1st Gen. Lunch Table - General Discussion

Ouch. Sounds like no friction material left...well unless metal on metal counts

 

They make little n100/150 solid state drive computers for a few hundred unless you need blazing speed and video for gaming.

 

I'd want it for gaming. I have a laptop but it's not going to run much of anything other than solitaire.

 

That's a lot of GPU power, unless she's really hardcore, I can tell you after making the dive last year on finally upgrading away from my MSI RX590, I picked up a MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT MECH 2X OC 8GB, and it plays every game I cold possibly want. It kept choking on BG3 whenever there was a lot of mist/fag in the cut scenes and crap, or during combat (someone would use something with smoke/gas effects), and that prompted the upgrade.

These 6600 XT, at least with the MECH OC (OverClock) versions are pretty damn powerful and rank really well. When I picked mine up, it was ranked something like #35 out of all the cards on the market at the time. Is there better? Suuuure. But I also liked paying $265 out the door for a brand new sealed-box card than $750+ for a 9070. (I agree with bailing on nVidia, though, the 5070-5090 cards are chumpy)

Damn, I've had these two gaming rigs sitting downstairs for the kids, we built them together like 5 years ago but they've never used them. I'm tempted to sell them but they'd probably give me hell if I did...

But the card is a little dated, MSI nVidia GTX 970

 

Okay nerds, help a brotha out.

my 2nd truck ‘house’ battery showed up and i’ve either gotta build a battery box for both & the inverter, or keep my old setup, and add a 2nd box for the 2nd battery. The old battery has almost a year of use on it. They’re gonna be wired parallel, chatgpt told me if i’m only gonna charge one battery with the wall charger to charge the newer battery, does it matter which battery my inverter draws from? Or since they’re connected the whole topside considers itself a bigger 12v battery. My charge controller attaches to the top side, and is going to be able to pump more juice than the wall charger. Sorry, thought i had a plan, but it feels like i’m just stepping off into the deep end.

think i might build the battery box, it’ll take up less space than a 2nd matching box like i’ve got.

 

That's a pretty beefy build that's gonna run anything you can throw at it. It's more than I need, as I'll explain below.

I have an Asrock 6700 xt right now, so I'm probably fine with that. I did try to run helldivers on high and it was not having it. My big issue is running my MC server. MC is almost completely ran on the CPU, so when people join the server it's basically my CPU running their game too. I'm basically maxed out on my gen4 ryzen7 5800x3d. I have to lower my render distance anytime someone joins. I basically just need to get a beefcake CPU.

 

You just need a little dedicated little cube case that's all fan, with a microATX motherboard in it, beefy CPU, and a cooler that's all fan, 1TB NVME, and 8-16GB RAM, make that your MC server. Or, honestly, with how much money you'd pay for that, just rent a server at any of the myriad of MC hosting services out there. It's what my youngest does when he wants to play w/friends, since I won't open the private family server to the internet (don't need people in my network).

 

I did indeed grease the adjuster. If I recall correctly, there is a small metal tab on the shoe that fits into the adjuster. The passenger side had it, the driver side did not. I knew damn well that it would be an issue down the road, and, sure enough, it is! The amazing part is I did it anyway....tired I suppose.

I'm quite certain that Shifty is spot on as far as "over-replacement" and turning of drums and rotors. I did it because I don't have a second vehicle to drive my ass to NAPA or wherever and get them turned should they need it.

Edit: I got off my ass and looked at the FSM. Either the Automatic Adjustment Lever is missing OR it is there and somehow I did not get it engaged in the adjuster. Oh yeah, kind of important. My guess is the later...

 

Nice
LianLi makes good shit, still rocking an old (2004) PC-75B
Just picked up a 2tb 990Evo for a storage vault (poor mans Samsung), had a 970 Die!
Like them though, pretty solid drives.
Man they still aren't giving away graphics cards are they! Fk me runnin.
Nice build. DO IT!

 

Well, whatever you do, don’t waste time. If you thought the GPU scalping prices weee bad these last couple of years, this 100% tariff that got announced on semiconductor chips is about to drive prices thru the roof within the month, if not by the end of the week.

 

Well shit. I wasn't planning on doing this till late this year. I've been on about a 2 year rotation of rebuilding my setup. I got the price down to about $700 if I just upgrade with the ryzen 7 9800x3d, x870 pro mobo, and 32gb 6000 cl30 ram.

 

Oh, by then the smoke should blow over.

But yeah if you planned to buy in the month of August, unless we get more of this flip-floppy on/off bullshit that's making investors millions of dollars, prices are probably about to start bouncing. It's happened with everything else.

 

I'll keep an eye on it. I noticed one of my PC channels wasn't popping up on the Tube, so I went to his page. Turns out he had a build guide for the ryzen 7 9800x3d. The bottleneck would be my gpu, but I don't run an graphics intensive games, so I should be fine.

I like the idea of a seperate server, but I rarely use my PC as is so I'm almost at that point. As for paying for one, I play on bedrock so I'd have to use realms, which is hot garbage. Lag and shitty render distance being the main two. I need my redstone machines man!

 

right? You’ve got a gaming pc & HD tv for playing snes games.

 

I'll be stuck with my 10 year old RX480 forever

 

Super Metroid goes hard on the 65".

