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Bitcoin's recent price increase
I use nicehash to mine in the background. It's simple and works great. For GPU temps I turn power % down to 70-90% depending on the gpu. It keeps things cooler and actually doesnt effect profitability that much. I can use my PC for gaming and as my media PC even while mining and it runs great...- Cptn Vortex
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Ever wonder why online retailers die? Exhibit A:
Some items can be explained by being an item their distributor carries. Basically they get a daily inventory/stock/price list from major distributors which more than likely just gets automatically merged/uploaded to their site with markup added. Perhaps that item was tagged in the wrong category...- Cptn Vortex
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Bitcoin's recent price increase
If you can afford to hold, may as well. If you want to get some shiny new hardware, or pay off debts, I'm sure you cant go wrong cashing out. I myself dont have too much in the game but I dont need cash right now, so I may as well hold it. 2017 it pumped to $19k. This time $34k so far. Who knows...- Cptn Vortex
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Want to Buy Long shot: new server case
https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/define/define-7-xl/black/ It's $279/299 depending on glass panel or not, but these are really really nice cases. I would say definitely worth the price. Heavy though....- Cptn Vortex
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- Forum: Buy/Sell & Trade
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Want to Sell Logitech Zone Wireless for Teams Headset, Corsair XG7 RGB Waterblock, i7-2600k Combo's
Logitech Zone Wireless for Teams Headset, like new used briefly but upgraded to Lenovo X1 ANC Headset. This Logitech Headset has the bonus of one-button touch for pickup/hangup for teams calls. Also has selectable Active Noise Cancelling. Auto-mute when mic boom is raised. Nice headset and...- Cptn Vortex
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What should one be looking for when comparing monitors?
I use a Acer XR34 100hz IPS at home for my gaming and I love it. At work I have the MSI Optix MAG341CQ VA 100HZ and honestly it's pretty darn close to the Acer's image quality. I'd be happy recommending either (I dont think they make the Acer any more), but the MSI is a decent price...- Cptn Vortex
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- Forum: Display Units
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Access Point recommendations
Most people will point you in the direction of Ubiquiti. It is decent hardware for the price. If you only need one you can set it up as stand-alone mode which is very simple, but if you want to create a mesh network you'd need to set up a controller application on a PC/Server or get a Cloud-Key...- Cptn Vortex
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- Forum: Networking
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Free Antique parts free except shipping.
I've got one... but holding on to it!- Cptn Vortex
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- Forum: Buy/Sell & Trade
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Two or four STICKS?
Technically, 4Dimms is slightly faster, but you're introducing roughly double the chances of facing issues (2x the amount of sticks that could error/fail). https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_ryzen_ram_scaling_effect_in_games,6.html- Cptn Vortex
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- Forum: RAM
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X5900 Build
Any reason the Aorus Master over the Ultra? I guess it has a 2.5gb NIC but otherwise pretty similar. I've got the Ultra and it's a darn solid board- Cptn Vortex
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- Forum: New Builds
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Recommendations: Laptop for gaming
https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX81031 Looks pretty darn decent to me. For the $ though this is pretty darn hard to beat too: https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX81038- Cptn Vortex
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- Forum: Mobile Computing
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Corridor Crew + Puget?! A decade+ old argument returns -feat. Behemoth!*
Their premium is not that much bigger, if I have some time I'll do up a config and run some numbers but I think it'd be in the 15-20% realm. And for that, no-one on staff at Corridor is tasked with having to configure, test, and build out the systems. Paying 15-20% markup on the hardware is a...- Cptn Vortex
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Corridor Crew + Puget?! A decade+ old argument returns -feat. Behemoth!*
Puget does have markup, but I don't see them as horrendously overpriced like BOXX systems (lol)... Also Puget has so many great case studies and articles/testing for the Pro-market. I use them as a resource all the time, there is value in that. That being said the systems we build here for my...- Cptn Vortex
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SATA HDD replacements?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/12438/windows-10-storage-spaces Takes the complication out of RAID setup etc for non-power users.- Cptn Vortex
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- Forum: Storage
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WD Black PCIe 512GB SSD
$100 shipped I'd think. A new SN750 is $100- Cptn Vortex
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- Forum: Price Check
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Battery issues with a ThinkPad T470s
Ah shoot, sorry I missed that. I dont know what could fix it apart from a new board. I know on the X1, we tried a new battery but it did the same thing, so really the only part left to change was the motherboard, which did solve the problem. I did a quick check and the T470s boards are crazy...- Cptn Vortex
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- Forum: Mobile Computing
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Battery issues with a ThinkPad T470s
I had a client's X1 Carbon 5th Gen with that same issue, would think it was still plugged in when charger removed. Only fix was to do a battery reset every single time. We ended up replacing the motherboard under warranty. Do you have any warranty left on that one?- Cptn Vortex
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- Forum: Mobile Computing
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Usb th-dumb drive
Buy a new identical one for $5 and give them that saying you fixed it?- Cptn Vortex
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- Forum: Storage
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