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Hi there! I could use some recommendations on how to go about building a PC from a 1980’s IBM Acrylic Monitor Stand. This stand used to be my grandfather’s when he was an IBM Executive from ‘69 to ‘03. He passed in Jan. Of ‘23, so I want to build essentially “The Last New IBM PC” in his memory but am not sure how to go about it. Its intended purpose is to handle like a mid-tier gaming PC of today’s standards with IBM blue-and-white LEDs. I know most of the hardware will need to be laid flat unlike a modern case, as well as the whole thing will need to be grounded to the power supply individually. I believe air cooling can be pretty well done with fans lining the sides, but I could be wrong. Drilling holes is required no matter which way you look at it. The dimensions are 16 in. X 16 in. X 3 in. Inside height. Please, do share some ideas so that I may start planning out this build.

Hello, I'm looking for a flat 31,5/32 inch (or even bigger if my wanted specs fit lol) monitor with 120hz which is available in Germany or anywhere close to Germany but honestly, just anywhere is already a start. The monitor being flat, not curved and having at least 120hz is very important because I want to game in my bed on my PS5. I see 4K ones but they get really pricy. If getting one from a different country or even overseas is as expensive as a 4K 120hz one, then I might have to bite the sour apple here... I saw the ASUS TUF Gaming VG32AQA1A but I don't think 320€ is a good price. Or maybe it is? It's the only one I saw so maybe it is a good price. Curved 2K panels with 144hz on 27 inches go for 180€ - 220€. So 320€ just for 170hz and 32 inches seem like a ripoff to me. Or maybe someone can share their experience with a curved screen in bed? Preferable having tried it with a partner. If I lay on my bed alone then it's probably fine but next to each other and being offset to the screen? I'm not sure. I've never been into curved screen either way. Thanks in advance!

Hello everyone, I´m looking for the holy grail of keyboards. What does this mean? I´ll explain... I´m searching for a low-profile mechanical keyboard preferably a 100% layout hot-swap switch. I know there is stuff like the Keychron K5, but I´d like to mod my keyboard for dead silence in the office. So lubing is not the problem, but the o-rings which wouldn´t fit are. Low-profile and o-rings are not matching well, so I´d like to know if there is a really flat keyboard with full-size mx switches hot swap. I know there is the Roccat Vulcan ( I already have the tkl for private use modded) and this would be fine if those switches were hot-swappable. (I can tell you that soldering work was a pain) Does anyone have an idea what I could do or combine ? I thought about a TKL and separate numpad, but that's just the lack of opportunities. Thanks

Hi everyone, I'm looking at these 2 GSkill kits: F4-4000C16D-16GVK - 4000 MHZ, 16-19-19-39 at 1.4v F4-4000C16D-16GVKA - 4000 MHZ, 16-16-16-36 at 1.4v They both look like Samsung B-die. I'm thinking, maybe they made the 16-19-19 kit because some CPUs can't do 16-16-16 and the XMP will fail, but other than that, both kits are identical and will do 16-16-16 at 1.4v. Can somebody confirm that? I know B-die generally does flat timings, or maybe +-1. Maybe the 16-19-19 kit isn't B-die?

hello friends, i'm reaching out asking about monitors this time, i play FPS Games like Halo and racing sims, as well watch netflix and doing my taxes on my current set up running an Nvidia 2080TI (im planning on upgrading to the 3000 series later) on three "HP2311x" TN 75hz flats from 2010 , YUP it's time to upgrade and this time im thinking about going single ultra wide, and from the research im doin im thinking my high mark is gonna be $1500, 32-35," 4k is not necessary, HDR Yes, IPS would be preferable, definitely needs at least 100Hz, response time is negligible (im not good enough for it to matter LMFAO) so my question is Curved VS Flat, i dont know anyone in my area into high end gaming, and not really any show rooms here. any input is appreciated, thanks friends

Hello, I have a problem with my IEMS from Truthear which I recently got because my MMX 300 one ear cup just did not work. These are my first IEMS and i have the Sound Blaster X4 where I plug them in. My issue is that they sound very good while hearing music but sound awful in games and when I hear voices over discord maybe it is because it is different from the beyerdynamics but i thought maybe i could change something to make it sound better. I have an equalizer in the Sound Blaster software, potentially that helps, I would love to get some help regarding this matter from someone with more experience in this field. Every help is appreciated. Nils

My girlfriend is looking for two 1080p monitors, is 27" is decent for general productivity and gaming or does it look pixelated? We also wonder, do dual curved monitors make sense or should we look for flat monitors?

