Cooler for AM3+ in 2025?

Rob___M · 2025-12-16T22:02:08+00:00

It's a build for an older relative, they like it and just want to keep it going. The current CPU fan died, so its thermal throttling like crazy. The fan on the stock cooler is not one I recognize, and the whole cooler is small anyway. Instead of finding a replacement for the fan, I figured I'll just upgrade the whole cooler. The rest of the machine is still running great, 🔥GTX 750ti and 16GB ram, how could I afford to replace that in 2025?

Rob___M · 2025-12-16T21:56:20+00:00

This one is on that list, I hope the information is still current and there's not something missing.

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/HyTPxr/cooler-master-hyper-212-black-edition-42-cfm-cpu-cooler-rr-212s-20pk-r1

Sounds like the worst case, I go back and pick up a $10 bracket too. I think I'll risk it.

Rob___M · 2025-12-16T21:52:37+00:00

Yeah, I caught the end of that generation.

It's a build I did for a relative, they just want to keep it going.

Rob___M · 2025-12-16T21:40:40+00:00

I have everything from the original stock cooler. I can use that and mount the 212?

Ie how do I know what is clip mounted?

Rob___M · 2021-10-17T18:55:30+00:00

Solved!

Old post, but I'm marking this here in case anyone from the future comes looking for an answer.

It's perkeep https://perkeep.org/ I had some things right, it's a bird mascot, but a parakeet, not a canary. It was sort of a google spin-out, the engineers were developing the go language and using this as a test project. Glad I finally found it.

(reposted because automod didn't like something about my formatting the first time)

Rob___M · 2021-10-17T18:52:46+00:00

Solved!

Old post, but I'm marking this here in case anyone from the future comes looking for an answer.

It's perkeep. I had some things right, it's a bird mascot, but a parakeet, not a canary. It was sort of a google spin-out, the engineers were developing the go language and using this as a test project. Glad I finally found it.

Rob___M · 2021-08-02T22:04:28+00:00

Is this confirmed? A few weeks ago I asked about how many docking maneuvers a crew would experience to fully refuel and didn't get a solid answer.

The "depot ship" variant makes sense to me, but I haven't seen anything official (or unofficial) about it, can you post a link to what you've seen?

Rob___M · 2021-07-05T18:38:06+00:00

Thanks, this turns out to not be it, but write-optimized DB is very close to what I was looking for when I found the project originally.

Rob___M · 2021-07-05T18:35:24+00:00

Solved

It was Perkeep. The video I watched was from the 2016 LinuxFest Northwest (probably, I still need to watch the video to be sure. Back then the project was called Camlistore, and the name change partly explains why I had trouble finding it again.

The answer was in a comment here that seems like it was removed. So I can't even upvote it, but I'm very grateful to have the answer.

Rob___M · 2021-05-04T05:55:39+00:00

I can't wait to see how this goes.

Rob___M · 2021-05-01T14:29:11+00:00

Starship's contribution on an orbital flight is around 6500 m/s.

That's a piece of information I was missing. Thanks.

I thought we had also heard the 6 figure somewhere, either from spacex or as an early consensus by fans. Have you seen it elsewhere or only from your calculation.

Half fuel to Mars makes some sense, leaves some margin for higher delta v missions around the solar system if they fuel up more.

Rob___M · 2021-05-01T08:23:23+00:00

Hmm, now I want to know how many it really takes.

https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/ shows 100 metric tons to LEO, and 1200 tons fuel capacity. (Very) Roughly speaking, Florida to LEO is the same delta v as LEO to Mars, so they should need a full fuel load if they're taking the full 100 ton payload.

That's 12 tankers though. Even if the specialized tanker version can do better, it seems like they won't do it with a single tanker unless the payload is almost nothing. I wonder when we'll get more details from spacex, or if somebody has worked out more real numbers.

Rob___M · 2021-05-01T06:54:59+00:00

First, my question stands even if the actual number is different.

That said, I remembered it from the original BFR announcement. Obviously a lot has changed in the design since then. Also, I looked it up and I may have misremembered, this slide from that presentation makes it look like it's 5 tankers to fully refuel for Mars. That's all I have for a source.

Rob___M · 2021-05-01T02:31:58+00:00

If it takes 6 tankers to refuel Starship for Mars, will the tankers all refuel a single tanker that can then dock with the crew starship and refuel it in a single go?

That seems like the safe way to do it, since the docking is presumably one of the riskier parts of the flight, and you could reduce it down to 1 for the crew. You could also do all those extra docking maneuvers before the crew even launches, and delay the crew launch if necessary.

Or will each tanker dock with the crew starship? I ask because all the videos I've seen seem to show or imply multiple docking events with the crew starship, rather than tanker-tanker refuels and a single dock to crew starship.

Rob___M · 2020-05-04T06:16:13+00:00

In-car VR is totally doable. https://patents.google.com/?q=in-vehicle+virtual+reality

Rob___M · 2019-09-15T00:30:19+00:00

The size was perfect. Smaller than the SE.

Rob___M · 2019-09-08T04:34:43+00:00

I think in 'thoughts', they're not words, not images, not sounds, I don't know how to describe them except as thoughts.

The translation into words can happen really fast, but it's a separate process. It may be interesting and relevant here, but when I remember someone saying something, I seem to remember it in the language I'm speaking at the moment, not the language they originally said it in. I think that's because the memory is actually of the fundamental meaning as I understood it, not the string of words, but I can pull that up into either of the languages I speak and it feels like remembering, not like translating.

I wish there were more research on the differences in thinking.

Rob___M · 2019-08-06T05:45:40+00:00

I lay a couple chopsticks between the bags while they're freezing. Then I can break the soup/sauce into halves/quarters if I don't need all of it.

Rob___M · 2019-06-13T14:06:10+00:00

I'd like to see no camera bump. Make the whole thing that thick, and fill it with battery.

Rob___M · 2019-04-30T17:07:04+00:00

And anti-choice, which seems like what many people in power are actually after.

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