Its some beautiful hardware there sir, I'm sure it'll do you proud Might have to watch the power draw I'm wonder if both PCs on and working hard?? Say crunching and folding for example?? Can't wait to hear about it!
Both of them should buy all 8 (each) and gift them to active members on this thread (we both get first pickings). If you can push them, maybe juicy coolers too (nope, not clapping, jumping up and trying to grab something)
Finally time to get us both off x299 I’m older and less excited to build things now; so we got his and her builds so I don’t need to think to hard. With that’s said it will probably take me days to do these since I’m pretty busy at work.
2x of everything unless stated list is of item or kit.
LianLi o11 evo dynamics
Bequit 12 pro 1500w
MSI supreme liquid x 4090
64gb gskill 6000mhz ddr5
13900k
Evga z690 kingpin
980 500gb NVMe
980 1TB NVMe
1x MP600 pro 8tb NVMe (already have an mp400 8tb that won’t be replaced)
EK RGB 360mm AIO
Socket 1700 conversion kit
6x EK Vardar in white
Pictures I snagged of the gear and my test fits while I am building hers
Well a last minute choice after all ready upgrading my pc with ned gpu's and some hdd's.
My lonely sata ssd needed a friend to and all my nvme slots are all in use. So this was what I got to finish up my pc upgrade for a while now. I do have a new adapter cable from cable mods on its way as well to replace that awful rtx 4090 stock fire hazard adapter.
Now I have enough storage for both backup on hdd and for games on ssd for a good while now. Well games just increase in size for everyone generation of games. So I can just as well be ready for it
And then put the external enclosure on a mousepad, which absorbs any and all vibrations leftover
this one has a rubber pad but on the wooden shelf it amplifies the sound, mousepad negates it entirely
That won't work for a 3.5" drive though, with no 12V power delivery to run the drive. That's the annoyingpart of external enclosures, requiring an external 12V brick.
Many of those little devices have a socket for a regular 12V brick
I use one of them to power my custom loops pump for leak testing, i'm still shocked when i see people do leak testing with their actual PSU in the splash zone
I have to wonder if somethings wrong with testing software or even the OS's at present, because many websites that showed the x3D as massively ahead now show them behind what they used to beat
I dont suspect intentional foul play but SOMETHING changed or broke, either in the OS's being tested or a driver (Nvidia?)
I know it's not the latest, nor greatest, seems like the cool thing to get for AM4 is the 5800X3D, but I want mine to be an all rounder. And after having an R9 3900X, I can't go back to 8C/16T, so I opted for a used R9 5900X which cost me about 280USD. I just tested it on Serious Sam BFE (this game causes my 5800H laptop CPU to go ape shite at 102C, other games would only hit a max of 90C), with my 360mm AIO cooling it, I get about 75C max in an AC room set at 24C. I'm happy with it, don't think I'll go 5800X3D, but IF AMD ever release an R9 5900X3D/5950X3D, I might just bite.
omg... you give your headphone earpads little blanket covers... adorable. never seen that in all my years of enjoying the headphone hobby. lmao. i love it. well done good sir, you have impressed me. I also feel like a bad headphone owner now. lol
im still retired from the hobby with my trusty HD58X's, been happy with them since launch day. not sure if I will ever get back into the hobby honestly. I am tempted by the Hifiman Edition XS... but that is my max budget... maybe if it goes to $399 on a sale I will finally give them a go. any idea how well it would pair with an asgard 2 amp?
on topic: just bought my mobo and ram today to go with my new raptor lake cpu... no pics until build is all done though.
I use those earcup covers for dust protection, I live in the tropics and it's hot and dusty, so these are a necessity for me. When I wanna use one of my cans, I'd removed the "little blanket cover" and the earcups would be pretty much dust free. As for that audiophile part of my life, I'm pretty much done as I still have 15 cans (I think), so I have to rotate them.
