xevious1974

October 25, 2022

1 hour ago, skizzosjt said:

You wouldn't want to try to install an AIO with the MB installed in the case. Or, at least not assuming you need to also install a support bracket on the rear of the MB for said AIO, because that must be done with it out of the case. Here I say avoid an AIO unless you want one for aesthetic reasons. (it looks cool sort of thing). 11400F can be cooled by Intel's basic included cooler so you don't necessarily need a better one unless you're trying to run with higher power limits....which is likely what was changed in UEFI (BIOS) since this is the only thing I know that exists that could make you hit 100C+ temps on such a run of the mill chip. (that is besides doing other mistakes that wouldn't go away from changing an option in UEFI)

A standard fan is 25mm thick and can fit on either the back or the front of that side panel mount point. See those slots to either side of this area? (I marked one side of these slots in yellow) Those are the mounting points for fans and rads and any other standardized gear that follows the 120mm footprint. As far as intake or exhaust goes, that is decided by the orientation, rather than which side of a mounting point it is placed on. These pics below will hopefully explain how to tell which orientation creates exhaust or intake. Please note you mentioned "push air from front to behind", and if I understand that correct, it's what I am recommending against, as that acts as exhaust and you do not want hot air coming off the GPU and GPU etc going into the back compartment. I recommend making it intake. (Literally orientate your fans 180 degrees from my previous posts pic as another photo to reference). Intake in this context means a fan on the side panel will suck in cool air from outside the case and push it inside your case. This will create cool air flow into the back compartment which will help keeps the disks mounted back there cooler along with also helping cool the PSU. This means if your fan(s) are mounted to the side panel area and you are looking into your case, you will be looking at the rear of the fan, where the support braces and hub are

Consider this pic. Notice you can see the "front" side of the fan facing the inside of the case? This side of the fan is where air will be sucked into, aka, the intake side. Meaning air from inside the case gets sucked into this fan, and then exhausts the hot air outside of the case. Considering all this as a whole, this fan is acting as an exhaust fan, which is perfectly appropriate.

Notice how on these fans you do not see the "front" of the fan. Instead you see the "rear" of the fan from inside the case. Take notice of the yellow lines I drew over the support brace on the backside of the fan. This is an easy way to identify which side is the front or rear. The "hub" is on the rear. If you took those stickers off this is where you would place a drop of something like 3 in 1 oil to lubricate it. The rear side is the side with these braces. If you were to pick up a fan and look at the side with these braces, if that fan was turned on it would be blowing air into your face. If you then turned it around so the braces are facing away from you, it would be blowing air away from your face. So based on the orientation the fan is installed is what determines if it is acting like intake or exhaust. The front fans are therefore acting as intake, also perfectly appropriate

Right now you have front to rear case air flow and more intake than exhaust which is good in my opinion. it creates more positive air pressure which means if there is more air coming in, than going out, it makes it much harder for dust to settle into your system.

You have a problem if you're even close to 100C. Even though 80C is acceptable, 70C sounds more in line where you should be according to reviews. This is why I think the power limit was cranked to reach those high temps.

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-core-i5-11400f/21.html

Dear @skizzosjt,

thank you very much for your kind reply!
I think I am understanding.

So, I'll mount a new fan on that lateral panel as intake.

I dont want to push my cpu, so I can save some money here and invest on 2 more fans to mount on the top of the case...here I have a lot of place! It is good to put them intake here also? I was thinking to put one next to the front and maybe the other one above the cpu. Or it is bettere to mount one on the bottom as exhaust?

Sorry for the questions but you are helping me a lot and I'd like to learn something!

October 24, 2022

On 10/21/2022 at 4:27 AM, skizzosjt said:

On the CPU, sounds like you might have turned on some "auto overclocking" feature? If so those are notorious for being terribly optimized. They will in fact give you more performance, but at a cost of way more temp. Those things normally pound the voltage in and as a result will make the CPU run pretty darn hot. The MB manufacturer doesn't want ppl to use these features and have their system be all unstable because the voltage is a hair too low, so they crank it to make sure the system is stable. So now knowing a bit more of this story as a whole, I could see the high temps being caused by an auto overclock or maximum boost type feature which means there is a bunch more of hot air getting dumped into the case from the CPU cooler and as a result the HDDs ran hotter due to the higher ambient temp in the case. Overall, I think you're making good adjustments for the problem but might need those extra fans if you aren't fully satisfied with temps after you have had a chance to really evaluate everything.

