Hyperstrike

^^^^^^ THIS!

10 DAYS after my 50th, my Widow is 50 and Alpha is level 4

I've had ONE leak. On a "DIY" style AIO that's meant to be refillable and expandable. At the time, it was the largest radiator available That and I expect the technician was trying to pad my bill. Cooked my CPU and motherboard. All the AIOs not mean to be refillable? They're good for 10-15 years BEFORE EVAPORATION SHOULD BE CONSIDERED. And again, on an AIO that is around $90-120, that's a good deal (ammortized)

This is NOT really a "recommended" brand. This is more of a better fit for your use case. 1: In short, this platform is for Intel based units, using the Arctic brand coolers. Pretty much ANY of the cooler units will work fine. (temperature spread is a couple degrees.) Also, in terms of power draw are about 10w different between a 2 fan setup and a 3 fan setup (note: Small differentiation based on 120mm fans vs 140mm fans. In terms of price of this brand is the TINY cost spread ($90-120). Between the 240 and 420mm units s $28 (twenty eight). That's disgustingly cheap. The point is, if you're looking to stabilize your system out, it's cheaper than it's EVER been before.

Not quite the same power.

Where do Sentinels get KO Blow?

Have fun....

Hedgehogius The Woodchipper...

No. I asked a question. Contrary to popular belief, I have not built "one of everything in existence". Hence, why it's A QUESTION. So please, drop your personal inflections and assuumptions.

Sorry, one-shotting EBs, Villains and GMs is cool... For about a minute... After that, the brokeness sets in and the fun stops. A balance pass would eventually leave us with a new, COMPLETELY SEPARATE "Super Strength" set they'd have to develop and proof, that'd be BROKEN on any non-scrapper.

Yeah 9 isn't QUITE enough... A few odd stacks and you wind up like Joe Piscopo fighting Chuck Norris.

PRE-ZACTLY!

You are a bear, standing atop a ball at a circus (my pardon for those who are too young to get the reference). Lots of directions to go. Lots of ways to get there in a controlled fashion.

I've found that going all "Yoda" and asking the question leads to better understanding of the answer as the person is required to do a little bit of skull work and winds up with a better, fuller understanding of what AN answer entails. Rather than simply regurgitating "THE" answer. Not trying to be an ass here. It's just my natural baseline. HEE HAW (HELLO? TANK?) 😁 Also, flat text is a TERRIBLE medium for conveying nuance. Bonus! I've found that people GENERALLLY SUCK (mightily) are interpreting this stuff on cold reading. So if it pisses you off? I apologize. Not trying to DELIBERATELY troll you. (Much. And there's a real reason being it.)

Dump fly. With the improvement for travel, the slightly faster Fly speed, is less useful. ANd if your purpose is to just stack defense, it isn't terribly necessary.

English comprehension. I asked a question. And if a solution isn't appealing to you, or doesn't do exactly what you want it to (make you an uber-invincible Tank Mage, not my problem. In short, I'm talking about how to get around "gotchas" for in game mechanics.

Looks mean as hell.

BINGO!!!!

Hence my talk about "base level". I'm not talking about MINIMUM Defense. I'm talking about maximum defense AT REST. Can I build 80+% defense? Crashes? BRING IT ON! And yes, 75% Resist isn't phenomenal compared to someone who can do 90%. The basic point isn't "just build a brute". Otherwise ALL YOU PLAY IS BRUTES! BO-RING! It's "You build the best, most effective "whatever" you can. YES, sometimes you "fall down and go BOOM". This is always true.

Build high enough base defense or accompanying high Resist, and it mitigates the "Oops! I die now!" effect

Forgive me, buthav ALMOST as much use for a Chip from Cupertino as I do DIY orchiexctomy with a taffy puller.....

For general computing, I have ZERO (less actually) use for ARM. Sure, it's useful for some gimmick applications. But, as of right now, if I'm not writing the software myself, I need x86 virtualized, and a whole host of software, etc, etc. Seems like a great way to sell people more stuff they don't need. And software licensing gets expensive.

Links pls. I have yet to see any reliable information that it's killing 10th-12th generation chips

Intel is a bit too large and diversified to kill off anywhere near that easy.

Here's hoping that R&D resumes on consumer grade R&D as well as being continued on their professional grade stuff. While I'm a big AMD booster. Had both first-gen A64 and A64x2 units and LOVED THEM in the wayback times.... Only reason I had Intel last time was that my boss turned over the guts of a server to me, complete with SAS drives...