low wattage gaming system with nvidia rtx 5060ti 16 gb

 

here is a view of my triangular gaming table with two 27 inch monitors. I can not afford a single screen that can game and watch movies, so i have a 2k oled for gaming, and a 4k mini led for movies. Left of the screens, you see the new computer build and left of that is the audio amplifier. Both of these devices use dc current straight from a solar energy system. The amplifier uses current from a small 12 volt backup system. And, the computer uses 24 volt from the main home system.

 

The computer is mounted on 4 bits of extruded aluminum, that keep it up off the table, and provide a place to attach the graphics card and the power supply. The power supply in this case is the 500 watt dc to dc model from HDplex. This is a tiny fanless psu that uses the improved gallium nitride components that can run hot without damage. The heat sink is the NH-P1 from Noctua. It is also able to work with no fan, by dissipating the processors heat passively with huge aluminum fins that are widely spaced to promote heat driven air flow. 

 

The processor is the older 13600 i5 processor. It only accepts around 100 watts at most, so it can be cooled by the NH-P1, even while gaming. Although it is 5 years old, it keeps up easily with the new but low end 5060 ti graphics card. I bought the 16 gig model of the card, so that I could experiment with running larger AI models locally. I chose the smallest 2 fan model from gigabyte. I will run it as shipped for a year or 2, when the cheap tiny fans will start making noise and wobbling. Then, as usual, I will remove the fans along with the shroud, and add quiet Noctua fans. 

 

I currently have mouse and keyboard from endgame gear. These are mid priced heavy hitters for gaming. Probably, my next investment will be a large and thick mouse pad. For speakers, I have a set of treble and midrange drivers that i built last year, along with a heavy bass driver that is mounted one inch off the wood floor facing straight down. 

When i am gaming, or listening to Billie Eilish, the single downward facing bass speaker shakes floor and desk and chair quite strongly for complete immersion. The audio system turned into it's own hobby, with a set of hole saws, a collection of expensive drivers, and a whole ecology of different shaped boxes with different ports. There was even a spin off, where i got into making the perfect external speaker that runs on a battery and connects wirelessly.

 

The state of the computer building hobby:

there is usually a shortage of some component needed for building high end gaming systems. It was really bad when bit coin miners were buying all the graphics cards. Now, there is a memory shortage, so that the most expensive part of a gaming system is the random access memory. Memory has gone up 400%. Not 40%! it has gotten to 4 times its previous price.

 

I wish that i could write that this memory shortage is an act of God. However, it is part of the AI bubble. Further, this bubble is a mechanism for the current US government to appear financially strong while it is actually dismantling it's own regulatory function as well as the social safety net for it's citizens.

 

This financial swindle is not even hidden. The conspirators lined up behind the president at his inauguration, and have been meeting to lick his boots quite frequently. This scam is not hidden because as far as Amazon and Meta and Google are concerned, US citizens are more or less farm animals. The new deal is that the government will not interfere with their efforts to put a data center on every corner, or their harmful monopolies. Their AI chips can flow to china if the correct [very large!] donations are made.

 

Personally, i am done building computers for now. My last was an ultra budget mini itx build with a super cheap little mother board from Asrock, and a sub 200 dollar processor: the amd 7600x. I used a hundred dollar 6000 mhz 32 gig memory kit, and a 100 dollar 2 tb solid state drive. I put these in a tiny hundred dollar case from Jonsbo [the NV 10]. The only costly part was the power supply, which cost closer to 200 dollars. The PSU is an expense that is somewhat justified to pack a full gaming computer into a small pelican case. I used a low profile rtx 4060 in this tiny build, and I can recommend these tiny low profile gpus very highly. Aside from running a few degrees hotter, these tiny graphics cards run identically with their gigantic 3 fan brethren.

 

conclusion: well, every bit of writing from an actual human needs a moral to it. If you just need the raw data, any of the chat bots can dribble that right onto your brain. So, yea, I am concentrating on playing Doom 2016, Doom eternal, Metal hellsinger, Cyberpunk and some other games while my country attempts to start ww3. No one is asking me to OK a new war. In fact, it is pretty hard to simply continue to collect my food stamps and social security. I feel that my job is to watch the events while surviving, and the only way to do that is to fiddle away while my Rome burns. This has turned my blog into a 2 headed monster. Political rants and gaming computer builds!

