Your PC ATM

[Solaris17]

Most recent iteration

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

rad upgrades on both riggs, a extra 480 on My AMD rigg what i use for crunching and VR gaming, the wires to the fans need sorting still.
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and my Intel rigg got a fat boy. both rads was given free by Phill thanks bud.
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Looks like you also have an excellent station for hard core Halo gaming, including good ol' Gearbox Halo CE 1.0.10!

 

[xtreemchaos]

Looks like you also have an excellent station for hard core Halo gaming,

thanks bud im well into halo but yet to play the latest.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Gearbox Halo CE GGs:

And this one:

 

[StaticVapour]

Here is mine, built few days ago. Decided to go back to PC gaming.

AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (stock)
ASUS TUF 1660 6GB
MSI B450 Tomahawk
Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 3000Mhz CL16
Seasonic S12II 520W
Aerocool Menace Saturn

mismatched fans and terrible cable management for fun

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Here is mine, built few days ago. Decided to go back to PC gaming.

AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (stock)
ASUS TUF 1660 6GB
MSI B450 Tomahawk
Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 3000Mhz CL16
Seasonic S12II 520W
Aerocool Menace Saturn

mismatched fans and terrible cable management for fun
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My B450 Tomahawk died unexpectedly and I found the VRM thermal pads to have a bunch of liquid!

 

[3x0]

My B450 Tomahawk died unexpectedly and I found the VRM thermal pads to have a bunch of liquid!

That's silicone oil, not electrically conductive and normal to have on thermal pads.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

That's silicone oil, not electrically conductive and normal to have on thermal pads.

There was a mini pool of it! It looked more like mouse piss!

 

[TheDeeGee]

Finalized my Noctua/CableMod build

 

[lmille16]

Finalized my Noctua/CableMod build

Nice, very clean!

 

[DAPUNISHER]

My B450 Tomahawk died unexpectedly and I found the VRM thermal pads to have a bunch of liquid!

Had that happen with an MSI 970 gaming. It soaked through to the other side of the board. I presume it is a symptom of the VRMs getting too toasty for too long. The board failed, and the silicon oil was found on inspection obviously. I RMA'd to MSI. FX8350 and marathon Total War: Warhammer sessions fried it. It was in a Thor v2 full tower which had outstanding case cooling, so it wasn't getting hot boxed. If there was any doubt as to the cause of death, the replacement board fried from it as well. I gave up an built an OG Zen since it had recently launched.

I don't do showcase builds, and I have 5 PCS. Parts get swapped so often, even the PSU and board isn't safe from replacement. So I don't go bananas with cable management or anything. I refuse to plug in argb cables or install the software, so whatever the UEFI can do is all the RGB gets. I will add pics to this post shortly, so as to stay on topic.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Got a much more modern GPU, the RX 6800. So far its working quite well and I was surprised at how cool it ran

Finally can switch out of the Chad 710 XD

Spoiler: Beauty Pics

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Very nice setup! This is a perfect example of why 5.25" expansion bays are so very useful.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Yes! The Ryzen 7 5800X, came! Time-of-manufacturing code: 2234 (2022, week 34)

 

[lexluthermiester]

Yes! The Ryzen 7 5800X, came! Time-of-manufacturing code: 2234 (2022, week 34)

Run a few benchmarks on your 5600X before you install it and then do so again after to see the difference! Not that I doubt reviewers, it's that real-world testing is just as insightful.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Run a few benchmarks on your 5600X before you install it and then do so again after to see the difference! Not that I doubt reviewers, it's that real-world testing is just as insightful.

It's spanking my Ryzen 5 5600X, but why does it look like it's PBO'ing without my permission? 85C in Cinebench R23 multicore and 140W PPT. (according to HWiNFO64)

 

[lexluthermiester]

It's spanking my Ryzen 5 5600X, but why does it look like it's PBO'ing without my permission? 85C in Cinebench R23 multicore and 140W PPT. (according to HWiNFO64)

Have you seen the Ryzen Owners Club?

Ryzen Owners Zen Garden

I'm posting this in case anyone wants a Ryzen thread for troubleshooting and guidance. As someone with a build about to happen, I have a feeling I might need some help. New wave of CPU'S means teething probs. So, feedback on BIOS issues, memory hints and general tweaks could be useful. Trolls...

www.techpowerup.com

Lot's of good help and info there. You likely need to change some settings in the UEFI. Undervolting seems to render good results.

 

[Deleted member 223428]

It's spanking my Ryzen 5 5600X, but why does it look like it's PBO'ing without my permission? 85C in Cinebench R23 multicore and 140W PPT. (according to HWiNFO64)

Have you seen the Ryzen Owners Club?

Ryzen Owners Zen Garden

I'm posting this in case anyone wants a Ryzen thread for troubleshooting and guidance. As someone with a build about to happen, I have a feeling I might need some help. New wave of CPU'S means teething probs. So, feedback on BIOS issues, memory hints and general tweaks could be useful. Trolls...

www.techpowerup.com

Lot's of good help and info there. You likely need to change some settings in the UEFI. Undervolting seems to render good results.

