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    Anthony_95 reacted to leadeater in Google will no longer back up the internet, kills off cached pages   
    Everything lasts forever until it costs too much to keep then it's tossed out real fast, money talks loudly
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    Anthony_95 reacted to Macgyv3r in Just a little more tweaking...   
    I've been building this setup for over a year off and on. Just finished the desk. I think it's pretty close to being done, at least until I figure out something else it needs... The main goal was to simplify maintenance. The whole rack is sealed except for the single filtered intake at the bottom and the exhaust vents at the top and as long as I clean the filter regularly it actually does very well in that regard. 
     
    The main rig is a 7950x, asus 670e-plus, 64gb ddr5, asus 4080.
    The Nas is a 6700k, 32gb ddr4, evga 1070. 
     
    Both are in case I custom made. I started with some 4 sided aluminum boxes. I 3d printed the i/o panel, mobo trays, hdd rack, etc to fit and then a sheet of polycarbonate on top with a 5"/125mm gap in the back for exhaust. I only saw a 3-5 degree increase in temps with the cases in the rack, and i was willing to live with up to 10 before I added more fans to the rack. 
     

     

     

     
     

     
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    Anthony_95 reacted to Obioban in Network layout showoff   
    Layout yet to come, but I've been building a house, and put many, MANY hours into running wires.
     
    Just recently got to a point where it's presentable.
     

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    Anthony_95 reacted to AlienALX in Making Tag Mclaren Lemonade....   
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    Anthony_95 reacted to Vinzithegemologist in Finally got my PC build done   
    I'm so happy with this build , I wanted to upgrade so bad for the longest time , this was my old PC 
    i5 4440
    16gb DDR3 1666mhz
    GTX 1050ti
    Corsair CX 650m
    WD green 1tb hdd
    WD blue 2.5 ssd
    Corsair spec alpha carbide case
     
     
    This is the new pc build
     
    Ryzen 5 7600X Deepcool Assassin IV(Black) Gigabyte B650m gaming X AX  GSkill trident z5 neo rgb ddr5 cl30 (2x16gb) 32gb ,6000mhz (AMD expo) Gigabyte windforce oc RTX 4070 MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5 ATX 3.0 PSU Wd Black m.2 1TB (it's gen 4 , I think) WD blue 1tb 2.5 SSD (carried over) NZXT H5 Flow RGB   
    Hope you all provide your input on it , would really appreciate it 😄






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    Anthony_95 reacted to BachChain in This time it'll definitely catch on - Intel publishes spec for 64bit only x86   
    Summary
    Under the slogan of "Envisioning a Simplified Intel Architecture", Intel has published a draft specification for "X86-S". This variant of the venerable x86 CPU ISA would strip out all of the legacy 16 and 32 bit components as well as several obsolete features, leaving only x86_64.
     
    Quotes
     
    My thoughts
    I think clearing cruft is an admirable goal. It's kinda crazy that a Ryzen 7000 or Raptor Lake processor still has to act like 8086 when it turns on. Less architecture also means less places for bugs and vulnerabilities to live.
     
    Sources
    https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-X86-S-64-bit-Only
    https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/envisioning-future-simplified-architecture.html
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    Anthony_95 reacted to leadeater in New Asus GPU 600W Motherboard power connector   
    Sadly this isn't the situation. When it comes to Nvidia GPUs the SXM slot is proprietary to Nvidia and they even go so far as to require server vendors to use board modules design and manufactured by them or to be manufactured to their design.
     
    For PCIe power servers use vendor specific power delivery so the only standard part is the single device end with the PCIe power connector on it. You cannot even guarantee that the same power cable will work between different generations of servers from the same vendor.
     
    Servers are a hotbed of proprietary designs and implementations and they only conform to industry standards and specifications where actually necessary.
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    Anthony_95 reacted to Spotty in Intel Rebranding "Core i" Brand to "Core Ultra"   
    Can we all in the tech community agree now to abbreviate Ultra to U? Intel u5 1003H. Has a familiar ring to it.
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    Anthony_95 reacted to Somerandomtechyboi in Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94   
    I guess moores law is quite literally dead now
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    Anthony_95 reacted to betalars in Samsung is improving qualities of moon-picture with pre-stored detail, you can try it out yourself!   
    I've heavily edited the post, as the reddit post did one more test, that actually convinced me it is real.

    This is a story, that kind of goes in and out of the cycle once in a while. Accusations, that Samsung actually stores pictures of the moon on their device, that they overlay to artificially improve their camera quality. And it makes sense: when you deliberately blur an image of the moon, and take a screenshot from across the room there suddenly will be a lot more more detail than before. So where is that coming from? Reports on similar things in the past have come to the conclusion that more likely than not it comes down to the aggressive post-processing all phone cameras do, says inverse.com.
     
    I've actually tried my own Methodology to reproduce that, and first came to the conclusion, that the Reddit Story likely does not check out, however:
     
    When putting a cut-off moon and a full moon next to each other, samsung will only recover detail on the full moon.
    You can use this image to see if your own phone will put more detail in the full moon than in the cut-off moon when taking a screenshot from really far away.
     