Is Iran our Poland, or could It be our Alsace–Lorraine?

 I have watched as my own country, the United States of America, followed in the footsteps that Germany created  years ago. Israel has served as our Japan, being basically our very violent police station in the worlds oil patch. Where Germany first grabbed a few countries that could not defend themselves, we have grabbed Venezuela and now are attempting to add Iran to our list of semi-conquered middle eastern satellite countries.

The question that i examine here is: what will be the first country to fight strongly against the US?
and further: When will the rest of the world declare war on the US? I am equating our Venezuela 'affair', where we seized the largest oil reserve on the continent, with Germany's unopposed expansion into Czechoslovakia

. If you will allow that, then Iran is our Poland? This is the first country to put up any kind of resistance to the Blitzkrieg, or 'lightening war'. Poland's resistance was short lived, and they fought alone. If no country steps in to arm and support Iran, it may fall quickly. However, looking at how long Gaza resisted, it is also likely that either china or Russia will welcome the chance to repay us for our support of Taiwan and Ukraine by supplying a never ending armada of cheap drones to Iran.

After seeing a city the size of Manhattan be completely destroyed with the people still trapped within the city, and still resist military defeat for two years, IT seems pretty unlikely that Iran can be quickly defeated. We must keep in mind the lessons from Ukraine. What was to be a one week war to quickly regain a state that had strayed from the USSR is still not over, and is now resulting in damage to major cities in Russia as well as expense and casualties that are hamstringing the Russian economy.

I suggest that there is some chance that Iran will be our 'Alsace–Lorraine', where other countries do join in and declare war against the US and Israel. Our side began with a surprise attack on a girls elementary school, as well as on hospitals and gathering places. Iran is a sovereign country, and we made our pearl harbor sneak attack against them by performing a double tap on a girls school? Such a start signals genocidal intent from the first blow. It is the same with hospitals. When you start right in destroying all medical facilities, you are announcing to the world that there are absolutely no rules to the engagement, and that war crimes are allowed.

Finally, I ask, are there any other signs of oncoming world war? we are looking for telltales that we have seen near the start of other world wars:

pandemics;
racially based outbursts against hated groups;
new prison camps;
strife and civil war in many countries.

First, how can disease be tied to war in any way? 

War is a breeding ground for disease. Usually, way more people die of infection, disease and famine than from spear wounds, gunshot wounds, or bombing. The most costly pandemic in recent memory was the 1918 flu, and that was spread by ww 1 quite directly. War squeezes people together under great stress, while they are starving and injured. Israel recently weaponized disease by totally enclosing the Gazans and then allowing them no food or water, while destroying all homes, hospitals, water treatment and sewage infrastructure. then, they chased them from place to place sniping at them and bombing whatever makeshift structures that they manage to build.

What does racial hatred or new prison camps have to do with world war? Scapegoating, or choosing a racial group to take the blame for bad outcomes is not new. In fact, it has become a political platform in the US. illegal immigration was used by Donald Trump to regain the white house even after a failed coup attempt. Once the big round up began, citizens of the US found out that it was really a way to punish democratic run cities with a brutal and unregulated form of marshal law. In fact, the murderous masked goons of ICE can easily be compared to Hitlers brown-shirts. Despots like to lead with a big round-up of some kind of really bad people. It allows them to build a vast secret police network, and a system of prison camps. Camps that will eventually house 'far left democrats' right along with 'criminal illegal aliens'. Camps that will invariably solve their overcrowding problem in the same obvious way that occurred to the Germans.

As far as racial violence and civil war, wouldn't these difficulties actually preclude or prevent a world war? In the past, we have seen a connection between racial violence and big wars. The US civil war is an example. In fact, the US civil war began with Lincoln freeing the slaves in the south, while leaving northern slaves in captivity. It is really ironic if you dwell on it.

Race riots in Chicago and other cities took place in 1919, and in 1921, The Greenwood area of Tulsa Oklahoma was destroyed. It appears that a population will attack itself before it lashes out against other countries.
So, race riots and civil war do not prevent world war. In fact, they seem to lead into it naturally.

