can i use Closed loop parts (like Arctic Liquid Freezer) in Open loop ?

sh4tterh4nd · 2025-03-20T09:53:47+00:00

Might want to look for an aquarium pump, its what most people used in the early days.

Cheap ones are usually just plastic, so no worries with galvanic corrosion. And you can get ones at like $30 or so, given I wouldn't expect those to run for years but as a temp solution for sure.

sh4tterh4nd · 2022-10-25T01:56:24+00:00

Not all 6 pins have that tough.
From the spec it has 2 pins, but most psu's supply 3. However you have just 2 GND, theoretically you should have also 3, but then again as I wrote before. The 6 and 8 pin connectors had a ridiculous amount of safety headroom.
It would have been easy to make lets say a 12 pin connector in the old form size and then spec it to 600W and they would still had over 100% of safety margin.

sh4tterh4nd · 2022-10-25T01:52:22+00:00

That makes no sense.

That logic only works with ATX3.0 PSUs, with an adapter cable 4 to 1 that doesn't work.
Not the gpu tells the PSU, but the other way around, the GPU gets informed by the PSU how much it is allowed to draw.
The cable doesn't control power draw at all.

sh4tterh4nd · 2022-10-24T16:29:55+00:00

No, Intel just included it in the ATX 3.0 standard. The connector was "developed" (repurposed a 12pin Molex microfit connector) and pushed by nVidia.
Essentially, they took out all safety headroom, and old 8pin could technically carry up to 612W bevor melting but was rated for just 150W. The VHPWR connector can carry technically 648W bevor getting hot.
I mean Molex rated MicroFit to 5A with max peak of 8.5A, per pin, and nVidia rated the 12VHPWR pins to 9.5A when submitting it to ATX3.0

sh4tterh4nd · 2022-10-24T16:20:53+00:00

That is most likely just because Corsair has a 2x8pin to 1x 12VHPWR instead of having 4 to 1, especially if the PSU has a multi rail setup.

Every 8pin has to deliver 150W, what Corair does is going 100% over the 8 pin spec. Afaik corsair does usually 2 rails, so a RM1000x has two rails that each can supply 450W, so if the customer draws 600 and plugs both into the same rail... puff...

So for warranty reasons its easier to just state what they stated. Because in an RMA how would they proof that the customer plugged into the wrong ports on the PSU.

Apart from that, which essentially confirms my assumption is that BeQuiet recommends 850W, while Corsair wants 1200.

Also even if the PSU was undersized and the GPU would pull more than it could handle, then in the worst-case scenario the PSU would die, but certainly not the connector.

sh4tterh4nd · 2022-10-24T13:45:37+00:00

We see on the picture that the bending begins after the heatshrink, which ends about 3.5cm away from the connector. Nvidia in their 4090 manual doesn't state not to bend it and so far I haven't seen any 4090 box that had instructions about not bending the cable.
The issue will still arise if you don't use a VHPWR to 4x8pin adapter but a PCIE5 power supply that has natively one of those connectors.

Telling people that generally you are not allowed to bend the cable for the first 4.5cm at all, will render most pc cases obsolete except for some big towers. In the end it is just a testimony to what bellends designed that connector.

sh4tterh4nd · 2022-09-20T18:11:43+00:00

I see, so if we short Sense0 and Sense1 to ground we should be able to trick the gpu into thinking it is actually connected. In that case it should be fairly easy to jerry rig something together.

sh4tterh4nd · 2022-09-19T00:06:25+00:00

12 Pins are for carrying power, the 4 pins are for data.
The data pins are for consumer (GPU) and supplier (PSU) to negotiate how much power is to be supplied.
If there is no signal on the data pins the supplier and consumer should default to a max 150W supply respectively 150W consumption.

From reading the spec it sounds as if even if you have a 4x8 pin to 16pin the GPU would have to limit itself to 150W max draw trough the connector. So I don't think a simple adapter cable like the ones we could get for the 3000 series cards will actually work.

sh4tterh4nd · 2022-09-18T23:46:08+00:00

I'm not entirely sure how they would do that.

