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    Crunchy Dragon got a reaction from Danner in Why are companys like Thermaltake and Thermalright named so similar   
    Personally my favorite is Thermalwrong.
     
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    Crunchy Dragon got a reaction from Kilrah in General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion   
    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.
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    Crunchy Dragon reacted to Slayer3032 in General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion   
    Figure I'd bump the old thread with my recent X58 stuffs since LTT posted a video with the SR2, shame they didn't try setting affinity the same way all the new hybrid platforms have to.

     
    I pulled the EVGA E758 out of the spare tower corner it's been living in since the board is all tweaked from having one of those Arctic plastic mount coolers on it for probably 15 years and I just can't get it to read the third memory channel. I can see the dimms there and connected but the system just doesn't use it. I picked up a new cooler that advertised 1366/775 support, both of which I have a few boards for. Of course, this was just an incorrect amazon listing. Whatever, it was $13 and my 212 LED that's going into the trash the next time I touch it because it's drawn more blood than any other PC part I've ever owned had a MIR to be $15. Whenever Noctua releases their new D15 cooler I'll give it another shot with the NH-D14 before it goes into the home server to see if a proper backplate resolves the issue.
     
    Had to destructively remove the Arctic cooler because one of the pull clips snapped. New cooler obviously then didn't end up fitting so I tossed my stock i7 930 cooler on it and I really don't remember it running this cool with the i7, maybe I just have really bad memories of my Pentium D and I stuck a NH-D14 on it day 1. Temps look really decent on the X5670. It's still missing the third channel though, which is an issue my Gigabyte board had for a while but a reseat fixed. I might have to try it with an i7 again but with how bowed the board is around the socket area at the top edge I don't have high hopes.

     
    I also stuck a GTX 970 into the old X58 setup, it's just slipping through on it's 550w PSU as it pulls almost exactly 500w under P95/Furmark at the wall. I'll call that build well optimized lmao. The SX8200 Pro that I had used in it but transferred to my personal Ryzen build has also returned after it experienced some file corruption which prompted me to check the old SM951 128GB. Upon getting a BTRFS scrub the drive decided it's to cease functioning entirely. I have it setup for wake on lan and I generally remote into it. I have noticed the random reboots starting to sneak in when it runs like an OBS stream for half a day but still pushing 4680mhz on single thread at 1.425v, I'll just blame it on latest 550 nvidia linux driver/nvenc which broke my suspend/wol as well. It usually isn't in the neglected tower storage corner but where it normally lives has some Haswell junk I was testing some TrueNAS Scale stuff on recently.

     
    I keep looking around for worthwhile upgrades for X58 home server as well but most everything seems like an increase in power consumption or a steep decrease in available pci-e lanes. $20 used nvmes are just so tempting! LGA2011-3 stuff looks fun but I don't have a spare box of DDR4 just laying around like I do DDR3. Feature creep sets in and then IPMI would be great so I don't have to remove an nvme for a GT1030 to configure the boot order because the HBA decides it's more important after a few years and a power loss. Utilizing all of the pci-e slots and lanes right away isn't appealing. Newer built in board features and what do I really need vs. want. Splitting my VM off into a separate SFF box instead, oh look now I need a switch and 10g SFP+ sounds fun.
     
    Ehhh, it's still doing it's job perfectly fine and it could probably use some larger drives again instead.
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    Crunchy Dragon got a reaction from Somerandomtechyboi in Purchased wrong ram for my 7950x3d build.   
    It'll run.
     
    XMP settings might be finicky, but it shouldn't be the end of the world. DDR5 is so blazingly fast naturally, I doubt any of us would really notice a performance difference with the slowest DDR5 compared to the midrange DDR4.
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    Crunchy Dragon got a reaction from ImWilly in Purchased wrong ram for my 7950x3d build.   
    It'll run.
     
