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Anyone ordered a prebuilt with RTX3080 from PCSpecialist.ie?
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The last 2 are the same Desk config from different angles and this is basically how the desk is right now except with the O11 Dynamic Standing Conventionally upright where my White Air 540 currently is and media server black air 540 standing conventional upright as opposed to on its side like in Photo's of my setup. Ironically I think the one that involves no reconfig of the desk, no extra Ikea parts and no work is the one I actually prefer the most I think. Just less cluttered.
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The last 2 are the same Desk config from different angles and this is basically how the desk is right now except with the O11 Dynamic Standing Conventionally upright where my White Air 540 currently is and media server black air 540 standing conventional upright as opposed to on its side like in Photo's of my setup. Ironically I think the one that involves no reconfig of the desk, no extra Ikea parts and no work is the one I actually prefer the most I think. Just less cluttered.
I'm a big fan of minimal desks and getting the most space possible. Also case standing upright is probably a bit better for dust management as it won't fall and rest on the mobo as easily0 -
No reason to have all of your DIMM slots populated, max dual channel anyway.
Even Youtube is getting in on my 'Confirmation Bias'
A load of vids hit my recommended feed (I never googled the subject) about the best memory config for Zen 3 Ryzen 7/9 and the consensus across all the vids including Gamers Nexus is that while the performance/FPS gains are small topping out at 5%, the best Price/Performance/Bang/Buck/Future-proof (outside of specific use-cases) sweetspot is drumroll.......32GB of 3600mhz CL16 in the form of 4x 8GB Dimms (4x8GB better than 2x16GB due to Single-v-Dual Ranked Memory scheduling. ie. a load of tech mumbo jumbo I don't understand). BIAS CONFIRMED!! :DIt's just if you are gaming, the 5900x gets quite hot on stock cooling, more heat = less boost.
I have a similar setup to you, you have to be mindful of tower coolers with the X570-F + Corsair Vengeance. I use a Noctua D-15S myself, which is slightly offset and has clearance for both the GFX Card PCI slot and the RAM. Case clearance also applies.
I'd just install the AIO.
The purpose of the Mining 24/7 for the next 6 months or so till Ethereum GPU Mining bites the dust, is to pay off as much of the cost of the GPU/PC as possible. Not sure I want to risk those expensive components to an AIO leak. That would be the ultimate irony. Its looking like I will be doing a scaled down Media Server anyway due to the Media Server Air540 case needing to go on the extreme right of the desk thanks to my Sketchup visualisations. So the option of the Corsair A500 Tower Air Cooler 'Swapsies' is back in play as I'd be scaling down the server to 9x 3.5" bays with allows my spare 4670K mITX combo and an A500 cooler to fit alongside the drives in the conventional location in the left side of the case. (Remember the choice of A500 is purely aesthetic).
Getting back to Crypto-mining and Tax implications for a moment...
Given we are approaching the end-game period for Crypto-mining on GPU's and given my only goal is to pay off as much of the cost of the GPU as possible during this GPU mining Twilight period, would it be fair to say that mining on a single 3090 is unlikely to yield enough 'coin' in the last few months remaining where there would likely be enough of a swing in Crypto value to yield a Capital gains above the €1270 exemption limit. Unless I am misunderstanding things, if at best I could mine €1500 worth of coin in the next 6 months wouldn't Ethereum/Bitcoin (whatever I am paid in for mining) have to nearly double in value during that period to generate me a Capital Gain on the 'investment' higher than the €1270 exemption limit?? How like is that kind of Ethereum value swing?? So in my particular scenario of non professionally mining on a single GPU in the twilight months of GPU mining, surely I don't need to worry about CGT at all??
Following on from that, again I may be misunderstanding things, but if the Hardware Cost of Mining can be written off against the profits of mining wrt to income tax liability and I only want to and given this is the twilight period of GPU mining can only mine for 6 more months best case, I simply can't mine enough to profit over and above the hardware cost of the GPU and thus the GPU cost write off will nearly 100% likely be more than the profit earned. Hence no Income Tax liability either.
