I should be able to afford something half reasonable but it's the choices available that get to me. Intel or AMD? GeForce or Radeon? Do I stick with Win10 or do I get the still twitchy Win11? On a slightly positive note, after removing and cleaning the PSU, the computer has started but the PSU sounds like a jet engine. At least I'll be able to backup everything before it finally dies.
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It's really hard to answer and it depends on whether you are buying a computer that you will upgrade or keep for 5+ years. Based on your previous computer, I am guessing you are comfortable with a 10+ year computer.
What's your budget and you are Melbourne from memory?
I think I would avoid the AMD ryzen 7000 series (needs expensive motherboards and RAM) and look at the Ryzen 5000 series. The Ryzen 7 5800x3d is the fastest gaming cpu on the market, and the 5600 is a very good budget cpu. Both have fairly low TDPs, so cooling shouldn't be a problem.
I'd probably look at a 30 series graphics card for the GPU. 40 series are super expensive and not really worth it IMO.
These questions were more or less rhetorical. One of the big problems with computers is that it is often difficult to directly compare one system with another. After looking at a half a dozen different systems I have fallen into choice paralysis and I ended up putting the discussion off (as I am still doing). I have a reasonable laptop that I can do pretty much everything I need to do bar gaming and that doesn't help the paralysis. I've had $2500 set aside for six months as my old system slowly died and I still haven't decided what I actually want.
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Be careful doing that (good used wares on Ebay, especially GPU's) If the were previously used mining cards, you're seriously taking your chances on a dirty/damaged or otherwise worn out and abused card.
Video Allegedly Shows Crypto Miners Jet Washing Nvidia RTX GPUs
‘lightly used’ GPU bargains...
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Speaking of coffee and bread: Outback has delicious bread. We may have found our new going out place. Except: more expensive than chili’s or Logan’s/Colton’s.
Being a southerner, I do mind myself with coffee. Not burned over roasted 5Bucks. I’ve been on a Trade Coffee subscription since summer and have enjoyed it. Recently bought a hand grinder since my 10 yr old Mr Coffee kept breaking plastic off. French Press.
Thing is about bread: it’s all about the flour. I think we just love flour. Gravy, biscuits, pancakes, rolls, bread. Flour and butter.
Being a southerner, I do mind myself with coffee. Not burned over roasted 5Bucks. I’ve been on a Trade Coffee subscription since summer and have enjoyed it. Recently bought a hand grinder since my 10 yr old Mr Coffee kept breaking plastic off. French Press.
Thing is about bread: it’s all about the flour. I think we just love flour. Gravy, biscuits, pancakes, rolls, bread. Flour and butter.
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*pours whiskey*
Raise your glasses to diabloii.net. Our home for many years, now 404.
Raise your glasses to diabloii.net. Our home for many years, now 404.
We've saved many, many threads and guides from over there. Hopefully the important stuff can all live on over here. But yes, it is sad that that site is gone forevermore. Except in the wayback machine.
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Agree, lots of great content has been migrated, but I also had a twinge when I saw the error message over the weekend. A good prompt for a huge thanks to everyone who's done the work on preserving the important (and not so important) pieces here!
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Indeed. Sad to see the site finally go under, it will be missed.
Happy to see that many of the members from there made it here and that the bulk of the important threads and guides made it here.
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Hmmm...only managed to migrate 38 out of 228 tournament threads completely *sigh* but at least the tournament ideas themselves were all migrated.
Farewell, diabloii.net, and thanks to everyone who worked hard to preserve the knowledge from the diabloii site!
*raises glass*
*drinks glass of wine*
*gets stomach ache because of the penicillin dose taken earlier*
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I snuck into the secret stash underneath the cabana for the good stuff. A proper toast requires the good stuff.
To the old site!
To the old site!
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Finished most of a bottle of Jesu Blood. Very fitting, considering I also finished a christmas concert in the local church with the brass band I'm in, because of old habit and the fact that I want that option for my kids, and if no one is playing the drums, the band suffers.