    Me testing the Theory (I have not seen the last result before)
    Okay, so I've made this fake moon in blender. It is entirely fake and the detail on it looks nothing like the real moon. If a camera would introduce fake moon detail over any moon-shaped object, we would expect a Screnshot made from across the room to look a lot more like the real moon than this image does:

     
    Here's what my Pixel did (the stars are amplified dust on my monitor):

    It would be interesting to see someone getting their Phones to make it more moon-ish than it actually is. But it may not work, because the broad details on my moon and the patterns on the real moon do not really add up.
     
    What is Detail, that can be explained away with image sharpening?
     

     
    This is the second test I did with a space Image I had laying around already and very little effort mind you.
    I've blurred and down-scaled it, just like the reddit poster did I've added artificial camera noise I put that into Rawtherapee and did noise-reduction, detail-recovery and local-contrast amplification. So pretty much the manual version of what your phone is doing auto-magically. And as you can see: Rawtherapee managed to "recover" a lot more detail, than what was in the original photo. But it was also not really the detail, that has been there before.
     
    HOWEVER: it does not manage to properly reconstruct the flow of fine details, it just recovers random detail that wasn't there before. And Samsungs algorythm recovers detail, that is more correct, than it should be with just sharpening.
     
    I've attached the fake moon and the image-degradation-setup, and the raw-therapee-setup so you can replicate everything at home.
     
    My Opinion
    This is on the one hand a really great example to understand, how you can find patterns in noisy/blurred data and can give a great understanding, of what kinds of post processing phone cameras can do nowadays.
     
    However Samsung clearly also did train it's detail recovery algorithms on good pictures of the moon. So while their raw data has to be good enough to recognize some amount of detail, such as the orientation of the moon, some of it is also added just from training data.
     
    Sources
     In the Text itself and in the linked files.
    fake moon.blend raw-therapee-setup.pp3
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    Anthony_95 reacted to AlienALX in The new TV rig. Sorta kinda.   
    At it again. Mostly because PC hardware seems to have tanked in the UK and the bargains are amazing. I used to have two XB1X. One at my mother's and one at home. They were starting to show their age, so I gave one to my cousin's boy who suffers from anxiety and loves his games. At the time I built a TV rig, this one.
     

     
    It consisted of my old 1920x threadripper, and a 2080Ti Kingpin I have now upgraded. It didn't do very well in gaming. At 4k the GPU was the limiting factor, and at 1440p which looked fine the CPU was suffering badly. I only had a far from ideal 240mm AIO on it, so overclocking was out, and at 3.6ghz on Ryzen 1 yeah, it was stutter fest. Stray was fine, and I played it though in 4k, but stuff like Spiderman was out. The CPU just wasn't good enough.
     
    About a week back I spotted this on Amazon (actually Amazon not 3rd party) for £199.
     

     
    I really didn't know what it was, it just looked lovely. So, I bought it. What I did not realise was it was basically the best Z590 board made.
     

     
    And cost a packet. So I was stoked. I wanted Z590 as it automatically disables power limits for turbo on the 11400F, so 4.4ghz and 150w. So I got another 11400F for £118. I can't believe the deals on Rocket Lake atm.
     

     
    Those arrived a few days back, but I could not play until yesterday.
     

     

     
    The box off to the side is these.
     

     
    I didn't think red and blue would look right with that board. Or the GPU. So now it was on. I have a kit of this.
     

     
    Which is perfect for the build.
     
    I then did some planning, and the case I had was unsuitable. It looks like this inside.
     

     
    And the red bar thing is totally in the way of the board. You can move it, but with the side loading 24 pin it will hit. And that is a problem. It is there to get around the cheap flimsy quality of the case, and to stiffen it. If you remove it the case becomes floppy, and then when you bolt radiators to it and move it the rads can crack. I did this exact thing a couple of years ago 😞 cracked a 120mm rad and ended up with black coolant all over my white carpet 😞
     
    I do not want to kill the GPU by that happening.
     

     
    So I conceded that I needed a new, bigger case. Thankfully it isn't that much bigger outside, but has tons more room inside.
     

     
    I got it half price. It is the model with no fans, and the straps appear to be missing. I don't care about that, you'll see why shortly.
     
    Any way, I have a bit of a hotch potch of fans. None of which have any RGB, and I didn't  want to have it look crap. So, I found these Boras for half price. Total was £48 for 6.
     

     
    And I have one of these I got for £10 in a clearout OCUK had last year.
     

     
    So the layout will be 3 Bora in the front, two Bora on the rad in the roof, one in the rear and the Unifan on the cooler I got. Which was this. Again, half price. God I love OCUK's clearance section 😄
     

     
    The Boras look like this btw.
     

     
    The blades are the same as the unis, but they have CNC alu plates front and back. They are gorgeous !
     
    OK so the reason why I don't care about the carry straps. This PC will go from room to room, unlike the one that is wired to my desk. Meaning I can then game in any room, and don't miss my Xbox.
     

     
    And that is how I will do it. Roll the bugger.
     
    For the PSU I have this. It's superb.
     

     
    And for storage I have two Sandisk 1tb SATA SSD, one Revodrive X4 960gb and will grab a 512gb NVME for booting from. The case will allow me to vertical mount the GPU, whilst having the cards behind it. Which is nice as it will hide them.
     
