Sir Beregond

On 27/11/2025 at 12:43, tictoc said:

I have a whole bunch of 18V Makita cordless tools, since I switched over from Milwaukee 15ish years ago.  In all that time the only tool that died was a compact drill that I abused for quite a few years.  I also have some 10+ year old 2Ah and 3Ah batteries that refuse to die.  I've been eyeballing the 12V wrenches and ratchets, but haven't decided if the compact size is worth it.

 

This got me wondering how many Makita cordless tools I actually have, so here's the list:

 

1/4"/3/8" Ratchet

2x 3/8" Impact Wrench

1/2" Impact Wrench

1/4" Impact Driver

1/4" Sub-Compact Impact Driver

1/2" Hammer Driver-Drilll

2x 1/2" Sub-Compact Driver-Drill

6-1/2" Circular Saw

6-1/2" Sub-Compact Circular Saw

7-1/4" 36V Worm Drive Circular Saw

6-1/2" 36V Plunge Track Saw

Jig Saw

Reciprocating Saw

Compact Reciprocating Saw

16" 36V Chain Saw

10" 36V Pole Saw

Oscillating Multi-tool

3-1/4" Planer

Compact Router

4-1/2"/5" Grinder

1/4" Die Grinder

16 Ga Nibbler

5" Orbital Sander

6" DA Polisher

High Pressure Inflator

Grease Gun

Compact Vaccum

18 LED Flashlight

LED Flashlight/Lantern

 

Holy cow , I didn't realize I had that many Makita cordless tools.

 

 

 

Got the 1/2" hammer drill, impact driver, and a jig saw.

Next on the list is probably a sander, planer, and some other saws.

Had a $50 Home Depot gift card. Went ahead and took advantage of their black Friday deal. Brushless hammer drill, impact driver, two 5ah batteries, charger, tool bag + free tool (I chose the $199 jigsaw) for $369 after tax. Will need a sander soon too.

18 hours ago, Fluxmaven said:

 

I've been using Makita brushless for several years now just about daily for work. I love them. I tried just about every common brand and they felt the most comfortable to me. I also specifically wanted to avoid Milwaukee tools since that's what a lot of people in the trades use and I don't want to worry about batteries or tools "walking away". 

 

 

Nice to hear a ringing endorsement.

Yeah I liked the feel and ergonomics. Meanwhile Milwaukee just seems to only be about shove as much power through it as possible. And I didn't like the feel of the DeWalts.

Been getting interested in replacing some of my older Ryobi brushed power tools. I dont use tools in a job or anything like that, but am interested in maybe starting to learn some woodworking so I can make some things. 

Been eyeing some Makita deals. Still a bit pricey, but after trying some, I like them. Feels good in hand. 

Haven't quite decided to pull the trigger yet. 

On 28/09/2025 at 15:35, tictoc said:

Never posted the final specs/pics of my updated ThreadRipper workstation.

 

2600W in 44L is fun.  Pulls about 2200-2300W with CPU and GPUs running all out.

 

Case: Lian Li 011 AIR MINI

CPU: AMD Threadripper 7960X

Memory: 192GB Micron DDR5-5600 RDIMM @ 6200 MHz

GPUs: Asrock AQUA 7900xtx, 2x Radeon VII

Drives: 2x Samsung 990 Pro 4TB (OS), Seagate FireCuda 530 2TB (misc data and VMs/containers), 2x Micron 5200 PRO 3840GB (backup), SanDisk Extreme Pro 480GB (zram backing device) 

PSUs: Super Flower Leadex Titanium 1600W, EVGA SuperNova G3 1000W

Cooling: MO-RA IV 600

 

Damn, that's a beast. Where are you passing through the tube for the MORA?

Threw a 4090 at it.

15 hours ago, Fluxmaven said:

@pio stop being a wimp  The Radeon AI PRO R9700 is only a 300w card. They also have the power connector at the rear of the card so no issues with a tight bend against the side panel. 

 

Really the only cards I'd be concerned about at all are 4090 and 5090's and only if you're pushing them pretty hard. 

 

The card I've had the longest with a 12VHPWR is my 4070 TI I got a week after launch and it's been plugged in at least a dozen times in half a dozen systems. Using the included adapter or dedicated 12VHPWR cables with no issues at all. 

 

I've run everything full bore for extended periods of time, but lately I undervolt everything just to minimize heat dumped into the room. I'd be curious to see what sort of PPD the AI Pro does stock and with a decent undervolt. My 6950XT sucked in general for folding, but at least didn't lose much even with a pretty significant UV. Being Mr. AyyyMD, you'll probably be sad to hear that I have retired that card and am now fully team green for the fleet of things that actually get used every day. 

I'm going to venture a guess and say about the same as a 9070 XT. 

I'm in!

Looking for any way to not have to use more memory still I see. 

I guess thats true, but still shitty of AMD to charge double for functionally a double VRAM 9070 XT. G6 is pretty cheap these days. But hey market says they can do this.

Oh you know it.

May have to fire this up again. Played it a lot on my PC in 2020 / 2021.

Oh I'm in.

