Discussion most unbalanced PC build you have ever seen

[hedwar2011]

even worse, spending $450 on one fan and then have 4 of them. There was a video by LTT a while ago that showcased them using some kind of industrial fan that costs $450 each. not that you would be able to use more than one of them without blowing the pc off the desk. I can't find the video but I think I remember what fan it was. it was this: Vasy Fan VF-390. (I could be wrong)

I was going to say it was either that one or the one where he was sent the prototype and didn't send it back and tried to resell it which sparked that whole controversy a couple of weeks ago. Seems like that was the same price point.

 

[Zerk2012]

I was going to say it was either that one or the one where he was sent the prototype and didn't send it back and tried to resell it which sparked that whole controversy a couple of weeks ago. Seems like that was the same price point.

Corsair by Steve.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvdLey-8HTY


Or this guy made his own.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kho9ZFtNYc

 

[Eximo]

So your saying I shouldn't put my old mini-ITX 4770k into a wind tunnel I happen to have laying around...

 

[Order 66]

So your saying I shouldn't put my old mini-ITX 4770k into a wind tunnel I happen to have laying around...

Not particularly, but man the temps would be amazing if you didn't smash your PC into the wall in the process. I wonder if just one of those fans could cool a 13900k at 300W or if you would need two. Oh well, I guess if you can afford to spend $600 on CPU you can afford $900 in fans to keep it cool. /s

 

[Eximo]

There was a middle school closing and they had an auction. Paid 1$ , no one else wanted it. An older mechanical one that shows aerodynamic performance by putting pressure against a physical gauge. That part is broken, but the like 18" squirrel cage fan works just fine.

First time in a while I have had a spare mini-ITX system I have little use for, the urge to try is tempting.

 

[Eperbab]

maybe my memory is off, but aren't those similarly aged and compared? wouldn't seem that "unbalanced" as this thread suggests.

I have bought the S3 trio around 1996. And the Sempron a little bit later (2006?).
Also, did you notice the 512 _kilobyte_ VRAM?

 

[Crazyy8]

nvm, i just made the most unbalanced PC. GTX 1080 with Xeon X5680. Bottleneck much?

 

[Order 66]

nvm, i just made the most unbalanced PC. GTX 1080 with Xeon X5680. Bottleneck much?

I feel like that is not that bad, because 6c 12t even at 3.33GHz isn't awful. even if it is a 32nm chip from 2010. I will need some proof before I believe it is worse than some Celeron/4090 build.

 

[Crazyy8]

I feel like that is not that bad, because 6c 12t even at 3.33GHz isn't awful. even if it is a 32nm chip from 2010. I will need some proof before I believe it is worse than some Celeron/4090 build.

Its in a Centurion 5....with little airflow....with a 13 year old chip....in PCIE 2.0

 

[Order 66]

Its in a Centurion 5....with little airflow....with a 13 year old chip....in PCIE 2.0

true... probably still wouldn't be as bad as my experience with an intel celeron n3350 and intel HD500 graphics. Even intel's garbage IGPU was being bottlenecked by the CPU.

 

[lordmogul]

That Xeon build isn't much worse than my i5-3570K + GTX 1060 setup. Or the X5460 + 660 Ti build next to it.
But that S3 Trio + Sempron is quite the difference.

 

[Exploding PSU]

I have one. The PC technician laughed at me when I told them my specs.

At first glance it doesn't look too bad. An RX 6800XT, 32 GB of RAM, Samsung PM1725a SSD, 32 terabyte HDD, X370 motherboard (ok, quite old, but it was high end back then), some seasonic gold PSU, and a Cryorig tower cooler rated at 170W-ish strapped to the CPU.
Should make for a more than decent rig isn't it?

Well, all that was paired to a Ryzen 3 1200.

 

[Order 66]

I have one. The PC technician laughed at me when I told them my specs.

At first glance it doesn't look too bad. An RX 6800XT, 32 GB of RAM, Samsung PM1725a SSD, 32 terabyte HDD, X370 motherboard (ok, quite old, but it was high end back then), some seasonic gold PSU, and a Cryorig tower cooler rated at 170W-ish strapped to the CPU.
Should make for a more than decent rig isn't it?

Well, all that was paired to a Ryzen 3 1200.

why? I don't understand why someone would cripple such a high end PC with an r3 1200.

 

[artk2219]

why? I don't understand why someone would cripple such a high end PC with an r3 1200.

The Ryzen 3 1200 and X370 were the original build specs and the Ryzen 3 had not been deemed as upgrade worthy yet? I did something similar when AM4 was new, I bought an X370 board, 16GB RAM, an Athlon X4 950 (50 bucks, woo), and then paired it with an RX Vega 64... Granted it was always a stopgap solution until I could find a deal on a Ryzen 7 (Within 6 months it was replaced by a Ryzen 7 1700X). I still knew it was bottlenecking the crap out of that Vega 64, and I saw a nice performance uplift when I moved to the 1700X . I did end up using that Athlon as an HTPC cpu for a few years, it was replaced a couple of years ago by a Ryzen 5 2400G. Not a bad little chip for 50 bucks, i still use it for bios upgrades if i come across X300 series boards with an ancient BIOS, they're not even supported anymore in the later bios's for many of those boards.

 

[Order 66]

Intel Core Atom, liquid cooled, with 32Gbs of memory (I know it's a stretch) and a 4090.

Yeah i see what you mean by it's a stretch. The Atom chips were for mobile (good luck liquid cooling that). I'm not even sure the atom CPU supports 32GB of memory. Again it's a mobile chip and you wouldn't be able to pair a 4090 with it unless you get one of those weird motherboards with a laptop chip on it. I will say though, I think the 4090 might be bottlenecked at 8K with the Atom.

 

[Order 66]

There was a middle school closing and they had an auction. Paid 1$ , no one else wanted it. An older mechanical one that shows aerodynamic performance by putting pressure against a physical gauge. That part is broken, but the like 18" squirrel cage fan works just fine.

First time in a while I have had a spare mini-ITX system I have little use for, the urge to try is tempting.

please do, I would love to hear the results.

 

[artk2219]

Yeah i see what you mean by it's a stretch. The Atom chips were for mobile (good luck liquid cooling that). I'm not even sure the atom CPU supports 32GB of memory. Again it's a mobile chip and you wouldn't be able to pair a 4090 with it unless you get one of those weird motherboards with a laptop chip on it. I will say though, I think the 4090 might be bottlenecked at 8K with the Atom.

Hah this reminds me, I forgot socket AM1 and AM1 Athlons and Semprons existed, the motherboards and CPUs were cheap and great for low power efforts. They also typically came with a PCIE slot, and people would try to build a gaming machine with them. Yeah, thats a little more than what they were intended for.

AMD AM1 Kabini Part 2: Athlon 5350/5150 and Sempron 3850/2650 Tested

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