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Daidraco

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That Rog Strix 4090 is 2k there, but never seems to be in stock. Its all the way in fairfax va or w/e and Im in the same boat with that, 4-5 hours away. Means I have to buy other shit there if Im going to make another PC just for the drive to be worth it. Very nice parts though, wish you all the luck in the world to have a perfect bootup!
 
Lanx

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Tmac said:
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Aazrael Aazrael when he sees a foh bro buy an extension kit
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Rabbit_Games

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Got all my shit at Microcenter as well. The 4090 wasn't in stock anywhere around me when I built my new machine, so I have the 4080. It was definitely time for a damn upgrade.
 
Lanx

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Denamian said:
Nope. It's just a 12v high power cable that plugs directly in to 2 of the standard PCIE power plugs on the PSU. No fucking with adapter cables that way.

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you know, i'm just gonna pretend it's an extension kit, it's funnier that way
 
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Tmac

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So…

Was gonna get MicroCenter to build it bc why not, but the dude told me “they didn’t like getting build requests that late” so I had to wait 24 hours (it was 3PM). So I said I’d just build it. (I forgot I haven’t built one in fkn 8 years bc my last two were pre builts)

So, I came home, went to a thing and got back around 8:30PM. At 4AM I still couldn’t get the pos to work bc the CPU wouldn’t cool.

I wanted a fan on the cpu but this Asian kid convinced me to go water. So I did. REEEEEEEE. Literally half my time was changing fans around bc the radiator wouldn’t fit vertically so I kept having to uninstall and reinstall.

Ultimately decided the off brand pos water cooler was busted so I’ve gotta go back to that gd store today and get a replacement.

Im gonna talk to the manager too. Bc fk that kid telling me they wouldn’t build it same day after I spent $3500 w them.
 
Lanx

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Tmac said:
So…

Was gonna get MicroCenter to build it bc why not, but the dude told me “they didn’t like getting build requests that late” so I had to wait 24 hours (it was 3PM). So I said I’d just build it. (I forgot I haven’t built one in fkn 8 years bc my last two were pre builts)

So, I came home, went to a thing and got back around 8:30PM. At 4AM I still couldn’t get the pos to work bc the CPU wouldn’t cool.

I wanted a fan on the cpu but this Asian kid convinced me to go water. So I did. REEEEEEEE. Literally half my time was changing fans around bc the radiator wouldn’t fit vertically so I kept having to uninstall and reinstall.

Ultimately decided the off brand pos water cooler was busted so I’ve gotta go back to that gd store today and get a replacement.

Im gonna talk to the manager too. Bc fk that kid telling me they wouldn’t build it same day after I spent $3500 w them.
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you probably mounted it wrong

wrong way, tubes on top
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correct way, tubes on bottom
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if you heard a gurgle, it wasn't doing much then.
 
Leadsalad

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The Deepcool AIOs are rated pretty good. This sounds like a user error, but we can't really diagnose without pictures of what you did and more details on your problem.
 
Tmac

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It was the AIO pump I'm guessing. I returned it and got a Corsair and it worked fine. Rocking 30 degree temps and this thing is dead quiet. Amazing.

This thing is so quiet it feels like something's wrong, like it's not on, lol.

[edit: LUL. 2 min after I posted this the fan's picked up a little and I can now tell that it's on]
 
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Tmac

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Lanx said:
you probably mounted it wrong

wrong way, tubes on top
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correct way, tubes on bottom
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if you heard a gurgle, it wasn't doing much then.
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There was no gurgle. And mine's top mounted.
 
Tmac

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Unnnnnnnnnnnnng!

Hottest it got during testing was 50 degrees and the fans were barely audible.
 
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Tmac

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Daidraco said:
Now it’s time for you to have the sad realization that there is fuck all for us to enjoy being in the >1%.
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I will say that as annoying as it was to build it myself, there’s a HUGE advantage to getting the quietest fans.

That honestly been the biggest game changer aside from the obvious.
 
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slippery

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Tmac said:
I will say that as annoying as it was to build it myself, there’s a HUGE advantage to getting the quietest fans.

That honestly been the biggest game changer aside from the obvious.
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Since I've always built my own computers I haven't even left in stock fans in over 15 years. When I built my friends kid a computer for Xmas I just used some of the stock fans I had sitting around. The first time I booted that thing up it was like a jet engine, huge nope. I was like I guess you're getting some of the corsair ML120's I have sitting around for free.
 
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Lanx

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slippery said:
Since I've always built my own computers I haven't even left in stock fans in over 15 years. When I built my friends kid a computer for Xmas I just used some of the stock fans I had sitting around. The first time I booted that thing up it was like a jet engine, huge nope. I was like I guess you're getting some of the corsair ML120's I have sitting around for free.
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i probably have around 20 garbage fans from cases like antec i should just junk away, 30 if you shit like oem wraith cooler.
 
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