My Intel workstation upgrade daisychain - Adding i5-12400F and pushing everything else up
86Upgrades all around!
Firstly I'm upgrading my existing i5-10400F primary programming/admin workstation to the newly bought i5-12400F / MB / 32GB combo. The 10th gen gear then will be put in to our 7Days2Die gaming machine to make an i5-10400F / 16GB / GTX1650 combo, and finally the old gaming gear, which is the i5-8400 machine will be put in to a client machine who's having trouble with their existing i5-8600 machine that keeps behaving intermittently.
The intermittent issues of the client's gaming machine is easier to try solve by the full replacement of the motherboard+CPU and hopefully we'll not see any more issues from that.
Sit back and enjoy the shock and horror of no RGB, no antistatic strapping and STOCK COOLERS at work - you will be terrified!
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0:01:25 Main programming/admin machine; upgrade from i5-10400F to i5-12400F / 32GB / ASRock B760M-HDV
0:29:10 Gaming 7Days2Die machine; upgrade from i5-8400 to i5-10400F Gigabyte B560M DS3H V2 / 16GB / MSI GTX1650. Some small hiccups because I didn't have CSM support enabled on the new motherboard and I can't be bothered yet upgrading/reinstalling W10 with GPT/UEFI.
1:17:50 Replacing client's gaming machine i5-8600 / ASRock Z370 Pro 4 / 8GB which has an intermittent glitch/failure issue somewhere in mainboard, with the i5-8400 / Gigabyte board that came out of our prior gaming machine. One big change is the removal of their fancy cooler and sticking with the stock Intel cooler *for now*. A moderately common issue with these boards is they fail from fatigue from the top-heavy coolers and the case being upright, causing vibration to slowly fracture the internals of the motherboard, this is amplified by how much force you also have to apply to retain the mounted heatsink from the underside causing motherboard distortions.
GTX1060 installed, Valley run for a few hours, then memtest86 run overnight.
We also migrated their 120GB Kingston 2.5" SSD to a 240GB WD Green SATA M2; not a great performance gain but the extra space and the direct mainboard mounting is better than what it was before; boots faster too.
2:14:30 Unboxing the Vevor T962 SMD BGA Infrared IC Heater. This is the possible unit that I'll be using to do small scale assembly work in the near future, but it does need some modifications before powering up. First and most important, the removal of the awful masking tape they use to protect the electronics in the controller side from shorting out against the insulating foil.
Two other issues will be present;
1) the thermocouple doesn't have a cold junction setup, so the oven assumes a 20'C ambient, which is going to be very wrong for this environment
2) Getting the fumes extracted; I had initially thought the unit was a 4" extractor flange, it's not. Need to get my ruler or calipers out and find out what the actual diameter is.