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[Slayer2003]

Been away from the forums a bit, got some ground to make up... As always click for bigger.


My 240sx had trouble seeing well at night, making things rather dicey at times. So I got some new glasses. Eyeballs? No that sounds weird... I looked into going with a DOT certified LED projector retrofit system, but the lowest I could find was in the $5-600 range. Yah these were $22/ea. on Amazon lol.





Waited a while for this one, but ordered a new clutch for the GTR earlier this year and it finally came through. Very excite!




A bit back I splurged on a new toy. Well the first time out with it, I realized constantly reloading a single mag for it sucks. So I found 4 more at a "reasonable" price.





And then for the same new toy I realized "you know what, the internet is right, the sight is too dang high!", so I ordered a low profile mount from Design Machine to fix that. Now it's sooper comfy to use and no more hovering over the stock to see through the sight.

Before, on the stock, very high picatinny rail After with the Design Machine low profile mount. It dropped the sight about an inch!




Last but certainly not least, I snagged a fancy range/storage bag from a local range, a Savior Equipment Specialist Double Rifle case. I like the idea of being able to bring only one or two bags when I head to the range, that holds all of my things instead of the way I've been doing it, which involves like 4-5 bags/cases. Sometimes, brain r dum. I also got a matching Specialist Covert rifle backpack from them specifically for storing the PS90, but haven't gotten around to setting it up yet. Been on a lazy streak lol.

I removed the padded divider for the pic, it kept flopping in the way. PS90 up top, Springfield Saint Victor 5.56 16" AR on bottom.

 

[rainless]

Been away from the forums a bit, got some ground to make up... As always click for bigger.


My 240sx had trouble seeing well at night, making things rather dicey at times. So I got some new glasses. Eyeballs? No that sounds weird... I looked into going with a DOT certified LED projector retrofit system, but the lowest I could find was in the $5-600 range. Yah these were $22/ea. on Amazon lol.

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Waited a while for this one, but ordered a new clutch for the GTR earlier this year and it finally came through. Very excite!

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A bit back I splurged on a new toy. Well the first time out with it, I realized constantly reloading a single mag for it sucks. So I found 4 more at a "reasonable" price.

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And then for the same new toy I realized "you know what, the internet is right, the sight is too dang high!", so I ordered a low profile mount from Design Machine to fix that. Now it's sooper comfy to use and no more hovering over the stock to see through the sight.

Before, on the stock, very high picatinny rail After with the Design Machine low profile mount. It dropped the sight about an inch!
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Last but certainly not least, I snagged a fancy range/storage bag from a local range, a Savior Equipment Specialist Double Rifle case. I like the idea of being able to bring only one or two bags when I head to the range, that holds all of my things instead of the way I've been doing it, which involves like 4-5 bags/cases. Sometimes, brain r dum. I also got a matching Specialist Covert rifle backpack from them specifically for storing the PS90, but haven't gotten around to setting it up yet. Been on a lazy streak lol.

I removed the padded divider for the pic, it kept flopping in the way. PS90 up top, Springfield Saint Victor 5.56 16" AR on bottom.
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Okay... I didn't actually read any of that...

...but what's up with the plaid shirt? Somehow... it seems CENTRAL to this entire tale.

 

[Slayer2003]

Okay... I didn't actually read any of that...

...but what's up with the plaid shirt? Somehow... it seems CENTRAL to this entire tale.

Ah, I see you've taken a liking to the soft and fluffy throw I use for my comfy Stressless reclining chair. I got it from Costco in case ya wanna snag one, think it was $14.

I used it to cover the black ottoman for the chair as it wasn't really showing detail well. It is very soft AND warm, both things that you want in New England after realizing maybe a leather chair in the winter isn't the best idea(I run the house somewhat cool int he winter). xD

 

[unsafesteagle]

Cut and got mounted to the chassis another keystone panel
this one mixes coax, phoneline, rj45 and lc fiber







needs some cleaning dust work completed id say ..
major improvement comparing before n after ...
good enough for now...

 

[Nebulous]

You still get hammered on the proptery tax here, $11,500 (not a typo)

Well, I get hammered on my property with a whole lot less than 11K

 

[Audioaficionado]

Just got this on ebay with Gold Xeon 5118 processors
Supermicro X11DPH-T LGA3647

 

[Evilsizer]

Roadside find, nice case. Does not turn on, used that fancy test button on the psu, things start lighting up. It does not bootup using the test button. Went old school jumping the power pins, nothing. Seems like the board is dead, removed all the ram/swapped ram around, same thing. there is not a single beep from the board no matter what i do. X99 with a 5820 cpu, mixed ram speed/sizes(2x8gb DDR4-2400, 2x16gb DDR4-2133), GB 1660, Delta electronic 850watt 80 bronze power supply.

 

[Audioaficionado]

Sort out the RAM and only put one type at a time, balance it and try to boot up.

 

[Evilsizer]

Sort out the RAM and only put one type at a time, balance it and try to boot up.

i did but the thing is, hitting the power button it does nothing. It wont even start up by old school touch the two pins with a screw driver. That is why i think the board is dead. I should open up one of my spare DDR4 rigs to test the ram and see if the GPU is any good. I wish i could find out if the dell psu is pinned to the atx standard or if they are doing like they use two with some pins swapped on the 24pin connector. As i am starting to think, i should scout out a X299 board and cpu for it.

