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    TheLaserCucumber reacted to arrow9437 in ATi FirePro V4800 - is this elderly card any good for gaming?   
    Just got another update to add I am also playing Halo Master Chief collection State of decay 2 Juggernaut edition final fantasy 9 and a few other games I can't think of off the top of my head right now on my computer I had just got them off of Xbox game pass and they all play very good I see no frame drops or anything a few of them I've gotten messages saying my computer is not good enough for them but they seem to run fine for me just thought I'd let you know. And thank you for not thinking that I was trying to prove you wrong or anyting I really wasn't trying to
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    TheLaserCucumber got a reaction from NeuesTestament in German Talk   
    Dafür nutze ich nur noch Ebay Kleinanzeigen, da gibt man nichts an ebay ab und bekommt alles selber.
    Ich verstehe generell nicht wieso man noch das normale ebay nutzt ?
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    TheLaserCucumber reacted to awei in Power Mac G5 Ryzen 3900X Custom Loop Build   
    I normally do not post things but I figure this was something worth putting out on the web.  This goes back to sometime around 2009, i acquired a G5 power mac and gutted it to mount a pc inside because I have always liked the G5/Mac Pro tower design. This was back when I was in college, so it was pretty barebone and rough how I did it.  I did not want to cut the outside so I mounted the board by removing and epoxying the original standoffs to fit an MATX board.  I ran all I/O through the PCI slots to avoid cutting the rear.  The PSU carrier I made out of sheet metal and bolting it to the bottom of the case using the existing screw holes for the orignal psu.  It was pretty shoddy but it worked.
     
     
    I used this pc about a year before I needed to upgrade for school work and its been pretty much sitting untouched since, until about 3 months ago when I decided it may be worth revisiting and the timing fit in with the launch of the ryzen 3000 series pc.  Like my first attempt I wanted the exterior to be left untouched, and this time I wanted to try to use the existing I/O cutouts.  To make this happen I used my 3D printer to fabricate a motherboard tray and printed a housing that would fit usb, ethernet, and aux extensions/couplers.  Note the USB Type C are only 3.1 and not thunderbolt.  I couldn't find thunderbolt 3 or Gen 2 couplers.
     

     
    Aside from the motherboard tray and I/O adapter, I also 3D printed a top 240mm radiator mount, front 280mm radiator mount, a psu carrier w/ a mount for a pump/reservoir combo, and a cable tray that ran from the psu carrier up to the top radiator.  The GPU was mounted using a pci-e riser card and screwed into the 3D printed tray. I also designed a top cover for the psu carrier, but I had to printed it using an online SLS printing service because it exceeded my printers limits. Below is a photo of the prototype fitting. 

     
    And after spraying on some paint.

     
    And some pics post build.  Originally I was planning to do hard tubing, but then I thought black rubber tubing with nickel fittings would look pretty nice.



     
    Components:
    CPU: Ryzen 3900X
    Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix B450-I
    GPU: MSI Vega 56 OC Air Boost
    RAM: G.Skill Trident Z 2 x 16GB DDR4 3200
    SSD: 2x 512 Samsung 970 Pro NVME
    PSU: Corsair SF 750 SFX
    Radiators: 1x 280mm EK SE, 1x 240mm EK SE
    Reservoir: Singularity 150mm Protium
    Pump: EK D5 Revo Pump
    Waterblock: Heatkiller Series Waterblocks
    PCI-E Riser: Phantek 220mm Premium Riser Card
    Fans: 2x 140mm , 2x 120mm, 2x 92mm Noctua redux series PWM
    Wifi Card: Dell DW1560 (needed for Mojave Wifi/Bluetooth)
     
    This build is currently running Windows 10 & Mojave 10.14.5.  I managed to get wifi, bluetooth, onboard audio and onboard ethernet all working.  The only things that is not working is HDMI/Displayport passthrough (They were working, but the kext that got onboard audio working broke it.). 
     

     
    For the Mojave installation, I followed AMD-OSX knowledge base guide.
     
