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/guts/ 3rd round
Nathaniel Hernandez
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Luis Adams
Let's go my time to shine
David Campbell
What the fuck is that loop
Brody Baker
This thread will hopefully stay alive. Pic related is my server. Finally got the parts in. Now I need a video card though. Board only has VGA and none of my monitors can do that.
Either that or try my hand at IPMI to get the install going....
William Morgan
>my time to shine
>With that GPU sag
No.
Asher Cook
A loop i made for free using parts from friends because i am poor
Ian Ortiz
Hotaru a best
Lucas Evans
wtf is wrong with your reservoir?
Nice GPU sag
Cable management could be better. I still like it.
Leo Ortiz
What's that card above the geforce one?
>Cable management could be better
Yea I know. It's just you realize just how many cables you have until you're running wire for 8 drives.
That's a tiny case.
Logan Thompson
>What's that card above the geforce one?
There are two, an Intel 82574L Ethernet controller and a Radeon 6570 DP Edition
Ryder Mitchell
Oh ok. What do you use them for? Doesn't seem that your motherboard is so old it wouldn't have a decent LAN chipset.
>Radeon 6570 Double Penetration edition
L.. lewd
Jacob Adams
Here's my main machine. Finally got the new CK MA620p cooler in. Stock fans actually impressed me but their focus is on the RGB cancer, so I swapped in my EK Vardar 2200rpm models.
Angel Sanders
It also has a dedicated USB 3.0 controller card. The GTX 980 and the ethernet and usb controllers are passed through to the windows 10 VM because
>muh gaems
Isaac Martinez
>Passthrough
How well does that work? Any problems with DX12/Vulkan being used by the windows VM? I was considering doing the same thing, but it just seemed so involved and unreliable. Any issues?
Hunter Miller
I'm trying to make my computer quieter. It is loud as fuck but it also has a very high TDP because my 6600k is at 4.8ghz and my 980ti is at 1.45ghz. So far my plan is to replace my case fans with poo's, buy an aio mount for the gpu and move the 240mm rad from my cpu to the gpu and then buy a noctua nhd15 for my cpu. Lastly I'll move everything to a silence focused case. It is ridiculous how loud this thing is and how fast it heats up my room. I use a 2500k and 6950 for years and years and it didn't heat up my room nearly this fast.
Whats up with the considerable active cooling on the hdd racks? Shouldn't the regular air flow already taking place in the case be sufficient?
Seems like you're just adding noise for no reason.
I love how those builds look. Where they're really dense computing power to size wise and each part looks huge and defined. 10/10 son.
Sick server. What the hell do you need that much storage for? I have like 3tb and it's plenty.
Looks good, good choice in case fans, cpu cooler. Ref nvidia looks nice.
Alexander Young
Rollcage rolling in
Evan Martin
My reservoir was made for bay. I have no bay in my case so i just put it on the psu cover.
Anthony Lee
>Active cooling on the HDD racks
>More noise
My case was popular/made when people were still using 10K RPM Western Digital Raptors and raid 0 was popular. You know, pre-affordable SSD days. Active cooling was kind of required. I can actually rotate the racks so the fans act as front intakes, but then I'd have to rewire everything and that's a pain in the ass. Besides, I have a monster 200mm fan in the roof acting as exhaust, so temps for everything are low.
As for noise, there is none. Those fans barely hit 500RPM. I have them hooked to the case internal fan controller.
Gavin Young
>How well does that work?
It works and it works very well.
>Any problems with DX12/Vulkan being used by the windows VM?
None at all.
>I was considering doing the same thing, but it just seemed so involved and unreliable.
If you choose your hardware reasonably it's actually very straight forward and *very* reliable.
>Any issues?
None, aside from the fact that I had to use the acso patch to split up IOMMU groups. The graphics card did have its own IOMMU group but the USB 3.0 and ethernet controllers were in the same group as ~10 other (onboard) PCI devices.
