What's your latest tech purchase?

[Gumby]

I just updated my specs. I had a 850 watt psu.
Rma's take weeks that is why I always have a backup.

 

[Space Lynx]

I just updated my specs. I had a 850 watt psu.
Rma's take weeks that is why I always have a backup.

yeah but your 850w would also have been fine, you honestly didn't need to buy a new psu. an xt doesn't draw that much power honestly. not in gaming anyway. 330 watts? i can't remember, your 850 would have been plenty, you just spent an extra 380 for no reason imo.

 

[JrRacinFan]

Corsair RMA is pretty quick. Nothing wrong with going overkill but really @Space Lynx has a point here. Coould've just went with keeping your current psu as a backup. I am just as bad, i'll probably end up getting an x3d cpu when they drop pairing it with the b650e board im getting.

 

[Space Lynx]

Corsair RMA is pretty quick. Nothing wrong with going overkill but really @Space Lynx has a point here. Coould've just went with keeping your current psu as a backup. I am just as bad, i'll probably end up getting an x3d cpu when they drop pairing it with the b650e board im getting.

Corsair PSU's are legendary these days anyway, extremely small chance anything will go wrong, honestly the odds are like winning the lottery something will go wrong, seems illogical to me.

My Dad is still rocking a 15 year old Corsair 750w Bronze unit, or I think it is almost 15 years, maybe more like 11ish. Works great for him, lol

 

[JrRacinFan]

Corsair PSU's are legendary these days anyway

Oh yea? Im an EVGA guy. Was kind of sad when they dropped GPU's

 

[Space Lynx]

Oh yea? Im an EVGA guy. Was kind of sad when they dropped GPU's

I have an EVGA 700 GD Gold PSU in storage as my backup PSU, got an amazing price on its launch day. $63 I think it was. Been rock solid for me when I have used it.

 

[Gumby]

I am always on the More side of things.... Ya Corsair has been good. I'd rather not be down with this computer as it has my movie storage lol.

 

[JrRacinFan]

it has my movie storage lol.

Gotta ask. Plex?

 

[Gumby]

No. I have PC's hooked up to all TV's. I use MPC-Be to watch movies. Tried Plex many years ago. Wife hated it lol. So never bothered again. My Integra, Onkyo, and Yamaha receiver's also stream my mp3's from this computer.

 

[JrRacinFan]

I use it quite a bit on those weekends I'm at my aunt's.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Gotta ask. Plex?

Never used Plex. Never seen the need for it. There are many who swear by it though. (I know you weren't asking me directly, just wanted to comment..)

 

[kapone32]

Should come in on the 3rd Im hype!

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Someone's doing a White build!

 

[JrRacinFan]

Someone's doing a White build!

Been white chrome and silver for a little bit now. Got some hints of black in there.

 

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

Fiat Lux (EDC edition)
An Olight Arkfeld flashlight/laser pointer

 

[Arco]

yeah but your 850w would also have been fine, you honestly didn't need to buy a new psu. an xt doesn't draw that much power honestly. not in gaming anyway. 330 watts? i can't remember, your 850 would have been plenty, you just spent an extra 380 for no reason imo.

I run an 850 watter GF3 with an RTX 4090 and a 7950x. Doesn't crash XD. (550-GPU, 160-CPU, blah blah blah.)

It will never actually take that much power. That was just the highest stress test that I could throw at it.

 

[Keullo-e]

Picked up few packages. It's like Christmas again

 

[sam_86314]

The remaining parts for my DeskMini X300 arrived...

...a 2x8GB kit of DDR4-3200 CL22 SODIMMs from Timetec, and a Thermalright AXP-90 X47 cooler. I also got some low-profile WiFi antennas.

Rather than buying a new SSD, I ended up just using the extra 1TB SN570 that was in my main PC as a Linux drive. My old 250GB 970 EVO is now my Linux drive.

It's a really tight fit in the case. Not quite as tight as the stock AMD cooler (which refused to properly contact the IHS for some reason), but I do still need to pull up on the security tab to get everything in.

Be aware that if you use this cooler in this PC, you need to use the short mounting screws. The long ones interfere with the motherboard tray. You'll also need to relocate the CMOS battery; I just stuck it to the bottom of the CPU backplate.

I even covered the exposed components on the bottom of the board with Kapton tape just as a precaution because it looked like there was a small chance something could touch.

With this new cooler and a fan curve set in FanControl, this system now runs cooler and quieter than it did with the cooler that came with the X300. The DDR4-3200 also improved GPU performance quite a bit.

I have x300 also. It is my "summer" pc. My other pc's produce too much heat at summer. With this I can at least do some work, surf on internet and play some older games.

Couple months ago, I was thinking about upgrading CPU to 5600G. But I saw news about those new Ryzen 7000-series DeskMini versions which are coming. Also there should be new APU's with newer GPU-architecture. So I am waiting those.

