Tech Gaming Hardware discussion (& Hardware Sales) thread

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Rosewill Prism T is on sale for $73 today and today only.

High airflow design. Maybe the most unique thing about it is that it actually supporta up to 420mm RADs on top (3x140mm). It also supports E-ATX motherboards and up to 450mm GPUs which can be vertically mounted if you desire. Impressive for a 58.2L case. It technically fits the "Full ATX Tower" definition by PC Part Picker's criteria. You definitely won't find any case with 4x120mm fans included at a lower price*. As pictured, the one in the rear is a Blue LED RIng fan.
https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16811147323?Description=rosewill prism t&cm_re=rosewill_prism t-_-11-147-323-_-Product

Home page:
https://www.rosewill.com/product/prism-t-atx-mid-tower/
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*Edit Correction*
Turns out I was wrong about this. The Deepcool Matrexx 50 comes with 4x120mm ARGB fans for $63:
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/YJ...-atx-mid-tower-case-dp-atx-matrexx50-ar-4f-ne
 
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Madmick said:
Rosewill Prism T is on sale for $73 today and today only.

High airflow design. Maybe the most unique thing about it is that it actually supporta up to 420mm RADs on top (3x140mm). It also supports E-ATX motherboards and up to 450mm GPUs which can be vertically mounted if you desire. Impressive for a 58.2L case. It technically fits the "Full ATX Tower" definition by PC Part Picker's criteria. You definitely won't find any case with 4x120mm fans included at a lower price. As pictured, the one in the rear is a Blue LED RIng fan.
https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16811147323?Description=rosewill prism t&cm_re=rosewill_prism t-_-11-147-323-_-Product

Home page:
https://www.rosewill.com/product/prism-t-atx-mid-tower/
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"high" airflow design.
If you move the intake slots to the front, you about a 1/3 of the front panel with vents.

If you choose to stick an AIO in the SSD position, a vast majority of of that will be blocked off between the support bars and the back panel vents
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The top vents are going to suffer the same fate as the side
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Grenz said:
Big question obviously being pricing. Will Intel try to gain back market share, or are they saying "fuck that, as long as Covid is around, people will just pay whatever it takes anyway, plenty of time to discount in Q3 when this shitshow is projected to come to an end."
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Biggest problem is AMD pricing the 5800X to high.
 
jefferz said:
"high" airflow design.
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CFM of todays standard fans makes the meshed areas for intake/exhaust fine. Only problem they'll have is clogging easily from dust. Requiring compressed air to properly clean.
 
We've gotten more spoiled in 2020 than realized.

Not only does the 1/3 perforation design cover the front, but this also runs across the top. Additionally for the front, the bottom of the front panel has a hidden 2" gap (elevated from the floor by the case feet to allow intake). In the back, there is a similar wide open 2" gap between the top (faux) panel and the true top beneath it which is a mesh grate. There is also a double-line perforation design running up the side of the front panel, and along the top of the case. Meanwhile, the bottom of the case enjoys a filtered, ventilated PSU shroud chamber, and the rear contains a space for a 120mm honeycomb exhaust. Finally, if you do mount the CPU cooler's exhaust in the SSD bays, which obviously is not the primary intent for this case, they want you to top-mount that, there are wide gaps for the fans to push this air through to behind the motherboard, and they even thought to mold a gap where the back panel attaches to the case in the rear (midway up the case) for this air to escape.

There is tons of venting in this case for air to find a path to flow when pulled or pushed.

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Madmick said:
We've gotten more spoiled in 2020 than realized.

Not only does the 1/3 perforation design cover the front, but this also runs across the top. Additionally for the front, the bottom of the front panel has a hidden 2" gap (elevated from the floor by the case feet to allow intake). In the back, there is a similar wide open 2" gap between the top (faux) panel and the true top beneath it which is a mesh grate. There is also a double-line perforation design running up the side of the front panel, and along the top of the case. Meanwhile, the bottom of the case enjoys a filtered, ventilated PSU shroud chamber, and the rear contains a space for a 120mm honeycomb exhaust. Finally, if you do mount the CPU cooler's exhaust in the SSD bays, which obviously is not the primary intent for this case, they want you to top-mount that, there are wide gaps for the fans to push this air through to behind the motherboard, and they even thought to mold a gap where the back panel attaches to the case in the rear (midway up the case) for this air to escape.

There is tons of venting in this case for air to find a path to flow when pulled or pushed.

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You mean the 2" gaps that have their airflow cut down because it has to turn 90 degrees? Those 2" gaps?
You always quote GamersNexus, you should know what they say about airflow that has to turn 90 degrees.
The ventilated PSU shroud doesn't do shit other other have the bottom half of the lower fan vent out the bottom effectively doing nothing for cooling.
And oh wow, a 120mm rear fan. Innovative.
If they didn't intend for you to mount the AIO cooler in the SSD tray slot, why would the pictures they show have it mounted there?
Do you have any experience with those case fans out of curiosity?

Is it a decent case? Absolutely. Is it a high airflow case? Nope.
 
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jefferz said:
Is it a decent case? Absolutely. Is it a high airflow case? Nope.
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It is a case that permits high air flow. From the three front mounted fans, three top mounted fans and the single rear mounted fan locations.