I have had a Samsung Note phone for sometime now and the one thing that bugs the hell out of me is the curved screen when taking notes, how many times I start writing and I go over the curved part of the screen and lose text. I have noticed that the usable part of the note taking screen is 65mm which leaves 10mm of totally useless screen space, 10mm that's a lot of space when taking notes on a phone. Hoping for a flat Samsung Note phone in the future. Francis

Hey, i want to pick my monitor for my computer. My first thought was the MSI monitors. There was two options that i can pick the MSI Optix G24 or MSI Optix G24C (Curved). Now i have opinions on getting a curved or a flat monitor. So if you guys / girls have any opinion what should i get, i would be happy to hear it

So I know there are a hundred other posts on the topic but I wanted to be able to specify my exact situation and budget and such. Essentially I don't want to spend more than $300 on a monitor because beyond that seems wasteful and I just cant afford it. I want an ultrawide, I know it will be 1080p but I'd rather 1080 ultrawide than 2k 16:9, that's just my opinion. My dilemma is I cant decide between a 29' curved(3000R) or a 34' flat, so I wanted advice and opinions from you guys. I sit just under ~1 meter (maybe 2/3 feet?) from my screen and have room for both, I just don't want to have any regrets so I figured I'd ask the experts on your own personal experiences. After writing this I'm beginning to think that the 29' will be better for the distance I sit at, but I've heard that IPS panels don't lose much quality at an angle but again, that's why I'm asking. Thank's in advance guys!

hey to whoever is here, i currently have an rx480 as well as a samsung 24" CF390 Curved LED Monitor, i want to get into dual screen with eyefinity, but... for some reason all the retailers in my country doesnt sell it anymore, so, i have some questions: 1. what other monitors can i use, can i get a 27" display? 2. can i use a flat monitor? will it be comfertable in any way? 3. can my graphics card even run dual monitors without chocking? thanks alot

I would like to buy a Tv of max 3000-3500€ max price, I am interested in a 65 inch Tv with 4K and HDR and with low input lag to play games and also watch films.What model and brand would you recommend me and also flat screen or curved?Greetings

My dad told me of what seems to be an ancient and lost product. A product that may exist, but it has been lost in the folds of the google search. He told me about flat disks made of solder. Disks that were thin, like a coin shaped foil made of solder. You could put these disks in between two hot surfaces that you wished to solder together, apon cooling, they would be soldered together until the end of time... echos dramatically After searching for minutes and minutes on end, using terms like "soldering pads" "circular solder -wire" "soldering foil" "flat solder" "disks of solder" etc., I have yet to find anything. Do these exist? What are they called? Where can I find them?

I am looking for a case that has a design like a nzxt h500i or something And it has to be below 60 euros And it has to have a full size psu cover What would you guys recommend

I'm on the lookout for a new main monitor for my setup, a 1440p 144Hz screen. The issue I'm dealing with right now is, is if I should choose a 23,5" non-curved screen, or a 27" curved screen. Both are 1440p and 144Hz, it's just if it's worth the extra ~€70,- that I'd be spending. The monitors in question are these two (but if you've got a better one, feel free to show it to me): - AOC AGON AG241QX (23,8" / 1440p / 144Hz / TN panel / 1 ms) - MSI Optix MAG27CQ (27" / 1440p / 144Hz / VA panel / 1 ms) I do have a link to comparing the two monitors side-to-side with a full specs list of both monitors, but it's in Dutch. I think it still might be somewhat of use regardless: https://tweakers.net/pricewatch/compare/1122721;564427/ Thanks in advance!

Any recommendations for some good flat reservoirs ? Maybe one that could fit inside a phanteks p300a. Also how are the flat reservoirs mounted inside a case, like this for example.

Hi guys, I was wondering if you could help me out choosing new closed-back headphones for under 200$/€. I've had the audiotechnica ATH-T500 (now called ATH-AVC500) for probably like 7 years if not more. They sound great in my opinion but their doom was ultimately the cable which got stiffer and stiffer every year and now the right cup is not playing. So I want something that sounds very similar but has a removable cable. I tried ATH-M40x but they sound absolutely horrible. They have very annoying V sound signature. Also the highs are very sharp. I gues I like it flat... although I don't know how the signature really is on ATH-T500s, I can just hear they are very noticeably flatter than the M40xs. I would be really grateful for all your suggestions (they don't have to be audiotechnicas). Thanks!

