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Yes, in my Coursera Graphics design course we were taught in the first week to iterate, iterate, iterate. There are some things Snakecharmed pointed out that I can fix, and some that I can't. To fix the aliased circle, I could do a outer glow filter in white but with a high opacity so it's a more like a white line with a 2px blur on the outside of it. I can look at some other things, but I can guarantee there's not much I can do about the EHW logo letters not being rectangular. To wrap an image around a circle without some distortion is hard. I couldn't figure out how to do it in GIMP, and as stated used a website to do a 180 degree bend. I could probably go less on the bend (like 160-170 degrees) for both and put some stars in between, too. Also, in December 2022 when I first wanted to do graphic design for the site and started this thread, all we had was "Extremehw" for the forum. I pointed out putting just that on merchandise would not be great and it needed .net on the end. He said the original logo designers had disappeared and fallen off the face of the net. So for a whole month I went back and forth with him using a similar font in Linux and manually adjusting it til it mostly matched the rest. In GIMP. In about 3 1/2 weeks we settled on one he was satisfied with. The point of the above paragraph is that I don't have the original font used, so I have to use my closest match one for the "Pushing it to the Limit" in this image. It had to be stretched a little bit vertically to match the height of the Extremehw logo. We'll see if E likes it at since he just PMed me. If he does, I will fix what I can and itetate again.

See my edit I just made, please. And don't think I don't appreciate the feedback, I'm just not a perfectionist nor a professional. I'm not really sure what I could do to fix the issues you pointed out, but I don't think they make it garbage and/or unusable either.

I don't even know how to respond to that other than saying I disagree with most of it. I worked hard on this. Sorry you don't like it. Let me just add that this is a relatively small internet forum, not a large corporation. Things don't need to be perfect. I do this because I enjoy it. I don't think bending the logo around a circle is such a big deal, I just thought it was a neat idea to try. Whether or not other people like it remains to be seen. If it's really that bad then I suppose I'll give up doing graphics for the site or this thread.

I had an idea in my head for about a week now, a variation of text around the circle logo, but using the site's logo. I knew how to wrap text around a circle in GIMP, but the transform tools don't really allow you to properly wrap an image around a circle. Then thankfully I found this site. Making my idea possible. Hope you guys all like it, and would love to hear @ENTERPRISEs opinion. Attached is a zip with all the assets, and the transparent one used for printing is: round-ehw-logo.png ex-round-ehw-logo.zip

So, here's an update. Bitching maybe but I thought @speed_demonmight be interested, and you should do an update on your skeletal problems and ankolosing spondilitis if you're up for it. It really helps to have the support of you guys here. Saw my physical therapist today for the first time since around May 25th because they couldn't get me scheduled for that period, so I was supposed to do 6 more weeks going to the end of July. I told them the rest period didn't help, and I've been having moderate to severe pain (5-7) in both hips almost every day for this period from May 25th to June 18th. She took angle and strength measurements to send to my hip surgeon, and told me not to come back for PT because it always just makes my pain worse. She said the doctor needs to do something else but what that is, I don't know. I realize the pain is because I haven't healed all the way yet on both hips, so maybe in a year my pain will be gone? I had the left hip done Sept 8th and the right hip done April 4th. I heal more slowly because of my smoking. The good news is, my PCP switched me off 50mg Tramadol twice daily as it wasn't helping at all. We asked, and he decided to give me Tylenol #4 (60mg codeine, 300 tylenol) instead which I thought was probably not possible (I was on Tylenol #3 in the past which is 30/300). I am extremely happy that I will have something stronger for pain control, but I really don't want to be doped up all the time anymore- unfortunately, I don't have much choice. The other option discussed was increasing my Gabapentin, a nerve pain medication (I get 1200mg daily but at one point in the past was on 3000mg daily, the maximum dose). The doctor did warn me that being on opioids and benzos for long periods of time affects the brain and cognitive functioning. I also have chronic low sodium and theres some small chance that the low sodium could cause me to collapse and go into a coma. Low sodium also affects mental functioning, not to mention the zyprexa and seroquel I take to sleep. I'm pretty concerned about this, but if I'm in this much pain in my hips I don't have much choice but to take the meds, or suffer greatly. Anyway, sorry for the wall of text but that's my update and where I am now. PC building, I might jump on the 9900x when it comes out and I can probably install it myself. If you read all this, god bless.

Well, I'm the one guilty of 1) buying a high end board and 2) caring about aesthetics and matching RGB (though I generally just set it to a cyan/magenta cycle through the 7 RGB fans and 4 light strips). If you look at my build Ai Crystal and its album. I personally think RGB is cool and it's great that we have low cost RGB fans and light strips because I remember in like 2015 a full RGB Corsair K70 keyboard was like $250 compared to $130 for a solid color one. Times have advanced and now RGB LEDs are cheap and readily available. I think that's a good thing. Regarding cheaper motherboards vs high end ones, I bought a high end CPU so I also bought a board with two 8-pin EPS connectors and something like 20+4(if I recall correctly) phase digital VRM. But I'm a power user and participate in hwbot, and also need something stable. For Joe (lol) Average Gamer playing at say 1440p it makes perfect sense to buy a cheaper board and use the savings for a better GPU. It can still be a flashy, well cable managed tempered glass side panel and RGB fan/light strips rig too. My RGB fans in my build are like $30 for a three pack including a controller box and remote (Anidees AI-AUREOLA v2). My Phanteks RGB 5050 light strips are $20 for 2. So yes there is some cost for the bling, and depending on budget that might be doable or worth it for the builder, or you can save $50 to put towards better memory or something. You are absolutely right though; I'm pushing my chip and memory to its limit, so I kind of need the high end VRM. The average gamer doesn't need my board. Get a $150 one instead of mine ($450). I don't think mine has USB4 but it does support PCIE Gen 5 and I have a Gen 5 NVME in my system currently. High end boards are also better for memory overclocking, which I've done a lot of.

