"Nibby" (nibby68)
04/09/2020 at 18:10 • Filed to: None
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"Nibby" (nibby68)
04/09/2020 at 18:10 • Filed to: None | 6
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Dell Dimension XPS D300 case
Seasonic G Series SSR-550RM 550W 80+ Gold power supply
Gigabyte GA-Z270P-D3 motherboard
Intel Core i7 6700K 4.0GHz quad core processor
be quiet! Pure Rock Slim cooler
be quiet! Pure Wings 2 92mm rear fan
32GB 2x16GB DDR4 3000 RAM
Gigabyte WINDFORCE GeForce GTX 1070 8GB PCIe video card
WD Black SN750 500GB NVMe SSD
Seagate ST2000DM001 2TB 7200RPM 3.5" hard drive
Teac DV-W524GSB 24X DVD writer
3.5" floppy drive (doesn’t work)
PS/2 ports
2xUSB 3.0 front
4xUSB 3.0 rear
2xUSB 2.0 rear
Audio in/out jacks
Ethernet
3xDisplayPort
HDMI
DVI
Rear... I/O shield wouldn’t fit since the opening is too narrow
Side panel
The insides! Front panel wiring was... super easy. Just remove a blocked pin and it’s otherwise standard layout.
Another view. Didn’t put the HD in the original cage since the SATA cables would be stressed and bent.
Power + HD activity LEDs work
Windows 10 desktop
Speccs... under full load in Prime95, 59-62C
SSD benchmark
all set for shitposting
WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI
> Nibby
04/09/2020 at 18:13 |
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I love it! Needs CRT case with a modern monitor in it. Might be hard to get t eh aspect ratios right though.......
jimz
> Nibby
04/09/2020 at 18:17 |
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it’s too bad Dell took that Palo Alto case and made a few key things proprietary.
415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
> Nibby
04/09/2020 at 18:17 |
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I still have my Asus ROG tower I bought for VR, but then it gave me headaches and I boxed it. I would switch over to it but it seems like such a pain to change my life over to it. Maybe now is the time!
Chariotoflove
> Nibby
04/09/2020 at 18:21 |
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Serious question: have you ever thought about doing a rebuild in an SGI case, and is that even possible or feasible? They made cool boxes
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jimz
> Chariotoflove
04/09/2020 at 18:32 |
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it’d be piss easy with an x86 Visual Workstation 320 case, since it was just a standard Palo Alto PA-820 EATX case with an SGI fascia:
the Fuel R14k/R16k workstation was based on the same case but had a lot of proprietary changes.
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Nibby
> Chariotoflove
04/09/2020 at 18:42 |
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depends on which one... for something that rare i wouldn’t unless the innards were completely
destroyed or beyond salvation
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Nibby
> 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
04/09/2020 at 18:42 |
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DO IT NOW
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Nibby
> jimz
04/09/2020 at 18:43 |
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such as? the only proprietary things are the rear I/O shield cutout and the front panel wiring which is fixed with
removing a pin with a needle
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Nibby
> WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI
04/09/2020 at 18:43 |
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yea i can’t use CRTs daily
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Chariotoflove
> jimz
04/09/2020 at 18:48 |
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Interesting. Didn’t know that.
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Chariotoflove
> Nibby
04/09/2020 at 18:49 |
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Makes sense. So then, would you do a re build/refurbish on an SGI station if the opportunity arose , or are you interested only in Windows?
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Nibby
> Chariotoflove
04/09/2020 at 19:16 |
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first priority would be to rebuild or restore it but if it’s not feasible then I’d see if you could replace the innards
PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120
> WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI
04/09/2020 at 19:58 |
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I like this idea, slight problem.... CRTs were mostly (always?) 4:3 and modern flat panels are mostly 16:9 or some other widescreen ratio.
Grindintosecond
> Nibby
04/09/2020 at 23:36 |
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Cam you still plug in the 3.5 fdd? Play some descent?
