Well, AMD is really sending a strong message here with their trade-in deal.
According to this post on their website, the first (USA) 40 winners of the Intel 8086K special edition CPU have an opportunity to trade it in for a
i.e., AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X.
I have an almost 70 year old nose for sale. it runs good.
Despite my miserable, misbegotten allergies, I made some more progress today. I started working on the cables for the LEDs. I found this cute little dimmer switch to control the brightness and turn the LEDs on and off. I made a short cable connecting the dimmer switch to a four pin connector so I can disconnect just one cable when removing the switch panel. Because of the weird wiring, (for example, the dimmer works on the ground leg of the LED strip) and tiny wires, it was a little fiddly. I also had to solder some splices as well as crimp on pins.
This is a close up of the dimmer switch. It's surprisingly tiny for being rated for 60W @ 12v. The LED strip is around seven feet long and draws approximately 31 watts so I'm far from overloading the dimmer.
Here, I've started the cable to connect the LED strip to the dimmer and the power source. At this point, I redneck rigged a connection to my PSU to test the dimmer switch and the LED strip to make sure I was connecting things together correctly. So far, so good.
Those two (blurry) pins in the foreground actually got plugged directly into a socket on the PSU and I taped the wires from the LED strip to the other wires on the cable.
This shot shows the dimmer ttemporarily installed on the switch panel along with the computer power switch. I had forgotten about a drive activity LED and the easiest and cleanest way I could think of to get one was to replace one of the non-illuminated reset switches with one that is illuminated and connect that. Those are in the mail.
This is the completed cable assembly. The power will come from the power strip. I put another connector pair in the line going to the LEDs (I used three pin male and female fan connectors) so I could easily disconnect the LED cable should I ever need to.
I plugged one of the factory SATA power cables into the PSU, then plugged the dimmer and LED strip assembly into that cable for a final test. Everything worked great the first time. I was surprised by how bright those LEDs are. I'm glad I decided to put in the dimmer instead of just an on/off switch.
The next fun job is to stick the LED strip into their corner channels on the case running around the left side panel openiing and snap on the diffusers but that will keep until tomorrow or Wednesday (depending on when my allergies settle down a bit; I had a wee bit of trouble concentrating today while my nose was making like a faucet and I was sneezing my head off). Btw, the LEDs are white. Any other color would wash out the colors on the MOBO, RAM, etc.