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Good. You know what surprised me? Modern video cards. My RX 580 had a max power draw of 185 watts. This RX 6600 has a power draw of 132 watts. The same goes for CPUs. My 2600 was pulling down about 65 watts under load, which wasn't much, but when I bumped up to the 5600, it still only draws about 65 watts (I'm using non-overclocked numbers). I love energy efficiency.Yeah, that configuration isn't going to draw too much power.
Oh, and so today I now have the power supply, the new case (I direly needed a new case as the other one was old and broken) the CPU, and I'm only waiting on the GPU and the Motherboard to show up, which they should be here on Monday.
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I opened up the box that contained the case in it today. I wanted to get a good look at it so I could plan out how I wanted to situate certain components when they get here. Too my surprise, this case is enormous! I just thought there was lots of packing material inside, but when I opened it up, it was 90% case. 
Where I thought I ordered a micro-ATX case, I ended up getting a full ATX case. I mean, this is great! I've always had issues working in smaller cases, my hands just aren't as nimble as they used to be, and there's so much room in this thing. It comes with three giant fans, too: two in the front bezel, and one in the back. Air flow for this thing is going to be terrific!
It has to be the nicest, fanciest case I've ever owned, and the pictures from the listing didn't do it justice. I could put the entirety of my other case in this one and still have room.
Oh, I can't wait to put this beauty together.
Where I thought I ordered a micro-ATX case, I ended up getting a full ATX case. I mean, this is great! I've always had issues working in smaller cases, my hands just aren't as nimble as they used to be, and there's so much room in this thing. It comes with three giant fans, too: two in the front bezel, and one in the back. Air flow for this thing is going to be terrific!
It has to be the nicest, fanciest case I've ever owned, and the pictures from the listing didn't do it justice. I could put the entirety of my other case in this one and still have room.
Oh, I can't wait to put this beauty together.
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I opened up the box that contained the case in it today. I wanted to get a good look at it so I could plan out how I wanted to situate certain components when they get here. Too my surprise, this case is enormous! I just thought there was lots of packing material inside, but when I opened it up, it was 90% case.
Where I thought I ordered a micro-ATX case, I ended up getting a full ATX case. I mean, this is great! I've always had issues working in smaller cases, my hands just aren't as nimble as they used to be, and there's so much room in this thing. It comes with three giant fans, too: two in the front bezel, and one in the back. Air flow for this thing is going to be terrific!
It has to be the nicest, fanciest case I've ever owned, and the pictures from the listing didn't do it justice. I could put the entirety of my other case in this one and still have room.
Oh, I can't wait to put this beauty together.
That looks super cool.. well done.
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I'm back, baby! They dropped off the parts about an hour ago, and now we're cruising again in comfort on the good ship Twilight. 
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It's so nice to click a link and get an instant response.^^ Nice to hear that you've got a working machine again.
Sounds like some meticulous work ahead.Not much plans for my horde of PC's, they'll have to wait, I've got an old scooter to restore and I just managed to seperate the engine from the frame.. as far as I can see this ain't going to be cheap..
Thank you! She's a big, beautiful case. That I got her as cheaply as I did despite it being very well made is just a bonus. I had SO much room to set everything up, and that was a nice change of pace. My fingers aren't as nimble as they once were. Right now, the CPU is sitting at a comfy 36°C, and the GPU at a lovely 38°C. Lots of airflow!
Does anyone know if there's a way to display Windows Update progress in the task bar in Windows 10? Reason I ask is because Windows tends to like doing stealthy background updates. I seem to remember it used to show an update's progress with Windows 7 or earlier. And when it's doing an update like it was doing for me yesterday, when it's a big update it tends to really slow things down with my computer. It only dawned on my to check Windows Update and see that there was in-fact an update in progress at 74%, and it still took awhile even after that.
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I did some digging, and found instructions here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61716689/how-to-show-progress-in-taskbar-button-on-windows-10
You can find the taskbarlib.tlb file here:
https://github.com/ihaveamac/custom-install/blob/safe-install/TaskbarLib.tlb
It will take some under the hood registry editor work, though.
most of use would have heard of the Xerox Alto which which was the first system with a gui in the mid 70s.
By the mid 1980s they were building the Daybreaks which were a backplane design (Similar to what brands like Sun and Motorola were doing with the VME bus).
The Daybreak also had a board with an 80186 so it could do PC emulation. It used a virtual disk and diskette setup for the virtual machine storage but the emulation work was done in main memory.
Though wasn't the only Intel processor in the system - it also had an 80186 system to offload the I/O functionality to help system performance.
Also at the same time the Daybreak came out you had Sun starting to take off in the workstation market plus systems like the HP Apollo while NeXT was 4 years away, Apple was going great guns with the Mac and MS were faffing around with the early version of Windows.