Forrest
> Nibby
04/10/2020 at 03:28 |
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It’s a sleeper car ... computer! It is like a 90's Corolla with a Tesla powertrain swapped in.
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Nibby
> Grindintosecond
04/10/2020 at 08:58 |
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the floppy drive is borked and doesn’t read floppies... tried cleaning the head as well.
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Nibby
> Forrest
04/10/2020 at 08:58 |
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i want a 90s corolla now
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
04/11/2020 at 16:39 |
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Nibby, I ordered two of those 1060/6GB graphics cards from Ebay for Ttyymmnn . (Ttyymmnn’s my brother, BTW...) They won’t fit in the cases he bought. One of the eBayers is happy to accept the card back, but the other is being a d**k about it. (I haven’t posted negative on him yet, but asked eBay to intercede.)
Anyhow, suppose we are stuck with that card. I have zero interest in gaming, but what if I wanted to make the GPU available for folding? Could I cobble together some sort of minimal box with a lame CPU — read: on the cheap — that would allow Folding@home to take advantage of the GPU?
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
04/11/2020 at 16:42 |
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I own a 90s Corolla. ‘91 base model with 240k miles on it and well maintained. One of the best automobiles anybody ever built and sold.
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
04/11/2020 at 16:43 |
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Those speakers look like refugees from a technology museum.
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/11/2020 at 18:28 |
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they sound amazing so i’m keeping them til they die
which means forever
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/11/2020 at 18:28 |
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yes i am a big fan of your beautiful car
i want to drive it one day
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/11/2020 at 18:29 |
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oh yeah you can look at lenovo thinkcentres... or snag an optiplex like he has and use a drill to remove the drive cage but thinkcentre would be easier... what’s your budget?
also my bad i should’ve thought of the drive cages
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
04/11/2020 at 18:47 |
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I had some speakers that would fit in the exact same category of appearance and sound and I kept them until they died. The volume pots gave out and they got all crackly and I finally tossed them.
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
04/11/2020 at 18:47 |
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When Are you coming to the Bay Area again?
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
04/11/2020 at 18:48 |
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My budget is zero. So how close to zero can I get for some piece of crap that would let that GPU run and do folding?
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/11/2020 at 18:51 |
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:(
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/11/2020 at 18:52 |
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not for at least a few months
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/11/2020 at 18:52 |
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probably $100 total realistically
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
04/11/2020 at 18:54 |
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Holler when you do.
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
04/11/2020 at 18:56 |
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I gave away some i3 PCs in giant towers last year. Is there any reason an i3 couldn’t do this task? The computer will literally be used for nothing else. When school opens back up, if school ever opens back up, I’ll take it there and let the school district donate the electricity.
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/11/2020 at 19:25 |
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it should be fine just would likely need a power supply upgrade and make sure the GPU fits... what machine is it
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
04/11/2020 at 19:35 |
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I’ve got an Optiplex out in the garage that has a full tower case. If a physical mod of the case frame is required, I can certainly do that. It’s an older quad-core proc. I’ll get back to you with the spec. It’s my garage/shop PC that I use for listening to Spotify when I’m working out there, and web surfing and All-Data . It would be apro-pro to install this stupid GPU for this purpose, then use it for shop stuff.
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
04/11/2020 at 21:15 |
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Alternative question: I have a Quadro 2000 card now, for editing photos and doing desktop publishing and the like. Some video editing. Would this GPU we’ve been discussing do a poor job of that? I have this full size Precision tower you helped me speck.
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/11/2020 at 21:53 |
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it will do folding at home but the 1060 would be massively faster
and no i wouldn’t want a core 2 era machine bottlenecking a 1060
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
04/11/2020 at 21:58 |
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But the question is, would that 1060 card do my Photoshop and illustrator and InDesign and lightweight video editing? Would it be better than the Quadro 2000? Doing those things? The folding is just a diversion.
