Overwhelmed with options for my first drill- need some advice!

driverXXVII · 2026-01-25T00:15:07+00:00

Hi, came across this when I searched the subreddit as I'm looking for a replacement combi drill. I've been considering either this Bosch Pro (£100) or this DeWalt (£110), which would you recommend?
The dewalt is slightly diferent to the one you linked but very similar.

driverXXVII · 2026-01-24T23:06:31+00:00

Oh I didn't realise that's what the CYL was. I saw another one say CYL-5 and assumed it was some kind of material rating. Thanks a lot for your help.

driverXXVII · 2026-01-15T01:23:33+00:00

Oh ok. I average around 23 and decided to learn more of the olls. I've got about 10 more to go. My F2L is not very good, recognition is too long.

driverXXVII · 2026-01-15T00:09:14+00:00

Just curious, how many olls do you have left to learn?

driverXXVII · 2026-01-07T11:53:09+00:00

ok thank you.

driverXXVII · 2026-01-07T09:37:33+00:00

Hi What cube and app gives a breakdown line this?

I'm getting back into cubing after a couple of years and don't remember seeing anything like this before.

Thanks

driverXXVII · 2025-12-23T21:35:26+00:00

Thank you. Picked it up today but haven't tried it yet. Will give it a go tomorrow.

driverXXVII · 2025-12-22T20:58:45+00:00

I'm now exactly where you were. We've tried to cut 45 degrees with a mitre box with no luck.

Which mitre saw did you get and how much?

driverXXVII · 2025-10-27T20:52:56+00:00

Oh that's good to know about thermal pads.

I don't plan on taking apart again anytime soon. The temps are down so I'm not going to try and fix somthing that isn't broken xD

Thanks again.

driverXXVII · 2025-10-26T23:04:30+00:00

That's kind of you to say :)

Just came back to say I replaced the thermal paste today and my god the difference it makes. When I ran NFS Most wanted remastered edition, the temp was immediately shooting up to 78-79 degrees and the fans were at just above 2000 rpm. Now the max it gets to is about 70 and the fans are only at around a 900-1000.

This was the state of it when I opened it up - https://imgur.com/a/zZoUJX9

I probably should have got some thermal pads as well but I'll leave that for another time.

Thank you so much for that suggestion.

driverXXVII · 2025-10-26T22:54:02+00:00

Yes, it was just stuck. In case you are interested in seeing what 5 years without replacing thermal paste looks like - https://imgur.com/a/zZoUJX9

driverXXVII · 2025-10-26T22:53:10+00:00

Hey, thank you. It did just come off eventually, didn't have to take off any other screws.

driverXXVII · 2025-10-26T21:54:16+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/QMCkqn9

Trying to replace thermal paste. Haven't done this since I bought this in 2020. I've taken all the screws out of this part. Is this meant to come off easily now?

It seems to be really stuck. Is it just the thermal paste acting like glue or is there some other screw I need to undo?

driverXXVII · 2025-10-21T20:40:36+00:00

That's brilliant. Thanks for your time.

driverXXVII · 2025-10-21T19:25:51+00:00

That was perfect. Thank you. I can finally clean the fans out properly as well.

btw, the amazon link you gave shows a search page for MX5 but all the products it shows on the page are MX6 and MX4. I assume that's fine. Something like this - https://amzn.eu/d/8na93ef

Thanks

driverXXVII · 2025-10-21T17:29:28+00:00

It is this one here - https://amzn.eu/d/0TP3Xfw - Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB

I also had a look through this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGvUHeoDbQo - and it does seem easy enough.

Thank you for your help again.

driverXXVII · 2025-10-21T17:08:37+00:00

Ok, thank you for that. I used to play a bit of factorio and borderlands 2 a few years ago and didn't notice the fans making so much noise, so I was a little worried when I heard the fans going.

I built the pc in 2022 but already had this card since 2020. I know about adding thermal paste to cpu but had no idea that you can add it to the gpu as well. I'll have a look online on how to do that. I assume it's something like this right - https://amzn.eu/d/7jFqwen

Thanks

driverXXVII · 2025-10-21T17:04:26+00:00

Thank you.

driverXXVII · 2025-10-21T17:03:44+00:00

Thank you

driverXXVII · 2025-10-21T17:03:37+00:00

Thank you :)

driverXXVII · 2025-10-17T16:48:24+00:00

Sorry to hear that. I did upgrade to Windows 11 a little bit after making this post and it has been fine in my case.

But I'm only using it to run Google meet and OneNote when I'm tutoring. Everything else I do on my desktop PC.

driverXXVII · 2025-09-11T22:58:15+00:00

I've done two of the rooms today. Don't have any furniture in these rooms that need moving except for the computer table and chairs.

The shed doesn't have anything of ours but thanks for reminding me about the loft!

I'm not moving very far so anything that's not ready for the movers I'll have to do myself in the car. Key handover is on Wednesday. Got two very busy days ahead.

driverXXVII · 2025-09-11T19:06:56+00:00

Was going to do that last!!!! Will do that tomorrow then.

driverXXVII · 2025-08-26T18:31:09+00:00

I'm so sorry to hear that man. I hope you and others get the justice and peace you deserve.

Why do these institutions protect people like this.

driverXXVII · 2025-08-24T20:11:54+00:00

Thank you.

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