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Doing that with a custom WC loop is nightmare fuel. I wouldn't hesitate otherwise, especially with how easy PC builds are these days.

Don't waste your time and money with a 'test bench' case. The only people who can claim a legitimate use-case are youtubers for presentation or frequent component swaps for reviews. AFAIK no one in the PC building industry does anything other than mobo box test builds and I literally built...

Looks incredible. Any chance of a build log?

This was my first and last SLI setup. Dual GTX1080ti on X99 platform and a i7 5960X. I figured this would be a good rig for VR, boy was I wrong. SLI was only worse in VR than a single GPU. I ended up removing one of the cards and putting it in my HTPC rig. SLI was so disappointing with the...

This is my office setup: Audeze LCD-X and Chord Hugo2 Klipsch 5.1 reference quintet. I picked up a Yamaha RX-V361 second hand to run them. System replaced my Logitech Z-5500. Running off a Sound Blaster Z.

I just did this. Tried steam link on a google TV and also tried it on my old HTPC which had a 1080ti in it, which doesn't have the balls to play games at 4k these days. Steam link is awful, there are no two ways about it. I ended up running three cables to my lounge, an optical HDMI and an...

Wife and kids have been away for a month and I tried to get through Alan Wake 2 while they were away. I made good progress but I couldn't do it. It's just too damn scary playing this while home alone. Ended up playing GTA v.

Just wondering if anyone else can verify, I dropped my SOC voltage in BIOS to 1.08v. The bios reports 1.11v but all monitoring tools in windows, including Ryzen Master reports it as 1.2V. It never seems to change either and is the only v that reports exactly the same every time. Every other v is...

I have to finally admin defeat, I have no idea how PBO functions or what settings produce a good result. I messed with every setting and nothing seemed to change. The only setting that had any repeatable effect is curve optimisation. BCLK tweaking makes the system behave weird. Even just 1mhz up...

Just tinkering to see the difference. My card seems rock solid at 3030mhz with the bump. If I push any higher it drops back to that clock anyway. I'm seeing 520W with limit set to 133% so around 80W over the 'just under 450w' reported above (assuming stock) while performance in speedway while...

Every brand except Galax apparently.

I just found out that us late 4090 purchasers are punished by a 1070mv core limit. Earlier cards had a 1100mv limit. Flashed my card, a Gigabyte Aero OC 24G using nvflashk to a Gigabyte Gaming OC 24G (BIOS dated October 22 from Techpowerup). I chose the Gaming OC becuase it is basically the...

That was me. This was after flushing with hot vinegar, round two was caustic soda. In the bucket is the caustic soda flush. I'll put it in spoiler tags becuase it could induce trauma.

Just cleaned and changed thermal paste. +250 core and +1250 memory for all runs but the clocks are boosting higher due to lower temps I guess.

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I loaded up some timespy results if anyone is interested in the difference between stock and lapped IHS, as well as Thermal Grizzly vs Noctua NT-H1. Fan and pump speeds should be fairly consistent between runs. I haven't tried running higher fans speeds yet, they are currently between 600 and...

It doesn't increase flow rate unless you have heavy flow restriction. Running dual D5's doubles head pressure but flow rate remains the same. Two blocks and three radiators isn't really enough to create a noticable drop in flow rate for a single D5. The only other scenario where dual D5's would...

Bro.

I don't know how much flow is restricted but there is no way it would be a 1 PSI drop. There is a pretty large surface area there. If you blow through it you can't feel any restriction at all and when I primed my pumps as usual I didn't notice any noticable drop in flow. The best thing about the...

Coolant is EK Cryofuel clear. Like I said, I bought a fuel filter and driled a hole through it. I just shoved it over the inlet pipe, works great. Just ran Timespy and got my best result. GPU temp went from (average) 56C to 49C. That is pretty incredible. CPU temps went from 71 to 68C so not as...

My loop was filthy so I spent the weekend cleaning it up. I built this system at the end of last year but for what ever reason my loop was contaminated after my previous attempt to clean it (which was the second attempt). I took the opportunity to lap my CPU waterblock and changed the thermal...

