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I’ve got a Scrapyard wars gimmick idea I think could be a really entertaining concept with ties to the root origins: Each team starts out with a completed system; Maybe it’s a bit dated, perhaps a Walmart pre-built, or even inherited from a relative… They have a budget of $200 You can sell, swap, mod, any original components - with the idea that your original components are part of your initial budget. The goal is to have the fastest system at the end, and it cannot perform worse than the original system. BONUS: DIY cooling solutions are heavily encouraged, and use of LABs expertise time is won through challenges BONUS BONUS: Could have budget increases or sabotage challenges, kind of like Jet-lag The Game from Sam @ Wendover - all won through milestone challenges or the like. Not sure if this thread is overly monitored, but would be a fun thing to watch I reckon!

So I may be wrong here but I remember running into similar with my loop, the connector for the pump to the board is purely for pwm control. So with it connected your bios is controlling the pump speed, you'd want to check in there if you felt like you needed to ramp up the power for it a bit more. You can mess around with the D5's a bit more than others and they're happy to run at lower power as they have a fair bit more operating room to work within. As for the temps, they do depend on your ambient room temp as well. If you started earlier in the day and the room has warmed up, your temps go up as well. One thing to note though, how long was it prior to this lot of maintenance? If you were using an opaque fluid like you are now you may have experienced a bit of fall out which has gunked up your blocks a bit. Typically it's fine for a few fluid changes, but over time and especially with opaque fluids you're going to run into some build up. You can tear down the blocks and give them an overhaul but I'd suggest monitoring temps for a couple of days just in case. Often after a change you'll get a few air bubbles that clear over time and may help reduce temps when settled. All in all though, I wouldn't panic too much. If it ain't leakin, you're golden

Good plan on that upgrade as well, I love seeing people breathe a bit more life into things that weren't made to game! So props to you man! 1. You'll have a bit more ambient heat in there but in all honesty it will be pretty negligible. I'd only recommend switching that up if you were already noticing thermal issues as it was. Stock coolers are always garbage so if you do have the space to do so it would be a great upgrade to pop in just to keep whatever CPU you're equipped with a bit cooler and let that bad boy turbo a bit more. 2. You can if you're careful but I wouldn't bother. If you have enough space to stuff them somewhere inside then that will be a better idea, that way at least if you ever decide to scrap the case or build another system you'll have more parts to scavenge. Lots of cable ties and some clever tucking and you'll be better off. If you did end up cutting them, just be very careful about how you tidy up the ends. The last thing you want is any shorts in the system, making sure every individual cable is all taped or gunked up can be time consuming but necessary.

Was it always in red before you got the 570? Or is it just noticing it now and not sure? I don't think it's related to your PSU at all, but I will say 10 years is a good life for one so well done to that little wee buddy!

Conveniently Walter likes to cover the “Activate Windows” watermark as I watch the tech news. How do you watch the tech news?

Hi guys, So, I kinda think my system may be aging a bit now as far as being able to do what I used to do, either that or Adobe is just like "Yo, you should spend more money on hardware". Basically when I'm editing through 4K footage specifically I get the horrible choppy laggy bs and it makes it damn near impossible to work with. I have tried making proxy files, I've tried dropping the monitor window resolution to 1/4 in premiere. In theory those both should have worked but they didn't. When I check the CPU usage, it's sitting around 85-95% during it's chop chop, temps are still under 50 at least, thanks EK... I mean I could try push a bit more OC out of it but right now I think an upgrade may be more viable. I edit a lot of footage, that's kind of a newer development from when I initially built this system but I do find it really enjoyable making videos. As far as gaming goes I have no issues, but I was just wondering if anyone has any advice on a potential upgrade path I haven't considered yet. Current System: i7 6700K 32gb DDR4 3200MHz 1080ti WD Black 1TB NVMe 2x 512 Samsung Evo's Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI (Not the best board) And full custom loop I'm open to either team, AMD or Intel. Budget wise... It's whatever I can hide from my wife. I mean Threadripper 2 is off the table, I could maybe swing a 1920X but that means a whole new CPU block and the cost may blow out from there. I don't care too much about my gaming experience, I just wanna edit easily Actually I did recently just get a big ol 32" 1440p 144hz display... Reckon that's just put it over the top? Doubtful, I mean it is still a 1080ti... I dunno. Please send love and help.

133! Heck yeah! I was wondering where I stood! Thanks for this man! Too bad I forgot to enter the draw for the GPU’s haha!

Pulled off the back panel and found the culprit. Tubing has collapsed and the poor pump was getting stalled. Sadly it's probably only just out of warranty, hopefully it should be okay once I replace the tubing, I've added cable tie supports for the mean time at least. Lessons learned, cheap tubing is not a good idea

Oh shit I think I just found it, a mobo fan header keeps dropping to 0RPM from 1300RPM+.... I think my pump is dying... RIP

Hi guys, So this thing has started happening last night. I boot my machine, normal post beeps etc, sometimes longer than normal but it reliably gets into windows. But now for some reason, even while booted I get intermittent buzzer alarms for anywhere from 3-10 seconds for no apparent reason. All the temps seem within normal range, I'm running a 6700K with a custom 360mm rad EKWB loop, 1080ti not on water yet but sits around 36 degrees idle. I've recently upgraded to a 960 EVO M.2 boot drive but I doubt that's causing an issue. There is one oddity with a temp sensor on my mobo reading -54 degrees that could be something? I'm at a wall right now, googling has gotten me nowhere and I need things to try because I've got a podcast to do in a few hours and I'd rather solve the problem than just rip the buzzer out haha

Put it down as sleep walking haha. Pretty much you've done all you can do by the sounds of it. You can only log it as driving and it's supposed to negate the steps

Eh not really so to speak, these tools (Furmark especially) are more or less designed to push your hardware harder than any application or game can. Yeah so it's earned its nickname as the Fuzzy Donut of Death for a reason, it's silly extreme haha. It's a real good way to see what your max temps on a card will be and system stability over a short period of time. It's not a tool I would want to leave running. Depending on the card and its VRM quality it can overwhelm the power circuitry and basically fry the crap out of it. Still a very useful tool in certain scenarios It has been reported to kill cards but like anything just use it wisely and you'll have no issues

Maaaaan, you put waaay more effort in than me haha

So red pen is the pin that you cab bend back into place, blue pen is a spot that is left blank intentionally

CPU: Aida64, Prime 95 and Cinebench for a quick initial test in overclocking. GPU: Unigene, Furmark (Ol' Fuzzy Donut of Death) and 3D Mark for again a somewhat quick stability check when OCing As @CUDA_Cores says, be wary with pushing things to their limits if you're system is primarily used for work you can't afford to lose. Many times I've been super thorough in stress testing and confident in a rock solid OC for a random bluescreen a few weeks later