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    Meganter reacted to WoodenMarker in Black Box   
    With a UHD monitor and a bunch of photos to store, my high school friend was ready for a gaming PC upgrade.
    Did you read the title? It's time for black, gray, and maybe some silver.
     

     
    Besides overkill cooling, nothing much to note.
     
    CPU: Intel Core i5-10400F
    CPU Cooler: Scythe Kotetsu w/Noctua NF-S12B Redux PWM
    Motherboard: MSI MAG Mortar Intel B460M
    Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX Black 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3000mhz CL15 (2666mhz)
    SSD1: Samsung 860 Pro 256GB
    SSD2: Inland Platinum 2TB SSD
    HDD1: WD Green 3TB
    HDD2: Barracuda Green 3TB
    Graphics Card: EVGA FTW3 Ultra RTX 3080 10GB
    Case: Fractal Design Meshify C Mini
    Case Fans: 3x Scythe Gentle Typhoon AP-15, 1x Noctua NF-S12B Redux PWM
    Power Supply: EVGA Super Nova 750 G5, ABNO1 PSU Cable Kit 3.0 Gray/White 11 4/5 inch Length with Cable Combs
    LEDs: Phanteks RGB LED Strip
     




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    Meganter reacted to minibois in Your unpopular (non-political, non-offensive) opinions!   
    I have always thought my opinion wasn't that unpopular, but a lot of people still disagree (then again, a lot of people do agree).
     
    Personally I think the graphics in Minecraft are great. Not from a technical standpoint, but from an aesthetic standpoint.
    The simpleness allows for a lot of things to be built.
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    Meganter got a reaction from WhitetailAni in one of the threads of all time   
    Y'all weird.
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    Meganter reacted to Lurick in My motherboard turns on but nothing else   
    Did you read the manual that comes with the motherboard that tells you where to plug these things in? Section 1-5 clearly explains it.
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    Meganter reacted to Levent in My motherboard turns on but nothing else   
    B550 chipset supports 3600 out of the box no matter what. PCIE is also a standard so there aint any compatibility issues there. When it doubt, RTFM. Anyways, reseat your rams as the first step of troubleshooting.
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    Meganter reacted to TVwazhere in General PC case survey   
    I may have gone a bit overboard on mine 😅
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    Meganter reacted to DeepCool Alan in General PC case survey   
    https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/T79J2LM
     
    Hello everyone, official DeepCool rep here. We got permission from the mods to post a general PC case survey in the off-topic section that's looking to take a pulse on the current case market to help guide us into making a better product.
     
    No personal information or emails are required, so no marketing shenanigans here. We're just looking to get honest answers and opinions from the community.
     
    I've posted this up to other areas on the internet and in hindsight there were a few questions that we definitely missed such as 5.25" drive bays, so if you feel we missed something make sure to leave a comment on the last question of the survey!

    Thanks!
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    Meganter reacted to Mateyyy in 16 vs 32gb Sweet Spot in the future.   
    Should be fine for 2027, but 2028... hard to say.
     
    The real question however is whether 10GB of VRAM will be enough in 2077.
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    Meganter reacted to Kotonoha in cat thread   
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    Meganter reacted to AT0MAC in iMbalance - a very weird box of power [RX6800XT]   
    So, HERE IT IS

    I named it iMbalance as it's a odd pair, the overclocked 8600K, with a bunch of drives, watercooled with a too large AIO, in a very small cube case, very many fans, 64GB RAM and a brand new kinda overpowered GPU - pretty much imbalanced, but it works
     

     
    Made this picture for my instagram, it was easier than posting a bunch of pictures, you guys got the whole story instead
     


    New parts list:
    Asus Maximus Code X Z370 motherboard Intel i5 8600K Der8auer Advanced Edition CPU OCed to 5000 MHz 64 GB Patriot Viper Steel (2x32) GB DDR4 CL16 3000 MHz AsRock RX6800XT graphics card Corsair Force MP500 120GB NVME SSD for boot 500 GB HDD for media (I draw a lot) 1TB WD Black for games 240 GB SSD for editing video (I do that too) Corsair ML120 120mm fans (12 of them!) Phanteks 120mm Halos Lux fan frames HW Labs Nemesis GTS 240 white radiator EVGA SuperNova G2 750watt Gold PSU   All sorts of wire extensions to make it pretty. Duct tape and heat shielding gold tape A shelf, a part of a desk and some scrap aluminium Fake carbon vent and a HW Labs Nemesis GTS 240 white radiator  
    I have a old 1000 watt Corsair PSU I might consider putting in instead, I had a weird thing happen a day I tried Watchdogs Legion on Ultra, with 25% extra details and RTX on medium, it worked, had 25fps, but it quit unexpcted - I think it made a power spike it could not handle (it works smooth if I dial it down, just had to try)
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    Meganter reacted to AT0MAC in iMbalance - a very weird box of power [RX6800XT]   
    It's done, let me show you some of the details
     
