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paulca:

--- Quote from: tszaboo on April 13, 2022, 07:58:12 am ---Isn't your memory placed wrong? For dual channel, the sticks had to be next to each other on every PC I built.

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Certainly on AMD it's been this way for a while.  Yes, it was the first thing I checked, then fitted them, got a cup of tea, came back and double checked them.

The only thing I did manage to screw up and did not double check or even check once I was so "sure".  I put the front radiator in upside down.  Pipes at the top!  Means air in the pick up area, means air bubbles and noise.  Had to take it out and flip it over again and move it up as the tubes didn't reach.
paulca:

--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on April 13, 2022, 05:09:58 am ---It's a loooong time since I built anything out of new parts. So I found it interesting due to the fact that the gear isn't covered in dust or infested with insects.

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Ah.  Spending the time and effort on the cooling pays off in the end.  I used to experience the birds nests of pet hair, the fluff bunnies the size of rats.  The caked and baked orange gunk, the bed bugs and carpet beetles.

Those where the days when you stuffed 1 or 2 12V 90mm fans into a case, put up with the whine all day, and didn't care you turned the PC into a stationary vacuum cleaner.

Since I actually started to care and pay attention to the cooling and airflow issue more, I learn the ways of filters and positive pressure to prevent unmanaged air intake and thus, prevent dust.  (Its not perfect, but in 4 years my last build had a very small amount of dust inside.  The fans and radiators had brown crud on the leading edges, but nothing a hoover and paint brush couldn't remove in seconds. 

Not running the fans all the time when not needed extends the life of their bearings massively.  So even after 4 years of hard use all of the fans where still as quiet as when I bought them.

Sometimes the bling is bling, sometimes it's just practical stuff that looks pretty.
paulca:

--- Quote from: free_electron on April 13, 2022, 01:51:38 am ---
--- Quote from: xrunner on April 13, 2022, 12:31:50 am ---No custom coolant piping?  :-//

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just dunk the whole thing in a vat of fluorinert and blow airbubbles through it. Seymour did that already back in the late 70's. So nothing new.

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To be honest, anywhere there was an option to not have unicorn vomit, I went that option.

The top three fans for the GPU radiator were actually supposed to not be RGB enabled.  However the dispatch note "upgraded" me apparently.

I figured it might as well connect the LED headers.  Same for the CPU cooler and GPU block.

When I first turn it all with all of them connected, it was absolutely vile.  Rainbow marques and much "My little pony" love and happiness.

I set them all to "white".  I think it looks ok.  I can, and probably will set them all to black later.  All but the CPU which will be white as a nice power LED.  Then again, they can have a purpose, lighting the case up different colours to show different things.  Like flashing red if it's overheating or a pump/fan has died etc.  Or just the CPU and GPU blocks reflecting their temperature.

No custom loop, no custom tubing.  Two sealed all-in-one loops.  You could see it as the difference between a vented lead acid and a sealed zero-maintenance one, except AIOs last longer.  Hassle and leak free. (touch wood)

Again the ethos is function over form, but if it has a function AND looks good, I'm fine with that.

I don't think there was a single part of the build specced or bought purely for athestics or bling.  Except maybe the clear tempered glass side panel.  I did choose the untinted one over the blacked out one.  Figured if I had to choose one, I'd pick the one which improved it's function (a window!) and didn't hinder it for looks.
paulca:

--- Quote from: DavidAlfa on April 13, 2022, 12:05:07 am ---Get the extreme ultra RGB, does the same, costs twice triple 4x more but it's what gamers use!
PS: I would have chosen a 12700K, I even considered upgrading, but my 3770K is still up to the job and I don't follow silly capitalist desires :D

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Define "the job".  And sure if you call gaming a capitalist desire, I'm guilty.

You find me a good spec'ed motherboard which DOESNT have RGB.

Where it was an option, I went with the non-RGB option.  You'd be surprised how limiting that can be though.  If you start out by searching for "No god damn unicorn vomit", you find yourself browsing the corporate thin client components.

On some of the excesses, like the flagship mainboard and the premium case.  For me these are "nice to haves", but for peace of mind and quality of life more than "dick waving".  The same goes for a lot of things in life.  You can go with the cheap option, it'll get your by, you might need to fiddle with it and add essential (to you) features later.  Or you can go with the more  premium model and be safe it will have what you need.  It will have a dozen other things you couldn't care less about, but it will meet your needs and then some where it maters without the hassle. 

"Quality of life", like the motherboard coming with a front panel header block, so you can assemble the half dozen jumpers onto it from the case and then in one go reach into the case, hold you tonque the right way, get it onto the header pins in the darkest, narrowest, spikiest bit of the case.

Or the case having the radiator brackets unscrew and slide out, so you can assemble the radiators and fans outside the case, cable manage them and just slide them in.  Reverse to remove for servicing.

CPU, Memory and GPU are all just numbers.  Pound per stat.  Price curves.  90 percentile.  Maybe reviews, but in each range they only really change in the raw numbers.

Cooling and fans, and their proper configuration, alignment, flows and control is somewhere I spend money because I know it's value in using auto-overclocking components that if you keep them cool, the run faster.  Add £200 to the price of the graphics card itself just for cooling, will usually net you another 20-25% over all performance.  Same for the CPU.
newbrain:
Nice build, and quite balanced choice of components, for a game oriented machine!

It's not so dissimilar from mine - Fractal Design Meshify C, R9 5900X, GTX 3060 Ti, 2×16GB GSkill 3600 MHz CL16, Asus ROG Stryx B550-f gaming, WD SM-850 1 TB NVME.
No water cooling for me - a classic Noctua NH-D15 - as I'm often abroad and using the machine remotely, I'm a bit queasy with possible leaks - mostly silent unless under very heavy load.

My choice is a bit more compute oriented, but still very 'playable' (and I do play) if one does not go overboard with the quality settings.

One thing that you - and I! - could have slightly improved is using 4×8GB sticks of RAM, rather than 2×16GB: IIUC, it has a performance advantage with Ryzen processors.


--- Quote ---You find me a good spec'ed motherboard which DOESNT have RGB.
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This.
I also use a lot of gaming stuff, including keyboard and mouse. Apart from the ubiquitous "unicorn vomit" (that can mostly be turned off, of made inconspicuous as you did), it's often higher quality and more reliable.

PS: My  sarcasm/humor meter is out for calibration, so I don't understand if some of the answer here are ironical or just sour grapes...

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