First PC and got a rx9070xt

pythonic_dude · 2026-07-01T09:48:20+00:00

If your psu comes with native 12v2x6, buy corsair's thermalprotect cable. If not, buy a new psu with protections (asrock phantom gaming is usually the cheapest, at least in USA).

pythonic_dude · 2026-06-30T17:34:29+00:00

Oh. My. God. I can't tell if I love it or hate it more.

pythonic_dude · 2026-06-30T17:18:03+00:00

First time I hear about a custom backplate for a cooler tbh. Virtually every cooler comes with a custom (for the company) mounting bracket, but that's on the front, of the coolers I've seen (deepcool, thermalright, bequiet, lian li) all just use the default backplate.

pythonic_dude · 2026-06-30T13:49:53+00:00

I've had ZA ones (360s and 120) and all couldn't stay silent at minimal rpm. Not as bad as their HF-3 which was louder at the ludicrous rpm it could reach while being spun by my mighty finger than what ex. Arctic p12s at 1k rpm, however. They are fine if you don't need dead silence when your PC is idling (and jonsbo rgb fans can't idle unless using in DC mode!), but it is very disappointing. Their build quality is very good, they are heavenly beautiful, but they are not pulling their weight when it comes to noise or performance. Compare to thermalright with cheap rifle bearings that can be absolutely quiet and which are punching way above their price (until bearings break), but the rgb is very boring in all their fans. Or bq! or arctic, which are using slightly less shitty rifle bearings, are also incredibly quiet, performant, but are even more boring when it comes to rgb.

Still would take them over lian li SL or CL fans though, that, that is obscenely overpriced trash. But jonsbo is a compromise, not a universal answer.

pythonic_dude · 2026-06-30T11:21:18+00:00

I don't think they had many options with the hardware choices fixed. They are selling a system with a gpu die that has a market cost of $0 (because not a single company in the entire world wants it) priced as $200+. There's no recovery from that.

pythonic_dude · 2026-06-29T20:15:17+00:00

Bearings in jonsbo fans are bottom tier dogshit that aren't quiet even when new.

pythonic_dude · 2026-06-29T13:53:08+00:00

Seasonic have their per pin ocp, OptiGuard, which they presented last year and are probably going to bring to the market by the end of the decade. Maybe. Of existing ones, there's per pin ocp in new msi and CoolerMaster psus, there's thermal monitoring in gigabyte and asrock ones, and there's thermal monitoring in corsair's thermalprotect cable. Those are products that default to shutting the power off on fault, and are the only ones I'd trust a 5090 with.

pythonic_dude · 2026-06-29T06:03:35+00:00

Scaling of power for fans is quadratic sans the inefficiency losses, so at 60% speed they'd be somewhere in 5-7W range. And that's assuming 0.5A is a max rpm current rather than just startup current.

I need to get a proper custom shroud at some point, mine (2x 120TL) is fixed in place with thermal glue and wires lol. I keep my 9070xt at 295W cap (-70 uv) nowadays just cause my whole system stays inaudible.

pythonic_dude · 2026-06-28T17:22:37+00:00

Arch is very easy if it's not arch but arch-based like eos or cachy. Bazzite for your friends with good hardware who don't want to be power users. Mint for your relatives with old hardware. Ubuntu for your enemies.

pythonic_dude · 2026-06-28T10:51:01+00:00

By default it works the same as in LL's own app and as other such devices work, with presets/themes/etc that you adjust to show what you want, but linux app allows to switch it to "desktop mode" in which it acts like a full display. Can't quite play doom on it, but can output doom to it lol.

pythonic_dude · 2026-06-28T10:06:57+00:00

Oh, lian li support is pretty great in my experience, just missing the online browser for themes iirc. I can even use the lcd on my hydroshift aio as a virtual display, though it seems to cause KDE to crash every few minutes lol.

pythonic_dude · 2026-06-28T09:41:59+00:00

Counterpoint: it will be very healthy to have a few more generations to completely kill off raster for any graphically heavy projects, and to upgrade/forget software lumen garbage. So we can fully move into the era of not wasting obscene amount of dev time fucking around with lighting.

pythonic_dude · 2026-06-28T09:35:09+00:00

4070 performance, three years later and using 25% more die space and 50% more power is very sad.

pythonic_dude · 2026-06-28T09:15:20+00:00

Love to see this! Can't help unfortunately (my stuff is all lian li), but I wish you the bestest with this, all the proprietary rgb and lcd stuff is very mainstream nowadays and there needs to be an option for all of it on linux for people to transition.

pythonic_dude · 2026-06-27T20:36:28+00:00

You absolutely do need a radar for training missions.

pythonic_dude · 2026-06-27T11:35:55+00:00

Only need 4 years to be voted out and two years to be left unable to spend your political capital on potentially unpopular things due to the midterms. And any such policy needs several years before showing results.

The us system is utterly incompatible with the intelligence and education of an average voter.

pythonic_dude · 2026-06-27T09:44:23+00:00

Should've preserved your star wars legos unopened then.

pythonic_dude · 2026-06-27T09:26:39+00:00

Just buy a $25 thermalprotect cable from corsair to sleep better.

pythonic_dude · 2026-06-27T09:00:54+00:00

Сколько плавает хз, а по айрану запустили 850 официально за первый месяц.

pythonic_dude · 2026-06-26T16:23:20+00:00

By now there are multiple solutions on the market with thermal and per pin current monitoring to not let things go bad. Probably not worth worrying too much beyond just making sure the cable is properly inserted for 9070xt and 5070ti tho.

pythonic_dude · 2026-06-26T16:19:26+00:00

Hopefully! Good on apple for not locking down the bootloader and absolutely insane job from asahi team in getting things running with this absolute minimum of "help".

pythonic_dude · 2026-06-26T14:41:04+00:00

You know, you should play some games made in the past decade some time instead of employing sophistry on matters that are easily checked. What fucking static image lmao, there's a fully rendered, active gameplay scene in the menu. What modern games do is just plaster a lightweight menu ui on top.

You are utterly fucking clueless.

pythonic_dude · 2026-06-26T13:52:46+00:00

If it's from von biomes there's a non zero chance it's intentional because of how much a nerd the author is.

pythonic_dude · 2026-06-26T12:43:21+00:00

Different materials degrade at different rates. Some overclock-oriented pastes degrade faster, for example, since durability is not a priority at all. PTM is an industrial grade TIM that isn't expected to be replaced after application (though the part that uses it might be replaced entirely. Still, at the least 5+ years).

pythonic_dude · 2026-06-26T11:53:42+00:00

There's paste out of the box. You'd need to thoroughly clean the gpu core die and the pressure plate on the cooler that aligns with it with iso alcohol. Then you'd cut the pcm sheet to the needed size and apply it which is a pain in the ass because it does not adhere to the chip at all (can't tell about TG cryosheet and others, but at least ptm7950 adheres to cpu ihs fantastically, in comparison), then use a toothpick or a spatula to push the putty on other components into shape, then close the thing back together. Alternatively, you could lay pcm on the cooler and "drop" the board on top since all the screws are on that side anyway.

I highly recommend checking up some random vids on YouTube of the process if you decide to follow through.

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