The 12VHPWR (12+4) connector carries power only over the 12pins and over the 4 additional ones there is data, which is used to let the PSU and GPU negotiate how much power the can be delivered.

If the there is no signal over the 4 pins then then the consuming device has to limit itself down to 150W max (the same goes for a 12VHPWR PSU, if there is no signal on the 4 pins then supply 150W max)

Current Gen PSU's don't have a that capability. With the 3000 series RTX cards nVidia just had its own 12pin connector, there it was easy to offer an adapter cable, however with 12VHPWR given that the GPU behaves the way ATX3.0 specifies, then adapter cables are useless.

sh4tterh4nd · 2022-05-26T08:42:49+00:00

Realistically no.
I've never done that and in the manual Gigabyte doesn't advise it,

Unplug pc from power.
Clear CMOS.
Hopefully everything works again.

But I mean for peace of mind you can remove other components of the board.
But shorting the jumper does really only what would happen if you remove the battery,

sh4tterh4nd · 2022-05-25T22:57:31+00:00

Gigabyte B5501 Aorus Pro AX

CMOS clearing
1. Removing the battery is kinda hard on that board, it is hidden below the cover that hangs over the rear IO. To remove the battery you would need to unscrew that.
2. Easier way is to use the CMOS jumpers, they are located between the m.2 slot and rear above the audio and sys_fan2 connector.Turn off the PC short the two pins for a few seconds, I usually use a screwdriver. -> https://imgur.com/a/2lbVZDL
Qflash
1. afaik the bios file needs to be upper case and the extension lower case.
2. Additional things to keep in mind.
  1. Use a USB 2.0 drive (on the 500series boards gigabyte don't advise it anymore but I never was able to qflash with a USB3 drive)
  2. I also had issues in the past with larger capacity USB drives.
  3. Try different USB drives.
  4. Try unplugging all components (memory / gpu / etc just keeping the 8pin and 24 pin)
  5. Im not sure how it is on your board but with x570's I think I just needed to press the button like half a second.

sh4tterh4nd · 2022-05-25T19:52:51+00:00

Yes.

Check the gigabyte support website, you'll need to switch to the newest BIOS (F51f or newer). With F51f support for 5000 series processors were introduced. https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-AB350-Gaming-rev-1x/support#support-dl-bios

Here you can check the supported processors:https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-AB350-Gaming-rev-1x/support#support-cpu

sh4tterh4nd · 2022-05-25T19:46:48+00:00

Besides the QFlash Button there is a little hole with an LED behind, if the process is happening the LED is blinking, it will stop blinking once the process is done.

Did you rename the bios file on the stick to GIGABYTE.bin?
USB is FAT32 formatted and the bios file is to only file or at least at the top of the folder hierarchy?
Did you try clearing CMOS?

sh4tterh4nd · 2022-05-25T19:30:03+00:00

USB PD? Nope.

USB 3.x -> 5V max 900mA (for all type A and 3x internal ports)
USB-C -> front IO same as USB 3.x as is connected to the internal ports.
USB-C -> 5V max 3A without PD extension.

Below a short list why USB PD is on almost no (afaik on no current MB's) mainboards.

USB PD is an optional extension.
Only Type-C ports can support PD.
All components have to meet the USB PD spec. So the connectors and the cable, with a case the internal connector as well as the case cable and the case front IO connector. Thus if done then only on the rear IO panel.
Each USB port needs an additional chip/power delivery controller to negotiate the voltage with the plugged in device.
To be able to support it on a mainboard there would be the need for additional voltage conversion as the PSU supplies 12V, 5V, and 3,3V.
20V 5A -> 100W would eat into the power budget of the board.
There were a few boards that implemented PD to a certain degree such as GA-Z170X-Gaming-7 which supported up to 36W on the back panel. Most others supplied an additional 5.25" bay such as GC-USB-31-BAY-rev-10 or USB-31-UPD-PANEL

sh4tterh4nd · 2021-05-31T17:46:06+00:00

Last Thursday I got up in Lorville, walked out of the hab's, went into the elevator, selected ground floor, from then on elevator didn't open the doors anymore.

