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    JBIZZL3Y reacted to Letgomyleghoe in Build Advice   
    the chipset has less bandwidth than an actual PCIE lane but i don't think it will make much difference.
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    JBIZZL3Y got a reaction from Letgomyleghoe in Build Advice   
    Thanks, I was planning on just using the PCIE slot but wondered how the other would work if i added a 2nd drive in the future.
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    JBIZZL3Y got a reaction from Ankerson in Corsair RM850 (non-X)   
    Thank you! I was getting confused over all their model years and versions
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    JBIZZL3Y reacted to Tan3l6 in AMD owners, what's it like living with Radeon?   
    I own RX 5700 and it's great. Never urinates inside house, don't even have to take for a walk a long time. I don't really know how it works but it does.
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    JBIZZL3Y reacted to minibois in AMD owners, what's it like living with Radeon?   
    I only use it for local recording. Of course I tried AMD's recording software on my RX 580, where I noticed it didn't work that good. That was likely because because of the resolution was too high for the hardware encoder and the equivalent AMD videocard to my current videocard may have worked too, but I had just seen a lot of positive experiences with Geforce Experience and it works well for me now.
     
    While I dislike the Nvidia account stuff, it isn't something I actively avoid. A necessary evil, I suppose.
    Yea that was my experience with AMD's recording software too, it just had worse quality and a big quality hit.
    I could make OBS work for me, but I had to assign certain cores to it and such.. Plus I still use OBS for certain recording tasks, those where there isn't a game and a recording software fighting over my CPU.
    from what I have read over the years, it can often be enabled through .ini files, but AMD videocards take a bigger hit in fps than Nvidia cards.
    Personally from the limited time of playing the Witcher 3, on both AMD and Nvidia, I didn't miss any hair features or whatever  
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    JBIZZL3Y reacted to MODZERO in MODZERO DYNO - LIAN LI 0-11D RAZER EDITION   
    UPDATE 4.0 - THE LOOP
     
    It's been over two months! crazy! Well, I'm back and we're almost finished here. Go make a cuppa as this one is looong and picture heavy!
     

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    This is where we left off, just about everything in place but waiting on a re-supply from EK.
     
     

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    The goodies came in. So let us take a quick look. That's mostly the new Torque extenders, but I needed a few more fitting too.
     
     

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    Some black accent rings. I'd originally planned to go chromed rings, chrome fittings. However, I chose some black tubing by Corsair so went for black rings to match.
     
     

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    The Torque extenders, three lengths, 28mm, 14mm, 7mm. Nice.
     
     

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    Backplates really do complete the look of a blocked GPU IMO. Really, they should come with the block. You have to remove stock backplates to install the block and often you can't put them back on. That said, these backplates are so nice! Historically I've always been happy to add one to the basket when buying the block. Keeps the block costs under control I guess. What do you think? Should they be included?
     
     

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    I can't believe I didn't own one of these already! I've since rebuilt my MODZERO ASHEN project into a new case with some new hardware and called it MODZERO SEVEN.
     
     I ended up using this tester soo much during that rebuild and honestly think it's saved me hours as I found my distro unable to hold pressure more than once. In the past, I've always been confident in my loop and if I get through fill/bleed without a leak then I'm happy it's good to go. 
     
    I remember seeing SNEF use something like this years ago and thinking it was a great tool. Glad I've got one. It'll show up later in the post.
     

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    A couple more Vadars, these are for behind the flat res. In the last update, I'd mounted the res on some custom standoffs to provide airflow. It had been my intention to pull air in through the huge filtered vents on the rear side panel then out the rads. These are going in to provide a flow of cool filtered air.
    But it turned out to be a little more challenging.  I'd given up on getting three fans in due to the D5. I chose not to swap out for a DDC as the front would still have the same clearance issues. So two 120mms would be fine.
     

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    The top needed a little modding. so the bolts I had could go through the fan and into the res. I removed the res, fitted the fans using six out of the eight holes then lined up the res and bolted through the top holes of that top fan then attached the bottom.
     

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    Worked out well.
     
    Yes, it would have looked better had I gotten three mounted and maybe it would have looked better even if these two were mounted more in the middle. I think though, even without these fans the rads would be sucking in air wherever it can get it and so much of that would still have come through from the back. At least with these, I can ensure plenty of cool air.
     

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    I removed the stock sleeving and did an acceptable job with some MDPC.
     

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    I wired the pump directly into the PSU.
     

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    But before I wired the pump I daisy-chained the rear fans.
     

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    That, along with the pump were the last of the controller wiring. Time to wire-up the OCTO. So that happened next.
     
