Originally Posted by vailpass:
That’s one of the reasons I ordered today, to be sure and get one in time. They say it will ship by 11/12 (see email below).
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Estimated Ship Date: 11/12/20
Interesting. I got pretty excited to get the 3080 when all the release hype began. Now I'm like fuck it, I'll wait for the AMD 6000 series release. See which one becomes readily available first.
Congrats on snagging a great gift for what I'm guessing is a great kid. Hope you get the reaction you're hoping for. [Reply]
I made the plans, ordered all the hardware, assembled, and wired everything. If you look closely, you can see there are almost no wires running around under the desk. This is the first time I have done this and WOW its nice not to have a mess. Just used those wire under desk wiring organizers on amazon to hide it all. Wife bought the lumber, I helped her cut it up but she made the tops and stained and clear coated everything. It's a s
simple setup that we can build on, 13 foot by 8 foot, just a nice solid sturdy desk. Eventually will replace part of the legs with storage, talking about putting an elevated rear section on, and best of all, have a bunch of RGB that's ready to be wired this weekend.
left PC (mine)
3900x+3090
middle PC (wife)
7700k+1080ti
right PC (kids)
3600x+1660ti
Dog (I bought her but somehow she became my wifes)
Poppy+Steelseries Arctis 7 wireless [Reply]
Originally Posted by hometeam:
I built a new desk.
I made the plans, ordered all the hardware, assembled, and wired everything. If you look closely, you can see there are almost no wires running around under the desk. This is the first time I have done this and WOW its nice not to have a mess. Just used those wire under desk wiring organizers on amazon to hide it all. Wife bought the lumber, I helped her cut it up but she made the tops and stained and clear coated everything. It's a s
simple setup that we can build on, 13 foot by 8 foot, just a nice solid sturdy desk. Eventually will replace part of the legs with storage, talking about putting an elevated rear section on, and best of all, have a bunch of RGB that's ready to be wired this weekend.
Originally Posted by hometeam:
I built a new desk.
I made the plans, ordered all the hardware, assembled, and wired everything. If you look closely, you can see there are almost no wires running around under the desk. This is the first time I have done this and WOW its nice not to have a mess. Just used those wire under desk wiring organizers on amazon to hide it all. Wife bought the lumber, I helped her cut it up but she made the tops and stained and clear coated everything. It's a s
simple setup that we can build on, 13 foot by 8 foot, just a nice solid sturdy desk. Eventually will replace part of the legs with storage, talking about putting an elevated rear section on, and best of all, have a bunch of RGB that's ready to be wired this weekend.
left PC (mine)
3900x+3090
middle PC (wife)
7700k+1080ti
right PC (kids)
3600x+1660ti
Dog (I bought her but somehow she became my wifes)
Poppy+Steelseries Arctis 7 wireless
So, I wanted to mention the CPU cooler I got recently. Recommended from a few places online when looking at reviews, so I thought I'd give it a try. I'm blown away by the performance compared to the price point. It's not the quietist fan available, but for temp/$ it's the best I've found. It's got 4 copper pipe tubes directly in contact with the CPU, that goes to a huge radiator and powerful fan. Fits both LGA and AM4. Comes with LED in various colors if you want.
I'm running an Intel 9600K 3.7Ghz CPU currently OC'd at 4.8Ghz and still cannot get temps over 65 degrees C under a 30min stress test. Tempted to push this to 5Ghz, but I'm really not sure I need to.
Additional tip: I have used ARCTIC MX-4 Thermal Compound for CPU paste on many of my most recent builds, and that too has performed really well. Don't go cheap on the CPU thermal paste. [Reply]
Just for giggles, I pushed it up to 5Ghz and did another stress test. Actually pretty stable and still running load stress temps ~60 degrees and idle temps ~32 degrees. LOL. ❤ Intel.
Originally Posted by Fish:
Just for giggles, I pushed it up to 5Ghz and did another stress test. Actually pretty stable and still running load stress temps ~60 degrees and idle temps ~32 degrees. LOL. ❤ Intel.
I have an AIO water cooler for the CPU and I don't think it's worth the money as far the performance go. It looks cleaner as a build and is a little quieter, but I don't think I would go that route again. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pants:
I have an AIO water cooler for the CPU and I don't think it's worth the money as far the performance go. It looks cleaner as a build and is a little quieter, but I don't think I would go that route again.
