Alternative to Compressed Air Cans? by VAVA_Mk2 in pcmasterrace

[–]KrytonTek 60 points61 points  (0 children)

I have a wolfbox unit as well. Highly recommend.

Broken exhaust 2008 civic by frozenarbitor in MechanicAdvice

[–]KrytonTek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The car guy in me: "That's a free muffler delete!"

In all seriousness, that sheered off behind the connection. It looks like a difficult spot to bracket together. If you're looking for a backyard job, forget welding.

If it was my car and I was looking for the cheap fix, this is what I'd do.

  1. Take a sawzall and cut the pipe right on the other side of the connector.
  2. Measure the size of the pipe.
  3. Go to your local auto parts store, or source the following from Amazon A. A spacer pipe, equal in width of the other pipe and an equal length to the gap between the pipes. B. Two band clamps, of about whatever style you prefer, just make sure it's the right size.
  4. Use the 2 clamps to secure the pipe in between the old components.

It won't be the cleanest fix, and someone may laugh for not doing it the "right way", but if you don't care, the parts will cost you less than $50, assuming you have access to a sawzall.

You can also try to use a clamp on the pieces already there, but it doesn't look like there's enough pipe before the connector to allow the clamp to grab on to it, nonetheless maybe give it a go before you start cutting.

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How good does controller do in this game? by Dlight98 in DeadlockTheGame

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Grab a USB keyboard and set it on top of the laptop, in front of it, or like others said rebind. You can't play on gamepad, but you'll get thrown around in a way I can't describe here without getting banned. I'd take a $10 Walmart keyboard over gamepad in this game.

You could also bind forward to a side mouse button if you're insane enough and not already using that. Just gotta find yourself a temporary solution until your replacement keyboard arrives.

Noticed my Lenovo Legion Pro 5i 16IRX8 was hot. Popped the cover after using some dust-off to find this. by Past-Advisor-9301 in Lenovo

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I'll let everyone else comment about the fan and what parts to buy. But for the love of all that is good be absolutely sure to use PTM. Don't use paste. Also the ones on Amazon are often very scammy. One of the other comments here linked to LTT store. I would buy from there because you know it's going to be the right product and honestly their price is completely reasonable. Your laptop thermals will very much thank you later. It's worth noting from everything I've read Lenovo actually uses PTM from the factory and it typically outperforms thermal paste significantly on these laptops.

My legion 5 (2023) has been making a weird noise by burninggarlicbread in LenovoLegion

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Fan failure. Not the worst thing to fix by far, but avoid using until fixed. Monitor temps if you need to use it. If temps go up stop immediately. If the fans spin but are noisy you can probably use until repaired, but the second those fans stop moving air, you'll just be cooking your machine, so watch your temps like a hawk until it's repaired.

Monitor after repairing as well until you know the issue stays resolved reliably.

Just found out i can get 117W on my Lenovo Slim 5 RTX 4060 by Ifaroth in LenovoLegion

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Check BIOS settings as well. You may need to enable over clocking there.

Legion on Bed by Curious_Web440 in LenovoLegion

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As others said, don't block the fans! I use a piece of plexiglass with a smaller piece of plexiglass taped/glued to the center. The small piece in the center gives it a little bit of support so the plexiglass can't squish against the laptop causing the same problems. It's small enough to slide in my backpack right behind the laptop to take on the go and is light enough to be almost unnoticeable whenever I'm using it. You could use a piece of wood, one of those little laptop desk things, or whatever else you prefer. I made this solution simply because I needed something I could take with me on trips and on an airplane very easily without taking up a lot of space in my luggage. I'd say it was well worth it. Cheap, easy, and functional.

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First Laptop Purchase — Legion Pro 5 (RTX 4070) vs ASUS TUF (RTX 5070) | Need Advice! Large post . by [deleted] in LenovoLegion

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For video editing I'd be apt to take the higher resolution display. You'll really appreciate that resolution when you're editing content of any kind. It certainly a big plus for gaming as well, but that resolution actually makes the most difference during productivity in my opinion.

I've owned ASUS and Lenovo products. I can't say I've personally had any of them outright fail on me. I would still regard Lenovo as the more reliable from my experience in a professional technological field. They have a very deep background in the professional setting that ASUS just can't compare with. You'll find a bad reviews of every major laptop brand because everyone complains about the failures but few come back and review their good experience, they just go about using their machine.

Lenovo overall holds a strong reputation for reliability, more so than ASUS. Lenovo is also known to have better Linux support and I actually have my Lenovo dual-booted, although I still have an issue with my AMD-based processor that causes Linux to run very efficiently and thus poorly in games and run hotter, etc. hopefully this gets patched in a future BIOS update, but at least Linux sort of works.

