No /g/uts bread? Show your /g/uts. No RGB faggotry edition.
I am not doxxing myself again jay
>>103528475inb4 CN shit shills will freak out and shill lian li as soon as they see noctua like the last thread
>forgot to clear exif data>forgot to remove his reflection from the silver>forgot to blur out serial numbersPlease delete this thread before you get doxxed
>>103528475>Wd blacked
Is it still RGB faggotry if everything is one color?
>>103528475>bottom fans>No where to actually suck air from.Classic PC case design.
>>103528527>Razer motherboardThere's RGB faggotry alright
>>103528606The razor edition was $100 cheaper
>>103528527Specs?
>>103528527nice loop anon!
>>103528592the rear is intake, too.
Terrible photo taken with the flash on under my desk>n100>8gb ddr4>first gen GTX Titan>1tb Samsung 980>windows 8.1I use it to play secondlife and halo and very little else.
>>10352874614900k96GB 5600mhz DDR5Z690 Taichi4080 super (inb4 why wc a 4080)960gb Optane, 7.68TB WD SN200, 3.84TB Micron 7450 Pro>>103528762ThanksI already feel vindicated with my small obsession of making a serviceable loop, bitspower gave me too thin memory pads. (Mem is at 90c) I know to use putty this time.
>>103528527>1x 420mm + 2x 360mm>for one CPU and GPUautismdoes anything ever reach 65C?
>>103528954yeah man good call with the service line there in the middle. I couldn't find a good place for mine so it's at the top and I have to blow it out with an air compressor.I have a bitpower GPU block too but I had the right sized pads, normally they are good. Also I went direct die but that's because intel is a house fire at 420 Watts :(
>>103528984more rads = lower fan speeds = less noise
I think that was my second PCfucking Zotac GPU fried pretty fast
>>103529023>6.7C delta Tthat's under load for CPU or GPU? big if true anyway
>>103528984GPU core is 50c-53c on load. CPU with a 253W limit is 78-80C, no contact frame. Both use Honeywell PTM.All fans run at 800RPM>>103529031>colored connectors>colored cables>those obnoxiously tall corsair sticksTake me back guys
>>103529081that's amazing
>>103529071That under load or no load, the only thing that changes is how hard the fans work. I do have 1040 mm of rads though. half 30mm, other half 45mm.
>>103528527>Intel OptaneNice anon, what are you using that drive for?Pic rel is my new test system. so i can wipe it, test stuff and do whatever i need without fear of losing data or important stuff. I should buy some fans, fix the shitty original faulty cable work, which had both leds dead and a cable from the power switch cut.>N100>2x Intel Optane 16GB NVMes>2x Intel DC S3520 480GB SSDs>16GB DDR4 3200MT/s
>>103529124Boot drive and modded gamesIf you ever want some real fast install media, those h10 sticks are nice in a USB enclosureI do wonder how much faster that N100 is compared to whatever was in that case before.
>>103529309>If you ever want some real fast install media, those h10 sticks are nice in a USB enclosureI have to do some tests on them but they seem pretty good for the price desu, very low latency, high durability and fast enough for most stuff.>I do wonder how much faster that N100 is compared to whatever was in that case before.The case came from an IBM NetVista A40p, it had 128Mb of RAM and a 866Mhz Pentium 3, it's a huge difference
>>103529309N100 is about on par with haswell quad cores in terms of pure cpu performance, but with the benefits of faster drives and ram.
>>103528475Based>>103528527Gay cringe>>103528628Based. Fuck cable management.>>103528762Cringe>>103528912Based. Idk wtf an N100 is but at least it stands out.>>103529031Based time traveller from the 00s>>103529124Based
>>103530596An N100 is four intel 12th gen gracemont e cores as its own standalone processor, it’s a 10 watt embedded cpu
>>103528628based, this pic made me piss and shidd myself a little because I have almost the exact setup>>103530596fuck cable management too, waste of time
>>103528475Noctua brown is RGB for pretentious people (me).
>>103528475Excessive amount of fans. You don't need it.
>>103528475
>>103528628Holy based
>>103531645Based. Dust and soundMAXpilled.>>103533157Based minimalist buy the best fuck the rest anon. Soundblaster is cringe tho.>>103533395Based. Hard drives go faster upside down.
>>103533605>Soundblaster is cringe tho.Nothing draws (you)s like a soundcard thread, therefore they are very, very based.
>>103528475Are you running back to front cooling? Your rear exhaust is backwards and from what I can tell, so is the CPU cooler fans.>>103533395Nice. How are those Arctic fans?
>>103533395front mounted gpu power makes so much more sense
>>103528475Posten the first white build
>>103529081>CPU with a 253W limit is 78-80C, no contact frame.>Both use Honeywell PTM.That's mediocre. I think you'd see better results using paste on the ihs since ihs's dont get hot enough for PTM to work properly
Who aesthetic?
>>103534305>octopus adapter in the fish tankkinographical
big boy gpu edition
perhaps someone here has had a fractal north case & a 280mm arctic freezer II aio>wont fit on top, not enough clearance for fans>is this fine or should I side mount? (have mesh)>my rear fan is shit, planning to get a p12 for the rear, and two p14's and side mounting the rad
>>103528628where did you get a photo of my pc?
>>103534036Lol yeah fair enough!
>>103528475>no RGB faggotryyou're the only faggot here if you care about this crap.I buy the cheapest shit with the specs I want and they're all RGB nowadays
>>103534889>I buy the cheapest shitBrown hands typed this post.
>>103535542nothing wrong with being brown if you behave well
>>103535542>with the specs I wantnice reading comprehension rajesh
>>103535678>990 evo NVMe x2 32.0GT/swhat the fuck
>>103535708it's using 2x PCIe gen 5 lanes instead of the usual 4x PCIe gen 4
>>103535732so its running at x2 gen4 because the controller is only gen4
>>103535741no, the mobo supports PCIe gen 5 from the CPU for one of the M.2 slots
>>103535751but the ssd is gen4 so its a reporting error in hwinfo
>>103535759it's the plus version, which can either do x4 pcie gen 4 or x2 pcie gen 5
>>103535769huh thats neat, didnt know they made such drives
>>103533157Based fellow Noctua enjoyer. I ackchyually need this many fans, because the Jonsbo D40 is super cramped.