This is a video I made describing the how and why I created the flattest CPU ever using a free abrasive process. Thermal benchmarks will be posted in the future, hopefully soon. The only things I'm able to find when searching online for CPU lapping is people using sand paper. Even when Steve Burke of Gamer's Nexus visited record setting overclocker Kingpin and was shown the machine he uses in his office at EVGA, it was a sanding machine. This had me thinking, how hard can it be to do this properly and what are the potential benefits? The only measurements I've been able to find so far of a sanded CPU were from the german website OCinside, they were able to produce a surface that was flat to an accuracy of 30 microns but even these people didn't use the tools, materials or measuring equipment to produce something that was flat to the degree I'm going to be showing you in this video. So just what the hell is lapping? What you're looking at are not waffle irons, they're lapping plates. Surfaces of near perfect flatness I made myself after being inspired by Tom Lipton of Oxtoolco. I cut a chunk of scrap steel into three equally thick plates and after facing them on a lathe, started lapping them together. A on B, B on C, C on A, over and over again. This method, called the three plate method, was initially invented by english engineer Joseph Whitworth and allows you to create flat surfaces to incredible degrees of accuracy without any reference. By rubbing three plates together in succession you will remove the high spots they have in common, the end result can only be a flat plane. This is a really elegant way of creating precision from nothing and can be used to also create angle plates and master squares. Any number of tools can then be created using them as a reference. Nearly every piece of technology you enjoy in your life today can trace its accuracy to a surface plate created using the three plate method. Wet sanding can't do this, even if using a perfectly flat surface as a base for your sand paper, you will always be prevented from achieving a truly flat result by the cushion of previously abraded material, your workpiece is being pushed around on. That's what these grooves are for, they are channels that collect the material being removed and also keep the abrasive film uniform. Hand lapping is only a finishing process however. While sure, I could take my 3950x and lap it from start to finish it would take me forever. Keep in mind, a CPU IHS is very far from flat. Die pressing sheet metal is not a process that results in precision parts. So what is my roughing operation going to be then? I don't have access to a surface grinder so this hand cranked mill will have to do. I'm just playing this by ear and I don't even have inserts on hand for soft metals but the result I'm getting here is much flatter than what I began with and dramatically reduces the time spent with sandpaper to get me to the point where I'm able to begin the lapping process. To protect the pins of my CPU from getting bent or being contaminated by any abrasive I also created this fixture from a piece of scrap stainless but floral foam works great too. I'll let you in on a little secret here, you don't need any of this to lap your cpu or cooler. Just lap them together. You won't get a flat result this way, one surface is going to end up convex and the other concave, there's also going to be roll-off towards the edges, but they will match. A counterintuitive principle of lapping is however that the lapping plate must be softer than the workpiece otherwise what will happen is the workpiece will become charged with the abrasive and wear down the plate. So while cast iron is ideal for stainless and hardened steels, it's no good for lapping softer metals. It is for this reason that copper is a common material used to make lapping plates since its softness all but guarantees it will be able to take a charge and produce the desired results, the only downside being that it may have to be reconditioned more often. But lapping soft metals is a real challenge, copper in particular. Not only is creating the plates a problem all on its own since relatively soft, non-embedding abrasives must be used — if for example a diamond compound is used the risk is significant that a sharp piece of diamond grit will embed into one surface and shave off a chip from the other, creating a deep gouge and fouling the work. After experimenting with different methods and techniques over the course of several weeks what I found could reliably produce a sub-micron finish was using a layer of aluminum foil on top one of my lapping plates for final finishing. The foil has an extraordinarily uniform thickness so introduces no error if spread evenly and is so soft it will take a charge using a diamond abrasive without me having to worry it will embed in the copper. The obvious downside is the foil will easily get torn and can only be used for final polishing. It is very sensitive to all manner of minor annoyances, any tiny piece of dirt in between it an the lapping plate and it will tear, too much oil, it will tear, too little oil, you get the idea. I started this project to investigate two questions. Here I have the answer to the first, it was much more difficult than anticipated. Once I had found the proper technique however, I was able to observe an interesting phenomenon. Two surfaces, sufficiently flat and smooth, can be wrung together. They will stick together and can resist great forces pulling on them. Wringing is not dependent on the properties of metals, ceramics can be wrung in a vaccum so it's an effect that occurs regardless of material choice or ambient pressure. The world was introduced to wringing in 1896 when Carl Edvard Johansson invented gauge blocks, reference blocks lapped to astonishingly precise dimensional tolerances, and for over a hundred years the exact physical properties governing this effect have defied explanation. What is conclusive however is that wringing is the result of intermolecular forces and that has me thinking if maybe thermal paste may be obsolete by this point. Thermal paste exists after all to fill the voids between a CPU and cooler, but what if there are no voids? But the answer this question I'm not able to explore. I started out with a supreme LTX waterblock that saw almost a decade of service in my Sandy Bridge system, in face milling and lapping it I made a terrible mistake by disassembling it first. When reassembled the central o-ring presses down on the fin stack and deforms the cold plate, voiding all progress I thought I'd made towards making it flat. It also meant I'd lost the only point of comparison I had to a standard system configuration. I've since replaced it with a new waterblock that I also lapped to a matching accuracy but even if I were to pull the trigger and run my system without any thermal paste, I'd still be left unsatisifed because I can't know how that would compare to what I started out with. At the end of the day I'm just a machinist who wanted to see if he could get his CPU to run a little cooler. I don't have the time, or the hardware on hand, to create massive bar graphs comparing every performance variable. But I did get in touch with a guy who does.

