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    I would be incredibly surprised if it were anything other than bad/no thermal paste.
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    Kinda just sounds like you need to take it apart and put some decent thermal paste on it.
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    Nothing ever works the first try when networkin…

    flibberdipper replied to iamdarkyoshi's status update

    I like networking however it also causes me to scream expletives as well as make me want to kick a fat kid in Kmart.
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    Regardless of the version of iOS or watchOS whatever device is running, no matter how you split it the iPhone 8 will be 7 years old this year. That is an absolute eternity in technology time, and realistically it's due for a replacement at this point even if it does do whatever she wants just fine. insert smartass comment about consumerism here
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    A new side panel exhaust and M.2 screws for the mighty sleeper. It's a lot quieter than it was with the 212 EVO fan, and now the SSD isn't held down by electrical tape and VHB. Really love how the Pure Wings 3's look, something about the boxy frame is just hot.
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    As far as I'm aware there isn't a way to use the LEDs to see a state of charge, other than the active player light blinking rapidly every 30 seconds? when it's low.
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    Another easy step I'm surprised nobody else mentioned: just try rebooting your router. My Nighthawk R7000 used to have a thing where once a month it'd drop to 100Mbps and I'd have to reboot it to get back up to 1Gbps.
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    Now that my 1070 is retired, I finally got replacement fans for it. Up until now it's just had a pair of 92mm Sensflow fans strapped to it.
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    PWM splitters should always omit the RPM signal on all but the "primary" fan. It serves no purpose and I'm sure it would absolutely piss the motherboard off.
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    I've never actually used it on ours as a "persistent" cache, but if they cache the flattened output from Acrobat or whatever that could be very useful. There are some jobs I print at work where flattening the fuckin thing and performing the initial print takes FOREVER but then after that it's smooth sailing due to it being cached on the hard drive. The problem starts if I have to make another copy of it for whatever reason, then I'm stuck waiting on it to flatten and print like 3 pages at a time.
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    You have to download Aura or use one of those third-party programs I can't remember the name of. I have a Gigabyte board and a Strix 2080 and that's how I control my card's RGB.
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    Yup, just make sure you bend the wings back out otherwise they're not gonna stay in.
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    You can just push the pins out and rearrange them as you need to. Done it a million times to those damn Dell 5-pin fans.
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    If I'm not mistaken the 6700XT bests the 4060 usually, let alone the 3060, as long as you're not doing RT.
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    On Windows? Not really. I see tons of PCs come in of varying age ranges with (typically) 4, 8, and 12GB configurations. The 4GB ones are always DOG slow, even though some of them are only a year or two old and would otherwise be fine with more RAM. 8GB (or I guess technically 6GB, but that doesn't exist with modern desktops or laptops) is really the lowest one would want to go, especially with Windows 11. Modern Windows 11 tries to idle at like 4-5GB depending on how much shitware there is. When I got this laptop, after everything was settled in and it had time to calm down the lowest I ever saw RAM go was 5.2GB, and after a clean install of 11 I managed to shed anywhere from half to a full gig on that, depending how it feels that particular day.
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    Dropped around 10oC on my secondary (4TB) NVME…

    flibberdipper replied to Dabombinable's status update

    I feel that. Mine either popped the head gasket, or the radiator leak decided to team up with the coils or injectors to both fail at the same time. If it's a head gasket, assuming nothing else is wrong, it's like $130 US, if it's the coils its about the same, and if it's injectors we're looking at about $350. Not sure what a new radiator is but I'm sure that's probably in the $150-200 range.
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    Dropped around 10oC on my secondary (4TB) NVME…

    flibberdipper replied to Dabombinable's status update

    I feel the fan predicament, I was going to get stuff next payday but my car decided it wants money instead. My Amazon cart has a bunch of parts for my "HP" sleeper: an M.2 screw kit (so the SSD isn't taped down), a Thermalright SI-100, and a 120mm Pure Wings 3 PWM to replace the 212 EVO fan I taped to the side of the case as an exhaust. Cooler and fan replacements are both for noise reasons over everything: the 212 fan has a bunch of motor tick and is just generally noisy all the time, and the SI-100 is more to help make it less jarring whenever the CPU gets load even though the stock cooler has absolutely no issues handling a 90W CPU.
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    Dropped around 10oC on my secondary (4TB) NVME…

    flibberdipper replied to Dabombinable's status update

    I ended up getting a pair of A40x20's that follow the chipset temperature for this exact purpose. My board has the SSDs stacked, and the bottom one gets quite a bit less heatsinkage than the top AND no airflow AND gets heatsoaked by the top drive and I believe the chipset as well. Threw a pair of them next to the SSDs and both of them dropped by 10C which was great for summer, since the bottom one was getting to 65-68C doing nothing which I wasn't cool with. Best part is the fans are still completely inaudible, I really love the A40x20's. Didn't think to check what temps were like when I had the AXP90-X53 temporarily in here though and now I'm super curious. Guess I'll find out when my AIO dies lmao
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    Not to mention they covered the thing in epoxy which would probably make it an absolute bitch to figure out what it actually was... assuming they didn't also scrub off all the markings.
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    One of the things I love about the 8TB Easystore I use for my Series X, which I'm pretty sure has an EMZZ in it, is how THONKY it is. I can feel it through my table. IMG 1233.mp4
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    Thought that looked like a socket 478 cooler. Good ol' Pentium 4 action released in early 2004 from what I've gathered. We love to see it.
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    SATA for consumer boards didn't really start to become commonplace until 2002-2003. Given the fact that the board in question has PCI-X that certainly puts it into workstation/server class territory of the era. I'd be curious what the model is, but that's perfectly obscured by the cable spaghetti, of course.
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    Generally speaking you're not going to be able to RMA anything with coil whine unless it's truly astoundingly bad, and it's kind of a waste of time and energy to return it and buy another one because there's always the chance that the next one will be worse.
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    Yup, that's the one and only thing I miss about my H115i and iCUE: where my AIO was cooling the CPU as well as serving as the exhaust for my entire system, I was able to have the fans ramp according to liquid temp to keep both the CPU temps in check as well as the liquid temps.
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    I agree with this to an almost aggressive point. The fan curve for my system has the AIO (and system, though they bottom out a little higher) fans at 450RPM until 65C, then it's 650RPM all the way until 95C where I have to make them go full bore. The only thing that ramps with CPU temp is the pump speed: 800RPM until 55C, 1200 to 65, 1600 to 75, and then whatever the hell max is starting at 80. My system is functionally inaudible at idle or low load, and the loudest thing by far under load is my 2080 as well as when the PSU fan kicks on. All with no sacrifice to temps, even though I have an SFF build with essentially fully open side panels.
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