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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.

On 01/10/2025 at 13:12, neurotix said:

I *love* that you crammed three water cooled GPUs and a Threadripper into such a tiny case! It looks awesome and it must perform awesome too.

 

What are the Radeon VIIs for? Do you fold on this machine or something?

 

EDIT: the copper and black theme reminds me of Steampunk or something. Nice choice in using what looks like matte black tubing instead of clear with a color or shiny black.

Right now the Radeon VIIs are just running a BOINC project (Einstein@Home), but their primary purpose is running some physics simulations and also serving as test devices for building and running the latest ROCm stack.  I will be pulling one of the Radeon VIIs shortly and swapping it out for a 9070XT.

The matte black tubing is 10mm/16mm EPDM, and in addition to being better suited to 24/7 operation, it has the added benefit of being able to turn a tight radius without kinking. 

Tubes for the MORA go through the second PCIe slot below the top GPU.

I can't update the OP, so updated components are below.  Thinking about swapping the board and CPU.  I really don't have any justification for that, since I know all the idiosyncrasies of the 2970WX and overall it's still overkill for what it does.

Components

Case - Thermaltake Core X5

Motherboard - ASRock Rack X399D8A-2T

PSU - EVGA Supernova G2 1000W Silverstone Strider Platimum 1200W

CPU - AMD Threadripper 2970WX

RAM - 4x 8x Micron 16GB SK Hynix 32GB DDR4-3200 ECC-UDIMM (eventually 8x 16GB)

GPUs - Radeon 5700XT 2x Vega 64 2x Radeon VII Radeon 6900XT

SSDs - 2x Intel Optane 905P 960GB U.2 NVMe, Intel Optane 905P 480GB U.2 NVMe, ADATA SX8200 Pro 1TB NVMe, SK Hynix P31 1TB NVMe, 4x Inland Premium 1TB NVMe, 2x crucial MX500 2TB SATA

HDDs - 2x HGST Deskstar NAS 4TB, 1x Seagate IronWolf Pro 4TB, 5x 1x Seagate EXOS 8TB, 1x Seagate Ironwolf Pro 8TB, 4x 8x 4x Seagate EXOS X18 16TB, 1x Seagate Ironwolf Pro 20TB,  1x Seagate EXOS X20 20TB 1x 4TB Toshiba N300 (Hot swap bay for backups)

CD/DVD/BluRay - LG WH14NS40 flashed for 4k UHD

Cooling

CPU - Watercool HEATKILLER IV Pro Copper

GPU - EK-Quantum Vector Radeon VII Copper/Acetal Alphacool Eisblock Radeon 6900XT

Radiator - 2x XSPC EX360 2x Watercool HEATKILLER 360-L

Pump - 2x Watercool D5 w/ EK-XRES 100 Reservoir Watercool Industrial Dual D5 Top w/ 100mm Watercool HEATKILLER Tube Reservoir

Fans - Silverstone AP183 (front intake), 6x Arctic P14 PWM (rear exhaust, HDD fans, midplane), 6x Artic P12 PWM (radiator fans) 

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

Threw 7-8M or so PPD (7900xtx) back on F@H.

In reality the base OS will basically be supported more or less forever.  Most of the significant hardware bits have been upstreamed to the mainline kernel, and with Arch Linux serving as the base OS, I don't really see a future where the SteamDeck turns into a worthless brick and/or a security black hole that should never be connected to the internet.

I'm running Valve's SteamOS on it now, but I have had plain Arch running in the past.  As of kernel 6.1 (released December 2022) everything on my deck worked out of the box running plain Arch Linux. 

I mostly purchased the deck to mess around with it as a mini PC.  My Steam Deck spends 90% of it's life sitting in the dock hooked up to a 27" monitor on my work bench. I do occasionally pull it off the dock to play some games sitting on the couch, but mostly it just functions as a desktop PC.

Since I've been daily driving Arch Linux for the last decade plus, I'm right at home on SteamOS.

No tracking here.  I'll just be sticking with my 2010 STi, 1978 Bronco, and 1970 F350.

No surprise, and I assume all manufacturers are doing this.  VW tracking and data leak - https://x.com/alex_avoigt/status/1873315392082334150 https://www.motor1.com/news/745636/vw-group-location-data-exposed/

I've been on external rads since I went to Threadripper with my 2970WX.  It's really the only option that makes sense when you're trying to cool 3-4 GPUs and a 400W+ CPU.  The huge MORA IV 600 should keep up and be quieter than my current 5x 360 rad setup. 

I have my external on the floor  under the end of my desk.  With hardwood floors dust isn't a huge problem for me, and it's easier to clean then a bunch of rads mounted inside a case.  It only takes a few minutes to disconnect the QDCs, and take it outside to blow off the dust.  

Moving on from my current 5x 360 radiator setup.

@pio and @LabRat best of luck on carrying the torch.

I've been busy with other things over the last year, but I'm planning on being a bit more active moving forward.

Not sure if I'll make a thread, but heatsinks are prepped and installed for watercooling the memory on  my new workstation/daily rig. 

Nothing spectacular on the RAM yet, due to the subpar Micron IC's and the temp issues I was running into.  Current RAM clocks below.  Overall speed/throughput is not bad so far, considering I only spent $700 for 192GB.  Just working on tuning primary timings down from the JEDEC 6000 I started at as a baseline.  Running at 6200mclk/2067fclk, which is where I hope to stay, after I get all the primaries and secondaries tuned down to their fastest stable timings.   CMD rate is at 1T, need to tweak the script a bit more to parse out the correct CMD rate. 

