Ok I have a weird idea but that could work out.
I want the most silent operation, therefore using a bunch of large fans at low RPM makes sense. BeQuiet! Silent Wings 4 PWM are practically inaudible at lower RPM, having a bunch of them will provide a lot of air while being silent.
Now, for the CPU, I"ll use an AIO, GPU will have a normal cooler. Here's the going all out cooling idea:
Front:
3x 140mm intake
for maximum air flowing in
Side at the front:
360mm AIO for the CPU, exhaust
Using cool air from the front, pushing the warm air out of the side of the case, not into it. Reducing the overall heat build up in the case. The fans being smaller sized, they won't suck too much air out, still enough from the front going into the case.
Bottom:
140mm intake, for fresh air going into the brutally hot 5090 GPU, with the lowest front fan pushing the fresh air towards the GPU.
Top:
3x 140mm
The first one intake, to provide cool air. I saw that in an analysis from Noctua, doing that reduces the temps of the CPU, meaning the water cooling can run at lower RPM.
Other two fans are exhaust, sucking away the hot air from the GPU
Back:
Another 140mm exhaust
Messy visualization:
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Alternative would be to:
1. The AIO on the front side could be intake, pushing the warm air into the case.
2. Putting the AIO in the top as an exhaust, but that would mean it would try to cool the CPU with air coming out of a 5090.
Opinions/Thoughts?
I'd be worried that the side AIO would be immediately exhausting the front fan airflow, even if the side fans are smaller. Those fans would be competing and it may lead to weird acoustics.
I'd start by installing the CPU AIO on the top with the front, back, and bottom fans as you describe in the diagram. Test with your new gear and see how temps are. Your CPU on a 360 AIO will probably be fine, even with GPU heat being carried through the radiator since your CPU will not be maxed out when gaming. This would also create a positive airflow situation, which could help with dust ingress in non-filtered openings.
You can always grab more fans and mess with the setup later if you're not happy with the temps and acoustics.
The case, PSU and AIO arrived today, surprisingly. Earlier than slated.
So I started building and oh my God do I hate it. All these tiny ass screws, so many parts and STUFF. The case is incredible and offers tons of options, but just laying it all out and understanding it took quite some time.
Moving my motherboard to the new case was cool though, because the Dark Base Pro 901 allows you to take the motherboard plate out, and you can work freely on it, very convenient. The case is also huge with a lot of space.
So far, I :
- removed everything from my old case
- installed the mobo and GPU
- replaced my CPU air cooler with an AIO, installed the radiator on the front side of the case
Didn't have more time, unfortunately. Tomorrow will hopefully connect all of my drives, install the PSU, do the cable management. The additional fans will likely arrive tomorrow as well, so I'll install them too. Then let's see if it all works and get into the fine tuning, temps and noise.
Never seen that case. Looks pretty cool.
Recently did a build in an H6 flow. First time I did a dual chamber case. Was a lot of fun!
But I'm still doing cable management haha. Never ends.
Post pics when it's done.
Connected various stuff on my new build yesterday. The case has two USB cables for the mainboard but my mainboard only supports one, so I can't use all the USB ports on the front. Not a big deal though.
Booted it up, but there's nothing on the screen, something went wrong, gotta check the GPU.
And the noise is too high even on the lowest fan settings that you can select on the case. Gotta tinker with that. There are just the standard three fans so far, 5 more will arrive today and I'll install them, then see what I can do about temps and noise.
You'll want to be controlling fans in bios won't you? I have 6 140mm in and 5 140mm out. All running silently. I've set it up so the aio ones can theoretically go higher if temps justify it, but it's never needed to, and that's with a 9800x3D.
No sign of my 5090 been dispatched yet. I did find out the Trio PCB is exactly the same as the Suprim one, so that's good.
Steam spring sale will start in 14 minutes. Are you guys picking anything up?
The PC space, for some reason, still has a long way to go in terms of ease of use. All the documentation and manuals are shit, even in premium products.
Building the PC with the Dark Base Pro 901 was not a good experience. Had to figure out a lot on my own, disassemble and reassemble stuff. I don't understand how they can't even describe the features and what you need to do.
The super premium expensive PSU is weird as well, just from a user experience. Mobo is written on the connectors for the mobo, with a cable that goes into the mobo, there's mobo written on it. Same for the VGA cables. Ok, so I expect that level of ease and clear guidance for all the important parts. Exact same amount of pins, perfect fit, all easy to understand even for dummies.
