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| Black Phoenix:
--- Quote from: Simon on October 20, 2022, 04:15:12 pm ---Just don't watch the channel like I do, I find most of his videos pointless but the guy has to make a living just like all of the TV channels I choose not to watch. --- End quote --- Before he moved to the new warehouse his videos were good and educational. After he moved it turn into what we have now... Now he's trying to go back to the old times by following the Gamers Nexus route, investing in equipment and personal with expertise to start to review scientifically stuff. One thing he had was if you had an idea of how something would work if you tried, like watercooling a cinema camera for example. The kind of stuff that you may thought it could be possible but didn't had the manufacturing (and the guts to have the chance of damaging a expensive piece of equipment). That kind of stuff kinda is entertaining. For reviews, there are a lot better channels for it. Plus we are starting to reach a point that for most use cases hardware with 2 years is more than enough for most applications. I for example use an Asus Zenbook UX303UA with a i7-6500U for most applications (photo editing, Solidworks and normal computing) and it is good enough. Although I would in the future build a new machine but the route I would follow would be or a Ryzen 3000 or the last release of the Intel HEDT platform, X299 via any used workstation from HP or Dell or old used hardware. Good enough for what I need while saving money for other more important stuff. Some years ago I wanted to have "the best of the best, with honors Sir..." Nowardays almost in my 40s my mentality is that the newest not always is the best for what I need. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: HighVoltage on October 20, 2022, 09:04:41 am ---So, back to the screwdriver, anyone here have tested it? I have the PB Swiss and the WERA and like both of them a lot. But who knows maybe this LTT screwdriver is very good. You never know until you test it. --- End quote --- Project Farm did a comprehensive test (which included the LTT, the original the LTT is based on, and PB Swiss, among many) and gave the LTT a quite favorable review, other than the price. In particular, his review confirms my own impression of the PB Swiss (which I own): it has extraordinarily little slop/play, but has very high back-drag. The high back-drag makes it useless for the small machine screws that make up the bulk of screw driving I (and typical PC technicians) do. The LTT focused on optimizing it for PC servicing, so it has extremely low back-drag. FWIW, hands-down my favorite (non-ratcheting) bit holders are the iFixit ones. They’re solid aluminum, with ball-bearing rotating end caps — normally found only on small precision drivers, but iFixit puts them even on the large driver. Its sheer mass and the rotating cap make it easy to spin small screws with minimal effort. The iFixit bits are a different matter. While it’s cool that they have every security bit under the sun, the quality of the bits is very average. They’re not hardened, and they’re not precise. Not as bad as some aliexpress tools, but certainly closer to those than to PB Swiss. PB Swiss are hands down the best bits I’ve ever seen. The second best (Wiha, Wera, etc) look sloppy by comparison, and they’re objectively excellent! |
| magic:
--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on October 19, 2022, 08:48:41 am ---I think it is the original posters way of hiding his own incompetence behind bashing on others who are successful. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I have not seen any posts of him that actually bring any skill to the table. Often a lot of chest pounding but not a lot of content. --- End quote --- He writes hilarious rants which not only are funny to read but also reliably trigger a whole bunch of "rationalists" to write equally hilarious responses and the fun just keeps going on... :popcorn: |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: HighVoltage on October 20, 2022, 11:21:40 am --- --- Quote from: pcprogrammer on October 20, 2022, 09:30:32 am --- --- Quote from: HighVoltage on October 20, 2022, 09:04:41 am ---You never know until you test it. --- End quote --- Correct, but at ~70 bucks I'm not going to test it. Got plenty of screwdrivers around to do the jobs that need be done. --- End quote --- I think I paid much more for the PB-Swiss, which is a really good one. --- End quote --- The PB Swiss ratcheting handle alone is around €60. The sets with large bit assortments cost significantly more. |
| SkyMaster:
--- Quote from: bdunham7 on October 19, 2022, 08:12:24 pm ---For only a few bucks more you can have: https://shop.snapon.com/product/Standard-Handle/8-3-4%22-Ratcheting-Standard-Screwdriver-(Black)/SSDMR4B --- End quote --- Snap-on hard handle ratcheting screwdriver is the way to go. I have six of them, different lengths and different colours; for different application. They are my go-to screwdrivers. :) |
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