Fluxmaven

Thanks guys. I also have a pair of 7970s with waterblocks but those are a lot less cool than a 7990. Back in 2012 I was still running an i7 870 with an EVGA 560 TI Classified. That year I helped my best friend build his first custom PC which was actually the 2700K and motherboard that I'm using for the team blue build. He gave them to me when I helped him build his next PC which was a Ryzen 2700X with dual 1080 Ti's. It's hilariously tiny, but I also have a Fury X with a waterblock that I need to bench and do something with. Back when it was relevant, I did what every smart person did and bought a 980 Ti instead Had it paired with a 4790K since AMD was still a joke on the CPU front at that time. Not exactly era appropriate, but maybe I'll pair the Fury X with a first gen Ryzen. Or better yet a first gen Threadripper. Granted something like a Vega Frontier would be a more appropriate pairing for a Threadripper... That involves me buying even more old crap though lol. Now that you guys can get a bit of a glimpse into my thought process, it's easier to understand how I end up with an entire room full of hardware that I haven't done anything with.

The AMD rig is up and running. This case is not nearly as easy to work with as the gigantic Lian Li so it took some silly solutions to get everything together. Biggest hurdle was connecting the two radiators together. The ports on the top rad are below the ports on the front rad. I tried several different combos of offset fittings and adapters... Ended up just using a couple 90 degree 10/13mm Alphacool fittings with a little loop of EPDM to go into the back chamber of the case, around the front panel and into the front radiator. The fill port on the distro is also too close to the radiator to slip even a low profile 90 degree adapter into so filling the system is a bit tricky. Ran just the rads with a filter for a few days which is why there is moisture in the distro. Got all the lines ran and pressure tested before filling her up with red Aquacomputer DP Ultra. Old ass hardware in a new case means, a few extra front panel cables that aren't used. Case came with the fan/rgb hub built in which is convenient. Didn't go nuts perfecting the cable management, just wanted it good enough to not need to stand on the back panel to get it closed The first flash drive I grabbed from the pile ended up being a stripped down copy of windows 11... which oddly installed perfectly fine. I'll need to find my win7 boot drive at some point, but the system works for now. Damn thing idles over 200w stock and a quick timespy run was low 600w draw. Once I get a decent overclock dialed in on the CPU and GPU, this thing is gonna be a real space heater... Which I expected lol

Holy crap that is a steal. I'd be excited to get the watercooling stuff for $100. The fact that it came in a Caselabs for that is an insane deal.

It's a shame a lot of traditional forums are dying. I like the structure and ease of finding info on forums. Things like Reddit and Facebook groups just always seem like an endless string of people asking the same things every day and expecting immediate replies. Obviously anyone is welcome to move over here. The forum just went through a bit of a rough patch but are slowly bouncing back. A lot of the members here are more chatty on the Discord server, but we're working on getting more content and activity on the site.

Made some progress on this.The system will likely dual boot windows 10 and either 7 or XP for legacy benches so I wanted it to be easy to swap GPUs. So those got soft tubing with QD3s. The basement rad and pump will be soft tubing but the rest of the runs in the main chamber will be hard tubing. Some old school stuff hiding down low. The thermochill rad with an Aquastream Eheim pump on a shoggy sandwich.

This isn't an airport, no need to announce departures.

The dual CCD chips actually benefit from increased bandwidth. For single CCD, just tightening up a decent kit makes more sense than spending a bunch on a kit that will do 8000+. When it comes closer to your upgrade, I'd see what the recommendations are at the time. The PCIe lane layouts are infuriating and the manufactures don't bother to clearly show how that works. For my main system I wanted 3x M.2 without stealing lanes from the GPU. I was actually interested in an Asrock X870E Nova but it was always out of stock. Ended up with an MSI X870 Tomahawk which can do what I want for the most part. Populate all 4 M.2 would still not drop main PCIe from 16x. You do have to sacrifice the USB4 ports and/or the other PCIe slot though depending on what slots you use. Using M.2_1 and M.2_4 affect nothing else. I don't need the other PCIe slot so I'm using my 3rd M.2 in M.2_3 so I keep the USB4 ports (which share lanes with M.2_2). Like Mr Fox, I also recently purchased an Iceman direct touch RAM waterblock set after seeing several people seemed to have good luck with them. The flimsy heat spreaders on my G.Skill A-die were already starting to fall off.

I know a guy that can get you into a big boi external on the cheap On my main rig I have it on the floor around the corner from my desk blowing the heat out of the room. QD fittings on the external plus datavac equals cooling system cleaned in minutes vs dying trying to carry the full tower outside.

Fresh block installed on the 2nd Titan Black. Some old glamor shots of my other Titan Black from the last build it was in. Gold backplate isn't ideal for the blue and white theme, but I'm getting tired of spending money on this build I'm going to use for a couple hours then likely ignore in the corner for years lol. That said... If someone has a couple matching Titan backplates laying around...

