Fluxmaven

I have it it setup with the bottom bezel about a foot back from the wheel, it's great. Went with this because the lower res was easier to run. I tried the wheel bolted to the desk but hated it. Immediately started looking for the frame No such thing as overkill also I'd likely put the 6900xt upstairs and move the 2080 to this rig. It's an absolute blast to drive and I'd highly recommend it. I am glad I also have my Mazda6 wagon for a daily though because the manual can be a bit annoying in rush hour traffic. Goes into microcenter to buy a $100 b550 walks out with the sexiest board in the store . Pretty sure I told you I'd do build logs for the 3 builds I'm working on and I also said I'd bench that 11600k. So I figured I'd start this log first to motivate myself to actually get some progress going.

The seat/frame I have is enough of a cockpit for me. The 7970s are fine in Asseto Corsa but lacking big time in stuff like Forza. For the short term I have a waterblocked GTX 1070 I'm going to swap in. I might snag a 6900xt depending on how the prices drop before RTX 4XXX series. Forgot to mention I have a Samsung CJ890 Series 49-Inch Ultrawide for the setup too.

After establishing that I do really like the sim rig I was ready to get away from that dying board that takes forever to boot. Originally was just going to grab a new b550 but I found the EVGA z590 DARK at Microcenter and had to have it. Picked it up along with an 11600k. Since it's a weird build anyway I busted out a new Heatkiller 3 I've had in storage.

I'd consider myself a car enthusiast. I have a pretty nice 97 Mazda Miata and a project 84 BMW 323i (e30). Racing IRL is really expensive so it was only natural that I would go the sim racing route at some point. As much as I would love to go straight off the deep end, I figured I'd dip my toes in first and see how I liked it before investing too much. Picked up a Logitech G923 wheel and a Playseat Evolution seat/frame off the local FB marketplace. Bought a new Logitech H-pattern shifter since I prefer that to paddles. For Version 1, I tossed a rig together with spare parts I had laying around Prime x470 Pro that got a bunch of coolant dumped on it and now takes 45 minutes to boot 5600x 16gb of Ripjaws 3600c16 Pair of 7970s Various fittings rads, etc. Some Yate Loons that I sleeved forever ago and never used, SW3s, Noctua redux, and one Bitfenix Spectre Pro. Started playing Asseto Corsa which runs great and actually supports crossfire.

We already established that was a mistake on the discord, but should I be adding rig photos? I told myself the setup in my bedroom was temporary which is why I didn't even attempt cable management, but the ole garage shelf is doing just fine so it will probably look like this forever

I'll have to look at what all fittings I have too. I have tons in various sizes, but If they are any of the sizes I have, I'd be happy to buy em off ya. Back on topic, can I do multiple submissions with different hardware to the same category on HWBOT? For the i5's I'll definitely run the 11600k since it's already sitting on my workbench. I can also run my 5900x for the AMD category. Combing back over the limitations on the other categories, I can also run my 960 and 2080 in the Nvidia category

I like my tubing like I like my women... Thicc. Aside from sff builds I typically run 13/19 tubes with QD4s. If I get a dedicated test bench going I could use any size so I might hit you up on those when I get to that point.

In fluxmaven I'll be out of town but I'll leave a rig or two running

No clue how it would compare with 56 threads. My only point of comparison was vs the university lab computers which were i5 iMacs with no dGPU. So the dell with an i7 and the Quadro completely slaughtered it. Do you already have the Quadro? Wouldn't be hard to throw it in a couple different PCs and get a feel for how it performs.

First thing on the limitations tab is that you can only use processors using socket LGA1156.

I'll look through what all I have laying around. I know I still have a fair amount of older GPUs but not the appropriate platforms to run them on. Plus most of them are waterblocked... I need to get more sets of quick disconnects lol @UltraMega I thought Sandy Bridge was LGA1155... If it's not, I have a 2700K I could dig out to help. For the DDR4 category I have all da i5's baby! 11400, 11500, and 11600K.

I usually have the best luck selling locally or on r/hardwareswap on reddit. I've actually done this experiment before with great success. I mixed it up and was open to trade offers. Often times I received items in trade that were higher value than the laptops I was selling. Granted this means you end up with different products to sell unless you get things you would have otherwise purchased.

I was also curious to see how I did since I borrowed two extra 3090s for a few hours, but it doesn't really matter. I probably won't be around any of my PCs for the last couple weeks of August. I will be busy traveling for work then flying to my mom to pack her stuff and help her move to Florida.

Kinda wish I would have held onto mine. One of the best Craigslist deals I ever made was straight trading my Radeon HD 5770 for a 560ti Classy. Dude just wanted to use Eyefinity. I assume his parents bought the classy because I don't know anyone who would have made that trade lol.

