edit: If you want to be the 10th person to tell me about static discharge risks, please refrain from doing so. Thread temp removed because it was getting oddly popular for the wrong reasons.
This pain brought to you by wanting to install Bazzite Linux on the HTPC without dealing with spotty feature support. Didn’t really need the performance upgrade, just compatibility.
This looks like it’s going smooth, but I ended up having to also swap Power Supplies… Radeon 9070 XT needed three 8-pin PCI plugs, but only had 2 plus a single 6 pin. Fuck!
For reference the RTX 3090 (bought on launch before prices went covid batshit) now in the black cardboard box getting prepped for crazy people on EBay buying them for 1000+ used (??? VRAM demand and/or green brand good mindset?) only needed two 8 pin. I’ll post EBay listing if people want it, but I’m only selling within Canada. Power hungry SOB. Luckily the bigger old case used to have a rack of hard drives in it (very old reused many times case) so I had a 1500W PSU already and kept all the spare cords thankfully…
Old PC gets the RTX 4070 TI, more appropriate for 1440p anyways vs 2160p living room.
Stanford the Cat supervised.
Be careful working on carpet - might want an anti static wristband. Static electricity is a bitch!
I live dangerously, not really. Both are working can confirm. After LTT and ElectroBOOM showed how it’s not REALLY (As in, basically not a problem) that big a risk I just don’t care much. This is not advice, and I was only half clothed. Especially no socks, and house humidity is controlled.
I don’t think that was supposed to be your takeaway from that video
There’s playing it a little loose with ESD (not using a mat / resistive grounding strap), then there’s completely throwing caution to the wind (working on a carpet without any sort of ground nearby)
Glad you weren’t wearing your wooliest socks though
Many feel very strongly about this indeed. Next upgrade I’m going to wear the wooliest socks, a polyester shirt, have my nephew rub my head with a balloon the whole time, and post myself shuffling on the shag carpeted floor touching a video card with 28% room humidity in the dead of winter.
It’s where you happen to touch that matters. Less of big deal touching components’ ground pins or handling the GPU by its heatsink/shroud, but if you discharge into one of the PCIe connector’s main data lines your GPU is not going to be too happy about it. Same is true of many of the pads underneath the CPU but, again, it really depends what you happen to be touching when you zap it.
“That matters” is what you need to quantify with sources for me to pay that foreboding any attention. I don’t care about minuscule theoretical risks that only a mass production manufacturer need worry about. It’s not a risk that would leave me financial devastated let’s put it like that, not that it’ll happen, and I simply don’t give a singular solitary HOOT at all after 40 years doing this with no consequences.
That’s the only thing I was going to comment…the trust in those video cards, static and that carpet…
Holy crap.
Safety first. Came for the same. Left feeling proud.
The used graphics prices are because the 5000 series is kind of shit between:
- overpriced
- They have made the 5080 a “70” card and 5070 a “60” card and so on. See gamers nexus report/video on this where they dived into the features per card per generation and it has steadily had a gap open between 90 and 80 cards
- melting cable issues on 5080/5090 (the 5070 i believe doesnt have the power draw to have it happen)
- lack of availability of 5000 series cards. Inventory has been shit in a lot of places. At least here in the US I’ve been trying to upgrade from a 1070 for past few months (card on last legs) and it’s been next to impossible to get a card for a normal dull person. I hope my card survives until i can get a new one.
- Ai gen frames
Combine that all together and i wouldn’t be lying if i said ive given considered buying a used 4080/4090.
Neat project though. I do the same for my wifes rig. She gets all my old parts which works for her since she really just needs a computer for web browsing and light usage.
Wow. 12V 40X0 one of them had melting cables too yeah? Can’t believe they messed it up twice.
Exactly. All because they wanted to save a few cents and remove load balancing. Doesn’t take an electrical engineer to know thats a bad idea on something that can draw 600 watts
Literally just had my 5070ti arrive in the mail. My vendor has about 60 left in stock after fulfilling about 50 orders.
Benefits of ordering from the same places your computer stores order from I guess :)
I swear these comments. Just handle your boards by the edges, don’t touch the chips, and you’ll be fine. Alternatively, you can even touch a door knob, the metal door latch plate, or basically anything metal and attached to some kind of frame of the house to discharge static before handling anything.
I was kinda annoyed at first, but now it’s just fucking funny to me lmao.
I have the same CPU cooler! 😀
Damn. Afternoons where I get to do nothing but tinker around with my PC’s hardware are probably my favorite. I can’t wait until my Nvidia GPU is old enough to warrant upgrading to AMD. I’ve been trying to make Bazzite my home partition on my PC but the Nvidia support has for sure been obnoxious
Even as a big AMD fan, be wary about the confidence in the 9070XT driving 4k gaming especially at higher refresh rates. Older games it should have no issues but is still beaten by the 79000XTX in raster. It does however have better upscaling and RT performance, but it seems those of us on team Penguin will have to wait longer for FSR4 at least both in terms of hardware and game support
While this time nothing happened and your stuff survived unscathed, its not a big task to at least keep the stuff out of straight contact with the carpet.
But congrats on the upgrade. Nice projects
Sorry, but you’d have to prove it matters or it’s just old wives repeating outdated bad info from my perspective in this thread.
Is that pcie cover on bottom left from a dell poweredge?
It’s probably Dell something from one of my friends frankenbuild gaming used parts computers I do sometimes. I couldn’t remember what case it went to lol. You must’ve seen a lot of them!
