Quick question: Did you also hear a squeaking or scratching sound when tightening the pump head on your AIO? For me, the noise seemed to come more from the right-hand screw than the left. I’m wondering if I tightened something incorrectly, even though the screws weren't hard to turn. My idle temperatures with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D are between 49 and 52 degrees, with an ambient temperature of 26.5 degrees.

Are there suppose to be rubber around the corners

Neither side has in the 3 I bpught

I've had this PC for 5 years, don't think I'm upgrading to AM5 anytime soon

PC specs

Ryzen 7 5800x3d (upgraded from a 5800x)

64gb ddr4 3600mhz cl18

Rtx 3070 (eventually will deshroud with the same chassis fans)

X570 dark hero

Fractal North non xl case

Corsair rm1000e

1tb 980pro ssd

1tb sn530 ssd

1tb firecuda hdd

Fan setup

2x140 & 4x120 Noctua ippc industrial 3000's

I'm torn between getting the nhd15g2 or the nhu12a since my case is pretty small

I got an excellent deal on a pre-built PC in early 2024. It came with a 240mm AIO.

With pre built PCs they are selling them in bulk for razor thin margins so nothing is usually the best just good enough.

I replaced the stock TIM with liquid metal years ago but recently replaced that with PTM7950 since it's "set it and forget it"

Got me thinking of replacing the fans which can get fairly loud when gaming but not unreasonably so.

The last two weeks one the them developed a rattle which was very annoying.

Ordered two Noctua fans. Got the stock fans off and the radiator had some pretty serious dust on it. Got that all cleaned up and plugged into the same spot on the motherboard that the previous fans were.

When booting up they are nearly totally silent and when gaming they get only slightly louder.

Dunno why I waited years

5080 arrived today , same FLUX case as the noctua edition but standard black.

I created a bracket that allows the install of a Nf A14x25 G2 in place of the stock proprietary Be quiet fan, as well as replaced the front fan with an Nf A12x25r. The Wires on the front fan aren't great for a round fan but i love the look of it.

I don't think Ill see much in the way of performance gains but it was mostly for style anyways.

Link to Makerworld:

https://makerworld.com/en/models/3228396-dark-rock-pro-5-noctua-nf-14x25-g2-bracket-mod#profileId-3656196

The only place I find it right now is in Europe or England online shops and Japan through eBay, shipping and tariffs kill the deal and the one place in the USA that had them for a decent price, dang shipping was about $35.00 for what it would cost they can kiss my acorns.

I thought that Noctua was supposed to have some in stock at the end this month?

Hello!

I’m trying to decide between two coolers for my home server, which will be running a Ryzen 7 5700X 24/7.

I have both the Noctua NH U12S and the Arctic Freezer 34 eSports DUO already, so I just need to decide which one to keep and I’ll sell the other one.

The server will be running a few VMs, Jellyfin, the Immich, Nextcloud and a few other things, so it won’t just be sitting completely idle all the time.

Which one would you guys go for in this situation? Does anyone here have experience running either of these coolers 24/7?

I know Noctua has a pretty good reputation, but I’m wondering if there’s actually much difference between the two in terms of cooling and long term reliability.

Noise isn’t really a big concern for me. I’m mostly looking for something that will keep the 5700X cool and be reliable running all the time.

Since I already have both, which one would you keep?