Friend dropped off the old PC I built them so I can see if I can reuse the case and they wanted their old hard drives in the new system so they have all their old stuff.

Holey ole **** me what the ****. I need to figure out how to put some pictures up here because just the outside...there's rust on the top of the case and paint missing on a whole corner of the top. Oh they've been using it as a foot stool. Is that mouse **** on top of it? Yeah probably. I haven't even opened it yet. I think I'm just going to tell them they need a new case because I don't really want to work with this nasty thing. I'll glue a wooden board on top of it so they don't bang up the top using it as a foot stool this time...for ****s sake.

Lol just use imgur. I started using that after PhotoBucket hit the bucket (lol). Once you upload it then just use the "direct link." Make sure to select the image size too, as that helps.
With that description I am intrigued to find out what it looks like now.

I don't care for imgur, their TOS technically forbids hotlinking images and even though they allow it now they could at any point in the future pull a ****ing Photobucket and screw us all over and break all the hotlinked images. Nah, I don't want to participate in that kind of thing again. I'll figure something out, or not. lol whatevs.

I'm pretty sure all image hosting sites have a clause like that. Yet, most of them allow it anyway without so much as a watermark.
Many of the forums recently updated their platforms and now allow image uploads, though I don't see that happening here anytime soon.

Flickr's been good for me. Still need to update my photos on here some day but with the forum the way it is, I don't see much of a point.

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/114382...build-pc-build/

That is disgusting.

Reminds me of a time I was asked to fix an overheating laptop for a neighbor. They had a cat. I took it apart and pulled out a 1/4" thick compacted strip of cat hair sitting at the radiator exit.

Dang that's bad. I just get shivers looking at those images. I cannot believe it would get that bad.

The strawberry air freshener I hung inside it in 2011 wasn't helping anymore.

The hunk of **** actually boots up, I even OC'd it to 2ghz just because Core2Duo's OC super easy. Board has NO voltage controls, just a FSB to 265 so I set it to like 250 and ran with it. Why? Pfft why not. The RAM that was supposed to be here today won't be here till Monday and I just found out last night that the back plate I bought won't work with the Spire cooler (or Stealth cooler) because the threaded posts are too short. More waiting to get the correct back plate for $7 now. Bought some "vivid green' LED strips for it, convinced her to get a better case, and figured out her actual budget rather than 'well just do what you think I need' which is an awful plan and always ends up in someone doing something wrong. $700. At $300 so far, $75 for a case and 5 pack of decent fans.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07HC782D5/ Fans
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079X2P3TR Case

She's not keen on glass panels but honestly anything without one was a much worse overall case and I'd take a glass panel over the $5 cheaper version of the case with a plastic window panel. Because PC maintenance is probably not going to happen I'm going to setup the airflow weird on this PC. The top will have some fine mesh magnetic filters for ease of access to clean and that will be the intake. The front will be exhaust. The rest of the case will be blocked off to prevent dust from getting in as much. I'm hoping if the filters are easy to get at and clean then they may actually get cleaned. I also try to remember to ask her to bring it to me once a year at work (like a block from her house) to blow the dust out for her.

I like blowing stuff... with compressed air, whoooshhhh. That and I have electronic cleaner spray.

Also turns out I didn't click with the synth so it'll be returned, but at least Iearned some things about what I'd like in the replacement. Should've just been a guitarist, that's a lot simpler.

You need a turbo is what you need, then you can get blown everytime you take a drive!
Well bummer the synth didn't work out but you'll find the right instrument, sometimes you just gotta try a bunch that aren't right first.

I scored a Wraith Prism for $32 shipped for the 1600 AF so it'll look extra pretty inside the computer case with the green light strips too. I'll have to have her come over and go through all the new **** so she's not texting/calling me for tech support a bunch all the time and I'm not trying to pull answers out of my photographic memory.

Also I'm trying to walk my mom through upgrading her laptop from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and it's dual boot Ubuntu and she uses Windows like 2-3 times a year so she's pretty lost using Windows now lol, honestly it is a little less intuitive than the Ubuntu distro she's familiar with now.

I'm not wild about the threshold that comes with that though. Just give me natural aspiration and a stick in my hand. Yeah, seems to be the story of my life though... so hard to find synths, or cars, that I can fall in love with...

That's what she said?

Damn straight that's what I said.

