Tom's Hardware; What did you do to your PC today?

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I figured I'd create this sister thread to Tom's Hardware Member System Gallery to keep that thread more focused on final build specs with a picture or two.

This thread can be a general dedicated progress or "what did you do today thread" that's a bit more generalized.

While it is generalized however, let's keep it meaningful or interesting at least though.

Examples of meaninful:
- I accidentally diskparted the wrong drive, lost everything and had to reinstall everything**

- Installed a second GPU for my 50-Series to be able to run PhysX games, here's my findings

- Installed some lighting create a theme


Examples of not meaningful:
- I installed Winzip (or other arbitrary title)

- I thought there was a genie in my computer but it was my reflection.



**Guilty. Twice...

 

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Friend ordered this for me. Somehow no fans makes this 4090 look even bigger. And the silver zip ties, sue me, I didn't have black. In the last image I did tighten the one fan cable a little more, even if it can't be seen regardless.

4090 was a chonker before, now it's straight up obese.

This severed no purpose other than a fun experiment. My GPU has never gone over 70C peak but usually hovered around 64C @4K as maxed as I can get maintaining 100fps minimum.
I will have to do some testing later to see what temps I get now. For those curious, yes, Noctua A12's are correct even for a dense fin stack. I measured around 17 fins/inch and even so, F12's are inferior for most all radiator applications.

The card went from ~76.5mm to ~86.5mm for those finding themselves going brain dead trying to read these idiot calipers. I HATE the offset style and don't know why they exist but like the silver zip ties all I had handy. I was questioning my own sanity how it is "only" 10mm thicker when the fans are 25mm thick only to realize the original shroud was thicker. Time to call it quits for today.

 

[williamjeremiah]

The only thing I've done for the past couple years is procrastinate on cleaning my rig.

Apologies for the lack of external image url's. I deemed them unnecessary, due to only a single image being present.
Note: This is an old image. I've replaced the Radikult-Custom reservoir for a Watercool - Heatkiller Tube 200 D5
(SKU: 30205), and I now use a 48" LG B4 OLED. I got tired of the limited vertical space.
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Ryzen 7700x, Aorus B650M Elite AX
32GB GSkill 6000Mhz 36 36 36 96
EK-Quantum Velocity² D-RGB - AM5 Nickel + Plexi CPU block.
Nvidia FE RTX 3090
Bykski Full Coverage GPU Water Block w/ Integrated Active Backplate (N-RTX3090FE-TC-V2)
Two Alphacool 360 Rads -One 45mm and one 60mm.
Fans: Bitspower Touchaqua on the 45mm (visible) and Noctua on the 60mm
(not visible/back side).
All Bitspower 7/16" ID | 5/8" OD G1/4" fittings, including a ball drain valve exiting the bottom of the largest Rad (lowest point of the loop).
Lian Li o11 Dynamic XL case.