Computer building, I am

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Yeah I know I've been reading and watching vids for about the last week.

I halfway looked into them, like when I was looking at eBay for parts, I saw some of these $5000 GPU setups with like 12 GPU’s and a huge power supply, like a GPU farm of sorts.

Idk, maybe cryptocurrencies are currency based in some form of electricity or energy? Not sure I fully get it, yet.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I’d rather have Gold and Silver, personally

 

[Slo_Ride 5,000+ posts]

I halfway looked into them, like when I was looking at eBay for parts, I saw some of these $5000 GPU setups with like 12 GPU’s and a huge power supply, like a GPU farm of sorts.

Idk, maybe cryptocurrencies are currency based in some form of electricity or energy? Not sure I fully get it, yet.

I understand crypto mining and your're right it's does take a "GPU farm". That's a good way of putting it. Gold and silver are boring.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I understand crypto mining and your're right it's does take a "GPU farm". That's a good way of putting it. Gold and silver are boring.

Gold is used to make electronic propulsion systems for space craft, I disagree, but I understand your point

 

[Slo_Ride 5,000+ posts]

Crypto mining is to much for me to type i

Gold is used to make electronic propulsion systems for space craft, I disagree, but I understand your point

True. Nasa has always used gold throughout it's spacecrafts but just buying gold is meh.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Crypto mining is to much for me to type i

True. Nasa has always used gold throughout it's spacecrafts but just buying gold is meh.

"Do I have a deal for you. The new Trump coin, made of Gold, fresh out of the mint. Come buy a Trump coin today."

So silly lol. Gold is the real currency, Fed Reserve note is just soul currency, human beings are the currency, that's why they give all the money to the Wall Street Bulls, so that your corporation (body) isn't even worth defending. So low value that's been forced upon us individually, that we have no wealth anymore. I swear it's like that South Park episode where aliens give humans money to see how mature they are yet, lol.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Been overclocking my GPU. So, I was adjust case fans to cool the GPU, because the GPU fans resonate badly at about 35% rpm, so I'm doing low noise cooling, with this fan program called Fan Control (v81). Works very well. My favorites things are the mixed graph curves, as many data points on a graph as you want, and you can choose the % of step up or down per second so that your fans slowly rev up and down instead of all over the place.

Check this out. I still use my GPU software to control my GPU fans, because I'm OC'ing through the Radeon software. I have 2x 140mm fans per fan switch, expect for the AIO, which is just one pump. All of these temps are measured in my room with the AC on 75 degrees F and my window open, so it's high 70's, close to 80 degrees F in my room. It's 90 degrees in Florida today, so here's my graphs to maximize cooling with minimal noise:

Notice how I have a mixed graph on my front intake fans aka front intake mix. The front intake fans are monster Nocturna 140 mm fans, a pair. They will fully run about 3000 rpm wide open, very, very loud lol. But I have those monitoring the motherboard (pch temps IIRC), the CPU and the GPU. That way, if any of those things ever overheats, my front fans will rev up super loudly so I know, in case I'm not running metrics while gaming or something.

This program is a nerd's paradise. So it overrides the BIOS fan settings, only if you have the fan turned "on" inside of the Fan Control program. So, fan control only works if you open the program up. If Fan Control isn't controlling a fan, then the BIOS maintains control.

This, to me, is also like a second layer of protection against cooling failures. This program is wayyyy more tunable than my BIOS is. So, if this program ever fails, my bios just takes over. My BIOS settings are pretty aggressive, so I'm all set up for heat security LOL

@Coolhand20th @LsGuy

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

This is a free program, by the way. It works really really well for slowly increasing fan speed as heat increases. This a great program for minimizing fan noise whenever possible.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

It does take about 110 MB or so of RAM to use, I have 32 gigs, so I'm not worried. But if you have 16 or even 8 gb, that's definitely a factor in using a program like this. 32 gigs of 3600 mhz memory chews through anything. I can't imagine what these guys with the 5800-5950x processors do with that high 4000-5000 mhz RAM OC capability, that's wild.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Been overclocking my GPU. So, I was adjust case fans to cool the GPU, because the GPU fans resonate badly at about 35% rpm, so I'm doing low noise cooling, with this fan program called Fan Control (v81). Works very well. My favorites things are the mixed graph curves, as many data points on a graph as you want, and you can choose the % of step up or down per second so that your fans slowly rev up and down instead of all over the place.

