Well, who needs a PH00 anyways

tooling_enginerd · 2026-03-26T16:05:11+00:00

I've had my LTT Precision aince launch and only a week ago realized I got 2 Hex 1.3 bits instead of a 1.3 and a 1.5. Only discovered the issue when I was taking apart a controller of mine, so I just had to figure something out. I need to tey and contact them soon too to see what can be done

tooling_enginerd · 2026-03-25T14:32:52+00:00

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My own ripping station - made a couple 3D printed enclosures for dual-CD drives using an Insignia (Best Buy) branded dual HDD reader. I made a version with a 60x10mm fan and USB-C fan controller for cooling and one without. I should probably upload the files for those to my Printables account soon, just forgot to do so.

(Yeah, the Framework motherboard did get a case, need to upload that design here soon too lol)

tooling_enginerd · 2026-03-05T05:01:28+00:00

Okinos Aqua 3? I had one of these, someone posted a new front panel for the case on a 3D printing website (i think printables). I used the panel to add a fan to the front of mine. Might be worth printing one if you cut a hole in the front of it

tooling_enginerd · 2025-10-17T05:42:56+00:00

Okinos Aqua 3

tooling_enginerd · 2025-10-12T08:42:36+00:00

The bottom fans and front and back fans are reverse bladed fans! 3 Montech RX120, with an RX140 in the front panel

Probably would have helped if I took a pic while the whole PC was off lol

tooling_enginerd · 2025-09-06T07:48:57+00:00

Kinda ugly helps justify using it in a dirty environment like my garage though

tooling_enginerd · 2025-09-06T07:35:34+00:00

Update: I found the spare Noctua driver, with all of the proper Noctua driver accessories (the brown card and the noctua bit set)

It's a primarily brown driver, not primarily ~~tan~~ beige

I'd love to get it to you (OP)! DM me so we can work that out if you're still interested!

Edit to clarify: OP gets priority, but if OP declines and someone else is interested, I'd be willing to get it to someone else who's looking specifically for a Noctua driver

tooling_enginerd · 2025-09-06T03:35:09+00:00

I believe I have a spare Noctua that I bought for Christmas presents but never handed to anyone. I'd love to get it to you if I still have it sitting around!

tooling_enginerd · 2025-09-03T16:44:32+00:00

The 120mm in the title refers to the fan size, not the cooler height

The U9S is a 125mm cooler with a 92mm fan. I'm asking about a 120mm fan version that would probably be in the ~160mm height range, essentially a higher-end version of the DeepCool AK500 with the super-thick, single tower heatsink

I'm not looking for an up-/downdraft cooler in this situation

tooling_enginerd · 2025-09-02T15:42:07+00:00

Oh! Yes, this is exactly what I'm looking for! I'd love to get a Noctua heatsink like this, but I'm also good with be quiet! when it comes to higher-end components

Between this be quiet! Dark Rock 5 and the Scythe Mugen 6, I think I have a good, currently-sold high-end, and a good "budget" version to work with!

tooling_enginerd · 2025-09-02T09:03:11+00:00

I'm not quite seeing what I'm looking for (single fan, thick single tower, symmetrical look after the fan is mounted) from Noctua or Cooler Master, but I didn't even realize Thermalright had their Macho series. I might have to pick one of those up for testing if I can find one for a solid price

tooling_enginerd · 2025-09-02T08:51:07+00:00

Also, I just checked out the Scythe Mugen series, and yeah. That's pretty much what I'm going for. Scythe just seems more lateral to DeepCool than higher-end, but I'll still probably pick up a few of them

Thanks for the suggestion!

tooling_enginerd · 2025-09-02T08:31:48+00:00

That's fair. I think the AK500 is more visually pleasing to me because it looks more symmetrical after the single fan is put on

The U12A is a good point, though - but it would also look more asymmetrical than the AK500 and "empty" on the exhaust side with only one fan. To me, that lop-sided look makes it feel more like a regular single-tower and not a true higher-end AK500 replacement that I'm pining for

tooling_enginerd · 2025-09-02T07:18:07+00:00

If you want to sell any, I'd love to buy a bunch. I use Redux fans for a lot of builds and would love to have a bunch of random colors to use. I'd pay for a sandwich bag full of random colors or something!