A few pics on the bench, which is in a state of disarray.  Too many projects and too little time.
Currently everything on the bench is on air, so I won't really be able to dial everything in to max clocks until it goes under water.  Running CPU at board/platform max PBO+CO for testing, but ultimately it will be running at a static OC.  PBO+CO overclock would leave some performance on the table. due to the artificial max boost limit.  CPU is always at >50% load, so a static OC will give the best overall performance.

F77 #2 incoming.  After using this board daily for the last 6+ weeks, I pulled the trigger on another one for the office.  

2 hours ago, ENTERPRISE said:

Reopened - Quote button resolved.

Confirmed fixed.  Thanks E

@J7SC_Orion

Quote button seems to be broken, but I just picked up one of the best PSUs ever built for US $215.  Super Flower must be clearing out new old stock.  I got the PSU yesterday, and it is a legit brand new PSU. I think only the EVGA variety of this was originally available in the states. 

Super Flower Leadex Titanium 1600W. https://www.amazon.com/Titanium-Fanless-Modular-Bearing-SF-1600F14HT/dp/B00SKAV0UQ?th=1

1 hour ago, Supercrumpet said:

 

Looks good, what caps? Great shade of orange. I can update the sheet with that info and pic.

Thanks, the orange is a great shade.  It actually looks better in person, than the pic I took.

The blank blacks are PBT from Model F Labs, and the oranges are two piece PBT from Unicomp.

I have a modified HHKB layout on the f77, so backspace is directly above the enter key, and the "PANIC" key is escape with backslash to the left of escape.

F77 is now complete.  I decided to go with the compact case instead of the original style case.  Two big QOL changes from my last few daily drivers are USB instead of PS/2 and the fully programmable firmware.  Those two things make it super simple to swap the board over to different systems.

Thanks for the link.  Looks like ASRock knocked it out of the park again.

Mother nature intervened over the weekend with a fair bit of snow, and I was without power (except for the essentials on the generator) for a few days.  Hoping to get the new system up and running over the next couple of days. 

53 minutes ago, J7SC_Orion said:

 

...looking forward to your R-DDR5 4-channel  results....Asus Sage mobo ? R-DIMM rated speed ? I have seen a few folks at another forum with 7960X and 7980X on the Asus mobo w/overclocking, including R-DDR5 to 7200. I am on the fence for a mew work-play system re. 79xx TR, or wait for the 99xx TR (Zen5 cores). This time, the socket should remain the same, so they say...

Motherboard is an ASRock TRX50 WS. ASUS Threadripper X399 and sTRX40 boards were not good, with missing features, bad RAM support, poor ECC support, and lots of random bugs.  Meanwhile, my 3 ASRock boards have been excellent, and that includes top notch support from ASRock.  I haven't followed along on the TRX50 Sage, but the WRX90 Sage looks to be a bit of a dumpster fire.

RAM is DDR5-5600 that I'll be pushing as high as it can reliably go.

The per core performance upgrade from my 3960x is pretty huge. Even if it only lasts a single generation, I'd be pissed at getting burnt again, but I'd still be sitting pretty good for the next few years.

7960x is going on the bench this weekend to get it dialed in and prepped to swap into my daily system. 

Looks like there is a fair bit of info in this thread regarding DDR5 tuning. This will be the first AMD DDR5 system that I've tuned, so we'll see how it goes with 192GB of DDR5 RDIMMs.

2 hours ago, Avacado said:

I know that running season specific tires will always be better than all seasons, but I am not taking the time or energy required to change them. I'll take the performance hit. 

This is especially true, with how good all seasons have gotten over the last 5-10 years. Additionally, you save some significant change, since typical all season treadware is at least double any good summer tire.

I probably wouldn't drive on the Contis in temps much below freezing, but they aren't total hockey pucks at 35-45°F.

I had a set of garbage 18" cast wheels that I was running in the winter, but this year I was finally able to find a set of 17" steelies that clear the Brembos with 1/4" spacers. Much nicer driving on the 17s with a bit more sidewall.  Even better than the softer ride, is the fact that I don't have to constantly pull over to clear the snow and ice out of the wheels, to get rid of the death wobble at speeds over 45 mph.

8 hours ago, CoolGTX said:

Continental Extreme Contact Sport, are great tires for warm weather only grip

275/35 ZR20 102V on my Roush = skid pad over 1G with a car that is over 4000 lbs

 

Continental ExtremeContact Sport vs DWS 06 PLUS - Top Tire Review

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In depth analysis of Continental ExtremeContact Sport vs DWS 06 PLUS with wet, dry, noise/comfort, wear, snow & price evaluated.

 

I ran a few sets of Pilot Sport 4S' from when they were released until last summer. I switched over to the Extreme Contact Sport 02 last summer, and I was pretty happy with them.  Steering feel is a little dead at center, and can feel like a bit of understeer at initial turn in, but after that they are pretty responsive.  I'll be running them again this year, as soon as I can swap out of my snow tires. Usually the summers can go on the first or second week of May. I'll probably be switching back to the 4S's next year because they run better in colder temperatures. Temps at my house frequently drop to at or below freezing all the way into late June, and start up again in mid-late August.

@avacado I think you'll be pretty happy with the DWS's. I know a few people that have them, and if I was going to run no seasons they would probably be at the top of my list.