 

[Audioaficionado]

Anything worth keeping out of e-waste?

 

[Evilsizer]

Anything worth keeping out of e-waste?

the GTX1660 is to big to fit in my main rig, my backup rigs are tiny little things LOL. only i will be able to test is the ram, i would do the psu but i am worried about them using custom pin out on the power cables.

 

[Audioaficionado]

Well at least the price was right

 

[Evilsizer]

Well at least the price was right

all the ram checks out good, the 2tb spinner was good and has her personal info on it.
E-waste is kind of right, LOL. I have moved to another position at my work. When i was upfront and having to sort batteries from the recycling bin. saved at two different times a APC BE or BG 500, then their is the big boy APC BR1000MS. all they needed were new batteries! Some times i wonder about people, batteries for the first two set me back around $20/ea. I still need to get one for the big boy though. Yea Free is the right price!

 

[Woomack]

Well, not today, but the embargo is until today. Somehow these SSDs are already available in many stores. In short, 4TB, single-sided, 14.8GB/s seq., 2.2M IOPS, 110MB/s low queue 4K random read, 52°C under load without a heatsink ... the last thing is probably the most impressive compared to most other PCIe 5.0 SSDs.

ADATA will have its Mars 980 series SSDs with similar components, but officially slightly lower specs. The Mars Blade SSD will be reviewed on the OCF soon.




Some results - this is on AMD. On Intel IOPS and RND4K Q1T1 are higher, while sequential bandwidth is lower ... all that at 52°C (in hwinfo64)

 

[rainless]

Well, not today, but the embargo is until today. Somehow these SSDs are already available in many stores. In short, 4TB, single-sided, 14.8GB/s seq., 2.2M IOPS, 110MB/s low queue 4K random read, 52°C under load without a heatsink ... the last thing is probably the most impressive compared to most other PCIe 5.0 SSDs.

ADATA will have its Mars 980 series SSDs with similar components, but officially slightly lower specs. The Mars Blade SSD will be reviewed on the OCF soon.

That's something I really need to look into. I'd love to replace all my 500GB and 1TB M.2 drives with 4TB...

 

[Evilsizer]

Well, not today, but the embargo is until today. Somehow these SSDs are already available in many stores. In short, 4TB, single-sided, 14.8GB/s seq., 2.2M IOPS, 110MB/s low queue 4K random read, 52°C under load without a heatsink ... the last thing is probably the most impressive compared to most other PCIe 5.0 SSDs.

ADATA will have its Mars 980 series SSDs with similar components, but officially slightly lower specs. The Mars Blade SSD will be reviewed on the OCF soon.

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Some results - this is on AMD. On Intel IOPS and RND4K Q1T1 are higher, while sequential bandwidth is lower ... all that at 52°C (in hwinfo64)

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what i read was, 8tb m.2 with super speed!

 

[mackerel]

The G5 looks nice, on paper at least. I've not kept up to date on other offerings but that 4k q1t1 looks good for a flash device. Still wondering if flash will ever catch up to Optane in that area.

 

[Woomack]

The G5 looks nice, on paper at least. I've not kept up to date on other offerings but that 4k q1t1 looks good for a flash device. Still wondering if flash will ever catch up to Optane in that area.

It's great in general, but again, it doesn't change much, as once data is loaded, most software uses it from RAM and only loads smaller data when needed.
For me, the best thing is a low temperature. It's fantastic to have a top-performing SSD that is 25°C cooler than those on earlier controllers, and it can be installed everywhere. Well, laptops have no M.2 PCIe 5.0, but random bandwidth/IOPS still scale the same, but with the PCIe 4.0 limit.
The worst thing is that the 4TB version costs ~$600.

 

[mackerel]

The worst thing is that the 4TB version costs ~$600.

That's still less per capacity than I paid for the 980 Pro when it was new. I don't think I'd get another very high end SSD until my next build, by which time hopefully pricing will come down in general.

 

[Woomack]

Samsung is always expensive. The 9100 seems a bit faster on paper, but in tests, not really. Prices are +/- the same, depending on the store. The 4TB Kingston costs more than Samsung in my local stores, but the premiere was yesterday, so it will be cheaper in a few weeks. ADATA is expected to be the cheapest, as usual, and the Mars 980 with the same Silicon Motion controller as Kingston is listed for about 40% less right now. It's about 10% slower, looking at the general specs, but the price difference is huge.

Btw. I returned the last 265K as it couldn't even post at 9000 G2 or 9600+ G4, and today arrived a new one. It posts at 9000 G2 and 10266 G4. The first one had 89 P-core score so like top 1%. The second one has 82 score so 1 point above the average looking at ASRock scale, but much better memory controller. I don't care about the P-core frequency as the difference between the average and the best is like 100MHz.
The 265K price also went down by $30 last week. Intel's price drop from two weeks ago was already included with the previous CPU; the new one is even cheaper. I wonder if prices will continue to drop, as right now they cost ~$350 inc. 23% VAT. In January, they cost $170 more in my local stores.