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  1. flibberdipper
    I will never be able to understand how people do this with controllers, honestly. I've had my 360 controller for god knows how many years and even that still has a little bit of the nubs left. Doing this on a controller for the Series/One consoles is insane to me.
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    I always forget how bad the 15" MacBook Air is…

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    Usually there aren't much better deals externally, assuming you can even find the spec you want. Yup, good ol 10.9.5. I got this old 13" MBP with the sole intent of running 10.9.5 on it because I miss the look of old OS X. Ignoring how slow Basilisk is on it it's actually comically fast thanks to the 250GB 840 EVO and 8GB of RAM I put in it, power button to desktop is about 30 seconds and that includes me having to put my password in. I'd love to dualboot Linux/Windows on it for the memes (and so I could use Discord/Telegram on it) but the trackpad is fucky under Linux and in Windows 10 it doesn't even have proper drivers so it works even worse. I might try Windows 7 on it through BootCamp just for the hell of it but I'm not sure yet.
  3. flibberdipper
    flibberdipper
    I always forget how bad the 15" MacBook Air is from a value perspective if you want a 512GB/16GB config compared to a 14" MBP base but upgraded to 16GB as well. An extra hundo gives you a better 120Hz MicroLED display, much better I/O, a real cooling solution, AND the M3 chip.
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    2. djksm

      djksm

      4 hours ago, flibberdipper said:

      Usually there aren't much better deals externally, assuming you can even find the spec you want.

       

      Yup, good ol 10.9.5. I got this old 13" MBP with the sole intent of running 10.9.5 on it because I miss the look of old OS X. Ignoring how slow Basilisk is on it it's actually comically fast thanks to the 250GB 840 EVO and 8GB of RAM I put in it, power button to desktop is about 30 seconds and that includes me having to put my password in. I'd love to dualboot Linux/Windows on it for the memes (and so I could use Discord/Telegram on it) but the trackpad is fucky under Linux and in Windows 10 it doesn't even have proper drivers so it works even worse. I might try Windows 7 on it through BootCamp just for the hell of it but I'm not sure yet.

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      noice

    3. da na

      da na

      18 hours ago, flibberdipper said:
      I always forget how bad the MacBook is 

      FTFY

    4. flibberdipper

      flibberdipper

      3 hours ago, da na said:

      FTFY

      le edgy timothy abble bad

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    Having recently gone into the rabbithole it really wasn't that bad. I killed my old G Pro X TKL that I had just put new switches into (alcohol is bad for keyboards mmkay), and it was pretty easy for me to find a keyboard I liked, that being a Keychron K8 Pro with the same Gateron G Yellow Pro 3.0s. The hardest part was fucking keycaps and I'm still not fully sold on the ones I have even though I love the overall look and feel of them. Now I'm starting to entertain the idea of looking into some o-rings because while the sound I have now is super fucking nice I kinda wanna see just how far I can go down the silence rabbit hole. The keyboard already has foam AND silicone to dampen noise so I might as well lol
  5. flibberdipper

    People who claim a Core 2 Duo is still useful i…

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    Yeah using 7 as a daily is uh... mildly insane. There really isn't any reason not to be on 10 by this point unless you're rocking some shitpail that still boots off a hard drive or has a criminally low amount of RAM. And at that point it's 2024 brother, pick up some shitpail Skylake Dell or EliteDesk for like 80 bucks and join the modern era.
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    That's really just a pre-Jasper thing. My house has 3 phats: the Jasper v2? Elite in our living room we've had since they came out, my Falcon Elite, and my bastard-child Opus Arcade. The Jasper has never really worked up a sweat doing much of anything, which is especially un-noticeable because it has the quietest model of fan they came with, and they are GENUINELY quiet fans. Sitting at the dashboard I don't recall them ever ramping up, and in game they might go up just a handful of steps. My Falcon and Opus on the other hand will ramp the fans up a couple ticks if you leave them sitting at the dashboard, and then of course get going even more in game. Same thing with power bricks: The Opus' 16.5A is obnoxious as FUCK (ignoring that the fan is failing), my Falcon's 14.2A is audible but not horrible, and the Jasper's 12.1 isn't toooo bad either (amusingly though it still ends up being louder than the console itself). We've also got a Corona which is too quiet for a 360. It's nice, sure, but it needs that extra spice.
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    Good thermal paste will help for sure, but where yours is a Jasper they're one of the most bulletproof revisions that's been made to the 360 hardware so thankfully you don't need to worry a hell of a lot. As for what the best GPU cooler is, the best one is the second revision one that has that random ass appendage sticking off it (so NOT the shitty Xenon/Kronos/Jasper V2 one). The better CPU cooler is the denser heatpiped one, but on a Jasper (and even Falcon) the plain jane aluminum one is just fine. I've got a weird warranty console that will be an interesting test of time. It was one of the pre-HDMI models that someone RMAd in 2008 and they kinda just threw whatever the fuck they had at it. At its heart it should be a Falcon like any other Opus, and really any 360 produced/serviced in '08, but the heatsinks are Zephyr (so the heatpipe GPU and CPU coolers), and it still has the Zephyr/Opus power plug, even though if memory serves that should also be the 14.2A PSU like a Falcon.
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    People who claim a Core 2 Duo is still useful i…