I had the i5 8400 with a mobo asus TUF, I had never problems with cpu temperatures.

So I have bought a similar one. i5 11400f with another asus tuf mobo (b560m plus wifi). When the cpu touched 100° I was a little surprised. luckly I have thought to enter the bios and check for something different from "default". From that time I have never touched again such temperatures and usually it goes 70-80 when I am playing. I dont know if it is good, but for sure it is better.

October 24, 2022

On 10/21/2022 at 4:27 AM, skizzosjt said:

might be a language translation error here? I'm not sure where you were going with the dirt or hurt comment. If the temp question is about how cool my disks stay when in the dock since they are not in a case where they get good air flow they will run a little hotter than if they were in a case. As in they will not run at a cool 31C sitting in a dock, unless you get a dock with built in fans, they do exist but will cost more. I have my dock basically next to my feet when I'm at my desk and I can hear some light "whirring" from them and they are warm to the touch, but not hot. I use HWInfo64 for monitoring temps and temps will depend on the ambient temp of the room/building you are in. My HDDs in the dock normally are in the 30s and 40s when in actual use. low 20's when I boot up, and when idling mid-high 20s and then climb to the 30's say after 30mins and eventually 40s when in an extended use time frame. Depends on the disk model, some run cooler than others.

And to close this post out I'd say yes you can get any size dock that suites your needs. Get whatever one you want that has the features you're after. You do not have to populate all the bays, you can leave them empty if you got a bigger dock like a 4 bay model. If you only have 2 disks to go into it for now that is fine. It gives you room to upgrade should you want to have more disks in use at the same time down the road.

I have saved my last comment...a little afraid to loose what I have written

For the docking station, I think I'll look for something that can operate with fans and protect from dust. I have also a little girl here that sometimes does not look where she goes...and I cant loose my data!! But I have to find something good.

Now I have bought some argb items and I am having fun...I have put led all over the desk ahahahhaah

October 24, 2022

Ciao @skizzosjt

Just returned on my pc now!

I post you some photos of my case, so I can explain better:

This is my case. You can see my first HD on the bottom. Here I have a good temperature. I have only one fan behind (120) and 2 front (140). I think I'll add 1 on the panel you showed me, it is a good idea. And then I'll mount some on the top. Id like to mount a liquid cooler on my cpu...but I dont want to remove mobo..I cant reach it from the behind...

How you can see, there is a good place for a 120. But I'll have to remove a little panel from behind.

That is the back. You can see a secondary HD put in vertical and the little panel that I can remove to insert the fan. On the right psu and over the other HD. I have choosen to put on the external slot to gain 2 cm from the mobo.

Now you can see the hole removing the little panel. I dont understand anyway where to put the fan. From the back or from the front? I was thinking to make the fan able to push air from Front to behind, it is right? That is what you call "intake"? I am not sure that it'll push a lot of air because the HD is a bit far from here and it is not directly hit, but maybe it can help to make some air moves. Here we say that "something is better than nothing". I was also thinking to put a little fan (100) in the missing hd slot, maybe I can obtain a good direct airflow...I am not so sure for the vibration, but I can make a low rotation on it...

October 20, 2022

Thank you for yours replies!

1 hour ago, skizzosjt said:

let's not gloss over the comment you're not getting the proper cooling your system needs. I highly recommend to address that! poor cooling will not go away or should it give you any piece of mind by removing your disks out of your case. The heat is going to be coming from likely CPU, GPU or possibly PSU, but frankly never heard of anyone improving temps by removing a HDD or two out of their case. They don't produce enough heat to be the culprit. If I were you, I would explain this situation further so you can get some help on how to improve it. It's not always a just toss money at it and get more or better fans. Having them setup in a proper configuration is just as important. Certain PC cases are much better for allowing good airflow compared to others. Improper cooler mounting. Ambient temps...etc are some of the factors that could be lending to your cooling challenges

