What's your latest tech purchase?

[WhitetailAni]

Overclocking memory was so difficult for me in the beginning - then over time (just recently) it's become almost second nature and is PURE FUN! I avoided it for so many years and now I'm loving it! Actually only the last 6weeks did I really begin to enjoy it - spending so much time learning on my own. Previously, I either had some help ie: someone would send me some values to plug in and try OR I'd use a pre-configured bios OC profile provided by the motherboard manufacturer as a template and work from there.

I only removed my training wheels very recently, where now I feel pretty good overclocking ddr4 and fairly comfortable within the bios, and so wish I'd learned this so many years ago, my fault, but now it's absolutely AMAZING!

I decided to overclock my RAM over Spring Break. Looked up a guide on what voltages not to exceed, what you shouldn't raise or lower too much, then went straight for gold (3400 C14-14-14-31) on a mixed kit of B-die and Nanya Tech something... and failed.
Backed up a bit to 3333 C14-14-14-31... and failed.
Backed up more to 3333 C16-18-18-36 (default timings of the Nanya kit) and success.
So I tightened to 3333 C16-16-16-32 and that's where I've landed. Final timings are 3333 MT/s C16-16-16-32 tRC 48, RAM 1.4V, IMC 1.125V (otherwise the system only POSTs every other boot attempt). No errors with memtest86 overnight.

RAM overclocking is fun. I'm planning to do it on my AM3 system once I get my CPU overclock stable (my Phenom II X4 955 was running happily at 4.4 GHz with 2 cores disabled but now it just flat-out won't, I think I'll drop to 4.2 GHz and then go up from there)

 

[plastiscɧ]

Credit where credit is due: I might not agree with your tastes, but you're thorough and consistent, that's for sure!

Thanks mate!

i confess; i am an addicted member of the republic!
that goes all the way to the farthest corner and starts again at the front.

 

[Valantar]

Thanks mate!

i confess; i am an addicted member of the republic!
that goes all the way to the farthest corner and starts again at the front.

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You're missing a ROG case though

 

[khemist]

Switching cases again as i want to be able to use the 3070 Aorus stock cooler with the LCD screen, ordered a White Meshlicious, will get a pic when it arrives.

 

[plastiscɧ]

You're missing a ROG case though

they don't have the features and functionality that other rog products do.
Only style for a pile of money can be made but it does not have to be irrational in some manner.

But i like good taste and beautiful tech-stuff.

 

[iBruceypoo]

You know that old saying - "Between a ROG and a hard place"

All I've ever had from ROG is motherboards and mice, both excellent in my opinion.

I've seen those builds where EVERY component is Corsair or EVGA and I just don't get it - but whatever.

Go ROG!

 

[Shou Miko]

A little teaser of what I just got delievered for about £982 I know it sounds like a lot but in these times.

I am planing to release the big junker from MSI because it's just too big for me to want to mess around with everytime I need to clean out my PC and move stuff around.

 

[lexluthermiester]

they don't have the features and functionality that other rog products do.
Only style for a pile of money can be made but it does not have to be irrational in some manner.

But i like good taste and beautiful tech-stuff.



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Your setup is excellence incarnate!

 

[Valantar]

Switching cases again as i want to be able to use the 3070 Aorus stock cooler with the LCD screen, ordered a White Meshlicious, will get a pic when it arrives.

Welcome to the club! Mine should be on the way finally, after being held up by a radiator that didn't arrive at the warehouse as scheduled. Black all-mesh 4.0 for me - I wanted white, but there wasn't a 4.0 white SKU, so black will have to do. Still a gorgeous case, and thermals should be much better than my current H200.

A little teaser of what I just got delievered for about £982 I know it sounds like a lot but in these times.

I am planing to release the big junker from MSI because it's just too big for me to want to mess around with everytime I need to clean out my PC and move stuff around.

Damn, making me jealous. I have a Sapphire Nitro+ 6800XT on order since February, but I don't think it's arriving any time soon, so recently I've been F5'ing the AMD EU shop in hopes that a reference card might pop up. They are also the only source of reference cards here in Sweden, and frankly that's my preferred design too, so fingers crossed that I'll be lucky enough to beat out a bot or two.

Edit: autocorrect

 

[Shou Miko]

Welcome to the club! Mine should be on the way finally, after being held up by a radiator that didn't arrive at the warehouse as scheduled. Black all-mesh 4.0 for me - I wanted white, but there wasn't a 4.0 white SKU, so black will have to do. Still a gorgeous case, and thermals should be much better than my current H200.


Damn, making me jealous. I have a Sapphire Nitro+ 6800XT on order since February, but I don't think it's arriving any time soon, so recently I've been F5'ing the AMD EU shop in hopes that a reference card might pop up. They are also the only source of reference cards here in Sweden, and frankly that's my preferred design too, so fingers crossed that I'll be lucky enough to beat out a bot or two.

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Well AMD opens on their own store like every Thursday around 17:15-17:30 GMT +01:00 if I remember correct.

Well too bad I am not sure what the shipping to sweden would be, because I am planning on selling my MSI card I don't need two.

 

[iBruceypoo]

Your setup is excellence incarnate!

Hey what about my setup, is it chopped liver?

I realize it's just a dumb test bench but.

lololol

Show Off your Setup Day, here at TPU.

You can NEVER have enough Albert!

 

[khemist]

Welcome to the club! Mine should be on the way finally, after being held up by a radiator that didn't arrive at the warehouse as scheduled. Black all-mesh 4.0 for me - I wanted white, but there wasn't a 4.0 white SKU, so black will have to do. Still a gorgeous case, and thermals should be much better than my current H200.


