Bombastinator
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Yes. In theory, but I can’t make it Work
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Yes I’m bombastinator there too
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Location
Minnesota
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Member title
Duffer
System
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CPU
“Core 2100” 12700
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Motherboard
MSI b660m ddr4 wifi (I thought it was supposed to be one of the overclockable boards. It’s not. But it’s what I wound up with and it’s fast enough for my needs)
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RAM
Teamsomething 32gb 3200 cas 16 ddr4. Basically cheapass memory
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GPU
SFX SWFT 6800x. It was cheap.
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Case
Thermaltake core21. It’s the weirdest case I’ve ever had but also probably the best. Was cheap at microcenter. SFF cases are supposed to have no room in them but this one has gobs.
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Storage
2tb 980 pro &a 2tb 970 plus
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PSU
Evga 850w gsomething. It’s functional
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Display(s)
Gigabyte m32u. 32” low end ips monitor.
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Cooling
Thermalright peerless assassin 120 se. I thought I was overclocking. As it is I put only one fan on it and I have to load the thing to even make the fan spin.
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Keyboard
MSI Red dragon mechanical. Most cheapass keyboard with replacable keys I could find. It’s go annoying blinky lights on it but it seems I can turn them off.
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Mouse
Something ancient and Logitech. Basically it’s a mouse.
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Sound
Some sound bar I found at target. It has an optical connection which I ise
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Operating System
Win11 pro OEM. It was cheap. Could have gone with an educational version, but there was a time limit on that I didn’t know about
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Laptop
17” MacBook Pro it’s really old. Haven’t touched it in years. The battery is amazingly still functioning mostly. Fans are going bad. Only runs up to some out-of-date MacOS I Don’t dare let near the internet. Supposedly I can run Mohave on it I was told but I haven’t figured out how yet. One more thing for my now non existent copious free time.
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Phone
13promax
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Bombastinator's Achievements
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The way I think of it 120s are for prebuilts, 240s are for SFF, and 360s are for i9s and the very largest ryzen 3s and 4s. Pretty much everything else wants air.
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From rereading this it sounds like the update changed the fan curve. The way I have solved the issue of overload (inadequate) fans in the past is to put on bigger fans. My latest is a 6800xt I pulled the shroud from and replaced the 3 shroud fans with 2 140mm case fans these provide about the same amount of air but are much quieter.
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Mic volume suddenly randomly low despite doing nothing
Bombastinator replied to Elijah Kamski's topic in Audio
Lol. That kind of thing happens -
Mic volume suddenly randomly low despite doing nothing
Bombastinator replied to Elijah Kamski's topic in Audio
A mixer? Like the old style ones with all the sliders? Those things are easy to knock the volume on. -
“If the owner of this video has granted you access please sign in” artifcts are generally the gpu. Someone was talking earlier about how he was getting them from overheating memory ON his gpu though and solved it with copper shims
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Broke my monitor and need new recommendations
Bombastinator replied to razor_fist's topic in Displays
My move would be to put 1080p and 144hz into the filter on pcpartpicker and see what they have. For $300 you might be able to get a 4k/27”/144 and just run it at 1080p a lot of the time or FSR up. 4k/4=1080 so they do it quite well. -
WHAT MOTHERBOARD DO I BUUYYYY???
Bombastinator replied to Harflite's topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
Pcpartpicker should work for you then -
WHAT MOTHERBOARD DO I BUUYYYY???
Bombastinator replied to Harflite's topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
What country are you in? -
Optiplex 7040 not detecting discrete gpu
Bombastinator replied to Jobble_Gobble's topic in Troubleshooting
Does the 6500 need auxiliary power cables? Most do. There are a few exceptions. Generally at the low end. The 6400 and the 1650 don’t need them. 3050 too irrc. Old dells are the bread and butter of those cards because often Dell PSUs don’t have extra cables. -
Then no worries. A 360 AIO actually often has a larger envelope than big air. Only 900ks can actually make use of that but you’ve got one. big air is more in the 240 range. A rare case where an AIO is actually useful. For that kind of money you can probably do an open loop if you wanted. I like those better personally because I find AIOs to be die rolls. Sometimes you can get the air bubbles out of the pump sometimes you can’t.
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You can get 6 coolers for that money. Can you even fit a 360?
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Maybe. If it is some engineer at the company should be slapped upside the head though. More probable is the pump blade fell off the shaft. The head slapping still needs to occur, but it might not be the engineer that needs it.
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You’ll have to take the old one out anyway. The stock cooler on intel CPUs generally sucks but it’s probably better than what you have now. Another option is just undervolt it till you get to an acceptable heat envelope. Probably a lot slower but that may not make much of a difference in at least some situations.