>>103534143The rear is intake, because the computer is directly against the wall.>>103534889And I bought the ASUS WS X570 over 5 years ago which was one of the most expensive AM4 boards at the time. This nigga is gonna last me at least 2 more years, running a 5800X3D, 64 GB memory (needed this much for a data science project) and an RTX4080
>>103535769>Gen5>speeds up to 7k>Worse than some Gen4 drivesWhy? Extra heating?
>>103535871it's a retarded marketing gimmick, but might be marginally useful if the m.2 slot shares a lane with a PCIe x4 slot.It doesn't get any hotter than gen 4 drives because it's not running at gen 5 speeds.I bought it because it was on sale and my old primary drive is failing
>>103535928it makes a lotta sense if boards start putting like >5 x2 nvme slots since x4 drives waste a lot of the very limited pcie lanes available on mainstream platforms
>>103528912very nice, thats an soc board iirc, what cooler do you have on it?
>>103534353>fractal northassuming based on your hardware, its the tempered glass version?
>>103535871like it matters when nvme is barely noticeably better than sata in the real world outside of niche tasks like cloning entire partitions at once with specialized tools
>>103536620>NVVMe PCIe 4.0 SSDs boot 33% faster over SATA SSDs>Games have less pop-in and stutter with NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSDs than SATA SSDs>Games with DS support literallt load up to 1000% faster with NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSDs than SATA SSDsThat's just my own benchmarks. But whatever you say.
I feel like I miss my A4000's but I am not sure why given this card is faster than both combined, uses less power, and is quieter.
>>103536682that ai top print looks so jank
>>103536739and Unfortunately its stamped and milled down out of the gpu's metal shroud so you are more or less stuck with it, not that most people care though since its just going to be installed in rack mount cases for most purchasers Its the full copper heatsink and conformal board coating that really drives people to buy this one.
>>103536728Why is the UPS like that?
>>103536896Fan was loud. Ripped it out. The batteries also don’t lay flat easily.I don’t sit with my feet under the desk anyway.
>>103536728Mirin' that cooling solution
>>103536967It’s silent.Case fan on the PSU keeps its fan from spinning up under load since that wasn’t silent.1080 Ti doesn’t go above 37% fan at 0.93vFuma 2 can’t ever get loud.
>>103536678>11x faster on paper>only 0.33x faster due to software overhead anecdotally, even less if averaged out in multitudes>even less gains the more granular the loading processall i gather from this is you dont have much ram to cache withand what terrible games are you playing that rely so heavily on loading shit from drive on the fly that you notice stutters? could even be placebo honestly personally i barely noticed much at all when i changed from sata to nvme. maybe a 5-20% gain in general load times depending on the application, nothing to write home about, and certainly not in the 3x speeds let alone 10x speeds range. with am5 it matters even less because the bottleneck is the POST time even with memory context restore on with any decent amount of ram. its not like it matters though, i only reboot my pc once every few months when i make a coffee or have a shower or something
>>103537094>on paperNo, real life. I have 32GB of RAM. Caching is useless with the random read speeds and IOPS of modern NVMe SSDs. >and what terrible games are you playing that rely so heavily on loading shit from drive on the fly that you notice stutters? could even be placebo honestlyModern slop.>and certainly not in the 3x speeds let alone 10x speeds range. You can literally watch dozens of YouTube videos comparing SATA SSDs v.s. NVMe SSDs with DS, it's literally 1 seconds vs 10 seconds.
>>103536008Yes, but it is sitting horizontally in my TV stand.Didn't want more mesh for dust/noise reasons.It actually looks really good due to the front panel.
>>103528475Sex
>>103528527Post it without the anti-drug light.
>>103534305Not bad for a fish tank. Place some fake seaweed in there and stick a few corral fish stickers onto glass panels to really stand out.
>>103534198It's a step away from becoming an air purifier. All that's left to add is a HEPA filter and you've got yourself a unique Two-in-One.
>>103533395Steaming sex
I plugged the bottom GPU after taking the pictures.
>>103537407
>>103536682What's the sound card?
>>103537413specs? what gpus?
>>103528475Is basic. Didn't bother cleaning.
>>103537432Sound blaster z se, because these Asus creator boards lack tislink out (and in) for some reason.
>>103537548yah, actually these fuckheads manufacturers expect you to have that kind of functionality from a usb device
>>103528475Still no reason to upgrade anything
>>103537611I tried that a few times and ran into audio sync issues, and you ended up spending more on two type c dongles than you did for a sound card from a decade ago.
>>103535947It’s actually just the included passive heatsink with a noctua redux 120mm fan stuck to it with 3m automotive foam tapeKeeps the nvme cool as well
>>103537677How interesting, unsure what your usecase is but it sounds like you'd like a "pro" usb dac
>>103537700even consumer shit like focusrite shoudn't have sync issues
>>103537452CPU: Intel Core i9-12900K 3.2 GHz 16-Core Processor CPU Cooler: Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler Motherboard: Asus ProArt Z790-CREATOR WIFI ATX LGA1700 Motherboard Memory: Kingston FURY Beast 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR5-5200 CL40 Memory Storage: Kingston NV2 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive Storage: Kingston NV2 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive Video Card: ASRock Challenger OC Arc A770 16 GB Video Card Video Card: ASRock Challenger OC Arc A770 16 GB Video Card Case: Fractal Design North ATX Mid Tower Case Power Supply: Corsair RM1000x SHIFT 1000 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular Side Interface ATX Power Supply Case Fan: ARCTIC P12 PWM PST 56.3 CFM 120 mm Fan Case Fan: ARCTIC P12 PWM PST 56.3 CFM 120 mm Fan Case Fan: ARCTIC P12 PWM PST 56.3 CFM 120 mm Fan Case Fan: ARCTIC P12 PWM PST 56.3 CFM 120 mm Fan I also included the Thermalright LGA1700 cooling plate.