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Mine is arriving tomorrow, i went for the White as it wont show the dust very much and i also ordered a Kraken X53 240mm, will swap the fans out with Noctua NFA12's.

I've got an Alphacool Lt solo and Bequiet silent loop i could have used but wanted some cheesy RGB to match the Aorus.

 

[Chomiq]

Well AMD opens on their own store like every Thursday around 17:15-17:30 GMT +01:00 if I remember correct.

Yup, I seem to recall that it's when they usually appeared for the past 2 months or so.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Hey what about my setup, is it chopped liver?

I realize it's just a dumb test bench but.

lololol

Show Off your Setup Day, here at TPU.

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You can NEVER have enough Albert!

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Yours is cool, just a different kind of cool.

 

[iBruceypoo]

Yours is cool, just a different kind of cool.

Boring straight-laced kind of cool, but not Rockstar - Motorcycle Cool!

I'm just too darn clean cut, dammit Janet!

Oh well, we gotta be - who we are...

 

[lexluthermiester]

Boring straight-laced kind of cool, but not Rockstar - Motorcycle Cool!

I'm just too darn clean cut, dammit Janet!

Oh well, we gotta be - who we are...

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That's anything but "plain Jane" mate!

 

[iBruceypoo]

That's anything but "plain Jane" mate!

I know my gear is not super sexy and carries no extremely profound theme (except maybe very fast single-thread performance, overwhelming responsiveness, and low latency hyper-efficient speed parts running inaudible), because they are both work/home office computers - such is life.

On the left side of the monitor is the 2ndary office rig EVGA Z390 DARK and 8086K, also running inaudible, and also boring I guess, but I gotta get work done for my family of 3.

Picking up the WD_Black SN850 500GB M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD for the new Z590 build for only $129, I was able to move the Optane 280GB Add In Card from 2017 to the 2ndary PC, as this photo below.

No lighting on the EVGA Z390 Dark - it be DARK!

 

[Mussels]

WAIT, You guys mean this one??!




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Don't worry! It is where it belongs to...




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Mmmm yes i likes it

New EK block arrived


not quite a mirror finish, leak testing/working out bubbles atm

 

[Valantar]

Well AMD opens on their own store like every Thursday around 17:15-17:30 GMT +01:00 if I remember correct.

Well too bad I am not sure what the shipping to sweden would be, because I am planning on selling my MSI card I don't need two.

Yup, I seem to recall that it's when they usually appeared for the past 2 months or so.

Thanks, that's a bit more precise of a timeframe than what I've found previously. I'll be lubing and warming up my F5 key in preparation Fingers crossed I'll be able to snag something.

 

[Shou Miko]

Thanks, that's a bit more precise of a timeframe than what I've found previously. I'll be lubing and warming up my F5 key in preparation Fingers crossed I'll be able to snag something.

Happy hunting is all I can say because a lot of people have issues completing their payments and others can.

But I guess it's also with the competitions from scalpers, bots and more that wants the cards.

Properly not miners since the RX 6000 series ain't good for that anyway.

I traded my way to first the AMD Radeon RX 6800 Ref (PowerColor) then to the MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT Gaming X Trio 16G and now I found a AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Ref for sale used for gaming not much since the user upgraded to a RX 6900 XT instead.

So at the moment I am trying to sell my MSI card for what I got the other one for.

 

[khemist]

New case just arrived!.

 

[iBruceypoo]

Ordered: Shipping Overnight, be here on the morrow!

Only had to wait 2years. lol

I knew those were fan mounting points, yup. Passive cooler in Push-Pull.

It's so Beautiful!

New case just arrived!.

That's a lovely chassis and so compact @khemist

I always cut my hands working inside small cases and even big cases - so I moved to test benches, fewer Band-Aids.

 

[Valantar]

Ordered: Shipping Overnight, be here on the morrow!

Only had to wait 2years. lol

I knew those were fan mounting points, yup. Passive cooler in Push-Pull.

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It's so Beautiful!

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That's a lovely chassis and so compact @khemist

I always cut my hands working inside small cases and even big cases - so I moved to test benches, fewer Band-Aids.

That cooler is gorgeous, but push-pull on it will likely be an utter waste - it's explicitly designed for low airflow after all, so the additional cooling from more airflow is likely to be minimal (it doesn't have the surface area to make use of the air).

 

[lexluthermiester]

That cooler is gorgeous, but push-pull on it will likely be an utter waste - it's explicitly designed for low airflow after all, so the additional cooling from more airflow is likely to be minimal (it doesn't have the surface area to make use of the air).

Can't agree with this statement. Two fans in a push-pull config will likely double the cooling capacity which would render this cooler a viable option for extreme overclocking without the need for bulky and possibly messy liquid cooling. Noctua likely had that usage scenario in mind when they engineered the fan clip mounting holes. Those mounting holes were not an afterthought, they were deliberate design choice.

 

[Valantar]

Can't agree with this statement. Two fans in a push-pull config will likely double the cooling capacity which would render this cooler a viable option for extreme overclocking without the need for bulky and possibly messy liquid cooling. Noctua likely had that usage scenario in mind when they engineered the fan clip mounting holes. Those mounting hole were not an afterthought, they were deliberate design choice.

They're obviously a deliberate choice, but for flexibility of installation, not multiple fans at the same time. Not all installations will have room for a fan above the cooler, for example. This cooler is designed for low airflow, with a high thermal mass and few, widely spaced fins. There's likely near zero flow restriction due to this design, and without any restriction to overcome, the flow from two fans in series is the same as the flow from one fan. And the lower your surface area relative to the mass, thermal conductivity and heat output, the less useful an increase in airflow is likely to be.