Project: Silent Overkill
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I got the S24 FE. 256gb with a charger, case and free watch.
I’ve never had the Rona this bad. My head has been smashing for three days and I’ve not got more than an hour of sleep at a time before waking up drenched and shivering.
I’d be more excited if the delivery time wasn’t 13 days…..
Hope you're starting to feel better Andy.
Ok, Black Friday just got mentioned and so I felt obliged to give OCUK a chunk of money
I'm just not sure the MSI board would fit - the extra PCIE power connector at the bottom might interfere with a glass tubing run or the heatsink on the 10Gb NIC. The 870E allows me to put the NIC in either slot too so gives me a bit of flexibility.
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Looked at the ROG Strix 1200W as it was on discount. Only problem is that it's 30mm longer and that would mean moving the flow sensor back and then rearranging filter and fittings to compensate....so I went with an easy life! Quiet was a fair priority as my existing PSU is silent...until you game and the fan cranks up.
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The clear (non-UV) version of this - enough to fill and some spare for when I inevitably wash the carpet at some point...again
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I think the existing CPU block will fit as it seems to be AM3 / AM3+ / AM4 / TR4 and is almost identical to the one I was looking at. Worst case, the newer Bykski block is £60-odd plus shipping. I like the EK Quantum...but it's nearly four times the price
So, that just leaves me needing a CPU and as you can tell, I'm fairly commited to a 9800X3D. @ALXAndy I totally hear (and agree with) you on the i9...but I've just lost interest in the Intel option and going back three generations seems like too much of a compromise - even though you're right and it would work just fine. I need a GPU, PCIE3x4 for NIC and M.2 SSD (either Gen5 or 2xGen4) and it's actually quite difficult to get that all in. Definitely an advantage the Threadripper has there with 48 lanes of stick-what-you-want-in!
Ok, Black Friday just got mentioned and so I felt obliged to give OCUK a chunk of money
I'm just not sure the MSI board would fit - the extra PCIE power connector at the bottom might interfere with a glass tubing run or the heatsink on the 10Gb NIC. The 870E allows me to put the NIC in either slot too so gives me a bit of flexibility.
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Looked at the ROG Strix 1200W as it was on discount. Only problem is that it's 30mm longer and that would mean moving the flow sensor back and then rearranging filter and fittings to compensate....so I went with an easy life! Quiet was a fair priority as my existing PSU is silent...until you game and the fan cranks up.
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The clear (non-UV) version of this - enough to fill and some spare for when I inevitably wash the carpet at some point...again
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I think the existing CPU block will fit as it seems to be AM3 / AM3+ / AM4 / TR4 and is almost identical to the one I was looking at. Worst case, the newer Bykski block is £60-odd plus shipping. I like the EK Quantum...but it's nearly four times the price
So, that just leaves me needing a CPU and as you can tell, I'm fairly commited to a 9800X3D. @ALXAndy I totally hear (and agree with) you on the i9...but I've just lost interest in the Intel option and going back three generations seems like too much of a compromise - even though you're right and it would work just fine. I need a GPU, PCIE3x4 for NIC and M.2 SSD (either Gen5 or 2xGen4) and it's actually quite difficult to get that all in. Definitely an advantage the Threadripper has there with 48 lanes of stick-what-you-want-in!
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Cheers Be forewarned though, I've somewhat painted myself into a corner....so there could also be some quality sulking if the 9800X3D is released to benchmarks like the Ultra 7 265K!
I'm pondering whether I should try to make some sort of custom acrylic distro plate. In theory I have access to a CNC router if I beg favours and travel a bit. Depends if it can handle acrylic as it's designed for wood....but we're not talking steel here. I'll be honest (as always!) and say it also rather depends on the availability of spare sanity, too! Just for the benefit of those joining this thread much later on, sanity is the currency it costs you to cope with what life throws you. It's a bit Lovecraft'ian, I'll admit...but it's not far off the mark! ...and if you have no idea what I'm talking about....I envy you
Be forewarned though, I've somewhat painted myself into a corner....so there could also be some quality sulking if the 9800X3D is released to benchmarks like the Ultra 7 265K! I'm pondering whether I should try to make some sort of custom acrylic distro plate. In theory I have access to a CNC router if I beg favours and travel a bit. Depends if it can handle acrylic as it's designed for wood....but we're not talking steel here. I'll be honest (as always!) and say it also rather depends on the availability of spare sanity, too! Just for the benefit of those joining this thread much later on, sanity is the currency it costs you to cope with what life throws you. It's a bit Lovecraft'ian, I'll admit...but it's not far off the mark! ...and if you have no idea what I'm talking about....I envy you
Soldato
Are you still doing loads of handbrake?
The 12900k will decimate the 7800x3d
The 12900k will decimate the 7800x3d
I find they usually sort coolant all over my carpet. Mostly at an ooze but if I'm really failing hard, at pressure and towards my face*. I'd like to say how I'm exaggerating for comic effect.....yeah, that's what it was, it didn't really happen!
*I can't find a specific post but suffice to say that should you try using the pump to assist in a drain, you should make sure that you've not left the top of the loop open (to admit air) and got any tubing pointed skyward!
Not very often tbh. In the rare occasion I get possessed to do so, the Xeon-ES usually gets to handle it. Slightly faster at it than the Threadripper and also running 24x7 anyway so I can just shut down and go to bed.
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Ah OK. Yeah I guess it is one of those things you only needed to do once in bulk and then you are done (IE ripping the movies etc).
So have you actually ordered the stuff now? my brain is not working properly. Still feel absolutely bloody awful, but at least I am sleeping a bit better.
