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Jason 57

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    Jason 57 reacted to porina in Why have SSD prices fallen so low? +Are you still buying HDDs?   
    Yes, but HD capacities scale far higher too, and I'm not sure it is so significant if you normalise for capacity offered. Fixed costs will dominate only at the lower capacities, and become less significant at higher capacities.
     
    So on a M.2 SSD, as fixed costs we have the board, controller chip, optional DRAM, some power stuff. The variable costs is the flash itself.
    On a HD, the fixed cost is higher for sure. There's not only the electronics, but the enclosure and motor. The variable costs I'd say go to the platters and heads which drive capacity.
     
    What's the highest capacity M.2 these days? 4TB? Similarly for HDs, I'm seeing 22TB NAS drives on offer. So while HD fixed costs may be higher, it may not be so difference allowing for the capacity.
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    Jason 57 reacted to tkitch in Why have SSD prices fallen so low? +Are you still buying HDDs?   
    on a normal desktop, there's no need for HDDs anymore, and hasn't been for some time.
     
    Last year, however, I did buy 60TB of HDDs to populate my NAS.  Ain't gonna look back.
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    Jason 57 reacted to MikeD8791 in My Channel Was Deleted Last Night.   
    "Someone on  our team, and I'm not saying it was Colton..." Man, looks like Colton is getting fired again 😞 
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    Jason 57 reacted to Autismo II in My Channel Was Deleted Last Night.   
    Did any of your servers come in handy for bringing the channels back online? They're fixed by now... and not overheating... right?
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    Jason 57 reacted to Syn_UK in Roasting YOUR setups, AGAIN (SPONSORED)   
    My setup is pretty cheap, I do hoard tech tho. 
    Pc is an old i7 3770k with evga1080ftw, can't wait to upgrade once amd/nvidia release their new stuff. 



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    Jason 57 reacted to Bombastinator in Which case should I get? (best airflow and build quality)   
    Airflow cases didn’t used to be a thing.  For cause.  HDDs were just really loud and there was no way to control when they might burp or fart at you.  Just a lot of odd noises. The solution for that was a noise damping case which meant small openings and sound insulation.  Then SSDs came along and make no noise at all, so boom.  Airflow cases. Low speed fans are very quiet and with an airflow case you could get away with them so quiet power for cheap. Consumer grade HDDs are fairly reasonably quiet now (it will still be the loudest thing in the case) but industrial grade stuff isn’t. Reds and iron wolves and such sound like they’re refugees from the 1990s.  So basically if you want anything but a quiet consumer HDD you don’t want an airflow case for something loud. 
     
    The thing about whitebox thermals is airflow is fluid dynamics and fluid dynamics is both fearsomely complicated and suffers from butterfly effect. So there’s probably no way to even guess till the thing is built.  It was sort of an axiom that with an oem prebuilt if you took off the side panel the heat level would actually go up because they actually were designed from the ground up and degreed engineers would actually work out the fluid dynamics on them. With whitebox stuff it’s mostly fumbling about and the result is it is not uncommon for temps to go down on a whitebox if you take the side panels off.   There’s really no great way to determine which would be better in your use case that I know of I’m afraid. 
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    Jason 57 got a reaction from DJ46 in Replaced my Battle Station   
    So there have been a few upgrades since the last time I remarked on this. I did get a Gigabyte 34" Ultrawide 2K 144Hz monitor. My plan was to get a mount to put the old Ultrawide above it. But my brother-in-law was asking me about a cheap PC that he could play SWTOR on. 
    Funny thing, My old setup did exactly that. And my wife wanted more stuff out of the garage, so I put some pieces back into my old case. I cleaned out the dust, put some other drives into it. Let him pick out a keyboard and mouse from my pile. Then gave him the old Ultrawide. 
    Needless to say, I took his breath away. I told him, I would rather give my stuff to family then try to sell it. 
     
    First change was keyboard. I got a Roccat Vulcan Pro full size mechanical-optical keyboard. Then a Razer Deathadder wireless mouse. Bought a GN wireframe mouse Autographed and an iFixIt pro tool kit. 


    Then I got my first aftermarket CPU cooler, the Vetroo V5 Black cooler. 

     
    A Leven 2TB SSD

     
    Sabrent 1TB NVMe Gen 4 drive for doing video conversion on. 

     
    Lastly Artic 120MM x2 and 140MM x2 fans. 
    Sorry for taking it with the glass on.

     
    The 120MM fans pull air through the PSU shroud and one 140MM fan is after the CPU cooler to aid exhaust. 
     
    So far temps have gotten much better. At idle the GPU is about 34C and 53C with the GPU fans at full throttle while gaming. 
    The CPU runs about 53C pretty much at idle and full load. 
     
    And the color on the CPU cooler is not for aesthetics, it indicates the temperature of the CPU. Blue is <40C, Green is 40C to 80C (I think) and Red >80C.  
     
    Any feedback is greatly appreciated. I had one of the 140MM fans pulling air from top before the CPU cooler. It didn't seem like it helped my temps. 


  8. Informative
    Jason 57 got a reaction from DJ46 in Replaced my Battle Station   
    I finally got my new desk built, sanded, stained, assembled and now installed!
    Still have a bit more cable management to accomplish, but at least it is functional. 
    The Mess before I started. 

     
    This is what my workstation has been like for years.
     

