u/Tunafishsalad23

Hi everyone this was my first PC build although I put a yeston 3050 in a Lenovo previously but that doesn't really count.

Having trouble with noise which I knew could be a problem but I was silly enough to put the Arctic p8 slims like 0.5mm from the case probably because I wanted space around the CPU and cooler 🤦🏼‍♂️. Currently have 6mm fan spacers I will install if I can get the top off without pulling everything apart.

Was there anything else to do?

I swapped the thermalright apx 120 for a noctua 120, the enhance PSU is stock fan and the GPU obviously has same fan set up.

I believe turbulence is coming from the 2x arctic fans being to close, I don't believe the noctua being close to the case causes turbulence as when I put it on then removed it it made no difference but I think some turbulence is from the fan onto the cooler blades.

Also yet to do fan curves but I want to get the case sorted first but if anyone knows good settings for that it would be much appreciated thanks.

Also does anyone know the difference in noise between the Geeek m31 and the Lzmod a24 v5?

Hi everyone I have come from PlayStation but have recently cancelled my PlayStation subscription and opened up a Steam account in preparation for the Steam Machine.

I couldn't wait for the Steam Machine so I built a mini PC but found I couldn't get to a certain standard but it was pretty tiny but I was able to somewhat play arc raiders on it.

For some reason I never contemplated getting a steam deck but realised when the machine arrives I'm not going to get the loungeroom tv 90% of the time and I mostly play ps5 on the portal so I bought a Steamdeck to play most of my steam games and have it as a remote play with the Machine for multiplayer games.

I was hoping the Steam Machine had two SSD slots but it sounds like only one and I don't want to duel boot partition the nvme drive with windows because it feels like I'm infecting it with herpes.

Will it be possible to have Steam OS on the internal storage and duel boot with windows 11 for competitive kernel level anticheat games in an external storage plugged into fastest speed USBC?

Hopefully Linux has developers get anticheat working soon so then we can drop Microslop for fps games