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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from BiscuitMassacre in How can you test if a SmartWatch is waterproof?   
    Are you talking about the original Pebble Steel?  If so, just to give some feedback I might recommend looking at a different smartwatch because I have had nothing but issues with my Pebble Steel after the 3.0 update came out; my top button completely stopped working, and I'd say a good half of the time the screen would be in a frozen state with notifications causing the entire face of the watch to just show static until I scrolled down.  I was holding out hope that they would come back and update the firmware to improve performance and reliability, but since Fitbit just bought out Pebble and they have stopped all production on Pebble devices, I'd say there's about 0% chance of a firmware update happening now.  Just wanted to give you some words of caution for just now getting into one of these (I replaced mine with the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier smartwatch, and I'm loving it so far).
     
    But to answer the actual question, I've gotten mine pretty wet and it didn't seem to be affected by it.  I never went swimming with it on and never showered with it on, but sometimes it would get pretty wet when washing my hands and it didn't seem any worse off (the button issue I described happened as soon as I upgraded the firmware to the new version, so I doubt water had anything to do with that issue).
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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from sterlingr in This PSU in a Raven RVZ02?   
    the overall dimentions seem to be standard SFX, but the strange thing is that the AC power connector seems to be on what would be considered the side of the PSU.  The wider part of the PSU that, in the ebay picture, shows the sticker for it is usually what would be facing outward on the back of the case.  Granted, the RVZ02 has an internal power extension that routes from the PSU AC power input to the actual rear of the case, but I would still be weary of it not working out quite right.
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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from PlayStation 2 in Does your GPU sag?   
    This guy gets it, here's mine

    And yes, technically GPU sag will happen in any direction, but the fact that gravity is working against the IO bracket instead of the PCI-Express connector is the main benefit.

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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from IGJoe2192 in Does your GPU sag?   
    This guy gets it, here's mine

    And yes, technically GPU sag will happen in any direction, but the fact that gravity is working against the IO bracket instead of the PCI-Express connector is the main benefit.

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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from berderder in Wireless PC Controller?   
    I use an Xbox 360 wireless controller with the wireless receiver for my HTPC, and it's worked great.  I use Controller Companion (sold for a couple bucks via Steam) to control things in the windows environment including websites like Youtube (use www.youtube.com/tv for the shortcut, way better interface for TVs and you can use arrow keys/dpad on the 360 controller+controller companion to navigate).  If you want to get fancy, you can get the 360 chatpad and Controller Companion has a driver that actually makes it work, though it has to do some weird stuff and means that while the chatpad works it won't be recognized in a game as an xinput device.
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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from baloonis in Noctua Cooler and RAM   
    The NH-D15S would have worked out perfectly for you as it basically is an NH-D15 with only one fan in the middle.  The D15's heatsinks can support the taller memory, however it's the fan on the outside of the cooler that causes the clearance issues.  I have Corsair Dominator Platinum memory with a NH-D15S and couldn't be happier.
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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from NoRomanBatmansAllowed in Scrapyard Wars Season 4 - With Special Guest BS Mods   
    Just wanted to say THANK YOU for finally doing the longer episodes.  It doesn't feel nearly as rushed like previous series that had to cram so much in such a short amount of time per episode.  Really looking forward to the next episodes!
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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from Serin in Scrapyard Wars Season 4 - With Special Guest BS Mods   
    Just wanted to say THANK YOU for finally doing the longer episodes.  It doesn't feel nearly as rushed like previous series that had to cram so much in such a short amount of time per episode.  Really looking forward to the next episodes!
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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from rhyseyness in Do people just not bother researching at all?   
    I find it frustrating seeing all of the "How many watts should I get for my PSU?" threads when there actually is a sticky for that exact topic.
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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from typographie in Should a noob buy Dark Souls 3?   
    If you're worried about the PC port of DS3, apparently people are going to be playing it on Twitch as early as tomorrow, and I know that streamers like Maximilian will be playing the PC version.  So I'm waiting to see what the consensus is as far as PC port quality goes before I put any money down towards it.
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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from MEC-777 in Should a noob buy Dark Souls 3?   
    I'm sure if there are major problems with the PC version while they play it on stream, the internet is going to blow up as usual with outrage and accusations, so if it's bad you will probably hear about it without having to watch actual gameplay.  I'm just glad that they are letting streamers play it for people early like this instead of pulling the usual "no gameplay and no reviews until it's out so people won't know they're buying a broken game"
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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from The Salt Is REAL in Corsair K95 RGB LEDs fixed yet?   
    I've had one since close to launch, though I did have to replace it a few months ago due to a drink being spilled on it while I was away (LAN party).  I've never ever had a single LED issue as far as them going out.  The only issues were early on with the software but at this point I'm confident in saying it's good and reliable and not nearly the resource hog it used to be.
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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from Snapzz3 in Anyone own the MSI X99A SLI PLUS ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard?   
    I have the MSI X99S Krait which is pretty much the same board except for the looks.  I've got a 5930k OC'd to 4.3GHZ rock solid without touching the voltage myself, so I'd say you should be fine unless you're planning on doing some serious OC'ing.
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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from byalexandr in Use Just a Controller from Bed?   
    I got you covered, I use this setup with my HTPC.  Here is a free program that does exactly what the paid app there does:
     
