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Mnky313

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    Mnky313 reacted to da na in Framework introduces Laptop 16!   
    may I introduce you to the Dell Precision M6800.
    -91wh battery
    -matte or glossy screen
    -MXM graphics card
    -upgradable CPU
    -4 DIMM slots
    -literally every small part like screen latch, webcam, keyboard, trackpad, casing is easily replacable 
    lol hate to break it to you but it's kinda hard to make a screen without bezels, lame feature
     
    Quite true
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    Mnky313 reacted to CoffeeMoog in Simple Tutorial-ish for Kepler (and probably Maxwell II) Bios Tweaker   
    I had the same error codes as you whilst trying to flash a Quadro K2200. This version of NVflash I found on overclock.net finally worked: http://www.overclock.net/attachments/41789
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    Mnky313 reacted to Biohazard777 in I finally gave Linux a fair shot as my daily driver   
    Krita (feature rich)
    KolourPaint (dead simple)
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    Mnky313 got a reaction from DrkLrdChckls in Show off your latest purchases   
    Got a 'broken' Zenbook Duo for cheap, basically the lowest end Duo (10510U/MX250) but for basic tasks it's great and everything seems to work great under linux (except the NVMe drive likes to disconnect randomly causing issues but SATA M.2 drives seem to work, idk if it's the drive itself being borked or just linux things)

    It was listed with keyboard issues and non functioning second screen (liquid damage) but after getting it the second screen worked fine so all it needed was a keyboard.

    I will say repairability is awful though, between having to pry out glued in rubber stoppers to unscrew the bottom and the 65 screws to remove the keyboard it's pretty awful xD
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    Mnky313 reacted to goatedpenguin in I finally gave Linux a fair shot as my daily driver   
    Problem with reinstslling a distro when it breaks is that you never learn anything about how to fix a broken system or gain any important knowledge. Make sure that you are comfortable with having a broken system and be prepared to ask a lot of questions online, we all start learning from somewhere or someone. 
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    Mnky313 reacted to Levent in GTA VI will Probably Perform Quite Poorly   
    GTA5 was extremely well optimized when it was released, even for a console port. So I dont think so.
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    Mnky313 reacted to Sauron in NVMe SSD causes system to no longer be able to resume from suspend   
    Interesting. I wonder if it's just not fully compatible with your specific laptop, sometimes that happens.
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    Mnky313 got a reaction from SimplyChunk in Show off your latest purchases   
    Got a 'broken' Zenbook Duo for cheap, basically the lowest end Duo (10510U/MX250) but for basic tasks it's great and everything seems to work great under linux (except the NVMe drive likes to disconnect randomly causing issues but SATA M.2 drives seem to work, idk if it's the drive itself being borked or just linux things)

    It was listed with keyboard issues and non functioning second screen (liquid damage) but after getting it the second screen worked fine so all it needed was a keyboard.

    I will say repairability is awful though, between having to pry out glued in rubber stoppers to unscrew the bottom and the 65 screws to remove the keyboard it's pretty awful xD
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    Mnky313 reacted to FlyingPotato_is_taken in Show off your latest purchases   
    I raise the Microsoft surface pro as competitor.
    29 screws for these two metal parts (90 for the entire tablet):

    https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Pro+Teardown/12842
     
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    Mnky313 got a reaction from soldier_ph in Show off your latest purchases   
    Got a 'broken' Zenbook Duo for cheap, basically the lowest end Duo (10510U/MX250) but for basic tasks it's great and everything seems to work great under linux (except the NVMe drive likes to disconnect randomly causing issues but SATA M.2 drives seem to work, idk if it's the drive itself being borked or just linux things)

    It was listed with keyboard issues and non functioning second screen (liquid damage) but after getting it the second screen worked fine so all it needed was a keyboard.

    I will say repairability is awful though, between having to pry out glued in rubber stoppers to unscrew the bottom and the 65 screws to remove the keyboard it's pretty awful xD
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    Mnky313 reacted to Nayr438 in (Linux) slowly takes longer going into/out of fullscreen on any app.   
    I did completely forget something when mentioning hardware video acceleration. It depends on vaapi support, something nvidia doesn't actually support.
    There is a community maintained translation layer called nvidia-vaapi-driver, however there is a note on the Arch Wiki

    https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardware_video_acceleration#Translation_layers
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    Mnky313 got a reaction from wONKEyeYEs in Is it just a desktop at this point? (Clevo X170SM-G Hybrid Cooling)   
    Background
    lots of info on the laptop is in my initial review thread but a TL:DR is that this laptop is incredibly powerful but struggles to cool a 10900k (I know, who would have guessed it's hard to cool a desktop i9 in a laptop).
    I've been interesting in the hybrid coolers for clevo machines since before I bought this laptop, but obviously there are some problems. Mainly complexity, portability, and cost.
     
