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25 Jan, 2020
best cooling compound available
this thing does wonders when applied properly and used with quality heatsinks/heatpipes.
on my old HP notebook (turion zm87) it didn't made much difference because of bad thermal system design.
just applied it to a dell gaming machine (fx9830p) and the temps dropped from 60-80°C (peak 95°C) to 40-50°C (peak 55°C) when compiling openwrt with 5 parallel jobs!!
just a couple of days earlier i repasted this laptop with chinese crap that comes in small plastic bag as a gift with CPUs bought from ebay and noticed i was getting higher temps than with stock thermal paste that was quite dried out after 7 months of intensive laptop use.
both fans were spinning at max most of the time during the compilation process, and now they both switch between off and lowest speed!!!
the temps are even lower than with stock paste when i first got the laptop and both fans turn on less frequently. really amazing product!
update: played UT3 last night for several hours with max video settings, both CPU and GPU temps remained below 60°C!!
25 Dec, 2019
DVB-S2 USB card that does the promised
after about 10 years since i last used dvb-s card (skystar2) i've decided to get this primarily to watch uefa cl matches since internet streams sucked with their poor video quality and large delays.
setting it up wasn't the easiest mainly because i didn't know how dvb applications interact with this card's chipset (all of the apps i've tried had some bugs - dvbviewer, progdvb, altdvb, dvbdream) but on the first day already managed to scan few channels on astra. and next day already scanned most of them and was able to watch tv channels.
watching uefa cl also had advantages over classic dvb-t channels, better video quality and dvb-t channel was delayed about 5-7 seconds compared to dvb-s stream.
if you have powerful enough CPU and GPU you can also watch 4K channels and these have quite impressive video quality (just like HDTV promo channels had in the beginning some 15years ago when they were compressed in MPEG2 format - most of the HDTV H264 channels streamed today via satellite do not match those quality standards)
there was no CD included with the item i bought but after downloading official pctv center application and installing i found it is not very convenient as you can't easily update transponder list (not sure if possible at all) so i used it only for one thing - to verify the remote controller is working as other apps require additional drivers and i had no time for dealing with that since remote is not that important in my case.
next i tried to run it on linux and tvheadend recognized the card and was able to stream channels, so i compiled openwrt image for my archer c7 router with required kernel modules and tvheadend app. it worked great and it allowed me to stream these channels via wireless, in short testing we streamed 4 different channels (they must be on same transponder) to 4 different devices. one thing that remains mystery for now is that some channels stutter and are impossible to watch, mainly on hotbird but there are few on other satellites too, and their SNR was very good so it must be something else causing problems (maybe LNB or coax cable, or different combination of demuxer/decoders is needed).
included power supply must be used too (at least with equipment i have) otherwise you get unstable SNR levels.
21 Jan, 2020
would be great if it was made properly
0 of 2 found this helpful low quality product. had problems from the beginning. had to refill air at least once a week.
when fully inflated it was fine for sitting, and very good for sleeping in pull-out mode.
after 3 months of use the middle of the sitting part just popped out, making it uncomfortable for sitting. another bad thing by design is in inward lateral parts are not futex covered but left with polyvinyl finish which in turn results in squeaking noise everytime you move a bit. quite annoying.
the concept is great and the sofa would be perfect if it wasn't of disgusting production quality.