In my x300 I have Ryzen 5 4650 Pro and 2x8GB G.skill 3000MHz b-die memory kit. Memory works at 3800MHz with stock timings 16-18-18-43 1t with 1.35 volts(max). This APU just won't go any higher. Infinity fabric is the reason. But I did know this when I bought this cpu.

Cooling I have on CPU is Jonsbo HP400S(it was cheaper than Noctua heatsink). It fits in barely with that VRM heatsink->it is touching the VRM heatsink. SSD I have in is PNY CS3030 512GB(from time before they changed components). I had Intel 3150 Wifi in this, until I changed it month ago to Intel AX200.

That's actually a great idea. I live in north-central Arizona, and it gets pretty hot in the summer. Outside temperatures range from like 35C to 37C, and my room easily gets up to 32C in the summer when my main PC is running. Using a PC that uses less power under load than my main PC uses when idle would probably help quite a bit.

 

[Vario]

I bought twenty Noctua NF-A12x25 for $8 each. I have four of them running at the moment in my case, not sure when I'll run the rest but great deal, they all seem to work and look new.

 

[tabascosauz]

Went down to my border mailbox and picked up a black FC140 for $88 ($60usd). Same seller on Amazon Canada wants $131, go figure.

Yes, Thermalright quality control still sucks (round 3). Both banks were visibly crooked and required some physical persuasion.

5 minutes ago, this cooler just stomped the $170 NH-U12A by 6.5 degrees in R23 at the same fan speeds.

Yes, right now Thermalright has me questioning my very existence.

 

[Space Lynx]

Went down to my border mailbox and picked up a black FC140 for $88 ($60usd). Same seller on Amazon Canada wants $131, go figure.

Yes, Thermalright quality control still sucks (round 3). Both banks were visibly crooked and required some physical persuasion.

5 minutes ago, this cooler just stomped the $170 NH-U12A by 6.5 degrees in R23 at the same fan speeds.

Yes, right now Thermalright has me questioning my very existence.

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What do you mean both banks were visibly crooked? I never even looked at my silver FC140 when it arrived, packaging was amazing so I just assumed it was all good.

 

[lexluthermiester]

What do you mean both banks were visibly crooked? I never even looked at my silver FC140 when it arrived, packaging was amazing so I just assumed it was all good.

Same here, have never had any issues with Thermalright either. ThremalTake, sure, but not Thermalright..

 

[tabascosauz]

What do you mean both banks were visibly crooked? I never even looked at my silver FC140 when it arrived, packaging was amazing so I just assumed it was all good.

Same here, have never had any issues with Thermalright either. ThremalTake, sure, but not Thermalright..

These types of things never come across well on photo, but one bank was pointing off in one direction and the second in the other direction. Like someone grabbed one in each hand and twisted the cooler like a towel. Fixed now

TR has okay packaging with all the foam, but like my triple Noctua L12 saga in 2021, a bent cooler from the factory is a bent cooler from the factory.

Still the performance is convincing enough that I decided to run only the A14 in the middle and return the U12A. Still beats the U12A by 4°C.

 

[Vario]

These types of things never come across well on photo, but one bank was pointing off in one direction and the second in the other direction. Like someone grabbed one in each hand and twisted the cooler like a towel. Fixed now

TR has okay packaging with all the foam, but like my triple Noctua L12 saga in 2021, a bent cooler from the factory is a bent cooler from the factory.

Still the performance is convincing enough that I decided to run only the A14 in the middle and return the U12A. Still beats the U12A by 4°C.

I am not surprised, two fin banks is nearly always better than one. NHU12A just gives you two decent fans on a cooler design that maxes out its performance with just a single fan, and then it consequently costs twice as much as it should.

 

[P4-630]

I am not surprised, two fin banks is nearly always better than one. NHU12A just gives you two decent fans on a cooler design that maxes out its performance with just a single fan, and then it consequently costs twice as much as it should.

Sometimes a larger 140mm cooler won't fit, or in case you want to keep access to your memory that's why my choice was a U12A.

 

[tabascosauz]

Sometimes a larger 140mm cooler won't fit, or in case you want to keep access to your memory that's why my choice was a U12A.

That was my justification as well, but in practice pretty meaningless since it's perfectly fine to run just one fan. U12A is awkward in ITX where rear exhaust/intake can't really help it out they way they do for dual towers

U12A is narrower, though, FC140 same ITX fitment problem as D15S. Barely works for the S3. Still, it is better than D15, and fitment on the PCIe slot side is same/better than U12A, the SO-DIMM.2 is a real test of clearance.

I am not surprised, two fin banks is nearly always better than one. NHU12A just gives you two decent fans on a cooler design that maxes out its performance with just a single fan, and then it consequently costs twice as much as it should.

5800X3D is not a 13900K - I saw hardwarecanucks' roundup the other day and that kind of gap simply doesn't exist here......at least, it shouldn't, before the FC140 and PA120 came along

Though, A14 and A12x25 are not the stock fans. Can see the U12A being closer with stock fans only. Most of the U12A's cost is in the fans anyway.