    This old cap for the watercooling loop I used to have, give it bit of a steampunk feel
     
     
     
    View of the side, it has a special feature - I since the build swapped out the RAM for a 64GB kit, instead of the 16, and I could do that without disassembling anything - just reach in and swap
    Also, thats the AIO there on top, I mounted it basically with some fan mounts and really strong double sided tape - it works wonders both to dampen vibration as it does to stick things down
     
    If I was to do this permanent, I would rivet the mounts on instead, but I guess I at some point re-do all this again so this will do for now (like, lets say I swap motherboard and CPU)
    I glued on this fake carbon vent for a car, just to make it look different and because I had it laying around
     
     
     
    A bit of CyperPunk mood when the lights are on, am I right?
     
    This is 4x RGB fan frames, a lighting fan on the GPU, RGB light spread across the motherboard, a mini screen on the AIO and a large white flood light LED mounted with magnets on the inside of the case lid
     

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    Meganter reacted to AT0MAC in iMbalance - a very weird box of power [RX6800XT]   
    Here is a fun fact, you might notice the mirrors around the case on one of the pictures
     
    The reason being, it's inside a closet so when plugging it in, I really can't see much - so I use a flashlight and mirrors, while I stand on a stepladder
    Yes, it's NOT your everyday computer build if you have not guessed it yet 😉
     
     
     
    I use this rig for video editing, playing games, drawing and much more - I have more computers than most people, but this one, is my star of the show
     
    At this stage, I tried playing Sea of Thieves at the highest quality, man it looks purdy!
     
     
     
    Also played Assassins Creed Valhalla, I'm danish btw, so I am viking and absolute love this game, also on Ultra quality, damn...
     
     
     
    Yeah, I'm sort of a ingame photographer, so this is absolute critical that I can play in high quality
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    Meganter reacted to AT0MAC in iMbalance - a very weird box of power [RX6800XT]   
    Time to wrap it up, kinda...
     
    I had some gold foil tape laying around, it's ment to be use on cars, and some white duct tape, I figured that could look cool - so taped up the front panel
    One of the front USB ports never worked, for some odd reason, so I block that port off with the tape, same goes for the front audio, I don't use it and never will
     
     
     
    Sneak peek of the finished system, it looks pretty nice I'd say
     
     
     
    Remember I said I put a LED fan frame both in front and behind the front fans?
    It actually ended up matching the effect on the graphic card almost spot on
     

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    Meganter reacted to AT0MAC in iMbalance - a very weird box of power [RX6800XT]   
    After a clean, from a few different angles
     
    How the innards look now, with a few more of my old water cooling bits added, just for looks
     
     
     
    Sorry it's not super sharp, pictures are all taken with my phone and it's like anything else a few years old, so it's not the greatest
     
     
     
    The reflection on the AIO is actually one of the coloringbook pages I have drawn myself, I do a lot of linework, that there is my pirate from Sea of Thieves, drawn in Illustrator, and colored with colorpencils
     
    The grey power cable is from Reaper Cables, from that Reaper PC I linked earlier, I had an extra one laying around and figured, grey don't look too out of place in this build (the GPU uses 3x8 pin power connectors, totally mad)
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    Meganter reacted to AT0MAC in iMbalance - a very weird box of power [RX6800XT]   
    Just like in TV shows, I cheated
     
    Because I have actually been running with the aio for a while, one of the valves in the hardline loop somehow broke and started dripping, not sure how it happened but it did and that's why I originally rush jobbed in the aio like this
     
    It looks pretty bad, so this is the time to do it better
     
     
     
    Before you ask, that thing on the table is a blunderbomb replica I made from the game Sea of Thieves, and its laying in a pile of gold, because i'm a pirate
     
     
     
    I really like this trend of making technology black, grey and white (I painted the case white)
    As it was sitting there I test fittet the AsRock RX6800XT and damn, it's big
     
     
     
    Guess you can kinda see it there, but I have mounted a Phanteks fanframe to the inside of the front fans, so they actually have LED frames both in front and behind
     
    That totally covered the 5mm space, just look at it
     
     
     
