Any PC Builders Out There?

Another vote for a mesh system here. Trying to add an extender to my garage ended up being money wasted. I'm a fan of the Google mesh routers, and they can be had for cheap in bundled prices. Makes it really nice to be able to run a "wired" connection to my/wife's PCs in rooms where the home base router isn't.

 

Anyone ever mounted a monitor vertically/sideways that wasn't exactly designed to be used vertically? We just upgraded my wife's monitor, so now have an extra monitor floating around. Figured I'd throw it on my desk to keep other windows open while gaming, but also don't have space to fit both side by side in landscape orientation. The only kicker is the extra monitor isn't vesa compatible, so the vesa mount I have won't work. I did find an adapter to fix that problem, but I'm not confident the design will serve the purpose for mounting vertically. Looks like it'd be sketchy, unless using horizontally as intended.

Anyways, the monitor is a Samsung CRG5 24". Seems to be a dead end trying to utilize it vertically, but I also know you guys always have solutions for random things, so why not ask around! Anyone know any simple solutions? Back of the monitor looks like this, so popping the case and drilling holes doesn't seem plausible:


Edit: ordered a universal clamp style vesa adapter mount that seems like it may be suitable for the job.

 

Just got ATT fiber, and their router. Looks like a newer model and I would assume it is since it was just done 2 weeks ago. I'll ask my wife to look at it. Thanks Rich.

 

Went with a hellhound 7900 xt from micro center @ $699 & actually bought a sky two from montech. Added 4 more reverse case fans!

 

I'll jump on the mesh bandwagon as well. Been running a TP link system thats a few years old now and it works great. Turned off the wifi on my providers router.

 

Yup its a wifi 6 router. Its an ATT BGW320-500 router.

 

I've been an Intel person since I started building my own PCs in 2009. Today I bought my first AMD chip and am quite excited to make the jump once I get all the parts in. Going from an i7-9700k a Ryzen 9 7900x.

 

I have the same one from AT&T. It's not a bad router and has decent WiFi. Not sure how your house is laid out, but you could choose a spot roughly halfway between your bedroom/garage and the AT&T router with the least amount of walls/obstructions, and put an extender/repeater there. The Asus router I posted (and most good routers) can be set up as a repeater/extender. Have your devices connect to the repeater rather than the AT&T router.

Before you do that, though, find a phone app that measures your signal strength, walk around and see how bad your signal really is. If it's only dropping a little, you may not get much better performance with an extender. Make sure your devices are connecting to the 5GHz band and not the 2.4GHz.

Alternatively, you can get a mesh system and wire the base directly into your AT&T router. Place the mesh point(s) in spots in between the base and your devices and use its WiFi.

You probably won't want to mess with it, but the AT&T firmware doesn't let you specify a DNS server, which pisses me off (they have their own DNS server they assign, which means they know everywhere you go on the internet and can sell that information -- not specifically your data, just aggregate data). This doesn't let me route requests through pihole to filter out ads and tracking. So, I have DHCP and WiFi turned off on mine and just use it as a modem. I use the Asus router for DHCP and all the streaming/gaming devices, and I have a separate mesh network for all the various internet-connected crap (lights, thermostats, fridge, etc. - amazing how much crap wants an internet connection these days).

 

I'll start with the signal strength test. I have an app for that already. Thx Rich.

 

Yes, been an AMD supporter for years. Went from a Intel Pentium III to an AMD Athlon XP "Barton" (Model 10, 130 nm) and a few in other AMD CPU's in between building for friends and family.

Currently running an old 2012 AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Thuban 6 Core Processor. Still meets my needs.

I gravitated towards AMD to support the underdog in hopes of helping keeping CPU prices down as Intel's prices can be very lofty. Also, AMD can provide good bang for the buck at times.

 

The X3D chips rule the roost for now. While the i9s can run with them, they draw far more power. There's strong rumors that the next AMD chips will have a big-little setup but with the little cores being far more powerful per watt than Intel's, which could be interesting. I think AMD staying competitive is just going to be a thing now.

 

Awesome deal on the gpu, but why is your cpu fan mounted backwards?

 

I've only built 1 PC, but in my research, all I ever read regarding PC fans is "faces suck", so it looks right to me. Looks like theres a fan on the front sucking, and a fan on the back blowing.

Edit: I see the correction and link below - disregard! Maybe this particular brand is different, but don't most fans place their label on the face/intake side of the fan?

 

Wife bought a new monitor, so I repurposed her old monitor to my battle station! I know the LEDS are a little much; just let me live my best 1st PC life..

 

I haven’t build a PC in a long time. TYVM for the help & heads up! I had both noctua 12A cpu fans on incorrectly. The front is pulling in now & the back is blowing to the exhaust case fan. I just checked my temps & you were right thank you! I’m seeing 5/6 degrees less now!



https://faqs.noctua.at/support/solu...e-direction-of-airflow-and-sense-of-rotation-

The fan cables were a lot tighter. Seems I mistakenly picked better cable management over proper fan orientation!

 

Here is my rig, it is a NAS, VM Host, Home Server, Cuda Compute Env with 2x Motherboards all in a Phanteks case with 6 20TB drives in ZFS pool. ASUS X99-E-10G WS MB, 128G Ram i7-6950X and a Supermicro A1SRi-2558F with 32G Ram. 3070 and 3090

Built it back in 2020, but aside from the video cards and HD's everything else was fairly cheap because it was pre-i9 tech, but with 10 cores and 20 threads it works well for a $250 refurbished processor that once was $1700

 

People like you make me remember I'm just some dumb idiot that likes LED lights and is mediocre at games, and actually have no idea how I built a PC by myself. I don't even know what you just said, but it sounds really cool

 

Some of these rigs are insane. Heres mine. 3070 ftw, ryzen 7 and all the lian li fans are the highlights. The lian li fans have a mirror on the side of them for added effect.

 

Not at all, the case really makes a difference, you built it and it works then you did it right. When I built mine, I wanted to buy the best older tech as I did not want to spend on the latest and greatest so that is why I built this PC. I do not build them often and this is the first that had LEDs and water cooled. Linux can rin on anything so you dont need a full rack of equipment. My son was the one that told me about the cases that you can fit an ITX MB in as he made his a Plex Server.

I still use my old PCs but I have been looking to decrease my power consumption so I found a mini PC that uses 7W of power but has some decent specs 3.4Ghz 16G Ram 500GB SSD dual network adapters with win 11 pro. Good little device if you have the need for just getting on the internet and surfing, email, etc. For the games and other stuff I will power up my other PC and use it. Now I just let them go to sleep when not in use. You all inspired me a few years back to build something kind of cool so I did and I think it is cool.


Not a plug for these but for a cheap device, low power and all it works well.

 

Glad I could help