Sinister Twin.

[ALXAndy]

OK thank goodness for that.

It’s done. The USB hub works fine so now I have me a spare, but given I will be building a new PC every time a new GPU comes out I have no doubt I will need the Corsair one at some point.

I’ll try and get some pics up later.

 

[ALXAndy]

Apols for this taking so sodding long. Just to add to my luck lately the washing machine decided to blow up.

Any way the first task was fix rig 1 without having to use the CNC. The wires are many and the glass fell out. I then realised instead of making spacers etc etc I could just mount that panel in performance mode and call it a day.

So with that one done and off the floor I could finish this one.




It was at this point I discovered the USB internal hub was now full with nowhere to connect the screen on the pump to. However, for once a bit of luck and I realised the new charging cable I bought for my Iphone was exactly the same colour as the custom cables.

And so.




All working. I then fitted the panels back on.








And am now working on redoing my desk. I brought my Alienware monitor over too (the 280hz one) so yeah, currently sorting all that out.

 

[ALXAndy]

OK well it’s in bits again lol.

I wasn’t using it. When I got it I was letting it eat at 4k. It cost me £7 for a 5 hour Borderlands 4 session. I ended up plonking my Alienware in front of the TV and using the 4080 Super. It cost less than half. Also note that was before the latest leccy price hikes!

As it’s sat there and the months have gone by it’s not escaped me that my RRP 5090 was gaining value. As such when that value cleared me an over double profit it was time to let go. You just don’t need it for gaming tbh.

I had lined up a 5080. I was all but certain. I figured AMD cards had risen the same but they have not. So I just couldn’t sit with spending double over a 9070XT.

Finally did the CPU also. The cooler? Well since winring was outlawed my Thermalright no longer shows anything on the screen.

 

[Cenedd]

You've switched to team red?!
Can't argue the price difference.
Have ThermalRight not released an update that works round the WinRing0 issue? Bit rubbish if they haven't.

 

[ALXAndy]

Nope and neither have Acer for the ram. So it just farts rainbows *fume*

It all went together well. Apart from the fact that when the tryx screen is connected to the internal hub none of the lian li screens work ffs.

New motherboard needed and I wish I was joking. I need two usb1 headers.

Somehow it went from “I need a new board” to buying the most expensive board I’ve bought yet ffs.

 

[ALXAndy]

OK I am a complete idiot. It seems I had forgotten to connect the RGB hub to the board after putting it back in. Quite how the Tryx screen manages to do anything without it is lost on me and why I spent hours trying to get it working.

Board has been cancelled it was kinda dumb of me to spend that much any way lol. Everything all working now, I will snap some pics later. I even managed to change the RAM to red to match the GPU so that was cool.

 

[Cenedd]

Nope and neither have Acer for the ram. So it just farts rainbows *fume*

Well at least RAM is reasonably priced at the moment! *Cough*

New motherboard for an internal USB port?! You know you can get them on PCIE cards, right? Maybe not pretty, but a smidge cheaper!
If you were going new motherboard, maybe one of the new Intel chipsets that takes the stack of DDR4 you've got

 

[ALXAndy]

Well at least RAM is reasonably priced at the moment! *Cough*

New motherboard for an internal USB port?! You know you can get them on PCIE cards, right? Maybe not pretty, but a smidge cheaper!
If you were going new motherboard, maybe one of the new Intel chipsets that takes the stack of DDR4 you've got

My existing board is itx. Sadly the 200 series won’t work on ddr4. I switched my 14600k/6950xt rig to ddr4 but sadly it’s not possible with the 200 chips. I bet Intel regret that now!

Thankfully it’s all sorted. Board cancelled OK as it was a bit of an impulse buy. I just wanted a black board as most are silver or white now.

Will put it back together in a bit.

 

[ALXAndy]

Right quick update before I set off for Chi.

I did not realise that the Cablemod cables I bought only served 12vHPWR or whatever Nvidia call it. As such in a big panic I tore the flat apart trying to find something. I found some cables from one of my Lokis and they work fine. One is the dreaded 12v thing to two 8 pins and one is a straight 8 pin given the card needs 3. They look awful I'm not gonna lie and that is why I have not posted pics yet. I dug around trying to find something suitable but all I could find were sleeved extensions for a tenner each. £30 for 3 is too much tbh. So, this shall suffice. It was £15

At least it will hide them as they look like a rat nest rn.