Replaced the SATA expansion card in my NAS with a 9207-8i HBA card. It improved the transfer speeds between hard drives and system shutoff speed. I read that you can connect up to 256 devices.
What have you purchased recently?
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Bought a new graphics card and cpu. Graphics card is arriving on Monday, I'm picking up the CPU on Sunday (I love living near a Microcenter). I'll get to spend the holidays setting everything up and dialing things in. About a $700 upgrade to my current set up.
Not sure what I'll do with my old GPU and CPU. Maybe I'll sell them and recoup some value, but it's kind of a pain in the ass.
Not sure what I'll do with my old GPU and CPU. Maybe I'll sell them and recoup some value, but it's kind of a pain in the ass.
A trip to Mendoza. Nothing says Christmas like touring vineyards and checking out Incan ruins under 30 C° weather.
What gear did you get?
As for me, I got the 4K releases of Transformers One, The Wild Robot and The Avengers (normally I’d stream a Marvel movie but for some reason they have very bad sound mixing on Disney+)
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I bought a Sapphire Pulse Radeon 7800xt for my graphics card as an upgrade from my 5700xt, and I'm planning on upgrading my CPU to a Ryzen 5700x3D from a 3600x.
I have an AM4 mobo, so the best I can do is a 5000 series CPU, but from testing I've seen x3D CPUs beat pretty much everything else out of the water for gaming. The only thing that outclasses an x3D chip is other x3D variant CPUs, but at 1440p or higher the difference between the x3D CPUs tends to only be a few frames between generations.
I considered upgrading to AM5 (microcenter has some pretty good deals on mobo, CPU, and ram combos), but frankly the majority of games I play aren't CPU bottlenecked even now with the 3600x that I currently run, and from testing the extra ram speed from DDR5 isn't particularly noticeable in most of the applications I use. It would be kind of nice for the occational 3D modeling that I do, but I do that rarely enough that it's not worth spending hundreds of dollars to upgrade to shave 30 seconds off a render time once every few weeks.
Got my 1st displates the other day. I think I'll get more before the sale ends. I'm pretty sure I know where I'm putting them but don't know where to relocate my other prints. I feel like getting them aligned properly will be much harder than a normal print with a frame though.
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If I might make a suggestion, don't just trust the adhesive on the back of the magnet. I had that adhesive fail, the displate fall, and take a massive chunk out of my baseboard moulding, which I then had to fix.
I recommend adding some thick CA glue on the back of the adhesive before sticking it to the paper sticker on the wall. The glue shouldn't go through the sticker (since it's kind of waxy), so you should still be able to remove it from the wall without damage, it'll just prevent the magnet from coming off the paper.
The reason I didn't get them before was because of the whole hanging/mounting situation as you mentioned. I read that some people just put a nail through the magnet, I think I'll try that out.
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That works, but it's not necessarily renter friendly (not that nail holes are hard to patch).
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Yeah, it should be a pretty significant uplift, especially since most of the games I play are DX11.
Currently playing it myself. It's not better than the first by any stretch. It suffers mostly from Ubisoft's incessant need to pile on "everything” when a “few things” work just fine, but the tone is comical at best; despite the sever implications of its premise, you’re basically one of a handful of juvenile pranksters committing heinous crimes in the service of a popularity contest. It’s fun as a game, but the first Watch Dogs is superior in all the ways that make the series worthwhile.