Finally got all the parts I need in and I wasn't even too blatantly scalped (at worst paid $350 for a $280 MSRP GPU which is great given how bad things are now, frankly), but this is still the first time I'm putting my own PC together so I'm getting a case of the nerves, haha.
Unless you are working in an air-conditioned room, humidity in SEA should be sufficiently high that static won't be a big concern. So yeah just "grounding"' yourself should be good enough
Haha, budget mostly went into a GPU I knew would last a while and a mobo+CPU that has at least some relevance in future. Plan to get a Noctua when I can afford it, or maybe an AIO for aesthetics.
If it goes on-off-on in rapid succession that's just a feature called memory training, where it tries to find a stable memory speed. If you set it manually to a speed it can work with then it should just power on in one go.
Yup, I vaguely remember that the memory won't be running at advertised speeds until I enable XMP/DOCP, yeah? Can also tweak the timings I think, which is another great source of nervosa (sigh).
RE: stock cooler the CPU's sitting at about 60C in the UEFI (waiting for install media to materialise atm) so that's probably not great. Could be the lost thermal paste, but I do plan on getting a nicer cooler as allowed.
My first PC build wouldn't start up. After 20 minutes of sheer panic and triple checking EVERYTHING, I realized that I forgot to flip the switch on the PSU. Ah, young me. The fool :P
I also once cracked an AMD CPU back in the early 2000s when the things were ridiculously fragile. PC building is SO much nicer these days.
Agh, sorry to hear about the CPU but glad it seems things are better now. Yeah ripping the CPU out of the socket just about sent me into full on WTF but I'm glad this seems to be running well now.
Going from a laptop with a 5400RPM HDD to an NVMe is giggle-inducingly fast. Running diagnostics to check if the CPU is at least optimal
My new Ryzen-9 stock cooler is very cute! So cute, I'm inclined to keep it, although I've turned off the built in lighting. Noctua will send me a free bracket for my Big Cooler when I get around to sending them the invoice for the old one.
A Ryzen 9! Yeah the stock coolers on those are on the adorable side (they come with the lever, no?), and the performance is nothing to sniff at. Congrats on the new parts!
Hm, what's that about Noctua brackets? Order flubbed?
The NVMe is ludicrous and I'm honestly in awe. The fact that my old laptop (which I'm keeping for work— ain't completely broke) takes about 8-10 minutes to finish starting up makes for stark contrast
Noctua NHC-14. Bought ten years ago. Actually its successor is available in India now at about half what I paid inc tax+shipping from USA. Astonished to find they will give a free bracket for the Ryxen! They do say it takes over 8 weeks.
Yes, the cooler with a lever. And proper a heat-pipe system. And a decently quiet fan. Far cry from the noisy stuck on a heatsink things stock coolers used to be.
Haha, thermals haven't been kind to the old friend and I'm pretty sure doing a proper reinstall of Windows (and maybe a battery swap plus a move to a 2.5 SSD) will do wonders for it, but with the new job I honestly can't afford much downtime. Amusingly I'll still be on the laptop for work since I don't have a proper webcam so I'll be suffering still.
And yup, my interest in computers is nascent but I do remember what they were like in the early aughts. Even this relatively cruddy stock cooler from AMD (lowest tier, about two rungs below yours) is significantly more tolerable.
The ubersticky thermal paste is less pleasant though. Argh.
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