>>103537783They're the same gpu? The cooler looks physically different
>>103537700Why bother? I have a giant case, spare PCI slots, and the sound cards 50 dollars. I don't need a dac, I need toslink in and out, which means you either buy something chink that has issues, or you spend more than the sound card...to just basically buy a usb sound card. This is a nicer solution remaining internal and not adding to clutter.
>>103537872I concur with everything you said.Rocking a Xonar Essence STX here
>>103537842Bought the top one second hand. The guy probably wanted a blacked out build and erased the lettering. But they're indeed the same GPU.
>>103534143>Nice. How are those Arctic fans?I only have the one Arctic fan, still using the included Cooler Master fans on the front, and the Noctuas in the cooler. It is very quiet, and was not expensive.
top pc is:7950x3d64gb ddr57900XT
>>103537631Any benchmark screenshots? Would seriously take a good look at out of curiosity.
>>103528762cursed figma
bump
yes the 4+2 vrm can run the 8 core
>>103528475Does this count?
>>103534606>>wont fit on top, not enough clearance for fans>>is this fine or should I side mount? (have mesh)its fine, if anything i would flip the radiator upside down so the hoses are on the bottom, if it will fit that way, i have a 360mm aio so i cant fit the rad with the tubes on the bottom but i havent had any issues with that orientation so far, also your fans on the top are intake, i would flip them to exhaust air out the top
>>103541282retarded vrm specs are only required for overclocking, if you stay under the standard configuration then you're good
Having issues with boot times.Seems to be random, 5-20s of waiting before it gets into the actual boot.Memory recall or whatever it's called is on. Used to be fine.
>>103528475>>103537631My ncase build untouched since 2020. Might have to move on when the new cards come out next month.
Upgraded the SSD and took a picture while at it. Case is from 2001, guts are current enough.Ryzen 1800X, 32GB RAM, RX 570, Samsung NVMe, USB 3.0 card, FireWire card, working floppy drive, working Lite-On DVD-ROM, front USB.
>>103528475First PC that I built. Case is a fractal north
>>103546862And the front.
>>103541344I've heard that anyone who has their reproductive organs attached also falls under that syndrome. There's even a scoring metric for those who accept the new 'new' current thing.
>>103548522>>103546862Nice sleeper, anon.>>103547391Industrial look never fails.>>103546238Quality over quantity, any day.>>103545729Surprisingly comfy looking.>>103545594Would
>>103546238SEX
what a sad sight
>>103546238What are those cable in the back for? Brown, tan, black
>>103549833Looks like the 24pin connector
>>103549316Bot or retard?
>>103549985Troon or butthurt?
>>103549996>falls under that syndromeI legit don't understand if you're being insulting, facetious, or if it was a bot response.
>>103550134Feel free to interpret it however you like. Let's keep it subliminal for fun tho.
>>103528475Stupid ipleb
>>103550334https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnTpl93q3Bc
>>103550504Based
>>103528498meds
>>103550099what model system/case is this?
>>1035285104chan has been automatically clearing exif data since like 2012 doe.
RGB faggotry <3keep it purple and gaytemporary solution for probably a few months until my GPU problem is resolvedi have the alphacool eiswolf and a white pci riser cable readybut the ek waterblock i got for this survival 5700 xt didnt fit
fate will keep cucking me out of my upgrades but at least my basic old shitbuild has a nice cherenkov radiating home now
>>103528475infra view
RGB is fucking retarded, and so is HP for giving the ML150 funky ass GPU connectors on the motherboard. Game Streaming box cause linux hates me and my multiple eGPUs
the 5700g will last me another 10 years, I think.
>>103558669name of which chassis?
>>103528475Nigguh your PC is gonna fall over it's away-ways
Cable management is for cowards.
>RGB sharts all over your threadWhatchu gonna do about it, contrarians?
>>103536967>sapphire nitro 7900xtxis there any way to disable the light strip on it?
>>103559120Will you show us your bad dragon collection?
>>103530596zoomer contrarian retardbabble
>>103558973inwin chopin pro
>>103548522I'm more interested in that thing to the left, because of the stickers.
>>103546238how tf do you get a case that small to fit a 3080what size is that and how do i find some ?
>>103559171On the pcie slot side there are two cables going into the pcb, a big one for the fans and a small one for the rgbUnplug that, no software needed
>>103539130No screenshots since I did it ages ago and lost them, but still remember getting a decent score out of the 5900x even with the limited cooling. However a bios update reset my curve optimiser and I really could not be arsed to do it again so it sucks now. I let it run hot though so no audible fan noise on idle/low load.
pc for mom6600k32gb (for all the fucking pinterest tabs)1050ti or 1660S can't remember
>>103556204what are those PCI-e cards?
>>103554006Dell T-3610 workstation
>>103560476With a $20 E5 2687w v2 and a 750q powe supply. Got the PC for free from work as waste.
>>103560388usb, wifi and don't know what the bottom is
>>103559422Will post once at home. Haven't used it in a year, have barely used any computer at home in the last three years. I work as a software developer all day, don't feel like touching a computer when I'm at home. I go do woodworking or wrenching on cars instead.
My current main PC from my server rack. I plan on upgrading the A770 to a B770 if it doesnt get cancelled... I also need to remove the shitty built in backplate and plastic and cut up one of my blank supermicro IO shields. The build is:i9 12900k64gb DDR5Intel Arc A770 16gb Roc2tb WD Black 850Sliger CX3151a 3u CaseI shouldvd gone with a 17in deep case, but I have a shallow rack in purpise for space reasons, and am too prideful to drop more money so frivolously.
>>103561281internal usb pcie card since my ancient mobo has no type e header
>>103561281>>103561472Nice, I love seeing those PCI-e slots being in use for whatever purpose
>>103561472type-e being hat tiny one on top, not the regular black USB 3 header, right? My motherboard has one of those modern headers but my case is old enough that I have nothing to plug into it
>>103561504same here. inversely I'm really annoyed with the propensity of mobo makers nowadays to cram as many features onboard as possible. clear attempt to minimize expandability while charging insane premiums. oh well. it's not like my future 3.84 slot GPU will leave room for PCIe cards anyway.>>103561527yes. this is what the connector looks like.
