Anyone ordered a prebuilt with RTX3080 from PCSpecialist.ie?

Squidgy Black wrote: »

If you out the Lian Li on its side like you have in the render it'll choke the 3 fans on the side completely and render them useless other than just circulating air inside the case just fyi

Forget to render it with Capita Feet like my Air540. DOH! No choking of fans but it'd look even more out of place in this location if it were even taller. I'm playing around with alternative positioning in Sketchup right now. O11 conventionally upright on the left corner of desk etc. (SKetchup ideal for this use-case)

Giblet wrote: »

No reason to have all of your DIMM slots populated, max dual channel anyway.

Even Youtube is getting in on my 'Confirmation Bias' A load of vids hit my recommended feed (I never googled the subject) about the best memory config for Zen 3 Ryzen 7/9 and the consensus across all the vids including Gamers Nexus is that while the performance/FPS gains are small topping out at 5%, the best Price/Performance/Bang/Buck/Future-proof (outside of specific use-cases) sweetspot is drumroll.......32GB of 3600mhz CL16 in the form of 4x 8GB Dimms (4x8GB better than 2x16GB due to Single-v-Dual Ranked Memory scheduling. ie. a load of tech mumbo jumbo I don't understand). BIAS CONFIRMED!! :D

Giblet wrote: »

It's just if you are gaming, the 5900x gets quite hot on stock cooling, more heat = less boost.
I have a similar setup to you, you have to be mindful of tower coolers with the X570-F + Corsair Vengeance. I use a Noctua D-15S myself, which is slightly offset and has clearance for both the GFX Card PCI slot and the RAM. Case clearance also applies.

I'd just install the AIO.

The purpose of the Mining 24/7 for the next 6 months or so till Ethereum GPU Mining bites the dust, is to pay off as much of the cost of the GPU/PC as possible. Not sure I want to risk those expensive components to an AIO leak. That would be the ultimate irony. Its looking like I will be doing a scaled down Media Server anyway due to the Media Server Air540 case needing to go on the extreme right of the desk thanks to my Sketchup visualisations. So the option of the Corsair A500 Tower Air Cooler 'Swapsies' is back in play as I'd be scaling down the server to 9x 3.5" bays with allows my spare 4670K mITX combo and an A500 cooler to fit alongside the drives in the conventional location in the left side of the case. (Remember the choice of A500 is purely aesthetic).

Getting back to Crypto-mining and Tax implications for a moment...

Given we are approaching the end-game period for Crypto-mining on GPU's and given my only goal is to pay off as much of the cost of the GPU as possible during this GPU mining Twilight period, would it be fair to say that mining on a single 3090 is unlikely to yield enough 'coin' in the last few months remaining where there would likely be enough of a swing in Crypto value to yield a Capital gains above the €1270 exemption limit. Unless I am misunderstanding things, if at best I could mine €1500 worth of coin in the next 6 months wouldn't Ethereum/Bitcoin (whatever I am paid in for mining) have to nearly double in value during that period to generate me a Capital Gain on the 'investment' higher than the €1270 exemption limit?? How like is that kind of Ethereum value swing?? So in my particular scenario of non professionally mining on a single GPU in the twilight months of GPU mining, surely I don't need to worry about CGT at all??

Following on from that, again I may be misunderstanding things, but if the Hardware Cost of Mining can be written off against the profits of mining wrt to income tax liability and I only want to and given this is the twilight period of GPU mining can only mine for 6 more months best case, I simply can't mine enough to profit over and above the hardware cost of the GPU and thus the GPU cost write off will nearly 100% likely be more than the profit earned. Hence no Income Tax liability either.

Given all that, surely its only professional Miners and Crypto investors that need to worry about Tax implications and I have nothing to worry about at all given my particular scenario and reason for mining and when I am starting mining?? ie. In these Twilight months of GPU Mining its incredibly unlikely I can mine enough or profit enough from crypto value swings to reach a threshold where I am liable for either CGT or Income Tax related to the mining. Effectively Crypto Mining will be 'un-profitable' for me and if I was getting into this to 'make money' I'd be insane because I wouldn't even cover my 'Costs'. However thats not a concern for me because I bought this GPU for VR gaming and 4K60 streaming first and foremost and any 'Income' I make from the GPU in the next few months is 'Gravy' and offsets some of the cost of my High Performance Gaming addiction.

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Then again, all this could be moot and small time homebrew hobbiest Mining might be as dead as a Dodo as soon as July according to Boardsie 'Harmless' who posted this over on the nVidia thread. If I didn't get the PC till the first week or so of May then would there be any point in starting to mine for a couple of months?

If EIP 1559(in July) hits miners really hard and they don't have an alt coin to switch to you could see cards going up on the second hand market at closer to RRP. There will still be a shortage but second hand prices could calm down.

However crypto is on another bull run and if it is valuable enough then it may be worth continuing to mine ethereum even after EIP 1559.

EIP 1559 + massive crypto crash is what gamers should be hoping for in July. It would free up some cards as small time miners could call it quits at that point. I don't think the massive warehouse full of cards will be folding so soon, they can still turn a profit with the very low electricity prices in the countries they are in.