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    I've got a 3GHz P4HT in an OptiPlex 170L paired with integrated graphics. They're roughly on the same level of suck when it comes to modern web for me cuz at least the P4 has shit onboard graphics and only 2GB of RAM as an excuse for being bad. Well, and it's almost 20 years old.
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    People who claim a Core 2 Duo is still useful i…

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    Between being Mavericks and the fact that I'm stuck using forks of older Firefox (or just random whackass engines in general), yes. I'm sure if it had Xubuntu on it and wasn't trying to play back AV1 it could probably barely squeak out 1080p60. I know back in the E4300 days 1080p60 was a FAT no go on Windows 10, but it would work fine on Windows 7.
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    I kind of feel like the Mac is your default option here. The HP you already have has audio issues that make content consumption unenjoyable and the display sounds like it's pretty mid, and the XPS also has a display you don't like and isn't super comfortable to use. The good news I guess is that the Mac has a pretty damn good display, concerningly good sound (for what it is), battery life that could easily get you through a day, and even though it may not meet your OS preferences, I'm sure you'd get used to it. Two of my biggest gripes with macOS stem from window management, both of which can be fixed. Specifically I just hate the window management in general (why do I have to hold command when I want to maximize a window without going into that stupid ass fullscreen mode???), and the alt tab situation is also pretty abysmal. For the general window management I just got used to it and now it doesn't bother me almost at all, and for the alt tab situation there's a program called, wait for it, AltTab that fixes it perfectly.
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    People who claim a Core 2 Duo is still useful i…

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    With ye olde Linux maybe, but running it how Tim Apple intended absolutely not. Thankfully I tried Basilisk instead of Nightly and that made a world of difference, at least now it can play 720p60 YouTube (before it would just stop outputting new frames). Still slow as balls, but less slow as balls. And certainly better than how it was when I got it. I cannot believe someone used a mid-2009 MBP on the stock 160GB HDD and 2GB of RAM... WITH OS X 10.11... into the year 2024. That right there is some supreme masochism. This has a P7550 that runs at the rated 2.26GHz with absolutely no issues. I have yet to even see this thing hit 85C (probably because I repasted it, I'm sure if it was still balling the stock 2009-2010 vintage crust it'd be a different story). Believe me I'm no stranger to using ass hardware well past the time it should have been put out to pasture (I was still using some flavor of C2D in my E4300 until 2017-2018 I think?) so it's not like I'm just being an elitist snob. They truly just suck. Now if it had a more modern dual core it'd be a different story. I'd love to get my hands on a 2013 13" (which is what I thought this was at a passing glance and is why I took it) because that would actually be usably quick to the point where I'd actually consider figuring out how the hell to dual boot Mavericks and some flavor of Linux.
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    Just judging based off how the light catches it I'm also going to say that's a crack. It probably isn't anything serious though, modern displays have gotten pretty damn good at handling cracks, especially when it comes to the digitizer (just look at all the beat to shit iPhones you see on a daily basis).
  13. flibberdipper
    You never know, maybe all this time later the OP is still on the fence. I will never understand how in the hell people not only initially reply to a thread this old, but then more people continue to reply (ignoring people like us kinda being smartasses).
  14. flibberdipper
    flibberdipper

    People who claim a Core 2 Duo is still useful in this day and age are on some serious cope. I just got my hands on a 2010 Macbook Pro with what I believe is the P8400, and while I refuse to run Linux on it I've given it every possible advantage I can think of: a 250GB 840 EVO, 8GB of RAM, OS X 10.9.5, and Nightly as a web browser. And even still, anything that involves... well modern web, really, makes it want to kill itself.

     

    Thankfully I got this mainly just to have a Mavericks system around for when I want to look at a pretty UI, maybe type some shit out, or dick around on the forums. It's not at all useful as a laptop between the fact that it's a Core 2 Duo and the battery is well and thoroughly cooked so it only gets maybe an hour of life off the wall, but for what I want to do it should be just fine.

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    2. da na

      da na

      1 minute ago, flibberdipper said:

      I've got a 3GHz P4HT in an OptiPlex 170L paired with integrated graphics. They're roughly on the same level of suck when it comes to modern web for me cuz at least the P4 has shit onboard graphics and only 2GB of RAM as an excuse for being bad. Well, and it's almost 20 years old.

      The Core Duo and P4HT/Pentium D's chipsets' iGPUs not supporting Windows 10 very well is a huge problem for me, since handing off 3D acceleration to the already-weak CPU is rather miserable.

    3. kelvinhall05

      kelvinhall05

      Same energy as anyone using Windows 7 in 2024.

    4. flibberdipper

      flibberdipper

      2 hours ago, kelvinhall05 said:

      Same energy as anyone using Windows 7 in 2024.

