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My build goes on...

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Wait, what are you doing? A double RTX 4090 build?
Building a workstation - The link to my log is in my signature. ;) It's only one 6950xt or a 7900xt. Then 2 NVMW Raid's one with PCIe 5.0x4 and one with PCIe 4.0x4, 96GB RAM, Nearly everything watercooled, aquaero, quadro, 2 pumps, 13 fans, ... The psu calculaters in the INet says all together that my need is about 930W for this build.
 
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Finally nailed all the PC part purchases I listed here together yesterday.
Luckily, this time I remembered to benchmark the system before and after the build.

Old - 5800X / 32GB DDR4 @ 4000
New - 7950X / 64GB DDR5 @ 6000
This was just a mobo / CPU / RAM swap, the GPU is still a 4080.

TL;DR = Cinebench multicore score was embiggened from 14700 to 33535!
 
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Some upgrades for the old system in my specs!
I7 12700K
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got a great deal on the 12700K but couldn’t justify the cost of a Z790 board just to have DDR5 when I’m still using a 1070TI.

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Nice, nothing wrong with a 12700k, had mine 2 years now with zero problems.

also for me
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Building a workstation - The link to my log is in my signature. ;) It's only one 6950xt or a 7900xt. Then 2 NVMW Raid's one with PCIe 5.0x4 and one with PCIe 4.0x4, 96GB RAM, Nearly everything watercooled, aquaero, quadro, 2 pumps, 13 fans, ... The psu calculaters in the INet says all together that my need is about 930W for this build.
930 Watts! That's gonna be one hell of a workstation!

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Bought the Shokz Openfit headset, sound better than I expected and way more comfortable than in-ear headset, can't even feel it on my ears
 

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930 Watts! That's gonna be one hell of a workstation!

A watercooled 7950x, a watercooled AMD GPU (6950xt or 7900xt), 2 watercooled 2TB PCIe 5.0x4 SSD, 2 watercooled 2TB WD 850X, watercooled 96GB DDR5 6000CL30 RAM,
Aquaero 6 Pro, Quadro, 2 Farbwerk360, 2 D5 Pumps, 7 coolers in total, a hell of angles, 1 420mm/45mm XFlow Raditor, 1 360mm/30mm radiator, 4 140mm Fans, 9 120mm Fans, 360mm Distroplate,...
All in a Anidees XL Pro Big Tower mounted aside and onto a Asus ProArt X670e board.

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I forgot. I also have a BluRay Burner mounted. In total i need two 5,25" slots.
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I don't see that as real big build. But the space in the case gets rapidly small. :D Oh. I got some more orders today. The Molex extensions arent any longer available. So i had to cancel them. I substituted them by 4 1:2 Y-extensions with the same length.

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And the two D5 Pumps, a top for one and also the Aquaero Pro
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Building a workstation - The link to my log is in my signature. ;) It's only one 6950xt or a 7900xt. Then 2 NVMW Raid's one with PCIe 5.0x4 and one with PCIe 4.0x4, 96GB RAM, Nearly everything watercooled, aquaero, quadro, 2 pumps, 13 fans, ... The psu calculaters in the INet says all together that my need is about 930W for this build.
Nice. Since that is an I variant you should be able to see your PSU data in HWinfo64. It should come with a USB cable to connect to the MB.
 
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Hi,
You didn't water cool your blu-ray burner, the hell you say :fear:
 
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A watercooled 7950x, a watercooled AMD GPU (6950xt or 7900xt), 2 watercooled 2TB PCIe 5.0x4 SSD, 2 watercooled 2TB WD 850X, watercooled 96GB DDR5 6000CL30 RAM,
Aquaero 6 Pro, Quadro, 2 Farbwerk360, 2 D5 Pumps, 7 coolers in total, a hell of angles, 1 420mm/45mm XFlow Raditor, 1 360mm/30mm radiator, 4 140mm Fans, 9 120mm Fans, 360mm Distroplate,...
All in a Anidees XL Pro Big Tower mounted aside and onto a Asus ProArt X670e board.

[edit]
I forgot. I also have a BluRay Burner mounted. In total i need two 5,25" slots.
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I don't see that as real big build. But the space in the case gets rapidly small. :D Oh. I got some more orders today. The Molex extensions arent any longer available. So i had to cancel them. I substituted them by 4 1:2 Y-extensions with the same length.

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And the two D5 Pumps, a top for one and also the Aquaero Pro
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Please show us pics of this beast when complete.
 