    I also have this.
     

     
    Which will go in behind the GPU also.
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    Anthony_95 reacted to Voytek85 in Voytek's Gaming Room and LAN Party Center (WIP)   
    Hi LTTers,
     
    Background
    My name is Tim, born in 1985 and avid gamer ever since I first held an NES controller and played my first 486DX PC.
    Me and my wife bought a house with a ton of space 2 years ago and I figured, about time I really get myself a dedicated gameroom. Back in my appartement my home office also functioned as a gameroom but with all this space I managed to give each specific thing (work/pleasure) its own room. I also host a pretty mean home lan every 6 months and now we are up to 14-16 people but more on that later. First some general info on what I am doing and why.
     
    I started this thread as I think it is a cool, ever evolving work in progress and I'm very much open to cool ideas and input from you guys to make things better or optimize specific parts of the room/setup.
     
    First things first, the network.
     

     
    Next to our garage there is a laundry room with a seperate cabinet which I decided to use as the main network hub of the house. We also have a couple of offices in the house and they are connected with a 10gbit link, there is some basic patching from this cabinet into the living area of the house for televisions and decoders, also POE AP's. The link to the gameroom is still 1gbit which kinda sucks as I also have an RS1221 NAS in the rack now over 10gbit but currently the main usage for the gameroom is basic internet and my current connection is only 1Gbit/down so no real use for 10gbit uplink. Eagerly waiting for 10gbit internet, should take a couple of months and 1Gbit really is enough for downloading some games but the uplink is only 50mbit which is horrible obviously. (the 10Gbit is also nice to have with our lanparties)
     
    Mainly using Ubiquiti stuff. Very pleased with how it manages and deploys.
    Every ethernet port in the house is POE, using Ubiquiti G4 Pro's as security cameras in combination with a 4 drive UNVR.
     
    There is another network hub in the office side of the house (we have 4 offices there) but that's not really relevant here. Just trying to give you guys an idea of the setup.
     
    September 2021 Collection Mania
    I always wanted a main media center with a big TV that had all sorts of consoles hooked up and ready to go.
     
    I still have a few consoles which I had as a kid or bought myself but I started out with this:
    NES Sega Gamegear Xbox 360 Xbox One Gameboy Switch At this point I wasn't even using my gameroom yet for that purpose and was still playing games from my office but I decided it was time to get things going. Time to add some missing consoles to the collection.
     

     
    I was very excited to discover the SNES, sometimes played it a friend when I was a kid but no real experience with it. What excited me most was the N64. For some reason, I always wanted one and I remember renting it from a video store sometimes to play Goldeneye and Diddy Kong Racing and have very fond memories of that.
     

     
    Sega Megadrive (Genesis). Also never had one, this one I also played at a friend. Mortal Kombat 3!
     
    Time to get some stuff together and start planning on how to set it up.
     

     
    I used the 65 inch TV from Sony that I had from my appartment to have a rudimentary setup in the room and used some old tv cabinet. Nothing fancy but atleast I could play games for now on consoles.
     

     
     
    October 2021
     
    Being the PC masterrace guy that I am, it was about time to get my gaming setup going in the gameroom.
    I needed a dedicated gaming desk that fit the purpose: gaming. I looked into the secret lab but found it to be very expensive for what it was and I stumbled upon the Ikea gaming desk they had not long ago introduced.
    I HIGHLY recommend this for the price. Super rigid, cable management and the desk itself has a very nice texture and doesn't require you to use a mousepad.
     

     
    As you can tell, the definition of a work in progress. A BIG PHAT MESS 😅
     
    I added a hue lightstrip on the desk in between the open space in the desk surface. Gives a great effect and it's awesome for easy cable management.
     

     
    December 2021: A minor network update to the gameroom
     
    I decided to get a decent switch. Planning ahead to install a 10gbit link between the gameroom (upstairs) and the main network rack of the house.
    I decided to go for a Ubiquiti Enterprise switch which has 2 x 10Gbit SFP and 8 x 2.5Gbe with POE+, plenty of grunt as a network backbone in the gameroom.
     

     
    Januari 2022 part 1: Console Cabinet First steps
     
    I finally figured it was time to get my consoles set up in a more decent manner. KALAX from Ikea, you are my favorite piece of furniture. I saw someone on pinterest doing something with a single KALAX using it as a TV stand with the consoles underneath and I decided to expand on that idea.
     

     
    I also added a Hue lightstrip behind the cabinet so I can create ambient lighting as I please. I plan to cover the rear of the cabinet so it is no longer see through but with individual lighting necessairy in each part of the cabinet, that's a lot of work and I wasn't really up for the job at that time. A to be continued project.
     
    Januari 2022 part 2: THE FIRST LANPARTY
    Ì always said, if I move into a house, I'm throwing a LAN party so end of januari it was about time. Time for some room upgrades and preparations.
     
    Going downstairs causes downtime, so, first I bought a fridge for the gameroom and did some cleaning before installing some tables.
     


     
    I added a table in between the console cabinet and left of my desk.

