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Yeah, I need to get a IBM Model M and PS/2 to USB adapter. Been wanting one for years. Last I checked they were like $90 on eBay, but that was years ago. Maybe I'll ask for one and the adapter for my birthday in July. I've been really spoiled with PC parts for my rig all year. And we just finished getting all our Xmas gifts for everyone too so, now is not the time.
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Yeah, point taken I suppose. The Redragon boards are pretty damn good for $20 all things considered. Check out the brand YUNZII on Amazon. It's the brand of keyboard I'm getting and modding to have Kailh Box Pale Blue switches and Sanrio Cinnamaroll keycaps for my wife. They make hot swappable boards, but they make cheaper ones too. The numpad I got from them for her last year was only like $20, swappable and came with decently cute keycaps for her - it has held up well. Edit: just found out that YUNZII's prices are a lot cheaper if you're a Prime member. We got the keyboard for $98 but if you're not a Prime member it's $135.
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Disagree. Sorry. Had a Redragon TKL board at one point, and it had Outemu blues, the metal clang and very loud click of the switches was pretty terrible and it wasn't worth modding. My brother still has one and those $20-40 keyboards with them are great for the price, but you really do get what you pay for. $40 is what I spent on November's foldathon prize of a Rosewill K85 with Kailh clone blues, and some blue O-Rings. That board is often on sale and a great buy, but needs o-rings to keep the keycaps from bottoming out and eliminate the metal clang. That's the keyboard Mom uses on her rig for gaming. Previously she had a Redragon TKL with Outemu blues in it, it was just horrific, she really appreciated the upgrade.
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In bigred
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EXTREMEHW Foldathon November 24-26 UTC (3 DAYS!)
neurotix replied to firedfly's topic in Folding@Home
Make sure you pm Fluxmaven, not damric. -
Sir B, this one is very high quality and has Gateron Browns. I have a Keychron K8 Pro Aluminum Tenkeyless. The thing is packed with more than one layer of sound dampening foam and probably doesn't need o-rings on the keycaps. Amazon.com: Keychron K10 Full Size 104 Keys Bluetooth Wireless/USB Wired Mechanical Gaming Keyboard for Mac with Gateron G Pro Brown Switch/RGB Backlight/Multitasking Computer Keyboard for Windows, Aluminum Frame : Tools & Home Improvement WWW.AMAZON.COM Buy Keychron K10 Full Size 104 Keys Bluetooth Wireless/USB Wired Mechanical Gaming Keyboard for Mac... Also if you are looking for cheaper the Keychron TKLs and other layouts are pretty cheap on Amazon right now and come with Gateron Browns. They're $60-80 atm.
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Jesus at the Gateron Greens and the actuation force. That's crazy. My GMMK has Kailh Box Jades in it permanently, but it came with Gateron Browns and I'd agree on the points you made about them. They feel really smooth but need a tighter spring. They are still better than MX Browns. Getting Gat Browns vs MX Browns really depends on whether Sir B wants a prebuilt board or a custom one. There are plenty of prebuilt boards on Amazon that are cheap Chinese ones with Gateron Browns, but the quality of them is lowish and they will probably need o-rings or you get a metal clang when you bottom out the switch. If he gets a more expensive brand name keyboard it will probably have MX Browns and be a higher quality board.
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Gateron Browns are really good too and some people say they are better than Cherry MX Browns. My custom GMMK came with them and they're pretty nice. The reason I like clicky or tactile switches is you can actually feel when the switch actuates, with Browns you feel the tactile bump and then don't have to press the keycap all the way down to register an input. The keycap won't bottom out. With tactile, you get it by feel. With clicky switches you get it by feel and by sound. With linears it's like hard to tell when the switch actuates because there's no feedback. On my favorite board, the modded E-element Z-88 with Kailh Box White, the actuation force is only 35g so I can type with a light touch and not push the keys all the way, which speeds me up a bit. These are my reasons for liking clicky switches, the feedback from the bump via touch and the click being audio feedback. Dunno if others here agree or not but that's my reason.
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EXTREMEHW Foldathon November 24-26 UTC (3 DAYS!)
neurotix replied to firedfly's topic in Folding@Home
I have one on my desk from last year, they are really super nice quality. -
@Fluxmavenhave you or anyone else ever used this site before? Are they reputable? We already ordered 110 pc Box Pale Blue for $63, I hope the wait time isn't long or they aren't counterfeit or something. Kailh BOX Heavy Pale Blue Mechanical Keyboard Switch WWW.SWITCHCAPTAIN.COM Kaihl BOX Heavy Pale Blue clicky switch have a heavy spring, are IP56 waterproof, and are MX compatible.
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EXTREMEHW Foldathon November 24-26 UTC (3 DAYS!)
neurotix replied to firedfly's topic in Folding@Home
Thanks @firedfly@damric for another great Foldathon! Was glad to be able to offer a prize, and the winner is quite excited about it and should have it tomorrow! -
We went with Box Pale Blue for the Cinnamaroll themed build I'm doing soon that will mostly be used by my wife. Also, so many introduction guides to the hobby say "MX Reds are the best for gaming" and then soooo many people just stick to red switches afterwards because of that. It's the industries fault, when they could be recommending something else with a low travel distance and low actuation force instead.
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EXTREMEHW Foldathon November 24-26 UTC (3 DAYS!)
neurotix replied to firedfly's topic in Folding@Home
No idea what to do with mine since I already have one on my desk, but plz send another dope anime girl sticker on the back of the envelope -
Please do!
