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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

1 minute ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Printers can cache old print jobs so you can re-print them later.  Not sure what the use-case is to need that, but its a thing.

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.

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.

14 minutes ago, LawrenceTech said:

Oh like molex connectors didnt know you could do that on fans. Thank you!

Yup, just make sure you bend the wings back out otherwise they're not gonna stay in.

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.

If I'm not mistaken the 6700XT bests the 4060 usually, let alone the 3060, as long as you're not doing RT.

12 minutes ago, Levent said:

Hot take 4gb of ram is enough for those.

 

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.

3 minutes ago, Levent said:

Not gonna happen; it most certainly has a rudimentary SoC that doesn’t have any debug/programming pins.

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.

50 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

For both of my Maxtor D740x-6l, ball bearing 20GB and F.D.B 60GB, the spindle motor is the loudest of all of my HDD by far. Even going back to ones from 1992 through 1999.

With both drives installed in my Athlon XP 3000+ PC (which uses a modern case), I can feel the heads park through my desk when I shut it down. As well as a thrumming coming from the drives (they don't do it individually so it'd be harmonics).

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.

1 minute ago, TheDutchGinger said:

 

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.

6 minutes ago, Average Nerd said:

Also, do you know what interface those red cables are? They look like SATA, which they might actually be, since SATA appeared in 2000, but I've never seen a machine this old with onboard SATA.

My much, much newer HP ML370 G5 (2007, I believe) still uses an IDE interface.

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.

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.

1 minute ago, GuiltySpark_ said:

I have to remind people, with liquid cooling the fans are not there to cool the CPU, they are cooling the water. The water is going to change temperature drastically slower than the CPU. 

 

I wish more AIO's offered a way to monitor water temperature and a better way to implement triggering fans off of it that was more universal. 

 

A buddy of mine running a Commander Pro is using one of them the temp probe inputs to monitor radiator exhaust temp and triggering his fans off of that which I thought was pretty nice. It works well. 

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.

9 minutes ago, GuiltySpark_ said:

I think curves following CPU temp directly up and down is annoying as hell, and completely useless for water cooled CPU's.

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.

1 hour ago, Bitter said:

I think I asked this before but what's the oldest hardware anyone has posted to the forums with?

I think the furthest back I've gone are twin 1266 PIII's. I don't think I posted anything from my ProSignia 165 which has a mobile PII 400.

3 hours ago, r00tb33r said:

This crossed my mind.  I wonder if that provides more TDP budget to overclock the 8 P-cores even higher.  Curious if this has been benchmarked.

 

Though honestly I have yet to have a stable overclocked system that I used daily.  But playing with numbers will certainly be fun for a day.

If you're like me and OC using boost tables, voltage curves, and PL1/PL2 limits, it absolutely does. Alternatively it just cuts down on power usage overall which might be handy.

11 hours ago, r00tb33r said:

I Googled around and the sentiment is that E cores are indeed problematic for virtual machines.  So it sounds like 12700K would actually be more desirable...?

It's probably the route I would go. Hell, if I had a 12700K instead of my 12600KF I'd probably just disable the e-cores altogether since I'd have an extra two big boy cores/threads which would help "make up the difference" so to speak.

To illustrate my point of how ass e-cores are for VMs, here's a freshly installed Xubuntu 21.10 VM booting from my MP510, with 6GB of RAM and 4 cores assigned. First part is with it using the e-cores, second part is me changing the affinity to only p-cores. And believe me, the difference with Windows guests is FAR greater.

1 hour ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

even the ecores

Not VMWare Workstation though. If you don't disable the vmx from running on them, your VMs will be LUDICROUSLY slow. As in, a Windows XP VM will be slower than it would be on something like a Pentium II 233. I'm actually usually very annoyed with my e-cores, to the point that I really want a 7800X3D. VMs are a pain in the ass, Steam downloads are odd shit, but everything else is fine.

1 hour ago, ccnow said:

In my experience T-Mobiles network is far faster than Verizons - that could be your problem.

It's the exact opposite where I am. Tmo was useless, especially at my house, whereas with Visible I actually didn't realize I had WiFi turned off for the first week after porting over. I'm honestly not sure if it's congestion or just iOS being funky about how it displays my connection. Either way, still works better than Tmo ever did so I'll take it.

1 hour ago, ccnow said:

Out of curiosity do any major US carriers not offer free Canadian roaming these days? I thought free roaming in Canada and Mexico was a pretty basic feature now adays.

I'm honestly not sure. I know my previous carrier (MetroPCS) was kinda weird about how they worded it, and when I sat at the water it would jump from "standard" LTE to roaming and it was godawful slow. Right now I have Visible and roaming isn't nearly as much of an issue, though lately I just haven't had 5G where I normally do which is odd.