building-and-recc-chat

[little osprey]

Idk if i would buy a new one but if you want to go ahead

[fossil cedar]

although your psu should be fineeee

[little osprey]

C tier is better than a bomb sooo

[earnest olive]

c-tier with a 1080ti is a little bit sketch

my zotac dual fan 1080ti was drawing 370 watts

undervolted

[desert void]

it was a noise cancelling case with 0 airflow so when i went to clean the dust panel under the psu i almost choked

i took off all the noise cancelling panels and stole some fans from my brother which i slapped onto the case

[little osprey]

“stole”

[desert void]

still looks god awful like it snowed inside it but it works

heres reference

wonderful 🤩

[little osprey]

Uhhh

Bro

Take it outside and like

Use a leaf blower on it

[desert void]

surprised it hasnt exploded yet

[little osprey]

That’s nasty

[fossil cedar]

💀

[little osprey]

🤢

At least take a hair dryer on cool air mode to it

[earnest olive]

I know how to motivate you to clean that

wanna hear it?

[little osprey]

Leaf blower

[desert void]

i

[little osprey]

💩

[desert void]

uh

[earnest olive]

that layer of dust you see

is a layer of dead skin cells

[little osprey]

Lick it

[earnest olive]

:)

[little osprey]

Lick the dust off ez

[desert void]

i figured out how to access the front airflow panel

dear god

[little osprey]

Now you have breathed in all the dead skin cells

Woooooo

[earnest olive]

your PC is covered in dead skin

[little osprey]

Mind cleaning it

[desert void]

i can ry

[little osprey]

today is care for your pc day did you know

[desert void]

i have no air

[little osprey]

how are you breathing

[desert void]

no like pressurized air

[earnest olive]

use some wet wipes lol

[fossil cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/neil-patrick-harris-shudder-shrug-disgusted-gif-13575156

[little osprey]

that work too

[desert void]

ive been using tissues

[little osprey]

i used a hair dryer for mine

[earnest olive]

alright I gotta dip now byebye

[little osprey]

Bye

[desert void]

bc im lazy and it hasnt fumed yet

the important parts arent that dirty tho

like the gpu is alright and we dont talk about the stock intel cooler ok

i dont condone of used pc slander

[little osprey]

i have a stock cooler

it’s ok

(not really)

[desert void]

indeed

the case is a fractal define r4

with metal sidepanel lmao

the amount of research i had to do to figure that out

[little osprey]

how many case fans

[desert void]

curse fractals minimal branding

uh

like openings for case fans or actual fans

[little osprey]

actual face

fans

[desert void]

2

[little osprey]

heh same

[desert void]

i count on passive exhaust and the hopes and dreams of the p

pc

and if that doesnt work

then i guess it goes boom

but it ran black desert pretty well so im not complaining

[little osprey]

me too

my pc very sad

[desert void]

chad moment

[little osprey]

neglected

[desert void]

us rn

[little osprey]

fr

[brittle tinsel]

1. Running a seperate internet plan to avoid data limits (even though I pay for unlimited) and to avoid ping lag on games that kick for ping around 100-150.
2. to stream/record 2 pcs to one without adding strain to my pc.
3. I just genuinely like dual pc builds, It feels comforting to me as you can have a build on either side of a desk and it would be symmetrical (I got problems, I know)

also I have a question for anyone. can you connect a pc to a home server and internet if you have dual lan ports?

[fossil cedar]

1, that would be ridiculous, it will use a small bit of upload to stream but just increase your current plan that gives you more upload if necessary although i literally have 12mbps upload and 0 problems & ping is basically only how close you are to the game server.
2, using nvenc/amd encoding is not noticeable on impact on fps/stream quality

and yes you can connect a pc to a server and internet

[brittle tinsel]

to 1. I know, but when I start streaming tarkov my ping goes from 35-60 to 135-150 and gets me kicked out of servers. I dont live close enough to get fiber, I have DSL.

2. I have tried nvenc and CPU encoding on my pc, both cant stream/record and play a game at the same time.

and when I say home server. I am talking about like a central storage server. We would also like to be able to have cameras save recordings to that server and want to figure out a way to access the server from any computer in the house, where ever it be

like I said before, technology interests me greatly but I am slow to comprehend and its hard to figure things out. So I seek help to make sure it is even possible before attemtping

[fossil cedar]

1, whats your plan and who are you with? who are the other options in your area?
2. so you should know that nvenc is amazing basically 0 fps decrease and amazing stream quality unless you are talking about an older series nvenc like 1000 series or especially 9000 series, cpu encoding requires like 12 cores to be decent and game lol

and yes you can do that with the server

[fossil cedar]

no problem we all learn at different rates and thats why we are here to help educate others

[ornate condor]

Any Z690 mobo deal ? I need one with 4x m2 slot

[brittle tinsel]

so I have the best and almost only provider in my area, they are basically extorting customers for any server at all, and we only get like 40-50% uptime on the service.
we have tried satelite and it was too high latency for gaming.
I am using a 1060 3gb card, I used it before with a terrible cpu and 8gb ddr3 ram and was able to stream tarkov at a decent quality just fine. now I cant even record minecraft without the recording/stream dropping 20-30 frames consistently.

I pay for 50mbs unlimited here
once I move, which is where we will have the server and probably stream pc setup then. at&t provides gig residential or 5gig business. we arent sure how good att internet is but we have used their phones before and it wasnt bad

[ornate condor]

B660 with 2xm2 is not being enough anymore

[brittle tinsel]

why so many M.2?

[ornate condor]

[brittle tinsel]

are they really that different? I have stuck with 2.5 inch ssd for the last 6 years no problem from em

[ornate condor]

Plenty of 2tb SSD

I'm storage addict 😬

[brittle tinsel]

Newegg site has em new for $400 and used for $470, incase you want to pay extra for the miles it has I guess. I dont know if that is normal price though

[ornate condor]

400$ mobo for 250$ cpu

[brittle tinsel]

what cpu?

[mossy venture]

bruh

[ornate condor]

12600k

[mossy venture]

msi z690-a

i believe it has a gen4 m.2 slot

[desert gulch]

Not 4x

He needs 4 slots

[brittle tinsel]

I think he is looking for 4 slots

[desert gulch]

Not a gen 4 slot

[mossy venture]

ohhh

lol

[desert gulch]

Lol

[mossy venture]

alr one sec

i have an easy way to check

[desert gulch]

Z690 godlike probs has 4

Its on sale too

[ornate condor]

My asus rog strix z690A do have 4x m2 slot

It's on my other build lol

[mossy venture]

nvm

apparently pcp doesnt check for nvme slot compatibility

[desert gulch]

Rip

[mossy venture]

wait

maybe it does?

that means it has four right?

