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Gyro:
Oops, sorry. I got dazzled.  :D

free_electron:

--- Quote from: paulca on April 13, 2022, 03:43:20 pm --- it's like buying the family model car and swapping the parts that make it the sports model for much less money.  Follow? 

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It'll never be a sportscar. The chassis is wrong. The weight distribution wrong. It just looks like the other. Reminds me of those "kit" cars. look i drive a ferrari on a datsun chassis.


--- Quote ---Fans?
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Wait. what happened to the water cooling ?


--- Quote --- How many USB?  What type?  A or C?
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backplane has plenty.


--- Quote ---the only expansion card you would consider is a video card
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How about PCIe Flash drive ? GPIB adapter ? couple of I/O cards ? Got plenty of those laying around. Or, if you are into video editing , some fast SDI interfaces and H264/5 accelerators.


--- Quote ---half a dozen individually controlled fan headers
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wait, what happened to the water cooling ? must not be very good if you still need 16 fans.

--- Quote ---I2C bus, GPIO bus, SPI bus,
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  now we're talking !

--- Quote --- RGB 281* buses, analgoue RGB buses. 
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Does that speed up the machine in any way ?

--- Quote ---5Gigabit network adapter + 2.5Gb adapater.
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Wifi on the motherboard broken already ?

I'm yanking your chain of course (if you haven't figured it out yet.)
Like i said i gave up building machines. All that remains are crappy overclocked motherboards with shit chipsets, badly written biosses and eye-watering bling-bling.
Show me one stable machine that can run rock solid for years on end. It won't be assembled from those kind of parts. It'll be a very expensive piece of Dell or HP kit properly designed , cooled and powered sitting in a climate controlled room somewhere.

Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: Gyro on April 13, 2022, 07:30:40 pm ---
--- Quote from: paulca on April 13, 2022, 07:27:12 pm ---
--- Quote from: Gyro on April 13, 2022, 07:09:43 pm ---I hope all those pretty lights and illuminated logos improve its performance, it would be terrible if they were pointless.

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Chris, do come along chap, we did that 10 posts ago.

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Oops, sorry. I got dazzled.  :D

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You should see what he does when we pull out the laser pointer.

free_electron:

--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on April 13, 2022, 09:52:12 pm ---
--- Quote from: Gyro on April 13, 2022, 07:30:40 pm ---
--- Quote from: paulca on April 13, 2022, 07:27:12 pm ---
--- Quote from: Gyro on April 13, 2022, 07:09:43 pm ---I hope all those pretty lights and illuminated logos improve its performance, it would be terrible if they were pointless.

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Chris, do come along chap, we did that 10 posts ago.

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Oops, sorry. I got dazzled.  :D

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You should see what he does when we pull out the laser pointer.

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miauw ! careful with cats. when they are on their back , remember they have 5 point ends !

NiHaoMike:

--- Quote from: paulca on April 13, 2022, 09:08:49 am ---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.

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I have yet to find a server board with RGB, granted you'll probably have to buy used to get a reasonable price. It most likely would also include a CPU or two (still top notch performance if not too old) and support for more RAM than you're likely to use anytime soon. The cooling design isn't going to get skimped on either and if you're lucky, it would have a high ambient option (e.g. Dell Fresh Air) that improves things even more.

--- Quote ---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.

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The best fans available don't even have RGB options, just loads of power with high quality bearings and variable speed control.

--- Quote from: paulca on April 13, 2022, 03:43:20 pm ---Sounds like you missed the fun stuff.  The big change requiring the tower (and mines a MIDI Tower) is the amount of power these things consume and thus the heat they produce.  320W for just the video card.  Another 120-140W for the CPU.  Another 100W for the mainboard.  That's a LOT of heat to get rid of.  "Why get rid?", all modern components will slow themselves down to remain within thermal limits and stability.  So your lovely 4.6Ghz processor in your latest Z workstation with it's rubbish, "to a budget" cooler, rapidly drops it's clocks to 3.8Ghz as it can't handle the heat output at 4.6Ghz.  You might as well have bought the 3.8Ghz beside it for £300 cheaper.

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I doubt a proper *workstation* is going to compromise much on thermal design.

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