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| System Name | Rainbow Sparkles (Power efficient, <350W gaming load) |
|---|---|
| Processor | Ryzen R7 5800x3D (Undervolted, 4.45GHz all core) |
| Motherboard | Asus x570-F (BIOS Modded) |
| Cooling | Alphacool Apex UV - Alphacool Eisblock XPX Aurora + EK Quantum ARGB 3090 w/ active backplate |
| Memory | 2x32GB DDR4 3600 Corsair Vengeance RGB @3866 C18-22-22-22-42 TRFC704 (1.4V Hynix MJR - SoC 1.15V) |
| Video Card(s) | Galax RTX 3090 SG 24GB: Underclocked to 1700Mhz 0.750v (375W down to 250W)) |
| Storage | 2TB WD SN850 NVME + 1TB Sasmsung 970 Pro NVME + 1TB Intel 6000P NVME USB 3.2 |
| Display(s) | Phillips 32 32M1N5800A (4k144), LG 32" (4K60) | Gigabyte G32QC (2k165) | Phillips 328m6fjrmb (2K144) |
| Case | Fractal Design R6 |
| Audio Device(s) | Logitech G560 | Corsair Void pro RGB |Blue Yeti mic |
| Power Supply | Fractal Ion+ 2 860W (Platinum) (This thing is God-tier. Silent and TINY) |
| Mouse | Logitech G Pro wireless + Steelseries Prisma XL |
| Keyboard | Razer Huntsman TE ( Sexy white keycaps) |
| VR HMD | Oculus Rift S + Quest 2 |
| Software | Windows 11 pro x64 (Yes, it's genuinely a good OS) OpenRGB - ditch the branded bloatware! |
| Benchmark Scores | Nyooom. |
This is mostly being posted so that people googling the DIR-890L overheating end up here and can fix this factory issue.
As much as i'd love to use my own pictures, the guide over here at ifixit has better pics
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/D-Link+DIR-890L+Motherboard++Replacement/72067
I opened the router just enough to reach those shitty passive heatsinks and investigate - i wish i'd taken a picture but in my disgust i wiped it off too fast.
Suffice to say one heatsink was naked metal on metal - no TIM at all! and the other one had both a thermal pad *and* a generic paste that had long dried up (router is only a year old and ran 75C, idle and load the entire time i've owned it)
In boring summary - open the frigging thing up, replace that thermal paste (i used MX-4 on both heatsinks) and enjoy 20C lower idle temps like i am right now (67C to 53C in DD-WRT)
As much as i'd love to use my own pictures, the guide over here at ifixit has better pics
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/D-Link+DIR-890L+Motherboard++Replacement/72067
I opened the router just enough to reach those shitty passive heatsinks and investigate - i wish i'd taken a picture but in my disgust i wiped it off too fast.
Suffice to say one heatsink was naked metal on metal - no TIM at all! and the other one had both a thermal pad *and* a generic paste that had long dried up (router is only a year old and ran 75C, idle and load the entire time i've owned it)
In boring summary - open the frigging thing up, replace that thermal paste (i used MX-4 on both heatsinks) and enjoy 20C lower idle temps like i am right now (67C to 53C in DD-WRT)