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^That really is nice work!

Wow, this is the first post in this thread? Some reference material others may find useful: Single Rail Power Supply ATX12VO Design Guide - Intel (pdf spec) Revision 002, May 2020 ATX12V and ATX12VO PSU Design Guide Addendum - Intel (pdf spec) Revision 002, May 2021 ATX Multi Rail Desktop Power Supply Design Guide - Intel (pdf spec) Revision 003, June 2020 ATX Specification - Intel (pdf spec) Version 2.2 (ca. ~2003 or 2004, don't remember which) Also possibly of interest, though based on an earlier spec: LTT - ATX 2.52 (June 2018 rev 002) - Simplified (it's just a page that makes it a bit easier for laypeople to follow some of things discussed in the specs) For those interested in making their own cables, a great reference page regarding crimp housings, pins, and the tools used to put them together: Matt Millman's Common Wire-To-Board, Wire-To-Wire Connectors, And Crimp Tools page For those looking to learn more about a PSU they might be interested in: RealHardTechX PSU Review Database

Carefully. Seriously though, you have to ensure you don't short out anything like the surface mounted caps surrounding the vram packages. To do that: I cut them down to the exact size of the vram packages (12x14mm); file/sand the burrs off the cut edges; coat the vram chips with a thin layer of TGK tim; place a shim on top of that; carefully compress the shim to get as much of the excess tim out from between the vrm package and the shim. Once you're happy with the results and done cleaning off any excessive tim that eeked out: put a dab of thermal putty on top of the shim, and spread it out evenly a bit; then carefully place your block on top of that making sure you don't shift the shims around doing so. Secure the copper plate/block slowly like you would a cpu block going from corner to corner and side to side. Once the block is secure, the shims will stay in place. The thermal putty is what helps with that as it has the consistency of playdough and helps keep the shim from moving once everything is compressed. The putty I bought also has thermal conductivity rating of 10W/mK. I imagine you could also use the slightly higher rated thermal pads instead of putty, but you've got be more exacting as far as the thickness of the pad goes (the shim changes how much space you have to fill between the vram and the copper plate/block; and the higher the thermal conductivity of a thermal pad, the less that pad will compress). There's also a greater risk of the shim shifting a bit while you tighten things down, so you've got to be aware of that. Let me know if you have any additional questions.

Listening to it is one thing; watching him play is... ...mind blowing. R.I.P. Stevie.

Establishing a new source for helium could have all kinds of other benefits as well: Similar effect, but not quite helium:

Starting my Christmas shopping early: putting together a system for someone close to me. It was available at a mildly elevated price, so ordered it: I'll add a 5950X to it as well as we move along time wise, as well as everything else it needs.

Good 'ole Sponge Bob joined the crowd today...

A few more supplies for my war on 3090 heat. I'll cut the shims down to 12x14mm, which is the size of the memory chip package. I'm thinking 0.5 or 0.8mm thick on the backplate side; I'll know more about the front side once I disassemble the card.

Perhaps, but I'm not sure how many people realize just how small 1nm actually is. For instance, per the National Nanotechnology Initiative, a single gold atom is about a third of a nanometer in diameter. That said, considering the size of the particles that make up atoms (neutrons, protons, electrons), maybe one day even .9nm could become a possibility. Just lending a bit more substance to the notions that while size may indeed really matter, your hands usually don't count (while they can be counted, it's your fingers which typically do the counting).

YouTube, given the amount of higher quality technical information that can be gleaned from it (e.g., BuildZoid's channel comes to mind).

Yeah, I thought it was well put together myself. As for the additional info, I got much of that via the EVGA thread where I found it.

Chuckle, read the title (Social Icons - Have your say!), first thing that popped into my head: famous society people All kidding aside, seems like a worthy effort

From /r, via EVGA: Found all the 3070's (Source) They are here: btw, this was my 100th post here. ?

Sorry to hear that E. If you don't mind my asking, were they "volunteers" or paid folk? I used to manage a larger AWS/Wordpress/Magento combo for one of my longer term clients, so I understand how daunting the task can be sometimes.

FWIW, I'd vouch for Rick's offerings even though I've never bought anything from him. From my pov he obviously knows what he's doing and his prices are very reasonable. Anyay, I did come close to doing business with him a few years back when I tried to order one of his tech platforms during the height of the previous spate of bitcoin madness. Unfortunately, he just didn't have the resources to work on anything but items geared toward mining at that time. As a small shop, I could appreciate that and understood the why's behind his decision, which motivated me enough to develop my own solution (e.g., muffler bearings).

