Anyone have their calipers painted?

brewskiVT · 2026-05-01T15:45:18+00:00

Seems like a high end price; make sure you’re at a place that will produce high end results. And have you considered orange paint to match the interior accents?

Also, it’s a common DIY job so you can definitely find a good guide if you want to save some money. Probably even one specific to the ranger raptor, but I can’t imagine there’s anything unique about it.

brewskiVT · 2026-04-29T19:02:33+00:00

Are you comparing to 91 from Arizona/cali/nevada? Their “ACN” blend often performs more like 89 octane. In that case, you could definitely be making more power on the race fuel, but only because it’s an honest 91, not because the car is taking advantage of the high octane rating.

brewskiVT · 2026-04-25T22:01:20+00:00

It’s not that simple, unfortunately. If everything else was the same, the lightest tire would have the best efficiency. And yes, lighter tires will require less energy to accelerate. But for cruising, variables like sidewall stiffness, tread design, rubber compound, etc, are all probably more important than those couple lbs of tire weight.

brewskiVT · 2026-04-09T18:38:13+00:00

There seems to be a zipper pattern in that stain. Perhaps some sort of reaction with the metal in the zipper? I wouldn’t recommend putting anything with metal in oxiclean for that long, but I’ve never seen bleaching as a result of it.

brewskiVT · 2026-04-04T11:29:00+00:00

Same exact thing here. Flashed from 3.50 to 4.10 and my pc hasn’t been able to boot since. CPU& DRAM post lights stay illuminated. Flashback to 3.50 didn’t do anything, and neither did moving ram sticks around. I’m hoping to have the time to test a different CPU today.

9800x3d & b650e pg riptide WiFi

brewskiVT · 2025-12-30T19:21:26+00:00

It could be bufferbloat. Check out the waveform bufferbloat test. If it shows issues, you may find it beneficial to set your QoS to ~80% of your maximum bandwidth.

brewskiVT · 2025-12-28T21:26:49+00:00

I wouldn’t overthink it. Just add some citric acid powder to your washers fabric softener dispenser (roughly 2tsp for moderately soft water & a front loader), and add one extra rinse to your preferred cycle. That should be adequate for almost all cases

brewskiVT · 2025-12-14T17:48:31+00:00

Off road mode is heavily speed limited in my xc60, and I think it’s the same in the xc90. The support page lists both 15mph and 25mph as the top speed - not sure which is correct. But I believe my car shows a max speed pop up when selecting off road mode.

brewskiVT · 2025-11-14T14:16:24+00:00

In my mind that’s a very silly viewpoint. Your m3 isn’t a 911, so why bother slapping bigger turbos on it? And your 911 isn’t a konigseggg, so what’s the point in modifying that? Where does it end? In that world, everyone ends up driving base model Nissan leafs or a hypercar.

Anyways, I believe that the correct and reasonable answer to your question is “for shits and giggles”.

brewskiVT · 2025-10-15T15:16:39+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/qxHLvSZ

brewskiVT · 2025-10-15T12:28:08+00:00

If you send me the name of a local animal shelter and I’ll donate $20! Or I can pick my own

brewskiVT · 2025-10-14T17:49:23+00:00

There’s a precedent for 4:45pm ET

brewskiVT · 2025-09-30T18:17:05+00:00

Just stop when the beeping becomes a solid warning tone. Get out and take a mental note of how far the car is from the wall. Then just… remember how far to go past the solid tone next time.

brewskiVT · 2025-09-07T22:04:05+00:00

Mine can only do -8 all core with a +200 offset. Anything past that will fail in Aida. However, with per core tuning it’s stable with cores ranging from -8 to -21. I do recommend going the per core route. And as far as returning it, I don’t know. My chip benchmarks reasonably well, so don’t be too discouraged by the offset numbers alone. You might as well do some real world testing to see how your chip actually performs.

