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Some shots of my little Shuttle SB61G2 with a custom CPU/GPU loop. Why did I do this? Idk im crazy. IIRC it should have CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz Prescott SL8K2 GPU: PowerColor ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP 1gb DDR2 MOBO: Shuttle FB61/FB65V4.0 DISK: Some Corsair 120gb SATA SSD RAM: It should have...

My dell XPS420 "custom water loop" I did in like 2018. Yes there is a Peltier between the CPU and "waterblock". There were 2 radiators, one behind each of the OEM fans neatly tucked into the OEM fan mounts. I think the small one was an 80mm rad and the big one was a 120. Not sure what CPU I had...

Back when I was in highschool I got my A+, Net+, and Security+ CompTia certs thinking I would be working somewhere in the IT industry. Now I work in the shipping industry... I'm probably the most knowledgeable "tech" person at my facility aside from the some of the actual IT guys we have. My...

If this year's boxes suck, I probably won't buy them again. The first time I got them I actually got some things I wanted, but didn't want to spend the money on, and it was worth it. Last year i basically got 3 usb-c hubs which are kinda worthless imo.

Just ordered a $50, $25, and $10. The first year I bought these i was pretty happy with what i got. Last years sucked, probably because I ordered relatively late and $50s were sold out.

idk its always just been powers of 2 for stick sizes, "odd" sizes being not powers of 2.

On my z390 platform I ran a 128gb kit (4x32gb) which was XMP rated for DDR4 4400 at DDR4 4400 with a few voltage tweaks for around a year. over time the system actually did start to become unstable due to the memory probably from the insane voltages needed to run the kit. I ended up going...

Just wanted to share some of the build history I have with the Fractal Design Define Nano S. I absolutely love this case its compact yet has many build options and in some cases, more build options than other larger cases have... I originally bought this case to house hardware for server hosting...

What are your thoughts on the odd max RAM capacity of 192gb on the latest Intel and AMD desktop platforms? Is anybody running 4x48gb DDR5? What is the compatibility like? I've stayed away from DDR5 like I did when DDR4 came out to the consumer market, waiting for it to mature a bit before diving...

more compact than ATX, bigger than ITX. more expansion options on M-ATX over ITX in addition to more RAM slots.

Where are all the good Z790 Micro ATX motherboards? it seems the only good ones are Gigabyte's Z790M AORUS ELITE and the ASUS PRIME Z790M-PLUS. I use my main build both as a workstation and for gaming and it has progressed from a Standard ATX ASUS WS Pro Z390 loaded with a I-9900K 128gb of RAM...

Who uses a Microsoft account to log in to their Windows 10/11 machine, and why, or why not? I personally use a Microsoft account to log into all of my machines nowadays. I used to use a windows domain controller to handle account logins hosted in my homelab back when my servers were running...

I've moved a M.2 ssd with a windows 10 install between very different hardware builds. Only possible issue is activation, which just asked me if I upgraded or moved the hardware or something like that. I had the windows install logged in and tied to my microsoft account and it let me move the...

just till last month i ran a 3090 with 4 monitors hooked up plus one additional mini screen monitor thing hooked up to the iGPU on a 9900K. I did have some wierd issues initially where only 4 of the 5 displays would run with it just picking a random one to not run. I got it working fine after...

On the latest mainstream DDR5 desktop platforms like Intel 12/13th gen and Ryzen 7000, you are stuck with a max of 192gb across 4x48gb sticks. moving to an HEDT platform with Intel W790 gets you up to 2TB or 256gb with Intel x299 and AMD TRX40