technology-discussion

[odd sand]

You literally just get between and push it upright

[dull garnet]

Gulikit also just released hall effect joy-con replacements if anyone is suffering from drift https://www.gulikit.com/productinfo/945307.html

can order on Amazon for about £30 a pair, which isn't cheap but probably worth it

[odd sand]

Oh it's an Xbox lookalike I would have rather a dualshock lookalike

[clever lantern]

Ive had the cpu for the first month it dropped. Back in 2018 or 2019. Way out of warranty. I am overnight shipping a new one I don’t want to break my socket on mono

Mobo*

[dull garnet]

i've used the socket itself to straighten pins before, although it only works on very slightly bent pins

[odd sand]

Wow, only $35 for that controller!? With hall-effect

Is a battery really that expensive? heh

[dull garnet]

well, the switch ones are a module

[odd sand]

Ah, they have wireless ones, but they're 2.4g instead of bluetooth so they have a USB adapter for the PC. https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Wireless-Controller-Raspberry-Gaming-Console/dp/B0B9BPMBZ1

It mentions being steam deck compatible, so I wonder if that means there is a USB-A to C adapter for the wireless adapter, or if that means while docked

[dull garnet]

both should be possible

although probably not included with the controller

generally speaking 2.4g should have less input delay on their controllers

[odd sand]

I have two USBA to C adapters bc they come in handy

In part bc I needed them for my Surface studio laptop that only has 2x USB-C on it heh

[dull garnet]

Only thing I could think of that would use it is phone and tablet

[deep sapphire]

if you're careful you can fix most of that with a small flat head screwdriver

just be patient and very careful

a small pair of needle nose pliers will help, in particular right angle

[sly elk]

if ya notice, the bed where the pins are attached, is also coming up on the right side

wait maybe it's not

I thought it was

but I think that's just a notch isn't it?

[deep sapphire]

I dunno but im glad AMD finally fucked off with ZIF

such a stupid socket

this happened to me when I had a Phenom 64 lmao

[deep sapphire]

not as bad but still

[sly elk]

tbh

[deep sapphire]

its such a common issue

[sly elk]

I think it's easier to fix cpu pins than it is to fix an LGA socket

but I've never had to fix an LGA socket since I've only used them twice

[dull garnet]

the fear of dropping an LGA CPU in the socket

💀

i've done so before because I'm an idiot

[deep sapphire]

what if

they made

spring loaded BGA sockets

now nobody has to worry

EVER AGAIN

[dull garnet]

undoes latch
CPU flies across the room

[modest moss]

Ice's next build aesthetic

[dull garnet]

https://tenor.com/view/flying-lawnmower-gif-25583677

[sly walrus]

nah, not watercooled enough

[odd sand]

I used a pair of tweezers but yeah if you had one of those 1mm head screwdrivers it could work too, or bend open a safety pin

[deep sapphire]

or throw it away and buy an intel processor

wheres bidori

[dull garnet]

okay I have my Intel CPU, what now?

[deep sapphire]

D-DELET THAT

[dull garnet]

i wonder what the newest pga Intel chip is

[odd sand]

Intel went to LGA when? With Core2Duo?

[deep sapphire]

Pentium 4

[dull garnet]

forget LGA or PGA

[deep sapphire]

I dont think intel used PGA for awhile

yeah they had those stupid cards lol

[dull garnet]

s-stupid?

[deep sapphire]

b-baka

[dull garnet]

oh yeah come to think of it my 478 socket P4 was PGA

[deep sapphire]

EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE AMIRITE posting on overclockers.uk forum rn

[odd sand]

Oh, P4 had LGA 775 at the very end of its life cycle. I was gonna say I don't remember that for my P4 1.8

[deep sapphire]

yeah

I think prescott started it

[odd sand]

Slot-A 4 lyfe

More interesting is how long LGA775 stuck around

[deep sapphire]

well, technically the P4 EE, but then prescott came after

damn good socket tbh

[odd sand]

So used to sockets being cycled out in like 2-3 years

Although Xeon stuck to 2011 for quite a long time too

[dull garnet]

my prescott 2m was 775

then i popped a E4400 in that motherboard

[deep sapphire]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1366

LGA 1366 chads where you at

[jaunty light]

Socket Bitch

[deep sapphire]

go do your spark plugs

[deep sapphire]

you;re just scared one of them will get stuck

cant blame you

go do it in the autozone parking lot

how much you think I could get for my 990X

[dull garnet]

tri channel

from the E4400 I went Q6600 and then 3570K

[deep sapphire]

https://www.ebay.com/b/Intel-Core-i7-990X-Computer-Processors-CPUs/164/bn_99646076

100 BUCKS BABY

IM RICH

Q6600

generic

[modest moss]

real gamers had E8400 over Q6600

[deep sapphire]

^

E8400 was a great CPU

thing OC'd so well

[dull garnet]

E8400 came out later

[jaunty light]

e8400 trash

[dull garnet]

literally a year later

[odd sand]

Then they had 1366 for a single gen of desktop CPUs And had to make it confusing af after that with 1156, 1155, 1150, and TWO incompatible versions of 1151...

