My new Main-Computer

After some years my old computer starts to overheat, although it has a liquid-cooling system. So i start to think about a new heart 🙂 . As always my starting point is http://www.phoronix.com and there i found some interesting infos which was the basic for my decision.

Articles:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel-7700k-linux&num=1
and
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-kabylake-may&num=1

After some benchmark videos@YouTube i felt fine with an i7-7700K as my next machine.

See some impressions below:

I still use my „old“ case:

My main machine

My new case

In https://tjohann.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/i-have-a-thermal-problem-with-my-new-board/ I have described the thermal problem with my old case. Now I have a new one. It’s in military green … really really cool.

If the machine builds two kernel with „make -j 10“, so that it’s really 100% load for all cores, the temperature of the regulators are around 50-54 degree. The specification for the board say that temperatures above 70 degree are critical, so it seems to be okay with the 50-54 degree.

After some playing with the location and direction of the fans, I find a good airflow. It’s different from most other air flow systems. The upper fan in the side and the last one at the top pull into the case to have an airflow around the fins of the regulator. The lower fan in the side an the first at the top push the air out of the case. Normally all fan in the side or top push or pull together and are not split-ed between push and pull , but I need an airflow around the regulator fins, because they’re shadowed by the radiator of the watercooler.

I have a thermal problem with my new board

My new combination is really powerful, but it shows a problem -> the temperature of the board (not the processor) goes up to more than 70 degree after 1 hour of building different stuff (like kernel or so). So I ordered better fans -> my choice was Noctua-NF12 PWM (http://www.noctua.at/main.php?show=productview&products_id=42&lng=de). But i still had the same problem. So I hanged-up one of the fans that the air flow direct spotlight the upper left corner (where the heat sinks of the power regulators are):

But after all its better, but not what I need. I ended up with another order for a new case -> Corsair Vengeance Series … of course in military green (http://www.corsair.com/de-de/vengeance-c70-mid-tower-gaming-case-military-green)

My old board died -> RIP

For about 1,5 years I updated my old i7-920 to an ADM-FX8320 which was a real performance jump, but last weekend it died. I don’t know why, but it wont do a thing, nor beep nor post, nothing. So I need a hardware. After some searching i decided to buy one from my computer part dealer. He has a bundle of board, processor and cooling (AMD FX-Series FX-9590, ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z and Corsair Cooling Hydro Series H80i Extreme Performance Water Cooling ). Everything arrived at Tuesday this week and of course I assembled all at that day. Now after 5 days and moving all components around in the case i find a more or less final configuration:

The machine is amazingly fast … really really fast … it crossbuilds an arm926 „full“ kernel within minutes!

Now after this interrupt its time to start again with my armv7hl slackware port.