>>103561583not a fan of huge GPUs desu. I rather have a separated box for it if that's the case
>>103561583>>103561687Eventually I would probably pivot to more server/workstation platform. I'm willing to waterblock my GPUs to have the slots.Desktop platforms are so ridiculous nowadays. My only problem is when is a Xeon and Threadripper platform going to have the single thread to match a 14900k. It's going to be awhile.
>>103528475We still have guts?
bump for this nice thread
I wanna see more unusual PCI devicefuck a sound card is now considered unusual now that I come to think about it
>>103561390>Intel Arc A770 16gb RocHope the new B580 will be good,also hope the B770 won't disappoint and be 12Gb instead of 16GB
>>103563965I added a TV tuner card to mine >>103533395 since I took that picture. I'll have to reshoot it next time I clean it. I mostly use it for analog video capture, but it is cool being able to watch and record OTA TV.
>>103564367Hot. I had one of those back in the day when I rocked my Phenom II.It was PCI with an obscure chipset but somehow managed to make it work on Linux, I fucking loved it, at the time I had cable tv via coaxial.It also had composite and s-video input so I could play PS2 on it. Good times.How's your ota tv? Mine sucks and cable tv is no more.
>>103564400The programming obviously leaves a lot to be desired, but the reception is quite impressive. Just about everything comes in clear with a very cheap antenna. I do have the benefit of a computer located at a third floor window where my antenna is. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TU7RJCQ
>>103528628Sovl
I like leds
>>103564967Why does your CPU cooler look like a reactor?
>>103565243It was extremely cheap, black friday last year.
>>103559422Here you go, fren.
Just upgraded Ryzen 1700 to 5700X3D, but also the smaller case, CPU cooler, and SFX PSU to fit. Will upgrade GPU (Vega 64) next year, and motherboard, RAM, NVMe, and CPU again eventually. Cables look like shit while I wait for a USB 3.1 header adapter and some other adjustments.
>>103565414>toasterI got so tired of my sffpc I said screw it and went the opposite route. They are a lot of fun to build in, but like yours, cable management almost calls for fully custom length cables to make it perfect. What I hated most was the dust, such a pain to keep clean.
>>103565351Looks cool.
>>103565364Uhhhhhhhh is that a Talos II single socket board I see?
>>103565516What kind of AIO is that? It looks like a "real" custom loop block.I'm considering getting a single Alphacool 120 mm, the hose parts and the Eisbär AIO to make a loop with the Eiswolf GPU cooler.120 + 280 + 360 would be the radiator sizeDo you think its worth it? It would have two weaker pumps then instead of a single one, but I like the concept of easy installation and low risk of leakage due to the prefabricated hoses.
>>103565500Yeah, a Blackbird. Talos is the dual-socket board.
>>103565604>and low risk of leakage due to the prefabricated hoses.Its just Alphacool TPV hoses and fittingsLiterally one of the easiest tubing + fitting combos to do yourself.It's what >>103528527 is using with the exact fittings and quick connects used in alphacool's AIOs
>>103565857Fuck, that's nice.Linux, I assume? How's support?
>>103566513Yeah, basically the only usable OS. Last I used it, it was surprisingly fine, most stuff just worked, with some odd glitches (some video decoders didn't respect endianness, producing visual garbage) or unsupported features (like JIT in browser JavaScript engines, making some websites absolutely unusable and choking the CPU with purely interpreted JS). There were some patches for Chrome that made it mostly work, but it certainly doesn't have a fully out-of-the-box just-works experience. I used Void on it, the main ppc64le ports maintainer used Void. He's since hopped to some other distro, and the ppc64le repo was unmaintained for a while, meaning no updates to software that needs patches to run.Due to lack of time, it's been waiting to find its use again. Either way, it was very fun to tinker with, felt a bit like back in the late 90s trying to put together a workable system.
>>103567252Addendum: It would be a really interesting task to port Redox OS to it. Wish I had that much time to dedicate.
>>103567252>>103567280I see. Sounds like the perfect Gentoo machine.Hopefully I'll get one, one day, but it's very expensive. I shudder imagining the international shipping costs.
The official 12V-2x6 adapter's ugly, but I have solid side panels.The card's 12V power supply reading never drops below 12V, even under maximum loads.
>>103567362Just read up on the RaptorCS wiki, Chromium is quite well maintained now, and should work out of the box on Gentoo and Debian (there's a Debian PPA with sources).
>>103565476Former case was worse
>>103568097>EXPIRES JAN 2038always cracks me up
I've added 40gbe, 2x2 USB controller and 2 channel HDMI 1080p capture card to this.
>>103529013>filenamewhy the fuck does signal have to do this? Just give it a semi random string
>>103568344nice, why dual gpu's? what's the use case?
>>103569035>sound blastermy dick, any particular reason you have this bad boy in your system?
>>103559262boomer sincere foolish mumbo jumbo
>>103564367>>103564400>>103564769I have one of those tuner cards sitting in my parts box too. Thing is that I've since moved and I now can't get any reception for anything, and it's a condo so I can't just put up a 40-foot antenna. My parents watch a ton of TV and are baffled and dismayed by my not having it, and have offered several times to pay for me to get cable. But one, paying for television offends my sensibilities, and two, I'm pretty sure cable providers don't let you just plug in a card and record anything you care to with no DRM.
I hate that my PC has so much empty space inside of it. It almost gives me anxiety
>>103574741I feel the same way but with mATX boards in ATX cases. And with ATX boards with just a single PCI-e slot used.At least your empty space is meant to be that way, while slots unused are a waste of potential
>>103569799ITS excellent linux support.
>>103574741Get a more efficient case
Dustiest pc in this thread, I vacuum my room once a week but I have a cat. How can you guys have such clean guts
picrel gaming pc, much less dusty than >>103575737but it's also used not even 1/10th of the time
>>103575737I have full filtration on my central air, I run a high quality air filter in every room, vacuum every other day, and sit my PC (same case Define R5) on my desk. Despite having a dog and a cat my PC stays pretty clean.
