For the bulk of this episode of Geek Therapy Radio, I talk about my
pitfalls and triumphs with high amperage wiring, and then in the fourth segment,
I talk about my small form factor gaming PC slash workstation build. It's a
fun one. Let's get into it. Welcome to Geek Therapy Radio. You've
got your mental curator, Johnny Hamburger. As I am recording this episode right
now, it is unfathomably hot in Houston, Texas, and has been unfathomably
hot since June. We actually had a pretty decent spring. You know,
we had some cool temperatures. I remember looking at overnight lows like up into
May, you know, kind of in the sixties and even upper fifties,
maybe the beginning of May. But then once we hit June, whoa,
I cannot remember it. I like to keep these evergreen. But it's August
third, as I'm recording this right now, I do not remember a day
here in Missouri City, at least here in Houston, Texas. Effectively,
that's been below one hundred degrees since probably mid June. I went out on
my patio in the shade just a few minutes ago. In my temperature reading
under there in the shade was one hundred and four degrees. Now, this
is one of those thermometers that kind of saves the highest and low temperatures for
a given period until you hit the reset button. So I put this thermometer
out there on my patio maybe three or four days ago. Tops, What
do you think the highest temperatures has read on that thermometer? Where do you
think it's stuck at right now? Just over the past three days in the
shade in Missouri City, over one hundred and seven degrees fahrenheit. It's like
one hundred and seven point one degrees fahrenheit was the highest recorded temperature just over
the past three or four days in the shade here in Missouri City, Texas,
and in most city. Oh. I don't even know the math off
the top of my head. For the rest of you in the civilized world
that uses a celsius to tell temperature, let me see. Let me see
fahrenheit two celsius calculator. What is one hundred and seven degrees fahrenheit? That
is forty one point six repeating degree celsius that it's been in the shade at
my house in Missouri City. So it's been very very hot. Alnino I
believe also or al Nina is in effect right now, and basically it's creating
this dome of high pressure over Texas, the central United States that just won't
freaking move. It's the Harvey of high temperatures. It's the Harvey of a
high pressure dome. It is just this dome of hot air that is sitting
on top of the century United States in Texas. That's just unrelenting heat and
the opposite of her Kane Harvey. No rain, Maybe you're lucky. This
is not supposed to This podcast wasn't supposed to turn into this, but welcome
to geek Therapy Radio. This is what I do around here from time.
From time to time. No rain around the city. There's been if you're
so lucky. Matter of fact, we're playing kind of rain bingo in the
city Space City Weather, Eric Burger in them over there, Matt Lanza,
we're kind of playing rain bingo to where we'll have like a pop up shower
just for a few minutes late afternoon, like the rush hour on the way
home. Oh, Jersey Village is a lucky winner today you have you got
a quarter inch of rain a sudden downpour in your neighborhood. Congratulations. Matter
of fact, I look out of my windows here in Missouri City, which
is close to Sugarland, Texas. I look out my windows kind of in
the evening and look at these thunderheads kind of building around. They don't necessarily
always turn into thunderheads, but these clouds are building, and you're just like,
come on, come on, it's like going to the horse tracker something
like that. Come on, come on, let's thundercloud, thundercloud? Come
on? Did I hear thunder No, it's just somebody bringing in their trash
cans. So if you're like me right now in August twenty twenty three,
and you live in Houston anywhere central United States, and it's just boiling and
you're just praying for rain and playing rain bingo with your neighborhood, I feel
you. It is crazy hot. That was a long, about four minute
roundabout way to tell you that I'm, of course, in my geek therapy
radio geek cave. I guess you could call it right here. Even though
it's upstairs and there's windows, it's not really a cave, but I'm running
the air conditioning unit I have to. I have my window air conditioning unit
running off of my solar panels. I have got a seven hundred and eighty
watt array kind of hinged on my fence at the south facing fence. It
works out beautifully running my air conditioner right now because I have to. I
cannot turn it off for this recording, because it's simply we'll get too hot
in this room that I could not bear it. It would be unsafe.
