#pc nerd

Yoooooo I want a 3D printerrrrrr 🎮

It took me a little longer to overcome my executive dysfunction than I would have liked, but I re-plumbed my 3070 card so it installs directly in the motherboard's PCI-e slot now (it was using a riser cable before), modded and installed the extra memory, changed all the fans, cleaned it, leak-down test and buttoned it all up.

I had to reset the BIOS because the change in RAM invalidates the previous highly tuned settings, it also reset the aRGB to default "fruity pebbles vomit/Cosby sweater" mode. Yeah, I'll tone that down later.

I'm also running shit-tier XMP timings (3600 cl16) for now, it took two weeks to fully tune the RAM last time and I expect if I want to see 3733 cl14 again, it's gonna take another couple weeks of intense ramtuning

Even though it's twice as expensive, that 4K LG 27GN950-B is like mmmmmmmmmmmm

I finally got a matching set of aftermarket heatsinks so I can modify them to fit under my radiator fans, and install the other 16GB of B-Die I've been sitting on since last year.

Here are the specs:

Case: modified Lian Li micro tower

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800x

CPU Cooler: 240mm AIO, Arctic P12 fans

GPU: 8GB Zotac 3070 OC White

GPU Cooler: 240mm custom loop, EK block, front-mounted radiator, 2 Noctua NF-P12-redux-1300 (intake side), 2 cheap ARGB fans (exhaust side)

MB: ASRock B550M Steel Legend

RAM: 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4-3600 Oloy Warhawks, Samsung B-die @3733 CL-14

C: (Win 10) 1TB PCI-e Gen.3 Mushkin Pilot-E NVMe drive

D: (Games) Same exact thing but the 2TB version, in the full-speed slot

G: (Data) 1 TB Samsung 850 Pro SATA SSD

PSU: Seasonic Focus GM-850

The extra storage is also a recent upgrade. I only have 120gb free on the 2TB drive—I have a ton of mods and downloads taking up space that could be on a slower drive, so I can save the biggest and fastest drive in the system for large game installations.

Even the windows drive doesn't need to be the fastest (once it's up and running, Windows pretty much resides all in memory) but I do install some heavy programs there, so they launch faster than an SSD.

Considering an SSD is absolutely fine for a system and games drive too, with the kind of data I'm going to place there, the slower-than-NVMe performance will rarely be discernible.

So I got new skates for both my main mice (my wired G102 LIGHTSYNC and my wireless G703 LIGHTSPEED, guess I'm a Logitech whore). The g703 is almost a year old and still "okay," fine, but not smooth like new. The much more budget-oriented g102 has only been used for a few months and the factory skates are already done. The center one fell off (lol) and the four corners were starting to wear through. These new PTFE (Teflon) babies make it feel like a much more premium mouse.

Worth noting, I also use rigid/hard mousepads, which wear down skates a lot faster than cloth ones. Some people feel Teflon is too slippery for cloth pads, I think it's fine but for hard pads it gives me the perfect combination of glide and drag.

- a keyboard for lots of shortcuts

- a gamepad for getting around because WASD gets very crampy with all the hand puppet contortionist impersonations you'll be doing

- a mouse because aiming with a gamepad blows chunks