EHW desk mat, I love it.

This is crazy if it's real. I'd get in on it but I'm in the US and probably can't.

Looks great on that red. Nice work.

I can try my best to imitate jans design and remake it the same way but transparent. I have the font used. I can make it 3000x5000 and as a transparent png for Printly. It would be a good learning experience for me, bending text around a circle is not easy in GIMP. Otherwise jan would need to upload the design, again fully transparent in a png and a psd. That's up to him.

Agreed. He'd most likely need to scale it up to like 3000x3000 px at 300ppi on a transparent background for it to be usable on a shirt. At least, for the shirts I designed they needed to be very high res and transparent (the areas around his letters would all need to be on a transparent background.) This makes sure that they aren't printing black on the shirt at all which ends up looking dark gray = it ends up looking like crap. The high res is what most printers need that Enterprise is using. I would not be surprised if iamjanco doesn't want it used on a shirt, cup or hat though. I could be wrong, but he didn't seem too keen on having designs used other than to demonstrate. I don't want to and am not speaking for him though.

Alright, noted. Yours looks great btw.

2nd try.

It should be noted also that I believe raising the fclk helps improve L3 Cache speed and latency. It's a small gain, but it's there.

I had an idea in mind for a shirt. I have the original in VERY large format that should have crisp text. I wanted "In PC hardware we trust" to be going from left to right and readable but couldn't figure out how. I could keep trying though. Here it is: EDIT: I could also change the font or put an outline around it if anyone likes this idea.

What the hell is a "service fee"?

Yeah they are a terrible company with horrible business practices.

Yeah, I haven't read much into it but agree with the sign of the times thing. I guess their work culture is toxic, but that is not something I knew when I bought my cooler, and honestly doesn't matter to me because this thing performs so well. Like I said, it will really suck if they aren't around to make more great AIOs for newer platforms. I did have an Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360mm and used it on my C8H/5900x build but unfortunately, the vrm heatsinks on my new Asus Strix x670e are too tall so the Arctic wouldn't fit (38mm radiator and it wouldn't clear the heatsinks). The EK Nucleus is a 22mm rad not counting fans so it fits. The problem with having a midtower.

This is sad. I have the EK Nucleus AIO black version, 360mm in my rig using Prolimatech PK-3 Nano and love it. In the EHW review, it was actually 1c better than a custom loop. If they will not be around and continue making such awesome AIOs, that really sucks.

Not surprised. Thankfully, I am okay with Win11 and can make it basically like 10 or even 95 with the desktop metaphor and desktop icons. I have a few utilities I use to disable telemetry and Copilot. (WinAeroTweaker) So I'm familiar with it now. Not in the market for a new laptop anyway given that our current one almost never gets used.

I'm sort of happy that they got hacked. They're a terrible company and charge too much money, yet rip the artists off. They deserved this.

Requirements for an X3D chip to work correctly with the V-Cache in games: 1. CPPC preferred cores set to "Auto" in bios. 2. AMD chipset drivers installed with the 3D V-Cache Optimizer Services installed. 3. Use the Balanced power plan in Windows. After installing the chipset drivers it changes the Balanced power plan. 4. Xbox Game Bar enabled (you don't have to use it in games) I own a 7900X3D because I had a 3900x and a 5900x and didn't want to lose cores going to the 7800X3D, but also couldn't afford the 7950X3D. My advice: return the 7900X3D. Mine has a problem where in high performance power plan it won't boost past 5150MHz on the 2nd CCD. (It won't hit 5650 anymore under load). It did when I first got it, then stopped working after a month, a bios update fixed it but only for a month, and it has not worked properly since last April. You're supposed to be able to use Balanced power plan which runs games on the 1st CCD, then switch to high performance power plan for games or benchmarks that require high clock speed. So best of both worlds. Doesn't work for me. I would do what other people are saying, especially whoever mentioned getting the 5700X3D and using the savings to get a better GPU.

Firefox with Ublock Origin, Ghostery, NoScript, Privacy Badger, YouTube High Definition, HTTPS everywhere, and CanvasBlocker. On Linux. Also went to about:config and searched Media Peer and there's a setting called MediaPeerConnection and you need to disable it. Otherwise you can possibly be tracked on a VPN. I get warned sometimes about cross-site scripting or data leaks between pages. I think it's a pretty hardened browser. I use the same setup on my phone as well.

Off topic but I hope you feel better bud. Taking it day by day is all I can do too, and takes a lot of learning and proper self care. Regarding the 19% improvement: somewhat impressive but I think its not really worth the upgrade for me, if it were on TSMCs 3nm node I would be more interested.