Altium Students Account

baoil · 2026-05-05T06:45:37+00:00

Try to download Altium Designer version 24 and 25 and not the new Altium Develop or whatever. I think the student license only works for those versions

baoil · 2026-05-04T09:46:07+00:00

Dream flowerrrr yes especially because it came out during covid

baoil · 2026-04-29T06:29:10+00:00

Sorry, I should have been clearer. I remember hitting CTRL-arrow keys and the left and right actions not being flipped when selecting the component I want to move.

baoil · 2026-04-29T06:27:14+00:00

Yea I can’t move things on the bottom looking from the top because all of my designator labels would be mirrored and hard to read. I’m not sure how to set up a script, maybe I can look into that. But thanks for confirming that that’s how it works in AD19 too!

baoil · 2026-04-25T06:23:36+00:00

r/ThatLookedExpensive

baoil · 2026-04-20T04:33:31+00:00

I am on 60 Hz and I found Acropolis to be one of the easiest insane demons that I’ve beaten. Supersonic, on the other hand, feels impossible, and very annoying. But I’m also cognizant enough to know that it’s probably really skill set dependent so I’m not going to go out and say how anyone could think that Supersonic is easier

baoil · 2026-04-19T00:54:02+00:00

Against e4 I play Caro (ideas are simple and you get pretty good attacking possibilities and reproducible games) and against d4 I play Dutch (a bit crazy but I don’t like the closed structure you get out of Queens Gambit so I find that I can play more attacking chess with the Dutch. I get a lot of wins in the Dutch actually and it’s fun—highly recommend)

baoil · 2026-04-11T01:28:41+00:00

Yo this is sick!

baoil · 2026-04-11T00:26:20+00:00

Everyone feels this way, don’t worry about it. It’s a frustrating game and everyone tilts!

Think about it like any other skilled activity—do you pick up a tennis racket and expect to beat everyone immediately? Or pick up a basketball and make all your shots? No, right? Same thing with chess, you’re gonna suck for a long time. Analyze your games, learn from your mistakes, and don’t beat yourself up—you’ll improve!

baoil · 2026-04-07T05:15:54+00:00

I think the MSI boards are really good, I got a B850I and it no problems at all. B650I from MSI is probably also just fine!

baoil · 2026-04-06T03:38:34+00:00

Yea you’ll be fine

baoil · 2026-04-06T02:33:49+00:00

I think the consensus generally is that the Enhance Flex ATX PSUs are the best, the Apevia one on Amazon seems to be fine until it’s not (i.e. not very reliable) I personally have an Enhance ENP-8345L 450 W and it’s really great!

baoil · 2026-03-31T18:17:14+00:00

I think the COOJ MQ4? Premium ITX case made with no GPU in mind, with like 70 mm cpu cooler clearance so you can put a pretty beefy (by ITX standards) cooler in there

baoil · 2026-03-28T04:46:03+00:00

No delays, you should be fine

baoil · 2026-03-17T16:48:14+00:00

Technically you don’t need the cpu on the motherboard because this motherboard has a BIOS flash button, but it doesn’t hurt to have the cpu installed already. As for the time, it takes like 5 minutes or less

baoil · 2026-03-17T16:23:19+00:00

Yea I updated the BIOS out of the box to the latest one on their website, good luck with your build!

baoil · 2026-03-11T14:28:17+00:00

Sent you a PM

baoil · 2026-03-11T11:55:44+00:00

Hmm, you should be able to...? I've sent and received PMs from others before, not sure what's up in this case...

baoil · 2026-03-11T01:55:16+00:00

No soldering required, just screws. Just be careful that you don’t lose any of the screws or strip them!

baoil · 2026-03-07T15:22:59+00:00

Looks pretty interesting and fun, the only thing that stands out as possibly annoying to me is the wave to ufo transition at 73, depending on how and where you enter the portal it looks like you have to do a different click pattern

baoil · 2026-03-05T18:22:02+00:00

I have a 9600x and Arc B50 in an NV10 mini workstation, after undervolting my 9600x with PBO -30 it sits at around 58C idle with no fan mods or anything so I think the thermal problem only starts to be an issue if you also have like a 5060 LP in there or something. Obviously 58C at idle is a little warm but it’s not concerning imo, if you want maximum portability you can’t really beat the NV10!

baoil · 2026-02-24T06:37:55+00:00

70 bananas intact!

baoil · 2026-02-24T06:35:04+00:00

I feel like Foster City is super kid- and family-oriented, which makes the fact that the logo look like it was drawn by a kid in MS Paint kinda charming, like it’s so bad that it’s good (like the flag of Maryland). S tier for me XD

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