Nice! I have Meshify C Mini
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Itās a tidy case! I like it. I wanted the white one but that was sold out and I didnāt 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 measuringā¦
I reckon you could definitely fit a third fan in the front, though it would have to be a 120mm one. I think youād 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 airā¦and presumably it will hit the PSU and come up through the grille above to feed the hungry GPU fans:
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Awesome! I hope itās 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.
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Thatās very relevant for when Iāll add that third fanā¦I did think that the screw slots werenāt quite going to work without some jiggery pokery. I also like the symmetry with that small fan in the middle 
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She is working! Just installed a fresh Windows from USB. Thatās quite easy, actually.
Now I need to do some cable management around the desk and reign in the ridiculous rainbow spewing thatās going on inside the case. Holy heck, the colours are so loud theyāre giving me an aneurysm.
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It has become incredibly easy!
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Thatās betterā¦I did set the GPU lights to change according to temperature haha 
See how she fares when we crank things up 
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Soā¦Iāve built the thing. Iāve updated some drivers, not all. I havenāt really gone to BIOS yet except to check that all the parts reported in like they should.
From what Iāve read here, the 5900X doesnāt 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? Itās running super cool right now, doesnāt really feel like Iām putting it through its paces. It has a āOC - Normā 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, Iām not very good at this.
Actually youāre 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. Thereās 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.
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This is mostly true, but there is one exception though: set PBO power limit to āmotherboardā 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
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Thanks!
Question on performance.
So far, with very limited testing, I havenāt maxed out (100% utilisation) any of the components during DCS running at max settings, however at those settings the framerates arenāt off the scale as such - 50ish FPS in Syria / Hind.
I appreciate Iām asking a lot from the rig but I somehow would have thought Iād see a bottleneck somewhere at such āmoderateā framerates? As in, CPU or GPU at 100%.
It just seems like itās not working as hard as Iād expect - I appreciate that this is a different ballgame to my old i5 4690k which was at a solid 100% most of the time, lolā¦