[deep sapphire]

C2Q was so forgettable tbh

[jaunty light]

everyone had to get rid of their weak 2 cores but i still rocked a q6600

[deep sapphire]

low clock rates, nothing even utilized more than 1 core

[dull garnet]

my Q6600 was a B3 instead of a G0

[odd sand]

Yeah I had a Q9550 and it was garbage before 3 years were up

[deep sapphire]

[dull garnet]

🔥

[deep sapphire]

I bet when Crysis first came out

you were like finally

I can use more than 1 core

[dull garnet]

I ran Crysis fiiine ||on Medium||

with my 7950 GT

[jaunty light]

F to the non g0 lads

[odd sand]

Q9550 couldn't even go 3 years before being mud, then the 3770K I used for 7 years and my friend 3 years after that

[jaunty light]

3.8ghz bois

[deep sapphire]

plus

when the i7 920 came out

it made C2Q an absolute joke

[odd sand]

Yeah there were huge IPC gains between C2Q and i series

[deep sapphire]

it was like 200 bucks too

bargain

[dull garnet]

going from my p4 to c2d felt like the biggest jump ever

FUCK NETBURST

[odd sand]

I think between the Q9550 and 3770K it was like 75% or more

[deep sapphire]

NORTHWOOD WAS GOOD DELETE THIS

[odd sand]

Yeah Dual core was a huge game changer simply bc of scheduling

Those early P4s tho could OC to the moon

[dull garnet]

to be fair I had that northwood for years

like 02-07

[odd sand]

Could use the P4 1.8 @ 3.0 on really good aircooling

[deep sapphire]

P4 Northwood HT

[odd sand]

Whereas the 3770 I did a conservative all-core OC of 3.8 @ 4.2 but ppl with better cooling could get up to maybe 4.4-4.5

[dull garnet]

i don't think i ever touched my 3570k

everything ran great so i didn't bother

[deep sapphire]

sandybridge was like the only time in history besides now that intel gave us a good value

I remember when the 2500K debuted

it basically obsoleted anything on the market lol

and it was what, 150 bucks or something

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/52210/intel-core-i52500k-processor-6m-cache-up-to-3-70-ghz.html

[odd sand]

Xeon sitting on ~2000 pins for like 6 years then suddenly 3647 ... 4189... 4677!

https://tenor.com/view/galaxy-brain-meme-gif-25947987

[deep sapphire]

KEK

[umbral moss]

gonna need 4090 power pins to handle the xeon equivalent of the 13900

prepare for LGA9999

[sly elk]

theoretically it's cheaper to replace a broke motherboard than a broke cpu

[odd sand]

Granted, the actual CPUs themselves are chonker, so it's not so much pins tighter together as it is more size

[sly elk]

but they seem to run neck-and-neck in price

[odd sand]

Only if you're either poor or a fool with money

[sly elk]

it's relative though

like who's going to buy a 7950x and use a b650?

[modest moss]

mine still runs, I have plex on it

[sly elk]

or a 13900k and use whatever the lower tier intel board is

[odd sand]

I got a Z690 board for $180 for the 13900K that was like $580

[sly elk]

it's likely the $600 CPU will get used with a $400 board

[deep sapphire]

lmao I had a friend on XIV that only replaced his last year

fuckin insane like 10+ year old CPU that can still game

[modest moss]

I have a 960 in there, I'm sure it'd still play XIV fine at 1080p

[odd sand]

My friend has his old 2700K at his parents with a 1660 Super on it and managed to get Darktide to run at 40fps 1080p all low settings

[sly elk]

3820, 3770? sure why not

[deep sapphire]

[sly elk]

especially x79/x99 gear

[deep sapphire]

my 990X played XIV just fine

I played stormblood with it still

but then

😭

[sly elk]

x99 can just live and live and live

[odd sand]

Probably. During Stormblood I was playing FF14 on my parents i3-3220 with integrated graphics. Was like 30fps all low settings 720p but still

[sly elk]

old cpu with 40 pcie lanes and the board has m.2 slots

so what if the 13900kfc is 10,000% faster in some random very specific benchmark

[deep sapphire]

X58 was kinda poopy when it came to I/O

[sly elk]

real-world it's probably only like idk, 55% faster

[deep sapphire]

it supported SATA III

[umbral moss]

all the X chips sucked

[deep sapphire]

but you couldnt boot off it

[sly elk]

idk

the X chips were just xeons

[umbral moss]

they were re-branded xeon chipsets so they had ancient feature sets compared to the consumer-side chipsets

[sly elk]

im gonna be an asshole here

[deep sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/excuse-huh-gif-18307887

[umbral moss]

so you were always feature lagging

[sly elk]

I hate calling a processor better because it has faster single-core performance

like

this is my biggest regret going with z390/9700k

[odd sand]

My friend gave back the 3770 so its sitting in a bag atm (board and cpu/ram) He was complaining about the USB so I want to try to get it running again and see what the trouble was

[sly elk]

the processor is a turd

[odd sand]

If it seems fine I'll pass it on to another friend then looking for something basic

[deep sapphire]

I mean X58 came out in what, 2008

what SATA III devices existed

I literally owned one of the first SSDs

and it was SATA II

[odd sand]

9700K was a really good CPU tho... 🤔

[sly elk]

i was going to go x470+2900x and I could've upgraded to a 5900x by now

instead i got a stupid intel board 😄

and it's fine and all until you're in forza and decide to alt-tab over to a browser to deal with something, and your computer feels like a 386 running windows 98

[dull garnet]

h-hey i paid £138 for my 3570K and used it until 2017

[deep sapphire]

HAHA I remember back in the MSNM days

people would nudge you

Id be playing counter-strike source on my P4 northwood

and then get alt tabbed

[odd sand]

Oh wild, the 9700K didn't have hyperthreading?

[deep sapphire]

took like a fuckin minute

I'd get so mad

[dull garnet]

yeah 9700k is just 8 gamer cores

[deep sapphire]

gamer cores

woah

[dull garnet]

[odd sand]

Can you set the number of worker threads on Forza?

