Recent content by Gothmoth

has anyone seen similiar reports? https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-5000-zen-3-desktop-cpus-x570-motherboards-high-failure-rates/ i find it a bit strange that a big tech website reports about this with only one PC vendor (nobody ever heard of **) reporting defect CPU´s. they should ask at least...

Network Card issue - Mellanox ConnectX-3 hello, i bought two 10GBe mellanox connectx-3 cards to direct connect two systems. everything (seem) to went fine. windows installed drivers and in 10 minutes i had setup a 10gbe network. until a day later. macrium reflect was making an automatic...

i have five full modular EVGA power supplies. one of them needs to be replaced under warranty. now i wonder if i can use the cables that came with the EVGA for a different brand of PSU. until the replacement arrives. i don´t want to tear my cable routing apart. the cables fit but i wonder...

sorry, noticed to late it is under the wrong category graphics and display. so my brother has an asus crosshair hero 6 board with a ryzen 1700. he overclocked it a bit (all cores @3775 mhz). now we both wonder that after a bios update (6101 to 6903 if it matters) the core voltage took a...

i want to cover the ugly hotswap bays in a corsair 540 at the bottom. i know you can buy so called midplates for that purpose. but with shipping it is a bit expensive for a piece of acryl. i would like to build one myself and i thought maybe somone knows the measurement. the corsair 540...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osSMJRyxG0k don´t call me an AMD fanboy... i was since sandy bridge an intel only user. :) i just switched a few of my systems to AMD. while i always knew about shady tactics (lawsuits going through the press in europe) this video is a good reminder.

is it possible to connect a normal usb 3.0 case frontpanel with such a connector: to one of the new 10Gbps internal USB 3.1 connectors: there are millions of cases with build in USB frontpanles who can´t make use of this connector. you could maybe buy a frontpanel with a fitting cable...

why does the 1900x has a TDP of 180 watt? i mean compared to the 1800x it looks like a very inefficient CPU. i know that threadripper needs more power because of the design, memory controller etc.. but 180 watt for the 1900x still seems a bit odd, not? is this because the second ccx has to be...

adds p-state support.....

system: asus strix b350f windows 10 64 bit i try to get a pcie sata card in this system to run. need a sata port for a blu-ray burner. should be simple ... but it is not. i bought two sata pcie cards, one from syba one from i-tec. I-tec PCE2SATA PCI Express Controller...

i am in the middle of building my new systems.. and now this: :( i am too stupid to mount this cooler or what? there is a 2mm difference. i can not force it to fit. i already tried to push the mounts as far as i could. i bought the NM-AM4-UxS mounting kit. so this should fit on any am4...

first, i hope this is the right forum for my question. after some thinking and reading X299 reviews i decided to go for a ryzen build. i decided to buy an asus rog strix x370 + ryzen 1700 cpu. i am not a gamer i need this PC for rendering (3d with blender and video editing). i like to OC...