Jason

On 3/29/2024 at 8:07 AM, cusideabelincoln said:

 

Ah, no they aren't universal. They can be, but a lot of coolers require you to take it off. Then they have you screw new brackets into the backplate, and those new motherboard brackets attach to the adapter brackets on the heatsink. I guess bracket isn't a very precise term here, but some require this method:

 

 

Trying to follow this video and I'm a bit confused about what to do with this:

Seems like forcing the lever thing closed would crack the CPU so do I just ditch this and the metal backpiece in the second pic and then it's just the cooler that keeps the CPU secured to the motherboard? Or do you really just keep going even when it feels like you're putting too much pressure on the CPU?

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Just now, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

The threshold for amendments to the Florida constitution to pass is 60% so I'm not hopeful for either of these passing.

Doesn't need to pass to drive turnout.

Florida Supreme Court allows one of nation’s strictest abortion bans to take effect

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/04/01/abortion-florida-supreme-court-ballot

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Florida’s conservative Supreme Court ruled Monday that the state’s constitution does not protect abortion rights, allowing one of the country’s strictest and most far-reaching abortion bans to take effect in 30 days.

 

But in a separate decision, the high court also ruled that an amendment to enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution can go on the November ballot, for a vote that could potentially undo the new strict abortion ban in a matter of month. 

24 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

When Go outside at night in the summer and I’ll notice that the number of fireflies is not nearly what I remember when I was a kid. Even in remote WVa it seems like there’s simply not that many at all when I distinctly remember catching so many growing up (and releasing them after)

Apparently it used to basically be guaranteed that your windshield would be caked in splattes bugs after a highway drive. 

10 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

This felt like just a step above the CW superhero shows.

On 3/14/2024 at 11:37 AM, cusideabelincoln said:

Oh yeah, I forgot a cooler. You can get a good air cooler for $40+ or a liquid cooler for around $100. You don't need to spend much, in fact most of the price of spending more is really about making it look cool with RGB and stuff.

 

Video decoding will be handled by the GPU. The Intel processor will be better if you do productivity that needs more cores, like video editing and such. I'd lean more towards the AMD CPU for your situation, and it's also rumored the next gen of AMD CPUs are going to be a big improvement and should be compatible with the motherboard. The motherboard has multiple PCIE 5.0 slots (one for an SSD, one for a GPU) in case that becomes relevant in the future.

 

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This cooler looks like it's the same thing as the one on your list right? Different Amazon listing, reordering from the link in your list it says I wouldn't have it until April 8, this one says I could have it in a day or two. 

Well this CPU cooler hasn't moved since 5 AM yesterday on the Amazon tracking so I it's almost certainly not arriving today. So no loss on waiting for a case to arrive too I guess. 

13 minutes ago, stepee said:

There is no way in hell I would still live here if that happened that’s for damn sure. 

Definitely ruing not getting my Polish passport before they rescinded my eligibility. 

Just now, cusideabelincoln said:

The 980 Pro heatsink looks more than adequate, so I'd leave the mobo heatsink off.

 

I'd also leave the PCIe 5.0 slot open for future use.

 

Most new cases do have glass panels, but there are a few standard ones. There are a lot of options that are easy to build in and at various sizes. Even a lot of compact cases are pretty easy to build in, but you would need a mini-ITX board. I'd be concerned about cooling with the Fractal Design Silent option though, looks like it only has 1 exhaust fan.

What about this other one by the same company, Fractal Design Pop Air Mid-Tower Case, which is similar to the first one, first one has no RGB lighting in the fans and this one does but I can turn the lights off right?

I like how this case looks, some pictures show a glass panel and some don't so it seems like the glass panel is optional? This one with the mesh side also looks okay, I prefer the plain black front of the first one to the wood paneling on this one but this seems like it may have better airflow?

Well either a new case or just buy this I guess?

4 hours ago, cusideabelincoln said:

You don't have to use that heatsink if your SSD comes with one. Although you could take the SSD heatsink off and replace it if its significantly smaller than the motherboard-provided one to get better cooling. I do believe under heavy read/writes the WD Black SSD will throttle because it gets too hot with the stock simple heatsink.

