WITH Battle Field 6 On the horizon – plus a lot Borderlands 4IN Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries And Hades 2 To play, I wanted to update my AMD Ryzen 7 9800x3D and RTX 4090 Edition Edition Gaming PC to better cope with these demanding names.
The goal here is to increase the temperature, reduce the noise of the fan and May be Make things look a little nicer, so I will exchange (generally a common one) 240 -mm -mm liquid cooler AIO, which I have now installed for a massive 420 -mm block from Arctic. Due to the larger surface area and large fans, I should be able to control fans at lower speeds, while reaching much better cooling results in these and other games with heavy processors.
I postponed on Friday morning to make an exchange, and the results surpassed my expectations. I will share that I found out why I made a choice that I made, and also discuss the Titanic Havn HS 420 VGPU case, which I used over the past six months.
Part One: Arctic Liquid Freezer 3 Pro RGB Installation and minor rack
I was relatively satisfied Hyte Thicc Q60 240 mm CPU Coler I used over the past few months, with its pleasant black/white color scheme and surprisingly good thermal characteristics for its size, but it has some disadvantages. Firstly, the display screen attached to the processor unit made it impossible for me to vertically install my video card, since it is too far under the socket of the processor.
More critically, although, despite the incredibly thick radiators, it is still limited by its double 120 -mm fans, which should rotate relatively quickly to push enough air through a thick glad. Replacing this block (it is noteworthy that about $ 100 is cheaper) 420 mm Arctic liquid freezer 3 pro rgb aio With three wider 140 -mm fans, I should be able to hit with the same or even lower temperatures, leading to fans much slower, reducing noise.
The removal of Thicc Q60 was simple in VGPU HAVN HS 420, since the circumstance provides easy access to both sides of the computer and clearly indicated the diaphragms for cable routing. The Arctic liquid freezer 3 Pro RGB (hereinafter referred to as the “New CPP Kuler”) also has a relatively thick 38 -mm radiator, so instead of installing it on the side access panel, as I did using Q60, I will install it in the upper part of the case and replace the storage lids to cover an empty clearance. The upper placement also ensures that the pump on the processor unit is below the radiator level, which, as a rule, is good practice.
The installation of the Arctic Cooler was easy, and the fans were installed on the block from the box in the configuration of the upper part that I wanted. The only real struggle that I had with the new cooler of the processor was decided how it should go. Initially, I wanted to install it with the Arctic logo on the fan on the processor unit with magnetic order upward, but this meant that the tubes were below, and they interfered with the vertical fastening of the graphic processor. In the end, I decided to sacrifice aesthetics and live with an inverted verbal sign.
With the new COOLER COOLER, I noted the significantly lower temperatures of the CPU and the graphic processor, and both sat about 60 degrees Celsius in the border areas 4 (about 50 percent at the load of 9800x3D and the 95 percent load on the RTX 4090), compared with the 65-70 CPU-temperatures with the old networks. Even at the maximum load – for example, the compilation of shaders in Borderlands 4, a difficult completely nuclear task that can last several minutes – the fans never increased to maximum speed, as before.
In addition to increasing performance, I appreciated the absence of a display on the processor unit, since this meant that the entire system requires only one fan head and one A-RGB title to launch four fans. The last few high -class AIOS that I used in Hyte, ASUS and NZXT included displays requiring PCIE or SATA Power and USB 2.0, so returning to a simpler system was an unexpected relief.
Part two: vertical exchange of a graphic processor
Moving from the traditional horizontal fastening of the graphic processor to the vertical, provides a little aesthetic impulse, and for a large graphic processor, such as RTX 4090 Fe, which I use here, also an additional meaning of stability.
To do this, the HAVN HS 420 VGPU housing is developed and, therefore, includes additional assembly, which replaces the usual PCIE slots and provides the PCIe 4.0 lifting cable. The disadvantage is a more difficult process of installing and blocking access to your additional PCIE ports, but taking into account the rarity of the second video cards or other additions, this is probably trading, which most builders will be very happy.
At first it was easiest for me to install 4090 in vertical assembly, and then install the entire deal in the case. This makes the pcie Riser cable pushing a little cunning, but it means that the video card itself does not risk being damaged when you are trying to insert it into the PCIE socket. Here, the bracket is fixed with two screws of the thumb, quite close to a glass window, so it is easy to hold the assembly with one hand and fix it with the other.
The goal with the vertical placement of graphic processors is to make sure that there is a lot of space between the map and glass, so that hot air that leaves the map is good two or three inches between the graphic processor and the side glass, so this is enough for me.
I probably still pay a small penalty for productivity for using the vertical orientation of the graphic processor, but I am quite satisfied, given very modest temperatures in the full game in the game.
Part Three: HAVN HS 420 VGPU long -term review
A £ 200/230 dollars HAVN HS 420 is an exciting high-quality PC case that offers rather unusual functions and A lot of fans settingsAnd I found it in the same way as executive and reasonably organized as Corsair 9000d, which I used before. You have more than enough space for the full-size ATX board with a huge amount of SATA and 420-mm AIO, and this should hold it for non-standard water cooling. There is even a little additional glass in the box to practically separate the processor and graphic processor, although I did not use it.
I especially like the aesthetics of the case with a rounded motive replicated through the upper input/output (USB-C, two USB-A, 3.5 mm) and the power button, various air inlet openings at the base and cover, unusual round rear sides of the fan and so on. The white case works well with white RAM, the white Arctic P14 Pro Fuls and White Arctic Liquid Frezer 3 Pro A-RGB AIO Cooler, and I would only like me to have a white motherboard and video card to complete the appearance.
The curved glass used for the front and lateral part of the case is also really impressive, with a well -designed system that puts it forward before releasing. I’m not such a large fan of small screws used to provide each side, since there is no good place to store them, if you want to leave the system in a state where it is easy to disassemble for maintenance, updates or cleaning, and therefore I lost them. However, at least with their remote ones, it is quite easy to access each of the dust filters.
From the point of view of cable routing, the back of the case provides a useful amount of space, all cable routes are clearly marked, and there is an excess of binding points and so on. The installation of fans and radiators also facilitates the fact that each of the main sections (above, side, below) has removable frames, so you can install Rads/fans on the frame outside the case, and then rethink the frames.
In general, this is not the quietest or coolest case that I used to use – I suspect that I can want to study the alternative arrangements of the fan, even more reduce the fan speed and/or use additional fans in the side consumption so that the temperature of the processor is even lower – but this is normal. VGPU HAVN HS 420 is still conveniently conveniently the most designer case of the PC, which I tested, with excellent aesthetics and optimized assembly experience, and I would gladly recommend it.
What I learned and what's next
At the moment, I am satisfied with my redesigned gaming PC, but it will be interesting to see how it is a melt with the next generation video cards, when they come down the line, especially if they again see an increase in power supply and, therefore, heat waste. For a more inevitable future, I plan to switch to 9950x3D, which should produce slightly more heat on the side of the processor and, therefore, allow me to completely configure the fans in order to cope with the scenarios of the worst cases.
I am also curious to hear your comments and suggestions – should I expand one of the rear fans as an exhaust, as I saw in another place online? Add fans on the side? Contact the company that will put a white video card and a motherboard? Peel my cable mess? Some of them are possible, so contact us with the help of comments below or through BlueskyField
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