And so it ends, my laptop is dead and I am returning to desktop.

[Meaker]

My laptop journey has come to and end, I think the heatsink I had was mounted with a bit too much pressure and with thermal cycles it has given up.

 

As such I have already sold a fair amount of parts from it and have been putting together the following setup for now:

 

Ryzen 5 7700 with thermalright 240mm AIO

Asrock A620i Lightning wifi

32GB DDR5 6000 CL38 EXPO profile

Nvidia RTX 4070 12GB dual fan from MSI

2TB WD 770 + 1TB SN961

Intel AX211 Wifi card

Louqe ghost S1 mini ITX case with bottom hat and top hat extensions

500W Silverstone SFX-L PSU

 

Going for a nice quiet and compact build, I might swap out the motherboard later when I need the higher end IO or want to overclock the CPU but this will do me well for now and I got it for a good 2nd hand price.

 

At the moment the RTX4070 is in my old MSI GS30 dock and that's tiding me over.

[incendery]

Tragic to hear about your laptop 😞 
The new desktop sounds like a worthy replacement at least

[Meaker]

 

[electrosoft]

You absolutely extracted every ounce of value out of your P870 in every way possible. It had a good life. 🙂

 

The new SFF is looking good! For my in progress portable SFF buildout, I'm thinking a 4070 Super is the absolute sweet spot (or a heavily discounted 4070).

[jaybee83]

Damn, an eon is ending, cant even call it an era anymore 😄 welcome to desktop land my friend!

[ryan]

I want your desktop haha..every time I read the description I'm like gawd dam.you are likely getting a titan eh?

[Meaker]

So I am leaving the 7700 at stock as in this setup there is not much point to a few % extra for double the power consumption.

 

7700 is hitting about 65C under load with the fans quiet. IF clock is 2166Mhz, mem is now running stock timings but at 6400Mhz with a 1:1 Memory controller clock. This should keep it nice and efficient. Just waiting on some nice 3d printed feet for the case which will help it stand up a bit and look neat along with a couple of high pressure noctua fans to go in the bottom.

[electrosoft]

2 hours ago, Meaker said:

So I am leaving the 7700 at stock as in this setup there is not much point to a few % extra for double the power consumption.

 

7700 is hitting about 65C under load with the fans quiet. IF clock is 2166Mhz, mem is now running stock timings but at 6400Mhz with a 1:1 Memory controller clock. This should keep it nice and efficient. Just waiting on some nice 3d printed feet for the case which will help it stand up a bit and look neat along with a couple of high pressure noctua fans to go in the bottom.

 

Nice OC on the IF. Yeah, the sheer amount of power it takes for minimal returns isn't worth it outside of benchmarks. We'll have to see some pics of it in action when it's up to your standards.:)

 

[Meaker]

Here we go, got the feet which are useful 🙂

 

I'll be putting some noctua fans with the anti vibration mounts on the bottom to exaust out the bottom rather than intake when they arive later but the overall finish is done.

 

 

Here are a couple in progress pics: