When I left the fan curve at the Falcon Northwest default without tweaking the settings, the Intel Core i9-13900KS behaved strangely as a desktop processor at over 320 watts (sometimes over 350 watts). , continued to maintain the super high clock of this pre. -Overclocked samples. The Core i9-13900KS is a hell of a product, but it’s still very impressive. Toast but impressive. (The thermal characteristics of this CPU are explained in detail in the video.)
As for the GPU, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 in our system was a PNY model. XLR8 Gaming VERTO EPIC-X RGBThis gave us typical results for this GPU while remaining very quiet. These slim intake fans are a great idea for today’s monster GPUs. In a 24-25°C room, this graphics card never got above 70°C. This is especially impressive considering both the compact housing and low noise output.
Speaking of noise, during a demanding Blender multi-core workload that pushed all CPU cores to 100%, the highest reading I got from an SPL meter located just 12 inches away from the FragBox was 42.5 dBA. Gaming was well below this (less than 40 dBA), and the only time I noticed any system noise was during the all-core Core i9-13900KS benchmark.
