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What's your latest tech purchase?

lexluthermiester said:
I would have gone with red or white. Blue hurts my eyes if it's too strong. But your setup looks cool!
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I've noticed the same - Blue LED's look great, but hurt eyes really quickly if used as room lighting
It's where the whole blue light dilemma came from, something about LED's just doesnt make blue painlessly

I tend to use a 'sunset gold' as it's super easy to tune out as background lighting
 
Mussels said:
I've noticed the same - Blue LED's look great, but hurt eyes really quickly if used as room lighting
It's where the whole blue light dilemma came from, something about LED's just doesnt make blue painlessly

I tend to use a 'sunset gold' as it's super easy to tune out as background lighting
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It's more that blue light is not a part of the spectrum we are naturally exposed to in much quantity. Thus, it's somewhat hard to look at for many people.
 
R-T-B said:
It's more that blue light is not a part of the spectrum we are naturally exposed to in much quantity. Thus, it's somewhat hard to look at for many people.
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True true, we get sky and ocean but they dont exactly radiate it
 
End game CPU.

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And the absolute beast of a machine it's going to power. Still need to acquire a bunch of components but I've done a lot of the soldering groundwork. Plus the power circuit is working great.

(For those wondering, it's an aussie Southern Cross Z80 computer and is based on the Talking Electronics TEC-1 computer)

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SpittinFax said:
End game CPU.

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And the absolute beast of a machine it's going to power. Still need to acquire a bunch of components but I've done a lot of the soldering groundwork. Plus the power circuit is working great.

(For those wondering, it's an aussie Southern Cross Z80 computer and is based on the Talking Electronics TEC-1 computer)

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Forgive me for being such a noob, but these kind of projects are a bit before my time... how do you even interface with that thing?

All the same, seriously cool!
 
R-T-B said:
Forgive me for being such a noob, but these kind of projects are a bit before my time... how do you even interface with that thing?

All the same, seriously cool!
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I'm a 90's kid so it's before my time as well but it's a neat way of learning how basic computers work at the component level. These machines are operated in assembly language which is what the number pad and 7-segment displays are for. Haven't looked into it yet but there's ways of interfacing with it via serial and other means. I recall seeing one video where a guy figured out how to interface with a Z80 machine via CP/M which is crazy, but I have no idea how it works. That kind of stuff requires custom-designed PCBs.
 
The uhh, loop cleaner arrived - wrong package
At least it had loop prep stuff to run to existing loops, ideally for 2-3 days and then flush

Distilled
add cleaner

5 seconds later...
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I got just as concerned as you guys are right now, drained it, did a round two:

5 seconds after pump is on, before i even finished adding the distilled + cleaner combo (heavily HEAVILY diluted, mind you)
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Yeah. My rad had weird shit in it. Temps are down 5-10C despite shit BEING GREEN AND CHUNKY
 
Mussels said:
The uhh, loop cleaner arrived - wrong package
At least it had loop prep stuff to run to existing loops, ideally for 2-3 days and then flush

Distilled
add cleaner

5 seconds later...
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I got just as concerned as you guys are right now, drained it, did a round two:

5 seconds after pump is on, before i even finished adding the distilled + cleaner combo (heavily HEAVILY diluted, mind you)
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Yeah. My rad had weird shit in it. Temps are down 5-10C despite shit BEING GREEN AND CHUNKY
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Mussels, can I suggest replacing everything not clear in your system at this point? :roll:
 
Mussels, DO NOT run frog slime in your loop. That's illegal.
 
During my yearly custom loop maintenance I decided to spruce up my setup a bit.
A) Fix bridging my distroplate with fittings to create a straight bridge instead of the prior ptrap I originally created with 2x90's and a half-round tube
B) Added EK Drain plug
C) GPU stand to avoid sagging
D) 3x Artic P12 Slim PST 120mm fans on bottom to clear my bottom motherboard connector cables
E) 2x 180 degree graphics card power adapters to more cleanly route the GPU power under the card
F) Additional USB3 connections because B550 didn't have enough rear i/o
G) Added hot side temp sensor to custom loop


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Logitech MX master 3 replacing MX518 (the old 2010's version)
 
These thumbnails show it all:


1. Loop with cleaner
2. Loop after 1 flush
3. Loop after 2nd flush (including blowing air in via mouth to get shit out of bottom res)

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I did NOT remove or clean the filter in any way - this cleaner stuff genuinely does work amazingly
The small bits of crud i could see on the CPU fins are gone, and temps are down ~10C on the CPU now

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Oh i've seen two methods for how people use the FTL 240 res/pump mounts in my case and now i get it


1. Literally drill two holes in the mounting plates, screw in where vertical GPU would go
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2. As intended:
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Considering the issues i've been having with my pump block/res combo, this seems like a visually pleasing alternative that solves the mounting issues - and especially with the horizontal method should work in just about any case
 
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Mussels said:
The uhh, loop cleaner arrived - wrong package
At least it had loop prep stuff to run to existing loops, ideally for 2-3 days and then flush

Distilled
add cleaner

5 seconds later...
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I got just as concerned as you guys are right now, drained it, did a round two:

5 seconds after pump is on, before i even finished adding the distilled + cleaner combo (heavily HEAVILY diluted, mind you)
View attachment 256105


Yeah. My rad had weird shit in it. Temps are down 5-10C despite shit BEING GREEN AND CHUNKY
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This is a good sign! The cleaner is doing a decent job. I few more flushes and you should be golden!
 