So to start off, I do content production and for a long time, I've been doing 1080p. because even though we've had '4K' for a long time; The vast majority of people are still seeing 1080p, not even UHD, 1080p. Anyway, that's finally started to shift so I've already got a new system capable of producing the power and performance I need. My final weak point is my monitors. I've had no trouble finding a series of 4K monitors that have Freesync2/HDR support at a high refresh. The problem is that all of them are curved. I can't be using a curved monitor when I'm doing content production. I couldn't find anything with Freesync2 that was 4K that didn't have a curve, and I couldn't find anything that wasn't curved, had freesync and still had HDR. from searching I'm gathering that Freesync 2 = HDR Here is the Unicorn of a Monitor that I need; UHD At minimum (2560 x 1440), 4K (3840) would be ideal. High Dynamic Range Freesync (for in-engine testing) No less than 60hz refresh; 120 would be ideal, 144 would be the land of dreams. 5ms response time. Displayport for the connection would be ideal. It cannot under any circumstance or under any exception be curved - it's for content production. My search has primarily been through things like PC Partpicker, New Egg, Memory Express. This doesn't have to be a game-centric monitor If this thing just outright doesn't exist, I always run with a multi-monitor setup; 3 monitors + a tv. So I'm more than willing to deal with workarounds. Or if there's a TV that meets these requirements rather than a monitor, I'm willing to go there. I intend to keep searching for the unicorn but I'm posting here to see if anyone has any ideas for compromises or monitors that might actually meet those requirements.

Hi, I am used to laptop keyboards and would like to know which keyboard models I should go for as a cheap solution for a flat keyboard of high-enough quality. So far Ive seen Dell KB216 and some apple ones that are really good but unfortunately I am using windows and not Mac so I am not sure which keyboard I should go for. Specifically I want a flat keyboard similar to how laptops look, I will be gaming but that doesnt stop me form getting one since my already owned "gaming" keyboard is very uncomfortable to use, a flat keyboard with as little space between the keys as possible would be ideal, similar to the key layout of Dell KB216 keyboard and around this price range of up to 20$ and wired would be preferred. Thanks!

i did a bunch of searching and the only monitor i found that is 1440p, 21:9, faster than 60Hz and NOT curved is the LG - 34UB88-P http://www.lg.com/us/business/commercial-display/products/desktop-monitors/lg-34UB88-P why is it so hard to find non-curved ultrawide monitors jesus christ. if anyone else knows other monitors that fit these specs please tell me.

Greetings!I've been looking into some pretty nice Ultra Wide Curved monitors, like the LG 34UC97, and I eventually decided that getting a Ultra Wide monitor for my video editing would be a great choice. However, what about curved? I absolutely love how it looks but I'm worried that it might cause some sort of distortion on horizontal lines in the Timeline for instance, or while using other software like After Effects and the such. What are your thoughts on this? Does it really disturb the creator in that regard or does it not affect anything at all? Would a flat monitor be a better choice?Thank you in advance!

I'm trying to decide if I should get a one of these monitors. I do some gaming like World of Tanks, Fallout 4, Battlefleet Armada Gothic, etc along with avg every day tasks. Samsung S29E790C http://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-29-led-curved-hd-219-ultrawide-monitor-black/3908046.p?id=1219607577863&skuId=3908046&productCategoryId=pcmcat374100050018 LG 29UM68-P https://www.nfm.com/DetailsPage.aspx?productid=45909090 I'm a little tempted to purchase a LG 34UC98W https://www.nfm.com/DetailsPage.aspx?productid=45910403 but that is a little out of my price range. I currently have 2 970's in SLI, so 2k monitors isn't much of an issue. I had ordered the Samsung originally because I wanted a curved display but I've been reading mixed reviews online about having a curved monitor period. I know I can always return it to any best buy and buy the LG.

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Hey guys, Here is another project we're working on over at Hydra: Flat Reservoirs As with all the other project we have developed and have received from other people to develop (our intention is to allow people to send us ideas, suggestions etc, help them develop the project and then let them earn from the idea they had), we'll be doing a crowdfunding sometimes near the end of November to start manufacturing them. These reservoirs allow for vast customization, as you can simply place a cut-out panel on top of them and have a custom made liquid routing of any shape you chose. We're planning on manufacturing these in a variety of sizes and shapes; for now these are the ones we'll be doing for placement in cases and desk solutions. They all have 4mm internal height and have been designed to work with pumps up to 24V 400x60mm 250x60mm 150x60mm We'll also have 3 models to be lodged in drive bays: 3 bay height 4 bay height 5 bay height I'll be updating the post as our testers (people from italian groups/forums, we are italian based) will send us pics. For now here are some shots we took of the longer model and others all under works.