Suggestions: how can we avoid repeating the errors made by Nazi Germany? 

I have asked myself a funny question. We are very far down the path to world war. We have purposely elected a sort of king who has gutted the government, eliminating oversight on the branches of government, and oversight of industry. We have softened up the world with economic turbulence, and now we are reaching out with our sea and air forces to make the US larger. We are also still funding a giant genocide in Gaza while we attempt to control the oil output of the entire continent of North and south America. Having attacked 2 countries with cowardly surprise attacks, we are waiting to see if the rest of the world will ever try to stop us.

Politicians used to get into trouble for enjoying a consenting blow job in the oval office. But now, we have what is possibly the most glaring and amazing double standard in US history. We are imprisoning working families that hopped the border illegally, while our president, who has already been convicted of massive fraud and felony sex offenses, gamely tries to cover up evidence of what he and his best friend did to young girls. The same fellow has managed to pack the senate, the house, and the supreme court with total loyalists, extract billions of US dollars [and a jumbo jet?] into his own pocket, and has engaged his own private army of masked secret police.

So yea, the only way to avoid world war is to dump Trump along with his whole dog and pony show! It is funny that we had such high hopes for a lifetime criminal with such an accomplished list of financial and sexual convictions. He did what he has always done: a giant bait and switch, where you get exactly the opposite of what was promised. Instead of peace and prosperity, we now know know war in several countries, federal agents pepper spraying and shooting citizens in US cities, and a fully broken health care system, without even the band-aid provided by the affordable care act.

This is all pretty dire stuff, so i will remind the reader that we also have the best screens and computers in history, [by far]. The US is still a melting pot, even if we have briefly stopped adding new metal to the pot. And, even though there is lots of fighting and trouble, you have to admit that this is an interesting little slice of history to experience. My father lived through a world war, and I read about it, but I did not expect to see another one so soon. And, until about 10 years ago, i never would have guessed that the United States would turn out to be the aggressor that every other country has to fight against.

Science conjecture: does the big bang explode in both directions of time?

 

 I had a realization a while back. It is not really science, but rather, it is more like religious conjecture. I wondered about what happened before the big bang. What would cause a black hole the size of the universe to explode?

We know that in the world of tiny objects like particles, that every single thing that can happen needs to be reversible. So, if light hits an atom, and an electron jumps to a higher orbit, it must also be possible for an electron to fall to a lower orbit and emit light. The light 'particle' was absorbed by the atom because it had the difference in energies between the lower and the higher electron orbit. And, the light that is produced by the reciprocal degradation of the electrons orbit is of the same color or energy that was needed to boost it. 

There is only an arrow of time for collections of particles. You can see a video of an egg breaking, and know that you are viewing the video in the correct direction, because you never see eggs un-breaking. This is not the case on the particle scale. Every particle interaction can go in either direction, so you would not be able to tell if a video of a particle event is shown in the right direction.

A video of the last few bits of matter falling into a universe sized black hole would be going in the right direction, because black holes do not release matter [other than Hawking radiation]. However, once the last bit of matter had passed the event horizon, we have a different situation. While there is matter outside of the singularity, the hole has spin in reference to the matter outside. But, once there is nothing outside to compare with, the hole no longer spins or moves through space. There is a lot of matter inside the hole, but it can no longer store it's state and the arrow of time points in either direction. It is essentially a single particle, that is absolutely motionless and without spin. Even Hawking radiation would cease, because there are no atoms near the singularity to be torn apart into particles and antiparticles.

Once the hole has lost all of its personality, the arrow of time is not defined, and it is free to reverse and explode. There can not be an observer, of course, because any particle or object outside the hole would give it a proper motion and spin. The arrow of time would not be able to switch directions. there might not be any 'space' outside of the singularity during the 'interval' that it was entirely collapsed. I would use the word 'time', but time itself might not exist right 'then'. Time itself might require some matter outside of a single universe sized black hole.

Although there can be no observer, the particle that is the compressed universe explodes in both directions of times arrow. After it gets very large and cool, it may collapse again, to repeat endlessly. explode, collapse, explode, collapse... like breathing!