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[Donut417]

59 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

Bought whole house water filters this weekend, installed them today, and turns out the one with a head valve is leaking !!!

 

It's a very small leak (less than 500ml in 3 hours), but still, it's annoying AF !

 

Contacted their customer service, we'll see.

 

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We ended up buying a water cooler for our house. It supports up to 5 gallons of water, we use it for drinking as the city water tastes like pool water with all the chemicals they add in. 

[WkdPaul]

1 hour ago, Velcade said:

Who makes your filters?

Rainfresh

 

I have used them before and didn't have issues, but I've always used the model without a head valve. I should've used 2 valveless filters

 

[WkdPaul]

1 hour ago, Donut417 said:

We ended up buying a water cooler for our house. It supports up to 5 gallons of water, we use it for drinking as the city water tastes like pool water with all the chemicals they add in. 

We wanted some sort of filtration since we got the house, the water main is partly made of lead, and there's also lots of rust and scale in the water.

[captain_to_fire]

1 minute ago, wkdpaul said:

We wanted some sort of filtration since we got the house, the water main is partly made of lead, and there's also lots of rust and scale in the water.

Isn't lead pipes supposed to be banned for decades already? I can't help but recall high school history class about the Roman Empire.

[CommanderAlex]

1 minute ago, like_ooh_ahh said:

Isn't lead pipes supposed to be banned for decades already? I can't help but recall high school history class about the Roman Empire.

Pretty sure they add chemicals to prevent lead from leaching into the water. They act as a barrier against the lead and the water. 

[Donut417]

1 minute ago, like_ooh_ahh said:

Isn't lead pipes supposed to be banned for decades already? I can't help but recall high school history class about the Roman Empire.

They are no longer used as in they dont install them. However any exist water mains are pretty much only replaced if they have to dig them up for some reason. 

 

For the record lead water mains can be safe as long as care is taken. After the debacle in Flint Michigan the Great Lakes Water Authority hardened our water to help prevent lead from leaching in. Because quite a few mains still use lead pipes. And its not as simple as just replacing the mains, because they tend to be under the street, which means the roads also have to be replaced. If your replacing the mains and road, you might as well replace the sewer as well. So you can see the rabbit hole you end up down. 

[WkdPaul]

Just now, like_ooh_ahh said:

Isn't lead pipes supposed to be banned for decades already? I can't help but recall high school history class about the Roman Empire.

It's banned in new piping, but it's still present in lots of area. I'm in Montreal, they currently have a program to get rid of all lead pipes, but that's up to 2030, so we decided not to wait that long and got filters that could filter most of it.

 

http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=6937,68593573&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL&t=1

 

 

[WkdPaul]

1 hour ago, Donut417 said:

If your replacing the mains and road, you might as well replace the sewer as well. So you can see the rabbit hole you end up down. 

That's what Montreal is doing, that'll be hundreds of millions, but when they started, they only did the city side of it, meaning you'd still have lead pipes going from the city main to your house, and they wouldn't allow the job to be done while the city was working on it. That meant excavating the street twice, for each house ... They got SO many complaints that they changed it, now they're doing the whole thing, including your house side, and they charge your side of it on your taxes for a few years (it's between $2500-$5000 depending).

[Drama Lama]

5 minutes ago, Grumpy Old Man said:

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4*25*4,7 Gb = 470Gb

 

Are you using this for backup?

[Moonzy]

waiting on more parts

Beddie is getting an upgrade, wanted to go Intel but they didn't have any stock of the CPU I wanted :c

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[Arika]

[Drama Lama]

6 hours ago, Arika S said:

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did you buy it for better internet or just for fun?

[Arika]

1 minute ago, Drama Lama said:

did you buy it for better internet or just for fun?

not sure

 

 

[Stahlmann]

On 1/29/2021 at 2:14 PM, SpiderMan said:

Sent back the 3x 2000 variants for the 3000 for when my new case comes Soon^TM. 3x Noctua industrialPPC NF-F12 12V 3000RPM. Lets get that airflow boys!!! 

 

 

Lol the chromax model was already too loud for me at 1000RPM, so i switched to the NF-A12x25. I really hope you don't intend on using them at 3000RPM. You could go deaf 

[Stahlmann]

On 1/30/2021 at 4:09 PM, Benji said:

Well, after having had three other wireless peripherals from the past decade, I'm rather dissatisfied with even modern solutions. My father's MX Craft (who exactly wants chiclet keyboards outside of a laptop? They even sell that as "Pro" and take 150 bucks or so for it) with the Logitech Unifying Receiver also craps out occasionally because it doesn't connect at times. Not to mention that you need to charge them, and usually that happens when you use them, so I figured I might as well use a fully-wired solution because I was really not satisfied with anything wireless that I've had so far. 