There's also 22 pages dedicated (mostly) to taming the 5800x here. It's hot-out-the-box:

5800x (and other Zen 3 chips) PBO settings/Temperature fix

The 5800x is well known for having heat issues on stock settings, because it's single 8 core CCX design shares the same power limits as the 2x6 (dual 6 core CCX) 5900x - so it's got a lot less space to cool itself with. A big part of the problem is that motherboards will raise the maximum TDC...

www.techpowerup.com

 

[lexluthermiester]

There's also 22 pages dedicated (mostly) to taming the 5800x here. It's hot-out-the-box:

5800x (and other Zen 3 chips) PBO settings/Temperature fix

The 5800x is well known for having heat issues on stock settings, because it's single 8 core CCX design shares the same power limits as the 2x6 (dual 6 core CCX) 5900x - so it's got a lot less space to cool itself with. A big part of the problem is that motherboards will raise the maximum TDC...

www.techpowerup.com

This too! I was looking for it, Thanks for posting!

@RJARRRPCGP Lot's of good info to be had in both of those threads!

 

[Lost_Troll]

This is the rig I just built listed in my system specs. Other than some cable management I have do on it, it's pretty much done.

 

[mama]

My first water cooled custom loop. 7900X and a Byski block on my old XFX 6900XT inside a Cooler Master HAF 700 EVO case.View attachment 269178

 

[HQi88]

Very nice setup! This is a perfect example of why 5.25" expansion bays are so very useful.

Thank you! Admittedly I have never used the CD/DVD drive, and I could control all my fans with a few splitters/fan hub.

At least the USB hub is nice because one of the ports allows for 20W charging

I would much rather replace the fan controller and DVD drive with a 5 in screen but those cost at least $70 CAD plus the cost of making my own drive bay cover for it. Anyways, I'm broke from buying a 6800

 

[TheUnbrained]

Thank you! Admittedly I have never used the CD/DVD drive, and I could control all my fans with a few splitters/fan hub.

At least the USB hub is nice because one of the ports allows for 20W charging

I would much rather replace the fan controller and DVD drive with a 5 in screen but those cost at least $70 CAD plus the cost of making my own drive bay cover for it. Anyways, I'm broke from buying a 6800

actually got the same plan with a display on front - and ive got the idea of a mcgyver version aka recycling the display from an old huawei media pad 7 (standard lvds connector btw) but still need a lvds-to-dp converter (15€ in my case - still too greedy to buy it finally, which would mean that i need to reassemble this pc... oh sweet lazyness...)

but if i finally do it, i report here haha

 

[Rithsom]

I don't believe that I ever posted a picture of my PC after I finished upgrading it last month.

This was how the system looked before I made the upgrades. This is how it looks now:

It doesn't look much different, but the PC is better in the following ways.

• CPU upgrade: R7 2700X -> R5 5500. Interestingly, the two CPUs are pretty much matched in multi-threaded performance. However, the 5500 has better gaming performance and sips power compared to the 2700X.
• Graphics card modification: I relocated the 8-pin PCIe power connector on my 2060 Super for aesthetic reasons. See this post for an explanation.

• Radiator/fan upgrade: 1x Alphacool 140mm -> 1x Alphacool 240mm. The original 140mm rad actually did a pretty good job at cooling both the 2700X and the 2060 Super, but it just seemed weird to have an entire system cooled only by a single-fan rad.

• Memory upgrade: 2x8 GB Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 3200 MHz -> 2x16 GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200 MHz. I needed low-profile memory sticks for clearance with the new radiator.
• Power supply upgrade: be quiet! SFX-L 600W -> Corsair RM650x ATX 650W. I would've kept the be quiet! PSU, but it had a really short EPS 12V cable, for some reason. The cable was very tight, and I was worried that it would damage the motherboard.

Aside from the memory, these are all fairly marginal upgrades. I was more interested in fixing the graphics card power connector than anything else.

 

[freeagent]

A memory came up on Facebook for me today, 8 years ago today I was running a CLC

And my oldest fell asleep in my youngest bassinet with little Einsteins on tv lol

Edit:

Trying out a different fan config on PA120, also trying out the fan header on the GPU for the lower fans

Edit again:

Ok the GPU header is not a strong enough.. bummer. PA120 is not quiet anymore

I might order another FC140

Edit again, forgot to mention I am out of good Tim, and using the last of my somewhat separated AS5. Needless to say, it’s not good lol.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Edit again, forgot to mention I am out of good Tim, and using the last of my somewhat separated AS5. Needless to say, it’s not good lol.

I'm currently testing MX-6 and so far so good. Seems a quality TIM. Will be posting a mini-review in the MX5 and Official TIM threads tomorrow.