/diy/ - Do It Yourself

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>/pjg/ Piss Jug General
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>>1624602
what the fuck gpu on the cpu? no.

get an RX 590 and a Ryzen without the GPU on it

way better, and make your hard drive an M.2 NVME SSD instead of an old ass SATA SSD

I watched a few youtube videos showing all the stages of constructing a house, it looks complicated as fuck and requires lots of heavy tools and machinery. Yet I remember hearing tales of normal people building their own houses. What's up with that?

In for electrical curiosity.

I recently had an electrician install a 2-gang outlet that's dedicated for my workstation/desk. There are 2 computers, 2 monitors(1080p 24"), a 48v phantom power supply for a microphone and an LED light strip plugged in.

One computer has an 850w PSU and the other 1000w. Though I don't think either computer exceeds 450w at full load, just high PSU rating for future upgrades.

Everything except the 1000w tower is plugged into a 4200 joule 12 outlet surge protector. The box itself is grounded and obviously the outlets are grounded too.

It's a separate 20a circuit. I believe everything in there is safe to run at once considering it all ran ungrounded in the previous outlet which shared the circuit with 3 other outlets running a mini fridge, 55" 4k TV, various consoles sound system(2.1) and other 4 amp phone charges.

I was told that the compressor cycling may cause issues with my computers, but isn't that exactly the reason why I have an expensive surge protector? To protect from under and over voltages? Or is under powering only protected by UPS'? Should I invest in a good UPS? They don't seem too expensive for the benefits compared to the 42$ I spent on the surge protector.

What is safe to run on a 20 amp outlet continuously? I know my shit won't overload it but I'm curious anyways. It's on 12-3 MC wire I believe all the way to my panel. He also said there was an extra red wire in there that can provide an additional 20 amp circuit and that it's safe to throw the same ground and neutral on there as long as the hot is its own line. Is that true?

Thanks in advance to any electrician who reads this. I only just started learning and want to make sure my info is correct and standard.