AdamTheSlave

I believe the h100i v2 uses mx4, so you are safe

@Adab5 Also if you currently have liquid metal on the outside of your cpu (you can tell when you take off the current cooler, and if the cpu looks shiny, like a mirror surface, you need to remove EVERY TRACE of liquid metal from the cpu. That can be hard. Basically, you should be able to read the writing on the cpu when you get done cleaning.

That is fine for delidding, inbetween the cpu's die and integrated heat spreader is good. On the outside of the heat spreader and on the cooler itself = bad. Basically, what I'm saying is use the thermal compound that comes with the a240g on the cpu/gpu, not gallium/liquid metal/conductonaught/cool lab ultra.. If it comes out looking like liquid metal, don't put it on the top of the cpu/gpu or else you will degrade the aluminum pretty close to instantly to the point you will crack the blocks.

The router can be fixed easily, hit the reset button or simply reflash the device. And believe it or not, IoT devices are the main target of most hackers in this field now. I'm pretty sure that doesn't stop them, considering DDOS attacks went up 91% in 2017 due to IoT devices alone... https://www.techrepublic.com/article/ddos-attacks-increased-91-in-2017-thanks-to-iot/

Sure, right now. But the more lucrative the target, the more people look at it. From a hacker's perspective, smart home products are a great target since the user wouldn't even notice what was happening. There have been several articles about IoT devices getting hijacked and used for things like DDOS attacks. So, yeah, not really like winning the lottery, more like a matter of time.

I feel like the only guy that isn't giving into things like Alexa/Google Home.... I just don't really see the use of them. Yeah I know you can make a smart home with them, and that's swell. But I really couldn't care less about that stuff. I think what I fear is my home network getting compromised in some way, and some russian 9 year old running scripts on the things to DDOS a local power station or simply turn on my furnace and shut off my A/C in the middle of a hot summer

Once you get started, if you run into any snags... get your favorite irc client (x-chat, irssi, weechat, whatever), and go to: server: irc.freenode.net and most distros have some sort of help channel chat there. Example: #ubuntu #kubuntu #lubuntu #xubuntu #debian #arch #elementary #gentoo #centos #redhat etc etc etc Also, I do really suggest the actual dummies books, I learned linux a loooong time ago off them, and they are pretty straight forward.

well for things like updates, it could just be that you are downloading them from the usa or something. Like in ubuntu, you can specify the mirror to download from. But yeah, I mean installs aren't instant, because you download the package you need, then download the packages it depends on, and the packages those depend on until all dependencies are met. A simple sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade can take 10 minutes or longer depending on how behind you are on updates. If you are using ssh to admin the server though there is latency of course to think about with the time that you type in a command and how long it takes to respond at times. Sometimes it can take a few seconds to establish a connection. I would guess that matters on how much bandwidth is being used at your host. TLDR: Yeah, call your host, let them know what's happening, maybe they can check it out.

As a side note/warning, don't use liquid metal on your a240g at all for thermal compound. It will be destroyed immediately. Have fun with the kit. I used it myself and it's great.

I agree with the dark rock. Water cooling is great, but if you aren't going to overclock, and you are apprehensive about water in the first place, do what makes you feel comfortable. Personally I only got into water cooling 3 years ago for overclocking, and it's great for that. Now you could do water cooling on your gpu though, and it would see the biggest improvement if you are a gamer

Perhaps you could find someone to trade their founder's edition for your FTW, since if they aren't going to water cool, the FTW would be better on air? I'd check around to local computer shops or perhaps put an ad on craig's list or letgo or something.

I'm going to be honest here... no one has replied because you made this post extremely hard to read. It's litterally a 200 word sentence man. Slow down, put in things like periods, commas, etc. On to your problem, 8700k's run hot. I have one myself and it took delidding it to get slightly better temps. Your AIO is fine, just make sure you installed the backplate correctly so the slot on the inside lets the rivets/bolts/whatever through and the backplate is flush against the back of the socket. If you had to move it around, make sure you re-apply thermal paste by removing the old, cleaning with alcohol and reapply. 90c when running like prime95 is normal if you did not delid. Delidding dropped me 10c total, so it benches at 80c, which is fine. When you are gaming, like pubg, the cpu will get to 50-60c. So, if it's stable for what you do, it's fine. If the heat is bothering you that bad, just clock it down, lower the voltage. The difference between 5ghz and 4.8ghz in gaming is little to none.

Once upon a time people considered it crazy to cool with water (some still do). Yet here we are. To be honest though, liquid metal wouldn't do much more than ambient temp cooling. Where the future needs to go is stable LN2 or water chiller cooling as intel pointed out on their little demo this year. Personally I'll just stick to water until they develop a more power and cost efficient water chiller rig I can stick inside the case.

Kinda hurts to see that board taken apart. They really did a nice job on the cooler design

Of course if you are doing like raytraced renders of animations and such of your models for like video production, depending on the renderer used, you will either want to get something like a threadripper or a high end quattro. Look at your software to figure out if it's accelerated by cuda or just uses raw cpu power.