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Wowsers ....

 

A RAID pair for your entire Steam library no doubt?

 

The original plan was to get four and replace all my spinning rust. I'm sure I'll find something to fill them with...

 

nvm - wrong thread

 

I bought an AMD thingy....



It's, well, no bigger than the ARC A750..



And it compliments my full "blackout" build..



(Yes, I know the back fan is grey but it can't be seen with the side panel on).

New GPU is a 7900 GRE with the OEM / Founders / Reference / Whatever AMD call it cooler.

So far, I am extremely impressed with it. It is noticeably quieter than the A750 and has zero coil whine (that I can hear anyway). After a brief bit of testing in Outlaws it also overclocks quite nicely. Got it ~ 2400 Core, 2600 memory with an undervolt to 970mV which gives a noticable 10-15% performance uplift in game.

Very pleased..

Now I just need to get my code sorted for Space Marines 2 and I will be shooting anything that moves as a walking tank in no time.

 

Miofive front and rear dashcam - wanted this anyway and it’s on a 50% off flash deal at the moment, down from £200 to £100



Thermalright AXP90-X47 Full Copper - supposedly more performant than my NH-L9i and less of a complete pig to mount than the Alpenfohn Black Ridge which doesn’t fit my motherboard



Noctua NF-A9x14 chromax.black - will replace the fan on the AXP90



Noctua NA-FD1 Fan duct kit - I was originally going to buy this for the L9i, to bridge the gap between the fan and side panel of the Dan A4 case, but it might be handy for the AXP90-X47 as well

 

MSI "Ventus 2X" 4070 Super



Yeah, yeah, I know... I know the state the GPU market is in and how comparitively poor Nvidia is in terms of value... But if you try to wait for a "better time" to upgrade then you'll never get anything upgraded - there's always going to be a faster model, a newer generation, and so on... I had an unexpected bonus, the money was sat in my account, it's been a long time since I had any upgrades, and my 3070Ti is starting to show its age in newer games like Horizon Forbidden West... so... f' it.

But, you ask, why the MSI card and not the much more highly regarded Asus Dual card that's only £10 more? Well, because my case can fit a GPU up to 45mm wide: the Asus Dual card is 49.6mm wide whereas the MSI card is only 43mm wide... Plenty of other AIO cards would have fit - PNY, Zotac, Inno3D, Palit, etc - but out of all of them the only brand I've owned before is MSI.

 

Good to see the Dan A4 getting a GPU boost @Byron C .
Certainly more grunt than the 1080 I had in there before

 

Dual slot only does limit things a little, but it’s such a compact case that I really don’t want to part with it…

It’ll be the CPU that starts to become the limiting factor before too long, but hopefully I’ve still got plenty of life in the current platform. Gaming really is my most intensive workload these days so hopefully the 12400F can manage for a while longer yet.

 

I was travelling back from the US yesterday morning but Mrs_Tad graciously waited in the queue to pre-order a PS5 Pro... no luck on the 30th anniversary edition but I won't hold that against her too much.

 

...that was 30 years ago? Fuuuuuu

 

I'm not a collector, I open and play all my records.
But I am a sucker for shiny things.


Also spotted a little something that piqued my interest on Jeff Geerling's youtube.

 

May have just bought some Lego…



I have a tuxedo kitty, so how can I resist?

 

Thanks for the heads up! Geerling had already mentioned a few things, your post clears up some.
Hopefully by the time it gets here, I can install PiKVM. I can live with the latency, it's just for TTY access anyway.

 

And this was just delivered, almost forgot about it since it was ordered a month ago



I was going to sell one of the PS5s when the Pro arrives but now thinking about it maybe this is a sign it needs a new home. You can waterproof a controller right?

 

Don’t tell me if they start selling a ragdoll kit.

 

TR is very easy to fit. Great coolers, I just gave @Arboreal my cheaper white alu one.