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Love my Enthoo Pro M SE
Still in progress, just picked up some 3ways to help with a few runs for my loop

 

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Be careful with that liquid metal. Its typically best used if you delid your CPU. It also usually requires a thin coat and not used like typical thermal paste. Liquid metal is conductive and if it seeps off the CPU and onto your motherboard, you WILL have a bad time.
i chickened out at the last second, and just used noctua thermal paste lol
 

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Even came with white cotton gloves for assembling the chair heheh :) Excellent support; the lumbar is adjustable up and down easily. the neck support not so much, but set it where I want it, tilt where I need it, and I'm set :)

love it!!

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I had to orient the pump head upside down & my OCD is driving me crazy over that.

This case is rated as a mid ATX tower, so was my Phanteks enthoo proM, but a word of advice to anyone considering this case it is very small I would say micro ATX or as small as you could get without being ITX

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That would also drive me crazy!! As much as I stare at your pic though,I fail to see why it wont fit the other way???? Is it a hose length problem???
 
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That would also drive me crazy!! As much as I stare at your pic though,I fail to see why it wont fit the other way???? Is it a hose length problem???

To get it oriented the right way, I'd have to move the radiator so the tubing comes out from the bottom of the front bezel, and I don't want the tubing to have to go over the video card . The tubing is stiff enough where I'd have to wrench the hell out of it to get it to be right side up in its current orientation, and I just don't want to do that, o ill just leave it as is.

Aesthetically it's nicer the way I have it now because this particular cooler has four wires that come out of the pump head and the USB control for the RGB lighting would come out the bottom and id have to loop back up to the top, if I had it right side up. So that's another reason I dont mind it like this
 

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Games these days take so fucking much space..




And I know that I should clean my keyboard. :D
 
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I took a pic to show how Wildly different a Manufacturers take on a "Mid tower" can be....
On the bottom is a Phanteks Enthoo ProM Acryllic
On the top is a Fractal Design Meshify-C (clear-Ver.)
Both great Cases, and Great Looking (IMO) top quality, and good options....I would have liked the Fractal to be SLIGHTLY larger though.

 
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What do you do when you want to do some retro gaming on a konsol from your childhood?

A solution cut be this little fella. Now its time to rejoice some games from my childhood :D




 
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Hell yeah TomGang^ !

I do stil want an original Mega Drive 2 or GENESIS to you US folk.
 
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Hell yeah TomGang^ !

I do stil want an original Mega Drive 2 or GENESIS to you US folk.

Yeah that would be sweet to. But besides old nintendo consoles, it has al ways been Playstation for me (still have my PS2 and PS3 laying around. Trying to find a PS1 also). In the hole i have a weakness to old hardware. That also why i stil have X58 besides its still pretty great.

But i am not from US. Im from EU/Denmark.
 
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I do stil want an original Mega Drive 2 or GENESIS to you US folk.

i dont know where you reside, but here in the US, stores like "family Dollar" and "dollar tree" , which i would assume to be synonymous with Poundland sell genesis,. and other Classic 80's/90's consoles, in a miniature form factor, they come with the same (but cheaper controllers) and work Really no different from the originals, the one i got for my nephew a few years back was a genesis iirc, and was around $15.


just like this one, no cartridges either, their built into the Console ;)



 
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i dont know where you reside, but here in the US, stores like "family Dollar" and "dollar tree" , which i would assume to be synonymous with Poundland sell genesis,. and other Classic 80's/90's consoles, in a miniature form factor, they come with the same (but cheaper controllers) and work Really no different from the originals, the one i got for my nephew a few years back was a genesis iirc, and was around $15.

England i reside, it's more a case of i forget to look up the market for it because my concentration is other stuff like Playstation right now, still working on my PS3 which i modded :p
 

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What do you do when you want to do some retro gaming on a konsol from your childhood?

A solution cut be this little fella. Now its time to rejoice some games from my childhood :D




time to hack it!!! Need some Uncharted Waters 2, Ghengis Khan, Romance of the Three Kingdoms.....
 
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time to hack it!!! Need some Uncharted Waters 2, Ghengis Khan, Romance of the Three Kingdoms.....

Dont worry. I am al ready looking in to it.
 
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Hell yeah TomGang^ !

I do stil want an original Mega Drive 2 or GENESIS to you US folk.
Meh, screw Sega! I used to like that console, but then I realized that NES/SNES have soooo much better games. Tho I like still those old Phantasy Star games.. :)
 
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Snug as a bug.. Still a work in progress.
I believe this picture shows what @jboydgolfer doesn't like with the radiator.. Very similar build.
Just got the WD Black M2..
The case is so small I had to remove the GFX to get it in... I love small cramped spaces... LoL
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fun case to build in, isn't it? I wasn't kidding about the clearances though ,and when you look at your options ,there really isnt a better way to do it , other than radiator on front bezel ,fans between bezel and radiator, with a quarter of an inch to spare between video card and radiator :laugh:

It looks like I could've fit mine at the top ,but the tubing would've just been too bunched up ,and I didn't like that layout. It's a lot of computer in a very small space but somehow they managed to make it work because it's not cramped , & the only place you really run out of space is between the video card and the radiator (mounting on the front bezel) , otherwise its great. Did you end up using the solid-state drive mount on the back of the motherboard tray? I did, & it worked out really well. I just wish there was enough space to fit two 140/120 mm fans in between the front bezel & the case ,so the only thing inside of the actual case would've been the radiator, that's how I did my phanteks case ,& how i do it whenever theres room
 
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Most epic buy of the year??? maybe for myself..

