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That's absolutely awesome! I've never really researched paracord before, but that makes sense that you could use it for other things. I usually carry my "survival" essentials on my belt. Got my dumb phone there, my leatherman, another multi tool, and my knife. A paracord contraption to hold everything sounds like a fantastic idea!

I saw there was another thread posted, but I think my issue is a tad different. Sig rig (AMDwheee). Just put it together last night. Soon as I fire up Cinebench, within a second, it immediately jumps up to 90*C and stays there the entirety of the bench (looking at "CPU Diode temperature" in AIDA64). Is it possible I did the mount on my block wrong? The pump and everything is silent, so I don't think its a pump or flow problem. Quite literally just using all auto settings for the time being until I can do some reading on 5000 series PBO settings. I just can't believe how hot this thing is with a 240mm radiator. This can't be right. Any ideas what it could be? I mounted it using the bolts that came with the EK kit. I did NOT read the directions though, so I could've put it together incorrectly. Not entirely sure how you can put together a water block wrong.....but here I am!

Epic! Back in the day? Were you watching my last build or are you talking literally back in the day? LOL My last car audio build, I used Ultra Kaze 120mm's to keep my amp rack cool, ran off a relay off the turn on lead off the head unit.

I might..... Heck to be honest, I'm not even 110% sure these ones are dead. I could just be a derp and setting them up wrong or something too.

Kind of difficult to see, but I had one on my first water build too. I did mine the hard way (or was it easy way?), and modded an H50 with a XSPC 240mm rad, I forget what fans, and the MCRres (its in my 5.25 bays). Rig was a 4.8GHz 2500k and a GTX 580 at that time. Bought another res to do my first actual loop too, I think that was my 2700k and 7970, but I don't have pictures of that setup.

Bruh, I'm still over here trying to get my single core systems to even function, so I can do a CPUz run. Seriously though, I might go ahead and do a few runs on this one too here soon since you asked so nicely. I actually am upgrading from Ryzen 3600 to a 5800x this week, this might be a good way to show the performance gain I'm getting. Could run it on all of my existing functional systems too. Hmmmm......

Yeah I have an Athlon xp 2000+ and a pair of 2500+ chips. I do have a much older t-bird 1100mhz chip I could try. I have tried having only the one drive connected, the problem being it doesn't recognize the drive.....and hangs on boot. The other board just won't post. I'm pretty sure I have 2 busted boards. My ecs board works, but it only works with older athlons, it won't take the faster xp chips. I'll just have to keep my eyes peeled for another good socket a board most likely. I could build the 1100mhz setup, but I haven't taken the case down to the body shop yet for repair lol. Was trying to get the newer one done first while I saved up for body shop money lol. I'll get these all going..... One way or another. This is a goal that I am determined to finish even if it still takes a long time.

Little update for those still following along..... I STILL cannot get either of these Socket A motherboards to work. One refuses to boot (hangs), and the other just won't even POST. So those are still hanging me up because I don't want to start dropping money on AT accessories for the K6 if I can't get the K7's working right. So the "museum" pieces are kind of on hold until I figure out what to do about neither of those boards working. I have quite literally ALL of my planned multi core builds done and functional. Software maybe not, but they turn on and work. So far, to date, I have absolutely ZERO single core rigs functional though and that's what's starting to really tick me off. However, I did pull the trigger on the most expensive part of my "museum" collection.......the "newest" rig. I have a 5800x, 6900XT, B550 board, DDR4-4000 RAM, and some other goodies on the way. I'll still need to sort out storage drives for it, but everything else is on its way here. That will be my "last" build for this collection (hopefully ). Parts list can be seen in my sig rigs, under the rig titled "AMDwheee".

Hey, this got bumped again. Guess I can update ya'll. Taking my Jeep 15" wheels off, and taking those and the ladder down to a local sandblasting / powder coating place. Am planning on having this done by end of the week hopefully. The wheels and ladder will get blasted and powder coated satin black (ladder being a non skid powder coat in satin black). Should have them back and on the Jeep in 4-6 weeks according to the finishing place.

