Your PC ATM

Solaris17 · Nov 8, 2022

Most recent iteration

RJARRRPCGP · Nov 8, 2022

xtreemchaos said:
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 · Nov 8, 2022

RJARRRPCGP said:
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 · Nov 8, 2022

Gearbox Halo CE GGs:

And this one:

StaticVapour · Nov 8, 2022

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 · Nov 8, 2022

StaticVapour said:
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 · Nov 8, 2022

RJARRRPCGP said:
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 · Nov 8, 2022

3x0 said:
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 · Nov 8, 2022

Finalized my Noctua/CableMod build

lmille16 · Nov 8, 2022

TheDeeGee said:
Finalized my Noctua/CableMod build

Nice, very clean!

DAPUNISHER · Nov 8, 2022

RJARRRPCGP said:
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 · Nov 8, 2022

HQi88 said:
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

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

RJARRRPCGP · Nov 8, 2022

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

lexluthermiester · Nov 8, 2022

RJARRRPCGP said:
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 · Nov 8, 2022

lexluthermiester said:
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 · Nov 8, 2022

RJARRRPCGP said:
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.

Super Firm Tofu · Nov 8, 2022

RJARRRPCGP said:
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 said:
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 · Nov 8, 2022

Super Firm Tofu said:
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 · Nov 9, 2022

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 · Nov 9, 2022

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 · Nov 9, 2022

lexluthermiester said:
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 · Nov 10, 2022

HQi88 said:
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... :oops:

)

but if i finally do it, i report here haha

Rithsom · Nov 11, 2022

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 · Nov 12, 2022

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 · Nov 12, 2022

freeagent said:
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.

System Name	RogueOne
Processor	Xeon W9-3495x
Motherboard	ASUS w790E Sage SE
Cooling	SilverStone XE360-4677
Memory	128gb Gskill Zeta R5 DDR5 RDIMMs
Video Card(s)	MSI SUPRIM Liquid X 4090
Storage	1x 2TB WD SN850X \| 2x 8TB GAMMIX S70
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Case	Thermaltake Core P3 Pro Snow
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Power Supply	Seasonic Prime TX-1600
Mouse	Razer Viper mini signature edition (mercury white)
Keyboard	Monsgeek M3 Lavender, Moondrop Luna lights
VR HMD	Quest 3
Software	Windows 11 Pro Workstation
Benchmark Scores	I dont have time for that.

System Name	KHR-1
Processor	Ryzen 9 5900X
Motherboard	ASRock B550 PG Velocita (UEFI-BIOS P3.40)
Memory	32 GB G.Skill RipJawsV F4-3200C16D-32GVR
Video Card(s)	Sparkle Titan Arc A770 16 GB
Storage	Western Digital Black SN850 1 TB NVMe SSD
Display(s)	Alienware AW3423DWF OLED-ASRock PG27Q15R2A (backup)
Case	Corsair 275R
Audio Device(s)	Technics SA-EX140 receiver with Polk VT60 speakers
Power Supply	eVGA Supernova G3 750W
Mouse	Logitech G Pro (Hero)
Software	Windows 11 Pro x64 23H2

System Name	1.FortySe7en VR rig 2. intel teliscope rig 3.MSI GP72MVR Leopard Pro .E-52699, Xeon play thing
Processor	1.3900x @stock 2. 5950x undervolted . 3. i7 7700hq 4 E5-2699 V3
Motherboard	1.aorus x570 ultra 2. Rog b550 f,4 MR9A PRO ATX X99
Cooling	1.Hard tube loop, cpu and gpu 2. Hard loop cpu and gpu 4 360 AIO
Memory	1.Gskill neo @3600 32gb 2.corsair ven 32gb @3200 3. 16gb hyperx @2400 4 64GB 2133 in quad channel
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Case	1. Thermaltake P5 2. Thermaltake P3 4. montech king 65
Audio Device(s)	1 Onboard 2 Onboard 3 Onboard 4. onboard.
Power Supply	1.seasonic gx 850w 2. seasonic gx 750w. 4 RM850w
Mouse	1 ROG Gladius 2 Corsair m65 pro
Keyboard	1. ROG Strix Flare 2. Corsair F75 RBG 3. steelseries RBG
VR HMD	rift and rift S and Quest 2. rog ally 2tb m.2 1tb SD.
Software	1. win11 pro 2. win11 pro 3, win11 home 4 win11 pro
Benchmark Scores	1.7821 cb20 ,cb15 3442 1c 204 cpu-z 1c 539 12c 8847

