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    Kalm_Traveler reacted to NotSoEpicMods in Not 100% sure on the name yet - maybe going with "Thanos"   
    Ah ok didn't know EVGA had issues with their blocks. I know fitting clearances can be a pain with rads, just finished checking clearances in my own build after lots of measuring and re measuring. Is there no room behind the rad or mobo tray to run a tube to the back so the top rad can have the fittings at the rear of the case?
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    Kalm_Traveler got a reaction from NotSoEpicMods in Not 100% sure on the name yet - maybe going with "Thanos"   
    Somehow Corsair sent me the necessary RGB controller literally a day after Christmas (I ordered it two days ago!) so the Commander Pro is in use, pump and fans are lit up. 
     
    Also I managed to get the case lighting to work correctly as well as fix the front panel toggle switches. Luckily the problem was just that the main cable connecting the front panel to the built in controller device was just loose in the front panel. I may glue it in place so it doesn't come out again. 
     
    Now I need to order some custom PSU cables since these included cables are mostly much too long, then final cable management can happen. Also need to install some UV LED strips to show off the UV fluid, and Cooler Master needs to get their parts site working again so I can order that cooling bracket for bottom intake fans. 
     
    Also, although the EK Supremacy VGA block is keeping the gpu itself nice and cool, the memory chips are getting a bit toasty under benchmark load (seen them hitting 83c) even with little copper heatsinks so I'm debating picking up a Bykski full cover block. Don't really "need" the OLED screen but it would be nice to keep it. 


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    Kalm_Traveler reacted to NotSoEpicMods in Not 100% sure on the name yet - maybe going with "Thanos"   
    Looking good so far too bad about amazon they've been screwing me over as well. Anyways that top rad does look quite awkward any reason a 420 rad won't go up there? Also not sure why I didn't notice it before but why no full cover block? You seem quite concerned about your cooling so was just wondering the reason.
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    Kalm_Traveler got a reaction from Alex Atkin UK in Is it worth running ethernet if not gaming?   
    I always run ethernet wherever possible... 
     
    more secure lower latency more reliable not at the mercy of neighbors possibly crowding wifi radio space generationally faster There's nothing inherintly wrong with using wifi if you really can't run ethernet, but it is functionally not as good for the above mentioned reasons. Wifi is more convenient, since it doesn't require running cabling and allows for devices that move around a lot (phone, tablet, laptop).
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    Kalm_Traveler reacted to Biomecanoid in Is it worth running ethernet if not gaming?   
    Nothing beats a wire. It will buy you peace of mind
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    Kalm_Traveler reacted to Arika in Intel 10th gen CPU leaks   
    eat your heart out AMD. these nodes are so small they don't even exist.
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    Kalm_Traveler reacted to NotSoEpicMods in Not 100% sure on the name yet - maybe going with "Thanos"   
    Gonna follow this, interested in where this build will go. I'm a huge fan of the Cosmos series of cases but I totally agree with you about the included hardware. It makes more sense if they just didn't include any fans and just gave you all the case specific brackets you need. I think my Cosmos S originally came with crappy 200mm  and 120mm fans so CM has been doing that sort of thing forever.
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    Kalm_Traveler got a reaction from Santo22 in Best Fluid on the market right now??   
    'best' as in 'best at conducting heat away from water blocks' is distilled water. You'd think that science would be able to come up with a more conductive fluid by now but if they have, it hasn't made its way to PC cooling yet.
     
    As others have said, I stay away from opaque or shampoo-looking fluids because the particles that make them not transparent WILL eventually fall out and gunk up your loop. Dyes can stain. In my main rig I'm just running a clear EK Cryofuel additive per loop, but in my gaming rig I'll be using an XSPC UV blue concentrate.
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    Kalm_Traveler got a reaction from DominicNikon in would you buy a used gpu?   
    They will both run at the slowest common speed. 
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    Kalm_Traveler got a reaction from MS Eierfeile in Not 100% sure on the name yet - maybe going with "Thanos"   
    Well, parts are just about all here except for the CPU (theoretically arriving in 2 days).
     
    So far all I've done is install the fans on the two HWLabs radiators, the ssd in the first M.2 slot under the chipset heatsink cover, and the RAM. 
     
    Kinda want to put everything in the case and get the loop figured out but as we all know you're supposed to test all the main components out of the case first in case something is DOA...
     