I've been telling people on here for years that AIOs arent worth the expense. Some AIOs dont even cool better than a quality air cooler and the good AIOs MAYBE only gain you a couple celcius. Yet you are paying a lot more money for an AIO, sometimes more than double depending on what air cooler you choose, and all for something that has a pump that can fail, and radiators and tubings that can leak. The only part thats going to fail on an air cooler is the fan which can also fail on the AIOs.
Unless you are going for looks or have a need for a small profile cooler on top of the cpu in a htpc/mini pc build, air coolers all day.
Originally Posted by jd1020:
I've been telling people for here on years that AIOs arent worth the expense. Some AIOs dont even cool better than a quality air cooler and the good AIOs MAYBE only gain you a couple celcius. Yet you are paying a lot more money for an AIO, sometimes more than double depending on what air cooler you choose, and all for something that has a pump that can fail, and radiators and tubings that can leak. The only part thats going to fail on an air cooler is the fan which can also fail on the AIOs.
Unless you are going for looks or have a need for a small profile cooler on top of the cpu in a htpc/mini pc build, air coolers all day.
I’ve never used a water cooler. Earlier this year when I was going to do a build (glad I waited) the cooler you link here was the one I was going to use. The build I ordered this week has a water cooler so I’ll be finding out what that’s like for the first time. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Fish:
So, I wanted to mention the CPU cooler I got recently. Recommended from a few places online when looking at reviews, so I thought I'd give it a try. I'm blown away by the performance compared to the price point. It's not the quietist fan available, but for temp/$ it's the best I've found. It's got 4 copper pipe tubes directly in contact with the CPU, that goes to a huge radiator and powerful fan. Fits both LGA and AM4. Comes with LED in various colors if you want.
I'm running an Intel 9600K 3.7Ghz CPU currently OC'd at 4.8Ghz and still cannot get temps over 65 degrees C under a 30min stress test. Tempted to push this to 5Ghz, but I'm really not sure I need to.
Additional tip: I have used ARCTIC MX-4 Thermal Compound for CPU paste on many of my most recent builds, and that too has performed really well. Don't go cheap on the CPU thermal paste.
I've always had good luck with these types of designs. I once made the MSI CO HoF with an AMD chipset with something kind of like this. [Reply]
The prebuilt arrived over the weekend. First off, that 3080 card is an absolute tank. It’s a foot long and very heavy. I don’t know that it should ever be shipped already installed in the pci e slot.
The thing didn’t post. I hooked it up, got a “no display port signal detected” message on the monitor. The mobo had a vga error light so it was the gpu. I pulled that beast of a card and reinstalled to make sure it was seated. No go.
I chatted with NZXT, they offered to RMA and get it going. At first I agreed as there are no 3080 cards available right now so I wanted to keep this one. But in the end, I just couldn’t live with spending $2300 on something I wasn’t absolutely thrilled with. So I’m sending it back tomorrow for a full refund.
I tried the rebuild route, now I’m going back to what I know. I’ve built three rigs on my own, none failed to post, and years later all three are still going strong. So I’m back on the hunt for parts in a market that is so much tougher than any I’ve been in before. And I can feel the old excitement for the build coming back. Game on. [Reply]
The prebuilt arrived over the weekend. First off, that 3080 card is an absolute tank. It’s a foot long and very heavy. I don’t know that it should ever be shipped already installed in the pci e slot.
The thing didn’t post. I hooked it up, got a “no display port signal detected” message on the monitor. The mobo had a vga error light so it was the gpu. I pulled that beast of a card and reinstalled to make sure it was seated. No go.
I chatted with NZXT, they offered to RMA and get it going. At first I agreed as there are no 3080 cards available right now so I wanted to keep this one. But in the end, I just couldn’t live with spending $2300 on something I wasn’t absolutely thrilled with. So I’m sending it back tomorrow for a full refund.
I tried the rebuild route, now I’m going back to what I know. I’ve built three rigs on my own, none failed to post, and years later all three are still going strong. So I’m back on the hunt for parts in a market that is so much tougher than any I’ve been in before. And I can feel the old excitement for the build coming back. Game on.
Dang, man. That is tough luck. I'm sorry. :-) [Reply]
