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Oh, whoops, that's a typo- I'm gonna be keeping the GPU I have now since it's doing fine (Even though it would become the bottleneck rather than the CPU). That is good to hear, I was worried I'd run into problems finding a cooler within cost. Although for a 65w chip I guess that isn't much a worry, especially if I'm not going to be 100%ing it all the time. Alright, that's fair. I haven't dealt with Windows stuff in a long time, would my current (old) key still work on the reinstall? And thanks for the part recommendations, I'll take a look at them.

Budget (including currency): Soft limit $800 USD, $1000 to stretch Country: US Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Minecraft, VR, streaming, Discord video+screenshare, lots of background programs, programming+compilation, usually multiple of those at once Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Alright, so my current PC is kinda old as f-k and is buckling a bit under load. With individual loads, it runs okay-ish, but the bottlenecks are very noticeable in VR and when I start doing more than a few things at once. I'd also highly prefer to move to an SFF case for the significant portability benefits that gives (plus I just need a new case anyway). Here's my current machine, no I am not making this up: - AMD FX 6300 @ 4.2GHz - Zotac Nvidia GTX 1070 Mini - 4x4GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1600 - Hyper 212 Evo - EVGA Supernova 650w G2, fully modular - Crucial 250GB SATA SSD (boot drive and fast storage for projects/temp files) - Seagate 1TB 7200rpm (original hard drive of this machine, now used as my primary active data storage for games) - WD 3TB 5400rpm bulk drive, for game recordings, log files, stuff I don't use much My planned upgrade is as follows: - Ryzen 5600x - Nvidia GTX 1070 - 2x8GB some 3200MHz memory - I don't need max performance or anything, this upgrade will be good enough lol - (CPU cooler?) - (ITX Motherboard?) - EVGA Supernova 650w G2 - Crucial 250GB SATA SSD (as boot drive still) - 1TB NVMe SSD for data? - WD 3TB 5400rpm bulk drive And most importantly, I'm hoping to fit all of this in an SFF case. I think the NR200(p) appears to be the best option I've found so far - it can apparently hold two hard drives with the side bracket, and is also possible to fit an ATX power supply. Since I have a fairly small GPU (it only extends maybe 10cm past the PCIe slot itself), I figure that I should be able to fit the ATX power supply okay. I plan on replacing the 1TB hard drive with an NVMe SSD, since it holds my most important data and is the oldest drive. SMART statistics on it right now seem okay, but it is old enough I don't want to trust it solely. I do have fairly good backups, but I just wanna be safe anyway. Oh, and another concern - would Windows on my current boot drive still work? I would much prefer not to reinstall, but I don't want it to stop working either. So anyways, I'd appreciate people's thoughts and suggestions on my upgrade plan here. It looks like I *may* be able to fit it in around $800, which would be awesome if so. Part suggestions for the cooler and motherboard would also be appreciated on this front. Thanks!

At 6:50 (https://youtu.be/_Ua-d9OeUOg?t=410). I'd love to have a source for that desktop background, that's too damn adorable

My CPU temps have never been noticeably remarkable with this cooler. Yesterday I took the entire thing out, cleaned the CPU and waterblock surface, and remounted it (which I haven't done in probably a year, maybe two). When I put everything back together with new thermal paste and remounted it, the pump block started making a weird noise that sounded like it was either dry or had particles running around inside of it. The CPU was heating up several degrees per minute simply sitting in the BIOS, so it was clear it wasn't working. I took it out again and shook the entire thing nice and hard, but it still sounds like it's stuck. In testing, one tube is warm but the other is cold, which is quite confusing - the pump seems to be running (stuff is making noise), but water isn't flowing? I've got the cooler plugged into my variable bench power supply, and I've tried shaking it, turning it in various orientations (maybe I can shake the blockage out of the waterblock?), giving everything a good whack to dislodge anything, but nothing is making it run normally. Right now it's just running by itself plugged in, and it's been making this noise for a few minutes. I've attached a sample of this noise. It sounds like the first moment of the clip constantly, I think something in windows is fading out the noise it's making. Hence, I suspect something is either clogging the loop, or it's filled with particles. Any thoughts and advice? CPU: AMD FX-6300 Cooler: Corsair H100i GTX noise.mp3

Is your card overclocked? That could be one reason why they are failing.