    Also I'm not 100% sure what to call it yet, but have some blue UV XSPC additive concentrate and lots of UV LED lighting to mount inside aimed at the components so the first thing that came to mind for blue/purple was Thanos.


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    Kalm_Traveler reacted to Nichols2724 in After many revisions and about 18 months, HEDT "Arthas" is finally complete!   
    Wow this machine is just great looking and powerful!
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    Kalm_Traveler got a reaction from Nichols2724 in After many revisions and about 18 months, HEDT "Arthas" is finally complete!   
    I'd say this one started early last year when I platform-upgraded from x99 and a 6900k to this x299 and the 7960x.

    It started off in the old rigs Thermaltake Core X9 horizontal case and two Titan V's, then Titan Xp's, and lastly Titan RTX's. In the old case, it had a green theme with a Hulk Venom thing going on but never really seemed complete or ideal for my vision of what this "pointless overkill" (as JayzTwoCents calls them) was meant to be.
     
    Earlier this year I gave in and finally swapped to the Thermaltake Tower 900 with larger radiators (560mm quad vs the thicc 480mm quads in the old case), split the loop into separates for the graphics cards and cpu, and had fun in February at that time reaching 5th overall for 3dmark's then-new Port Royal benchmark (down to ~ 50th now), Not content with operating temps on the cards or CPU, I recently swapped the graphics card blocks from the old Bitspowers to these Aquacomputer blocks with active backplates, and in an effort to eek out every last degree of cooling from the CPU swapped the EK monoblock for separate Heatkiller CPU and VRM blocks. 
     
    The final cherry on top was replacing the useless-to-me Asus OC Panel II which I had hoped would allow me to monitor loop temps (it doesn't) with an Aquacomputer Aquaero 6 XT. It is perfect.
     
    Ambient temp on the Aquaero is showing 24.2 C, cpu cores under light use are 28-30 C, GPU cores are reporting 33-34 C. Overall I'm finally content with this thing. Obviously there are better CPUs out there (especially from team red now) but this started as my first real dream build about 2 years ago and now that it is in its final complete form I wouldn't change anything.



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    Kalm_Traveler reacted to Bombastinator in After many revisions and about 18 months, HEDT "Arthas" is finally complete!   
    Red has better price/performance and a few of them have better single core but you already bought the thing so price/performance doesn’t matter anymore.  Those are some seriously low temps.  Your CPU seems to be overclockable from the literature (could be wrong about that) though and it sounds like you have temperature room so I suspect even that is not a factor.
     
    Enjoy!  That is one powerful PC and should remain so for a very long time.
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    Kalm_Traveler got a reaction from Shammikit in Setup a gateway for the PfSense   
    you as well! May tech-Santa bring you many fun toys!
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    Kalm_Traveler reacted to Shammikit in Setup a gateway for the PfSense   
    ok, thank you very much for the support so far. Merry Christmas.
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    Kalm_Traveler got a reaction from Shammikit in Setup a gateway for the PfSense   
    yes I believe so based on the pfsense documentation, but since my pfsense setup is just a PC with two ethernet jacks and no wifi I don't have any experience setting it up.
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    Kalm_Traveler got a reaction from Ayush007 in NVLINK / SLI WORTH IT OR NOT??   
    It's just a confusion caused by Nvidia and motherboard manufacturers. 

    SLI = scalable link interface (Nvidia's acronym - not the original 3dfx scan line interleave) is both a technology and a physical connector.
    NVLink is also both a technology and a physical connector.
     
    Prior to the Quadro GP100 / Volta graphics cards (Tesla V100, Quadro GV100, Titan V, etc), Nvidia used the SLI connector as  way to link up several of their graphics cards together both for consumers for gaming, and for professionals for pooling processing power and VRAM. From the Quadro GP100 and onward, they developed a newer, faster technology for linking multiple cards and called it NVLink - along with a new physical connection.
     
    Although the NVLink connector is now used on consumer graphics cards, the technology side of it being used is still SLI - so if you really want to be technically accurate what we are using for gaming is "SLI over NVLink". Thus, for us the scenario is still exactly the same as if using older cards with SLI connectors.
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    Kalm_Traveler got a reaction from Ayush007 in NVLINK / SLI WORTH IT OR NOT??   
    'worth it' is up to you, but I think a more relevant question you can ask yourself is "can I make use of it in any modern games?"
     
