2018 Hardware Thread

slicendice said:

Cliff, really great job on the theme.

You are correct, shades of yellow (gold) work really great on dark themes. I use those colors often on my trading charts.

Red, blue and green only on black background strain the eyes.

Thanks:)

Yeah, I spend my very hard earned cache for TV, and monitors, or even laptops with IPS, screens(I like real colors, and not overblown ones that make your eyes bleed), I even try to calibrate the screens I can, but certain colors cause color bleeding and make text hard to read.
This is one reason Microsoft prefers to use grays(dark, albeit gray) over true black, as black also bleeds over to adjacent pixels, because a group is turned off, and not individual pixels, where grays all pixels are on and controlled to different saturation levels.

Nice Cliff

Dude said:

Nice Cliff

Thanks Doug, I put the uploads in the Afterburner thread where it belongs.
I just got done making one Brian asked me for(with Nvidia colors) and it's posted here: Latest MSI Afterburner Betas Updates - Page 6 - Windows 10 Forums

By the way, since I put the themes and download links in the Afterburner thread where they belong, I cleaned(deleted) up all my posts about it here, before Steve had to decide to move them or delete them.(I decided this on my own, so )

If you are interested if & when I make others, or want to be informed about updates to Afterburner/Riva Tuner, just subscribe to the thread by either making a small post, or use the thread tools dropdown that's under the page numbers
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Latest MSI Afterburner Betas Updates - Windows 10 Forums

EVGA removes the Guest RMA option from their website - Only registered cards can receive an RMA | OC3D News

It is also possible that this move is designed to prevent miners from bulk RMA'ing their graphics cards. Cryptocurrency miners run their graphics cards at high loads under 24/7 workloads, creating a situation where these users often have cards fail before their warranty expires. Under cryptocurrency mining workloads, GPUs often fail at a faster rate, which in turn costs GPU manufacturers a lot of money when they are forced to send replacement units.

EVGA - Support - RMA Procedure

Great job EVGA! Put even more sticks into the gears of miners! Let Gaming cards be used as gaming cards (and for AI calculations) and make ASICs as the only option for miners. :)

Long live the death of GPU assisted crypto currency mining!

slicendice said:

Great job EVGA! Put even more sticks into the gears of miners! Let Gaming cards be used as gaming cards (and for AI calculations) and make ASICs as the only option for miners. :)

Long live the death of GPU assisted crypto currency mining!

How Crypto Mining Ruins your Machine

LOL! That should be a feature for miners. 1h of mining and BOOM!

Prices have come down a bit the last couple of weeks so I placed a few online orders today for an upgrade.

1. Raidmax Alpha Prime RGB Case (It is a cheap case and will undergo extensive Dremel surgery to make it High Air Flow case.)
2. MSI Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon.
3. MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X 6G.
4. Intel i7-8700K with the Rebel Tech "PolarCold" delid.
5.Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut – 5.5g
6. Corsair Hydro Series H150i PRO 360mm Liquid CPU Cooler.
7. Corsair Vengeance LED CMU32GX4M4C3200C16R 32GB Kit.
8. Corsair RM850x 80+ Gold PSU. (Seasonic PSU's were unfortunately all sold out.)
9. Samsung 960 EVO 250GB NVMe SSD.
10. Samsung MZ-76E250BW 860 EVO 250GB SSD.
11. Cooler Master MasterFan Pro 140 Air Pressure Non-LED Fans (x2 Front)
12. Cooler Master MasterFan Pro 120 Air Pressure Non-LED Fan (x1 Front)
13. Cooler Master MasterFan Pro 120 Air Balance Non-LED Fan (x1 Rear)
14. RCT 1000VA UPS.
15. Redragon Karura Wired Gaming Keyboard.
16. Redragon M701 Lavawolf Wired Optical Gaming Mouse.

Looks like a nice rig. Some good choices you made. Pictures are mandatory :)