It doesn't look like EK have an active backplate for the 4090. The waterblock I got came with a passive backplate.

I need deets on that GPU+Water block. Full active waterblocks on both sides!?

Load up HWMonitor and it should tell you fan rpm...

Percentages don't say a whole lot, what RPM are you running your fans at? I'm running my 120mm Vardars at 585rpm and my 140mm Noctuas at 792rpm. Dropping the fans speeds lower than this doesn't seem to make any difference to fan noise. I changed my fan curve to go up gradually by 4% from 65c to...

I've been running prime95 all night and it peaked at 83C over night. It is sitting on average of 77-78C. The reason I wanted to lap the CPU was the wild occassional spikes. The way I set up my fan curve meant that my fans were ramping while doing mundane shit like browsing youtube. The lapping...

I just checked my 3dmark results and the difference is -3C +22Mhz CPU and -4C +38Mhz GPU +45Mhz mem in timespy. https://www.3dmark.com/compare/spy/46123499/spy/45543407# This is completely unscientific though. I'm not entirely sure if the BIOS and overclock settings are the same between runs...

I didn't check it sorry, the rebuild was done in a rush as I'm back at university this week. I was seeing peaks of 89C before lapping. The most I've seen so far is 82C. I also feel like there is still room for improvement if I lap the water block as well. That might be something I will consider...

Without waiting for the loop to warm up I'm seeing a peak of 77C while running prime95. I don't expect to see a big difference even after a few hours as we're only talking about cooling 90W. with three massive radiators I'd expect to see maybe 1-2C more after running this for a few hours. I'm...

Finally finished the rebuild. I'm reasonably happy with the new bends. The only problem is that I did something really stupid. I cleaned everything and flushed the radiators for hours. After I got done with the bending I contemplated flushing the loop once more for good measure but figured I had...

I started the rebuild on Friday (NZ time) and it still isn't done. I have a warning if anyone is contemplating doing this. I started with a goal of a 2mm 'shave'. 120 grit sand paper wasn't cutting it so I went back to the hardware store and got a few pieces of 80 grit. There really is no...

Jays2cents lapped almost 1mm off a 7950X3D and saw almost 10C temp difference. Thats not insignificant. I usually see about 85W under load so I don't think a limit of 105W will do anything. There is no way I would delid a CPU again. I killed a few xeons doing this. The last successful delid I...

I'm planning on rebuilding this thing for a few reasons: Even after I did my best to clean my loop, I'm seeing debris in my CPU block, so it needs a clean. I've heard that GPU PCBs are cracking so I bought a new vert PCIe4.0 GPU mount. I want to update my storage while I have this thing apart...

No idea why I couldn't find that. Ordered, thanks.

I am definitely going to vert mount this beast. I don't know if my setup helps; I have a full ekwb block and hardline tubing which provides a little support but I kinda liike the idea of vert mounting the GPU with this RGB block, it will definitely enhance the looks. I have an Enthoo Elite so...

I made a thing: 7800X3D new build, help please? Unfortunately all is not well becuase apparently Gigabyte GPUs have been cracking and this is news to me only after I built the damn thing. So anyway, I'm thinking I can mitigate any risk with a vertical GPU mount. I'm definitely sorted in that...

Here is the original video. There is an update at the end, the guy got a new TV, upgraded to the latest model. But Samsung shutting down discussion about it is pretty shady. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLimCcnee9c

Wild. I love Louis's description for the guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyWlACuhqNg

OK so I had another look and there is a setting I missed. There is a 'hot keys' button in the spanning setup and there is a hotkey to enable/disable spanning. Maybe I should cut nVidia some slack. Oh wait, when I use the hotkey to disable spanning, it switches to a single monitor and I have to...

It has been a very long time since I had an AMD card in my main rig. I think it was a X1950XTX, the switch to nVidia was the 980ti, the 1080ti and now the 4090. I've had a triple monitor setup since the Radeon HD5870 (the first 'surround' GPU that allowed display spanning). Eyefinity was great...