Paid 10 pounds each.

Bought 2 non functioning PS3's from Cash converters. I landed a 60GB fat model with full PS2 backwards compatibility which are rare models now. It said it don't read any discs.
The other was an 80GB non PS2 fat model and they said it powers off when turning on.

I have stripped both inside out, cleaned and repasted them with AS5.

Upon turning on the 60GB PS3, it instantly reads any disc i throw at it.. epic fail by the store, epic win by me, not only scored a very hard to find PS3, but it is also modifiable which i have done and flashed it, then installed CFW Rebug 4.82 with Cobra support and ordered myself a Seagate Barracuda 2000GB HDD for it. This will be a multimedia/ gaming/ music machine for a whopping 10 pounds.

The 80GB one is less fortunate and i cannot fix it, i have ordered a PSU for it off Ebay and will see how it goes.

Images.

60GB rare PS3.

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Custom XMB etc (mods)

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Receipt as proof on top of both consoles sat under it.

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Great find there RECON! I love the PS3. I got one pretty late myself just last year from the 2nd market, my go to place always. I love getting "thrash" at a good price. I always wanted a PS3 but never able to afford it so seeing as how the price drop and getting having more pennies to spare I got one. Great time to grab them before their gone. I would have gotten more if i were not unemployed currently. I'll maybe show them.

You got a 2.5 inch drive for the PS3 right? It look like a 3.5 inch drive? I am pretty surprised that your 60GB work still, I have been looking for one myself but looking at how easily it failed I never got one, I would only consider it if it is new in box if that is even possible to find. FAT PS3 fail really easily. I got a 2nd hand 80GB where it cannot turn on, it turns on that shut off luckily the seller refunded me it was nice of him to give me the controllers. I disassembled it to see it really rusted inside. Clean the best I can using a metal scrub and repainting the plate, resoldering switch contacts. Put it back looking new. It works but only for 3 days before it failed turning of and turning off.

I would not put much hope for the 60GB for the age, still at 10 pounds hey still a great price.
 

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Processor Ryzen Threadripper 3970X
Motherboard Asus Zenith 2 Extreme Alpha
Cooling Lots!! Dual GTX 560 rads with D5 pumps for each rad. One rad for each component
Memory Viper Steel 4 x 16GB DDR4 3600MHz not sure on the timings... Probably still at 2667!! :(
Video Card(s) Asus Strix 3090 with front and rear active full cover water blocks
Storage I'm bound to forget something here - 250GB OS, 2 x 1TB NVME, 2 x 1TB SSD, 4TB SSD, 2 x 8TB HD etc...
Display(s) 3 x Dell 27" S2721DGFA @ 7680 x 1440P @ 144Hz or 165Hz - working on it!!
Case The big Thermaltake that looks like a Case Mods
Audio Device(s) Onboard
Power Supply EVGA 1600W T2
Mouse Corsair thingy
Keyboard Razer something or other....
VR HMD No headset yet
Software Windows 11 OS... Not a fan!!
Benchmark Scores I've actually never benched it!! Too busy with WCG and FAH and not gaming! :( :( Not OC'd it!! :(
I finally had a few toys turn up for my Dell Server today and finally got them fitted.. Already shown in the TPU WGC thread, so I'll use the same pics from there :)

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I already had the 2 X5650's but found the L5640's for sale cheap via China, so when they arrived and the heatsink for the R710 server, they just had to go in!! Will be crunching overnight to make sure everything is alright and stable..
Funded by the giveaways from the awesome crunching thread that the forum supports, so thought I'd put something back :) The two CPU's weren't too expensive, neither was the extra fan and heatsink, about £60 all in I think, for everything under £100 I believe..

Not sure how many of you like the server stuff, but I hope it put some smiles on peoples faces :)

I'd really like to get some air coolers now for my 2600k and 4770k since I'm not overclocking them much and I'd really like to ditch the H100i's I have.. Trouble is, I'm really not sure if air coolers will fit with the ram I've installed in them both :( Has anyone got any suggestions please?
 
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fun case to build in, isn't it? I wasn't kidding about the clearances though ,and when you look at your options ,there really isnt a better way to do it , other than radiator on front bezel ,fans between bezel and radiator, with a quarter of an inch to spare between video card and radiator :laugh:

It looks like I could've fit mine at the top ,but the tubing would've just been too bunched up ,and I didn't like that layout. It's a lot of computer in a very small space but somehow they managed to make it work because it's not cramped , & the only place you really run out of space is between the video card and the radiator (mounting on the front bezel) , otherwise its great. Did you end up using the solid-state drive mount on the back of the motherboard tray? I did, & it worked out really well. I just wish there was enough space to fit two 140/120 mm fans in between the front bezel & the case ,so the only thing inside of the actual case would've been the radiator, that's how I did my phanteks case ,& how i do it whenever theres room
Yes... I like em small...but accommodating.
I'm undecided... I may put both in the 3.5" bays... really depends on where I can stuff a Thermaltake fan hub I have on the way...
I like both options but its probably going to be decided by fan wire lengths.
 
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