    http://xbstart.info/
     
    Lets you control mouse movement with left analog, volume with the right, arrow keys with the d-pad, scrolling with left and right trigger.
     
    For Youtube, just create a browser shortcut to http://www.youtube.com/leanback which will allow you to browse Youtube with the D-pad as arrow keys.  In Kodi I have it launch in Kiosk mode which takes over the entire screen where you can't see the taskbar at the bottom or the menu bar and such in the browser.
     
    EDIT: just realized that I don't think XBStart works on Windows 10, my HTPC still has 8.1 installed so depending on your OS this may or may not work.
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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from sissj in Dumbest Tech Questions/Quotes You've Ever Heard   
    I've been following a support thread on Microsoft's site and one of the MS people asked a user for the model number of their PC.  The guy responded with the screencap below, and I added some context to it lol
     

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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from mrchow19910319 in Why does the asus x99 deluxe get such bad reviews?   
    x99 Deluxe from Asus killed my 5930k and Asus couldn't care less...
     
    What happened is I decided to use their AISuite to auto-OC my new 5930k as I've seen people like Jayztwocentz actually give it positive notes in his video review of it, and at 4.2GHZ and about 56C temps, PC locked up and would never post again.  I even went out and bought a new motherboard to test with and confirmed my CPU was gone.  Called Asus support and they wouldn't do anything because I was overclocking, even though the only thing that was done was run the software that CAME WITH THE MOTHERBOARD.
     
    Before this, I was having random issues getting my system to post as it sometimes took me draining the system completely of power, then trying to boot and it would magically work.  The funny part about this is that it was the exact same issue Linus had in the first Personal Rig 2015 video with the exact same BIOS error code displayed on the motherboard.  Ended up being an XMP issue, which I'd think shouldn't be much of an issue in (then) 2015.
     
    Still a bit sad/angry about it, and still have the dead x99 Deluxe in the trunk of my car.  Intel actually replaced the CPU thankfully, so I bought an MSI x99s Krait and it's been great.
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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from Bensemus in Sexisim and reform among gamers.   
    The thing I hate about discussions like these is that the people inside the discussion typically agree on all the major points, but the people who actually need to be address who are attacking women aren't here because they are typically not part of the actual online community; they're individuals outside of our particular discussion-sphere, if you will, who don't see it as a big deal because they don't see what they're doing as they do it.  I mean really, who here would actually say that verbally abusing women just because they're playing the same games is ok?
     
    I guess in short, I find these discussions kind of pointless unless you try to bring in the people who are actually perpetuating the thing we all can say shouldn't be happening.
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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from Sauron in Sexisim and reform among gamers.   
    The thing I hate about discussions like these is that the people inside the discussion typically agree on all the major points, but the people who actually need to be address who are attacking women aren't here because they are typically not part of the actual online community; they're individuals outside of our particular discussion-sphere, if you will, who don't see it as a big deal because they don't see what they're doing as they do it.  I mean really, who here would actually say that verbally abusing women just because they're playing the same games is ok?
     
    I guess in short, I find these discussions kind of pointless unless you try to bring in the people who are actually perpetuating the thing we all can say shouldn't be happening.
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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from Megan in Sexisim and reform among gamers.   
    The thing I hate about discussions like these is that the people inside the discussion typically agree on all the major points, but the people who actually need to be address who are attacking women aren't here because they are typically not part of the actual online community; they're individuals outside of our particular discussion-sphere, if you will, who don't see it as a big deal because they don't see what they're doing as they do it.  I mean really, who here would actually say that verbally abusing women just because they're playing the same games is ok?
     
