CassieDragon

I have a better Pic of the heat pipe

I'm trying to figure out where I put the mobo/CPU/Ram, I seem to have misplaced them. I lose a mobo every few months.

I'm bored due to FUNemployment. So I'm going to build a machine that's from the one era of hardware I sat out from this past 20 years: The DDR3 era. Goals: It needs to not leave out too much. Lack of USB 3.0 front panel will be forgiven (mostly since I'm cheap and I'm not going to be buying the USB 3.0 fp header cables) but lack of USB 3.0 will not be. Bespoke cooling will be encouraged, fast spinning fans shall be shunned, and burning VRMs will be strongly discouraged. Rules: It needs to run decently It needs to be quiet. For ever piece of hardware I use that's post DDR3 I need to go back to the DDR2 era or older with another piece of hardware, defined as when it was commonly available. Adapters do not count extra, but the machine must need that older piece of hardware to operate. If what I have is a slightly newer version of what was available back then, it does not count.

I'll also be honest: I'm not a reddit quality OCer, I'm used to just making my own solutions for cooling. I don't GET the idea of doubling my machine's cost to make it 'look good' by doing water cooling when I'm practically handed a W with an ATX form-factor case. 20% and I get to use my skills to build it? Maybe. I don't like how a lot of our extreme hardware hobby has been gate-kept behind money and it feels like there's less "There wasn't a good solution, I wanted to make this happen, so I made my own" and a lot more "Your use case has been deemed profitable to satisfy. Give us your money." I want both. It feels like a lot of things, like motherboards, have had a bit of cost creep over the years in a way that has lost some of the soul of the hobby.

IRL I'm... well let's leave it as I've got a resume that's fitting of a supervillain and normally there isn't a OTS solution for the problems I solve. Where angels fear to tread is just my warmup. The heatpipe cools a chip of about 25-35W, the chip set is like 15W. Heat pipes are amazing pieces of tech. So the end result is that I was more of using the laptop heatpipes because I don't have access to heatpipes that are bent in the shape needed. The CPU based SATA ports on the board block the easier to fit heatpipes and I use those for my RAID0 array. The basic rule to it is you have to avoid bending the heatpipe enough that you cause it to get a pinhole and leak, but they are somewhat forgiving of abuse. The heatpipe does not show it but it's kind of bent up. If I do it again, I'm going to see if I can attach a heatpipe onto the chipset heatpipe to cool the NVMe SSD. I hate the idea of adding moving parts to a machine by using a CLC, so I Have to get creative on how to route heatpipes to cool stuff where most pople would throw in the towel and just CLC the thing.

My operational theory is that you should get the hea-sinks out from under the GPU. Heat pipes are cheap, effective, and you can get them out of the scrap piles at ewaste recyclers. Ultimately, put the chips where you need them to minimize all the fun bits of long trace length, etc. Then run heatpipes to get the heat away from those chips. My machine, despite having 8 fans plus the 3 on the GPU, has no unpleasant fan harmonics when pulling 600W running through F@h work units and it's quieter than the HVAC system.

Problem: My X570 box has a 6800XT Red Dragon breathing fire straight onto the chipset. Problem 2: The X570 chipset cooler fan is spinning at 4k RPM to keep the chipset below 80C. Problem 3: My board gets cranky with GPU roasting the chipset. Solution: Take a laptop heatpipe cooler and mount it to the chipset. I didn't have an exact fit because I needed a bit of a drop to clear the GPU and the sata ports, but I was able to make it work. It took a wee bit of careful bending to get the heatpipe to fit, but it does fit. Result: 62-65C operating temps without a fan, and about 40C operating temps after I placed a 120mm right ahead of it to aid airflow to the GPU and my 10Gb NIC.

Banned because I may be an undying machine (that kills fascists) but I wasn't operational in the 50's.

I was H-Man on OCN. I've been around since 2009. I remember blank this getting stuck to a chair, I remember chatting with Syrllian, I remember the string of mobo fires from AMD boards, Hell I remember when offtopic had reps.

Banned for setting your Athlon II x4 rig on fire

Another garment to hold up my silicone hip pads.

Given that my OC is canonically 3 quarters of a ton of combat cybernetics, 7.5' tall, and has 6 arms, it's going to be one hell of a fight.

I was trying to figure out what happened to OCN. Ended up being on r/Overclocking discord for a while, got tired of that, and focused on the fandom and scrambling up the career ladder for a while instead.

Banned because I was left unattended with a soldering iron.

Fled OCN like everyone else because it's pretty dead. Well that and my display name was gendered and I figured out I'm a trans lesbian. These days I do nutty stuff like OCing ram by 50%, modding the snot out of my gear to make it run faster, and snuggling my girlfriends. Most of my hardware is bodged together one way or another, ex: mobo on Wrath is using a laptop CPU heatsink for the chipset because the fan annoyed me.