So I'm all set on Motherboards for new builds but if anyone needs a good board on a budget, put a snipe on one of these! You can order a new CPU socket from Aliexpress and pop the cover off the new and snap it onto the motherboard very easily. The trick is ordering the right socket, there's two makers of AM4 sockets I'm aware of. Lotes and Foxconn, if you look at the board and see who made the other ports and sockets usually they're all from one or the other and the CPU socket is the same. A good snipe should be able to score one of those boards for about 1/2 what they usually go for on eBay, a great way to get onto AM4 socket for cheap AND do so with a good board!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/GIGABYTE-B450-AORU...NG/372911691868
https://www.ebay.com/itm/ASUS-ROG-Crosshair...NG/143500003861
https://www.ebay.com/itm/ASUS-Prime-X470-Pr...NG/143499994742

Case came in for her PC build but it was dented to **** so it went right back and I ordered another one and hope for the best.

On a more positive note the Ryzen 5 1600 AF undervolted like a champ and topped with a Wraith Prism runs very cool so it's able to clock itself up to 3630 all core at around 1 volt. It's not Intel efficient but it's pretty good!

Boo, dents!

So I think I'm like 90% of the way toward picking out synths. :lol:

Replacement case came, no dents, but I can sure see why it's so cheap. Super thin steel and fit and finish is certainly belying of the price point. Airflow looks like it should be decent I just need to figure out how get a slight positive pressure going on in the case to help keep dust out and maybe some weather stripping along the glass side panel to keep dust out from around there too.

Hmmm, maybe a fan in a tube?

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/114382...omment-13268786 managed some cables.

I'm a nerd. I'd rather be a nerd than a dork, tho.

wait, this isn't an anime thread?

So my 60hz monitor that I thought was lucky to do 75hz can uh do 120hz I guess. So that's cool.

Bought a Vega 56, I heard they've aged really well and are super unlocked now for all kinds of shenanigans. I've got enough PSU for it and I hopefully have enough case airflow for it as well, hoping to be able to do some magic with it lol. I haven't owned a high performance tier card since my AGP 8X Geforce 6800 Ultra, everything since then has been mid tier stuff like 7800 GTX, 9800 GT, GTX 650, GTX 960, RX 580. Vega 56 will be my 2nd AMD video card after the RX 580 that I've been pretty happy with I just need more performance than it can provide for 1440p at the settings levels I like to run in games. With the right tuning the Vega 56 can do what I want, I think. I hope. Maybe. LOL.

The Final Fantasy VII Remake demo came out today, so of course downloaded it and played through it! I think I was squeeing or smiling the entire time through it, it's just so well done and ahhh April 10th!

On a similar note, Bloodborne complete edition is on sale so I think I'll finally grab it. I just love the Gothic Victorian aesthetic, though I'll probably suck at it since it's supposed to be hard. Then again Monster Hunter was supposed to be hard, but wasn't really that bad since I was prepared.

Oh yeah, bought Bloodborne on the last day of the sale. Spent most of my time in character creation(making her look like me), as one should with any RPG. So far it's not too bad, but in my usual way I've found a way to exploit game mechanics to make life easier on me. Hey it's not my fault the monsters respawn each time I go to the Hunter's Dream and come back, and I can easily farm a small section infinitely to stock supplies and buy the better armour set(that and practice combat remotely safely). When I have more time to sit down and play I'll have to try actually playing, though apparently you can't level up until beating the first boss.

Maybe you can't level up but you can go in a with a well stacked deck!
I love to do the same thing in any game I can do it in. I remember when my GF at the time was playing Ratchet and Clank while I was watching, there was this one place on a race course level where the wall of boxes respawned every 10 or 20 seconds and your 'yelling' gun had unlimited ammo and each box gave a coin and there were about 15 boxes so...we stood the character in front of the wall of respawning boxes, taped the controller button down, and went out to see a movie. When we came back she had enough coins to buy everything in the game, every weapon and every upgrade for every weapon and boy did that make the game a hell of a lot more fun.


On a different note, every bit of PC hardware I've posted about 'I won it and I'm excited to get it' has fallen through in some way. The Vega 56 Red Dragon looks like the seller isn't going to ship it, they never replied to any messages and it hasn't had any update to the status except paid. The 6TB hard drive was defective but that was easy to send back for a refund. So I'm not jinxing anything else!

I don't play games for a challenge, I play for entertainment!

That sucks! The joys of FeeBay...

Ditto, but accomplishing a difficult victory can be fun sometimes too like using skills n stuff.

Yeah, I usually have more hits than misses but when I get misses they come in a streak it seems!

Sapphire Vega 56 Nitro+ LE works. Overpaid a little but it's a unique version of this card, but it has the lesser Hynix memory, but it's benchmarking at GTX 1080, RTX 2060, 5700 non XT levels with some mild OC and fan curve tweaks. I need to find some time to play games, I should be all set! The cooler and card are massive, 3x8 pin PCIe and nearly 3 slots wide, longer than my ATX board is wide.

Yay working!