>>103576140oh I thought yours was an R6. Makes sense for air filters, any recommendations for the most cost efficient ones ?
>>103574865AE5 is the best dedicated sound card you can get for Linux if you want great quality and more features than what most USB DACs provides.>What U HearIs so nice for Discord streaming audio.
>>103574865>>103576478How does it compare to Asus Xonar cards? more specifically the Essence ST/X? As far as I've seen latest Creative cards are not full supported under Linux so this comes as a surprise for me
>>103576193I run a blue air 203 in every room, with a charcoal pre filter. https://www.blueair.com/us/refurbished-air-purifiers/classic-203-slim/1422.htmlThe most cost efficient air filter is a box fan and cardboard + full size return filters. For about 40 bucks you can build a pretty good air filter if you don't care about noise.
>>103576626AE5 crushes the Xonar series in both audio quality and features. The DAC on the AE5 is pretty much what you will find on similar price USB DAC's:>ESS9016K2M And it has excellent filtering. Uses a mixture of film, electrolytic, and solid. The headphone amplifier is also REALLY good. Easily powers 600ohms cans, passes through the same ESS9016K2M, and each channel is independently powered up to 600ohms. So its not shared. Full power for both. You can also have both speakers and headphones plugged in at the same time and switch between the two via software. This works wonderfully in Linux. I have both my cans and speakers hooked up. You can also turn off the soundcore post processing of audio in Linux as well. Pretty much everything that works in Windows, works in Linux. The Xonar ST/X is better sound quality wise as its competitors would be the AE7 and AE9. Technically the AE7 does work, but it has to be release day versions and not everything is supported. Creative themselves only released open source drivers up to the AE5. AE7 was never complete and mostly community made but work as pretty much stopped because later revisions of the AE7 don't work under Linux due to its revised PCI to PCI-Express bridge being incompatible with Linux. But the AE5 has better features than the Xonar ST/X series.
>>103576756>AE5 crushes the Xonar series The non ST/X series*
>>103576756>>103576767There is also a bonus to using the AE5 under Linux than Windows is that you can set the sample rate higher than 96KHZ while having the SoundCore processing enabled. On Windows, Creative artificially limits you to 96KHZ IF you have SoundCore processing enabled. You have to disable it by enabling "direct sound" in Windows to use anything higher. On Linux, the Creative open source driver doesn't have this limitation so you can have SoundCore processing enabled and set the sameple rate all the way up to 384KHZ.And with PipeWire, you can go one step further and configure PipeWire to change sample rate on the fly to match the audio source for perfect sound and no resampling ever being done: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#Changing_the_allowed_sample_rate(s)
>>103576844What SoundCore does? What's its function?
first time doing a custom loop. surprisingly easy and pretty fun
>>103576864SoundCore is the DSP on Creative cards. It can act as a DAC (so you don't need a dedicated hardware DAC, like found on the first generation SoundCore Recon cards from Creative that only had the SoundCore DSP), do audio processing, sound effects, hardware based equalizer, handles input devices (like microphone), input effects (like changing your voice), hardware based speaker configuration (like 5.1, bookshelf speakers, etc) and routing sound output into input (routes audio to your speakers to your microphone in say Discord via the "What U Hear" feature in ALSA in Linux and in Windows.
>>103577235Interesting. Thankfully all those hardware features can be easily done by software
>>103577310indeed they can. the benefit is taking a small load off the cpu to the sound card itself.
>>103577327Well, unfortunately offloading audio processing off the CPU is no longer an argument since these are WAY powerful. They already were powerful enough back in the Core2 days, imagine now.
>>103577372I agree its not that big of a benefit. I'm stating it is a small benefit. It doesn't hurt you if you have hardware based.
>>103577420Fair enough.Don't forget that even if your card supports many hardware functions, audio mixing is still done in software on Linux unless you fully remove Pulseaudio/Pipewire.Which if I'm not mistaken, X-Fi and newer cards do not support hardware mixing on Linux, only 10kx cards like Live! and Audigy (non-LE/Fx)
Fuck cable managmentFuck videocard, only pure iGPUFuck RAMFuck dust cleaning
>>103577678SOVL...
HDD's are switched on by a front panel controller. Very rarely needed because of enough SSD storage. 7900gre @290w, fans on mainboard header7700 @105wunder gaming load 600rpm case fan speed and 800rpm GPU fan speed at 80°C hotspot.
>>103578081what's the extra PCI card?
>>103578111xonar dsx
My cable mismanagement sucks, but if I stuff everything back there it would bulge the side panel
>>103578164hot, what are your impressions of it?
>>103528527>fans for every orifaceJesus Christ what the fuck is wrong with zoomers. Your PC doesn't need TWELVE fucking fans
>>103578204>that small ass cpu cooler and even smaller gfx card
>>103578239It actually cools a 125w CPU at full chooch pretty well despite the jet engine noise, you'll get 62C, and I should probably upgrade the 750Ti to at least a 1050Ti in order to get 4K 60hz without fucking up the color space, it's still a good living room computer though.
>>103578294good for you, I guess.
>>103576978>>103565516>>103529013>>103528762>>103528527fellow custom loop chads
>>103578294also I have a 1650 laying around that's collecting dust. pm me if you want it.
>>103575737-get your pc as high off the ground as possible-get an electric air duster-keep a microfiber cloth around and wipe surfaces daily-vacuum regularlySince you have a cat, you have to brush your cat too.
>>103578359It's alright anon, it's almost a waste to put anything more into this computer because it's an occasional shitposting from the couch type thing so I don't care if it's 30hz
>>103578226does the job. Bought it in the early 2010's because my old surround hifi system for my tv only had coax in and needed compressed 5.1 with dts live. Will be retired around christmas though because I have a thunderbolt display and want to hear audio over my speakers when using the laptop, so the speaker amp needs to be plugged into the monitor. Because of that I bought a wondom JAB 4 amp with 4 channels and built in DSP, so my bookshelf speakers on the desk will be modded to fully active and the board still has a subwoofer output. Full room correction is possible. Also the dsx has some noise when playing games at higher refresh rates, despite using a galvanic isolator.