I have changed my pc. Usually I take classic case with a good airflow and I am used having HD next to frontal fans. I have inserted in the order a case but the sellers reported me that the case was not able to support 4 HD, so I have changed it with a bit of hurry, without looking it very well. I have choosen a Lian Li 011 mini air, I have read review and looking at it seemed good.
These new case separate PSU and HD in a not visible area, behind the mobo. I have stocked my two HD and their temperatures were of 40° and 50°. I dont like that, so I have put and HD on the front, fixing it on the bottom of the case, it is not the right place but now the temperature is 31°. Also my CPU were a bit hot, but maybe I had some optimized option in bios that I have removed and now seems to be acceptable. anyway I have the other HD stocked in the invisible area and his temperature is about 38-40°, there are no fans there, so I was thinking to move the 2 hd in another place. I admit that having it on the bottom does not look so good...

1 hour ago, skizzosjt said:

I think they are saying they want to put two HDDs into a single dock, rather than combine the contents of two HDDs to a single HDD. @xevious1974 if I misunderstood, sorry, just ignore my post about the dock

Yes, you are right. I am not so good to handle different situations, so I prefer to use them separately. I'd like to see them for what they are.

1 hour ago, skizzosjt said:

about the dock. do you already run LB/BB on these HDDs? if so moving them to an external dock should not impact anything. A HDD cannot saturate USB 3.X and it cannot saturate SATA III which I'm sure is what you had it connected through when they are inside the case. In other words the bottleneck is the HDD itself, the connection protocol used doesn't come into play limiting performance in this scenario. it means you could get any dock that has the features you want and call it a day if that is the case. for what you provided so far I'd be looking for a dock that has two bays so you can have both HDD's installed simultaneously. Something like this should cost about $35 - $55 depending on the brand and specific model......don't fall for the bait about the marketing BS that says a specific model is rated for something like "up to 12TB drives".....there literally is no such thing as a limit like that....as if your dock and PC cannot communicate with the disk if it's beyond a certain size. (this isn't the days of FAT32 file system) If it's a dock with some extra features, maybe those extra bells and whistles features do not work on drives beyond their stated max, but for reading or writing data to disks in the dock, such as a LB build, there is no problem there.

I use this guy specifically for not having any HDD's in my PC case to eliminate the noise as well as make room for other SSD's to use the bays they were once in. Now I can turn them on only when needed rather than they are on the whole time the PC is powered up. Not necessarily saying "get this model" but it sounds like it would cover your use case. To be clear though this works well for my use case, which is just data use, not booting from them, so similar enough to your use case (storing LB data). I would use this as a starting point, and you should shop around for a unit that's available in your region, I know prices and availability of items can change country to country. You certainly do not need USB 3.2 gen 1 or 2 if all you're going to use these for is HDDs. if you ever plan to put an SSD in the dock, USB 3.0 is still technically fast enough for any 2.5" SATA III SSD. Not until you get into SSDs that are NVMe would they be able to saturate USB 3.0 speeds. I do not run LB/BB from this. Personally I wouldn't run my OS or software from an HDD anymore, I appreciate the snappiness of a SSD. So I use these for mainly storing games I cannot fit on my SSDs in the PC case as well as backing up stuff. Note how silly this marketing BS is here....title shows "up to two 12TB disks"....read the description "up to two 18TB disks".....it's just the manufacturers way of saying they tested it with disks up to this size but USB doesn't care how big the disk is. Those were likely the biggest disks out on the market at the time when this model was released a few years ago.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PX2HHD6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Thank you for your suggestion! I have seen that product and it is the easiest way to handle what I need. What do you think about dirt? What do you think about little hurt that can take? And what do you think about temperature?

Yeah, maybe I a bit worried about my hd, but you know...I am working hard on my LB config from 3-4 years, and I cannot loose all for a mistakes. I have a little backup on an 8TB...and I have to update it. In fact I'd like having more spaces, like 3-4 slot, to add also my backup. Can work that? What do you think?

Thank you again for your time!

October 19, 2022

21 hours ago, TJ_on_Launchbox said:

I have used Seagate external Hardware and also Western Digital.
Both run fine.

If you want to copy your entire Build then use "Teracopy".
You can use the free Version. It did the Job perfect for me.

If you copy like 8 TB at once then you have a Pause Button. The next Day you just click on the Button and it continues to copy where it stopped the Day before.

Thank you for your reply!
Your external device was for 1 HD or for more HD in the same device?