     

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    I'm in love with this thing! MODZERO SEVEN was the first time I'd used the an Aquaero (6LT) and that was a game-changer too (I've always known they were good, however, I'd almost always built ssf builds and made do with just wiring pump/fans to the motherboard and controlling via the BIOS).
     
    The Aquaero 6LT changed all that. Using the above method you're bound by either CPU or GPU temp (sometimes you can use the chassis temp) to control your fan curve. so when you jump into a game that temp rockets and so do your fans (granted not to the volume of an air cooler). Using the Aquaero (still referring to MODZERO SEVEN) I fitted two inline temp sensors to the loop (really only needs one) I put one on the RAD IN and the other on the OUT of the second RAD. In aqua-suite, I based the fan curve on coolant temp.
     
    The result was silent gaming. The fans are nice and slow and ramp up very slowly, maxing out at 60% as my testing showed that was enough to keep the coolant under 40ç. Rarely do my fans hit 1000RPM which (Noctua P12s).
     
    When I started this build I'd wanted to use the EK connect, this was the first ATX project in a long time and it was set to have 9x120mm fans plus the pump so really didn't want to put that through a mobo header. 
     
    I fear the EK connect is a couple of generations off worthy of recommendation so I looked around. Whilst the Aquaero is amazing it's super expensive! even more so once you put the heatsink on it.
     
    But then I stumbled on to the OCTO. Initially, I thought it was an extension board to the Aquaero. It has twice the channels at half the cost and if you're in need of a controller (yeah the Aquaero can do ALOT more then just fan control) the OCTO is awesome. It runs the same Aqua-suite software and it's set up / control is pretty much the same.
     
    The OCTO will be my go-to controller for a while.
     

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    SO, THE LOOP!

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    Let us jump into this. I made it up as I went along. The more I tried to plan it the worse it looked in my head. I just couldn't get a loop on paper that I'd be happy with. I had a few key things I wanted to achieve and I had to let a couple of them slide.
     
    Firstly, I'd wanted to go parallel with the CPU/GPU, pretty sure I showed those efforts in the last update. That didn't work out due to alignment (But I will revisit this later as I have an update on it). Secondly, I wanted to keep things to single bend runs and do everything in 45' angles. I sort of always have, it looks super clean, the runs are easier to achieve and it means you get to play with more angled fittings. Lastly, I wanted to do a run from the bottom to the top rad.
    Everyone and their dog has this case, and since EK rocked the water-cooling market with their distros, pretty much 99% of 011D builds use them. I want to get a clean loop without that distro look.
     
    With parallel out the window, I was struggling to plan how the loop would get from the chipset block to the GPU and back to the res.
    I tried a couple of test runs with some PETG (as that's all it's good for... Acrylic for life hahaha) this layout interfered with the GPU riser cable so I went with this.
     

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    It's completely hidden by the GPU and it took some tinkering to get it to line up. the chipset block is far shorter (in height) than the Magnitude so it took a 7mm extender from the chipset to get it close.
     

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    I always try and aim for 'block-rad-res-block' when making a loop but appreciate the difference isn't huge regardless of order these days. To get that clean look it meant I'd have to have the CPU/CHIPSET return the loop to the res. NOT IDEAL.
     

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    Look how close it is to the bottom RAD. Looks great! All the pump/res outputs needed to be 90's to clear the bottom rad. With the pump outlet, I used a T fitting and fitted the temp sensor for the OCTO. Again, not ideal. 
     
    However, with the loop returning to the res from two blocks without cooling, taking a temp from the pump out would be a good indicator of how effectively the rads were cooling the coolant. You'd expect it to be at it's coolest when coming out the rads and it's hottest leaving the GPU. This way I could keep my eye on how warm that res might be getting (due to cpu/chipset return).
     
    Really, I should have put the T connector on the chipset res inlet run as I've probs restricted my flow by putting a bar directly in front of the pump (it worked out ok).
     

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    Next came the run connecting to the two rads. I really thought this would be easy. I'm not sure if I want to blame EK or Der8auer for this one. You have some control over the rad position up top (slide it back and forth) the bottom is a static fit. 
     
    I'm running two different model EK rads (PE/SE) and the connectors aren't positioned the same. So simply fitting the rads, linning them up and running a tube between when was out.
     
    With the tube run being so close to the frame, unless the run was 100% straight, it looked a million miles out. So I tried a couple of things. The above was using a single offset fitting.
     

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    Then I did that.... puke.
     

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    But in the end, it took a combination of moving the rad back a little and putting an offset fitting on both ends.
     

