Recent content by Endgame

I have a good group of friends that I play Mechwarrior online with multiple times per week. I play other games too (path of exile 2, bg3, Stellaris), but usually not that many at once. I’ll probably pickup the new civ in 6-8 months once it has an expansion.

sounds like exactly what threadripper should be. 16-32 cores at high clockspeed with 2-4x the cache of the X3D parts. Of course, if AMD thought there would be money in that, they would be selling them. My wishlist does not apparently match the market well.

Twice 20 is…. 40!

If you needed more performance, you bought better hardware. For example, if your voodoo2 didn’t run quake ii fast enough at your desired resolution, you didn’t back off the resolution, you bought a second voodoo 2 and ran them in SLI. I let myself be bottlenecked by my screen for too long at...

I’m kind of amazed that the 9070s have sold out with that much stock. I thought most people (like 80% +) were NVIDIA only. Is there really that much demand?

I've tried multiple different mouse pads... and none compare to the RatPadz I've had forever. Would buy a FPSReview in a heart beat.

lol, caught me just reading the headline in the news section here. I'd prefer MLC, but I suppose TLC isn't terrible. Might be worth grabbing the 8TB model just for the larger cache size.

At this point, I don't particularly care about sustained sequential read / write, and I don't care about 8TB. What is the random 4k performance? What is the latency of the NAND? How much DRAM cache does it have? If those values are market leading, I'm fine with a 1TB drive or a 8TB drive.

Have you tried any ham radio supply stores? They are the last big DIY electronics market that I’m aware of

I’ve got an Ehiem 1250 that’s been working fine since 2003 in various loops, and several d5s, all of which still run. Only had the one bayrez ddc fail.

The only pump I’ve ever burned out is a DDC. I had one in a swiftech bayrez (version 1 of this: http://www.swiftech.com/MaelstromV2.aspx) and had it tucked in an area with basically no airflow and no heatsink. I chalked it up to user error, and moved on, but if I ever did a DDC again, I’d have...

lol, I have no idea if anyone sells a waterblock for a ddc, as if you wanted water cooled pumps you would usually run a D5.

I love how those look on the side of the rack! If you ever need more cooling, you could rotate the rack and put 2 more on the other side :D A question for you - you’re planning multiple pumps and reservoirs but I’m not 100% sure where you are planning on mounting them. Have you considered...

For me it all depends on when 5090 availability happens. If I can walk into a microcenter and buy one by, say, June, I might still be in. If it takes a year for there to be availability, maybe I just buy the inevitable 5080ti

Instead of the mass of small pumps, have you considered using one of the larger Iwakis instead? It was something I was always interested in using, but I've never gone with anything other than a D5 or the old swiftech bayrez DDCs. http://martinsliquidlab.petrastech.com/Iwaki-RD-30-Pump-Review.html