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Nice, I've been tempted to buy a 970 myself, but I always end up spending my money on other things.

Senpai wrote: Nice, I've been tempted to buy a 970 myself, but I always end up spending my money on other things. Same here. I've been wanting to get a better processor for some time now.

Customer wrote: Senpai wrote: Nice, I've been tempted to buy a 970 myself, but I always end up spending my money on other things. Same here. I've been wanting to get a better processor for some time now. I have a whole rig planned out, but have never accumulated enough money to purchase it. I'm almost certain that my list of parts are obsolete now. 😃

Still debating whether I should spend my budget on a PC build or save up more for a car. Hard decisions.

Losi wrote: Still debating whether I should spend my budget on a PC build or save up more for a car. Hard decisions. BUY A PC AND GAME ON GTA V WITH CUSTU-SENPAI

I think I worked out why my hard drive died [spoiler] [/spoiler]

malmon wrote: I think I worked out why my hard drive died F . <iframe data-s9e-mediaembed="imgur" allowfullscreen="" loading="lazy" onload="var c=new MessageChannel;c.port1.onmessage=function(e){var d=e.data.split(' ');style.height=d[0]+'px';style.width=d[1]+'px'};contentWindow.postMessage('s9e:init','https://s9e.github.io',[c.port2])" scrolling="no" style="border:0;height:400px;max-width:100%;width:542px" src="https://s9e.github.io/iframe/2/imgur.min.html#BcJCS5j"> [/img] Would you happen to recall what brand that was? I've been fond of Western Digital, but I'm curious what's most (and least)-reliable these days.

Backlash wrote: malmon wrote: I think I worked out why my hard drive died F . <iframe data-s9e-mediaembed="imgur" allowfullscreen="" loading="lazy" onload="var c=new MessageChannel;c.port1.onmessage=function(e){var d=e.data.split(' ');style.height=d[0]+'px';style.width=d[1]+'px'};contentWindow.postMessage('s9e:init','https://s9e.github.io',[c.port2])" scrolling="no" style="border:0;height:400px;max-width:100%;width:542px" src="https://s9e.github.io/iframe/2/imgur.min.html#BcJCS5j"> [/img] Would you happen to recall what brand that was? I've been fond of Western Digital, but I'm curious what's most (and least)-reliable these days. It was a 3TB Seagate - one of the least reliable drives of all time. It's honestly amazing that it survived as long as it did. WD and HGST (which I think are now owned by Toshiba) are generally the most reliable, with WD red drives probably being the best out of the WDs. That being said, I think Seagate are a lot better than they used to be, and they certainly have some more interesting options in the higher (10+ TB) capacity range.

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lewdygaga wrote: malmon wrote: I think I worked out why my hard drive died [spoiler] [/spoiler] [font=Comic Sans MS] [size=xx-large]f[/size] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][size=xx-large][size=x-large][size=medium][font=Arial][size=xx-large][size=x-small]mine is about to die [/size][/size][/font][/size][/size][/size][size=medium][size=xx-large][size=x-large][size=medium][font=Arial][size=xx-large][size=x-small]too[/size][/size][/font][/size][/size][/size][/size][/font] Yeah, I noticed mine had a bunch of uncorrectable sectors or so, so I knew it didn't have long left. In other news, I ordered a Dr Ząber Sentry case. Hopefully I'll be able to afford to do something with it by the time it arrives >.<

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malmon

All in One wrote:
malmon wrote:
It was a 3TB Seagate - one of the least reliable drives of all time. It's honestly amazing that it survived as long as it did.

My 500GB Seagate is still kicking after about seven years. I bought a Western Digital 1TB last year because I was worried it was about to fail but it's still going.

I've had a 1TB WD Black going for 10 years now. It's not plugged in atm though.

malmon

Loko wrote:
Thinking of upgrading to a Vega 56, but right now I'm gonna focus on getting that Rift S. IT's gonna be my first VR device, so I'm pretty pumped!

Also need to find a new CPU. Gonna wait a bit before dropping some money on the R5 2600.

What's your current GPU?

malmon

Loko wrote:
malmon wrote:
Loko wrote:
Thinking of upgrading to a Vega 56, but right now I'm gonna focus on getting that Rift S. IT's gonna be my first VR device, so I'm pretty pumped!

Also need to find a new CPU. Gonna wait a bit before dropping some money on the R5 2600.

What's your current GPU?

Actually to be honest I probably won't upgrade until I get a nicer monitor. RX 580

Hmm, would the upgrade to a Vega 56 really be worth it? I'm not familiar with how the two cards compare

malmon

Seems like excitement is growing for the new AMD CPUs. I wonder how viable it would be to stick the 16 core in a SFF case

malmon

Loko wrote:
malmon wrote:
Seems like excitement is growing for the new AMD CPUs. I wonder how viable it would be to stick the 16 core in a SFF case

I'm pretty excited for those things, might upgrade for the first in a while!