>>103578378alright man. understandable. enjoy some kinos from your tv on your couch.
>>103578418thanks anon
>>103578342that is a wild setup
You guys have really fucking shit cable management
>>103578491Cable management is a fucking meme Anon, I could see it being nice if you're building a gaming computer for some kid and they're never gonna upgrade it, and it will look nice, but it's a god damn nightmare to undo the cable management to get sata power, and then clean it up again, with a retard bundle of wires on the bottom of the case, you just grab a sata or PCIe power for whatever you're trying to hook up and go, and it's not even like cable management makes your computer faster, it's a waste of time like I said unless you're a boutique system builder who does this for a living.
>>103575737if you have pets there really isn't anything you can do about the dust because the dust really isn't dist. its pet dander. the only way to prevent pet dander from collecting is by slapping a hepa filter on your intakes and that isn't practical and would kill thermals because you would need leaf blower loud fans to create enough vortex to pull through the hepa.t. cat and dog owner for 20 years. ive tried everything.
>>103578491thanks
>>103578530also, placing an air filter near the computer will reduce, but still won't prevent pet dander. as the air filter would have to have a strong enough vortex and most don't. and if they did, then your intake on your computer would be starved.t. cat and dog owner of 20 years that has a winix air filter (true hepa + carbon filter + mesh screen) 1 foot away from my computer and pet dander still gets in. along with dust. it just reduces the amount. i can go longer between cleaning intervals.
>>103546238why the fuck is it so hard to find braided PCIe cables today?
>Build new pc>take time managing the cables>Internals look good, feel like I have a new engine for a car>Don't know what to run on the pcInternals should match the use case and purpose and my only purpose is to watch porn and play vidya. I really should learn something on it lol. >>103578342What case my nigga
>>103578530>>103578552Ahh that makes a lot of sense, I wasn't even aware that pet dander existed. I'll try some homemade air filter as my boy >>103576646 recommended in a year of two, thank you guys
This is my system.
>>103578640i can hear it from here
>>103578602if you have a ceiling fan you can cut up some carbon filters and tape them to the ceiling fan blades. they will collect dust, pet dander, and remove smells as the fan spins. another redneck engineering you could do.
>>103578427>>1035785901rst gen Phanteks Shift Air, they're getting rare as fuck
>>103578668Actually, these blowers are extremely quiet. Nothing like the traditional ones you know of. It's legit quiet.
>>103578640>RAM slots way the fuck up thereThat's kinda based, reminds me of the old DDR Nforce 4 mobos with the Athlon X2
>>103578668The rtx a4000s are actually very quiet cards.
>>103578669that's so tempting I kinda want to install a ceiling fan just for that but I'm good with AC>>103578640Specs and use case ? I assume you've been asked that many times already. I also wouldn't have thought that a small cpu cooler would be able to handle some HEDT/server cpu
>>1035787581xA60002xA40008 channels of ddr4 3200 256gb RAM.AMD EPYC 7F72 24-CoreSuperMicro H12SSL-NT MotherboardDon't remember the case. Also all items on this build were from eBay. Basically 7k PC build. The only thing not from eBay is the case as I got it from a coworker for free.
I think the IDE cables were hold together with a rubber band. One day I will attempt to fix things.
>>103528628based, cable management is for fags>>103528912fan just chilling on the radiator, I like it. cool low end build.>>103531645that's what depression looks like.also, lmao at all the sterile tryhard builds.
>>103578746Yeah you got to somehow fit 8 slots lol
>>103578758Forgot to mention the cooler. It's rated for that CPU and it can 98% prevent the cpu from throttling. It has to deal with a 240w CPU after all. It only throttles barely a little when the cpu is 100% Utilization.
>>103578807>Look up that CPU>$940 on AmazonGod damn nigga, It's amazing how gaymers would look at that green PCB and dismiss it, meanwhile you could slap a matte black motherboard from 2011 in an rgb glass case and gaymers would pay $500 for that shit.
>>103578994Anon the cpu is $500 or less on eBay.
>>103579020That's still a shit ton of money Anon, and still people would look at your EBYN 24 core CPU on a green supermicro board and think you dug up some old computer by the dumpster and have repurposed it, meanwhile it's stronger than most people's builds that are riced out.
>>103578640
>>103579028True True.
>4790k oc'd to 5.2>1080ti>couple of old ass hard drives>one sata ssdwe live a simple life
>>103580134Based 2014 build, such a comfy time for computing and doing budget builds.
>Ryzen 5 2600>RX570 4GB>Xonar Essence STXI really don't need more
>>103578758you can have a ceiling fan and AC. huge amount of america has both. like my house. i always run mine because it helps circulate the air coming out of the AC vent throughout the rooms rather than just having it dump into one spot and wait for natural convection to spread it around.
>>103580183It just keeps kicking. Upgrading after the holidays I think though. I don't play anything modern because frankly it's all slop. Will reuse PSU and noctua
>>103580298>I don't play anything modern because frankly it's all slopLiterally me, I upgraded from an FX-8350 2014 build to an i7-8700 thinking I would gain something and make Windows 10 work when 7 was kill, and it ended up being such trash that I switched to Linux and should've never upgraded from that damn FX-8350 build.
>>103569035
>>103580376>that GPU supportKek these chud cards that take up triple slots are getting so ridiculous, I had a saggy HD7970 that I thought was the most ridiculous thing ever, and then Nvidia said hold my TDP pham
>>103580400i use to have a haf xb. pic very related. sadly it couldn't fit the newer, bigger video cards. i miss having a horizontal case.
>>103580428
>>103580323Bulldozer is kinda dated though. I really want to get a couple M2 drives and put in 3 or 4 big boy 8-12tb hard drives to double my PC as a NAS. Maybe it's my depression but the whole PC hobby just seems worse now. Parts are worse quality, there's always something better, resolution/fps really hasn't changed, etc. Nothing lasts as long as it used to if you're trying to play the latest and greatest>>103580428Cases suck now man, it's all this tempered glass shit that shows dust like your PC is some showcase.
