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@nutsandvolts.bsky.social

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27 Followers  |  27 Following  |  122 Posts  |  Joined: 23.01.2025
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Why does my computer sound like R2D2..?!? @linusmediagroup.com

14.02.2026 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nothing more satisfying than cleaning up old hardware 😊

31.01.2026 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Death

Death

Ew

Ew

This is gonna need a lot of TLC… | Radeon Pro Duo wirb Full cover nickel and acetal block by EKWB
Block came bent from the factory so the card in turn is bent as well. Not going to try and β€œundo” it as extra stress on the bga and such, thing works so 🀷

31.01.2026 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Alive!

Alive!

EVGA

EVGA

It’s alive! One replacement bios chip, EVGA Z170 FTW working and Overclocking! Board would cycle though and get stuck on 4F originally. Yes bclk OC even works, got memory running at 4000+

21.01.2026 03:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yep it is!

16.01.2026 04:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Shunt modded Titan V

Shunt modded Titan V

Shunt modded Titan V

Shunt modded Titan V

Nvidia 0 - Power limit ∞ πŸ’ͺ

15.01.2026 08:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Some teaser pics leading up to delidding this beauty.
I would kill to have @highyield.bsky.social do a breakdown on the history of Crystal Well and Broadwell <3 pretty please ;D

11.01.2026 05:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Pi!

Pi!

Who hungry for some pi?

06.01.2026 09:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Benching the 280X didn't go well but with any cold session, cool pics!

22.12.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How did this go out of fashion...?

22.12.2025 11:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BRING BACK UV!!! Pretesting with the "chiller" and realized the antifreeze I'm using fluoresces from the LEDs on this board lmao.

22.12.2025 11:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yeah I drive a Subaru… How could you tell?

18.12.2025 03:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Feeling tropical again🏝️| R9 Fury Windforce 3X OC

10.12.2025 04:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Looks like I'll be able to unlock some extra CUs on this R9 Fury Windforce 3X OC πŸ’ͺ

09.12.2025 10:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As posted in the comments
"xPatrick on HWBot got the postcode working. You just need some 1.5k ohm resistor arrays.
If you don't want to solder stuff you can but a TL631 mini and plug it into the ESPI_DB header."

08.12.2025 02:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Free" testbench made from spare parts.
Laser cutters are great!

06.12.2025 09:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Back when brands made cool tools which came with their motherboards... pepperidge farm remembers | Asus OC Panel

04.12.2025 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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First time with Navi, furmark pulls 370w at 1.25v πŸ”₯
Crazy stuff, sadly couldn't push much higher on the stock aircooler, maxed out around 2160MHz on the core for FS.

25.11.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
RX 5700 XT Sapphire Pulse

RX 5700 XT Sapphire Pulse

GD-2 works great as thermal putty | RX 5700 XT Sapphire Pulse (Yes the missing one on the left memory chip did get applied, it was stuck to the baseplate checking clearances)

24.11.2025 06:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I WAS RIGHT!!! So many burned 12vhf connectors.
Shocker, bad connector is bad 🀦

23.11.2025 05:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cheat code unlocked.

15.11.2025 08:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fish and chips anyone? | Galax GT 610 2 GB Ice Scales

14.11.2025 09:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nuts and Volts`s 5871.79 DX9 Marks score: Unigine Heaven - Basic with aRadeon R9 280X The Radeon R9 280X @ 1350/1800MHzscores getScoreFormatted in the Unigine Heaven - Basic benchmark. Nuts and Voltsranks #null worldwide and #3 in the hardware class. Find out more at HWBOT.

Voltage limits removed on the R9 280X Toxic. Threw the thing on water and ended up taking 3rd for Heaven Basic!
hwbot.org/benchmarks/u...

06.11.2025 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Direct fets

Direct fets

Fancy

Fancy

Doublers

Doublers

8228G

8228G

V8 VRM

03.11.2025 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
k|ngp|n Tek9 Fat pulldown time
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Man this thing is slow...

26.10.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
SPEEEEEEEEEEED!!!

SPEEEEEEEEEEED!!!

Intimadating

26.10.2025 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Small Bench Meet at home with 65L of LN2.

#macro #macrophoto #macrophotography #LN2 #XOC #Asus #benching

20.10.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Perfect match!

16.10.2025 10:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Front page!

Front page!

Made the front page on HWbot!
Lessss gooooooooo!!!

03.10.2025 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tight! Contact frame goes hard

23.09.2025 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0