Fluxmaven

I still have my Sega Genesis, one of my modded PSP's, Xbox 360, And my liquid cooled PS4. In the past I Also had an NES, Gameboy Advanced, PS2, and PS3. I always wanted a PC more than consoles, but all my friends had consoles so I didn't seriously start getting into PCs until high school when I started working and could afford to start building them.

Sorry I don't have any recommendations. I just have an old Genovation numpad for when I need one. Haven't touched it since I moved from IT. I can research a few options when I get home in a couple days if you haven't found anything by then.

You're good. It's a gift for my sister so it's not gonna be stealing my style once I give it to her. I wonder what airport security though when they scanned it lol.

Happy holidays and safe travels to anyone that will be doing so.

As much as I would love to see them drop a flagship competitor I knew that wouldn't happen for a while. The midrange is where we really need some more competition. As more platforms like Twitch adopt AV1, the Arc cards should be a great option for the majority of people that just want to game and stream on a single screen. With a name like Battlemage, somebody better come out with a pink anime inspired card that's EHW gamer girl™ certified.

I was wondering if this would get extended. Glad it did since I'm planning on a few more upgrades in the near future.

That's exactly what I'm doing. Closed all of the HVAC vents on the 2nd floor where the office is and leave the door open. It's a balmy 26C in the office but the rest of this floor is comfortable. I need to setup a box fan to blow some of the heat down the hallway

I got confused and didn't think this started until today for some reason... Space heater #1 fired up. Others will be online shortly

Yes, that's the best part NovelKeys is where I would go for BOX switches. They sell them in boxes of 36 so two boxes is enough to cover the board and have a couple spares. The keyset I got doesn't really fit well since it uses nonstandard shift sizes 2.25u/1u as well as 1u keys for everything right of the spacebar. I'd just look around on Amazon to find something that's geared towards 65% boards. EPOMAKER (the ones who make the Mini Cat board, have several different keysets that would all have the correct sizes for that board.

I don't know the activation force of pinks off the top of my head but it's less than Jades and Navies. I like Navies the best of those three. I buy keyboard stuff from all over. Amazon with prime is typically the fastest. The keyboard sites are usually pretty quick. Novelkeys, 1up, thekey.company, cannonkeys, kono, etc. Drop (used to be massdrop) in stock stuff is quick but most stuff on there are group buys that wont ship for a long time. Sites in China can be surprisingly fast or take months. KBDfans is nice to navigate. Aliexpress is kind of a clusterfuck but you can get good deals if you don't mind waiting. I used to browse /r/mechmarket all the time, but its hard to find good deals there. Most posts are people flipping limited group buy stuff for a ton of money.

The Mini Cat before switches or keycaps was $79.49 after tax from Amazon. I'm not a fan of the speed silvers. They are a light weigh linear with a short activation distance. I think I got a bunch of them through a price mistake. They have been sitting on my shelf for a while and I'm glad to be rid of them. AFAIK Kailh Rose are linear switches. Kailh BOX Pink are clicky switches. I have some of those. I actually used one for the ESC key on the Mini Cat. My sister lives in Florida so I'll be enjoying the warm weather there when I give her the board.

Portico75 showed up today. The board itself is awesome for the money. Without extras it was actually cheaper than the Mini Cat board. I picked it up with a bag of SP Star Magic Girl tactile switches, Equals V3 tangerine stabilizers, and a purple coiled cable for just over $100 shipped. Granted that was during their 12 days of Christmas sale. It's marketed towards beginners as being something ready to just drop switches into and go. Mine did have a couple screws that were loose in the bag and others that were about to fall out. I just tightened everything up and moved on. I started popping in the Magical girl switches but decided to try out a linear switch for the first time in a long while. I really like heavy tactile and/or clicky switches and have been pretty anti-linear for years. There are lots of options that weren't around years ago so I picked up some Glorious Lynx to try out and filled out the rest of the board with those. Thankfully it's a hot swappable board so I can take them off easily if I hate them It's easy to program with VIA and I adjusted the keymap a bit to my taste. Not sure which keyset I'll run on it yet. I do have an Aliexpress DSA Astrolokeys knockoff set on the way or I might dig out my EnjoyPBT Sushi keyset.

