GUTS Thread

Post 'em.

>spaghetti

It's not bad for the shitty case.

Other side

nice noctuas, but you know they make black ones right?

They didn't when I bought them.
Besides the poo color kinda grew on me.

its not a bad color honestly, you know they have best in industry performance so its all whatever.

Rate or hate, do your worst.

I've already heard:
>REEE black/red
Deal with it, I like black and red, fact that it's used a lot isn't going to deter me

Bends WAY too close to the fittings for my taste. Always a risk of leaks.

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These threads always die so quickly. Anyhow. Considering getting a Vega 64 to replace this 980Ti but they're so fucking expensive. Like $250 more than a 1080Ti expensive.
Black/red themes were never my thing, but to each their own. When I ran custom loop, it was clear tubing/water and a lot of silver. What are you cooling? Clocks speeds?

And server for good measure. Contemplating if it's worth it to move the server away from Intel/H97 platform and into the new AM4/R5-2200G.

My R6 brother! Though I can't take a decent photo to save my fucking life.

8700K 5Ghz
1080Ti 2Ghz

Impressive. That 8700k de-lidded?

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>Dell dimension T3500?

Blast from the past. How's it run? What do you use it for?
Yea yea yea. I used to have an mITX based build for my server. A fractal node 304. But the drives weren't getting enough airflow and we're seeing close to 50C under load. So I switched out to my fractal R5 I had laying around.

3400
not the cool xeon one

>and we're seeing close to 50C under load
So? I haven't seen a single drive in a decade that wasn't rated for 70 °C.

>50c under load
nigga thats fine
glue a fan to them or something if youre that concerned

For longevity purposes I thought you just had to keep the temps low. Dont want premature death of my drives.
They were inside a small itx case so clearance is at a premium. However if you and that other user are saying 50C is safe, maybe I'll give the small case another try.

>Dont want premature death of my drives.
Mang, my very first hard drives were two 21 MB HDDs made in 1984 and they still work today. I had a gigabyte triton case where I stuck two 3.5 drives next to each other in the 3.5 slots and they were running day and night for four years on 52 °C... none of my fucking hard drives ever broke in 3 decades by themselves.

That's good to know. Although I'm wondering if that would be the case with the large capacity multiple platter drives. I intend to buy 4x10TB drives soon and I'm hung up between the Seagate Ironwolf Pro drives. Or HGST ultrastar.

Then there are the Helium filled versions of those drives too. Would the drives being mounted sideways effect their performance or life span?

Don't buy helium drives, and drive orientation doesn't matter either anymore in 2012+6. As long as they are at a precise 90 degree angle in either direction, they are completely fine.

Ok awesome. But why not helium drives? I thought they were supposed to offer less air drag on the disk and we're quieter/supposed to be longer lasting. Was that all bullshit? Because if that's the case, I can get the non helium variant for almost $50 less per drive for the same capacity. The HGST desktar 10TB models are $300 flat a piece.

No matter how well the drive is sealed, the helium will eventually leak, and one day you'll end up with a destroyed drive. Simple air is way more reliable.

I see. I never even thought of that. Thanks for the warning!

Im trying, but this psu has too much cables.

Should have bought modular bruh. Or at least semi-modular.

>Bought a fully modular psu
>Still can't figure out how to do proper cable management

Be gentle

You should consider cable combs. Other than that, you did everything you could.

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Whoops

>Get new mobo
>Have no Arctic Silver so I switch to the stock cooler
>It performs better than a cooler master hyper tx3 and is only a little audible
I'm gonna see what's up with the Wraith cooler, probably better than the 212 evo and doesn't have that backplate bs.

please don't ask about the back

How do you guys deal with the fan cables not being stretched across the mobo? Long extension cables or something?

disassemled, mobo sold, case for sale, cpu+gpu etc going to a new build

The wraith stealth is OK. The wraith spire that comes with the R5-1600/R7-1700 is great. Even has OC headroom. The wraith Max however is around $50, and outperforms the Hyper 212 Evo single fan and has the benefit of blowing air across your VRMs at the same time as cooling your CPU.

The upcoming wraith Prism is just the Max cooler with more RGB nonsense.
You should pick up pic related to combat that GPU say you got going on. I bought one. Works phenomenal.
>Desire to know more about the back intensifies
What do you mean stretched across?

