I think I might have lost my mind finally. Since I've decided to forgo( at least what I've been convinced of for now) of this gen for the first time ever. I bought a Asus azroth extreme at best buy tonight. At least it was on sale. And next target is a Asus Destrier and crosshair hero x870e since I was able to snag a 9800x3d on amazon a few days ago.
I might be out my mind but I really need a good chair and was tired of buying 300 dollar keyboards that keep failing . The price was high but my god I could rob a bank with this 3lb keyboard.
EDIT: The keyboard may be a bit over priced but my good been using it all night. Might be the best thing peripheral wise I have every used .
I looked in to that chair as well be decided to go with the Herman Miller Embody for 2 reasons:
1. The warranty 12 years parts and labor vs 1 year limited warranty
2. The Aesthetic
Have you tried out the Herman Miller Vantum? personally I would spend the extra cash for the warranty alone.
I looked in to that chair as well be decided to go with the Herman Miller Embody for 2 reasons:
1. The warranty 12 years parts and labor vs 1 year limited warranty
2. The Aesthetic
Have you tried out the Herman Miller Vantum? personally I would spend the extra cash for the warranty alone.
The Embody was my first choice but it's 2800 cad and I'm pretty tall so I'd have to also splurge on the atlas headset which is another $300.
I've sat in both chairs and prefer the mesh as It gets warm in my office. Also the point of what I was trying to do is take that $3300 + dollars a 5090 cost and *try* to skip another top end card to use it on setup peices I keep deferring on getting. The chair at best buy is only $800ish right now. It often goes on sale . I've also got a best buy account where I 18 months no payments and no interest.
I have tried the vantum but it seat pad is pretty shallow for me .
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The Embody was my first choice but it's 2800 cad and I'm pretty tall so I'd have to also splurge on the atlas headset which is another $300.
I've sat in both chairs and prefer the mesh as It gets warm in my office. Also the point of what I was trying to do is take that $3300 + dollars a 5090 cost and *try* to skip another top end card to use it on setup peices I keep deferring on getting. The chair at best buy is only $800ish right now. It often goes on sale . I've also got a best buy account where I 18 months no payments and no interest.
I have tried the vantum but it seat pad is pretty shallow for me .
I grabbed the Atlas headrest for mine, such a great addition.
I have bought/ rma/ sel so many keyboards in 4 years that are the top sku in the last4 years from steel series,corsair,epomaker,razer logitech. You name it and name a price point..
All have broken or just was " good enough" even built some bare bones kits. I no longer think I lost my mind buying the azroth extreme. One of the features I thought I'd never use was the hot toggle to controle my fans but I've used it every so hours .
I never thought a keyboard could be so accurate and so many " useless" features could make the day to day things and gaming so much more enjoyable.
I mean, you're still talking major mainstream companies there, top sku or no they're mass market. If you have specific wants in a keyboard you should probably be going custom rather than buying from one of those companies, or look at a boutique company that makes the type you want to use depending on your use case e.g. Dygma, Keychron, Kinesis). Although it sounds like maybe you've found one that does the job anyway so maybe you're set.
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I think if you work on your computer your keyboard is one of the things you use the most in your life, along with your phone. Spending on that even for diminishing returns makes a ton of sense to me. My Dygma is quite noticeably better for me with their software than anything else I've used. Paying a few hundred bucks more for that would be totally acceptable to me even if I had to replace it annually, which is not the case.
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I think if you work on your computer your keyboard is one of the things you use the most in your life, along with your phone. Spending on that even for diminishing returns makes a ton of sense to me. My Dygma is quite noticeably better for me with their software than anything else I've used. Paying a few hundred bucks more for that would be totally acceptable to me even if I had to replace it annually, which is not the case.
I mean for work, yeah. That's why I have 3 refurbished Logitech G513 Carbon (Tactile) keyboards in storage for my workstation since i love the way browns feel and the keyboard is heavy as #### and never moves, and those are only like $150.
For gaming I sincerely don't see the need to go over $200-220 for a decent keyboard.
Idk man keyboard fetishism is one of those PC builder things that has completely escaped me.