In my opinion, for VM w/ GPU passthrough to work reasonably well you'd need at least a dedicated USB 3.0 controller. Sure, you can use two mice and keyboards or fiddle around with USB devices pass through, but being able to simply plug my monitor's USB hub (where I've connected my mouse, keyboard and DAC/amp) in either USB controller depending on the one I'm using is so much more convenient. Plus you can literally use any USB 3.0 device without any penalties.
>pic related
How do you deal with dust?
Asher Miller
g u t s as of now
Nicholas Allen
>Sick server
Storage is
>250GB SSD for boot and applications
>2x1TB RAID 1 - music rips and pictures
>2x2TB RAID 1 - Anime series/ TV series rips and encodes
>2x4TB RAID 1 - Movies
>single 8TB - backup for all the arrays
I'm undecided where I want to go with this. I was thinking of getting 5 more 8TB drives and running 2 RAID 5 setups. Back one up to the other, but I hear RAID 5 is a terrible choice for high capacity disks. I'll probably just get 8 more 8TB disks (for a total of 72TB across 9 disks) and run 3 independent RAID 1 setups, each with their own 8TB backup disk.
Camden Long
Dust isn't as big of a problem as you'd think. I cleaned the PC for the first time a couple months ago after having the rig for 3 years. The radiator was caked in dust and the GPU was pretty bad, but I just removed the fans and gpu shroud, and blasted the shit out of it with canned air and q-tips. This pic is it after cleaning.
Kevin King
Torn between getting a U12s and replacing the rest of my case fans with Noctuas, or finally replacing my old monitor for a 1080p 144hz one.
It's probably smarter to wait until I get a new gpu to replace my monitor, but the 60hz life is rough.
This is a mess
These are beautiful, 10/10
David Evans
My main desktop. Focus was / is on quiet operation. Inaudible in idle, and used to be almost inaudible under load... until I RMAed my GTX1070 twice and got a GTX1080 in return that is audible under load. But hey... it could be worse.
Josiah Scott
My graphics card is the loudest part of my setup. Have you tried a really relaxed fan curve?
You could also set a frame cap or limit the power of it so it doesn't get as hot.
Justin Nguyen
Cyberport said they will ship on Monday
others already enjoy their 2700xs
>TFW 4266 RAM but I cant use it yet
Daniel Diaz
Well, it's an Asus Strix. Those are usually engineered for quietness and I've tinkered with the settings to quiet it a bit. It helps somewhat, but it is still a sound proofed case with not a whole lot of airflow, so I kind of accept that it sometimes makes itself known (mostly only when really straining it through SSAA or something).
David Williams
Michael Hall
>4266Mhz ram
For what purpose? How much did you spend? How many GB of RAM? What's the timings? If you got the kit for a steal, good on you, otherwise I hope you know diminishing returns exist for over 3200Mhz.
Angel Wilson
Poor AMD fags cant get my mighty intel and nvidia Hardware cuz they are to poor
Juan Nguyen
Recently moved from an NZXT S340 to the Fractal Design Meshify C, quite liking it. Disregard the film on the glass, not taking it off til I'm back home after finals.
Kevin Hall
Where the hell is the psu?
Tyler Morgan
Removing any possible bottleneck for my Ryzen build.
>16 GB
>CL19 / 1.4V
>210 €
They will probably not run at 4266, but 3600 CL14 would be great for Ryzen. I used to have a 2400 CL17 kit which now runs in my other Ryzen PC.
David Powell
>meh
Luke Diaz
Nolan Long
work in progress
Jason Butler
Hotaru's massive tits are making your gpu sag.
Asher Ross
Black tubing is about the coolest you can look without going hardline imo.
Camden White
Kevin Clark
Brody Taylor
Isaac Ortiz
>Rainbow Fans
>Intel/Z370
>Older Corsair AiO that doesn't even have the nicer sleeved tubing
>Picture taken at stupid angle
>To top it off, has the WORST OW character inside his PC
user. I want to like it. I do. But I can't. Mei is best girl.
John Lewis
> Mei is best girl.
