The H60 is junk. The only ones worth a damn are the H80i and H100i, I suppose maybe the H90 and H110 too, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. The H80i and H100i also seem to have some pretty common issues with the pumps.
There's a reason I'm staying air cooling.
Could always buy a D14 :P
What annoys me is that D14 has barely budged in price over the last 4 goddamn years, it released at $89.99.
What annoys me even more is that over the last 4 years no air cooling technology has emerged that flat-out beats D14, not unless you count D14-clones like Silver Arrow and Phanteks PT-H14189CKSP176718FUCK.
If my H100 ever dies it's getting replaced with a Noctua cooler.
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There isn't really any need to drop the price, because Noctua has hardly any competition. Noctua was demoing a few new coolers at Computex (including one with active noise cancellation).
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To make their stuff clearly stand-out in most builds that are based around black/blue/red themes, so people can simply take a glance and say "that's Noctua alright". Having a color scheme that clashes horribly with 99% of builds ensures they will always be easily identifiable.
I'm pretty sure that's the only reason why Noctua refuses to release fans in any other color scheme...even though it would be incredibly easy for them and literally double their sales.
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Yeah, it is all about the brand recognition. When you look in the fridge at a supermarket, if you see a red label and a curvy bottle, you know it is coca-cola. If you see tan fans with a cream frame, you know they are Noctua fans.
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and to those wondering , yes that is actually a picture of me .
if really lucky you might find it on a bottle of vedett beer.
So I'm currently on the market for new earbuds. The cheap ones I've been using just gave out so any suggestions? Budget is from $50 to $150 although I don't really have to spent that much since I don't have a decent player for them. Mostly concerned about the build quality and durability.
Any take on these 3?
-Brainwavz M4
-HiFiMan Re-400
-Hisoundaudio Crystal
Or possibly something else? :P
So i've been experimenting with running games off my fileserver and i'm actually suprised how well it works. Only a slight increase in loadtimes, but that's about it.
Thinking of moving my games folder to the fileserver and remove the physical drive in my system. It would make my investment in quiet fans actually worth it.
Maybe put a few really demanding games on the ssd though. And it took an mklink to fool steam, it didn't like networkdrivers :P
Games shouldn't suffer too much over network compared to a mechanical hard drive, as long as you can make use out of your entirety of the 1Gbit availible. I wonder if I'd be able to record game footage over network with shadowplay.. That would make me not need mechanical storage at all anymore.
It is rumoured to roll out today, yes; there are already leaked drivers availible around the web.
Sold the corsair fans also, thinking of redoing my cooling with noctua's. Tired of the rumbling and bearingsqueaks. Anyone with noctua's can confim if these have none of that? Was looking to order 1xNF-S12A FLX and 4xNF-A14 ULN
H60 is going to be replaced with a Dark Rock Pro 2, it's just better than a D14.
The NF-P12s on my U12P are perfect. At 900RPM the only thing that tells me that they are spinning is the fact that they are spinning. The only thing they're missing is PWM control (but they came with two sets of resistors).
I'm going to connect them all to the mainboard for fancontrol. Don't have enough connections, but i can put two on one connection since they are so rediculously low power.
Comparisson, stock casefan is 0.38A @ 12V, the NF-A14 ULN is 0.04A. Basicly can put them all on 1 pin lol.