    For reference, below are the following kexts that I have in my clover folder.  Please note I am not an expert in hackintosh, this is fact the second hackintosh I have done, the first being back in 2007 on a toshiba laptop.
     
    -AirportBrcmfixup
    -AppleALC (This probably can be taken out as I couldn't get it to enable the onboard audio, VoodoHDA however worked)
    -BrcmFirmwareData
    -BrcmNonPatchRAM2
    -BRCMPatchRAM2
    -FakeSMC
    -Lilu
    -NullCPUPowerManagement
    -SmallTree-Intel-211-AT-PCIe-GBE
    -VoodoHDA
    -WhateverGreen
     
    Clover Fixes
    -FixShutdown
    -FixAirport
    -FixHDA
     
    Boot Arguments
    - -v
    - npci=0x2000
    - darkwake=1
    - -lilubetaall
     
    Overall this project took 2 1/2 months to complete and although not perfect, overall I am happy with how it turned out. Their are some things i would do differently if I was to do this again. For example the cable cover I designed is to difficult to access because I was trying to keep it all one piece.  If I was to do this again I would segment it to be accessible.  At its present you cant remove it without completely removing all the pc components.  A friend of mine gave me a couple Mac Pro towers that they had been sitting at their office for years and slated to get dumped.  They do not work, but the exterior are in great condition so the next project would be to do a build in one of them, although for that one one I will likely do it as an air build.
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    TheLaserCucumber got a reaction from Sirmyself in Survey : 5.25 drive bay Usage   
    I‘ve got a 5.25“ Tape Drive that I regularly use to backup my server 
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    TheLaserCucumber got a reaction from driftz240 in Which mobile web browser do you use.   
    No you can download other browsers in the app store, for testing purposes I have Edge installed for example, but I mainly use Safari, as most iOS users
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    TheLaserCucumber got a reaction from brob in heat free Build?   
    That does not make any sense at all.
    A chip Outputs the same amount of heat, regardless if it is cooled passively or with lots of fans.
    Good cooling just makes the chip run cooler, but doesn't change the amount of heat dumped into the air.
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    TheLaserCucumber reacted to RomHeu in Clickbait titles and thumbnails   
    Hello!
     
    I've been a loyal subscriber of the Linus Tech Tips channel for years even though I've never posted on the forum.
     
    I'm posting for the first time to share my opinion before it's too late.
     
    I just wanted to say that I never click on content with clickbait titles or dumb thumbnails by principle. Unfortunately, more and more Linus Tech Tips videos on your YouTube channel have those.
     
    Here are a few examples:
     
    I don't click:
    We NEVER expected NVIDIA to allow this... How has EVERYONE overlooked this?? Why would you even…? Razer thought this was a good idea?? I can't believe this. I click:
    Alienware's CRAZY upgradeable laptop The OLED Gaming TV from ALIENWARE!! Preparing for 10 GIGABIT Internet! What Could Go Wrong? (even though I could do without the "What could go wrong") Electrical Wiring for the Gaming Center - What could go wrong? (I see a pattern…) MacBook Air 2018 – A PC Guy's Perspective "Water" Cooled Smartphone - S#!t Manufacturers Say Are Walmart Gaming PCs actually THAT bad? In general thumbnails have all been dumb for a few months now, with the "mandatory" funny and/or exaggerated face and the white outline. Thumbnails used two years ago with just the products were fine!
     
    You have 8 million subscribers interested in computers, I'm not sure that they need these tactics to watch your videos.
     
    I may be the only one to feel that way, and if so I would understand that you ignore this "rant", but I hope that I'm not alone, that other people feel the same and that hopefully you'll adapt to this portion of your audience.
     