System Name	KHR-1
Processor	Ryzen 9 5900X
Motherboard	ASRock B550 PG Velocita (UEFI-BIOS P3.40)
Memory	32 GB G.Skill RipJawsV F4-3200C16D-32GVR
Video Card(s)	Sparkle Titan Arc A770 16 GB
Storage	Western Digital Black SN850 1 TB NVMe SSD
Display(s)	Alienware AW3423DWF OLED-ASRock PG27Q15R2A (backup)
Case	Corsair 275R
Audio Device(s)	Technics SA-EX140 receiver with Polk VT60 speakers
Power Supply	eVGA Supernova G3 750W
Mouse	Logitech G Pro (Hero)
Software	Windows 11 Pro x64 23H2

System Name	The RockBox
Processor	Intel Core i5-12400F
Motherboard	Asus PRIME B660-PLUS D4
Cooling	Noctua NH-D15
Memory	2x32GB Kingston FURY Renegade 3600Mhz CL18
Video Card(s)	ASUS TUF RTX 3080
Storage	Intel 600p 256GB / 2TB SSD/HDD
Display(s)	Alienware AW3423DWF
Case	Phanteks Eclipse P400
Audio Device(s)	M-Audio BX8 D3s / HD 58X Jubilee \| MDR-7506\| KZ ZS10 Pro
Power Supply	Seasonic B12 BC-850
Mouse	Razer Deathadder Essential
Keyboard	Ducky One 2 Horizon TKL
VR HMD	HTC Vive
Software	Windows 11 Pro
Benchmark Scores	Fire Strike Ext: 19699 Time Spy Ext: 7688 Port Royal: 11586 CB 2024 MC CPU: 636

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Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
Motherboard	MSI MPG B550I Gaming Edge Wi-Fi ITX
Cooling	Scythe Fuma 2 rev. B Noctua NF-A12x25 Edition
Memory	2x16GiB G.Skill TridentZ DDR4 3200Mb/s CL14 F4-3200C14D-32GTZKW
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Mouse	Lamzu Atlantis Mini Wireless
Keyboard	HyperX Alloy Origins Aqua

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Motherboard	ASRock Z590 Steel Legend
Cooling	Noctua NH-D15S
Memory	Crucial Ballistix 3200/C16 32GB
Video Card(s)	Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti 12GB
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Keyboard	Keychron Q6
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Benchmark Scores	None, as long as my games runs smooth.

Processor	Intel Core i5-3570k @ 4.2ghz
Motherboard	ASRock z77 Fatal1ty Professional-M
Cooling	Corsair Hydro H90
Memory	16gb G.Skill Ripjaws X Series DDR3-1333
Video Card(s)	MSI Armour GTX 1070Ti
Storage	Western Digital Blue SATA III SSD 1TB
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Case	Corsair Obsidian 350d
Power Supply	Corsair TX750

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Processor	i9-12900K PL1=125 TA=56 PL2=288
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Mouse	M910-K
Keyboard	K636CLO
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Cooling	Chromax Noctua NH-D15
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Case	CoolerMaster CM 690 III
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Mouse	Logitech G502 Hero
Keyboard	Corsair K70 Core

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Cooling	NZXT Kraken Elite 360/CM ML240/EVGA CLC280
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Storage	Much.../Much.../Much...
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Mouse	Logitech G502X Plus/ MX Master 3S/G502
Keyboard	Logitech G915/ MX Keys/Logitech G915
Software	W11 Pro/W11 Pro/W11 Pro

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Processor	AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Motherboard	MSI B450I Gaming Plus Max Wi-Fi
Cooling	Corsair Hydro X Series Custom Loop
Memory	32 (2x16) GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 MHz
Video Card(s)	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super FE
Storage	1 TB Samsung 970 EVO PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSD
Display(s)	Vizio 1080p TV Screen (Temporary)
Case	Fractal Design Define Nano S
Audio Device(s)	Razer Kraken X Headset
Power Supply	Corsair RM650x 650W
Mouse	Razer DeathAdder V2 Gaming Mouse
Keyboard	Razer Cynosa Lite Gaming Keyboard
VR HMD	HTC Vive Cosmos
Software	Windows 10 Home 64 Bit
Benchmark Scores	3DMark Time Spy: 8706 (Stock)

Processor	AMD R7 5800X3D
Motherboard	Asus Crosshair VIII Dark Hero
Cooling	Thermalright Frozen Edge 360, 3x TL-B12 V2, 2x TL-B12 V1
Memory	2x8 G.Skill Trident Z Royal 3200C14, 2x8GB G.Skill Trident Z Black and White 3200 C14
Video Card(s)	Zotac 4070 Ti Trinity OC
Storage	WD SN850 1TB, SN850X 2TB, SN770 1TB
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Case	Fractal Torrent Compact
Audio Device(s)	JBL Bar 700
Power Supply	Seasonic Vertex GX-1000, Monster HDP1800
Mouse	Logitech G502 Hero
Keyboard	Logitech G213
VR HMD	Oculus 3
Software	Yes
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