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My recent project is making progress, 1998 BMW 528i Touring (wagon). Shocking about of space on the inside considering it is practically a "small" car by modern standards. $4k to buy and another $4k in suspension, brakes, rust repair, and a bit of electrical work. All that is left is recharging...

I'm not sure about that. The military has been selecting for and developing ideals in-line with Republican values forever.

I'm at least 30" from my screens, I find the eye strain isn't as bad.

Not me, once I had enough money to choose I started running 40"+ monitors. The last few have been 42" 4k with 150% scale. Before that I ran for a while with 2x 49" 5k ultrawide stacked vertically, still at 150%. That setup was interesting, but not as useful for monotasking. Now I'm considering a...

That entire concept has been a joke since at least the 90s. The gap between a bunch of people with fancy guns and a small number of people with all the data, drones, smart weapons, and control of the infrastructure is insurmountable. If the military is on the side of the politicians (and it...

Sorry for the late response, did a quick road trip to Amsterdam. But Merc nailed it as usual. SSDs are no longer the bottleneck for even power users. And 96GB has been plenty for all I do. Honestly the reason I went 96GB over 64GB was just to not worry about it ever.

I find that the big updates just don't show up for a while. No matter how many times I "check for updates" the day before travelling, my laptop waits until I'm tethered to my phone in another country before deciding that a massive update actually exists.

That suggests some good insulation, or no ventilation? The good news? At only 73F there might be an HVAC tech available.

I find it interesting that ya'll run such old installs on your main workstations. After a year I can feel it is slower, after two I feel it worthwhile to nuke and pave. The improvement is very noticeable every time.

N150 would probably have trouble keeping the NICs saturated, but if 900MHz long range wireless is the bar, it is sure to clear it.

I had one running when I was doing lots of system builds or repairs. Nice to have the benefits of ad blocking without having to modify systems that weren't mine. Also actually helped performance on struggling systems when I had to go online.

+1 on Merc's comment. Most of the benefits I've seen from talking to someone actually happened from me stating the thing and just looking at it again. The other person was just spectating and making sure I was being honest.

In Danish culture this is a much more common problem, as the average Dane is about as socially awkward as us, and being outgoing is frowned upon. I now find myself in several small social groups (3-5 people) who chat amongst themselves in Discord or elsewhere. It is unfortunate that culture as...

Sorry to hear it.

Another thing to help rule out the switch is doing a test from System B to System C, but I think Merc might be right on the system transfer limit (bursting through the cache and then limiting).

One of the things in the Startup Repair toolset is rolling back changes to the PC. I wonder if it rolled back far enough to restore Norton? Either way, killing it is the right move. Uninstalling should be enough to prevent it from running, which matters more than every file and registry entry.

I haven't seen any of it since Ep2 (though we did recently see Ep 6 while the Stockholm Symphony Orchestra performed the entire soundtrack live). But my guess would be technology?

My experience can be summed up as: don't do anything too much. Change what you can when you think about it. Seat height, desk height, monitor height, which hand you use for the pointing device, which pointing device you use, etc. Or go touch grass or something, but none of us were going to do...

I have a Logitech MX Ergo S that I bought one of the times my wrist started acting up. I've never been fast enough with it to switch full time. I'm currently running an MX Master 3S for my right hand and change to a Superlight in my left when it hurts. I've also experimented with a Wacom tablet.

I've been helping a friend on a budget look for a 1440 gaming card to pair with a 9600X CPU his current thoughts are 9070>5070>B580, though I suspect that the Intel card will be most likely to be available near MSRP.

This is actually nearly 300W lower total power consumption than the rig still in my signature. But that said, games these days let you limit your framerate, and my display is only capable of 120hz, so 120hz(@4k) with VSync in most games I play actually draws a much lower amount of power...

They aren't actually behind. The front 3 are all the way at the bottom of the chassis, and the back 3 are all the way at the top. There is a few cm of overlap, but the chassis itself has an air guide that separates the two. So far with all the overclock, 5.9Ghz CPU and 3Ghz GPU, and many stress...

Biggest remark at this point is that running all the memory possible at 6000 has been zero effort. Even after upping the fabric clock and taking the ratio to 1:1, still no issues.

Initial overclock complete. Will run stress tests for the next few days. https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/131835136? https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/131835818?

I totally get that some people care about the looks, I just don't. The thing I care about most is that it is silent unless doing something hard, and then it keeps temps optimal while squeezing the most from the hardware. Apparently I also don't care about reboots. This is the OS drive from my...

Now back from vacation and the rest of the parts have arrived. Still bleeding the loops, and I might do some cable management. For some reason the highest performance water cooling parts have RGB, I'll at least make them white when I can.

