Sir Beregond

So I need some advice. Now that I am hitting some tighter areas with multiple bends, I am actually having a hard time cutting the tubing with the room I have to work with. The hacksaw method sucked as it was hard to get it straight down every time and often ended up with an angled cut. Then I bought one of these from Harbor Freight which has mostly been good except that its just not quite big enough to cut straight through the entire tube...which becomes problematic if you already have a bend in it and flipping the tube around causes it to interfere with the housing of the saw. Is there anything better I should be looking at for cutting the tubing? I thought of maybe picking up one of those Bitspower drill bits for doing small cuts (and chamfer at the same time) once the tube run is mostly to size and just needs small adjustments. But I'm not really sure best way to go about doing normal cuts now. I know @Avacado, you usually know the best ways to go here. Edit: Its the white Corsair pmma tubing in 14mm.

Agree with The Pook. The drive inside is already SATA. Just take the drive out of the enclosure. The enclosure is what is converting it to micro USB.

Makes sense to me. This is a really nice sig rig system vs what used to be on OCN. I really like it.

Definitely interested to see how Zen 4 goes. I had a heard a rumor that they weren't planning on launching with any 3d cache skus, but guess we will see.

Yeah agreed on that front. I think this is part of the reason rumors have Nvidia going so power hungry next gen to squeeze out as much performance as possible. That said, if they do end up releasing these refreshes, I wonder if they will be price point replacements of old parts or like the 3090 Ti, will be even more expensive.

Redid the tube from the top rad to the gpu as the previous one was not quite right. Also went ahead and slightly shortened the one going from the sensor to the bottom rad.

Ah, yeah I think the 6400 is the only one in the stack that doesn't require a PCI-E power connector.

OK, well just giving you some options. Personally I think the fact that AMD released the 6400 and 6500 XT in the form they took, missing the features they do, at the price points they are, was rather disappointing. Parts that never meant to be desktop cards sold as such and sold for much higher than they really deserve. I'm not sure you are going to get what you want from AMD at that price tier - i.e. low-profile with encoding support. 6400 and 6500 XT simply don't have it. The 6600 would probably work for you, but I'm not sure they come in low-profile. Is there a reason you couldn't do a non-low profile card?

Looks self made. Looks nice.

This is exactly right. They don't have to pay it out as earned pto when you leave and overall you end up with less staffing to accommodate pto and often more work hours per week. At least that's what I've noticed around here from companies that offer it. It's usually a red flag to me when job hunting.

I don't drink coffee, so the AC is my vote. But hey, that's me, I'm a weirdo.

Sounded like the hardware was good, but that the drivers are not in a great state, hence why they've been delayed.

What do you currently have might be good to know. Agree, AC is a good choice if needed.

I liked season 1 better than 2, also a huge TNG fan. Season 2 is a mess.

Yep this is true. Just not sure since OP mentioned wanting low-profile cards.

Now that's what I call retro gaming.

Now I am curious.

Sigh...I really gotta find a new browser. I used to hate Firefox because it was slower than molasses, but to be fair that was also like 16 years ago. These days Chrome is just a big memory leak, so I don't know.

Naw, threw out the box of random assorted trash disks a few years back. Somehow a couple of AOL disks were in there, not really sure why as we never used AOL.

I had to lookup what Evangelion was.

Nice haul! But no AOL disks from 1997?

Correct, a 1650 would have NVENC support. I believe you will have to doublecheck models for the 1650 as I believe the first ones used the Volta encoder whereas later ones used Turing, if that matters to you.

Slowly coming together. I think the tube going from the meter to the bottom rad is slightly too tall, so will have to cut it a bit more, but slowly coming together. I am finding bending to not be all that hard to do, but the measuring is difficult to get exactly right.

Oh man, that's a treasure trove, nice find!

Yeah. AMD really didn't do anyone any favors with the 6400 and 6500 XT missing features like this. Seemed like a last minute decision to put something, anything on the market at that price point. These are definitely not really meant to be desktop GPUs and it shows. Maybe see if there are any 5500 XT low profile cards around. Don't quote me on it, but I think these support VCE.