Nice! I have Meshify C Mini
It’s a tidy case! I like it. I wanted the white one but that was sold out and I didn’t want to wait so went with grey. So much more modern than my old case - they have really put some thought into the design.
So it comes with 2 x 140mm intake fans in the front and 1 x 120mm exhaust in the back.
I did some measuring…
I reckon you could definitely fit a third fan in the front, though it would have to be a 120mm one. I think you’d want to move the HDD tray back a bit, assuming it fits once the PSU is in.
The bottom part of the case does not have a very clean path for the air but I guess even turbulent air is good cooling air…and presumably it will hit the PSU and come up through the grille above to feed the hungry GPU fans:
Awesome! I hope it’s the same size as my older Meshify C, planning to do the same after I take the 120mm fans off my (now surplus) 1080Ti.
I used to have an old 1TB HDD in the case, but never used it with the cage. If you only use a single HDD, you can screw it into the bottom grille of the case directly (use the rubbers from the HDD tray). Saves a lot of space for air, cables and hands!
I am assuming this awesome feature was not removed in the new version of course.
Current iteration of my rig has no HDD at all anymore after I saw a 1TB SATA SSD on sale for 80 euros.
That’s very relevant for when I’ll add that third fan…I did think that the screw slots weren’t quite going to work without some jiggery pokery. I also like the symmetry with that small fan in the middle 
It has become incredibly easy!
See how she fares when we crank things up 
So…I’ve built the thing. I’ve updated some drivers, not all. I haven’t really gone to BIOS yet except to check that all the parts reported in like they should.
From what I’ve read here, the 5900X doesn’t really need overclocking, it just does what it can within the thermal limits straight out of the box, is that correct?
What tweaking would you recommend? At least enable XMP on the RAM, I suppose - I think out of the box they are running at 2166Mhz instead of the max 3600Mhz.
Is there something to do with the 3090? It’s running super cool right now, doesn’t really feel like I’m putting it through its paces. It has a “OC - Norm” switch but I need to figure out what that does.
I assume I also set up fan curves in the BIOS, is that correct? Sorry, I’m not very good at this.
Actually you‘re doing really good. Fan curves in bios are not reliable, they will reset on the next bios update. But you can do it anyway.
Usually some software you install will do it. Most of the time the mainboard vendor provides it. There’s also third parties like Speedfan or Argus Monitor.
Yes, if you need it to be faster, make it cooler. This applies mostly to all-core load. If only a few cores are under load, usually the cooling solution can keep up and temps should not be an issue. Tweaking this needs a ton of experience in order to get more than a placebo, so maybe keep it in mind for later.
This is mostly true, but there is one exception though: set PBO power limit to “motherboard” to allow the CPU to draw more power.
It will increase performance drastically, the only downside being that it gets hotter, but that should not be a problem with a cooler like that.
The default power limit is very conservative, so it works with even the shittiest of motherboards.
More details on what not to do after you set the power limit
Thanks!
Question on performance.
So far, with very limited testing, I haven’t maxed out (100% utilisation) any of the components during DCS running at max settings, however at those settings the framerates aren’t off the scale as such - 50ish FPS in Syria / Hind.
I appreciate I’m asking a lot from the rig but I somehow would have thought I’d see a bottleneck somewhere at such “moderate” framerates? As in, CPU or GPU at 100%.
It just seems like it’s not working as hard as I’d expect - I appreciate that this is a different ballgame to my old i5 4690k which was at a solid 100% most of the time, lol…
