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    That's not entirely abnormal with how GPUs operate now. I'm pretty sure my GPU is "rated" at 215w, yet with stock behavior it's pretty common to see anywhere from 230w to 250w.
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    My parental got me these guys for Christmas. Certainly a nice upgrade from the stock GX browns that my G Pro X had, these guys made it way quieter and a bit deeper pitch like I had hoped. I kind of miss the tactile-ness since these are linears, but I'm sure eventually I'll get used to it. Pre-lubed is love, pre-lubed is life.
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    I'm pretty well versed in small PCs. The fastest bus-powered cards you're fitting in there are a Quadro RTX A2000, 1650 Super, RX 6400, or A380, the latter two of which will be severely limited by the fact that it's a 6 year old platform that doesn't support things they need to perform correctly. You could, technically, fit the Gigabyte RTX 4060 LP in there, but you'd need to find a TFX PSU with adequate wattage/connectors, and then adapt the ever loving hell out of it since Dell stopped using standard power connectors starting with Haswell.
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    Yeah and even higher-draw 1070's really aren't that bad. My 1070 AMP typically sat at 170-180 if I remember correctly which is totally fine across an 8-pin plus the bus.
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    My Riva TNT is now not locking up in games so I…

    flibberdipper replied to Dabombinable's status update

    Nope, no patchmem needed for me. I intend to keep XP on this lad so thankfully I don't have to deal with the 9x RAM foolery. And yeah, unfortunately I'm pretty much topped out for size. I think I could get something like an X1650 Pro to fit, but that's overkill for a little 1GHz Athlon (not to mention they were wildly overpriced last time I looked) and I feel like it'd also be starting to push the PSU a bit, I can't imagine it's much higher wattage than like 180.
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    For CPUs themselves sure, but AFAIK coolers are at least in the correct general ballpark.
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    Realistically all of the wrinkles with Zen have been ironed out for a while now, even the AM5 growing pains seem to be over with for the most part. Personally I also plan on ditching Intel sooner rather than later, I'm sick and tired of my mobo and quite frankly, even with the better scheduler of Windows 11 the BIG.little architecture is ass. I love my 12600KF, it's a perfectly performant little guy, but the biggest issues with it are that the scheduler fuckin sucks especially when it comes to VMWare and Steam downloads. I've also noticed that Photoshop in particular acts funky even if I set the affinity to only use the P-cores.
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    Yup, 120mm with a total height of 155mm. However, the rated TDP is only 20w higher than the Slim sibling, so I don't see any reason why you'd have issues with it either. I've also run an AXP90-X53 on my CPU just recently, and it also did just fine. Sure, it got toasty (90-95C) and a bit loud until the TDP limit kicked in, but after that it was smooth mid-80s sailing with a very bearable amount of noise. It was realistically quieter than an Xbox One X which is just fine.
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    I had a regular Pure Rock 2 on my 12600KF and it did just fine, though I'm also not one of the people that throws a dirty 5.2GHz OC on it because diminishing returns are stupid lol. When I still used that my CPU would draw 135-140w under a worst-case scenario load, and even though the fan curve was lazy for silence it still kept things under 80.
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    Theoretically you could just run R15, R20, and R23 and see what it does. Don't rely on just one of them though: My 12600KF was stable in R15 when my power limit kicks in but not R20.
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    My Riva TNT is now not locking up in games so I…

    flibberdipper replied to Dabombinable's status update

    TNT loves to keep ya on your toes, it's why I have a love-hate relationship with them. Speaking of TNT's, I love what my little Pavilion 8860 has turned into. Factory it's a 1GHz Athlon, 128MB? of RAM, a TNT2 M64, and Windows ME. I'm clinically insane, so now it has 512MB of RAM, a Radeon 9600 Pro, and Windows XP. I'd love to somehow find 512MB PC133 sticks for it and a faster GPU (maybe CPU too, honestly), but it's so cramped in there that the GPU thing almost certainly will not happen. At least not without modifying the ATX power cable to be significantly shorter, it puts a TON of stress on the end of the GPU.
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    If your GPU fans were spinning in that video it very well could be.
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    That distinctly sounds like fan blades smacking something, be it a wire or the actual fan housing. Go through your system and double check which fan it is (really you can just stop individual ones with your finger until the sound stops), and then give it a thorough eyeballing to make sure there is absolutely nothing that could be impacting the blades.
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    This is my hypothesis, but I think a lot of that inflexibility/memory that ethernet cables comes from the outer jacket; and with newer standards like CAT6/6E, the internal structure as well as the individual wires will play a role since they have the internal "brace" to keep the pairs apart and some also used solid-core wire instead of stranded. In my experience most ethernet cables use PVC or PVC-adjacent outer jackets which tend to be kinda stiff no matter what you do, and while I have no experience with decently high end XLR cables, I have a hunch that they use an outer jacket that's more rubbery/silicone-y in nature (or braided, because I know that's a thing as well). I obviously cannot vouch for the flexibility on any of these (hopefully someone else can), but these are the options I found and they seem to make sense where they don't have PVC jackets. Only gotcha is they are not pre-made so you would have to shove your own connectors on. Infinite Cables Hi-Flex L-COM Hi-Flex L-COM Hi-Flex but teal
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    Having "real" hardware will pretty much always be more reliable and consistent than USB options. Your best bet is something like the ASUS PCE-AX3000. You can easily get them dirt cheap, and they come with an Intel AX200-something by default, but where it's essentially just an M.2? adapter card, you can easily upgrade it down the line with say, a 6E module or 7 when that drops and goes mainstream. Only thing you have to be mindful of is that you will need an open USB 2.0 header (or realistically, a USB 2.0 port if you don't care about jank) if you want Bluetooth to work.
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    Well I gotta say I am impressed with the AXP90-…

