Well, build log, profession advancement... The works I guess!! :) Complete and Total Overkill part 3!!

[Space Lynx]

IDK why everyone is giving @phill a hard time. It is what he enjoys so why not let him share without telling him to get rid of stuff? Jeez.

Not giving him a hard time really, we were just having a conversation. Maybe you read into the words too much?

 

[xtreemchaos]

you need to put a drool warning in the first post , that's my kind of heaven bro, so much to see and ive not enough eyes or room left in my brain to take it all in ill have to keep coming back for another look. well done. charl.

 

[potato580+]

Why don't you sell that obsolete junk and get some current gen stuff.

junk? seriosly, you got ordinary taste realy, as for me aint junk, i even willing to pay for i386, problems my friend charging it too expensive, yup expensive than curent gen

 

[phill]

you need to expand your room, thats alr full rly hehe

I am looking at another house I'm actually thinking about trying to build or convert over a garge type unit and put everything in there... We'll see

IDK why everyone is giving @phill a hard time. It is what he enjoys so why not let him share without telling him to get rid of stuff? Jeez.

It is good to see how others react to things like this. Some call it crazy, some call it hoarding, some love it.. I think though if people don't like it, don't post Why make such an effort replying to moan about something you don't like? Meh I've got teflon shoulders, it's fine

you need to put a drool warning in the first post , that's my kind of heaven bro, so much to see and ive not enough eyes or room left in my brain to take it all in ill have to keep coming back for another look. well done. charl.

Thanks for the post, I'm glad you like it I have a few things more planned but it's a long haul type thing at the moment.. Low wages and Christmas coming in and a lot of hardware to buy, it's not a good thing to be hoping to get things and not being able to afford it but... Meh Just have to wait a little longer

junk? seriosly, you got ordinary taste realy, as for me aint junk, i even willing to pay for i386, problems my friend charging it too expensive, yup expensive than curent gen

@potato580+ an example of why post if you don't like it I think but I think we seem to have a lot more of that sort of thing around now... It's less than ideal but I just take it in my stride and don't let it bother me Everyone has an opinion, some voice it and others don't

 

[Boatvan]

Not giving him a hard time really, we were just having a conversation. Maybe you read into the words too much?

I am so tired of people on this forum making an argument out of literally anything. I have usually been relegated to the WCG section because it is the last civil place left here. I am just sticking up for a guy who likes hardware. Yes, I read into it. You all said he had a mental illness and suggested he get out more. If that was directed at me, I'd be pissed. That isn't the point of this thread. I've kept my nose clean since I've been here but come on man! Have some decency.

 

[Vayra86]

IDK why everyone is giving @phill a hard time. It is what he enjoys so why not let him share without telling him to get rid of stuff? Jeez.

Is it such a hard time to tell people how you feel looking at what they do? Its not like anyone is bashing him, just stating observations, and its good to get that look in the mirror from time to time. You don't get a lot of that in the real world with random people. Adult conversation, about the things that might matter, yknow.

Also I think phill can take it. But, if he's done hearing about it... we should know and respect that. FWIW I think its fantastic and courageous when people feel they can be open like this.

My take... its not for me, but I can totally get the hobby of accumulating and collecting stuff you love to see and work with. Is it a bit crazy? Sure, but aren't we all? If this is what gives you joy and energy, go for it, no regrets. And... deep down I'd love to walk around in there for a day or two

I am looking at another house I'm actually thinking about trying to build or convert over a garge type unit and put everything in there... We'll see

You should find a nice, cold stone basement with one of those small windows up top. Put the hose & rad out @ winter and get them bench scores, and game on nice and cool in summer. And it gets better, you can put the music @ 11 and won't bother anyone

 

[Splinterdog]

If I had the room, I'd have a cave like that, but my garage workshop, with my motorbike behind me, will have to do.
Each to his own, I say.

 

[Space Lynx]

I am so tired of people on this forum making an argument out of literally anything. I have usually been relegated to the WCG section because it is the last civil place left here. I am just sticking up for a guy who likes hardware. Yes, I read into it. You all said he had a mental illness and suggested he get out more. If that was directed at me, I'd be pissed. That isn't the point of this thread. I've kept my nose clean since I've been here but come on man! Have some decency.

I never said that. Quote me where I said that?

 

[E-curbi]

Dearest Phill,

Your hardware man cave totally ROCKs!

Don't change a thing. Congestion makes the mind find a way and grow more functional.