      Yeah using 7 as a daily is uh... mildly insane. There really isn't any reason not to be on 10 by this point unless you're rocking some shitpail that still boots off a hard drive or has a criminally low amount of RAM. And at that point it's 2024 brother, pick up some shitpail Skylake Dell or EliteDesk for like 80 bucks and join the modern era.

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    2015 is typically regarded as the last "good" model of MBP. Running in the 80s seems a little high for that workload, especially where the fan was audible. If the fan wasn't audible then I'd probably call it normal.
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    There's a couple patches you need to install manually if you're using good ol SP1 builds, but after that you can just run Windows Update as per usual. These are the updates you need to install, and you need to install them in this order. KB3102810 Windows Update Agent 7.6 KB3020369 KB3172605
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    I did this just recently with a Pavilion A6137C and cooling is for sure the biggest hurdle. In my case, the case itself isn't all that wide so my GTX 970 100ME almost completely cuts it in half (which as you could imagine is not great for airflow), and then paired with the frankly awful design of the heatsink (the fins are parallel to the edge of the card instead of perpendicular so the middle half of the heatsink doesn't do a damn thing)... not a fun time. And unfortunately flipping the PSU fan to be an intake did absolutely nothing to help it, if anything it actually hurt a bit (it dropped about 3-5w across the board since I have it temp limited to 72C). And where the 970 has a dumbass heatsink design, the side panel fan didn't really help a whole hell of a lot either, though it did make the CPU a little happier. I do plan to continue making it more silly though, and I think my next two steps will be getting a Thermalright SI-100 which is more for noise than anything (the stock cooler has no issues keeping up with the 6700K), and the major step is going to be upgrading the GPU where I'll also be getting a blower model instead. Probably something like a 5700XT since it would be neat to have an AMD GPU for the first time in YEARS.
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    God I cannot stress enough how much I hate people that bring .doc/.docx files for me to print. The formatting is almost always COMICALLY incorrect, and if I send them back home to convert it to a PDF lo and behold the formatting is absolutely perfect every single time. It's also just nice being able to secure PDFs reasonably well. I just filled out a job application (entirely within Acrobat!) and exported my resume from Word into a PDF, and in both cases I made them conform to a standard which almost guarantees that they are not modifiable by anyone. Doesn't super matter for I'm doing sure, but it is still very nice to have that option.
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    Usually they're either held in by satanic plastic clips or are screwed in from the bottom side of the board.
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    My experience with X58 is extremely limited (even though I have an X58 Sabertooth and a P6T Deluxe I just haven't been bothered to mess with yet), but here is what I've come up with so far. Make sure your BIOS is up to date. Obviously earlier BIOSes can have some kinks that aren't worked out yet so we can't rule that out as an issue. Being an early DDR3 platform of course we can't rule that out. This is from the EVGA forums and a help article so it might be slightly different for our ASUS boards, but the suggestion there was making sure that the Memory Low Gap setting is at AUTO instead of 3G or whatever else there is. Unfortunately I don't have a spare PSU to pull either of my boards out to take a look, but hopefully ASUS did things in a similar manner. My only final suggestion is to just repeatedly fuck with it and see what happens. I know my X79 Sabertooth was being kind of a bitch with RAM and I just ended up repeatedly moving sticks around and eventually it decided to work.
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    I never said it makes sense for them to do so, I said it would be nice to see. No matter how you split it, modern Macs kinda fuck for gaming (ignoring how hilariously cost prohibitive it is for RAM upgrades), and I know a fair few people in my own personal life that would 100% go Mac-only if our favorite games at least worked on our Macs. Obviously a small sample size, but I'm sure it is a fairly common theme since they're getting reeeeeal good again.
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    I would love to see Valve come out with something Proton-esque so that more Steam games would work on it. I know it probably won't happen but I'm going to keep my hopes up.
  23. flibberdipper
    Keychron K8 Pro, Gateron G Yellow Pro 3.0s, and a Glorious keycap set. Overall really love the keyboard and the sound/feel I've got going, but the south-facing LED thing kinda sucks when it comes to these keycaps that I otherwise really love. I have the backlight all the way up and there's so little light coming through that they may as well be solid caps (the dark shot is actually harder to see IRL). Unfortunately finding a nice set that doesn't have some gaudy ass gamer font is insanely difficult and this was the only option I seem to recall finding that ticked all of the boxes, minus having a south-LED friendly design.
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    I had a magnetized Pittsburgh screwdriver set (big/small phillips, big/small flathead, and little stubby versions of the big ones) and it served me very well for like 6-7 years doing PC retardation. And the flatheads have been used as prybars waaaaaaaay more than they have been used as screwdrivers, I'll tell you that much right now. They're still generally fine, the big phillips is a little wallered out and the magnetization is gone from all of them, but they're not unusable anymore.
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    Microcenter might have just been trying to get you to go "name brand" if that makes sense. Not all cables are created equally and so on. Which I guess makes sense, you can get ones from Monoprice for a smidge less than that, actually, and at least then it comes from a company that will usually put out a consistent product.
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