[lament fulcrum]

Does anyone know of any entertainment centers that are big enough to fit a full atx pc in like one of the doors

[ornate condor]

Looks like 4 slot lol

[mossy venture]

thats the msi z690-a

ddr4

[ornate condor]

Let me check

[fossil cedar]

Sounds like you just need a better cpu, ram and gpu

[fossil cedar]

Dumbest board kek

[brittle tinsel]

that was my old system

[desert gulch]

xD yea

[brittle tinsel]

I currently have 3900x 32gb 3600mhz and a 1060 3gb

[brittle tinsel]

^

[mossy venture]

i currently have a rock

https://tenor.com/view/charlie-i-got-a-rock-gif-10605542

why are gifs always so big

[fossil cedar]

@ornate condor https://pcpartpicker.com/product/GvmmP6/msi-pro-z690-a-ddr4-atx-lga1700-motherboard-pro-z690-a-ddr4

[mossy venture]

pog so it does check for nvme compatibility

cool

[fossil cedar]

Get a 20 series or 30 series gpu and probs will be fixed by new nvenc

[ornate condor]

https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813144504?Item=N82E16813144504&Source=socialshare&cm_mmc=snc-social-_-sr-_-13-144-504-_-05022022 yeah looks like it does have 4x m2 slot but I have to check manual to see if all of them are working together

And if they leaving me at least one sata port lol

[mossy venture]

why do you need all of them to be m.2 drives

[celest horizon]

Use an x4 riser for an extra drive

[mossy venture]

why not do 1 nvme and a big sata

[ornate condor]

4tb ssd price = 3x 2tb ssd price

[celest horizon]

If that board can bifurcate, get a dual m.2 card for the x8 slot

[mossy venture]

2tb sata drives

870 evo

[ornate condor]

I have to upgrade my mobo anyways couse B660M mobo sux

Ewww 500mbps

Why not 5000mbps

[mossy venture]

what are you going to do that exceeds that

and what do you do to need 8tb of ssd storage too lol

[celest horizon]

run benchmarks and flex scores

[ornate condor]

[mossy venture]

i have a terrible sata ssd (cs900) and a 660p

the only difference i notice is like 10 second boot time

[ornate condor]

I just realized I have lots of SSDs already and ordered 4 of them lol

Probably gonna get rid of slow ones

2x 2tb crucial p5
2TB XPG S70 Blade
2TB T-force Cardea A440

Gonna use those 2 crucial for backup and another 2 as main

[celest horizon]

Is this a joke?

[mossy venture]

but why

whats the point

[stoic island]

More storage

[ornate condor]

I do have lots of files and I always keeping backup

Storage drives always can fail

[fossil cedar]

mans downloaded the entire internet on ssds

[earnest olive]

downloaded 30 tb of bean emojis

[potent portal]

Nah get PCIe to M.2 adapters

You got all these PCIe lanes from your chipset, why not use them all?

[ornate condor]

🤔

[wary tundra]

Does the corsair cxm series not have a cpu cable for the psu

I have two pcie cables

That's all

[desert gulch]

It has a 8 pin cpu cable

It should be labeled "CPU" on an end

[wary tundra]

These are the only two

[ornate condor]

4+4 8pin is cpu and 6+2 8 pin is pcie ( gpu)

[wary tundra]

These are the rest

[ornate condor]

those are molex cables

[desert gulch]

Is isn't already plugged into the PSU?

[ornate condor]

those are gpu

no cpu cable there lol

[desert gulch]

Yeah should be a separate cable actually

Maybe Corsair forgot to send it with the cxm

[ornate condor]

there should be some which looks limilar to them but instead of 6+2 theyre 4+4.

wait I do see some cables connected to psu at backround lol

[desert gulch]

For cxm it's a separate cable

Unless they already plugged it in

Oh wait that it's the CPU cable

@wary tundra its already on the psu

[desert gulch]

Not that one

See the thicc snake looking cable?

That's the 24 pin Mobo

In the same hole, cause semi mod, is the CPU power

It's just a smaller braided cable

[ornate condor]

oh yeah

but that cable which connected to psu does look like cpu cable

[desert gulch]

That longer and flatter one is pcie

I own the exact same PSU xD

[ornate condor]

is it possible to connect pcie to cpu by accident ?

[desert gulch]

Nah

Theyre keyed differently

You'd need a hammer to ram a live in cpu

[ornate condor]

never tried it lol

[desert gulch]

Youd probs break the board first

Y'know what would happen if they didn't key it lol

Ppl would be frying boards and CPUs and gpus all over

[ornate condor]

that what I worried about lol

cpu power layout is not same as pcie lol

[desert gulch]

Ye

[ornate condor]

imagine putting cpu power to your white strix 3090 by accident

[desert gulch]

Sounds like some @earnest olive would do

[earnest olive]

no

i put a screw in my 3090 by accident

[ornate condor]

[next dock]

can i have build list for $1300

[mossy venture]

do you live in the US?

[next dock]

us yes

[mossy venture]

aight give me a few min

[next dock]

Thank you

[mossy venture]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/7gkJyK

[ornate condor]

Why mobos with thunderbolt output is that expensive

[next dock]

Thanks

[untold beacon]

I would like to say that I have almost have all my parts for my pc

all i need now is the new case and the graphics card

[ornate condor]

cooler master td500 mesh white

I like that case

As gpu you have to camp lil bit for get it for good price

[wary tundra]

I figured it out

But why is the cpu frequency so high

[desert gulch]

its already in psu

the cpu cable

what is your cpu frequency?

and what cpu is it

[wary tundra]

It's like spiking

5600x

With a stock cooler omegalol

[desert gulch]

just boosting

yeah probs a bit toasty

[wary tundra]

How do I make it stop?

[desert gulch]

i mean you could lock it down in bios and lose the perf

not sure of the easiest way, probably windows power plan too

[potent portal]

Normally you don't want it to

[wary tundra]

Okay thank you

It's not my pc I just don't want his pc to overheat

I thought I did something wrong

[potent portal]

It's load temps that matter, if that's idle it's not a big deal

[wary tundra]

His pc overheated

Sadge

[potent portal]

Stock cooler is ok but it needs good airflow too

It's probably hanging around 90C right?

What frequency does it drop to under load?