    The Parts
    I tried to keep this as compact and simple as possible while not compromising portability too much. I knew I needed a quick and easy way to disconnect the water cooling system if I needed to take the machine somewhere, there's really 2 options for this:
    Predone aliexpress kits with a 'water return function' that I was told is quick and easy but I don't know how much I trust them and they are quite expensive (another $300-$400 on top of the heatsink). Quick Disconnect Fittings I went with quick disconnects, the ones I got were from koolance. I was told the tubing is 3mm ID, 5mm OD. It's not, it's 4mm ID, 6mm OD. I had to cut up end off the rubber cover that shipped with the fittings and use as a kind of adapter in between the 3mm bard and fitting, this plus a zip tie seems to work pretty reliably, haven't had any issues but just in case I angled the laptop and positioned everything in a way that if one was to leak it wouldn't leak onto anything except the desk. (the fitting on the laptop heatsink are designed for 4x6mm tubing.

    I'll probably get some 3x5mm tubing and hope I can stretch in over the laptop's fittings.

    As for the rest of the loop I found this thing:

    It's a Barrow DARIDP-30, it's a pump, radiator, and mini reservoir all in one. It's perfect for something like this as it simplifies the loop to basically just 2 tubes between the laptop and it. Plus it's actually quite cheap, I got mine for $160 on eBay which is way cheaper than a pump+res+rad.

    The hybrid heatsink is from Aliexpress, here's a link for the X170SM-G/X170KM-G but they have one for a lot of Clevo laptops.

    Total Cost to watercool it is ~$600 which is quite a lot and honestly probably isn't worth it from a cost/performance perspective.
     
    Mini heatsink review
    Overall the performance of this heatsink is awesome however basically everything else was kind of eh.
    Mine arrived a little bit bent on one side but it still fit without issues.
    There were literally 0 instructions for where to place thermal pads so I just had to guess based off the stock heatsink, I guessed wrong... 3 times... Had to spend multiple hours trying different configurations until it wouldn't either hard crash under GPU load or throttle the CPU because the VRMs were overheating... The reason it took so many attempts despite only including 2 different thickness of thermal pads was that you have to stack thermal pads to make contact with most of the VRMs.....
    Also as mentioned above, I asked what size the tubing was so I could order QDCs and they told me 3x5mm, the tubing literally has '4x6mm' written on the side of it...
    The Benefits
    The main thing I was looking for was getting the CPU temp under control when playing games or just under short bursty workloads. That definitely happened, instead of the CPU stilling at ~60 and spiking up to 90+ it sits at 40-45 and spikes up to only ~70 max. (under a all core stress test like cinebench it still reaches the 90s).

    With the normal heatsink cinebench would throttle the CPU down to ~4.5-4.6GHz while pulling ~140W.
    Now it'll happily truck along at 5.0GHz while pulling just over 200W...

    Cinebench went from ~15000 to ~16400, I beat a stock 1950x xD.

     
    3DMark scores honestly aren't much higher but temps are way lower.
    Without any real tweaking besides my quick GPU overclock that I knew was stable (+140 core, +800 mem) I got almost 12k in Timespy:


    It's also quite a bit quieter even with the radiator fan speed at 100%. Honestly might swap the fans with some Noctuas though. I believe any 120mm (25mm thick) fan should fit in that pump/rad/res combo thing.
    plus, like it's cool.
    Pictures


     
    Conclusion
    It's super cool. However if you just want to improve CPU temperatures I would highly recommend just getting the aftermarket air cooled heatsink as I tested it without the loop connected and while temps were obviously higher I was actually able to run 4.9GHz all core while pulling ~180W in cinebench. It also didn't spike as high during normal use. This is probably because they more than doubled the amount of heatpipes connected to the CPU compared to the stock heatsink.

    I'm just one to see how far I can push the limits and having a 10 core i9 @ 5GHz in a laptop is quite awesome, lol.
    Extras
    If you like this kind of stuff, check out @Meaker's thread here.
    Feel free to ask questions and suggest things.
     
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    Mnky313 got a reaction from Lurick in WiFi 6E upgrade underperforming, am I expecting too much or did I get a dud?   
    I'm thinking about it.

    I was looking at getting a U6 Enterprise but that would require a 2.5g capable PoE injector which is another $50 at least on top of the AP which makes this solution even more than that asus router...

    though at this point that seems like a better option, I just didn't want to deal with their app but at least their APs can be setup locally without an account...


