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000

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Computer Components

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Let’s share electronics-logics related experiences

Best cheap keyboard I ever bought. Swedish manufacturer of course. Ace KUC500. Sadly discontinued 5+ years ago.

Cheap, lightweight, slim bezel, chiclet-like keys, but taller, thin, large characters, danish æøå - not nordic multi äöå, audio control buttons, standard non-weird layout.

Purchased in around 2010 for like 15 Euro. Went semi-defective in 2013. Should have gotten a home stock of 10 of ‘em.

Haven’t found one that could match it since.

Currently as dirty as SiMPLE’s in-game chat

jime1

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Re: Computer Components

Looks like its a gardener

simon

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Wow a vomit covered keyboard

s/w

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Most people use toilet paper to wipe, 000 uses keyboards

000

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Re: Computer Components

HAHA   FUNNY !

i think ill smear dirt on more of my devices, then post, just to get reactions

this is nothing :

how pros clean their computers, right ?

Lecter

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Re: Computer Components

Please please dont pleasure yourself over the keyboard and dont you dare show it to us

000

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This thread is intended to be very serious and informative, so please, no more witty comments. Humor has no place in this forum.

I hope somebody will post an image of their hardware, together with a lovely little story. My sincere appeal; only mature contributions from now on.

I’ve been using Logitech MX518 and Logitech G400 for more than a decade, both as main general-purpose, and gaming mouse, and plan to keep it that way. They’re both discontinued and getting increasingly hard to find on sale as new. I dislike all mice from any brand, that aren’t shaped as G400/MX518.

Incredibly, Logitech headquarters could read my thoughts, and relaunched G400/MX518 in 2019 as “Logitech MX518 Legendary”. It has almost identical exterior, which is enough for me. There are Windows 10+7 drivers and onboard memory, so it can be used driverless in XP.

I’ve purchased 11 of those, just to future-proof some of my peripherals needs.

Here are 10 of them, stored away in my home, in case of mouseshortages occurring.

e.S

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Re: Computer Components

Good for you it's not expensive one...
https://www.elkjop.no/product/gaming/ga … -gamingmus

seVen

 

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First computer:  Packard Bell 286.  Paid about $1600 USD in 1990 (or was it 91?)
Friends got me interested in computers, and this was faster than what they had.
No soundcard, but I bought SoundBlaster (8 bit card ??) later.
This slick PC came with a setup guide on VHS tape.

A brochure is all that remains:

 

simon

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Re: Computer Components

Just a question xp, do you play any other games or is all this for BF42 only?

joint

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First computer:  Packard Bell 286.  Paid about $1600 USD in 1990 (or was it 91?)
Friends got me interested in computers, and this was faster than what they had.
No soundcard, but I bought SoundBlaster (8 bit card ??) later.
This slick PC came with a setup guide on VHS tape.

A brochure is all that remains:

https://i.postimg.cc/cKgpfTSK/1991-10-01.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/bG7Kgbym/1991-10-02.jpg
 

you were a rich kid!
i had a comp made at nearby factory

games were loading from/to audio cassettes and there was the basic ! )
load""
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cWiLbG7Hmc
still have boner when hear this analog fax sounds

Arkos

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Hehe, rich Kid

He is a li'l bit older

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joint

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Hehe, rich Kid

He is a li'l bit older

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Oh. My kindest props then!

joint

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Hehe, it is Orel' (name of a river here),  a clon of sinclair zx spectrum, wich is same as commandore64 i think.
This thing was created in my city as side product of missile facility (the missiles)

Did you all have computer fairs in your area?

Nothing like offline flee radio markets are here
Many pawn shops instead.

Black Mamba

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Just a question xp, do you play any other games or is all this for BF42 only?

He spends all his money to get the best hardware just for BF1942 while at the same time having one of the worse aims I've ever seen.

What a waste of time and money.

000

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is all this for BF42 only?

Calls a stack of mice for “all this” .....  It’s minor spendings and a trifle to me.

Even if I never played computer games, I’d have bought this hardware anyway. There’s a deeper intention with it.

Simon, can you show a pic of some of your computer bits, together with a small anecdote .... Your laptop or keyboard for example. We want to see if they have been modified in any way. 

Even better; in your year-long quest for getting whitelisted in Simple, how about making your brother stand behind you and video recording, while you’re playing on your PC in main Simple via a proxy, inf’ing .....

