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Posts posted by idigTexas
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3 hours ago, Dahobbs said:
Why were you going with SFX anyway in a case that large? Or was it just left over from a previous build?
It is an efficient and quiet performer, and I thought the extra room would be nice to have.
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23 hours ago, speed817 said:
Friend spotted Nico at Twin Peaks in Addison last night
16 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:what a douche
How rude. You don't even know his friend.
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Pro tip: If using a SFX PSU in an mid-ATX build, check the length of the included cables. Build is on hold while I await my PSU replacement.
Note: I am not a pro.
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3 hours ago, Dahobbs said:
Case fans?
The Lian Li LANCOOL 217 comes loaded with 5 fans, including twin 170s up front. Reviews say they are quiet and perform well, but if I find out otherwise, I can always replace them. Top exhaust will be handled by the AIO CPU cooler.
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8 minutes ago, vicerous said:
My only issue was RAM (No more gSkill for me) of all things. Spent a month chasing ghosts before I swapped in a new kit with better heatsinks and it's been happy since.
That's a bummer to hear about problems with G.SKILL, as I ordered some Ripjaws for my new build. They are going in a mid-ATX with good airflow, and the two modules will have an empty slot between them, so I imagine I will be okay. I'll find out soon enough.
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29 minutes ago, Dutch said:
Likelihood of him having another injury-fee season wasn’t great, and then there’s the whole “other thing.” Zubamendi is his replacement, which is an upgrade.
He had a few good moments, "few" being the key word there. I guess it doesn't serve any purpose to hold on to players who aren't likely to ever live up to their potential.
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I'm trying to decide how to feel about Partey leaving.
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8 minutes ago, Rimbo said:
Way back in the late 80s/early 90s... I wanna say 1991? There was a comment in a review article by the author that said, more or less: "The computer you want to buy is always $3000."
In the intervening years I've found this to be a great guideline that remains true today. If you set that as your budget, you will be very happy with what you get for a long time, without spending money on things you won't need or use.
I agree with that, though unless I need peripherals, I'm usually closer to $2000-$2500.
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1 hour ago, Dahobbs said:
I do want the next build to be a true SFF at 20L or under. I just saw the Lian Li Era 2 and I'm adding to my list of potentials. Bit more expensive than the others, but a very nice looking case with good thermals apparently.
I assume you meant Fractal Era 2?
All this SFF talk makes me wonder if I should have gone in that direction. My highest priority other than an acceptable level of performance is near silent operation, and I've always assumed SFF would run hotter, and thus louder.
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59 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:
IDK. THey seem to hate our guts still
They need to get in line.
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28 minutes ago, BoomMF said:
EDIT: Holy shit, still like $300+?! I thought it was going to be one of those "I'll pay you to take it off my hands kind of thing!"
There is no such thing in the GPU marketplace.
You can kick around the idea of upgrading piecemeal versus building anew, but we all know how this is going to end. On something that old, everything is a chokepoint, which means you'll never get the full benefit of any upgrades.
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3 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:
I'd do what Dr Fear suggest and then upgrade your RAM to this https://www.newegg.com/corsair-vengeance-64gb-ddr5-6000-cas-latency-cl30-desktop-memory-black/p/N82E16820982031?nm_mc=AFC-RAN-COM&cm_mmc=afc-ran-com-_-PCPartPicker&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=afc-ran-com-_-PCPartPicker&utm_source=afc-PCPartPicker&AFFID=2558510&AFFNAME=PCPartPicker&ACRID=1&ASUBID=&ASID=https%3A%2F%2Fpcpartpicker.com%2Fproduct%2F8ZQKHx%2Fcorsair-vengeance-64-gb-2-x-32-gb-ddr5-6000-cl30-memory-cmk64gx5m2b6000c30&ranMID=44583&ranEAID=2558510&ranSiteID=8BacdVP0GFs-t7rYbFz9vl83FDNlrng5Zg
In real world practical use, the difference between CL30 and CL36 DDR isn't noticeable, and I did not feel that it was worth the added expense. I prefer the look of Corsair Vengeance but it wouldn't really be visible once it is installed.