Fuck you. Mai is a fat Chinese cunt. She is so fucking annoying and cheap.
Jeremiah Gomez
>being able to simply plug my monitor's USB hub (where I've connected my mouse, keyboard and DAC/amp) in either USB controller depending on the one I'm using
That's so inelegant. At least get a kvm switch so you can do it by pressing a button.
My VM startup script hands the mouse and keyboard over to the windows VM and I use Synergy to share them back to the host. I tried it the other way around but it was unreliable in gayming. I also have a separate USB card so I can hotplug things into the VM, but the mouse and keyboard aren't connected to that.
Carson Edwards
How do you do passthrough without a second GPU? Do you have an integrated for the host?
Kevin Anderson
It's an i7-4790. Most Intel cpus have integrated gpus
Dylan Bennett
Just so fucking gay.
Jonathan Morris
>sources from the 70's
The logical inference system was pretty good though, but I'm pretty sure I could use it to infer that straight sex with a condom is a mental illness.
Elijah Richardson
Nice block.
Isaiah Green
>Sleeved SATA cables
Where. Did. You. Get. Them.
Luke Wilson
Are you telling me you don't frequent /csg/ threads?
Mason King
>lets see how far I can bend my GPU before it stops working
Jordan Evans
>focus on quiet operation
>le spinin storage
Landon Jones
>my guts when I barely have any guts
Matthew Lee
That is really cool but I couldn't afford it. You're giving up the ability to upgrade monitors, and motherboard/cpu as well as high speed desktop RAM(I use 3600 cl16) . Pretty sick that you can upgrade the GPU, RAM, and storage though. Awesome machine.
I like how you did your open loop. Just made that shit work. Fuck hard line tubing.
I had a watercooled gtx 1060. Never have I been so butt hurt about nvidia killing overclocking with pascal. Fucking runs at 2151mhz at 40c but will not go 1mhz higher because hard voltage lock.
Austin Adams
I actually cracked one of the gpu core corners a bit when doing a lazy remount because of how tight that block mount is.
Still runs like a dream tho :)
I got the card on a hour sale right when the 1060 6gb's came on the market for $210, so it's 1.5 years old already. I could actually make money selling it right now. Fucking miners.
Matthew Howard
Thanks :)
>Fucking runs at 2151mhz at 40c but will not go 1mhz higher because hard voltage lock.
Yeah same here senpai, it actually made me want to try the vega cards, but it was too late. Atleast here in Norway, the prices are absolutely mad.
It does the job for my resolution anyway, so not that big of a deal, but I think it'll be my last nvidia card to be honest.
I'll run it until it dies or when I need a new card for better performance.
Isaiah Cook
Here is a ghetto build I just made. Literally cant bother with this thing any further since I don't care at all. I will just use it until I receive my real desktop that is overseas right now.
For the curious:
- RX 560
- I7 860
- shitty h55 foxconn mobo
- mismatched RAM sticks that surprisingly run at 1333
- a few disks and a old shitty ssd
Noah Powell
That ain't so bad tho.
If you glued some sinks on the vrm's and got a better cpu cooler, I'm sure you could overclock that i7 to 3.6ghz or so..
I have a MSI h55m-e33 with a x3470. Overclocked to 3.6ghz effortlessly along with 16gb ram running 1650mhz 8-8-8-24-1t.
Pretty good performance, runs every game I've tried great (battlefield and wildlands being the newest)
Considering how low end that motherboard is, thats pretty amazing if you ask me. (pic related, before I glued the vrm sinks on)
Not so sure about that psu you got tho, it looks old and cheap.
Anyway, what parts did you order?
Luis Long
Can't compete with my waifu
Dylan Bennett
I didn't order anything, I already have a desktop computer but I cant access it at the moment. I will avoid spending any more money on the current one that I wrote about but I will look for some RAM sticks and cooling solutions tomorrow. It would be nice if I had 1600 speed RAM and a nice heatsink to run that I7-860 at 3.4 GHz or higher, but its not urgent.
