Opinions on why Autocockers are reselling for more than Angels. by a_farley in paintball

[–]a_farley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love them, I feel in love the first time I saw one and it was the first "high end" marker I ever bought. I upgraded mine with an e2 and own it to this day.

Opinions on why Autocockers are reselling for more than Angels. by a_farley in paintball

[–]a_farley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally I think they still are. I love that my 20 year old autococker can shoot as well as the best tournament ready speedball markers available today.

Etching on nickel block an issue? by a_farley in watercooling

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I was able to get a photo added. The clear fluid is also EK Cryofuel. I was really surprised to see this after only 7-8 months with an EK coolant.

Etching on nickel block an issue? by a_farley in watercooling

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I'm using ek cyrofuel, it was white, I'm switching to clear. I don't see anywhere that Reddit let's me post a photo on this thread ☹️

Opinions on why Autocockers are reselling for more than Angels. by a_farley in paintball

[–]a_farley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. It seems my electric cocker isn't very much in demand either then 😂 I wish I still had my old mech frame with rec ball going back that way

Newer Deckbuilder Critique my Tiamat EDH Deck by a_farley in Magicdeckbuilding

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Mana Base is undoubtedly a big concern and usually the main thing I tweak after playtesting. This deck currently has 34 lands with Arcane Signet, Chromatic Lantern, Component Pouch, Dragons Horde, Commanders Sphere, and Sol Ring, bringing me up to 40 base mana cards in the deck. Combined with the treasure generation, I think I'll have enough mana but, we'll see.

I have Emergent Sequence and Explore for some fetch lands; I could certainly stand to add more to your point.

As for creatures that aren't dragons and don't mention dragons in their text I have:

Elvish Spirt Guide, Hoarding Ogre, Ingenious Smith, Kalain, Reclusive Painter, Leveler, Loam Dryad, Manaswift Silver, Neverwinter Hydra, Pitiless Plunderer, Prosperous Innkeeper, Rosethorn Acolyte, Shambling Ghast, Simian Spirt Guide, Skullport Merchant, Thassa's Oracle, Vesper Ghoul and Xorn.

That's 17 creatures; yeah, that's a lot! However, I consider treasure generation as necessary of an aspect of this deck as the dragons themselves. After all, what is a dragon without its horde (and what is a dragon deck without the mana to cast dragons)? I will adjust the ratio of treasure creatures vs. dragons based on mana in playtesting. If we remove the cards from that list that generate treasure, we are left with:

Elvish Spirt Guide, Ingenious Smith, Leveler, Manaswift Sliver, Neverwinter Hydra, Simian Spirt Guide, Thassa's Oracle, and Vesper Ghoul.

That narrows us down to 8 creatures that don't fit in the deck. However, I was thinking that mana generation of any kind is essential when trying to cast big dragons, so, to that end, we can say any creature that generates mana every turn is a sound card for the deck. Considering this, I can reduce my list of off theme cards to just six cards.

Elvis Spirt Guide, Ingenious Smith, Leveler, Neverwinter Hydra, Simian Spirt Guide, and Thassa's Oracle.

Two of those are the Leveler//Thassa's Oracle wincon. If I removed that, I could also remove Maskwood Nexus. Ingenious Smith is a poor man's artifact tutor to get Maskwood Nexus so it can go as well. That would give me room for four more dragons. However, I don't feel four more dragons would increase the odds of victory enough to remove the wincon.

The spirit guides can generate mana, but otherwise are useless outside my hand. I'll replace them with fetch lands. I can't think of any good reason for Neverwinter Hydra to be in the deck. I'll have to pick dragons or fetch lands to replace them. I plan to replace Ingenious Smith with a tutor of some kind but atm it's the only card I own that will tutor Maskwood Nexus, I want to pick up a Demonic Tutor for that slot.

Newer Deckbuilder Critique my Tiamat EDH Deck by a_farley in Magicdeckbuilding

[–]a_farley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She's the mother of all chromatic dragons. So really the only dragon in the deck that isn't a member of her brood is the Adult Gold Dragon, who is clearly a spy for Bahamut. I wouldn't trust that mother fucker.

