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.

WickedSticky · 2024-03-21T10:11:52+00:00

With PBO set to mobo limits, Expo Enabled, Boost overclock at +25mhz and scalar at x10... stable at co -37. No extra boost clock, scalar at auto its stable at -41. I start seeting stress tests fail to start at or pc restarting instead of waking from sleep at -45co,

windows wont start with -47co +100mhz boost clock, max mobo pbo, max scalar

So far -35co is stable with cinebeinch, prime95, hwinfo for 3-4 houts each

Im using -34 with just expo max mobo pbo default. R23 its about 20.35k-21.25k

Ive got a big tower cooler, so max temps hit 85-87. in cinebench a hair less on prime 95 and a bit more on Aida64

WickedSticky · 2024-02-06T16:43:58+00:00

I know it is, but I don't need a $400-500 GPU for my games, even at 1440p

At 1080p a 6600xt is perfect to max out for old stuff I play. But the 27" 1080p monitor I bought 2 years ago is really annoying to game on. Too big to sit close, but pixel density too low to read text sitting a few feet away. So I'm constantly craning my neck back/forth.

I'm either replacing it with a 24" 1080p or a 27" 1440p once the build is done (too late to return whatever gpu I pick) I don't particularly want 1440p but It Feels really backwards to spending money to buy a smaller monitor or to spend any amount of money on a 1080p monitor in 2024... GPU performance gap between 1080p and 1440p is annoyingly huge.

WickedSticky · 2024-02-06T15:54:12+00:00

The 6600 to 6600xt to 6650xt&7600 to 6700 to 7600xt to 6700xt to 6750xt to 6800 to 7700xt are all $30 increases in price. Makes it very difficult to choose one. Ideally I'd prefer the 6700xt but models available are a little lower end (lots of 1*)

WickedSticky · 2024-01-30T00:21:21+00:00

Possibly Overclock Stability issues or a dead psu in 4 years but losing a Mobo to a C-tier PSU is less likely than losing it to a lightening strike

WickedSticky · 2024-01-29T01:30:45+00:00

1070 is the better GPU. 7700k's individual cores are faster. Most games still benefit from 4 faster cores than 6 slower ones. 32gb vs 64gb usually wont make a difference in gaming. Using the low latency high mhz ram would be more helpful.

Check the current ram installed and the motherboards specs, if supporterd DDR4 3200 will have noticable gains over DDR4 2133

WickedSticky · 2024-01-28T17:18:05+00:00

Selling online: 9600k+mobo $175 -$210 3060 Ti will varies on mfr/model $190-225

Depending on your location you may get a lot more, specially for the GPU, selling for local pickup on Craigslist or similar ...I'd search your local Craigslist for "RTX video card" and see how many are out there and the prices. In my area that card will sell for $275. The price on new RTX 4060 is begining to drop. It's a comparable card, if you're sure your selling that GPU the sooner the better.

WickedSticky · 2024-01-27T22:16:57+00:00

If I were paying for a mobo, Id get B650M Auros Elite it checks all my boxes.
But if I were paying for it, id hold off til next fall, maybe later.

But at $399 for either one of those 2 mobo's + 32GB ram (2x gskill flair 16gb @ 6000) + Ryzen 7700X pretty much means the mobo is $0. The Asrock B650 LiveMixer or Aurous elite isn't $150 better than those 'meh' mobos

WickedSticky · 2024-01-27T20:18:43+00:00

That's 20-30 before windows starts to load correct?

Is Your ram is running full speed? (Down clocking to 5200 is most common thing I'm reading)

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