It's been 15(!) years on laptop and 3 years of saving up - Time to build a Monster Desktop! *w00t w00t*

[jaybee83]

On 1/4/2023 at 12:30 AM, ryan said:

@jaybee83oh cmon  lol....we NBTians love benchmarks. can you manage 240fps at 4k all low with crysis if so i think i might buy one on the 10th

 

hahaha whats up with you and the 10th? seems to be a big day, mentioned it several times already in the benchmark thread 😄 

 

unfortunately, havent come around to much lately, too much going on with the new job and getting the appartment ready for the baby....so basically very little time spent with my hardware baby hahaha

[ryan]

awwwww a baby. dude im so happy for you...wish i had a little ryan running around....10th is pay day and i usually blow it. give it away. but yeah its now but people dont want free so i wont push it

[jaybee83]

1 hour ago, ryan said:

awwwww a baby. dude im so happy for you...wish i had a little ryan running around....10th is pay day and i usually blow it. give it away. but yeah its now but people dont want free so i wont push it

 

haha dont blow it all at once man, save up a bit and get something nice for urself! 🙂 

[ryan]

did you get back yet.

[ryan]

anyone else concerned jay just disappeared?

[kojack]

On 1/22/2023 at 7:18 PM, ryan said:

anyone else concerned jay just disappeared?

As a father of two, I know that if he just had a baby, the last thing on his mind is NBT!  He will be back soon!

[ryan]

Missing Jays high energy posts

[electrosoft]

9 minutes ago, ryan said:

Missing Jays high energy posts

 

Married life with a new kid will quickly suck away all free time. 🙂

 

 

[kojack]

On 3/26/2023 at 2:57 PM, electrosoft said:

 

Married life with a new kid will quickly suck away all free time. 🙂

 

 

one hundred percent. He will be back, just A crazy time in his life right now.  I have been there so I know.  New baby, 24/7 attention. 

[ryan]

This threads been dormant for a while. For those of you wondering where Jay went..he's doing double life sentence for killing 2 7200rpm hdds with magnets. Although the nature of the crimes is gruesome he finished by gently formatting them so that they didn't feel any pain.

 

God bless and long live 

[jaybee83]

hahaha nice to be missed boys! no worries i wont completely disappear, actually have NBT open all the time as a sticky tab in my browser, just dont get around to reading / posting much lately 🙂

having a lil princess baby is a blast though, totally different life! still, once my two ladies are asleep i steal myself away to spend time with Hyperion 😋

 

so if you havent noticed my updated sig yet: upped my storage to a whopping total of 24 TB ssd goodness (redundancy FTW, about time im doing some backup action!) and also rocking a total of 14 case fans now:

 

- 6x noctua NF-A14 industrialppc-3000 in push / pull on my arctic freezer II 420 as intake in the front

- 3x arctic P12 A-RGB as intake in the bottom

- 3x arctic P14 A-RGB as outlets in thr top

- 1x arctic P14 A-RGB in the back as outlet

- 1x arctic P14 A-RGB on my ram to keep it cool while i blast 1.5+ V through it for tightest timings

 

so total of 9 fans intake, 4 fans outlets and 1 fan inside the case for a net positive pressure, keeping everything nice n clean / dustfree. those dustfilters in the enthoo pro II work like a charm btw and very easy to clean!

 

here the current rainbow puke goodness:

 

i like the simplistic white of the suprim x in the middle of all those colors, add to that the thin rgb case stripe 😃

[ryan]

Yeah It was quiet here, like 4 main posters. @Hertzian56 left. HFM rarely posts and others have long since ..dodo..

 

 

You still have one of the best setups money can buy on the planet. crys in 3060. good to see you back.

[jaybee83]

8 hours ago, ryan said:

Yeah It was quiet here, like 4 main posters. @Hertzian56 left. HFM rarely posts and others have long since ..dodo..

 

 

You still have one of the best setups money can buy on the planet. crys in 3060. good to see you back.

huh sounds like the forum has gotten more quiet overall? or is this just for the thread?

the "townsquare" thread seems to be alive and kickin' tho, plus the membership numbers have gone up considerably since last i checked, so good signs 🙂 

 

besides, im sure other users might just be hibernating for a bit like i did / am doing ^^ not fully back, but might post a bit here and there.