Also brother bought a 3D printer and filament which arrived yesterday. Going to make figurines and set pieces for Dungeons and Dragons, and he's going to teach me, my sister, and my brother to play! So excited!

That's pretty cool!

Which one did you buy? I was thinking about getting one of those cheaper build your own one's instead of forking over a grand for those makerbot 3d printer

He bought a Creality 3 Pro off eBay, was $220 shipped I think he said?

I've got two PC's running Folding@Home with the higher priority Covid projects mostly.
Foldy Puff Jr. i5 4590, 16GB DDR3 (gotta swap down to 8GB and put the 16 in the HTPC), RX 580 Red Devil which has a beefy cooler and a little OC/undervolt
Foldy Puff Sr. 2700X, 32GB DDR4, Vega 56 with a slight OC, slight undervolt.
Running just GPU folding on both, CPU isn't worth it with the 4590 and I need to re-mount the CPU heat sink on the 2700X and probably going to need to lap it. It feels like my IHS and heat sink both are riding on a high spot. I may also shim it with some paper sheets to increase mounting pressure too.

Got the 2700X partly lapped (good enough) and the heat sink base pretty much fully lapped, both are very very much flatter than they were. When I set the CPU down on the heat sink base it floats for a half second like a puck on an air hockey table. When I lift it off it has suction almost like a weak magnet.

That Vega looks nice af. 4590 buddies! I have their R9 280x and I like that brace they’re supplying now, mine does flex and is not perfectly straight as it was new, which to me is likely to uhh...cause problems.

I said wtf the first time I saw the GPU as well, it barely fits in a mid tower.

How did you do the lapping?

With temepered glass and 800-2000 grit then some hand polish with 3000/5000 grit then some metal polish by hand to smooth it a little more. It's pretty flat.
https://linustechtips.com/main/uploads/mont...bc4ce52bebd.jpg
https://linustechtips.com/main/uploads/mont...6ba7707ebee.jpg
I didn't take the CPU down completely, just enough to get the high spots down around the edges and in the center.

I'm still having some kind of mounting issue that I'm going to figure out this weekend, I got some modeling clay so I can mount it down and pull it off and see what's happening better than with thermal compound and so I don't waste a lot of it figuring this out. Temps aren't any better than before lapping and still slightly worse than the Prism cooler. I'm a bit miffed to be honest.


The 4590/RX 580 is back up and running Folding@home as often as I get work units, I got to get the 2700X issues sorted before I get the Vega 56 folding too. It does double the work as the 580 at only 50 more watts.
Yea, the V56 is HUGE. Biggest card I've owned yet! Runs cool and quiet and bench marks pretty nicely, certainly at the upper end of air cooled Vega 56.

No ****. I had no idea lapping like that was a thing. I also have to redo CPU paste but last time I tried I couldn’t get the danged fan connector loose so I gave up for fear of having to remove the mobo from the case. I hit 70 max and that’s my comfort limit.

I got you beat by about 20mm but who’s counting, it’s how it’s used.

I got everything back to running folding@home again, cranking out some work now that work units are being served somewhat normally again. That room is the warmest in the house!

Folding@home currently has more processing power than several top supercomputers combined, estimated to be between 1 to 1.5 exaflop of power.

Finally gave in and bought a mechanical keyboard, but it came with blue switches and holy heck are they noisy, I feel like I'm smacking on a type writer. Yikes! I'll have to order something non clicky for the main keys. It's kind of an adjustment for me but I can generally feel like I'm typing faster but I keep bumping the space key because of how I'm resting my thumbs. I don't think the dogs like all the noise from it though.

I've been Ethereum mining for about a year and gained a couple grand from it.
Currently building a RGB computer in a weird triangle case.

Needs things like a correct PSU (acquired and installed but not currently pictured), a real GPU, actual cable routing and management, modern board and cpu. The mid tier B450 board and R5 1400 are so-so even OC'd from 3.2 to 3.8ghz, best I have laying around. The GTX 650 with custom fan is for sure a slight bottleneck.

Hey I was promised a triangle, not some weird triangulated hexagon.

Oh pipe down, I didn't do no very good with shapes.

cool,glowing lights.i like

Yeah it's fun to play with for sure.

You tried to put the square peg into the round hole as a kid eh.

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QUOTE (Box @ Mar 8, 2022 - 10:29 PM)

QUOTE (Bitter @ Mar 6, 2022 - 10:57 PM)

QUOTE (Box @ Mar 6, 2022 - 10:36 PM)

Hey I was promised a triangle, not some weird triangulated hexagon.

Oh pipe down, I didn't do no very good with shapes.

You tried to put the square peg into the round hole as a kid eh.

[size="5"] pretty sure you did too bud lol just a couple of misfits