Wasnt pink dress figurine no more
#technology-discussion
void dove
also, who knows whats gonna happen with AMD
vast apex
....What mahou shoujo.
sly walrus
at that point, it’s just majo
void dove
they finally bringing out chiplet cards
vast apex
It doesn't have to be mahou shoujo.
royal forge
I cant rmb
No no
My friend's figurine was a magical girl
Pink dress
Covered in dust
10/10 rebranding
sly walrus
madoka?
royal forge
I dont think so
void dove
if nvidia are pushing the 4090's that far performance wise for the price, ive gotta think that tehy know AMD is doing some really cool shit
sly walrus
flip flappers, then
royal forge
Me memory hasnt been as good as it was
sly walrus
one of the pretty cures, probably
vast apex
Forget browsing the prices. 4090 is just not worth it unless you truly want it for the games you play.
sharp star
yeah
sly walrus
only if being on the bleeding edge is more valuable to you than practicality
vast apex
As posted yesterday here, the biggest relevance is that if you're going to buy 4090 for FFXIV you're wasting that money. The score is insanely high and it reaches 30k even at 4k resolution sure, but for what, is something I find it hard to justify
sharp star
The performance uplift is is neat at a glance but I keep asking myself if one generation of GPUs to another is worth burning an RTX 4090-sized hole in my wallet
(no)
vast apex
But if you're buying 4090, you're certainly NOT buying it only for FFXIV.
Still, the worth is questionable.
sharp star
yeah it'll be for GPU-intensive games like MSFS or Cyberpunk
sly elk
I wouldn't be surprised if many people bought a 4090 and then ended up spending most of their time playing stuff like FFXIV
or worse
sly walrus
excel
vast apex
Japanese games don't usually utilize 4090 because the industry never push games based on graphic and technology
sly elk
vast apex
They push games based on their own creativity that doesn't truly push the hardware.
sly walrus
das da usb-c port
void dove
the top models Are Always NOT, the best buy for gaming, they have the worst price to performance ratio, not counting stuff like power draw and heat load.
Might even mean you need to replace your power supply or upgrade cooling in your case if its not made for it,
then xx80 and xx70 will most definitely be better bang for buck and fit much easier into current rigs made for similar cards
here's hoping they aren't as huge monsters as the 4090
sly elk
sharp star
That's a USB-C passthrough yes
vast apex
Even for most Japanese, 3090 (and Ti) will NOT be in their eyes. This is not to say they won't buy 3090 ot 3090 Ti, but you get the point.
The reason is because electric consumption.
sly elk
so with the 30 series
for the longest time the 3060ti was the card to buy ... if you could get one for msrp
well, a 3080 FE if you need mas frijoles
void dove
though good news, is power spikes on the 4090, have been reported as much lower compared to the 30 series, so if thats the same for the lower cards,
there is less likely to be issues for lower end power supplies for ppl buying those cards
vast apex
So if any, 3060 and at most 3070 is the most preferred card in Japan because they get sufficient performance with cheaper price, and low energy consumption
sly elk
yea I can agree to that!
sharp star
yeah
sly elk
the 3070 was a way better card for me than the 3080ti is hahaha
I mean there's a performance difference, sure
but the 3070 did the job just fine
vast apex
Most of the time, you'll see them use an external watt measurement to measure how much they play games in long hours versus the electricity consumption x per month basis.
sly elk
without making my computer sound like it was gonna explode
vast apex
If any, the extent they'll go is 3080.
void dove
yeah, i got myself a 3070, as an upgrade to a 1060 6GB
and its been sweet ever since, very happy with it
im likely not gonna upgrade for a couple generations since i dont really play triple A graphically intensive titles
sly elk
also, shit man, at what point is it not worth it?
sharp star
Yeah I might end up skipping both next-gen GPUs and CPUs
sly elk
but anyway, if you want the best and have money to burn, different story
sharp star
I'm happy with a 3080/5800X3D atm
sly elk
if you;'re that worried about power consumption
sly elk
a m1 mac mini and geforce now might be your best bet
void dove
got my 3070, and 5900X, thats gonna last me a looong time
sly walrus
apparently macs are gonna be able to run re8 soon
vast apex
Some Japanese can be ultra meticulous in energy consumption.
void dove
i didn't even want a 5900X, but couldn't find a 5600X anywhere sooo
vast apex
Probably because some houses they live in are quite old.
sly elk
how old are we talking?
sharp star
das old
sly elk
europeans are gonna laugh at you
vast apex
You can bet that a number of Japanese will be very concerned on power consumption when picking PC parts
but to some, it may not be a concern.
sly elk
CA has an interesting law when it comes to PC power usage
I forgot the name of it right now
sharp star
CA has an interesting law when it comes to PC power usage
didn't it cover prebuilts and not DIY PCs
sly elk
^ it's pretty specific on what it covers lol
sharp star
right I'm trying to remember because it's been a while
sly elk
basically you have to have a gold/platinum PSU or better depending on how much power it uses
and there's certain combos they don't like
sharp star
because I remember people freaking out about it and it was a huge nothingburger at the time
sly elk
it was!
tbh I think it was more specifically targeted at the kinda computers you see idling at empty bank desks 24/7
but it actually goes super far into detail about sleep states and idle states
vast apex
All in all, it also depends on where you live, how efficiently you use electricity per month
and so on.