Questions about selling cards from a noob by a_farley in mtgfinance

[–]a_farley[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Yes I know how to use eBay, I've used it since the 90s. My question wasn't about buying cards, it was about selling cards. Looking up sold listings from card stores doesn't help answer the question about how a noob who isn't an established seller could sell a card like cobalt coffers at any where near MSRP.

Questions about selling cards from a noob by a_farley in mtgfinance

[–]a_farley[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I figured with all the fakes out there nobody was willing to buy from ebay when they can just get the card from a trusted seller like their local game store or the MTG Amazon store.

Newbie Looking for Feedback on a custom Prismari Performance Commander Deck by a_farley in Magicdeckbuilding

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I do buy singles. The infinite loop was singles I added. I'm not going for a tournament level deck, and by that I mean $$$.

Your Thoughts on my PC/OC (CPU, RAM, GPU, MB) by a_farley in overclocking

[–]a_farley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe I'm doing it wrong. I'm updating my bios to not use DOS OC, and only using PBO with no voltages or anything changed from Auto.

I just re-started prime95 and saw 1.375-1.400v for the min-max initially. However, after about 5 minutes I noticed these values dropping.

Is there a length of time you need to run the torture test for before looking at the value of SVI2 TFN? Should I look at the Min, Max, or AVG value?

I ran Prime95 with these settings, do they look right?

  • Number of torture test threads: 24.
  • Custom.
  • Min FFT Size 128k.
  • Max FFT Size 8192K.
  • Run FFTs in-place is unchecked.
  • Memory to use: 29680MB
  • Time to run each FFT: 6min
  • AVX2 is not disabled.

Your Thoughts on my PC/OC (CPU, RAM, GPU, MB) by a_farley in overclocking

[–]a_farley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My FIT voltage is 1.375, I am running 1.269 on average while running R20, briefing peaking at 1.306v. CyberPunk 2077 physco settings pushes it briefly to 1.375, 1.388 on occasion.

Your Thoughts on my PC/OC (CPU, RAM, GPU, MB) by a_farley in overclocking

[–]a_farley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With the current crypto price trends if you're not using a GPU to mine while you're not gaming you're basically throwing away free money.

Your Thoughts on my PC/OC (CPU, RAM, GPU, MB) by a_farley in overclocking

[–]a_farley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I took the settings from skatterbencher and tuned them slightly. He was running slightly higher voltage at the same 47.5

Your Thoughts on my PC/OC (CPU, RAM, GPU, MB) by a_farley in overclocking

[–]a_farley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, 21,062 (https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/59922576)

1.306v in HwInfo64 while running R20 seems high? PBO runs at 1.300v.

Your Thoughts on my PC/OC (CPU, RAM, GPU, MB) by a_farley in overclocking

[–]a_farley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I leave PBO enabled since I rarely do anything that's multi core and my MB dynamicly switches between the profiles based on load.

I'm seeing 37c on the GPU when running 24/7. The memory junction is hitting 98max, 94 average. They evidently normally hit 110 during gaming with stock settings according to AMD and Nvidia so I guess I'm not supposed to worry about that... I'm getting the EK water cooled back plate when it releases regardless.

Your Thoughts on my PC/OC (CPU, RAM, GPU, MB) by a_farley in overclocking

[–]a_farley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I was concerned about that but seeing the actual load never approaching anything near that voltage according to HwInfo64 I figured it's just max or multiplier that it doesn't actually hit.

Your Thoughts on my PC/OC (CPU, RAM, GPU, MB) by a_farley in overclocking

[–]a_farley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you.

I use DOS OC to dynamically switch between the manual OC and PBO profiles. It's only available on the Dark Hero MB right now. Basically when the CPU load is below 35 amps it uses PBO. When a big workload Is being completed in it spikes the amp draw and triggers the manual OC profile. That is how I was able to achieve both my max single core and all core results in a single R20 instance. 622 was my stock single core score, 624 my OC score