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After sitting on the fence for a couple of months, I went ahead and bit the bullet. I changed my aesthetic and decided that this will be a minimal RGB build, but gave myself the option on some components. I also scaled back slightly on the GPU, while splurging a little bit in other places. I wish I had bought the 5070ti a couple of months ago, but the RX 9070 XT isn't that much of a downgrade, and is the best value going right now. For my use, it will be more than adequate. I don't need a lot of storage, so the one drive should be fine, and I have two Samsung SSD 970 EVO 1TBs in my current rig that I can use for rotating backups. Everything should arrive by next weekend.
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2 hours ago, Deej said:
No, but...she's not that great of a host.
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23 hours ago, Deej said:
She's not ugly, but she's got a body Jerry Sandusky would love.
That doesn't make her a bad host of Top Chef.
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Just now, Deej said:
Kristen has neither.
So what? She was likely not going to fuck you anyway.
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I just finished binging the entire season over the past couple of weeks. It was a really good season, and it's always nice when the best chef wins it.
As for Kristen, she looks like the love child of David Bowie and his little China girl, but I think she is a great host. She is not Padma, but she isn't trying to be, and that should be okay. If you are only watching the show for T&A, then yeah, your enjoyment has probably taken a hit.
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9 hours ago, nozatx said:
Anybody know how common it is for draft-eligible guys to bother with portal and then sign with MLB? I'm never sure how to really assess baseball recruiting due to potential loss of players to draft.
Let me do the math.
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1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:
This is the wnba thread, and the sky are a wnba team, right?
Debatable.
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30 minutes ago, nozatx said:
DC Updates has an error in calculating USC's max score. He overstates it by 40 points because starting this year, women's soccer *has* to be counted, and USC gets zero points there instead of the 40 he was counting for men's golf as the final counted score of the max 14 optional sports. They can't count a full 200 points from sweeping T&F - they get a max of 160. Adding 160 to USC's current score of 1068.75 leaves them at 1228.75, which is short of Stanford's current score, so they're out.
You said this already, and it was refuted by the post immediately following yours. I don't know which is correct, but I'm not counting the cup until we have won the cup.
On 6/9/2025 at 7:57 AM, nozatx said:Okay, more succinctly, DC Updates overstates USC's total score potential by 40 points due to a technical error with women's soccer and USC cannot catch Stanford's current 1237.5. UT T&F has to do place high enough to catch and stay ahead of Stanford. So, watch results for UT M&W as well as Stanford W. Despite Stanford's relatively low track ranking, it only takes a couple of really high finishes to move way up the T&F team standings.
On 6/9/2025 at 10:43 AM, chiu1040 said:Though I can't always match DC update's scores exactly, he did get USC soccer right. They lost in the quarterfinals and scored 73 points. That's already in the score release of the Fall sports. Looks like an official update is coming out tomorrow that will reflect everything except baseball and T&F.
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29 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:
Gray, Diggs, Vasher, Thomas, Ross, Huff, DeAyala, Johnson, Barron, Mukuba and some others you could all argue for at DB. Texas has been called DBU over more than one era in the past. I could have picked a Mount Rushmore for D and made it all DBs.
Stanley Richard
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3 minutes ago, DanTheHorn said:
I didn't take it that way. I thought of the grenade launcher in a different context - more along the lines of, if asked, which coach is a bull in a china shop? or who is going to come in a shake things up and do it in a way that is not the standard way (i.e. vanilla)?
a) Steve Sarkisian
b) Mike Leach
I can see that. Regardless, I'm very happy with vanilla.
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7 minutes ago, DanTheHorn said:
Sarkisian did say he was approached before Texas by a few programs and turned them down and then jumped on the Texas opportunity when it came up.
I don't doubt that at all. What I found amusing was the take that hiring Sarkisian rather than Leach would have been a significant downgrade. Lucky for us, Sarkisian stayed put at 'Bama until we called.
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