The only accommodation I did make for this for recording this show today is that
I set it to eighty degrees fahrenheit. I usually keep it about seventy eight
degrees fahrenheit, but I upped it to eighty degrees to kind of keep the
unit a little quieter. It's an inverter unit, meaning the compressor ramps up
gradually. It only pulls as much electricity as it's as it needs to keep
the room where you set it. So, for instance, right now,
to keep the room at eighty degrees, the compressor's pulling about two hundred watts
from my DC, my twelve volte inverter that I have connected to my lithium
iron phosphate battery two hundred amp deep cycle battery, just two hundred watts to
keep the room quite comfortable. I mean, it's set to eighty degrees,
but where I'm sitting is definitely below eighty degrees, and I'm just pulling a
measly two hundred wats or so if that, to stay comfortable. But it
is running back there, and it is running off my little DIY solar panel
ray, which is a good segue into what I actually wanted to talk about.
This segment doesn't matter solar panels, or you're working on your car electric
car, lead acid battery, you know, internal combustion. Car doesn't matter
if you're wiring anything up, especially things running at high amperage, regardless of
voltage, high voltage, low voltage, whatever, high amperage, high wattage,
whenever, any doing conversions and these things, and that I cannot stress
enough, and I know a lot of you electrician electricians are already know this.
The critical importance of having good solid wiring connections, good gauge wire as
thick of a gauge as you can use, as short of a run as
you can use, at the thickest gauge you can use, and making good
solid contact between terminals and connection points and good quality wire a lot of here's
kind of a warning when you look up on Amazon or eBay, or even
go to Harbor Freight or any any hardware store for that matter, autopart store,
don't make sure that if you're trying to do something other than just kind
of running some speakers in your car, make sure you're getting good quality copper
wire. Not like t a ten core outer layer sheath of copper wires,
but the majority of it is tin wire. You don't want that. That's
bad news, bears. And I'll kind of explain why I'm so but heard
about this getting it to the end of the segment. Here more Geek Thepy
Radio coming up. I'll tell you why I'm on this wiring kick here in
a second. Don't go anywhere more Geek thep Radio coming up. Welcome back
to geek Therapy Radio. You've got your mental curator, Johnny Hamburger geek therapy
radio dot com for more information and to get in touch with me. I
have a merch section on my website, and I'm not pitching you to buy
merch necessarily. I'm just telling you kind of how out of date my merch
section is. I set it up now man twenty eighteen something like that.
I haven't adjusted prices at all. One of you awesome listeners out there bought
a geek therapy radio mug. I forget how much it costs right now.
The bottom line is the end of this fate, this story, is that
one of my listeners, you're awesome, you bought the mug. It wound
up costing me three dollars out of pocket before all was said and done,
ship it to you. I got this notice from my hosting website hosting company
I guess called Wix wix dot com. It's awesome. They don't sponsor the
show or anything like that. That's just kind of how I host my website.
They offer they make it easy to integrate a marketplace and blah blah blah.
So yeah, I picked like mugs and a beach talent. Oh.
I remember I set this up in twenty twenty, right during the pandemic and
like supply chain issues and everything. So I had a mug on there.
I don't know, ten bucks or something like that I offered. When it's
all said and done, I got an email from Wicks saying, congratulations,
you made a sale. Here's how much profit you made. It was like
negative three dollars in twenty seven cents or whatever, and we took they took
it out of my PayPal or whatever. I'm not complaining. I'm not saying
don't go buy stuff from my story. If you want to go, if
you want to get there per radio mug or whatever I got in there,
that's fine. It cost me some money because I have not adjusted for inflation,
I have not adjusted for supply chain issues and things that affect the market.
I am just I'm so floored, chuffed, depending on where if you're
listening to this from overseas, that someone actually bought a mug that even when
it cost me on my end, three dollars out of pocket before all is
said and done, to send you that mug out. So I was so
stoked to know that someone out there is is drinking coffee or whatever tea.
I don't know where you're where. It may be from out of a geek
Therapy Radio mug at geek Therapy radio dot com. That that just made me
made my day. The main point of the website is that there's just a
contact form. The very first thing you freaking see on there's a contact form
just to tell me what your geek thing is, or make suggestions or just
talk to me. It does not sign you up for any mailing list.
I'm not trying to sell you anything. I'm not pitching you anything. It's
just literally another way to contact me. It just goes right to my email,
which, by the way, if you want to bypass, the website
is just Johnny j O h n n y at geek Therapy radio dot com.
So it's the website. You can go click around there do whatever.
I really got to update it and update the marketplace and maybe be a better
salesman and pitch it because y'all know that I don't tow the line around here.
