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Kind of like a “tube” thing lol…it’s actually a pretty great answer…as nothing is 100% exactly the same…materials used might be slightly different etc…or even look at ZMF headphones using the same wood but from either different trees or branches etc…they can look entirely different, let alone the minute sound difference that would come from the random density of say a part of the tree that was in a drought year or one that was grown during a period of plenty of water and nutrients…

Very fascinating…

I used to overclock my gaming PCs, and every CPU was different and handled the overclock in differing ways. One could be overpowered by multiples, while another (same make of chip) would shut down with even a slight bump in power.

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To lower the quality of the discourse, I present below an ad that one of my friends sent me. I have no idea where he got it, but I know some of you are into different EDC, and it might be useful. We have a store nearby whose flyer it looks like it might belong to…

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I hear ya. I used to be into overclocking back in the day too. Though this was with the first days of the Pentium chip and when the 486’s were still around. I can still hear the screaming of those ultra fast 10,000rpm fans I used to employ in order to keep the system cool.

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I also overclocked RAM, CPU and GPU … there are especially with the higher class huge gpu´s differences

with tubes it has to be the same

not to get very philosophic, thoug you are right … everything is unique and everything goes by

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I hear you and can remember the turbines starting … what a horrible hobby

now I have giant housing well shielded, with noise optimised fans and a big ugly(brown) noctua double fan cpu cooler and you just can hear the mouse klicks and the leather chair squeeking under my wifes little … … nothing else

there are silent mice, though no ergonomical ones and we both use everywhere the ergo mice

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Hehe those were the days. Never tried water cooling systems though. It would have been much quieter.

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they do make a sound and the radiators for the cooling systems are not always the most quiet
had a collegue who build with me my last 2 pc´s and he had build a few with water cooling - he went away from water cooling … too much of a pain in the a…

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I recall the sounds of the clicking on my first computer.
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you had no USB driver problems

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for your girlfriends/wifes using the CA IO
and want something (colour matching) to put the IEMs in

Liebeskind Berlin Damen Fpbeltb Fannyd Umhängetasche, Violett (Violett (Fig), 12.0x43.0x16.0 cm https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07CP35MQC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_AeYcEbG0XZF53

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The Patriots lost! Woooooooo!

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OMG, I dropped a glass of 12 yr Belvenie Doublewood on my tile floor. Luckily, the glass didn’t break. I went to the kitchen to get a towel, went back to the spill, and my Doberman had licked it all up. Gone.

2 and 1/2 fingers with a splash of water gets me to a happy place. He’s gonna be pissed in no time.

The guilty party:

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My kind of dog!!

That is one of my favorite whiskies!

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Mine too. Very warm, smooth initial taste and no overwhelming peat like the islay scotches. It doesn’t linger too long either.

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Ok, he just fell over into his doggy bed. I think I’ll let drunk dogs lie.

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His eyes did look a little bloodshot lol

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Good boy! :yum:

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A nice scotch, I think I ha e but a dram in my bottle. I also have a very similar glass. My rescue cat, Kismet, is not Doberman like. She turns up her nose at scotch, preferring Yeowww Catnip Cigars.

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I vividly remember my first 9 GB full-size SCSI hard-drive … about the time the original Pentium 2 @ 300 MHz was considered state of the art for a personal computer.

Today I have individual albums that would not fit on that drive.

And at the same time, a new laptop with 8 TB of internal SSD and 7x more RAM than that Pentium 2 had disc space.

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The infamous Adaptec 1542A SCSI controller – huge, expensive, and jumper hell!

In the era 4 and 16 megabytes of RAM, the thought of spending millions of dollars to store an audio collection in solid state memory! Ha ha ha said Sony and Philips.

And that is why we have no copy protection on CDs…

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