CatZoomies
2023 Reddit Refugee
On Decentralization:
“We no longer have choice. We no longer have voice. And what is left when you have no choice and no voice? Exit.” - Andreas Antonopoulos
Overall a solid build. However, dust is the big culprit there, but the other factor is the front of the case. Appreciating that I only have your pictures to go by, the front looks terrible for intaking air. Those holes are so small plus air has to make a 90 degree turn before it gets drawn by the fans into your case. It’s the equivalent of trying to breathe through your nose while one of your nostrils is stuffy - sure it’ll work, but it could be better.
Regularly cleaning your PC when it gets dusty will fix a lot of problems with airflow. For now, your AIO is doing a great job keeping the CPU cool.
If temperature eventually does become a problem, the next step is to swap your case out with something that has much less restrictions on the front. There’s lots of cases out there to pick from, but a solid popular one is the Corsair 4000D, to give you a reference point of what to look for.
EDIT:
Just saw you also mentioned your thoughts on upgrading your fans that I thought I’d respond to. I think you’re fine for now if you just clean your PC and make sure that air can get through those holes. If you notice temperatures get really bad to the more critical components, I recommend case swap to introduce more airflow. Your money’s better spent there.
It’s awful isn’t it? It’s super important that we vote with our wallets and we opt out. Just like all of us here in the fediverse have decided to opt out of places like Reddit. We’ll build our own community, and Reddit will continue to thrive, but at least we individuals said no and left.
Sure Nvidia will still sell so many video cards. The combination of us opting out, combined with all the reviewers criticizing Nvidia will invariably hurt their profits, albeit very very slightly. If the value isn’t there and the product doesn’t sell, the prices will drop over time which snowballs.
The only thing we can do as individuals is to not buy these things, and train ourselves to not make dumb impulse consumerism purchases buying stuff we don’t need. Thankfully, Nvidia just made it easier for us by releasing this dumb card. Use what you have, and flock to the competition when it’s time to upgrade.
The dev, Ruud (User Profile), who runs Lemmy.world also runs another Fediverse instance, Mastodon.world. If you go to Mastodon.World you can see their blog posts which talks about their infrastructure and Expenses.
https://blog.mastodon.world/welcome-lemmy-world
https://blog.mastodon.world/april-and-may-2023-financial-update
The VPS package they’re hosted on runs for almost $600 a month with a massive CPU, memory, and storage. I suspect now the expenses are increasing due to the massive influx of users. Now imagine Reddit’s costs serving over a billion people across the planet - Multi-million dollar contracts between Reddits and other corporations, tens of thousands of full-time salary jobs of engineers and devs, etc.
Running a Lemmy instance on an old laptop is extremely trivial. But serving Lemmy to tens of thousands of users is expensive and difficult. Lemmy will improve over time and hopefully we’ll see load balancing and horizontal scaling in the future. I’d love to see additional containers get spun up during large spikes of capacity.
This thread violates Rule 2 - “Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.”, and also violates parts of Rule 1. Locking it down as it got too political and mean.
Great! Do we have the technology to do a scratch off for 3D Pinball Space Cadet? I have RTX 3080, but my coins are from several generations ago. I hope that’s good enough?
I’ve been staring at this for 10 minutes now while drinking my morning coffee.
I think you did a bang up job. I’m proud of you, too!