[wary tundra]

It's at 4.6 at around 70c dropping I think

I tightened the cooler

[potent portal]

70C is totally fine

[wary tundra]

It's better than 86c

And then it crashed again when elden ring is opened

[desert gulch]

70c is actually really good for a 5600x with a stock cooler lol

[wary tundra]

Yes but it keeps crashing

It's just weird

[potent portal]

Could be a driver issue

[potent portal]

Try this https://github.com/NeweggTechie/Graphics-cards/wiki/How-to-use-DDU

[brittle tinsel]

@fossil cedar I fixed the dropped frame issue for now.
turns out nvenc new isnt meant for 10 series, but nvenc is......

I guess that mattered

everyone always told me to use nvenc new but at least I solved 1 of many

[wary tundra]

It appears elden ring is the only game making it crash

Everything else is working and Temps are Low

[mossy venture]

what gpu?

[potent portal]

Definitely drivers then

[wary tundra]

3070

[mossy venture]

id update gpu drivers

[wary tundra]

Did that and elden ring still doesn't work

Idk what else is wrong

Anything visually stands out?

[potent portal]

Well that is still a pretty new game.
What graphics settings is it on?

[mossy venture]

this prolly isnt the issue

but which slots is that ram in?

should be 2nd and 4th

[wary tundra]

It is

[mossy venture]

kk

id try reinstalling the game

[wary tundra]

He be doing it

[mossy venture]

alr

[wary tundra]

Every game so far is running fine

Idk I got free food for building it so my work is done

[crude briar]

Hey so I have a ryzen 3 3200g a ryzen 5 1400 a Rx570 and a Gtx970. What would be the best combination of these parts?

[earnest olive]

sell them all and pick up an i3-12100 and 3050/1660S/1070

[crude briar]

I already have an AM4 motherboard so I dont want to switch from AMD

[little osprey]

start of may and it's already a blast

idk if it's just me or may feels diff

[earnest olive]

then sell them all and spend extra on a 5600

i'd just sell the mobo too but w/e

[crude briar]

How would a r5 5500 and a 1070 do?

[earnest olive]

if you're not willing to move up to a 5600, sell the am4 board

r5 5500 loses to the i3-12100 while costing significantly more

and i am morally obligated to not recommend that piece of ewaste, am4 board or not

[crude briar]

The 5600 is like $30 more so I should be able to jump up to it and I can get a 980ti from ebay for a little cheaper than a 1070

[earnest olive]

r/hardwareswap generally has much better deals than ebay

[potent portal]

Which board exactly? If you have parts that old your board might not even support newer CPUs

[native dew]

Did I lose image perms??

I can’t send images

[potent portal]

Need to be level 3 to send images

And links

[native dew]

Oh

Well uh

[crude briar]

Asrock b450m pro4

[native dew]

I got the stuff you picked for me

[potent portal]

You can DM the pic to me and I'll put it up

[native dew]

Bet

All I need now is gpu cooler and an SSD

[earnest olive]

good enough for a 5600

[native dew]

If I have a 4TB HDD already would a 512gb SSD be enough?

[potent portal]

Plenty

[native dew]

I was thinking of getting a 1tb but I assume 4TB is already too much

[earnest olive]

you're the only one who can tell how much storage you need

for some people 256gb is enough

for some people 100tb isn't enough

[native dew]

Fair enough

[potent portal]

Need to have bios version P5.30 and this will make it so you can't use any CPU older than 3000 series on the board.
You also might need to update the bios incrementally. What version is it on right now?

For the newer 5000 series stuff that is

[crude briar]

Im not sure i havent updated since I got it and I dont know how to check

[potent portal]

If you boot it into the bios it'll say

[earnest olive]

no need

just open dxdiag in windows

[potent portal]

Might work for asrock but doesn't for my MSI, the version number is incomplete

[crude briar]

I have bios p4.60

[high yew]

are anything zotac branded gpu wises bad?

[earnest olive]

i have an asrock board so

[obsidian wigeon]

they're okay really

[potent portal]

Zotac is pretty average, nothing great but nothing too terrible, except when they forgot thermal pads on 3080+

[obsidian wigeon]

^

it's fine for gaming, but if you mine well

oof

[earnest olive]

will check my msi laptop after this lol

[high yew]

cad has dropped crazy amounts for 70ti's so i'm thinking of grabbing one of those for close to the same price i got my 60ti for

https://www.amazon.com/ZOTAC-Graphics-IceStorm-Advanced-ZT-A30710J-10P/dp/B09CML48LD/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2E52JPB1BWYK9&keywords=3070+ti&qid=1651458053&sprefix=3070+ti%2Caps%2C120&sr=8-2

[potent portal]

You can go straight to the newest version then, which is from October https://download.asrock.com/BIOS/AM4/B450M Pro4(5.30)ROM.zip

[high yew]

which is why i asked

[earnest olive]

forgetting thermal pads is def not okay for gaming either

you can game fine on bad thermal pads

but NO thermal pads is quite a different story

[potent portal]

That's really not bad for cad at all

[earnest olive]

weird, bios version works fine on my msi laptop

what does it say for you?

[potent portal]

Mine just says A.K5

[earnest olive]

that is very strange

[potent portal]

It's missing the first 4 digits

[earnest olive]

doesn't even look like an msi bios version lol

[potent portal]

It's correct for the last 3 digits at least lol

[crude briar]

How do I install it?

[potent portal]

It's a beta version

[earnest olive]

ah

i haven't seen any beta laptop bios

[potent portal]

Extract the zip to a USB drive and update from inside bios

[earnest olive]

bios 320 will be my last update for the lifetime of this laptop though

bios 321 removes cpu overclocking capabilities

[potent portal]

Yikes

[earnest olive]

big yikes indeed

it's a shame, the 11800H is so powerful when you let it hit its full potential

did you see my 11800H is now beating my 5800X in time spy?

[obsidian wigeon]

msi trying to block laptops from ocing

[earnest olive]

after i improved my laptop ram oc

[obsidian wigeon]

shame on them

[earnest olive]

pretty sure the orders come from intel here lol

it's not a K SKU

look at that cpu score

[potent portal]

My issue is they only have the latest beta version listed and not the 20 previous beta versions. The last official version from June 2020 doesn't support 5000 series.
My fclk won't stabilize above 1800 now and I need to roll back but I can't find the previous version...

[obsidian wigeon]

oh true

it must've come from intel

[earnest olive]

try finding it online

msi removed bios 320 from the site

had to find it online

was a little bit sus of flashing a bios from online but it works fine

[potent portal]

I could only find the "MAX" version, which has the larger rom

[earnest olive]

ouch

maybe try wayback machine?

or google cache

dunno if that would work

[potent portal]

Those max boards are pretty nice though, wish I'd gotten that one. Every AM4 CPU supported by the same bios version.

