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Note: I'm using NF-A14s in my current custom loop. They are fine at 750rpm for running when the system isn't in heavy use. They are also fine at 2000 rpm when running with noise canceling headphones.

I'm getting more and more convinced that a 280 AIO with good fans is the sweet spot for AIOs. Even if you go bigger, the pump and block aren't really of enough quality to show any improvements, so if you need more cooling than a 280, you might as well go custom loop. I would love to see...

It's not just office tasks either. The X58 system my buddy's kid was using was apparently fine for rocket league, counter strike, WoW, League of Legends, and other things. Of course, that system started at 3gb ram and an i7-920 and ended up with both ram and CPU upgrades.

HEDT used to have really long legs. I had friends that built i7-920s and Sandy Bridge Es that stretched them for 10 years (or more!) and they could get away with that through strategic upgrades and just the benefits from the platform itself. AM4 had a pretty good lifespan for the friends that...

I miss the days of the prosumer coming out first in a product stack. Basically you can buy this threadripper now, or wait until March (?) and get a 8950 which will be faster per core for dramatically less cost.

I got all the MMO privateer I ever needed with Eve Online. I might eventually check out squadron 42, but my days of burning 20+ hours / week on MMOs is over and likely never to return

Needs more RGB if it’s REALLY for gamers

I’m still using my raspberry pi 3 and my HDHomeRun with my cable card - been using it since 2013. Of course I can’t install Netflix on it, but I don’t particularly care - the only thing I subscribe to is Disney+

Google? Amazon?

Is the block based on javascript? I don't really use youtube much because the ads piss me off and it's not worth paying for, but this feels like something that should be fairly easy to work around with uMatrix.

Personally, since centos went away, I’ve been using oracle Linux. Never really got on the Ubuntu / Debian train. Work has always used red hat (across multiple companies), so I just felt like keeping the same platform at home.

I like the volume roller on my old Logitech G710+, and I used some of the G keys on that keyboard for vim shortcuts. That said I wouldn’t seek either one out as a reason to buy a keyboard, and this seems to have the priority in the wrong place

My last 2 consoles: Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo. After that, I said if you couldn’t make your game for PC, I wasn’t interested in it

I used a Husqvarna push mower from 2007 until last year. It had become progressively harder to start through 2022 and around Halloween I just couldn't get it to start anymore. I had other stuff to do so just said "F it, the lawn is just not getting cut again until spring". When spring rolled...

I moved to an electric mower this spring, and it was a fantastic decision. Not only does it just get charged with my solar panels, eliminating the need to pay for gas, it also is quiet enough I can take a conference call while I mow and actually hear what's being discussed. This means I can...

Want to justify a price hike? Make some SLC pro drives that become the top performing NVME drives in all use cases

I disagree entirely. I expect that most phone usage is burst usage, so I want you to give me 4ghz to burst as often as possible and then thermal throttle me as a last resort. Don't reduce the base clock to 1.6ghz so some crappy app can always keep the CPU busy pinging your location and...

Maybe? If your app mines ETH in the background and is running on a device not intended to run 100% all the time, is it the App's fault or the device's fault?

Is there any actual performance reason to spend that much on PS5 cooling?

I miss the days where games came out where you basically needed next gen hardware to play them. I enjoyed Crysis being the meme and then coming back to it after upgrading. I believe I did the same thing with Unreal Tournament as well, but that was long enough ago I don't remember if you needed...