INSTG8R said:
LED stripped my desk.
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i led stripped my living room ... to the point that my 2m (2.1w/m~) Yeelight is the only light i have, and on warm/cold white it's way more than enough to be a usable day to day light (ofc full RGB capable )

AYE! new flip cover for my Realme Pad
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Fractal Design Aspect 14 RGB x3 for replacing my 3 Corsair ML120 White in the the front and 2 Arctic P14 (white/transparent no led) for replacing 2 Corsair AF140 on the top, hence the no led. (which started to make clicking noise sometime )
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now this is interesting ... getting a second sleeved extension would have cost me more than that
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yet, i scratch my head
what's the point of having a 3pin RGB adapter if the adapter itself does not adapt itself (oh, wow, it turned out nicer) to the cable of the lighting element?

ah, no need for headhache... i did not buy it for the RGB but for...
THAT!
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Purchased wireless keebs for 3 connection ability
 
The replacement display assembly for my $20 MacBook arrived.

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Fired up iFixit, and got to work. Replacing the screen wasn't too difficult. There are lots of tiny connectors to deal with, and several different sizes of screws, but I got there in the end.

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It's not in perfect condition, but that's why it was only $49. Plus, it matches the laptop with all of the scratches. And it works perfectly.

In fact, my keyboard backlight randomly started working in Windows (it's always worked in macOS) after doing this, so that's neat.
 
A while back I posted about some cheap headphones that sound great. I couldn't stand the cheap rubbery cable, so I did something about it by purchasing things that in sum cost more than the headphones. All this crap I bought right off of Amazon.

Koss KPH30i
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Yoink!
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MMCX Female sockets with wires preinstalled.
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YAXI PortaPro earpads. I love their pads for many headphones.
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and done. Some Sharpie to cover up the messy epoxy job to keep the connectors in. They needed just a little work with the Dremmel too.
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I think the pads make them sound even better.
 
erocker said:
A while back I posted about some cheap headphones that sound great. I couldn't stand the cheap rubbery cable, so I did something about it by purchasing things that in sum cost more than the headphones. All this crap I bought right off of Amazon.

Koss KPH30i
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Yoink!
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MMCX Female sockets with wires preinstalled.
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YAXI PortaPro earpads. I love their pads for many headphones.
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and done. Some Sharpie to cover up the messy epoxy job to keep the connectors in. They needed just a little work with the Dremmel too.
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I think the pads make them sound even better.
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oohhhh i dig that :laugh: just awesome ahah
 
Buch of (small) stuff came in today!

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BT for an old pc / minijack / some game / beach speaker / capture card :D
 
It arrived!!!!!!!!!!! :peace: :rockout:

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Not sure why they include a mini ruler?? :confused:

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Had a couple issues installing it, a long card that's for sure... so much so it literally blocked the system fan header no.4 on my MSI Z590 Unify board, also the 1st DP output ( closest to the back panel ) produced a flicker on the screen upon 1st boot. Some quick basic hardware diagnostics ended up concluding that using the 2nd one along diminished this problem. It seems the PC case is cutting it too fine with clearance for the DP cable to be plugged in properly without interruption to the signal. For a moment there, I was thinking is this a faulty card when new? but alas my anxiety was contained in good time! :D

Now I'll have to look into getting one of those physical support brackets to prevent long term disruption of the PCIe x16 slot from bending or just getting plain warped from the sheer size of the card. :)
 
Edit: Ahah! It's my LED lighting (roof strips, cant replace/modify) causing photos to be grainy. Finally realized when the sun goes down, photos go to shit.




Had to buy a T5 torx for new housemates laptop
$9 for a so-called phone repair kit with all the small sizes i need

I got to Hammerbarn too late for the snag with dead horse, went to aisle 300, left at the fake grass and right before the flamingo:
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It uhhh...

Yeah, thanks dell. Bought late 2020, thermal paste already trashed.

Could not handle 720p twitch or youtube without stuttering
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I did my magic
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4K youtube + 1080p twitch and she's at 60C with the fan off

*shrug* guess it's all good then (Used some EK paste that came with my 3090s block)
 

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AlwaysHope said:
Now I'll have to look into getting one of those physical support brackets to prevent long term disruption of the PCIe x16 slot from bending or just getting plain warped from the sheer size of the card. :)
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i am thinking the same :oops: in fact the size does not really matter but the weight ... dang that Asus is 32cm long like my Red Devil but weight 459gr (1261gr vs 1720gr) more O.o for you, it's almost mandatory :D
 
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