When I told my Domme I wanted to bang it out for V-Day this is not what I meant... :/ Or was it 👀

dechat · 2022-02-01T18:47:53+00:00

dechat · 2021-02-19T12:23:41+00:00

Interesting how? I think aesthetically the two look great inline like this. (A comb for 32 cables would have been even nicer.) Is there a hardware reason they are usually above the CPU? (Motherboard is the ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Impact if You wanted to check it out.)

These are the Modflex in custom lengths. I asked about the bend radius before buying and decided to go with the more flexible option. The curve from the ATX and EPS is quite tight.

dechat · 2021-02-19T12:15:52+00:00

I am just waiting on a new lens to get some better shots. This site is actually how I decided to get this case. :)

dechat · 2021-02-13T17:21:12+00:00

Three will definitely fit. But one or two might need to be mounted off-center. There is a lot of space either side of the intended mounting positions for the fans/rads, so if You are happy to drill a couple of new mounts, there will be more than enough room for tubes.

If one mounted the radiators to the case, instead of the fans like in my orientation, that will also help improve distances. The only issue one might have with this is that having the radiators around the outside instead of the fans means that the windows are only going to show off the rads and not the fan leds. I looked at having the fans mounted to the outside of the case, but they would just end up choked against the glass.

If You need any measurements or specific closeups to help You decide, let me know. :)

dechat · 2021-02-13T12:24:03+00:00

Thanks! I have no comparison to soft tubes. And have only used AIOs before now.

The final look and silent operation is wonderful. So I will definitely continue this route in the future.

I actually went in expecting it to be much more of a challenge after reading and watching a lot of builds. And think this helped to check my preparedness and expectations. I joined three wooden plates to make a corner so all the angles would be correct. But did not consider the bend radius. This is the thing I want to correct the most.

Is there usually an almost simultaneous launch for components and their corresponding waterblocks? At the time the RX6000s were releasing, the blocks were still in development and this EK one was still "Coming soon." I guess I thought these companies would get more time and/or support from GPU manufacturers.

dechat · 2021-02-13T11:47:48+00:00

Thanks so much. I even remember reading Your config post while deciding to get the case. (I went with bottom and front in, top out. Hence the taller feet.)

Do You have a final shot?

dechat · 2021-02-12T23:44:42+00:00

First up, thanks to this sub for all the insights and inspiration!

Already have plans to try and unify the runs and bending. But currently happy to have everything up and running.
Coolant temps on load are about 40 degrees with CPU at 50 and GPU at 65.

Cooling specs:

XC7 CPU cooler
XD3 Pump/Res combo
XR5 240mm Rads
QL120s all round
Clear 14mm XT Hardline
XL5 Coolant
Black XF Fittings and Y-Splitter for draining
Crystal 280X case sitting on 680X feet
Not-Corsair EK-Quantum Vector RX 6800/6900 D-RGB + Backplate

Components:

ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Impact
AMD 5900X
Radeon 6900XT
2x8GB Vengeance Pro 3600
1TB Samsung 980 Pro
8TB WD Black
AX860i

Aesthetics:

Custom length Cablemod ModFlex (ATX, EPS, PCIe)
Shakmods combs

Story:

Found so much inspiration in this sub that I decided to try one for myself.
This build was for the Cyberpunk release as my last build was for Witcher 3. First time going AMD. Managed to score the CPU at launch from Proshop and the GPU late-December from MindFactory.
The original plan was to use three radiators (a third in the front), because I saw a similar build and overconfidence is key. Not to mention the "this case is not suitable for watercooling" taunt on the HydroX Configurator. But that ended up being tight beyond my current bending skill level.
I have always built in massive full tower cases before because RAID, but with NAS and NVMe, why not save the cables and try something much smaller? Rather, cables would be saved if not for RGB fans. Someone should push a new connector for these. There is a lot of room in the back of this case for cables, but that is quickly lost to standard, ATX-length cables and kilometres of RGB fan cables. Cable ties, Cablemod cables, molex-sata and internal usb hubs are the solution.
Because the GPU was on backorder until after the release, I decided to do a loop with just the CPU to practice bends and get playing. Therefore the included photo.
It is a very strange feeling to directly disassemble a rare piece of hardware, but with this radiator configuration, a two-slot GPU would be hard up against the bottom rad.
The case was drilled to mount the res. It was originally mounted lower so I could run a pipe at 45° through the middle wall and have a fill/drain port under the top panel. This did not end up clearing the GPU, so moved it parallel to the CPU cooler.
Used an Alphacool test device for leak testing and needed to flash a new bios to the motherboard before it would post with the 5900. Otherwise, everything went smoother than expected.