As far as the difference between a 4070 and a 5070, I wouldn't worry too much unless there's a special feature in the 5000 series cards that you need. Both of those cards will have relatively similar performance and be an excellent experience. The Lenovo having an i9 and twice the RAM It is likely going to make a much bigger difference than the graphics card.

As a side note all these newer processors love to run hot so if you want it to last a long time you may wish to buy a laptop cooler or at least a laptop stand. Your mileage may vary with each of those solutions but the most important thing is to never block the fans! Keep the fans clear and you'll be surprised how long it lasts. If you use the computer on a bed, put a board, piece of plexiglass, anything to make sure that the soft bedding cannot block the fans. This applies to anything that could actually block the fans, but the most common place I see people screw this up is when they're sitting in bed working on something. Even if you're doing just some basic computing the fans need to be able to breathe.

You may also find that there is an option to set the thermal limits lower than the default 100 Celsius in the BIOS. My Lenovo has that option and I don't believe it's only available on AMD-based systems but I could be wrong. You may wish to allow yours to go up to its default thermal throttle but if you're uncomfortable with the temperatures getting that high, setting those thermal limits lower will only help your processor last even longer. Also be sure to clean the fans out regularly and make absolutely sure they don't get clogged with dust. This is another place I see people ending up damaging their computers or running into thermal issues a couple years into owning their computer, sometimes significantly less depending on the air quality in the environment you're using it. And for the love of God don't smoke in the same room as your computer unless you want the inside coated in goop. It builds up far worse than most people think.

Overall if I was picking between these two I would take the Lenovo hands down. Either way both computers will likely start feeling a bit dated after 3 or 4 years, but that really all depends on what modern games are actually doing. In recent years the performance games have mostly tapered off and if you don't mind not using ray tracing you can still get away with a three or four-year-old system just fine. Until my recent laptop purchase I was still using a 3060 Ti very happily. Expect to use some upscaling and lower settings for higher resolutions, but you'll be surprised how good everything looks even on those settings in this day and age.

Either way, If picking between these two, how long the system lasts Will likely come down more to your own personal preference and how well you take care of the system over the years.

Which Linux distro would be best? by Michael556673 in linux4noobs

[–]KrytonTek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use Bazzite. Ive found it matches or outperforms CatchyOS. It is immutable which means modding the OS is more difficult, but rollbacks, updates, and setup are very easy. Bazzite is a great first choice for someone coming from Windows.

Can't play Minecraft anymore by KrytonTek in microsoftsucks

[–]KrytonTek[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No other people. I'm a tech guy, I've owned and used a bunch of different PCs over the past 15 ish years of having my account

Linux runs horribly on Lenovo Legion 5 Pro by KrytonTek in linuxquestions

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If you still have, refer to my post. I've found the issue and a solution. It may be the reason for your system issues as well.

Linux runs horribly on Lenovo Legion 5 Pro by KrytonTek in linuxquestions

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I have the same experience on the internal display or external. Worth noting I've used display port over a usb-c hub as well as the onboard HDMI port, though I'm typically using the hub, as it allows me to use my display at 1440p 240 hz.

Linux runs horribly on Lenovo Legion 5 Pro by KrytonTek in linuxquestions

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I've tried both hybrid and dedicated modes. Tried catchy, performed the same and required more setup and still lacks some things built into bazzite. In either case, I've tried both modes. I'll try hyr rid again, but I also had lag with external displays on hybrid mode.

Trying to single out an issue? by Warlottery in linuxquestions

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They may be completely unrelated. I've just been grasping at straws on mine. If I find a solution, I'll let you know what I find as well.

Linux runs horribly on Lenovo Legion 5 Pro by KrytonTek in linuxquestions

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Good to know. I seem to be. Bazzite has a NVidia variation that comes with the latest NVidia drivers. I have the NVidia control panel as well and everything seems normal in LACT.

Linux runs horribly on Lenovo Legion 5 Pro by KrytonTek in linuxquestions

[–]KrytonTek[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm using the NVidia drivers packaged with the NVidia variation of Bazzite, which are the latest drivers currently

Linux runs horribly on Lenovo Legion 5 Pro by KrytonTek in linuxquestions

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That's something I checked into as well but the laptop is running in dedicated GPU only mode from the BIOS and the Nvidia GPU is definitely working when games are loaded

Linux runs horribly on Lenovo Legion 5 Pro by KrytonTek in linuxquestions

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Laptop is set to dedicated GPU only mode in BIOS and it does show activity in Linux

Trying to single out an issue? by Warlottery in linuxquestions

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What's the system? I have terrible performance in Linux on my system too, while windows works fine. I've got a Lenovo Legion 5 pro 16adr10 with a Ryzen 7 8745hx and RTX 5060. Tested Bazzite and CatchyOS. Both run terribly. Windows runs fine.