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Yeah, this has also crossed my mind as well. No 'need' for it yet...

 

Before I had the house rewired (including CAT6), I ran an external ethernet line out the liviing room wall, up the outside of the house then in the loft/dormer wall. Worked great.

 

Haynes manual for the car (also got the digital version). The other half pranged and damaged the rear bumper last week on a very high kerb, so it seems like a good time to pick up the workshop manual.



On the other hand... finding a replacement bumper that is a correct match is a different kettle of fish!

Yeah that's kind of what's holding me back, too... The only thing that would really benefit from getting the full gigabit speed from my internet connection is game downloads from Steam (no other service can do it as fast as Steam). Otherwise, I can get ~600-700mbps with gigabit ethernet and my own router/firewall setup. Do I really need those extra couple of hundred mbps?

 

We're hoping to move in the next few years to rewiring the whole house just isn't worth it. What you did is exactly what I'm planning so good to hear it worked well for you.

 

Bollocks. I knew it was something obvious!

 

I used outdoor ethernet from Kenable...

Https://www.kenable.co.uk/en/438-outdoor-ethernet-reels

 

Thanks, I'll see what my sparky is planning on using.

 

Repeated for emphasis. Had they not checked I know someone that would have had the entire house done in CCA cable.

 

What @Mister_Tad says - make doubly sure it isn't pants cable

 

Corsair LGA 1700 retrofit kit.





I wasn't going to go that path. I was going to get a 5900x, put it in my system at home.



And put the 3950x in the small rig at mum's. Thing is the 5900x, IMO, is £90 too much. Probably seems a bit daft to spend that much, but I can sell off the X570 TUF which will bring back the £90 extra plus a few more quid.

I currently have the low end H100 in there. White LED, Coolit pump. I have a H100i Platinum spare that I was using in the other rig until I made that full water, so that will go in once the retrofit kit comes.

I have really quick RAM at home. 4 8 pack (two more added since that pic) of either 4133 or 4333. ICR, but yeah, will be using that. The two areas I skimped on nearly two years ago doing that build were the board and cooler, due to me going with l337 RAM, GPU and CPU.

 

I booked myself a weeks hotel, return flights and transfers to Sicily for October next year.
I plan to explore Etna at least once, and some other places too.

Sam

 

A lighting kit;

 

Niiiice. Post a pic or two when you're done!

I've always been curious about installing lighting kits, but wonder about the faff of replacing batteries, plus how long the batteries last when not in use. Lego electronics seem to quite happily drain batteries even when off.

 

From my experience all lighting kits work with a single USB cable and you can just attach a power bank when you want to use it, disconnect when not.
I've done two big cars (Porsche and Bugatti) and the grand piano so far, really pleased with the lighting.

 

Apparently this'll run on AA's but yeah I'll be throwing a cheap power bank at it, or knock something up with the mountain of old 18650's I've got kicking around

 

It'll highly likely come with a small plastic box for 2-3 AAs and a USB plug. Might as well use a powerbank to save money on batteries.

 

The cheapest SSD I could find, the cheapest 16gb kit confirmed to work and a Dell Optiplex 390SFF

Because I want a vsphere server so I can run a TPM key provider and virtualise my work laptop (Work devices have to join the Azure AD, now, to use work resources, and the requirements prevent dual boot configs..), and know full well in the future I'll be taking the storage out of the single ESX server and running two over 10gb iSCSI because that's the kind of spanner I am.

All in for about 110€.

 

Logitech G733 headset, lilac
Duvet cover and pillowcase set, black with red skull on each
1.5m tall floor lamp
RGB bulb for above, my place is a literal RGB hell now

 

So redundant. RGB is hell