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Thankfully with the O11 Dynamic XL, you can have your cake and eat it too. No airflow issues in that thing, provided you load it up properly, but you do pay a premium.
 
Thankfully with the O11 Dynamic XL, you can have your cake and eat it too. No airflow issues in that thing, provided you load it up properly, but you do pay a premium.

I guess that is the end result when a manufacturer actually partners up with one of the best modders and overclockers in the world.
 
I had my cake with the case I have. It was my own vanity and stupidity that has caused the issue. Lian Li made it breathe perfectly.

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Even with the front panel fitted the temps were exactly the same. It's when you go full dumbass and do this.

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And add 1/2" thick halos that it has trouble.
 
Time to replace the old modded 360 controller, love the feel, the new pronounced grip texture is insane, and it's the best Dpad I've used in a long time, perfect clickyness
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Pre-ordered the 5900X, I really thought about getting the 5950X but I couldn't justify the extra cost as the extra cores and threads would be wasted plus there isn't much if any difference between the 5900X and 5950X in games, Should get it around December and then I'll sell on my 3950X.

Update

Had to cancel due to unforeseen financial circumstances :(



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Had enough of the old 360 controller time for something new, PS4 pad can stay on the PS4 from now on, won't be ordering a PS5 anytime soon, but I'll use this for Cyberpunk :D

Pad, cable and next day post £71 they don't give you a cable with the pad now they want to bleed you dry like a wet stone full of silver crushed into a paste and melted into bars!!!!



Gabe added support to steam, then just add non steam game to get controller support for games outside of steam nice and simple :D
 
Some additional pliers, an assortment of 4mm hex screwdriver bits, a new soldering iron tip, oscilloscope probes and an assortment of components for my DIY valve amplifiers.

 
One of these to prepare for a bigger GPU:
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But this cable construction confuses me, both the PCI-E aux cables are like this:
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Like how is that supposed to be neat. I suppose I've gotta shim one of the pins out and reroute them straight.
 
Purchased this Omen 15 inch laptop to replace my dying msi laptop which is suffering from severe framedrops due to overheating, having already replaced the thermal paste and cleaned it properly, its only when i totally underclock it, it doesn't throttle and drop down tot single digit fps, so enter,



Ryzen 5 4600h 6 core coupled with a GTX 1650ti and 8gb of ram on a ips display, nice upgrade from a 4th gen i7 and a gtx 850mobile.



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Nice! Love FFVII. Played it just before the remake was released and thoroughly enjoyed the remake too.

I'm a pretty big fan of the series, but VII is the cream of the crop, i guess people that are non fans think it's just the goto one but it's easily the best game i've ever played in my years of gaming, it'll go nicely with all my other trinkets :D
 
VII and IX are my personal favourites and I tend to struggle to pick the better of the two. I love them both!

VII, VIII and IX. Those three are timeless and easily replayable over and over. Its the only games I would actively grind for hours on end to get the best weapons and plans
 
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Replace GPU with two sound cards.

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My fantastic skills at explaining things at work, and not confusing at all.

Basically I looked about at HIFI components that could break the 44khz barrier. My pre amp is 96 capable, but Optical is 44. This is more than enough for any movies and so on. I am a million percent happy with the video and video sound capabilities, but I know the system has more to give sonically than I get from a Fire Cube and 44khz. I know this because I can very quickly pick out the difference over all of my headphones.

Sadly a CD player with 96khz capable FLAC/WAV is over £800 and a "streamer" high end audio box is about three grand. This is totally stupid, given all five of my sound cards can do 192 with their hands behind their back.

I really, really didn't want another PC but at the end of the day I can do this for less than £100. So why the f not?

I wouldn't mind so much if I had not dedicated the last several years to buying CDs on Music Magpie, ripping them and then giving them to family and friends. I did this so I could get them as FLAC and WAV etc.

I also want to see how my XFI Titanium HD sounds over the system. People criticise Sonus Faber for "having no mid range and being too neutral". I am intrigued to see what the two sound like (STX PCIE VS TIT HD). I already have all that, and a cheap Intel ITX board with a I3 2100 and 4gb RAM is £35 on Ebay. The PSU cost me £15.
 
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My fantastic skills at explaining things at work, and not confusing at all.

Basically I looked about at HIFI components that could break the 44khz barrier. My pre amp is 96 capable, but Optical is 44. This is more than enough for any movies and so on. I am a million percent happy with the video and video sound capabilities, but I know the system has more to give sonically than I get from a Fire Cube and 44khz. I know this because I can very quickly pick out the difference over all of my headphones.

Sadly a CD player with 96khz capable FLAC/WAV is over £800 and a "streamer" high end audio box is about three grand. This is totally stupid, given all five of my sound cards can do 192 with their hands behind their back.

I really, really didn't want another PC but at the end of the day I can do this for less than £100. So why the f not?

I wouldn't mind so much if I had not dedicated the last several years to buying CDs on Music Magpie, ripping them and then giving them to family and friends. I did this so I could get them as FLAC and WAV etc.

I also want to see how my XFI Titanium HD sounds over the system. People criticise Sonus Faber for "having no mid range and being too neutral". I am intrigued to see what the two sound like (STX PCIE VS TIT HD). I already have all that, and a cheap Intel ITX board with a I3 2100 and 4gb RAM is £35 on Ebay. The PSU cost me £15.
Toslink can do 192/24. I use that out of my RME HDSPe card into my marantz processor over an old van damme optical cable. Finding music in high sample rates is not so easy though. A lot of it is simply up-sampled from 44.1.

I picked up a new soldering iron to supplement my antique 45W weller magnestat iron. (a really old TCP-1) I also picked up a load of banana plugs, bnc adapters and some speakon plugs & sockets. The iron was somewhat determined by me accidentally buying the wrong tip. Bizarre pricing meant the "educational kit" which came with a roll of solder, an extra tip and a pair of xcelite cutters was about 30p more expensive than the basic iron only kit.
 
It's probably my TV out then that is limiting it to 44khz. It's really not an issue with the video stuff as I said. The surround is incredible. I just need a better source of music :)
 
Purchased this Omen 15 inch laptop to replace my dying msi laptop which is suffering from severe framedrops due to overheating, having already replaced the thermal paste and cleaned it properly, its only when i totally underclock it, it doesn't throttle and drop down tot single digit fps, so enter,



Ryzen 5 4600h 6 core coupled with a GTX 1650ti and 8gb of ram on a ips display, nice upgrade from a 4th gen i7 and a gtx 850mobile.


Not even a day of ownership and im returning it, it's a nice piece of kit but it is so loud, 2 fans spinning up like crazy and has a constant whine noise like a jet engine, esp when they are near the same rotation speed, and the edges being so sharp didnt really help it's cause, on to something else then!
 
Pulled a trigger on one of these
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679€ for 4750U, 16G and 512Gb nVME was too hard to pass. I was looking for a smaller form factor device but I can deal with a 15.6" laptop.
 
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