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My actual rig is build into a Lian Li O11D XL (Rof Edition). With that case i had a hell of temperature issues. I have the glass panels unmounted and run the system without to keep the system cool. I didn't want to have that risk again at my new build. Also i did read a lot that the SSD's are sharply upfront a thermal throttling. So i decided to have the hot air where i want to have it. Right now there are only a few parts without cooling by water. And they don't heat up the air inside the case that much. So the risk of running into a thermal throttling is quite low. I don't buy that components to be throttled all the times. If one buys a sports car he usually wants to get fast. ;)

Btw. AquaComputer and my second "Dealer" informed me that they sent out my packages (with in german usual DHL). So that packages should reach me on saturday or monday.

At sunlu.com they have right now an good offer: PLA+ for 12,49$ / kg.
 
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Good choice you made, all of these should be tested under Johhny Guru's supervision, can't go wrong there. Sorry, seems I skipped the moment in time where HX1600i is not a (manufacturing) thing anymore? If they are not producing those, time to hunt down the ones available for sale at reasonable prices. Easily the best ATX 2.0+ PSU in existence. Their Shift models are the most appealing ones on the market atm imo.
 
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Made a couple of purchases this holiday season.

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I got an ASRock Low Profile Arc A380 for $100 and a 4TB Teamgroup MP34 for about $160.

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I mainly got the A380 out of curiosity. I've messed with AV1 encoding and performance in some games.

I've been unable to complete a run of the FFXV benchmark, which annoys me, but it seems to be fine in the few games I tried.

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I got the MP34 to see about replacing my RAID0 array. I specifically chose this drive as it lists TLC NAND and a DRAM cache on the product page.

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It uses 128-layer TLC NAND from SK Hynix, a Realtek RTS5762 controller, and 128MB of DDR3L from Nanya. Apparently, this drive is a bit of a hybrid between a DRAMless drive and one with DRAM.

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Performance is kind of all over the place. In synthetics, it ranges from quite a bit better than the old RAID-0 array to slightly worse, to much worse.

Of course, I did some sustained sequential tests by copying BG3 from my boot drive (2TB WD SN850X)

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Before cloning my files.

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After cloning.

Very good results that even barely edge out the RAID-0 array, which could sustain around 1.8GB/s.

After the second run, I went a step further by copying CP2077, and it dropped down to around 300-400MB/s after about 50GB. Not great, but it's still better than the last $160 4TB drive I tried, which was QLC-based and would drop to 200MB/s very quickly.

I'll still do some testing to see if it'll be replacing the array. If not, I'll probably use it in an external enclosure.
 
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Loving my Gist from the first minute. Tried dozen high end cycling glasses in the same shop, figured my head is a special piece... Ended up using only clear and bad weather lenses. The ultimate sun block ones are really just for the noon. Bought for around €70. They were the only ones that fit perfectly and close the gaps to the eyebrow line. Because insects. Summer. Billions of disoriented, crazy kamikaze style flyers. And somehow, they always accurately aim for the head, the eyes, ears, mouth, nose... One afternoon I bumped into a bat occupied with hunting insects (hooray I guess), but I've hit it with my chests at around 40kmh, probably killing it in the process, as he fell under the wheels. His sonar failed him. It felt like being hit by a rock, of a fist-fitting size, and launched with a strength of a grown man.

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Loving my Gist from the first minute. Tried dozen high end cycling glasses in the same shop, figured my head is a special piece... Ended up using only clear and bad weather lenses. The ultimate sun block ones are really just for the noon. Bought for around €70. They were the only ones that fit perfectly and close the gaps to the eyebrow line. Because insects. Summer. Billions of disoriented, crazy kamikaze style flyers. And somehow, they always accurately aim for the head, the eyes, ears, mouth, nose... One afternoon I bumped into a bat occupied with hunting insects (hooray I guess), but I've hit it with my chests at around 40kmh, probably killing it in the process, as he fell under the wheels. His sonar failed him. It felt like being hit by a rock, of a fist-fitting size, and launched with a strength of a grown man.

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do polarized glasses even do anything? i thought the cheap ones were mostly bogus tinfoil stuff.

the only way to reduce glare etc is with proper coated lenses?

i wear prescription lenses so i get the best lenses from Crizal (essilor) and they work great!
 
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Well if those new sunglasses don't work out for me I'll look for something else, they were cheap anyway.
 
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