Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[0culus]

I had a good property auction score...Tek 7104 and plugins for $100  It has a nice sharp trace on the mcp crt. May need a bit of work...but for that price can't go wrong.

Well? I'm waiting. Stamping foot. 

I got you.    Tomorrow is removal, so more and better pics then.

[beanflying]

Settling for Bad Coffee is a 'Thought Crime' Mr Mindcrime Big Brother will be around soon to chat 

As to Bad women nothing wrong with playing with them you just may not want to keep them 

Slightly cheeky Guatemalan in the Cup, bit bubbly as it is only two days post roast.

[mnementh]

Ehrrrmugrrrd! Oculus is a pervy little projector collector!!!

mnem
*hoping nobody notices the InFocus saddlebags stashed under his bed*

[0culus]

Little? How dare you insult a 7000 scope that way. 

[TERRA Operative]

I imagine that like time and volt nuttery, weather observation obsessions are common in this august group. I have been, for years, tracking lightning strikes (having high-in-the-open-wires connected to electronics in the house makes one interested in such information) at blitzortung.org.  Plus it is kind of soothing, in a nerdy way, to watch lightning storms develop in real time.

After a two year wait, I got one of their "system blue" lightning reporting systems, which I will put together next week:

http://u.cubeupload.com/worsthorse/Systembluefrontb.jpg

You all want to see the build/test/install for this project or should I put it on one of the other forums? Is so, which one?

Ooh, I got one of those a few years back. I have the amtenna and two shielded ferrite rods.
I also later added the optional filter chips too.

I have the lot up on my roof, powered from a PoE splitter from my PoE switch. It works really well.

[mnementh]

Little? How dare you insult a 7000 scope that way. 

"Whoah... isn't he a big fellah." There... feel better? 

You know I wasn't talking about that thing... I was talking about the assortment of lightbox corpses behind it & under it. That one is big enough to drive to work... 

mnem
"Brock Samson... Born Omaha, Nebraska to a single mother... half Norwegian, quarter Polish, quarter Winnebago..."

[tautech]

In Other News...

I've finally gotten a fair to middling tune on my new Ryzen 3700X build, and started benchmarking. HOLY FUCKING ASSCRACKERS!!!

mnem
*toddling off to ded*

And you're gunna leave with just dat ? 

[mnementh]

 No, I was fighting with eevBlog over my fucking attachments.

mnem
*kicks eevBlog right in the junk*

[mnementh]

In Other News...

         

I've finally gotten a fair to middling tune on my new Ryzen 3700X build, and started benchmarking. HOLY FUCKING ASSCRACKERS!!!

More to follow...when my brain can handle the editing. 

mnem
*toddling off to ded*

[beanflying]

Mine faster than yours  Where is your God of PCIe4 now 



Odd result on smaller files on the 1TB  Samsung 970 EVO Plus drives in both cases. The 1TB is on a higher speed bus and is limited by the B450 Board.

[Specmaster]

@bd139 Science museum is one of my favourite places, although lately it seems dumbed down to what it used to be years ago. You never know, you might meet a woman, have sex and then go and get a pizza from somewhere other than Camden Market just to celebrate putting your capacitor in the right way round this time😜

[bd139]

In Other News...

I've finally gotten a fair to middling tune on my new Ryzen 3700X build, and started benchmarking. HOLY FUCKING ASSCRACKERS!!!

More to follow...when my brain can handle the editing. 

mnem
*toddling off to ded*

Well that's pretty damn good. It completely shits on on my Intel E7-2870 

Now considering a hardware build 

@bd139 Science museum is one of my favourite places, although lately it seems dumbed down to what it used to be years ago. You never know, you might meet a woman, have sex and then go and get a pizza from somewhere other than Camden Market just to celebrate putting your capacitor in the right way round this time😜

If that happened, karma would immediately give me ass cancer afterwards!

[Mr. Scram]

In Other News...

         

I've finally gotten a fair to middling tune on my new Ryzen 3700X build, and started benchmarking. HOLY FUCKING ASSCRACKERS!!!

More to follow...when my brain can handle the editing. 

mnem
*toddling off to ded*

Is "C:" on the new system? Those look like SATA speeds to me.

[beanflying]

In Other News...
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I've finally gotten a fair to middling tune on my new Ryzen 3700X build, and started benchmarking. HOLY FUCKING ASSCRACKERS!!!

More to follow...when my brain can handle the editing. 

mnem
*toddling off to ded*

Is "C:" on the new system? Those look like SATA speeds to me.

850 EVO is indeed a 2.5" SATA. The NVMe is still PCIe 3 so the tricked out MB will be much the same as mine for speed. Apart from my ASUS Latptop everything else I was on spinny drives. SSD's ROCK!

[bd139]

Good news. Replaced that capacitor cock up and all is good. PM3217 power supply is silent, noice free and trace noise has gone and the thing is pin sharp. Much sharper than a 2225 as well. Philips FTW. I’ve managed to partially unbugger the attenuators in it but need a donor unit to finish the repair.

[beanflying]

Fire hazard cleaning done and new thermocouple sitting where it needs to so it doesn't snag the drum vanes. For anyone looking for a good all round cleaner grab some commercial Espresso machine Cleaner (basically double supercharged Nappysan  ) Broke down the baked on coffee oils and cleanup was cloth or a little bit of brass brush work in the skinny bits.

