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Hello everyone! Just a quick note to help out the folks who browse by bookmarks. We've started a SH/SC feedback thread and would love it if you stopped by to say hi and let us know what you think. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3961558
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# ? Mar 9, 2021 18:34 |
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# ? Apr 24, 2024 04:22 |
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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:I might do this on an x570 board destined for a streacom da2, a beautiful hotbox. That tool is useful thnx. I uh, have broken chipset fan cables before trying to remove them Warmachine posted:I don't know if this dumb project has warped my sense of affordable, but $130 for some of those pslate cables is refreshingly cheap? That said, I also recently sent plsate $toomuch for cables and eagerly await them lmbo; probably doing a full rebuild of my M1 because I want to change how I routed the CPU 8pin cable #justSFFstuff
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# ? Mar 9, 2021 19:11 |
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Dreambigbyray trip report: Cables function properly. They're a little stiffer than I had imagined (unsleeved clear) which makes the 24 pin kind of a pain. The sad part is all cables are 1cm or more longer. I have one cable that is 2cm longer than I ordered which is uh, kind of a pain in the rear end in a small case. So yeah, doing it again I'd either just buy the crimper and do it myself or just pay for some pslates. Buy once, cry once. edit: I put in my order like the minute they opened up from their Lunar new year closure, so maybe that's the reason for sloppy measurements. Edit edit: I just got an email from palate. 10UNSLEEVED For 10% off all unsleeved cables and merch lol. Canna Happy fucked around with this message at 06:04 on Mar 11, 2021 |
# ? Mar 11, 2021 05:53 |
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Where are the dang pics
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# ? Mar 11, 2021 07:48 |
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Sphyre posted:Where are the dang pics when i come here, i want to live vicariously through all the clean nr200s, as i gaze upon my own, knowing full well the horrors that lie inside.
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 01:44 |
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Any suggestions for cheap mATX cases that aren’t humongous? I’m upgrading my brother’s processor and got an mATX mobo for $40 in a bundle. Will be throwing his i5-8400, old ram and a power supply into a case and try to sell it. Bonus points if it has at least decent space for a GPU.
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 04:39 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrSGpzEMNec I want my pslate cables so I can do the final rebuild of my drat M1 and do some 1:1 tests between the Bykski and EK blocks. Who will win? Less restrictive airflow on the secondary radiator, or MOAR COPPAR, MOAR THEMRAL PADS
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 15:51 |
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loving same
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 20:01 |
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Canna Happy posted:Dreambigbyray trip report: Cables function properly. They're a little stiffer than I had imagined (unsleeved clear) which makes the 24 pin kind of a pain. The sad part is all cables are 1cm or more longer. I have one cable that is 2cm longer than I ordered which is uh, kind of a pain in the rear end in a small case. So yeah, doing it again I'd either just buy the crimper and do it myself or just pay for some pslates. Buy once, cry once. DreamBigByRay is nearer to me geographically so the price + shipping comes down to about $40 and makes a lot more sense than anything from Pslate so I decided to give him a try. Suffice to say, the cables were underwhelming for the hype. It's stiffer than expected and trying to get the combs to control them just ends up snapping it to pieces. I also put too much faith in him knowing what to do just because I mentioned that it will be for the Ghost S1 because the cables look nothing like they'd fit in there at all - it's either too long or a tad short. I'm giving it another shot though this time with my own measurements, sleeveless, and with combs preinstalled. Fingers crossed it's not as bad as the first batch. The preview he sent me looks a bit more promising.
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 23:49 |
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VulgarandStupid posted:Any suggestions for cheap mATX cases that aren’t humongous? I’m upgrading my brother’s processor and got an mATX mobo for $40 in a bundle. Will be throwing his i5-8400, old ram and a power supply into a case and try to sell it. Bonus points if it has at least decent space for a GPU. I'm also looking for a cheap mATX for some mATX ryzen boards I've lot lying around. I've been looking at the Cooler Master MasterBox NR400 as an airflow focused mATX ($65). The only ones in stock are the ones with an optical disk drive, though, so you lose that clean aesthetic. Seems to do very well on component clearance (346mm length, and CPU clearance of 166mm) and comes with 2 fans (probably trash), though. I've also built in a DEEPCOOL Matrex 30, (~$30-35) and ran into some issues with interference from the back braket that I had to dremmel away. Comes with 1 exhaust fan and you'll have to supply your own intake at the front. GPU length is limited though. Good for a budget system using cheap components such as the stock cooler, or a cheap gammax cooler, or a rx 570/580. I've placed a 3600 cooled with a gammax and a pulse 5700xt in this case to no ill effect, though, while I was waiting for a better case and MB.