I've gone down the keyboard rabbit hole. 250 is the sweet spot. Came down to Nuphy air 96, Lowfree Flow 100 and Drop Shift v2. I think I've settled on the LoFree.
Anyways, is this a good spot to talk about Tablets?
I've been scouring for one that's going to be portable with a keyboards that has great screen quality .
I've come down the Lenovo Yoga Tablet plus or the Samsung S10+ or Ultra. Samsung has OLED and expandable storage but costs 200 to 400 more. Not including keyboard.
I want it for photo editing and movies mainly. I'm leaning towards the Yoga Tab Plus, for 1k (on sale right now for 880 all in) you get a 12 inch tablet with 16gb ram and 256 GB storage AND the pen and keyboard all included. I don't know how key expandable storage is when you can just plug in an external HD and card reader for a cameras memory card.
Anybody have any opinions on these products for the tasks I've mentioned?
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Anyone ever re-paste a laptop? My kid's laptop is having seeming overheating issues after he dropped it and broke the screen, thought maybe doing so jarred the seating of the heat sink or something, and I thought I could just take it apart, inspect it, and redo all the thermal paste to at least try an inexpensive fix.
Except:
Liquid metal, some kind of really thick thermal goop on the VRAM and VRMs (though some people don't seem to replace that?), and whatever's on the GPU. I've read that the PTM7950 thermal sheets are good for the CPU and GPU which would be easier than replacing the liquid metal..
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I bought a laptop while I was in Calgary, a Lenovo Legion 5i. I originally was going to keep it for just a couple weeks and probably return it, because I'm a piece of crap. But I fell in love with it, and I got it for such a good price that I can't bring myself to return it. The wife gave me the okay to sell my old laptop and keep this new one. It's really very nice.
Anyone ever re-paste a laptop? My kid's laptop is having seeming overheating issues after he dropped it and broke the screen, thought maybe doing so jarred the seating of the heat sink or something, and I thought I could just take it apart, inspect it, and redo all the thermal paste to at least try an inexpensive fix.
Except:
Liquid metal, some kind of really thick thermal goop on the VRAM and VRMs (though some people don't seem to replace that?), and whatever's on the GPU. I've read that the PTM7950 thermal sheets are good for the CPU and GPU which would be easier than replacing the liquid metal..
Thermal sheets look easy to apply. I would try that.
Anyone ever re-paste a laptop? My kid's laptop is having seeming overheating issues after he dropped it and broke the screen, thought maybe doing so jarred the seating of the heat sink or something, and I thought I could just take it apart, inspect it, and redo all the thermal paste to at least try an inexpensive fix.
Except:
metal..
The laptop company did terrible job of applying that liquid metal. Your going to really need to get every bit off really carefully with a q tip. Swirl the tip as you make each pass. Then take a tooth brush and 99% iso to the thermal putty on the chips and heat pipes. I personally would replace the putty with thermal pads if you can find any documentation. Thermal putty is easier because if you add to much it will just squish out. Juat not as good thermally as pads. For the gpu I would use a kyrosheet if you think you can keep it in place well enough for assembly. If not definitely use a good quality ptm7950 sheet. You could do.liquid metal again but I'm not personally a fan of how far the barrier is from the die. Usually the barrier is right on the edge of the die when it is applied.
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First step I guess is to just take the bottom off and make sure the fans are working ok and nothing there is clogged, it didn't look like it from what I can see, but can see more with the bottom off.
Looks like I can get a replacement LCD for not too much either so I guess it's worth trying all this.
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First step I guess is to just take the bottom off and make sure the fans are working ok and nothing there is clogged, it didn't look like it from what I can see, but can see more with the bottom off.
Looks like I can get a replacement LCD for not too much either so I guess it's worth trying all this.
First step would be get that liquid metal off very carefully. You definitely can not reuse that.
Finally just did a last upgrade on an AM4 platform. Had bought a 4070 super a few months ago but i was still struggling. But got an amd x3d chip and now 1440p works like a charm. Will probably move to AM5 in like 5 years lol
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