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    OH! This is the tubing! it's ace! The only product from the corsair WC stack I like. 😛
     

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    GPU came next. So at this point, I've got the loop in my head. I'd finally accepted running the loop back into the res from the chipset and was running with it. So the plan was thus...
     
    PUMP - GPU - RAD - RAD - CPU - CHIPSET - RES - PUMP
     
    Two 90's off the pump got it out in line with the GPU. Sticking to 45' angles in my runs I used the torque extenders to align the runs from the GPU.
     

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    I then put a double female 90 to connect the two (something later I regret).
     

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    I tried to mirror the other run but to a double female 45' (rather than the 90') so it could take a 90' bend into the RAD. Which worked out well I thought.
     

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    I was starting to like it, the black tube has an almost automotive rubber hose look which I liked a lot. I also added a drain port with a ball valve (another first for me). It works out pretty well. Just remove the front glass and attach a tube. open the valve and the res dumps out in seconds (getting it out the rads takes an effort).
     

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    The last run, I tried to mirror the bottom and take a 90' bend off the RAD into a single bent run to the CPU. I think at the time I wanted to fill the space and thought this looked cool.
     

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    It works, looks clean and I was happy. So I opened up that cool leak tester and gave it a go.
     

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    Pumped it up, left it for 20mins, the needle hadn't moved so I prepped the coolant.
     

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    lol, starting to regret the B&W thing now... hahaha. Hopefully, the final shots will be worth it. Can you spot the mistake?
     

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    Yeah, I'd just assumed the Cryofuel Clear would play nice with the concentrate. I'm a fool. Haha, so I popped out and bought a big old bottle of Di-Water.
     

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    yeah... b&w right!
     
    Wow! this update is loooong. I'll sign off here and be back with another later today maybe?
     
    Thanks for reading it!
     
    J.
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    JBIZZL3Y reacted to Bitter in AMD owners, what's it like living with Radeon?   
    Back when they were ATI I completely swore off their graphics cards strictly because of the abysmal driver experiences I had with several of their products (Rage series stuff). I had another bad go with a late ATI product and drivers as well. I used only Nvidia for like 20 years, finally gave them a go a while back with some really budget cards (R7 250, 7570, etc) for basic display use. They worked great so I took a bigger gamble and got a RX580 8GB and had a lot of fun tuning it and playing with OC and undervolt and it performed really well for it's price in the used market. I took a bigger gamble and got a used Sapphire Vega56 Nitro+LE, it's bee super stable and super fun to play around with. I don't play modern top tier games so I haven't ran into driver issues with it, it really punches above it's class in my opinion. I run folding on it and it performs around 1080ti level for compute work with an undervolt and stock clocks, actually making some great ppd/watt at about 1M PPD on average. For gaming it's somewhere between a 1070 and a 1080 in most games which is good enough for me. It can be a real power hog but never gets that hot or loud thanks to the insanely large cooler from Sapphire.
     
    I have been put back off by the 5000 series driver issues, haven't had first hand experience but seeing how that whole mess went down it was disappointing. I'm hoping that doesn't happen again with the 6000 series cards.
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    JBIZZL3Y reacted to minibois in AMD owners, what's it like living with Radeon?   
    Three things (2 & 3 are very specific/niche, which won't apply to most; but I included these to show my point, that everyone has their own niche uses):
    1. Geforce Experience recording: I like recording gameplay, never had much luck with OBS for games though. Geforce Experience just allows me to press record and that's it, "it just works".
     
    2. CUDA. Image upscaling is something I would consider a small hobby of mine, the program I use (Waifu2X) only supports two modes: CPU mode, or CUDA mode. CUDA being Nvidia exclusive. 
    The difference between how quick CUDA is vs. CPU is enormous:
    Close to 25 minutes vs. 50 seconds on certain settings I use often. That's a decrease in time of 96%, which means doing these edits are way faster
    But that's a super niche workload, which can leverage videocard power on the Nvidia side, but not AMD (although supposedly there are forks with AMD support.. But I digress).
     
    3. Folding@Home. F@H is a distributed network of computers, where volunteers 'donate' compute power of their CPU/GPU to fold proteins, the data of which scientists can use in their research. At the time of buying a new videocard, equivalent AMD videocards did not yet have support for this software and I was quite into this, which influenced my decision.
     
    If I had to make an "Nvidia vs. AMD" decision today, points 1 & 2 still apply, point 3 does not (as of right now, who knows what will happen when AMD RX 6000 is out).
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    JBIZZL3Y reacted to minibois in AMD owners, what's it like living with Radeon?   
    My previous videocard was an RX 580 and I encountered no issues with it at all, switched to a 2070 Super because I was interested in some of the Nvidia exclusive features.
    Not counting those exclusive features, the general user experience of either card is identical.
     