     
    Our robot vacuum would constantly get caught on the cables, and they bothered me.
     

     
    Not much room.

    Had to clean the space while I had the chance.

     
    Old desk next to new. Sorry for the blurry photo.

     
    The new one fits. My cat Bennett (Benny) agrees. 

     
    Here is my cable management system. 
    That is a metal bracket (I bent out of Aluminum bar stock) holding the UPS and a Rain Gutter downspout extension I am using for a cable raceway. $6 instead of the nice metal IKEA one for $35. 

     
    Putting stuff on the new desk. 

     
    Here is my first cable management for my desk attempt. At least our robot vacuum can get under there now. 
     

     
    And now my tower is no longer on the floor anymore. 
     

     
    I appreciate all the feedback and ideas while I was doing this!!!
     
    Hey @Mateyyy, @TofuHaroto what do you think? 
     
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    Jason 57 got a reaction from MTrencovski in Where to get case screws   
    Here are some on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Zmbroll-Standoffs-Universal-Motherboard-Screwdriver/dp/B08R658PF9/ref=sr_1_3?crid=L3KPFL01M8YH&dchild=1&keywords=motherboard+screws+and+standoffs&qid=1629316325&s=electronics&sprefix=motherboard+screws%2Celectronics%2C168&sr=1-3 It's ALL the screws you need and then some.
  10. Funny
    Jason 57 reacted to Dedayog in how can i put a mobo in a case when i lost the screws.   
    Can buy more screws?
     
    Maybe you shouldn't handle tools 🙂  
     
    I have NO idea how I am supposed to avoid being banned when I am being set up and baited like this.   Like putting a salt lick out for deer.
     
    May as well ban me now.  I am barely resisting...  
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    Jason 57 reacted to Ammitzboell in Mounting a new cooler   
    Great success

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    Jason 57 reacted to 8tg in Show off your latest purchases   
    More cassette tapes.
    Just ordered this one today.
     
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    Jason 57 reacted to Mr.Meerkat in Show off your latest purchases   
    Me: Sells my Sony FE 35 1.8 lens cause I don't use it since getting my 16-35 2.8
    Also...
    "Tell me you have impulse buying issues without telling me"

    Panny 20 1.7 for £65 ❤️, whilst I don't even own a MFT body, hold that thought...

    MPB offered me a price similar to eBay for my 35 1.8 without any seller fees plus I was able to whip out my student discount (and another discount code I have...), and both the body and ultrazoom lens was wayyyyyyyy cheaper than eBay and that's without the discounts, mind you so with the discounts... 😅
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    Jason 57 reacted to sub68 in Show off your latest purchases   
    I got a print for my sister's roommate.

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    Jason 57 reacted to King_PIN in Show off your latest purchases   
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    Jason 57 reacted to King_PIN in Show off your latest purchases   
    My A D I D A S!
     

     

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    Jason 57 reacted to FmPhenom in Show off your latest purchases   
    Worx aerocart and wagon kit from worx.com that just came in (had some sale and bing and capital one web browser coupons that made it $210 shipped!)  and 4 cases of h20 and Mexican cokes, Fanta, sprite from costco.

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    Jason 57 reacted to Nepcchi in Show off your latest purchases   
    More shiny cardboard 

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    Jason 57 reacted to Moonzy in Show off your latest purchases   
    It has arrived!

    Finally x-x
    But too busy to do anything now -sigh-
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    Jason 57 reacted to SeanChronicR in Show off your latest purchases   
    Bought from Canada Computers anyone looking for a GPU Rn might be worth a phone call 


    (Proof I’m actually using it)
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    Jason 57 reacted to atxcyclist in Show off your latest purchases   
    I live in Texas, and the storm that came through a few months back was an eye-opener for many people about disaster preparedness, and I decided I need to step my game up a little more.
     
    I've got multiple types of camp stoves/fuels, extra blankets, canned food, water filtration, and first aid covered, but didn't have a generator. So since the rush on them has waned slightly, and stock has improved, I bought a 2200watt surge/1800 watt continuous invertor generator, a Westinghouse iGen2200. Plus it has the benefit of being portable, so outside of disasters I can take it with me if I'll want/need it.
     
     

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    Jason 57 reacted to jaslion in how can i put a mobo in a case when i lost the screws.   
    2 is NOT ENOUGH.
     
    The reason there are so many screws you have to put in is so that you don't stress and warp the board.
     
    The psu screws might work frist try them without the board in the case. But I do think the threading is different.
     
    Either way just go buy a bag of what you need they are very inexpensive.
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    Jason 57 reacted to thrasher_565 in Best PC Case Of All Time?   
    im going to mount the gpu up front. i got the mount bracket and pcie extension(think its long enough) but i want to block off the front from the back so all the gpu air gos out the sides. sould have superb air cooling when im done. also thing on moving the psu to the bottom front so i can put fans on the bottom and top as i think this will be better for cooling thow the cpu heat sink would need to be up and down hmmm
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    Jason 57 reacted to thrasher_565 in Best PC Case Of All Time?   
    i have them but cut the leds out because i liked to sleep at night. i piced up an antec lanboy off ebay for $300 so i got plans for that.
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    Jason 57 reacted to TVwazhere in Best PC Case Of All Time?   
    Base level 10, or Level 10 GT?

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