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Cases only have to be all about airflow if you want to guzzle down shit-tons of power.

Cases only have to be all about airflow if you want to guzzle down shit-tons of power.

The smaller you go, the more you have to optimize airflow. My case is fairly small and fits a huge amount of power due to water cooling. Its very efficient at dumping heat out into the room....

Great in winter. I ended up undervolting the rig, as the heat was giving me the shits and probably costing me too much money.

Lost about 5-10% FPS in return for 150w reduction in power usage...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cehXZftIYok

Optimum tech who specializes in high performance ITX builds, was able to boost the cooling performance of an aircooling rig by 15% by designing and 3D printing airflow intakes and exhausts like a car.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Mar 22 2024, 14:09

I didn't say a word about size.

I'm talking about how much electricity you're burning through.

In order, there's the start menu icon, the cortana/search icon, the magnifying glass icon, the explorer icon, the mail icon and the mediaplayer icon.
Can you see the big (if I dare say so) irony there?

isn't the start menu the search?

Cases only have to be all about airflow if you want to guzzle down shit-tons of power.

I always stuck to removing the cover plates, while the whole 'airflow' mentality tends to be about directing the air in the most optimal way, worked for my setups. only slight issue is the dust which is ignorable

A friend of mine bought an RGB monitor on my recommendation that was listed as "broken/for parts." But I have the same model, so I thought their problem of the picture not showing up except for a white bar at the top of the screen was probably due to them not letting it warm up long enough after it had been sitting for months or years. I'd had the same thing happen on my monitor and thought it had died before, but all I had to do was wait a couple minutes.

Sure enough, it got to my friend and all they had to do was wait a couple minutes. Or turn it on, wait 10-20 seconds, and then turn it off and on again.

The settings on the monitor were really messed up, so we went through the service menu settings together and reset everything to their defaults. Some were at values that aren't even possible through the service menus, so they must have been corrupted somehow at some point. Like a 0-15 range value that was set to 165.

That fixed a ton of things.

It also had a convergence problem, though - a bad one. Over the phone I helped guide my friend through taking the monitor apart and troubleshooting. First we realized the monitor had likely been dropped at some point because the deflection yoke was loose on the back of the tube and there were a couple little pieces of broken plastic from it rattling around. But we ended up not doing anything about that, because it was still being held in place relatively well. We did however find that a couple of purity/convergence adjustment rings had broken free, too, so i guided them through re-adjusting those and gluing the rings down. Now it looks awesome.

This pic is of my screen, but theirs looks similar. Same model and tube type.
Total cost for my friend? $180 in 2024 money. (Mine was free 10 years ago, but $180 for a quality 750 TVL RGB monitor is a relative steal these days).
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This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Mar 23 2024, 06:21

EVGA decided to create chaos by having within the same model designation two different cable pin layouts for their modular power supplies.

Using the modular cables from pin layout 1 on a pin layout 2 supply means the rails will be delivering the wrong voltages.

When people RMA a power supply, they are told to keep the cables and reuse them later which can now lead to destroying people's computers.

People know not to mix modular cables between suppliers and even different product lines but not the same model.

once again glad I didn't fall for the modular PSU meme (as nice as they sound sometimes).

Also it's funny how people are buying GPU's that are more power hungry than ever (perhaps 1KW for the next novidia flagship) before even while everyone's finally starting to acknowledge how much power we're wasting on GPU computing. And people fucking line up to buy it.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Mar 23 2024, 17:19

And boom, I nearly destroyed my brand new screen.
Should not have attempted a firmware update (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)
Now Displayport is dead (it temporarily resurrected before, but I'm not doing all the crap it took to revive it again), and HDMI only support 60Hz: another setting and it's like displayport, the screen is black though lit, and whatever is going wrong even prevent to open the screen configuration menu (so if I reconnect displayport, I would have to disconnect it to switch to hdmi, no switching through a menu).
Good thing changing resolution/refresh rate in nvidia control panel cause a countdown before going back to the previous config, it means I can avoid screwing up things more in hdmi.
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edit: and boom, trying PiP finished it, completely dead now. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)
Also I made a scary mistake: I unplugged my pc while trying to unplug the screen (it's a dusty chaos down there).
I'm going to be in trouble with H@H if I keep having technical difficulties that cut it. Surprising it didn't cause a recheck of the files/cache when started.

This post has been edited by uareader: Mar 24 2024, 17:32

Some monitors have ways of factory resetting to original firmware?

Monitor firmware updates always bug me as some monitors are easy to brick, like if windows automatically shuts down the monitor, or if the screen is blank when updating and you have to pray for it to complete.

I remember a laptop I had needed a firmware update for the graphics card to work with the monitor property.. the problem was the screen was blank, and you had to enter commands and if you powered off or screwed up it could brick the machine.
That one had me sweating.

I have never in my entire life had to upgrade firmware in a monitor.

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This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Mar 27 2024, 01:01

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Is that the new version of vPro?

It always seems funny (and mildly annoying) to me that people who probably have never touched a computer before in their life genuinely think chatgpt can actually replace real software engineers. Sure, when it can fix the memory leak that only happens once every 2 months that I have been trying to debug for a year.

It always seems funny (and mildly annoying) to me that people who probably have never touched a computer before in their life genuinely think chatgpt can actually replace real software engineers. Sure, when it can fix the memory leak that only happens once every 2 months that I have been trying to debug for a year.

Don't you know, we use AI to do it and AI to fix the mess that AI created and an AI to monitor that AI and then... and then... it goes to an actual human expert... before putting it through AI again.

Just AI all the way down.

Using AI to do it is almost a management meme now.

It always seems funny (and mildly annoying) to me that people who probably have never touched a computer before in their life genuinely think chatgpt can actually replace real software engineers. Sure, when it can fix the memory leak that only happens once every 2 months that I have been trying to debug for a year.

I've seen some complaints about some people being replaced with it. not so much purely ai but more one guy that knows what hes doing and can run the ai to generate a lot of useless boilerplating. dont forget theres a lot of software fields where its garbage all the way down regardless.
as long as I also need to go to some machines and physically plug in a cable and start the one piece of software no one remembers the name of to upload all the software again after it wiped itself I'll count myself safe from such clownery. but I really dont think its a given anymore for the entire software industry

Didn't realize NewPipe x Sponsorblock had been discontinued, until I checked its Github page 6 months later. Thankfully, Tubular is picking up where it left off.

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