My oldest is already playing, which makes me prouder than I want to admit, being a metal drummer and all that.
Usually, for a metal drummer, playing in a brass band is difficult, mostly because of the dynamics involved. For those of you who don't know about that, it means that as a metal drummer, you never have to care about how hard you're hitting, as long as it is hard enough to get the desired sound out of a drum or cymbal, because you're miked up, and the sound engineer will take care of everything as long as you're consistent. Anyway, drums and cymbals are designed to be pretty loud, and if you hit too soft, the intended tone of that piece of the drum set will either almost not sound at all, or be drowned in harsh sounding overtones. Drums and cymbals should be hit with some authority, and thus, as almost a side-effect, will be reasonably loud.
This has caused me great concern, as the brass band in question is pretty sparsely populated. So I really had to work on hitting softer, but still with enough authority to make it sound well, but not so loud as to overwhelm the other musicians. Today, we played the church, as we do every year, and it is a nightmare. The room is designed to make one voice resonate to infinity. It therefore makes an entire brass band sound like they never stop playing. Dynamics matter more than ever, because if you make ONE hit a bit too loud, that resonates for like the rest of the song.
It all went very well in the end. So much so, that at the end of the concert, as I was packing up the black barb-wire decorated drum set, a mother came up to me, carrying a girl of maybe four or six years of age. The mother said that the girl was a bit shy, but she wanted to hug the drummer because she had enjoyed that part of the music so much! I was utterly and completely floored. To not give the hug was never an option at the time, and now, a few hour later, having had time and alcohol to think about it... What a compliment! Children don't lie, unless there are sweets or other desirables in play.
The rest of the world could have hated everything about the concert; I don't care. One person really loved it, and that's more than enough to melt even a metal drummer's heart <3
My oldest is already playing, which makes me prouder than I want to admit, being a metal drummer and all that.
Usually, for a metal drummer, playing in a brass band is difficult, mostly because of the dynamics involved. For those of you who don't know about that, it means that as a metal drummer, you never have to care about how hard you're hitting, as long as it is hard enough to get the desired sound out of a drum or cymbal, because you're miked up, and the sound engineer will take care of everything as long as you're consistent. Anyway, drums and cymbals are designed to be pretty loud, and if you hit too soft, the intended tone of that piece of the drum set will either almost not sound at all, or be drowned in harsh sounding overtones. Drums and cymbals should be hit with some authority, and thus, as almost a side-effect, will be reasonably loud.
This has caused me great concern, as the brass band in question is pretty sparsely populated. So I really had to work on hitting softer, but still with enough authority to make it sound well, but not so loud as to overwhelm the other musicians. Today, we played the church, as we do every year, and it is a nightmare. The room is designed to make one voice resonate to infinity. It therefore makes an entire brass band sound like they never stop playing. Dynamics matter more than ever, because if you make ONE hit a bit too loud, that resonates for like the rest of the song.
It all went very well in the end. So much so, that at the end of the concert, as I was packing up the black barb-wire decorated drum set, a mother came up to me, carrying a girl of maybe four or six years of age. The mother said that the girl was a bit shy, but she wanted to hug the drummer because she had enjoyed that part of the music so much! I was utterly and completely floored. To not give the hug was never an option at the time, and now, a few hour later, having had time and alcohol to think about it... What a compliment! Children don't lie, unless there are sweets or other desirables in play.
The rest of the world could have hated everything about the concert; I don't care. One person really loved it, and that's more than enough to melt even a metal drummer's heart <3
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I'm currently building an orb-it-all sorceress variant, and I couldn't find Socialism's original build write-up. Google could only cough up the now defunct diabloii.net link. I really should have looked for it well before it went away, but I found it again today at the wayback machine, and copied it over to the archive thread here.
I don't know about anyone else, but this was one of the posts and build guides that influenced me most. I apologize for not thinking to preserve it sooner.
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