By Kibner Go To PostWell, Silverstone doesn't offer this kind of case. lol
Also, I have never bought from the same case brand twice in a row. Antec, Silverstone, and, now, likely Lian Li.
I had a Thermaltake, then Cougar followed by three Lian Li manufactured cases now.
I suppose I have a preference.
Ordered some 45 degree fittings, a couple drain valves, few extra extensions, two rear fans and a leak tester.
I’ve also order an Aqua Computer fan controller. I’ve been reading up these for a while, I’m not sure if it’s compatible with Argus Monitor but their software is seemingly as good if not better than Argus and I believe it can be ran autonomously. Unlike the alternatives from EK/Corsair.
Main reason for ordering it is for the temp sensors and controlling fan speeds based on the water and internal case temp. Wouldn’t really need it if my motherboard had a temp sensor header, but the Quadro controller has 4, as well as 4 fan headers with independent PWM control which is a nice bonus too, along with a header for a flow sensor and ARGB.
From what I’ve read, it can be set up to shut down the system too based on the water temp getting too hot, or if used with a flow sensor, if the pump dies, etc.
I believe Argus has some similar features to this too.
I’m gonna dig into the software when I’m all set up and see how it compares. Might come in useful for Kibner if he goes through with the O11 Mini build.
I’ve also order an Aqua Computer fan controller. I’ve been reading up these for a while, I’m not sure if it’s compatible with Argus Monitor but their software is seemingly as good if not better than Argus and I believe it can be ran autonomously. Unlike the alternatives from EK/Corsair.
Main reason for ordering it is for the temp sensors and controlling fan speeds based on the water and internal case temp. Wouldn’t really need it if my motherboard had a temp sensor header, but the Quadro controller has 4, as well as 4 fan headers with independent PWM control which is a nice bonus too, along with a header for a flow sensor and ARGB.
From what I’ve read, it can be set up to shut down the system too based on the water temp getting too hot, or if used with a flow sensor, if the pump dies, etc.
I believe Argus has some similar features to this too.
I’m gonna dig into the software when I’m all set up and see how it compares. Might come in useful for Kibner if he goes through with the O11 Mini build.
Nice, my upgrades (mobo + cpu) finally arrived in the mail. I’ve got next week off from work so I’ll wait and do the install + overclocking then.
Before: 7700k + Maximus ix hero
Now: 10700k + Maximus xii hero
Finally leaving the quad-core life behind
Before: 7700k + Maximus ix hero
Now: 10700k + Maximus xii hero
Finally leaving the quad-core life behind
By Kibner Go To PostWell, Silverstone doesn't offer this kind of case. lol
Also, I have never bought from the same case brand twice in a row. Antec, Silverstone, and, now, likely Lian Li.
:x
Welp, yolo I guess.
Alta looks kinda interesting with that chimney airflow design.
By HonestVapes Go To PostThose Ryzen XT CPUs went down well, eh?Gives me a discount for the normal X CPUs eventually, at least.
By HonestVapes Go To PostThose Ryzen XT CPUs went down well, eh?
You'd think "charge extra for a letter" would be more up Intel's alley.
By Kibner Go To PostHope this brings you a smile, Vapes:Looks like a Sliger SM570 and an SG13. That’s some good taste.
MSI President and CEO Sheng-Chang Chiang has died, he was 56. The Taiwanese press reports that he died from falling from a building, causing head injury, although the circumstances behind the fall are unknown and subject of a Police investigation. Sheng-Chang Chiang took over MSI as recently as January 2019, and is regarded in the industry as the man who scripted the company's turnaround in the desktop computing product segments, as head of the Desktop Computing business at MSI, under the Gaming brand of motherboards and graphics cards. Our most sincere respects and condolences go out to the family of Sheng-Chang Chiang and MSI.
RIP, but how do you just fall off a building?
By Adam Go To PostRIP, but how do you just fall off a building?
Finishing off my loop currently, gotta say I’m a fan of these air pump leak testers. Pump it up to 0.5 bar of pressure, leave it for a bit and if it holds the pressure, you know it’s leak free.
Not that I’ve ever had a leak in my previous iterations of the loop, but it’s just nice to have that peace of mind knowing with certainty that you’ve done a proper job.
Another thing I’m pretty pleased with is Bitspower’s mini drain valves. They come in two pieces like a quick disconnect fitting. You screw one half into to where you want the drain, and screw the second half into it to open the valve. Managed to fit two of them into the build. One on the GPU block and another on the bottom radiator connected to a 3-way cube fitting.
Should make maintenance on this a lot easier in the long run.
Not that I’ve ever had a leak in my previous iterations of the loop, but it’s just nice to have that peace of mind knowing with certainty that you’ve done a proper job.
