Enpoo
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Time to stop being scared, break out the hair dryer, remove the extremely stubborn stock cooling and fit the RAM coolers.
Remembering of course that two modules will be upside down, so fit two on upside down so they are all the right way up when fitted
This is the other side.
And back where they need to be for now, with a quick test.
Remembering of course that two modules will be upside down, so fit two on upside down so they are all the right way up when fitted
This is the other side.And back where they need to be for now, with a quick test.
They are generic RGB ram coolers (4 pin 12v) I got elsewhere. But... OCUK do much better ones.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/jonsbo-nc-2-dual-rgb-ram-cooler-silver-hs-00e-jb.html
Well, they are the same obs but they are Jonsbo with a nicer logo on IMO. They cost me £1 less from elsewhere, but had I known OCUK had Jonsbo ones I would have gone with those for sure. They do ARGB ones also.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/jonsbo-nc-3-2x-argb-ram-cooler-silver-hs-00f-jb.html
I never knew either of those existed, so I kinda kicked myself in the ass when I found them the other day.
The RAM itself is just generic Crucial Sport? something like that. Ballistix sport. 2400? It will be getting replaced (not the coolers) eventually when I can get a decent "raw" (no heat spreaders) 32gb 3000 or 3200 kit but for now it will do. Obs I can keep the coolers.
I like using these coolers. I know many would just go buy RGB RAM, but there is a catch to that. When you use quad channel RAM two sticks are the "wrong way" up. And RAM manufacturers don't take that into account, so your RAM ends up with upside down logos etc. With these you fit them any way you like, so you can fit two upside down and then they are all the correct way up when you fit them. I will demonstrate this more once they go into the TR board.
I have also fallen in love with this build now (it was bound to happen) and thus I have decided to give it a proper name and a theme. I'm keeping that under wraps for now, as I ordered something very rare from the USA and will need it to make sure the theme pulls off properly. Not counting eggs just yet....
Work for that will continue in private, then be added at the end. If everything arrives....
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/jonsbo-nc-2-dual-rgb-ram-cooler-silver-hs-00e-jb.html
Well, they are the same obs but they are Jonsbo with a nicer logo on IMO. They cost me £1 less from elsewhere, but had I known OCUK had Jonsbo ones I would have gone with those for sure. They do ARGB ones also.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/jonsbo-nc-3-2x-argb-ram-cooler-silver-hs-00f-jb.html
I never knew either of those existed, so I kinda kicked myself in the ass when I found them the other day.
The RAM itself is just generic Crucial Sport? something like that. Ballistix sport. 2400? It will be getting replaced (not the coolers) eventually when I can get a decent "raw" (no heat spreaders) 32gb 3000 or 3200 kit but for now it will do. Obs I can keep the coolers.
I like using these coolers. I know many would just go buy RGB RAM, but there is a catch to that. When you use quad channel RAM two sticks are the "wrong way" up. And RAM manufacturers don't take that into account, so your RAM ends up with upside down logos etc. With these you fit them any way you like, so you can fit two upside down and then they are all the correct way up when you fit them. I will demonstrate this more once they go into the TR board.
I have also fallen in love with this build now (it was bound to happen) and thus I have decided to give it a proper name and a theme. I'm keeping that under wraps for now, as I ordered something very rare from the USA and will need it to make sure the theme pulls off properly. Not counting eggs just yet....
Work for that will continue in private, then be added at the end. If everything arrives....
OK. It is time to combobulate the discombobulated.
Right now it is just a rig. Which I was happy with. However, I kinda like it. Enough that I want to turn it into a fully blown mod.
For about ten years now I have had this mod in my head. It was going to be a fully scratch build. Using all sorts of weird stuff that came from song lyrics, that I visualised in my head and cooked up into this mod that would need about 20 grand's worth of machinery to pull off. Hey, we can all dream right?
Now I wasn't going to visually mod this build at all. I was going to mod what needed modding (and have) to make it work from a mechanical P.O.V.
TBH? I had all buy forgotten about my dreams to do the mod I mentioned. Mostly because of said needed tools and machinery and most of all money.
Then last night I was browsing Ebay. IDK why, but the Pandemic ep of South Park had got me watching it again so I returned to one of my fave eps ever (Scott Tenorman Must Die) and was rolling around. So I started having a poke around on Ebay to see what my old collection of South Park dolls would have been worth had I not had to get rid of them when I moved back to the UK. I had about 50, and this enormous collection had to be sold in three removal boxes in 2008.
And then I stumbled across these.
They are a promotional item (stickers) from that episode back in 2001. They were released in the USA only, and were to promote the episode Radiohead were in (mentioned above) as they starred in it. Cartman told them there is a boy with cancer in his ass, and Radiohead showed up to see him. Only it was a trap, and they laughed at Scott Tenorman much to Cartman's delight. It's a pretty dark, sick episode but if you have a dark sense of humour it's one of the best.