[sly elk]

probably

[dull garnet]

mfw buying a 7700K

[sly elk]

it's just a rant lol

[odd sand]

Just have it keep 1-2 free

[dull garnet]

and the 8700K dropping with 6/12

https://tenor.com/view/throwing-up-sad-jim-carrey-gif-15686730

[odd sand]

Honestly 8 threads should not kill your PC playing a game

[deep sapphire]

biggest kick in the nads

BECAUSE THIS LITERALLY HAPPENED TO ME

[dull garnet]

almost as bad as when Nintendo dropped the DS Lite

[deep sapphire]

[odd sand]

Wait... so the 8700K had hyperthreading, but then 9700K didn't? That doesn't even make sense

[dull garnet]

I HAD ONE OF THESE

[deep sapphire]

me too

I bought mine on launch day

playuing that shitty metroid prime demo

[dull garnet]

mine was blue and bundled with... Nintendogs

[deep sapphire]

didnt the ds lite come out only a year later

[dull garnet]

something like that

[deep sapphire]

or was it 2

I think I bought one when new super mario bros came out

[deep sapphire]

I bet your nintendogs are starving to death

[sly elk]

it doesn't 😄

[deep sapphire]

havent fed the bois in 20 years

[sly elk]

the 9700k was a bad choice on my part

[dull garnet]

you could kinda strangle them when walking em

[deep sapphire]

oh thats nice that you remember that

[sly elk]

I don't care much about multitasking anymore, but it still bugs me

but I have other things i'd rather spend money on atm

[odd sand]

Well as I said, the 9700K was considered to be a great value gaming CPU

[sly elk]

like a camera

[dull garnet]

i mean besides that and playing frisbee there wasn't much to do

lol

[sly elk]

i want a full frame camera

[dull garnet]

imagine not having a full frame

[sly elk]

getting that is going to nuke my tech budget for the year

[odd sand]

In the grand scheme of things, an extra $150 for a mobo isn't that big of a deal

[deep sapphire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDJsPMuuPzI

this right here

was the reason to own a DS

[sly elk]

considering you'll probably be living with it for like 5 years, yea

[dull garnet]

I bought a 3570K over a 3770K because TERA tanked the performance with hyperthreading enabled

32-bit UE3 MMO lets goooooooooooo

[jaunty light]

tera player spotted

[odd sand]

Not even AMD will let you upgrade in-kind if you sit on it for 5+ years

[jaunty light]

arrest them

[sly elk]

you can run a 5900x on an x470 though

[dull garnet]

tera just hard crashes if ram usage exceeds 4gb

[deep sapphire]

you have a vtuber pfp

[sly elk]

you definitely can't run 10900, 11900, or 12900 on a z390

[dull garnet]

had to run it on low lmao

[odd sand]

Yeah but then you're buying a 2yo CPU in 2023

[dull garnet]

they only released the 64 bit client a year or so after closing for good

[jaunty light]

superior to tera

[dull garnet]

[deep sapphire]

true

[sly elk]

whatever

[deep sapphire]

[odd sand]

Also who "needs" to upgrade their CPU after only 3 years these days

[dull garnet]

https://i.imgur.com/fiOSlfO.jpg

[deep sapphire]

what the hell is that

MODS

[odd sand]

I think it's just Forza not wanting to limit FPS when not in focus

[jaunty light]

speed was an elin player hes a real degen

[umbral moss]

https://tenor.com/view/flamer-gif-20141420

[dull garnet]

[jaunty light]

https://tenor.com/view/heresy-purge-w40k-warhammer-gif-10271501

[sly elk]

-shrug-

[jaunty light]

me

[dull garnet]

people who bought 1st or 2nd gen ryzen

[deep sapphire]

thats why we drive old shitty trucks

[dull garnet]

and 3rd gen

[deep sapphire]

cheap to keep on the road so we can buy overpriced PC parts

[jaunty light]

8700k to 9900k to 1700x to 2700x to 3950x to 5900x to 5800x3d now to 7950x3d!!!

[dull garnet]

he says with his 6 year old system

[deep sapphire]

8

[dull garnet]

no way

[deep sapphire]

7

[odd sand]

Are you running Forza in fullscreen or borderless windowed fullscreen? That might help

[deep sapphire]

I built it in 2016

but

[dull garnet]

better

[jaunty light]

[deep sapphire]

it has a 6700K

[jaunty light]

rip hank

[deep sapphire]

I barely use my PC anymore I dont care

[jaunty light]

mhmm

[dull garnet]

my friend has the same spec

[deep sapphire]

if my hand wasnt fucked I wouldnt even be on here

[dull garnet]

they've owned a 3070 for more than a year

[odd sand]

Also if you were gonna go 5000 series for gaming, the 5800x3d is the one to go with, isn't it?

[dull garnet]

they're scared to install it

[deep sapphire]

LOL why

[umbral moss]

yeah

[deep sapphire]

wtf

[dull garnet]

le adhd idk

they're not tech-y

[deep sapphire]

dont you mhmmm me

[jaunty light]

[deep sapphire]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/653976399824158721.webp?size=96&quality=lossless

[jaunty light]

[odd sand]

Master debating whether I want to just buy the digital version of Disgaea7 or import the copy. Although now that I think about it, I think Sony is stupid and doesn't allow international cards for PSN JP purchases...

[deep sapphire]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/735514455173103645.webp?size=96&quality=lossless

[dull garnet]

order from amazon jp ez

[odd sand]

Yeah, but hopefully it doesn't deliver the game a week late then. I'd like to stream it while relevant heh

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/disgaea-etna-laharl-prinny-rocket-gif-22434443

disgaea had satania before satania was a thing

[deep sapphire]

okay wtf is going on with wikipedia

are they changing the website or am I getting a fuckin mobile redirect on desktop

[dull garnet]

clear yo cookies?