Pretty sure I had an m2000 in a Dell Precision years ago. It ran Premier, After Effects, etc just fine. But those are pretty old cards so I wouldn't be surprised if they were no longer supported. The Adobe suite doesn't really need a Quadro though. Any newer GTX or RTX card would work fine.

I have 3 builds to do so I'll breathe a little life into the build log section. I typically document everything on OCN but all the cool kids are here now.

Just won an auction for this PSU. I'll get a build log going for the mom PC at some point. Also microcenter just dropped the z590 Dark to $200 so I'll go in and get a price adjustment and have $80 back to spend on PC parts Update: PSU showed up and is an SF600 gold with the rubber cables instead of the platinum with the nicer sleeved cables... Deciding if I want to just accept that it's still a fine PSU and a good deal still or be petty and try and get a partial refund since it really isn't what was described. The listing used the model number and stock pictures from the platinum.

I'm sure they will have no problems flipping them all for a small profit. Enthusiasts like us don't really see the appeal of a laptop because we value performance over portability. General consumers don't want to be tied to a desk and don't really care about specs as long as it's reasonably responsive which these 8th gens with SSDs are perfectly snappy for general web browsing. I hate my work laptop too... Mines a heavy 17" touchscreen Dell. Unfortunately most of my work involves going out on site so a desktop isn't really an option.

I really don't get why people don't pick it up a bit when making a left across traffic... It was obvious that both you and the blue SUV in the lane next to you were approaching... Not sure why she would just casually pull out. She could have easily avoided the accident by just giving it a bit more gas and actually getting through the intersection in a timely fashion. I have to turn left across traffic every morning to jump on the highway and there's always some indecisive person that holds it up forever. Or worse, causes an accident like yours. Although the alternative route would involve a roundabout and dropping into downtown Cincinnati before jumping on the highway and I'm definitely never in the mood to deal with that BS first thing in the morning As far as speeding goes, less than 10 over is fine most of the time. As long as it's not residential or a school zone.

Always willing to help brother. I'm actually still figuring out the specifics of TrueNAS/FreeNAS myself. I'm more used to larger enterprise SAN setups from my days working in IT.

So my mom mentioned that if I had any extra computer stuff laying around she could really use a decent desktop PC for working from home since her work laptop is crap and her personal computer is a Macbook Air that won't run all the software she needs... She requested just using spare parts if I had some and not to go out of my way to buy anything... I can create a surplus of spare parts if I buy myself new parts for my rigs Decided I'll give her one of my ITX boards and an 11400. Hoping to get myself a Ryzen 7700x to replace it. I picked up a Louqe Raw s1 but decided it's maybe a bit too minimalist for her. Also picked up a Phanteks Evolv Shift which I think will work great. Sort of similar design but it's a bit bigger and IO is accessible from the top. Just wanted something relatively small that didn't have a "gamer" aesthetic. Thermals aren't an issue since it's not going to be doing anything super intensive. For my Sim rig update, I picked up a couple cases. An Asus Strix Helios and TUF GT501. I think the Strix looks nice, but I'm leaning towards the TUF since it has slightly better airflow and I want to run dual 360 rads. I'm going to have to have a yard sale at some point... The office is starting to look like a Microcenter storage room

I think there might be some confusion on what's going on when swapping boards, NICs, etc... All the actual data in ZFS is contained within the drives themselves. When you say "can't connect to the drive" I think you are referring to your SMB share that you have mapped in Windows. Breaking the share doesn't harm the actual data. If you go from a board with one kind of network controller to another, you would need to reconfigure your settings because the underlying device name changes ("em0" -> "igb0" for example), but the data will still be there. Also, Gigabit is fully saturated at 125MB/s. Even spinning rust can manage more than that in ZFS. I tested this myself by transferring the same folder with 31GB of video files across two different NICs to my NAS. Over gig it averaged around 110-115MB/s. Over 2.5G it was 280-285MB/s. At the end of the day, you have it up and running and it seems to meet your needs currently. So there's no big rush to change anything, I just like giving you a hard time

I must have just gotten lucky. My 2.5g NIC and LSI HBA card both worked flawlessly right out the gate. I'm on TrueNAS 13 though.

Sounds like just removing and reconnecting the share on Windows would have fixed it but a whole OS re-install never hurts I love the comical overkill of the i9 mixed with the mediocrity of the onboard 1G NIC.

Lol looking into the 24 hour average... We're all out here playing checkers and Firedfly is playing chess. Really though, It's all in good fun and nice to see a good turnout!