Lemlurker

IDK if this would make a video or some shiz but ive heard from lots of people that they regularly reinstall windows and i did it recently and it really helped my fps, why is this? because now ive gone back to the old install as it corrupted and its stuttewr centeral over here with a 9900k and a 2080. even in light games like overwatch i get hangs and fps drops where i shouldnt, theres no unruly cpou or ram useage going on and no unknown porocesses its just slow and choppy for this install of windows only... any ideas why?

requires coolant flow to be able to read it... wasnt hot more than 3 cm down the line. my probe is about 15cm from the block, itd never read as hot its moot anyways as nmost of the time it barely got into windows

used to be when things werent connected to cpu fan header it shat the bed but since aios and similar that featuee increasingly died... id like corsair to have emergency elert settings should a marked fan read zero rpm when told to be higher and ideally some what of the box to error code or prevent posting should it detect no rpm

to prevent fans ramping and dropping and to make up for my lack of fan headers on my motherbaord all my fans are plugged into a commander pro which is temperature sensing from a priobe on the outflow tube of the cpu (kicks up the fans when outflow exceeds about 35c (allows also for zero rpm running when browsing t'internet at night with some tweaking of the fan curves and lights. however i might in stall a probe on the block itself. however there is no way for the commander pro to warn me of the pump not being plugged into it or a poarticular probve getting hot. ideally id set a certain header to turn off the pc if it readz zerom rpm but that isnt a feature and i couldnt get into windows long enough to bring up any hardware info

2 days from disaster: my new christmas present of a 3TB hard drive was installed. first off both old 1tb and new 3 in together to copy over then swap back in the temporarily removed 2tb for the one and im at my running capacity. doesnt put on back pannel incase i need access to drives again. 30 minuets from disaster: i was discussing with my boyfriend about what we could do so that we could play more together and decided that maybe we could move his pc into my house on my long ass desk so he could game whilst im on my pc whist over here. 20 minuets from disaster: having collected his pc the space clearing begins. 3d printers moved, under desk cleared, cables managed and tidied. i realise that since my pc is now backing up to open space i should reinstall my back panel i had removed a few days. things are a little stiff around the drive bay cables but it goes on okay. 5 minuets from disaster: i turn on my pc as im setting up the boyfriends to let it boot. seems fine first boot but it keeps turning off after about 5 minuets, each time booting slower and slower, at one point it even tried to disk check. first sign of issues. 30 seconds from disaster: i keep trying to boot the pc, it gets to windows but feels dogshit slow, i wonder if i had disturbed my bootdrive in the reinstall of the backpannel and it was booting off a forgotten windows install from the 2tb drive, it still keeps shiutting down before i can check the c drive. i try different wall sockets incase the cable management has caused an iffy connection 5 seconds from disaster: still booting i catch motion from the corner of my eye... OH SHIT LEAK, slow dripping leak from the inlet port of my EK velocity CPU block., i scramble for power as the life blood of my pc is dripping on my gpu backplate and dribbling around the pcie slot and down the motherboard, not too much fluid but a decent little puddle. i get the pc on its back and begine trying to think how i can drain the loop with a dodgy fitting and trying to figure out wtf caused this loop and why the pc was booting so slow investigations begin 5 minuets after disaster: i get the side panel off and grab a cloth on hand to mop the fluid off the motherboard and gpu, as i do this i touch the cpu block. its roasting hot, nearly enough to burn me. i get out my cat s61 phone with the thermal and measure the temperature of the block... 72 degrees even after being off for 5 mins. some semblance of the cause occurs to me... the pump mustve unplugged or stopped working causing the cpu to overheat, thermal throttle then shut down but why the leak? was it simple thermal expansion in the scorching hot fittings or something worse? turns out worse was an understatement. 10 minuets after disaster: first up i tried just tightening the fitting it was a little loose, but it didnt help. i finally managed to drain the loop, i remove the inlet fitting to find it horribly constricted, clouded and deformed. same goes for the inlet but to a lesser degree... the fluid in the tubes had gotten hot enough to surpass the glass transition temperature of my PETG tubing (80c) causing it to deform, and deform quickly under the pressure of the compression fitting. luckily the tube had not bowed outwards (due to lack of pump pressure) so i only needed to remove approximately 2cm from the inlet and outlet tubes and i had enough slack to pull this off without clashing with a bend. i then plumb it back in. i dig around in the hard drive bay tofind my pump cable. which had, as i suspected become unplugged. this is a design issue with the EK pump/res combos... they have stupendously short cables... like i have my outlets pointing towards the glass side so the cable comes out towards the back. i want to run the cable through the drive bay at the front bottom. the included cable is barely long enough to cross the width of the unit and reach into the hole. this means that the connector is close to the frame of the case and that any tension on the extension cable will pull the cable from the device plug.... this was the root cause... either way i plug it in and despite having trimmed the pipes fluid still comes out, though not enough to overwhelm the surface tension of the top of the EK block and i mop it up before it goes over my VRMs. i investigate further... i make a little closed loop with one 120mm rad, the two tubes and the cpu block in it, i seal one end and blow in the other and get instant bubbles from around the fitting. i remove the tube and repeat, i get the same. i then remove the fitting from the block and put my thumb over the hole and success! i have a seal, i look into the block and can see a definite dent around the hole from the oring... this means the temperature of the acetal top plate had exceeded 105 degrees... the pressure of the fitting causing the acetal to dimple and let fluid out... so i then re "plump" the oring on the fitting, reinstall and righted carefully with grips and a cloth and retest... and thank fuck... a seal. i rebuild and refil the pc total ordeal after discovering the fault and flicking the power off? about an hour... however all issues are not solved yet... since the event my thermals are through the roof... ive had to remove my 5.1ghz oc on my 9900k and back off thevoltage as a synthetic load was ramming it straight up to 100c. but even now its in the 90s under load. i suspect the thermal paste was dmaged by the extreme heat and so ill be replacing that as soon as some more comes (i used myu last installing this 9900k) anyways, apologies for the wall of text, i hope you enjoy my missfortune and always check your pumps y'all

