PC Tech Thread

Nice, clean build. Looking at it now I see the founders edition isn't too crazy, it's some of the 3rd party ones that are truly huge. The Suprim with liquid cooling looks good https://www.msi.com/Graphics-Card/GeForce-RTX-4090-SUPRIM-LIQUID-X-24G

From what I understand, all the 3rd party manufacturers designed their cooling based on the fact that the 4090 would be using Samsung's 8nm chips and would require 600W worth of heat to be dealt with.

Presumably somewhat late in the day, Nvidia switched to TSMC 4nm which 'only' needs 450W (same as 3090Ti) meaning they're all completely over-engineered. They can use 600W (either factory OC or dicked around with by the user) but it's not necessary.

How do you stop it from sagging?

MB came with a support thing that I haven't bothered using yet.

I don't understand why that's not standard - I'm having to get a new GPU & motherboard because they both broke each other during shipping.

This thing I've got might not be much use for shipping, only works against gravity in the one specific orientation.

Definitely agree that shipping an unsupported GPU is madness though. Not sure if it should be something permanent or just packing that the user has to remove before use - and may not which would probably cause an equal amout of damage.

This was a combo of the sagging by just being heavy, and the packaging actually pushing the card out of place.

On the positive side, I'm not paying for the new bits. I just have no PC for a few weeks.

All the workstations I’ve built for the last few years since high end GPUs became so porky have been housed in horizontal 4U rack mount chassis, primarily for this reason.

Clicked the 'buy now' button and the following page was 'this product is no longer available'.

Feeling pretty let down by the obvious lack of luck being wished on my behalf.

thoughts and prayers 🙏

Knowing what you went through last time round, thanks.

I almost forgot what a faff it was getting mine before you sent me the Discord invite, given they became completely unobtainable and treble the price soon after.
Does sound like the chronic supply problems are behind us though, so fingers crossed the next drop happens soon

Chrome on Windows gives me ten shortcuts on the 'new tab' screen. Anyone know a way of increasing this? 'Customise Chrome' in the bottom right corner doesn't offer anything useful.

Seems a pretty stupid limitation on a massive monitor when my phone screen manages twice as many.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/humble-new-tab-page/mfgdmpfihlmdekaclngibpjhdebndhdj?hl=en-GB

not used so can't give a recommendation but seems to do what you need if chrome cant.

So I did end up buying a 4K TV to use as a monitor, pretty pleased for the money. But what I didn't comprehend is that moving 4k @60hz in full 4:4:4 requires something called an 'active' converter, which I assume means it has some sort of power for doing the convertion between the two different signals. I'm seeing some cables with an additional USB attached for power, presumably those are the ones that are truly 'active'?

Edit, it seems you can get 'active' cables without the USB element. Just going to order the Lindy one as see if it does what I want.

What are you converting from/to?

From DP to HDMI, which is apparently the easy one. I bought the active cable anyway as it was cheap enough that's it's worth it in case I ever need to go the other way.

‘Active’ DP-HDMI adapters don’t require external USB power; the active element is a signal conversion and re-clocking circuit inside the adapter.

The best active DP-HDMI adapters are made by Club3D; we have hundreds of them and none has failed yet.

Would anyone like to buy my set of Logitech X-540 speakers?

£45?

Is there a way to tell if an Ethernet cable is really outdoor rated? Just went to fit some and it seems much flimsier than what I've used previously (although that may have be shield tbf) and this marking on the box gets my Spidey senses tingling. Ebay purchase and an easy fix if it falls but the job I'm using it for next will be less so.

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Half-interested in a PC, any thoughts on this for £550? (Without a disk)

GPU - Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT
Mobo - ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming-ITX
CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
RAM - Crucial Ballistix 16GB Kit (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3600
PSU - Corsair SF750
Case/Cooling - NZXT H1 with revised PCI express riser cable.

Also how do I tell whether this keystone jack is t658a or t658b? I've already wired the other end to a rj45 plug as t568a

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That jack is labelled as B, but feel free to wire it as per A if you like.

Why did you choose A for the other end, out of interest?

No idea! I have usually done B. I figured as much so swapped the green and yellow and it works.

bought a key for office from g2a

Did this from g2a and it worked fine BTW. Cheers.