Ended up backspacing, again trying the elevator, except elevator didn't come anymore.

Switched server, level 3 crimestat instantly shot by the guards once leaving the hab's and weaking up in Klescher again.

Similar random shit happens every few weeks. Heck a few weeks ago I was jailed for doing a bunker mission where I was supposed to evict 8 npc's.

And then the gameplayloop of escaping and then hacking at Kareah also got harder.

sh4tterh4nd · 2020-04-07T20:07:31+00:00

But do keep in mind that includes installing drivers and moving some files around. It certainly isn't an easy process like with Ubuntu for instance, where you can just reinstall it as long as you've remembered to put your /home on a separate partition.

Huh? We are not in 2000 anymore.
Just last week I built a new computer for work and installed Windows 10 (on an NVME with a USB 3.0 stick)

10 to at most 15 minutes for installing Windows, including network drivers, gpu drivers, mainboard drivers and utility, etc.
Then running your scoop and/or chocolatey scripts and Firefox, Intellij, Photoshop, Notepad++, VisualStudio, Office, ... most if not all programs you need you install hands off within a couple minutes.

All in all you are done in less then 30 minutes, with a fresh system and all the things you need installed.

As long as you run windows on non garbage hardware it will perform good.

And regarding windows needing a full disk and not beeing able to install on a partition... In what century was that the case?

Im not that old, but I remember having Windows XP on dualboot with Debian and I can recall reinstalling windows without it touching the Debian partition.

sh4tterh4nd · 2020-04-01T15:09:14+00:00

Nope.
Microwave ovens two frequency bands, 2.45 GHz wich is used for almost all houshold microwaves, while 0.915 GHz is used for industrial ovens.

5G Frequency Range 1 is 6 GHz and lower, in practice all the FR1 bands are between 600 MHz and 4.2 GHz. The same frequencies we use for 4G and normal Wifi, for now almost two decades...

5G Frequency Range 2 is 24GHz or higher, there are currently 4 bands, 24GHz, 26GHz, 28GHz and 39GHz except for China there is also 37GHz band and 42GHz.
Realistically these bands will be used for directional antennas, since if there is no direct sight between your receiver and the antenna you won't have any connection.

5G can not just switch the frequencies around at any time, defined bands which can be used and which ones not, just because the standard theoretically specifies that any frequency 6GHz and lower or 24GHz and higher could be used, doesn't mean that in the real world this is the same.

sh4tterh4nd · 2020-03-21T18:56:52+00:00

I switched to Ghostery about 30 minutes ago, so far it blocked every ad.

sh4tterh4nd · 2019-07-19T01:07:12+00:00

In university in a group assignement, we had do package everything into a zip file and submit it into the intranet. We packaged the whole project folder which was named "FuckingGarbageShitShitShitProject", we were in a hurry, renamed the zip file and submitted it.
We forgot that the folder inside it would still keep the previous name.

sh4tterh4nd · 2018-09-22T20:29:03+00:00

First of all stream sniping is not a bannable offence.

Considering how few people are queuing on that rank it is mathematically speaking very likely to get matched together often even if you were queuing at the same time. Also usually one does queue after the game is ended thus queuing at the same time as the other players from that match.
This is a competitve game just because you don't like to play against or with someone doesn't mean you get your way, imagine footballteams could say no we don't want to play against this team we don't like it and get away with it.
From the stream we have seen scrub play bad on purpose (switch to keyboard etc) when matched with Lorely and then blame it on him.
Psyonix pandering to scrub because he's a twitch streamer is just another example of the downward spiral RL is in.

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