I'll check wayback, that's a good idea

[earnest olive]

hmm found a bios from 2021 may

7B84vAD

supports 5000 series but it's an older agesa 1.2.0.2

[potent portal]

If you meant that for me, it's the wrong model

[earnest olive]

oh

thought yours was msi gaming plus x470

[potent portal]

It is

[earnest olive]

yeah i found it for that

[potent portal]

But it's the 7B79

Not the 7B84

[earnest olive]

that is... bizarre

[potent portal]

Yep. Thanks MSI.

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/X470-GAMING-PLUS/support

That one's mine

[earnest olive]

oh

[obsidian wigeon]

talking about bios

[earnest olive]

i found AK4

that good?

[potent portal]

No I tried that one

[earnest olive]

they don't take down the old bios, they just hide it

you can just change the url

[obsidian wigeon]

i messed up my laptop by modding its bios and ignoring an error it gave me

[earnest olive]

K3? K2?

[potent portal]

None of the AK ones work

[obsidian wigeon]

then i sent it to a shop to reflash stock bios, and they flashed first version of the bios that doesn't support its soldered ram

so they thought a stick was defective

[earnest olive]

what version do you need?

[obsidian wigeon]

when it's just bios being too old

[potent portal]

It's probably AJ something I need but I'm not sure

[earnest olive]

tried everything from J1 to J5 and none worked

[potent portal]

The compatibility list is useless too, just says "latest beta bios"

[earnest olive]

dunno, you can try these

if J exists they've taken it down completely

and H is all the way from 2020 so probably not those

7B79vAK1 was released december 22 2020 and appears to be the first zen 3 compatible bios

so whichever version you're looking for is probably in here

[potent portal]

I'll give AK3 a go since I know AK4 didn't work. There was a feature they added that I wanted, that's why I updated...

[earnest olive]

K1 didn't come out long after H, so they probably skipped J

[potent portal]

And "I" apparently

[earnest olive]

good luck, hope you find the right one

lol yeah who knows why

it's gotta be one of those 3 bios i think

[potent portal]

Because why should things make sense?

[earnest olive]

1 2 3

[humble fossil]

Hi

what do you think about buy a gpu from ASUS US?

[crude briar]

Is $125 for a r5 3600 good?

[potent portal]

Buying from the manufacturer? Totally valid, they've had good prices recently. Check EVGA also.

[potent portal]

It's not bad but I'd hesitate to call it good

[earnest olive]

seen better recently for sure

saw a 3600x go for 110 and a 3600x + b450 go for 135

[potent portal]

AK3 still WHEAs, trying AK2

[earnest olive]

good luck

[humble fossil]

Ok thx

EVGA support is not good in the Middle East (To my knowledge)

[potent portal]

Ah I see, yes that changes a few things

[strong raft]

Don't need a case (I might actually build one, but idk)

[gloomy root]

Anyone around for a quick part swap question

Thinking of swapping my ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 420 for a MSI - MAG CORELIQUID 240R V2. The ARCTIC is a bit to big with the three fans with the build im doing thinking of switching

[potent portal]

Thanks for the help @earnest olive it looks like I'm stable at 1900 again. Now to drop timings.

[earnest olive]

yooo

good stuff

better save that bios file somewhere lol

was it K2?

[potent portal]

Yep

I even found an old zentimings screenshot and it says AK2 on it so that's the one I had before alright

[earnest olive]

that's good

hope they release a stable official bios in the next century

[potent portal]

Doubtful. I'd bet more on them dropping support for AM4 entirely next year lol

[earnest olive]

ah yes, new bios version somehow applies heat in the socket in just the right way to warp it into an FM2 socket

[indigo maple]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/4LLcH2 what are your thoughts about this?

[desert gulch]

PSU could go to enermax revolution df 850 for cheaper price

Plus, an ak620 is about dark rock pro 4 performance for 2/3 the price

Would also be highly worthwhile looking in to 12700f and b660, since it's much cheaper

Overclocking really doesn't give much added performance these days in most tasks

[indigo maple]

Tru but the b660 doesn’t have bios flash @desert gulch

[desert gulch]

Doesn't need it

B660 will work with the 12700(k)(f) out of the box

And some b660 have bios flash iirc

[little osprey]

why would you need bios flash anyways

It’s the current gen for the boards

It’s not like you can use previous gen with b660

[desert gulch]

Unless you manage to bork a bios or kill a CPU and need to upgrade, it's not really useful on a b660

[little osprey]

And if you ever upgraded and the cpu wasn’t compatible with the bios but somehow still compatible with the board you can use the cpu you already have

so basically you don’t need flashback

[desert gulch]

Mhmm

On b550 and stuff it made sense

[little osprey]

Seems to only be the most useful for amd people anyways

yes

[desert gulch]

But not in b660

[little osprey]

amd people always buying refreshed cpus with no support… smh

[desert gulch]

Lol

[indigo maple]

But you think the msi b660 tomahawk is a good board?

[little osprey]

Yes it’s fine

[indigo maple]

Doesn’t the z690 have more features?

[desert gulch]

CPU multiplier settings

Not really missing out on much with a b660/h670

[little osprey]

H670 is nice

[desert gulch]

Yea

[little osprey]

It’s not a bad price rn either

[analog pulsar]

Overlooking

[little osprey]

what

[analog pulsar]

Make cpu go 130%

[analog pulsar]

Don't ask me idk

[little osprey]

over looking

[analog pulsar]

Omg

Stupid phone

Overclocking

[fossil cedar]

That's great

[little osprey]

what's a daisy chain on lian li fans

[potent portal]

They connect to each other so you only need one header

Unless you're talking about the uni fans, those are different

[little osprey]

sl120

sl140

[potent portal]

So yes the uni fans

They slot into each other

Then the one on the end connects to a controller

[little osprey]

so which should i get

cause i don't understand it

[potent portal]

Out of which options? Just the SL120 and SL140?

[little osprey]

no like between the daisy stuff

[potent portal]

If you get the 3 pack they come with a controller, idk what you mean

[little osprey]

like

theirs 2 of them

Daisy chain and no daisy chain

[potent portal]

No reason not the get the daisy chain imo

[little osprey]

i'm going to put this on the bottom and top of my o11

so daisy chain is like all 3 of them glued basically

and the other one is 3 separate fans

[fossil cedar]

Yes

But i thought uni fans where only daisy chain

[little osprey]

i have no clue

rn

🤣

so wait the top and bottom one is the same thing why are they differently priced

[potent portal]

Different sellers maybe

SL120 is SL120

Both of your pictures also say daisy chain

[little osprey]

that's probably it

what are some good mid atx cases

[potent portal]

P400a and 4000D airflow are usually recommended, best price/performance

[little osprey]

ok

how do i check if my h150i has the new intel bracket thing

[potent portal]

I'm not 100% on what it looks like but it should say in the manual, where it describes the parts. Then you'll look for that bracket.

