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[Sir Beregond]

Wanted to buy some m.2 drives today (was thinking of two Sabrent Rocket 2TB drives), but work has royally screwed up yesterday's paycheck so guess I'll try again on the 15th.

[tenchimuyo93]

FX System installed, the R7 360 isn't installed as a friend needs something to get by on till something is available at a decent/msrp price.

 

also got my 3rd 4TB drive in and running all in raid 5 now. 

[Bastiaan_NL]

3 Noctua NF-A20 fans (black ones) are on the way for the workstation build, needs a little more moving air around the GPU's.

 

And I decided to switch some hardware between different builds, so I had to order a pump res combo (EK-Quantum Kinetic TBE 160) with a 120 rad mount and some fittings to make it all work.

[EHW Ai]

Large dikes (wire cutters, for those who need clarification), an arbor for a 3/4 inch hole saw, some JB Weld Steel Stick, a can of shiny chrome/silver Rustoleum, some small E12 light bulbs, a four socket harness for those bulbs, a 1/4 inch wood chisel, more jute covered twisted wire, yadee, yadee, yada, etc., so I can finish up what follows (my other "RGB" fixture):

 

[The Pook]

another X540 to 10 GbE all the things

 

 

maybe if I buy 3 more I can 20 GbE all the things 

[tictoc]

1 hour ago, The Pook said:

another X540 to 10 GbE all the things

 

 

maybe if I buy 3 more I can 20 GbE all the things 

 

Make all the things 10.

 

New fans for switches and UPS, since I'm moving everything out of the rack in the closet to a small 12U in my office.

[J7SC_Orion]

...more shiny things 

 

 

[J7SC_Orion]

On 4/4/2021 at 12:19 PM, iamjanco said:

Large dikes (wire cutters, for those who need clarification), an arbor for a 3/4 inch hole saw, some JB Weld Steel Stick, a can of shiny chrome/silver Rustoleum, some small E12 light bulbs, a four socket harness for those bulbs, a 1/4 inch wood chisel, more jute covered twisted wire, yadee, yadee, yada, etc., so I can finish up what follows (my other "RGB" fixture):

 

  

...one day we will all wake up to the fact that @iamjanco was actually building an extinction-level super bang thing... 

[EHW Ai]

44 minutes ago, J7SC_Orion said:

  

...one day we will all wake up to the fact that @iamjanco was actually building a distinction-level super bang thing... 

 

ftfy.

Edited April 6, 2021 by iamjanco

[BWG]

2 of these, I hope to god they're better than my old Serta Sam's Club special. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08V1FBFZ2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

Also, Kryonaut TIM.

[sweffymo]

Not very exciting, but...

 

[J7SC_Orion]

...'from Russia Walmart with love' / ghetto build, ahem, foundation...

 

 

[Avacado]

10 minutes ago, J7SC_Orion said:

...'from Russia Walmart with love' / ghetto build, ahem, foundation...

 

 

Is that a pulpit? 

[J7SC_Orion]

46 minutes ago, Avacado said:

Is that a pulpit? 

 

...haha - way too small to serve as a pulpit for moi 

 

...it's a laptop 'desk' from Walmart...has adjustable height and wheels for moving around a heavy build. For that, I used steel straps to reinforce the two top plate bits, and added a steel leg on the other side.  Cooling system on the bottom (suspended by steel straps, rubber mounted), testbench frame on top with computer components....have custom clear and painted acrylic bits in process for dust protection / air-flow management.

 

 

 

  

[Avacado]

Just now, J7SC_Orion said:

 

...haha - way too small to serve as a pulpit for moi 

 

...it's a laptop 'desk' from Walmart...has adjustable height and wheels for moving around a heavy build. For that, I used steel straps to reinforce the two top plate bits, and added a steel leg on the other side.  Cooling system on the bottom (suspended by steel straps, rubber mounted), testbench frame on top with computer components....have custom clear and painted acrylic bits in process for dust protection / air-flow management.

