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It seems that you realized that in nature vegetarians are on the victims side.
What does this mean?

I'm not a vegetarian by the way, i'm an omnivore, but some vegetarian meals are tasty, nutritious, and cheap to make while still using good ingredients.

I prefer to eat meat that's very high quality, therefore not with every meal.
 
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What does this mean?

I'm not a vegetarian by the way, i'm an omnivore, but some vegetarian meals are tasty, nutritious, and cheap to make while still using good ingredients.

I prefer to eat meat that's very high quality, therefore not with every meal.
I didn't offend you. I wrote at the beginning
It seems that you realized ...

1. In general a vegetarian eats with that meat-alike foods more chemical things than that one realizes
2. In Nature (i.e. Kalahari etc.) nearby all vegetaarians are killed and eaten by herbivors. ;)
3. There are more omnivorsin the world than thought. Even deers, rats and mice are.

Edit:
You mentioned already in my cited post that didn't prepare it vegan.
I make a non-vegan version ...
 
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I bought this:


Cool little thing. Let me take my currently unused "intended for the field" (like I go anywhere lol) 14" Thinkpad with iGPU and turn it into a mad gaming rig cart with a 6900XT. 4x PCIe lanes over USB 4 isn't THAT bad.

And before you panic, I'm not insane. Virtually everything important but the gpu is bolted down, and the PSU's short power cables ensure it isn't going far. The portable monitor in particular has it's "fold-out" flap bolted to the table surface. It's a 120hz one. :)

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Interestingly, this setup claims resizeable bar is working, but I am 99% certain from the page that it's not due to Lenovo bios fun... @W1zzard ?

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Interestingly, this setup claims resizeable bar is working, but I am 99% certain from the page that it's not due to Lenovo bios fun... @W1zzard ?
hmm .. can you show device manager resources for the gpu?
 
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I make a non-vegan version of this with butter/ghee replacing the seed oil. Quite good for meal prep. From the Mowgli cook book.

Ok I'll stop going off topic now.

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Not enough bunny for my taste.
Tbf I've never eaten a bunny*

* except for chocolate ones for easter
 
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I bought this:


Cool little thing. Let me take my currently unused "intended for the field" (like I go anywhere lol) 14" Thinkpad with iGPU and turn it into a mad gaming rig cart with a 6900XT. 4x PCIe lanes over USB 4 isn't THAT bad.
Congratz! I had to double read and check the picture to see the laptop under the GPU. I wouldn't mind one of those. Aaand that's a cool project.

On a side note, I do have something to post, but I will keep it a secret until Saturday morning, so I can take pictures. The box arrived yesterday and I guarantee it's right for this section.
 
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I bought this:


Cool little thing. Let me take my currently unused "intended for the field" (like I go anywhere lol) 14" Thinkpad with iGPU and turn it into a mad gaming rig cart with a 6900XT. 4x PCIe lanes over USB 4 isn't THAT bad.

And before you panic, I'm not insane. Virtually everything important but the gpu is bolted down, and the PSU's short power cables ensure it isn't going far. The portable monitor in particular has it's "fold-out" flap bolted to the table surface. It's a 120hz one. :)

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Interestingly, this setup claims resizeable bar is working, but I am 99% certain from the page that it's not due to Lenovo bios fun... @W1zzard ?

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Nice setup @R-T-B do I spot a Lenovo laptop in the first photo that the gpu is sitting on? :rolleyes:
 
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hmm .. can you show device manager resources for the gpu?
I can, but am currently trying to mod it with a rebar dxe from github so let me revert first... :laugh: Will update.

Nice setup @R-T-B do I spot a Lenovo laptop in the first photo that the gpu is sitting on? :rolleyes:
It's my old "field" T14s gen3 AMD yeah. Covid kinda wrecked its use case...

EDIT:

hmm .. can you show device manager resources for the gpu?

@W1zzard

Here ya go:

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RebarDXE triggers a Lenovo signature check of some kind so I'm hoping it's just magically working lol.
 
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I bought this:

A bit disappointment you didn't buy Amazon.
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I bought 2 products for the BC1 opentestbench, now I wait..
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Only 1 stick just for testing.
 
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A bit disappointment you didn't buy Amazon.
I keep offering them $5.00 for it and customer support robot keeps telling me that's an incorrect option.
 
