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[Fluxmaven]

Picked up some bling for the older platforms that I'll hopefully bench someday  

 

[Slaughtahouse]

 

Stepping up the BBQ game. Sorry, Hank

 

 

[neurotix]

Japanese snacks

 

 

Dorayaki, Calbee hot and spicy chips (these are the bomb) and Pocari Sweat which is the most popular sports drink in East Asia and South Asia (it sort of tastes like a watered down Lemon-Lime Gatorade)

 

Got them from yamibuy.com. Instead of having to drive an hour to Mitsuwa market in Arlington Heights.

[neurotix]

Super Flower Leadex VII XG 1300W 80 Plus Gold ATX Fully Modular Power Supply - ATX 3.0 Compatible - Micro Center

WWW.MICROCENTER.COM

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Get it now! Leadex VII XG is fully compatible with Intel ATX 3.0 Specifications, supporting up to 200%...

 

Also have this on the way since my Seasonic Vertex GX won't power on anymore, we thought it was a short somewhere but its actually the PSU and I've only had it for a year and 3 months or something. Hopefully this Superflower does it's duty powering my rig folding, and hope there is a minimum of downtime.

[Sir Beregond]

12 hours ago, Slaughtahouse said:

 

Stepping up the BBQ game. Sorry, Hank

 

 

 

[neurotix]

[The Pook]

high 90s for the next week+ and my A/C decided to crap out 

 

 

 

Hopefully it's actually the problem 

[Minotaurtoo]

Just bought some steel tubing (3x8 11 gauge), and made these monitor holders.  Had to move out of my old "game" room and put my rig in the bedroom... At first I just dealt with only one monitor, but it started getting to me so I designed these and cut them out on a tube laser at work.  Might not be the most professional setup, but good enough for those old monitors.

 

Edit:  don't worry about the hood toppling over, it's screwed to the wall and the reason I had to move out of my game room is our son moved back home to get a new/better job and is staying with us until he can get an apartment around here.

Edited August 13 by Minotaurtoo
to clarify and add more detail pic

[ozlay]

Ubiquiti U7 Outdoor

 

Access Point U7 Outdoor - Ubiquiti Store

STORE.UI.COM

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All-weather WiFi 7 AP with 4 spatial streams, an integrated directional super antenna, and versatile mounting options.

 

Well now i got 1.5Gb wifi in my backyard. What do i do with it.

Edited August 24 by ozlay

[Snakecharmed]

 

I should have taken a picture like last time. Looks like it's been a little over a year since I went from 12 to 14 TB, but I upgraded my hard drive from a 14 TB Seagate BarraCuda Pro to an 18 TB Seagate IronWolf Pro that I got for $160 factory recertified and then applied a $10 coupon to bring it down to $150.

 

I do a fair amount of photo/video editing and usually keep the raw source files because I can. I also keep the old drive as a physical backup dating back to the drive swap date and have it around until I buy the next drive. I secure erase and sell off any older drives, so I have a 10 TB and a 12 TB drive that I'll be selling off soon.

 

This is my first IronWolf Pro drive and it's surprisingly quiet. I was worried about it approaching Seagate Exos or HGST Ultrastar noise levels, but it's perfectly acceptable at arm's length away from my ear, no louder than the BarraCuda Pro at idle, and even quieter at seek.

 

 

I also needed to buy a new USB-SATA dock because my old dock apparently maxes out at 16 TB because it would not read the new 18 TB drive at all. With the new dock, I somehow managed to not fully seat the USB 3.0 cable into the port on the motherboard back panel, so the entire file copy was done over USB 2.0 fallback. What should have been an approximately 11-12 hour operation took 70 hours.

 

This is how the new drive performs over SATA. USB 3.0 via the dock measured similarly after I properly reseated the cable. It maxed out at 40 MB/s sequential with the loose cable.

 

Edited October 14 by Snakecharmed

[Slaughtahouse]

@UltraMega

 

Correct me if I am wrong but did you buy one of those portable / battery air dusters? I recall having a discussion here some months ago. Curious how it’s holding up.

 

I realized I need to winterize some water lines (remove water before it freezes) and figured I’d buy something that can work for PCs too and I don’t want to buy canned air or an air compressor.

[UltraMega]

3 hours ago, Slaughtahouse said:

@UltraMega

 

Correct me if I am wrong but did you buy one of those portable / battery air dusters? I recall having a discussion here some months ago. Curious how it’s holding up.

