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[aDoomGuy]

An empty box of Magic: The Gathering. Sounds like a perfectly good deal. Along with that some cool looking lands and a few more dice. I needed me some more swamp.

 

[Rarity]

some paint, some nachos and a new mouse to replace the old one 

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[WhitetailAni]

Mac mini 2011 second HDD kit. No pictures of the thing itself because I installed it and then remembered pictures, so have this:

My Mac mini's currently installing Mavericks because High Sierra and Mojave felt slow, and I wanted to try out Mavericks (mostly so I have an excuse to use this wallpaper):

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[da na]

A beast of a P4. Great upgrade from my 631

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As well as 4x 1gb DDR2-667 to go along with it, nice upgrade from my current 4x 256mb DDR2-400 as the board won't take 800.

 

[Rarity]

11 hours ago, James Evens said:

Love the shape of Kova but the tracking is so bad that after trying out hero sensor mouses I switched to a modified G305 after spending some time on a G203.

I find it all right though, was using the g402 before using the kova kova gonna be moved to the laptop setup (the included mouse, the feel is not noce)

[8tg]

Thinkpad x1 nano 

i7 1180g7, 16gb of ram, 1tb ssd options 

[GamerDude]

Received two sets of PBT shine thru black pudding keycaps, decided they'd go on my Ducky Shine 2 78 Edition, and my Ducky Shine 3 Year of the Snake. Below is a pic of the keycaps on my 78 Edition, so loving how the pudding keycaps allows so much light to pass thru, it really brightens up the keycap.

[OhioYJ]

On 2/3/2022 at 10:05 AM, aDoomGuy said:

An empty box of Magic: The Gathering. Sounds like a perfectly good deal. Along with that some cool looking lands and a few more dice. I needed me some more swamp.

 

Is that what Magic cards look like now? I still have my old stuff in a box here. My son was more interested in the Dragon dice I had in a case than those cards though.

[aDoomGuy]

2 hours ago, OhioYJ said:

Is that what Magic cards look like now? I still have my old stuff in a box here. My son was more interested in the Dragon dice I had in a case than those cards though.

Some of them yeah. Those lands are limited to one set each.

[adamaquarius]

I just treated myself to a Razer Pro Click for £90, it's by far the most expensive mouse I've ever owned,  it was this or an MX Master 3, the sensor is a huge increase from my old Deathadder and I love how it matches my Magicforce Smart 2 keyboard.

[8tg]

i gotta post more of this because its just blowing me away tbh

 

as an extensive thinkpad user, my X220 thats modded to death, vintage models and rare models, my previous machine was a P50 mobile workstation....

this outclasses all of them, its amazing what this tiny little thing can do

it fits inside my X220's footprint while weighing 7lbs less (and having 20 less ports but whatever)

 

its really weird getting used to a machine thats just hot, its designed to be hot, and as far as i can tell i cant really limit the cpu to 90% or something

the P50 was massive with a 45w xeon and (i think 65w) quadro in it, and it had a gigantic heatsink array and the whole thing stayed sub 70c and very quiet at all times

this is also extremely quiet, but it likes to idle in the 40's and then jump all the way to 91c under sustained load

 

and i know thats normal with any kinda ultrabook, especially something thats marketed as being the thinnest and lightest thinkpad ever, but still it freaks me out sometimes

 

speakers are great for a laptop, of course theres no bass at all but holy shit they get loud

downside, whatever audio chip is in here just sucks, 48khz 24 bit audio at best, im getting a usb C dac

for reference on why that sucks, the T43p from 2004 i have can also do that, and a PCMCIA card i have for that machine bumps it up to 192khz 24 bit, the X220 can do 192khz 24 bit audio stock

idk why audio quality is worse on this machine, for 99% of people anything better than that doesnt matter, but part of my library is DSD and extremely high resolution flacs and stuff

 

keyboard is great, i was expecting the worst with how people were describing the travel distance of this keyboard versus the other thinkpad keyboards, you definitely lose a little something, i can feel it, but its still way better than most keyboards ive used in laptops

the x220 shits all over it in this regard but thats more preference of key style than anything

i like that intel evo certifcation thing, power button to fingerprint scan to desktop is 4 seconds

FOUR SECONDS

T43p takes 4 minutes to boot, just because windows XP doesnt like the SATA to IDE to SATA setup thats going on there with an SSD, but man thats impressive

the screen, 2160x1350 16:10 is great, i keep it at no scaling, i prefer the larger amount of content on the screen even if i have to squint at times to see some things

overall performance? cpu wise this keeps up with the xeon e3 1505m v5 the P50 has, which is a 45w processor versus this 7-15w i7 1180g7. In some single threaded applications i use such as secondlife, this machine outperforms by a lot even without the quadro.

