Cooling Cooling a Ryzen 5900X and Crappy Motherboard (Was: Cooling a Ryzen 9 9950X... on air?)

I thought I'd set MrsYuu's PC's curve optimizer to -25. I logged into the bios the other day to check, it's at -30! Mine peaks at -20.
I'm interested in that adapter for the 120mm fan. I inherited one of those stock coolers but the fan has had some kind of hit or something, it's so loud.

 

Ah yes, I forgot that... And also missed where it said that on the page I linked to…

Oh well look at Mister Bloody Lah-Dee-Dah-Fancypants over ‘ere, paying for his OS an’ everythin’! Well you sure told me, di’n’t you?! I’ll just go sit in a corner, shut my gob, an’ never talk to anyone else ever again, shall I?!



It probably doesn’t need to be said that this is entirely in jest and not in any way sincere, but I’m saying it anyway .

But still… update your flippin’ OS!

I’m guessing that’s the adapter that AlexB 3D printed for you? I did see your thread about it and meant to reply, but he got there before I had a chance to have a proper look .

Bit of a shame that it doesn’t fully shroud the heatsink, or have some kind of airflow guide. If I ever get time (hah!) I’ll see if I can find something else that might do the trick. My CAD skills aren’t up to designing something myself, and unfortunately I’m not going to be learning any time soon…

 

Thought that was the one.

Aye, the glass transition temperature of PLA - the point at which it starts to soften - is around 60C. If that was an ambient temperature then it’d be pretty dang hot in that case… But for something that’s in direct contact with a CPU heatsink, it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that it could approach 60C.

That transition point for PETG is around 75-85C, so that gives you a lot more headroom.

ABS is even better though, the glass transition point is around 105C. The main disadvantage with ABS is its susceptibility to damage from UV. But unless something has gone very, very wrong - or Gareth wants to re-live the early days of modding by putting UV lights in his case - that will not be an issue in this use case

 

24.04.2 LTS landed in February, for the shiniest LTS of all.

 

Bit of CAD (cardboard aided design ) and duct tape, you're golden

 

Reminds me of trying to overclock my parents pc to be able to play crysis, ended up spending more time tweaking than playing, and then fell down the extreme/competitive overclocking hole, you should give it a go it's great

 

Have you adjusted the PBO scalar, this will help raise the multi core clocks under load for your tesseract stuff, though whether you should on that board is another matter

 

Now you just need to calculate how much time you've spent fannying around with settings and crashes etc, then calculate how long it's going to take you to recoup that time from the gains you're seeing. And then throw yourself a little party once you reach that point

 

Is that just for the web-based stuff you do, like Hackster.io, or do you use similar tools when writing (or contributing to) books?

I’ve been meaning to try and turn an old/spare laptop into a “this thing is for writing only and cannot do anything else” appliance, so just curious about your workflow.

I learned LaTeX a while back (well… sort of…), and I do a lot in markdown at work (readme’s, docstrings, wikis, etc). I wrote a letter to a solicitor last week in LaTeX, and even my rarely-updated blog is a static site generator that uses markdown as the source. I can’t see myself doing any kind of “writing” in anything other than a code editor any more. VSCode for preference, but I’m going to start looking at Codium and similar, provided I can find replacements for the extensions I’ve come to rely on. (MS are starting to enforce their “do not use on non-MS products” licensing more and more by blocking usage of their extensions when installed on anything other than Microsoft Visual Studio Code. Presumably they’re getting a bit pissy about Cursor intentionally violating the license terms by reverse-proxying the VSCode extensions marketplace in their commercial product that’s derived from the open-source portions of the VSCode codebase… Which itself was derived from the open source Atom editor… [Embrace, Extend, Extinguish - it never went away.])

 

Thanks

Doesn’t seem to get much active development, assuming I’ve found the right GitHub page. I suppose it works well enough when using the main site as a progressive web app, but I’m assuming the pretty severe issues people are reporting with Google authentication are when they’re running/hosting it themselves. And self-hosting is definitely what I’d prefer.

A while back I tried out using code-server deployed to Azure as a containerised web application. It worked well enough - I could do development on my iPad using just a web browser - but it was a total pig to configure and keep running.

There are other projects now, like OpenVSCode Server, so I might revisit the idea. I could fire that up on login using a browser in kiosk mode. Automatic sync to GDrive, OneDrive, A.N. Other Cloud wouldn’t be impossible either, I’ve used rclone in the past for exactly that purpose. In fact… set it up as a container and the config gets even easier - just bind-mount a host filesystem directory for VSCode, rclone, etc, config files, and now you’ve got a stack you can deploy anywhere. Of course the complexity and compute requirements go up the moment you start talking Docker, so maybe not one for my “do nothing but writing” appliance intended for older or low-powered hardware…

And now I’m gonna shut up and stop derailing matters by brain-dumping my train of thought