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I thought about a wall mount (made one for a customer out of acrylic few years back) but omg the dust. the cpu fans and Sgpu fans get it bad and anything not in their air path get dust build up. with the 540 all the intake fans have filters, they tone down the light and I just rinse them out about once a month. I LOVE all the room behind the mobo too. Its a rats nest of wires... they are just zip tied up and hanging all over the place.
So clean it once per month... my miners barely have any dust yet they have been running for 4 months straight.
I have a nice poweredge T410 that's 8 years old that my office is dumping. I'm going to use it for a home server. It's got two Xeon E5620s and 24gb of ram and 4x500gb drives and 2x250gb drives.
I did dump windows server 2008R2 for Win 10 pro just for modern useability and patchyness.
I did grab a xeon processor out of a different server because I thought this had only one, but now I don't need it so it's just sitting around on its heat sink. (see below)
So I went ahead and de-lided 8700K as under very heavy load and even with 280mm radiator temps were getting quite high. After delid and application of liquid metal to the silicone the temps dropped by 20*C, which is very significant and allowed me to back off on the voltage for overclock.
In the spirit of cooling upgrades with Maita - better cooling leads to better overall performance.
The real trick (after many tries) ended up being NOT resealing the IHS to the CPU. Doing so was causing it to sit every so slightly unevenly on the die. Letting IHS float on top of the CPU under the socket retainer has proven to be the right solution.
Yes, removed the tape after applying liquid metal.
You can use either RTV type sealant (red or back) or some recommend using super glue. Here are the issues:
Super Glue:
- Hard to ensure that IHS is pressed flush against silicone and not tilting on one side. Even with RockIt Cool 88 sealing tool - it would end up slightly crooked since processor PCB is not actually flat, it is uneven.
Gasket maker
- needs to have at least some thickness to it in order to work well, which may raise the IHS from, but allows the IHS to adjust under pressure. Very messy.
I just decided that since this is in a workstation and not mobile application - sealing IHS to CPU is not really critical for me, but does ensure the best, even, flat contact.
I'd imagine what you want to do is put the PCB in the motherboard, put silicone or whatever you're using, then put the IHS and clamp it down and install the cooler, and let it dry under full pressure. That wouldnt work? As much as I want to do this to my 8700k, i am not overclocking and my temps are <55c at 100% load so the only thing that would do is void the warranty.
That would be hard to do right in the motherboard tray as the way the latch is designed - the IHS WILL shift. So the silicone will end up curing with the IHS being in whatever position it ends up after you close the top and latch the side bar used to secure the processor. Honestly though, 8700K is the easiest overclock I've done since original Intel Celeron and AMD Athlon chips. Bump up voltage a tad and then set clock. No fuss. My ambient room temps are 20-25*C so it idles at 35-40*c , but now with floating delid and 5Ghz on all cores my stress test went from 85*c down to 60*c and i was able to reduce voltage for overclock.
Some shots of my 4ish year old build with small upgrades here and there. Mostly used for gaming and remote IT stuff. These are about a year old and a few changes have been made mainly different monitor setup and a diy vertical gpu mount that I'm not sure if I'm happy with.
New laptop, because I felt like it
Dell Latitude 5591 15"
i7 8850H Hex core
16GB DDR4, might go to 32GB because I can
512GB M.2 SSD
Nvidia GeForce MX130 2GB DDR5
W10 Pro
Still browsing for a USB-C type dock to cut down on wire clutter.
Some shots of my 4ish year old build with small upgrades here and there. Mostly used for gaming and remote IT stuff. These are about a year old and a few changes have been made mainly different monitor setup and a diy vertical gpu mount that I'm not sure if I'm happy with.
I have that same case. Love it.
and my fiance has that same anime figure. No idea what character it is even. lol
Some shots of my 4ish year old build with small upgrades here and there. Mostly used for gaming and remote IT stuff. These are about a year old and a few changes have been made mainly different monitor setup and a diy vertical gpu mount that I'm not sure if I'm happy with.
Everything about this is amazing except just one monitor.
Some shots of my 4ish year old build with small upgrades here and there. Mostly used for gaming and remote IT stuff. These are about a year old and a few changes have been made mainly different monitor setup and a diy vertical gpu mount that I'm not sure if I'm happy with.
Thanks. It’s the basic basic bitch diy ikea desk that lots of people seem to have.
Originally Posted by Full_Tilt_Boogie
I have that same case. Love it.
and my fiance has that same anime figure. No idea what character it is even. lol
It’s Tharja from Fire Emblem if you want to impress her lol
Originally Posted by z31maniac
Everything about this is amazing except just one monitor.
Yeah I have always used a multi mon setup but I went to a single 2k monitor here for the clean desk aesthetic. I went back to two monitors again but I miss the nice clean look.
Originally Posted by 2slow
What sort of remote IT stuff?
at the time it was just remote sys admin stuff. Supported a couple clusters and 3-400 end users of the services at a local historic attraction.
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Yeah, a friend of mine already preordered a 2080. I'll wait until i see % increase vs the older cards. The 1080 was only like 15 - 20% better than the 980ti.
So far i'm still happy with my old 980. Doing well with 1080p @ 144hz.
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