kevin miller

I am posting this in the event someone else finds this thread through a search like I did. If you plan on doing any work in unreal, I would consider avoiding the Ryzen series of cpu processors. https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/rendering/1864073-noticing-light-build-time-difference-on-project-between-amd-ryzen-and-intel-i7 As for the use with offline renderers like vray or corona, it seems to do quite well so far.

Pretty interesting. I actually do not need high poly or detailed objects since this will be in an evening scene and we would probably want to keep the people on the lane driving down with the light structures some distance off. My idea was that I could use renderable splines for the overall shape of like a santa or snowman and then use the align spacing tool to distribute objects with self illuminated materials. Not sure how to get the blinking light thing. Maybe you could tell me more about your idea? Thanks for the help. Appreciate it.

How would one suggest to create objects similar to the attached images? My thought was to create the objects in spline and then create light objects with self illumination materials that could be cloned/ arrayed along spline. I think a blend material could be used in the animation but not sure.

Hello Francisco, I just saw you responded to my post. I did not have notifications on so I did not know but thanks for the information. I just created a new post since I had continued having issues with this. Is your solution what will address the information disappearing behind my interior glass alpha?

If you look at the attached PDF, when I generate an image with an alpha, I lose the information behind the interior window as shown. Any sense of a reason for this? My glass setup has higher IOR and decent depth setup in reflection and refraction. Why am I loosing the information looking through the interior window to the exterior?

I think my issue is the same as this original poster so I am trying to help others by posting here but maybe I am wrong. I want to be able to change the background in post production that shows through the exterior windows from an interior rendered view. As one is standing int he interior, you are looking through an interior glass partition and then the exterior window. Exporting the rendered image with an alpha channel is making a mess as it treats All of the windows as transparent. I need the first interior window to stay the way it is rendered while the exterior window should have the alpha so I can switch out the background image that should then show through the interior window. If this does not make sense, maybe the attached draft rendering will.

That took care of it. Good to go. Should have done all of this months ago. The 30 degree temp difference though cannot all be attributed to this cooler. I am almost certain that the cpu was never seated properly with thermal paste. Plus, when I tore the system apart, there was a crap load of dust clogged in the fins of the former cpu air cooler. I figured the high temps cleaned up were probably in the low- to mid-80's which means I am probably realistically seeing a 15 degree drop which is still fantastic for me. Regardless, I can stop worrying about alarms going off in the night because of high temps as the computer tries to finish a rendering. Hopefully I can help someone else out who goes to install the H80i. Thanks to you and this forum, I learned a lot beside saving a couple hundred dollars having someone else do all of this work I did.

Dimitris, I attached two images. One of my current connection and one of my motherboard. Where exactly should this connection occur when you say cpu/cpu 1 ? Is it the fan header up by the cpu? I'm thinking it is.

Well, I just installed the Corsair H80i. I am not a computer guy but I worked my way through using utube and internet. Corsairs directions are not very good. Anyway, I thought I had things hooked up properly but I get a "cpu fan error - press F1 message" upon boot-up. I did a search on the internet and it seems that people were suggesting maybe an issue with the connection of a 3 pin fan thing with psu, or maybe how radiator fans were connected or just disabling the cpu fan error message in bios. Since I felt things were connected properly, I just disabled the cpu fan error to see if I could boot and check temps. I was able to boot but I would like to know why I am getting the message and had to disable? I originally has a CM 520 N air cooler on cpu. That fan was connected the MB fan port and to a PSU connector. With the H80i, I could not use that psu connector since the power end from H80i was totally different. However, I had to leave the old psu connector in place so I could plug in this little plug from the H80i that fit this. It seems half ass or not quite right to me for some reason. Could someone explain what maybe I did to cause this? Lastly, the utube videos I was referencing had me install the two fans in a configuration where the rear radiator fan on the case is blowing air inward onto the radiator and the second radiator fan is blowing air away from radiator into the case. I can't see where this makes sens when I have case fan on the front blowing air into the case. Basically, I have no exhaust at the moment!! I am running a P95 totrure test for high heat and I have been hovering around 65 deg. C. I can't complain since my temps previous to this were hitting 94 deg. C under same torture test within 10 minutes or so. Which is the correct way to orient these fans in my case?

