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Those seem kinda ridiculous. I think I'll just stick with Gen 3 or 4 drives for now.

To me, having heatsinks with little fans on them that are that big is approaching the realm of absurdity with how I would want to approach on-board storage.

I went out to go see the aurora and was disappointed. Got the wrong one.

Nothing here sadly. Been largely cloudy and rainy the past couple of nights.

12 hours ago, Andrew said:

Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time  of day? In this part of the country? Localised entirely within EHW?

4 hours ago, pio said:

So hooking it up with an intake hose with a funnel, directly off the tap isn't gonna work?  

I mean should hopefully be fine, in fact I think @Avacadohas a video on here he called "poor mans radiator flushing" or something where he hooked it up to a sink. 

Just the way he commented on the rad was thinking maybe a Blitz cleaning was in order.

4 hours ago, Avacado said:

@pio

 

Don't forget to flush that rad multiple times. I promise that it will clog your blocks if you don't clean it right. 

Well in that case, I'm going to suggest you do it properly with a Blitz kit @pio.

3 hours ago, Fluxmaven said:

Picked up a Ryzen 7000 delid tool. It didn't exist, and then was sold out back when I owned a 7900X so I just lapped that CPU. I have a 7700X and 7800X3D currently. Not sure if I'll delid either of these or wait for 9000 series to come out but I've got the tool and the direct die bracket is on the way for whatever I decide to use it on lol.

 

 

 

Also just got the notification that my camber plates for the mustang were delivered 

 

I should really read the whole post before I look at pics. I was trying to figure out how the camber plates were supposed to mount to the motherboard. 

29 minutes ago, pio said:

I planned on dilutting the antifreeze with water, yes.  I have "pure" antifreeze, non mixed.  So obviously I need to mix it 50/50 for my car (bought 2 gallons, for car + PC combined).  The mixture for the PC however, I'm unsure of.  I don't think I'd need a 50/50 mix in a PC, maybe 25/75?

I'm cool with "man cleaning".  Is there a cheap attachment somewhere for the sink faucet?  Budget is definitely king here, this is all going in an old, unloved FX build.

Y splitters - I'd prefer to use proper fittings so everything looks similar.  I've got "EK Quantum Torque" fittings right now, but only enough for the main loop (no drain / fill ports).  So I'd need to pickup 6 more fittings I believe for the two Y splits?  I think that was what I came up with.

Ace sells appropriate tubing?  Ace is literally in my backyard..........

Tyson A-60-G is literally just industrial tubing. I imagine you might be able to find a more generic, less expensive EPDM style from a local hardware store, so it's worth a look. And such a tubing would be easily maintainable. I don't know if Ace actually does, I'm just suggesting you take a look though if the goal is "cheap" and "lots".

Yeah I've never used car antifreeze and distilled water, so don't really know the "right" ratio. I imagine a 25/75 or even 80/20 would be fine. You don't want too much glycol in there to slow the flow rate.

Faucet attachment? Probably, nothing I know about unfortunately.

Y splitters can either be an actual Y-splitter or something as generic as a block with three G1/4 opening such as this:

Alphacool G1/4 Round TEE Connection Terminal - Black (17030) ModMyMods.com - PC Watercooling Parts and Accessories

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Or you can do more traditional actual Y-fittings such as this:

Alphacool G1/4 Revolvable 45° Y-Connector - G1/4 - Black (17063) ModMyMods.com - PC Watercooling Parts and Accessories

MODMYMODS.COM

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Alphacools's fittings go new ways in looks, quality of manufacturing, colours and choice. The inner diameter of these fittings truly deserves the „high flow“ attribute! The first three colours, Chrome, Deep Black...

Alphacool G1/4 Revolvable Y-Connector - Black (17066) ModMyMods.com - PC Watercooling Parts and Accessories

MODMYMODS.COM

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Alphacools's fittings go new ways in looks, quality of manufacturing, colours and choice. The inner diameter of these fittings truly deserves the „high flow“ attribute! The first three colours, Chrome, Deep Black...