 

nothing to cry about with a 3060 my friend, i must admit my setup is overkill for (almost) everything i do hahaha. for video transcoding its a blast to be able and go through a full movie length clip in like 6-12 minutes via NVENC on the 4090, used to take me like 60-90 minutes on my 9900K previously ^^

plus crazy to see Control maxxed out being able to keep the 4090 in check, but at 4K with RT maxxed out and no DLSS its still chugging along at like 70-90 FPS 😄 

[kojack]

I am always here. Every morning I check in, and fart around. Life is busy for sure.  Enjoy the family brother!

 

My lowly 2070 super can't hold a candle to the 4090, but as time goes on, it will be replaced with my beast I am going to start building soon!  ha ha. 

[ryan]

I can't understand or compute 24 freekin tb..but dude I just got a 2tb ssd as a gift and am thinking of getting a 4tb p3 by crucial. 6tb seems like a lot it would hold my 250 games which iv'e never done. but it would be pretty awesome to have 250 games at my finger tips.

[jaybee83]

5 hours ago, ryan said:

I can't understand or compute 24 freekin tb..but dude I just got a 2tb ssd as a gift and am thinking of getting a 4tb p3 by crucial. 6tb seems like a lot it would hold my 250 games which iv'e never done. but it would be pretty awesome to have 250 games at my finger tips.

haha yeaaaah, im a bit of a data hoarder.... 😛 

 

11 hours ago, kojack said:

I am always here. Every morning I check in, and fart around. Life is busy for sure.  Enjoy the family brother!

 

My lowly 2070 super can't hold a candle to the 4090, but as time goes on, it will be replaced with my beast I am going to start building soon!  ha ha. 

please do tell us more.... build thread incoming? 😉 

 

[ryan]

thats alot of high resolution nature shows 😛

[kojack]

11 hours ago, jaybee83 said:

haha yeaaaah, im a bit of a data hoarder.... 😛 

 

please do tell us more.... build thread incoming? 😉 

 

I talked about it a bit, but I am just waiting until we get some more income coming in from our business. I am planning on a new fractal North case, ProArt build. 

[jaybee83]

50 minutes ago, kojack said:

I talked about it a bit, but I am just waiting until we get some more income coming in from our business. I am planning on a new fractal North case, ProArt build. 

sounds fancy! you got a specific color scheme in mind with that case?

[kojack]

yep.  white case, brown and tan Noctua inside.  Even the cables, ram etc will all be brown/tan. 

[jaybee83]

1 hour ago, kojack said:

yep.  white case, brown and tan Noctua inside.  Even the cables, ram etc will all be brown/tan. 

haha niiiiice that is a bold choice! u should get Noctua on board as a sponsor for that build 😉 now i really wanna see a build thread on this....

[kojack]

Like I said, it won't be for awhile yet. I will be using the asus proart z790 and Noctua 4080. Tech notice did a very similar build as well. 

[Custom90gt]

12 minutes ago, kojack said:

Like I said, it won't be for awhile yet. I will be using the asus proart z790 and Noctua 4080. Tech notice did a very similar build as well. 

 

Any reason for the Noctua 4080? You can get a 4090 for less than that and get a much better card/24GB of VRAM.

[jaybee83]

2 minutes ago, Custom90gt said:

 

Any reason for the Noctua 4080? You can get a 4090 for less than that and get a much better card/24GB of VRAM.

its all about style, the noctua 4080 will sport the targeted brown / tan color theme 😁 plus itll be superior to any other gpu fan cooling out there hahaha

afaik there is no noctua 4090 yet right?

[Custom90gt]

1 minute ago, jaybee83 said:

its all about style, the noctua 4080 will sport the targeted brown / tan color theme 😁 plus itll be superior to any other gpu fan cooling out there hahaha

afaik there is no noctua 4090 yet right?

 

Sadly it's hotter/louder than a much cheaper PNY 4080.