Check this out. I still use my GPU software to control my GPU fans, because I'm OC'ing through the Radeon software. I have 2x 140mm fans per fan switch, expect for the AIO, which is just one pump. All of these temps are measured in my room with the AC on 75 degrees F and my window open, so it's high 70's, close to 80 degrees F in my room. It's 90 degrees in Florida today, so here's my graphs to maximize cooling with minimal noise:

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Notice how I have a mixed graph on my front intake fans aka front intake mix. The front intake fans are monster Nocturna 140 mm fans, a pair. They will fully run about 3000 rpm wide open, very, very loud lol. But I have those monitoring the motherboard (pch temps IIRC), the CPU and the GPU. That way, if any of those things ever overheats, my front fans will rev up super loudly so I know, in case I'm not running metrics while gaming or something.

This program is a nerd's paradise. So it overrides the BIOS fan settings, only if you have the fan turned "on" inside of the Fan Control program. So, fan control only works if you open the program up. If Fan Control isn't controlling a fan, then the BIOS maintains control.

This, to me, is also like a second layer of protection against cooling failures. This program is wayyyy more tunable than my BIOS is. So, if this program ever fails, my bios just takes over. My BIOS settings are pretty aggressive, so I'm all set up for heat security LOL

@Coolhand20th @LsGuy

@ThxOne @Popwarhomie

 

[Popwarhomie 5,000+ posts]

I have no idea. I'm fairly new to PCs myself. I overclocked my gpu and didn't notice that much of a difference so I went back to factory.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I have no idea. I'm fairly new to PCs myself. I overclocked my gpu and didn't notice that much of a difference so I went back to factory.

With my Cities game, forcing a higher percentage minimum GPU clock has helped me a ton with low load FPS increase. I force the GPU to run about 1000 mhz currently instead of the factory 750-800 or so. That keeps my FPS like 5-10 frames higher while idling, which means I make more money while doing nothing, in the game lol.

 

[2RZ-FE 10+ year member]

Ryzen 5 3600 and a GeForce 2060 still. I got a 750 power supply my brother got with his 3070 combo swapped it into my computer and somehow I lost power to my Corsair water cooler and my rear line out as well as the front headphone jack. I got a new motherboard, case and water cooler. Works fine now. Hopefully when my brother gets his 3080 he will give me his 3070 I’m just trying to get the best frame rate at 1440p. Probably move up to a mid tier Ryzen 7

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Ryzen 5 3600 and a GeForce 2060 still. I got a 750 power supply my brother got with his 3070 combo swapped it into my computer and somehow I lost power to my Corsair water cooler and my rear line out as well as the front headphone jack. I got a new motherboard, case and water cooler. Works fine now. Hopefully when my brother gets his 3080 he will give me his 3070 I’m just trying to get the best frame rate at 1440p. Probably move up to a mid tier Ryzen 7

I run a 850w. I love my 3800xt man. I can't even challenge it with anything that I do. I don't run stress tests, but I can't even get the thing to run high GHz for super long, because it's done processing with the 8 cores by the time it starts peaking.

You want to look at your power supply's load curve. There's a certain wattage you want with certain power supplies. Something like 55-70% or so of max wattage is where many power supplies shine in efficiency or clean power.

I'm like you, I just want the best frame rate. I actually don't like a lot of video game lighting effects, I have migraine issues, I play my games fairly dark. I like crisp, defined lines, because I have really really bad visual snow, so I try to make the game look as clear and definable as possible and as high FPS as I can get. Idc about lighting.

GPU's are the hardest thing to understand, because it seems like they're literally a computer attached to your computer. I would trade some of the features of my GPU for higher processor speed, more VRAM capacity or clock speed. Idk if this is true, but it seems like my GPU has frame rate restrictions, because maybe it has so many image "beautifying" parts, if that makes sense.

Give me all of the FPS. FPS > lighting. Game stutter is awful. My GPU doesn't get anywhere close to hot, it'll barely get up to 50C playing the way I have it set up, but yet it freaks out if I overclock with temps of like 45C....lol. My temps are super low and I can't overclock more, then like what is my GPU? If I can't clock higher but am barely utilizing the GPU, then wtf is going on? What part of the GPU is so underutilized that I'm not even making the thing get warm-ish?

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Side note:

My CPU runs at about 55C playing cities with my AIO pump spinning about 1200 RPM, which the minimum spin for the AIO pump is 850, so it's barely spinning up (my curve).

I mean my CPU runs hotter than my GPU playing video games....lol. I want more FPS. My CPU isn't close to being maxed out. It runs Cities off 4 cores mainly, it seems, and each core isn't even maxed out. Three will run 4+GHz, one will run 3+ GHz, the other 4 run around 1-1.5 GHz. Idk, I'm not gonna buy a 5000 Ryzen CPU until I actually need it. My GPU is by far my weakest link. Everything is great, great MB, fastest level SSD's (pcie 4.0), 3800xt, etc. My GPU is good, maybe it's not my style of GPU? Idk, I could just have no idea what I'm doing, that's always a possibility....