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So, I have a general contractor doing some work for me around the house who knows I work with computers. He is looking into the possibilty of getting into CAD, in particular MagiCad for Piping and sprinkler systems. There seems to be two versions of it, one is MagiCad for AutoCad and the other for something called Revit, not sure what that is. Anyway, he's looking at getting a PC for this and I offered to look into this since I have leftover parts and can get deals for retail part and I could build a powerful PC for less than retail and that would be in lieu of some payments for his work. I am a little unsure of the system requirements or what is enough for a smooth experience. The little documentation he could give me only really mentioned GPU, either GeForce or a Quadro. 2070 for the absolute best performance but that is out of budget. One of the cards specified for regular use is the 1660, basically any card with 4gigs and more vram so I'm thinking any variant of the 1660 will be good enough. So, here is how it's looking parts wise in my head: CPU: 2700x with stock cooler [pre owned] MB: Some B450 Atx [bought new] RAM: 16 gig and around 3000Mhz [bought new] GPU: GeForce 1660 [bought new] PSU: Seasonic S12II 520W [pre owned] SSD: Some Samsung or Crucial SSD Case: Some Corsair ATX case from few years ago [pre owned] What do you guys think? Should I go for something more powerful for someone who uses this fairly intermittently.
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So my x370 C6H is starting to age a bit. Fewer and fewer BIOS updates and having recently installed the 3900x in it I wonder if I could squeeze out some more juice from the CPU if I went with an x570 motherboard. However, I am a little concerned with the chipset fan on the x570 motherboards for noise and an extra point of possible failure. How bad is the fan noise of the chipset fan? Is it noticable through the sounds of other fans in the case spinning during gaming? I'm assuming I can change the fan profile on it and it doesn't spin during normal useage, correct?
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Well shit....I wonder if getting another 1080Ti will help otherwise I'll have to shell out for the 2080T ?
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I did play around with the voltages a bit and it appears that it hasn't had any significant impact on performance, at least not according to a few CB runs. But OK then. Lets talk about a manual OC. Now I am planning on getting a new board soon, maybe adding an extra Strix 1080Ti (although it'll be a tight fit on the C6H at least), but if I should manage to get around 4.3 on this board on all cores then I should be getting some epic performance over stock boost since AFAIK it's only boosting on few cores now and with newer games becoming more multi core friendly an all core OC is probably worth it. So I'll ask again, but this time if anyone with the same setup is willing to share his or her settings as a good starting point, knowing that no two CPUs are the same when it comes to manual OC
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This says those voltages are indeed normal. But are they necessary to be this high to reach the boost clock speeds. I wonder if it's possible to have them lower and still have the same performance.
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in BIOS the default vcore voltage is going between 1.460 and 1.482. When I was doing my OCing on my 1800x few years back 1.35 was the absolute limit
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C6H I'm not really gonna undervolt since I'm just planning on running on stock speeds and from what I can see the stock voltages are just way to high for stock.
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Just installed my 3900x into my old x370 motherboard and it's working fine. Not sure if I'll do any OC, if I do it'll be on a newer board. I'm cooling it with the Kraken x62 in push/pull configuration with the silent fan mode isntalled as intake on the front of my Phanteks Enthoo M Pro TG. Temps are fine, somewhere around 45 during basic workloads. However just a simple benchmark or something that makes it flex it muscles the fans ramp up to 100% and temps can reach 70. I wonder if the stock voltages are way to high, I diidn't do any overclocking on my previous CPU (2700x) so I'm still just running stock voltages. So I'm thinking about lowering the voltages but of course I worry about stabilitiy. Anyone here with the same cpu and willing to share his or her voltages? How low can I go?
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I just got the 3900x that I will be pairing for the time being with my x370 C6H until I decide on which x570 board to get. However, I see that the "sweet spot" for memory speeds and the Zen 2 CPUs is 3600 and I currently have the insanely stable G.Skill FlareX at "only" 3200Mhz timed at 14-14-14-36. Would there by ANY sense in aiming for higher clocks and sacrificing the lower timings ? Is there any significant gain? I've checked a few videos around Youtube and the difference is negligble but how is the experience (if any) here in lets say the "real world".
