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▲ 456 r/battlestations

Almost ready.

I am considering mounting the left speaker above the top monitor. Any thoughts.

There is a TV coming that will also be above the center monitor and white PC.

It can run for 6 hours if the electricity is out. Also have a starlink backup to my regular fiber.

u/on_line187 — 2 days ago
▲ 3 r/PcBuild

Should I switch?

I currently have 2 3090s in my PC which I use for work and occasionally Fortnite. I do some rendering and quite a bit of testing with local AI for work.

I don’t like not having FP8 available on my 3090s but I do like having the extra memory. I’d buy 2 5080s if I do switch it up.

u/on_line187 — 5 days ago
▲ 485 r/PcBuild

Airflow

Works even better with the front glass off but this seems to be the best for my case

u/on_line187 — 5 days ago
▲ 259 r/nvidia

Have you seen one in the wild?

Any experience with them would be appreciated.

u/on_line187 — 5 days ago
▲ 394 r/PcBuild

Before and After

Matching the fans helps a lot in my opinion for looks.

u/on_line187 — 11 days ago
▲ 189 r/pchelp+2 crossposts

How many fans can you connect

A bit of messing around. Still working on my new desk set up and figured I’d see how many fans I can connect while I’m at it.

u/on_line187 — 12 days ago
▲ 2 r/LocalLLM

48GB VRAM and 128GB of RAM, what is the best model?

I am trying to analyze data locally since there is lots of it and I could use my PC for it I believe.

I have a summarize workflow running using qwopus3.6 27B v2 MTV and that does fine. I ran about 100 documents through it that I was familiar with and it came out better than my own notes for summarizing. I want restructuring data also where that model comes a bit short.

I have tried the following models so far:

Nex Agi Nex N2 Mini Q8 (35GB)
Qwopus mentioned above (27GB)
Hauihui Kimi Linear 35B A3B Q4 (18GB)
Qwen3 VL 30B
Qwen 3 70B Q2 I believe it was.

I have tested some other models also from 🤗 and they come in a bit short also. I haven’t tried many of the bigger models that I would use RAM for though so looking for any suggestions there.

I am not too concerned about speed but it is a slight concern. Accuracy is more important of course.

Would love any feedback

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u/on_line187 — 17 days ago
▲ 6 r/pchelp

Cooling a hot GPU

The 3090s A6000 Pro series and some other GPUs have memory chips at the back which like to run hot. After changing thermal paste to PTM and changing the pads on the Aorus the memory was still spiking to >108°C. So I plug an old intel CPU cooler on it which worked fantastic. Went to memory high of around 84°-85° with occasional spikes to 90° ish but never over 100°.

The CPU cooler was an eye sore though so recently I stumbled upon this black back plate radiator/fan combo on Amazon and decided to grab 2 to try them. The bottom GPU didn’t have much problems to begin with and stayed around the same (HP OEM 3090). The Aorus (which was more problematic) maintained under 100° but spikes up to 94° so it helps vs not having it but the ugly old CPU cooler is still a bit better.

Pic 1&2 ugly CPU cooler
Rest are angles of the radiator thing.

This does not affect 3090TI or 4090s/5090s since they have no memory chips in the back but I am sure that something on the back plate will help lower the overall heat of the GPU by a bit as I have tried this on a 3060 I had laying around and noticed a decrease in core temps.

Another note is to either do this on cards that have full back plates not exposing capacitors or other tiny fragile components as some do. Both my cards have full back plates. Though the radiator thing came with a gigantic thermal pad that I assume is non conductive and that would probably help

The ugly CPU cooler was attached using PTM only. It never had an issue.

As well as being ugly the ugly CPU cooler was very loud as the little 80 or 90 mm fan on it would spit up to 5500 RPM so I usually controlled it via Gigabite control center and set it manually. The rad/fan combo thing is also 4 pin connected so it works the exact same way but the little fans are much quieter and spin up to around 4300 RPM.

Hope this helps the one of two other people out there. lol. ✌️

u/on_line187 — 19 days ago
▲ 12 r/gpu

Cooling down My GPU

The 3090s A6000 Pro series and some other GPUs have memory chips at the back which like to run hot. After changing thermal paste to PTM and changing the pads on the Aorus the memory was still spiking to >108°C. So I plug an old intel CPU cooler on it which worked fantastic. Went to memory high of around 84°-85° with occasional spikes to 90° ish but never over 100°.

The CPU cooler was an eye sore though so recently I stumbled upon this black back plate radiator/fan combo on Amazon and decided to grab 2 to try them. The bottom GPU didn’t have much problems to begin with and stayed around the same (HP OEM 3090). The Aorus (which was more problematic) maintained under 100° but spikes up to 94° so it helps vs not having it but the ugly old CPU cooler is still a bit better.

Pic 1&2 ugly CPU cooler
Rest are angles of the radiator thing.

This does not affect 3090TI or 4090s/5090s since they have no memory chips in the back but I am sure that something on the back plate will help lower the overall heat of the GPU by a bit as I have tried this on a 3060 I had laying around and noticed a decrease in core temps.

Another note is to either do this on cards that have full back plates not exposing capacitors or other tiny fragile components as some do. Both my cards have full back plates. Though the radiator thing came with a gigantic thermal pad that I assume is non conductive and that would probably help

The ugly CPU cooler was attached using PTM only. It never had an issue.

As well as being ugly the ugly CPU cooler was very loud as the little 80 or 90 mm fan on it would spit up to 5500 RPM so I usually controlled it via Gigabite control center and set it manually. The rad/fan combo thing is also 4 pin connected so it works the exact same way but the little fans are much quieter and spin up to around 4300 RPM.

Hope this helps the one of two other people out there. lol. ✌️

u/on_line187 — 19 days ago
▲ 300 r/setups+1 crossposts

First day at the new place

Missing a few things still but so far liking how it’s turning out.

u/on_line187 — 19 days ago
▲ 63 r/PC_Pricing

What is my PC worth?

White:
14700K 64GB DDR5 4T NVMe 3080 RM1000e

Black:
14700K 128GB DDR5 12T NVME 2x3090 HX1500i

u/on_line187 — 21 days ago
▲ 8 r/grants

I have analyzed over 4400 grants

In the last 2 years I have helped fund a few projects. Both in Europe and the US and it has been… insightful.

On the US side there is a bit more structure and the data base is not very difficult to find but it’s difficult to filter through.

On the EU side there is no data base … period. And there are a ton of different places that are disorganized and messy to filter through.

In the EU a surprising amount of grants go to for profit organizations (just a side note I wanted to add).

I collected a lot of data and compiled databases for previous awardees/how much was allocated to each/current available grants and so forth and so forth. If anyone is interested in this data drop a little description about what you are involved with (what type of non profit) and i would share that 100% free no sales no nothing. Potentially I would like to sell access to this data but id like some help on figuring out what is actually useful before going further as well as help some non profits out if I can. Feel free to shoot me a message or comment below.

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u/on_line187 — 21 days ago
▲ 27 r/battlestations

Disassemble and rebuild.

My battle station was getting a bit crowded in the little corner so tomorrow it is getting a revamp.

u/on_line187 — 21 days ago