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[Ravendarat]

Got my new Hisense UST projector and screen set up last night, have spent all day inside using it and it’s been fantastic. When I have all my lights turned on it’s ALMOST as good as when they are all off. I need to make a slight adjustment on the height of my screen as I have a 1 1/2 inch black bar at the bottom that I can’t get filled in without raising it but that’s minor. 

[Anghammarad]

3x this

[IkeaGnome]

Long story behind this one. I’ll type it up in my troubleshooting thread and link here. Quite funny one too. 
 

1 minute ago, IkeaGnome said:

@Ryuikkothanks for trying to help. The problem was my own stupidity. Moral of the story, don’t drink kids. 
This morning I swapped the 12900k back into the DDR4 board. My friend that was over reminded me I mashed a couple pins trying to get the socket cover back on. That’s why it was no post on the original board. 
New board. If an AIO comes with rubber dampers for the motherboard USE THEM and don’t go all drunk heavy equipment mechanic tight on the standoffs. I left the rubbers on the old board. I ended up with this 

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Once I happened to take the standoffs and found that I did the two hour round trip to Anchorage before Best Buy closed and got the Gigabyte Aorus Elite AX. Threw all the parts in it and after a bit of memory training it booted. Enabled XMP and a couple server style reboots while trying to post I’ve got XMP out of the box on 4 sticks of 16 GB Vengeance 5200. 
Turns out it was operator error all along. 

Since spoiler is broken here’s the pictures of my carnage. 
 

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[IPD]

9 hours ago, Ravendarat said:

Got my new Hisense UST projector and screen set up last night, have spent all day inside using it and it’s been fantastic. When I have all my lights turned on it’s ALMOST as good as when they are all off. I need to make a slight adjustment on the height of my screen as I have a 1 1/2 inch black bar at the bottom that I can’t get filled in without raising it but that’s minor. 

I have been preaching the UST gospel since I got my Cinemax P1 in 2019.  Cannot go back to flat panels for my primary display in the den/living room.

 

Is that a 100"?

[Ravendarat]

2 hours ago, IPD said:

I have been preaching the UST gospel since I got my Cinemax P1 in 2019.  Cannot go back to flat panels for my primary display in the den/living room.

 

Is that a 100"?

Ya, If the 120 would have fit I would have went with it because my price difference was only like 70 bucks but my wall simply wouldnt hold it and since I am a renter having the slightly smaller panel will make it easier to install in a new place when I move

 

[IPD]

2 hours ago, Ravendarat said:

Ya, If the 120 would have fit I would have went with it because my price difference was only like 70 bucks but my wall simply wouldnt hold it and since I am a renter having the slightly smaller panel will make it easier to install in a new place when I move

 

 

You went with a surface mount for the screen?  Ballsy.

 

I used a stud finder, found the ones closest to the edges of the screen I could, and mounted hangers to those.  If I'd had to mount the framing to the wall and all of that gobbledy-gook, I'd have lost my mind.  Self-tensioned, fixed-frame screen FTW.

[Ravendarat]

21 minutes ago, IPD said:

 

You went with a surface mount for the screen?  Ballsy.

 

I used a stud finder, found the ones closest to the edges of the screen I could, and mounted hangers to those.  If I'd had to mount the framing to the wall and all of that gobbledy-gook, I'd have lost my mind.  Self-tensioned, fixed-frame screen FTW.

No no, I used the included hangers for the fixed frame screen, I just meant that I didnt have the surface area on my wall to support having a larger size screen on it, it would have extended right to the roof, would have looked bad

[IPD]

1 hour ago, Ravendarat said:

No no, I used the included hangers for the fixed frame screen, I just meant that I didnt have the surface area on my wall to support having a larger size screen on it, it would have extended right to the roof, would have looked bad

Lower credenza?

[8tg]

Samsung 32” 4k monitor

 

[Chrisokane]

For the past few months my PC has been sporadically crashing / blue screening while playing games or immediately after quitting games. 