Another thing I’m pretty pleased with is Bitspower’s mini drain valves. They come in two pieces like a quick disconnect fitting. You screw one half into to where you want the drain, and screw the second half into it to open the valve. Managed to fit two of them into the build. One on the GPU block and another on the bottom radiator connected to a 3-way cube fitting.
Should make maintenance on this a lot easier in the long run.
By Adam Go To PostRIP, but how do you just fall off a building?
You don't
Lads, I’ve finally fucking finished this build. Just flushing distilled water through it, but it is finito.
Edit: Finished the flush and draining it was an absolute piece of piss compared to the NCase loop. A little water got stuck in the CPU block and reservoir due to where the G1/4 ports are located, but the radiators were 90% empty due to the dual drain ports.
Connected the air pump and pushed out whatever was left over. This is exactly the kind of ease of maintenance I was hoping to get out of the build. It’s rewarding as fuck seeing it all go to plan.
Edit: Finished the flush and draining it was an absolute piece of piss compared to the NCase loop. A little water got stuck in the CPU block and reservoir due to where the G1/4 ports are located, but the radiators were 90% empty due to the dual drain ports.
Connected the air pump and pushed out whatever was left over. This is exactly the kind of ease of maintenance I was hoping to get out of the build. It’s rewarding as fuck seeing it all go to plan.
ended up buying an ultrawide monitor -- LG 34GN850-B.
it's awesome so far, but because my GPU died and i'm using an older 900 series card for now, most games run like trash at 3440x1440 :(
need 3000 series cards ASAP!
it's awesome so far, but because my GPU died and i'm using an older 900 series card for now, most games run like trash at 3440x1440 :(
need 3000 series cards ASAP!
Hopefully I can get the Quadro to play nicely with Argus because the Aqua Suite software feels like a downgrade from it.
It does have some nice features though, like setting the fans speed on a target temperature. So i have two fans set to keep the water temp at 35c on the thick radiator, two fans on the slim radiator turned off unless the water temp hits 40c and two case fans set to keep the ambient air within the case below 40c.
From there, you can individual tune the fans per header to whatever PWM range you want. I.e. minimum of 500RPM, max of 1500RPM and so on. Or like I have my slim fans at a minimum of 0RPM and a max of 1400RPM because Noctua's slim 120mm fans are the worst in their line up in terms of noise profile.
My biggest gripe with it beyond the UI being more cumbersome than Argus though is that it seemingly only works with fans plugged into the Quadro. I plugged my pump's PWM cable directly into the motherboard instead of the controller and I can't for the life of me find a way to control it in the software. Whereas it works fine in Argus.
It does have some nice features though, like setting the fans speed on a target temperature. So i have two fans set to keep the water temp at 35c on the thick radiator, two fans on the slim radiator turned off unless the water temp hits 40c and two case fans set to keep the ambient air within the case below 40c.
From there, you can individual tune the fans per header to whatever PWM range you want. I.e. minimum of 500RPM, max of 1500RPM and so on. Or like I have my slim fans at a minimum of 0RPM and a max of 1400RPM because Noctua's slim 120mm fans are the worst in their line up in terms of noise profile.
My biggest gripe with it beyond the UI being more cumbersome than Argus though is that it seemingly only works with fans plugged into the Quadro. I plugged my pump's PWM cable directly into the motherboard instead of the controller and I can't for the life of me find a way to control it in the software. Whereas it works fine in Argus.
Finally up and running with the new hardware today (on the left). Currently installing some games, then it will be on to overclocking & stability tests, and then on to benchmarking (my favorite part of the process). I always save pictures of benchmark scores every time I do an upgrade so that I can compare my scores from previous configurations.
Then I'll need to decide what to do with my old hardware (on the right). I also have a spare GTX 1070 Ti founders edition sitting in my closet... I could use the 3 parts as the foundation of a second system, or I could sell the motherboard and track down an ITX board, then give building a SFF PC a try. Or I could just sell the cpu & mobo, then continue keeping the videocard as a spare/backup. Lots of options...
By Zabojnik Go To PostAre you US or EU based? How much for the cpu & mobo combo?I'm in the US... just haven't decided if I want to sell or reuse them yet
By Kibner Go To PostWelcome to like twenty years ago, Sy.I think that was about power and protocol confusion with the USB-C physical interface which is definitely a problem that most people don't know about
By diehard Go To PostI think that was about power and protocol confusion with the USB-C physical interface which is definitely a problem that most people don't know aboutThat's what I get for reading the title of the video and deeming it pointless to watch so I didn't.
