My Mom has a Jacobsen snowblower from about 1973. It starts on the first or second pull every freaking year with no maintenance. I bought an electric thrower and I've never been disappointed with it. It's a bit weak but my driveway is small. When I'm done using it I can hang it on a wall.
What's a good place to buy specialty batteries? Amazon & Walmart don't sell them directly and the 3rd party vendors have horrible reviews. Is paying $5 at Radio Shack still the gold standard in 2016?
How specialized do you need. Batteries Plus is pretty reputable since they have actual stores. There is one in my town. Prices suck. https://www.batteriesplus.com/battery I've ordered from battery junction before without issue. Prices are better. http://www.batteryjunction.com/
CR2032 Lithium Ion... BatteryJunction will do just fine. BatteryPlus was more expensive than the shack! @cmdrmonkey I still have a ton of Radio Shacks in my area.
You should be able to buy a CR2032 at any Walmart or Target. Even drug stores and grocery stores usually carry them.
2032's are probably the most popular specialty batteries out there. you should be able to find them almost anywhere
Been in Oakland all week. Love the weather but I'm pretty sure I could never live in a place like this. Its way too crowded. People drive like shit.
lol at the $55M Erin Andrews verdict. No one would even know who she is without those nude photos. She should be thanking the guy.
Fucking lol at this sock puppet martian manifesto. The drawings are comic gold. http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/khq/ODOMDOCS.pdf The guy who wrote it desperately needed to warn President Obama about a vast sock puppet martian conspiracy from beyond the moon. You see a significant part of our congress and senate are actually sock puppet martians. Which might actually explain a lot of things.
The earth is flat. There's no such thing as gravity, the ISS is a plane and space walks are done in swimming pools. It doesn't come as a surprise that these people are Martians
This guy is getting interweb famous for his 980Ti mod. It started by drilling a hole in the card for a new cooler. https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/561041-980ti-darwin-awards-help/?page=1
He should duct tape it back together and try to RMA it. Just have a vague description of the problem like "it doesn't work." I'd be really amused to see the company's reaction. Zotac is a pretty fly by night brand, so the result will probably be some Chinese guy yelling at him on the phone in Chingrish. Also, that card was 100% dead the minute he drilled a hole in it. Snapping it in half didn't change anything. All of that because he refused to buy a decent case. He could have probably picked up a decent used Corsair or Antec case for under $50 on ebay or craigslist if he was really that broke after buying the video card. Heck just leaving the components out on an anti-static bag would have been better than drilling into shit.
i swear that people on the internet have the worst cameras ever. it's like they use webcams from 1998 to take pictures.
I'm very comfortable rooting around inside of desktop PCs, even fixing laptops. Video card cooling is one of the things I won't mess with though. Video cards are too expensive, it's too easy to void the warranty, and cooling video cards is not as straight forward as cooling a CPU with the VRMs and other stuff they have, and they run much hotter. Also some of them use custom PCBs, and not all aftermarket coolers will work. It's just not worth voiding the warranty and possibly destroying something that may cost $500+. Obviously I'm not going to drill into a GPU. But even changing out the stock cooler for aftermarket cooling is probably something I would never do. If I want aftermarket cooling, I'll just buy a card that comes with it already installed.
If you can change the cooler on your CPU then you can change the cooler on your GPU. The coolers come with the mounting hardware in the correct places so it really isn't that difficult.
If you're using a reference card, then it usually isn't a big deal. The problem is that so many cards now use custom PCBs that are designed for whatever aftermarket cooler the card ships with, and are not compatible with other aftermarket coolers. I suspect the Zotac Amp! PCB that guy was messing with had a non-reference layout, which is why the Corsair cooler wasn't working. Video cards are so expensive now that if I had any kind of issue, I would just RMA the card. It's just not worth gambling with something that costs so much. Companies will usually replace your card, as long as you haven't tampered with the cooling or done any modding. Trying to water cool a Maxwell card is pretty retarded anyway. My Strix card for instance runs so cool, that it has a semi-passive design, where the fan often doesn't even need to run. But all Maxwell cards run pretty cool and quiet. Water cooling is just not needed.
Monkey is right and it's why this guy failed. CPU motherboards have the standard socket and mounts but video card boards will vary. The mount holes, memory, and voltage regulator can all be in different location and they all need to be cooled. Usually there is no easy way to get that kind of information other than to wait for someone else to take the stock cooler off the board and post pictures. I used to replace video card coolers but I wont do it anymore either. Too many things can go wrong. I think I had an old 1800XL fail early because the aftermarket cooler didn't do a good job of cooling the memory. Sure the risk may be small but with the price of high-end video cards creeping up to an average of $500 it's just not worth the risk. "Trying to water cool a Maxwell card is pretty retarded anyway." Unlike it's smaller cousin the 980 ti gets pretty hot. The stock cooler temps and noise are on par with the original 290X. It's in the 80s with a temp throttle at 84 degrees. A good custom cooler will keep it in the low 70s. Water will put it in the 50s.
If they really run that hot and loud I guess I'm glad I didn't wait the for the 980ti and just went with a vanilla 980. Doesn't seem worth the extra money for all that heat and noise unless you're doing something that really needs it, like trying to run at 4k.