    XMP settings might be finicky, but it shouldn't be the end of the world. DDR5 is so blazingly fast naturally, I doubt any of us would really notice a performance difference with the slowest DDR5 compared to the midrange DDR4.
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    Crunchy Dragon reacted to PolloTech in Did I broke my new MoBo with the Ryzen heat sink?   
    @Hellowpplz @podkall @Crunchy Dragon

    Thanks for the time!, Yeah last night i was testing and i can screw in all the other 3 heatsink screws all the way except for the one that is in the same side at the sligthly bend one, I alerady call for warranty so I will have to wait (3 to 4 weeks aprox), in the meanwhile im usign the computer as is, temps are en 40~39 on idle so i figure it will be fine
     
    Thanks again for the coments and help
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    Crunchy Dragon got a reaction from podkall in Did I broke my new MoBo with the Ryzen heat sink?   
    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.
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    Crunchy Dragon got a reaction from goatedpenguin in Can I load an OS installer on my primary drive itself?   
    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.
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    Crunchy Dragon got a reaction from Sauron in Can I load an OS installer on my primary drive itself?   
    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.
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    Crunchy Dragon got a reaction from Needfuldoer in Can I load an OS installer on my primary drive itself?   
    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.
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    Crunchy Dragon got a reaction from Gat Pelsinger in Can I load an OS installer on my primary drive itself?   
    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.
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    Crunchy Dragon got a reaction from Lurick in Why are companys like Thermaltake and Thermalright named so similar   
    It was an ASUS psyop all along
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    Crunchy Dragon got a reaction from jaslion in Cheap Home Server   
    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.
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    Crunchy Dragon reacted to podkall in Why are companys like Thermaltake and Thermalright named so similar   
    you forgot to put PRIME at the end of everything, is ASUS a fan of Transformers?
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    Crunchy Dragon got a reaction from podkall in Why are companys like Thermaltake and Thermalright named so similar   
    It was an ASUS psyop all along
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    Crunchy Dragon reacted to manikyath in Why are companys like Thermaltake and Thermalright named so similar   
    ThermalMaster CoolerQuiet BeArctic 420 ARGB...
     
    wait, are we ASUS's marketing department now?
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    Crunchy Dragon reacted to jaslion in Advice on an old laptop   
    Nah you can literally get a dell latitude hp probook,.. for 100 pounds with the better specs you want without having to do all the work.
     
    I'd say for such an old laptop just leave it and save a bit of money for something better. 300 pounds gets you a NICE used laptop for example that is MANY times faster than this one.
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    Crunchy Dragon got a reaction from voyager_ in UPGRADE in secret/ without IT Department knowing   
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    Discussion of circumventing workplace monitoring is not permitted here, per our Community Standards:
     
     
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    Crunchy Dragon got a reaction from podkall in Why are companys like Thermaltake and Thermalright named so similar   
    Personally my favorite is Thermalwrong.
     
    /s
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    Crunchy Dragon got a reaction from 8tg in Does gpu's price matter?   
    Yup. It basically doesn't matter, but to some extent, you will get what you pay for.
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    Crunchy Dragon got a reaction from Hellowpplz in Did I broke my new MoBo with the Ryzen heat sink?   
    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?
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    Crunchy Dragon reacted to Hellowpplz in Why are companys like Thermaltake and Thermalright named so similar   
    I love thermalgive
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    Crunchy Dragon reacted to 8tg in Does gpu's price matter?   
    Basically this
     
    Heres the MSI Ventus 3x 3090

    it had a reference msrp of $1499, and for the brief moment prices were normalized, would even go on sale new for under msrp 
    It’s features include:
    -having 3 fans
    -specifying it has 3 fans in the model name
    -being 2.5 slot, genuine feature on the box

     
    here’s a colorful kudan 3090

    it costs $5000, they made like 200 of them tops 
    it’s features include 
    -a hybrid hot swappable 240mm AIO and 3 fan air cooler
    -a custom milled brass GPU support 
    -an oled status display panel, adjustable positioning 
    -it comes in a flight case
    -the first thing in the case is a pair of white gloves so you don’t get fingerprints on it
     
    i mean guess which one performs better?
     
    but then at the same time, the Ventus isn’t noticeably worse than a reference 3090, its perfectly adequate 
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    Crunchy Dragon got a reaction from GuiltySpark_ in Why are companys like Thermaltake and Thermalright named so similar   
    Personally my favorite is Thermalwrong.
     
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    Crunchy Dragon got a reaction from WereCat in Why are companys like Thermaltake and Thermalright named so similar   
    Personally my favorite is Thermalwrong.
     
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