So it has been almost 3.5 years since my desktops last major upgrade and with the box that got delivered today it's going to get one very soon.

1st gen 1950X and you can read what motherboard it is from what's on the front of the box. Opted against 2950X since for whatever reason it would have cost 330 extra dollars and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't see $330 extra performance that I can't get out of some overclocking.

Now I'm just waiting on the new waterblock. It should be delivered tomorrow. I picked it because I just think it's the greatest looking:

Oh look a watermark from the website i ripped the pic off of. Or at least I'm gonna pray it's a watermark. Here's the sauce for those interested.

I'm excited. I haven't had an AMD rig in over 6 years.

I kind of wonder if the TR line of chips are based off of AMD's EYPC server line-up but with unlocked multipliers and such. I could Google it but that requires effort that I don't feel like I have right now...I'm lazy.

In server related news the new Delta fans showed up and I got them installed. Four of them replaced the two Noctua NF-A9's that came with the two Noctua NH-D9L's and YEAH they move A LOT more air. The Noctuas are only 0.1A each while these Deltas are 0.6A. I am surprised though. They say 45dBA but after installing them they're actually not that bad. I mean, they're not quiet. I wouldn't want to sleep next to them but they're not intolerable either. By data-center server fan standards they're quite tame. Solid 9/10 would recommend.

Also going on is I'm finding when I put the server under a good load using something like BOINC paired with 16 Hyper-V VM's the internal case temp is causing that damn built-in Intel-X540 to run hotter than I'm really comfortable with. I do have an idea though as part of the heatsink lines up with an empty I/O slot. I think I can 3D print a fan duct that a tiny fan attaches to then attach that to the I/O shield. It won't blow air over the entirety of the heatsink due to it's position but it should knock enough degrees off of it to where I'll be happy with what it's sitting at. That's tomorrow's projects. I might make an update about it depending on how it goes.

That's all I have for tonight.