So I'm not going to get much love from, you know, anybody
trying to sell my show for me, because I'll just be frank and I
really don't want to get into the side. Please don't turn off the podcast.
I know I've been doing this once in a while here in the show
where I kind of been talking about behind the scenes stuff. This show is
not like one reason that makes it kind of hard to sell it, as
far as like an account executive saying, hey, I like to you know,
try to get you some sponsors for your show. It's that I'm not.
I'm not a consumer electronics show. So high tech text and Michael Garfield,
a good friend of mine, awesome show here on the station, which
I'm broadcasting right now as it happens, consumer electronics, you know, making
recommendations of what he likes and what to look out for and pitfalls and whatever.
You know, the new smartphones or a new Galaxy tab s nine Ultra
tablets that are coming out, or a new TV, a four KTV whatever.
It's kind of consumer electronics based show. And mine's not because I would
say something like this four KTV sucks. Don't buy that four KTV. Here's
a better option that costs five hundred dollars cheaper, and it doesn't always.
And the reason why that is bad it is because let's say if I had
like Best Buy as a sponsor or something like that, and they're like,
hey, can you pitch that we got this new TV in there whatever,
and we want you to pitch it like I but it sucks, I know.
And so the very fact that I'm just going to be so completely brutally
honest about consumer electronics if I ever talk about when I ever talk about consumer
electronics, is it's not it's it's not so palatable for maybe a lot of
sponsors. Now, there is a store that I've spent a lot of my
own money at since two thousand eleven, two thousand and nine, maybe,
and that's Microcenter. I have spent depending on how much you make, like
a year's worth of salary over the past ten, twelve years or whatever,
at Microcenter. I would sponsor Microcenter. I would love to have micro Center
as a sponsor of my show because I I shop there myself, and I
know exactly what to recommend people. For instance, I'm building a new small
form factor PC myself. I'm getting parts from Microcenter. They do not sponsor
the show. Microcenter as of me speaking right now, does not sponsor Geek
Therepy Radio. But you should still go to Microcenter versus best Buy for computer
stuff, simply put. And that's why best Buy will never sponsor my show,
because I will say, go to Microcenter instead, even unsponsored, and
I am unsponsored, you should go to Microcenter if you want computer stuff,
hands down, flat out Microcenter. Anyways, in the last segment, I'll
get off that for now, I was talking about why I'm on this kind
of wiring kick and why it's so important to use the thickest gauge and shortest
run of electrical cable making the most solid connection possible between different connection points.
It's because, like I mentioned earlier in the show, and if you're a
longtime listener to the show, you know that I run my entire office every
single day the Geek Therapy Radio, geek Cave, or whatever you want to
call this man cave. I don't know. This is my office. I
run it off of my seven hundred eighty watt solar panel array that I have
bolted on hinges to my south facing fence. It feeds through a charge controller,
a sixty amp charge controller to my two hundred amp hour deep cycle lithium
iron phosphate battery that I've had since twenty twenty one. It usually runs great.
I've got a three thousand watt six thousand peak pure signe wave and burder
that runs all my hundred twenty electronics, including my air conditioner, which is
running right is running behind me right now as I record the show. It
usually runs perfectly, but recently I was noticing anomalies where the inverter would protect
itself go into like a standby mode. The my air conditioner, which is
an inverter air conditioner, inverter compressor air conditioner kind of tailor made for running
off of batteries, would come on and it would trip the battery or trip
the inverter to shut off. My whole office would shut off because the air
conditioner coming on. What that's that's not right? Actually, see you hear
that? Maybe you can hear that right behind me. It's the fan for
the inverter coming on, which is good. It's to cool off the inverter.
It's running as it should. I was like, why am I getting
on these anomalies where the inverter shutting off? Sometimes I would turn on my
firm and power supply. Those of you who work in recording studios or video
studios or anything, it's a it's a power conditioner distribution. It's it's a
glorified surge protect. Basically, why when I fired this up, is it
tripping the inverter to turn off? And why are the voltages going freaking crazy?
And all my readouts on my charge controller? What is happening? So
it turns out long story short and I was worried. I was like,
do I need to get a new deep cycle lithium iron phosphate battery? Is
it? Is it fine? I guess I've had it for three or four
years now. I mean, I guess that's pretty good. But this thing
is supposed to last, you know, seven to twenty years. And I
keep it charged at a good voltage. You know, you can go all
the way up to like fourteen point six volts to charge lithium iron phosphate.
