PC Building Thread V6 - "running six RGB controller utilities at once" edition
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I face all my fans outwards, top fans, front fans, rear fans and bottom fans.
My goal is to create an air vacuum in my case which means that heat will never build up cause space is a vacuum and its real fuckn cold, but I make sure not to put the rpms too high or my components will get too cold and then condensate, killing my computer.
this is actually how it works i saw it on techquickie and linustechtips
oh, so it's fine then? I don't have a blower style cooler but I suppose open air ones blows air upwards into the heatsink too?
Wait fucking what I thought he was just bullshitting.
I mean it actually works better if you make sure your case is hermetically sealed, and then hook it up to a vacuum pump. This works, since the most efficient way to dissipate energy simply is to let your components radiate off heat in the infrared spectrum - normally, however, the air molecules are just getting in the way, so removing them makes a lot of sense (think of how the sun dissipates energy out in space, which is also a vacuum; if the sun had an atmosphere to contend with, it would be much hotter). Because vacuum pumps are really impractical, though, usually manufacturers go with the far inferior option of blowing the air out of the case, so it carries the infrared heat with it. And also no, this is a joke, I'm sorry.
Aww.
Uhh, doesn't thermal radiation only depend on the temperature of the object, and even then it's really low at such low temperatures? By taking away the air, you'd just be removing heat diffusion (the primary energy sink in this scenario) from the equation and ensuring that your PC basically cooks itself.
Well shit, you done bamboozled me. We're so many layers of irony deep that your pseudoscientific explanation actually looked like you were being serious.
You made me watch techquickie after that comment.
Fuck
i asked about the gpu a week or so ago well now i put together the stuff I want to upgrade (already have a case, 1y old psu, ssd and hdd)
https://i.imgur.com/drvUFnV.png
i also need a cpu cooler. thoughts?
That's why they call me the Bamboozler.
I'm sorry for your sad fate. No one should have to watch techquickie. My deepest condolences.
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I don't mind his content, you just made me legitimately question if he even said that and if it was an inside joke or something, then after watching and realizing he said nothing at all like this, and your post I just couldn't stop laughing.
Thanks.
I'd probably recommend just going with a low end, non overclocking board and a i5-9400F over a 9600K.
good page
also noctua d15 you cant go wrong, high quality, super quiet and fuckn awesome.
Even beat the shit out of my custom loop for any constant load, and I had 360 x2 120x1 radiators.
Man, I ordered an enermax CPU tower cooler with a 92mm Arctic PWM fan, along with 3 other orders from Newegg that I received on the 7th and 8th respectively, and now after 7 days it's still showing it's in Indianapolis, IN.
I fucking hate it when a local-to-me company decides "Haha fuck you we're shipping your shit from half-way across the country."
Anyone know how to hide my CPU AIO Pump cables? I've got the Corsair H115i and the USB cable, power cable and CPU fan cable (for the pump) just look terrible and in the way. Whenever I see peoples builds they've always managed to hide these cables somehow, or at least make them less noticeable.
I just slipped the extra length of the USB and pwm cables out the top cable routing holes when I had an AIO, under mobo heatsinks on the way to the top so they weren't seen tbh.
The big problem with i5s is that yes it has 6 physical cores, but games often use 8 threads now. Higher clocks on a 4 core 8 thread (think i7-6700K) can actually net better results than say an i5-9600k because having to schedule things like audio, physics, AI, etc. Between 6 cores is harder. I say better because i5s have a tendency to run really well and then get hitching instead of simply "lower fps." You could have a 4 core 8 thread part that gets an avg fps of 120 or a 6 core 6 thread that gets avg fps of 155, but if your frametimes spike perceptibly on one and not the other, you'd want to pick the part with better consistency.
So, the holes on the sides of my cube PC happen to be able to fit a 120mm fan, so I'm thinking of taking the side the GPU is on, using that as the top of the PC, while using the acrylic panel on the side to see into the system, all so I can mount another EVGA 120mm AIO cooler on the processor, borrowing an AM4 retention kit for asetek based pumps from a Kraken X42 that I have about.
Yeah.
That is some crazy spaghetti.
Only the finest Taiwanese noodles.
I bit that insane R5 1600 deal, so what are some good AM4 mITX boards? I've been eyeing this one but I've read that the VRM cooling is pretty shitty:
https://www.microcenter.com/product/510838/b450i-aorus-pro-wifi-am4-mini-itx-amd-motherboard
It's a decent board so far, I'm using it in that cube PC above. So far it's been a perfect host for an R5 2600X.
I need a somewhat ok-ish Nvidia gfx card for a workstation. Nothing fancy, needs to support CUDA and At least OpenGL 3+ but doesn't need to be super-fast.
Sub 150€
Any ideas?
Sub $150 is pretty tight for workstation graphics, but you could pick up a 1050Ti with 4gb vram and set nvidia control panel to "optimize for compute workloads" or however it's worded. Though I will say, there's not a ton of documentation on just how much that setting helps. It'd help to know what you're using this workstation for as well.
This came back in stock at MicroCenter, I can get it if I cut my cooler budget, the Wraith Spire works in my case if you remove the top plastic piece like so
https://www.microcenter.com/product/510223/rog-strix-b450-i-gaming-am4-mitx-amd-motherboard
I think this might be a winner for that price.
On the other hand, used GTX 1080 prices are ranging around the $300-350 mark, I can get one
my first real tax return + selling my old car = good pc for once
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/110593/5fa2875b-f7de-40e2-b2b5-e2fd85535d70/IMG_0476.jpeg
I still need to rewire my desk as i was just testing it
i5-9600k, rtx 2070, and 16 gigs of ram
also NZXT's aios are cool as fuck
10/10 would rate winner for tasteful RGB again.
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