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My New Desk Setup

Posted on April 18, 2025April 18, 2025 by Michael Molenda

I have recently moved my setup to a new desk and cleaned it up quite a bit. This post will go over my complete computer setup. Again, Mac and PC living together in harmony? WHAT??? To make it useful for both my Mac and PC, this selector changes output to either the Mac or PC…

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Office Consolodation 2024

Posted on July 22, 2024 by Admin

This is will be an on-going project for perhaps the rest of the year. I have two desks and had 3 different setups. Then, I got it down to two setup. Now, I am down to a single desk (I still have to get rid of the other desk…) and a single setup. I am…

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Office Tour Fall 2023

Posted on November 23, 2023December 22, 2023 by Michael Molenda

I think my office has come a long way in the past couple of years and I can’t resist sharing with my readers. So here goes… Work Setup includes a MSi Vigor GK20 RGB keyboard and a MSi GM20 RGB Gaming Mouse (I have the same ones a my desk in the office. I brought…

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Office Tour Mid-2023

Posted on June 28, 2023July 2, 2023 by Michael Molenda

This is the ultimate tour of my office. From office electronics to sports memorabilia. So, let’s just dive right in with an overview… (Cheat Sheet to the models and specs here – What I use.). This may be a bit self-serving or seen as something negative. Personal blogs can always been seen that way, but…

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Review: MSi GF65 10UE-213 (2021) in 2023

Posted on April 30, 2023June 28, 2023 by Michael Molenda

Introduction This laptop was released in June of 2021. As of now, it’s almost 2 full years old. This is a review that if you were to find one used… is it good? The short answer is yes, but mainly for gaming. The GPU can game reasonably at 1080p at medium to high settings without…

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Review: MSi G281UV

Posted on April 17, 2023June 28, 2023 by Michael Molenda

This is a 28″ monitor that I have not seen reviewed anywhere except Amazon. So, I want to give it sort of a full review. The Specs 28″ IPS Panel4K (3840 x 2160) Resolution60 Hz/4 ms GtG Response RateVESA HDR 400 Certified300 Nits (Standard)/4000 Nits (HDR)1x Display Port1x HDMI PortContrast Ratio 1000:1Dynamic Contrast Range 100000000:1Adobe…

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Are the New Macbook Pros better than Windows PCs?

Posted on April 11, 2023April 12, 2023 by Michael Molenda

I left two comments today that I hope they address: My older, slower RTX 3060 laptop got an Open CL score of 81694 in Geekbench 6. So, I am not sure why this one is so much slower. You are showing in the capture I am looking at OpenCL vs Metal. So, that is wrong….

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Switching to Apple Silicon Part I: The Setup

Posted on April 2, 2023June 28, 2023 by Michael Molenda

Hi my dear readers. I am going to do a two part series on my move to Apple Silicon. I have resisted to this point but the falling resale values of Intel Macs has made me re-think my strategy with Apple Macs going forward. I decided to go with a Mac mini setup because I…

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Learning Series: Anatomy of a Closed Loop Liquid Cooler

Posted on March 10, 2023July 1, 2023 by Michael Molenda

Since I had to replace my liquid cooler, I thought I’d make a blog post on how it works. There is a huge correlation between water cooling a PC and an engine. Vehicle Cooling Here is a car cooling system diagram. I stole it from the internet. I bet they never know… You have the…

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My New Windows Laptop

Posted on April 20, 2021April 20, 2021 by Michael Molenda

I was able to obtain this laptop. It is a fantastic laptop. It’s not from a recent series of laptops and the CPU is only a 4-Core i5 CPU (very similar to the one found in my MacBook Pro) So,here it is… MSi … I guess for PC parts, I am an MSi fanboy for…

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