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Saw this on the shelf and couldn’t resist when I’ve been in the market for a graphics card recently.
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and a decibel meter

It seems my dba meter wasn't factory calibrated properly, in a quiet room it says around 56 dba which seems off?...
What is yours measuring in a quiet room?

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Thermalright are currently my fave to buy. The AIOs come with the fans pre installed and the performance of all of their products is rewarding for the price point. Indeed Excelsior. I have been drinking so the passion is a little higher.
 
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@Super Firm Tofu I remember awhile back you tried out the 30mm thick Antec fans, budget version of the same extra thick famous Phantek fans. Just wondering, what was your experience like, did you notice a before and after temp change?

on-topic: just bought? my first e-sim, not sure how to word this... lol but I switched phone carriers two days ago, and I went with an e-sim for the first time, pretty neat experience, was very seamless.

edit: future tech purchase is going to be a 32gb cheap ram kit for like 40 bucks for my next work laptop, not because I need it, just so I can give the middle finger to $999 MacBooks with 8gb ram, such a dick business model, lol
 

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Ordered some stuff last year and my mate from the US shipped it over to me..... (I've put these pics in thumbnails cos there's a few..... :laugh: ) Since I've not been in a rush with this, its fine its just arrived!! :)

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Inside the box.....

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Ignoring a few films and some Funko Pops I got for the girls....... We had these in there.....

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Not sure what I'm going to do with this 3080 yet but as its water blocked, I'm quite tempted to put in with a small system, water cool it all ...... Umm.....
A few NVME drives which where too cheap to ignore... 2TB models I believe??

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And a bit of a step up in RAM... My Threadripper was hungry......

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But then because of the price of the kits over there.....
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So out with the old and in with the new (when I put them in the right slots.....) ..... So before.....

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And then after...... Each kit is the same. I went with, rather than timings or out and out speed, I went with a happy medium of both and capacity.....
Getting them installed and booted was fun, seeing a 128GB however does just about seem enough to run a few tabs in Chrome and hopefully get Crysis working... Maybe not at the same time but......

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Although, oh my god Asus, what have you done with the software (Aura) for the control of the RGB... I'd like to simply lower the brightness of it and Jesus there's a mission to understand how to get that working and running.... Now the question is for silliness, do I add in another 2 kits to make 256GB or shall I put them into something else..... I'll never need it but for Achievement unlocks and such.... Maybe :laugh: :laugh:

I think the silver RAM and CPU/GPU blocks do go nicely together and the white light (however over powering at the moment) isn't bad either :)
 
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@Super Firm Tofu I remember awhile back you tried out the 30mm thick Antec fans, budget version of the same extra thick famous Phantek fans. Just wondering, what was your experience like, did you notice a before and after temp change?

on-topic: just bought? my first e-sim, not sure how to word this... lol but I switched phone carriers two days ago, and I went with an e-sim for the first time, pretty neat experience, was very seamless.

edit: future tech purchase is going to be a 32gb cheap ram kit for like 40 bucks for my next work laptop, not because I need it, just so I can give the middle finger to $999 MacBooks with 8gb ram, such a dick business model, lol

I didn't try them but I was considering the Antec 1 case that had them as the stock fans. I never bought the case, but I've had the 3-pack of the 120mm in my Amazon cart forever.

I just checked and there's a 5% off coupon right now so it'll be less than $38 shipped/taxed so I just ordered. My main concern was noise so I guess I'll find out. :laugh:
 
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Benchmark Scores Cinebench R23 (Single Core) 1936 @ stock Cinebench R23 (Multi Core) 23006 @ stock
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Processor Intel i5 8400
Motherboard Asus Prime H370M-Plus/CSM
Cooling Scythe Big Shuriken & Noctua NF-A15 HS-PWM chromax.black.swap
Memory 8GB Crucial Ballistix Sport LT DDR4-2400
Video Card(s) ROG-STRIX-GTX1060-O6G-GAMING
Storage 1TB 980 Pro
Display(s) Samsung UN55KU6300F
Case Cooler Master MasterCase Pro 3
Power Supply Super Flower Leadex III 750w
Software W11 Pro
Although, oh my god Asus, what have you done with the software (Aura) for the control of the RGB...

OpenRGB, someone here pointed this out to me a few months back.
 
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