Sir Beregond

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.

Both the 6400 and the 6500 XT were laptop chips meant for APU's repurposed for desktop. I imagine not.

Had to tear out all the rads to mount the pump/reservoir and while I was at it, I completely redid all the cable management in the back. It's not great, but will work. I kinda wish these SW3 had a daisy chain feature, but that's ok. All the cables go in the back. Also got my rotary fittings for top radiator and the 12-pin cable in today. Anyway got it all refitted so the only thing next to do is to start bending some tubes.

Correct. To answer the OP's initial question of compatibility...sure its technically compatible, but you will be bottlenecking new 7000-series GPUs for sure and at least losing some performance by being only PCI-E 3.0. I'd seriously look at just upgrading to a 5600/5600X for cheap if your motherboard supports 5000-series Zen 3 chips and PCI-E 4.0.