sharp star
Dell wasn't allowed to ship their prebuilts to California and Vermont or something
sly elk
they weren't allowed to ship a few models that weren't even their most powerful
sly elk
it was pretty funny how some people lost their shit over it
vast apex
most PCs need to be quiet.
sly elk
iluna I think all of those things are pretty reasonable asks
vast apex
If there's anything where Japanese is majorly concern about it's sound generation.
sharp star
yeah it is
vast apex
Anything above certain decibel will attract neighbours kicking walls at you. I know that, I experienced it myself when I lived in Japan.
sly elk
and I think the current crop of hardware is getting ridiculous
you pretty much have to have an open air mesh case
and huge coolers to not produce a huge racket, and even then
sharp star
Yeah the jump from Ampere to Ada Lovelace, AM4 to AM5, Alder Lake to Raptor Lake is taxing as hell on power consumption as is lol
vast apex
Therefore, being at the top of the line doesn't necessary mean the forefront of anything.
sharp star
It's probably not gonna get better soon
vast apex
To some, there's major concerns.
deep sapphire
vast apex
Technologically impressive, sure, but if it's not energy efficient, many will be hesitant.
deep sapphire
Iluna you ever had a delicious cheeseburger that just changed your world for the better?
vast apex
"I'd rather play consoles", "I don't really feel the need to be at the frontline, impressive as is"
vast apex
Iluna you ever had a delicious cheeseburger that just changed your world for the...
Duck burgers? Sure, all the more to make sure you'll never hear the end of it
royal forge
Forget browsing the prices. 4090 is just not worth it unless you truly want it f...
Its more morbid curiosity tbh
sharp star
oh yeah I kinda forgor that Intel Arc GPUs are officially out
sharp star
wonder how they’ll hold up in the long run
sly elk
how much noise can you make before your neighbor kicks your wall, iluna?
vast apex
Above 50db
Different story if you get a sound proof walls
but by default, 50db. Therefore streaming is not easy for most Japanese houses.
sly elk
so like
do they kick the wall if you talk to the people you live with?
or like
idk what examples to use haha
vast apex
If you hear people knocking the wall, it's a sign
Ignore it, and you'll get a complain note from the neighbour.
vast apex
Ignore it further and the landlord will find you.
sly elk
also an air conditioner
a toilet flushing is 75db
(and admittedly, the more common flush mechanisms found outside the US are louder afaik)
vast apex
It depends on the house you live in too as well
vast apex
Japan apartments and houses usually will have build year stated in the list
That goes without saying
sly elk
do your neighbors kick the wall if you microwave something? 
i can say the microwave is louder than my computer is at full tilt
vast apex
2000, 2010, 2020 ones are modern houses, therefore your activity isn't easily heard by the neighbours compared to houses you live that is built during 60s to 90s./
If you're skimping money and choose apartments that are built during the period you better be careful.
But assuming you did, then you're most likely going to face situations where, depending on how tolerant your neighbours are
sly elk
I imagine the big earthquakes are scarier in really old apartments
vast apex
their degree of accepting voices emitted from your room can vary
Nobody is going to kick walls just because they hear microwave sound, what kind of asinine example this is?
sly elk
vast apex
At the very least use examples like playing music out loud during 11pm or something.
jaunty light
Always when im ready for bedge, brush teeth time then existential crisis
sly elk
sweet dreams!
vast apex
If you're watching TV with volume tuned near max 10pm onwards that's where most people will be knocking your wall if they find it nuisance.
sly elk
my point was that even a noisy computer shouldn't be as noisy as a microwave
vast apex
Use headphoines or something during that time
If you're not living in Japanese apartments you can ignore this.
sly elk
i've never lived in an apartment
afaik in american ones you can hear things like the toilet and tv
and people being noisy in bed
vast apex
dkdc about American standard personally. It's irrelevant to me right now.
I assume most have much higher tolerance.
vast apex
my point was that even a noisy computer shouldn't be as noisy as a microwave
On this point, It's less about how Japanese neighbours perceive it but how they themselves feel it. I'm sure this isn't applicable to Japanese only.
You wouldn't like your computer's fan noise to be loud either
Like right now my PC is fucking noisy when playing games with high setting because good lord the fan noise generated is loud. It's okay when I'm not running anything.
inland mauve
do you guys know a good tool that easily lets you record a section of your screen and turn it into a gif?
wide hill
https://getsharex.com/ or https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif
sharex is beast
paper tusk
"As long as your card can render the game at a sufficiently high fps (like 60+) without DLSS then the "input lag mismatch" with DLSS3 won't be a problem."
if can do 60 fps without dlss why the fuck use dlss?
royal forge
BECAUSE MORE FRAMES EQUALS BIGGER E-PEEPEE
Tho i must say
Dlss does seem impressive
P scummy and expected of nvidia to lock dlss3 to 4000
paper tusk
yeah I don't think there's anything special about it that can't be done on older rtx cards
maybe slower but whatever
dull garnet
"As long as your card can render the game at a sufficiently high fps (like 60+) ...
power saving
lost python
"As long as your card can render the game at a sufficiently high fps (like 60+) ...