    I cleaned the case and the dust and all after this, this was just a test fit
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    Meganter reacted to AT0MAC in iMbalance - a very weird box of power [RX6800XT]   
    I did not want to spend money on the re-build itself, i mean, hardware is expensive enough
     
    So I found a old shelf I had laying around, and the left over paint from the Reaper PC I linked earlier, started to cut the shelf and painted it
    In the drawing it's wooden, but I figured it would look better in black
     
     
     
    Drilled a bunch of holes, and mounted my old radiator to the side, with some of my unused fittings, and glued some aluminum to the inside - mainly because I had it, and I did not feel like painting both sides of the wood
     
     
     
     
     
    Put some rubber dampers on the screws, so I did not have to screw the radiator in fully, it's even balancing itself off the fittings there, I countersunk some holes so they sit sort of flush into the surface
     
    I did not bother to screw in the lower row of screws, it's only on for cosmetics, because I had it and it looks kinda cool
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    Meganter reacted to AT0MAC in iMbalance - a very weird box of power [RX6800XT]   
    First things first for any big build like this - plan!
     
    So I fired up SketchUp and started drawing and a whole lot of measuring
     
     
     
    Let me just tell you, the motherboard, fans and radiator is models I found in the SketchUp library, I did not draw those.
    But, I did make all the holes in the fan grills, because I really wanted to see how this might look
     
     
     
     
     
    That thing the fans are on, is a front panel off a case I modded a few years back
     
    The thing is, I needed to switch out the hardline tubing as I simply can't fit it inside the case with this massive gpu
    Instead I bought a AIO, but as everything is hard to come by these days, I ended up with a 360 model, that I also can't fit inside the case...
    Good thing is, I'm basically a unemployed artist (pretty cliché), I make video, draw my own coloring book and much more, so thinking outside the box really can not surprise me
     
    If I build it sort of as I've drawn it, then it will fit!
     
    I re-measured the internals, I should have space for the 33cm long GPU
     
     
     
    See, in the drawing, that's the 5mm, between the front fans and the back end of the GPU
     

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    Meganter reacted to AT0MAC in iMbalance - a very weird box of power [RX6800XT]   
    Firstly let me explain a thing
     
    The computer is inside a closet, because of cooling (I drilled holes in my house for outside air) - all that is in the old thread
     
    But that brings me to this, I have a little bit of size restrictions and the best fitting case in "this case" is the Lian Li PC-V33
    It's a now pretty old cube styled case, can't actually find any good links for it anymore, it's that old.
     
    I have modded it quite a lot already, but its going to get a little wilder this time around, sort of.
     
    Here is the best picture of the standard case I could find, that's the reference
     

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    Meganter reacted to AT0MAC in iMbalance - a very weird box of power [RX6800XT]   
    So, I build this PC a while ago - the Killer Panda PC
     
    Let me show you the before pictures, what we are working with here:
     

     

     

     
    The parts before:
     
    Asus Maximus Code X Z370 motherboard Intel i5 8600K Der8auer Advanced Edition CPU OCed to 5000 MHz 16 (2x8) GB Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR4 2400MHz CL10 RAM (OCed to 3000MHz) Zotac Amp Extreme GTX 1070 graphics card Corsair Force MP500 120GB NVME SSD for boot 500 GB HDD for media (I draw a lot) 1TB WD Black for games 240 GB SSD for editing video (I do that too) Corsair ML120 120mm fans (14 of them!) Phanteks 120mm Halos Lux fan frames HW Labs Nemesis GTS 240 white radiator EVGA SuperNova G2 750watt Gold PSU Koolance 702 coolant    All sorts of wire extensions to make it pretty. A panda sticker A blood spatter sticker Bamboo tape It's an absolute awesome PC to use

    But it's starting to show its time, mostly because of the 1070...
    Pretty damn bad timing! But I found sort of an okay deal, soooo....
     

