What's your latest tech purchase?

[Ruru]

Nah, highly doubt it as eVGA seems to be fixated on nVidia and Intel, their loss for not looking into AMD motherboard.

Meanwhile, my last piece of kit came, a vertical mouse....cheap one at that.

I haven't tried it for games yet, still getting a feel for it, it does take a bit of adjustment.....I'm an old dog, so learning new tricks is hard. I feel a 'disconnect' in action when I use it, I'm so used to pressing down on the L/R button to see the action completed that when I press the L/R clicker/key on this vertical mouse, it feels weird, like it ain't 'natural' to see the action on screen completed with a click down, instead of sideway.....something like that. Also, due to my dainty hands, I can reach the 'Back' key easily enough, but I need to adjust my hold of the mouse to favor my thumb forward a little to use the 'Forward' button. It's a minor niggle for me as I seldom use the 'Forward' button.

Since it's for my gaming rig, it has to be RGB, I cannot get a non-RGB mouse as I'd lose my gaming 'creds'....

True dat, IIRC they've never made an AMD board... that mouse looks hella weird.

 

[E-curbi]

New kit to play around with.


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That's a sweet TZ Royal Silver kit man, looking nice. Download the Gskill lighting software (below) and move that flashing rainbow default setting to a nice sooooothing stable color OR turn lighting off if you want to. lol

Download - Trident Z / Trident Z5 / Ripjaws M5 RGB Family Lighting Control Software - G.SKILL International Enterprise Co., Ltd.

www.gskill.com

Got my (2) modules set up in static blue - blends with my AMD video card and the blue PWR Vandal switches and Supermicro drive rack blue SSD activity leds on the front panel.

White also looks very nice...

 

[oxrufiioxo]

That's a sweet TZ Royal Silver kit man, looking nice. Download the Gskill lighting software (below) and move that flashing rainbow default setting to a nice sooooothing stable color OR turn lighting off if you want to. lol

Download - Trident Z / Trident Z5 / Ripjaws M5 RGB Family Lighting Control Software - G.SKILL International Enterprise Co., Ltd.

www.gskill.com

Got my (2) modules set up in static blue - blends with my AMD video card and the blue PWR Vandal switches and Supermicro drive rack blue SSD activity leds on the front panel.

White also looks very nice...

That Looks pretty sweet. I currently just have it synced with the mobo and video card color cycling..... Been too busy with work to mess around with it much.


The Trfc on this kit is pretty shit... Can't complain I got it for free nothing beats that lol.

 

[E-curbi]

That Looks pretty sweet. I currently just have it synced with the mobo and video card color cycling..... Been too busy with work to mess around with it much.

The Trfc on this kit is pretty shit... Can't complain I got it for free nothing beats that lol.

Hey, ya got a really good price on that Royal Silver kit.

I know almost nothing about ddr4 overclocking - had some basic help from (2) engineer friends of mine, then learned to navigate the Z390 Dark bios memory section on my own for tinkering with values. My CPU's IMC will run the XMP 4600/18 profile just fine but honestly, it feels kinda sluggish - this daily OC below feels much more responsive.

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Got bios screenshots backed-up so can reproduce all the secondary and tertiary timings, that allow this to happen - it wasn't easy took many hours, believe my CPU is maxed out, the better 9900KS chips some of my friends are running have much better IMCs than my 8086K from 2018.

Otherwise, it's an awesome processor, can't complain...

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Hey, ya got a really good price on that Royal Silver kit.

I know almost nothing about ddr4 overclocking - had some basic help from (2) engineer friends of mine, then learned to navigate the Z390 Dark bios memory section on my own for tinkering with values. My CPU's IMC will run the XMP 4600/18 profile just fine but honestly, it feels kinda sluggish - this daily OC below feels much more responsive.

4500 17-17-17-37

Got bios screenshots backed-up so can reproduce all the secondary and tertiary timings, that allow this to happen - it wasn't easy took many hours, believe my CPU is maxed out, the better 9900KS chips some of my friends are running have much better IMCs than my 8086K from 2018.

Otherwise, it's an awesome processor, can't complain...

Not bad for XMP though......

 

[Splinterdog]

NVMe, finally.
I couldn't stretch to 1TB because the loony tunes prices down here.
I'll be doing a clean Windows install and then watch my rig fly out of the room.