Interesting because hardware unboxed said ideally you want 100+ fps before using dlss3.0 because the generated frames fuck up your image very noticeably otherwise, especially on UI elements
wide hill
240hz monitor here i come
royal forge
IT IS WITH GREAT PLEASURE
THAT I ANNOUNCE
THAT MY CURSE WITH LAPTOPS IS PROBABLY GENETIC
BECAUSE MY DAD'S LAPTOP JUST BSOD-ED AND REFUSED TO START
AND MY MUM'S LAPTOP DOESN'T POWER ON
hard drift
AND MY MUM'S LAPTOP DOESN'T POWER ON
Time for an exorcist to rid you guys of the curse
umbral moss
BECAUSE MORE FRAMES EQUALS BIGGER E-PEEPEE
more frames means less input latency since you're always seeing the newest frame to react to
there isn't a forced 16ms delay baked into your reaction time
hard drift
https://videocardz.com/newz/ax-gaming-launches-white-geforce-rtx-4090-graphics-card time for you to upgrade ice /j
umbral moss
no /s 
my girlfriend is like "you should build a gaming PC" and I'm like "but I'm broke 
"
royal forge
maybe ur broke cuz u bought a house
the only house i can afford is the sylvanian family house
umbral moss
that's exactly why lmao
if I didn't have the house I'd be like "I'll buy you one too "
my philosphy is to buy one PC every 6-8 years so it may as well just be DABES instead of a shitty mid-range PC that needs an upgrade every 18 months
modest moss
Tell her to move in rent free and then she can buy you a pc with what she saves ez
hard drift
smh
umbral moss
just water cool it you fucks
the PCB is what, half the size of the actual cooler?
just the unmounted PCB?
even that's still smaller than the 4090's cooler chassis though
the 4090 is what, 20 inches long?
paper tusk
asus tuf is about 350mm (my case can stuff in 410 mm max)
royal forge
Are there ready-installed after market liquid loops for GPUs?
Just attach the radiator kinda shit?
paper tusk
for a factory water cooled money pit https://www.msi.com/Graphics-Card/GeForce-RTX-4090-SUPRIM-LIQUID-24G
royal forge
But currently price diff to a 4090 is.. 300USD diff
umbral moss
CLC will always be close to air because you don't have large ID tubes or a large enough rad to get those temps down
the pump is "sufficient" rather than "powerful"
running a VPP655 into 1/2" ID tubing and a 3x140 dual row will probably get you pretty close to a 10 degree delta from ambient
my gaming delta with the titan is about 10C
but my titan doesn't have a hot spot sensor and I'm only running a single 2x200 on this build
the next build is configured for independent loops
I have a direct radiator tap with a sensor in it
paper tusk
meanwhile in my air fryer of a case
umbral moss
so I display that separately and use afterburner to report the GPU core temp
hard drift
Is there something like those closed loops for CPUs?
Alphacool has some
umbral moss
my radiator goes to about 45 in the summer and I see the GPU as high as 55 if I don't have the AC on
hard drift
They’re who i used for my 5700xt aio
Wanted one for my 6900xt but doesn’t support my model
hard drift
https://videocardz.com/press-release/vesa-releases-displayport-2-1-specification 
now when can we start seeing it in monitors that can actually use it
hard drift
😭
umbral moss
just went "nah, actually, fuck that"
hard drift
Dp so much better than hdmi 😔 one day 😭
hard drift
I’ve always had more issues with hdmi
hard drift
umbral moss
DP connector at least has a reasonable expectation that it comes with a lock on it
unlike HDMI where you're relying on the cable vendor making the connector slightly oversized so it wedges in there
umbral moss
HDMI fuckin sucks
get rid of it
kill everyone involved in making the spec and burn the spec sheets
dull garnet
To me hdmi is a TV standard, keep that away from muh pc
umbral moss
that's funny, because HDMI is just a horrible bastardization of the old DVI spec
DVI-D and HDMI are pin-out compatible
I fucking hate HDMI
sly elk
that looks a lot better than the bullshit they pulled on the 30 series hahaha
(coming out diagonally)
I feel kinda neutral about HDMI
HDMI doesn't cause my screens to randomly flash/flicker for no fucking reason because the cable isn't a perfect VESA-IF certified specimen
umbral moss
thunderbolt can fuck right off too
high bandwidth but only if you're 0.5m from the source
umbral moss
so basically displayport
HDMI isn't any better actually lmao
umbral moss
if you want long runs of any cable you need yuge conductors
umbral moss
SDI-16G can transmit 8k over 30m with no signal degradation
sly elk
and somehow the fucker would start having issues after the warranty ended
wide hill
make sure to have a fire extinguisher nearby whenever your psu blows up
sharp star
Welcome to he- the metaverse
wide hill
Welcome to he- the metaverse
better hope you get paid a ton for doing this
literally beta testers in disguise
but free
what is it the programming term when you make shit and you eat your own shit
dogfooding it's called
sly elk
i gotta say
aside from the floor-to-ceiling windows
that place looks shitty to work
1 monitor and the desk looks narrower than the one I have at home haha
you could totally smell what your coworkers ate for lunch
that said, you can't wear VR headsets for a full work day
wide hill
inb4 facebook implement permanent head locks so only managment can take off your vr headset.
only allowed to be taken off if you are fired, or have an emergency.