     
    Yes, I bought a RX6800XT
     
    And THAT's why I need to re-arrange things, because this graphic card is MASSIVE (the weight alone is 1.815 grams, as in, almost 2KG)
     
    Let me show you what I did...
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    Meganter reacted to Brien Gaffney in Pc Build V1.0   
    New on here decided id showcase my latest project. I've been interested in building my own pc for a few years now but never had the money or time, with so much work being done at home and the addition of games the past year or so like Warzone I decided the time was right... (minus trying to source a reasonably priced gpu)
     
    PC and Peripherals
    Case: Corsair icue 220t
    Psu: Corsair Cx650m
    Cooler: Corsair H80i V2
    Ram: Corsair 16gb 3000mhz (2x8gb)
    Cpu: Ryzen 3 2200g @3.85ghz
    Gpu: sahpire pulse Rx580 4Gb
    Motherboard: Aorus B450m
    Boot drive: sabrent 512gb nvme
    Storage: 1tb wd drive
     
     
    Monitor:Dell  s2421h
    Mouse: Corsair Harpoon wireless 
    Keyboard: Corsair K55 keyboard 
     
    (not a corsair fanboy but from the little knowledge I had about pcs before building it , they seemed like good quality and the peripherals were cheap second hand !)
     
    Really didn't like the color scheme of the gpu backplate so I got some heat resistant paint and primer and gave it a couple of very light coats and I'm very impressed with it. No noticeable difference in Temperatures under. I'm not too keen on the crazy RBG colors, I feel a black case and internals looks pretty clean.
    Tried to keep costs for peripherals, desk and chair at a minimum so most of it is either second hand or fixed, had an old desk lying around which came out nice with a lick of grey paint. Tried to keep the build pretty clean, tidy cables was definitely high up on the priority list, got some cable clips on amazon as well as some double sided tape and zip ties to tidy up the back of the desk and pretty happy with it. Future plans are to wire the speakers with an amp which I have ordered, figure a way of hiding the ethernet cable and maybe upgrade to a wireless keyboard. If There's anything you like/dislike about the build or have any suggestions I would really appreciate it !




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    Meganter reacted to Tristerin in Project QuickNas   
    Inspiration - Digital Media Storage for Youtube channel in the works.  System will be used to retrieve from, and store raw 4k 30fps video, edited video, and final video from publisher.  
     
    Why these components?  Some had on hand not being used, others purchased after asking questions here.
     
    Components:
     
    Case: ANTEC 300 Two
    Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair Hero VI ATX X370
    CPU: Ryzen 7 1700
    CPU Cooler: Stock AM4 Cooler
    RAM: G-Skill Tridentz 3200mhz CL16 2x8gb
    GPU: Gigabyte HD7850 2gb 
    PSU: Corsair TX650M
    HDD: 6x 4tb WD Red Pro 3.5" drives
    SSD: 1x 1tb WD Black SN750 NVMe drive
     
    This was a quick slap together build, putting FreeNas on two USB drives for boot drives.  Spent about 30 minutes putting it together so no real focus on anything other than getting the components together, and taking some pics for PCB pr0n.  
     
    Started with an NZXT case that was hidden behind crap at the shop for far to long.
     

     
    Out of the case

     
    RAMZ
     

     
    About to do re-surgery
     

     
    Moar storage
     

     
    Storage going home to its home on Raid Island
     

     
    Out with the small drive, in with the BLACKNESS
     

     
     
    STORYTIME:  Welp it happened - that old dusty, crusty CPU cooler pulled the CPU out of the socket, which was glued so bad to the cooler I had to use a butter knife to pry it off.  Did I mention that I bent two pins on the CPU when the cooler pulled it from the socket?
     
    Straightened them back up and in we went.  Oh and as for reusing that CPU cooler - not today AMD, not today.  Grabbed an old, new in the box, R7 1700 cooler from the parts pile.  Plus all my TIM is at the shop so I didnt have any and this still had the factory application!

     
     
    And everything where its supposed to go.  Need to go to the store and get some longer threaded screws, front of case requires radiator length screws for the front intake, and all of that is at the shop (plus Im not sure how many extra I have).
     
    All in all, the ANTEC 300 is SUPER EASY to build in.  But also super basic.  I could see myself using this personally, but would not be a go to for me.  Got this one for $54 shipped as it was an Open Box and got lucky.  Would not pay retail based on the lack of finish on the case.
     
     

     

     
     
    Thanks for checking out my QuickNas build.  Was a quick project, quickly done, to get crap moving on our end for getting my next project going and thats taking a Threadripper system and doing similar with it.  Using the Fractal Design Meshify 2 for that.
     
    If you want, and have time - please check out my other build log still in the works here at LTT - taking a little more time on it with the execution.
     
    Project Odyssey - Build Logs - Linus Tech Tips
     
    Thanks once again for looking at my PCB pr0n!
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    Meganter got a reaction from Mateyyy in one of the threads of all time   
    Y'all weird.
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    Meganter reacted to Haro in one of the threads of all time   
    Lol.
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    Meganter got a reaction from piratemonkey in one of the threads of all time   
    Y'all weird.
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