Stuck at 143 FPS? That looks like it might be something locking your FPS to your monitor's refresh rate. Check Nvidia Control Panel if any of the vsync or frame limiter options are enabled.

Minecraft's in-game performance is highly variable and really unpredictable. Better hardware gives generally diminishing returns as after a certain point you're more limited by the game itself. In no particular order, here's some tips that I've found are good for improving FPS: Optifine is a must, since it lets you fine tune your graphical settings. VBOs: On Max Framerate: Unlimited - A bug in 1.14 or lower could cause the frame limiter to actually reduce FPS Antisotropic Filtering: off Antialiasing: off Smooth FPS: On Smooth World: On Fast Render: On Fast Math: On Dynamic Updates: On Render Regions: On Decreasing the render distance will help, with less to render. (I tend to crank mine up as high as I can, because 64 chunks render distance in minecraft is amazing) Reduce the entity count in your world (eg. if you have a cow pen with more than like a dozen, kill a few) Give the game a boatload of memory. The game can consume dozens or hundreds of megabytes of memory per second at times, so it will be quite constrained with less RAM. This actually does help. I give my game about 1/2 of my system memory (~8 GB) and it runs well. Oceans can reduce your FPS as the game is rendering the water plus chunks behind the water, plus blending the colors together. The three biggest factors for your FPS is the entity count (E: value in F3), the particle count (P: value), and the onscreen chunk count (C: value ). The more onscreen chunks there are, the lower your FPS will be. On my 1070 I can get 85 FPS on 32 chunks with around 5000 onscreen chunks, which is pretty good. Don't change the Java version Minecraft runs on. Minecraft intentionally uses its own Java version for compatibility, as newer versions can cause problems. If you join a server, it only renders as many chunks as the server is configured, even if your client is set to 32 chunks. It's not worth changing this setting for servers. Also, OP said he's not on a server anyways

140k PPD isn't much, but it'll add up over time I get 700k on my 1070, but that only runs when I'm using my system, which is far from 24/7. So those probably balance out.

agreed with above. I have an overclocked FX 6300 so folding on my CPU isn't worth it to potentially overheat it, not to mention it's hardly worth it for like 20k PPD? My 1070 just runs in the background all the time and cranks out almost 700k PPD while I'm even using the system. It can handle the 70c load much better.

Here's my entry. A .bashrc function that combines cd, ls, and mkdir, all into one: function scd { if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then return 0 fi if [ -d "$@" ]; then builtin cd "$@" ls return 0 fi if [ ! -d "$@" ]; then mkdir "$@" && echo "scd: new directory created" && cd "$@" return 0 fi } It is so useful so that you don't have to do BS like make a directory after trying to cd into it but it doesn't exist, or having to always run ls after entering a new directory.

Aha, thanks! I added exclusions for FAHClient.exe and the data directory and that seems to have fixed it. Don't know what really changed for that to make a difference, but whatever, it's working now haha

I've been running FAH for a while now (well before the pandemic), and as of this morning I got a bizarre issue that one of the GPU cores needed an update, and it got stuck trying to update the core. In order to solve this, I completely uninstalled FAH and all of the associated data in order to see if a fresh installation would work. However, when reinstalling, I've got a new problem: Trying to add a GPU slot does not work and doesn't save. Exact steps: 1. Have a fresh installation of FAH, with default installation and data directories (I had it custom, tried default, it didn't make a difference). 2. Open advanced control, and go into the Slots tab 3. Create a new Slot, select GPU, and save. 4. No GPU is added to the list, and the log doesn't show it saved the new configuration. I would include logs....but literally nothing shows up in the log during any of that (default level 3). I have the GPUs.txt file, I have working drivers. It was working quite literally this morning, and I haven't rebooted it since. I also attempted to manually add a GPU slot in config.xml: <slot id='1' type='GPU'> However, then FAH wouldn't even start with that in. Any ideas?

Heh, I got ninja'd.. Anyway, it's up to you to decide if you're okay with that solution. If it comes back then you could do that again or you could try and find a different solution, it's up to you. Personally, I'd wait and see if it does it again.

Go to the "Processes" tab and sort by Disk, what does it have there?