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# ? Mar 13, 2021 22:28 |
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The NR200 prices went up really fast. Weren't they like $60 a year ago. It's $100 now for the regular version.
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# ? Mar 15, 2021 18:17 |
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Mu Zeta posted:The NR200 prices went up really fast. Weren't they like $60 a year ago. It's $100 now for the regular version. They were never $60, it was $80 for the regular and $100 for the NR200P. EU prices still look normal, €100 for the P in all the main amazons.
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# ? Mar 15, 2021 18:31 |
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got some small wifi antennas to replace the sharkfin antenna that came with my mobo + swapped my rad fans for some NF-A12s. and that's this build pretty much done I can't think of anything else i'd want to replace or upgrade, except for a full custom loop, which I can't do with my current GPU because there's no waterblock that would fit in the ncase... and swapping an AIO for a CPU only custom loop would be a waste. doesn't stop that iceman pumpres from being awful tempting though! haha, just kidding.... unless....?
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# ? Mar 17, 2021 06:21 |
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Ali must be stopped. This is probably his best yet. https://youtu.be/drJxRj3TipM
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# ? Mar 17, 2021 08:08 |
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Sphyre posted:
Cygni posted:Ali must be stopped. This is probably his best yet.
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# ? Mar 17, 2021 11:10 |
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Sphyre posted:
What antennas did you get? I tried the Amazon lottery with some and managed a whopping <1Mb of throughput.
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# ? Mar 17, 2021 12:59 |
I was lucky I had an Asus PCIe network card that I salvaged the antenna off. Seriously the ones that come with the asus mobos are loving useless
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# ? Mar 17, 2021 13:03 |
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CyberPingu posted:I was lucky I had an Asus PCIe network card that I salvaged the antenna off. I want to know who unironically thinks the sharkfin is a good aesthetic even. Because like, even if I was doing some rainbowpuke gamer setup, I'd throw that thing in the bin.
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# ? Mar 17, 2021 13:10 |
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sounds like you're not ~* tHe TaRgEt MaRkEt *~
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# ? Mar 17, 2021 13:27 |
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drat, I guess I'll scour eBay and SA-Mart for something like that to come up though. It's the only thing I've found that works worth a drat as much as I hate it. I've been bothered by it the least by attaching it to the side of the case I see from my desk. It still droops, so I find myself adjusting it every other day, but at least I don't see it when I'm doing non-computer things.
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# ? Mar 17, 2021 14:18 |
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i posted a link to these shorties upthread: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076SGTMFS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 easily get 116mbps down on my "100mbps" connection using these; are they not suitable for your application for some reason? denereal visease posted:nice, i also have an asus mobo and really disliked that loving thing. i got some of these for our builds and they've been good, only lost a few %age points on DL speeds vs the eyesore antenna
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# ? Mar 17, 2021 14:35 |
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denereal visease posted:i posted a link to these shorties upthread: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076SGTMFS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Those are listed as 2.4 ghz. Im guessing (s)he wants a 5 ghz compatible set of antannae
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# ? Mar 17, 2021 14:44 |
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Cygni posted:Ali must be stopped. This is probably his best yet. I also mentioned him in the youtube tech thread, but this dude knows how to work a camera. He's become my favorite tech youtuber.
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# ? Mar 17, 2021 14:46 |
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LordAdakos posted:Those are listed as 2.4 ghz. Im guessing (s)he wants a 5 ghz compatible set of antannae Good catch. They also look pretty similar to the the <1Mb set I tried originally and Amazon totally screwed up my return on. FWIW it’s a Gigabyte B450i I’m trying to find something for, and another set had too chunky of plastic for me to be able to thread both on. I’ll see what I can find though.
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# ? Mar 17, 2021 15:53 |
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Crossposting my write up from the Traveling CCircus of Wonders thread, so that someone is more likely to hold my toxx accountable for the utterly shameful state my build is currently in.Warmachine posted:I'm going to bookmark this space to post my finished product once the custom cables arrive and I devote some time to the final tests. But my COVID project is building a dual-radiator custom loop inside an Ncase M1.
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# ? Mar 17, 2021 19:22 |
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I usually tear antennas off of dead routers and hold on to them.
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# ? Mar 18, 2021 00:52 |
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nitsuga posted:What antennas did you get? I tried the Amazon lottery with some and managed a whopping <1Mb of throughput. https://www.amazon.com/SFF-Noir-Shadowlink-Antenna-Bluetooth/dp/B08NCDJ33N
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# ? Mar 18, 2021 05:41 |
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Those look nice and compact but truthfully I just hide my sharkfin tumor on the other side of the desktop where I can't see it anyway
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# ? Mar 18, 2021 12:51 |
Mu Zeta posted:Those look nice and compact but truthfully I just hide my sharkfin tumor on the other side of the desktop where I can't see it anyway I had to have mine in direct view of the access point of it to work. Even if there was a cup in the way I'd get dropouts.