    I guess in short, I find these discussions kind of pointless unless you try to bring in the people who are actually perpetuating the thing we all can say shouldn't be happening.
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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from roblesaturcamilo in Mini ITX cases   
    Can I ask why you particularly want to use an ATX power supply instead of an SFX?  In a Mini-ITX case you're most likely not going to be able to put more than 1 GPU in there and most likely not putting more than, at most, 1 mechanical hard drive if not completely SSD which doesn't take much power to run at all, so the current options of SFX power supplies seem like more than enough and have gotten much better with time.
     
    I am currently using the Silverstone FTZ01 case which can fit a full sized GPU and SFX-L power supply, which is the new-ish format of PSU Silverstone came out which is a bit deeper than a standard SFX power supply so that it can fit a 120mm fan for cooling and therefore is much quieter than standard SFX power supplies.  The FTZ01 may have a larger surface area as it's a completely horizontal layout, but I'd imagine it would fit better in a backpack compared to the cube-style cases if your intention is to take it to Lan parties and such.  And of course you can set it vertically if it's going to be mainly sitting on a desk where you don't want it to take up much room.  I also really like the looks of it on the outside personally.
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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from fearthewiener in K70 RGB keycaps   
    No worries, I know there wasn't much info about this readily available without a ton of digging so I'm glad I could offer some first-hand info for ya!
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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from StevenSensei in Noctua D15S vs Corsair H80i   
    So, it just so happens I have both of these coolers as I just replaced the H80i with the NH-D15s, and my temps are about 10c lower with the Noctua, both at idle and under load.  I have a modest OC of 4.2ghz on my 5930k for the record, I could definitely go higher but usually keep it here for day to day use.
     
    The main reason I switched was because I couldn't stand the pump noise; it wasn't really loud or anything, but I wanted to go more of the silent route.  I have a Silverstone FT02 case and I originally had the H80i attached to the 120mm exhaust, which due to my motherboard layout having the RAM too close to the rear IO, I had to go with an only pull config (used an NF-F12 for the fan though).  When I replaced this with the NH-D15s I was impressed that even though it only has the one fan compared to the NH-D15 and it's two fans, it still did much better than the H80i.
     
    Another note, I went with the NH-D15s specifically due to RAM clearance as it's pretty much the only cooler I could find that supports clearance for Dominator Platinum memory on both sides of the CPU since my system is x99, so the NH-D15 wouldn't work for me unless I removed one of the fans, which defeats the purpose.  Check Noctua's product page for the NH-D15 and see if the PCI clearance is an issue as they have a really good list of motherboard compatibility checks to make sure you won't have any issues, and if it fits you could consider going the non-S route since you only have memory on one side of the CPU to worry about clearance.
     
    So in short, go with the NH-D15s for sure.
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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from Enderman in Samsung 850 Pro 256GB vs. Samsung 950 Pro M.2 256GB   
    No worries either way; I don't keep anything important on my OS drive that can't be simply re-installed.  I approached it as more of an experiment that didn't have any repercussions if it failed.  I mainly wanted to see how cloning an OS drive would work while booted into said OS, as most clone software I've used makes you boot from separate media if it's an OS drive you're copying.  So far so good.
     
    As far as the switch to an M.2 drive from having only experience with SATA (and IDE back in the day of course), was just about as straight forward as possible.  It detects that my 950 Pro is technically utilizing the bottom PCI-E slot of my mobo, so that's how the PCI-E lane distribution worked out for my particular setup goes I guess.  Otherwise, it detected it as a normal drive that, once the OS was copied to was selectable as a bootable drive like any other drive.
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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from Coaxialgamer in are htpc even worth it anymore?   
    I agree.  I tested Steam In-Home streaming with my HTPC and both not so great quality and input delay were too much for me.  Mine can run games like Dark Souls at 1080p 60fps natively which is great.
     
    As far as silence goes, if you want something that can run well and be as quiet as possible, it's a challenge to build a completely passively-cooled, small and compact machine that can run decently demanding games.  I just got a Noctua CPU cooler and put the Noctua low noise adapters on both the cpu intake fan and the two gpu fans (case is an FTZ01, one fan above cpu, two above video card).  I can't hear anything unless nothing is playing, which to me makes it silent enough if I don't notice it while watching or playing something.
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    ShaithEatery got a reaction from NInety in Dumbest Tech Questions/Quotes You've Ever Heard   
    I've been following a support thread on Microsoft's site and one of the MS people asked a user for the model number of their PC.  The guy responded with the screencap below, and I added some context to it lol
     

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