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  1. flibberdipper

    Beside the age of my current rig ... I am wonde…

    It's definitely a case of having your own expectations I think. I have a 2080 and I genuinely cannot wait for the day to come that I can replace it. Like yes, generally speaking at 1440p it's a totally capable card but after having a taste of a 4080 IRL I just hate it.
  2. I love me some Windows boxes, Vista and ME's are also great looking tbh.
  3. All the time on wall, and 25w max on battery. ThrottleStop lets you adjust the max power limits and after that it's just a guessing game for if your machine will support it.
  4. Vendors can configure their PL1/PL2 to whatever they want, really. Lenovo by default caps the 1315U in my laptop to 15 watts which quite frankly makes it absurdly slow albeit very cool, but with ThrottleStop I let it suck down as much as it wants all the time on wall power (usually around 35-40W).
  5. Finally bought some fans for my PC. I fucked up the cable for my stock AIO fans the day I got it when I was desleeving it, and when I took it apart to clean the connector came off sooooo it was time for a replacement. Plus side is these are black instead of having white blades so now the only thing that stands out in my system are the lil A40x20's that cool my SSDs. Now I'm just waiting on CableMod to hurry the fuck up so I can have the correct length 24 pin and EPS cables, and then I'll finally be able to put the side panels back on this thing.
  6. Bought a second 5-port HDMI switch from UGreen because I have 8 devices and 2 ports on my TV. I'm hoping I can daisy-chain the switches because running the Apple TV through a switch breaks HDMI CEC (aka I can't turn my TV on and off with just that remote when I'm on a TV binge).
  7. Bought a lil laser printer (the HL-L2370DW) for a whopping $40 because it's been our display model since about Q1 2018. Only printed off 11 pages before my ownership. Just need to clean up the remainder of the sticker residue plus the sticker residue on the back right corner from one of our ancient signage dealios we had on it.
  8. It doesn't matter if you eliminate them from consoles, anywhere else they look the same tactics will be used. You might as well be trying to fight a horde of locusts using only a flyswatter.
  9. hehehe whoops, I destroyed the only EPS cable I think I have for my PC so I just ended up dropping a fat stack on a 24-pin and an EPS for it. Hopefully I got the right length. 😬

     

    This also means I'm stuck using my sleeper HP with a 6700K and (very) thermally constrained GTX 970 for about two weeks. Quite the downgrade from a 12600KF and RTX 2080.

  10. Afterburner is still kinda the best option we have.
  11. Got me some of them got damn racin car wheels for the black Hyken I just got a couple weeks ago. It's absolutely insane how much of a difference for noise these guys can make on hard flooring, and they actually make it just a little bit harder to roll around which actually makes getting in and out of the chair easier. Also, I may or may not have spent a little more on these ones just because I liked the actual wheel design more.
  12. I got Gateron G Yellow Pro 3.0's for my Keychron K8 Pro and overall I'm pretty happy with them. The actual switch doesn't really do much for sound since they're just quiet and inoffensive, in my limited experience with them it seems like the keycap makes more of a difference. I had some in a Logitech G Pro X with the stock keycaps + some foam moddage and the sound really isn't that far off from the K8 Pro with Glorious keycaps and the heaps of sound deadening that this thing comes with. The Glorious keycaps are nothing special either, they're a comical amount lighter than the stock caps and I swear to god they're wearing faster than the caps from the GPX did.
  13. Got this 16GB iPhone 5S with a pristine display... but beat to hell body. Not sure what I'm gonna do with it, right now it just runs a clean wipe of 12.5.7. iPhone SE2 for scale.
  14. If I'm not mistaken the R12 actually uses a standard mATX motherboard. Hell, I think it's even exempt from Dell's flavor of 12VO and 5-pin PWM autism.
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    I've been hearing this weird buzzing sound in m…

    The power brick for my bastard child Xbox 360 is the same way. It has HORRIBLE coil whine so I ended up throwing it on a single-outlet power switch so that I can turn it on and off as needed.
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    So my 5 year old Android just finished download…

    IIRC it's the same situation on macOS as well now. I had a 2014 Mac Mini and on Mojave installing updates wasn't too bad, but with Catalina and above (which is when the dedicated system partition became a thing) it started to take an absolute eternity to install updates. Though I think that's also just a macOS thing now because my M1 Mini behaves the same way, albeit much faster than the trash ol' 2014. Also that is very odd app install behavior. I've got a Pixel 7, SE2, and a 15PM (used to have a 13PM) and usually every one of the iPhones would end up installing faster than the Pixel 7, or at least install equally fast.
  17. I sense another opportunity to simp for the TeamGroup MP33/MP33 Pro and MP34. I've got the 128 and 256GB versions of the MP33 as well as a 4TB MP34 and I have nothing but praise for them. They're all dirt cheap for the capacity you get, and the endurance on all of them is usually a healthy bit higher than anything else for the same price (my 4TB drive as a rated endurance of 2.4 petabytes). They may not be the fastest things in the world, but realistically you don't need some meme SSD that gets 6,900MB/s.
  18. I finally have to deal with the sizeable coolant leak my car has developed from a cracked radiator end tank. It loses anywhere from 200 to 400mL a day, depending on how warm it is outside and how much I've driven. And here I thought tax return season meant paying off some of the credit card.
  19. Monitors and TVs usually just "resume" where they left off so that's normal behavior. Also, if things behave normally then you're fine. There isn't just some magical "yo bro u ok" button that gives you a clear-cut answer on if things got damaged or not. But realistically if your provider cut it, it was probably a pretty clean power cut so the chance for damage is rather unlikely.
  20. Power outages really aren't not that black and white. In my experience it's very common for there to be harmful voltage fluctuations when the power "cuts" out: we just had a straight loss of service caused by a tree snapping a line last month, which caused a fairly significant voltage spike, and that in turn managed to cause an HDMI port on my TV to become highly flaky. As for the second part of what I've quoted, I don't think that's inherently the biggest issue. In my experience with my provider, when they get things back up it's not unlike flipping a power switch in the sense that we just go from no power to normal power (which is how it should be). The most harmful parts of power loss originate from issues like what I just experienced; whether it be a tree falling on a line, some dumbass deciding their car looks better parked where the power line used to be, or a transformer deciding it wants to transform into a firework. While I'm sure the power flicking on and off rapidly isn't exactly great for anything, it's realistically the super out of whack voltage spikes during power loss which cause things to let out the magic smoke.
  21. Can confirm, my mid-2009 MBP came with 2GB of 1066MHz DDR3. Not that the speed really matters here since 1066 is the fastest the C2D supports.
  22. Yep, they're just regular NEMA 5-15P to IEC C13 cables. Realistically any gauge wire will work, since even 18AWG is theoretically capable of delivering a little over 1kW without issue.
  23. Just like taxes we have to guess and get sentenced to death if we get it wrong.
  24. Closing apps will do nothing for his battery unless there's one particular app that refuses to suspend and drinks battery for no reason, iOS has gotten really good at managing itself and all your junk. It's actually more likely that his battery life will get worse if you keep force-closing everything.
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