If only they weren’t so expensive, or they could keep them in stock! I’d love to replace the fans in my case with their UniFans.
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Yea the stock issue is bad with that one, but they have a nice mix of static pressure and airflow. Add in the cable management, RGB control, and relative low noise… I can understand why they go almost as soon as they come in.
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I actually cut a fan mount into the side of my current case and dropped two 80mm fans blowing air filtered air onto the GPU. The aluminum AC infinity plates meant for home AV cabinets make it stupidly easy.
Does your case have a tempered glass side panel?
anyone remember those slabs of steel we got in the 90’s and 2000’s that had space for like 4x 80mm in the front? LoL!
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Sadly not. That was before I started really digging into and learning about PC hardware. 
I stick to solid side panels to be able to mod to fit my needs. It’s so hard to find PC cases that check every box these days.
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Yep, and I still remember the first time Gateway was a thing, I think that corpse resurrected recently as well.
it was not an enlightened time for chassis. the 2000’s is when we started to move away from proprietary standards. and believe you me, 80mm fans are noisy and do not cool as well as 120mm!
it is really sad we are going back to proprietary garbage again. 
Just snagged a used Silverstone FT02 off of ebay for an extremely reasonable price after being reminded of how much better things used to be in cases.
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There are still good cases out there, you just have to sift through the massive pile of shit first.
there are many awesome cases out there…but I really dislike RGB aesthetics, windows etc. I don’t mind a slight bit of tasteful LED lighting, but nothing that will light up a room at night or be distracting if you’re trying to sleep (looking at you blue / white LED’s!)
I like clean / industrial / egalitarian with minimally smoothed lines / edges. I really dislike how all laptops have the sloops and cuts and waves in them now. I don’t remember which Pixelbook gen it was, but Google released one that was the same thickness with rounded corners and softened edges. I would love something with aesthetics like that for larger laptops. maximizes the space for arts and battery.
anybody here using software like PrimoCache and use an SSD with a HDD for LOTS of capacity with SSD level performance?
The question comes to mind what are you trying to accomplish. Specifically are you trying to keep a large library of rarely used content? Are you trying to gain large storage without a performance penalty? What kind of content? How often will it be used?
I have used both tiered storage and tiered caching, but I have not specifically used PrimoCache, though for my current setups I don’t currently use either since they do not fit my use cases.
the second scenario I’m pretty sure that was the purpose of PrimoCache…to do what Intel and their consumer version of Optane intended, but on a much bigger scale.
SSD + Large HDD to stave off the costs for a very large SSD to install games on. they take up so much space now.
How do you play your games? Do you game hop all the time or do you generally play one or 2 games at a time till you stop and just do not want to have to re-download when you want to go back?
I’m actually looking for info to help a friend of mine, who says he ran out of space on his 1TB SSD for OS and apps almost instantly due to the size of games.
Understandable. So The thing about caching like that is that the data is only fast when it is in the cache. So it still does have to build the cache from the hard drive. Now if it is repeated loading the same data from the cache then it is very fast (well as fast as the SSD will allow it to be), building the cache will be as fast as the slower medium will allow. You can actually do this yourself by just running 2 steam libraries and transferring a active game to the faster storage and deleting it when not in use, but the software uses smart analysis and algorithms to hopefully precache what you are likely to need and this the greatest advantage and pitfall of software like that.
Also keep in mind not all games will see any benefit from being run on an SSD over a harddrive. More and more they are, but not all. Also Also never store video or audio or pictures or other medium on an SSD if you have a harddrive since a SATA harddrive is more then fast enough for that kind of content.
TLDR: basically it won’t hurt to use software like this, but it also might not be exactly what you want either.
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The other side of the coin which is transferring data to a tiered drive (the harddrive) can be much faster using caching since the data is copied quickly to the faster cache drive (the SSD) and then can be slowly copied over to the slower drive in the background allowing for much faster intake of data. As long as the over all transfer does not exceed the cache size. if it does it can actually be slower since it has to read and write instead of just writing. This is also assuming the intake is faster then the slower drive in this scenario. Otherwise it won’t matter.
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yep…I’m actually well versed in computer hardware as that’s my job. I’ve been selling for 13 years and been helping consult for 20. software is a weakness of mine though. 
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Personally I actually use a mixed setup for my gaming PC. I have deep storage (my NAS since it is faster transfering off it then redownloading), Cold storage (a 10TB SSHD) for media and game files I want quicker then my internal network will allow. Slow storage (4TB of random SATA SSDs) a lof of my active game library lives here since PCIE SSDs are exactly needed for most of them. Fast storage (2TB PCIE SSDs 2x1TB) one is for my OSes and the other is for anything I want currently on faster storage and nothing there is permanent. I do manual management of this system since while software could handle it, I am just kinda old-school and like to personally make choices on storage tiers.