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Of course the leaks are on purpose. Marketing at its finest right here. I don't understand Intel's core and thread count stuff they've been pulling to be honest. P and E cores, hyper threading only on part of the cores, I just can't keep up. AMD is definitely keeping their CPU designs a lot simpler to understand anyway. I just hope these new CPU's run better, I've been reading a lot of people having problems with the 14900's and heat. AMD's Ryzen 7000 series runs quite warm too. We're about at that point where something's gotta change in the manufacturing now, reaching the point of limited returns.

So hooking it up with an intake hose with a funnel, directly off the tap isn't gonna work?

Where I'm sitting at right now about to pull the trigger:

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I have a set of calipers here, I can just measure the fittings I have on hand. I'm PRETTY SURE they're 3/8 ID / 5/8 OD, but I'll double check the measurement before ordering. Just going to order 9x more fittings that look close enough to these ones, that'll fit the 2x Y splitters (3x each), and the fill and drain ports (last one is for the funnel fill tube). I have EXACTLY enough fittings as is to fit everything else (CPU block, rad, res). This is just simply because I'm trying to go above and beyond on this loop with the fill / drain ports that I need more. I think because of where these parts all came from, just a simple hot water sink cleaning should be sufficient, and then rinse with distilled. So I'm not AS worried about that anymore. Also, as I said last post, I need to fabricate a hose with a fitting on the end, and a funnel on the other anyway for filling it. I'll just hook the kitchen sink up with that.

You know what, I forgot all about mod my mods. I just put everything I need in the cart, and I'm at like $90. Very not bad. I'll re-measure what I have here, make sure I"m picking up the right stuff as far as sizes and looks go so it all matches. Those AlphaCool small 3 way "generic block with G1/4 openings" I think match something I have, so I'll pick those up (and I like that they're smaller and cheaper). Because I'm putting in a fill and drain port in the loop. Due to space, I only have 2 ports available on the res, also I cannot GET to the res fill port. So was going to Y it right behind the res between it and CPU, and run a line up to the top for a fill port, keep the water level higher than the res, and it should fill up. Same thing for drain port, figured if I was going to that extreme to fill it, might as well plumb in a drain port. I think I'm sold on just running the sink through it, I'll have to assemble a hose with a funnel and G1/4 fitting at the end anyway to go into the fill port. So why not just screw that into the rad, and double check it! Noted about EDPM. Will make sure that's what I order. I need to order some RC race car parts too......

I planned on dilutting the antifreeze with water, yes. I have "pure" antifreeze, non mixed. So obviously I need to mix it 50/50 for my car (bought 2 gallons, for car + PC combined). The mixture for the PC however, I'm unsure of. I don't think I'd need a 50/50 mix in a PC, maybe 25/75? I'm cool with "man cleaning". Is there a cheap attachment somewhere for the sink faucet? Budget is definitely king here, this is all going in an old, unloved FX build. Y splitters - I'd prefer to use proper fittings so everything looks similar. I've got "EK Quantum Torque" fittings right now, but only enough for the main loop (no drain / fill ports). So I'd need to pickup 6 more fittings I believe for the two Y splits? I think that was what I came up with. Ace sells appropriate tubing? Ace is literally in my backyard..........

Alright, so a few of you guys have sent me some stuff for water loops (ty ty ty to those who helped btw). I'm SUPER excited to get this going........ Question though.......I need a few parts, can anybody help me deal shop? I need: 2x tubing Y splitters Tubing (lots, going for an external rad) Fill and drain ports I want budget, I want to do this like a junkyard car build, find stuff for cheap or MacGyver something. I also don't want it to be "wrong" either (use the wrong tubing and it corrodes or something stupid). Also - I have car antifreeze to use. Is that okay? Another question too - How do I clean this all up before I install it? And is car antifreeze okay to use in a PC loop? HELP??????

No............. I want the people who play and own the games to do the work, like it used to be (which worked for many many years). Dedicated servers like source engine or COD4, where the gamers run the servers.

A lot of GoG titles don't seem to have this cheating issue......... Granted, they're not major social networking games like LoL or Fortnite, or whatever popular garbage of today either. I have zero problems just doing away with "anti-cheat" software all together. Get us back to dedicated servers, where server admins can just kick or ban cheating players, problem solved. Put the power of anti cheat BACK into the player's hands. My opinion anyway, since cheaters will always cheat, hackers will always hack. Obviously these software solutions aren't working, and neither is DRM.

