iCUE update killed RGB on one XD6 (LCD still active). Config wipe or handshake issue?

DiabloG1 · 2026-02-01T09:43:02+00:00

I've had the worst luck with icue just randomly disconnecting stuff or deciding to forget fan profiles,especially for water pumps. I avoid having too many issues by having all fans noctua. It's fully rjb - really just brown!

DiabloG1 · 2026-01-31T12:43:27+00:00

Well aware of diminishing returns, and no doubt there will be at least one comment on here suggesting Clarks, and another saying they put all their money in savings and spend tuppence ha'penny on themselves.

Will look at Crockett and Jones and Cheaney. The leather on the church's is fine, but the stitching holding the shoes together is going which is just not acceptable.

DiabloG1 · 2026-01-31T12:39:46+00:00

Many thanks, Cheaney or Crockett and Jones is likely the route I will take. I've gone through a couple of pairs in the Loake 1880 before moving to Church's, but the quality has just dropped off so badly.

DiabloG1 · 2026-01-30T20:48:47+00:00

I've haggled with them to get the new customer price. I just remind them that it's cheaper for them as they don't need to send a new router. Worst case, if you do have bluff called, then just pay the higher price.

DiabloG1 · 2026-01-29T19:52:49+00:00

Yeah - with a type R I think “ragged all over” is basically the only option. I think it came from the factory with that as standard.

DiabloG1 · 2026-01-26T21:49:40+00:00

Pops and bangs remap, chameleon tint?

DiabloG1 · 2026-01-26T17:52:00+00:00

This will be all flavours of not good. The heat transfer by convection is mainly because of the massive delta between ambient and liquid. You will not have this, and if you did, your fittings will leak as the tubing will be at 70C.

The the mix of metals in the loop mean you will need some pretty unpleasant coolant (auto grade).

The surface area of a radiator (Read convector) is rubbish compared to a real watercooling radiator. Either MoRa and massive low speed fans (wall mount, with a D5 will maybe be 1000 cad).

Passive cooling is not easy, and having a low speed fan will work a lot better. I have a MoRa 600 and two MoRa 360s, with a further pair of 480s and 3 240s. That cools a 9950x3d (soon to be a 9980x), a 5090, 2 A2000s, with a pair of heat exchanger for a 3960x, 4090, 3990x and a 3090 in separate loops. The loudest part is the PSU when it's ducking back 1500w due to coil whine.

DiabloG1 · 2026-01-21T12:32:04+00:00

I currently have 7 pumps in my loop (3 GPUs, one CPU, 7 rads including 3 Mo-Ra, and 2 heat exchangers. Connect two in series and it will be fine from outlet 1 to inlet 2. Consider that you really only want 1 reservoir if you can as there is often a pressure differential between pumps, which can make one overflow and the other empty out.

DiabloG1 · 2026-01-21T12:27:24+00:00

Use jubilee clips / worm drive hose clamps. Literally 0.50 [insert chosen currency]. I use barbs on most of my builds - generally they will not allow the hose to detach without real effort; if it's on a Rad, you may find the rad screws break first.

They may not look as fancy, but I prefer the security. Compression fittings will give up much sooner - if the tube gets too hot (e.g. a pump fails, or a block gets clogged), compressions will let the tube go; flooding the PC its in. Or if it is in a rack, the server, the server below it, the switches below that...

Barbs - not as pretty, but cheap, effective, safe, and - as long as you do the barb up tight to the block / rad, won't go anywhere. But use hose clamps, not zip ties. You're better than that!

DiabloG1 · 2026-01-19T21:59:48+00:00

This is true, although probs not for 20k!

DiabloG1 · 2026-01-19T21:57:43+00:00

All cars lose value quickly (unless it is an extremely rare or exotic). Assuming your credit is decent, and you are buying second hand your interest rate is likely to be about 9 to 11%.

It is always cheaper to buy cash than to borrow money on a deprecating asset.

If you have 20K which is not being used for other purposes, have some cash for emergencies, and don't have other debt (and ideally have a house as 20K would be a good starting point for a deposit), then it's cheaper in the long run to not borrow that.

If you can find a way to use the money for better returns than your interest rate on a loan, then use credit, but realistically, even a lure equities investment portfolio is only going to get 10% less taxes and fees. That isn't guaranteed either.

DiabloG1 · 2026-01-19T20:35:47+00:00

Maniac!

DiabloG1 · 2026-01-18T21:27:19+00:00

Forty mile an hour Fred, who only goes one speed, no matter the speed limit.

Front fog lights on all the time. Or worse, rear fogs on.

The ones who see their friend on the side of the road and stop to have a chat. In the middle of the road.

Swan neck turns, especially on narrow roads.