With either style, yes you'd need 6 compression fittings.

Most premix PC coolants use glycol, so yes car antifreeze is fine, but you definitely want to dilute it with distilled water.

If you want to clean it properly, get a Mayhems Blitz Pro kit (contains part 1 and part 2 cleaners). Part 1 is used specifically to clean the radiators. Part 2 is then used for the whole loop. Just follow the directions.

If you want to just cheap man clean everything then hook it all up to a running faucet and let it flush overnight. Then flush with distilled water.

Tubing? Maybe go to your local Ace Hardware or Home Depot or similar and look for industrial tubing of the EPDM/norprene style.

Y splitters? Get those anywhere, don't really need anything special there. Question will be what style you want? Do you want the splitters to have its own barbs that the tubing fits over and you just zip tie it secure? Do you want something that regular G1/4 compression fittings screw into that the tubing can attach to?

I agree Pio.

You'll always have cheaters and hackers and what ends up happening is that the legitimate players just get forced through so many hoops with various DRM, or in this case, new hardware requirements, that in the end never actually do anything to stop the cheaters and hackers, but does everything to punish the legit players that they often just give up on the game.

Go back to dedicated servers managed by the players themselves. Have hackers? Ban 'em. Want a dedicated hacker/cheater server? Fine.

Time for a good old fashioned "does the Star Trek transporter kill you and make a copy?" debate. 

Here's a Riker troll face.

I totally get Avacado's position being where he is. It's all season and then what a dedicated summer tire? Seems less a reason to carry two sets if he's not racing or something.

Having two sets makes way more sense if you need a dedicated snow tire for winter and then an all season (or as I call them - 3 season) tire for a normal car.

I started doing that in 2018. Been through two sets of snows since then just due to how CO winters can be between snows (dry and sometimes warm). But it definitely prolonged the life of my all seasons. My snows are usually on from November through end of April or early May which is usually the last snow of the year in this area anyway. So I have a pretty even split of time on sets.

Nice thing is having them on their own set of wheels, Discount Tire will just swap em for free.

I'm probably on my last season for the all season set and will need to get a new one next spring. I kinda went cheap last time with some General Altimax RT43's. They were $110/tire in 2018 when i got them. Thinking I'll go back to Michelin as they just feel better but they definitely didn't last as long. I don't need anything crazy as I am driving a Mazda CX-5.

On 24/04/2024 at 06:51, Grandpasnorz said:

Personally I wouldn't buy anything other than a Samsung or LG TV. So many people go for the budget TV's or the entry level TVs. I won't buy entry level Samsung or LG TVs either. There is something to be said about you get what you pay for. And always go for quality over screen size. For me, Mini-LED is the way to go until OLED can fix the screen burn and lower the cost.  I'm not sure there are any brands that dont sell your data anymore. Privacy seems to be a thing of the past. 

 

My livingroom TV is : Samsung 85" Neo QLED 4K Smart TV (QN85QN85CAFXZA). And I use Govee Backlighting and have a JBL 500 soundbar.  

 

I don't really think burn-in is anywhere near the problem it used to be on LG WOLED displays. QD-OLED sounds like it still has some issues.

But at this point I can report that after almost 2 years of everyday usage on my 48" C1, there's still no burn in and I don't even hide my taskbar or desktop icons.

To add to Enterprise's post, my tabletop group recently bought a TCL to use for Foundry VTT that we setup at the end of our table for our Pathfinder 2E games. Honestly for the price its really nice and looks great.

3 hours ago, ENTERPRISE said:

All I will say is that they launched the product at a time where economically speaking, people are in a worse position financially, at least here in the UK. Granted I consider this product a Halo product based on the price and this was already priced out of reach from most BUT financially we are worse off and I would not be surprised if that was another factor. 

 

Plus I still find Apple a more and more niche market as the years go on. With Apple overall not having the same appeal as they used to, some of the customers they once had that would have jumped on this, have since moved on. So in my opinion they have a smaller market to capitalize on. 