I keep it like fourteen point four or fourteen point two. The shut off
voltage is like twelve volts, which is way above the low shut off safety
voltage of the BMS built into the thing. Like, I am very good
for this battery and good to this battery, But I was thinking, like,
do I need to spend another I think it's like six hundred dollars as
of recording right now for another two hundred amp hour deep cycle lithium iron phosphate
battery, Like they're supposed to last ten twenty years or so. I was
getting pretty bummed. And then I just kind of looked at the connections and
all the connections between devices, like the connection from the charge controller to the
battery terminal, the m A battery terminals, the connection from the battery terminals
to the three thousand person wave inverter. They did. They just look bad
and they had some a little bit of burning, a little bit of coloration
on the cables and near the connectors. All say, okay, there's a
lot of resistance between these wires and connections. That's not good. I bet
you that's the culprit. And guess what it was. And I'll explain why.
As coming up here on Geek their radio, don't go anywhere. We'll
be right back. Welcome back to Geek Therapy Radio. You've got your mental
curator, Johnny Hamburger. I am on this wiring kick, not necessarily wiring
up speakers or wiring up adrino boards or breadboards or capacitors and circuits and resistors
and diodes, not like DIY kind of small, you know, low voltage
tinkering type of wiring, even though it's still just as important in that as
well. I'm talking kind of more high load wiring. So going from a
deep cycle battery whether it's lead, acid or lithium or whatever have you,
to to an inverter like a two thousand watt pure SiGe wave inverter. The
type of sit where you're popping a lot of you're dealing with a lot of
watts and a lot of amps. It's critical that you have good solid connection
and as thick gauge wires as possible and as short a run of wires as
possible when you're dealing with amperages of that nature. So in segment two,
I kind of went over kind of these anomalies that was happening in my setup,
and just a very quick recap. I've got about eight hundred wots of
DIY solar panels connected to my south facing fence, running through my sixty amp
charge controller into my two hundred amp hour deep cycle lithium iron phosphate battery from
the two hundred amp bire lithium iron phosphate battery to a three thousand wat six
thousand wat peak pure signed wave inverter. And that's how I'm running everything that's
recording my show right now, my laptop, my microphone preamp tube microphone preamp,
by the way, tubes pull a lot of volts. My big giant
four K what is it, forty eight inch or forty two inch monitor that
I use. Here, my air conditioner running behind me, all the stuff
that I have just kind of hooked up, and lights and things charging,
it's all running off of that three thousand watt in verder pulling electricity from that
two hundred and alf hour lithium iron phosphate battery being fed by the charge controller
that is taking input from my seven eighty watt solar panels. That's a lot
of folk. That's a lot of amperage in wattage being tossed around, and
wiring and connections are important the anomalies I was facing. I have since upgraded
the wiring all around to pure copper. I made darn sure that my very
thick gauged wiring between the battery and the inverter is. I want to say
it's four awg. I want to say that sounds about rightful. That's very
thick, pure copper. Not the cheapest cables in the world. That wasn't
too expensive. It was like thirty five bucks for a pair of five foot
positive and negative cables, which positive and negative cables doesn't mean jack squat.
It's just the shield, the rubber around the wire. A cable doesn't inherently
carry negative or positive charge. It just depends how you hook it up.
Anyways, It's very thick, very solid mate connections, but connectors between the
inverter and the battery, super solid connections, super stable voltage, no problems
at all. The anomalies I was having before I rewired everything is that when
you have insufficient insufficient wiring or insufficient connections. You can have great wires,
but then just kind of crappy, not great contact connections. A matter of
fact, when your car doesn't start a lot of the time, it's just
because the connector the terminals on your batteries are corroded or whatever, just not
making a solid connection to the posts on the battery. That's that's what it
is. And essentially that was happening in my system here where the inverter would
do a pull. Let's say the air conditioner came on the my air conditioners
an inverter compressor air conditionery. It pulls very low water, just kind of
slowly ramp up, but it was tripping my inverter. My three thousand,
six thousand peak is prere syn wave inverter. And what was causing that?
And I know a lot of the electrician and electricians and people listening right now
already know what I'm going to get at. What was causing that anomaly and
tripping the inverter to go into a safety kind of standby mode or bypass mode
is called voltage droop or voltage drop, meaning that you have a lot of
resistance somewhere in the chain, and that when you have that resistance also known
as well a byproduct of the resistance is heat. When you have a lot
of resistance, you get a lot of voltage droop. So it was happening.