 

There’s a caveat on that tariff. Those companies that build and invest in the US are exempt. That means TSMC, Intel, GlobalFoundries, etc. Nvidia is the expected to be exempt since they have interests in the US and produce their chips via TSMC. For example, they’ve invested $500 billion to build AI supercomputers in the US in the near future.

 

Yes, but then there's that issue:

As we've seen for years, any time a war gets announced, gas prices immediately skyrocket, with no delay, but take months or years after fears subside for prices to come down (if they ever do). This price fluctuation will happen with no realistic link to the market.

Good example: When we had that substantial cull of chickens a year or three ago, which, overall big picture, only took out the tiniest percentage of egglaying chickens, egg prices doubled. There really wasn't a noteworthy change in the actual supply of eggs, but once the news hit the front page, "OMFG, we're culling chickens!!", prices went up. While we're not paying the absurd ass $8-9/doz for eggs we were on the cheap end, most midrange brands are still up around $5-6/doz, where they were $3-4/doz prior. People were successfully scapegoated into believing it was political, reality is, it was a moneygrab from the egg industry.

Zero doubts in my mind that, now this news has hit the front page, you're about to see businesses/industries manipulate pricing in response. Because the bottom line is this: Any time business as a semi-relatable reason to raise prices, they will.

It's the nature of the beast with capitalism.

 

Turning my Tundra into a work truck for my new handyman business. It's great because it's got a Leer bed topper with "windoors". I need to put a rack on it to haul ladders, lumber, and just long shit that won't fit in the bed. If I could find a rack that sits on the bed rails and the topper could slide under it, AND the windoors would still open, that would be ideal. But I'm not sure I can find something like that without spending the time to fabricate and weld it on my own. Don't really have the time right now, and it's hot AF here in AZ. I've looked at rack systems that bolt to the top of the topper, but I also don't want to damage the fiberglass by potentially overloading it. So, my question is: What do you all think? Suggestions? I'm leaning towards the bolt on rack system from Rhino Rack. https://www.rhinorack.com/en-us/pro.../heavy-duty-black-2-bar-65-roof-rack_y01-140b
Would prefer something that goes all the way to the bed rails though, but haven't found anything that meets my parameters. Let me know what you think...

 

Totally agree with this. Just look at the price of graphics cards before and after covid. When the companies saw how much people were willing to spend on scalper priced gpus the next release of gpus were much closer in price to what the scalpers were charging and there wasn't a significant increase in performance to justify a greater than +50% markup in price for them.

I'm glad I got my AMD 3750 XT/5600 processor on sale when I did my initial build 2 years ago and just upgraded to a 6800 XT that was used on FB marketplace along with a used ASUS MB and 5800X processor and new 32mb memory kit and will be using the old parts for building my daughter's pc. Upgrades only cost me $400 in parts. Grand total for 2 builds over 2 years was $1600.

 

Try and get an actual lumber rack that sits outside the camper shell. Higher load rating and with the front support out over the cab, you can securely carry much longer ladders and lumber without worrying quite as much about scraping up your paint.

 

You can see pictures of the rack that my dad had installed on my truck in my build thread. https://www.tundras.com/threads/200...-from-sitting-since-2019-build-thread.161188/ But the way it mounts to the top of the bed rails probably wouldn't work with a topper though. It is adjustable for width and you could probably mount some plate to the bedrail sticking out from under the topper and attach the ladder rack outside the bedrails on that plate. Just a thought.

 

I didn't get back into the PC market until I wanted to setup a server after using realms on MC and seeing how shitty it was. Bad thing was I decided on it Nov of 2020. I couldn't build on for the right price so I got a prebuilt ryzen 5 2600 with an rtx 2060, 500G SSD and 16G RAM for $1k. I upgraded to the ryzen 7 5800x3d, RX 6700xt, and 32GB of RAM in Jan 2024. I figured it was time to move to the Gen 5 stuff now.

 

COVID is another example of this. Grocery stores and Walmart had been edging back from 24 hour stores for years but were getting a bunch of pushback when they would stop for individual stores. When COVID hit they used it as an excuse to kill it for all of them everywhere and it never came back.
Not to mention prices for everything going up for supply chain issues and then never coming back down.

 

This is the hard part. I haven't found any that are configured to allow for a camper shell. Ultimately this is the way I would like to go.

 

Same. But i’d want the bits that stick out of the sides to be a full length shelf.

 

I've got the Rhino aero system on my truck. It's robust and will support more than the top is rated for. Would need to add some additional clamp on rails to the roof of the truck itself. If doing lumber and long form material primarily, then I would look for rails made for that vs these recreation style ones made for baskets bikes and kayas. The commercial style ones will have better tie down and edge guides built into them. They are not as pretty, but also tend to be cheaper. Lots of variety available on amazonian

 

I haven’t been able to find anything that fits our truck other than Inno. Which ones are you looking at?

 

Note that this would only work for caps that sit on top of the rail with no overhang.

For modern caps like my Leer 100R, which has a drip overhang that conceals the plastic bedrail cap, it won't work. I know CTC (Century), Snugtop, and at least one other brand (Jason, or whatever it's called nowadays) has at least one model with overhang.

 

If I could find one like this I would cut and weld a piece of angle iron in between the feet so that it goes full length of the bed.