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    flibberdipper got a reaction from RevGAM in Fan splitter, all but one female missing pwm pin, normal?   
    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.
  2. Agree
    flibberdipper got a reaction from MadAnt250 in Fan splitter, all but one female missing pwm pin, normal?   
    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.
  3. Agree
    flibberdipper got a reaction from Needfuldoer in Converting non standard pin header   
    Yup, just make sure you bend the wings back out otherwise they're not gonna stay in. 😉
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    flibberdipper got a reaction from Needfuldoer in Converting non standard pin header   
    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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    flibberdipper got a reaction from da na in Converting non standard pin header   
    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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    flibberdipper got a reaction from Lune_ in Hot take: in 2024, 8GB of memory is enough for non-enthusiasts   
    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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    flibberdipper got a reaction from Birblover12 in Hot take: in 2024, 8GB of memory is enough for non-enthusiasts   
    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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    flibberdipper got a reaction from WhitetailAni in Hot take: in 2024, 8GB of memory is enough for non-enthusiasts   
    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.
     
  9. Agree
    flibberdipper got a reaction from Mihle in Hot take: in 2024, 8GB of memory is enough for non-enthusiasts   
    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.
     
  10. Agree
    flibberdipper reacted to 8tg in Hot take: in 2024, 8GB of memory is enough for non-enthusiasts   
    It’s more like windows sucks at memory allocation and has high resource usage overhead.
    I don’t like Linux, but install Linux on a machine with 4gb of ram and everything runs smooth.
    Meanwhile I have 64gb of ram and windows takes that as “welp, better cache all this useless shit in 12gb of it at idle”

    I max the ram on every machine I own because ram is cheap. I have laptops from 2011 which have 16gb of ram even if they’ll never use it. Just because windows sucks and eats up all the ram.
  11. Agree
    flibberdipper got a reaction from Lurking in Hot take: in 2024, 8GB of memory is enough for non-enthusiasts   
    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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    flibberdipper got a reaction from Dabombinable in Hot take: in 2024, 8GB of memory is enough for non-enthusiasts   
    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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    flibberdipper got a reaction from HansbutThenameWastaken in NZXT H5 Flow Hard Drive overheating issues.   
    I'd recommend downloading CrystalDiskInfo and seeing how hot it's actually getting. Hard drives should be fine until like 50C (not great for lifespan but they'd at least function correctly). Also, chances are unless you're using some goofy ass 6TB+ 7200RPM drive it really shouldn't be throwing a hissy fit with dickall airflow.
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    flibberdipper reacted to Levent in Why do I need a "dongle" for my mouse???   
    Because they use different protocols. Get a bluetooth device if you want bluetooth, its simple as that.
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    flibberdipper got a reaction from jaslion in I wanna try and reprogram this but i don't even knwo what it is   
    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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    flibberdipper got a reaction from Levent in I wanna try and reprogram this but i don't even knwo what it is   
    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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    flibberdipper got a reaction from Average Nerd in Show off your old and retro computer parts   
    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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    flibberdipper got a reaction from Dabombinable in Show off your old and retro computer parts   
    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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    flibberdipper got a reaction from da na in Show off your old and retro computer parts   
    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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    flibberdipper got a reaction from RevGAM in Quiet high performance fans   
    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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    flibberdipper got a reaction from RevGAM in Quiet high performance fans   
    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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    flibberdipper got a reaction from filpo in Rtx 4090 rog strix coil whine keep or return?   
    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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    flibberdipper reacted to Erioch in rant: people who buy 1000 dollar phones, but buy cheap cables and power bricks   
    How about I buy whatever I want?
  24. Funny
    flibberdipper reacted to Dedayog in Quiet high performance fans   
    You have a 14900K, you're never going to achieve quiet without retarding that thing to unreasonable levels.
     
     
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    flibberdipper got a reaction from GuiltySpark_ in Quiet high performance fans   
    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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