u/ChrisV2V

Hi all!
I wanted to share my tuned curves and just open up a discussion.
So my setup is all noctua G2 in fractal pop air, 9950X3D on NH-D15 and Sapphire 9070XT. Here's a link to my build

I obviously wanted to get as quiet without compromising temps, so it took me some time to find what I think is a finished tune for my PC. I'm briefly going to go over every component and how I came up with the curve that you see.

CPU: 9950X3D This CPU produces sharp temperature spikes, easily hitting 60°C under burst loads. However, these spikes don’t transfer much heat into the thermal mass of the cooler, and the CPU needs very little cooling below 50W. Because of this behavior I settled on the following curve:

20*C - 30%, 57*C - 40%, 70*C-60%, 75*C-100%.
Hysteresis up: 4*C, 1 sec
Hysteresis down: 4*C, 6 sec

I could get away with longer times at up hysteresis but I don't hear the fan going up/down constantly or at load spikes so I just left it as is

GPU: To avoid fan ramping I use 10 second average of hotspot temperature. Moreover on sapphire the max fan speed is 3500RPM and that is LOUD. I don't need 3500RPM anyway because I don't push the card that hard, and because from 2200RPM to 3500RPM at 300W load there pretty much only 2-3*C difference at hotspot. It's going to be hot anyway. Hence the RPM is capped at around 2500.
Curve is as follows: 44 *C - 15%, 57*C - 30%, 62 *C - 55%

Usually I get like 51-52 *C on hotspot, sometimes 54-55 with spikes of 60 *C in games like Witcher 3 at High settings and 3440 x 1440. That translates to around 130W of load.

Case fans logic:

Top intake (140mm) has almost the same curve as CPU cooler, however it's hysteresis is much larger at 4*C - 8sec Up, and 2*C - 8 sec Down. That is because I decided that this fan should function as a helper for the cooler - only at high and long loads like compiling or calculating simulations, and this hysteresis ensures just that.

Rest of the case fans: 2x 140mm front intakes, 2x120 top and back exhausts.
These fans use multiple curves and always follow the highest requested value.

Primarly they follow CPU temps and run at 19% (around 300RPM).
Hysteresis of: 3*C - 8 sec up, and 6*C - 8 sec down.
At 65*C they kick in with the following curve: 65*C - 24%, 72*C - 63%, 80*C - 74% - very agressive.
Similarly to the Top intake this is supposed to help with the cooling of CPU under sustained full load.

The most important curve for me is the GPU Hotspot Trigger and it works like so:
If the temperature exceeds 52*C at the GPU hotspot, and won't get below 43*C, the fans will be locked in at 45% (650RPM), otherwise they will follow the curve of CPU. This works great for gaming and I think it's better than following GPU temps as those can annoyingly fluctuate. Setting those fans to a fixed speed means the noise should be less perceivable.

And the last one is GPU Fan follower with offset. So, above 40% (around 1600RPM) of GPU fans speed, case fans will start to follow what's set on GPU. Once again this is to make sure that under sustained high load there will be an delivery of fresh air. It is very rare to exceed 1600RPM on this card anyway. I can increase/decrease the treshold at which this curve kicks in simply by adjusting or reducing the offset value.

Let me know what you think or if you have any suggestions for further improvements! I'm happy to share more details or screenshots of the curves.

https://preview.redd.it/5nzbv9oehr1h1.png?width=1720&format=png&auto=webp&s=ef60f4f20618b45f2491ff9b1c54151d2bbc8ea2

Screenshots of all the curves are shared here.

I am 24 year old male.
I had vasectomy done one year and month ago.

Since 19 I was living with a thought that one day I'll do a vasectomy. I never ever wanted kids, I imagined my life in a way where I live my own life at my pace and where I'm not forced to follow the expectations of society, so it was kind of a no brainer for me that when I finished uni and started making some cash I got vasectomy. It was a bilateral vasectomy, so each vas deferens was closed on both sides.
Procedure went pretty smooth, it took maybe 20 minutes and I was ready to go home. There's really not much to talk about. I healed just fine, no infections, no weird symptoms or anything.

I went home and after a week, maybe after two weeks I started to feel some pain, that seemed to be coming from the pressure build up. I went to the urologist, he prescribed me some anti inflammatory pills, they helped a little.
Around half a year after the vasectomy I was still having pain, but it betwen month 3 and 5 it shifted from having pressure in the epidemiditis itself to having all sorts of aches regarding epidemiditis and my testicles.

So I was having pain - sometimes at the epidemiditis, sometimes it was feeling like it was coming from my testicle itself, sometimes it was right side, sometimes the left side.
The pain didn't stop later, but I realized it's coming in waves.

There will be a time when I don't get any aches, and there will be a wave of aches coming at random times. And it seemed like each wave I was experiencing was a little less pain. And so we are here a year later, and now I think I'm in the "wave" of pain, that is my testicle is sensitive to touch along with the part of epidemiditis that connects to it. It's not excactly like someone kicked me in the ball, but it's the same kind of feeling, just much less, not enough to put a grim on my face, just enough to make me concered.

Other symptoms regarding my vasectomy will be the sensitivity of my testicles in my daily life. They are much more sensitive to touch, if I try to kind of wiggle by slapping them (it's delicate finger movement, not slapping them per se) by pushing them in the front with my two fingers, i'll get aches. If I go down the stairs with loose boxers too fast and they wiggle around there's a chance i'll get an ache. I'm not really sure how my life was before.... My testies were always out of the way, and now it seems like a lot of stuff revolves around making sure I don't get an ache.

Regarding sex life:
It definetly had a negative impact. I mean in my relationship we weren't in an ideal position in life then from all the stress about the future, money, job etc., I mean things were moving fast with life and that had an impact on our sex life. My SO also became celiac and had her own skin/gut problems that she's still figuring out, but being in pain I feel like it was a nail to the coffin. My significant other propably had a hard time understanding the psychological impact on me, and I had a hard time making sure that we're all good and we'll be back with sex. So yeah we did got kind of separated in terms of intimacy, but we're working on it and we're gonna get there eventually because we love each other and we know we'll figure it out.

There's one more thing regarding my intimate zone: I'm not sure when and not sure why it happens, but I do feel one sided uncomfortable tension in the area where the vas was cut. It is at the seams. I can feel the seams with my fingers, and it just gets uncomfortably tensioned before the orgasm. So this sometimes will not show up If I get to climax fast enough but I'm unsure if there's a corellation. Most of the time it's there and it fades after I finish.

So yeah that's been my life recently. Obviously I'm living with a smile on my face, walking, having some good times with my friends. It's not like my life is a clinical pain that takes away my ability to focus or have a good time. It's just that some aches are there when there shouldn't be anything, and it definetly brings my attention where I feel like I shouldn't even remember having anything done to my testies.
So with that being said... it's been a year and I don't thing anything will change. I could live like this, but it will suck a little more. So I do think about reversal. I need to stock some cash because reversal is 10x the cost of a vasectomy, so hopefully at the end of the year I'll have enough cash saved, and next year propably around 2 year anniversary I'll get a reversal. We'll see how it goes from here.

So that's been my experience, I'd love to hear from you if you have any questions, or if you have some advice for me I'd be really happy to hear it too 😄