Bitwit on Making a PC Look Good on a Budget LTX, ft. Dmitry & Der8auer
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Date: 2020-05-06
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zmcnabb
On the topic of included aio fans, I gotta say the stock corsair fans before they did the new ML and LL fans were complete dog. The like kind of greyish green washed out looking fan blade ones. My h100iv2 fans both had horrible sounds to them like the bearings were severely messed up. About a year later my mate had me build him a rig with an h80, came with the same fans same exact issue, loud and super annoying. Less than 4 months ago another friend had me build him a rig, forget the name of it but it was corsairs h100i version for 280mm rad instead of 240, might have been h115? Same fans, same problem in 3 different situations i've seen personally. I replaced mine with noctuas and it's dead silent now, one friend used the pccooler knock off ones kyle reviewed that were sick, and the third friend just doesn't care about the grinding weird whirring noise.
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On the topic of included aio fans, I gotta say the stock corsair fans before they did the new ML and LL fans were complete dog. The like kind of greyish green washed out looking fan blade ones. My h100iv2 fans both had horrible sounds to them like the bearings were severely messed up. About a year later my mate had me build him a rig with an h80, came with the same fans same exact issue, loud and super annoying. Less than 4 months ago another friend had me build him a rig, forget the name of it but it was corsairs h100i version for 280mm rad instead of 240, might have been h115? Same fans, same problem in 3 different situations i've seen personally. I replaced mine with noctuas and it's dead silent now, one friend used the pccooler knock off ones kyle reviewed that were sick, and the third friend just doesn't care about the grinding weird whirring noise.
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Stephen
The PC Cooler fans Kyle refers to have cheap bearings rated at 30k hours. Their cheap for a reason. They must have crappy sleeve bearings even though PC Cooler says they are hydraulic. Don't believe them as no hydraulic bearing I've seen lasts only 30k hours. While a proper hydraulic bearing is rated for at least 50k hours. Noctua's bearings are rated for at least 150k hours. So you could keep Noctua fans for much longer and use in several PC builds as they are more heavy duty and reliable. I personally wouldn't touch such fans with crappy sleeve bearings. Invest more money upfront for higher quality fans and save money in the long run as the fans will last longer than and won't need replacing so soon.
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The PC Cooler fans Kyle refers to have cheap bearings rated at 30k hours. Their cheap for a reason. They must have crappy sleeve bearings even though PC Cooler says they are hydraulic. Don't believe them as no hydraulic bearing I've seen lasts only 30k hours. While a proper hydraulic bearing is rated for at least 50k hours. Noctua's bearings are rated for at least 150k hours. So you could keep Noctua fans for much longer and use in several PC builds as they are more heavy duty and reliable. I personally wouldn't touch such fans with crappy sleeve bearings. Invest more money upfront for higher quality fans and save money in the long run as the fans will last longer than and won't need replacing so soon.
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mjc0961
Making a PC look good on a budget is easy. The cheaper options usually don't have all that tacky RGB shit, so you don't even have to worry about installing bloatware with security holes to turn it off, and you won't be left with ugly translucent plastic all over your build when you've done that. Just get a power supply with black cables, or sleeved extensions, and you're done. I wouldn't even mind RGB so much if it still didn't all look terrible. They've been selling these products for how long and they still can't diffuse the light properly! Every RGB thing I see makes each LED painfully obvious, they all look like shit.
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Making a PC look good on a budget is easy. The cheaper options usually don't have all that tacky RGB shit, so you don't even have to worry about installing bloatware with security holes to turn it off, and you won't be left with ugly translucent plastic all over your build when you've done that. Just get a power supply with black cables, or sleeved extensions, and you're done. I wouldn't even mind RGB so much if it still didn't all look terrible. They've been selling these products for how long and they still can't diffuse the light properly! Every RGB thing I see makes each LED painfully obvious, they all look like shit.
