Sir Beregond

I still really doubt the 512-bit rumor for a consumer product in the GeForce stack. But who knows, Nvidia could decide $2500 is the way to go and 512-bit gives them more vram capacity until higher density GDDR7 modules come out. For now their density is the same as GDDR6X (2GB per module).

Memorial Day sale at Crandall Office Furniture. Wife's turn for a Steelcase Leap v2 chair, she opted for the Brisa vinyl on hers. Deal was good for 11% off.

Yep I also don't use drilled or slotted nonsense. Been pretty happy with the Bosch rotors and pads I put on 2 summers ago. Will have to let me know how the Centrics treat you.

Yeah. Totally fine for my bench system, but I would never use this in my daily.

This 13900KS I was playing with was pumping 450W +!

Sound like me. I went from my 4790k to the 5900X.

This close to Zen 5 / Arrow Lake, I totally agree that it makes sense to just wait.

Yep! Yeah Aurora tends to be one of those places everyone makes fun of. Southern Aurora is ok. Denver has kinda not been great either to be honest lately.

As someone who has lived in Colorado since I was 8, I sometimes complain about the dry air...until I go somewhere humid.

Extremely common practice. Mine is anything under $50 is my problem. Which is fine. It's typically been stuff I accidentally broke anyway like a toilet seat, or something.

This isn't the first time AMD has tried just focusing on the "sweet spot" market. It's not a bad thing per se as that segment needs some love, but big picture it never pans out well for the consumer in the grand scheme of things. This is when Nvidia gets emboldened to further raise prices and cut corners because who is there to challenge them and promote price wars? And AMD has easily shown (at least on launch) that they will just slot into whatever pricing structure Nvidia creates. We can pretend it's not a thing, but what happens at the high end / halo part of a product stack every gen absolutely influences the rest of the stack, consumer perception of a brand, etc. To me this just screams more AMD falling behind because they don't want to pump resources into graphics to truly compete with Nvidia here. That's not good for anyone.

5900X here. I don't need 16 cores, or really even the 12. I'm thinking next upgrade for me will be Zen 5. Thinking a 9800X3D. I definitely don't want any split CCD X3D like they did with the Ryzen 9 sku's with Zen 4.

Welcome to EHW!

Welcome to EHW!

Those seem kinda ridiculous. I think I'll just stick with Gen 3 or 4 drives for now. To me, having heatsinks with little fans on them that are that big is approaching the realm of absurdity with how I would want to approach on-board storage.

I went out to go see the aurora and was disappointed. Got the wrong one.

Nothing here sadly. Been largely cloudy and rainy the past couple of nights.

I mean should hopefully be fine, in fact I think @Avacadohas a video on here he called "poor mans radiator flushing" or something where he hooked it up to a sink. Just the way he commented on the rad was thinking maybe a Blitz cleaning was in order.

Well in that case, I'm going to suggest you do it properly with a Blitz kit @pio.

I should really read the whole post before I look at pics. I was trying to figure out how the camber plates were supposed to mount to the motherboard.

Tyson A-60-G is literally just industrial tubing. I imagine you might be able to find a more generic, less expensive EPDM style from a local hardware store, so it's worth a look. And such a tubing would be easily maintainable. I don't know if Ace actually does, I'm just suggesting you take a look though if the goal is "cheap" and "lots". Yeah I've never used car antifreeze and distilled water, so don't really know the "right" ratio. I imagine a 25/75 or even 80/20 would be fine. You don't want too much glycol in there to slow the flow rate. Faucet attachment? Probably, nothing I know about unfortunately. Y splitters can either be an actual Y-splitter or something as generic as a block with three G1/4 opening such as this: Alphacool G1/4 Round TEE Connection Terminal - Black (17030) ModMyMods.com - PC Watercooling Parts and Accessories MODMYMODS.COM Alphacools's fittings go new ways in looks, quality of manufacturing, colours and choice. The inner diameter of these fittings truly deserves the „high flow“ attribute! The first three colours, Chrome, Deep Black... Or you can do more traditional actual Y-fittings such as this: Alphacool G1/4 Revolvable 45° Y-Connector - G1/4 - Black (17063) ModMyMods.com - PC Watercooling Parts and Accessories MODMYMODS.COM Alphacools's fittings go new ways in looks, quality of manufacturing, colours and choice. The inner diameter of these fittings truly deserves the „high flow“ attribute! The first three colours, Chrome, Deep Black... Alphacool G1/4 Revolvable Y-Connector - Black (17066) ModMyMods.com - PC Watercooling Parts and Accessories MODMYMODS.COM Alphacools's fittings go new ways in looks, quality of manufacturing, colours and choice. The inner diameter of these fittings truly deserves the „high flow“ attribute! The first three colours, Chrome, Deep Black... With either style, yes you'd need 6 compression fittings.

Most premix PC coolants use glycol, so yes car antifreeze is fine, but you definitely want to dilute it with distilled water. If you want to clean it properly, get a Mayhems Blitz Pro kit (contains part 1 and part 2 cleaners). Part 1 is used specifically to clean the radiators. Part 2 is then used for the whole loop. Just follow the directions. If you want to just cheap man clean everything then hook it all up to a running faucet and let it flush overnight. Then flush with distilled water. Tubing? Maybe go to your local Ace Hardware or Home Depot or similar and look for industrial tubing of the EPDM/norprene style. Y splitters? Get those anywhere, don't really need anything special there. Question will be what style you want? Do you want the splitters to have its own barbs that the tubing fits over and you just zip tie it secure? Do you want something that regular G1/4 compression fittings screw into that the tubing can attach to?

I agree Pio. You'll always have cheaters and hackers and what ends up happening is that the legitimate players just get forced through so many hoops with various DRM, or in this case, new hardware requirements, that in the end never actually do anything to stop the cheaters and hackers, but does everything to punish the legit players that they often just give up on the game. Go back to dedicated servers managed by the players themselves. Have hackers? Ban 'em. Want a dedicated hacker/cheater server? Fine.

Time for a good old fashioned "does the Star Trek transporter kill you and make a copy?" debate. Here's a Riker troll face.