning up the fans, so I would only hear the clack clack clack on wake/boot.

The support bracket is kinda shit too, it's really easy to bend it when trying to reinstall it in a crowded case. I doubt it's actually doing much.
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My Gigabyte 4080 Super is the first one I've bought that has built in support. You replace the middle and bottom right motherboard screws with standoffs for it to attach to. Works pretty well and isn't a massive pain in the ass if you need to remove the card.

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Deathwing said:
The support bracket is kinda shit too, it's really easy to bend it when trying to reinstall it in a crowded case. I doubt it's actually doing much.
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every other broken 4080, heavy video card i see on youtube is from the cracking at the pcie slot cuz of no support
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keep that little bracket on
 
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Yes, screw-on supports exist. The better SIs/Pre-builts use them. Most of the gamery/rgb cards though don't add the screw holes, just basic/oem models (though NV FEs do IIRC). Case support would need to be expanded too. With more cases using 2-3x bottom intake fans, I think screw support for GPUs will increase.
 
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First boot: ram and GPU light up, but no fans come on. Windows installed off the thumb drive. Will have to check every cable to see what I missed. Seems weird that all 6 case fans as well as the AIO radiator system aren’t active. They are on different lines of power.
 
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Burren said:
First boot: ram and GPU light up, but no fans come on. Windows installed off the thumb drive. Will have to check every cable to see what I missed. Seems weird that all 6 case fans as well as the AIO radiator system aren’t active. They are on different lines of power.
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Update; 1 of 6 case fans, the GPU, and the water system ARE on, but so god damn quiet I couldn’t tell. However, 5 other fans are not. Maybe they have a default temperature trigger?
 
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