Because I have 2 differents HD that I'd like to move outside the case in a single external device (with a good cooling system) and I'd like that windows will see them separately...I have inserted too many paths to change all.

But I admit that I dont know what I am talking about, I dont know which system/device/hardware can be used.

October 17, 2022

Hi,

I have changed my pc and I am not very satisfied with the new cooling system. So I was thinking to put my 2 hd (14 and 18 TB) on an external hub/dock station or other linked to my pc with USB (3.2 gen2 or gen 1)

But I dont know which hardware to use. Any of you use LB/BB on external hardware? Can I use the first that I like?

Can you help me please?

October 1, 2022

On 9/30/2022 at 12:50 AM, Fugus said:

Was it approved on your end? Maybe they only delete entries once a week or something?

I see the game. Maybe you are right, it'll happen soon

On 9/30/2022 at 12:50 AM, Fugus said:

Edit: And on the bright side, I think I might have either added all or near all of the missing US Wii U games to the database and added some missing cover art to a few others. That stuff gets tedious. Might not be the best quality artwork but low quality is still better than nothing at all.

I totally agree. We have time to improve quality but meanwhile something is better than nothing.

September 28, 2022

it was not marked for deletion from what I can see.

So I have marked it. Let's wait to see.

Anyway you can help moderating to speed up the process

September 20, 2022

Retroachievements ARCADE playlist xml

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Hi all friends!

I have created this playlist to make it easier when you want to play retroAchievements for arcade!

I have added 207 games MANUALLY!!! 🤣

You can find the original list here:

https://retroachievements.org/gameList.php?c=27

there are 211 games in total BUT:

-Street Fighter Alpha 3 | Street Fighter Zero 3 [Subset - Bonus]

-Tetris the Absolute: The Grand Master 2 Plus

Are in the parent games, so you have togheter the first rom.

And

~Hack~ Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Plus ---> it is not in the mame, I have not understand where I can find it. Also monkey ball bin is not in the mame but I have added the mame version (you have to change that)

~Prototype~ Marble Madness 2: Marble Man ---> I have set 242 and this game is available if you got 245 or newer...

You can find also a logo that I have created using the original RetroAchievement logo.

If I am inspired I'll prepare also a video...we'll see

I hope you enjoy this

Have fun!

Submitter

xevious1974
Submitted

09/20/2022
Category

Playlists

September 15, 2022

51 minutes ago, Retro808 said:

You can do this. The purchase will be in your information so it would have your email/name. After you make the purchase email the team and you can ask them to issue the license in his name since it is a gift. They should be able to update the license and send you a new one.

support@unbrokensoftware.com

Thank you a lot Retro808, and sorry for the questions

☺️

September 15, 2022

to be honest, what I'd like is:

I pay and I receive the licence, then I prepare a USB with LB installed and with his licence.

Do you think I can do something like that?

September 15, 2022

To be sure

If I buy a licence for a friend, in the form, I can insert his email and then I insert my Credit Card to pay?

he'll receive the mail with activation or the licence?

I'd like only to be sure that he can have the licence but I can pay for it. (I dont want that he knows what I am doing before I have done it, it's a surprise!)

September 15, 2022

28 minutes ago, Retro808 said:

Only discounts have ever come on Black Friday. The past 7 years of using LB I do not recall any type of grandfather or friends discount. When LB price changed Jason did grandfather licenses purchased before the increase to only be charged the old price when they renew their license. That is the only grandfathering I have seen.

Thank you very much, Retro808.

🥰

September 15, 2022

Hi all!

I know that this software is worth each cent of his cost. I love it and I try to support it as I can.

I have a very dear friend, and I'd like to gift him a license. He is on hyperspin, gameex and other frontends but he is not satisfied, and we know, here, that only Launchbox is the best program!

So, I think I have seen in the past a sort of grandfather or friend discount. There is something like that at the moment?

Sorry for the miserable question.

Regards

LB FOR EVAHHHH

September 14, 2022

On 9/8/2022 at 12:15 AM, Mozza said:

Awesome and crazy with equal measure!

I am super jealous and I hope you put in some serious time to enjoy your collection!

Fun fact: If you play 1 game per hour for 11 hours each and every day, you can through this collection in around 50 years!

205,039 ÷ (365.25×50) = 11.23

I have thought that hundreds of times!

