I thought I was being a big brain genius when I built this thing and got a 120mm fan adapter and was using the fancy sterrox lcp whatever 120 noctua fan on the cpu, I thought that and the two t30s on top, I got all the best fans, great. but the idle temperature was always in the 50s, so just now I replaced the cpu fan with the one everyone actually said to use, this rinky dink a9x14 one, and used some fan ducts to seal it with the side panel, and now it does actually idle around 44-48, though the fan is slightly more audible when doing nothing. thatâs all good I guess, my main reason for doing all this was to have the ram accessible so I can just rip it out the next time it fucks me.
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Zen 4 also just runs stupid hot
yeah and it gets up there anytime I actually do anything, but everyone kept specifically saying â40 some degrees idleâ with this specific case, cpu and even bigger gpus, air cooled or watercooled (which made me end up going with air cooling at the last minute since it made no difference), so it bugged me.
Realizing my surface pro 3 is 10(!!!) years old and my Macbook air is 8 years old so I am on the hunt for a new laptop, as it were. I am watching a youtuber who only reviews drawing tablets. I was considering a Microsoft Surface Pro since the last one lasted a pretty long time, except the drawing hardware is the Microsoft Pen which has pen wobble and the pen + keyboard cost extra. The new surface pros all use ARM processors so anything x86 has to be emulated and thereâs noâŚheadphone jack. Asus has made a similar product called the Pro Art but it also uses the Microsoft Pen and has similar problems, and also doesnât have a headphone jack.
Well thereâs also something called the LincStudio S1. It has an Intel Processor, and a matte screen, and a Wacom (!) pen, and a headphone jack. and an honest to god USB A port. There are some notable limitations like having a processor from 4 years ago - shortcut keys under plastic, the keyboard doesnât sit flush with a table surface, and itâs from a company I have never heard of. But it has everything else. I just worry about build quality, i keep my laptops for a very long time so I need them to last.
My other idea is to get a âgaming laptopâ so I can do development on the go, and then just use one of my wacom tablets with it. Something like an Asus ROG (haha) Flow X13. This is an area I know even less about. Every new laptop seems to be hawking AI garbage which includes things like âautomatic eye contact correctionâ for webcams. Great.
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I think thatâs something theyâre not allowed to do in schools anymore.
My ROG Zepherus from 2021 has been one of the most hassle free laptops Iâve ever had. It was a lifesaver for video editing, and I could run Elden Ring maxed out.
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If you need a portable device with drawing get an iPad and a pencil.
If you want a laptop that does laptop stuff get a MacBook Air or something new with a lot of battery life.
Donât do mobile gaming. And if you need a workstation on the go make sure someone is paying you because thatâs just a big stupid expensive thing.
new computer is put together⌠well. almost! itâs booting, but the thermalright peerless assassin wonât arrive until after xmas so iâm just using @FrequentPilgrimâs old AMD Ryzen 3600 cooler for now, and until i figure out the GPU situation it is accommodating an old R9 Fury my brother also lent me for testing
those microcenter AMD bundles were really good, so i upgraded my 8700K to a 9700X + 32 GB DDR5 + 4TB Samsung PRO SSD. once the cooler arrives, iâm gonna take the GTX 1070 out of my retiring current PC and chuck it in the new one until i figure out what the new GPU play is gonna be
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i love this fuckinâ thing
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a mental place of perfect chilling
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honestly my AM5 ITX noctua seems to really suck, highest CPU temperatures Iâve ever had, but as I am seemingly one of the only people in the world who actually takes the manufacturer at their word when they say itâs ok if this generation hits 90c on a regular basis, and it was like the only thing on the market that actually fit in my horrible little box 2 years ago, I think itâs fine
mostly I still think the 7700x is still super underrated, itâs on eco mode and undervolted and still boosts up to 5.5 in normal use and gives me no trouble and itâs dramatically cheaper than any other 8-core current gen chip that performs this well in this footprint. everyone seems to gravitate toward getting either a 6-core for value or an X3D for gaming and idgi
they found some stuff while snoopinâ around
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yeah this is consistent with all the existing rumors and it sucks imo
the only good potential outcome I can see from this (non) generation (itâs like the 9000 series except that used to be an annual non-refresh instead of a biannual one) is a cheaper 070 Ti card and I wouldnât even put money on that happening, which is why I have a 4090 (both blower and non-blower models of which are now going for way way more than I paid a year and a half ago)
PC gaming is so dumb
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they should name graphics cards like they do hurricanes
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How do people even go about deciding on what laptop to get? I feel like itâs so incredibly clear to me, but everyone has a hard time.
Last time around I just said YOLO after reading a few reviews and it worked out pretty well
What if youâre poor?
an M1 Air in most retail channels is like $400 at this point, and you canât buy much in an actual store for less
if you are not even considering a retail purchase â well OK then!