By the mid 1980s they were building the Daybreaks which were a backplane design (Similar to what brands like Sun and Motorola were doing with the VME bus).
The Daybreak also had a board with an 80186 so it could do PC emulation. It used a virtual disk and diskette setup for the virtual machine storage but the emulation work was done in main memory.
Though wasn't the only Intel processor in the system - it also had an 80186 system to offload the I/O functionality to help system performance.
Also at the same time the Daybreak came out you had Sun starting to take off in the workstation market plus systems like the HP Apollo while NeXT was 4 years away, Apple was going great guns with the Mac and MS were faffing around with the early version of Windows.
If it hadn't been for these innovations and inventions we wouldn't have what we have now. Thank you for sharing this
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Thanks for diggng around! I don't think I want to risk editing the registry though. It's a shame they've removed the feature, as it's definitely useful if you find your PC being slowed down. I always have to remember that maybe it's via a Tuesday update, but sometimes the updates themselves fall on a later day.
Revolution in the case fan market: Alphacool Apex Stealth Metal (Power) Fan in an exclusive review
This could be a HUGE game changer for the Case Fan market.
This would allow for higher RPM's to reach the same dBA level with MUCH more CFM & Static Pressure on Metal Framed Fans.
This could also be the start for bringing back TMD (Tip Magnetic Drive) since you can isolate the EM coils to the 4 corners of the case fan structure and move to a Ducted Ring Fan (which is becoming ever more popular) and shrink the fan hub to be < 5 mm in Diameter.
That would do wonders for so many fans IMO.
A combination of multiple factors would allow some really cool innovations that is going to be a "Game Changer" in the Case Fan world along with MagLev fans starting to become more common with some claimed MTBF from ASUS & Corsair to be crazy:
Corsair ML Fans (MTBF: 200,000 Hrs ~22.8 Yrs)
Asus ROG Strix XF120 MagLev (MTBF: 400,000 Hrs ~45.6 Yrs)
I'm looking forward to what's coming since it's going to allow HeatPipe-Fin & Radiator based cooling to drastically improve.
This could be a HUGE game changer for the Case Fan market.
This would allow for higher RPM's to reach the same dBA level with MUCH more CFM & Static Pressure on Metal Framed Fans.
This could also be the start for bringing back TMD (Tip Magnetic Drive) since you can isolate the EM coils to the 4 corners of the case fan structure and move to a Ducted Ring Fan (which is becoming ever more popular) and shrink the fan hub to be < 5 mm in Diameter.
That would do wonders for so many fans IMO.
A combination of multiple factors would allow some really cool innovations that is going to be a "Game Changer" in the Case Fan world along with MagLev fans starting to become more common with some claimed MTBF from ASUS & Corsair to be crazy:
Corsair ML Fans (MTBF: 200,000 Hrs ~22.8 Yrs)
Asus ROG Strix XF120 MagLev (MTBF: 400,000 Hrs ~45.6 Yrs)
I'm looking forward to what's coming since it's going to allow HeatPipe-Fin & Radiator based cooling to drastically improve.
This parody from many years ago
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Dropped down to one monitor for my system. As much as I love KDE, I don't think KDE likes multi-monitor setups. I've noticed a vast improvement in speed, responsiveness, and stability by removing one monitor. I'm still adjusting, and I miss having my terminal pop up on a secondary screen without my having to look away from what I'm doing, but this is clearly the better option for me.
Plus, it will let me eventually move to Wayland (no longer having to focus on Wayland ignoring secondary monitor window positions), because while I am a die-hard X11 user, the distros and desktop environments are moving away from it.
Plus, it will let me eventually move to Wayland (no longer having to focus on Wayland ignoring secondary monitor window positions), because while I am a die-hard X11 user, the distros and desktop environments are moving away from it.
Partitions are important.
Don't do the silly thing I just did. I deleted the partition on the B drive of my laptop that had a system image without first checking the drive and now have to do a fresh install of everything...
Yay /s not happy
Don't do the silly thing I just did. I deleted the partition on the B drive of my laptop that had a system image without first checking the drive and now have to do a fresh install of everything...
Yay /s not happy
It's why I stopped using KDE years ago. It's better now, less glitchy and in my case even good with wayland, but it doesn't like when I switch from a 2 monitors to a single monitor setup and back to 2 with menus opening on the wrong monitor.
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[ pats back ]
We've all been there, friend.
I once left my external backup drive on, didn't pay attention to which drive I was installing Linux on (because I thought there was only the one drive active), and lost 4 TB of backup data.
Exactly. It's like pulling teeth for me to say this, but Windows is still the better multi-monitor OS option. KDE has a way to go before they can offer that kind of functionality.
