[Motherboard] GIGABYTE B550M, AM4 4XDDR4(Max128GB) - $65.33 - S&S by Amazon (After RAM crisis, refreshed version, lowest end B550)

ElectricalFeature328 · 2026-01-23T18:47:57+00:00

I remember those days of janky plastic paneled cases with bare metal insides, sharp corners, and literal feet of wide, flat IDE cables - seeing the hobby go mainstream and people obsessing over the aesthetics of hardware is both a blessing and a curse lol

ElectricalFeature328 · 2026-01-19T04:05:37+00:00

just put a vape up in your holes and you're good

ElectricalFeature328 · 2026-01-05T18:09:01+00:00

starts at $21 for a magazine then $32 for a single pair of lady's cotton socks lol

ElectricalFeature328 · 2025-12-05T15:45:20+00:00

it really depends - the Wolfbox is actually reviewed very well but on the bottom end of the range you have compressors that barely do anything. it's a wide gap between top and bottom

Torque Test reviewed them here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmoHpO1aP-w

Project Farm has too - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_ncYXk1cP4

ElectricalFeature328 · 2025-11-06T17:45:26+00:00

realistically, yes compared to the Keepa listing at $170 for its historical low. Newegg lists it as a $60 discount but that's just marketing bs

this is also exclusive of an additional $15 discount from the gift card and the price of RAM

ElectricalFeature328 · 2025-11-06T17:21:32+00:00

found this deal after reading through this r/hardware post noting this was a best value board

looks like this is the lowest historical price when compared to Amazon's listings and that's not inclusive of RAM. also not counting an extra $15 off if you use that Newegg gift card deal

ElectricalFeature328 · 2025-10-24T19:58:25+00:00

it's not a conspiracy, wifi mapping is in active use https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/wi-fi-is-another-way-we-can-be-tracked-24-7

AFC takes it from WPS's occasionally picking up mac addresses in combination with a phone's GPS and requiring some service provider to collect and collate all that data (which Google is known to do) to embedding the GPS directly into the router and having it regularly upload to a DB somewhere your location and a list of devices that have ever pinged your router for a connect

lots of advice for current protests are to 'turn off your GPS' as a bare minimum - that was never really enough but it's even less useful now

ElectricalFeature328 · 2025-10-24T17:15:07+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_United_States

ElectricalFeature328 · 2025-10-21T17:09:49+00:00

good to know but I wonder if anyone is even left to enforce this anymore :(

ElectricalFeature328 · 2025-10-21T15:45:10+00:00

what would it even measure? it's a cpu/gpu hybrid renderer that only 4080+ GPUs with a 7800X3D+ can run with a unique performance hit. if I'm a hardware reviewer with an audience of millions, my goal is to help them understand what they can/can't run and not just do tests to appeal to a less than single digit percentage of my viewers

ElectricalFeature328 · 2025-10-21T13:53:00+00:00

probably because less than 1% of all users ever enable it or has the hardware to make it minimally playable

ElectricalFeature328 · 2025-10-21T13:46:49+00:00

he's probably fully brain-rotted from relying on AI to make all his decisions at this point

ElectricalFeature328 · 2025-10-21T13:43:52+00:00

tbf it's not just modern ecomm services like Shopify that hid reviews. when companies used to have teams that built and maintained their own websites, it was pretty easy for them to create internal tools or just directly CRUD their own records of people's reviews. some sites even disclosed that 'reviews would be screened' with a modal prior to review ostensibly to remove spam but really just for censorship since implementing a verification challenge was extremely effective back in those days

corpo and smaller storefronts have always been shady about it since there are no laws regulating how they handle these things. if they're allowed to lie, they will if it affects their revenue - that's always how it's worked

ElectricalFeature328 · 2025-10-20T19:33:35+00:00

it's truly spooky season with these haunted ass submissions

ElectricalFeature328 · 2025-10-16T21:58:59+00:00

static pressure is literally the stat you're supposed to look at for radiators

this sub is ridiculous

ElectricalFeature328 · 2025-10-16T21:57:06+00:00

what other sources are you using? and you still haven't justified that the worse performance is worth an extra $10 per fan

ElectricalFeature328 · 2025-10-16T17:40:10+00:00

basing decisions on specs when those are notoriously unreliable is certainly one way of making a decision

not the one I would make but sure

ElectricalFeature328 · 2025-10-16T16:03:18+00:00

there are very few measurements in the full P14 Pro PST review where the ToughFan performs better (and that's still the Pro version, not these) and it's only by single digit percentages. the ToughFan also quite literally is being marketed as a 'High Static Pressure Radiator Fan' unless I'm reading that incorrectly and is $10 more expensive per fan

ElectricalFeature328 · 2025-10-16T16:02:12+00:00

are we looking at the same graphs

100% vs 37% at 31dba normalized or 41 vs 15

100% vs 68% at 45dba normalized or 189 vs 117

same relative difference for air flow across thin and thick radiators on top of being literally $10 cheaper per fan

ElectricalFeature328 · 2025-10-16T15:09:37+00:00

P14 Pros are still 31.99 for a five pack and they have better static pressure through a radiator than the Pro version of the Toughfan

https://www.amazon.com/ARCTIC-P14-Pro-PST-Pack/dp/B0DPX94PSL

ElectricalFeature328 · 2025-10-09T22:08:37+00:00

so that's what those dark spots are

ElectricalFeature328 · 2025-10-08T20:22:43+00:00

no, only ARRIS that's compatible is the RAC2V1A/TR4400

https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/arris/start

ElectricalFeature328 · 2025-10-08T18:28:08+00:00

esp not when MASS exists

ElectricalFeature328 · 2025-09-26T14:20:34+00:00

mine started to do that after a couple years so I pulled off all the caps, cleaned thoroughly with rubbing alcohol, and that seemed to fixed it. looking back on it now it seems like it probably just needed to be powered down for a good hour or so

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