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OPEN THIS THREAD --> NEW YEAR w/ NEW DEALS by RackNerd + GIVEAWAYS
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I love optimization and I sometimes even do it for free. I can get a Core 2 Quad and a Radeon 4000 series on an Intel mobo built in '06 playing games from 2016 and made an R6300v2 Netgear that is probably 10 years old now outperform a new Nighthawk so damn well my buddy returned it for the few hundred he spent on it.
I mean, spec wise? No I can't beat spendy hardware, but I can do some interesting things with what others consider to be useless.
Its just a challenge I enjoy taking on.
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So your mac is also a potential giveaway candidate?
Amen!
Oh my goodness, are you in sales by chance? I feel like you'd be a closer.
We can do wonders when our budget is very tight, right... 😜
Exactly. When money is tight, we do what we can with what we have.
I like breathing new life into old gear, but yeah it was born from necessity originally lol
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That's awesome man - always respect people who have that gift, one thing that I love seeing is when people create awesome projects out of raspberry pi.
Exactly. They call me macgyver. Making the most with very little is what brought me to LET in the first place lol.
very nice rigs, if looking for its week point I would say that these Crucial P5 NVME drives (only Gen3) in Office PC are the bottleneck (in heavy disk usage scenarios)
current Gen4 drives could offer you double peek transfers (3.5M -> 7M) and IOPS (500k -> 1M)
so if you would like to find the reason to upgrade something, and rid off old one here... then you know the drill...
btw. AMD is about to announce their CPU updates (3D L3 cache giving another 15% performance) at January 4 at CES
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Anything for the last 10 comments?
Let's gooo! We enjoy having you here too!
Same here, I almost forgot, of course I'm on LET because taking low end hardware and making it rip is the spirit of the place.
Besides idling it of course, have to idle some of it. I optimize it and then idle.
This is so much overkill here, you're going going to be at such a low load most of the time and that means being in one of the least-efficient ranges. I don't see anything that would come close to needing 1600w here, did you just have this laying around or have a particular reason for wanting that much power? If we're just wishlisting I would've gone with a 1000w, probably a titanium rated one.
Me too.. I like tinkering the with old hardware as well. I love flashing new firmware from xda in my old mobiles.
Recently started tinkering with routers too.. Flashed openwrt in my Nighthawk 7500 .. So far good..
When I'm stressed out I grab an old 500-700W and rebuild it with Nichicon caps, these PSUs have never let me down lol
I wish i was. But not good as you... Not even close... But i'm learning from the best... The great @dustinc...
You ever need any help doing custom FW on Netgears (or others) hit me up, I have done so much work with 'em and have just tons of data saved on this. I hit up random people on Reddit and fix their "bricked" routers for free just because I've put so much work in myself and would rather not see them go in the trash.
Thats awesome bro.. 👍
Very true...
When I got my first Raspberry Pi I was in heaven, but at the same time it took away the challenge of making a device do something it was never meant to do.
They are super fun and useful, I've got a 3B+, a 4 w/ 4GB RAM, and also a lesser known Banana Pi R2 that I built into a custom 4G LTE router using a Sierra Wireless mPCI card, was quite useful when I lived out in the boonies where 1.5mbit DSL w/ 300ms ping was the best you could get.
The 4G ripped 40mbit up and down and 40ms ping, what an upgrade.
Excellent maker devices.
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My router is Netgear R7500v1. Currenlty using Openwrt. Everythingg works except 5Gzh band, That was not compatible with openwrt. Do you think any other firmwares support this router?
I was just checking into it actually as I use "Fresh Tomato" on mine but its a Broadcom chipset and thats all they support, seems the R7500v1 is Qualcomm Atheros and OpenWRT is generally the best bet for these routers. I can do a bit more looking into it, might be a case of doing a custom build with the binary driver blobs from Qualcomm to make it work.
Haven't looked at DD-WRT yet, but that is a possiblity as well.
EDIT: Preliminary search shows the same issue with DD-WRT but I'm looking at older threads.
Add me on Discord BlazinDimes#5392 if you want, I'm intrigued and wouldn't mind finding out if there is a solution to this problem. Just don't feel like going too in depth at 2AM lol
Yes, I posted my Discord publicly, you're all welcome to add me, troll me, beg for memes, all of the above.
2AM ? Sleep dude. These things can wait.. its 1 PM here..
Don't have discord. Will definetly create one account. 👍
Get your location so that i can steal the xbox?
Mine is even better
Have just won Free 1GB KVM VPS + $10 account credit which is i can renew for $3.98 next year due date
I also welcome an IRL battle.
MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAAT
I am a bit of a night owl, but I will be calling it a night soon.
The conversation just kinda went right into my line of interest there so I got excited haha