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[8tg]

Rolled past the local game store

 

[Ripred]

Aaaah yeaaaah

[frozensun]

Obsessed with USB pen drives
 

[Bitter]

38 minutes ago, frozensun said:

Obsessed with USB pen drives
 

 

Ventoy my friend, Ventoy. I use one super high speed 128GB USB SSD thumb drive for all my OS ISO's now instead of a keyring full of them one for each OS ISO and drives of varying speeds and quality.

 

Also, nabbed an i5 4570 for the shop PC for $15 shipped, ~50% faster than the i3 4150 in there now.

[frozensun]

1 hour ago, Bitter said:

Ventoy my friend, Ventoy. I use one super high speed 128GB USB SSD thumb drive for all my OS ISO's now instead of a keyring full of them one for each OS ISO and drives of varying speeds and quality.

 

Also, nabbed an i5 4570 for the shop PC for $15 shipped, ~50% faster than the i3 4150 in there now.

Well I like to have my OSs installed to 50 pen drives so I can test OS on them

[Bitter]

22 minutes ago, frozensun said:

Well I like to have my OSs installed to 50 pen drives so I can test OS on them

https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

Well give it a go, its really handy!

[Real_PhillBert]

 

A little cooling goodies for the new server case.

 

NH-U12A Cooler

2x NF-A8 80mm Fans

5x NF-F12 iPPC 120mm Fans

2x PWM fan splitters

[frozensun]

18 hours ago, Bitter said:

https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

Well give it a go, its really handy!

Omg I did not know that.

So basically with this tool I can make multiple bootable installation OS?

I mean I can make for ex 10 different bootable OS systems on just one pen drive?

Seems so.

Damn, where were you 5 years ago?

I spent like probably 200-300 euros for pen drives.

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, frozensun said:

Omg I did not know that.

So basically with this tool I can make multiple bootable installation OS?

I mean I can make for ex 10 different bootable OS systems on just one pen drive?

Seems so.

Damn, where were you 5 years ago?

I spent like probably 200-300 euros for pen drives.

Yes, that's exactly what it does I only discovered it earlier this year but let me tell you, having a single 300MB/S USB drive with all the bootables on it is so much easier. I think you can even put a separate partition on it after it's been created, where you can hold all your driver's or benchmark installers or even write to from the booted machine. I need to fully explore that later.

[Guest]

@soldier_phis that first item socks or shoe laces?

[frozensun]

23 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Yes, that's exactly what it does I only discovered it earlier this year but let me tell you, having a single 300MB/S USB drive with all the bootables on it is so much easier. I think you can even put a separate partition on it after it's been created, where you can hold all your driver's or benchmark installers or even write to from the booted machine. I need to fully explore that later.

I have 3rd party Win OSs..will they work with this sw?
I  mean those are custom made Win 10 installations.

OMG, who  made this is a genius.

Should I use fast USB pen drive for this job any benefit when installing Windows from faster usb pen drive compared to like regular any usb 3.0 pen drive?

But I need some iso to boot in MBR mode for older laptops...does it support MBR too?

I suppose can not mix uefi with mbr so use 2 separate pen  drives,one for mbr other for uefi, correct?

[Bitter]

23 minutes ago, frozensun said:

I have 3rd party Win OSs..will they work with this sw?
I  mean those are custom made Win 10 installations.

OMG, who  made this is a genius.

Should I use fast USB pen drive for this job any benefit when installing Windows from faster usb pen drive compared to like regular any usb 3.0 pen drive?

But I need some iso to boot in MBR mode for older laptops...does it support MBR too?

I suppose can not mix uefi with mbr so use 2 separate pen  drives,one for mbr other for uefi, correct?

Should work with any ISO, not sure about EFI and BIOS but I think it can do both? Read up on the website!

[Kilrah]

I have ventoy in GPT/secure boot/exfat mode and it works just fine on bios-only mid-2000s systems.

[GamerDude]

A Linkup PCIe Gen4 x16 right-angled riser cable for my MERC 310 RX 7900 XTX

The vertical/Angled bracket or mount that I'd ordered came as well, I'll have quite a lot of stuff to collect from my friend when I get back home...not using the riser cable which came with this mount, firstly it's Gen3 x16, and secondly, I've been told such cable would get all sorts of error when used (which is why I'd gotten the riser cable in pic on top)

[OhioYJ]

On 1/14/2023 at 4:50 AM, frozensun said:

Third time I got lucky and got working one...

Had to sacrifice all 4 front panel USB 2.0 headers and optic DVD drive for a sake of this thing
Gosh, OCD is f..d up thing

Dual-Bay ROG Front Base

That looks awesome. I wish I would have never gotten rid of my NewQ Platinum. I always liked the way it looked in the front of my PC.

[sub68]

New feet for my tripod 

[8tg]

RCA to VGA adapter so I can play Dreamcast on a monitor instead of my gigantic tv that stretches it too much

[Shadow_Storm56]

BESTVA 4000W Led Grow Light 6x5ft LM301B Diodes Reflector Full Spectrum LED Growing Lights for Indoor Plants Greenhouse Double Switch Vegetable & Bloom Growing Lamps Actual Power 450Watt https://a.co/d/8NjMwKm

 

Big ol grow light

[soldier_ph]

Aukey Sprint Ultra 26'800mAh

[OhioYJ]

Time to build a firewall:

 

 

[vetali]

Didn't ever consider a backpack, but work is sending me to training in another city and I was tired of using a laptop bag for all my tech stuff I take with me. It'll be a huge upgrade in that regard. My laptop bag was way overstuffed to where it was ballooning out with various chargers and devices.

[Bitter]

47 minutes ago, vetali said:

Didn't ever consider a backpack, but work is sending me to training in another city and I was tired of using a laptop bag for all my tech stuff I take with me. It'll be a huge upgrade in that regard. My laptop bag was way overstuffed to where it was ballooning out with various chargers and devices.

Hopefully it' somewhere with nice weather!

 

I bought an inches of water vacuum gauge and a SA-7 (barrel, bare end, 3/4 inch dia) double cut carbide burr. Both are 'for work' but really I wanted them for some home game stuff. Need the bigass burr to make a nice cutout in some steel stock to fit a socket around a nut for the alt support bracket on the Celica to make it more like OE with the non OE intake manifold. Inches of water vacuum gauge WILL get used for work, I'm bumping into PCV and Evap stuff that are speccing inches of water measurements so I can huck a tube off the back of this and T into stuff and check that things are or aren't working and be more sure. I can also measure smaller vacuum readings at home for all kinds of stuff like different intake configurations to see how they affect manifold vacuum at full throttle or before the throttle plate vacuum....just for geeky fun. I suppose the bigass burr will get used for cleaning up stuff at work too.

[Coaxialgamer]

Got myself a used RX 6800 from Sapphire !

Bit whiney but at 380 euro shipped that's nearly half of what a new one costs here.

[SimplyChunk]

Picked up a like new set of HD599s today at CEX for 72 quid.  They'll be my main shooters replacing my knackered old well loved HD579s I bought from eBay just over a year ago.

 

The main lead hasn't been opened and it included the 3.5mm TRS phone lead and then 6.5 to 3.5 adapter they all come with.  My guess is the previous owner couldn't get on with them on their phone.  One person's loss and all that though

[Guest]

On 1/17/2023 at 7:51 PM, sub68 said:

New feet for my tripod 

 

 

I thought those were nods for a second...

"Whaaaa" lol.