Hi All
Looking for your views of how to package up a tempered glass case (Phanteks Evolv ATX Tempered Glass) without the original box (which died by water and the syrofoam is no more) to ship all the way to NZ where we are moving back to after 10 years here.
Currently thinking of buying a box...
beeping Intel and their refusal to keep a motherboard for more than 2 years. Next upgrade for my main PC is 100% AMD now, already moved the server over.
I still cannot believe that what cryptocurrency boom did to top end cards pricing has managed to stick. Nor I bet can Nvidia. I suspect I shall never be able to justify going from a 1080ti to a 2080ti. Luckily the 1080ti is a damn good card.
Now that 3950x on the other hand.....that is a...
Brief update. After inhaling more isopropyl than one should managed to clear out all the TIM. However the cotton buds actually at times required the plastic tweezers to completely clear. Moving onto the pins, well yeah there were three bends, got them all perfect except one which has bent in...
Cheers 8pack again, hugely appreciated. Have ordered some pure 99.9% iso alcohol to clean the socket and then will loop in the wife whose hand eye coordination well exceeds mine on fixing any pins.
Will report back Friday eve.
Soooooo last night I tried to downgrade my server CPU from a i75820k to a Xeon E5-2630L v3 to try and save some power and thus the world, or real reason because I had a build bug and no moolah.
Anyhow did this while tired (idiot) and on removing the oversized Noctua heatsink and post cleanign...
Got paid, went to buy the silver one in clearance and someone bet me to it. Checked this, deal done, though had decided on silver anyway.
Till boxing day sales i guess ♀️♂️
I suspect this is because the number of people who buy 1tb proper old school drives has diminished severely. Especially as you can pick up 8TB for £130 these days.
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