>>103580400I figured 10-15 years ago we'd have made advancements in efficiency and performance that cards would be half the size, draw less power and probably do 4k@60. I was very very very wrong. We've gone backwards in so many ways. With rising energy costs you'd have thought maybe the industry would have shifted a bit but nah
>>103580452yup. i really hate how everything is glass and more glass. yeah they look nice with lightning but i have to be more careful when handling it, smudges happen without trying, and they makes the cases heavier. i really miss acrylic when you wanted fancy.i also miss inverted cases. it made water cooling really fun because it was super easy to make your own custom "aio." pic related.
>>103580452>Bulldozer is kinda dated thoughIt really is, I still love it as a retro rig, and I kept coping like I was gonna run Windows 7 and an FX-8350 forever but eventually I couldn't get support, and I was just missing out on newer better hardware, becoming a linusfag has at least got me into hardware again because I can at least run it, I was so deluded that I was literally saying no to hardware that went more than twice as fast and used half the energy when they came out because you couldn't easily put Windows 7 on it.>>103580490>We've gone backwards in so many waysWe really have, I remember in 2014 budget builds were amazing, the 750Ti was a real breakthrough in cards, you could throw it in any computer without even a power connector and have a 1080p gaming rig because things were getting smaller and smaller, but we've kinda hit an efficiency wall, so now cards are huge.
>>103580499i do miss my old 390 crossfire, housefire edition build. the heat and power consumption was absolute insane but it was fun as hell. performance was actually fantastic.
>>103580518the heat was really bad though. my small apartment room would jump up nearly 10 degrees during a gaming session. was nice during the winter when it was 41 degrees outside but summer it was pretty brutal. and it smelled so bad too because the 390s were putting out so much heat, it smelled of like hot electronics. like some ozone smell.
>>103580514this was my 2013 build with a 8350.
>>103580499>>103580514Simpler times. Ugh. I almost wanna cry, there just aren't many new games worth playing at least to me. Maybe GTA 6 will change that, but I highly highly doubt it as GTA 5 just became online slop.
>>103580548Based ayymd housefires I miss the heat that would rise out of my FX-8350 HD7970 rig during these 48 degree winters, my 1050Ti uses damn near nothing and it performs 3% better than an HD7970>>103580558Based fuckin build, all 8350s deserve at least a 6+2 phase board like the M5A99FX EVO to run themselves at all
>>103580547My 2015 setup in comparison. That machine held up until earlier this year when I upgraded.
>>103580583
>>103580617i remember those side fan things. i think gainward did something similar with the phantoms.
>>103580625my old asus 980 ti that had that hybrid cooler. aio on the cpu but spent money to do a quick custom loop for the 980 ti lol.
>>103580649had the pump zip tied in the back lmao
>>103580635GPU? Yeah, that small 4th fan was only there to cool the VRMs, nothing else.Pic rel is the 4790K in it going at 4.9GHz. That machine was something else man.
>>103580678damn 4.9ghz. that thing was faster than a 6700k because the 6700k couldn't overclock that well. that was a great chip.
>>103580655found it. my 6700k and crossfire rx 480s.
>>103580723Haswell was so incredibly good, 4790K and a GTX 970 was the meme build for a reason
>>103580737trying to find my 4790k and sli 970s i had. i was living in wa at the time so i was able to get away with crossfire / sli builds. crack open a window and kept my room cool until july.
>>103580749and that was 6700k and 970 sli. >>103580518 that was my 4790k and 390 crossfire
>>103580723It could do 5.2 GHz in winter with windows fully opened and a fan funneling cold air towards the radiator. lol. Can't find the screenshot, think it was 560-ish?I still got the CPU, I'm gonna frame it one day.>>103580737Went for the 980 Ti. Still got it sitting here as well.
>>103580770yup. i regretted selling my 4790k for my 6700k. was a downgrade because skylake was such a shit overclocker
>>103580678>>103580770did it do 4.9ghz without delidding? then its among one of the best possible samples ever made
>>103580785Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck, I'd be pissed man. Why did you do it?>>103580790It would do the 5.2GHz undelided. Still is undelided btw. I sometimes feel like it was an Everest that somehow slipped into the production line.
>>103580805back then i was keen on upgrading to the latest and greatest. i had a lot more free time then and a ton of disposable income since i was young and not married yet.
>>103580785Just buy the fixed kabylake chip goy :^)
>>103580841i skipped the 7700k and went straight to ryzen with a 1800x. pic related
>>103580848
>>103580848thats a cute pussy
>>103580878that was my wife's (then gf) cat, rory. she found her abandoned outside with a nasty infection in her ear. vet didn't think she would live since she was, iirc, 2 months old. but she ended up living and shes now 10 years old.
>>103580898God damn theyre cute when theyre that fuckin smol, I've only ever had a kitty from 3yo to 11yo
>>103580805Still remember one of the moments it made my grin ear to ear.>Be me>OC it the first time ever to 4.8GHz>Start GTA Online>Some modder starts harrassing everyone, porting us all to vespucci beach>Tell him to fuck off or I'll report him cuz I was a smart-ass back then>He cages me in a lobster-cage>Starts spawning cargo planes on my cage to make my game crash (https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Cargo_Plane)This was when mod-menus weren't as sophisticated as they are today, you couldn't really gangstalk people but you could sure as hell crash their games by overloading it>Game starts to lag a litte>One by one people disconnect because their PCs can't handle it>Modder DCs because his machine couldn't handle it>I sit at my PC laughing my nuts offGood times, but I can't find the clip rn.>>103580848>>103580898Very nice
>>103580911this was my first just for me. got him at 3 months in 2018.