By stretched across I mean the fan power slots aren't near the fan they need to power, meaning the cable would just go over the top of the mobo.

Spilled half a glass of milk in it a couple of weeks ago.

I turned it off right away and cleaned off the worst, let it sit for two weeks and cleaned it thorough.

Only the soundcard died, amazingly.
Both bios chips got drenched, and I forgot to pull the battery until a couple days later. Pretty lucky nothing got scrambled up.

The saving grace was the psu being on the other side of the case, or it whould have been fucked.

home server internals

Ohh. Well yes you have extensions or splitters. There are also fan controllers available. I have a couple old 5.25" controller in my closet. They also make stuff like the NZXT Grid or Silverstone PWM hub.
>That old milk smell that will only get worse as the PC goes under load
Throw it all away. Start over.
I'm the other user ITT with a server inside the R5. Isn't it just the greatest case for servers Is me. What are your specs? Use case?

I'm getting a different motherboard tomorrow so the time this build is going to stay like this is now counted in hours

I love the define r2. Nice and quiet, the UPS sitting on the shelf beneath it makes a lot more noise.

It's, uh.. some lga1366 xeon I think, on an Intel server board. It runs proxmox, which in turn runs three VMs for my email, owncloud, irssi and samba needs

just really messy because the psu is not modular, cables weren't long enough so the ssd is just dangling around

bought the r6 a month ago its pretty damn good case and now i just need to replace my fx 8320

not super pretty, but functional.
>chocolate fans
ew
nice and clean design, but minus points for meme red.
clean and professional. What's the GPU?
>micro atx in mid-tower
for what purpose?
I love the clean black/white style.
fuck-ugly

All of these builds are obnoxious. If I ever build another computer it'll be in a define C mini

*define C mini TG

t.

Wait, is that an old-school silver arrow?

>VMs for owncloud and email
As in your own cloud and email service? Is that easy to setup? I always wanted to, but it seemed daunting. My server is for sharing basically. Have an HP officejet all in one I share with the house. 4 shares for pictures, misc files, anime/TV series and movies. I own a fuck ton of Blu-ray and DVDs.
>Clean and professional. What's the GPU?
Thanks. It's am EVGA GTX 980Ti classified. I can get it to 1600mhz on the core with only a minor voltage bump. Still pushes 1440p 60fps nicely.
>Micro-atx in mid-tower
mITX actually. And because the server kind of outgrew it's original case and I wanted lower temps for my drives.

>As in your own cloud and email service? Is that easy to setup?
Exactly
I though it was pretty easy, but I've been playing with linux for twenty years
Setting up owncloud was basically done by following their tutorial. Same for exim4 and dovecot, I found some tutorial but of course I knew more or less how email worked behind the scenes already
I have an address at a forwarder, who doesn't actually host anything, just forwards everything to @.dyndns.org
Outgoing email goes through my isp and their smtp server, I just set reply-to in the email program to the address at the forwarder

snap

Any idea on temp delta before/after those extra top fan installs? What make are they?

Not him, here, but adding a pair of intake fans at the bottom fixed my GPU temp/stagnant hot air issues. Haven't tried using the top exhaust because I'm anal about noise and want to keep all the panels closed.

His fans are Noctuas by the way, NF-A14 I think. They're really good but pricey.

As someone who came from an FX-9370 @ 5.5ghz to now a Ryzen 1700X, the difference is staggering. I mean even a moderate clocked quad core R3-1200 could catch my old 9370 even in multi-threaded loads. FX to Ryzen is a no brainier.

I don't have clean guts because I actually use all slots in my case. Every sata port. Every PCI slot. Everything

That's awesome and rare. Post it. Clean or not. I'm curious.

Just porn for now.

My point is that performance is superior to looks. I would think boards like Sup Forums or /o/ would agree.
An RL06 looks worse than a define C, but it is superior in every other aspect

Suspected Noctuas by the look of them, they're really good my DH15 is doing really well cooling my 8700k in my pic here with only a single fan installed

Ended up getting taller memory with LEDs on and doesn't play well with the 2nd fan, might install it on the back if there's much point.

GPU temps for me are good atm but I am considering extra fans in the case probably in about 6-12 months when I'll OC the 1080 to it's limits to keep it more relevant and push the i7 to its limits too.