    flibberdipper replied to flibberdipper's status update

    I reeeeeeeaaaallllllyyyyyy want to get a new CNPS9900MAX for the luls. I don't know where it would end up residing permanently, but I'd love to try it on my 4690K and one of the i7 920's I have.
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    If it's happening across several drives now, it could very much be a form of wear leveling. I know the Toshiba P300's have a variant of wear leveling that isn't quite as annoying (it just constantly sounds like you're beating the absolute piss out of them with a random seek operation), and this could be Seagate's rather unfortunate implementation. I'd personally recommend you shoot them an email with this clip just to see what they say about it: I did the same thing several years ago with an ST2000LM007? which makes some of the most obnoxious clicking sounds when seeking ever (my friend had the same exact drive and his was functionally silent) and they assured me that it's normal. And here we are like 5 years later, it still works fine, albeit slowly since it is only a 5400RPM SMR drive, after all.
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    flibberdipper

    Well I gotta say I am impressed with the AXP90-X53. My 12600KF is set up so it will draw ~130-135w for 90 seconds I think? and then it drops down to 95w. The little cooler was kinda angry at first, but at 100% fan speed it was able to keep it hovering around 90C until the TDP cut hit, then it dropped the fan speed a little and was able to keep it in the low-mid 80s.

     

    Hopefully I never have to use it for my PC (I got it because on start up either my AIO or a fan is making a sound that sounds a lot like severe air bubbling), but it's good to know if I need to use the lil guy it will do just fine.

    1. Dabombinable

      Dabombinable

      7 hours ago, flibberdipper said:

      Well I gotta say I am impressed with the AXP90-X53. My 12600KF is set up so it will draw ~130-135w for 90 seconds I think? and then it drops down to 95w. The little cooler was kinda angry at first, but at 100% fan speed it was able to keep it hovering around 90C until the TDP cut hit, then it dropped the fan speed a little and was able to keep it in the low-mid 80s.

       

      Hopefully I never have to use it for my PC (I got it because on start up either my AIO or a fan is making a sound that sounds a lot like severe air bubbling), but it's good to know if I need to use the lil guy it will do just fine.

      You're making me so tempted right now to install my Cooler Master Eclipse on my 5800X3D (as long as a cooler uses the AMD retention bracket, you can use some really ancient designs). But the original CM TX3 did better than the Eclipse, while present day the Evo TX3 doesn't come close to my NH-12S - which sees the CPU in the 80's due to it drawing over 100W (I miss ECO mode with my 3700X).

    2. flibberdipper

      flibberdipper

      8 hours ago, Dabombinable said:

      You're making me so tempted right now to install my Cooler Master Eclipse on my 5800X3D (as long as a cooler uses the AMD retention bracket, you can use some really ancient designs). But the original CM TX3 did better than the Eclipse, while present day the Evo TX3 doesn't come close to my NH-12S - which sees the CPU in the 80's due to it drawing over 100W (I miss ECO mode with my 3700X).

      I reeeeeeeaaaallllllyyyyyy want to get a new CNPS9900MAX for the luls. I don't know where it would end up residing permanently, but I'd love to try it on my 4690K and one of the i7 920's I have.

    3. Dabombinable

      Dabombinable

      4 hours ago, flibberdipper said:

      I reeeeeeeaaaallllllyyyyyy want to get a new CNPS9900MAX for the luls. I don't know where it would end up residing permanently, but I'd love to try it on my 4690K and one of the i7 920's I have.

      I have the Nvidia one of those. However at the time, I missed half of the mounting bracket - as I was allowed to pick through a (not that old) computer shops box of worthless (to them) parts. Picked up some good IDE cables though.

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    Good starting point would be alcohol and a toothbrush. If you have a paint brush or some kind of plastic-bristled brush you could also use that to get deeper into the fins.
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    If I remember right, Space Engineers used it to pretty good effect, but nothing else comes to mind.
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    Well I made an interesting choice. Curiosity finally got the best of me so I ordered an AXP90-X53 Black for my rig. It's completely illogical: I currently have a 280mm AIO that still works just fine and has absolutely zero issue keeping my 12600KF in check, even though the pump AND fans have a super lazy curve... But I just gotta see how it does. In theory it should do great: my CPU is only allowed to draw ~125w for about a minute before it gets cut down to 90w which is right in the little guys TDP range... But we'll see

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    glances at my P3TDDE in pictures from before I dismantled the rig Yeah they probably exist. You have better luck getting a free '24 F-150 Platinum than you do finding a dual S7 board though.
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    Yeah with the right upgrades they're pretty solid. I'd love to get one of the SFF Dell's that has a blower CPU cooler and shove an A2000 into it as well. Should have decent thermals and it'll make fun sounds.
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    Yeah it's either the 6500 or the 6400, I can't remember myself. Realistically the PSU shouldn't be an issue, even with an i7 in there and whatever half-height card you want, be it 1050Ti, 1650, or A2000, you're still not really pushing it all that hard. IIRC this generation moved to a 180w PSU instead of the 210w like my 7010 has, but even then if you assume each one draws 75w you're still at 150w. You'd pretty much have to load it up with internal and USB hard drives to push it over the edge.
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    Oh shit it's over now? Guess I can reel the Mac Mini in a little bit so it's not sitting at 75-80C with the fan rippin (still very quietly but). It would be nice to be able to use it again and not have to think about my PPD tanking since it was the only thing I had running for the entire event.
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