Sir Beregond

I don't know what happened, but you're a good guy, would hate to see you leave.

Ditto. Honestly its rare for me to be properly directed to something I click on (i.e. thread has a new post, click to see new post and it goes somewhere random in the thread). Has anyone else seen that too?

Nope, just Amazon. They had them for $790. I also don't have a Costco membership.

Yikes. Here we go again indeed, but even worse.

I am so happy to hear that! Yeah depending on the game, definitely ranges from a noticeable improvement to double the performance over a 960 if I recall. Edit: And yeah would definitely recommend a re-paste. Especially those 5770's. I never got a chance to take them apart and do it myself. They've been in the parts closet a long, long time now. I think I pulled them out of use in 2012. Whenever I got my 670 which bit the dust.

So I wonder if the problem I am having with my pump is because I have it plugged into #8 fan header on the Octo. I am noticing one thing peculiar. For each bank of 3 fans - header 1, 2, 3, I am losing 100 RPMs (as reported in Aquasuite) from header 1 to 2, to 3 at any given shared power percentage. So by the time I got to my pump, it says 100%, but it is definitely only running around the flow rate of ~80%. Is this expected behavior, or do you think the power delivery with my Octo setup is not working right? Also noticing HWInfo64 won't read my flow meter header on the Dark Hero, going to have to figure out what's going on there.

Wife talked me into it (she's the best). I got a 48" LG C1 on the way in the next week or two.

Mine started out of spite. Where I bought my car, they also threw in free oil changes for life (and I was using them), but then they sold to another dealer group and they didn't honor that anymore. Which is fine I guess, but I was upset that no one bothered to call me when they changed owners and I showed up to my oil change appt and the place was closed. Guy on the lot tells me what's going on and to call the new place. I did and then they were like, yeah we'll get you in for oil change - $60. No thanks. Decided to do my own oil changes, with blackjack and hookers! Ok, well maybe just oil changes, but from there, started learning how to do anything else I needed to do as they came up. And ultimately these days it also means that they are to my standard.

Damn, @BWG - Sorry to hear of your loss and other family struggles. Definitely agree with @ENTERPRISE, good community of folks here to lean on. Hang in there! Enterprise - so happy to hear that things are improving!

Re-signed up for the recurring today so hopefully that is all looking good now. New badges are fancy!

I was fascinated with all the Hubble pictures growing up in the 90's and so on. Providing this much more resolution and clarity to the universe is just awe inspiring. Add to that the sheer scale of what is being seen. Its also funny to think that a lot of what's being seen is probably not there anymore just due to light speed. I love space.

For clarification, was my wife's 970. She claimed it would occasionally crash the screen/black screen. I could never replicate on other rigs so always assumed it was driver related and that the card was fine, but didn't know 100% for sure, so heavily discounted from what they are going for on eBay lol. We ended up replacing it with just a 1660 we got on the cheap at Micro Center in Oct on 2020, literally right before the fun started with shortages. She's due for a real/full computer upgrade in a couple months.

Looking forward to seeing them in action! Way better use than sitting in my closet.

Not that I have an interesting car, but I forgot about this thread, should have taken pics when I did the brakes a couple weekends ago. Ended up replacing all 4 rotors, pads, and had a buddy and his kid help with the fluid. First time I've ever done brakes. Buddy does all his cars so had all the tools, the garage, and helped teach me. I am a bit overdue on transmission fluid, so hope to do that this month. Not standard stuff though, it's blue Type FZ so need to put an order in. Thank God Mazda left a fill and drain port. Car will turn 10 in January, 115k miles on it now. Still treating me good, so I treat it good. I don't really trust anyone else to work on it so I've been learning how to do all the maintenance myself over the past few years. That feeling was reinforced when I found unlubricated caliper alide pins and unevenly worn brake pads a couple weekends ago. Up yours Brakes Plus.

Wonder if it was a miss-price.

Oh interesting, will try that with HWInfo64 then. Well its not that I want the pump to run 100% all the time, I was hoping to create some different profiles, for example, one where I do max out everything (fans and pump) for benchmark/OC runs. So really at a loss for why it is not properly reading the pump. EDIT: So I just updated my Aquasuite software and it now reads my pump at 100% still but flow meter dropped to about 3L/min. Seriously no idea what's going on with this.

Ok Octo is installed as is Aquasuite, and man what a pain in the ass that was. Let me explain... The USB 2.0 headers on the Dark Hero are on the bottom...blocked by my bottom 360GTS radiator. So that necessitated doing a partial drain of the system and then isolating the bottom rad from everything else while capping everything with a stop plug. Then I was able to unscrew the bottom rad and move it to allow access to the header. Great got it installed, reinstalled the rad, tubing, flow meter, refilled the system, and started. Uh-oh...system shutting down due to USB over-current protection. Crap...installed the header backwards. So...proceeded to do all of this again, flip the header, reinstall everything, refill the system again, and there we go. Fixed. Now comes the other things I need to figure out. Can't plug my Barrowch flow meter into the Octo, looks like I will need an adapter. So as far as I can tell, Aquasuite is not able to read any flow settings without it plugged into it (it is currently plugged into the motherboard). Second issue, my pump plugged into the Octo doesn't seem to be able to power fully. At what Aquasuite is considering to be "100%", I am getting a flow rate of what the pump was getting at what was considered 80% power using the motherboard. So I am at a loss on that one. Flow is still fine, but I seem to be unable to actually max out the pump. Will have to play around some more, and look for an adapter for the temp/flow meter. The pump problem has me a bit perplexed.

Hey I don't care who does it, its bad.

AMD has talked about supporting AM4 along-side AM5. This makes perfect sense. I could see myself getting a 5900X3D in the future if they make one.

Nice, looking forward to seeing.

Honestly no idea. What coolant are you looking at?

Looks like migration went pretty fast, smoothly.

Nice job, looks great.

Not really. Haven't had much of that sort of free time the past couple of weeks. Have an Aquacomputer Octo I still need to install too.

That's fantastic.