I have something like 218k but in 16 TB. I'll never try them all. But...you know...because I dont know 🤣 I am just lost! I have fun with retroachievements right now!

August 25, 2022

Pink Paw Award (Windows Playlist)

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Hi all!
I was searching for some new playlists to create, today there are too many games, so I'd like to discover some little gems that I can miss.

I have found this one, by FitGirl. Yes, it is a little weird but he/she "handles" a lot of games, so, why dont try it?

In the playlist I have found 2 games that I liked a lot (Unpacking, I loved him, also my daughter) and I think that you can find some strange games here, that can be easily missed.

So, I have created a little intro video (just modified one found on youtube), a logo, and the xml. All the games are in our DB, 2 were missing but I have added them.

Tell me if there is a great game inside, so I can try it!
I hoped the Twelve was inside, I loved that game. But I am preparing my personal 100 top games and I have inserted it. I know that you all dont sleep tonight waiting for my top 100!! 🤣

Anyway, I hope you can enjoy it.

Love

Submitter

xevious1974
Submitted

08/25/2022
Category

Playlists

June 23, 2022

On 6/17/2022 at 1:18 PM, Retrofrogg said:

Have you looked at the goodsets?

I was thinking that a Tosec set was more complete, am I wrong?

Just asking to learn ☺️

June 23, 2022

I have inserted some Mags, like Zzap! crash Nintendo power and so on. I am using CDisplay, it works great.

I have also planned to insert some guides and some Computer Book, like Ocean collection and similar.

June 1, 2022

To group games I usually use Playlist

If you want to put your games together with MS-Dos, then create a playlist

But if you want to add them apart, you should create a dedicated platform. Call it Doom Msdos and scrape it like Ms-Dos, should work

May 30, 2022

I have imported successfully using the "folder option"

But the error keep on going using more files

May 30, 2022

Hi all!

That is a new error that now is happening.

Usually I use 2 different way to import roms:

1) I select all the roms that I want to import and then I drag&drop in LB. Then appear the import screen that we know

2) I select from tools "import roms", appears the screen, I select "files" and then add all the files that I need, inserting in the right up corner *.cue or *.fpt or others and then select all and click ADD. LB add all to the screen and I proceed.

At this time, instead, with method 1) it does nothing. If I drag&drop 1 or 2 roms it starts, if I drop more then 2 roms it does nothing. I have tried different ones, nothing. Instead if I pick 10 icons from desktop and drop them...it Starts!

With the second method LB show the message that I attach. If I select 1 or 2 roms it adds them, if I select 3...error. II have tried different ones but nothing.

It is very strange, maybe something has been damaged?

Thank you!

ErroreImport.bmp

May 28, 2022

8 hours ago, sundogak said:

Everyone has their priorities on features they want to see added. Every poll, I am surprised on what makes the cut or not from user vote side. But specific to your idea, I don't use different themes on playlists now, and most definitely wouldn't use different themes at a platform/category level...visually I think it just makes it too much. Although I geek out on all this stuff, my experience is friends/family that might use BigBox, prefer the "keep it simple" approach. Plus, a "good" theme is already a difficult thing to pull off. Adding in more complexity (interface/graphics wise) means someone has to spend a lot of design time to make each of those categories/platforms/playlists themes mesh without looking like a jumbled mess and/or so confusing people cannot figure out what is going on.

Ultimately, for me, it isn't that it is a stupid idea, it is just that I see a whole bunch of things I would want to see added before that.

Thank you very much for your reply!

Yes, I understand what you are saying and it is absolutely true! I wasn't thinking about that.

My BB is a little confusing. For sure it is not simple because I like having a lot of different views, style and so on. But you are right, not everyone could like that mess!

This gives me the opportunity to reflect on myself. I think my BB reflects a lot of what my character is. I thank you again very much for this thoughtful stimulus that you have offered me.

May 27, 2022

44 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

I think the thing is, no one cares.

Yes, you are right. But why? It is a stupid idea? Or simply we dont need?
My collection is always expanding and updating, maybe I am a bit exaggerated? 🤣

May 27, 2022

1 hour ago, DeadVoivod said:

I like your idea, but you made me laugh with the Barbie and Batman collection 😆

All the world loves Barbie and Batman

🤣

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