I'm using a G915 and a G Pro as my daily drivers and i've never had any, and i mean ANY problem with these. Input lag is no higher than any wired gaming keyboard or mouse, battery holds up for at least a week and can then be charged over 1 night when i don't use them anyway. So far i don't regret going full on wireless at all.

[CommanderAlex]

Just now, Stahlmann said:

Lol the chromax model was already too loud for me at 1000RPM, so i switched to the NF-A12x25. I really hope you don't intend on using them at 3000RPM. You could go deaf 

I tested them out on my PC under Cinebench R23 runs directly on empty fan headers at 100%  and man they blow...and its hardly louder than the damn GPU fans when they go under full load. 

 

Plan on using them in the Dune Pro whenever they start assembly and shipping. 

 

 

[Stahlmann]

13 minutes ago, SpiderMan said:

I tested them out on my PC under Cinebench R23 runs directly on empty fan headers at 100%  and man they blow...and its hardly louder than the damn GPU fans when they go under full load.

When i tried out the NF-A12x25 at 2000RPM they are just extremely annoying and loud. I end up running my fans at 700RPM to be inaudible and ramp up to a max of 1000RPM under load so they become audible, but nothing that bothers me. Here you can see again how subjective all this is. For some people 3000RPM fans are quiet, and for some people 500RPM fans are loud.

 

15 minutes ago, SpiderMan said:

Plan on using them in the Dune Pro whenever they start assembly and shipping. 

Isn't that the Mac Pro knockoff?

[CommanderAlex]

5 minutes ago, Stahlmann said:

When i tried out the NF-A12x25 at 2000RPM they are just extremely annoying and loud. I end up running my fans at 700RPM to be inaudible and ramp up to a max of 1000RPM under load so they become audible, but nothing that bothers me. Here you can see again how subjective all this is. For some people 3000RPM fans are quiet, and for some people 500RPM fans are loud.

 

Isn't that the Mac Pro knockoff?

I have some NF-F12's (the tan and brown colored ones) in my rig right now and they aren't too bad, but at low RPMS when not under a load provide quite a bit of airflow into my case. Once they ramp up, its a gentle hum that is pleasing to listen to. 

 

Yes, I backed last year and they are in the process of getting almost everything together to ship, but its Chinese New Year so the factories are shut down for a couple of weeks (Dune Team should be returning on Feb.20). They pretty much have all the exterior panels done, except for the Dice Y cover that makes it look like the knock off Mac Pro as they are pretty hush hush about it due to the way its manufactured, and also the interior pieces just need to be anodized. They already have a shipping box going so they are pretty close to finally ship, perhaps another month or weeks after CNY. 

[RoseLuck462]

Got the big water bottle in Forest Green like the iPhone 11, the GPU shirt, and small CPU pillow, got the calender for free! 

 

 

[soldier_ph]

Got the Email that it was on sale and one hour later it is purchased:

[WhitetailAni]

Two purchases:

1. My Mainframe Customs order came:

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1 3-pin fan connector

1 4-pin EPS connector (repinning a PCIe power cable to a 4-pin EPS connector)

 

2. My Digikey order:

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1 3oz solder tube

10 common anode 4-pin RGB LEDs

10 100 ohm resistors

10 150 ohm resistors

25 120 ohm resistors

25 47 ohm resistors

25 68 ohm resistors

 

Speaking of repinning a power cable, my Mnpctech ATX pin remover tool isn't working - it stops maybe halfway in. Any idea why?

[FakeFBI]

my newest order is this vicsting d-16 wireless

[Kid.Lazer]

6 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

Speaking of repinning a power cable, my Mnpctech ATX pin remover tool isn't working - it stops maybe halfway in. Any idea why?

While I haven't worked on ATX pins, I've handled many other types of electrical connectors. The tangs that hold the pin in place can hang up when coupled with the downward force you're applying. Try wiggling the removal tool as much as you can, while also pushing up on the wire connected to the pin you're trying to remove. Once the removal tool fully seats, the pin should pop right out.

[WhitetailAni]

Just now, Kid.Lazer said:

While I haven't worked on ATX pins, I've handled many other types of electrical connectors. The tangs that hold the pin in place can hang up when coupled with the downward force you're applying. Try wiggling the removal tool as much as you can, while also pushing up on the wire connected to the pin you're trying to remove. Once teh removale toll fully seats, the pin should pop right out.

Thanks!

I was pulling down on the pin while pushing in the tool.
 

[Tristerin]

ANTEC 300 Two came in yesterday as well as the 6x 4tb WD Red Pro drives.  Then today came in the WD Black SN750 1tb x2: