so I did.
Also decided to just stuff everything in the new mobo straight ahead instead of installing one component, testing if it works add next component etc. pp.
… but since this strut isn’t required here, just leaving it out is fine.
Now I’m still missing one or two Noctua 120mm fans to fine tune the airflow, and a gfx card for my phenom quad, since i’ve temporarily taken the 380 our of my main machine…
temperature-wise, the 1800X has been doing 42-44°C in BIOS, and the first “half an hour idle at desktop” test run using Ubuntu looked fine so far.
first stress test will be after i’ve installed win10, thou i still have to wrap my head around how people are just buying keys today instead of a proper software package like you did in 2002ish when XP was the hot shit.
Not that I have ever bought a Windows PC version (OK, Win8 has been on the Laptop, so technically, i did once… wait a sec, on Win Phone… ) - so that’s something I have to address as well before putting this monster through its paces.
seeing as I have the same board, I’m trying to remember if those temps at BIOS seem fine, but my idle temps in Windows hover around 30-35 (though it is getting colder around here) and I’m at 3.8 on all cores (though the temps look like you’re on a more recent BIOS since it doesn’t have the 30 degree offset applied)
I will say to update the BIOS when you get a chance, go to second from latest, memory support seems to be best there and the newest one is mainly for APU support
also I would boot into Windows and mess around with Ryzen Master, which will actually let you overclock in software and also set profiles if you don’t want to mess around with it at a BIOS level or always have the overclock running
June 2016 I built a Skylake mini ITX system in a Raijintek Metis case. An i3-6100, 16gb of ram (heh, back then I got 16gb of DDR4 3000mhz with tight timings, for under $65 new). Still using my trusty Radeon HD7870, and I pulled an Antec Neo 650HE out of the closet for this build, because a little smaller than most ATX power supplies, has modular cabling, is super quiet, and the way it exhausts is complimentary to this case. (I will post pics of the case with a build in it, fairly soon).
I have both Gigabyte and Asus Z170 M-ITX boards. Was using the Gigabyte due to my RAM not working under XMP profile on the ASUS board. And I couldn’t even manually overclock it up to the XMP speeds.
Fast Forward to a couple of weeks ago: I wanted a couple more cores for video encoding and realized Kaby Lake drops into Z170 boards, if the bios is updated. I decided to try the ASUS board again, due to better overclocking support and hoped that several bios updates later, the ram would work.
Annnnnd it does! So I’m now running an Kaby Lake i5 7600k in a Skylake Z170 motherboard, at proper 3000mhz on my DDR4. And my 7600k is a pretty great chip, at 5.2ghz on air. I daily drive it at 5ghz, as it bairly needs a voltage bump for that. Again, pics forthcoming.
upgraded from a 5s to an 8 last week, it still feels kinda wrong? i’m instinctively trying to one hand the thing all the time and it’s not very comfortable but i have to admit content does have a bit more room to breathe and it’s very snappy
i guess my earbuds permanently have a dongle attached now
there are very few edge cases that require me to hit the top corner of the screen for anything and don’t have a swipe workaround and they all suck but everything else is basically OK and it’s obviously a massive upgrade over a four year old windows phone and still the only one that had enough belgian whistles for me to justify
I love it. But it feels destined to never be updated and kept around without intention, like how they sold that one MBP unchanged for five years just because it had an optical drive.
Well, kinda not!
I could install win10 perfectly fine using my win8 key, so that turned out pretty good, one thing less to care about.
Noctua 120ers are on their way, and i finally got my hands on a gpu card drop-in replacement for my Phenom Quad machine, namely the Asus Radeon RX550 4gb.
However, as you can see clearly on pixx of that card, they cut some corners when it comes to the fan, since it just uses two pins, which basically equals fullspeed harrier mode.
So,
hm, haven’t heard of those before, and found no mention of those on their news page. guess it’ll still take some time until release?
otoh, you're getting some colorful tips for their fans in the cromax series now!!!1!!!1!!!
which is as good a sign as any to realize OK, if it isn't about serving more niche needs, it'll take some time until something major will be out from them, so....
I’m vaguely aware of it from when the plus models first came out, but never actually tried using it because it a) seems like a kludge, b) I have relatively long digits so I rarely really need it, and c) I’m the kind of person who will switch mail clients if their design requires me to tap the top of the screen on a regular basis without a gesture workaround
) - so that’s something I have to address as well before putting this monster through its paces.
