The PC of Theseus

[ShadowChaser]

The recent F@H sprints have allowed me to revive my PC of Theseus that has existed in some form since 2019. Currently the only things remaining from the original build are just the fans and case, but it's fun to see this thing still hanging around.

 

The latest iteration is just a mish-mash of spare parts I had laying around to get some extra points and warm up my apartment:

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600

Mobo: AsRock B550 PG4

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2x16GB 2666

GPU0: EVGA RTX 3060Ti FTW3

GPU1: Nvidia Tesla P40

Storage: Samsung 970 Evo 500GB

PSU: Revolution D.F. 650W

All this built into a Raijintek Ponos and uses Noctua Redux 140 and 120s as case fans.

The Tesla P40 has a dual 40mm adapter I designed and is cooled by Arctic 40mm server fans.

 

Pretty pleased with the cable management in this iteration. For a budget case the Ponos is pretty good on cable routing options and that has always come in handy whenever I build in this chassis.

 

I can't quite get the P40 to dissipate more than 200-ish watts without the fans going screamo mode but I haven't repasted it yet. Hopefully that'll allow me to drop a few degrees and let me fun the 40mm fans at a more reasonable rpm. It is living in a hallway where the ambient temperature is about 15C so that does help matters a little  

[Jon-Slow]

29 minutes ago, ShadowChaser said:

I can't quite get the P40 to dissipate more than 200-ish watts without the fans going screamo mode but I haven't repasted it yet.

I mean you spent so much money on those expensive Noctua case fans when you could've spent it on any 12/14cm CPU cooler. Repasting that thing isn't going to do much for the noise, those stock AMD coolers are pretty crap by my standards for how much noise they make.

[podkall]

13 minutes ago, Jon-Slow said:

I mean you spent so much money on those expensive Noctua case fans when you could've spent it on any 12/14cm CPU cooler. Repasting that thing isn't going to do much for the noise, those stock AMD coolers are pretty crap by my standards for how much noise they make.

perhaps, but 65W TDP CPU doesn't really need a better cooler if you're not affraid it gets slightly warmer at all core loads

[ShadowChaser]

30 minutes ago, Jon-Slow said:

I mean you spent so much money on those expensive Noctua case fans when you could've spent it on any 12/14cm CPU cooler. Repasting that thing isn't going to do much for the noise, those stock AMD coolers are pretty crap by my standards for how much noise they make.

not talking about the 5600. That thing sips power and doesn't get hot anyway. The case fans I've had since the very beginning so the $15 or so per fan hardly matters anymore

The Tesla is probably 6 or 7 years old and doesn't look like it's been serviced in those years. I have it as supplemental heat since Pascal GPUs don't push as many points in F@H as they used to.

[8tg]

I kinda want to get into folding at home stuff, I’ve got a wall of gpus that could be put to use. 
loving the noctua redux fans, I use them in my main pc, gray vibes best vibes 

[Cracklingice]

So I was watching WAN show and they were talking about the forum and I thought to myself, gee I should probably update my profile and build log.  Decided the old title of used parts rebuild from the original post wasn't accurate and I've been joking about it being a PC of Thesus for a while so I went with that.  Decided to check the build logs and saw you also went with a similar title.  Sorry about the similarity, it was not intentional.

[Jon-Slow]

On 1/22/2024 at 12:06 AM, podkall said:

perhaps, but 65W TDP CPU doesn't really need a better cooler if you're not affraid it gets slightly warmer at all core loads

 

On 1/22/2024 at 12:23 AM, ShadowChaser said:

not talking about the 5600. That thing sips power and doesn't get hot anyway. The case fans I've had since the very beginning so the $15 or so per fan hardly matters anymore

 

yes, my poiny was the for the noise not the temps.

[podkall]

1 hour ago, Jon-Slow said:

 

 

yes, my poiny was the for the noise not the temps.

I mean sure, but even noise can be lowered for increased thermal anxiety

[ShadowChaser]

5 hours ago, Jon-Slow said:

 

 

yes, my poiny was the for the noise not the temps.

There's no real solution for the gpu without installing a vga cooler unfortunately or massively altering the stock heatsink assembly.

[Jon-Slow]

9 hours ago, podkall said:

I mean sure, but even noise can be lowered for increased thermal anxiety

I guess it's a personal thing and depends on how much noise you have in your room. But those stock AMD coolers have a difficult noise to them at any RPM in my room. But I'm very sensetive, I've even removed my GPU shroud and fans and ziptied 2 Arctic p14 fans to it. for me it's definitely worth it to spend the least amount of money on a cheap heatsink that can have  a 12cm fan on it at least.