[frank stirrup]

when did u buy it?

[little osprey]

yesterday

[frank stirrup]

should have the bracket then

[glossy gull]

Does the 212 cooler master come with a 1700 bracket

Think I’ve red somewhere it does

Not sure tho

[fossil cedar]

It should but unless it's cheaper than gammaxx 400 where you live, don't get it

[obsidian wigeon]

^

[rich void]

Lian LI lancool 2 mesh is great as well

[fossil cedar]

Haven't seen it at a good price in a while but lian li 215 has been

[indigo maple]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ZbJwgb

I tweaked the build, I’m down for suggestions

[mossy venture]

I'd do 3080 12gb for 1k

3080 ti is maybe 3% better

Not worth $200

Also, do you plan to overclock the cpu?

[fossil cedar]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/YT2kJM

[indigo maple]

@mossy venture probably not just because I don’t want any unwanted issues to pop up

@fossil cedar that actually looks really good

[fossil cedar]

3080 10gb or 12gb isn't gonna cause any issues over the 3080 ti

Thanks 🙂

[rugged sparrow]

When do Arctic liquid freezers restock

[fossil cedar]

They're in stock

[mossy venture]

Then you can do a 12700f and b660

Performs exactly the same as a 12700k

[fossil cedar]

After you unlock power*

[fossil cedar]

Sure some of the non rgb are oos but here, at least one variant of each size is
https://pcpartpicker.com/products/cpu-cooler/#m=77&W=10240,10280,10360

[rugged sparrow]

I want a non rgb 360

But those are out of stock

Or at least when I look them up

[fossil cedar]

You can get an rgb one and not plug in the rgb?

Or probably set the rgb to black?

[rugged sparrow]

I mean I could

What is the difference between A RGB and RGB because A RGB is 32 dollars more

[fossil cedar]

argb is individual LEDS on the fan compared to just one colour of LED iirc

[earnest olive]

both of them have individual leds

the difference is that argb can send a different signal to each led

while rgb can only send the same signal to every led

@rugged sparrow@fossil cedar

[fossil cedar]

ahh right this is why i dont touch rgb with a 10 ft pole lol

[earnest olive]

yeah, rgb fans in my experience are also really hit and miss with being able to reproduce white accurately

while argb is usually better at that

[rugged sparrow]

I’ll probably just go for the regular RGB because I don’t think A RGB is worth 32 more dollars

[ornate condor]

My aorus 3080 no screen

No power input lights

Non of power input lights coming up

Oh wait shouldn't be up when power plugged in

So everything powering up but no screen

[mossy venture]

is anything else coming on?

psu switched on and plugged in fully?

pcie power plugged in fully in the psu and gpu?

[ornate condor]

Yeah everything is working but no screen

[mossy venture]

gpu fans arent spinning?

[ornate condor]

Yes screen on gpu working too

[mossy venture]

ah

sounds like bad cable or monitor, or monitor is switched to the wrong input

[ornate condor]

I mean it was working but suddenly gone

I tried it on another pc but same

Looks like it's gone

[mossy venture]

damn

sounds like rma time

[fossil cedar]

Aorus built in screen? Try downloading gigabyte center as well as rgb fusion

Rgb fusion is missing some weird dependency for it missing

[ornate condor]

No screen at all

Gpu is gone

[fossil cedar]

No display like?

[ornate condor]

Yup

[fossil cedar]

Ohh

[ornate condor]

Rip

[fossil cedar]

Tried different port/monitor/cable?

[little osprey]

thought you meant the GPU lcd

[ornate condor]

It working lol but no display

Vga light on mobo is on too

[fossil cedar]

@ornate condor ^

[ornate condor]

Yup

Nothing

Looks like rma time

Vga debug light is on at mobo too . Probably something wrong with gpu

[fossil cedar]

Rip, could be another case of gigglebyte pritt stick capacitors

[ornate condor]

gigabyte rma is also sux

[earnest olive]

you probably replaced all the capacitors with beans

[little osprey]

yes

beanpacitor

[ornate condor]

[little osprey]

War beans

[ornate condor]

it's time to look for another white strix gpu

[ornate condor]

I just realized it is still in 90day period Can I return it to newegg ? 🤔

[fossil cedar]

possibly

[ornate condor]

nvm this item has 30day return

it going to rma

sadly I sold my backup gpu couse prices going down and 40 series coming soon

[earnest olive]

you have intel igpu right?

12900K?

[ornate condor]

my 12900k build still in one piece with white strix 3090

my gaming build gone lol

[earnest olive]

just game on that then

[ornate condor]

I dont want to mix it up couse storage turning to trashcan lol but yeah I don't want to buy gpu right now couse prices going down and 40 series on the way

12900k with 3090 build is my work pc and I dont want to fill it with games . couse I don't doing my job and just gaming lol

[earnest olive]

get an external nvme enclosure

plug in game drive externally

remove when working

[ornate condor]

my bean gif on aorus screen gone

[keen agate]

hello I just finished this PC I might get for my first PC. https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Zimboiscoolio/saved/#view=JD9t3C

can you guys check it out and see if everything would work/if its good

[mossy venture]

would not recommend

whats your budget?

$800?

[keen agate]

800-850

[mossy venture]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/QWm34s

id try to stretch it for 12400f tho

[strong raft]

Yep, even the full 12400 is $170 recently

[mossy venture]

went back up to 190 earlier

[keen agate]

oh and its cheaper!

[mossy venture]

unless its back down

nvm back down to 170

if you could, id do this https://pcpartpicker.com/list/hjL4Mb

cpu will age a good bit better

worth the extra price imo

[desert gulch]

Isn't cx550f same price?

[mossy venture]

oh hey cxf is down to 45 actually

just saw that

[desert gulch]

Ye

Some gpp is good but there's numerous known variations you can get off a singular listing

Was talking with Luke about it

[mossy venture]

not shwoing properly for some reason

[little osprey]

My builds almost here

Just need the 2 sl120 fans tommorow and my o11 on friday

[desert gulch]

Post a pic of it in #build-pics when you're done if you want, we love seeing people's builds

[little osprey]

No we don’t

[little osprey]

😂

[little osprey]

is a asus rog strix b660a good for an i7-12700k

[obsidian wigeon]

if you go with b660

just go with 12700

or 12700F if you don't need the igpu

[little osprey]

ye but i already have the cpu

[obsidian wigeon]

ah

[little osprey]

yes sir

[obsidian wigeon]

as for the mobo, it'll do just fine

[little osprey]

ty

someone was telling me it wouldn't work because of vrm issues or something

[strong raft]

Idk, but might well spend similar price on a z690 mobo, if only for extra pcie lanes and such

[obsidian wigeon]

maybe consider h670

it could be cheaper

[little osprey]

i need a white mobo as well

[obsidian wigeon]

eh 12700k won't be oc'd on that board anyway cause it's a b660

vrms won't be a problem

as long as there's enough airflow

[little osprey]

i'm getting a o11

should be good ig

[leaden plume]

Amd or intel

[little osprey]

for?