PCIe Gen 5 SSDs run super hot, even with the provided aluminium plate and thermal pad my T705 thermal throttles quickly. Now looking at aftermarket solutions, maybe just a heatpipe to tie it to my GPU backplate.

Yeah, you aren't just in Sweden, you are way the heck up there in Sweden. Like north of 90% of the population. I can get to Malmo to have lunch, but that other bit is long.

Under acceleration I can get it above 600kW, and it accelerates into the speed limiter quite hard. The cross sectional area is pretty small, and it is a slippery bastard, so 150hp feels about right. At those speeds control is a bit...opportunistic. There are opportunities to control the car, a...

I update new motherboards immediately, then check every once in a while. I won't install one less than a month old; that is usually long enough for them to figure it out and issue a revision.

Did Venice and then Riva del Garda, now on the way back north. Fun fact, at 235km/h (limited due to winter tires required in Germany before Easter) the car sucks down over 450Wh/km. I'm averaging less than 200km per charge. The car tells me this is "40.2% more consumption than expected" ;)

Lake Garda at sunset is beautiful. I wish I'd brought some real cameras.

Ah, so it does. Thanks for that, the last time I did AMD was Athlon X2.

Only the CPU water cooling loop is currently running, and I have an old 2080Ti with a broken fan just to give video out. Factory Clock: Ambient is 27C Idle is 32C Cinebench 2024 CPU Multi-Core (full load) is 56C at 5.2Ghz giving a score of 2340. Compared to a friend who has a non-delidded...

The ASUS board posted immediately and took me to BIOS within 5 minutes. I set to EXPOII (DDR5-6000 and tighter timings), and will start stability testing the RAM soon.

Just in case I gave it another 20 minute shot right now. Even 96GB should be faster than that, and the code of 00 on the motherboard implies that it didn't even get to the memory yet. Replacement board should arrive today.

While there are plenty of complaints about ASUS, I haven't heard of that issue in years. Also, considering the market share ASUS enjoys, a larger number of complaints wouldn't necessarily imply a lower quality product. (Though their warranty handling issues of last year are concerning).

Got the build far enough along that I was able to flash the BIOS to the latest and power it on. The POST codes on the motherboard never leave "00", so either the board or chip is bad. There have been rumours of ASRock having issues with AM5, so I've ordered an ASUS PRIME X870-P that should be...

Parts arrived today, so I started the build. So far I'm about 6 hours into assembly. AMD 9950X3D, delidded by Thermal Grizzly with a 2 year warranty Thermal Grizzly Direct Die Waterblock ASRock X870E Taichi Lite DOA, replaced with ASUS PRIME X870-P WIFI 96GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6000 1TB...

I remember from the last time I was driving beaters that the car insurance wouldn't cover the contents of the car for more than the value of the car. You both might be under-insured on that ;) My new car, at $3,600, gets liability only and has nothing inside at all besides a jumper box and a...

I thought I remembered a linksys one that I used the crap out of. Blue with a black stick antenna. Expensive at the time and worked quite well. Unfortunately all the text says 2k and XP only.

I would agree, and I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that I was 10-24 years old in that window ;) That said, my friend has a nice collection of cars from the time. His Supra is in the picture above.

It is much easier for leadership to say GPUs are the problem than to admit they are having fundamental failures in their fabrication processes.

I've run into that before, as a workaround I usually wire the reset button to turn on the PC and leave the reset disconnected.

Since I plan to take the car to possibly the most demanding racetrack in the world, I plan to put on larger aftermarket brakes all around. New disks, calipers, and all the flexible hoses. Then flush the rigid lines and rebuild the master cylinder. Replacing the front suspension also seems...

And for the car.... It will be a challenge. In Denmark there are regular vehicle inspections, if you don't pass the car cannot be driven. This car has 14 different failure points, from rusty body panels to rotting brake lines to non-compliant headlights. It also has 7 days until the inspection...

It started when I was able to get an order in for a Thermal Grizzly delidded 9950X3D. Every couple weeks there is an hour or so where the item is "in stock" and the rest of the time you are SoL. To properly cool the delidded CPU, I got a direct-die water block for it. That meant custom water...

I may have gone a bit crazy ordering parts the other day and will be starting my new build in a few weeks once everything arrives. It is stupidly overkill, unnecessarily complex, and a bit of a risk. The specialty parts will take weeks to arrive, and the assembly will probably also take a week...

Glad to hear it worked out, and that temp improvement is very nice. The new "pins on the motherboard" thing does make heatsinks sticking to CPUs much less risky.

On the Thermaltake Versa H18, according to the images I found online, there is a cutaway on the motherboard mounting tray that allows access to that backside without removing the motherboard. Maybe just pull off the other case side and check.