Yeah! It'll definitely be on my list when I get a job (and the case arrives). Though the 16 core parts (apparently up to 300W) might be a little out of reach... unless I get creative with the water cooling.

Speaking of water cooling, the new corsair stuff looks pretty neat! It'll probably be more expensive than researching and buying parts yourself, but doing so can be somewhat risky for beginners.

malmon

oooh, the ASrock X570 mITX board looks interesting! Thunderbolt 3, and it has Intel mounting holes on an AMD socket.

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Backlash

Riight... Word of advice, make sure to play with the settings on your new IPS panel. The ASUS VG279Q I got had pretty lackluster color out of the box; none of that "brilliant white" and "swirling black" mentioned in the reviews, right up until I switched to another preset.

Kinda feel like that guy who didn't know he had a 144Hz monitor. I swear. xD

malmon

Backlash wrote:
Riight... Word of advice, make sure to play with the settings on your new IPS panel. The ASUS VG279Q I got had pretty lackluster color out of the box; none of that "brilliant white" and "swirling black" mentioned in the reviews, right up until I switched to another preset.

Kinda feel like that guy who didn't know he had a 144Hz monitor. I swear. xD

I must be an outlier or something, I swear. I hear about this so often, but when I first connected my 144Hz display, it just worked! Windows automatically set it to 144Hz.

Steph

Backlash wrote:
Riight... Word of advice, make sure to play with the settings on your new IPS panel. The ASUS VG279Q I got had pretty lackluster color out of the box; none of that "brilliant white" and "swirling black" mentioned in the reviews, right up until I switched to another preset.

Kinda feel like that guy who didn't know he had a 144Hz monitor. I swear. xD

yeah... factory monitor presets are the worst

glad my panel came colour calibrated so the only applicable settings to change are brightness and contrast

tn5421

I don't know anything about modifying presets. I have an ASUS VG248QE. What preset do you guys think is best?

malmon wrote:
Backlash wrote:
Riight... Word of advice, make sure to play with the settings on your new IPS panel. The ASUS VG279Q I got had pretty lackluster color out of the box; none of that "brilliant white" and "swirling black" mentioned in the reviews, right up until I switched to another preset.

Kinda feel like that guy who didn't know he had a 144Hz monitor. I swear. xD

I must be an outlier or something, I swear. I hear about this so often, but when I first connected my 144Hz display, it just worked! Windows automatically set it to 144Hz.

It did not work like that for me. I had to set it up manually.

Backlash

Anyone else interested in the PINE smartphone coming out soon? A $99 laptop is one thing, but I could see this being a smash-hit in developing countries, as well as a staple hardware toy for enthusiasts like the Raspberry Pi.

malmon

Backlash wrote:
Anyone else interested in the PINE smartphone coming out soon? A $99 laptop is one thing, but I could see this being a smash-hit in developing countries, as well as a staple hardware toy for enthusiasts like the Raspberry Pi.

Given how poor software support for the ROCK64 has been, not particularly~

Backlash

Figured I'd cap off a hellish two weeks a new keyboard. Nice little mechanical number from Corsair. I wonder if their RGB lighting's as good as in the ads? ^^

malmon

Backlash wrote:
Figured I'd cap off a hellish two weeks a new keyboard. Nice little mechanical number from Corsair. I wonder if their RGB lighting's as good as in the ads? ^^

I actually happened to be in a computer store the other day. Mashing about on a bunch of the keyboards, honestly the only one I liked was the razer blackwidow elite. Granted that could be because all the other demonstrators had shitty switches chosen.

I think RGB looks really pretty, but well, I don't spend much time actually looking at my keyboard, so it wouldn't affect my decision unless it was the only differing factor.

Backlash

malmon wrote:
Backlash wrote:
Figured I'd cap off a hellish two weeks a new keyboard. Nice little mechanical number from Corsair. I wonder if their RGB lighting's as good as in the ads? ^^

I think RGB looks really pretty, but well, I don't spend much time actually looking at my keyboard, so it wouldn't affect my decision unless it was the only differing factor.

Yeah~, I'd considered that, but what really sold me was the programmable per-key lighting. Highlighting and color-coding hotkeys will come in real handy whilst building an interstellar empire. Also, since I'm planning on using a lot more terminal apps from now on, it'd be a handy tool till I've learned Emacs. ^_^

malmon

Backlash wrote:
malmon wrote:
Backlash wrote:
Figured I'd cap off a hellish two weeks a new keyboard. Nice little mechanical number from Corsair. I wonder if their RGB lighting's as good as in the ads? ^^

I think RGB looks really pretty, but well, I don't spend much time actually looking at my keyboard, so it wouldn't affect my decision unless it was the only differing factor.