Is my battery that was charged to fourteen point four perfect beautiful godlike volts?
When they when something small even like the compressor turning on and the air
ramping up in the air conditioner, like even at one hundred watts, it
created such a voltage droop that it would go below the ten volts safety shut
off of the inverter, and the inverter would kick itself off. So I
had I was like, is my battery bad? What's what's happening? Why
am I is the BMS, the battery management system of the battery trip in
this thing? Why am I getting these anomalies? Why it's my inverter or
not happy. I didn't have great connections. I went back and checked,
and the connections could be better and the wiring could be better. And there
was a lot of heat coming off of especially the positive post of the battery.
It wasn't the post to the battery that was actually getting hot. It
was what was the real culprit was the coming from the charge controller, the
solar panels coming into the charge controller, and the wire coming out of the
charge controller was was a tin core like ti n cheap wire thing, and
it just like the connector point at the might screw was getting really hot and
actually kind of tinging the rubber shielding of the wires, like, oh that's
that is not great at all. And so the whole thing at that post
was not a great connection. Upgraded to nice thick wire as short as I
could run it nice connections, everything is super happy. I actually thought something
with the new awesome connections between especially two hundred and am hour battery and my
three thousand pure sun inverter, the connection was so good that I'm looking at
my charge controller and the voltage you know, of the battery and under like
a thousand watt load, it's still sitting there at like thirteen point two volts.
I'm like, hmm, that actually seems a little high. I'm not
used to seeing it under a thousand water or twelve hundred watt load at a
full charge. Sitting at like thirteen point two volts, that's that seems suspiciously
high. Actually it should be like I was used to seeing like twelve point
six, Like twelve point five, that was the voltage troop. That twelve
point six twelve point five was a result of that voltage troup going through the
crappy connections and crappy wires. Now that I have pure copper wires, short
fatty gauged copper wires running between everything, I'm getting very very minimal voltage group.
So under a huge system load from my small system of twelve hundred wats
or whatever, seeing the battery sitting there at above thirteen volts under full load
is awesome. There's nothing wrong with that at all. That just means I
got my connections and my wire e gauges and pure copper wire all everything's like
legit. And under that twelve hundred watt load, you put your finger,
you can comfortably rest your hand on top of that positive connection. Don't actually
do that. That's not safe to be touching barehanded connections of a one hundred
condreds of amp battery that can go to like a thousand amps up discharge in
a split second and just blowing your butt right out the roof of your head.
I'm just saying, if you kind of touch the connectors around there,
the wires around that positive term, and they used to be too hot to
the touch, now they're night like barely warm at a thousand watts systems running
at like thirteen point two volts under that huge amount of load. If I'm
at thirteen point two volts under full voltage, droop of the whole system,
like, that's awesome. The inverters, happy, air conditioners, happy everything
I'm running, my audio equipment's happy. Everything's happy. Go back if you
haven't. If you have any sort of electrical setup where you haven't checked your
wiring in a while and it's kind of something like a critical setup or high
amperage, a lot of wats running around, especially if you're doing a conversion
of voltages, check your connections with all that kind of stuff. Go back.
Here's your friendly PSA reminder from Johnny Hamburger, your mental curator here at
Geek Therapy Radio. Go back and check your connections. And you may be
driving around thinking, well, I'm not really into that. I don't have
any connections to check. Pop the hood of your fricking car and check the
connections to your twelve vote let acid battery terminal. Next chance you get when
you pull in the driveway, pop the hood, check the connections. Make
sure they're nice and clean and solid, and you will avoid a lot of
headache down the road. Pun intended, All Right, what was the next
subject I wanted to get to? I got my feelings out about wiring connections
and lord knows what else. Yeah, so I touched on earlier that I'm
my geek tinker right now. Like my biggest tinker project at the moment is
that I'm finally building my modest small foreign factor workstation PC, and I'll explain
what that is. I've always had the stream of since I mentioned earlier that
I run my office completely off of my little DIY solar panels. That doesn't
matter what happens to the grid, doesn't matter, what goes on, doesn't
matter what what happens outside of my house. If the power goes that I
still have two hundred and alf hour lithium battery. You sold the panel.