[odd sand]

Oh right, Solaris Japan and Playasia also sell PSN JP codes and email you the activation

Small markup but way chaeper than getting them mailed

[potent arrow]

Someone stop me from buying a new keyboard

[modest moss]

didn't you just build yet another?

[potent arrow]

...nooooo

[modest moss]

you did

[odd sand]

Sarah, you have keyboards at home. C'mon lets go

[potent arrow]

I

I kinda want that ROG Azoth board tho

If I eat ramen for a few weeks....

[modest moss]

#not-ffxiv-discussion message

2 weeks ago

[potent arrow]

OK THAT ONE IS FOR MY FRIEND

[modest moss]

🤔

[potent arrow]

I was cannibalizing my old work keyboard, the purple one

For his board which is in a shitty broken case I had with a new board I bought for him

[modest moss]

🤨

[potent arrow]

Christmas present ok

[modest moss]

You do not need a $350 USD keyboard homie

Build a new pc first ffs

[potent arrow]

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/ff14-final-fantasy14-ffxiv-error-alisae-gif-24042660

[potent arrow]

[dull garnet]

looking at RAM upgrades

[potent arrow]

https://kprepublic.com/products/domikey-hush-deep-sea-cherry-profile-abs-doubleshot-keycap-for-mx-keyboard-poker-87-104-xd64-xd68-xd84-bm60-bm65-bm68-bm80

Mmmm

[dull garnet]

I might just go 4x8GB instead of buying a 2x16GB kit

populating all slots 😱

haven't done that since having 8GB of DDR2 😎

[sly elk]

oh i admit

the rog azaroth has a great layout

azoth*

[potent arrow]

I just want it because it's the first like, production gamer keyboard that steals a bunch of stuff from the custom board side

[sly elk]

it has nice arrow keys

[potent arrow]

Like I genuinely like it just for that rofl

[sly elk]

and 3 keys on either side of the space bar

[potent arrow]

Das just a 75%

Mah board

....she's doing somethin

[sly elk]

I like how most custom keyboard setups I see, they use some fancy 'aviator' cable

and you've got that

[potent arrow]

Pls

I like it

[sly elk]

don't you have heatshrink tubing? 😮

[potent arrow]

Is an og Google pixel USB C cable

I do

But like my PC, I ain't bothering

[jaunty light]

ppl with coiled wires are insufferable nerds

[dull garnet]

i've never had coil whine

what does it sound like

yeah I looked it up on youtube

[sly elk]

it sounds like a fly going eeeeeeeeeee

also you know the noise old CRT TVs make?

coil whine sounds kinda like that

the t hing that makes coil whine more annoying is when it's intermittent

it's like barely audible morse code at that point

[dull garnet]

how dare you accuse my CRT of whining

[umbral moss]

it's more prevalent at high FPS

FFXIV will do it reliably during loading screens if you have FPS uncapped

[dull garnet]

i play fortnite at 165 fps daily

[umbral moss]

since it shoots up to like 140+ FPS and you can hear the GPU bitching at you

it also depends on GPU power load

fortnite not exactly a demanding game to play lmao

[dull garnet]

it can be depending on your settings

especially ue5

[sly elk]

i don't really notice gpu coil whine because when my gpu is in use, it's accompanied by a LOT of fan noise

[umbral moss]

I have watercooling so it's loud enough to hear over the fans and my headset

[sly elk]

hmm

i must have had good fortune with this gpu then lol

ahahah

Creating a HomePod stereo pair requires two of the same model HomePod speakers, such as two HomePod mini, two HomePod (2nd generation), or two HomePod (1st generation).

[dull garnet]

is coil whine more prevalent on higher end cards?

i always aim for 60 Ti or 70 cards

[potent arrow]

All shoved in, ain't opening it for a bit < 3

Went from 95C to 70C rofl

[sly elk]

lol when I was using the evga g3 750w in my computer with the 3080ti

if I maxed out graphics settings and everything to 100%

I heard funny coil-whine-ish noises but I think they were coming from the PSU

[bitter girder]

sup girls x

[dull garnet]

sup babes

[potent arrow]

boobs

[dull garnet]

boi oi oi oi oing

[bitter girder]

queue times

bald bloke always grinding tho

[deep sapphire]

omfg

the broom too

thats fuckin hilarious

[bitter girder]

best character i made man

went to sleep last night buzzing over it

@deep sapphire

[bitter girder]

ahahaahahahahahahaaaa

you win

fucksake

[deep sapphire]

powerful bloke

hahahahahaha

[bitter girder]

best character man i swear

[deep sapphire]

love it

https://i.redd.it/btpge0ank3c01.jpg

[bitter girder]

thats the truck bald bloke drives

[deep sapphire]

hammond needs to lose some hair

[bitter girder]

bald bloke

[deep sapphire]

https://youtube.com/shorts/e4d23gky9oc?feature=share

[bitter girder]

bald bloke loves a tinnie

[deep sapphire]

LOOOL

[bitter girder]

Need a playlist for playing bald bloke

gonna craft it now

[deep sapphire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV4DiAyExN0 bald bloke gym tunes volume 1

ft under armour

[bitter girder]

bald bloke listens to hard rock

[deep sapphire]

uses his PSP as an MP3 player

"check it babe.... 16GB memory stick with magic gate technology"

[bitter girder]

nah uses a packard bell laptop

[deep sapphire]

hahahaha

fuckin packard bell that was my first PC

fuckin piece of shit

🤣

[bitter girder]

and those weird earphones that you can split and make them really loose

beautiful

[deep sapphire]

wears these to the gym

[bitter girder]

ahahahahahahahaahahaahahahahahahaahahahahaha

[modest moss]

Lewis please enjoy my new character

[bitter girder]

purposely bleeds aswell so everyone can hear it

[bitter girder]

MWAH

YESSSSSS

AHAAH

the chads

[deep sapphire]

we're the 3 buff blokes

[modest moss]

I'm the highlander, @past glacier is the catboi

[bitter girder]

trying to get into that bald bloke mindset

[modest moss]

I should level an EU character too

[deep sapphire]

pauses music oi what u say to me?

