Computer building, I am

[Popwarhomie 5,000+ posts]

Jesus. I'm only using 800gb... I have an 8TB external that I have zero use for.

 

[Firewalker]

Yeah I have a ton of games. I have a ton of games on 3.5 inch disks, cd's and what not. I have 2 PIII Systems setup for classic gaming as well underneath the one bed. I also have all the parts to build a Dual PIII Tower with a all NIP Memory for it, NIP Motherboard, Case, PSU and another Voodoo card for it. I have Voodoo cards in the other PIII builds as well. but problem is I need to find a VooDoo PCI Card as I have AGP Cards here so still looking for one of those. That build will have around 1tb of the old style drives in it for gaming and it will can be built as a old time server build if I wanted to. All the good stuff from the '90s and early 2000's. Have a NIP copy of Windows 2000 Server as well and Windows 2000 Pro that I bought NIP a few years ago. Not sure which I will use

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I saw they have a USB m2 plug so you can transfer your ssd via USB to a new m2 ssd if you can't slot it to do the transfer.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I feel ya. I am struggling with my main OS SSD and my 3 1TB backup drives. I just about filled up my "Games" drive last night with Far Cry 5. Movies and Music take up my other two drives. Time to upgrade to 2TB drives lol.

far cry 5 was sosososo good

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

My PC CPU temp stays at about 40C while I'm designing. It's weird, sometimes one core will run at like 4.5 ghz while all other are at .3 ghz, I guess it's just the way it distributes the loads across the cores. It'll spike up to 60C when one core is running 4.5 ghz. Idk why they don't split the load up more, but everything seems to be doing so well. This computer is so fast so far. Haven't gamed on it, been too busy. But it's laughing at me right now, not even remotely challenging this PC and what it's capable of.....yet.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Turned the memory speed up to 3200 mhz, seems fine. Just playing around with it some, letting the BIOS determine the rest of the memory settings automatically, I don't understand them at all as of now.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Holy crap. I spiked at 80 degrees C, thanks to windows defender. Look at my CPU speed. My CPU is NOT overclocked.

@Coolhand20th @LsGuy

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I mean dude I was hitting 4.7 ghz without overclocking, which is the max overclocking speed. Windows was using 100% of CPU during that, I was watching it. Spiked to 80C shortly then went back down as soon as my fans kicked in.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

So running windows defender will spike to 75 degrees C, do you guys think that's too high? That's 100% CPU usage ranging from 4.2-4.7 GHz

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

So that huge CPU spike, based off what I've seen during normal usage where I'm not maxing out the CPU, I set my own AIO curve. It's very low until it hits 45C then it ramps up some to 60% speed @ 60C and then it's basically straight up to 90%@ 65C and the BIOS makes it be at 100% by 70C no matter what. The auto curve was pretty conservative so I had it start ramping up from 0C-45C is 20% speed (~800 RPM). Then it should hit about 1680 RPM (60%) by 60C, then 90% by 65C, then 100% (~2800 RPM). I'll adjust as I see fit. I keep Ryzen Master open literally whenever I'm on my computer, so I'll watch how it spikes. I didn't like how it spiked to 80C, even though it wasn't going past that. That's 176 degrees Fahrenheit. I didn't take kindly to that kind of heat, so I want to try to enact stronger cooling at an earlier stage.

I also set my fan step up back down to 0 seconds since they won't step up from ~65% until 65C, and then they have a 12 second step down time. That way if it's hoping around, those fans will still be ******* in air through that radiator for 12 seconds no matter what the temp does. I've learned a lot about what heat levels should be under normal usage. This is a 3800xt, so it's gonna get hot no matter what. My max wattage rating on this CPU with overclocking seems to be 142 watts. That creates a lot of heat.

Good news is that it drops very quickly once the processing is over. In literally about a second or two it went from 80C back down into the high 30's, so the cooler is working. I think this 3800xt BISH just gets hot LOL

 

[Firewalker]

Temps would be higher if you hadn't done the MX-4 I can tell you that right now. AMD seems to run hotter for some reason yet I have people telling me that Intel runs hotter. I know mine doesn't run all that hot when I am gaming and pushing the system. But I have seen Intel as well get that hot. Thankfully that is what those liquid coolers, the better paste and fans are for.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Yeah I've seen some people saying they've reached like 95-100C and many people reached 80C+ so I think I'm good. I'm just not familiar enough with the limits yet to know what good or not.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I've had my memory at 3200mhz with no problems so far.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Wooowweeeeeeeeee she didn't like 3600 mhz. Got a code 22, had to reset CMOS. @LsGuy

I think I'm going to stick with 3200 mhz right now. Idk if it's worth it to run that extra 400 mhz. I'd have to do custom settings, like maybe changing the timing and all of those independent settings.

 

[Slo_Ride 5,000+ posts]

Time to up you're cooling bro. Overclock and get wet.