I'm still rocking. I can still do my work. It's everything is as
gravy. I still have backup power for running that air conditioner over like it's
great, but since I'm running off that power. When you run off of
any sort of power set up where you're trying to be as efficient as possible,
it just it made me yearn for when you set up like a solar
system, like a dy kind of solar panels set up, you start thinking,
even if you're running off a gas and generator, you're thinking of what's
pulling the amount of energy and where where can I save on how many watts
that I'm actually using. That's what spurred my dream small form factor PC workstation
build. And we're coming to the end of the segment here I'll explain exactly
what I'm doing with that small form factor workstation PC build in the next segment
of geek Therapy Radio. Check out the website, grab the podcast. Just
type in geek Therapy Radio podcast into your favorite podcast player and hit subscribe button
right now, but more geek Therapy Radio coming up I'm gonna explain my new
PC build coming up here. It's pretty sweet. Don't go anywhere. We've
all come back to geek there if your radio. I'm actually excited about this
segment because this is where I'm really I mean, I've been geeking out the
whole time on the show this week about freaking wiring connections and high amperage wiring
connections and pitfalls and things will look out for and the PSA that you should
check your wiring if you have any wiring that you haven't checked in a while.
Geeking out about all sorts of stuff here. But what I'm really,
like tinker geek happy about is this small form factor workstation slash gaming PC that
I'm finally building. It's been a dream of mine to build an ultra power
efficient but just monster gaming slash workstation rig for a long time now, and
I'm finally doing it. Because prices of PC parts right now, we're currently
as I'm recording in twenty twenty three August twenty twenty three, PC parts are
cheap. Graphics cards are cheap, ram is cheap. Solid state drives are
just freaking pennies on the dollar. Cheap, ridiculous cheap motherboards are cheap,
Like everything is as cheap as it can be right now in terms of building
a computer, building a PC. So I was like, you know what,
now it's as good as time as ever to do my dream small form
factor workstation slash gaming PC rig and I'll tell you exactly. Let's nerd out
about the parts. So first and foremost, the case that I have,
and I've had it for a long time is the Silverstone mL O six dash
E small form factor case with a three hundred watt SFX power supply in there.
The motherboard is an as rock B five fifty M i X board with
dual channel DDR four memory. Of course, so that's the it's a Mini
I t X form factor that's film fits into my small form Factor many I
t X Silverstone case. Now the real the bits and pieces that the that's
with the cheapest to many I t X motherboard I could find that as rock
B five fifty m Mini I t X has all the features that I need.
I think it's like one hundred what was it eighty bucks? Ninety buck?
It was under one hundred dollars, No, no, no, no,
it was one hundred and thirty dollars. Actually, since it was many
I t X. Many I t X is going to be typically a little
more expensive than m at X or just a full on at X. I
actually full on at X might be a little more expensive. The cheapest motherboards,
literally, the cheapest motherboards, the most an expensive motherboards are going to
be m at X since or micro at X. The more expensive ones are
going to be the micro at X, which I'm using in this form factor,
and then full size at X, and there's other kind of various different
kind of size motherboards. When I'm using in my small form factor build as
an as ROCKB five fifty M mini IX cost like one hundred and thirty bucks.
What about the processor, Johnny, the processor, I was tinkering with
the processor. I was looking on Amazon and Microcenter which processor, and first
I landed on and I actually put in my cart and purchased then AMD fifty
seven hundred X, which is an eight core processor. And you might eight
core, sixteen thread processor from AMD, and you might be still on the
AM four chip set, which is what my motherboard is. You might be
warning with Johnny fifty seven hundred X one out the fifty eight hundred X because
remember, I'm trying to build a small but power efficient monster rig here,
and the fifty eight hundred X is a one hundred and five TDP one hundred
and five wat TDB chip. In the fifty seven hundred X both eight cores,
both sixteen threads. Fifty seven hundred X is a six five watt TDP
chip, so I was looking for a sixty five watt TDP chip. So
I put fifty seven hundred X in the cart, feeling pretty happy with myself,
and then I remembered, wait a second. Am D made the fifty
nine hundred, which the fifty nine hundred X is what you can buy like
at Microcenter and Amazon. The fifty nine hundred was only available in OEM builds.