[bitter girder]

WHAT YOUJ SAY ABOUT MY FOCKING TUNE?

now listen ere

[deep sapphire]

god I forgot all the dumb shit sony advertised on its products hahahaha

ESP

MEGA BASS

🤣

[bitter girder]

slayer fucking sucks but they're a guilty pleasure

[modest moss]

bro I had a sony megabass walkman when I was a kid

that shit was boss

[bitter girder]

i member the megabass

[deep sapphire]

I had that discman

[modest moss]

those special earphones

[deep sapphire]

whispers in your ear "its a sony"

[bitter girder]

ahahahhahaha

[deep sapphire]

too bad the WF-1000XM4 whatever fucks its called suck ass

fuck you sony

🔫

[bitter girder]

awful

the headphones are even worse

its just bass

[deep sapphire]

maybe the XM5s will be better

but nah

[bitter girder]

same

[deep sapphire]

im buying airpods

[bitter girder]

T HEY'RE THE SAME

so bad

[deep sapphire]

never again

[bitter girder]

nope

[deep sapphire]

its so inconsistent with its sound quality

like im not crazy

[bitter girder]

they were fucked mate

i used to wake up

walk to work

and think it was because i was tired

[deep sapphire]

hahahahaha nah man

like sometimes

[bitter girder]

Sony quirks man

[deep sapphire]

you put them in

and it automatically has the correct volume you wanted and it sounds fine

but most of the time

its too fuickin quiet

[bitter girder]

all of a sudden LOUD

[deep sapphire]

and you turn the volume up

and it sounds like muffled shit

[bitter girder]

i had a thousand issues with them

[deep sapphire]

like are these half life sounds im listening to

at least those are cool

[bitter girder]

but it was becdause i had a sony phone aswell

[deep sapphire]

thats even more pathetic

I just chalked it up to not working well with iPhones

but it doesnt even work well with its own fuckin phone

[bitter girder]

nah it was the same on xperia

ahahahhahahahaha

[deep sapphire]

god

[bitter girder]

LDAC man

[deep sapphire]

fuckin expensive too

[bitter girder]

is such

a fucking meme

[deep sapphire]

iPhones dont even support it hahahaha

[bitter girder]

because it bluetooth uses 2.4ghz if your networks arent in 5ghz

its just sutter

constant stutter

[deep sapphire]

I bought them because all the reviews were like OMG BEST SOUNDING EARBUDS EVER

NOISE CANCELLING TOP NOTCH

[bitter girder]

and they are

[deep sapphire]

and you think its sony

good brand right

[bitter girder]

they just suck at being convenient

because they're plagued with issues that shouldnt even happen

[deep sapphire]

right

[bitter girder]

on £250 earphones

[deep sapphire]

thats exactly it

WHEN they work right

they sound amazing

[bitter girder]

did you see the update process on them

[deep sapphire]

BUT THAT WHEN IS ONLY 10 PERCENT OF THE FUCKIN TIME

[bitter girder]

almost 2 hours

not allowed to put them back in the case till it tells you to

[deep sapphire]

yeah AND you have to be wearing them or take them out of the case

what the fuuuuck

[bitter girder]

HAHAAH YEP

ahahjahahaahahaah

wanna see something funny

[deep sapphire]

always

[bitter girder]

yep

they;re still ehre

[deep sapphire]

Fuckin trash hahahaha

like i've just given up on caring anymore

I only use them because they exist

[jaunty light]

skill issue

never had probs with my in ears or over ears

[jaunty light]

dear hank, y u got crumpled dolla bills on the desk

[deep sapphire]

yeah I have a shit ton of random bills all over the place lol

I hate cash

probably go to the bank and deposit it all

Bloke tunes

[sly elk]

i have one of those keyboards 😄 strafe rgb!

[bitter girder]

ahahahaha

[deep sapphire]

Yep hahaha I’ve had it since like 2015 still works great

[bitter girder]

Soon my king

[bitter girder]

corsair strafe was my favourite mechanical keyboard

[deep sapphire]

We should make a ffxiv character called btoothconnect batfullcharge

[bitter girder]

the corsair logo looked so nice

but fucking fell off

[bitter girder]

we should do that

[deep sapphire]

Hahahaha nobody but us would get the joke

[bitter girder]

thats the best part

[deep sapphire]

Ikr

[bitter girder]

play as male humans and do /pose in limsa

[deep sapphire]

The /pose on highlander is so amazing

[bitter girder]

so based man

[deep sapphire]

That was SE going above and beyond

We use to just have the Hildy pose

And then everyone got it

So SE gave us a new pose

And it’s 100x the gigachad levels

[bitter girder]

so good

tfw copperbell mines

[deep sapphire]

God I really need to replace the suspension in my truck, 30 year old parts hahahaha

[bitter girder]

god i cant wait to get a machine on wheels

first track im gonna blast in papaya

[deep sapphire]

Gonna be cruising around in a Range Rover like a chad

Holding a can of C4 and driving with 1 hand

[bitter girder]

might just go for a semi classic range rover tbh

and then have a fit when i see the fuel consumption

[deep sapphire]

As long as it’s mechanically sound go for it

Probably way cheaper to maintain it there being it’s a British car

[bitter girder]

we shall see

[deep sapphire]