 

[TheLostSwede]

NVMe, finally.
I couldn't stretch to 1TB because the loony tunes prices down here.
I'll be doing a clean Windows install and then watch my rig fly out of the room.
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Got the previous gen and they seem to be pretty solid drives.

 

[E-curbi]

Another magical pouch filled with wonder and amazement!

Actually, it's only filled with a power supply.

Man, that felt pouch sure did arrive super-dusty from the factory, glad I'm not installing the pouch - sheesh.

It's a cute little thing.

 

[tabascosauz]

@oxrufiioxo tRFC is high because XMP is 2T. CR2T doubles the tRFC that you "see" in BIOS. If you can get it stable at 1T or Geardown + 1T at those timings, I have a feeling you'll be able to come down quite a bit in tRFC. If you have a good kit, shouldn't be too much a challenge to almost halve tRFC from what it is now.

Gorgeous kits all around, y'all.

 

[cucker tarlson]

@oxrufiioxo tRFC is high because XMP is 2T. CR2T doubles the tRFC that you "see" in BIOS. If you can get it stable at 1T or Geardown + 1T at those timings, I have a feeling you'll be able to come down quite a bit in tRFC. If you have a good kit, shouldn't be too much a challenge to almost halve tRFC from what it is now.

Gorgeous kits all around, y'all.

I gotta get around to cr1 tweaking

 

[E-curbi]

@oxrufiioxo tRFC is high because XMP is 2T. CR2T doubles the tRFC that you "see" in BIOS. If you can get it stable at 1T or Geardown + 1T at those timings, I have a feeling you'll be able to come down quite a bit in tRFC. If you have a good kit, shouldn't be too much a challenge to almost halve tRFC from what it is now.

Gorgeous kits all around, y'all.

My mobo or bios or mem kit doesn't do 1T. Tried everything. I can only run 2T, not sure why. (headscratcher)

Here's a size comparison image PX-500 vs TX-700, 140mm vs 170mm respectively.

This little unit is short.

 

[tabascosauz]

My mobo or bios or mem kit doesn't do 1T. Tried everything. I can only run 2T, not sure why. (headscratcher)

Here's a size comparison image PX-500 vs TX-700, 140mm vs 170mm respectively.

This little unit is short.

...and it's dusty as hell Seasonic, what's going on? Oh, maybe that's our dust, packing up the office into boxes.

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Wait I'm an idiot. GDM doesn't exist on Intel lol.

2T is just a lot easier and more stable if 1T isn't. Past a certain freq 2T is pretty much necessary anyways, but I've seen some high freq results without 2T or GDM before.

 

[E-curbi]

Wait I'm an idiot. GDM doesn't exist on Intel lol.
2T is just a lot easier and more stable if 1T isn't. Past a certain freq 2T is pretty much necessary anyways, but I've seen some high freq results without 2T or GDM before.

Not in this lifetime - lol

Installing the PX-500 was easy, that's what a test bench is all about.

This sku is so short doesn't even cover up the Dimastech PSU ventilation holes on the bottom of the pull-out drawer. lol Don't think I'll have any overheating issues.

Mounted a Sammy 850 EVO SATA SSD to the right side of the Blackout Bench - looks pretty cool.

 

[Splinterdog]

That's insane!

Installing Windows tomorrow will probably take less time than it does to make a cup of tea. It's all the rest that will take a few hours.
Still, I'm due for a clean install and what better way than a shiny new NVMe?

 

[mouacyk]

If I was due for a clean install, I'd hook straight into Skynet not Micro$oft.

 

[Valantar]

That's insane!
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Installing Windows tomorrow will probably take less time than it does to make a cup of tea. It's all the rest that will take a few hours.
Still, I'm due for a clean install and what better way than a shiny new NVMe?

Compare 4kq1t1 numbers instead, those have much more of an effect on system responsiveness and day-to-day performance.

 

[theonek]

installing win10 on nvme from usb3 flash drive takes around 3-4 minutes to desktop.

 

[cucker tarlson]

installing win10 on nvme from usb3 flash drive takes around 3-4 minutes to desktop.

even on sata ssd

flash read on usb stick will bottleneck even a qlc sata drive

 

[E-curbi]

That's insane!
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Installing Windows tomorrow will probably take less time than it does to make a cup of tea. It's all the rest that will take a few hours.
Still, I'm due for a clean install and what better way than a shiny new NVMe?

Congrats on going NVMe.

