PC Building Thread V6 - "running six RGB controller utilities at once" edition
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This?
I did, but not that low.
I'll get right on it chief.
These as well.
So if I'm understanding it right, Hyper at cheap price point, Dark Rock or H7 at more expensive?
If I'd go that far, I'd lean for the h7 simply because Atomic recomended this setup to me and they'd know what cooler works best.
Yeah I don't think you can directly disable XFR2 so you're probably okay. I can't actually find the setting in my BIOS, which should be identical to yours
Any way you can link me to the CRYORIG H7 you're talking about? I'm getting really confused as I'm seeing the same product listed for $40 some places, $90 on other websites, and I'm not sure there's an actual difference?
And also seeing reports that I have to order a separate am4 mounting kit?
Wow, fucking hell. Looks like I'm months behind the times and the normal H7 is selling for dipshit amounts of money. It used to be $30, an incredible deal for its cooling capabilities.
I'd look at the be quiet! Pure Rock, it's about $30 and cools very well.
The way they advertise in how it mounts vertically to clear all ram situations makes me pretty confident, but also my ram is placed in A2-B2, with A1 being the closest to the CPU. I believe I'll be fine.
Sorry if this is the wrong thread for this, not sure where else to ask.
I'm looking to buy a wireless keyboard with a trackpad built in, so I can hook up my computer to a tv and operate it from across the room. All the ones I see for sale online either look like flimsy cheap crap or are suspiciously overpriced, or both. What kind of stuff should I be looking for? Does anyone have any recommendations?
I've heard good things about the Logitech K400. Personally I find the Steam Controller to be an absurdly good wireless trackpad for general desktop use, and it comes with a virtual keyboard that works way better than you'd think, but it has limitations.
So, both Dell and LG are putting out their own super-ultrawide displays, though this time with a 1440p vertical instead of 1080p
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBhQrGXYyw4&t=0s
I'm genuinely debating whether or not to request one for my admin station at work (the primary terminal for our internal servers, and my work PC, combined) to replace the two dirt-old 27 inch, 720p (!!!) 16:10 monitors currently being used for that. The dual access with KVM feature they both have looks pretty sweet too, would be pretty damn useful if I need to plug in something headless to test really quick before setting it up properly, since it can just use half of the screen until I'm done with it, instead of requiring me to cannibalize my second monitor and cable swap for five minutes like some kind of caveman just to get a new box working, or dig a third monitor and a second keyboard/mouse out of storage JUST for that and then put them back.
I really wish I had the space for one of these in my home office, or anything above 25 inches for that matter. They look amazing for multitasking.
Im probably going to get this 1660 in a month
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814137400
Any other suggestions? I think this is the best value for the performance for -$230
The fucking madman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeT1LFVdUV0
It actually worked holy shit
I actually wonder if there is a certain mixing that could work without hardening over time.
I mean, anyone who's walked on a sunbaked sidewalk in the summertime knows how thermally conductive the stuff is
Maybe using a purer ceramic (similar in nature to a ceramic-based thermal paste) would produce both better results, and dry/cake far less quickly
Fucking fascinating regardless
Yeahhhhhh I'll stick to blowing air through aluminum fins for now
I mean, I'd love to see that in action. But I wouldn't want to put it together.
Dying for better temps
Literally
A Man Aimed For 10 Delta-T Over Ambient. Here's What Happened To His Entire Fucking Nervous System.
You have to admit though, you would still want to see someone try it, just to know what it would be like
That's the whole reason mineral oil and chiller PCs exist in the first place, cause someone thought "that sounds hugely wasteful and dumb, BUT..."
My girlfriend took home her computer last night.
i5 6600k, Gigabyte 1070 Ti, 16 GB of low profile Corsair RAM, a 500 GB Samsung SSD and a 1 TB WD HDD, and a nice 650W EVGA modular power supply.
It runs everything like butter and because most of the expensive parts were spares, I didn't spend a whole lot of money.
guessing my vga kicked the bucket, thought of getting the rx580 but people recommended me gtx 1660 ti
hopefully everything's okay since my build's almost 5 years old
Im probably going to get this 1660 in a month
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814137400
Any other suggestions? I think this is the best value for the performance for -$230
It's good to note that this chart, while easy to read and absorb in its own right, does not include 1% or .1% lows. It's always good to gather as much data as possible before deciding on a purchase, and while AVG FPS is quick to look at it does not convey qualities like hitching and stuttering (and not to mention can be limited artificially by in-engine FPS limitations, which unnecessarily drive total averages down when running cpu-bound tests.) Same reasoning behind me being an advocate of high core counts as of recently; totally changes the smoothness of frame delivery.
I'm looking to potentially upgrade my computer. The CPU is beginning to show its age with modern games, i upgraded the graphics card ~2 years ago. This is what my setup currently is:
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/gxZTyX
To upgrade, I imagine it'll have to the motherboard so I can have the latest generation of CPUs and the RAM maybe?
I use it to play games (currently playing insurgency sandstorm which is resource intensive itself) and browse the web.
Could someone suggest a best upgrade? I wish to keep the graphics card as its fine as it is, and maybe a SSD for the future.
Not a bad price.
Having always been an Intel person, how is AMD compared to Intel now?
And i take it it would support other SSDs, if I decided to go with a different one?
Mostly better for the same price. Intel's super duper high-end CPUs get more powerful than AMD's do in single-core workloads, but they charge exorbitant amounts of money for them so AMD is usually much wore worthwhile.
Thanks both, would you be able to do an intel upgrade path like you've done for me with AMD?
How much extra would it be going down the intel route?
Guess who's a new owner of a RTX 2060?
Found an incredible deal on Facebook for $280.
My 760 is going bye bye
I can envision the Linus Tech Tips thumbnail now. The title reads "You won't BELIEVE these medical bills!" with Linus's hands covered in metal spray paint giving his best fake gasp with the finished build tucked away in the background behind one of his employees puking blood.
I acquired more X58 hardware, so spare parts home server happened. X5660 from ebay that I lapped since core 6 is rather hot under a heavy overclock, $20 212 LED special that only cut me twice during this installation, Radeon HD 4 series card from a AMD Phenom II build I got back from a buddy that I built for him back when. Case, power supply and a 1TB from that same build too. The handle is thick stamped metal that slots into the case which is really nice to move around, it's a CM Storm Scout. It has a 12gb kit of Ripjaws mixed with a 6gb kit of G.Skill Pi series which often struggles to run at 1600mhz.
The drives are pretty mix matched, but from the bottom it has a junk Team Group 120gb, a WD RE4 500gb that's not too old and above it is a Dec-2015 Toshiba that last week only had 15 power cycles and 111 hours when I picked both of those out of the $5 stack at the computer recycling place. Then there's a 1TB Seagate Baracuda that's pretty led a boring life. Above that is a 4TB Ironwolf that has been in my computer for a couple years storing my Plex library, then at the top is a 8TB WD Elements shuck that I just got for $127 off newegg for this build since my 4TB is getting small.
Eventually I'll phase them all out for more 8tb drives but I think it first needs a power supply that connectors don't break when you bend them and isn't considered trash tier along with nice some fans which aren't 8 year old sleeve bearing fans which make tons of noise.
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