The error code indicated it was the graphics card, graphics driver or a power issue with the card. All drivers up-to-date / reinstalled, the PSU is new and appears to be working fine - after more googling we had decided that my Asus Strix 1080 was the issue.

So I got myself a 3080 Ti FE. This did not solve the crashing.

 

When we went to test the RAM my partner noticed (in BIOS) the RAM timings were set wrong and that XMP was off.

 

Turning XMP on appears to have fixed the crashing.

 

I guess I now have a 3080 Ti and can sell my 1080 as working.

 

[IPD]

Got one of these.  Decided to revive a project that I haven't done since I was in High School.  My dad could have taught me welding or car repair.  Instead, I know how to sew.  FML.

 

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new watch

[atxcyclist]

An Apple A1152 wired Mighty Mouse, as a companion to my recently-purchased 2015 MacBook Air. I managed to buy it on eBay for just a few dollars shipped, and it's a decent little mouse. A far cry from the last Apple mouse I used, which was the infamous "puck" that came with the CRT iMac.

 

 

[Sir Asvald]

I replaced my Dell poweredge R210 II which was running SCCM with my old 4790K build because the Dell server was driving me insane, was too loud and causing my room to get hot. My 4790K only had 16GB and I bought 32GB.

 

 

[atxcyclist]

8 hours ago, Sir Asvald said:

I replaced my Dell poweredge R210 II which was running SCCM with my old 4790K build because the Dell server was driving me insane, was too loud and causing my room to get hot. My 4790K only had 16GB and I bought 32GB.

 

 

Long live Haswell. I still have a 4790k/H97/16gb combo sitting in a case at my office, that was my old workstation setup. I only took it out of service about 6 months ago, I need to find a use for it because it shouldn't just sit there.

[Donut417]

1 hour ago, atxcyclist said:

 

Long live Haswell. I still have a 4790k/H97/16gb combo sitting in a case at my office, that was my old workstation setup. I only took it out of service about 6 months ago, I need to find a use for it because it shouldn't just sit there.

I still have an Ivybridge system currently chugging along. Use it for Plex. 

[MonkeyBomb]

Not sure why I got these as there was nothing wrong with the Steelseries 7+ that I have.  Were delivered on Saturday, guess I should install them soon

 

[Guest]

spent too much money last week but....
 

2 Synths by moog.
Grandmother & Subharmonicon. wowza are real synth expensive!! At least Analog is, but Analogue is where it's at, Digital is too complicated and saving modes and stuff... eugh.

 

Also got a pre owned Dell gaming laptop off eBay with an i5 hq series cpu and a 1050.

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

[Sir Asvald]

On 7/26/2022 at 5:42 PM, atxcyclist said:

 

Long live Haswell. I still have a 4790k/H97/16gb combo sitting in a case at my office, that was my old workstation setup. I only took it out of service about 6 months ago, I need to find a use for it because it shouldn't just sit there.

100% still amazing CPUs.

 

[Poinkachu]

Been wanting this since 2 years ago

Well, the 10gb model back then, this one is 12gb because the sillyness of local stores selling the 10gb model for $80-100 more instead of less.

Wanted to go EVGA FTW (as a change of pace, since I never owned an EVGA GPU), but yeah, they're $100 more expensive here. And the local distributor somewhat questionable with RMA.

Tested with heaven bench already, no problem so far, except the damn port's edge kinda blocked by PCIe metal bars, and how annoying it is to plug a HX1000 PCIe cables into it.

Might have to save money to buy a modern case, still using Cooler Master CM690 III.
 

[Kilrah]

A 5-port SATA controller for the server and some pushbuttons for a MIDI controller project

 

 

[IPD]

Just bought an Asus ET8 wifi mesh.  We'll see if it fixes the speed problems.

[ohnoes]

Thermaltake Toughpower GF1 850w psu. Had to upgrade from that Antec 700w which was 10 years old haha

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+ 1kW bios