It's a shame PS5 doesn't support HMB. On most systems modern enough to fully support PCI Gen4, the lack of DRAM isn't really noticeable in real world usage since the drive has HMB. Both the MP600 GS and the WD SN770 are DRAM-less drives and they perform similarly well in a PC but both would be bad in a PS5. After the review I swapped the SN770 for an SK Hynix P41 Platinum which is one of the fastest drives on the market. For just farting around the OS and gaming, there isn't any noticeable difference in performance. I did test the drives on Ryzen 7700x system and they were slightly faster than on the Intel setup. I wanted the review to be easily digestible and to not overload people with information. However if people want to see specific benchmarks or applications tested, or comparisons with different hardware I'm always willing to run them again.

Someday I'd like to create a full inventory of all my PC and watercooling stuff. As well as some more in depth flow charts just to be able to easily visualize what all I have going on. The 2080 has been doing alright. I preordered a new monitor and it won't be able to run the new refresh rate. Still 1440p but 280hz instead of the 165hz it's pushing now. I already have a waterblock for a reference 6900xt so that's why I'm going for that. When I first setup my sim rig, I was using a 5600x and crossfire 7970 GHz cards. Since Assetto Corsa supports Crossfire, it actually ran great. Forza was unplayable though. The 2080 will be a big step up for the sim rig. Also the 11900K and B-die at 4200cl16 should help too lol. Some people might dog on your moms setup for being FX, but I picked up a 9590 and Crosshair V Formula Z for the last HWBOT team cup and I was impressed with how well the system ran. It's actually the first FX setup I've owned but it's one of my favorite combos now.

Pretty much all of my builds are smaller form factor. I keep a separate mechanical numpad for times when I need that. At the same time I ordered the Mini Cat 64 I ordered a Portico75. So I'll post that when it shows up and I put it together. It was around the same price, but should be a bit nicer board. It was the practical option until I saw the other one on Amazon.

The 2080 will be pushing 2560x1440 while it's in my room, then 3840x1080 when it moves to my racing sim. I do have the Forza games, but I mostly play Assetto Corsa on the sim which runs fine on lesser hardware. Got several waterblocks in the mail today. The new 2080 block, a Heatkiller IV CPU block, and a vintage XSPC Delta CPU block that I found BNIB on ebay. Also not pictured a Thermochill TA120.4 radiator. I also whipped up a bit of an outline for the current state of my builds and my intended plans for them

No leotard, but I do have leopard print swim trunks and I'll be hand delivering the new keyboard to her in Florida... So we can probably get a photoshoot lined up

So when I built my little sister a PC I let her take my Anne Pro (60%). She said she likes it but wished it had a few more buttons like arrows. Say less fam Epomaker Mini Cat 64 Kailh speed silver switches YMDK plum blossom keycap set The keycap set doesn't accommodate for nonstandard layouts like 1u shift.. So it's not perfect but I didn't want to blow more on a custom keycap set than the whole board cost. Cuteness turned up to 11 Has arrow keys Gets rid of switches I'll never use

It's my worst addiction... I just slapped a big ole honkin Thermalright air cooler on a 12700k for a build I'm doing for my roommate. After seeing how cool and quiet it was I really asked myself why the hell do I watercool everything.

Well you will get to see the system watercooled with the side panel on. However, I doubt the 6900xt will ever live in this case. I'm going to move the 2080 over and watercool the system with that. When I get a 6900xt, I'll also get another motherboard and move it all back into the D-Frame Mini. Even though that's an ITX case it supports full ATX power supplies. Since it's been a couple years since the 2080 has been apart, I picked up a new Heatkiller block to replace the Barrow block that's on it now. Should be here tomorrow.

I just used the Shizuku version out of habit. After I had the draft up I realized that I might get yelled at for it since it's not exactly in line with the theme of the site. I guess since I'm the token "gamer girl" I get the kawaii pass I used the pricing that was provided in the review guide but noticed that the 2TB is listed now on their site for $164.99 which is closer to where it should be.

I'm pretty happy with where the 7900xtx is sitting right now. Considering this is their first stab at the chiplet GPU and this early on its already beating the 4080. I think it will be a monster once the drivers mature a bit. My roommate is going to get one for his VR sim racing build. So I'll be sure to play with it on the test bench since I'll probably end up building the PC anyway. We do have a Microcenter near us, but won't be camping out trying to get one at launch.