Almost modest Pin Cab upgrade

[Tom Speirs]

I guess you wouldn't expect the system to hardware reset after 1 second and I had the same issue with installation media.

We will soon see.

[Tom Speirs]

Okay, so i called it correctly. The new mb and cpu works fine.

I'm having to do a reinstall, the clone didn't work but that is a different issue.

its nice and fast. Windows installed very quickly.

[Draco1962]

Great news! I'd still look into seeing if the boot record can be rebuilt on the new drive unless you've nixed that and fresh installed over it.

[Tom Speirs]

Yeah, I started over. Way better idea anyway. Done now.

That old motherboard really was shite. Will be glad to be shot of it.

Now the hard part of getting it in the cab. I'll do that tomorrow.

[Tom Speirs]

I've had it running pinballx screensaver for a day, with only 5 seconds between tables. Seems nice and stable. i don't know much about temps but cpu 46 degrees and motherboard at 28 degrees. That is good right?

vsync is perfect in exclusive mode at 4k 60hz (4k 60 fps playfield videos) but it is on the old gear too. Oddly it was not perfect on the default Windows driver for the 5060. I'm quite pleased with myself that I got it to run so well on the old stuff. An i7 9700 and gtx 1660 is a little old now. i expect the benefit will be actually playing, not that i do that much. I am guessing playing was sub par previously.

Shame I had to spend another 450 pounds ($1 Euro!) but I am happy.

25h2 seems to be nothing but more bloat unfortunately though. As they say, enshitification at work there. i didn't run a debloater on it just manually removed apps, start up processes, devices in BIOS and was lite on the drivers.

i have not played with VPX much other than to configure it and test but I would say the hardware is a good choice for anyone looking to update in 25/26. Here it is in the end:

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
ASUS Prime B850M-K Gaming Motherboard
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black CPU Air Cooler
Samsung 990 Pro
MSI GeForce RTX 5060 8G SHADOW 2X
Crucial Pro DDR5 RAM 32GB Kit (2x16GB) 6000MHz CL36
(Reusing old PSU. Wattage is very good and the same).

It is not a budget build by far but possible for just over $1,000 US where you could spend up to $5k if you went crazy.

I didn't need to get the 990 pro or the 5060 over the 4060 or cheaper NVME SSD but the 990 pro brings less potential headache, and now the 5060 would be the choice as opposed to in January when it was not released. The 5060 is running at PCI express 5 and the motherboard supports 5 version NVME too. 2.5GB ethernet is a nice to have upgrade on the motherboard also. Saved me 2 hours copying the content over. They also have a Wi-Fi version of that motherboard with a few other improvements.

 

 

[Draco1962]

Your temps seem decent since is is running the program vs. an idle state where your CPU will be lower. 

What are your GPU temps?

Have you stress tested your build? I have been experimenting with OCCT  Personal free version and it seems to be legit 

Overall your kit seems sound.

[Tom Speirs]

im looking at the software now. it says 56 degrees for the 5060. its not in a case though and its not going in one/

[Tom Speirs]

i tested cpu + ram and 3d adaptive (gpu).. I only let them both run for 5 minutes but both maxed out on usage and power and no issues. Temps were stable in the green (no throttling going on) and ram didn't see bothered by anything at all.

 

i have no idea what PSU is in the cab but I matched the wattage of the hardware.

Did the PSU ATX standard change at some point with the 8 pin for the CPU?

It is whatever Bespoke Arcades supplied. Hopefully okay. I've not had any issues with anything with the cab to date. My only complaint was that Gigabyte motherboard with no tpm. I had no bsods or instability though.

thanks for the tip.

[Tom Speirs]

I tested the 990 pro too. No issues but guessing based on the third temperature shown it throttled after 90 seconds. The third temperature shown peaked at 82 degrees. The other two peaked at 72 degrees. I would think those temps are just what the drive does to manage itself.

Max read and write rates shown both at 4GB/s. I am guessing that is good. Although it is the top gen 4 drive available.

I would think that's all more than fine.

 

I always feel like I am burning things out with these kind of things so I'm done with this!

 

[Draco1962]

Overall sounds good. I usually leave off the drive tests. Glad the tip was helpful.

[Tom Speirs]

2 hours ago, Draco1962 said:

Overall sounds good. I usually leave off the drive tests. Glad the tip was helpful.

Thanks buddy. Am I imagining things with the change and an 8 pin PSU ATX connector now as opposed to four pin for the CPU?

[Draco1962]

Nope. They introduced 8 pin connectors (or 4+4) for the CPU on ATX PSUs in the mid-2000s as motherboards and CPU demands increased. 

[Tom Speirs]

23 minutes ago, Draco1962 said:

Nope. They introduced 8 pin connectors (or 4+4) for the CPU on ATX PSUs in the mid-2000s as motherboards and CPU demands increased. 

Okay thanks. I thought it was recent. I won't have a problem then.