ciarlatano

Easy answer from me, but it's just one. My Z97 Sabertooth. The last of the real Sabertooths before TUF became just another ASUS gaming marketing gimmick.

On 06/12/2022 at 12:23, Outsider said:

I'd comment but I wouldn't want to show any unneeded hostility so I'll stay silent.  Can't offend any little snowflakes I guess. Welp it's been fun. 

I'll handle that for you.

A lot of computer hardware has gone to h$ll thanks to the "ARGEEEEEBEEEEEE and mediocrity is more important than quality or design!" kiddies. Cases, fans, coolers, RAM....huge dropoffs in the amount of quality products available across the board thanks to this. Maybe if they used their rigs instead of laying back in their racing chairs going Rule 34 while staring at the pretty lights we wouldn't have this problem.

On 02/07/2022 at 14:46, iamjanco said:

 

 

helped make me what i am today. 

The six fingered intro to Chiller is one of my fondest childhood memories!

On 23/05/2022 at 15:50, Sir Beregond said:

Admit it, I think you are a glutton for punishment with the reddit-esque threads on OCN @Outsider. 

 

I need a laugh emoji for this. And one that says "uh, yeah....it's just that Outsider guy....I never get involved with that stuff....nope".

But really, the kid giving advice about how to run a D5 and the effects of flow rate based off his experience with a CLC was gold.

On 21/05/2022 at 14:21, Diffident said:

 

Or this...

 

Everything does seem to be pointing that way, doesn't it? 

2 hours ago, Avacado said:

The plot thickens. Same guy dropped off these babies on mah desk this morning. 

 

Sigh, i hate working on laptops.

 

 

Because it always ends with the laptop back together, and one tiny screw left on the desk...... 

I had that Sapphire 5770! Well, actually I had three of them in succession since they all worked for about a month followed by them displaying only a green screen. When the third one died, the 6770 was already out so Sapphire sent me the newer model.

If Heatkiller did this it would be awesome. But, you know, HK does crazy things like QC.

EK doing it is a disaster waiting to happen. 

2 hours ago, UltraMega said:

That's definitely a factor but on the flip side, crypto isn't tied to anything other than itself. If you buy gold you have the gold, if you buy a house you have the house, if you buy shares in a company, you have a share of that company. If you buy crypto, you just have the crypto. It's the most pure form of "money has value because people think it does" that I can think of in the real world. I'm not saying it won't do well, I just think there has to be a point where it can't forever just be this pattern of more and more spread out peaks that people look at as reliable, and once people stop thinking it's always reliable... it probably won't be. Or maybe I'm just naive for thinking that way and crypto is going to take over the investment world someday. 

Well....the US dollar is no longer backed by anything tangible. Only backing is "faith in the government that issued it". So, not really much different than crypto at this point.

I have played GBTC when it channels up, but nothing more than swing trades. I don't trust that one day it won't suddenly be worthless for an ordinary individual.

1 hour ago, Sir Beregond said:

I share that same question. I also heard that 40-series likely getting an MSRP price hike seeing what people were willing to pay during the 30-series run. There's a reason they effectively phased out the $700 10GB 3080 lol.

 

Combine that with a mass selloff of 30-series mining cards, people might not go for 40-series if they can get cheap 3080's, 3080 Ties, and 3090's.

You are rationalizing something that is purely irrational. Really. After watching people quite literally spend thousands for either the ePeen of having the newest card, or to get an indiscernible gain in fps on some random game....you think that will suddenly stop with the 40 series? It's gotten progressively worse with every gen of card that's released. Gamers do not do things for rational reasons. They need to go from 168 to 190 fps in Call of Warcraft VII: The Revenge of Lothar of The Hill People even if they have to live off Cheetos and Red Bull for a year.

10 minutes ago, J7SC_Orion said:

 

I had mounted the Dremel in a vice and rolled the tube all the way around. But when doing it the other way (mounting the tube in the vice instead) you can then use the flat side of the Dremel wheel after to make it perfectly flat / even, then sand.

 

However, this bigger Dremel monster w/ much bigger wheel I got since then would make it all the way through, depending how you handle the guard...

 

 

  

While I have never used it on anything PC related.....I love my Ultra Saw. Well, excepting the price of the blades and how quickly the wood blades dull.

