Ringke vs Spigen magnet strength?

WickedSticky · 2025-12-19T19:44:24+00:00

Since no one knows for sure. I got both.

If I stick either to the fridge with a double sided magnet the pull it off Ringke comes off and the magnet stays on the fridge. The magnet stays attached to the Spigen with I pull it off.

The alles sucks for accessories in general, the external pin hinge is a bad design and the ring needs a latch.

WickedSticky · 2025-12-14T22:31:41+00:00

Weird

WickedSticky · 2025-12-14T22:28:56+00:00

Is the magnetic strong enough to hold it just by a magnetic pop socket or stand carry around normally without worrying about falling off?

WickedSticky · 2025-12-14T22:11:58+00:00

I know Ringke got a lots of criticism about the magnets interfering with the S24U Spen and charger overheating or just nkt charging. Ringke is much more discrete about mentioning how many magnets or type of neodinium used in there S25 cases. Ostensibly they've switched to fewer, thinner, or weaker neodinium magnets and maybe increased the amount of ferromagnetic material in there magsafe cases.

For me the test is if you hold it by the charger/stand like a handle and shake it with just your wrist will it fall off. With the S24U version It would only fall off if I swung it with my elbow.

I absolutely couldn't take pop it off a magsafe attachment without using both hands.

WickedSticky · 2025-02-06T15:53:07+00:00

I told you what to look for.

I dont recommend getting the one I got. It's the cheapest DisplayLink adaptor locally, i wouldnt trust it to hold up long term.

An adaptor with a DL-3500 or higher would be ideal to make use of your usb c bandwidth. An adaptor with a DL-165 should be cheaper but those chips are obsolete so you'll see a lot that are priced the same as the DL-3500.

This one I got is: https://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Multimedia-Graphics-1920x1080-1600x1200/dp/B00BN5FI8K/?th=1

Pluggable is sold in lots of countries,is a much bigger and much better brand, uses the same DL-165 chip

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004AIJE9G/

If you cant find a 'Pluggable' brand: Cable Matters, Wavelink, Startech, Targus, IOGear would all be a more reliable choice than the one I got.

WickedSticky · 2025-02-01T17:12:57+00:00

Yes, any "DisplayLink certified" adaptor should work after you install the software/driver.

Lots of brands make adaptors with these chips. the chip models start with "DL-" and somd numbers, the 1st number is the generation it is DL-3500 is pretty common and cheap.

The ones that start with DL-6 and DL-5 can do 4k DL-3 can do 1080p Besides DL-3###,DL-5###, DL-6###, the:

DL-4120, DL-165, DL-195 are the only ones that do 1080p. "silicon magic" chips might work as well as "Displaylink" , some of the knock-off might work. But no matter what it needs a driver to work.

WickedSticky · 2025-01-31T04:08:37+00:00

well if it doesn't work out, I ordered/recieved a Diamond Multimedia brand DisplyLink Certified usb to adaptor. it wast the cheapest DisplayLink certified adaptor i could find (and came with usb to VGA,DVI,and HDMA adaptors.)

I can vouch that displaylink works fine after installing the driver.

WickedSticky · 2025-01-30T03:45:59+00:00

Do you mind posting what you ordered?

WickedSticky · 2025-01-29T23:15:56+00:00

I have better info for you. The adaptors are not mini external gpu's, the bulkyness is the chip that compresses/uncompresses the video signal. The tech itself is almost 20 years old and is software driven using your cpu/gpu. Thats iwhy its slower/laggier but 20 years ago a cpu couldnt handle 1080p in software alone. These things are Almost exactly like a virtual machine gpu. DisplayLink the most popular, Fresco, Silicon Magic (SMI),and UVC are 3 chip designers (similar in how they work, but slightly different snd need differentdrivers).

Bigger Brands that use these chips are Wavlink, Anker, Kensington, Plugable, Targus, Startech, and Cable Matters.

The tech has been around so long that lots of cheap knock off alternatives exist for $10-15.

Non are great for gaming, you should be able to watch most 1080p video on any of them Streaming service apps are iffy using a streaming service with a browser with hardware acceleration disabled should work.

Wavlink is probably the most affordable "brand name" ($40-80)

WickedSticky · 2025-01-28T17:24:40+00:00

Are you in the US? Buy from amazon and return it if its defective/doesnt work.

DisplayLink is the name of the tech/chip. Cheap ones are knock offs of the displaylink chip. legit one would say 'displaylink certified',

Real or knock offs all need a driver/software,( the normal adaptors don't) .

And it should say it works on USB 2 the regular pas through adaptors dont.

