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Torand

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  1. This has been a thing for years in the UK, my last three MacBook's generation upgrades have all done it, I assume since Apple stopped shipping a grounded adaptor. Its a fuzzy feeling on the chassis when moving your fingers over it, like your fingers are gliding on fuzzy air right? I don't think it poses any risk - I'm no electrical engineer though so anything I say is purely anecdotal - just going on the fact its not done any harm to me over the years and other non-grounded metal electronics behave in a similar way. It really shouldn't do it though, as as you say, its unpleasant and feels 'wrong'.
  2. Exactly why I’m here haha. I have no interest in his address and fully support is privacy; I just wanted to know where my Saturday morning ritual show had gone lmao
  3. Yep, to anyone needing the fix, Ducky fixed this in the latest firmware build. You have to check carefully and I'd recommend confirming with their discord first, but here is now I fixed my Mecha Mini DKME1961ST: Confirmed with the discord which firmware patch I required This is as the P/N DKME1961ST isn't listed on the Ducky Mecha Mini web page, only DKON1861ST and DKON2061ST are listed on there and have different patch versions A staff member on discord responded within 5 minutes confirming the following steps for my situation, you should do the same for yours A staff member confirmed that for my P/N, I needed the latest patch for DKON1861ST, which at the time was v1.22 and contained the macOS fix for the update soft brick Fired up my gaming rig, downloaded the v1.22 patch for DKON1861ST, and ran the patch utility, making sure to plug it directly into a rear I/O mobo USB port just to reduce any potential risks of bricking the board All done in around a minute, no issues, following the steps on their website Plugged it back into macOS Big Sur (11.2.3) and ran an update - ITS FIXED! Keyboard works as normal during and after an update Setup all my macros again, as the FW update wipes the KB Done! One happy Ducky boi.
  4. Summary It has been discovered when comparing the AMD variant (G15) of the ROG Zephyrus laptop to the Intel one (M15), that the AMD one has blocked CPU vents and is being paired with weaker hardware. Quotes Apologies there is not much in the way of a written quotable source. Please see the sources below for better information! My thoughts I'm unsure as of yet as to if this is intentional, some people can get carried away and very heated with these things, especially the AMD vs Intel debate. My personal take is that there isn't enough information at this time to discuss this issue properly as to why this has been done and we can only speculate. Given Intel's history though, it hasn't done itself any favours as they have done shady things in the past which is providing fuel to the fire, given at the moment, the of the theories of Intel bending the arms of the OEM vendors. Its a shitty situation, and I really wish AMD had more presence in the laptop market, as their mobile chips are fantastic. Sources Reddit Source: Video Source:
  5. Yep, already had shipping delays getting the order initially, so not holding out hope for shipping back soon. OC say 3-5 days that they have to test the board in house. Then beyond that, no idea. Shipped it back yesterday and it arrived at their warehouse this morning, so hope I see some progress by next week. Hopefully it doesn't drag on for months, especially as I only had it built for 3 days. Kinda hope its just a replacement situation, as its within 14 days of purchase it may get treated as faulty goods under EU law (I think, looking at their support page). They also have a 14 day guarentee that they are still upholding, so lets see. After over a year of no PC gaming, I was super excited to get back online with friends and sink into some CS again!
  6. Thank you! I really hope it goes well. Overclockers UK are dealing with it as its within 14 days of purchase. Although that board is out of stock everywhere, so I'm thinking I'm going to be without it for a few weeks at minimum. Sad times. Very sad times.