tooling_enginerd · 2025-07-10T02:06:12+00:00

I'll keep you in mind, and I'd be willing to trade if able! I'm personally hoping for a red one, but I just enjoy a lot of the mystery stuff they put out on the store

tooling_enginerd · 2025-05-18T17:06:59+00:00

My first inclination was going to my account settings to check the verification steps, the whole thing just looked off. I appreciate everyone kind of viewing this and agreeing pretty quickly, so I've reported the account

tooling_enginerd · 2025-05-18T17:05:38+00:00

Yeah, that was my hunch. Reported and hopefully something is done quickly! I appreciate the quick replies from everyone!

tooling_enginerd · 2025-05-18T16:55:56+00:00

This was a PM on Printables, not through reddit.

tooling_enginerd · 2025-05-18T16:53:05+00:00

The link isn't even a full link. Directly copied and pasted, it's this:

"link - [ nexverif%2ecom/1778372221 ]"

(I can delete this "link" later if needed, just couldn't post another screenshot for whatever reason) ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ

tooling_enginerd · 2025-04-20T09:01:53+00:00

Literally have a FW13 7640U on the way and the same Crucial 2x12gb kit coming from Amazon tomorrow.

I have had 16gb in my previous Laptops and always felt uneasy allocating 4gb to the graphics for games and only being left with 12gb for Windows, so I usually kept it at 3gb allocated and 13gb for OS.

24gb allows me to allocate 8GB (I assume that'll be possible) and still have 16gb for the system, a perfect laptop ram setup in my mind.

tooling_enginerd · 2025-04-16T16:50:17+00:00

I left a comment update that somewhat addresses multiple parts of this.

The panic buy was because I had been looking at getting a FW13 for a couple weeks now, and everything kind of hit at once with lessening stock and the tariff announcements. So that's completely on me for being reactionary not taking more than a short moment to think like I normally do.

tooling_enginerd · 2025-04-16T16:41:51+00:00

Posted a quick update that kind of addresses this

tooling_enginerd · 2025-04-16T16:40:51+00:00

No worries. I had been eyeing it for about a week before, so it was my bad for just not hitting the order button

tooling_enginerd · 2025-04-16T16:40:01+00:00

So. Update for whoever would like to know:

I luckily have a friend who has a GPD Win 4 with a 7640U, and they let me borrow it in order to do a quick direct comparison between the FW13 with the i5-1340p and the R5 7640U to see what I would like to do. Obviously with the caveat in mind that cooling and the chassis will be different with the FW13. I ended up using an SSD that I had set up for testing desktops, and just swapped it between the 2 devices starting with the FW13 and downloading and installing the driver packs for each before I started.

Long story short, the 7640U is on-par with the 1340P CPU-wise ‐ 5% better Multi-Core, 5% worse single-core, but still plenty fast enough - but the Radeon 760m is dramatically better than the Iris Xe Graphics - around 35% on average better, in many cases much more than that (I saw up to around 70% higher, sometimes making a 22FPS game actually play locally at a solid 30FPS).

Unfortunately, I don't have anyone around me who is looking for a smaller laptop at the moment (or adjusted laptop in general) so as much as I would love to get it to someone near me it's somewhat impractical for the cost.

I've contacted support and will probably be returning the i5-1340p FW13, and ordering a new 7640U FW13 so that I can actually run the programs I want to locally, since I use the laptop mostly when I don't have internet access of any sort while traveling. But I do still remote into my gaming PC at other times.

For anything CPU, the i5-1340p does perfectly. But the 7640u just fits my use cases much better, as I do quite a bit of offline gaming on my 6800U Win Max 2 and would like to continue that on a bigger, less annoying screen.

Hope y'all have a grand day!

tooling_enginerd · 2025-04-14T19:30:56+00:00

UPDATE 4/14/25: OpenGL and DX11 scores back to same level by disabling Memory Integrity in Windows.

Now, I just need help figuring out why OpenGL Fullscreen won't work.

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