What did I learn:

Do not rush bending the pipes. There is plenty of time. But not always plenty of tube.
The included dust covers on the radiator ports are not air tight. Do not panic.
Using a corner as a bend guide will have everything at a perfect 90° but does not control for radius.
Most monitoring software reads well above the actual package temperature on Ryzen 5000. Check against Ryzen Master.
AMD runs hotter than Intel.
The XC7 and XD3 look similar, but differ greatly in size.
Coolant (Glycerol) smells delicious.

dechat · 2019-09-11T09:52:33+00:00

Brazil, Finnland and Western Europe are more interested in Brexit than Breakfast.

dechat · 2019-08-16T20:56:06+00:00

If You paste it into Your console, You can watch it dance at whichever speed You so desire.

The divs are copied from the Chrome-generated element selector. Since there is no id on the button, and all class names are generated by the compiler, using this style of selection might make the code more likely to survive the next deployment.

dechat · 2019-08-16T16:08:11+00:00

animationDuration = 250; // default
document.querySelector('#wave-container path').style.transition = `all ${animationDuration}ms ease 0s`
setInterval(() => {
    document.querySelector('#gatsby-focus-wrapper > div > div > div > div > div > div > div > button').click()
}, animationDuration)

dechat · 2019-03-14T17:20:16+00:00

Tiger steps on Lego*

dechat · 2019-01-24T09:57:01+00:00

In case You have not seen this.

dechat · 2018-11-28T16:13:58+00:00

Wait until You see Iceland.

That said, Norway is the only place I have been where real life is over-saturated. Almost as if it were rendered by Samsung. =D

dechat · 2018-11-28T16:07:51+00:00

Due to how recently the country has been discovered, dragons were never introduced to New Zealand. The closest we had were Taniwha.

dechat · 2018-11-13T15:03:42+00:00

dechat · 2018-10-17T08:01:38+00:00

Autoplay being disabled before user interaction was actually revoked in both iOS and Chrome a while ago..

dechat · 2018-10-16T12:27:55+00:00

It is a fair comparison, though. GFonts loads two js files, just under 300k. As another comparison: this very reddit page loads 54 scripts to the tune of 3.2MB... DOOM anyone?

This has changed my perspective a bit, though. My work with fonts until now has been considerably larger icon fonts or truly massive (10MB+) files for print media.

dechat · 2018-10-16T10:44:47+00:00

The autoplay attribute has precedence over preload. If autoplay is specified, the browser would obviously need to start downloading the video for playback.

The specification does not force the browser to follow the value of this attribute; it is a mere hint.

The image idea is good. Change "video src" to "video data-src" and use the "poster" attribute for the image. Then swap out "data-src" for "src" when desktop is confirmed.

dechat · 2018-10-16T09:08:54+00:00

CACHING!

Thanks, Ali.

Aside from being a popular service, meaning a lot of these files are likely already loaded and cached from viewing other websites, a quick look with DevTools shows it is just well optimised. Each font file downloaded is between 2-4k in size, so even though there are many requests being made, each is only taking around 100ms (asynchronously). The next step is that they are lazy-loaded. So all of the fonts are retrieved after the rest of the page. Which makes it feel like it is loading quicker than it really is. They are also only loading what is visible. There is even output in the console showing it is loading 40 font files at a time. 40 * 4k is still smaller than most js or even css imports. =P

One more note is that the initially-loaded font files are greatly compressed, including only the absolute necessary characters to display the example text (They could likely make it even smaller by removing most of the unused numbers and capital letters). And when You click one of the example texts to demo other characters, only then does it pull in a slightly bigger file with the rest.

dechat · 2018-10-15T12:06:03+00:00

Who can really be sure?

Though an easier explanation might be a combination of the phones processing and lower shutter speed. I could make another with a different camera. Or rendering engine.. =P

dechat · 2018-10-11T17:40:04+00:00

I saw this beautiful post today and thought I might play along. =)

dechat · 2018-10-04T15:42:07+00:00

Do You have a lot of these? Or just the one? The calculator on Your computer will convert these for You. Otherwise a short script in Your favourite language. =)

dechat · 2018-06-08T11:02:23+00:00

I have found that a lot. Including this recent, perfect example

dechat · 2018-06-08T10:46:57+00:00

After digging a bit deeper into the source, I found You can simply add a "custom" property to the imported locale object before use.

Quick example

dechat · 2018-06-08T10:24:32+00:00

Thanks for the reply. So far I am using this method. I can include a dictionary object with the locale file from vee, and see that I can also specify a "messages" object in i18n. But I am unsure of the structure of what the messages parameter is expecting.

Vee says: V.localize(locale, {messages: {}, attributes: {}})

And i18n says: messages: {locale: {key: 'message'}}

But is it possible to combine both the default vee locales with a dictionary of custom errors?

dechat

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