"why would you need to take of the headset, you can see perfectly fine with it"
dull garnet
well, that's what you get for being into VR 
sly elk
no no no imagine
you walk into meta on your first day
they issue you a laptop and a headset
... the headset is not new
(nor is the laptop but that's not unusual)
dull garnet
that's why i've never used vr lol
sly elk
SAME
dull garnet
i don't want no pink eye
sly elk
the only way i'm using one is if i buy my own headset for myself
wide hill
and the headwrist has been badly maintained, and it reeks of sweat and oil
dull garnet
so pretty much any headset at an event
dull garnet
drenched in authentic gamer sweat
wide hill
i mean i'm sure they get new ones
you'd hope they do
sly elk
i feel like most of the times i see a new facebook/google employee kit on linkedin it has a new mbp
wide hill
i like mac like how you could basically easily transfer linux knowledge into it
sly elk
whoever controls those seems to actually know what they're doing
the windows laptops at my job are always randomly fucking up
because the IT department churns employees like amazon does
and even if you have a competent windows sysadmin crowd
windows was made to give sysadmins tons of dials and buttons
they can fuck with you to a level no other OS even allows
wide hill
do these companies allow you to install 
?
latent grotto
Don't they usually limit most of your access so that you can barely do what a standard user can
So you couldn't install arch even if you wanted
wide hill
god i so wish to install linux on my laptop again
i went back to windows to get visual studio now to stop using it again
only due to some funky C# plugin bug that didn't work with VSCode Omnisharp
only problem i have right now with linux, is that Teams doesn't allow screensharing.
idk if it works now, might need to check
and that the camera-hide-background-with-image thing
very useful for when i don't want to capture footage of other employees
sly elk
LOL
odd sand
Supposedly Facebook is now making X amount of time per week mandatory on Meta bc not even their employees want to use it without being forced to.
graceful pine
sly elk
tbh I'm not surprised
starting new social networks does work that way
you need to seed it before it'll grow organically
courting content creators, encouraging people to create content, maybe encouraging people to buy the stupid headsets
they can/should be pulling the same playbook they did back when they started fb
they should be giving those things away at college campuses lol
dull garnet
do you mean interactive vr porn or the kind that is solved with a $10 "headset" and a smartphone 🤢
sly elk
ya ain't gettin those VR sets back
that would never be my expectation either lol
dull garnet
Sandra Bullock 
I watched The Net the other week
what a shit film
pretty cool battlestation though
odd sand
It was one of the first major films to try showing the internet to the mainstream, so of course it was stupid
umbral moss
ye
gonna try to get a PS5 that day
maybe I'll go to the flatiron district and really throw some hands
dull garnet
odd sand
They weren't wrong at the time ... PowerMacs using RISC kicked the shit out of Intel offerings for IPC at the time.
umbral moss
I mean, ARM is stomping on intel in 2022
moral of the story, x86 is dogshit and should have been retired 40 years ago
odd sand
Unfortunately nobody knew what IPC was at the time so Windoze users would just harp on megahurtz
umbral moss
Unfortunately nobody knew what IPC was at the time so Windoze users would just h...
not a fair comparison, powerPC was faster if you were specifically taking advantage of altivec
it's like saying intel was faster because of SSE3
odd sand
Ah, ARM is RISC-based? I just knew they had their own architecture
I think it was just that until Apple spent the money to do a "big silicon" design with ARM, they weren't sure how well it might scale
umbral moss
I mean, ARM's problem has always been getting someone to actually adopt it
because everyone is like "but what about my legacy support for a program from 1992"
fuck you megacorps
upgrade your shit
odd sand
Do you think Intel is going to be forced off x86 in the next 10 years? Seems like going down to angstrom-tier is going to be the end of the road for a lot of current tech
Whereas Apple is fine with invalidating your entire software catalog every 8 years
umbral moss
Do you think Intel is going to be forced off x86 in the next 10 years? Seems lik...
you'd hope
but intel got burned with itanium
since they knew this was a problem and released a whole new uarch and instruction set
the first thing every customer asked was "why don't my regular windows programs work on this?"
the x86 emu on itanium was like, 1/3 perf at best
odd sand
I think any switch they make is going to be a bullet they need to bite for 5-8 years.
umbral moss
hasn't worked for microsoft or intel yet
odd sand
Persist with it until workstation lifecycles turn over
umbral moss
every time they try something new everyone cries about legacy support
but they'll happily let apple deep fuck them with new uarch or software every few years
oh, your phone doesn't support ios 16, guess you gotta buy a new one
ok
oh, your PC is too old to run windows 11
fuck you, why can't my 2006 piece of shit runs windows 11
odd sand
They can keep selling the old x86 chips then until the cost for IPC is too high and a business decision forces them forward
umbral moss
yeah, forward to apple ARM chips lmao
it's one of those things that someone needs to actually grow some balls and be like "suck my nuts, this is how things will be next year"
sharp star
sly elk
It was one of the first major films to try showing the internet to the mainstrea...
surf the net
i think it's funny how that term died
HOTBOT
odd sand
I never had BBS-style internet. We just had a local ISP that you dialed into via PPP
modest moss
nutscrape was unironically the best browser
agile roost
Yeah and even then DLSS helps with frames and also apparently the next iteration of DLSS is also available on the old gen
modest moss
Bidori has been saying we won't get the new DLSS on 3000 series cards
modest moss
@hard drift is my 3070ti getting DLSS 3.0 or nah?
agile roost
hard drift
<@168185424286711808> is my 3070ti getting DLSS 3.0 or nah?