Aha it would seem so. Nice dude. I tend to favor Gigabyte boards now. Two out of 3 of mine are GB. They look the best imo. As in, even a cheap one looks way better than the price tag suggests.
So have you actually ordered the stuff now? my brain is not working properly. Still feel absolutely bloody awful, but at least I am sleeping a bit better.
Aha it would seem so. Nice dude. I tend to favor Gigabyte boards now. Two out of 3 of mine are GB. They look the best imo. As in, even a cheap one looks way better than the price tag suggests.
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Ordered and should be arriving today*...you know, just to torment me! OCUK have played a blinder on speed delivery.... it's just that I've gone and ordered it before the CPU launches 
To be honest, I went Gigabyte simply because it was the first X870E board in stock...and didn't look bad either. The X870's I was looking at, had x16 slots but then I spotted the glint of pins only as far as about x1. No way a PCIE2x8 ten gig network card is going to play well in that. I've ordered a newer one that's PCIE3x4 and that should fit in the chipset run lanes... although it'll be sharing the 5x4 lanes of bandwidth between the CPU and chipset. Two gens older though so a quarter of the bandwidth so hopefully it should fit into one lane of bandwidth if the switch is any good.
*So now is definitely the time to be telling me what I should have ordered!
To be honest, I went Gigabyte simply because it was the first X870E board in stock...and didn't look bad either. The X870's I was looking at, had x16 slots but then I spotted the glint of pins only as far as about x1. No way a PCIE2x8 ten gig network card is going to play well in that. I've ordered a newer one that's PCIE3x4 and that should fit in the chipset run lanes... although it'll be sharing the 5x4 lanes of bandwidth between the CPU and chipset. Two gens older though so a quarter of the bandwidth so hopefully it should fit into one lane of bandwidth if the switch is any good.
*So now is definitely the time to be telling me what I should have ordered!
Ok, a stack of toys just arrived I'll get some pictures in a bit. First thing I wanted to do is put RAM and SSD in the motherboard so they're safe. Alright, they're probably less safe than in the boxes but where would the feeling of progress be there?!
I wanted to test the SSD was good before I delabelled it and shoved it in a heatsink. Dropped it in a USB M.2 caddy, plugged its 10Gbs USB-C into a USB-C port on my computer, fired up Crystal Disk Mark and.......40MB/s. No, you read that right. I've got USB2 memory sticks as fast! Tried it with and without write cache and no difference. Put it in a USB-A port on the front of the PC and.....40MB/s. Ok, so it's either duff or Windows 11 hates my USB controllers - or me!
So, a 10+ year old laptop with USB3 ports on the side and running Fedora KDE is my decider. Turns out that KDiskMark is remarkably similar to Crystal. Fire that up and......405MB/s read and 328MB/s write. I'd buy that as topping out the bus (theoretical max of 600MB/s) once overheads are considered and the fact it's NTFS not a native format. Hopefully it's fine but I can't test it any better until I get a CPU in the board.
I'll get some pictures in a bit. First thing I wanted to do is put RAM and SSD in the motherboard so they're safe. Alright, they're probably less safe than in the boxes but where would the feeling of progress be there?!I wanted to test the SSD was good before I delabelled it and shoved it in a heatsink. Dropped it in a USB M.2 caddy, plugged its 10Gbs USB-C into a USB-C port on my computer, fired up Crystal Disk Mark and.......40MB/s. No, you read that right. I've got USB2 memory sticks as fast! Tried it with and without write cache and no difference. Put it in a USB-A port on the front of the PC and.....40MB/s. Ok, so it's either duff or Windows 11 hates my USB controllers - or me!
So, a 10+ year old laptop with USB3 ports on the side and running Fedora KDE is my decider. Turns out that KDiskMark is remarkably similar to Crystal. Fire that up and......405MB/s read and 328MB/s write. I'd buy that as topping out the bus (theoretical max of 600MB/s) once overheads are considered and the fact it's NTFS not a native format. Hopefully it's fine but I can't test it any better until I get a CPU in the board.
Ok, some quick pics of a level of professionalism that bothers even me!
This is what we have so far:
I've checked out the Silverstone cables and so far they look really promising.
I have a feeling there's going to be a good chunk of downtime involved in this build as there's a lot I can't do until I start offering things up and measuring lengths etc and to do that, I've got to drain and dismantle everything.
This is what we have so far:
I've checked out the Silverstone cables and so far they look really promising.
- The ATX is basically a 1:1 straight-through with four sense pins on a separate 4-pin connector.
- The 12VHPwr is rolled (1 to 6, 6 to 1) for the power pins and straight through for the sense pins.
- CPU power seems to be rolled as well.
I have a feeling there's going to be a good chunk of downtime involved in this build as there's a lot I can't do until I start offering things up and measuring lengths etc and to do that, I've got to drain and dismantle everything.
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It won't help you with being able to test it, until you get a cpu, but as far as I'm aware there's no reason to remove the label from an nvme as they're designed with heatsinks in mind
Cheers. Yeah, see the rational part of me knows this (has read it before) but I've always peeled them anyway. That said, I found the top label was actually metallic so I think designed to be almost a heat spreader. The bottom label isn't and that's the one that has all the warranty info. I played safe (see who says I can't be restrained sometimes!) and left it on - at least until I can properly test it, anyway. I figured most of the hot components are on the top anyway.
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Hahaha! How?!
I feel it has a little to do with the ’old’ adage:
How do you make a million dollars?
Start with two million and take up machining!
What he has done is a work of art though; you should check out his threads.