 

Just my view on it.

This is certainly a very niche product to begin with so it makes a lot of sense in my mind that once people who actually wanted it (and had the means to get it) did, that demand would drop off a cliff.

But Apple does have some things bigger scale to think about too. Even MacBook sales are dropping hard. Apple Silicon is probably a double-edged sword for them - great stuff for ultra efficiency and battery life, like I am extremely impressed with the battery life on my work 16" MBP with M1 Pro. But at the same time, this M1 Pro is fine, literally no reason to upgrade to any of the newer models.

11 hours ago, Snakecharmed said:

Seeing Grandpasnorz's response and comments about OLED in Cerebus's TV thread reminded me to revisit this thread and my original comments. For all the reservations I have about OLED as a daily driver monitor, I finally figured out how I plan to make an LG OLED TV work for my family room, which will be primarily driven by my Ryzen 7 4800H/RTX 2060 laptop and consequently be showing my Windows desktop for not insignificant amounts of time:

 

Wallpaper Engine, because I hate the idea of having a boring black background and hiding all desktop UI elements for the sake of preserving the OLED pixels. To me, the point of having an OLED is to show it off whenever it's turned on even when you're not really using it.

 

Or I could just not care, but I've not cared to the tune of having the same 52" Samsung in my family room since 2008. I don't go through monitors and TVs that often. I can barely resell my old monitors, but I can still manage to haul them off in my car to FedEx Office for shipping. Big old TVs are practically e-waste to me. Knowing me, I'm going to end up keeping a new TV for a decade and I don't want burn-in to be present for the latter half of its occupancy in my home.

 

Maybe I'll have a 65" LG C/G 6 or 7 by the time I get around to refreshing the family room space and start making an effort to use it more frequently again. When that time comes, I can't continue to use a 52" 1080p TV anymore.

 

I imagine by then, either LG's MLA panels will have reached the C-series or the M-series will actually distinguish itself from the G-series beyond its wireless capabilities to move the G-series more mainstream.

Shrug. I don't hide my taskbar or anything. August will be 2 years for me on the C1. No burn in yet that I can see.

EDIT: 2828 power on hours so far. And yeah I really do hope they bring MLA panels to the C series at some point.

23 hours ago, pio said:

Nothing would please me more.  Maybe just adding a simple old school teamspeak server with the IRC for chat.   

Actually yes please, could we all switch back to that instead of discord?  

Man I don't know, Teamspeak always sucked when I used it for MMO/guild stuff back in the day.

5 hours ago, Alex said:

Their ZMT is good, but even that I found it's just better to go with Watercool's version as it's much more pliable and doesn't harden over time.

ZMT can be ok, but its such an inconsistent product, why risk it? Sometimes its rather dirty. Often times its out of ID/OD spec tolerances.

45 minutes ago, Fluxmaven said:

Their coolant was a Mayhems blend not sure if the newer version still is... 

 

No one knows. Corsair has basically just said they source the new stuff (XL8) from Taiwan and that it's incompatible with their old Mayhems blend coolant (XL5). I'd guess a generic glycol based premix.

As for the rest of your post, I have not had one single good experience with an EK product, not one. The Evo Supremacy plating was awful and flaked away in a way that blocked up the fins leading to system freezes from hitting 100C on the 4790k. Was also missing mounting hardware in the box when new. Similar story with my old 980 Strix block and its plating. The only EK part I have in my current rig is a reservoir/pump unit and that is because it's what Micro Center had stocked locally when I needed one. I've snapped two of the plastic retention arms so far just from trying to take the pump out of the housing. 

13 minutes ago, Alex said:

Corsair is quickly taking over the entry-level WC business, and I feel like the higher-end stuff is becoming less niche with a select few companies establishing themselves more and more in that space. Those that already go with Watercool, Optimum, etc., the 'bougie' stuff, wouldn't likely go back in a hurry to EK. And the entry-level anything business is always super competitive and has even less brand loyalty.

