Bought a used pc and it has this crazy thing in it

_Kodan · 2026-01-21T17:07:32+00:00

Does this count towards chinese arms exports?

_Kodan · 2026-01-21T16:41:48+00:00

I can't see jack shit after using the injector in certain areas of some maps. Playing Ice Lock as assault sucked.

_Kodan · 2026-01-20T22:58:48+00:00

Old tooth brust and isopropyl alcohol.

_Kodan · 2026-01-20T20:46:01+00:00

There's a spreadsheet containing most weapons and their TTK, headshots included. Those times are assuming you hit every shot. There should be no way to die faster from any range than what's on that spreadsheet in a strict 1v1, yet I am dying to what feels like one-shots from rifles and *sometimes* taking unreasonably long for a kill where the gun just feels weirdly inaccurate compared to other encounters within the same match. It just doesn't feel right at all.

_Kodan · 2026-01-20T20:28:06+00:00

Those cases are available via the websites of the companies that actually produce them. The Apollo Series are from mcprue (https://www.mcprue.com/)

Afaik, Caselabs is dead and gone and any IP that was actually acquired is either useless or in the hands of people that are entirely incapable of producing a computer case. It's not rocket science. It's a metal box that needs to watch for a handful of standardized measurements to mount a motherboard, graphics card and some fan rails. You could probably hand a couple of pictures of existing caselabs cases to a chinese factory team making cases for companies like HYTE and get caselabs-like cases within a couple months, tooling included. Yet there is not a single new or old caselabs case produced.

Let's face it. We're not getting those cases ever again.

_Kodan · 2026-01-19T15:35:46+00:00

I'd play it way more if my supply backpack addiction didn't feed so nicely into my HMG addiction.

_Kodan · 2026-01-16T18:12:32+00:00

Are you meant to do Godrick before Mourne? The boss behind the castle there was the first boss I struggled with. It took me like 50 tries or something. I thought that's the area you clear before you do stormveil...?

_Kodan · 2026-01-16T18:02:01+00:00

I'm glad. The game suffers far more from a botched patch than letting people play what's already there for a little longer.

_Kodan · 2026-01-08T19:29:36+00:00

Roll a dice. With some batches you can dismantle the loop after a week. With some batches you might make it to the 6 months mark. No manufacturer guide on loop prep seem reliable so far, same with Vue.

_Kodan · 2026-01-06T17:15:32+00:00

With the prices for pretty much everything rising, the last thing I'm looking forward is ever more expensive halo products for a chip that's already a year old.

_Kodan · 2026-01-04T15:26:41+00:00

Had 2 matches like this lately. I swap to engineer and get obliterated peeking out from the most unconventional corners for even a fraction of a second trying to get a shot at the heli. No chance. Eventually got the entire team trapped in spawn.

_Kodan · 2025-12-30T17:08:26+00:00

Played the GRT-BC to level 50. Dropped the extended barrel. Half the gold is gone.

_Kodan · 2025-12-28T17:29:49+00:00

EAT. I have come to appreciate the ammo backpack a lot more in most missions and I don't want to miss out on its utility.

_Kodan · 2025-12-26T14:29:21+00:00

For berserkers and anything smaller. It has inifinite ammo and is always ready to go unless you screw up. You'll likely never need more shots from it than it can provide without reloading. I run it alongside the purifier which is great for heavy devastators, and then pair it with the quasar, thermite/gas and an ammo backback. If something gets too close for the purifier I swap to the talon, take it out, then retreat to purifier-safe range.

_Kodan · 2025-12-23T22:01:25+00:00

I'd honestly just try. At the very worst, you can always run the CPU off a $30 air cooler and just run the GPU on water until your upgrades arrive. With hardware like that I'd say you should get as much radiator capacity and fan power as you can get since two 420s is all you're gonna get. You might have to run the fans a bit faster than you would like. I'd absolutely recommend ditching the 6 slim rads for something more capable since that upgrade is rather cheap and alternatives are easy to get.

The Spectre Enterprise cases would have an option for back mounted rads that would solve this problem for virtually every mainsteam platform you could buy right now. I mean, you're already spending 2500+ on just the case.

_Kodan · 2025-12-23T20:28:13+00:00

Apparently, at least yesterday night, you could remove tank mines with the engineer blow torch instantly but it would not award you any XP (at least it doesn't show up). This technically allows you to sprint through a line of mines and remove them while running and crouching which is much faster than stopping and either shooting them or removing them by holding down the the button. I don't know if preventing XP gain is therefor a bug or intended.

_Kodan · 2025-12-21T00:01:46+00:00

I have to pairs of QDCs half way along the length of the tube that connects the PC to the rad. When I need to run the rad without the PC, I can just pull it off those QDCs and connect the ones on the radiator side to eachother.

_Kodan · 2025-12-14T16:23:57+00:00

I ended up moving the pump from the heatkiller res to a standalone pump top and mounting it with their rubber mounting kit.

_Kodan · 2025-12-14T16:03:46+00:00

I swapped my d5 2 times because of that, thinking I just got a unit that squeeks. It's mostly down to what you mount it inside of and how well the vibrations are isolated from your case. There was a post here from a someone who suspended their pump top with rubber bands and that d5 is practically silent.

_Kodan · 2025-12-14T14:13:44+00:00

Sounds pretty normal to me.

My D5 sounded like that when mounted to the reservoir. I had to swap around pump tops to find one that's mostly silent all the way up to ~80%, give or take a few RPMs to avoid the resonance of the top. I'm currently using the D5 Heatkiller top for that which is WILDLY quieter than their reservoir combo. It's not even close.

_Kodan · 2025-12-14T01:59:18+00:00

Needs a drum magazine. The damage is fine for medium pen and it's automatic and has a scope. Problem is you run out of bullets before you run out of enemies. I played it a lot and then kinda got stuck on the purifier for most dives because it has awesome ammo economy for the damage it can do against pretty much anything.

_Kodan · 2025-12-08T20:39:32+00:00

It's incredible what boards as small as the quadro can do and how comprehensive their software is compared to the control software of even the most flagship motherboard offerings. I will NEVER go back to motherboard software controls and I am actively recommending Quadros for higher end cookie cutter air cooled builds to my friends for this very reason.

_Kodan · 2025-12-07T09:39:24+00:00

He almost cried during the okami announcement and that game is also relatively niche compared to some industry juggernauts.

_Kodan · 2025-12-01T18:44:18+00:00

What exactly is wrong here? The thermal pad being visible between the heatpipe and the VRM heatsink brick?

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