The fifty nine hundred the AMD rise in nine. Fifty nine hundred is
the sixty five watt TDP version of the fifty nine hundred X, which is
the one hundred and five watt TDP version. Both are overclockable by the way,
you can overclock the fifty nine hundred just like you can overclock the fifty
nine hundred X depending on their motherboards and up. So I said, okay,
let me just go peruse eBay here, because you can't just buy a
fifty nine hundred. You can't buy a rise in fifty nine hundred because it
only comes and pre built OEM systems. But I cruised eBay and I was
like, surely there's some there, maybe some of them floating around eBay that
have come out of OEM system Sure enough, Yep, we're about to say
no, it's like one hundred dollars more, maybe a little less than one
hundred dollars more than the fifty seven hundred X. I found a fifty nine
hundred am D Rise and nine fifty nine hundred for like out the door shipping
and everything, like two hundred and seventy bucks, which is not bad.
Fifty nine hundred is twelve cores twenty fourth reads my beast rig, my beast
rig with at rtx thirty ninety still in there. The CPU I've mentioned in
the show time and time again is he is a thirty nine hundred x twelve
core twenty fourth read just kind of previous generation one hundred five dB chip.
That thing pulls one hundred fifty watts, easily easily overclocked and running at full
load, if not more it's not a super efficient chip. I went and
looked at benchmarks, gaming benchmarks for the fifty nine hundred versus the fifty nine
hundred X and almost across the board, at least on this video and i'll
if I remember, I'll share the video link in the podcast description. But
the fifty nine hundred and the fifty nine hundred X a sixty five watch chip
and a one hundred and five watch ship was four frames of difference of frames
per second FPS and gaming. So it in no matter of fourteen forty P
four K fifty nine hundred, which is almost less, almost half the TDP
of the fifty nine hundred X was within four frames per second in these gaming
benchmarks. It is like red dead, redemption and Avengers and all sorts of
different things within four frames. So at almost half the TDP the chip is
like, ninety nine point nine percent is good. Ninety nine percent is good
as the X version with the almost twice as much TDP, it's crazy.
So it's a very efficient chip. Twelve course, twenty fourth threads. The
base clock is a little bit lower, and the max turbo boost is a
little bit lower. The base clock. I think at the fifty nine hundred
is like three gigga hurts. Max Turbo's like four point seven gigger hurts.
It's still just a baller chip et efficient chip to go on a small form
factor. I've got a very slim knock to a flat cooling. What is
it? It's not behind me? Hold on a second, wally, spin
my chair around here and keep talking to not trip the off air sensors.
I've about to cool my fifty nine hundred. I have then to a NH
dash L nine, a dash AM four, meaning it's the M four socket.
So what was this thirty bucks? I don't think this was super expensive,
hunder forty dollars something like that. It's I love Natuum, So that's
that, Johnny. What about the graphics card? Well, first, the
RAM, it's just thirty six hundred thirty two gigabytes of thirty six hundred mega
hurts RAM. I think it's Class eighteen if that matters to you. So
not the fastest, not the lowest. It's not like class twenty two,
and it's not class fourteen or sixteen. It's just kind of middle of the
road. I think that was like thirty seven bucks for thirty two gigs of
DDR four thirty six hundred Mega hurts Class eighteen RAM. The GPU is I
think I've talked about it on the show previously. In the past couple weeks
or times, I've been on the Best Value and Small form factor gaming Right
now bar none is the RTX A two thousand, sixty sorry six gigabyte Model
six by d R six. RTX A two thousand is a workstation GPU.
It runs completely off of bus power. There's no extra power connection to add
to this thing. It runs off the seventy five watts provided to the PCIe
four point zero slot. Although the the A two thousand is a seventy watt
TDP GPU, so the processor the fifty nine hundred i am d rise of
nine fifty nine hundred sixty five wat td CPU. Then my graphics card,
the rtx A two thousand is a seventy watt TDP graphics card. So that
is a very nice, efficient, but baller system rt NVIDIA, by the
way side, it has just released the RTX four thousand Small form factor seventy
watt card with twenty gigabytes of v RAM. It cost fifteen hundred dollars and
one of the model. Operating mottos of this build was to kind of be
like budget, powerful efficient, So fifteen hundred dollars graphics card in there it
was. It's that's a major overkill. So it's a pretty happy system.
Two terabyte and VAME five thousand read write and then a like a one gigabyte
SATA SSD for scratch and cash for video editing. It's a it's a little
beast machine for a very modest price considering the power. Anyways, that's been
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