Aikouka
Lifer
- Nov 27, 2001
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nothing like that. Although ive had no issues with Corsair HX and AX (never used an RM) in the past, I went with all EVGA G2 Superflower based units for my mining rigs based on recommendations of others and I haven't been disappointed.
I own a Corsair AX and two RM units, and they work fine. I stopped using Corsair because I could never figure out what was wrong with one of my PCs as it kept BSOD'ing about once every few months. Given that the PSU was something I never changed, I decided to swap over to EVGA. I did purchase a G3 earlier today, as I need to build another machine.
I tried to stuff a 1080 Ti and a 1080 into a Fractal Design Define R5, which as you can guess, it didn't work out too well for me. Heck, even only mining on the 1080 Ti with both cards in the system saw about +6-8C over mining with just the 1080 Ti in the system. (I did move the 1080 Ti from the middle PCI-E slot to the top one.) I have a Z170 board and a Pentium G4400 lying around, so all I really needed was a power supply, and I'll borrow some memory from a HTPC that I'm not using right now. I'm also going to test a new case out -- the Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX. Unfortunately, I was mostly planning on using air, which means I didn't consider buying cards with a reference design and such. So, going with water cooling became a tad bit more expensive than I'd like (EKWB's ROG Strix blocks are $150 + $50 backplate).