>>103580925
>>103580925>>103580933Fuckin cyoot, I miss kitty hopping on me when I'm trying to computer, their fuckin fur gets on shit but god damn I want one again
>>103580945get one. and take it for car rides
>>103580948**
>>103580790>did it do 4.9ghz without delidding? then its among one of the best possible samples ever madedevils canyon was soldered ihs
>>103580953>devils canyon was soldered ihsNo it wasn't man, it's got TIM like the 4770K as well. The only thing that set the 4790K apart from the 4770K was better binning and an 500 MHz base, 600 MHz Boost OC from the factory. Other than that the 4790K was literally a rebranded 4770K.
>>103580953>https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/delidding-the-4790k-for-a-quick-look-at-the-tim-573/nah it used 2nd gen toothpaste tim
>>103580989>>103580982not the anon, but i swore i remember hearing it was solder too back then
>>103580982afaik they tweaked something in silicon too as XOCers said that the 4770k clocked better sub-ambient than the 4790k, which did better at ambient cooling
>>1035809964960x and 5960x were soldered but intel cheaped out on mainstream chips and used toothpaste
>>103580996I assure you it wasn't, I fanboyed so hard about the CPU because I was a teen saving up for his first PC then. The fact that I pulled a CPU that could do those clocks made for an unreal feeling.>>103581005Different stepping, it's still the same CPU by definition.
>>103581012>>103581014fug. i must have been getting it confused with haswell-e>>103580951this was on the road trip from moving from wa to az. for the price my wife and i were paying in rent for a two bedroom apartment, we were able to get a mortgage in az.but i hate it here. i really, fucking hate az with a burning passion as the summers out here.
>>103580925We doing cats now ?
>>103581044>fug. i must have been getting it confused with haswell-ehappens>trust the planAre people really dumb enough to fall for this? Making history a boring subject is an atrocity. There were russian revolutionaries who would literally make the counter-revolutionaries wait until doom because "the counter-rev starts any minute now" for years on end.
>>103581058please tell me thats a nebelung
>>103581071i busted out laughing so hard when i pulled behind that truck with the Q decals. that was, 2022 iirc. i couldn't believe people stilled believed in the Q shit.
>>103581075I honestly have no idea, we got her as a rescue. She's insanely vocal, and bossy. Meows to get int the bathroom and shower with us. Meows constantly after about 11PM if I have not gone to bed (sleeps on top of me or curled up against my chest). 11/10 cat, whatever kind she is.
>>103581113that sounds 100% identical to mine. he's glued to me and tolerates my wife and rory (her cat). he loves to talk and screams bloody murder if i close a door when he's not in the room with me. he has to sleep between my wife and i, cuddled up to me. i know he's a nebelung because he was born in my buddies, family barn back when i lived in wa and they had nebels. yours looks extremely similar to a nebel and the personality sounds identical. they are the best cats imo.
>>103528475Just chucked new Ali ram in I got for free because they took 2mo to deliver and got after refund lol
>>103581137She also has no fear. Photo taken about 2 seconds before she decided for some reason to pounce on the dog and create chaos.
>>103581180Based cat, just fuckin these dogs up
>>103580558what's the extra pci-e device?>yes i'll ask every single one of you
>>103581180lmao
>>103581191Sound card cause integrated audio can be ass
>>103581200what you guys think of the new washer and dryer we got?
>>103581206which one
>>103581217titanium hd, creative sound blaster
>>103581214I'd rather have a chubby wife than new washer/dryer that'll break 2 weeks after warranty is expired
>>103581218nice, gotta love seeing anons rockin them sound cards
>>103581200
>>103581228yo qt legsarent you a femaleno homo btw
>>103581228
>>103581238Hahaha. No I'm an intersex dude.
>>103581252oh hi scarlettdidn't know you also used /g/
>>103581252hot
>>103581252
Oh we posten dogs now
>>103581200is this your girlfriend? bet you get more chances of getting laid than her
>>103581242See pic.>>103581255I'm also on /o/
>>103581252So your born female or male and or intersex or after birth? Only knew one genuine one on discord she doxxed me to the cops lol then got acked and doxxed years ago haven't heard from it since kek
>>103581270Sure.
>>103581274based letting your cat grow their own fangs, as God intended
>>103581274Ofc your an ofag lol same here actually that's where the ausfag trannys doxxed me
>>103581285What kind of dodge is that? Mines a English masstiffy
>>103581274>I'm also on /o/a man of taste
>>103581284You don't develop intersec after birth, it's a genetic defect. Born neither, but leaning more towards male, surgically assigned/corrected male.>>103581287Declawing a cat is awful, it's cutting off the ends of their digits and I don't think it should ever be done.>>103581295Cars are just fun.>>103581306I also don't know, she was an owner surrender that was labeled as aggressive and temperamental, and sat in adopted for months. I asked to see her, and she just walked over and flopped on my lap. Instantly adopted her.
>>103581346Shit that's sad my dog's also a rescue and has to have anti seizure meds otherwise she has them dailyLovely dog tho Oh wow so sure a real intersex. Do u have booba or just look like a femboy etc?
>>103581329I am a supreme kinomanKek the instructions on this cooler and case are hilarious
Lol
>not having a animu aio and caseNgmi
>>103581572I have tits. I often pass as a woman due to my stature, proportion, speech patterns and mannerisms. I also am on HRT ( E ), but I am not a tranny, I am just exceptionally faggy. have an older gut photo.
>>103581641Noice I don't have a gf ATM can I see ur boobs nohomo
>>103581766you know where to find them. Have a photo from when I upgraded from FX to Ryzen 3000
>>103581044Based cherokee driver
>>103581798No idea I'm not on discord anymore link?
>>103581949trap thread on /b/. I was pretty proud of this really ghetto GPU thing for some reason.
>>103581989Not bad what other posts are urs? I'm sick of women might give thicc traps a goBased deshroud too
>>103582021you can just search for users >>>/o/28143114
>>103582021gaaaay faggot
>>103582042Oh yeah duh old ADHD dyslexia flared up That ur Lexus?
>>103582131>Wheredoyouthinkweare.etc
>>103582172its a nissan, but yes.
>>103582196Noice I love me old turbo Ford falcons
>>103581214>top loaderyou done goofd
>>103582425Haier master race here top loader washer side load dryer get rekt
these fan setups...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVMCqR_zbKU
