Front 360 water-cooled installation against humanity? I tried it with Qiao Sibo MOD-5+Guangying 360

Foreword:

With the continuous enhancement of CPU performance in recent years, power consumption and temperature are rising. Therefore, the water cooling radiator has become a must-have choice for many DIY players. However, when it comes to 360 water cooling, many small partners will have some doubts when installing, because the top of many cases currently only support 240 water cooling, and only the front can support 360 installation, but the problem lies in the front installation of 360 water cooling. For example, some DIY players often install the fan outside for good looks, so the air duct formed is to blow the hot air inward. I personally feel that this design is not reasonable. However, if you choose to install the fan inside and blow it out, it is often because the front baffle will block the air volume, which greatly reduces the heat dissipation effect.

I just want to upgrade my host recently to water cooling , so I took a Josper Guangying 360 water cooling to install it, by the way, let’s take a look at the front 360 water cooling installation experience. Qiao Sibo MOD-5 such a semi-open chassis for the front-mounted 360 water cooling has any additional bonus.

▲My previous MOD-5 installation still used the twin tower air-cooled

out of the box: p is not a new product of Span3span p

360 The packaging is still the white + blue style before Qiao Sibo. But because it is 360 water-cooled, the packaging is a bit larger than RTX3080Ti.

The English LOGO of Qiao Sibo is printed on the upper left side of the front,Below is the product model, and on the right is the rendering of the water-cooled lighted state, and of course there is a 5V ARGB light synchronization logo.

The internal packaging is also Qiao Sibo's consistent style, rough and delicate.

Unpacking family portrait: The fan is directly installed on the cold row, and the accessories are also fasteners for various platforms, silicone grease and an RGB control box (with remote control).

This RGB control box can be connected to 10 sets of devices at the same time for RGB lighting synchronization, and in addition to RGB synchronization with the motherboard, it also supports remote control. The remote control can customize the color, mode, dimming speed, brightness and so on. The appearance of

360 cold radiator is actually similar to most cold radiators on the market. It adopts a dense wave-shaped fin design and has 14 built-in high-efficiency heat exchange channels.

water block also uses a metal shell + glass side penetration design, the texture is very good. Pure copper base, built-in 90 fins, micro channel can reach 120cm² heat dissipation area. The water pipe is made of EPDM+IIR high-density material, which has good tensile and wear resistance, and the angle of the interface can be easily adjusted.

installation:

Briefly introduce the current configuration of my host:

span2 CPU

4.7-OC

4.7 MPG Z590 GAMING EDGE WIFI

Radiator: Qiao Sibo Guangying 360 water-cooled radiator

Memory: Yingruida Ballistix platinum wins DDR4 memory set 8GB*2 3600MHz 750

p5p p5p hard drive: ADATA XPG S70

Graphics card: GALAXY GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Metal Master OC

Power supply: Antec HCG 1000 gold full module power supply

spanspan-5

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display: MSI MPG ARTYMIS 343CQR

This configuration is mainly handsome,Performance is also pretty good. Take the combination of CPU and motherboard as an example. The i7-11700K was bought in a box from a fish at the time, and the price was less than 2,000. I only had the B560 motherboard before. In order to further explore the overclocking performance, I chose the MSI MPG Z590 GAMING EDGE WIFI.

The main advantage of this motherboard is that the CPU power supply is relatively powerful. It uses a 14-channel 75A digital power supply scheme, and overclocking is relatively simple. The popular network card also performed well. The wired network card is 2.5G, and the wireless network card also uses the latest generation of Intel AX210, which supports WiFi 6E and 6GHz bands. The overall experience is good.

In terms of silicone grease, I did not choose the silicone grease that comes with Qiao Sibo water cooling. Instead, I chose Kyushu Fengshen EX750. Because last time I did a cross test and found that its performance is really strong, although it is not outstanding in terms of specifications ( thermal conductivity is 6.2W/mk), but from the actual experience, compared with Limin TF-8 (The thermal conductivity is 13.8W/m·K). It's just a little troublesome and sticky. The installation process of

is also relatively simple. After all, MOD-5 is a modular semi-open case, and some external armor that interferes with the installation can be removed.

It is worth mentioning that this MSI MPG Z590 GMAING EDGE WIFI motherboard provides multiple fan ports. In addition to the necessary CPU FAN, there are also multiple SYS FAN ports, all of which are designed with 4PIN. , So that each fan supports DC and PWM pulse speed control.You can customize settings in the BIOS or MSI CENTER software when needed. At the same time, when adapting the water-cooled radiator, the motherboard also provides a PUMP FAN interface, because the water pump in the water-cooling head rotates at a high speed and the load is larger than that of a normal fan, and this PUMP FAN port can provide more current than a normal fan interface. Further enhance the stability of the pump work.

RGB controller has a magnetic design at the bottom, and it can also be easily attached to the back of the host.

lit state, the default RGB lighting effect makes people's eyes bright.

Press the remote control to select the motherboard synchronization mode, the rainbow mode will be turned on by default.

is also equipped with the GALAXY GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card and the heat dissipation OC, although this 3 graphics card is also equipped with a GALAXY GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card. Very able to fight.

completed form, it can be regarded as the complete form of the second-generation mecha fighter, after all. After the three RGB fans on the front are lit up, they look much better than before.

is also more suitable when placed in front of the MSI MPG ARTYMIS 343CQR curved display. One thing to say is that after upgrading this 34-inch curved monitor , whether it is watching movies or playing games, it is a shock. Mainly thanks to the 21:9 screen-to-body ratio and the 1000R curved screen blessing, the entire screen fully realizes the semi-surround panoramic display look and feel, bringing a very immersive visual experience.

As for performance, I finally don’t have to turn off the i7-11700K AVX512F instruction set. Before using air cooling, when the 4.7GHz single-baked FPU is fully loaded, the CPU core temperature must reach 100°C; only turn off AVX512F After that, the temperature can be lowered to about 80℃ in the copy machine. Now, 4.7GHz firepower is fully turned on, CPU power consumption is 235W, the core temperature of the CPU is up to 91°C, and the average temperature is 87°C. Decrease the voltage visually, the temperature performance will be better.

As for the standby temperature, it quickly returns to around 37°C after the copy machine is over, and the daily gaming experience is also controlled below 60°C.

When fully loaded, the water-cooled and hot air blows into the chassis. What is the specific temperature? I also tested it with my infrared thermometer. At a room temperature of 27°C, the single-baked FPU , 360 cold exhaust blows to the chassis at about 38°C. It is mainly due to the semi-open design. If some "stuffy tank" chassis use the front air intake design,The hot air blowing in must have an impact on the graphics card, memory, SSD and other components.

Summary:

may not be able to absorb the wind and water in the front. Blow from the inside out? I wanted to try it, but finally gave up. The reason is simple: too ugly! One is that the bracket behind the fan is a little bit stretched; the other is that the suction and heat dissipation performance will drop by about 15-20%. It is more practical to install the fan inside and blow it out for some "stuffy tank" cases, but the front panel of MOD-5 is tempered glass, which undoubtedly interferes with the air duct. From this point of view, the most suitable 360 ​​water-cooled installation method for Giuseppe MOD-5 is front air inlet.

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