...maybe add a few dancing girls in the background.

Best Regards,

Bullreegard

 

[phill]

I'm not planning on changing much to be honest, but a few more bits of hardware if I'm honest is definitely on the cards and on route I believe also!!

Which reminds me, one of those beautiful EVGA Z390 Dark boards.. I believe you know someone who has one?? I've sadly a few Intel CPUs I'd like to partner up with some motherboards I have here, build them into systems and then just go full AMD crazy if I'm honest. That said, I'm trying to order a few more AMD boards rather soon if I'm honest... I'm just wondering if I should go full mental and order that 3950X CPU or not...

Dancing girls would possibly just get in the way of the hardware mate, I'm not sure I'd be thanked or hated for it....

 

[E-curbi]

I'm not planning on changing much to be honest, but a few more bits of hardware if I'm honest is definitely on the cards and on route I believe also!!

Which reminds me, one of those beautiful EVGA Z390 Dark boards.. I believe you know someone who has one?? I've sadly a few Intel CPUs I'd like to partner up with some motherboards I have here, build them into systems and then just go full AMD crazy if I'm honest. That said, I'm trying to order a few more AMD boards rather soon if I'm honest... I'm just wondering if I should go full mental and order that 3950X CPU or not...

Dancing girls would possibly just get in the way of the hardware mate, I'm not sure I'd be thanked or hated for it....

I do have an extra (2nd) Z390 Dark board just laying around collecting dust in it's dust-proof bag.

Unfortunately it has a bent socket pin. We can all thank EVGA's unscrupulous a-hole RMA technician for that blunder that backfired on the company. I hope he/she was let go in the 30% EVGA employee layoff Spring of 2019. (sticking tongue out)

Anyhoo, If I could upright that pin and get the board 100% functional, I'd gladly send it to you at a greatly reduced price. lol

I uprighted (3) pins on my Maximus V Extreme from 2012 and it went on to live another 3years no issues at all, still works today, although it's mounted on the motherboard wall.

 

[phill]

That would be extremely awesome of you, but I'd have to make sure it was complete in box with everything (my OCD would never let me buy something that's not now lol) But if I did buy one, I'd definitely need a 9900k to go in it... Well possibly a 9900ks but maybe just a decent older 9900k Since they are cherry picking all the CPUs for the ks version.... Sucks

Which reminds me, I really need to do a few pictures and tests since I have some new CPUs to put together in a rig.. That said, I need to grab two motherboards for them both too... Most importantly tho, I need to get rid of some of the servers I have laying about here still.. One of my top 3 to do's for 2020.....

 

[E-curbi]

Yep, its complete in box. EVGA sent the replacement RMA board complete all accessories in a brand new box.

2boards complete in retail boxes (since that's all they had at the time) for $529 USD - don't ask how, I pleaded with them NOT to send the RMA'd board back to me. Instead, they intentionally bent a socket pin to deny the 3year warranty.

Lawyers stepped in - thus the two boards at the cost of one board.

I didn't want to make any trouble, I only wanted one board that functioned properly for $499.99 plus tax.

The EVGA technician had other plans.

I should just keep the 2nd Z390 Dark sent back to me and mount it on the motherboard wall as a victory trophy against bad people. lol

The money from selling it isn't as important as the reminder...

That EVGA RMA technician who bent the socket pin to save his job:

Unscrupulous, thoroughly unscrupulous

 

[phill]

In a little while I'll have another EVGA board to go in with my collection, I think I'm going to have to get a group shot That said, I will then like to track down a Xeon for the other board.. That said as I promised my MSI X99 Gaming Titanium board can go in the bin

I'm trying hard to find some AMD boards at the moment, it's hard work trying to spend some money....

 

[phill]

Hi everyone, so with a few new bits and pieces of hardware turning up, I thought why not put something in the project thread

So quick recap what's turned up...



So we have a Hero 7 and 8 board, along with a Ryzen 2700, 2700X and a 3900X. I've ordered some Freezer 34 Duo heatsinks to test since they where fairly cheap and for the work loads that these will be cooling, I'm pretty sure I won't be maxing it out as such. Hopefully they'll be quiet and nice and efficient Special thanks to @biffzinker for the recommendations.. I'll hopefully get to see how well they perform with the testing I'm hoping to get done over the weekend...

