ManchesterKid1

Well im not worried about cutting them im just worried about getting the right thickness so that they will make proper contact with the vrms on the board

I was changing the stock thermal compound on my R9 390 Windforce and the thermal pads were in pretty crummy shape so I've decided that im going to replace them. Im currently waiting on a support ticket from gigabyte because I've seen people ask them for that information in the past and they've gladly provided it. I know this is a long shot but any chance anybody here knows what thickness the pads on it are or replaced them themselves?

Here's a look at the usage of each cpu core individually as well as gpu and memory, as you can see these frame rates aren't quite at where they should be thats with medium settings

Cpu and memory usage stays below 100 sometimes even low 30s for cpu and i dont have a gpu usage monitor but when i benchmark the rig my gpu shows reasonable numbers of what it should be for example the 3dmark gpu score is on point

Now before you roast me, know i have an actual rig and this was just a experiment. After watching Linuses video where he used two older xeons to game on a server board i decided to try it myself. I picked up a s5000psl server board and 2 x5460 cpus along with 8 gb of pc 5300 667mhz ddr2 ram in 2x4 configuration. I also had a 280x laying around so i threw that in the machine And i cant figure out what it is but for some reason the performance just isn't there. Games are seeing really low frames and i cant figure out why at first i thought it must be the cpus because they're both not being utilized. Then i had the thought maybe it could be the 667mhz ram, so my idea was what if i take one of the cpus, being lga 771 and do the mod to lga 775 then solving the ram issue with a 1337mhz ddr3 board and being able to oc the cpu. also since the current server board only has a gen 1 pci express x8 slot maybe thats whats killing the frames? Only half the performance gpu wise? What do you think is the problem is it the cpus? The pci express slot? The slow ram? Would a lga 775 mod fix the issues and achieve somewhat decent performance or should i just give up on the project in total?

Wow 60" Screen size at only 4" away from the wall, thats pretty amazing. Pricey but definitely worth it if you have the money!