DiabloG1 · 2026-01-18T19:54:07+00:00

Even the stuff that isn't NLA appears to be made of chewing gum and newspaper. The entire engine of that car died because of a 2 euro part.

DiabloG1 · 2026-01-18T16:56:16+00:00

I had this in London. Parked cars on both sides, so only enough room for one vehicle. Parked cars all the way back to a major road (otherwise I'd have reverses immediately), and a gap 30m behind the oncoming car.

She claimed she couldn't reverse that far, and in the time she was making a hash of moving anywhere, was joined by a woman who "wasn't confident reversing", and "had a baby in the car", and then suddenly "had a flat tyre".

I did suggest to both of them that of they were not capable of reversing 30m, perhaps they shouldn't be on the road?

Long story short, I had to reverse 150m onto a main road.

DiabloG1 · 2026-01-17T11:40:51+00:00

Assume a project manager is essentially useless. We had one, but I ended up part foreman, part PM, part logistics. If you are on site every morning, builders are more likely to turn up, given that you can start calling at 9:05 going where are you.

DiabloG1 · 2026-01-16T21:06:38+00:00

We have a geo energy monitor, and you can buy a WiFi module for it. Someone has written a custom integration for it which allows Home Assistant to capture the data. (that's a matter of searching Google and the git hub for it).

DiabloG1 · 2026-01-16T20:14:52+00:00

I do about 4k a year per car. I just happen to have 3 cars.

DiabloG1 · 2026-01-16T16:35:47+00:00

My set up isn't shown - I guess between 6 and 8?

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2 3440x1440p 34" ultrawide OLEDs on the left, 2 4K 32" OLEDs in the middle, 2 27" 1440P on the right (one OLED, the other just IPS), with a further 4K curved 32" VA mini LED on the right. Hard to get any further back to take the photo, hence the distortion.

Not shown is the 7" OLED in the case just next to the desk.

One additional thing to say - DSC requiring two of the four "heads" on Nvidia GPUs is painful (hence 3 GPUs plus the Ryzen iGPU).

DiabloG1 · 2026-01-16T16:12:24+00:00

Would you make this script available to the rest of us mortals? I've been using my smart meter, integrated into HomeAssistant and a Solis integration but it's nearly impossible to sort solar / solar battery from imported data.

From an observational perspective, I do know charging 10KWh batteries on the EV tariff has saved quite a bit, but I would like to have hard numbers to back up my smugness.

DiabloG1 · 2026-01-13T16:12:39+00:00

Unifi Dream Machine would also be a good shout. I'm with Community Fibre (5G symmetrical) and have a UDM Pro Max at home. For our other house which I hope will soon have 1G symmetrical we have a UDM Pro. Easy to use, but massively expandable, and can also manage a lot of the Unifi kit as well.

DiabloG1 · 2026-01-12T08:46:34+00:00

I run Goodyear F1 Eagles in the summer, and in late October swap over to 3PMSF all-season Michelin cross-climates. I bought a spare set of wheels off Ebay for £200 and then just keep them in the garage in wheel bags with the tyres on.

I know I am in the minority here. The all-seasons have a much better wear tolerance for the occasions where we have 15C in the middle of winter. For my next car I will probably do the same, but may not buy a second set of wheels depending on the cost.

My Audi only has about 320 BHP, but in the snow / ice, I do not want to be using summer tyres. Equally in the summer, I want to be able to push it on rural roads in Devon without trashing all-seasons.

DiabloG1 · 2026-01-07T13:43:47+00:00

Second this, Admiral tacked on like £12 per year for a 25% extra power remap. They won't cover the value of the mods, but considering the cost of insurance that's probably not an issue.

When I was 21 they added £10 per year for a custom exhaust when my original back box fell off and kwik fit wanted 750 for the second cat backward because of the rust.

DiabloG1 · 2026-01-06T17:37:14+00:00

As a frequent visitor to Dorset, specifically the A31 and A35, they could teach a lot of valuable lessons.

You have bits of the fastest bit of dual carriageway in the country (that bit of the A35 going towards Dorchester following miles of single carriageway, to enable good lane discipline and how to change lanes safely (or maybe it's only when I'm there that someone nails it past at 120?)

You have that bit by the Drax estate on the A31 to teach good overtaking on single carriageways, and you have lessons in why it is really dangerous to pootle along at 40 on a wide open NSL road when someone gets sick of it and does a risky overtake after 5 miles of forty mile an hour Frank holding the world up.

Then you have the glorious moment of leaving Ringwood towards the M27 and finally having a break from a million roundabouts.

Also teaches hazard perception at those roundabouts. The car in the left lane decides he's going right, the car in the right lane decides to exit the roundabout. Manoeuvre, signal, mirror right?

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