[leaden plume]

Cpu

[little osprey]

intel

[obsidian wigeon]

o11 is a decent choice

[desert gulch]

i think you mispelled "cringe and cliche"

[fossil cedar]

Not price wise + it's drr5 only

[fossil cedar]

Atm intel 12th gen unless you already have a capable motherboard upgrading from ryzen already then get ryzen 5000

[little osprey]

ddr4

[fossil cedar]

Ah okay there's 1 ddr4 version but it's stupid overpriced

[random rapids]

I can’t get my cpu out it’s just stuck and I don’t really wanna use brute force any tips?

[fossil cedar]

Try just wiggle it a little while pulling up

[analog hearth]

the tension arm doesn’t look to be open enough. it should be lifted all the way

[spice crown]

Could someone help me get a good 3060ti prebuilt max budget of $2000 games are gta 5, warzone, 2k, forza, apex, valorant, fortnite, teardown

[fossil cedar]

What country? And 2k will get you plenty more if you're in the us, ~1.2k will get a nice 3060 ti prebuilt

[spice crown]

Us and I was thinking around $1500 but I didn't know

[fossil cedar]

The one i was thinking about has gone off sale but if you don't mind open box
https://www.newegg.com/abs-ali605-master/p/N82E16883360270R
Or
https://www.newegg.com/abs-ali479-gladiator/p/N82E16883360074R

If you don't want open box
https://www.newegg.com/abs-ali565/p/N82E16883360195

[spice crown]

I've heard bad things about open box is that true?

[fossil cedar]

Open box means someone ordered it, but returned it because they changed their mind, and everything is still working

[spice crown]

Seen videos of bad things about it same thing with newegg so I'm like so confused

[fossil cedar]

Yeah they've fixed it now anyway, gamers nexus had a whole thing with them and they changed their policies

Up to you tho

[spice crown]

Is it worth paying more for the 3070

[fossil cedar]

If you were going open box it's up to you both are good prices, 3070 is about 10% better than 3060 ti so it's really up to you

[spice crown]

I would try to go open box but still not %100 sure it's a better deal but also I know nothing about fixing a pc

[fossil cedar]

The pc isn't broken tho, someone just decided they didn't want it and returned it, if anything happened you can try troubleshoot or you can just return it if it's in return period - advantages of a prebuilt

[spice crown]

I'll keep comparing thank you for giving your opinion I appreciate it

[fossil cedar]

No problem

[earnest olive]

pato smart. his opinion is fact

[little osprey]

Pato fact. his opinion is smart.

[ornate condor]

My bean gif on aorus screen gone to rma

[analog pulsar]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/LBZyKp @fossil cedar i wanted to ask a while ago and forgot why you put OC cpu with non OC board

[fossil cedar]

12600k has the extra 4 e cores, 12600 and the other i5s don't

[analog pulsar]

oh thats right

e cores

[ornate condor]

Yeah

[obsidian wigeon]

intel being intel

non k 12700 has e cores

which is kinda weird

but i get it

[fossil cedar]

Although I'd change it to this
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/gG2Wtn

[analog pulsar]

hm

[fossil cedar]

I mean you can go 360 rad if you want but price has gone up and 280 is almost as good just would top mount instead

[fossil cedar]

Woops ignore 2nd ssd
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/QByt78

[analog pulsar]

@fossil cedar bruh like $130 for an AIO is cheap like i saw other aios that go for like $200-$300 plus artic is good

[fossil cedar]

Yessir, 150 is for the 360 but 120 is the 280

[frigid night]

unless you don't care about rgb, then the 360 is 120

[desert gulch]

9% better cpu gaming perf for over 50% extra cost?

At that point, if looking for better multicore perf for other things, 12700f is where its at

[fossil cedar]

It's not all about the benchmark when nothings open scores but 12700f is another option, k is cheaper tho and comes with an igpu

[desert gulch]

im not talking about benches

im talking abuot gaming fps averaged

also 12700f still showing a good bit cheaper for me

[fossil cedar]

Yes but those are measured as benchmarks like on clean test benches with nothing in the background

[fossil cedar]

12700f isn't cheaper than 12600k is it??

Mo it's 40$ more

[desert gulch]

still accurate of what youll see in real life

[fossil cedar]

Ehhh with the higher end chips pretty accurate yeah but with chips like 12100-12600(non k) it's a bit more iffy

[desert gulch]

if i got a 12600k and i was gaming, id just disable the e cores tbh

[fossil cedar]

What

Thats stupid

[rugged sparrow]

Thoughts on the 420 rad

[little osprey]

eh

not needed

280 works for most cpus

360 for the real hot ones

cough 5800x

[fossil cedar]

Not too much better than 360 but if your case fits it sure

[desert gulch]

well ig if you wanted to have a bunch of crap open in the background, you could leave e cores on

or streaming or whatever

but they really dont do much for gaming

[fossil cedar]

Most people do

[desert gulch]

their core latency kinda sucks, like really sucks

[fossil cedar]

That's why they're used for things like discord Chrome etc

[frank stirrup]

No sir if you got a 12600k in this case ud be wasting money

[desert gulch]

is the DRM issue fixed yet?

[frank stirrup]

since the 12400f exists

[desert gulch]

exactly

thats why id just save $100 and get a 12400

why bother with DRM issues too

[frank stirrup]

what drm issues\

just use win 11

[desert gulch]

some games wouldnt even work

[fossil cedar]

Long gone afaik

[desert gulch]

cause they couldnt deal with two types of cores

thats good then

id only really use those e cores for good multicore or having a ton of crap open

[frank stirrup]

and usb devices wouldnty even work on zen 3

[fossil cedar]

Actually that was an x570 issue not zen 3

[frank stirrup]

was on b550 and stuff too afaik

[desert gulch]

I wouldnt get zen 3 today too tbh, unless i was going for a apu build or a mini itx build. For the value

[fossil cedar]

I think maybe the odd b550 but it was rare

[sharp temple]

What would look better black sleeved cables or a vertical gpu mount with my pc?