Over here those things cost an arm and a leg to maintain

[bitter girder]

kinda the same

aunt spent like 2 grand on getting the turbo replaced on their freelander 2

ill see what my options are when the time comes

[sly elk]

The only land rover I'd drive is an old defender

[bitter girder]

https://tenor.com/view/bad-boy-nice-guy-turn-from-nice-guy-to-slightly-bad-boy-slightly-bad-boy-tik-tok-gif-25518244

[deep sapphire]

Holy fuck that’s gorgeous

[deep sapphire]

LOL

[bitter girder]

never gonna beat the classics

[deep sapphire]

Boxy vehicles are so sexy

[bitter girder]

100%

its why i want an 80s quatro so much

[sly elk]

aside from porsches I'm a nerd for boxy vehicles

toyota century, chrysler 300, scion xb, jeep wranglers, those old land rovers.. I guess that means I'm ok with chevy astros too 😄

[deep sapphire]

Bloke grocery shopping

Got the essentials beans rice and Mountain Dew

[bitter girder]

That is the most bloke photo ever

[sly elk]

I do particularly like the ones with the gmt400-ish grille.

[deep sapphire]

GMT400 is like peak truck design

Supposedly Japanese people love the astro lmao

Has like a cult following or something

Same with those old dodge vans

[sly elk]

the astro is cooler because it's rwd and has a v8 though

[deep sapphire]

They only had the 305 though which is kinda lame

[sly elk]

waaait no v8 😦

just V6s

[deep sapphire]

Oh right

Those were good engines just never had much power

[sly elk]

they also had the strangest rear door configs

ofc you could get full barn doors as well

but half barn doors? lol

[deep sapphire]

God Remember when the suburban had barn doors

Pretty rare too

No idea why barn doors was so much easier to load shit in the back

God that work truck grill is so amazing

I want a suburban now

Might have to put some LEDs in the gauge cluster, getting a bit dim

[bitter girder]

look so good tho

[lime wasp]

@dull garnet

I admit defeat.

You won.

I'm going back to an ATX case.

[dull garnet]

[deep sapphire]

Haha I’ll just be replacing the bulbs, it’ll look the same just brighter

[bitter girder]

yes king

[deep sapphire]

I’ll never replace this gauge cluster these things are rare as fuck

I looked online and people were selling them for like 200 bucks haha

[lime wasp]

I tried basically every combination and method but I just can't get my GPU temps at a comfortable level.

88* while playing 2042 or Cyberpunk or Darktide just ain't it.

[lime wasp]

I thought about trying an mATX case because ASUS actually makes a really good one, but then I thought if I'm going up in size I might as well just get one that will absolutely do the job.

And hold modern GPUs without issue.

I did go pretty basic on the case though;

[modest moss]

didn't you already have an expensive atx case?

[sly elk]

I don't understand it either. The all-in-one tailgate is stupid

[lime wasp]

Sold it. Probably still wouldn't use it again even if I had it because it was simply too huge.

[modest moss]

ah

[lime wasp]

Though I will admit that it looked kinda cool.

If I ever got like my own dedicated gaming room I might buy another and make it like the showcase centerpiece of the room.

But homeownership ain't ever gonna be a thing so.

[sly elk]

what did ya have before?

those are nice

[burnt swallow]

@deep sapphire what the fuck you're a mod

[deep sapphire]

I've been a mod

well, mod on training wheels

[burnt swallow]

Also

I need help

[deep sapphire]

whats up friend

[burnt swallow]

So I have a 2TB portable HDD from Seagate that's fairly old that I used back in like 2020/2021 when I had a PS4

I'm trying to reformat it to use with my PC

[deep sapphire]

I can help you with that

right click start, and go to Disk Management

[burnt swallow]

This is why you're the tech mentor and not Shue

[deep sapphire]

https://i.imgur.com/bn42rVF.png you'll find something like this

hey shue is a wonderful tech mentor

[burnt swallow]

I thought I was losing my mind because it wasn't appearing in file explorer and my devices is only showing it as 'Portable'

[hard drift]

can also search this

[burnt swallow]

Anyways

[deep sapphire]

yeah that also works

but in disk management

[hard drift]

that's the method i use lol

[deep sapphire]

just find the disk

[burnt swallow]

The drive isn't initialized apparently so it wants me to choose MBT or GPT

[deep sapphire]

right click it

and go to format

select GPT

[burnt swallow]

Why

[deep sapphire]

because GPT is more modern

[burnt swallow]

[deep sapphire]

GPT is a newer partitioning standard than MBR and doesn’t have as many limitations. For example, MBR only allows for four primary partitions per drive and doesn’t support drives larger than 2 TB. GPT allows you to create hundreds of partitions per drive and supports drives larger than one billion terabytes.

MBR stands for master boot record and was used on older windows file systems

[burnt swallow]

I now have 1.863 GB of unallocated space

I assume this needs to change for file explorer to recognize this drive exists

[deep sapphire]

thats normal, the partition table will take some space

[burnt swallow]

So I can actually move things into it

[deep sapphire]

yeah format it to NTFS

and once thats done its good to go

[burnt swallow]

enable file and folder compression
Do I need this

[deep sapphire]

probably doesnt hurt to enable it

[burnt swallow]

I see

Thou hast saved me

File explorer sees it now

[deep sapphire]

that should be all you need to do, due note however because it is using NTFS, your PS4 wont be able to read the files

[burnt swallow]

I've long since rid myself of said PS4

I only have my PC now

[deep sapphire]

ah okay

then you are all set!