Intel Iris XE graphics have their limitations, i see it as the 1080p equivalent to the 720p performance of intel HD620 as far as real world performance goes. If HD620 could do it in 720p, same settings but the iris XE can do it in 1080p, 60fps all low CSGO, GTA V, actually plays halo MCC pretty well but some of the remasters you have to drop to the old graphics just due to the overhead of all that. The stupidly fast DDR4 in this thing (i think its 4266mhz) really helps with vram intensive games.

 

Overall, worth the obscene amount of money this cost me, i have to buy a bunch of adapters and dongles now which i hate but ill probably just get one portable dock instead, or just use the X220 if i need something like 3 SD card slots and 12 USB ports

 

[freeagent]

My cheap 1080p Hisense died yesterday, she got replaced with a cheapo 4K LG
 

Don’t mind the mess.. 

 

[SimplyChunk]

1 hour ago, freeagent said:

My cheap 1080p Hisense died yesterday, she got replaced with a cheapo 4K LG
 

Don’t mind the mess.. 

 

nothing wrong with that mess mate

[Moonzy]

Second one arrived

Gonna migrate Miney 01 onto this and use the old chassis for Miney 03, due to better GPU spacing

 

In other note, it makes a good open air test bench for $30, fits 480mm radiator, PSU, motherboard with rigid pcie bracket to screw your GPU in, just have to remove a few piece to convert it into an open air test bench

 

Contemplating on ordering a 3rd AX1600i, would probably do it soon when BTC gets higher maybe, sell and buy more toys, endless loop

[nbrowser]

Finally…a new GPU!

 

 

[WkdPaul]

Got an LCD driver for an all-in-one, an old HP 6000 pro that died (motherboard died, power delivery was fried and I couldn't troubleshoot where the fault was).

 

This was a Core 2 Duo computer, so it's slow and getting a motherboard was around $40 from China, a LCD driver was $25, and I can put a 4th gen i3 thinclient in there instead (I have one laying around gathering dust) !!!

 

I'll probably post about it in the build log or something.

 

LCD driver installed (temporarily), and working ;

 

Left side is a molex, I temporarily soldered to the power pins (12v powered), the board with the green LED is the buttons (power and menu), bottom board (barely seen) is the backlight driver.

 

 

Forgot to mention, that'll be for my daughter's 10 year birthday : new (to her) all in one PC (she needs a PC for school, and it's a problem when she and my wife are both at home and both need a PC, we have 1 laptop and they both need it when at home).

[X-System]

On 12/25/2021 at 5:22 AM, Spotty said:

Bought myself a Logitech G703 for Christmas.

First wireless mouse. Let's see how long it takes before I get annoyed with needing to plug it in to recharge it. With the RGB disabled like a civilised person and the polling rate at 500Hz the Logitech GHub software is telling me I should get around 79 hours out of it so I should last at least that long.

 

 

I have the same. It's not reliable... Three year after, the scroll wheel doesn't work perfect, it mades up & down repetitive like bug if you want to scroll down or up. It's really problematic in FPS games

 

And the two rubber sides, it wears out very quickly (it starts about one year and 50% worn about two years) and it becomes unpleasant. So, I removed these rubber parts with the cutter (it's not easy to remove them)

 

And Logitech software is suck... It works bad for DPI setting, it becames crazy and you must to uninstall and install the software to resolve it (and do it repetitive when it had problem... So I uninstall it for sure)

 

I still have this mouse since september 2018. I think I will buy a G902 to replace it.

[atxcyclist]

As an extension to my last post in this thread, I bought some more ram for a new workstation I’m putting together for my office.

 

I bought a 2x32gb 3200 kit of TeamGroup Vulcan Z, so I won’t need to worry about ram anymore. The trusty 2x8gb Corsair 3200 kit I was using temporarily will go into my spares box.

