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Awesome choice. Mine stands in for a 180mm Air Penetrator and it still pushes comparable amounts of air at less than half of its full rpm, and it's only a 2000. They're a little buzzy at high rpm though, but I feel like you won't be spinning it up that fast lol.
Oh they go on my OC-bench, these will run 2000+ RPM pretty much all the time. Noise is of no concern there and I just did a quick test, they move A LOT of air even through my thick radiator. Also the power they need is surprisingly low. Yeah its still 6.6W per fan, but compared to the air they are moving its super efficient.

I was not sure if these would be worth it for me, but comparing the airflow they do better in just a push configuration then my old 140mm Corsair fans did in push/pull. One of these madlads is doing more work then two before.
 
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Congrats, those are awesome fans. I'm running (2) of the 2000rpm PWM Industrials - one in each rig.

Grab some of these below if you want to swap out the brown for black. Why is Noctua still into the brown color? :confused:

Anyhoo, $6.95 gets you (16) enough for two fans. :)

I know it's an additional expense, why Noctua why??? :cry:

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I swap out the brown-beige stock fan that arrives with the cooler, then buy a Noctua Industrial fan to take it's place and then swap out the brown corner pads for black ones, another additional expense, but I'm weird. lol :oops:

Now that's a Noctua fan. Woohoo! :clap:

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you are right! brown and black so fu ugly!
 
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you are right! brown and black so fu ugly!

Some enthusiasts like the Noctua stock colors, and that's cool. :)

I just prefer Noctua fans in all-black. :oops:

The Noctua brown color does look really great on a Noctua hoodie (below).

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"Does this Noctua hoodie make my butt look BIG?" :roll:

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Got some new 140mm fans:
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I hope they get some air through my radiator.
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I believe these are amazing for air flow through rads, which is why I've got them on my rads now :) I used to used Scythe Kraze 3000's but since going over to bigger 140mm rads, these give a load more air flow and they are rather quiet whilst doing it :D I mean.... Fan controllers are the way forward of course :D :D

Congrats, those are awesome fans. I'm running (2) of the 2000rpm PWM Industrials - one in each rig.

Grab some of these below if you want to swap out the brown for black. Why is Noctua still into the brown color? :confused:

Anyhoo, $6.95 gets you (16) enough for two fans. :)

I know it's an additional expense, why Noctua why??? :cry:

View attachment 159523


I swap out the brown-beige stock fan that arrives with the cooler, then buy a Noctua Industrial fan to take it's place and then swap out the brown corner pads for black ones, another additional expense, but I'm weird. lol :oops:

Now that's a Noctua fan. Woohoo! :clap:

View attachment 159526
That's because they know crazy people like you or I will pay for them and it makes them some extra cash.... :D :D
They are however Noctua :D
 
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I believe these are amazing for air flow through rads, which is why I've got them on my rads now :) I used to used Scythe Kraze 3000's but since going over to bigger 140mm rads, these give a load more air flow and they are rather quiet whilst doing it :D I mean.... Fan controllers are the way forward of course :D :D
That's because they know crazy people like you or I will pay for them and it makes them some extra cash.... :D :D
They are however Noctua :D

lol :p

They're also offering the noise-absorption corner pads now in a chromax grey, which would look amazing in black and grey builds.

The grey below is kind of a close match to the interior color of the Silverstone TJ08-E, and would look amazing in @tabascosauz's build.

But then he might really love the brown, even though there is no other brown in his build, vs lots of silver-grey, so yea, I don't know. :p

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lol :p

They're also offering the noise-absorption corner pads now in a chromax grey, which would look amazing in black and grey builds.

The grey below is kind of a close match to the interior color of the Silverstone TJ08-E, and would look amazing in @tabascosauz's build.