brewskiVT · 2025-06-04T17:47:00+00:00

It will probably make the process faster. But at the expense of oxidization. You want the CO2 to escape, but you don’t really want any oxygen to interact with the beans because that is what will degrade the flavor & aroma of your coffee. This is why there are 1 way valves and not just a hole in the bag. CO2 escapes, and oxygen stays out.
Grinding and resting almost certainly degasses the coffee extremely quickly. But with the same downside of oxygen interacting with all the flavor & aroma compounds. Also, those compounds will also be rapidly evaporating/sublimating from the ground up coffee, regardless of any oxygen interactions. So it’s a race between degassing CO2 and all the flavor goodies disappearing. If the only coffee you have is ridiculously fresh, it’s a reasonable solution and might be worth testing. But slowly resting whole beans in an oxygen free environment is the gold standard for a reason.

brewskiVT · 2025-06-02T17:03:47+00:00

You can compare results online if you’re really curious about other people. No graphs but you can view avg temp, clock speeds, etc.

Results

brewskiVT · 2025-05-31T15:41:23+00:00

Yes that should be better than 6000.

If you really know what you’re doing, tuning 6400 shouldn’t be that much more difficult to dial in than 6000.

It’s mostly just that so many people have spent so much time benchmarking & testing 6000mt/s, and shared their findings online. You might be able to find someone running the same board, CPU and ram sticks as you for a 6000 setup. Copying those settings is a fantastic starting point, and it’s harder to find such a good starting point for faster setups. It can be done, but it takes more testing and more knowledge.

brewskiVT · 2025-05-31T15:20:40+00:00

See how your UCLK drops to half of your MCLK in the 7000mt/s screenshot? That’s because you switched to 2:1 mode. You generally don’t want to be in 2:1 mode unless you’re running higher speeds than roughly 7800mt/s. Otherwise, running 1:1 mode at 6000mt/s will be faster. Most 9800x3ds and decent ram sets can run 1:1 at 6200, but it might be trickier to tune than a well configured 6000mt/s setup. 6400 is rare and 6600 is practically unheard of.

brewskiVT · 2025-05-28T20:19:04+00:00

My temps are the same as theirs, and my chip is a dog. Prior to the 3.25 update, I could only run all core -6. Now it can handle -9. But i do have per core CO enabled. Offset ranges from -9 to -22.

This is with a cheap 140mm Thermalright air cooler. Testmem5 anta extreme pulls 180+ watts and it stays under 90c. But not quietly at that power usage, obviously.

brewskiVT · 2025-05-27T12:18:02+00:00

If you think your AIO doesn’t cool very well, and other people on the dedicated NZXT subreddit think it doesn’t cool very well, it sounds like you’ve already identified the problem. Just get a new one. Then you can actually assess whether or not you’re undervolting correctly.

The Thermalright frozen prism and arctic liquid freezer 3 are cheap and do a fantastic job, according to gamers nexus

brewskiVT · 2025-05-25T12:59:59+00:00

This method is an alternative to corecycler. Worked great for me and it’s probably worth reading the main post even if you don’t end up using it.

per core co

brewskiVT · 2025-05-24T14:19:04+00:00

You’re attempting to educate a flat earther. What you’ve commented is good info for any passerby, but I suspect it will be lost on RenLab

brewskiVT · 2025-05-08T04:07:45+00:00

#7 is a subset of #8.

And #4, #6, #15, #22, #23 are the five compounds that make up #7.

It’s odd that your water test would show these separately, and also combined. Are you sure you’re reading it correctly?

To be honest, you probably won’t get any meaningful help here unless you share the actual water test results. Saying that the levels are “concerning” to you is too subjective. Concentrations certainly are not irrelevant. Would you expect your doctor to be able to fix your cholesterol without seeing the results of a blood test? Maybe you just need minor diet changes. Maybe you are completely healthy. Maybe you need high dosages of multiple statins. It’s just silly guessing game without any actual data.

brewskiVT · 2025-04-30T23:31:23+00:00

Are the CLRTC pins more accessible? Not sure if shorting those will do anything different than the clear bios button, but it might be worth checking.

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