 

EK has been losing customers from both, and if this is how they handle things internally - I don't see them ever correcting either path. They have long been charging premium prices for mid-range products, and while we all hoped they'd right their ways... I don't think it's going to happen.

 

 

 

 

And their pricing premium only keeps going higher!

Everyone here knows I do not have very positive opinions about EK and their role in the industry these days, but I do feel bad for any employees who aren't being paid what they are due if true.

On 15/04/2024 at 19:19, speed_demon said:

The big thing with the intel cards is what I've also said about AMD in the past - How well they sink or swim will entirely depend on driver support. Nvidia really nails drivers and has done so for many many years. Hoping to see more of that coming out of both AMD and Intel in the future.

I mean Nvidia has almost 30 years on Intel. Intel was never going to have driver parity out the gate, but what is clear is how much they keep improving them as time goes on. I personally hope Intel keeps at it because this space needs a strong 3rd competitor. Likewise I am interested to see how Battlemage shakes out.

2 hours ago, The Pook said:

+1 for anti-ultrawide gang

 

strongly considering grabbing an Asus' PG32UCDM but going to wait to see if anything similar/cheaper comes around (plus it's OOS everywhere for MSRP).

The 48" C1 is going to go to the living room and I think a 42" C4 is in my future.

I've always hated ultrawides and don't think that will change anytime soon.

12th gen ok then? Wife's PC has a 3070 Ti and a 12700kf.

22 hours ago, tomekmak said:

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8 hours ago, UltraMega said:

LogoFAIL is a set of security vulnerabilities affecting different image parsing libraries used in the system firmware by various vendors during the device boot process. It impacts devices by placing malicious code inside an image file that is parsed during boot, leading to persistence¹. Here are some key points about LogoFAIL:

1. What Is LogoFAIL?

   • LogoFAIL is a constellation of two dozen newly discovered vulnerabilities that have existed for years, if not decades, in Unified Extensible Firmware Interfaces (UEFIs) responsible for booting modern devices running Windows or Linux.
   • These vulnerabilities allow malicious firmware execution early in the boot-up sequence, making infections nearly impossible to detect or remove using current defense mechanisms².
   • The attack is dubbed LogoFAIL by the researchers who devised it.

2. How It Works:

   • LogoFAIL involves hardware seller logos displayed on the device screen during the boot process while the UEFI is still running.
   • Image parsers in UEFIs from major vendors are riddled with roughly a dozen critical vulnerabilities that have gone unnoticed until now.
   • By replacing legitimate logo images with identical-looking ones specially crafted to exploit these bugs, LogoFAIL enables the execution of malicious code at the most sensitive stage of the boot process (known as DXE, short for Driver Execution Environment).

3. Scope and Impact:

   • Hundreds of Windows and Linux computer models from virtually all hardware makers are vulnerable to LogoFAIL.
   • The attack can be remotely executed in post-exploit situations, using techniques that can’t be easily spotted by traditional endpoint security products.
   • Exploits run during the earliest stages of the boot process, bypassing defenses like Secure Boot and similar protections designed to prevent bootkit infections.

4. Affected Parties:

   • Participating companies include UEFI suppliers (AMI, Insyde, Phoenix), device manufacturers (Lenovo, Dell, HP), and CPU makers (Intel, AMD, ARM).
   • Links to advisories and vulnerability designations are available in the original research².

5. Protection and Mitigation:

   • If you’re concerned about LogoFAIL, consider the following steps:
     • Update your firmware: Check for security patches provided by your device manufacturer.
     • Prevent unauthorized access: Ensure that attackers cannot gain access to the EFI System Partition (ESP) where the logo image is stored³.

Remember, LogoFAIL is not a virus but rather a set of vulnerabilities that allow attackers to bypass security measures and install malicious software during the boot process⁴. Stay vigilant and keep your devices secure!

 

 

Thanks ChatGPT!