Airflow must be suffering

[D-Dan]

CEX have had a Crucial CT 240Gb SSD sat there for a month, and now it hit < £50 I decided to buy.

That’s 4 spinners, 2 SSD and a DVDRW all huddled into my Mambo case with a Phenom X4 and a large GTX 680, meaning lots of (poorly managed) cables.

Figure I’ll never need my heating on again.

Arch Linux, on a Ryzen 7 1800X, 32 GB, 5 (yes -5) HDs inc 5 SSDs, 4 RPi 3Bs + 1 RPi 4B - one as an NFS server with two more drives, PiHole (shut yours), Plex server, cloud server, and other random Pi stuff. Nice CoolerMaster case, 2 x NV GTX 1070 8GB, and a whopping 32" AOC 1440P monitor.

[keith with the teef]

Well come on man post up a pickie.

Lets see how the poor thing looks.

With all the dust and mites and stuff in mine i give it a blast of nebuliser from time to time. Cough weezzz. :whistle:

[The Duke]

Is there any other way to manage cables?  :unsure:

[D-Dan]

I may post a pic tomorrow, but now that all drives are working, just the thought of taking the side panel off scares me in case I slightly disturb a cable.

Another worry is power, now. The Phenom X4 is not exactly frugal on power, and the GTX680 chews some watts up, too. I have a Corsair 650 modular PSU in there (though the modular bit is kinda redundant, now, with so many power cables running). The efficiency of the PSU is good (better than my previous 850 non-modular) and it seems to be holding up well. Maybe tomorrow I’ll set it off on a GPU render of a heavy Blender scene and see how it lasts.

In the meantime, I’m starting to think about a new system – looking at i7 7770 and NV 1080 base (6Gb model), 16Gb RAM with no OS and a single SSD. I can probably transplant a couple of drives, drop this rig down to headless and run it all from a single KB/Mouse/Monitor. Just gotta get the £1,200 it will cost together and spare.

Even hoping I can clone this OS and adapt to move to Intel architecture instead of AMD. May wait, though. Ryzen looks good, but apparently still unstable on Linux.

Arch Linux, on a Ryzen 7 1800X, 32 GB, 5 (yes -5) HDs inc 5 SSDs, 4 RPi 3Bs + 1 RPi 4B - one as an NFS server with two more drives, PiHole (shut yours), Plex server, cloud server, and other random Pi stuff. Nice CoolerMaster case, 2 x NV GTX 1070 8GB, and a whopping 32" AOC 1440P monitor.

[Ed P]

If you do not use virtual machines then Ryzen may be worth a look. Reportedly its multi-core multi-threaded  setup works well with rendering.

link (multi-threaded benchmarks towards the end)

I’m giving Ryzen serious consideration, but it is dead in the water for me at present as a result of its ‘pink screen of death’ when running hypervissors under smp.

[edit] VMWare say they are working on a fix for their next release (year end) of VMWare Workstation ESXi – unfortunately that will cost as much+ as Ryzen saves so it really needs AMD to fix their problems!

[D-Dan]

Ed, I agree. I’ve actually put my new machine on hold purely because of Ryzen. I use a single VM on occasion for those rare occasions when I need Windows, but being a linux user and knowing that there are some issues with Ryzen and the current kernel, I figure patience may pay dividends. Ask me again in six months 🙂

Arch Linux, on a Ryzen 7 1800X, 32 GB, 5 (yes -5) HDs inc 5 SSDs, 4 RPi 3Bs + 1 RPi 4B - one as an NFS server with two more drives, PiHole (shut yours), Plex server, cloud server, and other random Pi stuff. Nice CoolerMaster case, 2 x NV GTX 1070 8GB, and a whopping 32" AOC 1440P monitor.

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