u/metsyseht-90 — reddlx

Just bought a pop 4

I've been following 3D scanning for a long time, and I just bought the pop 4 roughly a week ago. I still haven't opened it yet, and I'll be doing so on my weekend now, but I'm already having fomo buyers remorse.

I'm thinking the more I read, the pop 4 will barely scratch the surface of what I'm trying to do. This scanner seems more like an intro hobbyist versus prosumer offering. I probably mistakenly got caught up in the price and its features list, but I think for my projects I require something more like the Metro y ultra. I want to scan my vehicle for my sound system projects. I also want to use whatever scanner for relatively high accuracy 3D printing projects.

I know the pop 4 has the blue laser line mode, but it sounds like the nature of my projects are going to push it to its absolute limits of capability for the type of end result I'm looking for.

Feel free to leave insight on my thoughts about potentially considering returning the pop for for a bigger upgrade. I'm also very curious about the software comparison between Revo scan 6 and the current software on the Metro y ultra.

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u/metsyseht-90 — 9 days ago

▲ 31 r/uperfect+1 crossposts

My 5060ti AI box and Uperfect monitor setup

Pretty happy with this. It's excessive, and I could have just gotten a stronger gaming laptop, but I feel like this opened the most flexibility for me. I'll add all the product links at the end for everything I purchased.

I have my z13 connected to the AI box with a USB 4 cable. Then for video I have an adapter dongle which converts DisplayPort from the GPU to USB c for the monitor. The monitor itself is the Uperfect GR16CQ, or on Amazon, the blaze gaming 16-in 240 hz variant. I also got the 240w and 330w slimq chargers. There's a USB c power delivery cable connected from the 240w slimq brick to the adapter dongle as well. The dongle itself has DisplayPort out, to USBC in, while also having a power delivery female port in. This way I only connect one usb-c cable to the portable monitor but it's also required for activating this active signal conversion and establishing gsync.

I really went down the rabbit hole for the dongle in order to achieve g-sync compatibility. The monitor only comes supporting adaptive sync which they advertise can achieve freesync. So with this dongle, you are using DisplayPort alt mode in order to have the Nvidia control app recognize a compatibility mode connection. Originally I was getting it to work with those DisplayPort to USBC VR headset cables on Amazon. The dongle cleans it up cable wise and provides more power delivery from the slimq 240w brick. The increased power delivery isn't important now, but hopefully in the next two years when Uperfect creates an OLED variant panel that supports freesync, I will need the extra power. This IPS panel takes Max 15 watts, an OLED equivalents will be around 30 if not more.

The main thing with getting the monitor to work with g-sync even though it's only equipped with adaptive sync, is that it's using an older logic scaler for adaptivesync and the high refresh rate. The chipset family for the logic scaler in the monitor and what you need in the cable connection is the Lontium ic variant. At least it is for this monitor that I have from Uperfect. My favorite part about this is I originally reached out to Uperfect for help getting this to work and they said that g-sync would not work, only freesync for AMD. 😁

Hate to admit, but the 330w charger is only for the 90° adapter that's compatible with the power port for the egpu. But it also makes placement of the power brick in proximity from a power outlet to my setup a lot easier to manage as well. It's space saving too.

Last part of the setup is all the cases. Mainly just the custom case I built for the egpu. It's actually a stethoscope case that I modified and did a little custom foam cut out for. Using this case for the egpu, along with the other device cases, I'm able to transport the monitor, egpu, z13, mouse, gamepad, and all the cords in my backpack without it being bulky.

It performs outstanding. Doom the dark ages: I went from medium-high settings at 60-70 fps to pretty much all ultra at 144-165. Spiderman I run maxed out with Ray tracing at 110-120. Black myth wukong high with medium ray tracing at 120-144.

This of course is all with full dlss 4.5 features including dynamic multi frame gen. That new ray reconstruction model, along with everything else on 4.5 really pulls what this setup is capable of all together.

Bottom line: it's super excessive but I'm loving it.

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Monitor:

https://a.co/d/0dhEe0wC

Usb4 cables (x2):

https://a.co/d/0f4jcat4

Display port adapter:

https://a.co/d/0dCl3IC3

USBC power delivery cable:

https://a.co/d/091MBoPF

Usb-c 90° adapters:

https://a.co/d/0bbNtoKW

https://a.co/d/073kZfXW

Monitor case:

https://a.co/d/02aJR6zA

Cable case:

https://a.co/d/0ao5ooyV

Egpu case:

https://a.co/d/0hiToURq

Z13 case:

https://a.co/d/09OgqmxL

Mouse case:

https://a.co/d/0hy2VDwY

Ds5 controller case:

https://a.co/d/04edI8AV

Z13 slimq adaptor:

https://a.co/d/04Qp0ezV

Gigabyte aorus AI box slimq adaptor:

https://a.co/d/0fKezYoU

(The smaller one)

u/metsyseht-90 — 1 month ago

▲ 2 r/SlimQ

Gigabyte aorus AI Box

Will the 330w charger with the gigabyte Auros adapter work for powering the 5060ti ai box?

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u/metsyseht-90 — 2 months ago

▲ 3 r/FlowZ13+1 crossposts

Get gsync compat. on uperfect monitor.

Current setup is an Asus z13 connected to GigaB. 5060ti ai box, and a newer model Uperfect receiving input directly from the ai box.

The Uperfect monitor has a mini HDMI that claims 2.1 support and two USBC ports which claim full featured USBC if you view the product page on direct website.

I've got everything hooked up and working just fine, but my problem is establishing vrr. The monitor has adaptive sync (free sync) support, but no matter what I do I can't get it established. I've tried the included HDMI to mini HDMI cable that comes with the monitor (which should be HDMI 2.1). That gives me signal to the monitor but no ability to set up g-sync in the Nvidia app. Then after researching, I try a bi-directional display port 2.1 to USBC. That gives me no signal output on the monitor whatsoever.

I'm aware that there are a lot of variables out there relating to my current setup. I've seen people who claim to have done this with both cable types but on a different monitor model from the same manufacturer. Finding the right cable that actually does what it claims to support is another huge factor. If anyone has done this with the right cable please let me know.

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u/metsyseht-90 — 2 months ago

▲ 1 r/WLED

Heatshrink

Trying to add 5v 5mm cob 2812b strips to a wire tree art project. Since the tree is metal wire, I want to protect the cob pads on back of the strip by installing the strips in clear transparent heatshrink. Do you think this will encapsulate too much heat from the strip long term and cause any potential failure?

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u/metsyseht-90 — 4 months ago