Sir Beregond

As someone who has lived in Colorado since I was 8, I sometimes complain about the dry air...until I go somewhere humid.

Extremely common practice. Mine is anything under $50 is my problem. Which is fine. It's typically been stuff I accidentally broke anyway like a toilet seat, or something.

This isn't the first time AMD has tried just focusing on the "sweet spot" market. It's not a bad thing per se as that segment needs some love, but big picture it never pans out well for the consumer in the grand scheme of things. This is when Nvidia gets emboldened to further raise prices and cut corners because who is there to challenge them and promote price wars? And AMD has easily shown (at least on launch) that they will just slot into whatever pricing structure Nvidia creates. We can pretend it's not a thing, but what happens at the high end / halo part of a product stack every gen absolutely influences the rest of the stack, consumer perception of a brand, etc. To me this just screams more AMD falling behind because they don't want to pump resources into graphics to truly compete with Nvidia here. That's not good for anyone.

5900X here. I don't need 16 cores, or really even the 12. I'm thinking next upgrade for me will be Zen 5. Thinking a 9800X3D. I definitely don't want any split CCD X3D like they did with the Ryzen 9 sku's with Zen 4.

Welcome to EHW!

Welcome to EHW!

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.

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.

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

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.

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 MODMYMODS.COM 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... 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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

And their pricing premium only keeps going higher!