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  1. 1 hour ago, Kilrah said:

    Wee, a Gigabyte X58A... mine's still getting occasional use when I need a temporary host for hardware for some operations like imaging a drive or such, but both that and my X99 board are WAY too inefficient to be in permanent use at >150W idle even at stock. 7th gen server does 20-30W...

    I'm quite scared to see how much power my home server draws on average....

     

    Probably gonna downsize to a NUC or something in a couple years.

  2. 1 hour ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

    But on the other hand, getting the XMP timings right could take much longer than the trip to get it swapped.  It might "just work", but I've seen plenty of people struggle to get XMP timings right for AMD, which is why EXPO was invented in the first place.

    Honestly, I've never ran XMP in any of my systems until very recently when I switched to X299. I don't think it matters quite as much as people make it out to, especially on platforms that aren't Zen or Zen+.

  3. I'm not currently aware of anything that would let you do that.

     

    It may be faster to install if the installer is directly on the drive you're installing on, but it's near infinitely more convenient to have a USB drive with your installer on it. I keep a USB drive with Ventoy installed that holds all my various operating system installers, that I can grab and install just about anything short of macOS from just one drive.

  4. 34 minutes ago, Hellowpplz said:

    @Crunchy Dragon@podkall@da na This aint my place to check it, gonna let someone more skilled do it. Just looking at these images it seems fine though.

    The pin in the very bottom right corner stands out, it looks ever so slightly flatter than the rest. Doesn't look like it should be a problem though, based on what I can make out.

     

    I would say it's up to OP if you want to try fixing it or not, or just return the board under warranty.

  5. 1 hour ago, MaroonHatHacker said:

    Yeah, unfortunately that's what prevents me from completely ruling out the option, the pure fun of it.

    Definitely do it for fun when you have a replacement laptop.

     

    It's just not quite worth that kind of time and investment when it's your primary device, if that makes sense.

  6. If you can hunt down an Intel NUC or another similar mini PC, that'd be a pretty good place to start. Small, quiet, enough horsepower that you can throw Proxmox on there and run some virtual machines without drawing too much power. For a NAS, you could look at some external drives either plain old USB or in a Thunderbolt or RAID enclosure.

     

    HP and Lenovo make some compact PCs as well that you could check out, HardwareHaven on YouTube has some videos covering those, the HP EliteDesk and Lenovo ThinkCentre.

     

    Honestly, even a laptop running Linux or something similar would be a viable option if you can find one with enough CPU, RAM, and storage.

  7. 2 minutes ago, PolloTech said:

    @Crunchy Dragon

    Yes, the CPU_FAN header is plugged in 

    Are you putting the heatsink on the CPU but not tightening it down? 
     - Yes, not tightening it too much 
    Are you tightening it down just enough to not hit the line before it stops booting?
     - YES, it dont turn on, let alone booting

    Are you tightening it down properly? It's similar to putting a wheel on a car; you have to tighten all the screws by hand until they don't turn anymore, then pick one and torque it down, then do the one in the corner opposite that one, in an X pattern.

     

    Tightening the cooler down to spec shouldn't cause your PC to stop booting, is there anything bent or out of place, either in your CPU socket or otherwise?

  8. Seems like a silly obvious question, but is your CPU fan plugged in? Many modern motherboards refuse to boot if the CPU_FAN header isn't populated.

     

    What exactly do you mean by this:

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    After testing I've discover that if I screw the heatsink it stoped working, and test the limit of the pressure, necesary to not overheat (~80° stable in cpu diode in full load) and to turn on run AIDA 64 and Furmark and everything seems fine

    Are you putting the heatsink on the CPU but not tightening it down? Are you tightening it down just enough to not hit the line before it stops booting?

  9. 1 minute ago, 8tg said:

    It’s a pretty rare scenario where the cooler will cause any performance difference, it would have to be a pretty bad cooler for it to throttle consistently and work worse than reference. But nobody makes a product like that, at least not any mainstream aib. The MSI Armor RX 580 was about as close as a mainstream aib got to a cooler design that was so bad it almost didn’t work.