Logan Parker
Also how would someone glue heatsinks to their motherboard vrm's? Does it really make a difference? Also are you talking about specific heatsinks produced for certain motherboards or are there any universal heatsinks that I can use?
Julian Brooks
You can see the sinks I used in the picture on the table there, I cut part of a cpu cooler and used some other old vrm sinks of some old faulty boards and stuff I have laying around.
There are no rules really, but bigger is better. And yes, the differance on the vrm temp is huge compared to no heatsink when you're overclocking.
Just make sure they have good contact on the vrms, don't short out anything else, don't crash with the cpu mounting.
As far as glue there is some thermal glue you can buy, but I tested on a cpu once the differance with thermal glue and just some strong two-component glue, and found no temprature differance.
So I just use the strong glue.
Most motherboards have vrm heatsinks already, but the cheaper ones like we are using don't. You can see there are caps in between them and vrm's are in random places, so you just have to find something that works really.
In pic related you can see with and without.
Ethan Torres
Is that a real full copper cooler?
Justin Bailey
I don't think so, it's a Phanteks ph-tc14pe. Was 60% off the wierd colored ones a few years back. Really good cooler tho.
Isaac Hughes
DO YOU RIKE IT?
i7 8700k XMP OC to 4.7ghz
GTX 1070
Custom LEDS i built and installed with raspberry pi
Dominic Scott
Looks pretty good why are the cpu fans two different colors?
Nathan Parker
I fixed the gpu sagging i just need to take a new picture.
Landon Gray
i dont know im retarded
Blake Morgan
would you recommend the 8700k? My friend wants to upgrade from a I5 4960K but with the R7 2700X im not sure if the 8700K is worth it.
Gavin Robinson
Angel Cox
i mean, people say that the r7 is better, if it is then just go get it
i built this one a couple months ago
Tyler Roberts
I think the 2700X is better now for most things, but the 8700K still gets more frames in games, just not all games anymore.
I'm on a 4770K from 2013 but I'll be upgrading to the 9700K when it comes out this year or next
Noah Mitchell
>"dust" is imperfection on the case window, it came like that
Is it safe to leave a figurine in there? (i.e it won't melt or discolor from the heat or anything)
Robert Gomez
probably the most sensibly compackt pc ive seen good use of space. I'm sick of most cases wasting space.
Nicholas Young
>air cooling on the cpu
>liquid cooling on GPU
>I am broke and very shit at building computers
Caleb Brown
No expense spared, I see
Ryan Cook
If you're playing at 1440p the CPU makes less difference for anything. May as well get more performance from something that will actually change performance.
Charles Ramirez
Hate away
Aiden Torres
A folded towel really helps to eliminate most of the vibrations that spread via the floor and walls because of mechanical hard drives, desu.
Cute. I should've gone with an mITX mainboard for my Ryzen APU, but alas, I have 4x4GB RAM sticks and with the current memory prices, I don't fucking think so.
Am I the only one who love these fan blade designs? I might just buy some of those EK and Cooler Master fans just because. Also, which CPU heatsink is that? Looks neat.
Nice, I like it.
"exposed" LEDs look really great behind tinted glass. Nice.
Hmmm, I might also add a bottom fan in order to improve my reference card temperatures.
I really like the "compartmentalized" LED lighting zones desu. I've seen another user with different color lighting at the top and bottom, like yours kind of.
Lucas Ross
*Ryzen 3 2200G
Sorry for the typographical error
Tyler Cox
Oldie but goldie... Still trying to vent this box and lower case temperature with some decent 92mm fan on the back plate - I used Enermax UCTB9 fan and although it works amazingly in terms of amount of air being pulled out, it gets pretty noisy over time. I tried anti-vibrations pads and other silencing accessories but it didn't help at all. Does usage of resistors on 3-pin connectors to lower RPM value is worth the effort or I shoudn't bother and go straight for a different fan? (if yes then which 92 mm fans would you recommend?)
