Why the f*ck not? - a bad ideas only build, by Mussels!

R-T-B · Jul 17, 2020

lexluthermiester said:
Oh damn. Down side of silicon lottery...

Or that PSU...

Mussels · Jul 17, 2020

R-T-B said:
Or that PSU...

nah, that CPU was in my 2700x rig for a long time and had the same limits there

Mussels · Jul 20, 2020

Updates!

I got the antec PSU back from a friend, it was rattly! Lets remove the sticker and put some lubricant in there...

Oh. well lets try anyway, because thats the point of this thread

Well, f*ck.
At this point i went to buy an 80mm fan for the PSU off facebook marketplace, but ended up with an entire haul of shit for just $20

Five Thermaltake RGB fans (missing some needed cables for their shitty controllers), DDR3 ram, GTX 780?!? two 80mm xigmatek fans and a xigmatek 115x cooler

Swapped the fan over, PSU success! needs to be externally powered since the internal header cant run this fan at idle for some reason, so i switched to the facebook special

I spent 15 minutes jamming all that spaghetti in, wedging the PSU cover over the top and hearing a goddamn rattle. Ripped the ENTIRE THING APART AGAIN

Mother. F*cking. Dust. Bunnies. Oh and bits of plastic. And some bark. Y'know, why the f*ck not?

Put liquid metal on the GPU (you're catching on to my bad ideas now, aren't you?) and got some nice load temps (64C, hard to read sorry)

And of course the obligatory wall power reading, being power hungry older gen hardware... honestly not too bad. With Vsync on, it'd be a lot less.

biffzinker · Jul 20, 2020

Mussels said:
even 1.45V wont get higher than that

I must have lucked out then.

Mussels · Jul 20, 2020

all that fuckery, ended up with one beast of a system

Fleetwire · Jul 20, 2020

RGB alone would make me consider any system a disgrace but this, this is art

~~closed front panel aaaagh~~

Chrispy_ · Jul 20, 2020

Fleetwire said:
RGB alone would make me consider any system a disgrace but this, this is art

~~closed front panel aaaagh~~

Indeed. Satire is art

Mussels · Jul 21, 2020

Oh dont worry it came WITH a mesh front panel... but i swapped it

rtwjunkie · Jul 21, 2020

phill said:
And why the ^%"6 not??

Are you using it like this and setting it on fire with the WCG crunching or are you holding back for a little bit??

I’m late to this, but that is the funniest build story I have seen!! :roll:

Nice to see such dedication to the “because I can” build!

Mussels · Jul 21, 2020

i've had 4 local people ask to buy the system and a 5th (my dad) wanting the same case and more RGB fans for his

I cant help but feel this is the best/worst system i've ever made

Fleetwire · Jul 21, 2020

Mussels said:
Oh dont worry it came WITH a mesh front panel... but i swapped it

the horror

phill · Jul 21, 2020

Mussels said:
i've had 4 local people ask to buy the system and a 5th (my dad) wanting the same case and more RGB fans for his

I cant help but feel this is the best/worst system i've ever made

Such thread is full of awesome. I love it

lexluthermiester · Jul 21, 2020

Mussels said:
Oh dont worry it came WITH a mesh front panel... but i swapped it

Oh my... Swap it back!

R-T-B · Jul 21, 2020

lexluthermiester said:
Oh my... Swap it back!

Don't tell him what to do!

Mussels, I demand a video of yourself somehow burning your house down as a result of this, and screaming "FREEDOM!"

Oops, I just told you what to do. Sorry. Be free, freeloader.

robot zombie · Jul 22, 2020

Mussels said:
i've had 4 local people ask to buy the system and a 5th (my dad) wanting the same case and more RGB fans for his

I cant help but feel this is the best/worst system i've ever made

Ahaha, when I was doing builds for people, some of those people REALLY tempted me to give them something like this, just because it's basically what they asked for and they didn't like me explaining why it might not be what they want in the end.

But no... I had to be nice and talk them down from it. I'm not strong like you... I can't build on that level. I can think of one person in particular who would definitely buy this off of you if I offered it to him. I will never do another build for him again. Though if I do, maybe we can work something out... with your skills and all. I never would've thought to swap-out the mesh. You're a revolutionary among mollusks.