Given all that, surely its only professional Miners and Crypto investors that need to worry about Tax implications and I have nothing to worry about at all given my particular scenario and reason for mining and when I am starting mining?? ie. In these Twilight months of GPU Mining its incredibly unlikely I can mine enough or profit enough from crypto value swings to reach a threshold where I am liable for either CGT or Income Tax related to the mining. Effectively Crypto Mining will be 'un-profitable' for me and if I was getting into this to 'make money' I'd be insane because I wouldn't even cover my 'Costs'. However thats not a concern for me because I bought this GPU for VR gaming and 4K60 streaming first and foremost and any 'Income' I make from the GPU in the next few months is 'Gravy' and offsets some of the cost of my High Performance Gaming addiction.
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Then again, all this could be moot and small time homebrew hobbiest Mining might be as dead as a Dodo as soon as July according to Boardsie 'Harmless' who posted this over on the nVidia thread. If I didn't get the PC till the first week or so of May then would there be any point in starting to mine for a couple of months?If EIP 1559(in July) hits miners really hard and they don't have an alt coin to switch to you could see cards going up on the second hand market at closer to RRP. There will still be a shortage but second hand prices could calm down.
However crypto is on another bull run and if it is valuable enough then it may be worth continuing to mine ethereum even after EIP 1559.
EIP 1559 + massive crypto crash is what gamers should be hoping for in July. It would free up some cards as small time miners could call it quits at that point. I don't think the massive warehouse full of cards will be folding so soon, they can still turn a profit with the very low electricity prices in the countries they are in.0 -
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Again, I have to ask: why the Corsair A500?
There are better options like Scythe Fuma 2 or be quiet Dark Rock 4 that cool better, are quieter & will fit more easily while costing less.
A E S T H E T I C S !!!:D 0 -
The speaker models in the Sketchup 3D warehouse were the old KEF 2005's but look very similar to my newer model E305's. Realised my E305 Subwoofer is shaped like the speakers, so just scaled up a copy of one of the speakers and added some feet. Refreshed my memory about how to project a texture onto a curved surface, hence the Monitor. FOund out how to change the colour of the wood grain laminate texture so the desk colour now is a more acurate almost black brown. Most important change is realising that my epson printer fits within the width of the Malm Bedside Locker units. I can easily gut the top drawer and fit hinges to the drawer front so it swings down rather than pulls out as a drawer. Thus I can get the printer off the Desktop freeing up space and re-opening other desk configuration options and yet have it easily accessible when needed but hidden when not in use.
Thats the cleanest least cluttered/cramped effort so far but Its that fecking 5.1 amp though! I really want to find a way to lower that center back wall piece level with the rest of the wall, lower the center speaker and monitor and have that shelf under the monitor lower down on the smaller capita legs. With no 5.1 amp right behind the keyboard I can slide it deeper into the tabletop. Just cannot find a place for the amp though other than where it is right now. It and the components on top of it and its shelf look odd in any of the other sketchup visualisations.0 -
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Order confirmed to have entered the Building Stage. The extra markup on some of the components like the 5900X and RTX3090 was worth it to me for the expediting of this Rig by months or a year as nVidias recent statement shows this GPU drought isn't ending till next year in 2022.
Probably have the PC on my Desk next week!!
Its caught me on the hop though. I haven't ordered the other parts I need from OCUK yet as I wasn't expecting my PCS prebuilt for several more weeks. ie. AIO, Fans etc Can't do it today but will get onto that tomorrow.0 -
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blackbullet wrote: »i drooling over this ill have a set like this some day but there is a shortage of graphics cards now folks i bet blender would scream full hd renders with volumes on this re u doing gaming 3d stuff dude.did u do an y test renders.killier set up
Were you asking me or Schmoo2K?
If me. I haven't gotten the PC yet to test renders on it. My latest post is about how its gone to the building stage weeks before I was expecting. I've tinkered with Sketchup on and off for years and a trial of Indigo Renderer but I do plan to learn more than the bare basics and start modeling my house to plan interior design and renovations etc. Signed up to the EPIC gamestore a few years ago, not for any game but because they were giving away Twin-Motion Real-Time Renderer with every signup for a while. I can't wait to learn more Sketchup and Twin Motion and render the house and then explore it in VR which Twin-Motion supports. ie. Pre-Viz in VR any ideas or plans I have for the house.
No professional use-case if thats what you mean though. I am but a humble shop-keep.
