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Thorium19

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About Thorium19

  • Birthday June 19

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Liverpool, UK
  • Interests
    Overwatch, Football, esports and cars
  • Member title
    The forum James May

System

  • CPU
    AMD R7 3700X
  • Motherboard
    Gigabyte X570i Aorus pro wifi
  • RAM
    32GB Crucial Ballistix RGB 3600Mhz CL16
  • GPU
    EVGA GTX 1070 SC ACX 3.0
  • Case
    Lian Li TU150
  • Storage
    1TB Sabrent Rocket 4.0
  • PSU
    Corsair SF600 platinum
  • Display(s)
    aoc agon 24" 1440p gsync main monitor, benq 24" 1440p 60Hz secondary
  • Cooling
    Be Quiet! Dark Rock Slim
  • Keyboard
    Magicforce 68 w/Gateron clears
  • Mouse
    Glorious model O
  • Sound
    Beyerdynamic DT990 pro
  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Education

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  1. First status update in a while, I managed to snag a founders edition 3080 and wedge it into my TU 150. I have to undervolt it because that thing reaches 85C in minecraft RTX, which I was using to stress it. It's currently stable with 0.825mV at 1860Mhz. There might be more head room in there, but it's stable, and with the addition of 2 more fans beneath it, it's sitting at a cool 65C in most games with a relatively aggressive custom fan curve which runs about 55% at 65C. It's definitely louder than my 1070, but it's also smooth at 60+ fps in cyberpunk 1440p maxed out settings.

  2. 60-65% is my preferred size. Right now I have a magicforce 68, but I'm starting building a 60% using the HS60 PCB. I just wish that you could get slightly taller than 60% boards with the F row added, but no others. As said above, QMK or VIA is a must for the firmware, as it gives so much more flexibility to what keys people have set up.
  3. that time I was reincarnated as a slime is on crunchyroll and is a top quality "died and went to another world" anime (isekai is the genre name) Attack on titan is a good shout. I personally am not a fan of it, but it's one of the most popular shows for a reason. It's also on crunchyroll, but the first season is available on netflix If you like going down the lore rabbit hole, try watching Fate Zero, which is on netflix. F0 is IMO the best intro to the fate anime franchise, afterwards you can watch fate stay night unlimited bladeworks and the fate stay night movies. But avoid the original fate stay night that came out in 2006 IMO, it's not very good. Fate will take you down a path you'll never recover from, if you decide to delve into the lore. Gigguk did a really entertaining video on just how confusing the lore is, which is well worth a watch.
  4. undervolted my GPU to 891mV @ 1961Mhz core, 4061Mhz on the memory, and I've applied fresh thermal paste on it as well. now I'm maxing out at about 60C or so, which is a lot better than the 83C I was seeing after I moved it into the new PC.

  5. built my new PC. Say hello to Netrunner 

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    Thought I'd add in a size comparison between Branwen and Netrunner too

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    Gonna take some more glam photos soon, once I get everything set up how I like it

     

     

  6. would the Tai Hao Sakura Michi keycaps be close enough? You can get the full set of them from mechmarket.eu and kprepublic, with ISO keys.
  7. Shipped my SF600, it's going back to scan. Hopefully it'll be a quick enough turnaround that I'll have a replacement within the week

  8. I'd look at HTPC cases they seem to fit the style you're looking for. Silverstone do some, the GD07, GD08, GD01 and GD10. they might be an option.
  9. anyone ever dealt with corsair RMA? especially in the UK/EU. I'm wondering how long it'll take to get my SF600 replaced because of the recall

    1. Tech_Dreamer
    2. DildorTheDecent

      DildorTheDecent

      Mine was shipped on 2nd June and got it on the 4th or 5th I think.

       

      So within the next couple of days anyway.

    3. Thorium19

      Thorium19

      good to hear, I sent my ticket in on thursday, so hopefully this week it'll be sorted

  10. My recommendations come from getting other friends interested in anime, some ofthese have alreasdy been mentioned but warrant another comment. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - it's an action packed, kinda wacky, but also emotional rollercoaster of a show. It's only 27 episodes, and besides 1 episode has some of the best animation of its year IMO. It's a mecha, but not like your gundam mecha shows which are super serious, the mechas have a personality linked to each character. Yes there's definitely fanservice, but it's actually done in a really entertaining way (beach episode anyone?) and it's a bright, colourful show, with gainax tropes at its peak. It was my first "proper" anime, and the one I like to use to introduce people, because it's not edgy in any real way, and has some real curveballs in it. Each of the main characters is distinct, and most characters have immediately recogniseable silouhettes. There's also some really hard hitting quotes from the show that carry weight and significance in the real world for helping you as a person improve. Lupin the third - A classic show, the more recent series, part 4 and part 5, are really well animated, but I think it's worth first learning who each of the characters are, then watching the movie, the castle of cagliostro. You can go back and watch lupin from the beginning, but it's a very different art style to today, which might not be as enjoyable. My hero academia - If you like superhero stuff, this is a must. Imagine 80% of people have some form of power, it can be strong or weak, who knows. Because of this, there are inherantly superpowered criminals, so ther must be superpowered heroes, registered with the government, to help prevent crime. There's high schools built to help train the next generation of superheroes, and our main character wants to go to the most prestigious of them all. There's jsut one flaw - he doesn't have any powers. worth a watch if you want to see character development over a number of seasons, it's still running too, with the most recent series finished couple months back. MEGALOBOX - it's a modern show, where the art style has been done to look like a 90s anime, and it pulls it off well. If you like a gritty story about an underdog rising up the ranks against all odds, then this is definitely the show for you. It's only short, about 13 episodes, but in those 13 episodes you get attached to the story of this dystopian future, where boxing with mechanical equipment on your arms is the main sporting attraction.
  11. oh god, those fermi shrouds These designs look off, because that's the top of the card on the bottom cooler, where the backplate is, yet the fan is visible, which would indicate a really short PCB for the top end card, which will be encouraging for really small form factor people. It also looks horrific having a fan visible from the backplate, way too much of a flashback for my liking. Guess it'll be up to the AIB partners to make good looking cards this time round.
  12. pretty sure some companies will still expect you to pay shipping for the return product, but they'll replace it for free. You've got to be a company that really hates loyalty in your customers if you don't offer free shipping though.
  13. Oh boy, I checked mine and it's right in the recall group. Fortunately I've not used it yet, as I'm waiting on completing my build until I've finished with uni work, but I really don't want to be sat around waiting on replacing a PSU when everything else is ready. Guess I just have to hope corsair support can be quick in the UK
  14. just an alternative, but if the wood is thick enough, you could drill some wide holes in the top of it, then glue some glass spacers? (not sure on the exact name) on the underside of the glass. These will slot into the holes drilled and hold the glass in place. It'll make the glass easier to remove in case you need to move the table or do something beneath the glass.
  15. I'm working out what to do with my old rig. I want to run a private minecraft server on it, at least for a bit. It'd be vanilla, just with some vanillatweaks datapacks, so that'll make it less resource intensive than a fully modded server.

    But a steam cache would also be nice eventually once I get a few large hard drives, as I don't want to fill my single ssd on the new pc or cause the home internet to be useless for everyone else.

    I'd also like to turn it into a console replacement for my dad, as he uses a PS4 but isn't keen on shelling out for a PS5 when it comes out until it's had time to mature & good offers are on it. I reckon he'll only play fifa, project cars 2, F1 and rocket league, so a GTX 770 should be fine for that on a 720p TV.

    Man, working out what to do with an older, but totally functional PC is tricky.

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