General computer talk/advice

I am aware, I have water cooling

 

Aha! It is Beam. It has just over six Gigs allocated to it.

 

Did you start it with some sort of launch command that allocates x amount of memory? That would explain six gigs dedicated but only about a gig used

 

Nope, just a shortcut from the main directory.

 

But why? It's not even required anymore. There are air coolers on the market that vomit in the face of AIO liquid coolers. And air coolers don't need replaced after the pump fails because, guess what, they don't have one. Air coolers also don't fail and leak all over your system because, in case you didn't know, they use air to cool the heat pipes, not water.

Preferring water-cooling is completely fine if you have a CPU that would actually benefit from it (I'm looking at you, AMD), but especially in your case, a Hyper 212 Evo is the best thing out there. I threw Corsair SP120 Quiet Edition fans on mine and it's so amazing. I'm volting my CPU at 1.25V for my overclock and it still won't go above 65 degrees, sitting at a max of 41 at idle.

Liquid cooling: Expensive, useless for the average consumer.

 

well I like how watercooling looks

 

Yes, because this looks like a war wound... /s

Old picture, pretend there are SP120's on the cooler.

 

I love it when she's undressed...

How to sound creepy 101

 

Old picture, it now has 2 SSD's 2 HDD's and some red sata cables, otherwise its the same pretty much. There is a little ATI 5770 in there somewhere too. God i need a gpu

 

So i now have a pfsense router, a 4tb nas, a 2tb archive thingy for the most important files, a webserver, and a 8 core xeon unarchiver/archivver machine that i control via remote desktop.

also,
old picture. i have a new old case now

 

Pentium 2!? I have one of those!

 

With MMX technology...

This is the computer, a Packard Bell Platinum 2010:


Googling that model seems to return different looking towers.
I don't have access to it at the moment, so I can't check the model name/number. I'm 99% sure I'm right though.

 

are we gonna go there? vintage computer insides? i would post a bunch of em but i would have to go get pictures/unearth the machines, which i dont really feel like doing.

also,
i wish i was better at coding websites

edit
i had this one easily accesible.
Macintosh SE with a accelerator piggybacked onto the cpu

 

The 212 Evo with SP120s is one intense cooler. It performs just as well as a Noctua NH-U12S with extra fan for €10 less.

 

Should see some of the screens I've posted in discord of the temperatures I achieve on a bone stock 212 evo on an AMD Athlon II X3 460, a chip officially rated at 95W (that HWMonitor sees at just shy of 110). Prime95 left benching for a good hour or so and I didnt even touch on 45c....

 

Would a 212 Evo handle an FX-9xxx, I wonder?

 

No