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Let's not let this thread die! @Slaughtahouse didn't you post pics of a new fancy coffee machine and grinder in the Post your Last Purchase thread a while back? As for me, right now I'm drinking Harney and Sons sencha tea (Japanese style green tea). It's not as good as Saemidori Sencha that I used to get, but it's close and you can get twice the amount for half the price. I brew it in a French press which gives me two roughly 10oz cups. Tea is slightly bitter and very umami. I really like Harney and Sons. Great prices on their tea. Their sachets are good if you don't do looseleaf. The rest of my tea is mostly Rishi or Cameron's.
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Either of you know if Gateron yellow pro switches are tactile or linear? When I did the Mini Cat 64 I built last year I tried them and thought they were nice despite not being clicky. They seemed like tactile (like browns) but I want to confirm that. EDIT: nvm. Looked it up. Gat Yellows are 50g linear. No thanks.
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EXTREMEHW Foldathon November 24-26 UTC (3 DAYS!)
neurotix replied to firedfly's topic in Folding@Home
Alright, I managed to draw the winner now actually. Winner of the Rosewill K85 mechanical keyboard + O-Rings + keycap puller is CptAsian aka @Supercrumpet Please let me know if you live in the US (I will only ship to the US) and send me your shipping address ASAP in a pm and we'll go out and ship it tonight when my fiancee is done with work. Thanks! -
EXTREMEHW Foldathon November 24-26 UTC (3 DAYS!)
neurotix replied to firedfly's topic in Folding@Home
Have a Drs appointment today. Will probably draw a winner for the keyboard afterwards, when I get home and get settled in. -
Ended up picking up that YUNZII board because we are doing a Cinnamaroll themed keyboard with Cinnamaroll keycaps. Also a pink plastic dust cover for it. My fiancee's Macaron themed numpad I built for her last year is also YUNZII and is good quality and has lasted. It was a Cyber Monday deal and we saved around $40 on the YUNZII blue board + dust cover. My fiancee will be the primary user so we'll figure out what switches she wants. I might use thd board itself stock for a while before swapping switches and doing O-Rings and keycaps. It comes with Gateron Pro Yellow switches which I think are tactile? They were the stock switches in the Mini Cat 64 I built for her last year and I tried them out and actually thought they felt pretty good, but we both prefer clicky switches so I'll let her decide what switches she wants in it (We have boards with box pink, box white, box jade and box navy so she's going to have to choose from those.)
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So that board should work with Box switches? Also thanks for the diagram and explanation.
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Hey @Fluxmaven@Supercrumpet Is this keyboard compatible with Kailh Box switches? It says 3 pin or 5 pin but Kailh or Gaterons have 2 pins... Amazon.com: YUNZII Keynovo IF98 98 Key 96% 1800 Hot Swappable Gasket Mechanical Gaming Keyboard with Double Shot PBT Keycaps, RGB Backlight for Mac & Win(Gateron G Pro Yellow, Blue) : Video Games WWW.AMAZON.COM Amazon.com: YUNZII Keynovo IF98 98 Key 96% 1800 Hot Swappable Gasket Mechanical Gaming Keyboard with... Looking at the photos with the switch slot exposed, it looks like there's a big hole on the right bottom of it... I want to do a blue themed keyboard but don't want to spend like $175 on a Keychron K8 Pro that's blue. Last I looked the normal aluminum black Keychron was $120~ which is what I paid for mine, but any of the colored ones were like $175 or more and I have no idea why paint is that expensive.
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Ryzen Master is trash. Agreed 100%. When I dealt with AMD regarding my CPU not boosting, they said both Rivatuner and hwinfo64 showed wrong values (true to some extent) HOWEVER they insisted I use Ryzen Master to get core frequency values. I did, and it was way off on its clock speed values, saying cores were asleep or only at 4500MHz running all-core tests, where hwinfo64 showed the first CCD around 5000MHz and 2nd CCD at 4800MHz, I think I was running Cinebench. And the score reflected the values shown by hwinfo64 whereas Ryzen Master was outright wrong. Rivatuner and hwinfo64 have BOTH been around for like 20 freaking years. They give a good general idea of what your clocks are at and they are used by some of the best professional overclockers. I remember seeing a video on Wizerty and he was running Fire Strike as well as Rivatuner (Afterburner OSD) while benching using LN2. I also have tried "overclocking" using Ryzen Master with my bios at default settings for PBO and CO and it also resulted in a non-bootable system. Trash utility.
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I OC with PBO... @J7SC_Orion is the one to help you with CO overclocking.
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Yes, sorry for all your frustrations with it. I have my own too, being unable to do competitive benchmarking because my 2nd CCD won't boost to 5650 under load in 3dmark anymore. Tried so many things to fix it and nothing works. Have you tried lowering your RAM to 6200MHz yet?
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Did you have AM5 Asus motherboards, or boards for a previous gen? I am NOT happy with Asus at the moment, you guys with Gigabyte boards got AGESA 1.0.8.0 BIOS like 3 weeks ago, it still hasn't released for my board but I tried a test version and it gave terrible performance. Like 72ns latency with my RAM OC and 660 pts single thread in CPU-Z bench as opposed to 62ns latency and 720 single thread in CPU-Z. So I rolled back. I check the bios spreadsheet today and see that the latest (testing) BIOS is actually AGESA 1.1.0.0 and they haven't released that either for my board, but a heads up for you guys that that is coming for you although apparently not for my ROG Strix board. In that link there might be test bios for you guys, maybe @J7SC_Orion would be interested.