I get about 7.5 Mbps down and 512 Kbps up if I'm lucky. I won't run a speedtest as it kills my connection with the upload tests. Spectrum I refuse to go back to after 3 years of lying to me. So staying stuck with junk dsl, hey at least they're honest about my charges. Switching to a LTE connection hopefully next week to mitigate the problems and I'll bridge the two connections.

I think once I finish my new rig, AMDwheee, I'll be more than happy for a long while. Only reason I'm upgrading is because my monitor, it just demands high performance. Had I not bought a 5120x1440 / 120Hz panel, I'd have been more than fine with my measely Ryzen 3600 / RX 580 I had originally (because my 3770k died).

I'll be honest mate, I'm still brainstorming layouts. I can't write if I can't conclude what the final draft will look like. As of now, I'm kind of borrowing the gpu article for layout inspiration. I'm just having a hard time getting the info into words instead of graphs. And what's the question about ye old emojis? Copy / paste works wonderful with gifs.

You know.....easy fix for that problem. Just use a hot glue gun, and glue your cardboard tube in place. Could put a dab of glue to hold the LED's in place too. There we go, falling over problem solved. You don't see those very often, that's for sure!

My internet connection is still horrid, but luckily that doesn't affect F@H. 290x should be back online as of this post, 3am PST. The operation seems to have been a success. Full load (F@H) temps went from 78*C with a rattley fan and a lot of noise, down to a nice cool 61*C and silence!

That is some fantastic craftsmanship there! Where's the "shuttup and take my money" emoji at?

You had mentioned trying to access the drive over your network, and that you had changed security settings to achieve the right permissions. However, I didn't see you mention if you altered the sharing permissions as well? They are 2 separate sets of permissions. Considering how deep into the security permissions you went, I'd assume you did....but never hurts to double check the basics. Otherwise, you've got me stumped. Looks like Windows 11, and I haven't personally played with that. Should be similar to 10, in the sense that you just make sure the security permissions are set correctly. You can also use the "administrators" and "users" groups if you'd rather apply permissions by account type (specific users is also fine). And from there, ensure the share permissions are also set how you want, and it "should" just work. It doesn't always, but I do think you're on the right track anyway. The only time I've ever absolutely needed to change ownership was with very specific issues like MS OneDrive having ownership and not allowing me to do things with my own folders, or doing a wipe / reformat on the machine but not my second drive.....and the drive still has permissions from an old install or something.

I know there's devices made by "Mofi" that are supposedly fantastic for the uses you're looking for. Actually just bought one myself to try out. But yeah, they're spendy. When I was doing my LTE research, that seemed to be the ones that kept popping up for recommended use, so that's what I bought lol. The problem being that I ran into, these "mobile hotspot" router devices are typically used for enterprise type applications. Businesses will typically use these types of devices for their backup internet source quite often, or their only internet source for things like buses and boats that have wifi. Because of their typical use scenarios, they're generally more expensive than consumer equipment. There's a Netgear device that I was also reading about that was more in the consumer market price range. That might be something to look into. I'm not sure how well coverage will be with your carrier, or if your carrier will even work with the Netgear. That seems to be hit and miss between devices and carriers. If you're looking for 5g access, unfortunately you're going to be looking at a Mofi device in the $500 range (from what I had read about anyway, your own research may vary). If LTE is sufficient, I'd research the Netgear further.

Shoot, yeah you got me there. I should've read a few more posts up. Cooling section maybe? Just post it, the views will come regardless of section!

Software or Operating Systems subsections would probably be a good choice, no? I'd definitely give it a read. Shoot, these days with as powerful as modern rigs are, I don't even bother with tuneup stuff like that anymore, but honestly it probably would help just to rid the junk.

I was going to say I recognize that, but alas......that's not quite the piece I thought it was. The one I was picturing before googling it, was just a dual 120mm air cooler, nothing really all that fancy about it. Probably circa 2007 or so, and I WANT to say was a Coolermaster product, but its been so many years lol. That particular one is an evap cooler right? Very interesting bit of tech there indeed! You don't see CPU coolers like that very often!

