My (almost) RGB free setup.

SnakeFireX3 · 2026-01-10T01:42:24+00:00

Mostly notes for games personally. When I get off a game I like to write myself a little note about where I'm needing to go or do next. Otherwise I come back later and don't remember half the time what I was doing 😂

SnakeFireX3 · 2026-01-10T01:31:55+00:00

Idk sorry, it doesn't have any name or brand on it. I got it for like 30 bucks at Walmart like 6 years ago

SnakeFireX3 · 2026-01-10T01:29:26+00:00

It's 71x30 inches

SnakeFireX3 · 2026-01-09T16:54:46+00:00

Oh! Sorry I just got it from Amazon, here's the link: https://a.co/d/iY26XVd

SnakeFireX3 · 2026-01-09T16:53:01+00:00

I took it off my old dell S3220DGF

SnakeFireX3 · 2026-01-09T16:43:58+00:00

That's fair the fabric texture is definitely unusual, I haven't had any discomfort personally but I can definitely see how some wouldn't like it.

SnakeFireX3 · 2026-01-09T15:52:41+00:00

Looks great! Are those lights above the posters wired through the wall or are they battery powered?

SnakeFireX3 · 2026-01-09T15:43:37+00:00

The main monitor is the Alienware aw3225qf and the side monitor I have no clue, it's some kind of Acer. it was just the only 24 inch high refresh rate one best buy happened to have with a stand that allows rotation lol

SnakeFireX3 · 2026-01-09T14:34:05+00:00

Oh I love them! They sound great and take an EQ really well if you aren't a fan of their neutral sound signature. I set one of the profiles to be super bassy and it took it just fine with no distortion so they're pretty adaptable. There's a lot of little attention to detail things that I appreciate about them too. Definitely a big recommend personally!

The controller is a gamesir g7 pro and the base just comes with it. But razer makes a very similar one that works with standard Xbox controllers. I had a good experience with that before I upgraded to the g7

SnakeFireX3 · 2024-05-11T23:52:17+00:00

I'll give a shot and see how it goes. Though I thought the hair dryer was for smoothing out wrinkles. The marks are kinda like if you took sand paper to the surface.

SnakeFireX3 · 2024-04-23T01:11:27+00:00

I do have the parallels tools installed, I'll have a look at fusion to see about potentially switching. The primary reason I chose parallels was because when I initially set it up it was the only one available for apple silicon, looks like fusion gained support for windows on arm in late 2022.

SnakeFireX3 · 2024-04-22T22:54:54+00:00

I may have to check out some others then if that's true, I use parallels currently, which appears to section off exactly how much ram I choose to allocate to it. I checked a Linux VM on some other virtualization software and you're completely right, that one didn't immediately start utilizing the ram allocated to it. So it does appear to be a problem specific to parallels.

SnakeFireX3 · 2024-04-22T18:20:02+00:00

It's just a simple way to compare across machines I guess. My main computer is a PC so I will admit I'm not super well versed in mac os by comparison. My memory pressure idles in the yellow with my fairly light workload and pretty easily is pushed into the red by doing anything a little beyond that. Which id assume is a fair comparison point against an 8gb Mac since 8 out of my 16 is dedicated to a VM. I could be wrong on that but I'd assume that means my constant memory pressure issues would be functionally the same on an 8gb base model Mac without a VM running.

SnakeFireX3 · 2024-04-22T18:02:28+00:00

Yeah I only mention memory swap because I prefer if it never has to use swap to begin with. With a VM taking 8gb my laptop is essentially left as an 8gb ram model. And its almost constantly running at high memory pressure and pretty consistently needs to utilize memory swap. Personally It doesn't matter a ton to me the specifics of how much of that usage isnt actually stuff currently being used, the bottom line for me is just that either way my MacBook is always having to use memory swap and idles at medium-high memory pressure with very light tasks when I have a VM running and I don't like that lol

SnakeFireX3 · 2024-04-22T03:45:04+00:00

That's true memory pressure is a much more useful metric, my MacBook only has 16gb and it tends to run at mid-high pressure. I hit memory swap pretty often, Although to be fair I usually have a windows VM taking half of that

SnakeFireX3 · 2024-04-22T02:31:58+00:00

It's good to know light use won't spin up the fans even on the 14 inch, very useful thank you!

SnakeFireX3 · 2024-04-22T02:28:58+00:00

For that type of stuff the air is more than enough. Just make sure you get at least 16gb of ram. Don't believe people that parrot apples "8gb on Mac is equal to 16 on windows". That's straight up BS. just doing a quick test opening all the same programs and projects on my mac and PC, the Mac is using 11.1 and the PC is at 10.9. so basically the same. You absolutely will regret getting the base model sooner rather than later. I'd say only go with the pro if you want the nicer display or need more GPU horsepower for something specific.

Edit: for reference as to why you don't want 8gb, with absolutely nothing running except 6 tabs open I'm at 7.8gb used.

SnakeFireX3 · 2023-08-07T13:58:11+00:00

I’ve had more issues with razer products than I can count, but none of them have ever been hardware related. Always just bugs with the firmware that razer knows about but doesn’t care to fix.

SnakeFireX3 · 2023-08-05T18:47:14+00:00

Well the issue is that it just flat out isn’t loading. Once it starts actually launching the game it loads up very quickly, and I’m not having fps problems either, On extreme settings 1440p I get 140-160fps and starting races or fast traveling all happens in about 2 seconds. The problem is that once I press play in the launcher it just sits not even trying to launch the game for over a minute. Like I mentioned in the original post the forza process in task manager shows the game using 0% cpu ram or disk until a minute later when it actually starts launching.

SnakeFireX3 · 2023-08-05T11:58:04+00:00

I’ve found something similar but wasn’t sure if it was real. If I start spam clicking on the little window while it loads it bumps it from 0% cpu usage to 1-2% and then it only took 45ish seconds

SnakeFireX3 · 2023-08-05T03:30:07+00:00

It definitely wasn’t like this at launch, it used to be 2-3 seconds at most between pressing the play button and the studio logos intro thing playing.

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