But then he might really love the brown, even though there is no other brown in his build, vs lots of silver-grey, so yea, I don't know. :p

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If I'm honest, it makes me feel like these extras are like DLCs for games.. but for fans... obviously.. lol

I mean why offer everyone something that they might want but when you can do it for free or cheap, lets charge everyone a small mint and then make not quite as much... I mean... wow.. You'd think they'd just offer these over the brown colour as an option so you could pick whatever you wished for at the check out.. Or is that just me??....
 
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I ordered lf2 360 on sunday for 420 pln which was a gret price.
on friday the shop informed me there'd been a mistake and arctic no longer ships these.order got cancelled.
then today lf2 360 is back in their offer for 470.
scum.
 
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I ordered lf2 360 on sunday for 420 pln which was a gret price.
on friday the shop informed me there'd been a mistake and arctic no longer ships these.order got cancelled.
then today lf2 360 is back in their offer for 470.
scum.
They should honour the original price if they are back in stock and you have proof.
 
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They should honour the original price if they are back in stock and you have proof.
screw them.
I may get a 280 somewhere else.
on a 65w cpu the difference would be fractions of a degree really
 
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I ordered lf2 360 on sunday for 420 pln which was a gret price.
on friday the shop informed me there'd been a mistake and arctic no longer ships these.order got cancelled.
then today lf2 360 is back in their offer for 470.
scum.
If it happened to me, that store would never see me again.
 
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time to move on to moar cores and faster ram.
I'm super satisfied with the price,even more so in times like now.

the 10500 was only just ~$25 over 10400f,worth it for the igpu and 200-300mhz higher boost.

the board is just a basic one but it can handle any s.1200 cpu including 10900k and I don't need more,I use a dac for audio anyway and just need 6x sata and a decent enough vrm.as for the looks - with a trio card and a d15s cooler you can't see anything but the power cable and ram.all them fancy leds and heatsinks would go to waste.

the ram was a very good deal tbh,last time I checked they were 480pln,and they still cost that much in some stores.got them for 410.

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for comparison 10700k is 2000pln itself,I'm getting a whole platform for that money and 90% of the gaming performance.current Ryzen 7/last gen i7 gaming for 60% of their price.

I love the look of those viper sticks




gonna be a lazy upgrade to i5 RKL in 2-3 years time
 
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You Bought these or are you just spamming Amazon products???
 
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You Bought these or are you just spamming Amazon products???
Bought them...

I am the OP of this thread, just forgot my login details.
 
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You Bought these or are you just spamming Amazon products???
A lot has changed since i was here last, good to see you still around, lost my silly ways a bit, saw more of life, came back here.
4 years is not much, but it is at the same time.
 

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time to move on to moar cores and faster ram.
I'm super satisfied with the price,even more so in times like now.

the 10500 was only just ~$25 over 10400f,worth it for the igpu and 200-300mhz higher boost.

the board is just a basic one but it can handle any s.1200 cpu including 10900k and I don't need more,I use a dac for audio anyway and just need 6x sata and a decent enough vrm.as for the looks - with a trio card and a d15s cooler you can't see anything but the power cable and ram.all them fancy leds and heatsinks would go to waste.

the ram was a very good deal tbh,last time I checked they were 480pln,and they still cost that much in some stores.got them for 410.

View attachment 159580

for comparison 10700k is 2000pln itself,I'm getting a whole platform for that money and 90% of the gaming performance.current Ryzen 7/last gen i7 gaming for 60% of their price.

I love the look of those viper sticks




gonna be a lazy upgrade to i5 RKL in 2-3 years time
I've 5 of the 32GB kits and they where cheap and decent for the money :) I have no regrets :D
 

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Had to rearrange some fan cables and the ITX board's socket placement drove me up the wall for the last time. Pulled the trigger on a B550M Steel Legend.

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VRM is slightly weaker than the Mortar, but early review seems to indicate that this is only an issue with zero airflow (of which I have plenty) when overclocking a 3950X. I don't see anything more than a full TDP 8-12 core in my future, and the ITX board I have runs into problems even with those. In exchange, audio seems to be better than the Mortar and better I/O on the back with a godsend Clear CMOS button.
 
