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GPU upgrades, hand-me-down PC getting new "old" parts. (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works to c/dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] im_john_here@programming.dev 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Be careful working on carpet - might want an anti static wristband. Static electricity is a bitch!

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Romkslrqusz@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Romkslrqusz@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"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.

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's the only thing I was going to comment...the trust in those video cards, static and that carpet...

Holy crap.

[–] SatanClaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago

Safety first. Came for the same. Left feeling proud.

[–] madkins@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I have the same CPU cooler! 😀

[–] wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago

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

[–] picnic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

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

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is that pcie cover on bottom left from a dell poweredge?

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

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!