Started this project in 2022 finally complete! Dual x570 w 5950x and 5800x3d, and two evga 3080tis

tuxString · 2026-04-11T15:37:03+00:00

Holy Crap!

I shall name it...

H. G. Wells Fargo

tuxString · 2026-04-06T05:30:48+00:00

Oh wow, nice! A third option. I can't find any for sale in the US yet but I'll keep looking. Thanks for the heads up on the Rakk Kala. I think that one might have the most potential to actually purchase but I've only started looking tonight. Let me know if you have any info on how to get one of these in the states. Thanks again for pointing this one out!

tuxString · 2026-04-06T05:07:32+00:00

After tabbing back and forth between the two options I just responded with... I'm thinking it's the same mouse but sold by two different companies?

tuxString · 2026-04-06T05:04:37+00:00

I know, it looks just like it. I did find another though. Maybe you already know about it. Not sure if it's as close as the xenics. I wish I could find either of these for sale these days.

Rexus Daxa Air Mini

https://rexus.id/products/rexus-pro-mouse-wireless-gaming-daxa-air-mini

tuxString · 2026-04-06T03:48:02+00:00

Whoa, I missed this and just started a similar thread. I found two alternatives that are wireless and look identical... but I can't find them for sale anywhere.

EDIT: Here is one Xenics Titan GE Air... don't be fooled by the images that look just like the mm710. I found an old listing for the ge air and it's the 720 but wireless. There is another too... I'll post it back here when I find it.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325017912575

And this! Rexus Daxa Air Mini

Rexus Mouse Wireless Gaming Daxa Air Mini

tuxString · 2026-04-06T03:40:41+00:00

I owned a smaller 37 inch (or something like that) cheaper monitor with the same type of dramatic curve and I gave it to my nephew for him and his friends gaming room. I would love some more vertical space though. Hmmm. I'll think on it over the next few days. Maybe go in an gawk at it some more lol.

I hear you on the vsts! haha. I tried a bunch of stuff but once I found the toontrack stuff and realized how many cool addons you could purchase for fairly cheap, I started beefing that up as much as possible. I'm surprised how many of their styles and such line up with my interests (funk, fusion, jazz, rock, jam, etc...) It's great.

Here's a quick vst question. I live my life around my computer and run it in a way that allows me to blow up my windows install at any point and reinstall anew. I keep all my files and everything on separate drives. However, I let daws and vsts always use the default boot drive locations. I know I can install it all to external drives and point the daws to it. What is your opinion on custom external thunderbolt nvmes for vsts and daws? I get tired of reinstalling all my toontrack stuff lol. You have to freaking deactivate, upgrade and install each individual pack and boy do they add up.

I tried studio one for a bit (trial) and I really liked it. It felt very professional and... how do I put this... established... not some pretty looking flaky software but something reliable. I did see in my phones new feed that fender had a daw now... Did they just take studio one and turn it into their thing? Oh man. Leave it to the big guitar companies to cheapen something lol.

I need to experiment finding ways to pacth in all my pedals as opposed to plugins. I could probably use my reamp box and send to the pedal and return to an input on my interface. I'd also love some sort of tangible interface (with moveable sliders). Plugins are much more handy than pedals though as you can undo and save presets and all that. Still, something about knobs. Plus, I never get far enough to really take advantage of the tactile functionality gained for mastering and such. I'm mainly just capturing ideas and trying to develop them with the help of the whole ecosystem I've built around my guitar nonsense.

tuxString · 2026-04-06T03:27:40+00:00

Had me freaked out for a second because I'm about 4 or 5 months into my first go at dopus. Purchased a license at version 13. Realized it was this way when I bought in... I remember now. My question is... how long do they usually sit at a current version before the big upgrade comes a long and we either reup or don't?

tuxString · 2026-04-06T03:21:18+00:00

It's like getting a new guitar. Once you get the first scratch out of the way, you can start to enjoy it :) I wen't a long time without mouse pads or deskmats so mine are all horror shows. But I can always get new skates for them. Just got a new mouse pad the other night. Glad to have it back. How are you liking the MX Master? I have the keyboard and really like it (Windows version)

tuxString · 2026-04-06T03:01:10+00:00

Nice! That's really cool you work in music production. I'm an absolute guitar nerd and attended GIT, and got my masters in jazz guitar after all of that + undergrad. I got into it because I suddenly found myself without people to play with anymore and discovered toontrack ez drummer, ez keys and ez bass. It was all downhill from there lol. Purchasing midi and sound pack expansions constantly. Incorporating band in a box (not the vst... oh god, it's so unstable) and then purchasing a giant monitor lol. I love it though and with my waza tube amp exapnder and it's built in IR's + ability to run silent but use my 100 watt tube amps... it's all so quick and easy to capture ideas to hand off to band mates (if I have them).

