Well guys and gals since I've been off with this broken leg, I've been able to try and catch up on a few things, one thing being picture sorting.. So as I'd found a few pictures I'd not posted due to some lack of brains etc. I thought whilst I remembered, I'd put some up to show
Since my Asrock Z77 OC F decided it didn't want to work, I had to find an alternative... I hope this will do...
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Not only was it lovely and retail boxed with all the trimmings, it worked too!!
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I still need to test the CPUs I have and see what goes... Trying to find that 5GHz 2600k.... Not that it should be too hard apparently from what I remember being told....
I had also had registered for the ear buds that I could get free with the Samsung phone I had, so gladly, they came through as well
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Well there seems to be always an offer on at Amazon for something, so when these 18TB drives came up on offer, me and a mate decided we needed some for our backup of a retro gaming collection, Hyperspin. Down to the faster internet at home, I decided to put it on a download rather than buying the drive and having it pre installed.... Bit of a money saving considering the price difference.... £70 at the time (which was already half price!) for just the 16TB download or I believe it was £500 at the time for the drive, everything on it and it ready to go... The second option sounded a bit too expensive so we went with the download.. Sadly it wasn't going to download at the fastest possible and is currently still downloading I think about a month and a half afterwards... There's a boat load of files and as they are are mostly so far, tiny, it seems its taking ages to download....... Here's to waiting for the bigger files!!
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I'll let you know when the download finishes and how it was
More to come, so I had a pump and res holder for a D5 pump that had somehow snapped, so I went and did a bit of hunting about for the price and making sure I had the right one. Man that was hard to do!! Some companies wanted double or close to triple what I had paid for below, I can't say I'm impressed with it...
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Whilst shopping I also had to pick up a couple of PSU leads for the bigger EVGA unit I had, didn't realise as I'd never opened it that the 1600w version had a different connection in the PSU, C19 I believe its called (rectangle shape) so I grabbed two, a couple pump and res clips and some cheaper Ceramique thermal paste and as it was half price on Amazon, I grabbed a couple tubes of the Noctua paste I'd been recommended to try, so I had that too
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Think that should allow me to do a few more Threadripper CPUs!!
That reminds me.....
I was getting short some rad fan screws but think I might have gone a little over the top with the amount I'd ordered... Also grabbed a couple of the big mats as well I have enjoyed having when using the PC... Also some spare clear tubing too, can't ever have enough just in case
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And now for a good find I think....
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A trusty AMD Threadripper 2990WX CPU. Now funnily enough this wasn't really for me... I was explaining to the seller I could buy it but it would only be really for a collection as such, so as it was up for a £1000 on ebay and I'd managed to grab it for half that (delivered as well!) I was rather taken back
A friend I've chatted to for years does a lot of video editing and such and has been on about this damn CPU for ages.. Whilst I didn't go really looking as such, I did come across this one and well as you can see, it works!
I'd managed to find enough spare RAM that was all the same spec's to test it out and well, it had been running like a champ!! I've sadly not been upstairs in my home for about 3 weeks !!
After seeing my mistakes from the CPU only seeing some of the RAM I had installed when I first set it up with the guy selling it, was next to me, he'd finally got in touch and I'd updated him on the findings and that everything worked as expected
The CPU is a beast, an utter beast. For testing I've not really been able to do much with it sadly, with the broken leg and not being able to move up and down the stairs so much, its currently sat in the motherboard being pretty but hopefully I can get it swapped back out soon and get the cash back for it. I know my bank account would like that right now
I don't think I could add in my latest purchase since there's a picture limit with each post but I'll put that up soon with some luck
Well another day and some more little toys
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Gotta love the big boxes... Wonder what's in there..... Hopefully not too much packaging......
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No instead, some bloody big rad... Umm, hang on a minute.......
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Nope, make that two...
I grabbed some quick release fixings so I could literally keep the loops as simple as possible and make sure that if I ever needed to do some testing, I had a nice big rad to use
I figure it made sense to have two so I could use one for the CPU and one for the GPU if they where water cooled.. Maybe a bit overkill?? But heck, isn't that the whole point??
Now as soon as I can walk a bit better and as long as I don't get any more issues with blood clots in my lungs, I'll hopefully find out!!