     
    After a supply run, got some snacks and drinks ready.

     
    I used my old dining room table from the appartment which fit perfectly behind the sofa (also recovered from my appartment) and we were able to seat around 10 people in the room.
     
     
    Sorry for the poor video quality but atleast now you have an idea what size the room is and how it looks like.
     
    Added the final tables, threw some cables around and the first LAN was a go with 8 people!
     

     
    And offcourse in between time for some retro games on the SNES (using an Analogue Super NT for this)
     

     
     
    Februari-April 2022: Minor upgrades
    After a succesful LAN it was waiting for the next one so time to keep upgrading the room in between LANS.
     

     
    I decided to get rid of the big table behind the couch and give the room a deserved LAN center upgrade by adding gaming desks.
     

     
    These Trust gaming desks are excellent value. You can get these sometimes well under 100 EUR/USD and they are solid. I wouldn't recommend these for 49 ultrawides but for a regular 34 wide-ish gaming setup, it is perfect. Also comes with cupholders and headphone holder!
     
    Also decided to do some cable management in certain parts of the room. (for the fixed gaming desks)
    Dedicated power bricks per table and a dedicated network switch. Should make it easier for people. Just arrive, plug and play!
     

     
    As you can tell, I also bought some gaming chairs for these tables 🙂 
     
    We are MEN (and possibly some women) and we play videogames. But us men, we also like beer. So playing videogames whilst drinking beer, even better, so I got THIS:

     
    Get beers from draft, always cold and works great. Perfect addition for the lan room. Also I noticed all the empty bottles were such a hassle, this is MUCH easier.
     
    Then for some shelves to add some of the figurines.
     

     
    I relocated the old dining table and used 2 more foldable tables and for the upcoming edition, we were able to fit 10 people in the room!
     
     
    Once again, just a simple phone recording, so please ignore the bad quality, I will try for future posts to get the quality up!
    Also bought some XXL mousepads for the non-gaming desks.
     
    May 2022: LAN TIME

     
    June-July 2022: Arcade cabinets
    I always loved arcades as a kid so I decided to get some arcade machines. Could be fun to hang out with some friends and play some arcade games. These are not the real arcade cabinets but like 75% versions in size, good enough for what it is and gives a cool atmosphere to the room aswel! (also, Metal Slug is life)
     

     
    I also managed to get my hands on a Sega Dreamcast. I always wanted one as a kid and I am very excited to finally grab a good deal. Console in perfect condition, lots of accessories and plenty of games for a very fair price.
    Instantly had to try it out
     

     
    September 2022: Another LAN Coming Up, time for expansion and upgrades!
    Our lan is a huge success. I got more people wanting to come that I can seat, so I figured I would fix that issue.
     
    First I gave the small tables between my desk and the console cabinet a small upgrade and installed dedicated tables again including new gaming chairs.

     
    What was hard to tell on previous pictures, but there is a room inside the gameroom. I used this to expand on the LAN operation. The main room would now fit 8 people and the second room could fit 6 people. 
    I used the party tables in the second room, removed the door to give it a more unified feeling instead of having everyone in seperate rooms and started preparing.
     

     
    I also received my Alienware AW3423DW QD-led screen which I ordered 2 months before. An absolute beast and even though I already had very good gaming monitors from Asus, this was a major step-up that I didn't expect to be honest.
     

     
    Preparing lan parties and setting tables is a lot of work and very messy 🤪
     

     
    Also decided to tackle a small bottleneck we had: downloading new games at the same time. I decided to set up a caching server. I wanted to replace my working computer at home eitherway so decided to use that system for it. It is a threadripper 1950x with 64Gb of RAM so plenty fast to fill a 10gbit adapter to the network. With some smart network layout, at most 3 people shared a 2.5Gbit link thru a switch to the caching server. 
     
    Say hello to the tower of doom! (bottom is the caching server, top is my racing rig I decided to use as my main gaming rig, my old gaming rig in silver I used for a friend who didn't have a computer)

     
    The big Lian Li case on top used to be my main rig in 2016. 3 radiotors, 2 reservoirs, 2 pumps and hosted the threadripper and a 1080ti SLI setup all custom looped. I love that case. Currently it hosts a 5800x and 3090 with a simple cpu loop.
     
    Supply runs for the lan include toilet paper. Poop of Thrones volume 1

     
    I have an extra toilet right next to the lan room so that is quite handy. We only need to leave the 'area' for food now 😂
     
    Also added some more shelves and bought a lot of stuff in the meantime console wise.
     

     
    Also added an extra fuse and some new power outlets around the room to spread the power load for 14 computers.
     
    Nice overview showing the progress including all the network cables, power outlets on the tables. No more wires random on the ground and no chance to trip. Pleased with the result!
     

     
    Also added a screen to monitor the LANCache server on my setup.
     

     
    October 2022: FINAL LAN PREPS AND LANPARTY TIME
     
    Final room tour!
     
     
    LANparty in motion:
     
     
    December 2022: Dedicated LAN PC's
     
    I do have quite a bit of hardware around so I created some extra LAN pc's. Had to buy a case or PSU here and there but had several GPU, CPU and mobos around and my old 1440p 165hz gaming monitors. Bought 3 identical 60 percentile Sharkoon SGK50 boards (which are insane for the price, trust me, I'm a keyboard guy), 3 new headphones and 3 gaming mice.
     

