Later down the river bend

Greetings again open, federated, free, public international network! It is I The Woodcutter and I am enjoying a mighty fine Saturday indeed. I write a post because it's my blogger's duty to post SOMETHING after nearly 3 months of nothing. Nothing includes even significant downtime. About the downtime, I admit, I was lazy and didn't feel like operating a webserver for any more than my XMPP's HTTP Upload feature.

As for what has happened, well, I mentioned previously I was working on an ultra small form factor gaming computer. It's a Lenovo Thinkcentre M90q Gen 2 and I put an AMD Radeon RX 6400 into it and it does indeed play Need For Speed Unbound at highest FHD resolution on medium settings. If I shut off vsync, in pretty much all my games, the FPS is appreciable and it's a fair amount of fun. It is a very tiny computer and for my final upgrades to it, after I put a 32GB Gskill 3200MHz CL22 SODIMM (just one) in it, are going to be an i9-11900F CPU upgrade (which is massive) as well as maybe a little bit of modifying the grille on the top of the cover to be able to fix to it a Noctua 5V PWM -> USB fan that should drive air into the case onto the board and thus underneath the GPU card and the blower fan for the CPU. This feels like it could be a very effective cooling strategy just that I am trying to conjure up if any more aerodynamic or efficiency things could be constructed or modified. It would be only a 40x10mm fan or possibly a 40x20mm fan if that one has better induction. I want it to remain very neat and tidy and thought about using some random screws and set screw type fixers like what you'd mount an ATX motherboard to a computer case with type of nicely fine machined metal stuff. Has to be neat and tidy and presentable BUT also removable because one of, if not the most important, feature of this setup (pics below) is it's tiny-ness. Boasting the GPU and a custom, but made as efficient as possible, cooling mod, I think it'll end up pretty damn tricked out!

That is not the only thing I needed to do for cooling. I imagine it's old and might have numerous hours on it, plus myself cooking the CPU at top of it's turbo frequency, the heat paste needs renewal so I bought some Arctic stuff as I recall more than one person tell me that's the very best stuff. I have seen the great boost new heat paste gives and I'm hopeful that once I get around to pasting the CPU it will make a considerable improvement.







I predict that by time september comes (about 3 weeks away) I can evaluate that I've had a pretty good summer. I've gotten smiles from some beautiful women and felt some good vibes and I owe it all to the Lord our God at the high point of the great place among us. However amidst the daylight is nightdark and some of my time was also punishment and tribulations. I am confident that the season's turning will leave me satisfied and with enough spirit to carry on with strength as I have some things I want to do. I will also be moving a fair ways away from here where I live now and segregating myself to a lot less excitement. It will be a challenge and I unfortunately haven't constructed anything for an ideal light at the end of the tunnel. I'm trying to slow my perspectives and focuses to see more of what is around me than be centered on thoughts which are just ideas or arguements I have with myself or even wonderings. I definitely plan to program some COOL stuff this winter and much more seriously than I've been able to do before. I'm legitimately planning on it.

I've always been the type that has style and really appreciates style. I don't consider style and aesthetic or intriguing visual things are vanity at all and hence more likely a fruit of God and of people. A certain style that's curious to me is the idea of a digital nomad. My brother and long time good friend had years ago piqued my interest in finer things of hacking and one of his interests was particularly in wireless communication. I've been slowly nurturing a potentially very big and consuming interest in broadband wireless types of things. One day I may very well be in a sea of encrypted bytes ran off of coils emitting high frequency pulses. Hacking modems and devices and softwares to modulate and/or manipulate (hack) beyond normal even educated amounts of understanding of how LTE, rangefinding, guarding and scrambling and intercepting and detecting, plus more I'm sure, all this niche technological hobby stuff. It excites me and once again I've ordered another industrial LTE modem gateway for what I may get a pelican case for and make like a clandestine kit out of. Anyways, I don't do illegal stuff I am strictly non-invasive and ethical interests only. I've been asked before to help and always deny helping ill motives. Just felt I needed to say that.

So I'm just absorbing this portion of 15 lifetimes of round the cloud computer use in my one and only life. I just want to do cool shit and maybe somebody may see it someday and actually comprehend it enough to go "holy shit man whoa" and I would grin, though that already does happen sometimes.

Here's some more pics of my USFF Thinkcentre gaming equipmento:






Yea so the sticky pieces of foam are all on the top and the bottom of it so as that NO metal from ANYWHERE on the GPU touches ANYTHING else at all. You can see in the final picture the angled riser. This is PROPRIETARY and must match the FRU number from Lenovo to properly expand the 8x slot that the motherboard has and give a 8x electrical 16x pcie slot, and angled perfectly so to get a really really low profile GPU like the one I have to fit under the case top. This is so friggin sweet I love it. As well my GPU, aside from how super slim it is, has a maximum draw of 53W and a friend on XMPP network told me he was pretty sure that the limit of 8x pcie was 50W. It works alright though with the exception of windows doing covert updates and ruining my graphics drivers and I've had to reinstall windows twice now because tearing out the embedded crap from the adrenaline drivers from the rest of windows is FAR too much like work and I do NOT care to get that intimate with an operating system I detest (windows). The adrenaline drivers have lots of bells and whistles and settings and stuff but using one of the nice settings, only one, will choke absolutely all my threads in that computer and it heats up more than I'd want it to. Also without even initiating user settings with adrenaline driver it's considerably worse FPS playing Need For Speed Unbound than just what drivers windows ships themselves. AMD is not stable. That's my opinion and I am allowed to clone it and put it in everyone's mailboxes so everyone knows what I think. I will however NOT be interested in any other GPU because this one is so damn slender, fits the setup to a literal perfection and I've grown to like it's grumpy behaviour.

I am probably going to get to doing a HELL of a lot of creative and productive stuff over the next while so if God willing, you'll hear from this cat again.

Tags: summer, creativity, m90q, usff, thinkcentre, project, melon, hat