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My only complaint about the build, which isn't the fault of any of the hardware, really, is the AMD drivers. They are shocking to be honest. I've had an endless stream of issues with it, nearly a full-on week of troubleshooting overall! Certain games or applications when made full screen (not...

I think it's about 15mm exactly, maybe 14mm ish if I'm unlucky ;) Either way, slimline bottom fans would be almost resting flush on the thick plastic casing of the Aorus's own blowers. Considering the options are either quite cheap and ineffective 12mm thins or the premo-15mm Noctua's (which...

I have the 3600 running stable at 4.0Ghz pretty handily, with boosts up to 4.1-2Ghz. Coming from an ancient i5 760 but largely still doing the same tasks (office work, browsing, moderate gaming and media), it seems more than enough for my needs. For all of my music and CPU-heavy rendering, I...

Makes good sense, thanks! I'll open her up tonight and have a look. The only limitation of the mini-ITX mobo is that it has 2 fan headers, and one of those is the CPU fan header. So I can use a splitter to combine the heatsink/exhaust or a splitter to combine the intake/exhaust, which means...

Ah, fantastic! Thank you! The Synology set-up is my summer project ... about 1.5Tb of haphazardly organized music to sort ;) I've just ordered from OCUK one of the new(ish) Zowie S2 mice to go with the desktop. I think I've had just about every design they've done over the years! Quality gear...

Very good point about having the fans externally! Why didn't I think of that! By a set-up pulling air into the case, do you mean to have the fans directed so that the airflow is pointing 'in' to the case, rather than blowing it out? At the moment I've just got the fans in the regular way...

OK, some last questions! I've fitted the exhaust fan this evening and I'm already seeing better case/system/chipset temperatures for it. I'm going to try pairing the exhaust and the intake on the same splitter, next, to see if I can further bring the temps down (the way the sensors are set-up on...

Thanks, your advice helped immensely! I'll look into the bottom fans at a later juncture, if the exhaust doesn't sort it :) With regards to warranty, yes, I've tried to register the Aorus online but their website email confirmation is totally borked. I've got a few more weeks yet so I'll try...

I've done a complete driver clean/DDU tonight and started over, which seems to have fixed it. Too many conflicting utilities/drivers giving info to the fans, methinks ... AMD has an overdrive/control tool, then Aorus have their own utility that comes with the mobo to control the GPU, then...

Thanks again for the advice. I've flashed the BIOS now and all seems to be well. I'll post some pictures up when my extra dust mesh and fan header splitter cables turn up this week. I've only got half the fans in the case at the moment. Someone looked at the non-ITX version of the mobo website...

Why thank you! and thanks to OCUK, also, for making it happen ;) I'm done with the build and have a few comments about it ... I'll get some pictures up soon. Some first questions: - My last processor was an Intel i5 650. I've just swapped over the SSD from that one to this fresh AMD machine...

Yep, short staffed I believe. Not worth risking it! The order was printed yesterday but it's still at 'received' stage. I'll do my usual thing of watching every YT vidya and reading every thread with the slightest hint of relevance ... :)

Ta :) I think it'll be arriving tomorrow at this point so I shall undoubtedly be back ...

Perfect! Serves me right for Googling in advance of owning the gear ... :) Do you have any advice about the best way to go about setting up/migrating Windows 10? What's the best way to go about it w/r/t motherboard and GPU drivers, etc? Install the new hard-drive but boot to my old SSD first...

First question -- is the Aorus B450 going to recognise and work with the Ryzen 3600? I have no way to flash the BIOS if it doesn't :)

Aorus 3 slot. I can't pretend to have the foggiest about fans. Noctua were the way to go 10 years ago and I like that they've updated their range in black. Having the matching set was sadly a higher priority than getting absolute best performance. I'm sure that's irritating but I've been a Mac...

Shall do! I met them half-way on the token of good will and added a Noctua NH-U12S heatsink to make up some of the refund difference. I'm sure the 3600 Ryzen doesn't need it, but I'm also aware that the smaller case needs quite a lot of air shifting through it. Plus my thinking was more fans =...

Definitely owe you one there -- OCUK folks delivered :D

I thought I noticed that, actually!

Thanks -- I think I've got a grip on it (I'm sure I'll come unstuck when the assembly begins!) Order processing, awaiting payment :)