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Again, I have to ask: why the Corsair A500?
There are better options like Scythe Fuma 2 or be quiet Dark Rock 4 that cool better, are quieter & will fit more easily while costing less.

A E S T H E T I C S !!!

:D

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Order confirmed to have entered the Building Stage. The extra markup on some of the components like the 5900X and RTX3090 was worth it to me for the expediting of this Rig by months or a year as nVidias recent statement shows this GPU drought isn't ending till next year in 2022.

Probably have the PC on my Desk next week!!

Its caught me on the hop though. I haven't ordered the other parts I need from OCUK yet as I wasn't expecting my PCS prebuilt for several more weeks. ie. AIO, Fans etc Can't do it today but will get onto that tomorrow.

blackbullet wrote: »

i drooling over this ill have a set like this some day but there is a shortage of graphics cards now folks i bet blender would scream full hd renders with volumes on this re u doing gaming 3d stuff dude.did u do an y test renders.killier set up

Were you asking me or Schmoo2K?

If me. I haven't gotten the PC yet to test renders on it. My latest post is about how its gone to the building stage weeks before I was expecting. I've tinkered with Sketchup on and off for years and a trial of Indigo Renderer but I do plan to learn more than the bare basics and start modeling my house to plan interior design and renovations etc. Signed up to the EPIC gamestore a few years ago, not for any game but because they were giving away Twin-Motion Real-Time Renderer with every signup for a while. I can't wait to learn more Sketchup and Twin Motion and render the house and then explore it in VR which Twin-Motion supports. ie. Pre-Viz in VR any ideas or plans I have for the house.

No professional use-case if thats what you mean though. I am but a humble shop-keep.

Main use for the PC and duties it takes over from my current 6700K&GTX1080 rig you see in the photo's, will be PCVR gaming, MS Flightsim 2020, pCARS2, HL Alyx etc. In addition I want it to 4k60 Steam in-home streaming of pancake monitor games to other other rooms in the house and a sibling who lives next door to me (on my wired gigabit network though) All TV's and bro have 4K60 video decoding capable KODI boxes (Odroid N2's)

I was going to build/order something more modest for myself last Autumn when Zen 3 and the 3000 series GPU's arrived and had already started accumulating parts for a build I had promised my brother with my 'Cast off' 6700K, Deepcool Assassin 3 cooler and an RTX2060 I bought him at MSRP back in early 2020 for the purpose. Needless to say Zen 3 and GPU's were impossible to find, my build and thus his build went on hold. Then a few weeks ago after some more research I decided that instead I'd build/buy a single once in a lifetime spare no expense build instead of 2 more modest builds because Steam in-home streaming and Oculus Quest 2 Wireless PCVR would mean both myself and my brother in houses nextdoor to each other could both use this uber build from the comfort of our own homes and likely never clash because we work in the family business and if he is on I am off and visa versa so never the twain shall meet....and try to log into steam at the same time.:D

As I mentioned earlier, all made even more palatable by the fact that the secondhand GPU market has gone insane too so I can get about €1000 for my spare GTX1080 and RTX2060.....and Crypto-mining for the next few months will combine to pretty much pay the entire insane cost of the RTX3090 I specced in my rig.

I don't need to worry about how to fit the printer and 5.1 amp on the desk anymore. They and VR HMD storage is moving to the SimRig Cubby Hole (which ironically was designed for 5.1 amps etc and we put in years ago when this Attic conversion was originally going to be a Home Cinema room).



Why you may ask??

Because I just backed/Ordered this on Kickstarter for September delivery!!

Giblet wrote: »

And I thought my bro's iRacing setup was ridiculous... (Although his Steering wheel has 20nm of torque to tear your hands off if set to 100%)

Its lucky your brother nor I have a real expensive hobby like....Golf

Shlippery wrote: »

You're best making a new thread outlining what you want and people will throw few recommendations together!


@Calibos any sign of yours yet, any ETA?

Didn’t update because it was still in its shipping box. Arrived April 27th. Was still waiting on some bits from Amazon and OCUK before starting the rebuild. Then unforeseen circumstances robbed me of the days off I was going to re-build it during. Then took it out of its box to start and realised there were a few more unforeseen small bits and pieces needed for a tidy build and I decided to wait for them too before starting so I didn't have to undo my planned clean cable management.

So currently waiting on a USB3 header 90deg adapter because those infernal USB3 Mobo connector is blocking my Vertical GPU mount. Also bought some M2 heatsinks and a pair of Noctua 80mm fans for the backplate of my GPU to keep Memory temps in check should I decided to mine with the card for a few months Adapter cables to connect the Strimer RGB cables and Case RGB Strip to the Corsair Commander Pro so that they can also be controlled by iCUE.

Small cheap stuff.......but no point in starting the rebuild and cable management until I have them. I’ve waited this long, I can wait another few days..

Not really worth taking photos till its done. Basically Case, mobo, cpu, gpu, ram and PSU was PCS but I am adding all the rest of the pretty stuff like AIO, RGB fans etc. So as shipped from PCS it was a pretty empty looking large case. Not their fault as thats what I ordered because they didnt have the exact AIO and fans etc that I wanted.