 

I realized I need to winterize some water lines (remove water before it freezes) and figured I’d buy something that can work for PCs too and I don’t want to buy canned air or an air compressor.

Yea I did, around black Friday last year I think. Still works great. Definitely a purchase I don't regret.

 

https://a.co/d/09z0HHz

 

[Snakecharmed]

The first place my mind goes now with battery powered tools is whether there's a version that uses Milwaukee M18 batteries.

 

Of course there is.

 

Amazon.com

WWW.AMAZON.COM

 

[Slaughtahouse]

39 minutes ago, Snakecharmed said:

The first place my mind goes now with battery powered tools is whether there's a version that uses Milwaukee M18 batteries.

 

Of course there is.

 

Amazon.com

WWW.AMAZON.COM

 

 

That’s actually pretty interesting. I have a hammer drill and oscillating tool, both m18 Milwaukee.

 

USB-C is hella more convenient and likely lighter but the M18 tool probably has a lot more power (voltage) and more versatile.

 

Appreciate both recommendations  Gotta read up on this m18 version.

[Snakecharmed]

I got the M18 pruning chainsaw and an HO 6.0 battery to go with it recently. The HO 6.0 battery doesn't get that much use since I have a pair of CP 2.0 batteries for my hammer drill and impact wrench, so I'm just finding new tools to go with the 6.0.

 

Project Farm on YouTube got me interested in a handheld vacuum using M18s to replace my ancient B&D Dustbuster vacuum that I never use anymore due to its low suction power. I have a couple of great corded vacuums, but have needed a solid cordless one for quite some time now.

 

The nice thing is that the M18 batteries charge very quickly and the battery packs, being the size that they are, can dissipate heat much better than a compact battery inside the chassis of the tool can.

[neurotix]

$14 upgrade for those that like to light everything up, like Clark Griswold

 

 

Edited November 2 by neurotix

[Fluxmaven]

So I got a good deal on a CPU I wasn't planning on buying 

 

Epyc 4564P which is basically a 7950X. 

 

I want to grab an X870E Nova whenever those are back in stock then I'll toss this in my main rig. I still want a 9800X3D at some point, but I'll wait until they go on sale. 

 

 

It's not on the supported CPU list for the Gene, but works fine 

[SamsTechStuff]

29 minutes ago, Fluxmaven said:

So I got a good deal on a CPU I wasn't planning on buying 

 

Epyc 4564P which is basically a 7950X. 

 

I want to grab an X870E Nova whenever those are back in stock then I'll toss this in my main rig. I still want a 9800X3D at some point, but I'll wait until they go on sale. 

 

 

It's not on the supported CPU list for the Gene, but works fine 

Nice! Where'd you pick that guy up?

[Fluxmaven]

15 minutes ago, SamsTechStuff said:

Nice! Where'd you pick that guy up?

 

The other day Newegg was selling these tray CPUs for about half price of the retail box units. It also came with a $100 Newegg gift card. So it was squarely in the too good of deal to pass up category. 

[Snakecharmed]

Interesting, I didn't even know about that CPU's existence, and now I'm sad that I missed the deal because a 7950X is exactly what I had in mind.

 

My mind wasn't on PC components at all over Black Friday, but now I'm beginning to pivot back because of speculation about incoming tariffs. Anyone else foresee a spending spree for themselves over the holidays?

 

7950X and 96 GB DDR5-6000+ is what I'm currently planning.

[Fluxmaven]

6 hours ago, Snakecharmed said:

Interesting, I didn't even know about that CPU's existence, and now I'm sad that I missed the deal because a 7950X is exactly what I had in mind.

 

My mind wasn't on PC components at all over Black Friday, but now I'm beginning to pivot back because of speculation about incoming tariffs. Anyone else foresee a spending spree for themselves over the holidays?

 

7950X and 96 GB DDR5-6000+ is what I'm currently planning.

 

I didn't realize they had "desktop" Epyc's until I stumbled upon the deal. I have considered a Threadripper or Epyc for the lanes to build a dedicated Folding@home machine before, but hadn't got around to really looking into it much. 

 

I mostly picked up random items for around the house on black Friday. I do want to get a decent X870E board before the end of the year. I'll also order a cheap 5700X3D from Aliexpress to play around with. Beyond that I'm pretty set on PC hardware. A couple new GPUs would be nice but I don't NEED to upgrade. Lately I've been out of town for work just about every week so no time to mess with computer stuff anyway.