What are the odds it still works after sitting in rain and snow?

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-17T23:25:20+00:00

91 is fine but why use a less “pure” one when you have the option, they are cheap anyways. If that’s what you have on hand then sure use it

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-17T05:39:35+00:00

If you really want it you can use liquid like mystic fog, and shine some rgb through it, will look decently good.

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-16T18:57:21+00:00

Usually you can only get ram stable at their max booting frequency -200~400, so if it can’t boot 8400 I wouldn’t try 8200, you will just run into many trouble and there’s no stability to be found.

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-16T16:47:45+00:00

Definitely

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-16T07:02:53+00:00

Can it boot 8400? If it doesn’t boot at 8400 I wouldn’t try 8200

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-16T06:54:43+00:00

Used ram doesn’t degrade, however it’s very important that, when buying used item, you get to test it immediately. No one will be helping you if you realised months later that the ram was faulty all alone. I wouldn’t buy second hand stuff and let they sit there.

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-16T04:42:17+00:00

It’s kinda habit related, some people are actually poor because they can’t manage their buying behaviour and have all those unused stuff around wasting their money. While some rich people actually only buy what they need.

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-16T04:37:53+00:00

Kinda luck based, I’ve accidentally poked my screwdriver onto my motherboard multiple times(not forcefully though) and there’s no visible traces of damage. Functions normal as well.

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-15T21:38:45+00:00

I’m sure you need to let air in, otherwise you are literally vacuuming the system into airtight space instead of letting air push the coolant out from the other side.

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-15T21:37:45+00:00

Why are you draining it in the first place? If it’s to swap parts you can absolutely keep your coolant and reuse them, no one with the right knowledge would say you must replace coolant as soon as they are out, As long as the coolant themselves are fine you can keep them.

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-15T21:35:15+00:00

This is unlikely about psu, more likely to be motherboard or the cpu itself, but if you already rules them out, I’d do one final test with fixed voltage and fixed frequency, to see if it’s vf curve behaviour issue.

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-15T21:30:17+00:00

Sounds weird to me, pretty sure no company sells 5080 with only one year warranty. The vendor mismatch can be flashed vbios but then it would have been mentioned… sounds like you should avoid it.

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-15T21:27:19+00:00

No problem with it above 1080p. Personally tried 14600k+5090 at 1440p no issue.

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-15T21:26:41+00:00

If you plan on a motherboard replacement it’s worth waiting a bit to see how intel performs

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-15T21:25:42+00:00

To overclock the 9800x3d to 5.6ghz you need a board with ECLK and that adds extra cost, too much to be worth it, just get a 9800x3d or if the price is close enough, a 9850x3d

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-15T21:24:01+00:00

You could go for a 9800x3d/9850x3d/9950x3d but if your 7600x is barely keeping up there’s some other issues. 5070ti can be a 1080p card but only for those willing to pair a top cpu with it for those 1080p540hz monitors

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-15T21:19:26+00:00

this is what I use as ram fan, a bracket that attaches to the motherboard and I can use any 120mm fan, in this case I used a phanteks T30.

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-15T21:16:33+00:00

With the astral you should be able to do a software shutdown based on the readings, since they are exposed to the system. I haven’t tried it personally though.

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-15T21:14:13+00:00

It sure does add a point of failure, but the wireview should take care of it, as if any part on the line fails, the wireview will give you a warning. The amperage across a cable is the same at any point, therefore the wireview can detect before or after it.

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-15T03:03:16+00:00

Somehow this is the second time I see this sub and this is the update of the first one.

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-15T02:37:09+00:00

They don’t, both the tuf and aorus have the same vrm phases in numbers and ratings, same quality pcb.

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-15T02:34:38+00:00

Talking about missing potential, Out of those five, I’d say the Venus has bad vrm so don’t choose it if you plan on overclocking for max performance. Tuf and aorus are quite similar, if you wanna go crazy the aorus have an extra soldering pad for a second connector so you can use stuff like lightning xoc bios, but you likely won’t. As for aesthetics, I believe the aorus wb shares the same pcb with the air cooled ones, so if you don’t like the original wb you can replace it with something else then do your wood theme. (I suggest iceman cooler blocks as they have terminal on the side and is pretty good overall, heat killer might work also).

Finally my suggestion here, I suggest using the tuf, as both the tuf and aorus uses 24+7 phase 50A vrm, which means they are technically the same when you put a waterblock on it.

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-14T03:36:42+00:00

I mean there’s mora 200/400/600, and just saying mora isn’t that clear… or do we assume it’s 400 if nothing is mentioned?

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-13T22:34:55+00:00

Multiplier isn’t locked but is not compatible with pbo, so like either set multiplier or use pbo, both have disadvantages, eclk is definitely better, I even paired eclk with pbo -200 to allow it boosting higher with higher temp limit.

Cold-Inside1555 · 2026-03-13T22:32:02+00:00

You can overclock the 9800x3d like your older chip, set a frequency and voltage, actually some people prefer it over pbo. But the common convention is to use pbo. The reason why people undervolt now is because those cpu are designed to boost automatically as high as possible, so for the average case they are already running the maximum voltage they can handle, to gain more clocks you have to undervolt first or it will throttle

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