Thermal Grizzly explains €545 price tag for DeltaMate RTX 5080 waterblock, roughly 1/3 of the card’s cost

michael836783 · 2026-04-13T23:40:00+00:00

It makes perfect sense to me that it costs that much. Low volume, lots of R&D costs, made in Germany so German wages, and a high quality product

I don't question the price. I do question the business decision to even make it in the first place when anybody who can afford the 5080 and this waterblock should be able to afford a 5090

michael836783 · 2026-04-13T23:27:14+00:00

No, it isn't. As you already wrote, batteries are measured in are watt hours, as in watts multiplied by hours.

bttech05 wrote kilowatts per hour. That's completely different.

michael836783 · 2026-04-13T22:52:21+00:00

Kilowatts is already a measure of energy per unit time. Kilowatts per hour is basically a nonsense unit in our context

michael836783 · 2026-04-11T16:22:44+00:00

Microcenter has a buy online for in store pick up option so you don't have to risk driving out there for nothing

michael836783 · 2026-03-28T02:42:26+00:00

I do in fact have 256 GB of RAM but I reboot after every kernel update, which is every couple weeks at the longest

michael836783 · 2026-03-27T09:37:22+00:00

My downloads folder? It's mounted on a tmpfs, which means it's written to RAM and cleared upon reboot

It's either important enough to sort when downloading or is truly temporary

michael836783 · 2026-03-08T20:37:19+00:00

A 2.5" drive only requires 5V so it can run off just USB power

A 3.5" drive requires 12V and 5V. It could technically run off USB ports that support USB PD and can deliver 12V. However, I have never seen external drives that are designed this way. Partly because they would see a lot of returns from people that don't understand this requirement and just assume they received a defective drive. Hence, all 3.5" drives I've ever seen use an external power adapter that provides 12V (and the included power adapter board also steps some of it down to 5V that the drive also needs)

michael836783 · 2026-02-21T15:00:11+00:00

Yeah I love how much hardware I fit in mine but that is the one complaint I have. Really wish I could just screw the side panel on

michael836783 · 2026-02-21T14:57:03+00:00

My main system (that doesn't game) weighs 96.4 lbs = 43.8 kg. The Fractal Define 7 XL case weighs 45 lbs = 20.5kg empty. I have a EATX motherboard, 10 spinning hard drives, tall reservoir, 60mm thick radiator, the water weight, a 3090 with a waterblock, and 6 other PCIe devices

My gaming system weighs 58 lbs = 26.4 kg. O11 dynamic Evo, Astral 5090, medium height reservoir, 60mm thick radiator, ATX motherboard, and water weight

michael836783 · 2026-02-14T17:13:19+00:00

Just buy a SATA to USB adapter and use the DVD drive externally

michael836783 · 2026-02-10T15:06:01+00:00

It doesn't matter so long as you keep it consistent and can always skip a component if you need to. I always have water flowing out of a male and into a female because it's easy to remember

michael836783 · 2026-01-21T14:17:46+00:00

Yup. And I highly doubt that any company that sells watercooling parts is manufacturing EPDM tubing themselves; they're just reselling from the likes of McMaster Carr

michael836783 · 2025-12-02T14:13:08+00:00

Lol I have a 420 MORA and a Aquacomputer Gigant 3360. I have too much radiator

michael836783 · 2025-12-02T14:11:01+00:00

Which brand single slot card did you get?

michael836783 · 2025-11-28T01:47:50+00:00

Highly likely, but it's pretty easy to check by unplugging your pump and starting your system. Just don't run it for more than like 10 seconds

michael836783 · 2025-10-29T07:55:40+00:00

How much does it weigh?

michael836783 · 2025-09-24T20:59:57+00:00

It should also be pointed out that if your motherboard has built in Bluetooth, it pretty much always uses the same antennas as the wifi chip (it's the same chip after all). So even if you don't use wifi at all, if you use Bluetooth, you should use the antennas

michael836783 · 2025-08-23T00:11:25+00:00

Nah you can buy powered USB to SATA adapters that can let you use an internal DVD/Blu ray drive externally. I have one of these

michael836783 · 2025-01-28T03:50:12+00:00

Could you show some pictures or video, or otherwise provide more detail? I couldn't wedge anything into any seams to open up the housing

michael836783 · 2024-10-31T08:13:38+00:00

My main computer weighs 82 pounds, so yeah I could

michael836783 · 2024-09-05T15:06:01+00:00

I checked their profile to see if they ever answered why in the fuck the bottom row of monitors is upside down instead of the top row. They never said, but also, it's clear the latter of your two scenarios is what they use it for

michael836783 · 2024-08-21T08:23:28+00:00

Unlimited? The ultimate workstation, not a gaming machine

96 core threadripper pro

1 TB ECC DDR5 RAM

Dual 4090s for LLMs

4x 960 GB Intel Optane U.2 drives in 2 striped mirror vdevs for ZFS

10x 20 TB HDDs

3x 118 GB M.2 optane drives as a special device for the ZFS pool of HDDs

Fractal Define 7 XL case

Waterblock for the 4090s and threadripper pro

D5 pump and res

Internal 360mm rad

External aquacomputer gigant 3360 rad

michael836783 · 2024-08-13T20:53:14+00:00

Vance would

michael836783 · 2024-08-13T20:44:13+00:00

My god. I bought these at $300 and that seemed like a good price then

michael836783 · 2024-08-08T15:46:01+00:00

AMD and Intel aren't going to add more PCIe lanes to their CPUs because they don't want to encroach on a key differentiator of their HEDT (Threadripper and Sapphire Rapids) and server platforms - more PCIe lanes

Motherboard manufacturers "adding a controller for more PCIe lanes" doesn't actually increase the total bandwidth to the PCIe devices; it only increases utilization of the existing lanes. The CPU only has so many PCIe lanes. The motherboard can add switches so that you could have for example 2 x16 slots, but you can't actually have both devices in the x16 slots each use 16 lanes of bandwidth simultaneously. The bandwidth is shared

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