[burnt swallow]

[hard drift]

i hate tech 😔

it's so damn expensive lol

[deep sapphire]

thats why I keep my old shit

[hard drift]

BRO MY PARENTS TV NEEDS UPGRADED

[deep sapphire]

wat

[hard drift]

the panel is showing severe signs of age

[deep sapphire]

probably should've done it when the holidays were around lol

[hard drift]

we've had this thing since fucking 2010 area or some shit and it's moved overseas with us several times

[deep sapphire]

thats not bad

lived a solid life

[hard drift]

i mean yeah.... but man they keep saying "oh it's fine"

i shall replace this thing for them

the AV receiver is almost as much as the tv for the replacement ...

[deep sapphire]

dont spend the money if they dont care lol

[hard drift]

they for sure do care lol

i think they're just trying to wait it out though

[burnt swallow]

I have discovered

That moving 301 items totaling 163 GB from my SSD to my HDD all at once was a mistake

[hard drift]

LMAO

[burnt swallow]

Help

[hard drift]

yeah, go to bed and come back

it'll probably go slower than that

[burnt swallow]

Fuck

[deep sapphire]

yeah do it overnight when you are asleep

[modest moss]

You wouldn't know anything about me because you always ping Hank directly

[burnt swallow]

In my defense

I don't have a defense

[modest moss]

Hank is the tech mentor I'd ping if I needed help

[hard drift]

[burnt swallow]

I'm going to die of old age before this finishes

[hard drift]

we told you lmao, go to sleep and it'll be done in the morning

[kind ginkgo]

Tech is not expensive

If you know some basic

[hard drift]

basic what

[odd sand]

Don't need to use it with the PS5? heh

[kind ginkgo]

Spec, brand name price increase

Retail seller difference

Like yesterday i have to go 100km to the captital to bough a 6700xt card for 340 usd

While all the local store selling 3060 for 400 usd

Which is literally a scam

[burnt swallow]

I don't have a PS5

[odd sand]

Sold the PS4 but don't have PS5? 🤔

[burnt swallow]

Soon™️ I will acquire one again for absolutely no other reason than to play GoW: Ragnarok

I has PC

[odd sand]

I just ordered this:

[burnt swallow]

The hell is that

[kind ginkgo]

The pic is too small but art look like disgaea

[sly elk]

ugh i feel lazy

?

lol

[bitter girder]

魔界戦記ディスガイア7「予約特典】DLC特典めがねコスチュームセット 同梱
【Amazon.co.jp限定】DLC特典「魔法剣士

Clearly

[odd sand]

They just let anyone be mods these days /s

@sly elk I stand corrected. Upgrade your shit! /s https://twitter.com/Forspoken/status/1615348915972497408

Forspoken (@Forspoken)

Learn more about #Forspoken's PC performance and requirements.

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Twitter · Jan 17, 2023, 2:02 PM

[wide hill]

can't wait for digitalfoundry is going to dissect the pc version

[kind ginkgo]

6700xt for only 30fps 1440

Dayum what engine did this game used

[wide hill]

ffxv engine

[kind ginkgo]

So lumious then

[wide hill]

yep

i think the requirements looks kinda sus, idk if it's just the vram minimum requirement that is the problem or if its actually the performance

does the 'display resolution' mean it is guaranteed to hit that framerate, or 'targeting' that framerate

it might even go below 15 fps

[kind ginkgo]

Oh yeah 24gb ram

Lmao

I have everything for the recommended except ram

[wide hill]

nvm it says 16?

was it maybe ultra it was

[kind ginkgo]

16 was minimum

[wide hill]

yeah

though, this is performance without any AI resolution

the pc feature video specified FSR, but not DLSS

basically, if you use nvidia card, expect bad performance

since they only implemented only for amd to have 'good performance' or fake performance by making it look good by upscaling.

wait nvm

FSR is also supported on nvidia cards

well, that is cool

[dull garnet]

My favourite part was them saying a 6800 XT or a 4080. I guess the vram is a factor here

[deep sapphire]

@vague snow

TECHNOLOGY

I bet it has corrupt game files

!faq launchers

[opal panther]

**Official Launcher Giving you Trouble on Updates?**

Try these alternative 3rd party launchers.

For Windows:

https://goatcorp.github.io/

For Mac OS:

https://www.xivmac.com/

For Linux:

https://flathub.org/apps/details/dev.goats.xivlauncher

Alternative cross-platform:

https://github.com/eorzeatools/microlaunch
(developed by rin#3487 - contact them for help)

Please read all the documentation and guides for these launchers before requesting assistance.

Do note that these programs, like ACT, are technically against TOS. Treat them like Fight Club, and don't be rude while using them.

Please note no staff have tested the Mac, Linux and cross-platform launchers so use at your own discretion.

[deep sapphire]

I want you to download that, and then you can repair the game files

[vague snow]

I don’t wanna use third party stuff

Can’t I do that in the actual launcher tho?

[deep sapphire]

nope

doesnt offer that feature

and its safe, you wont get banned for using it

or we wouldnt recommend you use it

[vague snow]

What if I re install?

The official launcher

[deep sapphire]

you can try but there is a chance it will just do it again

I wont pressure you into doing something you dont want to do

[vague snow]

Won’t that happen aswell then when using that?

[deep sapphire]

give it a try, hopefully it resolves itself

this just scans game files to verify it with known good files

if something is corrupted it will let you know

[vague snow]

So this is just repair tool not a launcher?

[deep sapphire]

the problem with uninstallers is they dont remove everything

like the documents directory stays unchanged

[vague snow]

What if I delete it?