Main use for the PC and duties it takes over from my current 6700K>X1080 rig you see in the photo's, will be PCVR gaming, MS Flightsim 2020, pCARS2, HL Alyx etc. In addition I want it to 4k60 Steam in-home streaming of pancake monitor games to other other rooms in the house and a sibling who lives next door to me (on my wired gigabit network though) All TV's and bro have 4K60 video decoding capable KODI boxes (Odroid N2's)
I was going to build/order something more modest for myself last Autumn when Zen 3 and the 3000 series GPU's arrived and had already started accumulating parts for a build I had promised my brother with my 'Cast off' 6700K, Deepcool Assassin 3 cooler and an RTX2060 I bought him at MSRP back in early 2020 for the purpose. Needless to say Zen 3 and GPU's were impossible to find, my build and thus his build went on hold. Then a few weeks ago after some more research I decided that instead I'd build/buy a single once in a lifetime spare no expense build instead of 2 more modest builds because Steam in-home streaming and Oculus Quest 2 Wireless PCVR would mean both myself and my brother in houses nextdoor to each other could both use this uber build from the comfort of our own homes and likely never clash because we work in the family business and if he is on I am off and visa versa so never the twain shall meet....and try to log into steam at the same time.:D
As I mentioned earlier, all made even more palatable by the fact that the secondhand GPU market has gone insane too so I can get about €1000 for my spare GTX1080 and RTX2060.....and Crypto-mining for the next few months will combine to pretty much pay the entire insane cost of the RTX3090 I specced in my rig. 0 -
It's just if you are gaming, the 5900x gets quite hot on stock cooling, more heat = less boost.
I have a similar setup to you, you have to be mindful of tower coolers with the X570-F + Corsair Vengeance. I use a Noctua D-15S myself, which is slightly offset and has clearance for both the GFX Card PCI slot and the RAM. Case clearance also applies.
I'd just install the AIO.
Did some more googling. Previously I just took the first result as gospel. ie. dont run an AIO 24/7.
However reading all the forum posts on all the google hits on the first page and it actually seems the vast majority of respondents were saying not to worry about running an AIO 24/7 with lots of people posting anecdotal evidence about never turning their PC’s off and their AIO running for years 24/7. Saying that AIO’s are incredibly reliable these days with long warranties and in all likelihood, the worst that happens is the pump fails and your PC shuts down when the CPU hits its Thermal Limit.
With that in mind, I feel better about potentially Mining with this PC in the non gaming hours of the day and night while fitting the 360mm AIO day one. I also feel better about running my Corsair H110GT 280mm AIO from my current PC in the Media Server 24/7 which solves all my headaches and head-scratching about where and how to mount an Air Cooler within height constraints my particular plans have imposed on me.
Both my Overclockers order for additional parts for this new PC (EG. Corsair H150i Elite Cappellix AIO that PCSpecialist dont sell) and my PCSpecialist order should ship today, so I should have everything by Wednesday. Amazon delivered a 7” LCD panel for a sensor Panel mod I have planned for the PC yesterday Sunday 1 day after ordering. That Irish Amazon fulfilment warehouse must be up and running alright because all tracking checkpoints were in Swords. More stuff coming from Amazon today. Visa card balance taking an absolute hammering over the last 2 weeks LOL. 0 -
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Don’t hold your breath for your order from pc specialist,
It’s taking fedex 2 weeks to deliver because they ship it over to France , then back again to then UK.
I’m just hoping they don’t decide to repeat the trick
Was in Ireland wee hours of Thursday, scheduled for deliver before 6pm Thurs but I never trusted that anyway. Updated this morning to cleared customs but delivery scheduled for Monday which I do trust.
That France detour thing isn't FEDEX policy, my thoery is it was a few Irish lads unfortunately caught up in a scenario where Fedex had space on Stansted to Charles de Gaulle to Dublin Passenger flights before a available space on a direct Stansted Dublin flight but no sooner to they complete the UK France leg then Ireland impose Hotel Quarantine thing on France and a load of flights are cancelled with no free cargo space on the remaining Paris Dublin flights, so those packages had to go back to the UK to wait for available space again on a direct flight.
My tracking shows no Dirty weekend trip to Paris 0 -
I don't need to worry about how to fit the printer and 5.1 amp on the desk anymore. They and VR HMD storage is moving to the SimRig Cubby Hole (which ironically was designed for 5.1 amps etc and we put in years ago when this Attic conversion was originally going to be a Home Cinema room).
Why you may ask??
Because I just backed/Ordered this on Kickstarter for September delivery!!
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