     

    However board design and some vbios options can leave a card kinda just underwhelming, and at times can perform worse than reference. Though again, a very rare scenario.

    We saw this with nvidia 3000 series cards from MSI in the Ventus line. Where they had a harsher power limit in their vbios and couldn’t boost clock as high for as long as most other aib options, and at times would be outshined by the reference card.

    However I really gotta specify that that’s a very small difference, and it really only mattered in synthetic benchmarks.

    The Ventus cards weren’t specifically bad because of the vbios, they also had mediocre heatsinks and were just kinda hot and loud. That’s why they were the cheapest option.

     

    Usually the cheaper options though have no actual difference in performance, you mostly trade away acoustics, aesthetics, and some thermals. They’re usually loud, they don’t have anything special going on with their appearance, and tend to be hot. But they’ll perform fine.

    Yup. It basically doesn't matter, but to some extent, you will get what you pay for.

  10. 4 hours ago, SimplyChunk said:

    Also, sorry to be a pain, but I'll probably be selling most of the stuff out of these as the plan is to built one decent retro DOS 6.22 / Windows 98 SE machine out of all three of them.  Is it worth putting the stuff in the classifieds here first for a few weeks before listing them on eBay or shall I just head straight to eBay? (I know everyone is broke at the minute with the cost and living and such but then....so am I 😛 )

    I'd definitely try the classifieds, or other circles(online or IRL) you're in where people might be interested.

  11. Does your PC shut down when your monitor turns black, or does it keep running? Do you still get audio output after the screen turns black? Have you tried running DDU and installing a slightly older GPU driver?

     

    What you're describing sounds like either a driver crash or a software problem, in this case specific to your Adobe programs. The legitimacy of your Adobe software may or may not be to blame here. Are you able to try a different software version?

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  13. 47 minutes ago, IkeaGnome said:

    Citizenship or not, we were always going to have our kids over there. USA does give citizen to children born overseas. The country she is from would be much more of a pain to get them dual citizenship. 
     

    Very friendly country, but they don’t just give out citizenship. 

    Shoot, can't argue with that.

     

    Congratulations, my friend!

  14. 5 minutes ago, Tog Driver said:

    I think some countries grant citizenship to kids born there, sucks you can’t get your wife over right away so the kid would be citizen.

    Pretty sure we do that here in the States.

  15. 53 minutes ago, SansVarnic said:

    Tore this thing down when I got home, and I am impressed with the build quality. Honestly if you gave me a $1k or $1.5k AR the differences would be hard to spot.

    Now obviously I have not hit the range with this but the quality between the DPMS Oracle AR and this Wise Arms AR is no contest. Wise easily takes the cake.

    When I do get out and put 100-300 rounds down range that will be the test of course, but I have a feeling this will be my new range AR.

     

    BTW, if curious, I bought it for $565usd

    That's pretty solid for sure, I bought my PSA for just over $600.

     

    My custom rifle is about $1-1.1k in parts, most of it was spent on the barrel and BCG. Still need to collect some good pictures of it(maybe one day in 50 years when I'm not busy), but so far it feels really good in the hand. I'm pretty pleased with it, for being my first build.

     

    What kind of triggers are in yours? Mine both have a standard mil-spec 2 stage that feels solid, but I've also not felt many other AR triggers.

  16. On 3/1/2024 at 11:25 PM, SansVarnic said:

    I done did it. I made an impulse purchase today.  :old-eyeroll:

    Wise Arms B-15, on the lower end of the AR line up but its Definitely better than my DPMS Oracle, upper and lower fit is much tighter, and trigger is a world better.

    We all gotta start somewhere. Looks like a decent enough rifle.

     

    I'm still waiting for the weather where I live to be nice enough that I can go shoot my new one 😂

  17. I am in agreement with @da na and @Zando_, but I will also mention that a rackmounted system probably isn't the best first server around.

     

    A tower server like a Dell PrecisionTower, Lenovo ThinkStation, some of the tower-style HP ProLiants, or even building your own server in a standard ATX case would be a more user-friendly route.

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