So my idea for a mod was basically <a> fake plastic trees. It is the first song on the EP on CD. This also happens to be my favourite song ever. It's an absolute masterpiece of misery, yet reality. I never knew what it was about (I just knew it meant the world was basically fake crap) but then when I watched Radiohead live at Astoria I noted that before singing the song Thom Yorke says "This is a song about Canary Wharf". And then it all made sense. Thom was visiting Canary Wharf when he penned the song, and the place just made him miserable because everything around him was fake. Fake plants, fake watering cans etc.
So I started ordering things for the mod. Firstly this, which is a parking token from Canary Wharf.
And then a green plastic watering can.
For a fake Chinese rubber plant.
And the fake plastic earth.
Then the ideas began to flow. So I ordered some fake plastic grass.
And fake plastic decking.
For a while I have been watching guys on Youtube create these Dioramas and fancied a go at that myself. So the PSU shroud will be a diorama of Canary Wharf.
I have drawn up a sign for the side of the PSU shroud.
As well as lots of other references to the song. I won't show that stuff yet.
But yeah, expect this to get very strange.
Right now it is just a rig. Which I was happy with. However, I kinda like it. Enough that I want to turn it into a fully blown mod.
For about ten years now I have had this mod in my head. It was going to be a fully scratch build. Using all sorts of weird stuff that came from song lyrics, that I visualised in my head and cooked up into this mod that would need about 20 grand's worth of machinery to pull off. Hey, we can all dream right?
Now I wasn't going to visually mod this build at all. I was going to mod what needed modding (and have) to make it work from a mechanical P.O.V.
TBH? I had all buy forgotten about my dreams to do the mod I mentioned. Mostly because of said needed tools and machinery and most of all money.
Then last night I was browsing Ebay. IDK why, but the Pandemic ep of South Park had got me watching it again so I returned to one of my fave eps ever (Scott Tenorman Must Die) and was rolling around. So I started having a poke around on Ebay to see what my old collection of South Park dolls would have been worth had I not had to get rid of them when I moved back to the UK. I had about 50, and this enormous collection had to be sold in three removal boxes in 2008.
And then I stumbled across these.
They are a promotional item (stickers) from that episode back in 2001. They were released in the USA only, and were to promote the episode Radiohead were in (mentioned above) as they starred in it. Cartman told them there is a boy with cancer in his ass, and Radiohead showed up to see him. Only it was a trap, and they laughed at Scott Tenorman much to Cartman's delight. It's a pretty dark, sick episode but if you have a dark sense of humour it's one of the best.
So my idea for a mod was basically <a> fake plastic trees. It is the first song on the EP on CD. This also happens to be my favourite song ever. It's an absolute masterpiece of misery, yet reality. I never knew what it was about (I just knew it meant the world was basically fake crap) but then when I watched Radiohead live at Astoria I noted that before singing the song Thom Yorke says "This is a song about Canary Wharf". And then it all made sense. Thom was visiting Canary Wharf when he penned the song, and the place just made him miserable because everything around him was fake. Fake plants, fake watering cans etc.
So I started ordering things for the mod. Firstly this, which is a parking token from Canary Wharf.
And then a green plastic watering can.
For a fake Chinese rubber plant.
And the fake plastic earth.
Then the ideas began to flow. So I ordered some fake plastic grass.
And fake plastic decking.
For a while I have been watching guys on Youtube create these Dioramas and fancied a go at that myself. So the PSU shroud will be a diorama of Canary Wharf.
I have drawn up a sign for the side of the PSU shroud.
As well as lots of other references to the song. I won't show that stuff yet.
But yeah, expect this to get very strange.
Not modding this now. Not with the theme. I will do a scratch build at some point for that.
I do have plans for this, but just basic stuff to make it look tidier. Coolant should arrive later today. I put in a GT 610 and fired it up very quickly last night, starts up fine. That was a weight off my mind let me tell you.
OCUK have shipped my parts I need to finish it, but they are not tracking yet. Am hopeful they are being collected today and will arrive tomorrow
I do have plans for this, but just basic stuff to make it look tidier. Coolant should arrive later today. I put in a GT 610 and fired it up very quickly last night, starts up fine. That was a weight off my mind let me tell you.
OCUK have shipped my parts I need to finish it, but they are not tracking yet. Am hopeful they are being collected today and will arrive tomorrow
The mod I have been planning needs to be a proper scratch build. That was what I always planned on. It will take me months, and I don't want my rig continually out of action because of that.
So yeah, some patience required haha.
So yeah, some patience required haha.
That's a GPU LOL.
I bought the board and CPU second hand. I hadn't tested it at all (couldn't, I had no cooler) so I decided to fire it for POST last night on the block. I didn't want to take my 2070S out yet, so I just used an old GT610. Less aggro, it doesn't need power.