I also grabbed some 32Gb kits of DDR4 3200Mhz spec'd RAM. I can't say much that's bad about it at all... At £100 a kit for 32Gb, 3200Mhz, CAS 16 I know it's not the fastest stuff out there, but for the quantity and the performance (timings too) I really can't moan. What I can say though, is I'm so very glad I bought them when I did as they are up to a new crazy high price, so I'm rather pleased I ordered them when I did...

I'm going to grab with the above PCs (and as with all my Ryzen rigs) a RX 480 card I have from my mining days and use that for the GPU side of things. I've a few spare SSDs so I'm going to get those installed and probably running Windows for my partner Rosie and my girls.. I know Sophia is a little young but the little monkey has just started standing up and walking now.. Where the heck that came from I've no idea!! So she's bound to want a PC sooner rather than later

With the 3900X rig for the moment, I will be using some TridentZ I have here



B die stuff and cherry picked a bit.. These will do 4000Mhz at C14 I think?? It's been a long time since I've tweaked with these and since having the Ryzen rigs, I've needed to get some RAM so I used the two kits I have for my main rig. That'll make 32Gb as they are all 8Gb sticks, but if I wanted to go nuts, I can always use two of the 32Gb kits and see if I get any problems that way.. I'm sure I needed 64Gb for Google and a few Excel spreadsheets to be open at once...

I'll be doing a bit of temp testing with the CPUs I have. I'm going to water cool my main PC which when I do get building, will be the 3900X which I'm sure will be a nice upgrade from my 5960X. At the moment I'll be using air cooling and I'll see how things go. If it sucks royally then I've a few air cooler to try and we can go from there.
I would eventually like to get it full water cooled, so I'm going to be looking at replacement CPU and GPU blocks and also some lovely nice new rads and so on.. A few links below -

A possible 560mm rad GTR...
Another possible 560mm rad GTX...

I know I'm going to need pump/res combo, tubing, CPU and GPU blocks on top of that but if air cooling for the moment is about all I can manage cash wise, then that'll be fine with me

I'll of course put up some more pictures when it's all completed and ready I hope that it will be this weekend...

Also I'm hoping to get rid of some servers as well for our WCG group.. If anyone wants one then I'll willingly sort them out and let them go!! Thanks for looking

 

[biffzinker]

Nice pair of looking heatsinks you've got. What do you make of the heatsinks, and fans?

 

[phill]

Nice pair of looking heatsinks you've got. What do you make of the heatsinks, and fans?

Sadly at the moment I can just go on what they look like out of the boxes I'm waiting till the weekend to get to test the coolers and see what they are like. From the brief look outside the box, they feel good quality and up to the job, so I'll be interested to see how they perform I'll be of course testing the 1700X, 2700, 2700X and the 3900X with the cooler as I'm pretty sure I'll end up getting the same cooler for all the Ryzen rigs I have.. What's currently on the two 1700X's at the moment aren't in place and just sat on the CPU.. But still, it's doing pretty well cooling it, so I'm interested to see how they compare I'll of course, do a small write up for everyone

 

[phill]

I'm finally making a bit of progress with all of this..

So bit of a quick re-cap for the WCG side of things... My quad setups have stopped and are retired from crunching now but in my crazy style, I have a 2700, 2700X and 3900X to bring in to the mix (not to mention a couple of servers, we'll get there with those in a mo...)
So the 2600k, the Xeon E3-1245 v3 and my 6700k will no longer be crunching, for the power drain and so on, we can do better so... This is where the above Ryzen rigs will come in to play

I've got the ok from the Mrs/wife to build her Ryzen into a spare case I have here (a R5 in white with a window) so I hope to be able to get that one at least started at some point... I'll of course be putting up some pics of that and I hope to hear good and bad things about it
I do plan the same build for my eldest daughter Isabelle, but I'm in need of another 2700X and a Hero 7 Wi-Fi board, so that might be a little longer. In the mean time, I might get her hooked up with my 5960X and a few things (air cooler as well).. To be honest for the girls, anything that would play The Sims and such would be plenty, so a 2700X will be massive overkill but I know no other way....

Since beginning testing with the 2700, the power draw has been massively impressive to me, so I'm very much considering something daft with that as a server back up or something, but a WCG and FAH cruncher and folder.. I've a 1080 Ti that I've had for a long time and not used it, so water blocked, it'll be perfect for some folding on I might even have just the case for that as well....

