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[EHW Ai]

^now i'm hungry.

 

ordered some more material for custom reservoir brackets:

 

[PCSarge]

the vertical monitor is a new addition, 1080P 75hz IPS wall mounted

the presonus audiobox 96 was also an upgrade, the komplete audio 1 that i started with crapped out on the phantom power circuit

the gator frameworks micrphone arm was also an upgrade from a worn out one i had

Edited June 14, 2022 by PCSarge

[tictoc]

Dual U.2 carrier for my home server.

 

[EHW Ai]

  On 14/06/2022 at 02:39, iamjanco said:

ordered some more material for custom reservoir brackets:

 

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To prep what's above for buffing and polishing (been running low on the coarse grits):

 

Edited June 19, 2022 by iamjanco

[SamsTechStuff]

Looking forward to testing/building in this

[EHW Ai]

More goodies:

 

 

 

Edited June 21, 2022 by iamjanco

[J7SC_Orion]

...'one for the road' 

[The Pook]

wheel with flappy paddles 

 

cheap laptop

 

 

 

[Storm-Chaser]

[pio]

Went thrift shopping today. I just had a feeling that I HAD to check out my favorite thrift store. Low and behold....... My score of the day!  Just tested everything, they all work absolutely beautifully! 

 

[Supercrumpet]

  On 08/07/2022 at 01:58, pioneerisloud said:

Went thrift shopping today. I just had a feeling that I HAD to check out my favorite thrift store. Low and behold....... My score of the day!  Just tested everything, they all work absolutely beautifully! 

 

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Oh wow, that's a throwback. My parents had the pair of speakers that you have sitting directly on the floor set up at our PC when I was a kid.

[pio]

  On 08/07/2022 at 05:08, Supercrumpet said:

 

Oh wow, that's a throwback. My parents had the pair of speakers that you have sitting directly on the floor set up at our PC when I was a kid.

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They really don't sound too terribly bad to be honest.  Yeah, they're missing that "thump" of a subwoofer, but for the range they do happen to put out they sound pretty decent.    I think anybody who had a Dell in the early 2000's (most everybody lmao), had a pair of those speakers or knew somebody who did  lol.

 

I paid:
$12 for the monitor

$12 for the Harmon Kardon speakers

$28 for the ProMedia 2.1's  

Edited July 8, 2022 by pioneerisloud

[Alex]

 

8/8 core, 16GB, 256GB. Not a bad price, also got a $210 free gift card so yeah.

 

[Mr. Fox]

The EK Quantux Velocity² is nice looking. It fills the empty space between the VRM heat sinks and memory. It is made specifically for LGA-1700. I got this from Titan Rig open box for about $40 below retail. It works better than the OptimusPC Foundation block and has a MUCH higher liquid flow rate. The OptimusPC block is a lot more restrictive. Temps are close to the same, slightly better (3-5°C lower core max in Cinebench).

 

The only downsides are the back of mobo installation and fixed position of inlet and outlet.

[Sir Beregond]

Wife talked me into it (she's the best). I got a 48" LG C1 on the way in the next week or two.

[Alex]

  On 14/07/2022 at 22:20, Sir Beregond said:

Wife talked me into it (she's the best). I got a 48" LG C1 on the way in the next week or two.

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Oooh nice, I need to talk mine into it. We're still using a really old tcl best buy black friday special TV that's rather horrible. Did you get it from Costco? I've seen some sales on the older C1 stuff there.

[Sir Beregond]

  On 15/07/2022 at 02:05, Alex said:

Oooh nice, I need to talk mine into it. We're still using a really old tcl best buy black friday special TV that's rather horrible. Did you get it from Costco? I've seen some sales on the older C1 stuff there.

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Nope, just Amazon. They had them for $790. I also don't have a Costco membership.

[J7SC_Orion]

  On 14/07/2022 at 22:20, Sir Beregond said:

Wife talked me into it (she's the best). I got a 48" LG C1 on the way in the next week or two.

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I've been enjoying that model for a while now as a computer screen (and p/t tv) - absolutely love it. When you have set it all up once it arrived, check out >this YT channel  

[J7SC_Orion]

@Sir Beregond ...just a quick addendum: 'Some' C1s actually have the physical evo panel but not the relevant software, apart from the fact that LG frowns on such user mods (still, you can Google it). In any case, the panels are mostly identical but the evo can hit higher max brightness. Then again, I have all my monitors (OLED or otherwise) at less than 50% brightness anyhow given my eye sensitivity to bright lights. You do want to avoid placing the C1 with a direct light-source in front of it, though, be it a window or an electrical light.