He spends money

There are people around here who are low in means and would call buying a mouse an investment. I’m not one of those. Acquiring a dozen pointing devices has very little impact on my economy.

One SATA DVD drive, one USB DVD burner, a roll of writable DVDs.

The very last 2021 remnants of my optical storage adventures, that ended many years ago.

Used to buy loads of DVDs and jewel cases, had boxes filled with games and movies. Now I’m down to just one big hard disk and of course prefer it that way. Needless to say, this new setup is a trillion times better.

Since HDD storage prices went below optical discs, optical discs became virtually pointless for mass storage. The NVM-to-HDD storage price ratio has been at 4:1 for a long time. Looking forward to 1:1 or lower. Hard drives are big, noisy, fragile and slow, yesterday’s tech.

For years I anticipated I wouldn’t ever use CD/DVD/Blu-ray again, but annoying incidents keep coming up.

Like interacting with legacy operating systems or getting obsolete physical handouts from public entities. Two weeks ago I burned my first DVD in ages, since vintage operating systems aren’t too fond of USB. I recently threw loads of burnable DVDs and cases out, but luckily kept the above leftovers.

Just search engine checked, they’re still available and can be bought cheaply in stores, but are on a glideslope to become even more niche or completely disappear, like printers, videotapes, cathode-ray tubes, combustion engines, redheads, sadly, and B42.

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000

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ive had a canon pixma ip4950 for ten years, it still works. a super printer

been using 1-2 euro non-original ink cartridges. still have a bag full of em

have printed thousands of pages with it in the early days when the world wasnt as digitized and online

i virtually dont use it anymore, and almost exclusively for printing labels to put on shipping boxes

https://youtu.be/tsKQkG8Z2cE

000

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Currently hustling with operating systems that have no USB support (drivers) for the motherboards I’m using. This usually means no keyboard/mouse function at all, making things harder. However, there are ways around that:

- Using BIOS USB emulation. A feature in some BIOSs that makes USB keyboard/mouse work without drivers. One of the most valuable functions, together with turning SATA channels on/off, from within BIOS, in my opinion. Should be a must for all mobos, but alas, it isn’t. I may even attemp to BIOS mod, to bring back these attributes, which are hidden and dormant in some boards.

- Using PS/2 keyboard/mouse .... some OSs support PS/2 input without drivers.

- Using a PCI-Express PS/2 adapter on motherboards that don’t have PS/2 ports.

One of my mobos doesn't have USB emu or PS/2 ports, and I don’t have any PS/2 keyboard + mouse + connector, so that’s what I had to purchase.

In 2021

Absurd

But that’s the price for going vintage.

I dislike buying used things, almost always go for brand new and quality. Found some native PS/2 gear:

https://eu.perixx.com/collections/keybo … 2-keyboard

https://perixx.com/collections/mice/products/10442

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003 … 6068%22%7D

Arrived some days ago:

000

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Confined/walled-in PC cases can be highly annoying, especially if one has an urge to experiment and test varying setups, and take modular approaches.

A closed box format has never appealed to me. I always end up with a semi-open rack, or nothing but the components themselves.

By the way, 30 x 24 /27 cm - ATX/EATX, is way too small, now that things have evolved. A discrete 4-slot GPU can block almost all the PCI-E slots. It’s very foolish and a huge step backward. On top of that, stupid horizontal NWMs which take up too much space, and can’t easily be plugged in/unplugged. They should be placed vertically and have their contacts in the long side, just like RAM.

I propose a new format called PTX (PROPER-TX): A 40 x 40 cm motherboard.

Some pay a lot for a plate to mount a mobo on in an open setup. Placing a board directly on a surface isn’t wise, raising it some centimeters is better.

I made a cheap and quick solution; ½ euro worth of screws, nuts and washers:

This above can't hold PCI-E cards vertically, but I found some low price racks for that too, only 15 euro:

000

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000 now has a Geforce 3090

I got it really really really really really cheap

Purchased it as brand new, factory sealed from a standard danish webshop. I only paid 2445 euro / 2778 us dollars for it

Asus    ROG-STRIX-RTX3090-O24G-GAMING

https://rog.asus.com/graphics-cards/gra … ing-model/

Probably the best of all geforce 3090 from all brands

A neat way of concluding 2021

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https://youtu.be/xN-jYtfOYKI

Jesus Villamor

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I got it really really really really really cheap

... I only paid 2445 euro / 2778 us dollars for it

You think that €2,445 / US$2,778 is effing cheap?