I know it's not the latest, nor greatest, seems like the cool thing to get for AM4 is the 5800X3D, but I want mine to be an all rounder. And after having an R9 3900X, I can't go back to 8C/16T, so I opted for a used R9 5900X which cost me about 280USD. I just tested it on Serious Sam BFE (this game causes my 5800H laptop CPU to go ape shite at 102C, other games would only hit a max of 90C), with my 360mm AIO cooling it, I get about 75C max in an AC room set at 24C. I'm happy with it, don't think I'll go 5800X3D, but IF AMD ever release an R9 5900X3D/5950X3D, I might just bite.
Well I've been meaning to do this for ages, so... Here we go!!
Finally got through a massive upgrade, a RGB splitter cable....
I do like that photo Gotta love to show the beast
And then there was from the monitor thread I asked about... I finally went and grabbed a new screen.....
Out with the older screens I've had for more than a few years.....
And here we go with the newer one.....
Now there seems to be an issue either I have a damaged screen or 2m cables aren't 3m long, so.....
And now for the money shot.....
Finally we have 3 1440P 165Hz 27" screens to help with the 3090 and making it stretch its legs I do wonder where 1600P screens went to as I remember my Dell 3008's very well...
First impressions mind, the screens are amazing. The screens are smooth and the refresh is out of this world from what I was expecting... I've yet to manage a game on the system which is most frustrating, as it anytime I don't have the screens on first and then turn on the rig, it looses the surround screen setup which is most frustrating... But I will say this that I'm dead glad I never went for the 3 4k screens I was looking at from Asus as with the discount I had from Dell with the 4 screens I bought, I could get just 1 of the 4k models instead... Seemed like a no brainer in my eyes
Also helps no end with WCG as well, I can finally get 64 threads showing all at once on the res as well, which is awesome! And all the extra screen I can see from the 1080P I had before.... Yep, that helps!! If only it was 1600P if I'm honest... Would help even more!
Does it matter? Unless they're running torrents to the drive constantly it'll likely see less than 20TBW in the lifetime lf the laptop, especially for a low capacity drive like that.
Does it matter? Unless they're running torrents to the drive constantly it'll likely see less than 20TBW in the lifetime lf the laptop, especially for a low capacity drive like that.
Yeah i've had maybe 6 WD greens come by my way dead in the last year, from casual gamers
TBW's are estimates, drives can die before them or outlive them - a steam gamer getting patches and updates can chew through writes, too
users buy these as an OS drive, and then windows updates, program updates, steam etc all use lots of *small* writes - where 1KB can cost 16KB (made up value, sue me) and those values run out fast
Yeah i've had maybe 6 WD greens come by my way dead in the last year, from casual gamers
TBW's are estimates, drives can die before them or outlive them
I see what you're saying, but the rated TBW of the drive is an extremely poor estimate of this type of failure - it's an estimate of how long it'll take the flash to wear out after all, and thus says nothing at all about sudden failures of the flash, controller, or passive components. Higher or lower TBW just indicates the grade of flash used. And if those WD greens were dead dead, they most likely didn't die from failed flash. A failed capacitor or similar is far more likely. You could always take lower TBW as an indicator of a more cheaply made drive, but that's a stretch at best.
a steam gamer getting patches and updates can chew through writes, too
users buy these as an OS drive, and then windows updates, program updates, steam etc all use lots of *small* writes - where 1KB can cost 16KB (made up value, sue me) and those values run out fast
Yes, and as I said, for any normal user they might see 20TBW in the lifetime of the drive - if they're hammering it. That's 14GB/day for four years, or 11GB/day for five. For a 500GB-class drive you'll need to work extremely hard to put that many writes into the drive for any kind of home use. You can't fit enough games onto a drive that small to have large updates even every week, let alone daily. And those 16x amplified 1k writes need to happen would need to happen hundreds of thousands of times a day to be a real issue.
actually there is a German commercial running on youtube that use that wordplay, they have a few in English also, but that one is the one i get the most in Switzerland
cheesy but the only commercial i don't skip ... because i laugh so much i forget to press skip
If I got more server gear her mood towards my spending would be drastically different
Might have to watch the power draw I'm wonder if both PCs on and working hard?? Say crunching and folding for example?? 
Can't wait to hear about it! 
(nope, not clapping, jumping up and trying to grab something)