No
30 series does not get it, only 40+
That’s why nvidia got some hate with it lol
umbral moss
probably uses some stupid bios lock that can be defeated fairly easily lmao
hard drift
Supposedly it’s already been used on 30 series
But idk, we’ll see
Atleast from nvidia it can “only” be used on 40 and newer
modest moss
maybe they'll roll it out in an update after they rinse the launch of 4080/70 etc
hard drift
Well supposedly it’s not supposed to work on older cards because of how the tensor cores are or some shit idk
modest moss
PR move later 'we figured it out for you guys, love us'
hard drift
They’re already under a microscope from consumers right now lol
So they have to tread carefully
modest moss
oh boy this video gonna be a peach "Testing 5 Self Defense Weapons From Wish!"
sharp star
deep sapphire
https://twitter.com/RSDCDN/status/1582112739925069824
Is that even GLQuake?
sharp star
not sure
paper tusk
probably a source port for res options
has a "why bother" vibe (aside from shitposting/flexing that setup and mario 64 on twitter)
amd: beyondAdvertising -our-own-product
hopefully rdna3 won't be another meh-tastic refresh
sly elk
https://twitter.com/RSDCDN/status/1582112739925069824
they're using a NES classic with a 49" ultrawide
sharp star
wider
sly elk
does it have a 'distort' stretch mode? 😄
sharp star
wider
sly walrus
make a 360 degree monitor
sly elk
38" is the only one that gives you that
kindred brook
https://wccftech.com/intel-core-i9-13900k-raptor-lake-cpu-same-performance-as-core-i9-12900k-at-80w/
dull garnet
Almost a deal
sly elk
-ka chunk-
I just had mine sitting flat on the desk and when i hit the eject button it'd kick the disk out onto the desk
i also liked the weird noise the motor made
werrrerrr WHIIZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
was way cooler sounding than a floppy drive
ooo
LGR redid the woodgrain on his 486
hard drift
hopefully rdna3 won't be another meh-tastic refresh
it won't be a refresh considering high end of rdna is MCM
odd sand
Still making the click of death and losing all your data.
At a time when your alternatives were burn a CD for 1-2 dollars each (and hope the burn didnt fail) or have 1.4mb on a floppy, they were quite novel for their day (when they worked)
Even moreso when they started offering the 250-500-750mb variants
hard drift
https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-titan-ada-is-reportedly-not-planned rip if this is true
paper tusk
I heard that about 2 weeks ago
hard drift
i mean the tests or whatever supposedly were melting psus and such
paper tusk
it can probably be done but would be pretty expensive from raw costs
and the bullshit 16 pin connector might not be enough in terms of reliability
odd sand
My work laptop is possessed. It applied an update, then 1min after rebooting and being in windows it had a black screen and restarted again. Then complained about no wifi and no hdd, failed to acquire ip on netboot prompt and the intrusion detection alarm for the chassis went off at one point lol
Then proceeded to boot normally...
jaunty light
Just typical laptop things
umbral moss
and the bullshit 16 pin connector might not be enough in terms of reliability
with the amount of power these things need it might end up just being hard soldered to the PSU
hard drift
with the amount of power these things need it might end up just being hard solde...
psu attached to the gpu
umbral moss
sold as a set
hard drift
aio but instead of cooling you get power
umbral moss
makes sense though, you will probably need a dedicated power unit and mains plug to run the 50 series anyway
hard drift
lets hope not
umbral moss
how far can PCIe cables go before signal degradation gets you anyway?
paper tusk
from what i can tell not very far without specialized drivers
I can't tell a number because there's a lot of spec sheets but nothing that translates acceptable signal to noise loss into "don't have something longer than this"
paper tusk
potent arrow
paper tusk
of course the 450 buck ipad comes with an old processor so have to pony up 800 usd for something good
paper tusk
current ipad air also has M1 but 600 bucks isn't exactly much an improvement
umbral moss
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1397929023/xr-r1-open-source-hexapod-with-camera-and-ai-modules
super cool but very expensive
hard drift
https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-has-a-solution-for-high-idle-power-on-intel-arc-desktop-gpus lmao, rip consumers who don't want to mess with bios and windows power settings
most consumers don't have to worry about this
not everyone is installing a ton of NVME
i mean considering the way to not be a "ton" for consumers would be cheap drives with almost no storage
umbral moss
consumers don't often set up three-disc raid-0 nvme drives
so they can get 0.000000000000000005% faster windows boot times
hard drift
yet***
you say that but i'm pretty sure you don't need 3 nvmes either
could get by with regular ssds or hdd
smh
smh
umbral moss
🤔
sly elk
AHHAHAHAHAHA
New Apple TV is Thinner and Weighs 50% Less With Fanless Design
since when did it have a fan?
also, lighter apple tv sounds like a bad thing tbh
I want a lead weight in there so the fucker stays put and doesn't get dragged by the HDMI cable
also this
whoever decided apple should do this should be fired
the newest ipad only works with gen 1 apple pencils
.. the ones with lightning connectors
so their solution is to sell this dongle
to charge the pencil via usb-c
sly elk
-looks at his apple stock and sighs-
you know apple's jumped the shark when even I'm not buying their shit anymore
umbral moss
whoever decided apple should do this should be fired
you mean given a raise and promotion
sell old garbage for new product and sell a peripheral to make the old garbage work with the new product?
absolute genius
sly elk
wow lol
69.99 clearance if you happen to want one and they're in stock near you
anyway, apple did do one the right lol
the new apple tv has a remote with a usb-c charger connection
so does that new ipad but yea lol
languid sequoia
https://www.gamestop.com/pc-gaming/streaming/products/logitech-streamcam-plus-gr...