Before re installing

XD

[deep sapphire]

you will lose all your character files

[vague snow]

I usually delete folders that stay

[deep sapphire]

so you will have to redo all your hotbars

and whatever other customizations

[vague snow]

I put them on the cloud

[deep sapphire]

I guess a better approach

[vague snow]

In game

[deep sapphire]

you say the game freezes

[vague snow]

There is option for that

[deep sapphire]

is it the game, or your whole PC

[vague snow]

The whole pc

Like I’m just standing there in the game

For some mins after logging in

And all gets freezes

Freezed

The keyboard the mouse the screen

Nothing happens anymore

[deep sapphire]

so regardless of what you are doing in game, eventually your system locks up is that correct?

[vague snow]

I have to force restart

[deep sapphire]

more of a time issue

[vague snow]

Yep

[deep sapphire]

have you checked to see if your PC is overheating

[vague snow]

Gets frozen

Basically

[wide hill]

sounds like pc dying

[vague snow]

But after i restart

Doesn’t happen again

And if I go to other game

Doesn’t that happen that

Also before patch

[wide hill]

check cpu/gpu temps

[vague snow]

This never happened before

[wide hill]

are you limiting your framerate?

[vague snow]

No

[deep sapphire]

so you restart your PC, and launch ffxiv again and then it plays fine?

[vague snow]

Yes

[wide hill]

you should limit your framerate to your monitor

[deep sapphire]

this sounds like a driver or program conflict, or possibly memory leak

[vague snow]

I checked the event panel thing

[deep sapphire]

can you do me a favor

ah

[vague snow]

And it’s always

As in

[deep sapphire]

yeah I was gonna ask

[vague snow]

Something did a timeout

Or something couldn’t connect to something

It’s weird names and numbers so

[wide hill]

driver timeout?

[deep sapphire]

can you post the log information

[vague snow]

Didn’t saw the name driver anywhere

So idk

I’m not on pc now at work

[deep sapphire]

okay

[vague snow]

Was just asking if problems were fixed

With the game

Mainly the freeze thing

🤣

[deep sapphire]

yeah, this is more of your system causing it. the game is kinda picky though

[wide hill]

are you using a dedicated gpu or is it a igpu?

[deep sapphire]

when you get home, just ping me or make another post in #952326072542847016 so we can further troubleshoot this

it could be something as simple as installing a new/clean graphics driver

[vague snow]

3060 ti

And it’s new

Lol

I got it middle of last year

And the graphics driver is up to date

I check everyday

[wide hill]

the only time my desktop freezes is for example when the cpu is going crazy

not related to the game though

[vague snow]

Well my cpu is ryzen 5 3600

And I have it for awhile

And only have 16gb ram so

Which seems to be little nowadays

🤣

[kind ginkgo]

Nah i have same setup

Last time it freeze the gpu which is rx 580 was over temp

So i have to reapply thermal paste

And it run fine

For another 3 year

Just upgrade to 6700xt few day ago and 3600 can still handle it just fine

[wide hill]

and the psu?

[vague snow]

My psu is 650W

Also have it same time as cpu

[kind ginkgo]

Which rating

[vague snow]

Forgot lol

It’s gold something tho

Corsair

I think

[kind ginkgo]

At least bronze should be fine

Gold is alright then

Not under volt

[vague snow]

Maybe it’s the cpu

Since I got it

Never putted paste

And it’s been more then 3 years

[kind ginkgo]

Check cpu temp then

[vague snow]

What if is the hard drive btw?

I have the games on a sshd

And windows on a ssd

[wide hill]

sshd 😩

[vague snow]

The ssd doesn’t have much size tho

Sshd does

So games are there

[wide hill]

probably a bit difficult to diagnose that

[kind ginkgo]

Wait what is sshd ?

[vague snow]

It’s a firecuda something

[wide hill]

hdd with ssd cache

[kind ginkgo]

Huh

[vague snow]

It’s the name of it

[kind ginkgo]

Isn't that hybrid shit only laptop use

[vague snow]

Firecuda something something 2TB

No you can put on pc aswell

Lol

[wide hill]

i won't recommend it

[kind ginkgo]

I go straight for 2 tb nvme so i didn't know that

[wide hill]

it is however, a 'cheap' way to get ssd speed for commonly used files

[vague snow]

Back then a ssd of 2TB

Was expensive

So ye got hybrid isentas

Instead*

Better then pure hdd I guess

[wide hill]

maybe you can see it's S.M.A.R.T status

crystaldiskinfo

[vague snow]

Might do that

If it ain’t it

It’s cpu

Most likely

Or the game itself

XD

Because that doesn’t happen to other games

[wide hill]

also, limit your fps

[vague snow]

You mean v sync?

No lol

[wide hill]

no, not vsync

[kind ginkgo]

Honestly i can play ffxiv with amd onboard card and still get above 30fps

It borderline league in term of light weight

[wide hill]

limit fps, so you don't draw more power than you need

[vague snow]

You mean as in that option on game where it says

Max fps

[wide hill]

yes

[vague snow]

To put one of my monitor

As in 144 I this case?

[wide hill]

does it run above 144hz usually?

[vague snow]

Yes the fps can go to almost 200

On some places

[wide hill]

then just put max to 144

no need to get those extra 40fps

which you don't see

[vague snow]

Don’t we actually see max of 60?

XD

[kind ginkgo]

[wide hill]

you wouldn't have bought a 144hz screen if you really thought that

[vague snow]

Im asking

Cause ppl saying a person doesn’t see above 60

XD

[wide hill]

it is an illusion

[vague snow]

?

[wide hill]

you could say the same with "oh, a person can't see more than 24fps cuz you can see the image moving"

144hz vs 60hz allows better responsiveness to inputs and more to see, so, there isn't such thing as 'you can't see', cause you can see the smoothness.

https://www.testufo.com/

[vague snow]

Oh I see

[vague snow]

There is big difference ye