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Potential problems with AIO coolers are leaks, air bubbles in the line. What is the reliability with fluid in the system ? Air cooling is passive, a radiator with coolant being cycled continuously can have issues with plumbing. Any thought’s or idea’s about this. Just wondering. . .

Rich;)

I’ve always used air coolers. The one I have now for the 5800X is massive. Dual 140MM fans with 6 heat pipes. It’s the largest air cooler I’ve ever purchased. It’s the one recommended for this processor. There are lots of different makes. Again not all air coolers are equal either. :wink:


$60 at the local gallery with a story and the artists contact details, was looking at it for 4 days before I purchased. I love it.

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That’s a male jumping spider performing a love dance for a female.

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It ppro =bably is :sweat_smile:
Pretty sure u hit the nail on the head, walked past it for 3 days but it just kept calling

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I ran AIO coolers for years before I ditched my desktop entirely and never had any problems, as long as you’re using reputable brands I don’t think there’s really that much to worry about.

So much quieter than any air cooler I ever used in a performance machine, and being able to mount the radiator wherever in my cases (which admittedly did make case selection more of a factor than it otherwise would have been in my ‘I don’t care I just need a big metal box to stick these parts in’ days) and give a more specific “out” direction for the heat generated was a big plus.

My fault. Sorry. I misunderstood. 142€ per piece. Maximum order quantity of 2 CPU’s:rofl:

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FINALLY. My PC is in my bedroom and the router is in the livingroom. I’ve been using WIFI. And while OK, it wasn’t the speed I knew was achievable. So I pick this up on Amazon. A 50 foot Cat 7 Ethernet cable. Inexpensive, flat (easy to hide along baseboard). The speed is MUCH better! Nearly 6 times faster internet.

I ran speedtest-cli

WIFI:

Download: 102.36 Mbit/s
Upload: 23.52 Mbit/s

ETHERNET:

Download: 582.20 Mbit/s
Upload: 25.27 Mbit/s

Went to the Ookla Speed Test site after a reboot…

zzz

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My new friend Steve.

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Surprisingly good instant coffee by the way.

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Everytime I see offers like that, I feel ripped in Europe. Never seen good trade-ins here

Oh, you named him after me :heart:

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Seagate Iron Wolf 4TB. Going to use it as a NFS Drive in my Computer. Seems really fast. Copy Movies and Music at around 280MB/s
And finally I got myself a 15m CAT7 network cable and laid it in the corners. I had to lay my old one across the room :rofl:

sgiw

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I dunno where the name came from, I was just sitting there watching the city.

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Finally broke down and purchased a NVME HAT for Raspberry Pi 5.

WIth a Crucial P310 500GB 2280 PCIe Gen4 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD


nvme & heat sink mounted

RPi 5 with USB 3 SSD and RPi 5 with NVME

Both sitting in their respective Pi pans I hacked together with scrap materials.

Read rate benchmarks using gnome-disk-utility
RPi 5 USB 3 SSD Read rate - 373 MiB/s
RPi5 NVME Read rate - 917 MiB/s

To test write rates, the partition needs to be unmounted and I haven’t gotten to that yet.

Pudge

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Nvme should win out!

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I keep meaning to snag a 5 to replace the aging 4b I use in the guts of one of my arcade machines, but I keep forgetting I plan to do it and then not doing it.

I should rectify that now but I don’t have my wallet handy, and by the time I’ve gotten round to having my wallet handy I will almost certainly have again forgotten I meant to buy a 5.

How is the performance?

RPi 5 with USB 3 SSD is quite notably snappier than a RPi 4 with a USB 3 SSD.

RPi 5 with a NVME is snappier than a RPi 5 with a USB SSD.
It all depends on what the device is doing. With memory intensive apps running, such as booting, compiling, it is definitely faster. While reading E-mail, browsing, word processing and other daily routines, it is not real noticeable.

Pudge

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I was gifted a laptop here a couple of months back that was an old gateway. It had only 4 gigs of ram and while it worked it was slow so I decided to spend less than 20 dollars and got this for it.

she is a bit snapper now ( no she wont win any races unless her opponent is Windows.)

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