theyve never been FASTER, just thew gap has alweays been really low and ive always been cpu limited

its always been like this ?

I keep finding myself using my gaming pc for more and more workstation style workloads and im constantly feeling like my 9600k just isn't keeping up, i dont ahave a bunch of disposable income as im a student and nor can my rig be offline for a long period since i need my pc for my 3rd yr project (VR development) but i sorely need an uipgrade but i cant decide which poduct line to commit to, ill detail out the usecases and id like to hear your opinions on where i should commit; 1) my rig is still primarily gaming focused, current specs are rtx 2080, 9600k at 5ghz, asrock z370 xtreme 4, 16gb corsair 3000mhz ddr4 and a full EK cooling loop 2) the primary heavy loads im running into long render times and baking are: -Blender -unity light baking -substance painter map baking -cod mw 2019 3) i have notice very uneaven fps in many games (1440p, 144) such as pubg, bfv, bf1 and cod along with similar aaa titles 4) i recently built and tested a 2600x based pc with a 1070 and it was SOOO smooth and only about 30fps behind my £2.5k machine 5) a friend with the exact same monitor as me is not *that* far behind me despite only having a 1060 because hes got a 3600x the trouble is this is an even bigger jump than normal to move platforms... i have a top spec dRGB EK velocity waterblock id have to replace if i move to AMD budget is what i get for selling my backup pc (i5 4690k, gtx 970) plus the resale value of the 9600k, waterblock and motherboard if i jump platform so far i have the following options (with questions and thoughts appended) Ryzen 3700x, x570 motherboard for around £460, take the £300 off for sale of 9600k, asrock mobo and ek velocity waterblock and its well within any budget for my sale of my pc with a little left over ryzen 3700x, b450 motherboard, £400. cheapest option for the best cpu, i dont know how the performance and features differ given the older chipset and board generation drop. i wont be using pcie gen 4 for a while i dont think ryzen 2700x b450 motherboard, cheapest option at just £250 i might actually get money back from the sale of my 9600k and block, let alone the back up pc, could use it to redo my loop somewhat) is there no R9 chip for the second gen? i7 9700k at about £300 id net mebe £100-120 loss compared to the sale of my 9600k. feels like a futile upograde for JUST two more cores i9 9900k, seems like a pipe-dream tbh, somehow i doubt this asrock z370 board is going to be able to push the i9 very hard but if it did that would be £450 so with the sale of my 9600k at around £180 itd cost me £270 so JUST within what i might be able to sell my backup rig for but that assumes i sell it well. im wouldnt have to get a newe cpu block (which saves me downgrading to a cheaper option) but i dont KNOW this fairly cheap motherboard can manage it and be able to OC to take use of my watercooling or even that my watercooling will be able to manage the increased thermal load of the 9900k, i have 1 240 and 1 120mm EK slimstream radiators and when i accidentally forgot the fan on my 120mm the system shut down, that said for the most part my fluid temps dont exceed around 40 degrees and my radiator exhauyst temps a little lower this final option also will likly have the least down time assuming it works, just a cpu swap over with no fiddling or pc rebuild, trouble is i dont particularly love this motherboard, its uninteresting in appearance, doesnt synk its lights with my corsair peripherals and lacks a dRGB header for my cpu block and possible reservoir upgrade in the future. i also feel like the Intel platform is gonna be a dead end... like no new cpu is gonna come to the z370 chipset, the ryzen seems way more open and with higher max options, especially with their new 16 core cpus should i want to truly workstation this pc in a year or so when im working pls halp i apologise for the wall of text, im super paranoid about making the wrong decision here and the longer i leave it the more other potential options seem to be creaping in and the less specific my saving and searching goals become ?