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Update / Behind the Scenes
🕑 Added 2022-01-13 17:30:09 +0000 UTC
Hey guys! Today instead of content or w.i.ps I decided to write a bit of whats going on ''behind the scenes'' aka my life! I also updated the WORK LIST!
So if youre just here for the content please dont waste time reading it all!
So recently Ive been noticing my pc getting some lag in games, some crashes in blender, things that didnt happen before... In the beggining I ignored it since I didn't have the best setup, so I thought it could be normal. Until december, when playing games like fortnite became impossible due to lag and stuttering. So I decided to start researching and monitoring my hardware to find out what was wrong, and soon I realised my pc was overheating like crazy, Im talking like 110C (212F) or more. For those who dont know yet, I live in Brazil, currently summer, super hot temperatures always, so that didnt help at all!
Ive got an watercooler at that time, so I never thought that would be the problem. But due to the problem I was facing I decided to get a new/better one and not risk loose my GPU or other components.
I got an Cooler Master MasterLiquid 240mm, not top tier, but it could do the job, or at least I thought so! Upon arrival, I noticed the temperatures were just slightly better, around 90C under stress, the maximum allowed for my Ryzen 5 3600 at the time, so no good.
Well, you can watch my struggle below (lol)
Ive had heating problems with this processor before, and since I had some money saved and it was christmas, I decided to give myself an upgrade as a gift (also birthday next week), so I bought a i7 11700k together with a motherboard and hoped for the best!
I built it up myself as always, since I live in a small city and theres not really good hardware stores around, and, for my surprise, the overheat problem was still going on! Though not as bad, I could only use the cpu on stock, even intel turbo boost would cause it to overheat and turn off completely!
So, since I had already spent a lot, a little more wouldn't kill, and so I got the best aircooler I could! (Got tired of watercoolers giving me bs). And so after days of research I got an Noctua NH-D15.
Well, by looking at the picture, you can already tell the size of that monster! Obviously, it didnt fit on my pc case! (My bad for not looking specs before, though my pc case didnt have specs online!)
Sooo, I had to buy a new pc case, a big, with good airflow one! Again after lots of research I ended up choosing an Cooler Master H500m! Expesive? Yes! But I was sure it was gonna fit everything! After the delivery, I had everything I needed in hands, and so I built it, took me about 6 hours to put everything together! Aaand...
It didnt turn on! EzLed said it was the CPU the problem, so I started all over again and built it again! It worked! Worked fine for days! But I had no fans on that case, which bothered me a bit since the whole point was to get better airflow! So I got a few fans and proceeded to install it!
Ez job, so I pressed the button and ... nothing again. It wouldn't turn on, and the EzLedDebugger was showing a CPU error (Again)! So of course I dismantled all of it, and surprisingly I found out I had somehow broken my cpu socket.
Or at least I think so! Picture will be attached so you can have a look if you want!
So here I am, writing again from the old pc with the Ryzen 5 3600, Im using it extremely underclocked down to 2500-3000Mhz (Ryzen Master Software) and constantly checking temperature! The ''new'' pc is under my bed and Im waiting to receive another motherboard I bought with the last bit of money I had so I can try and fix it for real this time!
If it doesnt work, I will return the motherboard and try and get another cpu instead.
I wanted to say the content wont be affected by all of this but it probably will, but I will still try and publish an animation by the end of this month if possible!
This all has been a terrible end/new year and bad luck at its core but thats life and it happens, so Im trying to stay calm and do the best out of it! New motherboard will arrive in about 2 days and so I hope I can finally get back to work.
Thanks for reading it all! I will get you guys updated on the whole situation as soon as possible!
If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to comment or contact me!
Hugs
Saigon β₯
Comments
jay
Sorry to hear about your pc problems! And don't worry about us, take all the time you need to get things in order π