     
    Now it's easier for a friday evening get togheter with some buddies, have a beer and play some quake champions or consoles. 
    2 systems running a 1070 GPU, 1 system my old 1080 ti. Still works great for those competitive multiplayer games. 
     
    Februari 2022: Upcoming plans and LAN party
     
    End of april we have another LAN for 15ish people. Been super busy at work so not a lot of time recently so I opted to order what I needed already and start installing as soon as I have some spare time.
     
    Yesterday got home, a big pallet with 6 gaming tables to upgrade the second room to gamedesks.
     

     
    I already had ordered the gaming chairs to match also 🤪
     

     
    Next up is installing a stairs.
    You can't really tell from the pictures but there is a second floor inside the gaming room that currently is not accessible. Early april, a company will install a custom small footprint rotating stairs. 
    Not sure what I will do with the layout but I have 4 more arcade cabinets coming and thinking about creating a small arcade upstairs.
     
    Pic to show the upstairs:
     

     
    I will put the stairs now where the table is right about where the Zelda poster hangs.
     
    My current console collection sits at:
    - Gameboy OG (oem en black)
    - GBC
    - GBA (fully modded IPS)
    - New 3DS XL (NIB in orange en CIB modded)
    - NES
    - SNES
    - N64
    - Gamecube
    - Wii
    - Switch
    - PS1 Phat
    - PS2 Phat
    - PS3 Phat
    - PS5
    - Mega Drive 1
    - Dreamcast
    - Gamegear
    - Analogue Super NT
    - Xbox 360
    - Xbox One
    - Xbox Series X
    - PSP1000
    - PSP3000
    - PS Vita 1000
     
    Still looking for an OG Xbox, Sega Saturn, Sega Master System and a TurboGrafx / PC-Engine (mainly waiting on the Analogue Duo)
     
    To be continued...
     
     
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    Anthony_95 reacted to CubicleGangster in Dual PC Build - Dual 4090, Dual 13900K, Dual Errythang.   
    First time poster, long time lurker.  Thought I would finally join the community and share my recent personal project.  This is a work in progress and I will continue to update the build log until it is "finished".
     
    Lian Li V3000+ Infinity Build

    ITX - Blue - Main System - 4K HRR Gaming
     
    Intel Core i9-13900K
    DeepCool LT720 AIO
    G.Skill 32GB DDR5 7400MT
    NVIDIA GeForce RTX Founders Edition
    MSI Z790i Edge Motherboard
    WD Black 2TB SN850
    10Gbit SFP+ NIC
    SilverStone 1000W SFX-L PSU
     
     
    E-ATX - Orange - Workstation - Content Creation/Streaming/AI/Living Room 4K HRR Gaming
     
    Intel Core i9-13900K
    DeepCool LT720 AIO
    G.Skill 64GB DDR5 6400MT
    NVIDIA GeForce RTX Founders Edition
    Asus Maximus Z690 Extreme Motherboard
    Elgato 4K60 PRO mk2
    WD Black 2TB SN850
    6TB NVMe Storage Pool (3xSN850)
    16TB SATA Storage Pool (4xMX500)
    8TB External SSD Storage Pool (2xP3)
    MSI Ai1300P 1300W ATX 3.0 PSU

    Notes:
     
    LianLi V3000 Plus Case
    CPU Contact Frames on Both Systems
    Dedicated Dual Sensor Panels
    m.2 Connected 10Gbit NIC on ITX System
    E-ATX System Powers All RGB + Panels
    E-ATX System Connected to Living Room via Fiber Optic HDMI & USB
    All Games Stored Locally on E-ATX System's SATA & NVMe Storage Pool
     

    Left to do:
    Replace GPU Riser Cable on ITX System
    So.  Much.  Cable.  Management.
    3D Printed Panel Covers
    Fine Tune RGB / Sensor Panels  / Fan Placement
     
     
     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    Anthony_95 reacted to Musichika in Custom Painted Vertical Case with Vertical Mount GPU!   
    I finally finished this months long project repurposing my old PC case with a custom paint job! I’m hoping to sell this bad boy soon 😁
     
    Case: (Custom painted White) Segotep Phoenix ATX Black Mid Tower
     
    Motherboard - ASRock B450M STEEL LEGEND Socket AM4
     
    CPU - AMD Ryzen 3 3200G
     
    CPU COOLER - (modified with Phanteks  ARGB strip) Jonsbo CR1400 RGB
     
    RAM: T-Force Dark Za 16GB Kit (2x8GB) DDR4 4000MHz CL16
     
    SSD: Crucial P3 500GB PCIe Gen3 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD
     
    GPU: Sapphire Radeon NITRO+ Rx 580 8GB (cleaned and repasted with Artic MX-4)
     
    PSU: Thermaltake Smart 500W 80+ White 
     
    FANS: ASIAHORSE WD-001 Series 120mm Case Fan with Controller, White 5V ARGB Motherboard, 5 Pack
     
    Accessories:
     
    ASIAHORSE 18AWG PSU Cable Extension Sleeved 
     
    EZDIY-FAB ARGB DDR Memory RAM Cooler
     
    EZDIY-FAB Vertical Graphics Card Holder Bracket
     
    Cable Matters DisplayPort to DisplayPort Extension Cable (DP to DP Extension Cable) 3 Ft $11






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    Anthony_95 reacted to Gordon GWR in LEGO MOC mobo+gpu with detachable RAM and SSDs   
    About 40h went into this design.
    All components are easly detachable, and CPU have working bracket with a sliding lock
    What do you think?





