Your PC ATM

[Spektre]

First thing, Khemist, I'm in love with that interior. Subtly is everything.

Now on to my "baby's first RGB obnoxious light show"

Nothing major, mounted the TV on a wall-mount (while kicking myself for not getting a VESA mount monitor) and cleaned up more of the cables under the graphics card. I'm trying to tone down the lighting with black electrical tape, wanting a softer ambient glow. (inb4 take out the light strips) Obviously effect not achieved, and I'm too lazy to take stuff apart right now. Asus Aura software sucks and has like, no brightness options if you want rainbow or color cycles. Try as I might, I cannot get the USB 3 cable to click into the header and I'm terrified of damaging the motherboard. Halp.

 

[khemist]

 

[HammerON]

Very nice

 

[khemist]

Cheers!.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

what a stonking picture........thankyou.

 

[cadaveca]

I'm slowly working my way through all of the CPUs that Intel sent me for X299 (It's a lot of CPUs). As many of you should be aware, Intel sent out 7820X CPUs to all us reviewers at about the same time AMD sent out the ThreadRipper samples. AMD decided TPU didn't need TR samples, so naturally I'm playing with the other side these days. The reason that was given by AMD is hilarious. They are scared.

Intel's X299 comes with mega bandwidth compared to past platforms. 3600 MHz, when tweaked fully can give 100000 MB/s, but latency is a bit higher than past platforms. This is of no consequence due to the new cache design on these SkyLake-X CPUs, fortunately. The screenshot below is XMP settings with a boost to CPU clocks, and maybe a bit of cache speed adjudtments.

I had to restart all my testing over when my Dell 3008WFP monitor decided to crap out after a decade. Ah well, guess it's time to move to 4K.


Still tweaking!

 

[khemist]

Very nice, i'd love to get one of those cpus to play around with, really don't need it though.

 

[cadaveca]

Way more easy to play with speeds on everything compared to X99, and far more refined than anything AMD has on offer. Running the 7900X for board reviews, got another 7900X collecting dust since I'm done with that one, got the KabyLake-X chips to play with as well as do some memory reviews with.

running 3600 MHz memory and above without any voltage increases to SA and IO domains is crazy, and seeing the voltages a good bit lower than X99 for those domains is nice too. All the "VRMs overheat" crap is just that... crap.

however, Mr khemist, you get a lot of hardware to play with that I'd love to have too.

 

[scoutingwraith]

So this is my new toy at work \o/.

 

[khemist]

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

The reason that was given by AMD is hilarious. They are scared.

What?

They actually said they are scared?

 

[dorsetknob]

so naturally I'm playing with the other side these days. The reason that was given by AMD is hilarious. They are scared.

Sorry Dave But that's an Answer i would expect from Cough/splutter/choke Fanboy

Expected Better From You

 

[cadaveca]

What?

They actually said they are scared?

That's not what I said, was it, but now YOU interpreted what I posted, right?

I mean, OK we both speak English... but not the same English, I guess. Meh.

Sorry Dave But that's an Answer i would expect from Cough/splutter/choke Fanboy

Expected Better From You

Ha! I expected AMD to send W1zz CPUs, no matter what. I don't do CPU reviews... he does.


So if you mean a fanboy of W1zz, oh yeah, you bet 1000%. I really wanted to read his TR review.

Never feed the trolls.

 

[brian111]

That's not what I said, was it, but now YOU interpreted what I posted, right?

I mean, OK we both speak English... but not the same English, I guess. Meh.



Ha! I expected AMD to send W1zz CPUs, no matter what. I don't do CPU reviews... he does.


So if you mean a fanboy of W1zz, oh yeah, you bet 1000%. I really wanted to read his TR review.

Never feed the trolls.

It really sounds like you are disappointed that you didn't personally get Threadripper and taking it out on other people (and AMD).

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

That's not what I said, was it, but now YOU interpreted what I posted, right?

I mean, OK we both speak English... but not the same English, I guess. Meh.



Ha! I expected AMD to send W1zz CPUs, no matter what. I don't do CPU reviews... he does.


So if you mean a fanboy of W1zz, oh yeah, you bet 1000%. I really wanted to read his TR review.

Never feed the trolls.

You said they were scared.
I simply asked for clarification.


I speak the Queens English with a Welsh twang.

 

[cadaveca]

It really sounds like you are disappointed that you didn't personally get Threadripper and taking it out on other people (and AMD).

I don't pay for hardware; if it is not sent to me by an OEM, TPU pays for it. I know how it might have sounded, but that could not be further from the truth, fortunate for me. It's the most funny thing ever that people don't think about that side of it, honestly. TPU is a business, hardware is a business expense, and a write-off. That means that for me, it's all 100% free.

You really have no idea how much I enjoy what I do, for precisely that reason. If I want it, and have a true need for it, it's mine, and I don't take advantage of that, either, so I always get what I want.

You said they were scared.
I simply asked for clarification.


I speak the Queens English with a Welsh twang.

Heh. Well, to clarify then, that's not what they said, but it really does seem that they are. I'm in shock about it all, if anything. Like whut!?! They didn't send W1zz CPUs!?! But they did send him GPUs.

Like for all I know, He turned them down....

 

[khemist]

Sounds like a great job to me!.

 

[therealmeep]

I splurged last week/this weekend and spent wayy too much. First I made my order in bitcoin from newegg for a Thermaltake Core X9 because my CM HAF XB was getting too cramped with my 1080ti in it, and in this new case it looks so tiny. I had to go into micro center for a rebuild of my arcade machine (which is coming up) with a pentium G4400 8GB DDR4 and an msi z170 mate, but I also picked up an EK X360 kit, some uv cathodes, uv coolant, and some different angle fittings. The reservoir in this kit decided to be a total asshole and leak twice because of some plastic in the O rings for the plugs (2 of em) but after setting all this up it looks great! I ordered a block for my 1080ti and am planning to plumb that guy in next weekend, but for my first custom loop I'd say so far everything's gone pretty well... I am planning to take some pics of this rig when my GPU block gets plumbed in.

 

[khemist]

Ordered a block for my FTW3, so much for going air cooling.

 

[the54thvoid]

Ordered a block for my FTW3, so much for going air cooling.

Frankly appalled you stayed so long on air.... I'm using the best block I've ever owned, Heatkiller IV. Just silly and no air bubble traps either (like my 980ti Bitspower block had).

 

[khemist]

I had a 1080ti with a Heatkiller block, then a Palit jetstream, Asus poseidon and now a FTW3 with another block.

I just wish Watercool done a block for it but they don't so went for EK.

I've only been on air for a short while.

 

[Kanan]

Promised a long time ago and now finally here's my PC with new GPU installed, nothing too fancy :

 

[phanbuey]

Promised a long time ago and now finally here's my PC with new GPU installed, nothing too fancy :

I love that case - like the clean build.

 

[Kanan]

I love that case - like the clean build.

Thank you, that was my intention, I like simplicity. Where's your case at? Not sure I already saw it

 

[phanbuey]

rebuilding tomorrow... I will post it when done...

If you go back to page 154 this was my old e8500 (penryn) build - still my favorite case of all time. Half Life 2 themed build.

im rocking a s340 elite atm with an AIO so quite a downgrade but so much less hassle and stuff to deal with... im with you on the simplicity.