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Maybe I just do it so often, I don't mind anymore.

Last time it f....ked up was because I was a dumbass.
 
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Rouxenator said:
Maybe I just do it so often, I don't mind anymore.

Last time it f....ked up was because I was a dumbass.
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Yeah you get pretty good at it after a bit, I mean I've done them on at least 80 servers in December :). When I'm doing it on my home PC I make sure the inverter is on and the PC is plugged into it, just in case, have once had a power failure kick in while I was running it.
Luckily dual bios motherboard.
 
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Yeah you get pretty good at it after a bit, I mean I've done them on at least 80 servers in December :). When I'm doing it on my home PC I make sure the inverter is on and the PC is plugged into it, just in case, have once had a power failure kick in while I was running it.
Luckily dual bios motherboard.
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I regularly update what every PC I come across.

Most annoying for me was when I had an old socket 775 server board and it kept running the fan at full speed. I later found out because I was using an after market fan it was missing a temp sensor so the management engine would run the fan at the fail safe speed. A lot of messing around with the FRU/SDR and multiple uploads to the management engine I got it sorted.

Last board I killed was totally my fault. I had just bought a new AM4 board and wanted to run the then newly released 2400G APU on it. Knowing the board would first need a BIOS update to see the new APU I also bought a cheap A6 APU just to use once for the BIOS update. Now my plan was to not remove the protective pad off the cooler so I could effectively sell the A6 processor as New / Unused after updating the BIOS. I foolishly thought if I just put a glass with ice cubes on the A6 for cooling during the BIOS flash it would all be well.

It was not and the CPU did a thermal shutdown 20% into the BIOS update. I could revive it with some of the methods suggested to I just did an RMA on the board.
 
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What would it cost to put together a decent gaming PC today? Something that can play modern games in 1440p at 60 frames per second in high settings?
 
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LeftRightLeft said:
What would it cost to put together a decent gaming PC today? Something that can play modern games in 1440p at 60 frames per second in high settings?
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Around 20 grand-ish if you already have the monitor and peripherals (mouse, kb, headset).

Intel 12400f or 12400 + B660 motherboard + 32Gb DDR4 - around 10k
XFX Radeon 6600 XT - R7 500
650W PSU - R1 500
500Gb SSD - R1 000
Case - R1 000

Should be good for 60fps @1440p for most everything except Cyberpunk 2077, MS Flight Simulator.
 
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Rouxenator said:
I regularly update what every PC I come across.

Most annoying for me was when I had an old socket 775 server board and it kept running the fan at full speed. I later found out because I was using an after market fan it was missing a temp sensor so the management engine would run the fan at the fail safe speed. A lot of messing around with the FRU/SDR and multiple uploads to the management engine I got it sorted.

Last board I killed was totally my fault. I had just bought a new AM4 board and wanted to run the then newly released 2400G APU on it. Knowing the board would first need a BIOS update to see the new APU I also bought a cheap A6 APU just to use once for the BIOS update. Now my plan was to not remove the protective pad off the cooler so I could effectively sell the A6 processor as New / Unused after updating the BIOS. I foolishly thought if I just put a glass with ice cubes on the A6 for cooling during the BIOS flash it would all be well.

It was not and the CPU did a thermal shutdown 20% into the BIOS update. I could revive it with some of the methods suggested to I just did an RMA on the board.
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Glass is a terrible thermal conductor. Next time, use a copper or aluminium container. Then sit back and wait for the condensation and resulting sparks
 
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Glass is a terrible thermal conductor. Next time, use a copper or aluminium container. Then sit back and wait for the condensation and resulting sparks
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True. The idea stems back from my 2nd years when I regularly got PC parts and would build up whatever I could and sell it. One time I got a 486DX-50 going, but it had no cooler which I found it odd. So while loading Windows 95 on it I would put my glass of brandy on the rocks on the CPU to keep it cool.
 
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bit the bullet and placed an order for a "Zotac GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Gaming Trinity OC Edition" (obviously next week the price is going to drop by another R1K :ROFL: )

so going from a RX480 4GB to a 3070 Ti should be quite nice :p
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Bliksem, did you win the lottery ?
 
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Rouxenator said:
True. The idea stems back from my 2nd years when I regularly got PC parts and would build up whatever I could and sell it. One time I got a 486DX-50 going, but it had no cooler which I found it odd. So while loading Windows 95 on it I would put my glass of brandy on the rocks on the CPU to keep it cool.
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A 486 DX2-50 could actually run without a cooler. I ran a dx266 without one for about a month or so, not sure, but I opened it up and it was on the bottom.
And they were glued on not even thermal paste.
 
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A 486 DX2-50 could actually run without a cooler. I ran a dx266 without one for about a month or so, not sure, but I opened it up and it was on the bottom.
And they were glued on not even thermal paste.
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Our first PC, an Intel DX2-66 came with a fan cooler, yet my friend's Am486DX-40 did not. Neither did the used Am386DX-40 I owned some time later.

I think somewhere above 50mhz at 5volt active cooling became a thing.

Today I sold a FEC BP-363 to a farmer that needs serial connectivity for old hardware. The PC ran a Celeron J1900 quad core that is passively cooled by the aluminum case it is housed in. We have come a long way.
 
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After saving up my ebucks for most of the last year, and Takealot finally having stock, I bought myself a new monitor.

My old Samsung 23" 1080p monitor was a trusty workhorse for about a decade, but it finally gave up.

So I got myself the Dell S2721DGFA, 27", 1440p, 165Hz. It is glorious.
 
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AntennaMan said:
After saving up my ebucks for most of the last year, and Takealot finally having stock, I bought myself a new monitor.

My old Samsung 23" 1080p monitor was a trusty workhorse for about a decade, but it finally gave up.

So I got myself the Dell S2721DGFA, 27", 1440p, 165Hz. It is glorious.
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Make sure you set the refresh rate to 165Hz in windows. Many people forget this step.
 
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