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The Birthday Thread!
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Flint_Hawk
Extraordinary
Carey
Extraordinary
oh by the way my image is only a few years old, I still do not have any gray hair or baldness, my forty year old son is both gray and going bald, he hates me...lol
Hornet3d
Wise
Happy Birthday to your mother, I hope she has many more. I saw a news report a few days ago, can't remember where, but it was reporting that a woman of 109 had survived the virus. Some of of our parents were built of really stren stuff.
Flint_Hawk
Extraordinary
Happy Birthday Ken Gilliland! Thank you for all of your awesome birds, etc!
McG.
Enthusiast
Hello Folks! I'm still alive! Been a while since I stopped by. First, thank you for the Birthday email and points update! Second, I turned 66 on July 1. I also got that economic stimulus about a week before that, and decided it was high time I rebuilt my computer. The "Main 3" was my big concern. Motherboard, CPU and RAM. Those items generally go together, while most other parts/components come along for the ride OK. It was 12 years ago I did this last. Yes, had an old Intel Core 2 Quadcore Q9550 (no hyperthreading), a VERY good Gigabyte Ultra Durable motherboard (GA8-EP45-ds3l) and 8 gigs DDR2 Ram for 12 solid years. That rig has gone through 4 power supply units, some ten hard disks, a few video cards, a box full of mice, keyboards and even three optical rewriters.
The thermal paste has turned into not-so-thermal chalk. The CPU has been overheating while doing very little even. My diabetes went worse, and I have been dealing with that, and it takes more serious attention than my fun stuff.
All spinner HD's are 'retired' now. I have 6 SATA 6 SSD's inside the rig now, along with a Pioneer BluRay re-writer. And I have ONE SATA port open yet. hmm! HMM! ;o)
I chose to go with AMD this time. So, picked a CPU, then finally found a motherboard IN STOCK to go with it, and 64 gigs DDR4 2666 Ram. Using my old warhorse, the BFG 8800GTX OC 768 meg PCIe x16 card. It's 1.5" longer than the motherboard is wide!
CPU is AMD socket AM4 RYZEN 7 3700X octal core (16 hyperthreads!), motherboard I found is an ASUS TuF Gaming PLUS (WiFi) X570. I am still using ordinary air cooling. The CPU came with a Wraith Prism cooling solution. Nice fan with heat pipe arrangement, and LED's, all programmable from the desktop! Yeah I know, I am slow and behind the times. That stuff ain't 'new'.
NOW I can render and the CPU barely even breathes. So, I have been pushing on it. Still not breathing much but IS starting to use a little RAM, up to 18 gigs (out of 64 gigs!) now with 8 Figures(all Gen4) and a backdrop prop. 5000 x 3000 full quality Firefly render, under 2 mins. I like that.
The gang at FantasyAttic picked out a name for it: BadMoonRYZEN!
The thermal paste has turned into not-so-thermal chalk. The CPU has been overheating while doing very little even. My diabetes went worse, and I have been dealing with that, and it takes more serious attention than my fun stuff.
All spinner HD's are 'retired' now. I have 6 SATA 6 SSD's inside the rig now, along with a Pioneer BluRay re-writer. And I have ONE SATA port open yet. hmm! HMM! ;o)
I chose to go with AMD this time. So, picked a CPU, then finally found a motherboard IN STOCK to go with it, and 64 gigs DDR4 2666 Ram. Using my old warhorse, the BFG 8800GTX OC 768 meg PCIe x16 card. It's 1.5" longer than the motherboard is wide!
CPU is AMD socket AM4 RYZEN 7 3700X octal core (16 hyperthreads!), motherboard I found is an ASUS TuF Gaming PLUS (WiFi) X570. I am still using ordinary air cooling. The CPU came with a Wraith Prism cooling solution. Nice fan with heat pipe arrangement, and LED's, all programmable from the desktop! Yeah I know, I am slow and behind the times. That stuff ain't 'new'.
NOW I can render and the CPU barely even breathes. So, I have been pushing on it. Still not breathing much but IS starting to use a little RAM, up to 18 gigs (out of 64 gigs!) now with 8 Figures(all Gen4) and a backdrop prop. 5000 x 3000 full quality Firefly render, under 2 mins. I like that.
The gang at FantasyAttic picked out a name for it: BadMoonRYZEN!