3 hours ago, Avacado said:

Honestly though @ciarlatano, I don't know why you still browse OCN. It vexxes you so.

No, it's purely entertaining rather than vexing.  

Ok.....sometimes it's vexing...... Perhaps I was a monk in a former life, and OCN is my carryover of self-flagellation......

Is it clairvoyance? Is it a super power? How is it that I know exactly what components will be listed for the build 90% of the time after reading nothing more than the thread title?

Play along with me, guess the cooling components being put in a cookie cutter build with the thread title "Corsair 1000D Quad Rad setup". Try it, you'll be amazed just how close you are to 100% correct.

59 minutes ago, ArchStanton said:

Same boat.  I struggle to not resent Micro Center and the folks that live close to one 

I struggle with not resenting Micro Center for not being better with online purchases. I have one about an hour from me.....but I have to drive through the traffice epicenter of the US to get to it.

1 hour ago, Avacado said:

Odd news. One has to wonder if their ventures into SSD has been more profitable, and that they are going to devote the resources to that.

I've been folding at home as long as I can remember. There was a week back in 2018 when my dryer had a bad ignitor and I took a couple of loads to the laundromat, other than that, it has always been done at home.

13 hours ago, Sir Beregond said:

One thing I always found fascinating is the more what I guess are considered fringe or pseudo by the mainstream scientific community, but I always find the ideas some put forth about lost civilizations where it was possible for very advanced civilization with advanced technology to have existed, but was just so long ago, wiped out by cosmic/climatic calamities and we all started over.

 

Anyway, whenever they discover stuff like this, makes me think of that.

The more unexplainable things they find dated far older than expected, the more likely they are to admit that was the case. There is already enough out there that I think we are definitely living in a reboot.

Interesting. I dragged my feet long enough on upgrading to a 5600X that my plan switched to a 12600k. If I drag my feet on that long enough, I could potentially be looking at team red again.

11 hours ago, Avacado said:

For the same reason as cures. There is no money in a cure, only the medicine. Why make something modular when consumers are forced to spend gobs of money every iteration?

It's not that they are forced to, it is that they do it regardless of whether it makes sense. If users were reasonable about the experience rather than meaningless benchmarks, things would change.

26 minutes ago, Avacado said:

Just in case anyone beside D'Jango doesn't see this as Satire. This is a joke guys.

Yes, but a joke that includes a great concept. Why can't video cards become modular like a MB with the GPU able to be swapped? Look how much it has helped AMD on the CPU side. It's not that it can't be done, I see it as a reluctance on the part of mfg. With cards flying off the shelf for nothing but ePeen ( if you tell me you can see the difference between 120 and 140 fps, I am going say "suuuuuuuuuuure you can"), why cut into the bottom line?

The fact that he had Intel as the one doing was a clever jab.

Great concept. The modular design is something that should have been implemented in GPUs years ago. Ironic that it would be Intel doing it, given that they can't maintain a socket for more than 1-2 generations, with two being the outlier.

If you are doing digital out from the card, you will be relying on the D/A built into the Logitech. With that, make sure your focus is on that aspect. You don't want to pay a fortune for a card skewed to it's analog output since you would be throwing away money for something you won't be using.

That said.....I have no idea what to suggest. I have always been more focused on the analog capabilities in my looks at sound cards.

1 hour ago, ENTERPRISE said:

 

Are there no other higher end boards to be had  ? Forgive me, being that I am not leaping to the new DDR5 gen just yet, I have not been looking at the newer hardware. 

I am trying to stay to a midrange DDR4 board. I may just wait a bit. Seeing so many BIOS, RAM, etc issues.

10 hours ago, Sir Beregond said:

That's bizarre. I would not be leaving 4 or 5 star reviews if my primary storage slots are just straight up dying or DOA.

Very bizarre. All say they moved the drive to another slot that was still working. But, the whole "it's broken but it's fine" mindset has become pretty prevalent these days.

2 hours ago, ENTERPRISE said:

Slots being DOA or going dead after a while sounds like a physical fault with the board. I have not seen the reviews myself, but is anyone stating that when the slot died it took out their NVMe drive as well ? 

No reports of drives being damaged.

Now I need to decide between a TUF or an MSI. Midrange boards not having temp sensors these days is a PITA. My setup is simple, and doesn't really call for a Quadro, but looks like I'm not going to have a choice.