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    It was 20C literally yesterday, wat Now it's -11C

    flibberdipper replied to iamdarkyoshi's status update

    We casually went from mid-30s to mid/high 60s between yesterday and today.
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    I ended up swapping the CPUs between my Precision 3420 and the OptiPlex 7040M, so now the Precision has the 6600T and the 7040M has a 6500, and what a difference that makes. My PL2 is still seemingly limited to 45W but it's so much more responsive already: now it can at least pretend to play 4K60 YouTube (before it would just display one frame and nothing else).

     

    Bonus is where the 6600T is technically a lower power chip and it's now in a system that's on 24/7, there's theoretically a little power savings there?

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    Avast has essentially become what Norton, McAfee, an AVG all used to be: A bloated turd that barely works, and if I'm not mistaken they still sell your info like nobody's business.
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    Ditto on this. Using Avast is a death sentence in itself, you might as well run something worthwhile.
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    Dear god I never knew they made the USFF with a Pentium 4... Now I want one of those AND a 780 USFF for both ends of the whacky USFF generation: Pentium 4 shitbox and a Q6600 shitbox.
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    lol nah, they're normal socketed desktop chips in pretty much all of the 1L OptiPlex, EliteDesk, and ThinkCentre models.
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    I think my ultimate plan would be to limit the long-term turbo to 40-45w since that's about what the cooling in this thing can handle before encroaching on the 80s.
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    Same, 1L Dells will forever have my heart. I reeeeeeeally want to get a newer model that's 12th or 13th gen but I'm not feeling that rich. Only problem (for me) is that the I/O on newer models is somehow worse. IMO the 7040 is perfect: 6x USB3, 1x DP, 1x HDMI... The newer ones are either 4x USB3, 2x USB2, 1x DP, 1x HDMI or 4x USB3, 1x Type C, and 3x DP... Like come on guys lol
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    Bought this (apparently) brand new 130w power brick for this PC I got for free: an OptiPlex 7040 Micro. Mine has an i5 6600T, 8GB of single-channel 2133MHz RAM, and a 128GB SanDisk X400. My inner dumbass really wants to give it an i7 6700, 32GB of RAM (anything higher than 2400 is overkill, but it'll probably get 2666), and a 512GB MP33. Just for the memes.
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    Not directly, no. RGB vs plain white is completely different, and even just going between models manufactured by the same company can't always be reliable.
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    It's likely almost negligible. I remember seeing something somewhere and a full-size USB keyboard with backlighting only requested to draw something like 100mA at 5V... which is essentially nothing. And that's just how much it requested: not how much it actually uses.
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    It's probably a back burner project to begin with, but I also have to imagine that designing and sourcing cables isn't a super easy thing to begin with, much like the screwdriver.
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    This is how I store almost all of my motherboards, graphics cards, and other expansion cards in a metal filing cabinet. They all work fine. Not to mention I've built many things on carpet, including my friend's build with a 7700X and 4080.
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    Nope, not me. Though I do have this one, amusingly.
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    okay but why do I actually live in a stereotypi…

    flibberdipper replied to da na's status update

    Suddenly I feel like my room is pretty clean in comparison.
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    You're not my mom! The amusing part is that unless I'm just retarded they do in fact still list High Sierra as being supported.

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    So for funsies I installed High Sierra on my MBP 5,5 just to see if it would make web browsing more tolerable than Mavericks... And my god does it ever. Very surprisingly, actually, system responsiveness as a whole seems to be about the same as Mavericks (ignoring boot times, that is absolutely significantly worse), and something I'm very excited about is that my network shares finally work. Even though I got this thing with the sole intent of keeping Mavericks on it, I think I might just keep High Sierra on it.

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    I didn't use a guide for anything, I just kinda winged it and ended up with something that works perfectly. Hopefully later tonight I can remember to take screenshots of what I have going so you can use it as a baseline and see what happens. Mine is less of an overclock and more of an optimization since I have it set so that if I need to I can swap to a low-profile air cooler and not have to change anything.
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    I've never been able to find a suitable replacement for the power brick fans. My bastard 360 has a fan that is really not that great and I tried looking for longer than I care to admit trying to find a replacement for it. I'm just gonna let it get to the point where I really have to replace it and then figure it out. As for the shell, if you just hop on eBay you can find a ton of shells from gutted consoles, mainly white ones.
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    I use Edge as my browser on android. It has adb…

    flibberdipper replied to iamdarkyoshi's status update

    On Android I use Firefox, and on my iPhone I use Safari but keep Firefox installed so I can get my bookmarks, passwords, and yeet shit from anywhere to other devices using Firefox (which is honestly the most goated thing ever).
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    The obvious answer here is that the pump has failed and it takes about a minute for it to realize.
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    Honestly you may as well just learn how to set up a custom boost table and voltage curve. That's what I did on my 12600KF so that it runs a little faster than stock while drawing less power. It was super easy and has had zero issues so far.
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    I've been rocking the 8TB white label versions of WD Reds and I'm very happy with them. Speeds are great, noise is great, and temps are great on the 5640RPM drives. I'm about to need another one and finally bare drives are cheaper than externals so I'll be getting one of those next.
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    I always forget how bad the 15" MacBook Air is…

    flibberdipper replied to flibberdipper's status update

    le edgy timothy abble bad
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    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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