Ended up picking one of these up
sly elk
nice!
hard drift
Ended up picking one of these up
It’s pretty good
sly elk
jaunty light
Yikes
Rather buy a strix then
Hmmm, comment says the suprim has the best board design and components? Real shit?
languid sequoia
Asus really dropped the ball on the 40 series strix design
the baked in red/blue coloring is tacky, black and silver with addressable is the only correct way
here's hoping the LC model redeems them
devout nexus
funny thing is strix is like
200$ more than the suprim liquid
personally i thought the liquid suprim was best 4090 deal at launch
jaunty light
1750 was a very good deal to begin with for an LC tbh
sly elk
i would save all that $$ and just get a FE if I could
and then buy a cheap custom loop kit
jaunty light
Yea if i see an FE ill prolly just buy it
Thermally they all seem about the same now
With my ambient air it doesnt matter unless i go water
modest moss
Yea if i see an FE ill prolly just buy it
you don't need a 4090, save your money, buy anime merch instead
modest moss
join ice and zombie in being sensible
jaunty light
Realistically I can pull 300fps on the games im playing at 1440p so the new monitor im looking at should still be fine
But i haven't tested how much usage I hit for 300 in apex, if its over 90 percent i could justify a 4090
modest moss
I tried
jaunty light
There's no sensibility when you buy high end hardware
I could 100% play at 144fps 1080p with my 1080 ti
But want to? 
sly elk
so what you need
is one of those 360hz monitors
so you can have an excuse to get a 4090
jaunty light
I want miniled tho, for 1440p those are 300hz max
Deadass been looking at getting a 1080 360 though but ehhh.
umbral moss
join ice and zombie in being sensible
jaunty light
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/alienware-27-gaming-monitor-aw2723df/apd/210-bfek/monitors-monitor-accessories 280hz but will it even be good lmao
jaunty light
i've got a 2721d atm, wouldnt trade up just for 40hz OC because on IPS it won't make a lick in clarity
fucc it i'mma try the xl2566k, I can return that bitch if i dont like it
modest moss
smol
sly elk
i hate it
odd sand
so their solution is to sell this dongle
Very belated response but, sounds on-brand for Apple. They're notorious for idiotic dongles undercutting their sleek designs ... selling you the solution to the problems they create, as usual.
Wouldn't that bubble level only tell you if the card was slipping out of the PCIe slot, not if it was sagging? Unless you had it in a riser adapter or something?
paper tusk
it's probably way more than the 8 bucks i spent on a gpu brace
sly elk
Very belated response but, sounds on-brand for Apple. They're notorious for idio...
I mean new phonss don't come with anything anymore:(
sharp star
https://seasonic.com/cable-request/ mfw 850W
odd sand
Apple computers and peripherals over the years have had a number of dongles and such necessary to fully use them. Or like that stupid mouse you have to flip upside down to charge so you can't charge and use it at the same time...
sly elk
Yea duxj thar mouse
That mouse is the worst mouse they have made since the hockey puck
But apple mice are always terrible
Thats why you never use them
odd sand
Apple is generally form over function.
deep sapphire
I’ve been told the charging port isn’t as bad as it seems as it only takes a few minutes to charge and it lasts for weeks but it is pretty idiotic
dreamy chasm
It seems like a pain if it happens right when you don't want it to
hard drift
https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-claims-core-i9-13900k-will-be-11-faster-on-average-than-amd-ryzen-9-7950x-in-gaming x3d going to whoop intel again only 11% average
dreamy chasm
I'd rather wait for third party benchmarks
Intel hasn't been known to be reasonable with their testing methodology at times
hard drift
i mean even if it is true, x3d will give a substantial enough boost to fps to bring the 7000 series to the top
umbral moss
almost as if that's why AMD holds that design back until the mid-cycle
I seriously doubt they're holding back the 7950XDDD because they can't figure out how to make the stacked cache on the new die
real edge
the 5800x3d beats most of the 7xxx cpus in games lol
umbral moss
it's new uarch on a new board using dogshit DDR5
because DDR5 still doesn't have all the issues ironed out after three years of product releases
based AM4 dragging down new DDR spec adoption because it only supports DDR4
can't wait for AM5 to drag down DDR6 adoption too
dull garnet
waiting for DDR7 tbqhbbq
royal forge
I'm already injecting ddr8 into my veins
paper tusk
https://semiconductor.samsung.com/event/techday-memory-2022/ tl;didnt see it: gddr 7 soon(tm)
jaunty light
Hbm69 where
jaunty light
No ur garbo
umbral moss
the bus would need to be radically redesigned to take advantage of the bandwidth
odd sand
That's funny. Haven't seen that one before.
jaunty light
Gotta wait for the 300hz ones and see what they are
UWs are prolly gonna be all samsung
jaunty light
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/stsci-01gfnr1kzzp67ffg...