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    Anthony_95 reacted to CircuitBear in The Lantop.   
    I present The Lantop prototype.
     

     



    This is a custom built fully modular and fully upgradable AIO that can be carried around far better then other AIO out there, eblaztr comes to mind here. It will perform on par if not better then most very high end gaming laptops while providing a full 22 inch monitor.
     
    A little History on the project.
    A while back, in fact a couple years back, I started a project to make a large version of a laptop that would be around the same size as this project is now. However over time, I came to the conclusion that integrated keyboards just suck and would rather have a separate keyboard. It was then decided, I would go the AIO route. It was a DIY AIO. Couple years go by and the shutdown of everything had me realize that parts would take forever to arrive and gave me the idea to completely start from scratch. So after figuring out what size monitor was best suited for portability I went with a 22 inch monitor, the GFV22CB from VIOTEK .
    This gave me the size that I would then built the chassis around.
     
    The Build.
    The concept of an AIO is not new however, the ultra compact nature of SFF systems and full modularity and upgradability is something that is still to this day lacking in the AIO department particularly when it comes to how thin they are compared to todays very high gaming laptop market. So I set out to figure the bare minimum how thin could I actually go and after coming across a very specific type of server motherboard the Asrock Imb 1222, I found out that you could practically reach the sub 1 inch or 25.4 mm height and still have everything installed, with one little caveat, you need to be comfortable making 90 degree mods to atx pin connectors. This is not something that is impossible nor I would say dangerous either. Soldering is quite a simple process, just make sure you have the right tools and you should prevail.
     
    The next thing in mind was how to power such a device. It turns out that within the Small Form Factors forums exist a bunch of low to high end Psu units in both AC to DC and DC to DC. The Dynamo 360 and Hd plex 400w DC-ATX come to mind. Amongst these however exist the current pinnacle of small form factor psu from HD PLEX, the GaN 250w psu.
     


     
    This psu can provide most mid range system with plenty of power for everyday use and so I chose this to power my system and is only 25mm thick. I realized that anything gpu related is just a matter of removing the massive heatsink and fans and place a custom cooling solution which I did for my cpu as well. I picked the D series of coolers from Streamcom with 6 heat pipes each.  From there I made a simple MOD on my motherboard and Psu atx pins to a 90 degree to allow for ease of connections as well as a quick custom mount for the D series cpu cooler which allowed for an extra 1mm of clearance.
     


     
    Once I got the majority of my components ready, I began building the chassis itself. The chassis contains the monitor and the computer in one small form factor size being a total of 36mm thicccc slim and is 520mm long by 320mm wide. It is built all in aluminum and since I have access to welding equipment, I was able to weld together 1/2inch square tubing together to make the outside frame and then weld and formed sheet inside to house and mount the components and bridge the wiring for the monitor from the other side through some cutouts. I then proceeded to acquire some carbon fiber tubing mostly for both looks but to keep weight down. They have slots that allow spring pins to hold the legs in place in both upright and collapsed mode and the rear leg stores in a slot of the 1/2 square tubing.
     





     
    The final two pieces the front and rear covers are simply aluminum sheets of 1.6mm thinness and provides the securing of the monitor along with some screws and double sided foam for tension and retention for the monitor, whilst the rear cover is a perforated sheet that allows for cooling and connection of the DB series cooling solution from streamcom to radiates the heat into the perforated sheet which is then cooled by blower fans mounted at lower portion of the chassis.
    The top portion of the chassis has perforation for added ventilation and cutouts for access to the motherboard IO.

     
    The future.
    The build is completed and I am currently running test and also enjoying the computer for gaming and other everyday computers things including cad work. I for one am currently looking for some new blower fans that are better suited for my build, getting some nice heatsink for the VRM and also improving the build in terms of things like the push pins that are a bit janky to actuate and maybe the legs could be even sturdier. In theory I could also make a new chassis that is smaller by replacing one side of the square tubing for a channel shape or formed piece of aluminum. Perhaps in the future. Also improving the cooling system to also cool the Psu would benefit this system as well.
    All in all I believe that this is an excellent proof of concept and called it "The Lantop" as it suits that role quite well for what is has been built for.
     
     
    I hope I will have more to add to this build and hope you are all inspired, take care out there.
     

     

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    Anthony_95 reacted to fAED in 2nd Build: 5600x + 6900 XT / White Build   
    This is my second build and I'm really proud of it. Joined Team Red for good. - My 1st build was on 2013 with an Intel i5-4670k + MSI Twin Frozr 7970 OC.
     