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DeanRendar84
Kyle Totally overlooked buyers remorse about standard RGB compared to ARGB which provides neat looking optical pattern effects in the individual leds to form on the strip or fans. And the maze of 3rd party LED controllers, USB compatible headers they need on older systems, the newer mobos with built in RGB headers or built in ARGB headers, how they are not compatible with different companies ARGB prefabbed proprietary connectors, the 3amp limit, its confusing and expensive if you don't research compatibility and just by a kit off the shelf, but maybe those are confirmed not on a budget mods
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Kyle Totally overlooked buyers remorse about standard RGB compared to ARGB which provides neat looking optical pattern effects in the individual leds to form on the strip or fans. And the maze of 3rd party LED controllers, USB compatible headers they need on older systems, the newer mobos with built in RGB headers or built in ARGB headers, how they are not compatible with different companies ARGB prefabbed proprietary connectors, the 3amp limit, its confusing and expensive if you don't research compatibility and just by a kit off the shelf, but maybe those are confirmed not on a budget mods
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Daniel
It seems to me if you want to save money and still look good, ignore all the RGB proprietary products and get a LED light kit that operates independent of your motherboard. You can get ones that let you control your lights through a phone APP. You can get ones that react to the music or audio, through microphone or audio jack and flash to the beat, basically. You can get RGB or RGBW, or RGBWW or even black light strips. You can go a different way and get solid color neon tube light that reacts to sound. Black Light LED sounds cool. any white parts would look amazing.
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It seems to me if you want to save money and still look good, ignore all the RGB proprietary products and get a LED light kit that operates independent of your motherboard. You can get ones that let you control your lights through a phone APP. You can get ones that react to the music or audio, through microphone or audio jack and flash to the beat, basically. You can get RGB or RGBW, or RGBWW or even black light strips. You can go a different way and get solid color neon tube light that reacts to sound. Black Light LED sounds cool. any white parts would look amazing.
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CAfakmykak
Budget PC's can't look good cause the components themselves look bad. No amount of RGB lights will make your 4 phase, no heatsink motherboard look good. No amount of RGB lights can make your 1050 that has a extruded heatsink and no backplate look good. Imagine putting some race bodykit on your 1997 Honda Civic and then claiming that it looks so good. Things simply do not work like that, nobody is going to think that shit looks good but yourself.
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Budget PC's can't look good cause the components themselves look bad. No amount of RGB lights will make your 4 phase, no heatsink motherboard look good. No amount of RGB lights can make your 1050 that has a extruded heatsink and no backplate look good. Imagine putting some race bodykit on your 1997 Honda Civic and then claiming that it looks so good. Things simply do not work like that, nobody is going to think that shit looks good but yourself.
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Guest
Depending on the material used for cable wraps that have retained bent shapes from shipping, to reshape them you can just wet them a little (without the cables in them of course) and then heat up a curling iron or something until it's a little warm as you want low heat and then roll the cables length wise across the warmed medium in a manner that's trying to straighten them out, if that makes sense.
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Depending on the material used for cable wraps that have retained bent shapes from shipping, to reshape them you can just wet them a little (without the cables in them of course) and then heat up a curling iron or something until it's a little warm as you want low heat and then roll the cables length wise across the warmed medium in a manner that's trying to straighten them out, if that makes sense.
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Mike
I bought a set of cable extensions, which looked OK, but they bugged me because of the all the extra length. I was barely able to cram all the extra cable into the space behind my PSU. Because of that I recently replaced the original cables and the extensions with a set of cables from well-known maker. Those were expensive, but they look good and are no longer crammed in.
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I bought a set of cable extensions, which looked OK, but they bugged me because of the all the extra length. I was barely able to cram all the extra cable into the space behind my PSU. Because of that I recently replaced the original cables and the extensions with a set of cables from well-known maker. Those were expensive, but they look good and are no longer crammed in.
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pino
I got a black motherboard 24 pin a 8 pin cpu and 2x 8 to 6+2 pin pcie black cables with 2 spacers each cable for just 24, 99 euro. Needed a 8 pin cpu cable extender as my cpu power supply was to short which single was 14 bucks so i was like what the hell ill do all of them and it looks awesome.
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I got a black motherboard 24 pin a 8 pin cpu and 2x 8 to 6+2 pin pcie black cables with 2 spacers each cable for just 24, 99 euro. Needed a 8 pin cpu cable extender as my cpu power supply was to short which single was 14 bucks so i was like what the hell ill do all of them and it looks awesome.
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Alexander
Fans, liquid cooling. how is that on a budget and dirt cheep as they start the video? This means DIY and so on people. Paint parts, make your won backplates from plexiglas, cut proper holes in the case for good airflow, make your won dust filters.
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Fans, liquid cooling. how is that on a budget and dirt cheep as they start the video? This means DIY and so on people. Paint parts, make your won backplates from plexiglas, cut proper holes in the case for good airflow, make your won dust filters.
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