     
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    Mnky313 reacted to TimedPing in WiFi 6E upgrade underperforming, am I expecting too much or did I get a dud?   
    First of all, I never personally tested your exact router and phone combination, so I'm sorry if there's missjudgement abt the situation.
     
    You can try upgrading your AP firmware, if thats doesnt work, you can scan existing 6GHz signal around your area (which is pretty rare atleast for now, both in commercial and home environment) using your ZFold 3, and try changing 6GHz band from auto to less crowded band.
     
    Also, this is happened many times for me personally, if I use the same AP SSID for 2.4, 5, and now 6GHz, all my device will be confused and constantly giving network stutter and packet loss, worse thing happened if I sit further than 5m from the AP, all my 6E capable device will constantly disconnect and switch to other frequency randomly. The solution is just naming my SSID to:
    xxxxxxx_2.4G xxxxxxx_5G xxxxxxx_6G I hope its helping in some ways or another.
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    Mnky313 reacted to Donut417 in carrier locked phone   
    Did you ask Verizon? Because carriers will unlock devices generally. They might have special conditions but many do unlock devices. 
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    Mnky313 reacted to TetraSky in carrier locked phone   
    If your phone is fully paid for, you can ask Verizon to unlock it. I don't know about Verizon, but the last carrier I asked to unlock a phone, did it for free. Just call them.
    If the phone is NOT fully paid for, they will more then likely refuse or ask you to pay the balance.
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    Mnky313 got a reaction from TetraSky in Related to grey market phone importing: I shouldn't have to import phones to North America just to be able to unlock devices I OWN...   
    That's a CSC thing, not sure which have it but I also have it unlocked on my ZFold3 (though that's unlocked through a Xposed module).
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    Mnky313 reacted to TetraSky in Related to grey market phone importing: I shouldn't have to import phones to North America just to be able to unlock devices I OWN...   
    I quite like my Brazil imported Samsung phone I got on Amazon.ca. I can natively record phone call on it. Something Samsung North America decided we weren't allowed to have because Google said so?
    Buddy got the same phone from a carrier up here, no call recording.
    We're literally legally allowed to record our phone calls, yet they don't want us to.
     
    Though I believe newer Samsung phones have that functionality blocked wordwide now, except maybe for the Indian market.
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    Mnky313 reacted to WhitetailAni in MP3 Insanity   
    mp3tag can batch edit things. I use it for all of my music, it's very powerful
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    Mnky313 got a reaction from lollo78 in How to completely bypass Asus' 22W power limit on Flow Z13 (UEFI Variables)   
    I have no idea where the spreadsheet ended up but the formula should be:

    Actual power draw = (reported power draw + IMON Offset) * (1 / IMON Slope)

    i.e.

    45W = (22 + 5) * (1/0.6)
    45W = 27 * 1.67
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    Mnky313 got a reaction from RollinLower in What phone are you using in 2023?   
    I've got my modded ZFold3

    Transparent back, black buttons/tray on a silver phone. Rooted Android 13 w/ MicroG.

    I don't plan on upgrading for a while unless it completely dies or something crazy innovative comes out....

    (Don't be fooled by the label, it's an F926B. Just has lots of parts from an F926U)
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    Mnky313 got a reaction from Ender Wiggin in AliExpress Wouldn't Lie... Right?   
    Is the External PCIe port OCuLink?

    If it is that's amazing. I've always wanted external PCIe on a laptop, too bad it's only an eh laptop, especially because it's already multiple generations behind on the CPU....
     
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    Mnky313 reacted to starsmine in AMD accused of (and implicitly admits) preventing sponsored Games from supporting DLSS   
    Ima be honest.
    I dont see any reason to have both DLSS 2 and FSR 2 support in a game.

    Just do FSR 2, it runs on my Nvidia cards. If AMD is giving a dev team extra resources, why spend divert that money to add DLSS 2? 
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    Mnky313 reacted to Radium_Angel in Unable to install Windows on HP Z210 workstation   
    Is there a RAID controller that needs custom drivers installed during the OS install (for windows) perhaps?
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    Mnky313 got a reaction from SpiritKitty in What phone are you using in 2023?   
    I've got my modded ZFold3

    Transparent back, black buttons/tray on a silver phone. Rooted Android 13 w/ MicroG.

    I don't plan on upgrading for a while unless it completely dies or something crazy innovative comes out....

    (Don't be fooled by the label, it's an F926B. Just has lots of parts from an F926U)
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