With my other Ryzen 1700X rigs, I'm going to put them in the conservatory with the servers, since the servers are going and the two systems that where there are now removed, we'll have a bit more room and they can go on top of the server case rack and be lovely and cool out there With some luck, I'll have spare room for systems to be setup and accessible, which has been such a long time coming... As I mentioned earlier in the thread with EarthDog, it needs sorting out

So, as it's getting later and I'm getting more tired, time to get some rest and get building and testing some more over the next few days. Hopefully, I can see the desk space growing soon!!

Also have some movement with the Server Giveaway I'm doing as well for TPUs WCG team... I'll put something up about that too

 

[Solaris17]

moar server picssss

 

[Lorec]

Dont overwork Yourself, Phil! But then again Im really looking forward to pics though!
What about that x99 calassified You got recently? Will You be using it or just keeping in box?
Also what do You think about 2700? is it new 1700?

 

[phill]

moar server picssss

Just because it's you, of course there will be

Dont overwork Yourself, Phil! But then again Im really looking forward to pics though!
What about that x99 calassified You got recently? Will You be using it or just keeping in box?
Also what do You think about 2700? is it new 1700?

I'm trying to get things sorted out, it's driving me mad how long the servers I'm trying to do a giveaway for has taken so long to get gone!! But hopefully this time next week, I'd like to hope that the servers will be on their way to new owners... !!

I'm not really so sure what I'm doing with the X99 Classified, but I think that MSI thing I have has to go.. So the 5960X will either go in the X99 OCF board or the Classified and then from there, well, it's anyone's guess!

I have been toying with the idea of the 2700 becoming a cruncher/folder with a water cooled 1080 Ti in it, it uses so little power I'm dead impressed with it. I might even consider making it into a secondary server or moving away from my Synology NAS I think.. I'm not sure. Too much hardware and not enough time to actually get anything sorted out with Sophia running around after me I wouldn't change it for the world tho

I do however have two systems I need to build for my Mrs and Isabelle, so that will need to be done as well..

Oh how I wish I only had a single PC sometimes but then I'd miss out on all the fun Hopefully guys, some updates here soon

 

[dgianstefani]

Z390 Dark is the shizz.

9900ks if you don't want to worry about the silicone lottery.

 

[theonek]

all looks like a kinder garden for grown ups - so many toys to play with... and don't get me wrong - it is very nice to have ability to play and test with so many pc platforms and configurations.... I would feel myself like a child in a candy store though

 

[phill]

Right guys, another busy damn night in which I have managed to get nothing done that I had hoped, but I've been testing my 3900X a little bit, after what I'd call some very positive 2700 testing, I've been somewhat taken back with the 3900X and my cooler... I'll explain below -



So whilst I was testing my new cooler and my 2700, I was amazed at how quiet and cool the thing was. Everything with stock settings, so just literally taken out the box and put together and turned on, I couldn't see more than 50C under a long heavy load.. To be fair, I don't believe it got even that high... But still.....

So yesterday evening I tried the same cooler on my 3900X and with a quick CB R15 test (it's very quick considering 24 threads and whoosh there it's done!!) I hit a maximum of 85C which I thought was a tad higher than I prefer. Considering my 5960X hits 55C on a warm day with little air flow, 85C I think was pushing my comfort zone. Again this is literally tested out of the box, no settings changed at all..

I've tried it this evening with my 14D cooler and to be honest, with repeated CB R15 tests back to back, I'm still hitting 80C and a bit higher.. The house isn't warm as such but it's a little disappointing if I'm honest...
So I've been thinking of doing something really stupid and that will be to replace it with a TR 3970X system instead.. Bigger surface area for the CPU and cooling, more cores, more crazy, more just like myself... So I will keep hold of this setup for a while (Hero 8 and 3900X) as it's a monster and just wait and see. I've got my case picked out I'm going to build it in to and everything I need (aside from a cooler and an AM4 bracket... Might need to order one of those....) and I will get it built up. I will also do the same for the Mrs's PC I've got her here and same goes for Isabelle's PC as well.. They are having the same one so, it'll be fine Also the tested the cooler (cheaper Arctic Freezer one) on the 1700X and it seems to hit about 55C under WCG load, which I didn't think was bad.

When I have some more brain power and time, I'll put up the pics with the Arctic cooler as I was shocked at how small the base plate was for AMD CPUs.. Still, sleep is needed catch you soon guys I hope

 

[phill]

Another small update for my project log.... Mrs's PC build.... Bit late for a mass of text, so I'll just put up some pics and call it a day



I'll try and get a post together whilst I'm at work tomorrow just to explain and feedback on the cooler I used