[Specmaster]

Good news. Replaced that capacitor cock up and all is good. PM3217 power supply is silent, noice free and trace noise has gone and the thing is pin sharp. Much sharper than a 2225 as well. Philips FTW. I’ve managed to partially unbugger the attenuators in it but need a donor unit to finish the repair.

Well done, better hope that your earlier statement doesn't come true then. Philips FTW indeed, just wish early ones were a better colour on the fascia [emoji16]

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[Mr. Scram]

850 EVO is indeed a 2.5" SATA. The NVMe is still PCIe 3 so the tricked out MB will be much the same as mine for speed. Apart from my ASUS Latptop everything else I was on spinny drives. SSD's ROCK!

I was confused for a bit until I saw the drive type was in the image name. 

[Specmaster]

In Other News...
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I've finally gotten a fair to middling tune on my new Ryzen 3700X build, and started benchmarking. HOLY FUCKING ASSCRACKERS!!!

More to follow...when my brain can handle the editing. 

mnem
*toddling off to ded*

Is "C:" on the new system? Those look like SATA speeds to me.

850 EVO is indeed a 2.5" SATA. The NVMe is still PCIe 3 so the tricked out MB will be much the same as mine for speed. Apart from my ASUS Latptop everything else I was on spinny drives. SSD's ROCK!

SSD's do indeed rock, I've been using them for years on my desktop and laptop but they are still quite expensive in real term so sometimes a hybrid could be a better option cost option.

[mnementh]

Mine faster than yours  Where is your God of PCIe4 now 

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Odd result on smaller files on the 1TB  Samsung 970 EVO Plus drives in both cases. The 1TB is on a higher speed bus and is limited by the B450 Board.

That's not PCIe4. Well, it is, in a way; it shows just how much faster the baseline for PCIe4.0 is than PCIe 3.0. That little difference is because yours is a 1TB drive, while mine is 1/2TB.

These are the absolute cheapest $59 half-TB drives I could find using  the same Phison E12 controller as the Samsung EVO Plus. That I got 2 of for $49 each, because they were out of stock on the next model lower.    They're not just meeting spec of 3100/1900, they're blowing it out of the water and approaching 970EVO Plus speeds for half the price. And this was a preliminary benchmark literally JUST after installing Windows on my 950EVO SATA SSD; I forgot to install chipset drivers from AMD until AFTER I'd done these and gotten my memory so it behaved. 3800 at 16-17-17-38 is pretty damned good, IMHO.

Is "C:" on the new system? Those look like SATA speeds to me.

850 EVO is indeed a 2.5" SATA. The NVMe is still PCIe 3 so the tricked out MB will be much the same as mine for speed. Apart from my ASUS Latptop everything else I was on spinny drives. SSD's ROCK!

More to come.

mnem

[Mr. Scram]

SSD's do indeed rock, I've been using them for years on my desktop and laptop but they are still quite expensive in real term so sometimes a hybrid could be a better option cost option.

They cost bugger all nowadays. A terabyte for not even 100 quid is just amusingly cheap.

[Mr. Scram]

That's not PCIe4. Well, it is, in a way; it shows just how much faster the baseline for PCIe4.0 is than PCIe 3.0. That little difference is because yours is a 1TB drive, while mine is 1/2TB.

These are the absolute cheapest $59 half-TB drives I could find using  the same Phison E12 controller as the Samsung EVO Plus. That I got 2 of for $49 each, because they were out of stock on the next model lower.    They're not just meeting spec of 3100/1900, they're blowing it out of the water and approaching 970EVO Plus speeds for half the price. And this was a preliminary benchmark literally JUST after installing Windows on my 950EVO SATA SSD; I forgot to install chipset drivers from AMD until AFTER I'd done these and gotten my memory so it behaved. 3800 at 16-17-17-38 is pretty damned good, IMHO.

More to come.

mnem

Larger SSDs are faster as a rule as they interleave on more "channels". Whatever the case, benchmarks have already confirmed current gen PCIe 4 SSDs aren't any faster in real life applications and in a remarkable number of cases actually slightly slower. Not that it matters to the end user as he's not ever going to notice a difference one way or another.

[bd139]

SSD's do indeed rock, I've been using them for years on my desktop and laptop but they are still quite expensive in real term so sometimes a hybrid could be a better option cost option.

Not sure I like the idea of hybrids. I haven't used a rust disk since I got a Samsung 470 sometime in 2010. Not one. The amount of time I've saved measures in weeks or months. One of the few devices that the ROI is quite frankly insane on.

SSD's do indeed rock, I've been using them for years on my desktop and laptop but they are still quite expensive in real term so sometimes a hybrid could be a better option cost option.

They cost bugger all nowadays. A terabyte for not even 100 quid is just amusingly cheap.

Bloody hell. Just looked on amazon and they have bombed in price.

I haven't actually had to buy one yet. I keep getting given discarded 256 gig ones for nothing because people are less tidy with their data than I am and had to buy bigger ones ... Only 117Gb used here.

I've managed to get a 1TiB G-drive, 5x Samsung 256Gb 850 pros, 2x Samsung 128Gb 850 EVOs and a 128Gb 840 pro for nothing in the last year. The G-drive is £150 if anyone wants it

[0culus]

Got the 7104 home....and the power supply is doing the infamous tick. Can't complain for the price though.

[Specmaster]

That sure looks clean enough, hopefully you'll cure the tick and it will give many years of service.