I've seen a LOT of people run the triple bottom + top monitor option on the battlestation threads and whatnot. It's a popular choice and kinda makes sense. I'm just trying to think of it from a practicality perspective. If I've already got 3 monitors lined up and I'm wanting to play a driving or flight game, I'd absolutely want Eyefinity / Surround on. Shooters, personally I'd want single monitor a lot of the times due to HUD problems. So that's why I was saying that, because that's what I personally would want out of my monitor setup (which I'm wanting to ditch my ultrawide for eyefinity again ). I get the concern about going below 120Hz, that's why I went Ultrawide this go around was to try out higher refresh rates. My old Eyefinity was all 60Hz IPS. And yup, budget is exactly the reason I'm still stuck on this 49" Ultrawide. Buying 3x nicer 4k, 120Hz panels gets spendy quickly.

No, but I used to run Eyefinity from 2007 till about 2017, and then 5120x1440 @ 120Hz (32:9 ultrawide) from 2020 till now. I use Radeon cards at the moment, but same idea. My current monitor is ROUGHLY equivalent to two 27" 1440p / 120Hz panels. Your 3090 will do OLDER titles fine with surround. No problem at all. More modern like 2020 and newer titles, you'll probably struggle. That's why I said just leave it open as an OPTION by having the 3 monitors match. You don't HAVE to use Surround, but if you're going for that style monitor setup anyway........why not allow yourself the option to use it if you want to?

You're over thinking it. The max resolutions and whatnot, reported by your GPU manufacturer, are for each monitor, not the entire array. You're good to go, outside of GPU horsepower at that res. I think you're going to find a 3090 a tad anemic for that resolution with any sort of 3d loads like gaming. All depends on what you're doing though. Personally, I'd suggest the 3x bottom monitors all matching if you can. That way you can turn on "Nvidia Surround" on games that you want to use it on (and still retain that top monitor function as a secondary).

QFT.

I've got a basic model Vizio 4k, HDR, 70" LED tv myself. No problems to report, picture quality is great from what I can tell. Have you tried just going to a local Best Buy or something and taking a look at what they have in person? I tend to prioritize sound quality over picture quality though myself.

I actually would love nothing more than to see dedicated server options return, and yes that's for our voice comms too.

Only EK product I've used in recent years was an AIO I won during an early foldathon here at EHW, like in 2020 or 21 or so. I appreciate the gift from a folding event, but yeah.......the EK Basic 240 is already failing and its seen less than a year's (actual) use. If anything, I'd say that AIO has probably 6 months worth of actual usage on it, if that. And its already failed. It honestly was probably beaten by air coolers from the factory, my 5800x never did run correctly with that AIO on it. For out of the box parts, I'd trust an aliexpress cheapo knockoff air cooler LONG before I'd put anything modern EK in my system again.

I still have a dumb phone. Only changed from it last year to a Pixel 4xl. Kind of thinking of going back to the dumb phone, I literally don't even use the smart phone lol. It's connected to my router as a backup internet source, that's about it. I get phone calls sometimes. I can do the same things with a dumb phone. I might pop my sim card into my dumb phone again. Sigh.

Nothing would please me more. Maybe just adding a simple old school teamspeak server with the IRC for chat. Actually yes please, could we all switch back to that instead of discord?

Oh no. This is about to get very spicy very quickly.

Like I said, I'm not sure if its my phone itself or the Droid Dashcam app, but my phone bounces around pretty good and my video seems pretty stable. It's always worth it to try free options first.

I have no experience with an actual camera. However I use "Droid Dashcam" on my Android phone and it appears to have stabilization built into it. My phone bounces around really bad on its dash mount, and my dash cam footage always seems smooth enough. Maybe there's an iPhone version of dash cam software out there you can try maybe? Not sure if that'd eliminate enough of your bounces on a bike though.

I'm in, but probably only on the GTX 960. My 7900XTX will be in use gaming this weekend for sure.

Well, its kind of interesting and probably long winded, but I'll try to keep it TLDR. I started down the "ultrawide" rabbit hole back in 2007 with PLP Eyefinity with 2x 20" Dells and a 30" Dell monitor. Absolutely loved that setup for over a decade. I tragically lost that setup........ So, I bought into the marketing hype of modern ultrawide displays, and picked up a 32:9 5120x1440 / 120Hz display. It's not the same, at all. GAMING - Fantastic (when the games work properly at ultrawide, older games have problems) Daily Use - HORRIBLE. I'm always using windowed programs anymore, I can't fullscreen videos (due to the wasted space). For actual daily use / multitasking, I absolutely hate ultrawide now. I'll take 3 monitor Eyefinity again please. Gaming is certainly easier on a single ultrawide monitor. Absolutely. Everything else is harder.

As a 49" Ultrawide owner, no thank you.