 

 

 

  

Hawt! I just bought a P14 5 pack. Damn you for getting in my head. If I didn't already have an enormous amount of SW3's and ML120s, I would have bought the 120 5 packs. 

[J7SC_Orion]

2 hours ago, Avacado said:

Hawt! I just bought a P14 5 pack. Damn you for getting in my head. If I didn't already have an enormous amount of SW3's and ML120s, I would have bought the 120 5 packs. 

 

...well, the latest Arctic P pwm series are a bit like a virus that can get in your head   ...as suggested before, I tried out a couple for a few months before "going all in". I didn't want any RGB fans (there's enough RGB already, plus all these are push/pull - don't even see the ones on the back).

 

...I find they are ideal in push / pull to replace my GentleTyphoon (3K) and Sunon (5K)...even with big triple row, 480X64mm rads.  On top of great cooling performance, they are also quiet (though everything is rubber-mounted). At 1.8K rpm for the P12s, all I hear is the 'whoosh' from the air rushing through, not the fan blades sounding like Cessna propeller.

 

...GTs and Sunon are destined for another project that isn't within immediate ear-shot 

[J7SC_Orion]

...spent all that time optimizing my 3950X, but 'had an offer I couldn't refuse'. this afternoon. 5950X and ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark not only actually available, but at a great price from the place we buy a lot of commercial computer equipment from...now I'm wondering whether to keep the regular Crosshair VIII Hero wi-fi / 3950X for other related duties, or sell it...

 

Edited April 10, 2021 by J7SC_Orion

[Bastiaan_NL]

Selling it would make sense, with the new 5950x and the Crosshair 8 Dark Hero the "old" 3950x will be neglected in no time..

I mean, I had trouble installing my brothers 5950x in his own system instead of mine.... 

Edited April 11, 2021 by Bastiaan_NL

[tictoc]

55"

 

Someday when I can actually buy a 6800/6900XT I'll be ready to go.

[J7SC_Orion]

On 4/11/2021 at 2:23 AM, Bastiaan_NL said:

Selling it would make sense, with the new 5950x and the Crosshair 8 Dark Hero the "old" 3950x will be neglected in no time..

I mean, I had trouble installing my brothers 5950x in his own system instead of mine.... 

 

...I know what you mean. I remember when I got my first company car; as I would walk up to it in the underground garage, I was certain my personal car (a C4 Corvette) I had rebuilt myself years earlier and which was parked across was either sobbing or giving me the evil eye ("traitor").

 

...I use a total of five systems in my home-office (more like central office during Covid-19; includes dev servers and workstation) so the 3950X wouldn't go to waste, but some of the other existing systems would be bumped in a game of musical chairs, and I don't much feel like plucking that setup apart and re-configuring OS etc right now. Also, they might give me the evil eye whispering 'traitor' ...

 

 

 

Edited April 12, 2021 by J7SC_Orion

[BWG]

Gamer chairs for the Wife and I are assembled.

 

[schuck6566]

3 hours ago, BWG said:

Gamer chairs for the Wife and I are assembled.

 

Wife nagged at me until I replaced the little chair I had with a "real" chair as she put it. Just got it this month.Edit: Hard to tell with the lighting & background,but it's black with red stitching.

Edited April 14, 2021 by schuck6566

[BWG]

That's pretty nice. Mine was supposed to have a footrest as well, but it didn't. 

[schuck6566]

16 hours ago, BWG said:

That's pretty nice. Mine was supposed to have a footrest as well, but it didn't. 

Eehhh The footrest is So-so. You can feel it flex when U put your legs on it.(only 2 screws in each plastic bracket that hold it on each side.2 brackets total.) I think if they'd either used metal brackets,or an extra set right behind the first with the bars a bit longer the seat would have been able to support it better. As it is I hardly use it. I could have gotten 1 almost identical for $20 less but the arms attached to the back so U couldn't adjust the height. Without the leg rest would have been an easy $50 to $100 savings on the same overall style. lol, see what happens when we try to go fancy??

[BWG]

Yeah, seller requested box pictures, so the picker might get in trouble.