By Celcius Go To PostI'm in the US… just haven't decided if I want to sell or reuse them yetMight be willing to buy that 1070 off of you, depending on price.
Got something funky going on with my loop. My CPU is drastically cooler than it was prior, but my GPU is warmer.
At idle everything is normal but under load the GPU peaks at over 60c, even using an undervolt and only drawing 220-230w. Increasing the pump speed from 60% to 100% sees the temps drop to under 55c so that indicates to me that I may have an issue with flow rate.
I think the likely culprit is the plastic Allen key I got with the reservoir. It’s the right size to use on the fittings and to spare shredding my fingers on the harder to reach ports I used that. The issue is that it started to wear down. I think some of the plastic off that found it’s way into the loop and made it’s way into the GPU block’s fins. As that’s last in the loop order, it’s seemingly the most effected by it.
Alternatively, it could be that the block isn’t making good enough contact. Which is fairly unlikely since it was fine previously and I haven’t taken the block off it since it went on in July last year. Either way, I’m planning to take it out and clean the block out so I’ll be remounting it anyway.
I’ll likely swap the top fans to exhaust too when I take the GPU out. Though the internal case temp and water temp under load are both fine. 25c in the room the other day and the water and case temps were both holding 39-40c with the side panel on and under load for over half an hour.
At idle everything is normal but under load the GPU peaks at over 60c, even using an undervolt and only drawing 220-230w. Increasing the pump speed from 60% to 100% sees the temps drop to under 55c so that indicates to me that I may have an issue with flow rate.
I think the likely culprit is the plastic Allen key I got with the reservoir. It’s the right size to use on the fittings and to spare shredding my fingers on the harder to reach ports I used that. The issue is that it started to wear down. I think some of the plastic off that found it’s way into the loop and made it’s way into the GPU block’s fins. As that’s last in the loop order, it’s seemingly the most effected by it.
Alternatively, it could be that the block isn’t making good enough contact. Which is fairly unlikely since it was fine previously and I haven’t taken the block off it since it went on in July last year. Either way, I’m planning to take it out and clean the block out so I’ll be remounting it anyway.
I’ll likely swap the top fans to exhaust too when I take the GPU out. Though the internal case temp and water temp under load are both fine. 25c in the room the other day and the water and case temps were both holding 39-40c with the side panel on and under load for over half an hour.
Sucks that you have to take it apart to fix the issue. I appreciate that so much of the internal space of the case is taken up by rads and fans. lol
By Kibner Go To PostSucks that you have to take it apart to fix the issue. I appreciate that so much of the internal space of the case is taken up by rads and fans. lolLive and learn. I'm not too bothered in needing to take it apart honestly, I've got a drain port on the GPU itself, as well on the tube between rads so it's quick to drain. I'm still not super happy on the tube routing either, so while it's empty I might make a couple changes to neaten it up.
For the rads and fans, it's at max capacity, that's for sure. It weighs a fucking tonne. It's a on a shelf on my desk currently and the wood is bowing underneath it.
I have two tabs open in Edge -- imgur and this thread, and 4 blank tabs. side note -- what's with all of the extra entries for the browsers?
i have a blank chrome window open that just has the google search bar and the favorites/recent site icons beneath it.
yet power usage is very high and RAM is just about equal to edge.
wtf
I think the extra threads may be for plug-ins. I think each one may get its own thread so that if any of them crash, it doesn't take the whole browser with it. I may be wrong, though, since it's been a while since I looked into it.
E: and, yeah, chrome has been bloated like this for a year or two at least.
E: and, yeah, chrome has been bloated like this for a year or two at least.
By diehard Go To Posthttps://www.instagram.com/tv/CCs-N1Eh2Z5/?utm_source=ig_embedImagine being the CPU. You could have gone to anyone, but you went to Henry Cavill’s house.
what a man
As soon as Vapes leaves the M1 behind, cool stuff starts coming out. Coincidence? Absolutely, but I don't think so.
Zabo, m8. I have that reservoir already. I swear, it's like you never read my build log.
https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/my-humble-ncase-m1-dual-240mm-custom-loop.10980/post-156898
https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/my-humble-ncase-m1-dual-240mm-custom-loop.10980/post-156898
You are forgiven, Zabo. Honestly though I never shut up about it at the time because it got stuck with Parcelforce (because they're cunts) for about 3 weeks. Fewms everywhere.
Not a hardware issue, but I am having a hell of a time trying to figure out how to enable ipv6 for Docker containers (and configure docker-compose.yaml files to support it). The official Docker documentation is misleading and awful. This guide seems like it should give me most of what I need, but I don't understand a lick of it because my networking knowledge is not nearly that advanced.
Been at this for probably eight hours now.
Been at this for probably eight hours now.