Computer and electronics dorks come complain about stuff here

[the_antsy_honda]

why are your ports being blocked by rad fans?

 

[Souppishdawg]

Does this look fairly normal?

When I click on the exclamation mark, it says:
Validation warning
Your score contained the following anomalies:
Graphics driver is not approved


Also, I haven't changed any BIOS settings from stock besides enabling amd expo

 

[stevezissou]

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Get adapters or remove that middle fan from the rad. Doubt it would make that much of a temp difference.

 

[EdgeOfSanity]

Get adapters or remove that middle fan from the rad. Doubt it would make that much of a temp difference.

2700mm of rad, wouldn't make a difference to temps but I'm not pulling a fan out. Have an adapter but I don't like the way it looks. Would prefer the HDMI work properly instead.

 

[stevezissou]

2700mm of rad, wouldn't make a difference to temps but I'm not pulling a fan out. Have an adapter but I don't like the way it looks. Would prefer the HDMI work properly instead.

Riser cable then?

 

[EdgeOfSanity]

Riser cable then?

Tried it, was actually in the original build plan and I even have the bracket for this. The issue is the gpu isn't supported well without the slot and all the weight rests on the io bracket(block alone is 8lbs...). It ends up looking crooked and I'm not comfortable with the lack of stability so this out.

I could rotate the mobo tray so the gpu hangs from the top but fuck that'll be a lot of work.

 

[EdgeOfSanity]

Got a response from the OCN Nvidia 4090 thread. Looks like I need to go back to the stock vbios to get it to work or use the igpu for that monitor.

 

[TenSteel]

For AMD/Radeon GPUs, is the Adrenaline software good? Or is there something else I'm supposed to download?

Yea just get the regular WHQL drivers from AMD’s site and make sure to select the correct GPU from the drop-down list. If you grabbed a 6000 series card don’t use the drivers that are meant for the 7000 series.

The Adrenalin software is nice because it gives you all your overclocking and monitoring/benchmarking tools in one place, unlike NVIDIA where you’re relying on Afterburner for most of that.

 

[Souppishdawg]

Nearly had a fucking heart attack just now lol
Figured I'd update the BIOS to the newest version because... well, why not? I put it on the USB drive and plugged it into the system. Went into the BIOS to flash it, and it said "are you sure you want to update the BIOS?" Said yes and then it said "Processing" and seemed to freeze and shut down. As it boots up, the Debug light is stuck on DRAM and it doesn't get to the BIOS. I've heard horror stories about failed BIOS updates bricking motherboards so I'm shook. I restart it, and luckily it gets to the BIOS safe mode screen. It looks like it didn't update though, but I am able to boot into windows after another restart. I take the flash drive and put it in the same USB port that's recommended for BIOS flashback and that seemed to work, and now it's updated successfully. Didn't' have to do flashback, just did the EZ flash thing in the main BIOS usb port.

 

[Souppishdawg]

CPU seems to be doing it's thang

Might check memtest out overnight and see how the ram is looking

 

[LancerV]

Not having kids helps a lot

pretty much all you had to say 🤣

 

[Nonphixion]

Because the people with money and not patience will buy them

 

[TenSteel]

I found @the_antsy_honda 's next case

 

[iCe]

AMD Board Partners To Launch New B650 Motherboards To Address Broader Range of Price Points This Quarter

AMD has confirmed to broaden its B650 motherboard portfolio with new options to address a diverse range of price points this quarter.

wccftech.com

 

[TenSteel]

So as I’m getting back into organizing and adding to my music collection, I was trying to figure out the best way to stream it to my phone.

Apparently I’ve been living under a rock and didn’t know about PlexAmp.

 

[stevezissou]

So as I’m getting back into organizing and adding to my music collection, I was trying to figure out the best way to stream it to my phone.

Apparently I’ve been living under a rock and didn’t know about PlexAmp.

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the future is now old man.gif

 

[the_antsy_honda]

Idk what any of that is

 

[TenSteel]

Idk what any of that is

Plex Server can also serve music

Run PlexAmp on phone to make it happen

And it works with CarPlay too

 

[TenSteel]

the future is now old man.gif

To think I spent hours head scratching trying to figure out how to setup a new fork of Subsonic server.

 

[the_antsy_honda]

Plex Server can also serve music

Run PlexAmp on phone to make it happen

And it works with CarPlay too

i think its because i dont' have any locally stored music.

other than my cd's in the garage, everything is streamed

 

[the_antsy_honda]

idk how reliable this is, but if true, those are some serious gains in dx11 and older titles

 

[hootpie]

This little A4-H2O is adorable, but I've been missing my NR200 GOAT. If Cooler Master comes out with a new one I might switch back.

Only real downside of the A4-H2O is the CPU AIO has to take hot exhaust from the GPU and exhaust it and so temps are like 10˚ worse than if it was intake. I could flip it to intake, but then fans would be in pull config and I'd be sucking in dust from the top of the case

 

[TenSteel]

This little A4-H2O is adorable, but I've been missing my NR200 GOAT. If Cooler Master comes out with a new one I might switch back.

Only real downside of the A4-H2O is the CPU AIO has to take hot exhaust from the GPU and exhaust it and so temps are like 10˚ worse than if it was intake. I could flip it to intake, but then fans would be in pull config and I'd be sucking in dust from the top of the case

Are you using a riser with the GPU?

 

[TenSteel]

idk how reliable this is, but if true, those are some serious gains in dx11 and older titles

If Intel can keep making real gains with each driver release maybe AMD and Nvidia will start worrying.

 

[TenSteel]

@hootpie ill be following your A4 blog because that was a case I had my eye on.

Is the NR200 significantly larger than the A4 in real life?