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I've been using SYY-157 for a couple of years now. The other day when putting together the latest mistake, I didn't want to wait the 15 minutes to let it cure so I used the MX-6 that came with the cooler. Good stuff so far so I picked up some extra.

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Just got a sweet buy for £35

The drivers in the round thing are swiss made, and have spare bits in the middle bit under a cover, the tweezers are very nice quality indeed. Anyone know the brand that has the sword on?
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AAKS blues made for pretty good NAS drives before WD segmented their product lines for RAID. Back in 2009 I had gotten 6 x 320GB for RAID6 (4 drives + 2 spares) and only had 2 drive failures within 10yrs.
 
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Well.. a little update with my scooter..

I think I am going to keep it. I got it out of eco mode and she is a ripper, at least compared to my old one. Got some machine screws for the bars so that I don’t die, and if worse comes to worst.. I can always hax it.

:laugh:

For the sake of conversation while only light Summer snow is on the ground up there. Will you be making any pre-season improvements other than low shear strength machine screws placing inequal pressure (or considered the circumstances leading up to their disappearance and scooter being returned) on the handlebar mount.

[only half joking :eek:]
 

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Lol I bought it to ride for the winter :D

I only work about 2 klicks away, so it should be fine.

Heck I have 2 or 3 winters on my ninebot s+ and just over 3700km lol

It is just awkward to carry for more than a half a block.. this one I can push or drag if I have to :D

Cool thing I learned is once you get tired of hitting stuff, you can pull up like on a bike and use the throttle.. pretty neat :)
 
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Well, my Chinese B650i motherboard has come in!

I now need RAM and a processor of course.

Has a single PCIe 1X for the network card sold separately (I use wired anyway).

Motherboard supports:
- PCIe 4.0 16x
- 2x NVME Gen 4
- USB 3.2 - 3 USB-A and 1 USB-C
- 2x USB 2.0
- 2 ARGB ports to really increase speeds when using RGB lights obviously
- DP and HDMI port

I plan to eventually get a Ryzen 7800 X3D which apparently some have used on this board that I have read. And 32GB of DDR5 7000 RAM.

As well, it is apparently Ryzen 9xxx series ready but with the latest bios update.

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can you tell if there are options in the BIOS for tweaking RAM, PBO etc etc etc..the usual tweaking stuff from reputable brands?
 
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can you tell if there are options in the BIOS for tweaking RAM, PBO etc etc etc..the usual tweaking stuff from reputable brands?
I will check as soon as I get the other parts. Stay tuned in the next 2 years when I actually have money.
 
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I use to have the same passion but I was tired being bound by a wire to my pc, so I ended up with Steelseries Arctis Pro Wireless evening running my logitech speakers from the usb dac it provides.
 
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I use to have the same passion but I was tired being bound by a wire to my pc, so I ended up with Steelseries Arctis Pro Wireless evening running my logitech speakers from the usb dac it provides.
I can respect that. I meanwhile can't grasp other device (other than phone) that needs charging/batteries so I like to be bound by wires. That's why I never use wireless mouse/keyboard/earphone/headphone. I tried it before during head-fi meet but it just not my thing. Did buy one wireless earbud to try, yeah I can't stand it needs recharging every few hours, so I never used it more than a few times.
 
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I can respect that. I meanwhile can't grasp other device (other than phone) that needs charging/batteries so I like to be bound by wires. That's why I never use wireless mouse/keyboard/earphone/headphone. I tried it before during head-fi meet but it just not my thing. Did buy one wireless earbud to try, yeah I can't stand it needs recharging every few hours, so I never used it more than a few times.

Mine has like 40h battery life or that's what they claim at least. Plus the case integrates battery or something so you can charge it from that several times before recharging it again. The sound quality is fine enough can't really complain it's not bad. I'm sure there are better earbuds, but I'm certainly happy with it overall. It suits it's purpose just fine.
 
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Just bought this today from CEX, turns out it has a added £200 10gbe network card, bonus as it only cost £160

I have a old 256gb m.2 and was wondering if i could add it as cache?
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I will check as soon as I get the other parts. Stay tuned in the next 2 years when I actually have money.

hopefully seeing you in 2-3 years then? :clap:
 
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Congrats! I still really like mine.

I did have one issue. Apparently I don't know my own strength and pushed the control joystick hard enough that it pushed back into the monitor case.

The good news is MSI replaced it with an entire new monitor within a week. The bad news is that I did have to pay to ship it to them. Thankfully they're close so it was only $20, but I'm glad I saved the box.
ok so you got me nervous so I went ahead and connected the USB header so I can control all settings with the app :p
 
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Bit cautious since 6900xt died, so I got this
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Back around to purchase an ASROCK a750 this morning. This will be my second foray into Intel GPU waters. First time was great and I am expecting even better results this go around. I will use it for video/photo editing work.
 
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eh... that's not bad at all ... fits the controller like a glove, just one part in the front is a bit off but nothing major ... for less than 4chf

plus the material feel super comfortable (a bit like satin texture on top )
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geh ... i took them for classic Xbox Series X controller, bah doesn't matter, they where cheap and i might need em one day :D
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because for me it literally is :laugh:

game related?

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Just bought this today from CEX, turns out it has a added £200 10gbe network card, bonus as it only cost £160

I have a old 256gb m.2 and was wondering if i could add it as cache?
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Good old Compute Exchange...
Is it the i3 or Pentium model?

I would sell that network card, unless you have a suitable switch for it.
Also, whoever installed it, put in the wrong expansion slot, as that's the PCIe 2.0 x4 slot, which doesn't have enough bandwidth, but the NAS has a PCIe 3.0 x8 slot for that card...

As for the SSD as cache, from the testing I've done, it's only really useful for data you repeatedly copy from the NAS, but it's possible that QNAP has better cache handling than TerraMaster.
It's a shame the OS can't be force installed on the SSD.
 
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Good old Compute Exchange...
Is it the i3 or Pentium model?

I would sell that network card, unless you have a suitable switch for it.
Also, whoever installed it, put in the wrong expansion slot, as that's the PCIe 2.0 x4 slot, which doesn't have enough bandwidth, but the NAS has a PCIe 3.0 x8 slot for that card...

As for the SSD as cache, from the testing I've done, it's only really useful for data you repeatedly copy from the NAS, but it's possible that QNAP has better cache handling than TerraMaster.
It's a shame the OS can't be force installed on the SSD.

It's the i3, but i do know you can stick a i7 in it. Very might stick 2x8gb sticks of ram in it, and a wifi card. It's a very cool thing, and i love the interface. I have put the network card on ebay as it is no use to me, nice bonus though. For now, i have 2x 4tb discs in it, but will keep my eye out for a couple of 8's as i don't really need anything bigger.

Any recommends for a wifi card?
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It's the i3, but i do know you can stick a i7 in it. Very might stick 2x8gb sticks of ram in it, and a wifi card. It's a very cool thing, and i love the interface.
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Just be aware that QNAP NAS appliances are a bit of a pita to disassemble.

What's the point of adding WiFi to a NAS?
 
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Just be aware that QNAP NAS appliances are a bit of a pita to disassemble.

What's the point of adding WiFi to a NAS?

Dunno thought it might be useful for mobile access, but i guess the app is good enough.

I did look at dissasembly and it is a pita, and a 2-3hr round trip for CPU and ram. They are certainly worth doing it seems. I like the way you can near use it as a PC
 

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The App for phones etc to access the nas
You don't have a router for WiFi at home?
There's exactly zero benefit of adding WiFi to your NAS.
 
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