With the issues Asus has had and they way they handled it, I probably wouldn't buy one of these. Still neat to have it as an option. Honestly I don't even push my Gene enough to justify owning it. Could have picked up an ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2 back when those were $100 and called it a day. As for the fan, it does seem like an odd addition. For a more mainstream board, I actually like the option of something like that vs. the aftermarket clip on style RAM coolers. For a dedicated overclocking board, most people are going to be running custom cooling on the memory or at the very least, already have a more powerful fan on their test bench. I've got a 120mm and 180mm fan on my bench that undoubtedly push a ton more air even at lower fan speeds.

You're just saying that because you're tired of rebuilding that rig And spending money of course

Glad you guys were able to work something out. It would have been awful to lose all the info the site holds and the great community we have here.

First AMD Apex motherboard. Asus has been lacking a high end 2 DIMM board Since the X670E Gene was discontinued. https://overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainboard/asus-rog-x870e-apex-motherboard-spotted-a-first-for-ryzen

It's easier to make it look decent when you don't need the build at all. My main rig always has the sloppiest cabling because I don't like having a lot of down time on a system I actually use. The AMD rig could honestly be done in a weekend. The intel one needs some stuff. I'm thinking of ditching the 420 and getting another 480 rad for the roof of the case to fill it out a bit more. I also need to buy a block for the 2nd Titan Black. I actually do have another 480 with a pinhole leak on the end tank that I could solder, but I'd rather just buy one from the stash. I might also try drilling and tapping the feet on the V3000+ to add some casters. This thing is heavy AF and I still haven't added half the stuff.

Being snowed in, I had some free time to work on these rigs. Got the waterblock on the 7990 Got all the Sata SSDs installed. Top two are the 850 Pros, the bottom two are actually 860 Pros because I found a pair of them cheaper than getting more of the 850s. Will probably RAID 0 both pairs. Went ahead and tossed the board in. I have been on the fence about keeping that Apogee Drive II on there but I figured it's era appropriate and YOLO triple pumps. The one on the distro is the super weak DDC 3.1 6W pump. I have a spare DIYINHK 10-18W upgrade PCB that I bought a couple of to repair a 3 hour old DDC 4.2 that suffered a tragic accident (RIP). If I'm bothering to solder in one of those PCBs I'd rather start with reviving the good pump though. AFAIK the Swiftech still has the original MCP35X but It still worked last I checked so I'm not going to open it up to find out lol. The 3rd pump is an Aquacomputer Aquastream XT USB.

Those guys went to Hardware-Reaktor-Reloaded which is one of the top teams with a lot of extreme league members. It's great that you're having fun at TPU. Being a big fish in a small pond is probably more enjoyable than being on a team of extreme and elite members for HWBot. As for folding, I know you like being on their pie chart and seeing all the emojis on their points updates over at TPU firedfly and I are currently folding for HardOCP, but there's no guarantee we wouldn't come back to EHW to run the foldathons.

You buy it, I'll help out wherever I can. Love to keep the site alive.

I don't have a set favorite, but here's the PS2 games I probably played the most. Gran Turismo 4 Need for speed games from that timeframe Midnight Club series Smugglers Run SOCOM Navy Seals series GTA Vice City and San Andreas Seek and Destroy... You can make tanks fly

Was originally thinking of vertical mounting but the 7990 is a long boi so it'll have to slip behind the distro. Another space issue. Had to swap a slim fan in since the other hit the pump. I had two so I put one on the other side for push/pull. How it sits currently. Will put the GPU block on next so I can start mocking up tubing ideas.

Or would you? Congrats everyone on a great last showing.

Do you use the newer V8 Client? If so you can log in from wherever and change the team back. This could very well be our last foldathon so it would be great if we could get everybody to fold.

You can live through a room being stuffy for 2 days. Toss a lil undervolt on if that's what it takes to convince you to fold

So it's faster and cheaper than the cards it set out to be faster and cheaper than and this somehow makes it a pointless product? I know you're going to say "people should just buy a used XYZ on ebay if they're on a budget"... Some people (like relatives that buy them as gifts) don't want a used card for little Timmy's Christmas present. Or people that really feel more comfortable buying new for the warranty.

So I went digging and found all the remaining EHW stickers I have. I had these printed before the official merch store opened and have given them away as folding prizes on several occasions. By now just about everyone that folds regularly or I've shipped anything to has received one. If anyone doesn't have one and would like one, slide into my DM's.

I didn't realize they had "desktop" Epyc's until I stumbled upon the deal. I have considered a Threadripper or Epyc for the lanes to build a dedicated Folding@home machine before, but hadn't got around to really looking into it much. I mostly picked up random items for around the house on black Friday. I do want to get a decent X870E board before the end of the year. I'll also order a cheap 5700X3D from Aliexpress to play around with. Beyond that I'm pretty set on PC hardware. A couple new GPUs would be nice but I don't NEED to upgrade. Lately I've been out of town for work just about every week so no time to mess with computer stuff anyway.