Now there's a cable that says CPU, obviously the cable for the CPU power in the mobo. But nothing on the PSU says CPU for some reasons. And there's no slot that's the size of that connector. Which is weird because the rest is clearly described. My old PSU simply had a cable coming out of it for the CPU. You'd expect the three main components GPU, Mobo and CPU to be clearly marked tbh.
And the list goes on. It's not a big deal because it's not my first system and I understand that shit, but I totally understand how people don't want to be bothered by this stuff, there's definitely a barrier of entry.
Steam spring sale will start in 14 minutes. Are you guys picking anything up?
My next PC (in a month or two, planning a super build as I mentioned) will be custom built ordered. As long as I can get them to use the exact components I want, I'm happy to let them build it for me.
It took me a day to build my current PC, about 4 years ago. And tbh it's not something I enjoy anymore. Especially all the cable management, the mobo pins, and all that. I've been doing my own builds for 20 years, but with these prices nowadays, I want someone to assemble everything professionally, test it properly and deliver it as it should be in top performance.
Once I had to return a mobo 3 times (was unstable) and that shit takes time and often money. Especially if sth goes wrong and if you bought components from different shops, it's a pain to figure out which one is causing the issues.
I actually picked up a few:
Chrono Trigger
NBA 2K Playgrounds 2
IllWill
Haydee 2
Project Zomboid
Thinking about picking up Penny's Big Breakaway and Final Fantasy Rebirth![]()
@regawdless Still doing some cable management and gonna add a rear fan, reviews actually said you don't need it, but it would provide some light in the back anyway.
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@regawdless what are your thoughts about cost to performance now it's in your hands? Insane performance, insane cost. Any reflections?
This is the second gen for me with high pricing. I think I've become desensitised to it. Intrested in your thoughts coming for a 3080.
There are multiple factors to it. Pure performance numbers wise, I posted results from a bunch of games 3080 vs 5090 on my rig in the GPU OT.
For many years, I had a shitty case before with loud fan noise and not so great temps.
Now I have a huge tower, with amazing cooling. So the whole experience is very different on an emotional level. You turn on this large beast with the blood red lighting, synchronized across all components. With a large window looking into it and there's nearly no noise at all, I only hear the pump of the AIO a tiny bit. At the same time, it's this large powerful GPU, beautiful case, temps usually in the 50C region. That alone is extremely impressive. That positively impacts my emotional response to the GPU purchase because it all happened at the same time.
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Pricing wise, tbh at some point I zoned out. It's such an absurd price that I stopped caring if it's more expensive or not. On any rational level, totally retarded to pay 800€ more than MSRP when the MSRP itself was already crazy high. I had the same GPU for over four years now, the card showing its age more and more. I was still sour because of the lacking performance increase of the 40xx cards, where only the 4090 stood out, but they introduced a hefty price bump. Now with Lackwell, only the 5090 really stands out. It's all disappointing from an upgrade perspective, and nothing makes financial sense. So I just accepted that value is fucked and went with the best performance increase option. Helps that I got a very well paying job last year, otherwise that would've not been possible.
So I'm pretty much ignoring value and price because I want the best experience. And the performance is definitely great, I'm very happy with it. Really impressed by the cooling of the Gaming Trio OC combined with the sheer power. Like, I can play path traced Cyberpunk maxed with DLAA with more fps than I had with the 3080 in DLSS performance mode. In combination with the new DLSS model, image quality is as big of an upgrade as the additional frames. I don't have that much time for gaming anymore and I don't want a compromised experience when sacrificing my valuable time for gaming. That's the gist of it, and the card is absurdly powerful.
Half-Life 2 RTX alone will be bonkers!
Flashy! And that looks like a looot of good airflow! How are your GPU temps during gaming?
Ghost Sector is a survival horror game where you play as M-07, a prototype machine trapped in a cybernetic facility during lockdown. Outsmart the automated defenses, search for answers to your origin uncovering secrets, solving puzzles, and upgrading your abilities while managing your finite energy.
Yooo finally, took long enough! Windows basically ignored the RT train for years and let the others do the work.
Now they'll add some good support, natively. Will still take many months, but there's light at the end of the tunnel.
Microsoft DirectX Raytracing 1.2 and Neural Rendering Brings up to 10x Speedup for AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA GPUs
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Microsoft DirectX Raytracing 1.2 and Neural Rendering Brings up to 10x Speedup for AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA GPUs
Microsoft's DirectX Raytracing (DXR) 1.2 announcement at GDC 2025 introduces two technical innovations that address fundamental ray tracing performance bottlenecks. Opacity micromaps (OMM) reduce the computational overhead in alpha-tested geometry by storing pre-computed opacity data...www.techpowerup.com
Up to 10 times speed up? x for doubt.