AlienALX
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The explanation.
Well the joke goes like this. One of my team mate's wife is actually called Julie. So, whenever that player gets a bot he puts them on and says "Hey look guys, I am wearing Julie's pants!". It's never gotten old, and still makes us laugh.
OK, those of you who have been around here for a while know I have my "Mike Tyson rig"
It has a 3950x, a Kingpin, and two 16gb kits of 8 pack Extreme 4133 ram in. It's bloody fast. I only really use it for PUBG now, but it allows me to max it out at 1440p and still get 160 FPS constantly.
And then, the following week, I usually end up at my mother's where the rig is not so fast. It has a TR 1920x stock and a 2070 Super. I immediately notice how different it "feels". It's very strange, and I can't quite put my finger on it. Nowhere near as smooth, FPS are nowhere near as high either.
So I was thinking about bringing over the other TR rig, but it's equally as massive as the one I am using now (this, btw)
And really I just can't be arsed. Thus, the idea for Mini Me was born. The idea is to match the IPC speed of the 3950x, and the raw GPU power of the 2080Ti.
See, I have a second 2080Ti. I bought it in the "wow Nvidia are amazing to us, they have f****d 2080ti owners with the cheap 3070 all hail Nvidia !". Only as you all now know, and as I predicted? it didn't quite go like that. That is why I literally panic bought the 2080Ti Aorus Xtreme for £480. With a block on. It's here, but I have used it for about two hours since fitting it into that PC as I never use it any more.
So it is coming out. I have the stock cooler (it was never used for anything other than testing, so is mint) but what I don't have are the pads. This was problem number one. Upon researching the best I could do was this picture.
That is the 2080Ti AX split in half. It should look like this.
You will note the "pads" are just thermal compound with that string stuff in them, hence why my pal threw them in the bin. They just make loads of mess. After hours of digging around I found this on EK's site.
So I ordered plenty of both. Cost me £22, but then the GPU will owe me £500. Try getting one of these cards for that price.
I could bring it over with the block on and put it in the loop on the rig here. However, two issues. One the IPC is still crap and two, since the 120mm rad in the floor leaked and I had to remove it the 1920x runs really hot and I can't overclock it at all.
Then the mini me idea struck me. Let's build something that looks like Mike Tyson, performs like Mike Tyson, yet has a tiny footprint.
First thing I would need is an ITX board. £100, ta very much.
And a CPU of course. I was initially going to cheap out and pay £140 for a 2600, but this was £170. With a slight manual OC I can match the threaded speed of the 3950x. Not in cores, but in low cored IPC.
It's a 3600. I didn't want any more than that, as like I said PUBG runs like butter on my rig at home and butter is more than good enough.
Then I needed a power supply. I cupped my balls and closed my eyes, but it turns out the case I wanted supports 150mm ATX PSUs, and this one is 140mm
So I bagged that also. So yeah, finally onto the case. Jonsbo V10.
It looks very very similar to my Lian Li PC12. However, it does not have windows. I chose that. Windowed ones are actually £10 cheaper, I went for more ventilation.
Fans. I bought these initially for my Alienware's rads, but sod it I will use them in this as they are bought and paid for.
So yeah, that should about do it for Mini Me. Obviously I will need a better cooler (120 AIO will be more than enough) so I can overclock it, but that is about the meat and potatoes of it.
I will be yoinking SSDs from various rigs.
Well the joke goes like this. One of my team mate's wife is actually called Julie. So, whenever that player gets a bot he puts them on and says "Hey look guys, I am wearing Julie's pants!". It's never gotten old, and still makes us laugh.
OK, those of you who have been around here for a while know I have my "Mike Tyson rig"
It has a 3950x, a Kingpin, and two 16gb kits of 8 pack Extreme 4133 ram in. It's bloody fast. I only really use it for PUBG now, but it allows me to max it out at 1440p and still get 160 FPS constantly.
And then, the following week, I usually end up at my mother's where the rig is not so fast. It has a TR 1920x stock and a 2070 Super. I immediately notice how different it "feels". It's very strange, and I can't quite put my finger on it. Nowhere near as smooth, FPS are nowhere near as high either.
So I was thinking about bringing over the other TR rig, but it's equally as massive as the one I am using now (this, btw)
And really I just can't be arsed. Thus, the idea for Mini Me was born. The idea is to match the IPC speed of the 3950x, and the raw GPU power of the 2080Ti.
See, I have a second 2080Ti. I bought it in the "wow Nvidia are amazing to us, they have f****d 2080ti owners with the cheap 3070 all hail Nvidia !". Only as you all now know, and as I predicted? it didn't quite go like that. That is why I literally panic bought the 2080Ti Aorus Xtreme for £480. With a block on. It's here, but I have used it for about two hours since fitting it into that PC as I never use it any more.
So it is coming out. I have the stock cooler (it was never used for anything other than testing, so is mint) but what I don't have are the pads. This was problem number one. Upon researching the best I could do was this picture.
That is the 2080Ti AX split in half. It should look like this.
You will note the "pads" are just thermal compound with that string stuff in them, hence why my pal threw them in the bin. They just make loads of mess. After hours of digging around I found this on EK's site.
So I ordered plenty of both. Cost me £22, but then the GPU will owe me £500. Try getting one of these cards for that price.
I could bring it over with the block on and put it in the loop on the rig here. However, two issues. One the IPC is still crap and two, since the 120mm rad in the floor leaked and I had to remove it the 1920x runs really hot and I can't overclock it at all.
Then the mini me idea struck me. Let's build something that looks like Mike Tyson, performs like Mike Tyson, yet has a tiny footprint.
First thing I would need is an ITX board. £100, ta very much.
And a CPU of course. I was initially going to cheap out and pay £140 for a 2600, but this was £170. With a slight manual OC I can match the threaded speed of the 3950x. Not in cores, but in low cored IPC.
It's a 3600. I didn't want any more than that, as like I said PUBG runs like butter on my rig at home and butter is more than good enough.
Then I needed a power supply. I cupped my balls and closed my eyes, but it turns out the case I wanted supports 150mm ATX PSUs, and this one is 140mm
So I bagged that also. So yeah, finally onto the case. Jonsbo V10.
It looks very very similar to my Lian Li PC12. However, it does not have windows. I chose that. Windowed ones are actually £10 cheaper, I went for more ventilation.
Fans. I bought these initially for my Alienware's rads, but sod it I will use them in this as they are bought and paid for.
So yeah, that should about do it for Mini Me. Obviously I will need a better cooler (120 AIO will be more than enough) so I can overclock it, but that is about the meat and potatoes of it.
I will be yoinking SSDs from various rigs.
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