    But of course I cannot vouch for the quality of the RX 5000 series drivers, or the upcoming cards.
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    JBIZZL3Y reacted to GilmourD in Jack Daniels build   
    Is Jack Daniels usable in a liquid cooling loop?
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    JBIZZL3Y reacted to Fasauceome in Should I sell my steam account?   
    Sell your PC games to get a gaming PC? Why exactly?
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    JBIZZL3Y reacted to boysenbeary in Apple REFUSED to Fix our iMac Pro   
    What a ridiculous system?
     
    "Hi we built a computer"
     
    "Great! Can I have a replacement part?"
     
    "No they dont exist"
     
    "How do you build a computer with parts that dont exist?"
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    JBIZZL3Y got a reaction from Phantonex in Good headset?   
    hyper x clouds FTW!! had mine a couple years and they're awesome, good mic, decent sound quality, well made....
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    JBIZZL3Y reacted to SansVarnic in Uninstalling?   
    There is no official un-installer that I am aware of. Find the program folder and delete it. Then do a system search for related files and delete those.
    This is Star Citizen a stand alone MMO still in beta with no ties to Steam, Blizzard, or Origin.
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    JBIZZL3Y reacted to Napper198 in Uninstalling?   
    They didn't bother to implement a proper install and uninstall system yet so everything is kept where you have installed it. So either C:\Program Files\Cloud Imperium Games or C:\Users\[your user]\Cloud Imperium Games
    just delete the entire folder and the shortcuts on desktop and in start menu and you got rid of it entirely.
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    JBIZZL3Y reacted to amd133mhz in PC Gaming: A Retrospective   
    I have collected a lot of hardware,software and games over the years. I have actually been building and playing on PC for a little over 20 years now. This is a part of my collection.
    It might not have been the best hardware for the time. I may not have had the largest library or the best components, but I still had a blast. I will never forget the first time I played Half-Life 2 on my Radeon 9000 64mb card after spending an hour installing it from 5 disks. Before Steam.
    A few of these items are from some of my first builds when I was just 13 after I learned to build on some old 486 machines a family friend had given me. I remember when I upgraded my ATI rage 2 using a 3Dfx Monster/VooDoo accelerator and what a difference it made in Quake 2.
    I've tried to hang onto as much stuff from my early day, but things get lost over time and I end up tossing out stuff that just takes up space.
    Some of these games and software items you might recognize and they might even bring back some memories for some of you. I hope you enjoy these as much as I enjoy sharing them with a few of my fellow pc builder/gamers out here on the LTT forums.
    Enjoy!
    http://imgur.com/a/x0zYD
     
    -I had no idea where else to post this, and I wanted to share this with the LTT community, so if this is the wrong part of the forum, please let me know! Thanks!-
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    JBIZZL3Y reacted to ZenModz in DOOM - ZenModz   
    Voting is up so please head on over and Vote for your favorite Case mod or Scratch build, links can be seen below.  



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    JBIZZL3Y got a reaction from 007Mix in Gaming screenshots   
    It's all about the little things...

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    JBIZZL3Y reacted to Aytex in Steam summer sale 2016   
    yes

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    JBIZZL3Y reacted to addywaddy in Steam summer sale 2016   
    its on. i cant even loads my steam up since it started 
     
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    JBIZZL3Y reacted to ZenModz in DOOM - ZenModz   
    Hello 
     
    DOOM is done!
     
     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     
    Hope some of you enjoyed the build, for me it was a lot of fun. 
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    JBIZZL3Y reacted to ZenModz in DOOM - ZenModz   
    Cheers JBIZZL3Y  Very happy to here that i have inspired you in some way. and I'm looking foreword to seeing what you do.
     
    Ken.   
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    JBIZZL3Y reacted to ZenModz in DOOM - ZenModz   
    Cheers, JBIZZL3Y Not long now, had to make some quick changes, And now just waiting for the CPU to arrive to fill the loop.  
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    JBIZZL3Y got a reaction from mrchow19910319 in DOOM - ZenModz   
    the case is starting to look seriously cool! and that skull is amazing lol!!!
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    JBIZZL3Y reacted to ZenModz in DOOM - ZenModz   
    Hi every one, 

    The Doom build is just about done, Just some small details to go. 
    Sadly there will be no cooling fluid added to the build for some time to come as I don't have a CPU for the build yet. 










    Thanks again for stopping by.
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