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chonkyboi is my gaming PC, and since I built it, it's been pretty solid, but there've been a couple of small issues, mostly related to noise, and last night, I finally did did something about it.
I typed it into Discord while I was doing it, too, so...
ha ha HAAAAAAAAAAA I FIXED THE VBUS PIN
fuck the USB 3.0 header I mean it
i've been single-3.0 front-panel port since i built this thing
which wasn't rly a deal? because i don't use front ports much, not even for the controller
but it's bugged me and now it's fixed
[later]
the little fan that they have cooling the cpu power chips has been fucking loud 5eva
this is an X299 board so the power regulation chipset runs hot even for intel, right? so this mb came with this little bansidhe of a fan on its heatsink, it's been the nosiest thing in the case
i figured out that i can bring it down (RPM-wise) a lot because a fan that's embedded in the CPU block of my AIO water cooling is (by design!) pointed right at the same heat sink (so we have double-fan-coverage)
so i turned the bansidhe down to a quiet RPM and it's still completely fine
right now i'm doing overwatch play and monitoring PWM temperatures and it's staying at/below CPU which is what I wanted
[later]
i also changed airflow around a bit, i was doing negative pressure but too much and getting airflow fouling
so that's quieter too
and one of the fans was making a tic noise on startup sometime and it's good i found and fixed that because it was one of my GPU's onboard fans
(I have a little card brace (to prevent GPU sag)? it had slipped a little and was occasionally touching a fan on startup. now it won't.)
now i've got one more fan that i want to see if i can move from fixed speed to variable and get that quietened down too
this is a mesh case so it won't ever be silent (and it's never been like actually loud) but the closer i can get the happier I'll be ^_^
i used PCs in the 90s, those things were like fucking jet engines
when I rebuilt my old 1998 rig i replaced all the standard original fans with modern quiet fans and it's silent now but before that when i started it back up with the original fans it was like HI I GUESS I WORK AT BOEING NOW lol
[later]
HOLY SHIT I
okay i knew there was an RPM-controllable header on this thing but i didn't think i had the cabling to reach it and i wasn't 100% sure it would work
GUESS WHO HAD CABLE MANAGED THE CASE FAN TOO WELL
(i'd hid it under an SSD cover!)
it's so quiet now
I slowed the bansidhe fan down a bit more and the PWM temp is running a couple of degrees warmer but only a couple (38C peak vs. 36C peak) and I'm fine with that.
and it's so quiet
happy dance happy dance
[later]
huh it's finally showing me CPU temperature on the motherboard, I wonder what
(it's been showing this 9b I think and i never found out...)
oh FUCK ME that's hilarious
9b is "USB Reset" indicating a USB problem IT WAS TRYING TO TELL ME
(i mean to be fair i knew but it also knew and was saying stuff)
aAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
I typed it into Discord while I was doing it, too, so...
ha ha HAAAAAAAAAAA I FIXED THE VBUS PIN
fuck the USB 3.0 header I mean it
i've been single-3.0 front-panel port since i built this thing
which wasn't rly a deal? because i don't use front ports much, not even for the controller
but it's bugged me and now it's fixed
[later]
the little fan that they have cooling the cpu power chips has been fucking loud 5eva
this is an X299 board so the power regulation chipset runs hot even for intel, right? so this mb came with this little bansidhe of a fan on its heatsink, it's been the nosiest thing in the case
i figured out that i can bring it down (RPM-wise) a lot because a fan that's embedded in the CPU block of my AIO water cooling is (by design!) pointed right at the same heat sink (so we have double-fan-coverage)
so i turned the bansidhe down to a quiet RPM and it's still completely fine
right now i'm doing overwatch play and monitoring PWM temperatures and it's staying at/below CPU which is what I wanted
[later]
i also changed airflow around a bit, i was doing negative pressure but too much and getting airflow fouling
so that's quieter too
and one of the fans was making a tic noise on startup sometime and it's good i found and fixed that because it was one of my GPU's onboard fans
(I have a little card brace (to prevent GPU sag)? it had slipped a little and was occasionally touching a fan on startup. now it won't.)
now i've got one more fan that i want to see if i can move from fixed speed to variable and get that quietened down too
this is a mesh case so it won't ever be silent (and it's never been like actually loud) but the closer i can get the happier I'll be ^_^
i used PCs in the 90s, those things were like fucking jet engines
when I rebuilt my old 1998 rig i replaced all the standard original fans with modern quiet fans and it's silent now but before that when i started it back up with the original fans it was like HI I GUESS I WORK AT BOEING NOW lol
[later]
HOLY SHIT I
okay i knew there was an RPM-controllable header on this thing but i didn't think i had the cabling to reach it and i wasn't 100% sure it would work
GUESS WHO HAD CABLE MANAGED THE CASE FAN TOO WELL
(i'd hid it under an SSD cover!)
it's so quiet now
I slowed the bansidhe fan down a bit more and the PWM temp is running a couple of degrees warmer but only a couple (38C peak vs. 36C peak) and I'm fine with that.
and it's so quiet
happy dance happy dance
[later]
huh it's finally showing me CPU temperature on the motherboard, I wonder what
(it's been showing this 9b I think and i never found out...)
oh FUCK ME that's hilarious
9b is "USB Reset" indicating a USB problem IT WAS TRYING TO TELL ME
(i mean to be fair i knew but it also knew and was saying stuff)
aAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