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Had to rearrange some fan cables and the ITX board's socket placement drove me up the wall for the last time. Pulled the trigger on a B550M Steel Legend.

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VRM is slightly weaker than the Mortar, but early review seems to indicate that this is only an issue with zero airflow (of which I have plenty) when overclocking a 3950X. I don't see anything more than a full TDP 8-12 core in my future, and the ITX board I have runs into problems even with those. In exchange, audio seems to be better than the Mortar and better I/O on the back with a godsend Clear CMOS button.


Although as you say for ryzen it's most likely a non issues but I'm still sorta surprised at how much worse the asrock budget ish boards compare vrm wise to the other motherboard manufacturers on the z490 side some can't even handle an overclocked 10600k which is sad.

Can't wait for HWunboxed to test the b550 out.
 
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Although as you say for ryzen it's most likely a non issues but I'm still sorta surprised at how much worse the asrock budget ish boards compare vrm wise to the other motherboard manufacturers on the z490 side some can't even handle an overclocked 10600k which is sad.

Can't wait for HWunboxed to test the b550 out.

The Steel Legends and the Extreme4 have 50A SiC654 this time around, which is interesting because they have temperature monitoring, unlike the ubiquitous 50A "dumb" SiC639s on low end X570s. Whether it'll be visible to software is a separate issue. The budget Z490s were unfortunate because ASRock somehow found parts (PDEC3908) that were worse than the previously worst of the worst (Sinopower) and had no heatsink mass. That said, I'm sure HWUB won't favour ASRock's choice of smaller heatsinks, uP9505S controller, and dumb doublers on this board. Not when the Mortar rocks an all-star VRM that shares everything except phase count with the Tomahawk. 60A Renesas SPSs and a gigantic heatsink...unfortunately, the Mortar isn't in stock. :(

If I run into issues with this board I'll probably make use of the return/exchange period and wait for a Mortar Wifi. Just confuses the hell of me why MSI intentionally took off 2 PCB layers on the Mortar when it's nearly identical to the Tomahawk in all other meaningful respects.
 
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time to move on to moar cores and faster ram.
I'm super satisfied with the price,even more so in times like now.

the 10500 was only just ~$25 over 10400f,worth it for the igpu and 200-300mhz higher boost.

the board is just a basic one but it can handle any s.1200 cpu including 10900k and I don't need more,I use a dac for audio anyway and just need 6x sata and a decent enough vrm.as for the looks - with a trio card and a d15s cooler you can't see anything but the power cable and ram.all them fancy leds and heatsinks would go to waste.

the ram was a very good deal tbh,last time I checked they were 480pln,and they still cost that much in some stores.got them for 410.

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for comparison 10700k is 2000pln itself,I'm getting a whole platform for that money and 90% of the gaming performance.current Ryzen 7/last gen i7 gaming for 60% of their price.

I love the look of those viper sticks




gonna be a lazy upgrade to i5 RKL in 2-3 years time
changed my order to z490 aorus elite


I'm having a hard time swallowing the price of new boards (z490/580/550) but in the end I figured that this one is more worth the 1000pln than a pro is worth 700.

it's an enthusiast level contestant in mid range price.

a pro was entry level price and entry level perofrmance really.
 
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I just bought these today, they should be here in a couple of days.
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i want to live on mars with Elon and Grimes

Seriously TPU has to be the best TEch web site hands down , so many great comments

UPDATE :

The mobo psu and gpu and case

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Birkenstock has come a long way to australia but with best cold beer ya can take the time it needs

very comfortable Birkis
 
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I'm too lazy to take a picture of it. I scored a new Samsung 3TB USB 3.0 external hard drive for $10 two days ago on Facebook Marketplace. The woman I bought it from said she got it a few years ago and never used it. I couldn't turn it down for the price and after running Defraggler it confirmed it was indeed never used. A quick format to get rid of all the unneeded garbage and it's the latest addition to my vast external drive collection.
 
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