damric

I've widened my search now to really anything AM4, even high end. I figure it might be easier to upgrade my wife's 1600 AF and put that one on the test/fold bench. If I could find a 5600x in stock at near MSRP that would be perfect.

In the meantime, I'm trying to get my hands on an AM4 CPU or APU to drive my folding rig/test rig (the one with the pink aluminum open chassis). I'm trying to source one from the forums since my ebay luck is bad. I am going to have to return this Ryzen 1200 because it keep freezing at idle. I've swapped out every piece of hardware 3x over so I know it's what is defective. I knew the low $50 price was too good to be true but I guess I'm a sucker. Hopefully ebay will let me return it because the seller is saying no returns.

I'll get you on the list and let my Canadian team leader know. He is having trouble finding suitable testers so you would be one of the first on his list to receive as soon as you are ready. If you need a new test bench, maybe you can build something like I did last week in the cheap.

My dust filtration system and OCTO:

Hi Pio, glad to see you on the forums again. My wife can possibly scrounge you some old parts from storage or stuff headed to e-waste. Her company is constantly junking stuff. I love your idea of building these retro rigs. As always it's working motherboards that are hardest to find.

Yeah they behave on camera quite well but she was giving him a wedgie like 30 seconds before that ;D Moved it back to my work room and placed it on the tray I made.

Yeah they behave on camera quite well but she was giving him a wedgie like 30 seconds before that ;D

Yeah we did that in the bathtub the other day shaking it and scolded it with hot water thru the vents to thermally shock it. Fixed most of the cavitation already I just uploaded that video and added to the last post. It was a combination of 2 D5s at full bore and that tube. I added the bubble mesh and reduced back to 1 pump and now it's no longer cavitating the pump and already much less air in the loop. I figure when I get that controller I'll run both pumps on a slow speed.

Seeing the light now. I will have water in here tonight to pressure test!

Good because I'm looking at where the hell on my MOBO and I'm like hmmn would make a good CLR CMOS jumper ?

Where would that plug into and what software would read it? Also:

Actually that was an LED light I was messing around with. I don't have any temp probes, but if you link me to one I will get one l'll check that out about the SATA. It's something I noticed when we were folding last week that the last slot was disabled by my 2nd NVMe drive. I am looking at fabbing a rubber dampener. I just got my first pump clamp in place. It was tricky getting the holes drilled just right so I'm moving as slow as a snail. Interestingly enough I had randomly chose metric screws for all my aluminum angle stuff, and my M4 screws are exactly the same thread as the ones that came with the pump, just a bit longer, so I might end up using mine.

Yeah it's going to mostly pull air from the sides

Yeah it's going to mostly pull air from the sides

In that direction yes, but I'm making a gap between the top of the case and the filter/fans. I am going to leave extra tubing so I can set the rad box aside to access my case. Edit: Kids love bugging me

Yeah good boards usually have them. This is a $75 board lol.

Well really I loosened the test procedure up to pretty much: "Do what you want with it, and follow my guidelines if you want to. Use my data template if you want to or use your own. Please don't break it" Ironically the guy I picked for Canadian team lead is a bit more strict on rules for his team, but that's ok with me. IceGiant is letting us run this however we please. They are just happy for any free publicity. It would really be a lot of work for someone who needs to dismount hard tube water cooling. Maybe we can time your slot with your Threadripper before it goes under water. Depending on where on the list, it could be weeks or months since a person generally wants to spend a week playing with it, then it takes a week to ship to the next person, ect. Kate from IG told me that internal tests showed that it handled well over 500W of heat and it's estimated that it could handle 900W. We really need someone to get one of the new 280W TR Pros and see how it cooks.