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Re: Building my childhood dream PC

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Post by diggan »

danparsonson wrote: post #48
rkomorn wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you use it as a gaming PC (or for other high GPU load activities)? And if so, what's your take on noise under load? Edit: I guess this is a senseless question if the case really only uses passive cooling. I was assuming there would still be fans somewhere. I despise my current PC's fan noise and I'm always on the lookout for a quieter solution.

Did you have no success upgrading your fans (Noctua etc)? Still too loud? How about water cooling?

Just last week I moved from using a Noctua NH-U12S to cool my 5950X, to a ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 AIO liquid cooler (first time using liquid cooling), and while I expected the difference to be big, I didn't realize how big.

Now my CPU idles at ~35 usually, which is just 5 degrees above the ambient temperature (because of summer...), and hardly ever goes above 70 even under load, and still super quiet. Realize now I should have done the upgrade years ago.

Now if I could only get water cooling for the radiator/GPU I'm using. Unfortunately no water blocks available for it (yet) but can't wait to change that too, should have a huge impact as well.

Re: Building my childhood dream PC

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Post by raffael_de »

nsavage wrote: post #46

This is a pretty common behaviour. My dad has been buying both his dream Amigas and his dream car, a Triumph TR6. I bought my dream childhood console, a Gameboy Advance SP (I only had a regular Gameboy Advance).

And the common realization then is: what did I find so interesting and special about this (as a child)?

Re: Building my childhood dream PC

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Post by scns »

rkomorn wrote: post #42
wdfx wrote: post #41

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I bought this case a couple of years ago after this article was linked here. I love it. It's beautifully engineered. Top quality. It sits at the corner of my desk proudly silent. I'm likely about to upgrade the pc within but the case will remain a strong feature of my desk.

Do you use it as a gaming PC (or for other high GPU load activities)? And if so, what's your take on noise under load? Edit: I guess this is a senseless question if the case really only uses passive cooling. I was assuming there would still be fans somewhere. I despise my current PC's fan noise and I'm always on the lookout for a quieter solution.

> I guess this is a senseless question if the case really only uses passive cooling.

Are there senseless questions?

It can be used for gaming if your demands are met by a Nvidia 1650.

MonsterLabo built passive cases that could cool hotter components, seems defunct though, sadly.

Re: Building my childhood dream PC

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Post by theodric »

danparsonson wrote: post #50
blackoil wrote: post #14

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If the processor comes with builtin GPU, NPU and RAM will you be really building the system

RAM? Are we expecting on-chip RAM any time soon?

Apple's done it since 2020. Intel was planning to, but walked it back. It dramatically increases performance, and allows vendors to sell you RAM at 8x the market price, and requires you to replace your entire computer to upgrade it, thereby inducing you to overspend on RAM from the outset so that you don't have to spend even more to replace the entire system later.

There's literally no reason for shareholders not to demand this from every computer manufacturer. Pay up, piggie.

Re: Building my childhood dream PC

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Post by LtdJorge »

whatever1 wrote: post #40
barrkel wrote: post #33

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There are a handful of professional uses for a workstation that are hard to beat with a laptop. If you're compiling code, you generally want as much concurrency as you can get, as well as great single core speed when the task parallelism runs out. There aren't really any laptops with high core counts, and even when you have something with horsepower, you run into thermal limits. You can try and make do with remoting…

All of these can be done much better on the cloud (I can spawn as big of a machine as my pocket can afford). And with today’s tooling (vs code & jetbrains remote development) you don’t even notice that you develop on a remote machine and not your local. So the desktop developer market is for those who are not willing to use cloud. And this is a very small minority. (FYI I am not endorsing cloud over local development…

Yes, until the day you get an attack by a North American Fiber-Seeking Backhoe, losing your gigabit+ connection and your entire set of tools with it.

Re: Building my childhood dream PC

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Post by erinnh »

raffael_de wrote: post #52
nsavage wrote: post #46

This is a pretty common behaviour. My dad has been buying both his dream Amigas and his dream car, a Triumph TR6. I bought my dream childhood console, a Gameboy Advance SP (I only had a regular Gameboy Advance).

And the common realization then is: what did I find so interesting and special about this (as a child)?

Cannot confirm.

I often look fondly at the hardware I have.

I recently build one pc for each PC generation of the 90s. (486,Pentium 1-2,Athlon)

Still love them even after having built them.

Finding back into DOS is quite interesting, since its so different to PCs today.

Re: Building my childhood dream PC

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Post by simgt »

tekne wrote: post #49
whatever1 wrote: post #40

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All of these can be done much better on the cloud (I can spawn as big of a machine as my pocket can afford). And with today’s tooling (vs code & jetbrains remote development) you don’t even notice that you develop on a remote machine and not your local. So the desktop developer market is for those who are not willing to use cloud. And this is a very small minority. (FYI I am not endorsing cloud over local development…

Much of my PhD thesis was/is done traveling in places with poor, poor Internet. Currently on my laptop in rural Calabria, where I pull a blazing fast 60 kbps, sometimes. Would be very irritating waiting for the compiler/theorem prover to go brr, remotely… I can hardly edit a Google doc out here! This doesn’t contradict your minority point, but it really does make me appreciate local-first.

CS thesis that requires traveling, tell us more! What's the topic? :)

Re: Building my childhood dream PC

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Post by whatever1 »

LtdJorge wrote: post #56
whatever1 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All of these can be done much better on the cloud (I can spawn as big of a machine as my pocket can afford). And with today’s tooling (vs code & jetbrains remote development) you don’t even notice that you develop on a remote machine and not your local. So the desktop developer market is for those who are not willing to use cloud. And this is a very small minority. (FYI I am not endorsing cloud over local development…

Yes, until the day you get an attack by a North American Fiber-Seeking Backhoe, losing your gigabit+ connection and your entire set of tools with it.

I mean there are also prepers with power generators, solar panels and dry food and water tanks waiting for the apocalypse to happen. Again this is a very small minority.

Re: Building my childhood dream PC

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Post by ferguess_k »

nsavage wrote: post #46

This is a pretty common behaviour. My dad has been buying both his dream Amigas and his dream car, a Triumph TR6. I bought my dream childhood console, a Gameboy Advance SP (I only had a regular Gameboy Advance).

I also bought a few consoles (GB, NES, N64, PS2) that I was never allowed to own/play, except for NES which I didn't own but did play due to its popularity. My parents were pretty strict with my studies and piano practices so I didn't even have much time with TV, and games were considered as not only wasteful, but also evil.

The thing is, I never played those consoles after purchasing them. I don't have any nostalgic feelings towards except for NES. I actually felt sorry for myself because I discovered my inner kid died a long time ago when I tried to wake him up.

I'll probably give them to a friend's kid if he so wish, or donate to some local museums.

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