  7. My latest SFF-ish build! Love the H210 and amazed that its all metal construction. Really, really solid case - just that glass side panel that difficult to get off. I spent ages on the cable management and really enjoyed building a SFF-ish form factor. I've been really wanting to do a compact-ish build for a long time and finally I saved enough, and with COVID there seemed to be no better time. My previous build was a full tower LGA-2011 build with a 6850K in a Corsair 750D, which, although lovely - was just too big. I sold all that off over a year ago, moved down to London with my partner and after over a year of no PC gaming I couldn't do it anymore and built my dream machine. I had a really strange issue where I got a VGA POST code and had to use an old 660Ti to boot from initially. The 980Ti worked fine in the OS and after putting it back after one successful boot with the 660Ti, but the issue came back after updating the BIOS to the latest 1407 build. Turns out there was a not well publicised firmware patch for nVidia cards back in 2018 that my card required to run on DP1.3/1.4 (which is the default on my monitor). This information was burried in the backend of a ROG forum post, a quick google will reveal the FW patch and it only takes a few seconds. After that, the BIOS splashed correctly and even resolution matched which was nice! Update: Unfortunately, I've had to RMA the Asus ROG Strix X570-I board after just a few days thanks to the lovely magic smoke popping out and it appears the RGB controller has died. Luckily it didn't take anything with it, the system still works fine, just without any RGB on the board or Aura. I don't make use of any RGB strips or anything, was just going to leave them white. But as of tomorrow, its in the post and I assume its going to be a few long weeks until a replacement arrives (as I am within 14 days of purchase). Specs: - Ryzen 5 3600 (waiting for the 4700X to drop) - Crucial Ballistix 32GB (16GB x 2) DDR4 3600MHz CAS18 White - Asus ROG Strix X570-I - Noctua NH-U12S chromax.black - Noctua NA-HC2 chromax.white - EVGA FTW GTX 980Ti (from a previous build) - NZXT H210 White - Samsung 850 Pro 512GB (from a previous build) - Samsung 850 EVO 120GB (from a previous build) - Corsair 860i (from a previous build) - LG 27UL850-W (use mainly with my MacBook Pro over USB-C, but now shares) - CM Storm QuickFire TK (MX Browns, from a previous build) - Mionix Naos 8200 (MX Browns, from a previous build) Let's hope that board gets RMA'd quickly! The completed build! The satisfying cable management. After the magic smoke
  8. Original article: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-announces-4q19-earnings-second-gen-rdna-in-2020-quarterly-revenue-up-50-percent This is excellent news! And will hopefully spur continued innovation. This is also amazing news, hopefully they will have more cash on hand now to address their GPU division... I mean this stuff speaks for itself, well done AMD. This is a win for everyone, as hopefully this puts ever more clout behind their Ryzen and Epyc division to keep the competition fueled.
  9. Rig Name: The Suprisingly Average CPU: Intel Core I7 3770k @ 3.5GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti RAM: 16gb DDR3 @ 1600MHz (4x4)
  10. Okay, well, here's my progress so far for any readers in future: The main constraint of finding a suitable stand for this monitor was obviously it's weight. The size wasn't really an issue as long as the stand could hold the weight and keep it held, along with maintaining the ability to 'freely' move the display around on all axis. Firstly I went to good old Amazon to see if Duronic had anything suitable (gass or spring based) with atleast 2 arms, as I've used them before on other monitors at work and at home with great success. For the price you can't really get anything better, solid build quality. But unfortunatley, their best 2 section gass arm topped out at 8KG, along with all the others... they had fixed pole variants that coud support upto 10KG's, but they were not what I was looking for in this instance. Although the U3415W is only .4KG over the rated spec on the gass arm, I'd rather not risk the fate of a £650 monitor in the hands of something that is not rated to work at that weight. My next port of call was Ergotech Freedom Arm HD, something in which was highly rated by Hardware Canucks. It looked great, solid and for the price, reasonable. The problem was getting it into the UK. They were out of stock on the UK/EU store at the time and the US store did not allow for imports into the UK. So much for that idea then... Next, to search on Amazon.Honed in the search criteria a bit more vigorously this time and came across something interesting in which took me a bit by surprise. The Dell MSA14. First thing I noticed was the price, £65, which is odd as Dell usually over charge heavily for this stuff (granted, on Dell's website, they sell them for an RRP of £84~), plus it was through Dell's official store on Amazon - right place, right time. After further research, it was perfect for what I needed. It was rated to support upto 9.3KG - check, fit well with the monitors design and actually looks nice - check, integrates well with the monitor (has the Dell quick release plate on the VESA mount) - check (nice feature) and last but not least - some really nice inbuilt cable management, check. I also looked around to see if I could find anyone else using that combo, turns out Dell themselves were using it at the reveal event of the U3415W to showcase it. So, I picked one up and I shall do a follow up with my findings.
  11. Link to the article should be in the post. But other than that, looks interesting if nothing else. It will be interesting on how many slots it uses.
  12. I'm having a hard time finding a suitable monitor stand for the U3415W due to its weight. I'm looking for is a desk mounted stand (clamp base) that supports VESA 100 (not over due to the VESA mount being indented), has 2 actuation points on the arm (or more, as its going against a wall), has smooth movement (spring or hydraulic action?) in which will allow me to take the monitor higher than the original stands 115cm and have more flexible movement in the monitors 3D positioning. The problem I'm coming across, after spending quite a bit of time on Amazon UK, Scan, etc... is the weight of the monitor, which comes in at a nice (taken from the Dell spec sheet for the U3415W): All of the nice arms/stands I've come across so far cap out at 8kg unless you are going for a fixed pole based stand, in which I'd prefer the free movement and flexibility of an arm instead really. Thanks in advance!
  13. I think they have the ZigBee and Bluetooth labels mixed up...
  14. You may laugh, but this has already supposedly happened... http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/01/is-your-refrigerator-really-part-of-a-massive-spam-sending-botnet/
  15. Cool, thanks! Just picked up the M360, good price on Amazon in the UK at the minute. Always thought the thing looked the best of all smart watches IMO, now I can finally pair it to my 6 Plus! (hate the design of the Apple Watch, so dissapointing...)
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