    SLI support at launch has never been common, and for many years people have claimed that SLI is dying/dead because of this, but regardless of what those people preach at the end of the day all that matters is if support for games that you want to play exists or will exist. 
     
    If you google search for games with SLI support you can find lists that various sites have complied, and some are updated as SLI support is sorted out by the community or Nvidia themselves.Remember that game developers are NOT the ones who create/add SLI profiles into Nvidias driver packages - Nvidia themselves are the ones who do that.What developers can do is code their graphics engines in ways which will play nicely with SLI so that well-performing SLI profiles can be created.
     
    One last bit of consideration for you is that for a reason I have not yet studied, DirectX 12 doesn't seem to have any capacity to allow the old SLI method to work at all, so at least for the time being your games will need to run in DX11 mode to even be able to try sorting out an SLI profile.
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    Kalm_Traveler got a reaction from Shammikit in Setup a gateway for the PfSense   
    you could do this one, use the USB wifi dongle on the pfsense box as a broadcast node for other devices to talk to pfsense. 

    AFAIK the first one (using the wifi usb dongle to trunk internet access over wifi to a wifi AP) is not possible, partly because only a wifi repeater is designed to function this way. AP's are designed to take internet access over one or more ethernet ports and share it with the other ethernet ports and via wifi.
     
    However, alternatively you could buy a wifi repeater made for this purpose like those units @jakkuh_t has at his house. Maybe he can chime in here, but if I understood their video, those repeaters have 3 bands in use so 1 band is used to communicate with the main AP for trunking main network/internet access to/from the repeater, while the other 2 bands are used to communicate with devices (phones, laptops, etc) which doesn't cut your bandwidth the way older style repeaters would. Older repeaters used the same bands to talk to the main AP as with devices, so they effectively cut your bandwidth in half since they had to switch from talking with your device to relaying that traffic to/from the main AP, then switch back to talking to the device again.
     
    If you can run cables, I would recommend instead just getting a USB -> ethernet adapter for the pfsense PC and run an ethernet line over to your wifi AP to trunk network access out to it.
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    Kalm_Traveler reacted to dizmo in Modern cases with 5.25 bays   
    Good sized isn't a descriptor that helps us.
    Good to some: Huge. Good to others: Tiny.
    You also haven't given us a budget, or where you're buying from, both of which change options drastically. Though either way your options are tiny.
     
    Welcome to the forum.
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    Kalm_Traveler got a reaction from BiG StroOnZ in Not 100% sure on the name yet - maybe going with "Thanos"   
    Well, parts are just about all here except for the CPU (theoretically arriving in 2 days).
     
    So far all I've done is install the fans on the two HWLabs radiators, the ssd in the first M.2 slot under the chipset heatsink cover, and the RAM. 
     
    Kinda want to put everything in the case and get the loop figured out but as we all know you're supposed to test all the main components out of the case first in case something is DOA...
     
    Also I'm not 100% sure what to call it yet, but have some blue UV XSPC additive concentrate and lots of UV LED lighting to mount inside aimed at the components so the first thing that came to mind for blue/purple was Thanos.


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    Kalm_Traveler got a reaction from Tristerin in Not 100% sure on the name yet - maybe going with "Thanos"   
    Well, parts are just about all here except for the CPU (theoretically arriving in 2 days).
     
    So far all I've done is install the fans on the two HWLabs radiators, the ssd in the first M.2 slot under the chipset heatsink cover, and the RAM. 
     
    Kinda want to put everything in the case and get the loop figured out but as we all know you're supposed to test all the main components out of the case first in case something is DOA...
     
    Also I'm not 100% sure what to call it yet, but have some blue UV XSPC additive concentrate and lots of UV LED lighting to mount inside aimed at the components so the first thing that came to mind for blue/purple was Thanos.


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    Kalm_Traveler reacted to Slottr in Not 100% sure on the name yet - maybe going with "Thanos"   
    Nice fans ❤️ (the noctuas)
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    Kalm_Traveler reacted to StarsMars in Kingpin KPx thick?   
    I might end up doing some testing with different coolers and paste. I need to decide what CPU I would use for the testing though.
     
    In the mean time, Luumi put this out today. High end thermal pastes compared
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    Kalm_Traveler got a reaction from StarsMars in Kingpin KPx thick?   
    i wish you had some Kryonaut handy to compare temps with both.
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