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# ? Mar 18, 2021 13:18 |
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Weird, the wifi thing that came with my Asus B450-i gets the best wifi signal in my house. Stronger than my phones and iPad it's rock solid.
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# ? Mar 18, 2021 13:59 |
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Mu Zeta posted:Those look nice and compact but truthfully I just hide my sharkfin tumor on the other side of the desktop where I can't see it anyway Do what makes you happy
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# ? Mar 19, 2021 03:58 |
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Here's the update and numbers on the You Cant Buy This build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeBxEb_kcxE Really wish this case was available. I've got some Plans™
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# ? Mar 20, 2021 18:03 |
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"Wish the NR200 supported more matx boards" - well here you go. It is basically a complete NR200 clone, albeit doesn't come with any fans. If I didn't get the NR200 just a few months ago I may have gone for this, it's barely any larger than the NR200 which makes sense, so many GPU's being 3-slot these days means the difference in overall volume for a case when comparing MicroATX to mitx is negligible now unless your mitx case only has room for 2 slots, which is going to really restrict your GPU choices. Only seen foreign youtube reviews for this atm but be interesting to see if it gets any traction.
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# ? Mar 20, 2021 20:00 |
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My pslate cables came... er, yesterday. I just finished a 1 hour OCCT power test with my Bykski block. Gonna review the log in the morning and see if I have the energy to tear it down again and test the EK block. I suspect the EK block is going to win even with more restrictive airflow on the secondary radiator.
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# ? Mar 21, 2021 09:34 |
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Update on my Ncase build: The pslate cables are fantastic. Last night I worked on getting the EK block reinstalled and replumbed. I misapplied the liquid metal which left a bunch of hotspots on the GPU and CPU dies, so I haven't done the EK block test yet. I might be able to do something about it today, but I doubt it--I'm low on liquid metal so I'm not sure I have enough to do a full reapplication to both dies. That said, I got in touch with the folks at pslate and ordered two more items: a 50mm molex cable, and a custom 4-pin PWM cable that is open on one end. My fan controller is rated for 12V 2A, which will comfortably power my EK DDC pump. I'm going to rewire my pump to run off the PWM header on the controller. This of course means that I can only use it with headers rated for 12V 2A going forward, but it will make my build that much cleaner. I'm actually a bit surprised they had PWM connectors and 24 AWG cable on hand. I'm waiting for the invoice to confirm the order, but honestly if this goes through this is definitely one of my best sales experiences to date.
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# ? Mar 23, 2021 19:24 |
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I finally got around to building in a Sentry 2.0 case I've had since the kickstarter. It was my first SFF build, but it honestly wasn't too bad. I guess I didn't try to anything too outlandish, but the hardest bit was changing the CPU heatsink backplate for the Noctura one. I did find that the hard drive bracket couldn't be used as the RAM was too tall, but I didn't intend to use it anyway. * Sentry 2.0 case * Ryzen 5600X * NH-L9a-AM4 heatsink * Asrock B550M-ITX/ac * Corsair SF450 80+ Platinum PSU * Some RAM and an M2 SSD On boot it got stuck in a loop where a Windows notification was displayed with a message like 'reinitialising graphics driver' ever 10s or so. This turned out to be because the I had the PCIe slots left in gen 4, which I guess was pretty optimistic given the use of a riser. Idles around 60W, which feels a bit high, and I'm not happy with the fan curves. It's super quiet, but ramps up a bit too aggressively on any load. I can configure a fan curve in the bios, but it seems to get overridden as soon as Windows loads. Are there any goon recommendations for fan management software?
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# ? Apr 4, 2021 10:14 |
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I think I’m gonna end up swapping the NH-U12A for a 280mm AIO in my NR200, gets a little too loud and hot for my liking with a 5900X.
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# ? Apr 4, 2021 12:34 |
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ijyt posted:I think I’m gonna end up swapping the NH-U12A for a 280mm AIO in my NR200, gets a little Tell me about it. I did an export in DaVinci Resolve and nearly had a heart attack.
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# ? Apr 4, 2021 13:00 |
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Are you running these CPUs unlocked (ie. unlimited TDP) or WTF?
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# ? Apr 4, 2021 13:07 |
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# ? Apr 24, 2024 04:22 |
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danishcake posted:Sentry 2.0 build! FWIW, my last ASRock board didn't actually read CPU temps or actually use the fan curve until I updated the BIOS 🙃 it was truly just the mass of the NH-D15S keeping the CPU cool Google around and see if anyone else has the same issue.
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# ? Apr 4, 2021 14:41 |