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/11/2020 at 22:10 |
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much better, yeah... quadro 2000 is old and meh
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
04/12/2020 at 09:47 |
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I bought the Quadro initially, on the advice that this card was better for, ideal for the work that I do with it: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, a bit of video editing, et cetera. Not a good card for gaming, but ideal for these other tasks, I was advised.
Here’s the thing I want to be clear about: If the Quadro card is poor for gaming, that’s fine. Will the 1060 card be poor for the design and video editing?
Also, can you offer any advic e about power supplies?
It looks like there’s plenty of space in this case for the giant video card.
Power supply says 6.0 amps, what, 720 watts? There’s a pair of mirrored hard drives, SSD for the OS and various case fans.
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/12/2020 at 10:04 |
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1060 will smoke the quadro 2000 in anything. and it’ll be excellent for whatever you’re using it for... your quadro is from late 2010 so it’s ancient now.
i can’t even tell what power supply that one is, can you give me your precision’s service tag please? should be a sticker on the top of the case
also you can mount that SSD in the optical drive bay or just use double sided tape on the PSU
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
04/12/2020 at 10:39 |
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B5VB9Y1
Can I send you some cookies and a cloth mask?
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
04/12/2020 at 10:45 |
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(Serious about the cookies, BTW...)
This will be a fun exercise to benchmark in Folding@home. Speaking of which, are you going to join the Team? See what that Pentium II will do?
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/12/2020 at 11:03 |
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hey thanks i’m always down for chocolate chip cookies thanks!
so i am 99% sure it is 635W but easy way to tell for sure... that black plastic shroud on the bottom next to the PSU? on the left side there is a tab sticking out and push it in and gently pull it out. you can clearly see the wattage... on my precision 5810 it says 425W and it uses the same chassis
check to see if you have the dual 6 pin PCIe
cable
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/12/2020 at 11:03 |
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and yea i might join later
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
04/12/2020 at 11:08 |
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Cookies: shoot me an email, oliphant.chuckerbutty@gmail.com
Oatmeal Chippers
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/12/2020 at 11:12 |
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thanks
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
04/12/2020 at 11:13 |
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Yes, there’s a sticker on the back that says 635W. Do you thing that’s adequate?
6-pin PCIe cable, no. But do this, perhaps?
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/12/2020 at 11:46 |
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no no no do not use those, ever
get this and you’re set
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
04/12/2020 at 11:50 |
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It looks like I do have a 6-pin plug, marked P11 FWIW. Does the card require two connections? So I’d need to split the one I have?
Also, do you think 635 watts ought to be sufficient in the power supply?
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/12/2020 at 11:53 |
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take a pic for me... and what exact 1060 you have? 635W is WAY more than enough... i’ve run a 1070 (which uses more power) on 500W
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
04/12/2020 at 11:57 |
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This one. Dude is a d**k and is going to receive a negative feedback from me, which will spoil his perfect record to date. This is one of the cards we ordered for Ttyymmnn’s boys, and would not fit in the case. So I’ll use it for folding. I’ll be curious to see what it does for my stats.
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/12/2020 at 12:15 |
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ok so you need that D92C9 cable i linked earlier
and i actually have the right splitter you need for it so email me your address
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
04/12/2020 at 12:18 |
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So it looks like that takes an 8-pin cable currently connected to the mainboard and splits it.
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
04/12/2020 at 12:36 |
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Out of curiosity, do you think my board would support an updated CPU?
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/12/2020 at 12:37 |
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not exactly sure but i would just buy that to be safe... dell is known for doing proprietary crap so stick with this
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/12/2020 at 12:40 |
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only up to v2s and even then it’s a sidegrade since your E5-1650 is already one of the best CPUs you can have in it. not worth it
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
04/13/2020 at 17:54 |
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So I have exactly one team member named Anonymous .
And the others fear Nibby...
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/13/2020 at 19:58 |
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:D
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/16/2020 at 15:50 |
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Got the cookies, thanks! Only one broke in half.
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
04/16/2020 at 18:35 |
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I really hope you enjoy them. I think they are just about best chocolate cookies.