Rarely used very expensive laptop ideas
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I have a nasty beastie of a laptop. 13th gen i9 HX, with a 4090m GPU. 32GB main DDR5 RAM, 16GB of DDR6 GPU RAM I haven't opened it in over a month, other than the other day when I was reminded to renew the warranty or lose it. (I renewed, added accidental damage protection) It's primarily to game at my sister's house when I visit, and for that it works great, but I thought it would serve a side use at my desk, and it just has never really lived up except when I want to play Fallout 4 on the side. (240Hz screen makes it my preferred games masheen) One of the reasons I got the GPU I did was to play around with AI tech, but also I've never really found much use. It's useful enough that I don't want to sell it, but I'm not using enough to feel like I'm getting what I paid for by a long shot. I don't know a lot about AI, and I'm kind of averse to LLMs for coding, but I have a feeling that's just me being crotchety. I know LLMs get code wrong a lot, but it's not like I can't verify what it produces. Most of the time though, when I think it could help, I have a hard enough time asking a human my problem, much less a machine. Questions like this seem like they'd take over an hour of prompting to get anything usable back out, but maybe I'm being unrealistic. After all, I know so little about this stuff. C++ brain teaser - filtering a parameter pack[^] Anyway my point is that I'm amenable to using this machine for AI endeavors but I'm not sure where to begin in terms of having something useful at hand.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I have a nasty beastie of a laptop. 13th gen i9 HX, with a 4090m GPU. 32GB main DDR5 RAM, 16GB of DDR6 GPU RAM I haven't opened it in over a month, other than the other day when I was reminded to renew the warranty or lose it. (I renewed, added accidental damage protection) It's primarily to game at my sister's house when I visit, and for that it works great, but I thought it would serve a side use at my desk, and it just has never really lived up except when I want to play Fallout 4 on the side. (240Hz screen makes it my preferred games masheen) One of the reasons I got the GPU I did was to play around with AI tech, but also I've never really found much use. It's useful enough that I don't want to sell it, but I'm not using enough to feel like I'm getting what I paid for by a long shot. I don't know a lot about AI, and I'm kind of averse to LLMs for coding, but I have a feeling that's just me being crotchety. I know LLMs get code wrong a lot, but it's not like I can't verify what it produces. Most of the time though, when I think it could help, I have a hard enough time asking a human my problem, much less a machine. Questions like this seem like they'd take over an hour of prompting to get anything usable back out, but maybe I'm being unrealistic. After all, I know so little about this stuff. C++ brain teaser - filtering a parameter pack[^] Anyway my point is that I'm amenable to using this machine for AI endeavors but I'm not sure where to begin in terms of having something useful at hand.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
Not interested in decoding Enigma messages? What ever happen to Folding at Home?
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Not interested in decoding Enigma messages? What ever happen to Folding at Home?
Not really. I was thinking of something more personally utilitarian.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Not really. I was thinking of something more personally utilitarian.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
honey the codewitch wrote:
more personally utilitarian.
World of Tanks!
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Not really. I was thinking of something more personally utilitarian.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Monkey monkey();
while (true) {
monkey.randomlyType();
monkey.checkForShakespeare();
}Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++ | Wordle solver
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honey the codewitch wrote:
more personally utilitarian.
World of Tanks!
