OCD's Nightmare

[Lord Nicoll]

Behold, OCD's Nightmare. This was meant to be temporary but I ended up leaving it on account of it working not terribly. There are no fucks given to things I usually do well, and decided it suits the PC more to be left like this. 

[Starelementpoke]

2 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

Behold, OCD's Nightmare. This was meant to be temporary but I ended up leaving it on account of it working not terribly. There are no fucks given to things I usually do well, and decided it suits the PC more to be left like this. 

Why are you using a stock AMD cooler for your most likely FX CPU?

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, Starelementpoke said:

Why are you using a stock AMD cooler for your most likely FX CPU?

It's a stock Pentium 4 cooler from 2002, on a pentium G840.......... held on with rubber bands and cable ties

[Electronics Wizardy]

Can we not misuse OCD? Thats not what ocd is.

[Starelementpoke]

Just now, Lord Nicoll said:

It's a stock Pentium 4 cooler from 2002, on a pentium G840.......... held on with rubber bands and cable ties

Oh. Huh. Why do you have a RMx 850W PSU with a Pentium G840.

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Can we not misuse OCD? Thats not what ocd is.

Yes it is, there are MANY kinds of OCD, the trigger can be anything. My friend for examples hates colours clashing, it can be quite difficult for him.

[BiscuitMassacre]

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, Starelementpoke said:

Oh. Huh. Why do you have a RMx 850W PSU with a Pentium G840.

Em.... I had planned on buying an i7 3770k with a custom water loop and a powerful GPU, but decided against it. 

[samcool55]

It's not so bad.

I think people with OCD are more annoyed if a cpu runs with a 99.99Mhz bus speed instead of 100.00Mhz.

[Starelementpoke]

Just now, Lord Nicoll said:

Em.... I had planned on buying an i7 3770k with a custom water loop and a powerful GPU, but decided against it. 

:l. Trade PSUs with me.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Lord Nicoll said:

Yes it is, there are MANY kinds of OCD, the trigger can be anything. My friend for examples hates colours clashing, it can be quite difficult for him.

Not normally. https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd/index.shtml

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, samcool55 said:

It's not so bad.

I think people with OCD are more annoyed if a cpu runs with a 99.99Mhz bus speed instead of 100.00Mhz.

Then they'd hate this one 99.97. an OCD trigger can vary widly, my friend (I just said this is another reply) gets very annoyed and angered by clashing or mismatched colours. 

[Windows7ge]

I feel if the side panel has a window and if the sleeved cables had suction cups it wouldn't look half bad mimicking a Kraken (giant octopus).

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, Lord Nicoll said:

Then they'd hate this one 99.97. an OCD trigger can vary widly, my friend (I just said this is another reply) gets very annoyed and angered by clashing or mismatched colours. 

ew, USA healthcare, I'd rather shoot myself in the head. I guess the definitions vary across the Atlantic. He will compulsively try to make colours match though, it is not a very nice thing to have to go through but I'd don't really wanna talk about that since I'm not him. 

[Centurius]

Meh, seen worse.

[Lord Nicoll]

2 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

I feel if the side panel has a window and if the sleeved cables had suction cups it wouldn't look half bad mimicking a Kraken (giant octopus).

HAH, it does have a window, I left the protective film on them though, acrylic can be scratched easy were I leave the case. 

[Lord Nicoll]

5 minutes ago, Starelementpoke said:

:l. Trade PSUs with me.

No, this one was by no means cheap. 

[Windows7ge]

1 minute ago, Lord Nicoll said:

HAH, it does have a window, I left the protective film on them though, acrylic can be scratched easy were I leave the case. 

Leave it on and find suction cups for the cables, the protective film will cause a slight fog or cloudy look and make it harder to distinguish what you're looking at. You could even cut out some paper and put it over the PSU. Put a octopus head on it with the eye on one side.

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, Windows7ge said:

Leave it on and find suction cups for the cables, the protective film will cause a slight fog or cloudy look and make it harder to distinguish what you're looking at. You could even cut out some paper and put it over the PSU. Put a octopus head on it with the eye on one side.

You can barely see through it (which is why I don't care about the looks) I also don't like octopodes much. 

[Windows7ge]

2 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

You can barely see through it (which is why I don't care about the looks) I also don't like octopodes much. 

Eh, it was an idea. It was the first thing that came to mind looking at the cables curving out of the PSU going into various parts of the system. Did you plug in two CPU 8-pin power connectors?

[Lord Nicoll]

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[Lord Nicoll]

2 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

Eh, it was an idea. It was the first thing that came to mind looking at the cables curving out of the PSU going into various parts of the system. Did you plug in two CPU 8-pin power connectors?

Yes, but the mother board only has 4 + 8 so no 16 pins, a solitary 12 for this one. You can clearly see this board is overkill, but it had a GTX 295 in it as well as the Radeon HD 7870 just for the lols. 

[Windows7ge]

2 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

Yes, but the mother board only has 4 + 8 so no 16 pins, a solitary 12 for this one. You can clearly see this board is overkill, but it had a GTX 295 in it as well as the Radeon HD 7870 just for the lols. 

You definitely won't be overclocking much with that cooler. Wonder how far you can push it.

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, Windows7ge said:

You definitely won't be overclocking much with that cooler. Wonder how far you can push it.

Not at all, intel locked this CPU down to the point anything above a 100.2 base will caused the overclock to fail (the actual base is 99.8, so the .2 just brings it to 100). The CPU is VERY low power, at 100 load for 8 hours it was a stead 50°C the whole time, it's only two cores at a real 2.77GHz

[Windows7ge]

1 minute ago, Lord Nicoll said:

Not at all, intel locked this CPU down to the point anything above a 100.2 base will caused the overclock to fail (the actual base is 99.8, so the .2 just brings it to 100). The CPU is VERY low power, at 100 load for 8 hours it was a stead 50°C the whole time, it's only two cores at a real 2.77GHz

Did you try lowering the memory then bumping up the FSB until it's back at default? (Ex. 800MHz, drop it to 667MHz, then increase FSB until back up to 800MHzish then increasing CPUNB or CPU-VTT voltage and CPU core voltage to compensate) This is how I got my FSB up to 140 and CPU up to 5.2GHz