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[PlayStation 2]

1 minute ago, pinksnowbirdie said:

and you're very welcome for helping ya out with that :^)

yes

Trust me, carrying that CRT was weird as hell, especially as my hand decided that getting sweaty on the screen was a good idea.

[handymanshandle]

Just now, handymanshandle said:

yes

Trust me, carrying that CRT was weird as hell, especially as my hand decided that getting sweaty on the screen was a good idea.

yeah carrying CRTs can be pretty awkward lol

[GrockleTD]

hasn't arrived just yet, but bought this bad boi https://www.ebay.com/itm/Asus-Sabertooth-X58-Motherboard-Xeon-CPU-Compatible/114152371422?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

[Valentyn]

Got some of these shipped in. Yankee, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Polish, and more extra goodies.

 

 

[seagate_surfer]

On 3/22/2020 at 6:46 AM, Volbet said:

I got a pretty decent deal on this:

At this rate my new PC will be assembled in 2028.

So cool! You still could use a cheaper CPU and not necesarilly what's hot at this moment, there are some good options out there...

[Volbet]

14 hours ago, seagate_surfer said:

So cool! You still could use a cheaper CPU and not necesarilly what's hot at this moment, there are some good options out there...

Yeah, I would probably be fine with a Ryzen 5 or one of Intel's quad core offerings, but I got my CPU for free and there's no beating that price.

 

If you're referring to the GPU, then you're also right, but I got it 20% off, since the box had been opened.

[Valentyn]

Just got this little fella to do some extra folding, and number crunching.

Happy days!

 

[seagate_surfer]

2 hours ago, Volbet said:

Yeah, I would probably be fine with a Ryzen 5 or one of Intel's quad core offerings, but I got my CPU for free and there's no beating that price.

 

If you're referring to the GPU, then you're also right, but I got it 20% off, since the box had been opened.

Yeah, you are right! Cheers... 

[seagate_surfer]

1 hour ago, Valentyn said:

Just got this little fella to do some extra folding, and number crunching.

Happy days!

Cool! 

[Valentyn]

2 hours ago, seagate_surfer said:

Cool! 

 

Gotta do my part for the Covid19 drug test projects.

[seagate_surfer]

38 minutes ago, Valentyn said:

 

Gotta do my part for the Covid19 drug test projects.

That seemed too good to me, I love this attitude that the tech community has taken to help. Empathy is what moves us, there is no better time to quote this from The Four Oxen and the Lion. "United we stand, divided we fall"

 

[PlayStation 2]

...but it weren't! Weren't, weren't weren't, weren't weren't weren't!

I'm surprised I remember that at all, it's been ages since I've watched King George and the Ducky lol, but since shit's super slow, I might as well cop myself another VHS opening-material tape to potentially watch.

[atxcyclist]

Like many others, my latest actual purchase was food and toiletries for the human malware. However, my latest fun purchase was a nice 1 meter USB Micro-B cable for my Fuji mirrorless camera. The factory one is of sufficient quality, but not long enough to leave tethered to my home computer and get at it from the front.

[Eschew]

 

*INTENSE TREMBLING*

YESYESYESYESYESYESYES

[RoseLuck462]

Got some D-Brand skins!

 

 

I got the purple Z Flip, maybe I should have gone with the black instead, ah well still looks good to me! Btw I don't have a hair dryer, I used a lighter and it worked good enough!

 

11" Pro 2020

 

Big camera...

[merco]

On 3/24/2020 at 7:25 PM, seagate_surfer said:

United we stand, divided we fall

but also let's divide for social distancing

[SansVarnic]

For the wife

 

HP 14" Laptop, AMD Ryzen 3 3200U, 4GB SDRAM, 128GB SSD, Whisper Silver, 14-dk0028wm

[Bitter]

On 3/18/2020 at 7:38 PM, Bitter said:

My Le Grand Mach RT came in. Heckin chonker! The mounting system is a little complex but very sturdy looking on a dry fit, the heat sink is BIG, and the bottom is finished super nicely.  Pardon my messy desk!

 

 

I'm going taboo here and quoting myself. I ended up lapping the bottom to bare copper because there's a high spot that was lined up with the Ryzen IHS high spot so I was getting about 1/2 a penny worth of actual contact area. I also lapped the high spot and high lips on the IHS down some too, but strangely my temps weren't any different so I guess that wasn't the whole problem or the largest problem. Tomorrow I plan on tackling this with some modeling clay so I can SEE what's happening instead of just assuming. I suspect I have a mounting issue, likely due to installer error (my error) and that once it's solved I hope to get some VERY spectacular temps given that both surfaces are flat enough that they feel like setting machinist gauge blocks together.

 

BTW, lapping stuff down to this level of flat/smooth is very easy just time consuming. Lapping Ryzen is SUPER easy though! Use the CPU holder it came boxed in as a CPU holder when lapping and you've got nearly zero risk of damaging any pins on it.

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1167774-2700x-le-grand-macho-rt-terrible-temps/

I'll make some updates tomorrow as I figure out what's gone wrong.

 

[FmPhenom]

 

2009 Tc for my son. He is turning 16 next month (it is a surprise)  Great starter car. Not the actual car but this is the year and color.

[PlayStation 2]

Did you know that back in the early 1990s, Hanna-Barbera released a lot of things onto LaserDisc? No, I'm not kidding, they released damn near everything that they did on VHS onto LaserDisc, too, with the help of LaserDisc distributor Image Entertainment.

I grabbed a copy of Rockin' with Judy Jetson as it wasn't a bad price, at least for what I wanted.

[SansVarnic]

Server: Cray CS-Storm 2626X8 2U High Density multi-GPU Hybrid Rackmount Server Barebone

GPU: NVIDIA Tesla K40 GPU 12GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x 2

CPU: E5-2650 v3 x2 Paired

 

Will update with photos when shipment arrives.

 

Part of my Project Steamroller.

 

*Update - 02April2020

K40's arrived

Edited April 2, 2020 by SansVarnic
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[Derkoli]

Small purchase, getting ready to install new forks on my bike

 

 

Also got a boost conversion kit from VeloSolo, will post impression's when it arrives, looks to be extremely well made.

 

 

 

And some volume tokens for the fork from SR Suntour: (15 dollars shipping lol)

 

 

Next thing is ordering the Star fangled nut and the installer for it, and obviously the forks. Going to order the lot when everything else has arrived.

[MadyTehWolfie]

I'm living vicariously through you guys. I have a shopping addiction, but recently with the Corona virus and with trying to start a detail company it's helped me avoid emotional binge buying.

[PrettyPinkUnicorn]

I bought my gf a fidget toy, she tears apart her phone cases and gun wrappers, so I figured something more sturdy might help lol.

 

'Twas like 15 bucks.

[soldier_ph]

1 hour ago, valdyrgramr said:

I have a pizza making addiction myself, but I really need to lay off the sauce.   :s I bought like 6 pounds of it.

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Bon Appétit !