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Yeah, not a lot of games run very well with it though that can be due to other things too. My personal favorite game, After Burner Climax, runs perfectly with minimal performance issues. For the short time I played it on an actual PS3, it feels almost the same. I haven't cared enough to mess around with other titles, but that game runs really well even on less powerful hardware. I played it on my 2200G once.  

They can make some of the best quality units in the industry if they wanted to. Straight Power 11, Dark Power Pro 11, Hydro PTM, etc. But again, this just happens to not be their finest.

Gotcha. I just didn't want to get something else if I didn't need to but looks like this isn't worth my time. Thanks!

That's debatable I guess, really there's nothing special about it as a motherboard. Intel doesn't make motherboards anymore and its an X79 board that can overclock cheap Xeons so it offers a lot of value. X79 and X58 boards are hard to find and they're highly desirable.

Yeah, I replied right after that was posted. Other than being one of the last motherboards made by Intel, nothing much really. No support for V2 chips, a pretty basic looking yet functional BIOS, no Windows 10 support (most boards supported W10 back then if I'm not mistaken), and this being one of the "cheaper" of the 3 Intel released, it doesn't even have a USB 3.0 header. 

When working with cards in this case, it's a nice idea to pre-heat the whole PCB to like 100 C or something, then heat up the surrounding area even more. Though, don't trust me on this. Also, I think I remember reading somewhere about only exposing the components to high heat (like, solder-melting heat) for 10-20 seconds or less to minimise damage.

Well I used some aluminum foil and basically covered up the whole card but I think I set it too hot anyways.

I don't think its worth the time and effort considering that you can get a decent case fan for $5

For something spinning @ 800 to 3000 rpm, I'd really go with sla resin prints. Or just go with noctua. Fluid dynamics is complex, noctua engineers are probably better at it than the average computer user ?

The quietness and performance is so subjective. I don't have any doubts that it couldn't be done, or that result wouldn't work. But to what original you are comparing make difference. Just think of all the little things. Amount of blades, curving and general shape of blades, smaller details on blades AND frame. If original is generic 5 blade thing from 15 years ago, sure you can get better results. But against premium fans with years of R&D behind them, doubt it.

Oh well, at least now I have an excuse to look for another graphics card...
 

I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but if I bought a prepaid Cricket or At&t phone, and put in the Cricket sim card that I'm currently using, I'm assuming that the device doesn't have any special modifications to software other than carrier apps and boot animation, and it will react like any other phone not advertised as prepaid. Is my somewhat long statement correct? For the most part anyways. The phone I'm talking about is the Cricket Moto G6 Forge. 
 
Thanks.

So I was correct. Just making sure, thanks. 

Exactly this, no need to worry guys. Going through all 2000+ entries this week, you all should see a new forum post announcing our winners sometime next week.  
 
THANKS FOR PARTICIPATING, WE LOOK FORWARD TO WATCHING ALL OF THESE VIDEOS.

Begging is against the Community Standards.

@colonel_mortis is here, lock incoming

Sorry, begging isn't allowed on here. Topic Locked.

I'd go with the RX560, 2GB is really outdated nowadays. 

yup, 560. not much slower, if anything at all, and more vram.
 
If it's 1050 ti vs. 560, then 1050 ti.

560 gets my vote. I wouldn't get any tablet around the $130 mark. 

I'd go with the RX 560

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Bad few months for photography, as I'm relocating my retro computing selection from my warehouse to satellite storage.  I'd say about 3/4 isn't pictured, and unfortunately most of those are vintage games, more interesting hardware such as CPUs, video cards, my 40 Seagate 220s for 5100-Series PCs, pocket computers, wrist computers from the '80s, better condition monitors, and so on...
 
Not to mention my stock of floppy games and software that rolls into the late hundreds or early thousands.
 
To give you an idea, if you peer closely at one of these pictures, you'll see 18, fully functional Bernoulli Box disks.  I've got enough in here to set up a "LAN party" or workstation from any computer era that doesn't involve flipping 50 switches to create a simple program; so, about 1979 or so until today.
 
The PS/2 386 in the office is used regularly, as is the 5150 on that old desk; under which is a custom Athlon XP 3200+ rig that still works just fine today.
 
A grand total of around 1,150 square feet is currently dedicated to rack shelving solely supporting vintage computing gear, manuals, and software.  Not a single blue LinkSys router taking up space in there, either...  Man, I end up with so many of those to recycle.  Always at lest two in every purchase.  I take it all to get a better deal, and then spend days getting rid of the useless crap like that.  LOL
 
Maybe I can snap a few more shots of some of my favorite stuff.  I've got special, signature, and internal launch editions of nearly every Windows release there's been since 3.11; several framed, but I'll get to the rest when I paint my office.  1.0 is a bit of a serious luxury purchase, and I just haven't found the copy I want to spend a grand on yet...  LMAO

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I'll just work on my channel now and worry about money later