    I realized it was time to do a new build, and to upgrade my level of gaming by steping up for 1440p resolution, since I was on a 1080p monitor before. Started searching for opinions and what to build in September this year. Gathered up a lot of information and tried to understand what was better for myself. I was checking prices almost in a daily basis. After so many hours searching and watching comparisons between this and that, it was almost Black Friday so I decided to wait for it, hopping that prices would drop. This build was intended for a good gaming experience. I don't play competitive, but I do enjoy playing multiplayer with friends. Games like: Overwatch 2, COD MW: II, F1 22, AoE III... 
     
    CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X CPU Cooler:  Deepcool AK400 Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX B550-A GAMING Memory: Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB DDR4-3200 CL16 Storage: Samsung 980 1 TB GPU: ASRock Phantom Gaming D OC RX 6900 XT 16 GB Case: Corsair 4000D Airflow PSU: Cooler Master V850 V2 850w 80+ Gold Case Fans: Cooler Master SickleFlow 120 ARGB Monitor: LG 27GP850-B 27.0" 2560 x 1440 165Hz  
    CPU: I wanted an 5800X3D but it was out of my budget. My ''problem'' was that I also wanted to buy a new monitor. If I didn't need one, I would have gone with the better one. Still, I am very happy with 5600x, afterall I managed to get one for the price of the non-x version. Motherboard: My guess is it was love at first sight. It would be the perfect match for my white build, and turns out really good. CPU Cooler: Another one that right from the beggining, I knew it was the one to choose. Memory: Probably one of the most difficult parts to choose. 3200Mhz or 3600Mhz? RGB or not? - Of course I wanted something white, but wasn't available to give 100€+. So I saw this one on discount, and grabbed it. Storage: First I was aiming for the Crucial P2, price was 79€. On Black Friday Samsung 980 was at the same price, so I bough it right away withou a 2nd though. Video Card: The diamond in every gaming build. At first, I was goin to get a 6800 XT but I couldn't resist to a 699€ 6900 XT... (6800 XT was at 639€). Case: First part of the build that arrived. Really amused by the quality of it. Power Supply: Since I was aiming for real for a 6800 XT I got the same version of this one but a 750w. After the deal with the GPU, I had to return it and purchased a 850w for safety. Case Fan: Really wanted white fans for this white build and RGB was a + since the color in the end, would be white, no matter what. Monitor: One of my favorite pieces in this build. Amazing performance and colors, even on a dark room with its low contrast, I'm really enjoying it. You can find all the pictures & parts details here: https://pcpartpicker.com/b/ft3Zxr
     
     
    Just want to give a big thankyou to all those users that spent time to explain me alot of things and clarify my doubts across multiple forum topics. You guys made this possible.
     


     
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    Anthony_95 reacted to RollinLower in Screw HDD noise! The all-SSD rackmount NAS.   
    Alright! So here i'll be laying out the plan for my new NAS machine.
     
    Right now i have the following setup:
    - Supermicro SuperChassis 846BE16-R920B
    - redundant 920W SQ PSUs
    - Supermicro X11SSL-F
    - Intel Xeon E3 1230V5
    - 64GB DDR4 ECC
    - LSI 9201-16I SAS/SATA controller
    - LR-Link 10G SFP+ NIC
    - about 240TB in HDD capacity

     
    Which is awesome for what it is, and because of some Noctua fans it's also very quiet. That is, untill the HDDs start spinning up.
    This rack sits right next to my Desk, and the HDD's, while very spacious, can get intensely audible when under heavy I/O. This, is ofcourse completely unacceptable.
     
    So here is what i aim to do: Get rid of the old setup completely, and start again from scratch. The complete plan is not set in stone just yet, but here is a draft:
     
    - 2U, (supermicro?) 25 bay 2,5" chassis
    - 25x 2TB SATA SSDs
    - atleast 128GB RAM, and enough CPU horsepower to have this not be the bottleneck
    - as silent as possible, maybe watercooled like my other server?
    - dual 10G connectivity is a big plus.
     
    As stated though, this is a very rough draft, and it all starts with the case. I'll be researching what case or secondhand server i can get that would fit the bill for now. But as always: Expect updates soon!
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    Anthony_95 reacted to SIA Tech Mods in Be quiet! 20th Anniversary build.   
    This mod is going to be built for the occasion, I've already sent the righthand side panel off to be cut, this will be done with a water jet and all going to plan it should have the 20th Anniversary logo perfectly cut, this part is painful as it's out of my hands. I will then be adding frosted acrylic to the panel and lighting for the effect, I may go for a slightly tinted frosted window yet, the more I think about it the more I realise it is in keeping with the glass panel on the lefthand side. Once I have received the panel, I will then need to decide what I'm actually doing with the case as the panel will need a respray and I don't have the colour be quiet! use to paint their cases 🤣 so the whole thing will be painted or other... If I go the route of painting I'll using a classic gun metal grey. I'm also adding the 20th Anniversary logo on the PSU shroud in the form off clear acrylic along with an orange colour acrylic version, one will be placed on top of the other to give a raised/3D effect.