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Thinking about building a NAS with spare parts. Need advice
akb8812 replied to akb8812's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
Is it easy to set that up in FreeNAS? I doubt I'll have that though since I don't really want to spend money on another motherboard if the pretty basic one I plan on using ends up working just fine for this purpose and it'll only be me accessing the NAS but a few more the Plex server itself, which will be on a seperate Windows machine which is also a gaming rig. I wonder if it's possible to have the Plex traffic go through one port and regular internet and gaming traffic to go through the other. -
Thinking about building a NAS with spare parts. Need advice
akb8812 replied to akb8812's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
When I was doing my media pc for the living room I got an ITX board with two ethernet jacks, wanted to see if I could make some sort of a link aggregation work since my unmanaged switch does support that in theory but I never did get it to work. Would link aggregation be any good for a NAS build? -
Thinking about building a NAS with spare parts. Need advice
akb8812 replied to akb8812's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
Well since I'm doing this on the cheap (ish) using spare parts for the build I'll be limited to 3 storage drives that the Silencio 325 fits I don't have many RAID options to choose from. So I guess I'm going for RAID 5? As for the OS I'm thinking of grabbing a few 1 ter drives from work and just try them out with various OS's and see what works best. The massive RAM requirements for FreeNas is a bit off putting although I can get 16 gigs no problems but should I ever need to expand then I'll need to get something better. -
So I use my little Media Center / living room PC as a Plex server a pretty low tech nas. Have a Toshiba 6Tb NAS drive in it for my main storage which is soon running out of space so it's soon time to upgrade. I do have some leftover parts from office PCs and past builds laying around that I'd like to get back up running but I'm not sure if they are suitable for NAS use. Especially the motherboard which is ASRock B85M-HDS which only has 2 memory slots and 16GB RAM cap. Then I have a Haswell i5 (non K) and one of the Silencio cases. Getting a new PSU and of course storage drives. It will be accessed remotely when needed and actually, if all goes to plan network wise, stored in my basement pantry where a network cable runs through. So, based on that information what OS should I use for this little build? FreeNAS or Unraid? Maybe just Windows 10 and a network share. And is that motherboard sufficiant? Also I wish to have AT LEAST 10 terabytes preferably 12. What RAID level should I go for with my hardware and use case as a NAS / Plex storage (Plex server will remain on the Media Center PC in the living room)?
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So to bump this thread a bit......very soon I'll be pulling the trigger on the CPU and then eventually getting the new motherboard too. But I'm STILL very undecided about which one to get. I did notice that I had been looking at the Formula and not the Hero, thinking it was stupid expensive so the Hero is back on the table as a candidate! I'm not looking for anything lower than X570 and I'm looking for in the 300-400 USD range as my limit. I've had very good experiences with my C6H until recently it's been weird when booting, comes with an error causing me to need to turn off the PSU at the back and then back on again for a normal boot. No OC currently so it's not that. I'm leaning towards the Hero cause of that but if there are better offerings out there for the same price then I really want to look at that.
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So I will probably end up getting the 3900x soon. Might not end up overclocking since the OC on my current 2700x didn't really yield any significant improvement. But I do want eventually to upgrade to the new platform and I have no interest in the B skus.
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I Might end up doing that for the time being until everything has worked itself out with the 570 platform. But my question still remains, what high end board is so far getting the best results. By high end I don't mean ultra high end like the Godlike etc...anything over 500 bucks is a no go.
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Feartures I want: good power delivery, decent overclocking capabilities, plenty of fan headers.
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I figured it's a minimal upgrade but I still think it's time for a new platform with the new chip. Any idea which one of the ones you mentioned have the quietest chipset fan?
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So I currently have the 2700x on the X370 Crosshair VI Hero. I feel it's time to upgrade to the latest platform soon once it has matured nicely and most kinks worked out. But, I'm actually having some issues selecting my new platform, so many options. What's the best option in the same class as the Crosshair VI? So good for overclocking with excellent power phases and a quiet chipset fan. Now, the Crosshair VIII is stupid expensive so I guess that board is now a higher class than the previous once. So basically what's the BEST high end but not stupid expensive X570 board? My current specs: C6H x370 2700x ASUS Strix 1080Ti 2x8GB 3200Mhz G.Skill FlareX
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Google tells me that is a Tauro series of the PSUs from Xigmatek. This is something called Centauro. I can't for the life of me find any model numbers or serial numbers on their site or documentations. It's this one here: http://www.xigmatek.com/product_detail.php?item=195
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Has anyone had any experience with this line of PSUs? I'm doing a quick build using spare parts I have laying around like and old Haswell motherboard + cpu and using the Silencio 352 cause surprisngly it's less bulky than my spare ITX case.and the only thing that is missing is a PSU. Basically just a machine to use in the bedroom for Kodi, no gaming or anything like that. Obviously 550 is very overkill but local stores here don't have anything lower than that without it being a fire hazard. Since it's a bedroom and a spare part build it needs to be quiet and cheap. I know I won't find a Zero RPM model without going to a much higher end PSU. The only other plausable model I've found at a decent price here is the FSP Hydro 500. Both have Taiwanese caps, which I'm fine with since it'll never be under much load for it to be a concern for me at least. Any experiences? Not found much data on it all in English.
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MIght go for the Pure Power 11 https://www.bequiet.com/en/powersupply/1551
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I have an ITX case already that I'll be using IF I go through with this build. I might take the 8100 from my sister's PC and upgrade her to a 8400