Thought of that with the CM 140 XL (my preferred water cooler) but I have less than the minimum 38 mm required for the radiator thickness until I hit the VM heatsinks of the MB. I think that is what they are called but whatever they are, not enough room for the radiator. I'll let you know how the H80i works out tomorrow when I try to get this installed.

Good information and thanks for all of it. I love the ideal of the Noctura cooler I mentioned but just found out from someone else my corsair vengence memory will hit the bottom cooling fins. Saw a youtube video where a guy cut these fins off to make it work but not really digging that idea. That cooler is freaking huge. I had no idea how big until I saw it in the guy's hands. Makes my cooler master look....pathetic. The Corsair H80i has been ordered so I will see if that works and from your chart, it looks to do pretty well. I did not even know about the H75 so I will check that out if this does not work.

numerobis, You are correct and I was wrong. I dug up my old invoice and that is exactly the cooler I have. It is also a 3 pin fan connector which is why I think I cannot control fan speeds, on the cpu anyway. Shouldn't matter since that means the cpu fan would just run at top speed. I am going to order a noctura NH-D14 cpu cooler since it works for my board with the high ram and has great reviews. I will use this if I cannot get the Corsair H80i to fit.

Seems so easy, right? It is not when you do not have the room to locate the desired water cooler and I hate to throw 80 dollars at an upper end air cooler if there are other issues at play that I do not understand. As for your beefy cooler comment, believe it or not, many have said the cooler master 212 plus evo is a decent cooler and I should not be hitting 96 degrees within 10 minutes of running prime. I ordered the Corsair H80i to see if I can get it to work anyway. As for your comment to stop making this difficult, I am an architect, not a computer guy. I am trying to learn what you may know in great detail and it gets pretty technical, at least in my newbie eyes. There are others that have the same MB and overclocked I7 and they are running temps in the upper 70's and I am trying to figure out why mind is 20 degrees warmer and how to get the temps down. That's it. I thought I would come here for some advice because there are some good people on here.

I did try setting the fans via the MB but I cannot tell what effect it has. I am reading up on the effects on positive and negative pressure int he box and how to best set up fans but I am getting lost. Basically, I am trying to figure out the best cooling solution without creating turbulence or strong negative pressure. I currently have two 120mm front intake fans but I have no idea how much air they are pushing. I have one 120mm exhaust fan. The assumption would be at this point that I am exhausting less air than I am bringing in so that would create positive air pressure. I would assume the heatsink fans are contributing nothing at this point since they should be pushing air over and out past the heatsink. No more air would be exhausting since these fans are internal within the case interior. My thought it that is I were to install a 140 mm exhaust fan on the top opening over the cpu, I would need to be careful of now exhausting more air that I am bringing in which would create a negative pressure situation but it would probably cool better. With all of this said, I am thinking that if I could somehow measure and control each fan, I could still have two intake and two exhaust but dial in the intake fans at 800 rpm each and the exhaust at 600 rpm each and have better air movement AND still positive pressure. Am I thinking correctly and if so, how do I do this and if not, what suggestions might one have?

I am curious of how one can take control of the system fans on the computer. It would seem there would be a way to adjust the speeds of the front and back case fans, the cpu fans, etc. I have gone into my bios and set the fans to "turbo" whatever that means rather than auto. There does not seems to be a difference. The cpu fan reads a pretty constant 1800 rpm. I downloaded speed fan and tried using that. None of the fan controls really did anything except for one where I could really crank up one of the internal fans and make it go. However, it really did not impact the cpu temps on coretemp at all. I have a ASUS sabertooth P67 with a I7 2600K 3.4 overclocked to 4.5 at the moment. The mid-tower case has 3 120 mm fans with two of them pushing from the front and one exhausting from the rear. I have 2 120 mm fans on the CM EVO 212 cpu cooler and there is obviously a fan on the video card and 650 watt power supply. Thanks for any suggestions.