Had fun everyone, and seriously nice of you both @pioaand @LabRatto still do a prize draw. I definitely agree save the bigger prizes for a bigger event. Congrats @Sid098!

Got a bit close to @Fluxmavenwhen he eased up but I couldn't maintain the momentum. Nice job, the hotboxing is hell.

Can attest good stickers, so definitely grab one if you don't have one.

6 hours ago, bonami2 said:

4-5m but my cpu at 100% on 32 thread. 9070xt nitro +

I forgot to change folding name doing that now!

Still don't see you on the board, check team?

What kind of PPD you getting on that 9070 XT out of curiosity and how does that compare to your old 7900 XTX?

Current socket only gets essentially one real gen / architecture is just bad.

Hopefully Nova Lake is much better and maybe they can have a longer lived socket with LGA1954.

7 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

 

I cancelled the order. Upon further research, the PCIe bifurcation is all effed up on the Apex the same as the Hero. No longer wanted if I can't use the PCIe slots except with the GPU slot cut back to X8. Too bad A$$zeus can't get their act together. I saved $300+ and went with an AORUS Master since both of the extra X16 slots are untethered from the CPU and using them has no effect on the GPU. It's really unfortunate that 4-DIMM motherboards are so common and 2-DIMM so rare. Such a waste having the two unwanted memory slots on nearly every option available for purchase. The designers of enthusiast motherboards seem to be universally stupid and out of touch with the people that buy their rubbish. The Master has asynchronous BCLK as well.

This is good to know. Really unfortunate that PCIe bifurcation is all screwed up these days. I've never really thought about it before, but now it seems you have to be really careful.

1 hour ago, Kaz said:

 

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/104554/amd-confirms-security-vulnerability-in-every-zen-1-to-5-processor/index.html

 

Requires system admin to facilitate.  If someone has system admin the system is already compromised but this might allow for long term persistence.  Just another reason to stay on top of updates.

But the later AGESA updates lower the max voltage I can set. 

Honestly probably for the best. I should probably update. Been on the same 3801 BIOS for my X570 Dark Hero since 2022. Then again, I'll probably forget about this and stay on 3801. Lot of people hate the newer BIOS's for this board.

12 hours ago, Kaz said:

Out of curiosity, how much electricity are those of you who fold using?  What is the overall benefit of folding?

It's basically scientific distributed computing with the aim at finding cures and treatments for cancers, Alzheimers, and other diseases.

And along with it some fake internet points.

Oh a contest. 

in, sirb

23 minutes ago, Kaz said:

Does your meshify 2 rattle all the time?  Mine does, it's extremely annoying.

 

Falcon Northwest has the best reputation, but they advertise as custom gaming PC's and I'm not sure that counts as prebuilt.

It would. Just means they are using more off the shelf parts is my guess vs say a Dell with all their weird proprietary crap.

A pre-build is a pre-build.

On 28/03/2025 at 06:35, Kaz said:

I heard from Moore's Law is Dead a while ago (6 months?) that Intel engineers had wanted to do 1 big core that was capable of doing multiple tasks, but that management had said that was a stupid idea. 

Looks like Intel still haven't found their footing.

Royal Core?

Arrow Lake refresh seems completely unexciting as fundamentally the generation is kind of a dud. Adding more e-cores isn't going to fix that. Here's hoping Panther Lake is good.

5 minutes ago, Kaz said:

There has never been another game that is it's equal for PvP.  GvG and HoH were on a different level for team coordination.  I knew multiple monks that refused to carry infuse health, because any time someone died it felt like they should have stopped it.  1/4th second cast skill that would give someone full health, but more often than not it wasn't what would save someone. 

I think the game started to suffer from buildwars after all the expansions were out.  It was on full display for EvIL's split build vs iQ's turtle build.  We used to friends list certain people for tournaments because their character name would give away the build they were playing.

 

The problem with GW 1 was that it was incredibly hard to watch a game and understand all the nuances that were going on.  A mesmer diversion catching the defensive elementalist's blinding surge wasn't something that spectators picked up on unless they knew what to watch for, but it could easily change how defensive a team had to play.  Sometimes it came down to stuff like blinding the ranger first so that the Mesmer's diversion wasn't interrupted for the upcoming spike.  Too bad twitch.tv wasn't a thing back then for high level commentators to give a play by play.

 

GW 2 was/is great in it's own ways, but I wish we had a true successor to the original Guildwars.

Man I share all your same opinions here. 

I've extremely mixed on Guild Wars 2. It's completely different from the original and the original deserves a spiritual successor.

4 hours ago, Kaz said:

I used to GvG a lot back in the day.  Such a sad day when iQ beat EvIL's split build by turtling until Victory Or Death.  They had a glyph sac meteor shower elementalist, and a ranger who sacked himself to stack up the enemy NPC's, making it easy for the elementalist to kill them all.  They also had a Blood is power Necromancer feeding their monks energy.  Devs decided VOD would just end the game after that.  In all fairness, watching iQ sit there for 20 minutes made for a really boring championship game.

I was never involved with high end GvG, but man that takes me back.