Fluxmaven

Finally cold enough to just leave a couple rigs running all the time.

Some older pics of stuff The FX setup during some HWBot comp. I don't have any photos of the XPG RAM working on any systems, so I'm assuming it's a DOA ebay find, but I'll give it another try since it looks nice. That mint 7990 block... GTX 690... If any of Y'all have a block for this, slide in my DMs

Most of the parts for this build are buried in the closet and it will likely be pretty slow progress, but I'll dump a few pics here for now. The V3000 was a recent purchase so It's still sitting out in the living room I was on a work trip in Atlanta and went into Microcenter to kill some time. This case wouldn't have fit in my Mustang or Miata lol O11D Distro plate doesn't look too bad in there. These 140mm Fans have 120mm mounting. So I mounted the fans to the plate with fan screws, then sat it on the radiator and attached the rad with short screws.

Howdy. So I thought it would be cool to do a couple of "throwback" builds with Intel + Nvidia vs. All AMD. I'm using the term throwback loosely since the hardware I am currently considering isn't all from the same year but most of it's at least a decade old. Parts Lists: Red CPU: AMD FX-9590 Motherboard: Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z GPU: Radeon HD 7990 RAM: Either some black and red Adata XPG 2133 Cl10 or some EVGA 1866 CL9 that I know works Storage: Not sure what boot drive. I do have a pair of m.sata Samsung drives on a Vantec RAID card that will probably go in this rig for a game drive Case: Maingear Vybe Nero red PSU: EVGA 1000 G2 Cooling Maingear Apex distro EKWB Supremacy Edge Red/plexi (1/100 so fairly rare) EKWB FC7990 SE I'm actually not an EK fanboy, just hard to find 7990 blocks these days Bitspower Leviathan XF 240 Barrowch Chameleon fish 240 Red/Acrylic Arctic P12 MAX Scythe Gentle Typhoons Blue CPU: Intel i7 2700K Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD5 GPU: GTX Titan Black... I also have a GTX 690 that would keep it a bit more era appropriate and dual GPU for both systems. However I can't find a waterblock for the 690. RAM: Blue G.Skill Ares 2133CL10 Storage: A pair of Samsung 850 Pro Case: Lian Li V3000 Plus... Was going to use a Blue/White Maingear Shift I've had for a long time, but Microcenter just dropped the price on V3000's and I had to have one lol PSU: EVGA 850 P2 Cooling EK distro that was designed for an O11D that I got cheap open box Thermochill PA 120.4 that's coming out of retirement I've got a dirty old 420mm in the front for mock up but might just get another 480 to put up top and leave the front as intake. Currently have a Swiftech Apogee II mounted on the board because I thought I was trying to stuff a loop in the Maingear Shift... May switch to a Heatkiller IV. Titan Black has a Heatkiller block already on it Lian Li uni fans... Acquired a ton of these for cheap and have been looking for a way to use them up Phanteks PH-F140HP II - Again, been wanting to use these up for a while. As for fittings and tubing... I haven't decided which system is getting what. They may both end up with a mixture of hard and soft tubing. I have a decent amount of frosted 14mm hard tube and some nice brass 16mm. I also have soft tubing in most common sizes. Mostly EPDM or clear. I'll likely use up some QD3's in the Intel system since there's so much room in that case.

Didn't the higher end models get cancelled? I could see myself ending up with a B580 LE the exact same way I ended up with my A770 LE... Walking into Microcenter for something else and noticing that they have them in stock even though the website says they don't.

Thanks to everyone that participated! Regardless of what happens to the site, I'll always fold in some capacity. In the process of migrating more machines to rack cases so I can toss them in the basement where they aren't cooking me like they do now in the office

Sir B and I have had pretty similar setups for a while. He has a 5900X with a 3080ti. We both use LG OLED TVs as monitors. He recently swapped from a 48" C1 to a 42" C4 which does bump the refresh rate up to 144Hz from 120Hz on the C1. The 3080Ti is showing it's age a bit more than the 3090, but a platform refresh to an AM5 setup would breath a bit of life into either of our setups and be a lot cheaper than a 5090. IIRC we both have a noticeably stronger and weaker CCD on our 5900X's and I think we'd both prefer to just move to single CCD chips at this point. Either way, neither of us are waiting in line to pay full price for a 9800X3D. We both have Microcenters nearby and will wait until they offer up some sort of deal that's too good to pass up.