[Sir Beregond]

Good to know, thanks @J7SC_Orion!

 

Are there any settings you otherwise recommend?

[J7SC_Orion]

...not really, also because I set up my monitors up differently than most. I would just use some YT HLG HDR / Dolby Vision vids (you can also pause / repeat) for finetuning, along of course with games such as CyberPunk 2077

[pio]

Didn't bother taking pictures, but I found some more thrift store scores if anybody is interested.

Boxed Sims 4

Boxed Sim City

Boxed Meavis Beacon DOS / Win95 games (2 of them forget exactly the titles)

Boxed CIV V

Logitech Dual Action USB controller (old PS1 style I think it was, no full analogue buttons at all)

 

Total haul was about $25 or so.  Only missing 1 disc out of all of those, disc 1 out of the Sim City I think it was, might've been Sims 4.  Either way, its abandonware at this point, so no harm in scoring it off the archives.  I'm just happy to be finding the complete boxes with artwork.   Never intended on collecting boxed games, but oops.....another collection I suppose.

[Sir Beregond]

  On 18/07/2022 at 10:30, pioneerisloud said:

Didn't bother taking pictures, but I found some more thrift store scores if anybody is interested.

Boxed Sims 4

Boxed Sim City

Boxed Meavis Beacon DOS / Win95 games (2 of them forget exactly the titles)

Boxed CIV V

Logitech Dual Action USB controller (old PS1 style I think it was, no full analogue buttons at all)

 

Total haul was about $25 or so.  Only missing 1 disc out of all of those, disc 1 out of the Sim City I think it was, might've been Sims 4.  Either way, its abandonware at this point, so no harm in scoring it off the archives.  I'm just happy to be finding the complete boxes with artwork.   Never intended on collecting boxed games, but oops.....another collection I suppose.

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Yeah I still have a collection of boxed PC games for sure. I need to go through it one of these days.

[Storm-Chaser]

Haven't purchased yet but it's on the docket once I get paid.

 

This will match the pre-existing subwoofer. That's going to be 400W RMS and 800W peak for the subwoofers alone. 

 

Klipsch R-12SW Subwoofer | Klipsch

WWW.KLIPSCH.COM

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The Reference R-12SW subwoofer uncovers what you've been missing in your music, movies and games -- clean chest-thumping bass. Shop this subwoofer and more at Klipsch!

 

 

The Reference R-12SW subwoofer uncovers what you've been missing in your music, movies and games -- clean chest-thumping bass. The high performance subwoofer provides deep bass and placement flexibility thanks to its front firing driver and all digital amplifier.

Features:

• Powerful 12" copper-spun front-firing woofer
• All-digital amplifier delivers 400 watts of dynamic power
• Equally impressive with music and movies
• Low pass crossover and phase control
• Line/LFE inputs for compatibility with most receivers
• Dimensions: 16" H x 14" W x 18.5" D
• Brushed black polymer veneer cabinet

 

[pio]

  On 19/07/2022 at 22:12, Storm-Chaser said:

Haven't purchased yet but it's on the docket once I get paid.

 

This will match the pre-existing subwoofer. That's going to be 400W RMS and 800W peak for the subwoofers alone. 

 

Klipsch R-12SW Subwoofer | Klipsch

WWW.KLIPSCH.COM

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The Reference R-12SW subwoofer uncovers what you've been missing in your music, movies and games -- clean chest-thumping bass. Shop this subwoofer and more at Klipsch!

 

 

The Reference R-12SW subwoofer uncovers what you've been missing in your music, movies and games -- clean chest-thumping bass. The high performance subwoofer provides deep bass and placement flexibility thanks to its front firing driver and all digital amplifier.

Features:

• Powerful 12" copper-spun front-firing woofer
• All-digital amplifier delivers 400 watts of dynamic power
• Equally impressive with music and movies
• Low pass crossover and phase control
• Line/LFE inputs for compatibility with most receivers
• Dimensions: 16" H x 14" W x 18.5" D
• Brushed black polymer veneer cabinet

 

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Watch your circuit breakers mate.

 

I'm excited to see some videos of those beasts in action.