Fluxmaven

Considering I'd have no clue what I'm doing, I'd just blow my stuff up and he'd easily beat me.

I'd say just swap switches but I've desoldered exactly one full keyboard without a desolder station (just used wick and a solder sucker). That experience took years off my life and is why I only want to buy hot swap PCBs now.

I just remembered this was happening this weekend. I typically hook my travel PC up in my cube and fold with free power from the office on that machine We worked late every day this week so I took today off and forgot to leave it on. Oh well I'll just be down a 1080ti

Thick clicks for the win.

Whatever we decide, I'll just go hang out with those USA Overclocking guys and "borrow" some of their truckload of Ln2 to beat y'all

I was hoping for a 5900X3D but I don't see it happening. I went from a 3900X to a 5900x. I got both around their release times. So it's been a while now but I remember it being a noticeable uplift at the time. I was on lower resolution back then though. Now that I game at 4K it would be hard to tell.

I feel the same way. I will still try to make the December meet since I'm so close (last I checked they picked a venue even closer to me ) but I feel really out of place in their discord.

Yes

I live about an Hour and a half from Unicomp... Next time I'm down in Lexingon I'd like to swing by and see if they would give me a quick tour.

I need to do an inventory of all the different switches I have at my disposal with a quick note on my thoughts of them. My preference is definitely heavy switches. I have both BOX Jade and Navy and love them both but prefer the Navy. For a quieter option I like BOX Royal. Still enjoy buckling springs. Not really a fan of any of the common Cherry switches anymore. A lot of the clone switches are IMO better and cheaper.

Every time Performance PCs puts random cool stuff on their eBay store I throw out random low offers and they accept it... I kinda wish they wouldn't because I don't need more watercooling gear I also just bought a set of Klipsch R-41SA Atmos speakers... I haven't even upgraded my receiver to one with Atmos yet

I have commitment issues Really I just need to slip a GPU I'm not using into a rig that stays on all the time. I don't leave my watercooled rigs on 24/7 (which is most of my rigs). When I get around to redoing my Plex server, I'll try and get a linux VM setup with PCIe passthrough so I can run a card all the time. That aside, I'll be getting more points up regardless now that it's getting cooler. I'll shut the vents to the office and heat this room with folding power

That's weird I'd hit them up for a warranty replacement. I've had mine since they first came out because I wanted a cheap hot swap board to test switches. Never had an issue with it and it's been passed around as my loaner board to get friends into mechs for years now. Don't have any recommendations for off the shelf boards. I mostly use custom smaller boards with separate wrist rests.

Hi, good to see you as well. Your custom GMMK turned out really nice. Makes me want to dig mine out and mod it lol I've tried an actual HHKB and didn't like it because it was too light. I also have mixed feelings on the HHKB layout. My Rama board uses that layout and Its fine when I mostly use that setup but jumping between builds is weird since the layout is fairly different. Also Topre is nice but with all the different boutique switches these days it's easy to get an equally nice tactical feel for way less. I still want to try bke heavy domes in my Realforce but I'm more likely to build another custom board

a few years back I had surgery that required a catheter. I swear they found the burliest male nurse they could find going into it. When it was time to yank it out they brought out the hottest chick in the hospital. Happy endings aside, I hope everything goes smoothly for Jan

Looking good! Love a big external rad I like to clean rads with Mayhems Blitz kits. At the very least flush it out. Fill with hot water, cap off the ports and shake the everliving hell out of it. Flush again. Repeat till nothing comes out. You can also add a cheap car fuel filter just after the rad and run it for a while then remove before final assembly.

Yay now I can turn some of these rigs off. Hopefully by next time it will be cold outside so I can just open a window instead of running the AC which I was trying to avoid.

Just noticed I hit half a billi. Granted half of that is from folding under OCN or anon. When I hit the billion I'll frame it and hang it up at work just to confuse people.

RTX 2080, GTX 1080ti, 1070. I have also been running my 3090 off and on... We were kinda stupid and put the two spiciest rigs in the same room. So with my roommates dual 3090s rendering and mine folding the office gets unbearably hot.

Something's wrong if I'm at the top of the list. Where are all of our heavy hitters this month?

It's mentally taxing, expensive, and consumes a ton of time... but it's also kinda fun, so I'll see you in the Country Cup Thanks for putting up prizes. I wasn't expecting to win anything but it's definitely appreciated (and will go right back into acquiring more hardware)

Getting a couple rigs fired up now! It's been nice and cold all week until today... Hoping it cools off again so I can open the windows like I was planning.

The NVMe is just for the OS, all the NAS storage is spinning rust. Copying data to the NAS from PCs with 2.5G NIC is around 285MB/s. From 1G NIC its around 113MB/s. I'd be curious what these spinny boiz would do over 10 gig to remove the network bottleneck. I doubt writes would get much faster though.

I'm usually lazy and just follow up a wash with some Meguiar's Quik Wax. I have several others in the shelf of detailing stuff that are better like Griot's garage but I don't always want to take the time to do a paste wax. I haven't really dove into all the products out there like sealers and ceramics and whatnot. The mainstays in my arsenal are mostly just soaps and waxes