My new computer...

[birdguy 3,943]

My new computer arrived today.  When I sold my house and moved into a retirement community I bought a new Alienware Computer for flight simming.

1350 watt liquid cooled power supply.

13th gen Intel Corel i9 13900KF (24-core,68MB Total Cache.  3.0 to 5.8GHz P-Core)

64GB, 2x32GB, DDR5, 4800MHz

4TB M.2 PCle NVMe Solid State Drive

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB GDDR6X

Intel Killer Wi-Fi 6E AX1675, 2x2, 802.11ax, MUMIMO Bluetooth wireless card.

Don't ask me what all that means.  I have my guru coming over on Monday to set it all up for me.

The retirement home I'm in has limited WiFi so I have a remote hotspot from my phone service - T-Mobile.

Noel 

Edited May 20, 2023 by birdguy

[Luis Hernandez 565]

Congratulations, Noel, that's a powerful beast. If you're gonna do MSFS, check your T- Mobile data plan fine print. Or ask your guru to do that for you. Hope you enjoy it! 

[n4gix 4,947]

1 hour ago, birdguy said:

My new computer arrived today.  When I sold my house and moved into a retirement community I bought a new Alienware Computer for flight simming.

Outstanding Noel! You will enjoy that monster computer immensely I am certain.

[dmwalker 601]

1 hour ago, birdguy said:

Don't ask me what all that means.

I think it means that whenever you switch it on, the lights in the community home will all dim noticeably.

[FBW737 511]

Your going to be the most popular old geezer in that retirement home for sure. Where is it? I might move in myself and I'm only 55. 🤣

[martin-w 3,234]

8 hours ago, birdguy said:

1350 watt liquid cooled power supply.

 

Are you sure it's the PSU that's liquid cooled? Or did you mean the CPU?

There are a couple of water cooled PSU"s I know of, but of course, water cooling a PSU is totally unnecessary.

What's the PC model number?

Apart from the curiosity of water cooling a PSU, its a beast of a PC. 

Edited May 21, 2023 by martin-w

[birdguy 3,943]

Yeah Martin, the CPU is liquid cooled, not the PSU.  My mistake.  Where do I find the model number?

Noel

 

 

[Fielder 3,642]

Everything looks good except for the limited wifi. Most hotspots often are not secure, but I imagine the T-Mobile hotspot is secure so nobody can read your passwords when you type them.

[birdguy 3,943]

I have no choice but to go with a hotspot.  The resident WiFi here is limited.  Since I have had my phone, first with Sprint and then with T-Mobile after they took Sprint over, for 15 years or more.  I'm stuck with what I got.

Noel

[Luke 782]

2 hours ago, Fielder said:

Everything looks good except for the limited wifi. Most hotspots often are not secure, but I imagine the T-Mobile hotspot is secure so nobody can read your passwords when you type them.

That's why you encrypt at the protocol layer as well. Why would you ever trust the network that you don't control?

Cheers!

[scott967 62]

How much hot spot data do you get?  We visit a place in Florida with no internet and my wife burns through her basic allotment pretty quick.  IIRC we have to buy addon data for it.

 

scott s.

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[martin-w 3,234]

On 5/21/2023 at 7:56 AM, birdguy said:

Where do I find the model number?

Noel

 

I just meant what Alienware call it, so I could look at the specs and check out the said water cooled PSU.

But don't bother, as you say,  its the CPU that water cooled not the PSU, so no need.

Edited May 22, 2023 by martin-w

[Matthew Kane 1,343]

Nice Rig 😎👍

[birdguy 3,943]

On 5/21/2023 at 10:12 PM, scott967 said:

How much hot spot data do you get?

I get 100GB a month.  However to install everything I had on a brand new system I had them set me up with 300GB until I get all my Orbx scenery and addons installed.  Then I will go back to the basic 100GB.

Noel

[Noel 4,484]

Hi Noel, which TM plan do you have?  Is it 5G UC capable where you are located?  I have TM also, and during a 4600 road trip we used the hotspot everywhere and had bandwidth of 80-300mbps.  We have the Magenta Max plan which includes unlimited data.

Noel

Edited May 27, 2023 by Noel