    20th Anniversary logo

     
    Parts list

    Ryzen 5700G
    Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite AX V2
    Muskin Redline Lumia 2x 8gb 4133mhz - Changed to T-Force Xtreem 4133mhz 2x 8gb
    Kingston KC3000 1Tb NVMe
    be quiet! Pure Base 500FX
    be quiet! Pure Power 11 FM 550w
    be quiet! Pure Loop 2 FX 360mm

    To be added shortly after Gigabyte 6650XT Windforce.

     






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    Anthony_95 reacted to Cassidy1982 in What a home made server rack should look like   
    so this is my solution then buying 2 racks for my home office. And yes I made it took about a week from start to finish. plus 3 days to cable manage the rack.
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    Anthony_95 got a reaction from Windows7ge in HPE DL380p Gen8 Build   
    For sure. I love this kind of builds 😄
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    Anthony_95 reacted to Windows7ge in HPE DL380p Gen8 Build   
    So, moving past the CPU sockets and memory I think I've identified what some of the controllers are on the motherboard.
     
    One is just outright labeled though so that one's a no-brainer.
     

     
    It looks to me like the C602 chipset isn't in charge of much. There's an unpopulated SFF-8087 connector next to it. There's what looks to be USB control behind the left riser card for a SD card but not a whole heck of a lot else.
     
    The iLO itself and what I believe is a single RAM chip so probably 512MB or 256MB of RAM allocated to that.
     
    Then unfortunately it looks like the P420i is actually integrated into the motherboard itself. I was hoping to see it in a slot or socket. Based on the servers documentation the P420i comes with every model of this server but with varying amounts of RAM cache which would be the card slotted to the right so it itself is up-gradable.
     

     
    The highest capacity cache available is 2GB and that not what we have here. This is 2nd best which is 1GB. The wires run off to what looks to be a pair of capacitors with act as a battery to preserve the cached data in the event of power failure. The prevents data corruption on the drive array.
     
    Taking a closer look at one of the PSUs.
     

     
    750W. Appears to claim 94% efficiency but I wouldn't doubt if that's only when it's running on 240V under a 50% or higher load.
     
    The Quad NIC in the rear is what the x8 expansion card is.
     

     
    Besides the slot this has proprietary form factor written all over it. Based on the documentation you can have either Quad Gigabit or a 10Gig NIC installed here. Possibly fiberoptic too.
     
    Now I don't have any sleds for this server and I don't want to test the server running over USB. Instead I'm going to boot off the network using iPXE which is what this NIC will be for.
     

     
    The Mellanox ConnectX-3 CX311A.
     
    Cool to see that the riser just uses two standard x16 slots.
     

     
    I assume one is bifurcated to x8x8 to give us three usable slots.
     
    Installing the riser is pretty easy starting with twisting the little blue tabs.
     

     
    Like it says on the riser. Push down, twist, fold the tab over, done.
     
    From here we're ready to shut the lid, plug everything in the rear, and start testing. See if the server even POSTs and looking into software like the iLO itself which I may get into later today. 😛
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    Anthony_95 reacted to RollinLower in A silent 4U storage server buildlog   
    She runs!
     
    ...Sort of. I'll explain:
     
    To prepare for the new motherboard i did some light cable management.

     
    Mainly i pre-routed the cables to where i need them and i also spliced together all the fan headers for the hotswap fan trays. I'll be re-using these with the Noctua's, and since they just use regular old PWM this should be very easy to setup. I can keep the hotswap functionality this way which i think is pretty cool.

     
    In goes the new board!
     

     
    And just like that, everything is together. I did run into a slight issue where TreuNAS didn't recognise the HDD's from the backplane, but it turns out i just didn;t plug in the SAS cable all the way. That took the better part of an hour to figure out...
     
    cable management out back is still not the way i want it to be, but lets just call it 'functional' for now.
     

     
    I also still have to setup bonding on the 2x 10G link. right now the systems treat it like 2 seperate connections, and that's better for redundancy ofcourse, but i want speed! So that's still on the to do list.
     

     
    So what's the problem then? Well, the casefans are delayed in transit. I don't know when they'll arrive, but probably sometime mid next week. So untill then, this box is going to have to run entirely with just the single fan from the CPU cooler. So untill then, i'm gonna have this box turned off. It's ready and TrueNAS is installed and working, but i don't want to risk overheating the HBA or the drives. 
     
    I'll cover the software side of things in the next post. 🙂
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    Anthony_95 reacted to RollinLower in A silent 4U storage server buildlog   
    Oh yeah, i really like my systems to be quiet! All servers in my rack are watercooled and literally all fans are noctuas, even the PSU fans in all my machines. Even in the network switch up top i swapped all fans out for 40mm noctua's. This is going to be the first aircooled box i build in years 😅
     
    I specifically wanted this chassis because it has support for these PSU's:

     
    These are 920 watts each, which is nice because the massive overkill means they'll never have to work hard. That in turn is great for silence, but the real gamechanger is the SQ on the end of the model number. That stands for Super Quiet. These PSU's are literally inaudible when in use! No noctua fanmod required.

     
    Right now the casefans are still very loud though, but i have 5x Noctua NF-A8 ULN on the way to replace those, and after that i expect the loudest parts in this build to be the harddrives themselves. 😉
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