[analog pulsar]

blue

[sharp pelican]

white

fan color

[sharp temple]

Blue what?

If I get blue sleeved cables then they will only match with blue rgb, if I get black sleeved cables then they will match with all colors of rgb

[analog pulsar]

your fans are blue

[sharp temple]

Yes, and?

[analog pulsar]

nothing

[sharp temple]

Oh OK, I thought you were going somewhere with that comment. 🤔

[little osprey]

going blue

[analog pulsar]

nope

[fossil cedar]

An actual decent power supply is what you should be spending your money on

[sharp temple]

Why it works fine?

Over a year in using and it works fine

[fossil cedar]

It's fine but it's c tier, kinda low end components, functional because you have an 850w with only a 3060 but if you had a more powerful gpu that would be a problem point imo and if you were spending money on your pc that would be the place to put it

[desert gulch]

Iirc gn tested it and it had all working protections, so that's a good start

[fossil cedar]

They did? That's good

[low chasm]

Does anyone know if this case: https://www.newegg.com/space-gray-thermaltake-core-p-series-atx-open-frame-chassis/p/N82E16811133153?Item=9SIA8EFHUZ6859 can handle two separate radiators rather can just one radiator? Wondering if the screws will be slightly off

[fossil cedar]

Looks like there's only room for one

[buoyant patrol]

Hey I’d like some opinions, I’m interested in a 2080 Super Gigabtye WB issue is I’ve never custom looped anything and have no idea how much extra it would cost. (When I mean extra I mean like buying the tubes, fittings, water reservoir, radiator and more idk) I was wondering if at all possible I could get an estimation on how much all that would cost lol

[potent portal]

Since the GPU already has a block that saves you about $150, but the rest of the loop will still cost around $400 minimum

[buoyant patrol]

And if I were to watercool cpu

W a block? Would that be cheaper than getting a regular cooler?

[potent portal]

Add another $150 for the block and fittings

[buoyant patrol]

Dawmn

Thank you

[potent portal]

And if you loop a GPU and CPU together you'll want a bigger radiator too, increasing the rest of the loop's cost

Custom loops get expensive fast

[buoyant patrol]

Ic ic

Thank you

[buoyant patrol]

What pump/res should I get

[potent portal]

That depends on your case and aesthetic preferences

Something with a D5 pump probably at least

[buoyant patrol]

D5? Is there like levels/quality control type thing?

Or is that just the name

[potent portal]

That's just the pump model, lots of brands use the same one

[buoyant patrol]

Oh alright

[earnest olive]

just get an air cooled 3080 for the same price @buoyant patrol

doesn't make any sense to custom loop a card that isn't flagship tier

unless you will die if PC volume exceeds 35 dba

custom loop adds so much system cost that you're better off just buying a better card unless there's no better cards to buy

and it doesn't matter how much you overclock that 2080 super on water, it's not coming close to air cooled 3080 performance

3080 is like 50% higher performance

[ornate condor]

white strix 3080 is 150% lol

[potent portal]

That's why it costs so much more

[shrewd peak]

HELP!!

Can an i5 run fortnite well?

[flint sapphire]

Yes but also no what i5 are you talking about

[buoyant patrol]

At the time it seemed a bit more reasonable I got a guy tryna sell me that card for 350$ so just wanted to see if it would be profitable

I think ima just say no and get a 3060ti

[earnest olive]

still comparing it to a 3070-3080 after factoring in loop cost

not worth buying used waterblocked cards if you have to build a new loop for them

can be worth if you already have a loop

[desert gulch]

brb buying a wb gt710

[potent portal]

A 710 could probably just have a small reservoir of water on the block with a heatsink. Boom, liquid cooled.

[desert gulch]

no

[potent portal]

Passively at that

[desert gulch]

i need to mount a lf2 420 to it

[potent portal]

No it needs a custom loop with this rad

Yes, that's a 3x420mm rad

[desert gulch]

Eh that's not very feasible tbh

I still want everything to fit in my eatx case with a fx and gt710

[potent portal]

FX 4100 of course right?

[desert gulch]

No, 8350

Best CPU ever

[potent portal]

9350 would like a word

[desert gulch]

Because clock speed after oc > architecture, amount of cores, etc

[potent portal]

Well if it's max clock speed you're after you want a 6300

I also see 8150s getting higher than 8370s

[south cliff]

Bro I’m so dumb I was installing my 12600k and I was going to get my thermal paste and I didn’t know I used all of it

[little osprey]

rip

thermal paste is like less than 10 usd so it’s just a matter of shipping time

[south cliff]

Bruhhhhhhh

There might be some at my local Walmart

Or someplace

[fossil cedar]

Uhh best buy maybe

Amazon same day shipping?

[strong raft]

Personally nearest best buy would be $10 in gas for my truck, lol. Went there for a store pickup recently but it was the same day as seeing a movie w/ a "free" giftcard.

[south cliff]

Yeah lol

The nearest Best Buy is 17 miles away

[twin berry]

710 cant get warmer than 30c

😂

9joke

[hexed stirrup]

Hey one of yall super amazing intelligent people im looking for a like sub 900 gaming pc prebuilt or a pc part picker list?!?!?!?

[south cliff]

What games do you play and at what res?

[hexed stirrup]

1080 and pretty easy games like valo minecraft etc

[south cliff]

Also what settings would you like to play on

[potent portal]

Do you have any parts already, like an old hard drive or anything?

[hexed stirrup]

nah completely new and with easy games i think mid-high settings

[south cliff]

Also when i was doing a test boot idk if the aorus light is supposed to light up but it wasn’t

[potent portal]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/MTkHGL

[hexed stirrup]

thanks

will probably use this

[mossy venture]

oh mx330-g air is back in stock

nice

@potent portal the psu is c tier

segotep gp 600w is $50 and B tier

[potent portal]

C tier is fine for a 3060

[mossy venture]

eh

but why take the worse psu for more

[potent portal]

Modular. And not ketchup and mustard.
Personal preference I guess.

[mossy venture]

eh yeah ig

isnt cxf modular and $45 rn?

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/3Hwkcf/corsair-cxf-550-w-80-bronze-certified-fully-modular-atx-power-supply-cp-9020216-na

[potent portal]

pcpp says $65 for me

[mossy venture]

yeah, i see that too

[potent portal]

Oh mail in rebate

[mossy venture]

on newegg its 45 tho

oh is it mir

ew

id still do it over cxm

[south cliff]

I think I bent a few pins

[mossy venture]

nah, looks fine

[potent portal]

Yeah should be good to go

[south cliff]

Ok

[potent portal]

And if you see a few sparks that's normal

[mossy venture]

yeye, just the pc telling you its happy

its like a dog wagging its tail

[south cliff]

Ok thank you

I bought some Corsair tm30 thermal paste is that fine?