Yeah~, I'd considered that, but what really sold me was the programmable per-key lighting. Highlighting and color-coding hotkeys will come in real handy whilst building an interstellar empire. Also, since I'm planning on using a lot more terminal apps from now on, it'd be a handy tool till I've learned Emacs. ^_^

Heh, I never bothered with Emacs. But I know enough vim (not vi, i swear vi is the last of the great plagues or something) to make it my default text editor of choice, unless I need to do a lot of moving around of text.

Backlash

malmon wrote:
Backlash wrote:
malmon wrote:
Backlash wrote:
Figured I'd cap off a hellish two weeks a new keyboard. Nice little mechanical number from Corsair. I wonder if their RGB lighting's as good as in the ads? ^^

I think RGB looks really pretty, but well, I don't spend much time actually looking at my keyboard, so it wouldn't affect my decision unless it was the only differing factor.

Yeah~, I'd considered that, but what really sold me was the programmable per-key lighting. Highlighting and color-coding hotkeys will come in real handy whilst building an interstellar empire. Also, since I'm planning on using a lot more terminal apps from now on, it'd be a handy tool till I've learned Emacs. ^_^

Heh, I never bothered with Emacs. But I know enough vim (not vi, i swear vi is the last of the great plagues or something) to make it my default text editor of choice, unless I need to do a lot of moving around of text.

Hyeah~, that's fair. Me personally, I'm drawn to its countless extensions and packages. I'm going to be able to perform basic SysAdmin stuff on my phone at work, so it might be handy to bring everything under one roof.

If you're ever curious, you might be interested in the "extensible vi layer" package, or "evil" for short.

https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil

malmon

Backlash wrote:
malmon wrote:
Backlash wrote:
malmon wrote:
I think RGB looks really pretty, but well, I don't spend much time actually looking at my keyboard, so it wouldn't affect my decision unless it was the only differing factor.

Yeah~, I'd considered that, but what really sold me was the programmable per-key lighting. Highlighting and color-coding hotkeys will come in real handy whilst building an interstellar empire. Also, since I'm planning on using a lot more terminal apps from now on, it'd be a handy tool till I've learned Emacs. ^_^

Heh, I never bothered with Emacs. But I know enough vim (not vi, i swear vi is the last of the great plagues or something) to make it my default text editor of choice, unless I need to do a lot of moving around of text.

Hyeah~, that's fair. Me personally, I'm drawn to its countless extensions and packages. I'm going to be able to perform basic SysAdmin stuff on my phone at work, so it might be handy to bring everything under one roof.

If you're ever curious, you might be interested in the "extensible vi layer" package, or "evil" for short.

https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil

Yeah, emacs is a pretty good os, lacking only a decent text editor :^)

In hardware news, I think my 4770k just died

Backlash

malmon wrote:
Backlash wrote:
malmon wrote:
Backlash wrote:
Yeah~, I'd considered that, but what really sold me was the programmable per-key lighting. Highlighting and color-coding hotkeys will come in real handy whilst building an interstellar empire. Also, since I'm planning on using a lot more terminal apps from now on, it'd be a handy tool till I've learned Emacs. ^_^

Heh, I never bothered with Emacs. But I know enough vim (not vi, i swear vi is the last of the great plagues or something) to make it my default text editor of choice, unless I need to do a lot of moving around of text.

Hyeah~, that's fair. Me personally, I'm drawn to its countless extensions and packages. I'm going to be able to perform basic SysAdmin stuff on my phone at work, so it might be handy to bring everything under one roof.

If you're ever curious, you might be interested in the "extensible vi layer" package, or "evil" for short.

https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil

Yeah, emacs is a pretty good os, lacking only a decent text editor :^)

In hardware news, I think my 4770k just died

That's... really not good. What happened, sweetheart? >.<

malmon

Backlash wrote:
malmon wrote:
Backlash wrote:
malmon wrote:
Heh, I never bothered with Emacs. But I know enough vim (not vi, i swear vi is the last of the great plagues or something) to make it my default text editor of choice, unless I need to do a lot of moving around of text.

Hyeah~, that's fair. Me personally, I'm drawn to its countless extensions and packages. I'm going to be able to perform basic SysAdmin stuff on my phone at work, so it might be handy to bring everything under one roof.

If you're ever curious, you might be interested in the "extensible vi layer" package, or "evil" for short.

https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil

Yeah, emacs is a pretty good os, lacking only a decent text editor :^)

In hardware news, I think my 4770k just died

That's... really not good. What happened, sweetheart? >.<

Dunno, desktop just shut down while on the freenas boot menu. Now it won't turn on with the EPS 12V cable plugged in.

It could be the motherboard, if perhaps something broke between the EPS sockets and the CPU socket. Though it powers on fine with the cable disconnected, so I doubt it's that.

It could be a botched liquid metal application, though I'm not sure how that could've happened.

I'll take a closer look in a little while.

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