Any way rig fired up fine so it's also been tested now too. The order from OCUK should be here tomorrow. Not much more I can do now, given I need to remove the whole vertical mount again to get to the RGB wiring and etc and I don't have the hubs yet.
With any luck a marathon tomorrow ought to do it. Obviously I can't install Windows on it yet either because the NVME drive is in the order from OCUK, which again is coming tomorrow. It's on an umbilical Molex ATM running from the rig I am on. Will leave the loop running whilst I am awake but I don't think it will leak given the only untested thing in there was the distro and that was new.
I bought the board and CPU second hand. I hadn't tested it at all (couldn't, I had no cooler) so I decided to fire it for POST last night on the block. I didn't want to take my 2070S out yet, so I just used an old GT610. Less aggro, it doesn't need power.
Any way rig fired up fine so it's also been tested now too. The order from OCUK should be here tomorrow. Not much more I can do now, given I need to remove the whole vertical mount again to get to the RGB wiring and etc and I don't have the hubs yet.
With any luck a marathon tomorrow ought to do it. Obviously I can't install Windows on it yet either because the NVME drive is in the order from OCUK, which again is coming tomorrow. It's on an umbilical Molex ATM running from the rig I am on. Will leave the loop running whilst I am awake but I don't think it will leak given the only untested thing in there was the distro and that was new.
Got the panel running last night. Still need the adapter for the pump top. Will cover the red and white LED on the board with black vinyl.
Sadly at some point the LEDs in the CPU block have died. I noticed in earlier pics they were very dim. Now they don't work at all. Chased them down and tried other sockets and so on but yeah, seems they are brown bread.
There's no way I am bloody taking it out again now, even though I have a spare EK strip. Sod that.
I ran into a ton of stability issues also. It kept booting straight into the BIOS (which my X99 used to do it's friggin annoying) so I flashed the BIOS last night. The BIOS on there was from 2017, god knows how the previous owner put up with that they are truly awful on early BIOSes.
Any way, that fixed the stability issues I was having. Turns out my RAM is 2666 not 2400 which was nice. I thought the XMP was wrong at first. Then I had tons of issues with PUBG. I play with a few chums during the week. Every time I tried to launch it it would black screen crash, then continually go back to desktop and black screen until you shut down the PC. I was worried this was a hardware issue, but I played Doom Eternal for four hours last night without a single hiccup. I tried verifying it (one corrupt file) but same. Ripped every trace of it out and reinstalled it, same. I was beginning to worry I would never get it working, then I took a look into what was running.
"MSI Dragon App gaming mode !!!1111oneoneeleven". So disabled everything MSI and what would you know?
So I christen the Gigabyte app AIDs for your PC, this one is Ebola.
Oh yeah I also bought a 1tb SATA SSD on another site they were having a certain type of number day. So I fitted that last night also and moved a couple of games over to it so the mechs can spin down when I am gaming.
Sadly at some point the LEDs in the CPU block have died. I noticed in earlier pics they were very dim. Now they don't work at all. Chased them down and tried other sockets and so on but yeah, seems they are brown bread.
There's no way I am bloody taking it out again now, even though I have a spare EK strip. Sod that.
I ran into a ton of stability issues also. It kept booting straight into the BIOS (which my X99 used to do it's friggin annoying) so I flashed the BIOS last night. The BIOS on there was from 2017, god knows how the previous owner put up with that they are truly awful on early BIOSes.
Any way, that fixed the stability issues I was having. Turns out my RAM is 2666 not 2400 which was nice. I thought the XMP was wrong at first. Then I had tons of issues with PUBG. I play with a few chums during the week. Every time I tried to launch it it would black screen crash, then continually go back to desktop and black screen until you shut down the PC. I was worried this was a hardware issue, but I played Doom Eternal for four hours last night without a single hiccup. I tried verifying it (one corrupt file) but same. Ripped every trace of it out and reinstalled it, same. I was beginning to worry I would never get it working, then I took a look into what was running.
"MSI Dragon App gaming mode !!!1111oneoneeleven". So disabled everything MSI and what would you know?
So I christen the Gigabyte app AIDs for your PC, this one is Ebola.
Oh yeah I also bought a 1tb SATA SSD on another site they were having a certain type of number day. So I fitted that last night also and moved a couple of games over to it so the mechs can spin down when I am gaming.
Nope I went with a Sandisk because it was £3 cheaper. I use several Sandisk and none of them have failed yet.
My other rigs are all SSD. This one however I would need to spend about a grand in SSDs to replace them. It's much more of an office PC than the others, though TBF the Area 51 has around 7tb in SSD storage in.
This is my "cheapest" PC. Hence why I used all of the stuff I had lying around and spent as little as possible really.
