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Now that there are small form factor gaming desktops available, I am finally going to get one, and not rely on my notebook. I know that keyboards these days can have independent-key LED backlight with all sorts of cool ways to program it, and I want to get such a keyboard.
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The Razer Blackwidow is my favorite. Clicky keys and many different color options and programmability.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Don't go for too small a form factor - games tend to drive graphics cards pretty hard, and they generate a lot of heat which can crash it out - I had that with GTA V until I worked out where and which direction to put additional case fans. My case has the PSU at the bottom and immediately above that is the only slot that takes the graphics card, so it gets pretty work in there and GTA would crash very near the end of a mission.
Two extra 120mm fans strategically extracting hot air and it's all fine, I think.
what games are you playing / planning on?
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: what games are you playing / planning on?
I'll be playing Rock Band & R-Type via Xenia.
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My Das 5QS has all that and is worth the price of admission.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I'm using a Corsair K68 RGB (a gift, I'd never spend that on a keyboard as a smoker). Mechanical, because that makes a good keyboard, both for gaming and writing code.
Also nice, having a C# library that you can import to set colors and patterns. Without that, mine swirls like a rainbow, until I play D3; it turns static red when in trouble.
I'd recommend that API even without you owning a keyboard :p
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Like it said, "whew!"
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Yeah, I thought I'd miss it as well ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Lucky 4 again:
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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It would have been that if I did not got it.
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Weeks ago I said I tried to get Windows Sandbox working in Win10, and no matter what I tried I failed, because 1 and 2 screens became linked together, and things became impossible to use.
Evidently, the subconscious is a powerful thing, because for some reason today I wondered what would happen if I eliminated all screens on my system except for the laptop's main screen before installing Sandbox. Found out it wasn't quite that simple, because Windows tried to keep the settings for the secondary screen, so with the secondary screen working, I had to actually go in and make the laptop's screen primary, set to mirror on other, then unplug.
So, with only one primary laptop screen on the system, I installed Sandbox that way. Then plugged the secondary monitor in and for once IT WORKED! It still shows 4 more screens that don't exist on my system when I personalize display settings, but IT WORKED! I was even able to make the attached display into the primary display, with the laptop's screen to the right of it as they are on the desk.
What a pain in the ass.
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You know? Things like this are why I ditched computer monitors and got a 55" 4k qled tv as a monitor. Now i have 4 1080p monitors in front of me, and no slaying the various multimon dragons.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Not all of us have tons of cash flowing out of our pockets because of template magic trickery drivers! 
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Well, next time you go to upgrade consider it. I did spend a pretty penny, but there isn't a day that goes by where I don't feel the $1100 I dumped into my computer's "human interface" was worth it.
I learned a long time ago that the part of the computer that faces me and that I touch is the most important part of the machine.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I totally agree. I just bought a 46" UHD QLED tv for my monitor, and it is incredible. And was only $500 CDN.
However I still want all the screen real estate possible, so I also have a 4K 32" screen along with my 4K 17" laptop touch screen. I use these monitors for secondary work (emails, Teams meetings), so not always looking at them, just when something pops up that I need to be aware of.
The biggest issue I was having was the older docking station didn't support the highest resolution on all monitors at once. Once I upgraded the docking station I am always running at max resolution.
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I hate to inform you, but when it comes to 4K TVs, 55" is kinda entry-level.
I've paid more in years gone by for much smaller monitors, and they had nowhere near the resolution of what you can get today.
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I released a whole version of GFX. Even passing my unit tests in two different build environments.
Then I ran it on a local project and it failed to compile.
This after spending most of the day getting my X11 color table to be constexpr under C++14 - which apparently is very difficult to do in this particular case, if not impossible.
I thought I had it sorted. So much that I *released*. Not only that, I updated about a dozen drivers that rely on it to use the new (broken) version.
In the end I reverted the offending code back, and released *yet another version* with yet more drivers.
*headdesk*
Oh, and I still don't know *why* it fails to compile in some contexts, and yet passes my unit tests, and it's not so easy to just bring the failing code into the tests, because it's the house that jack built.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
modified 15-Apr-22 7:33am.
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