I'm the same with the top panel, don't really want to take it off, it's a big noise killer when its on. Not that it's a terribly noisy setup, at idle it's really quiet the GPU fans turn off in passive mode (MSI Armor edition)

>I don't have clean guts because I actually use all slots in my case. Every sata port. Every PCI slot. Everything

Know them feels, my old Antec 1200 full case is what I just upgraded from, that had 8 SATA ports with 7 HDDs and 1 SSD, and SLI/Xfire at different points over the years, with a dedicated sound card and whatnot...it's embarrasing but I'll post it anyway

This was back when I had SLI 580's so quite a while ago.

Bloody new mobos with only 4 SATA ports, I had to buy an 8Tb drive to get back down to only 4 drives but didn't really get any extra space from that :(

I'm running an old i7 930 at 4GHz and the GTX 970 is OCed too, so I'm dealing with a fair amount of heat. The CPU heat gets shot straight out the back though so it's less of an issue. Chances are you'll be okay when you go the OC route, but the extra fan mounts are there if you need them.
I'm a misquoting retard by the way, I'm , not the guy you were first replying to.

>Only 4 SATA ports
Depends on the board you buy. If you're spending $60 on bottom of the barrel, then yea, it makes sense. But most decent boards from $90 and up have at least 6. My X370 board has 8 and ASrock X370 taichi has 10.

And there's nothing wrong with a motherboard who has all her slots filled. It's almost...erotic

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op is gay

Wow I remember the 930's. Yeah sounds cool, I've already pushed the compoents to their limits just to see what I can realistically get and the CPU likes to run at 80 degrees maxed out, and the 1080 kicks out a lot of heat with a large OC, so I'll need it, but Iearned my less from my old 2600k which is while 5Ghz clocks are nice, it will probably reject them clocks after about 3 years, and I'd rather I get them faster speeds at the end of its life when it matters more. So mostly stock for now.

I actually got the MSI Z370 Gaming Carbon Pro AC, with 6 SATA but you lose 2 of them when you install M.2 drives, and I have 2 960's in RAID 0 so I'm down to 4 unfortunately.

I'm considering putting back in the other 4 HDDS with a PCI SATA expansion card but ugh the mess in the case and only get me 6Tb extra, so I'll likely dump my smallest drive for another 8Tb in a few months.

Just recovering from the 2k upgrade last month!

rip your psu in a few months

Yeah mine looks similar to this. Except I have a bigger case, D15 heatsink and triple fans at the top. I had to end up buying a SATA hub for one of my PCI slots. I also needed a USB 3.0 card for the PCI slot for my card reader since my mobo only had one 3.0 connector.

Basically this with an AX860i and an Asus Strix 1070. Still running a 2500k and it's holding up fine.

how much did you oc?

SLI bridge not red enough

dropped

Been sitting at 4.8Ghz and 1.36v for the past 6 years, it's been solid.
f u

Why 860?

>and an Asus Strix 1070
SLI?

The 750 was giving grief under high load and crashing the computer, put it in an older system and got the 860i on sale. No sli with the 1070 yet, not sure if I'll do it before I upgrade the cpu/motherboard.

>2 SATA ports used.
It should only be one. Most boards have 1 m.2 slot as PCIe NVME only. The other is SATA speed (and the one that uses a single SATA port). On newegg, your board says pic related.

Older server board in a temporary housing

Old test rig

case repurposed, internals mostly sold

home server internals before upgrade

I store my weed in my computer

>that cute cable management

lol

My Wraith spire. Beautiful fan. Somewhat leaking something

i unironically wonder if soymilk is better for your computer than cowmilk

htpc before upgrades

I don't care what anyone says, those red LED bitfenix fans look sexy

I used to use a hollowed out optical drive for that, was pretty sweet

i was about to get the ryzen 1600 just this weekend but apparently amd is releasing some updated models next month so im gonna wait until then in hopes of amd lowering the current models prices

first incarnation of home server in the define r2

that board wasn't stable enough

testing out the lga775 intel server board in a compaq case from 2001

some proliant internals

noisy ass fugg

I built this for a friend from spare parts two years ago

I forget the specs, some higher end core2duo

current state of htpc

the sg08 doesn't really photograph well

test rig inbetween version

I already forgot I used to have that case

sff guts, splayed out

I use this for storing my ide drives