My other rigs are all SSD. This one however I would need to spend about a grand in SSDs to replace them. It's much more of an office PC than the others, though TBF the Area 51 has around 7tb in SSD storage in.
This is my "cheapest" PC. Hence why I used all of the stuff I had lying around and spent as little as possible really.
It was my main rig for many years. Hence why when I got around to putting SSDs in it I went a little crazy lol. I suppose in a way it is still my main rig at home, because the new one "only" has about 2.5tb of SSDs in it. Meaning most of my data is on the other one still with all of the drives in.
One day I will get around to doing this one, but I will need a windfall or I won't bother.
One day I will get around to doing this one, but I will need a windfall or I won't bother.
OK so the RGB is finished. The adapter for the pump top arrived yesterday.
However I am having issues. Sometimes when I launch a game the rig freezes. Sometimes when I exit a game and go back to the menu it freezes. This morning it was random freezing.
Normally I would be perplexed. However, yesterday when playing SOTTR I got an error message that said "Your graphics card driver crashed etc". I am 90% it's the Cooler Master ribbon. I had issues with it before. They seem to be a one shot deal. IE, if you start bending on them etc they break. They are the early type, and a bit crap. So I ordered this.
Because that is the best way of doing it. Not only are the cables encased in rubber and split (so it bends easy without putting stress on the wires) but the ends are both reinforced too.
If that doesn't solve it? then it is the RAM. Which I have already decided I am not replacing any time soon so I will just have to live with it. Oddly in the 14 hours I gamed yesterday I only had the one crash in game. However, like I said I've seen dodgy ribbons before so I am pretty certain that is what is going on.
However I am having issues. Sometimes when I launch a game the rig freezes. Sometimes when I exit a game and go back to the menu it freezes. This morning it was random freezing.
Normally I would be perplexed. However, yesterday when playing SOTTR I got an error message that said "Your graphics card driver crashed etc". I am 90% it's the Cooler Master ribbon. I had issues with it before. They seem to be a one shot deal. IE, if you start bending on them etc they break. They are the early type, and a bit crap. So I ordered this.
Because that is the best way of doing it. Not only are the cables encased in rubber and split (so it bends easy without putting stress on the wires) but the ends are both reinforced too.
If that doesn't solve it? then it is the RAM. Which I have already decided I am not replacing any time soon so I will just have to live with it. Oddly in the 14 hours I gamed yesterday I only had the one crash in game. However, like I said I've seen dodgy ribbons before so I am pretty certain that is what is going on.
Enpoo finito.
Good news. The CPU block LEDs didn't die at all, they are just completely blocked by the black coolant haha. I spent ages peeling the decals off the PSU, designed new ones and etc then thought "Sod it, looks better like that".
I must be getting old.
Good news. The CPU block LEDs didn't die at all, they are just completely blocked by the black coolant haha. I spent ages peeling the decals off the PSU, designed new ones and etc then thought "Sod it, looks better like that".
I must be getting old.
Nope sadly none.
There is no block available for it. Well, that's not strictly true. There is one, in France, at some weird looking website I trust about as much as Bawbag Boris.
If something comes up either with a block or has the possibility of a block then yeah man, for sure. that is why I put that U bend in the loop there to complete the flow for the distro. I can literally remove that U bend, and feed and return a GPU from there.
Being the weakest GPU I have it doesn't run terribly hot tbh. It's also much more of an office PC than my others. You can probably tell from the setup (plotter, enormous great A3 printer etc). I do have plenty of fittings left over too, so if something does come up it will be a ten minute job.
There is no block available for it. Well, that's not strictly true. There is one, in France, at some weird looking website I trust about as much as Bawbag Boris.
If something comes up either with a block or has the possibility of a block then yeah man, for sure. that is why I put that U bend in the loop there to complete the flow for the distro. I can literally remove that U bend, and feed and return a GPU from there.
Being the weakest GPU I have it doesn't run terribly hot tbh. It's also much more of an office PC than my others. You can probably tell from the setup (plotter, enormous great A3 printer etc). I do have plenty of fittings left over too, so if something does come up it will be a ten minute job.
Oh yeah. For sure. This is not a gaming chair. It's a Steelcase Let's B. It would be fine if I weighed like 4 stone less
Ever annoyed I decided to pummel a few search engines trying to find a block for the GPU. It kept taking me to the site in France, so I decided to do some detective work. Turns out they make blocks for where blocks don't exist. I contacted the owner, got it all sorted and ordered. I got the clear finish acryl with the black Duraluminum block. It's basically copper alloy, 30% copper and 70% alu. Normally I would want full copper, but it adds 50 euro. Still, at least they are honest about that. I bet lots of Byskski and so on use that too. I would be concerned, but this card is not what I would call a hot sausage. It's much more cucumber like.
Should come with DPD some time next week.
Should come with DPD some time next week.