Color is another one and kind of goes hand in hand with the master / slave parts. Don't forget about those rassis PC parts. (Jokes, jokes seriously, just jokes....... ^_^ Don't ban me ) This next part is more or less for everybody, not pointed at anybody in particular, I'm just talking to talk lol. Now, on the serious and educational side.....what is language? What does "gender inclusive" mean? Language is the form of expressing the physical world around you into words. Gender is an expression of physical aspects of something be it male or female (in PC parts terms anyway since in people the definition has changed in the last 10 or so years). Inclusive means "to include everyone", per Webster's dictionary. Last time I checked, everyone has been included in PC's for many, MANY many years now. "Gender inclusive" has 2 completely different definitions depending on the context used. Per the dictionary it means "to include everyone". Per the U.N. it means "speaking and writing in a way that does not discriminate against a particular sex, social gender or gender identity, and does not perpetuate gender stereotypes". PC parts don't care about feelings, nor are they discriminatory against a specific gender. The term is complete silliness considering we've already been including everyone for 30+ years in these communities. And that, my friends, is the only reason I said anything to begin with. Nonsense about feelings doesn't belong with PC parts, and I'd really hate to imagine a world where I have to be worried about offending my USB or HDMI cable. -_-

I'll go ahead and start. Here's a couple of things out of my own storage that I still have kicking around that I think are or were "neat" looking pieces. In order oldest to newest. I'd share some of my newer parts, but honestly none really qualify as "neat" or "unique" in my opinion. Everybody has a Ryzen 3600 with a Dark Rock Pro4 cooler and RGB lighting. Everybody's seen a reference 5700XT. I do think my rig is "pretty", but meh......there's nothing really that sets it apart from anybody else's. But these........... ATI branded Radeon 9800XT with Thermaltake cooler: This was roughly around the first time that cooling really became a "serious" business Apevia X-Navigator Case (green): You'd see these cases EVERYWHERE in the early 2000's, usually absolutely full of cathode lighting and UV reactive cables eVGA GeForce 8800GTS 512MB KO: It was my first ever "high end" GPU I bought BNIB. It's here because well, look at those graphics and artwork! Sapphire ATI Radeon HD2900XT 1GB: Those silver flames and transparent plastic........you don't see artwork like that anymore XFX AMD Radeon HD4670: This is included mostly because of all of the extra goodies that used to be included.

Huge shout out to UltraMega for the idea! Let's see your guys' "most interesting" PC parts. I don't care if its old, new, working or dead. Let's see your "prettiest" parts. Artwork, neat lighting, fancy copper things, maybe some CCFL's? Case mods.....whatever it may be. I want to see things like the old Hot Wheels and Barbie Magic Hairstyler PC's from the 1990's, cold cathodes, fancy GPU artwork, "pretty" RAM sticks, massive amounts of copper, just absolutely ANYTHING that you feel is "pretty", old or new. Here's the kicker though, I want to see parts that YOU still have. Please, nothing that everybody else has too......stuff that's unique and interesting to look at only. --------------- If this kicks off, we can always put in a google docs thing or something here to link everybody's cool things too. I'm not good at that sort of thing, but figured I'd throw it out there.

Maybe like this? (I know you said you remembered how they used to look, but mannnnn, I just have to share because ) GeForce 6600GT: GeForce 8800GTX: Not going to lie, I do miss how creative companies used to get with their artwork. Some older GPU's are absolutely gorgeous just because of the artwork they put on there. I know quite a few actual women gamers that absolutely loved the older artwork too. I have a friend locally who still has one of those mermaid 6600 cards that she refuses to let go of just because its "purdy". Kinda why I wanted it too, so whatever I can't argue that point when its the same reason I want it right? You know what would be a fun topic? Just a thread dedicated to "neat" looking parts. Artwork, pink stuff, purple stuff, UV cold cathodes, blue stuff, red stuff, whatever. Just objectively and subjectively "pretty" components.

To be honest, releasing it as a 6c / 6t part with similar clock speeds to the 5600 would also have been a decent way to go as well. But I guess the same thing could be said for the 4500 vs 4600 as well.