If you want some really fast Win 10 installs, can always repurpose an Optane 32GB NVMe M.2 drive - mount it into an ICY BOX IB-1817Ma-C31 external NVMe M.2 enclosure.

Here's the link:

IB-1817Ma-C31

To avoid most bottlenecks - install FROM Optane NVMe M.2 TO Optane NVMe PCIe card as your primary OS drive.

Optane to Optane is superfast installs.

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Disclaimer: NO, I didn't buy an Optane M.2 module simply for Win 10 installations. lol That would be silly.

I got (2) of the Optane 32GB M.2 drives way back in Spring 2017, about $75each and created a RAID 0 drive on the Apex X DIMM.2 riser card, since that was the ONLY way to get into Optane at that time.

Repurposed one Optane M.2 module as a benchmarking drive and the other (this one) as a Windows 10 reformatting drive, cuz why not? It was just hanging around doing nothing. lol

Anyway, this enclosure below acts as an incredibly efficient passive heatsink (yes it gets very warm during operation). Only modification I made was instead of the thermal tape they included in the box - I had some Thermal Grizzly Minus Pad 8 at 0.5mm thickness leftover from the RAID M.2 install so used some of that Der8auer material (in the foreground - photo below).

 

[cucker tarlson]

Damn it really is quiet
Copying data at 165mbs you cant really hear the usual constants thrashing,but more like subtle clicking.
Pretty snappy when it comes to power on to ready time,and platters spinning at 5900 are super quiet for a hdd

 

[P4-630]

Damn it really is quiet
Copying data at 165mbs you cant really hear the usual constants thrashing,but more like subtle clicking.
Pretty snappy when it comes to power on to ready time,and platters spinning at 5900 are super quiet for a hdd

But that "REDMI 7 AI DUAL CAMERA" really sucks.....

 

[cucker tarlson]

really ? does ayone even notice that ?

 

[Splinterdog]

Congrats on going NVMe.

If you want some really fast Win 10 installs, can always repurpose an Optane 32GB NVMe M.2 drive - mount it into an ICY BOX IB-1817Ma-C31 external NVMe M.2 enclosure.

Here's the link:

IB-1817Ma-C31

To avoid most bottlenecks - install FROM Optane NVMe M.2 TO Optane NVMe PCIe card as your primary OS drive.

Optane to Optane is superfast installs.

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Disclaimer: NO, I didn't buy an Optane M.2 module simply for Win 10 installations. lol That would be silly.

I got (2) of the Optane 32GB M.2 drives way back in Spring 2017, about $75each and created a RAID 0 drive on the Apex X DIMM.2 riser card, since that was the ONLY way to get into Optane at that time.

Repurposed one Optane M.2 module as a benchmarking drive and the other (this one) as a Windows 10 reformatting drive, cuz why not? It was just hanging around doing nothing. lol

Anyway, this enclosure below acts as an incredibly efficient passive heatsink (yes it gets very warm during operation). Only modification I made was instead of the thermal tape they included in the box - I had some Thermal Grizzly Minus Pad 8 at 0.5mm thickness leftover from the RAID M.2 install so used some of that Der8auer material (in the foreground - photo below).

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Thanks for the reply and yes, NVMe is incredibly fast and Windows installed in under 5 minutes.
Optane in Argentina? A luxury that other options take priority over. Like beer, for example.

 

[cucker tarlson]

That's insane!
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Installing Windows tomorrow will probably take less time than it does to make a cup of tea. It's all the rest that will take a few hours.
Still, I'm due for a clean install and what better way than a shiny new NVMe?

yes but 4k random is what matters anyway

sequential transfer - you'll run into other bottlenecks anyway (cache size,temperature,source/destination speed).to illustrate,not even the pcie gen4 drive can sustain 1000mb/s over a longer period in ideal conditions

5000mb/s - fuggedaboudit

 

[E-curbi]

Thanks for the reply and yes, NVMe is incredibly fast and Windows installed in under 5 minutes.
Optane in Argentina? A luxury that other options take priority over. Like beer, for example.

With all those many beautiful Argentinean women running around - who needs Optane SSDs? lol

Wish I could have some beer, darn it!

I hate having to act smart while I work. Sometimes I just want to get drunk and be stupid.

...Maybe the grandparents can take the 3.95yr old this weekend, and mommy and daddy can get sloshed. lolol

The gf is Spanish and Greek and Italian and Irish and absolutely delicious at 138pounds. They are both still sleeping.