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Very well written review! Images were great too. The product looked a little familiar though.

Alright, I know some of the other old farts 'round here are parents too. So, how do you guys keep your children safe online? My kiddo is wanting to get his gaming PC back, he's already got an XBox (which I draconianly locked down temporarily), he's also got an android tablet. Now, the entire network is ran through a Windows PC connected to the WAN port on my router (VPN / ISP combiner box). I guess the question is, what kind of software would exist out there that'd be compatible with all those types of devices? I mentioned the ISP computer part, just in case there was a whole network type solution I could implement. I just need to lock down the stores and him adding people he doesn't know (he's still learning that one). Maybe content by age bracket, browser restrictions? Idk. Help? LOL

Dang, and I have no reddit account. He's still got some good deals up!

You're not wrong on the moving parts bit. If you're building for longevity (or silence honestly), you really don't want moving parts.

Screw it, why not?

QFT. Honestly, this is exactly the kind of mods I love seeing. No off the shelf solution, no problem!

$39 looks like for the 2.1 version I think. The $20 Kinter looks like its just 2 channels? That is still cheaper than the Lepai 2.1, its $46.99 at parts express. Lepai 2.1 has a crossover knob, the Kinter doesn't. Interesting..........I might pick one of those Kinter amps up, hadn't thought about the amp portion too much yet. TY for the suggestion!

Went thrifting again. -_- Why does the dang speaker area ALWAYS catch me? Scored these Sony 2.1's for cheap, all 3 for $25 I think it was. The sub sounds fine, honestly quite good even. The satellites are VERY tinny and bright and don't take very much power at all.....but they also sound "fine" for the use. The idea is to grab a cheap 2.1 desktop amp from like Lepai or something, and use these as a 2.1 PC speaker set. And then I also scored this shelf system. $15. I always wanted one of these, they were absolutely amazing shelf systems in the year 2000, and now I have one. It's capable of 50w x2 according to spec, and it legitimately does bi-amp the speakers. The 5 disc CD changer works, the tape deck works, and there wasn't a spec of dust I could find anywhere in just playing around with it. Probably going to use this shelf system in replacement of my soundbar on an older TV perhaps or something. Could also hook up a subwoofer to it for 2.1. Idk, I don't regret it, but not sure what to do with it yet LOL.

We became wobbly willionaires. So we figured to celebrate with some cake at the coffee shop at the local mall. @LabRatgetting sucked back into the coffee shop as he was try to pose in front of his creation. And I don't know who let the rift raft in at the local fair, but man they sure did litter. -_-

Good question. @Avacado, get into your little black book and make it happen cap'n!

Well put. I too, am not here to "badmouth" any specific businesses or people, but Ultra's sentiments on the "metaverse" in general absolutely do sum up the general public's thoughts on it too. Most people think the metaverse is a joke, something that was rolled out with the pandemic to help with "working at home". That's over, and people don't care as much about virtualized hanging out anymore. Personally, I will NEVER enter a metaverse. VR just doesn't work for me. Throws me off really badly. Idk why, but I have to actually be able to see the real world around me or my brain freaks out. This is why I love big ultrawides or eyefinity arrays though, so I can immerse myself into the game I'm playing. VR and meta aren't going away, no. But to hear a company's announcement, and use the word "metaverse" in it, as Ultra said........ *Cringe Also, very solid points about Epic and Fortnight brought up too. Who'd have thought marketing a video game to a bunch of 5 year olds was a profit making endeavor? I mean really? They did try really hard, and Fortnight really is a pretty neat title. But, as Ultra stated too, they kinda DID help Steam to be better too, so thank you Epic!

Banned for not banning. Man, I miss when I had a real banhammer.....

Well.......okay fine then. Good point, I guess most everyone DID see how stupid that was. Banned for forgetting I also dremeled through my brand new GTX 470.

Banned because wat? o.0 How you know about that?

Is that how we treat new members around here? Banned for being mean to the noobies.

Welcome. It died because I left. And yeah, you'll find that's EXACTLY why most of us are here. Got tired of reddit tier content, so instead we'll just make our own!

I didn't realize there was a thread for Cooler Master cases either. I have a HAF 700, TD 500 Mesh v2, and a MasterBox Q300L in the house.

Would love to see the finished, vinyl wrapped ending of this saga. Make it yours (well hers).

Love how you went full on Toy Story with the beginning there. Fitting because they're "toy sized" parts to be honest. Love themed reading. With that said, the products themselves seem like they were pretty decent. The PSU, yeah that whole being longer than SFX form factor is a problem for sure. Glad you were able to get things squeezed together. Probably not the wisest thing, trying to squeeze 1100w into a SFX form factor maybe. The case looks absolutely great though for its size! I'll be honest, I'm not sure if I like this NR200P case or my Phanteks ITX case better. This CM case is a LOT smaller, my Phanteks ITX is more of a mATX tower sized case than something ITX. This little guy looks like its full on ITX sized, which is actually a huge plus (for somebody looking for SFF cases). Overall, REALLY great review @Fluxmaven! It was a pleasant read, the pictures were great, and the products spoke for themselves!

I voted Adrenaline drivers, only because I've never tried the Pro drivers on the 6900XT. Although, I don't think there'd be "much" of a difference? The modded drivers for older GCN based cards tend to use the Pro drivers. And those modded drivers work quite well. Not a 6900XT, no. To me though, once I find a driver that works, I tend to stick with it till it doesn't work right anymore. If its not broke, don't fix it.

I'd think any sort of file system scan that would scan for corrupt files would do. Afterall, an mp3 file is still a file.

Why does that read more like an Nvidia marketing campaign than a journalistic tech article? Don't get me wrong, this was expected news. But to say that chiplets is going to set Nvidia apart from AMD is ridiculous, AMD said MONTHS ago that they were going to use chiplets on the MI300. This is Nvidia borrowing an idea from AMD again, and saying its them revolutionizing the GPU industry. Or am I missing something here?

Let's go first search result!!!!