 

 

And those look like SSD standoffs. The case should provide motherboard standoffs, which are probably pre-installed.

The SSD is a Samsung 980 Pro with heatsink, not sure how good that included heatsink is.

The SSD slot has its own little plastic lever tab to secure the SSD so would seem like I don't need the standoff since that seems like it's already a standoff? Not sure why the mobo came with SSD standoffs if it's got these tabs though.

Also for the SSD, presumably I should place it in one of the NVME PCIe 4 slots instead of the 5 slot for if I get a NVME PCIe 5 SSD down the line, but the area for the 4 SSDs has got one long heatsink covering two slots so if I did that and add another NVME PCIe 4 slot I'd guess I'd need to also get another SSD with its own good heatsink or remove the one on my Samsung so I could use the mobo one for moth?

And on the case I was gonna use the last mobo I had in there was smaller than the new one so it looks like I took out some of the standoffs for the previous build. And now I don't know where they are or if I still have the screws to secure the motherboard to them either. Maybe I should have just bought a new case after all. The one you linked to looks nice and easy to work with but I'd rather just have a metal side than the glass panel...but it looks like most cases have a glass panel now? Anything comparable come to mind that would just not have the glass side?

Another one. These are standoff pins right? If so...this is all the standoff pins the mobo came with???

The screws don't even reach to the mount with the SSD in so whatever it is I'm guessing I don't need to use it. Saw a setup video for the mobo where the guy put it back after putting the SSD in but he didn't say anything about what it is. It does have a adhesive strip on the other side that he pulled off first. 

Starting to poke around a little bit. Is this a heatsink for the SSD and if so I presumably don't need to put it back on if my SSD already has one? 

smfh

I guess I'll leave building until I have everything then. The new ETA is tomorrow but I also got an email saying I'll get a refund if it's not here tomorrow, which seems like a bad sign for it actually making it.

So this magazine actually arrives right, unlike a magazine from a certain gaming website? 

1 hour ago, Signifyin(g)Monkey said:

I don’t think you can really make any assumptions about anything in this election, more so than usual.  We haven’t had a former president square off against an incumbent since the 19th century; we have more people telling pollsters that they dislike both candidates than we have ever had since we’ve been keeping track; and our media environment is so fragmented that no one can agree on wtf is going on.  We had an insurrection at the capitol every moment of which was broadcast on the news, yet half the country believes it didn’t happen.  We have a man running for president who was found guilty of sexual assault, with a charge for rape that a judge pronounced to be ‘substantially true’, yet half the country doesn’t even acknowledge it, and claims they’d consider voting for him.  Unemployment is historically low and economic and wage growth is stronger than its been in decades yet when polled 4 months ago six in ten Americans say they think the economy is in recession.

 

We are seeing a complete breakdown of the information ecosystem that allows voters to understand what’s going on in the world beyond their immediate environment, and a historic collapse of the civic norms that are the guardrails of democracy.

 

We are not a republic of rational politics anymore, so rational assumptions are no longer a surefire guide to what our future looks like, especially in the matter of elections.

I'm most worried about the GOP just straight up stealing the election. Enough states were won on like 10k vote margins that they could do it and have it be hard to tell for sure whether it was actually just the state swinging the other way this time.

Without the the straight up steal risk, I would feel pretty confident that Biden wins again, although no idea about the House or Senate even in that scenario.

1 hour ago, TUFKAK said:

Dude it was a Pangolin, everybody knows this.

It's okay to install the CPU cooler at the end right? Maybe I could at least get everything else set up and then just plop in the CPU cooler when it arrives. 

1 minute ago, Ghost_MH said:

You might be thinking about Bulla, Vegeta's daughter, who was a baby in the DBS Broly movie. I don't remember if Goku met Bulla, but her debut was definitely there. That much I remember because until then Bulla was always older than Pan thanks to DBGT, but DBS swapped them around and made Pan the older of the two girls.

Ah yeah I'm probably thinking of Bulla, thanks.