Connor Carter
desu, most of the noise is probably from the fan grill introducing a fuckhuge amount of resistance. Have you tried listening to the fan while it's outside of the case? Even my 25 bucks premium fans become much louder (relatively speaking) when they're placed in front or behind a fan grill.
If this is the case with your fans, you could just delet the fan grill completely with a bolt cutter or somethin
Brandon Phillips
Yeah I realise that the fan grill poses resistance but I do think it is the source of the problem. I listened to the fan while it was outside the case and surprisingly it worked well. All changes when it is placed in the case and it makes no difference if the side panel is in place or not. In my opinion it may be screws which may bend the plastic frame of the fan a little bit so the rotor starts to make shitty noise after a while...
Cutting the grill completely ? Hmm I think not - the case is durable and hard as fuck and I don't have tools to fuck around with sharp edges and polishing them to not get my fingers sliced.
Anyway what fans do you use?
Justin Myers
I only put it in there for the photo. Had to take the glass side panel off too.
Alexander Smith
Yeah... It's a reference 290x u moron.
Justin Lee
zero fans build
Nathan Roberts
is it quiet?
James Hernandez
>Is it safe to leave a figurine in there? (i.e it won't melt or discolor from the heat or anything)
Not only the figure will melt by being near the EVGA nVidya gpoo.
Nathan Butler
My somewhat recent build
Anthony Baker
Mmmh!
Ayden Phillips
Adrian Rivera
DUDE, PORTAL
LEL
XD
LE THE CAKE IS A LIE
Hunter Mitchell
what case it's this?
Michael Price
Ok guys its me again, right now I'm about to enter my local computer mall (bunch of small repair shops that also sell a lot of miscellaneous components) and I just want to get your opinion on stuff I'm about the purchase:
First of all it seems that a lot of shops stopped stocking well known heatsink models so I don't have a lot of choice when it comes to cooling. Larger retailers still have the usual CM 212 and other hot sellers but they add a huge premium on the price so I'm thinking of buying a obscure model that's produced locally (problably rebranded Chinese OEM stuff) and I'm not sure if its worth it. The I7-860 outputs a lot of heat thanks to its dinosaur era architecture and while these cheaper heatsinks do claim that it will dissipate up to 100-150 watts, will it actually work as well as a CM 212? I mean in the end the only thing to look out for is the size of the heatsinks, I cant see how a similar sized cooler master alternative can dissipate it better, in the end its just copper tubes and fins right?
Another thing I want to ask is, if I cover my motherboards VRM components with bunch of miniature heatsinks will it actually make a difference? I mean I'm working with a really low end foxconn board here. Every other build I did had enthusiast level boards which had no problem with over clocking, but they also had really beefy MOSFETs and chokes and such (especially the 1150 sabertooth board, that was a total trooper). I will go through with this VRM cooling thing if you guys think it will make a difference.
Also this is a bit of a stretch but, has anyone here used one of those third party GPU coolers that makes the cards three times larger and can supposedly drop the thermals about 50-70 percent. I'm thinking of buying one of those for my RX 560 when I move this system to my server cabinet htpc setup.
Caleb Hall
It's a green. Those are quiet as f... and it's set to spin down after 5 minutes of not being used. It's for backups and sees very little use.
Connor Brown
Living room PC. Cobbled together from whatever hardware I had leftover at work and home. Installed a Noctua yesterday because the stock Intel was quiet enough at work, but too noisy in my very quiet living room. Fractal Node 202, H61 ITX board, i5-2500, 8GB 16000Mhz RAM, GTX970, 128GB SSD / 500 GB HDD. Decent enough for being basically free.
Isaiah Myers
Well, I have a 212 Evo on my i7-2600k @ 4.4Ghz with ~75° under load. However, I've purposefully kept the vcore low. It's a nice enough cooler, but I can't speak for Lynnfields. Sandys are great overclockers. IMO it should do just fine.
Parker Perez
ncase m1
Eli Long
>cold-cathode lighting