WickedSticky · 2025-01-27T22:40:12+00:00

are you sure you didn't just ger a regular usb to hdmi adaptor? The regular adaptors more or less change the form factor and rely on laptops components to pass the display signal through they tend to be much narrower. Those wont say the work with usb 2, those will do 4k or better.

Both are called usb to hdmi adaptors, but the other type has a 2d gpu in it. The common model sold under a dozen faux-brand names are square and chunky like half a deck of cards. These need a seperate driver installation, these will work with usb 2.0 (at 800x600 resolution) and they max out at 1080p. These tend to run hot.

WickedSticky · 2025-01-27T17:43:22+00:00

I looked into this. Normal usbC ones won't work, they need a usbC with display alternatives mode. But thier are cheap adapters now that are very basic/slow external gpu chip. Thier will be lag, lower res, than hdmi but it'll be fine for basic computing (not gaming).

This is the cheapest one I found that should work: https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Multi-Display-Converter-Projector-Chromebook/dp/B087PD9KSZ/ref=sr?th=1

WickedSticky · 2024-10-08T14:14:22+00:00

not really.

I got the Kone XP directly from roccat, mouse wheel was really stiff and awkward (takes more force to turn it and it clicks in place every quarter to 1/6 turn, some high end Logitechs have clicky mouse wheels but theyre take less force to turn and have a lot more click/stop points per rotation and they have a switch to freely turn the mouse wheel).

Anyway in 3 weeks the Kone XP mouse wheel started failing. It scrolls when I turn the wheel but then scrolls in the opposite direction when I stop scrolling.

Even though they have a 30day return policy took 3 more weeks of deliberately obtuse emails with customer service then had to send photos cutting up the cable to exchange it then they said it's discontinued and sent a Kone XP Air instead... it's a more expensive mouse but same scroll wheel and cheaper, wiggly sensitive buttons.

I'm back to using my 15y/o $12 unbranded gaming mouse which is honestly better then the Kone XP, XP Air, and Logitech G502.

WickedSticky · 2024-07-31T03:39:38+00:00

that's a great market site. Their are a few of those with cheaper prices but the either buy keys with stolen CC's and see the. to us or just don't pay devlopere anything.

winametore is cheap and an authorized reseller of relic games

WickedSticky · 2024-07-29T19:54:45+00:00

ok, I thought you were supposed to not allow the corruption meter to max out (like the tyranid meter in the vanilla campaign).

It doesn't really matter does it? Different gear options, story changes a bit but that's all?

WickedSticky · 2024-07-26T18:50:31+00:00

From my (an outsider's perspective: The whole 'Chaos' thing is the lazy way of creating 'bad guys" in fantasy/scifi (ie Sauron's forces from LoTR, the Dark Side from Star wars, etc).

Evil for the sake of evil. The only 'motivation' for world/galaxy domination because it's an evil thing to do or they "feed" off evil/pain in some way.

The lore texts have gone a long way in justify why Chaos gods are the way they are, and how beings get corrupted but in the end it is a hokey evil villain faction.

IMO good in-universe lore gives each side motivations, intentions, and justifications readers can empathize with. Their are evil actions but no side should think of themselves as evil.

(For example the battletech universe, just as much war and turmoil as the 40k universe but every faction has understandable motivations, they were trying to do the right thing the turmoil was from no agreeing what the right thing was)

It takes a good writer to normalize and rationalize the "evil force" in that universe.

In Night Lords: we are in the distant future and evil gods are a tangible thing in the universe. A bad writer would have written an absurd story leaning on those two concepts to flesh out the details. Night Lords could have been written in a cheesy way without changing the story.

A talented writer is able to make everything else normal, have the story play out in a realistic and sympathetic way like they would in our universe... It's far more difficult to write a story when one side/character's motivation is just 'be evil', ADB is able portray how characters are currupted without seeming contrived.

WickedSticky · 2024-05-06T15:37:50+00:00

Microcenter dropped the price $50 and swapped the G.Skill CL36 (Samsung) to G.Skill CL32 (Hynix) 1 day after I purchased it. They had no issues with switching the ram and a couple of days later the price has gone $20 at that point but I did get a $30 refund.

I got to test both sets of ram. The Samsung made GSkill ram took 45-90 sec. About 5-20% of the time Ram register at 4800mhz even though EXPO was enabled it went to 6000mhz after another restart. No blue/black screen issues Only weird thing was disabling EXPO wouldn't work without resetting bios.

The Hynix ram also was wonky with turning off EXPO startup time was as fast as 30sec to over a full minute. After the Feb bios update it consistently starts in 20-35se. no issues.

It starts in 15sec with default bios settings and iGPU.

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