Hell, it's waaaaaaay ovepriced (thanks to eth miners + scalpers) comparing that to US$1,499 MSRP!!!

Black Mamba

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Re: Computer Components

I got it really really really really really cheap

... I only paid 2445 euro / 2778 us dollars for it

You think that €2,445 / US$2,778 is effing cheap?

Hell, it's waaaaaaay ovepriced (thanks to eth miners + scalpers) comparing that to US$1,499 MSRP!!!
https://c.tenor.com/Oaq1HNMNDVsAAAAC/facepalm-crowd.gif

Don't mind him, the guy is mentally retarded and lives in his own BF1942 world.

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ABAS

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RQ IN 8K is now avaliable

Last edited by ABAS (2021-12-31 16:14:46)

Arkos

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A 6800Xt bought from AMD directly at Drop Days cost 649.- $

But usually it works only when you use a Bot, delivered between 1 week.

https://www.amd.com/en/direct-buy/5496921500/ch

AMD let people know, when the next Drop Day is coming.

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Some people bought it without script, just the  usual way, some used the Holländer-Script.

https://amd-companion.vuurvlieg.eu/docs … roduction/

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For direct buying without script, they say, Mobile or Firefox is the best and fastest.

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From the Moment AMD announces the Drop Date you have to be always online, (Waiting List).

If you close the site and open it later, you will be at the end of the Waiting List.

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I was just reading, every Thursday at 16.00 is a Drop.

https://www.amd.com/de/direct-buy/ch

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Lecter

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000 now has a Geforce 3090

I got it really really really really really cheap

Purchased it as brand new, factory sealed from a standard danish webshop. I only paid 2445 euro / 2778 us dollars for it

Asus    ROG-STRIX-RTX3090-O24G-GAMING

https://rog.asus.com/graphics-cards/gra … ing-model/

Probably the best of all geforce 3090 from all brands

A neat way of concluding 2021

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https://i.ibb.co/28Wqvd9/01.png

https://i.ibb.co/ZJ1gT4F/02.png https://i.ibb.co/8Bkq4Cy/03.png https://i.ibb.co/Y3QDhdD/04.png https://i.ibb.co/YNTQH9L/05.png https://i.ibb.co/pjNPHHB/06.png

https://youtu.be/xN-jYtfOYKI

Property of 000

Nice music!!!

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I watched the video. who does the 3090 belong to?

nice one bro ... enjoy !

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bud

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Component shortages all over the world makes prices go wild. They cant even build enough cars because not enough chips are being made.

RaketenHorst

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https://youtu.be/h8KmEONdoS0

Acer Predator Orion 5000
Intel Core i9 10900K *Deca Core* (water cooled) 10x 3.7GHz - 5.3GHz
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080
32 GB DDR4 RAM
Samsung 980 Pro M.2 SSD

Razer Viper 8KHz
Razer Ornata Chroma
Razer Huntsman Tournament Edition (update)
Razer Mouse Bungee V3 Chroma (update)
Razer Base Station V2 Chroma
Razer Kraken Tournament Edition
Razer USB Audio Controller
Razer Goliathus Extendet Chroma
Razer Goliathus Chroma
Razer Tarok Essentials

this is the place where i spend too much time.
right: Acer Predator X25 (360Hz) for gaming.
left: HP Omen X25 (240Hz) for daily needs with higher quality.

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Lecter

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https://i.ibb.co/C2wHvkg/20220104-141217.jpg

https://youtu.be/h8KmEONdoS0

https://i.ibb.co/g96X77L/20211231-213908.jpg

Acer Predator Orion 5000
Intel Core i9 10900K *Deca Core* (water cooled) 10x 3.7GHz - 5.3GHz
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080
32 GB DDR4 RAM
Samsung 980 Pro M.2 SSD
Razer Viper 8KHz
Razer Ornata Chroma
Razer Base Station V2 Chroma
Razer Kraken Tournament Edition
Razer USB Audio Controller
Razer Goliathus Extendet Chroma
Razer Goliathus Chroma
Router: Fritz!Box 7590

this is the place where i spend too much time.
right: Acer Predator X25 (360Hz) for gaming.
left: HP Omen X25 (240Hz) for daily needs with higher quality.

https://i.ibb.co/syJDG28/20220104-174552.jpg

All of that to play minecraft?

Seriously, how much you spent on that rig?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S4JHv4faMI

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