    I still like many of your videos, I hope you'll keep posting good ones!
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    TheLaserCucumber reacted to aisle9 in I7 2600k vs i5 6600k   
    None of this is true.
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    TheLaserCucumber got a reaction from 8uhbbhu8 in Low power consumption high performance ESXI server   
    You don't always have to go with special "ESXi support confirmed" boards.
    For example, my ESXi Host has got a simple Asrock H110M-ITX.
    But that's not a board suited for your requirements.
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    TheLaserCucumber got a reaction from TetraSky in REVIEW THIS MONSTER!!!   
    I didn’t know there‘s an i3-7980 ?
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    TheLaserCucumber got a reaction from Stevers108 in Steam Only Detecting Intel Integrated GPU   
    That doesn‘t always work
     
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    TheLaserCucumber got a reaction from Stevers108 in Steam Only Detecting Intel Integrated GPU   
    You can go into Nvidia Control Panel, search the program and set your Nvidia GPU to be used for specific programs.
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    TheLaserCucumber got a reaction from Praesi in German Talk   
    If there‘s an m and youre surfing on a smartphone, its gonna direct you to the mobile site.
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    TheLaserCucumber got a reaction from Ace McPlane in X-plane 11 VR: Will a CPU upgrade help?   
    This alone seems to me more like the game is horribly optimized than a too slow CPU.
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    TheLaserCucumber got a reaction from PlayStation 2 in X-plane 11 VR: Will a CPU upgrade help?   
    This alone seems to me more like the game is horribly optimized than a too slow CPU.
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    TheLaserCucumber got a reaction from porina in A consumer 1TB ram system - thought exercise   
    I personally think you can't really generalize that, because how much RAM is needed depends on the workloads that run on the computer.
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    TheLaserCucumber got a reaction from wONKEyeYEs in When do i need to upgrade?   
    5 years? Nah I think it should be earlier. 
    More like 1,051,200 to 1,576,800 minutes.
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    TheLaserCucumber got a reaction from QuantumBit in When do i need to upgrade?   
    5 years? Nah I think it should be earlier. 
    More like 1,051,200 to 1,576,800 minutes.
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    TheLaserCucumber got a reaction from dalekphalm in What's the best/easier way to make a VM machine   
    VMware ESXi 6.5 is really good, though I don’t know how much RAM, CPU Cores and OSs you can run on the free version
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    TheLaserCucumber got a reaction from cesrai in German Talk   
    Fachoberschulreife, oder auch einfach der Realschulabschluss mit Qualifikation zum Abitur
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    TheLaserCucumber got a reaction from Teddy07 in German Talk   
    Interessant, ich habe vor zwei Wochen meinen FOR bekommen und fange nun im September eine Ausbildung beim örtlichen Verkehrsunternehmen an.
    Dann werden wir mal sehen was daraus wird, falls die sich entscheiden mich nach den 3 Jahren zu übernehmen ^^
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    TheLaserCucumber got a reaction from cesrai in German Talk   
    Guck mal bei eBay Kleinanzeigen rein, hab da letztens n Dell Optiplex 7010 mit i5 3570 und 8GB DDR3 für 100€ geschnappt
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    TheLaserCucumber got a reaction from Anghammarad in German Talk   
    Ich dachte das ist der "German Talk"? ;D
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    TheLaserCucumber got a reaction from whoisjaya in What was your first computer?   
    My first one was like a Pentium 4 with 128mb of RAM on windows XP.
    I think it didn’t even have a graphics card, though I am not sure about this one.
    I didn’t build it myself, I got it in 2005 or 2006.
     
    The first build I actually build myself was a Athlon II X2 260, 4GBs of RAM, and a Geforce 6600GT on an Asrock M3N78D.
    At the start it was also running Windows XP, but I remember also using it with Windows 7, so I must‘ve switched the OS in the time I used it.
    Dont remember the rest of the system.
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    TheLaserCucumber got a reaction from GoodBytes in Can't install Windows 10 version 1803   
    I looked through the registry and deleted all entries with symantec in the name, until I found one of the windows update program, were it told me with what it had a problem.
    End of the story: It literally had a problem with a folder on the desktop, were the setup.exe for SEP was in...
    I don't understand why you have to look into the registry to find out a data path to the programs windows update has a problem with, why can't it just tell me the path right in the program? Duh...
     
    But anyways, thanks for helping fam
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