All i see is a hooded alien priest
warm mesa
dull garnet
nice
fair parcel
lost python
meanwhile germany. lowest price 1960€ or something
bitter girder
sales tax in the uk is 20% right?
umbral moss
the only dumb thing about sales tax is that it's not baked into the price
because it's handled at the state level, not the federal level
dull garnet
yeah well, that's what i mean
say you're in a store and you go to pay sales tax goes on top of the stickered price?
umbral moss
everyone already kind of knows what the sales tax will be
since everyone knows what the % is in their state
bitter girder
@jaunty light7 episodes in and i still dont get the hype around becca
umbral moss
it's one of those things where the corporate marketing teams convinced everyone to complain about seeing Big Numbers but culturally everyone knows that sales tax is included in the final purchase price so they calculate it in their heads when they're shopping
it's just typical US culture of sucking corporate dicks
bitter girder
i member when freddos didnt cost a fucking house
dull garnet
i was gonna say, pretty sure i'm a decent amount older than you
bitter girder
yeah yahahah
bitter girder
only prices i remember as a kid was freddos being 15p and a bag of potatoes being 50p
hmmm
i dont think so
i was born in 2000
bitter girder
ooooo
maybe!
speaking of tax i've heard whispers about sugar tax being abolished
dull garnet
okie dokie boomer
i member them being around 35p
but yeah even a basic chocolate bar is like 65-75p now
bitter girder
stop age shaming you old bastards
bitter girder
pain.
3 quid on gas today
and less than 50p on electric
which is really spinning me out side my ps5 is always in rest mode
bitter girder
i need to set it to only do it for a few hours
dull garnet
ever since launch wii consoles essentially cooked themselves i don't trust it
bitter girder
weird fear thats stuck with you?
dull garnet
besides my gigantic backlog 
bitter girder
oh yeah same
thers actually a lot of interesting games to play
ahahahahahaha
still need to finish god of war 2018
just cba with life atm i just like sleeping
sly elk
because it's handled at the state level, not the federal level
you forgot city and county retail tax
dull garnet
bayonetta 3 and pogeymons soon!!
sly elk
for me if I buy a thing the taxes are like 6%+0.25%+0.5%+1%+2.25%
bitter girder
cba with the switch
sly elk
(looking at a chart)
dull garnet
switch is only worth for exclusives
bitter girder
i guess
bitter girder
ahhaahhaah truuuueee
bitter girder
me
dull garnet
hope you enjoyed returnal
dull garnet
its a ps5 exclusive. people seem to like it but i like to make fun
bitter girder
looks a tiny bit similar to risk of rain gameplay wise
dull garnet
Nintendo is reporting that 3.45 million copies of Splatoon 3 were sold in its first three days of release.
Nintendo software numbers are crazy though
dull garnet
dull garnet
deciding to release on PC probably won't help in terms of retaining ""exclusives""
bitter girder
yeahhhhh
lost python
when did the ps5 release again? 2 years ago right?
because its still hard to find one anywhere
bitter girder
i dunno man
dull garnet
however apparently the ps5 has outsold the ps4 in the same period
so
i guess people are playing ps4 games and sports games
fifa bruv
bitter girder
when did the ps5 release again? 2 years ago right?
because its still hard to fi...
you just reminded me hang on
lost python
sly elk
LOL
dull garnet
PS5 has sold 24 million apparently
lost python
there was a time when i was willing to get one
but that time has long passed and its still hard to even find one in stock
sly elk
hey they copied the nintendo switch playbook
dull garnet
i've had a few opportunities but
there's literally nothing i want to play that i can't play on my ps4 pro
lost python
my latest is still ps3
sly elk
^ me with the switch
sly elk
every single nintendo switch game I could buy for my switch
I either already have for an earlier console
lost python
i think my switch mostly exists because of fire emblem 3h
dull garnet
I use my PS1 most of my PlayStation consoles
sly elk
or it'd be cheaper to get the earlier console version
bitter girder
i bought the switch for xenoblade 2
sly elk
yea that's a spicy thing about nintendo
bitter girder
i want my money back
sly elk
every single person I know who bught a switch
dull garnet
i bought the switch for xenoblade 2
i'm so sorry
sly elk
EVERY DAMN PERSON
lost python
oh right and astral chain. love that game
sly elk
bought it to play 1 particular game
dull garnet
i also own that
lost python
i do have some more games i would play but its hard to motivate myself honestly
sly elk
and maybe they bought another game over time
dull garnet
i played the tutorial and forgot about it
lost python
maybe if someday i dont have to juggle cables around when switching pc to console
sly elk
but I only know 1 person out of dozens of switch owners that has like, a library of switch games
dull garnet
maybe platinum have only made 2 good games
sly elk
what this tells me
is that the price of the latest zelda game isn't $69.99
it's $69.99 plus the cost of a fucking nintendo switch
bitter girder
its gonna be 79.99
dull garnet
i didn't like botw
sly elk
and by the time you're finished with the switch
you'll have like, 3 games
and you effectively paid >$100 a game
lost python
worst thing is that even 4 years later the game will still be full price
sly elk
BOTW pissed me off for several reasons
sly elk
the most potent of which is that I bought the wii u version because I didn't own a switch and didn't wanna pay $369.99 to play it
lost python
BOTW pissed me off for several reasons
weapon durability and 20fps 😩
dull garnet
resale value is great
lost python
i like to collect stuff so i dont really resell unfortunately
sly elk
so when you get on the map and kill link in 5 minutes
you get to wait about 1.5 minutes for the fucking thing to load the map again
bitter girder
sly elk
my other complaint
dull garnet
i've bought a switch and botw 3 times
