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    Mercutio replied to the thread Video Cards.
    The 5060Ti more than doubled my boot time versus either Intel or AMD. I'm talking about a 9950X with a Crucial PCIe 5 boot drive. This...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread CURRENT GAME THREAD.
    I got somewhere with a $15 voice command capable IR transmitter since the only thing I need is for the AVR and TV to toggle on, but it's...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Pi-Hole?.
    I install ad blocking on everything I touch. I don't care. Advertising is a malware vector and must be treated as hostile.
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Pi-Hole?.
    They're very useful for people with lame mobile devices or who are too lazy to set up ad blocking on their devices. I've set them up...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Video Cards.
    I had to make a trip to Micro Center this morning for a couple CPUs and as luck would have it, I was able to get a Gigabyte 16GB 5060Ti...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Computer Cases.
    The Fractal Define and Cooler Master Nwhatever have been my go-to options for modest builds, but it's hard for me to justify $150 for a...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Computer Cases.
    I did actually go digging around on the Silverstone web site, where I found this monster. I have a pair of Norco 3U 24 bay chassis and...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Computer Cases.
    You know they're going to want $250 for that thing. There were some great looking beige cases back in the day but no, they went...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.
    I actually managed to use all 96GB + 96GB swap on my workstation today by accidentally calling ImageMagick on on about 20M files...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Computer Cases.
    I appreciate having the differing failure models. Every once in a while I see an SSD switch over to read-only mode but most of the...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Laptop Boot Drive Swap Fails.
    For future reference, if you ever need to delete and/or recreate your recovery partition on a Windows system, you have to work from...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Computer Cases.
    I put a 3.5" drive in every bigger-than-ITX desktop I assemble. Usually it's just a little guy. It's easy enough to add $35 to the cost...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Computer Cases.
    I've been looking at Computex coverage of new chassis designs and dear god I hate everything I see. Seems like 90% of new designs are...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.
    I can't tell if you're too young for your dad to be having these problems or if I've been too lucky to have never had them.
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.
    My quasi-partner's new place has 5Gbit synchronous fiber according to their bill but the ONT the ISP provided only has 1Gbit ports on...
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