Yeah, I went back and looked at the original link you sent me and kinda figured all that out while you were busy answering what I previously posted; thanks for saving me the trouble of answering myself. The backrub emoji is still in dev, right after dark mode, I think.

So I just looked at this page (https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=239902) which looks just a wee bit different from what I looked at a few days back. Questions: A) Am I in the the right place? If I am, great work (it looks a lot different)! B) If something still needs to be changed, please let me know; C) If I'm not in the right place, please let me know; D) If I should just go away and mind my own business, please let me know; E) If (D), can I continue this thread in the ban thread? F) If all of the above, please submit your mailing addresses to me via PM so that I personalize the poisoned chocolates packages I'll need to get in the mail out to you; G) If none of the above, please tell me I'm confused, rub my shoulders, give me a treat, and pat me on the head. While I think I covered all the bases, do we need an official requirements doc?

^Is that the Queen's English, or American English? I think I get it. Anyway, I'll be back.

Quick question, perhaps best answered by E? @ENTERPRISE has any work been done on the dark theme for the EHW site itself yet? If so, it might be best to have the color scheme for the stats section compliment what's being done for the main site. If not, have we established any preferences yet above and beyond going with something darker (e.g., a dark theme)?

I'm betting y'all would crack up watching good 'ole me play the air guitar with one hand and the piano with the other, while doing the funky chicken from the neck up. while i'm clothed, of course.

Lol, just consider me a dead horse.

new slave labor subbing.

So i decided it's finally time to get back to this, after more or less taking a ccp beer's virus sabbatical of more than a year (you've seen some of the results of that in my "collage," as J7SC so aptly puts it; while Pook calls it a "sex dungeon," which has an interesting ring to it). Anyway, :::: cough ::::, ...sure is a lot of dust in here. As some of you know I've got a 3090 KPE here waiting on a waterblock, which I'm hoping will be on its way next week; and I'm down to no. 5 on the waiting list for one over at EVGA. In the meantime, since I can't really count on a 3rd party source like Optimus to get the block they've sort of promosied for the KPE out their door anytime soon, one of the things I've had to do is figure out how best to cool off the KPE's backplate once the EVGA Hydro Copper block is installed. Instead of simply adding heatsinks to the backplate with thermal tape and using fans to push/pull the heat away from the backplate like some of the others over at EVGA have done, the following is what I've decided to do and is the reason for some of my more recent purchases. After doing a little digging, I pulled the following image out of the pdf instructions available for the Hydro Copper block (pardon the cr@ppy image, it's what EVGA embedded in their PDF): (image deleted by forum crash ca. June 2021) As you can see, the inside surface looks to be flat with the only raised areas the edges of the backplate itself. There is an exposed copper strip centered in the vertical on the left side of the backplate, and the need for that would negated by making a replacement backplate completely out of copper. I will also also chamfer any additional holes I might want/need to make which would allow me to mount whatever I want to the other side of the backplate using screws (dependent on the space available around the slot the card will be in; which in my case is kind of moot since the gpu is going in the SR-3). That will allow for a much tighter fit between those items and likely much better thermal transference in-turn. Not having access to a mill proposes a bit of a minor problem because of the raised edges around the inside of the backplate, and will require a two piece backplate; hence, my work around includes using a high resolution waterjet cutter to make the backplate that two piece part: one piece would essentially be a shim with holes the inside height of the backplate's edges; while the main piece would be a full, flat plate with the same screw holes (and air holes, etc.) as the original plate. Lastly, while I could press pemserts into the holes on the cut plate to provide for screw threads with the aid of a my two ton drill arbor press, nuts and washers should do just fine. I really don't see any need to overcomplicate such a project any further. I'll take pix/make precision depth and other measurements of the oem backplate once the block arrives and create the required dxfs for waterjet cutter, then send them to him for production. I have faith that it wall all work out. P.S. Since this whole thing has sort of turned into something spiritual for me, I've asked a nun friend to join my crowd: I'm sure she'll conjure up some great advice. ta, ta!

enjoyed that!

^Wow, that's a lot to digest at this late stage of the game. Having pondered some of it, might I suggest repeating the following line five times while viewing yourself in the mirror, followed by closing your eyes and clicking your heels together three times? Works for me every time: i hear you knockin', but you can't come in. Or you could just listen to what follows and kick back and enjoy...