Sexy Hardware Close-Up Pic Clubhouse.

stinger608 · Nov 2, 2016

cadaveca said:
This isn't for a review, really. This is for my own uses. I'll have to get approval from W1zz to post results as a review.

That said, doing board and CPU reviews means that I have to change cooler often, and I tend to go through a lot of paste, so these sort of tube sizes aren't big enough for me. Since I started board reviews here I have gone through 5 of those huge MX2/MX4 tubes. So I don't care about performance of a paste that much... I care about affordability. So these pastes were had at a very low price, which is why I have them in the first place. I basically paid $50 for all this paste ('cause shipping; none of these are carried by local retailers). Find me a killer deal on Thermal Grizzly and I might pick some up.

Looking at packaging, that coolmaster paste has the best W/m.K rating, so I am expecting it to do well. The GELID pastes do not have such info on their packaging.

Dave, you should contact one of the big TIM manufacturers of your choice and see if they will sponsor your paste for doing the motherboard and chip reviews. Just tell them/promise them that you will put a mention with link in the reviews.

That would most likely save ya some fair bucks over a years time.

Back in the early 2000's when I was doing board reviews I contacted Arctic and they sent me a huge box of Arctic Silver thermal compound. All I had to do was state that I was using their product and make the mention a link.

Heck, I still have an almost full tube of Arctic Silver 5. LOL Probably isn't any good anymore.

fredz77 · Nov 15, 2016

Enjoy!

cadaveca · Nov 15, 2016

Morohoshi-style.

khemist · Nov 16, 2016

My CM Masterkeys Pro S.

emissary42 · Nov 20, 2016

t_ski · Nov 21, 2016

emissary42 said:

More please!

Maban · Nov 21, 2016

I've been sitting on these for a few months, debating whether to post them because of the dust. They are just too good not to share considering they were taken by a crappy 10+ year old point and shoot camera.

t_ski · Nov 23, 2016

Not a super-awesome shot, but I'll just drop this here:

Ninety-six 16GB DDR3 EEC sticks. Yes, that's 1.472 TB of ram.

stinger608 · Nov 23, 2016

Holy crap @t_ski , where in the world did you come up with that lot bro!!!!!!!???????

Next question: How many are you sending me? :laugh:

sneekypeet · Nov 23, 2016

New toy has arrived....

t_ski · Nov 24, 2016

stinger608 said:
Holy crap @t_ski , where in the world did you come up with that lot bro!!!!!!!???????

Next question: How many are you sending me?

I was decommissioning six ESXi hosts (dual E5-2680 v1 with 256GB of ram. I ended up using most of it to boot the ram in some other ESXi hosts up to their max, which was 384GB. Took the ram load % down to a more reasonable number. Five of those hosts were replaced by four Lenovo x240 m5 compute nodes with dual E5-1640 v4 chips and 256GB of ram, so it's all win. The sixth host ended up going back into service as my ESXi test host, which will probably end up going vSphere 6.5 in the next week or two. Got a few other issues to work out before I get there.

Remember that 38.4TB of flash I posted a few weeks ago? i haz toyz :pimp:

Jetster · Nov 26, 2016

Ran some Benchmarks just for fun. Heaven 4.0 Score 988 That's higher than my GTX 670 less than a GTX 770

RealNeil · Nov 26, 2016

DDR3-2400 RAM

khemist · Nov 28, 2016

M.2 adapter.

t_ski · Nov 28, 2016

khemist said:
M.2 adapter.

First photo is broken - site says it was deleted

khemist · Nov 28, 2016

There now, it's just the box though.

khemist · Nov 30, 2016

Just about to clone over my 850 now.

emissary42 · Dec 3, 2016

jboydgolfer · Dec 3, 2016

khemist said:
M.2 adapter.

Those are some great pics, fantastic lighting

RealNeil · Dec 5, 2016

He approves,.........

peche · Dec 5, 2016

emissary42 said:

which board is it?

emissary42 · Dec 5, 2016

peche said:
which board is it?

This one: ECS Z77H2-AX

peche · Dec 5, 2016

emissary42 said:
This one: ECS Z77H2-AX

ultra nice board, checked some specs and liked a lot!

Regards,

GreiverBlade · Dec 5, 2016

now my GTX 1070 Armor make me wish i took a Z170X Gaming 7 instead of a 5 ... that or a MSI Z170 Krait or Carbon ...
(Carbon more related to my case )

maybe i can find some of that on second hand and get it fitted on the Gaming 5 :laugh:

peche · Dec 5, 2016

i like a lot that new generation of motherboards offers a shild covering back ports or panel, that was pretty forgotten area over older video cards, aesthetics there is the best improvement!
lol

System Name	2023 Ryzenfall
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Case	Corsair Air 540
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Power Supply	Seasonic modular 850 watt Platinum
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System Name	Spectrus77-M
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Mouse	CM Storm Xornet
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Processor	9700k
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Mouse	Steelseries Prime wireless
Keyboard	Coolermaster Masterkeys S
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Sexy Hardware Close-Up Pic Clubhouse.

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

fredz77

cadaveca

My name is Dave

khemist

emissary42

t_ski

Former Staff

Maban

t_ski

Former Staff

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

sneekypeet

not-so supermod

t_ski

Former Staff

Jetster

RealNeil

khemist

t_ski

Former Staff

khemist

khemist

emissary42

jboydgolfer

RealNeil

peche

Thermaltake fanboy

emissary42

peche

Thermaltake fanboy

GreiverBlade

peche

Thermaltake fanboy

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Processor	Intel i7 13700K
Motherboard	Asus ROG Maximus Z690 HERO EVA Edition
Cooling	ASUS ROG Ryujin III 360 with Noctua Industrial Fans
Memory	PAtriot Viper Elite RGB 96GB @ 6000MHz.
Video Card(s)	Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3090 24GB OC EVA Edition
Storage	Addlink S95 M.2 PCIe GEN 4x4 2TB
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Keyboard	ROG STRIX Scope TKL Electro Punk
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Mouse	G903 and a Master Mouse MM710/No mouse, MS game copntroller
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Case	NZXT Source 540 & Rosewill Rise Chassis
Audio Device(s)	onboard
Power Supply	Corsair RM1000 & Corsair RM850
Mouse	Generic
Keyboard	Razer Blackwidow Tournament & Corsair K90
Software	Win-10 Professional
Benchmark Scores	yes

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Processor	i7-11700K
Motherboard	Asrock Z590 Extreme wifi 6E
Cooling	Noctua NH-U12A
Memory	32GB Corsair RGB fancy boi 5000
Video Card(s)	RTX 3090 Reference
Storage	Samsung 970 Evo 1Tb + Samsung 970 Evo 500Gb
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Case	Fractal Design Meshify-C
Audio Device(s)	on board
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Mouse	Logitech G502 spectrum
Keyboard	AZIO MGK-1 RGB (Kaith Blue)
Software	Win 10 Professional 64 bit
Benchmark Scores	the MLGeesiest

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Processor	intel i7 3770 Dellided
Motherboard	GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 Rev. 1.1
Cooling	Thermaltake Water 3.0 Pro + Tt Riing12 x2 / Tt ThunderBlade / Gelid Slim 120UV fans
Memory	16GB DRR3 Kingoston with Custom Tt spreaders + HyperX Fan
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