The PC I'll be upgrading has a 5900X with a RTX 3090 pushing 4K. Just boosting the 1% lows and getting more consistent frame times will probably be enough to convince me to hold onto the 3090 a bit longer. These days, even if you have a 4K display, you don't have to actually be rendering native 4K resolution. Enabling DLSS allows the 9800X3D to shine even more. I also don't play everything in full screen 4K since that can be a bit much on a 48" display. I switch to 3440x1440 or 3840x1080 for some games.

Y'all already know I'm in

Whenever I can walk into Microcenter and grab one for under $400, I'll do so. I'm not really in a rush since I already have a 7800X3D rig. I also have a 7700X on the test bench I could run as a placeholder and go ahead and rebuild the 5900X rig soon-ish. Then I could toss the 9800X3D in the Gene and bench it before it gets swapped into the main rig. I guess it'll depend on how unlocked it is, if I want to set aside time to bench it first. Just haven't been as interested in PC stuff the past year or so.

The plum crazy reminded me of a keyboard I modded many years ago. It may have been the first 60% layout I owned. It was a KBC Poker II. I used it stock for a while until I built my first complete custom boards. I decided to pimp it out and give it to a friend. Desoldered the entire board and painted the plate Honda electron blue pearl. It had Cherry MX black switches and I used them to make "ghetto greens" Which is when you pair a MX blue stem with the heavier spring from the black. This was before the days of RGB so IIRC, I soldered in a mix of pink and blue LEDs in. I'll have to look through my old pictures when I'm back home to see if I have any of that board. Edit... After thinking for a second I had another prebuilt that I modded... KBParadise V60 mini was the one with the pink and blue LEDs because it was a Miami Vice themed board with Tai-Hao Miami keycaps and a clear case. The Poker probably just had all blue LEDs.

I don't see any point in 5Gb since it's so niche. 10Gb is common as dirt in enterprise gear so it ends up being cheaper to build out a 10Gb network than 5Gb. Most of my network is 2.5Gb since I can run that over the copper that's already run through the house and the motherboards already come with 2.5Gb NICs. My one 10Gb switch is all SFP. I could get a good used Intel or mellanox NIC for less than a single 10GbaseT rj45 transceiver. Not to mention even though x670e and x870e are basically the same, they will likely still charge a premium for the new boards.

The only difference between X670E and X870E is guaranteed USB 4.0. The newer boards will likely support faster memory out of the box as well. As for a sweet spot, you can toss in a 6000cl30 kit, tighten up the secondary and tertiary timings and call it a a day. X3D somewhat negates the need for faster memory so there's less of an incentive to spend money on a nicer kit unless you actually want to do memory OC. You mentioned 32 or 64GB but there is a middle option these days. Now that 24GB modules are available you can get a 48GB kit.

You need to find a motherboard that has the PCIe slot spacing laid out so that you can fit your sound card and GPU. Any case that is big enough for the GPU will also have space for the sound card. A lot of new motherboards are focusing on cramming as many M.2 SSDs in as possible and don't have a ton of PCIe slots. Sometimes the few they do have are too close together if you have a triple slot GPU. As for what case to get... It's really a personal preference thing. Fractal makes pretty decent stuff so stepping into the XL version of one of their cases isn't a bad idea. In general the trend has been towards smaller cases and really flashy cases with lots of tempered glass and RGB. Full towers aren't as common these days. Corsair 7000D airflow is a decent full tower option. They also have the 9000D if you wanted a really big case to grow into lol. Lian Li V3000 Plus is a nice full tower case that unfortunately got delayed so many times that I think most people forgot about it by the time it was available. Cooler Master has newer versions of the Cosmos and HAF. Raijintek just came out with the Paean Ultra. SilverStone Alta F2 if you want to blow money on a unique case that probably nobody has.

I'll limit my 6950XT to 200w and smoke you (with all my Nvidia cards)