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
ugh, why did you say that? :) WoT and I go way, way back, but I had to quit to keep me from destroying hardware. But, the witch's laptop should do just fine.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
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I have a nasty beastie of a laptop. 13th gen i9 HX, with a 4090m GPU. 32GB main DDR5 RAM, 16GB of DDR6 GPU RAM I haven't opened it in over a month, other than the other day when I was reminded to renew the warranty or lose it. (I renewed, added accidental damage protection) It's primarily to game at my sister's house when I visit, and for that it works great, but I thought it would serve a side use at my desk, and it just has never really lived up except when I want to play Fallout 4 on the side. (240Hz screen makes it my preferred games masheen) One of the reasons I got the GPU I did was to play around with AI tech, but also I've never really found much use. It's useful enough that I don't want to sell it, but I'm not using enough to feel like I'm getting what I paid for by a long shot. I don't know a lot about AI, and I'm kind of averse to LLMs for coding, but I have a feeling that's just me being crotchety. I know LLMs get code wrong a lot, but it's not like I can't verify what it produces. Most of the time though, when I think it could help, I have a hard enough time asking a human my problem, much less a machine. Questions like this seem like they'd take over an hour of prompting to get anything usable back out, but maybe I'm being unrealistic. After all, I know so little about this stuff. C++ brain teaser - filtering a parameter pack[^] Anyway my point is that I'm amenable to using this machine for AI endeavors but I'm not sure where to begin in terms of having something useful at hand.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
I got sorta the same issue, just not as extreme. I bought a new cpu many months ago and I rarely use it. It is way faster than my current system, which sometimes takes > 3 minutes to go from debug to IIS Express loaded and ready. The new system is < 10 seconds. The main issue is that the new system is Win11. I don't hate it, but I'm more comfortable with 10. The other main issue is the noise factor. Old system is whisper quiet...new system is mostly quiet with the occasional jet engine spin-up! :wtf: ...just enough that I'd rather not hear it.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
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I got sorta the same issue, just not as extreme. I bought a new cpu many months ago and I rarely use it. It is way faster than my current system, which sometimes takes > 3 minutes to go from debug to IIS Express loaded and ready. The new system is < 10 seconds. The main issue is that the new system is Win11. I don't hate it, but I'm more comfortable with 10. The other main issue is the noise factor. Old system is whisper quiet...new system is mostly quiet with the occasional jet engine spin-up! :wtf: ...just enough that I'd rather not hear it.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
If your system is air cooled consider swapping your fans out with Noctua fans. They are dead quiet. My system is on air. I have something like 7 fans not counting the GPU or PSU. 1 of them - the intake fan - is 220mm. It's quiet as a church mouse. It's all Noctua. They cost a little more but A) They are amazingly efficient. Like an order of magnitude or so more efficient than cheapo fans meaning you can run 4 on a hub without frying your mobo. B) They are incredibly quiet. They're engineered to be silent, and even include rubber isolators on the chassis. C) They're quality built. They won't randomly die on you like some of the cheaper stuff, and they can handle plenty of dust before they finally give up. They cost about twice what a cheapo fan costs, and they're worth it. If you're air cooled consider that. Otherwise it may be your pump that is at issue, and that's not easy to fix if you're on AIO.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I got sorta the same issue, just not as extreme. I bought a new cpu many months ago and I rarely use it. It is way faster than my current system, which sometimes takes > 3 minutes to go from debug to IIS Express loaded and ready. The new system is < 10 seconds. The main issue is that the new system is Win11. I don't hate it, but I'm more comfortable with 10. The other main issue is the noise factor. Old system is whisper quiet...new system is mostly quiet with the occasional jet engine spin-up! :wtf: ...just enough that I'd rather not hear it.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
BTW, a tip to make Windows 11 more comfortable and familiar. launch a terminal as admin. Copy the command from below and run it reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve Restart explorer Now you'll see the old style context menus without having to go "Show more" It's the single biggest annoyance for me with win11 so i hope that helps.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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BTW, a tip to make Windows 11 more comfortable and familiar. launch a terminal as admin. Copy the command from below and run it reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve Restart explorer Now you'll see the old style context menus without having to go "Show more" It's the single biggest annoyance for me with win11 so i hope that helps.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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ugh, why did you say that? :) WoT and I go way, way back, but I had to quit to keep me from destroying hardware. But, the witch's laptop should do just fine.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
I'm impressed! :thumbsup:
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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If your system is air cooled consider swapping your fans out with Noctua fans. They are dead quiet. My system is on air. I have something like 7 fans not counting the GPU or PSU. 1 of them - the intake fan - is 220mm. It's quiet as a church mouse. It's all Noctua. They cost a little more but A) They are amazingly efficient. Like an order of magnitude or so more efficient than cheapo fans meaning you can run 4 on a hub without frying your mobo. B) They are incredibly quiet. They're engineered to be silent, and even include rubber isolators on the chassis. C) They're quality built. They won't randomly die on you like some of the cheaper stuff, and they can handle plenty of dust before they finally give up. They cost about twice what a cheapo fan costs, and they're worth it. If you're air cooled consider that. Otherwise it may be your pump that is at issue, and that's not easy to fix if you're on AIO.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
:thumbsup: I'll look into them. 4 something years ago I built up a Ryzen 9 for use as a host system for virtual machines. I also put an RTX 2060 in it, and it does everything I need it to do. But, I do like my machines quiet. For fans, I like to swap them out when I think they are old. Cheap insurance.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
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BTW, a tip to make Windows 11 more comfortable and familiar. launch a terminal as admin. Copy the command from below and run it reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve Restart explorer Now you'll see the old style context menus without having to go "Show more" It's the single biggest annoyance for me with win11 so i hope that helps.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
I typically drive with the keyboard, but I will agree that that change in Windows 11 context menus is right up there on the asinine level of changes.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