 

 

 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

On 2/6/2022 at 4:30 AM, 8tg said:

i gotta post more of this because its just blowing me away tbh

 

as an extensive thinkpad user, my X220 thats modded to death, vintage models and rare models, my previous machine was a P50 mobile workstation....

this outclasses all of them, its amazing what this tiny little thing can do

it fits inside my X220's footprint while weighing 7lbs less (and having 20 less ports but whatever)

 

its really weird getting used to a machine thats just hot, its designed to be hot, and as far as i can tell i cant really limit the cpu to 90% or something

the P50 was massive with a 45w xeon and (i think 65w) quadro in it, and it had a gigantic heatsink array and the whole thing stayed sub 70c and very quiet at all times

this is also extremely quiet, but it likes to idle in the 40's and then jump all the way to 91c under sustained load

 

and i know thats normal with any kinda ultrabook, especially something thats marketed as being the thinnest and lightest thinkpad ever, but still it freaks me out sometimes

 

speakers are great for a laptop, of course theres no bass at all but holy shit they get loud

downside, whatever audio chip is in here just sucks, 48khz 24 bit audio at best, im getting a usb C dac

for reference on why that sucks, the T43p from 2004 i have can also do that, and a PCMCIA card i have for that machine bumps it up to 192khz 24 bit, the X220 can do 192khz 24 bit audio stock

idk why audio quality is worse on this machine, for 99% of people anything better than that doesnt matter, but part of my library is DSD and extremely high resolution flacs and stuff

 

keyboard is great, i was expecting the worst with how people were describing the travel distance of this keyboard versus the other thinkpad keyboards, you definitely lose a little something, i can feel it, but its still way better than most keyboards ive used in laptops

the x220 shits all over it in this regard but thats more preference of key style than anything

i like that intel evo certifcation thing, power button to fingerprint scan to desktop is 4 seconds

FOUR SECONDS

T43p takes 4 minutes to boot, just because windows XP doesnt like the SATA to IDE to SATA setup thats going on there with an SSD, but man thats impressive

the screen, 2160x1350 16:10 is great, i keep it at no scaling, i prefer the larger amount of content on the screen even if i have to squint at times to see some things

overall performance? cpu wise this keeps up with the xeon e3 1505m v5 the P50 has, which is a 45w processor versus this 7-15w i7 1180g7. In some single threaded applications i use such as secondlife, this machine outperforms by a lot even without the quadro.

Intel Iris XE graphics have their limitations, i see it as the 1080p equivalent to the 720p performance of intel HD620 as far as real world performance goes. If HD620 could do it in 720p, same settings but the iris XE can do it in 1080p, 60fps all low CSGO, GTA V, actually plays halo MCC pretty well but some of the remasters you have to drop to the old graphics just due to the overhead of all that. The stupidly fast DDR4 in this thing (i think its 4266mhz) really helps with vram intensive games.

 

Overall, worth the obscene amount of money this cost me, i have to buy a bunch of adapters and dongles now which i hate but ill probably just get one portable dock instead, or just use the X220 if i need something like 3 SD card slots and 12 USB ports

 

Shame my department started to get new Surface Laptops... I would love to use one of these instead when my EliteBook gets retired. 

[Bitter]

YOLO. I bought one of those weird eBay cases.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/265354378573

I haven't built anything weird in a while so I thought this might be fun to make something kind of out there. I may try my hand at cutting the front to fit a AIO for the CPU, I think it might be able to fit a 240 though with the room on the PSU side an open loop is probably possible too. Looks neat how it angles the GPU and you can feed it air from outside on the rear fan as intake. I've got a mATX B450 board and some RAM and a placeholder 200GE so I can do a little build in it with the Wraith Prism cooler. It'll be cool to be forced to cable manage both sides, maybe learn to sleeve my own cables or something. Everything I build is messy because there's unseen areas, this will make me make it pretty...I hope.

[X-System]

ASUS GT 730 2GB GDDR5 4xHDMI PCIe x1 to add in my collection. I can use it as spare if my RTX 3080 Ti dies. I have other GPUs in my collection but they are very old (this GT 730 is faster than my old GPUs)

 

[Natani]

xfx rx 6600xt quic308 bought 3 days ago. Showing size difference compared to my gtx titan x.

 

[SimplyChunk]

1 hour ago, Natani said:

xfx rx 6600xt quic308 bought 3 days ago. Showing size difference compared to my gtx titan x.

 

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That Titan X is the Maxwell model. No?  How's that holding up in modern games these days?

[Natani]

3 hours ago, SimplyChunk said:

That Titan X is the Maxwell model. No?  How's that holding up in modern games these days?

Meh its okay for what I play but anything new and it shows its age

[EricW]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08RYRJYT2?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details

My phone has never charged so fast before