Mussels · Jul 22, 2020

Next bad idea: LAP THAT BITCH

I used half the clamshell packaging to make it a ton easier to do

Lapped, installed, f*ck i'm out of thermal paste... used the dregs of a years old tube i found until new stuff arrives in the mail

Oh and OF COURSE A PIN SNAPPED OFF AND STAYED IN THE SOCKET

(its not as dirty as it looks, that was dust/debris from the sanding)

phill · Jul 22, 2020

You're really not having much luck with this are you @Mussels ?

ne6togadno · Jul 22, 2020

Mussels said:
Oh and OF COURSE A PIN SNAPPED OFF AND STAYED IN THE SOCKET

man you have special perk for this!
i've used only socketed cpus since my very first pc in 486 era and i had cpus pulled out of the socket together with cooler, had bend pins on cpu but never had pin snapped off.
this is master lvl 999+ :respect:

Chomiq · Jul 22, 2020

Is it because of the stock cooler being pita to remove or what?

Mussels · Jul 22, 2020

The CPU works just fine leaving the pin where it is, and i have no idea why it snapped off - i ran cinebench to warm the paste up etc and had no issues... until i flipped it over and realised
I've taken to putting printed labels in the cases warning me to not remove the damn CPU's

When my new paste arrives i'ma actually do some temp testing, and probably lap my 3700x as well (keeping all its pins i hope)

Using half the clamshell casing for the CPU made this so much easier/safer for the pins

IMG_20200722_160533_exported_stabilized_3759875444160798813.gif

ne6togadno · Jul 22, 2020

next time try to add some cotton (or some packing foam) on the bottom of the shell and then place cpu in it. this should prevent dust from sanding to go between pins and save you some time for cleaning.

Mussels · Jul 22, 2020

The only thing i can think of is i got liquid metal next to the socket once on a previous mobo, both the 2700x and 1400 were used in that board. maybe some LM weakened the pins?

ne6togadno · Jul 22, 2020

Gallium attacks most other metals by diffusing into the metal lattice. For example, it diffuses into the grain boundaries of aluminium-zinc alloys [8] and steel,[9] making them very brittle.

Gallium - Wikipedia

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Skywalker12345 · Jul 22, 2020

Mussels said:
I COULD have used the rusty ass case in the garage, but i figured the RGB would let it run 4K stable

I can attest my new RGB fans caused my framerates to jump 10%

lexluthermiester · Jul 22, 2020

Mussels said:
The only thing i can think of is i got liquid metal next to the socket once on a previous mobo, both the 2700x and 1400 were used in that board. maybe some LM weakened the pins?

Entirely possible.

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System Name	Rainbow Sparkles (Power efficient, <350W gaming load)
Processor	Ryzen R7 5800x3D (Undervolted, 4.45GHz all core)
Motherboard	Asus x570-F (BIOS Modded)
Cooling	Alphacool Apex UV - Alphacool Eisblock XPX Aurora + EK Quantum ARGB 3090 w/ active backplate
Memory	2x32GB DDR4 3600 Corsair Vengeance RGB @3866 C18-22-22-22-42 TRFC704 (1.4V Hynix MJR - SoC 1.15V)
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Case	Fractal Design R6
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Power Supply	Fractal Ion+ 2 860W (Platinum) (This thing is God-tier. Silent and TINY)
Mouse	Logitech G Pro wireless + Steelseries Prisma XL
Keyboard	Razer Huntsman TE ( Sexy white keycaps)
VR HMD	Oculus Rift S + Quest 2
Software	Windows 11 pro x64 (Yes, it's genuinely a good OS) OpenRGB - ditch the branded bloatware!
Benchmark Scores	Nyooom.

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Storage	2TB WD SN850 NVME + 1TB Sasmsung 970 Pro NVME + 1TB Intel 6000P NVME USB 3.2
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Case	Fractal Design R6
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Mouse	Logitech G Pro wireless + Steelseries Prisma XL
Keyboard	Razer Huntsman TE ( Sexy white keycaps)
VR HMD	Oculus Rift S + Quest 2
Software	Windows 11 pro x64 (Yes, it's genuinely a good OS) OpenRGB - ditch the branded bloatware!
Benchmark Scores	Nyooom.

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Gallium - Wikipedia

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Mouse	Corsair thingy
Keyboard	Razer something or other....
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