Crunchy Dragon

Don't turn your back on me I won't be ignored
 
 

4 years of One More Light. Feels like it's been so much longer...
 

Somehow not surprised. These kind of devices are typically the things that provide a backdoor to a network or device that they are connected to.
That said.... If someone has access to an airtag, they likely have access to your other stuff that were being "tracked" by it and network access would be the last of my worries.

@Crunchy Dragon 
 

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I'm still genuinely considering a MacBook for my next laptop. Not like I'm in the market and hopefully won't be any time soon, but some of the stuff Apple has been pumping out is insane.

Summary
The benchmarks of the new iPad Pro is out and it seems like we are looking at an absolute rocket.
 
Quotes
 
My thoughts
Last gen iPad Pro was so good, insanely fast... and now with this new one it is over 50% faster. Graphics are up to 71% faster. Now, I wish the OS would be a little different (more like macOS) but it is what it is I guess but regardless Apple hit a home run with this one. Personally I am waiting for the new Macbook Pro 14" and 16" to see what they are able to do, if I'm in the mood I may get one of these 12.9" iPad Pro's as well.
 
Sources
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/05/11/m1-ipad-pro-benchmarks/

Getting an interesting mix of Icon For Hire and Britney Spears vibes from this one.
 
 

I'm really not sure how I got here. I don't even like Taylor Swift.
 

Twitter: not a bad place to establish a way for people to find out what's going on with your company, or a simple way to contact you for customer service or something like that.
Discord: can be useful if your company gets big enough to have a community(see Corsair, XLR8, NZXT, etc). Not much use outside of that, though.
Pinterest: there can be professional presence here, but probably not for your field.
Instagram: similar use case as Twitter.
Reddit: for a company, not really much reason to invest in it.

You could try unplugging the LEDs from the PCB on the card itself.

wut

I wouldn't pay more than $650-700.
 
The GPU holds most of the value, and 980s aren't exactly high end cards anymore.

I play some of both. I love a good story, and you generally don't get that from multiplayer games.
 
I also enjoy PvP games probably too much.

I would probably roll with either of the 2017 iMacs you listed. They are a bit of a pain to work with, but with some care and know-how it can definitely be done.

Rule still applies 😉

Yeet.
 
 

I hear this as a metal scream.

I hear this as a metal scream.

I hear this as a metal scream.

Oh man, no posts in over a month. Might as well show off my new build.
 
Last year I purchased a Intel S5520SC for about 70 dollars. I had hopes of daily-ing it for weeks before that project was put on the backburner for a number of reasons. Last month for my birthday I decided to finally finalize everything. The name of the game was price to performance, which this machine excels at.

Here's the specs:
2 x5675s
Kingston DDR3-1066 24G
Intel S5520SC
two Hyper 212 Black Evos
Deepcool MATREXX case (Which supports SSI-EEB and EATX) I picked it since it was the smallest and cheapest case that supported EATX.
EVGA SuperNOVA 1300W G2
GTX 980
USB 3.0 Card
my trusty PNY 256 Gig boot drive, a BarraCuda LP which I use to store video.
Samsung 970 Evo 1TB that I use a scratch drive + game drive.
 
Man was this thing a pain to build. I think the largest problems I had was space in this case using a large PSU which impacted cable management and configuring fan speeds. No matter what I changed in the BIOS fans would constantly run at 100%. I had read that updating the FSU/SDR on the board would open up more options. Since Intel pulled all BIOS and firmware for all their legacy products on their site I was almost out of luck until I found an archive of the entire Intel download center. https://archive.org/details/downloadcenter.intel.com .I was able to update all the firmware on the board but still nothing seems to work correctly without an ambient temperature sensor, which my unit lacks. At the moment I just have the system tricked to thinking there are no fans on anything but the CPU, which runs all connected fans at slow speeds. My temps are in a reasonable range, 30-40C.
 
As for OS I chose Gentoo Linux. Compile times for packages are speedy and compiling my kernel only takes a minute or two.

 
I think this is the fastest one of these systems can really get. Faster RAM, x5690s, or a NVMe root directory could in theory boost performance but it would be marginal overall. Let me know what you guys think.
 
 
 
 

Running an X5650 on a Sabertooth X58. Currently stable at 4.2GHz, 1.35V, but want to see if I can get a bit more performance. Complete noob when it comes to any OC. Current settings (everything under the "DRAM timing control" dropdown is set to auto):
Anything immediately obvious that I should change? Any suggestions on higher OC or just more performance in general? Thanks!

idk the deletion process, but i'll ask when i get there, I promise. I would NEVER be a troublemaker! 
 
 

Rule still applies 😉