sly elk
I feel like BOTW is barely a zelda game
dull garnet
twice I was like "eh this isn't for me" and sold em
sly elk
it feels like something else that they threw a little bit of zelda-ish art on and called it zelda
dull garnet
there's too much roaming in nothingness, wanted a little more focus
sly elk
and walking around a deserted hellscape with sad piano music playing, is not an enjoyable experience
bitter girder
so good
sly elk
LOL
dull garnet
Arceus slapped tho
dull garnet
i know people with 300 odd switch games
sly elk
my switch is on my desk and makes a good fiddle widget
sly elk
because I'm trying to encourage myself to play with my fucking wasted $300
my oldest brother bought a ps5 because he really wanted to play spider man
then he got bored of it
and it sits in a box lmao
dull garnet
chad
sly elk
i should get an xbox to complete our family collection of dust gathering consoles
bitter girder
halo 3 my beloved
deep sapphire
PEGI 18
bitter girder
AND WE SHOULD STILL DO IT
dull garnet
you kids and your GTA Online
bitter girder
i dont play gta online
dull garnet
Shue does I think lol
dull garnet
the worst was that in GTA III and VC there was no swimming so if you hit a jump wrong and drowned your turn was over
bitter girder
i heard the remaster is slightly better than its release
still kinda wanna get it but maybe if i find it cheap
bitter girder
ohh i keep forgetting i fucking emulate
legally
with my ps2
and copy of grand theft auto san andreas for the ps2
dull garnet
oh yeah, emulation is pretty good too
dull garnet
i tend to prefer original releases on the right hw but i'd take emulating the original over a remaster in most cases
bitter girder
its the authenticity isnt it
would if i could but im learning on how to be a cheapskate atm
dull garnet
when you know a game intimately changes bother you
i tried playing Twin Snakes again recently and fuck
I hate it
bitter girder
never actually played the metal gear solid games
mummy wouldnt let me when i was young
deep sapphire
never actually played the metal gear solid games
What a shit name
Absolute rubbish
Wheelie bins tier
jaunty light
<@241051683373711360>7 episodes in and i still dont get the hype around becca
U must be a terrible person!
deep sapphire
Hey Honk
deep sapphire
You what
dull garnet
i was like 9 or 10 playing MGS1
deep sapphire
Sorry
dull garnet
extremely based
deep sapphire
You wot
bitter girder
thats more like it
deep sapphire
dull garnet
u w0t
dull garnet
they're bins with wheels on
bitter girder
rubbish bins
dull garnet
what is there to not understand!
deep sapphire
They sure are
I remember the London riots
A lot of wheelie bin victims
They didn’t deserve such shabby treatment
Some say @modest moss’s wheelie bin never fully recovered
bitter girder
thats fucking big bag of rice ahhahaha
deep sapphire
That’s nothing, go to any China market they got Fuckin like 20lbs bags and shit
bitter girder
truuuee
bitter girder
just a comically large bag of something
modest moss
Some say <@365232500517371914>’s wheelie bin never fully recovered
dem riots never worried me bruv, my manor innit
bitter girder
U must be a terrible person!
:(
deep sapphire
Based Minnesotan inventing cat liter
Holy shit Minnesotans are ascended geniuses
It’s that Swedish blood
dull garnet
my ex gf was working in greater london at the time that stuff happened, she was a bit concerned
deep sapphire
Also my old cat looked like that sus
deep sapphire
dem riots never worried me bruv, my manor innit
The best thing you guys gave to the world is neg’s urban sports
modest moss
hah
modest moss
that guy was funny
deep sapphire
TOOT TA TOOOO
bitter girder
hey we also have brass eye
dull garnet
the simpsons road rage
sir, this is a hit and run household
bitter girder
hit and run was so so good
dull garnet
played it some fairly recently. holds up pretty well
odd sand
Interesting timing on me refreshing Youtube earlier heh
buoyant falcon
So I tried logging into the membership login for CompTIA just now to review the expiration date for a certification, first time in over a year I've logged in... only my password for it isn't working and password recovery is telling me that there are no email addresses associated with my email.
Tried an alternate email just in case I maybe registered it to that one, nothing.
Feeling a bit nervous right now..
tame tartan
buoyant falcon
My regular CompTIA account still works though.
odd sand
That reminds me I need to contact them and see if I can get credit back for taking one of the tests. I signed up for the package, then I got busy moving and stuff and completely forgot to finish it
They can look at the account log and see I basically didn't do more than Chapter1
I'm probably SOL though :(
buoyant falcon
I'm actually not entirely sure which email I used for it. If it's my old college email, it's gonna be a headache to access it because it looks like they've switched over their system from Gmail to Microsoft and I'm not even sure if my account still exists.
Wonder if there's anything I'll be able to do if that account is jut gone now. I mean they still must have my name in their records. Wonder if it would be a simple matter of me being able to prove my identity?
modest moss
probably best to contact their support
odd sand
Could always talk to your college and ask them to either reactivate or spin up a new account with the same name for you. This can't be the first time this has happened
buoyant falcon
Could always talk to your college and ask them to either reactivate or spin up a...
Yeah, that's gonna be a whole afternoon on the phone with their IT department though. 
sly elk
Heheh
jaunty light
If you have the credential ID you can look it up
jaunty light
Ergo strikes again.. i could use the 13 pole in my amaz basics mount but NO
Parts sold separately? Fuck you! Buy another $200 mount to get a taller pole
Which on that note I could also use the 23in LX but again nope
$600 in stands when they could just sell me the poles separately