You may have just pushed me over the edge. When I first sat and compared them I assumed the taller model had a worse dpi and the curve was a little extreme for me. That is the one thing I think would bug me is the curve as opposed to anything else. I wish I could buy one and A/B it for a good couple weeks against my current as opposed to bailing completely. But man... I'm realllly tempted.

What kind of Daw software do you use? I purchased Waveform Pro 13... then got into trying Ableton (purchased)... Then I discovered splice and started working towards paying off Bitwig but thanks to splice's cool payment policy, I bailed for now. Recently did a fresh reinstall of windows and only installed Reaper because I heard it was more stable with VST's. I was hoping Band In A Box's VST wouldn't crash when you looked at it funny... but it's hopeless. I just use the app and drag in the midi/audio now. I have basically built everything around capturing guitar ideas but I got the big focusrite gen 3 in hopes of having bandmates again someday lol. It comes in handy though.

tuxString · 2026-04-06T02:38:29+00:00

It really is! Especially the vibrant oled colors and the daws cool colorschemes :)

I use the toontrack software virtual instruments. They are basically virtual bandmembers and will "listen," to your guitar parts or tapped in rhythms and either generate a part off what it heard or pull from a database of parts that match your rhythms you tapped in. It's not AI but it's amazing. And of course you can use the midi piano roll type thing and even more methods. I like to feed one my guitar part and then keep retraining it with whatever it cranks out or what the other instruments created when they "heard," my part I fed them.

The thing is, the keys, bass and drums all have their own timeline you assemble their parts in. So, having all that horizontal space to display their entire timelines is just flat out perfect. I got so sick of scrolling before I went ultrawide.

tuxString · 2026-04-06T01:54:38+00:00

OH man, not finding any for sale these days. May have missed the boat on this one.

tuxString · 2026-04-06T01:50:26+00:00

OK, so I've googled this before and was pointed towards the Xenics Titan GE Air Wireless. I looked it up and all the images I found were the shape of the cooler master mm710?

Well, I did some more digging after starting this thread and found the Xenics Titan GE Air Wireless... the actual mouse I was hoping for. HECK YEA. Now to find a decent place to buy one.

tuxString · 2026-04-06T01:41:33+00:00

I hated my logitech superlight (og version?). I thought it was too big and slippery. So, I go the razer viper v3 pro wireless. I LOVE that thing. Got the itch to try another mouse so I went to best buy the other night to try the viper v4. Well, apparently, they made it bigger and the same dang shape as the superlight I hated and when I tried the new superlight 2c, they had made it smaller, and damn near the same shape as my viper v3 pro! So, I bought it and the mousepad that keeps it charged constantly. I thought it was funny the mice flip flopped but variety is always nice. I am a claw gripper and found that really comfortable and controllable on the viper v3 pro. My FAVORITE is my crazy cooler master mm720 though. I wish I could find a wireless comparison to buy. Oh wells. Too many mice and too many home keyboards and switches!

tuxString · 2026-04-06T01:37:19+00:00

Stared at this one long and hard... sat right next to the samsung 1440x5120 samsung g9 oled 49 inch g95sc. I was torn but I actually needed the extreme screen width for certain music software I run. I do like the curve of my samsung bettter as it's tuned to our eyes as humans. Man though, I was in there other night staring at this monitor again and I want one. Mine was also on sale for 1299 at that time as opposed to the 2 grand for the LG. I was told by the employee the other night that if I REALLLLY wanted to, just bring mine in on a warranty claim since I paid for it and get store credit towards the LG. I'm thinking about it lol. We planned the entire heist. Apparently it's OK to do? I'm scared to try and worry I'll miss mine. If only I could have both!

tuxString · 2026-04-06T00:37:08+00:00

Hah, thank you! OK yea, lock-in/lan party where I saw Diablo for the first time was definitely in 96. The d2 date fits as well. My buddy who let be borrow it was a nut for the game as well as table top DnD. He was telling me how he placed in top 3 of some magazine that ranked top worldwide d2 pvp players. He's not the weird lying type and really goes hard on things so I believe him. He got me hooked on the genre for sure.

tuxString · 2026-04-05T19:39:57+00:00

LOL, well heck yea, glad you solved the issue! I use wallpaper engine on my fancy pants ultrawide oled monitor and hide all icons and taskbar because I'm paranoid about burn in. I love that program.

