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[EHW Ai]

Picked up six gallons of distilled to get things ready to run the 2080ti (no pic required; price went from $1.00/gallon to $1.59/gallon).

 

Also, for my ever growing collection/ménagerie (see my profile cover photo for a sample pic):

 

As a sucker for interesting gauges, a vintage volts/minutes gauge for frizzy hair treatments (Gene Wilder's not included):

 

 

As a 20 year USAF retired vet, a vintage B-52 Chaff Dispenser (ca. 1960, just in time for Dr. Strangelove); should be able to wire up the panel and dispensing lighting in this:

 

 

Lastly, a vintage thermometer (early mid century), as an old fashioned hardware 'enthusiast' who needs to be able to gauge ambient somewhat accurately

 

 

Enjoy!

[Avacado]

14 minutes ago, iamjanco said:

Picked up six gallons of distilled to get things ready to run the 2080ti (no pic required; price went from $1.00/gallon to $1.59/gallon).

 

Also, for my ever growing collection/ménagerie (see my profile cover photo for a sample pic):

 

As a sucker for interesting gauges, a vintage volts/minutes gauge for frizzy hair treatments (Gene Wilder's not included):

 

 

As a 20 year USAF retired vet, a vintage B-52 Chaff Dispenser (ca. 1960, just in time for Dr. Strangelove); should be able to wire up the panel and dispensing lighting in this:

 

 

Lastly, a vintage thermometer (early mid century), as an old fashioned hardware 'enthusiast' who needs to be able to gauge ambient somewhat accurately

 

 

Enjoy!

Love Gene Wilder and that Chaff dispenser is cool AF!

[The Pook]

why does D'Jango get all the cool stuff 

[Avacado]

5 minutes ago, The Pook said:

why does D'Jango get all the cool stuff 

Cause "Unchained"

 

-Ban

[Sir Beregond]

Dr. Fronkensteen, I love it!

[Storm-Chaser]

You should see what he has done with his computer room / workspace. Very impressive, one of the best setups I've seen. @iamjanconeed pics for eye candy!

[Diffident]

A Pair of Bilstein B6 4600 Shocks for the rear of my F-150 and a lower steering shaft.  On the current one, the U-joints are rusted causing them to bind making it difficult to steer.

 

[EHW Ai]

4 hours ago, Storm-Chaser said:

You should see what he has done with his computer room / workspace. Very impressive, one of the best setups I've seen. @iamjanconeed pics for eye candy!

Thanks, bud. while you're making it hard for me to maintain my modesty (    ) , I might throw together a gallery of my walls once things slow down a bit at my end. 

[The Pook]

needed a cheap NIC to help diagnose/troubleshoot some weird network issues I've been having 

 

[The Pook]

^ solved nothing 

 

for more troubleshooting and because I want it 

 

[Mr. Fox]

13900K pre-order. Now we wait and hope for Divine favor in the silicon lottery.

[Minotaurtoo]

5 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

13900K pre-order. Now we wait and hope for Divine favor in the silicon lottery.

From the early leaked benchmarks I've seen, it looks like AMD is in for some serious competition there.  I think you will do well with that cpu.  In fact, if Intel keeps this up, my next rig will be Intel based, something that I haven't done in years thanks to them insisting that mainstream didn't need more than 4 cores back when Ryzen first came out.  When you get it, please make sure I see any benchmarks you post.

[Avacado]

6 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

13900K pre-order. Now we wait and hope for Divine favor in the silicon lottery.

But why is the pre-order $649.99? The MSRP is $589.99

[Mr. Fox]

7 minutes ago, Avacado said:

But why is the pre-order $649.99? The MSRP is $589.99

Because they can.

 

But, I think $589 is about what they pay for it based on what I saw in one of Steve's GamersNexus videos.

Edited September 28, 2022 by Mr. Fox

[J7SC_Orion]

...good things come to those who wait ? 

 

 

[Mr. Fox]

2 hours ago, Minotaurtoo said:

From the early leaked benchmarks I've seen, it looks like AMD is in for some serious competition there.  I think you will do well with that cpu.  In fact, if Intel keeps this up, my next rig will be Intel based, something that I haven't done in years thanks to them insisting that mainstream didn't need more than 4 cores back when Ryzen first came out.  When you get it, please make sure I see any benchmarks you post.

Will do. 

[Alex]

 

 

 

GPU prices are a joke, so I'm doing some watercooling upgrades instead for now.

[Sir Beregond]

4 hours ago, Alex said:

 

 

 

GPU prices are a joke, so I'm doing some watercooling upgrades instead for now.

What is that adapter in the bag? Looks like some kinda PWM fan controller or something, but never seen that before.

[tictoc]

33 minutes ago, Sir Beregond said:

What is that adapter in the bag? Looks like some kinda PWM fan controller or something, but never seen that before.

It's a four way splitter that cleans up the fan cable management on a MORA.

 

[Alex]

Yep, pretty much that. I was debating having each fan spin up depending on water temps, but then I would need to upgrade my Quadro for an Octo fan controller... and yeah that's like $100 more. This also makes the cable runs a lot cleaner and neater... because there's 1 cable.

[Alex]

Refreshing my storage as my old weird setup of 8TB -> 2x4TB drives was dumb. Starting off slightly less dumb with just replicating data between these two for now, and then the long-term future goal is to have them be in a dedicated NAS with Unraid or the likes. Also kinda neat how I went 500GB* -> 1TB* -> 2TB -> 4TB -> 8TB -> 16TB. *not pictured.

 

 

 

 

[GanjaSMK]

Welp.  Decided eff-it,  get the storage speed updated.  NVME (secondary) and Crucial SSD (to replace spinner, obviously lol).  MSI Raider GE75 10SE.  SPEEDY SNAPPY SNAPPY

 

(will add ssd  pic when it arrives,  interweb placeholder pic til then)

 

 

 

 

Edited October 6, 2022 by GanjaSMK
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[The Pook]

Mushkin Pilot died in my server

 

 

[GanjaSMK]

1 hour ago, The Pook said:

 

 

 

 

I've got the 750 in my desktop (in storage atm) - is the 850 a step up or essentially identical???

 

[The Pook]

10 minutes ago, GanjaSMK said:

 

I've got the 750 in my desktop (in storage atm) - is the 850 a step up or essentially identical???

 

 

PCIe 3.0 vs 4.0. review/benchmarks with the 850 and 750: 

 

2TB Performance Results - WD Black SN850 M.2 NVMe SSD Review: Top-Tier Storage for Gamers and Pros (Updated) | Tom's Hardware

WWW.TOMSHARDWARE.COM

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With WD’s Black SN850 now in the lab, we will see if it really is ideal for those looking for fast, consistent storage.

 

I'm just running it at 3.0 but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edited October 2, 2022 by The Pook