At the standard 30-40 CFM range the meshed areas allow for enough intake and exhaust area. Vacuum or air choking created by higher CFM fans would be an issue. Yet majority of Pc users dont want their tower running at server rack DBA and CFM levels.
 
KaNesDeath said:
It is a case that permits high air flow. From the three front mounted fans, three top mounted fans and the single rear mounted fan locations.

At the standard 30-40 CFM range the meshed areas allow for enough intake and exhaust area. Vacuum or air choking created by higher CFM fans would be an issue. Yet majority of Pc users dont want their tower running at server rack DBA and CFM levels.
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With the fans being choked off because the vents are inadequate, they're going to have to run at a higher speed to compensate which would cause a higher DBA.
 
jefferz said:
With the fans being choked off because the vents are inadequate, they're going to have to run at a higher speed to compensate which would cause a higher DBA.
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This tower isnt using variable speed case fans. Full mesh front and top isnt needed. Meshed areas is fine for 30cfm fans occupying all locations.

Coolmaster even has some cases with a front glass panel that uses a angled mesh connector to the case with three front fans. Hardware (and users) today dont require the case air volume to be swapped out an insane amount of times per second. If a user actually needed that. They'll need to start worrying about ambient air volume being exchanged. When that occurs a Rosewill case isnt in the discussion.
 
KaNesDeath said:
This tower isnt using variable speed case fans. Full mesh front and top isnt needed. Meshed areas is fine for 30cfm fans occupying all locations.

Coolmaster even has some cases with a front glass panel that uses a angled mesh connector to the case with three front fans. Hardware (and users) today dont require the case air volume to be swapped out an insane amount of times per second. If a user actually needed that. They'll need to start worrying about ambient air volume being exchanged. When that occurs a Rosewill case isnt in the discussion.
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yeah, i'm using one. well, sort of. i modified it so it can actually draw air in.

if used the way it's intended, it's/they're terrible for systems relying on air cooling. they either need to be opened up and angled (at the very least), or straight up dremeled/cut/etc.
 
I play PC games with the first XBox 360 PC gamepad.
That USB receiver can actually handle 4 gamepads.
I wrecked mine a few months back.
Found an original MS receiver at a retro gameshop.
 
Joe_Armstrong said:
I play PC games with the first XBox 360 PC gamepad.
That USB receiver can actually handle 4 gamepads.
I wrecked mine a few months back.
Found an original MS receiver at a retro gameshop.
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I still have the original as a backup just in case something happens to my new one. I can use my headphones on the controller so it’s nice. Not sure if the old one can do that.
 
rob mafia said:
yeah, i'm using one. well, sort of. i modified it so it can actually draw air in.

if used the way it's intended, it's/they're terrible for systems relying on air cooling. they either need to be opened up and angled (at the very least), or straight up dremeled/cut/etc.
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What Cooler Master case do you have?
 
https://www.ibuypower.com/community/content-creators/ronda-rousey

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Ronda's Custom PC Configuration Here:
https://www.ibuypower.com/Store/Intel-Z490-Ronda-Rousey-Recommended-PC
  • CPU: i9-10900K
  • Cooler: iBuyPower 240mm ARGB
  • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3080 10GB
  • MoBo: Gigabyte Z490 Aorus Master WiFi 6 ATX
  • RAM: 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4-3200MHz ADATA Spectrix D41 RGB
  • SSD: WD Blue SN550 1TB NVMe
  • HDD: WD Blue 2TB 7200RPM
  • PSU: 700W High Power Gold
  • Case: be quiet! Pure Base 600
  • OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit

Strangely, the default PSU in their custom build violates their own PSU wattage compatibility checker for the build (which wants 750W). It's also asking about $1000 more than you should pay for this list of components.
 
^^^^^^

That's a unique cross-branding, good ol' Ronda and PC set ups.

Any thoughts on if it's a worthwhile upgrade to go from a 1070 to a 3600ti? Or maybe 1070 to a 3070 which doesn't seem to be all that much more pricey than a 3600ti. Feels like availability is still an issue, but that has to clear up soon doesn't it???? (please say yes). I have a 1440p widescreen monitor.

I'm now thinking of delaying upgrading my system for a few years and instead tie myself over with a not-so-pricey GPU upgrade. Apparently an i7- 6700K processor isn't quite a bottleneck as I might have thought previous.
 
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Madmick said:
https://www.ibuypower.com/community/content-creators/ronda-rousey

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Ronda's Custom PC Configuration Here:
https://www.ibuypower.com/Store/Intel-Z490-Ronda-Rousey-Recommended-PC
  • CPU: i9-10900K
  • Cooler: iBuyPower 240mm ARGB
  • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3080 10GB
  • MoBo: Gigabyte Z490 Aorus Master WiFi 6 ATX
  • RAM: 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4-3200MHz ADATA Spectrix D41 RGB
  • SSD: WD Blue SN550 1TB NVMe
  • HDD: WD Blue 2TB 7200RPM
  • PSU: 700W High Power Gold
  • Case: be quiet! Pure Base 600
  • OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit

Strangely, the default PSU in their custom build violates their own PSU wattage compatibility checker for the build (which wants 750W). It's also asking about $1000 more than you should pay for this list of components.
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Is Ronda a big gamer or something?
 
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