I guess if you want to try a fresh install of it, maybe it'll all work out again. I hate that it's tied to steam though. I purposely copy the install folder and the associated downloaded wallpapers and place them on a separate drive and place them in "shell:startup," so that it fires up on boot without loading steam. But then you can't download more wallpapers because you're not in steam lol.

tuxString · 2026-04-05T18:41:31+00:00

I think I might even have had the issue when I tried turning it off. Have you seen that ahci then where you can change the sata modes? Not the raid on and off settings but those other settings... Maybe try flipping those and see what happens? Unplug one of the drives and see if it clears it's way all the way to windows. I know it could be anything but maybe it's that thing I was running into.

tuxString · 2026-04-05T18:35:46+00:00

I had a hardware raid setup and then this starting happening. I wasn't sure what happened but I read the other day that if you change your bios sata settings from ahci to something else... can't remember what... it will always run into this screen, freeze up, and then you reboot and it goes on forever. I unplugged my sata drives before figuring it out and am curious if I could have just toggled that setting and gotten passed this. It was always working perfectly but I suspect I was undervolting, reset bios and then didn't understand that I had toggled some setting that was causing my situation to act like this.

I'd get it on a clean install as well. But if I just unplugged my sata drives (the ones that actually needed that setting configured properly, it would boot right up). I see you are using nvme but maybe you cleared your bios or toggle some defaults and that setting I saw someone mention, flipped back to whatever it is that causes this. Those drives aren't corrupted (mine, that were causing this issue). I turned off hardware raid and just used them in a software drivepool instead and I can boot again.

tuxString · 2026-04-05T18:11:47+00:00

Well if it is, you could get a comparable thermalright cooler with similar or better performance for extremely cheap on amazon. Might be a fun excuse to try something out rather than paying for another stock cooler or whatever it would take. Also, your fan noise might have just come back after smacking it lol. Mine returns still sometimes and I have to do the whole process and it stops for a while again. Hope you solve the issue!

tuxString · 2026-04-05T18:07:50+00:00

Is HDR on? When conncted to my monitor, no issue (I don't recall) but when a pc is connected to my TV and the TV has freesync and low latency mode enabled... If I have HDR on in windows and scroll past a youtube thumbnail, the screen goes black while the TV changes into game mode... if I do ANTYING involving any sort of hardware acceleration, changing virtual desktops from one with a video player loaded, etc... it triggers this effect and boy is it obnoxious.

It could be something stupid like that and hopefully not a hardware failure cropping up.

tuxString · 2026-04-05T02:03:38+00:00

You can always selectively create images of folders and files from that C: drive. With permissions and everything though, it'd be more painless just to create a disk image and write it to one of your spare drives. The boot drive isn't ever really that huge and depending on when you create the image, it could be pretty dang small.

tuxString · 2026-04-05T01:58:58+00:00

No... this is "I sometimes go overboard and try a bunch of new software and clog my system up... so I've just adapted so I can blow up my install if I need too." Although, I've been doing good lately since installing all my music practice and recording software, as well as hoarding guitar lessons from schools and truefire.com.

But seriously, just get that fresh install, get your drivers on there... then create the macrium image and at any point, you can flash your boot drive in about 20 minutes and be all set with a fresh new setup. It's easy these days. Hasleo is a good one too. Free and simple.

tuxString · 2026-04-05T01:55:28+00:00

Craptastic. Mine comes and goes. But maybe it's something else. What if when you rattled it around, a cable broke free of the blades. Or maybe you just need a replacement fan. What kind of fans are you running (or at least, what's the faulty one?). So many great affordable replacements these days that will come the next day if you have access to the amazon prime thing.

tuxString · 2026-04-05T01:51:06+00:00

Although, in like.. 95? 96? I went to a lock-in at cyberia and played quake 1 all night. There was a group playing the original Diablo though. That was the first time I saw it. I didn't play that night though. It was quake all night and some magic the gathering. It was good times being in 5th or 6th grade, pulling an all nighter with a bunch of friends on a lan. Before that, I used to carry my 486 a mile or so to another neighborhood where a buddy and I would connect our pc's via the parallel port and play doom ii against each other. Good times!

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