[potent portal]

Good enough

[vague oracle]

Corsair makes thermal paste?

What don’t they make at this point

[mossy venture]

Good aios

[little osprey]

Ha

[potent portal]

Gottem

[analog pulsar]

Hahahaha

[wide sparrow]

[little osprey]

yo

should i start to build my pc with my current p400a or wait for my o11 till monday

is it hard bulding a pc?

cause i don't feel like waiting 😂

if you already bought the o11 why would you build it in your p400a

[analog pulsar]

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-BarraCuda-Internal-Drive-3-5-Inch/dp/B07H2RR55Q/
or
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-BarraCuda-Internal-Drive-3-5-Inch/dp/B07D9C7SQH/
just to store games the 4TB is 5400RPM tho

also what do i clear to make link small

[stoic island]

I would spend extra and grab a x300 4tb but meh

[stoic island]

Everything from the "ref" onwards

[analog pulsar]

well it will be just for games

[obsidian wigeon]

good ram too

[plain cobalt]

still thinking about getting the Lian-Li LANCOOL mark 3 or Corsair 678C

Lancool mk3 is about to release, while 678C is barely have stock

this is Lancool 3 layout

[stoic island]

yes but 7200rpm

[analog pulsar]

yea i see that

well

x300 4TB 7200RPM $104
seagate 4TB 5400RPM $67
seagate 2TB 7200RPM $47

well what about just buying 2TB hard drives 7200RPM

[cyan ravine]

Random question, anyone found themselves gravitating towards a really nice air-cooled build after going custom loop?

Kinda wanna to air-cooled ITX next-gen ngl

[flint sapphire]

Air cooled king 😎

[strong raft]

Eh, I'd say skip the 2TB. Mainly decide whether $100ish or $67 effects the decision. X300 is definitely a good hdd.

[analog pulsar]

well i had both and they both worked for me

[fossil cedar]

If you're going a high end cpu you can't really air cool it if you want to get maximum perf out of it, especially with an itx air cooler btw, maybe just go air gpu + aio cpu

[cyan ravine]

Yea ik, I'd have to sell 12900KF if I did that

Still

[woeful fossil]

Will this build work....

Rosewill ATX Mid Tower, ASUS ROG Strix Z690-I 12 GEN RTX 3050 Intel i7-12700k 12 GEN LGA 1700

[fossil cedar]

Yes but don't, what's your country, budget, use for the pc and have you bought anything yet?

[unborn mesa]

I got a 6900xt with an aio and i dont know if it should be intake or exhaust

[fossil cedar]

Depends where you mount the aio

[unborn mesa]

Have it there and the fans were premounted but im not sure if thats the best way to have it

[fossil cedar]

Swap the fans so they can be intake

[unborn mesa]

Theyre routed thru one the of tubes

[fossil cedar]

Then just turn the rad around

[unborn mesa]

Tubes

[fossil cedar]

If you can

[unborn mesa]

Its all preassembled

Would i be able to just flip the fan ?

Well would you suggest to try that?

[fossil cedar]

Oh actually yeah flipping the fans shouldn't be hard

[unborn mesa]

Ill try that here in a minute

My gpu temps were lower but my cpu temps did get a bit higher so im guessing it was the airflow changed

[cyan ravine]

Toxic card 😯

[unborn mesa]

Yessir

@fossil cedar any idea how to unplug these

Nvm i got it

[earnest olive]

lol it's so weird seeing a gpu with a 360mm aio and then a stock cooler

[frank stirrup]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/750993380158341230.webp?quality=lossless

[little osprey]

Wtf is that

[frank stirrup]

yes

it is @fossil cedars favourite emoji

[fossil cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/jim-carrey-cringe-ew-gif-10048920

[mossy venture]

It works but it's stupid to do

I wouldnt buy or build that

[earnest olive]

pairing a 3050 with a 12700K is like buying a ferrari and then putting square wheels on it

[fossil cedar]

And the Rosewill case is like putting clamps on the square wheels xD

[earnest olive]

banned for slandering newegg brand

[little osprey]

Smh

[brittle tinsel]

Not sure if build chat is the right place but how in the world do courts display to so many monitors at once? I recently seen one that had 10 displays at once and that was only what was visible

[brittle tinsel]

Wait there is a 3050 now? How good is it?

[mossy venture]

Worse than 2060 by a little bit

[earnest olive]

it's 2022, you can drive 8 monitors with a single consumer gaming graphics card + igpu

if you grab like 6 4x hdmi gt 710s you can power 28 displays with one pc

[brittle tinsel]

Wtf? Wonder how many pcie slots you would need

[mossy venture]

6

[brittle tinsel]

Wait nvm 6 slots, how many lanes though? 4x?

[fossil cedar]

Just 1 lane per gpu

Would do

[brittle tinsel]

when you use an hdmi slitter, does it add the strain of the extra pixels to the gpu? (in other words does 1 output slip into 2 count as 2 towards the gpus max pixels?)

[fossil cedar]

Hdmi splitters are really just duplicators in my experience

So no

[brittle tinsel]

ok, wondering because some of our monitors will be duplicated displays and if we didnt need to run extra gpus or anything for nothing, that would be great

now he said gt 710s, will these be capable of rendering say obs window so we can see what is being recorded/streamed? We do have a few extra rx570s laying around

Wait nvm, having both amd and nvidia drivers will probably be very bad, i don’t like amd drivers anyway

[fossil cedar]

Yeah hdmi duplicators just pass on the signal no need to use up valuable ports for that

[fossil cedar]

Nah should be fine and amd drivers are just as good

[earnest olive]

gt 710 can happily run on 1x

so realistically you can run 28 displays with a standard atx mid tower and consumer motherboard

[brittle tinsel]

im not entirely sure how realistic our goal is to be honest with you.

capture cards aside, just monitors.
3 of the gaming pcs with run 3-4 displays with the main display being duplicated.
1 of them will have 6-8 displays with the main display being duplicated.
on top of that. the stream pc will have probably 4 duplicated displays along with 1 separate display.

if you get into capture cards. we are planning to have all 4 gaming pcs captured by the stream pc. Note, these "Gaming pcs" are running 1060 3gbs, 3 of them have i5 4570s and ddr3. not really a high tier machine, but it gets the job done.

This probably seems far fetched and unexplored. if that is the case, I guess trial and error is how it will go.