technology-discussion

[sly elk]

a pop-up intake

like how pop-up headlights work lol

[dire viper]

those are actually a thing

Lamborghini did them on of the early 2000's model

right behind the B pillars are two intakes that open when you start getting on the gas

yea

the Murcielago

they call them batwings

can see how they are open

I think its intended for ram air effect

[umbral moss]

Until the top mount intercooler started becoming a fashion statement instead and heat soak set in

[dire viper]

which would make sense

thats why you got a water sprayer smh

thats a factory thing

they sell kits to attach that to a larger cooler you can have in the car and people will fill them with water and ice to keep the intercooler as cold as possible

or just throw ice directly onto the intercooler

which is always funny to see

there is a local guy here who runs a 911 Turbo (993 gen) that is apparently an uber rare GT2 body car but with Turbo running gear

[umbral moss]

I don't remember seeing a water sprayer on my car last time I had the hood open

[dire viper]

and the heat that the engine produces is enough they have a custom brack that lets them shove dry ice on the intercooler

[dire viper]

do you have a WRX STi

[umbral moss]

Legacy gt

[dire viper]

then thats why

[umbral moss]

Same ej, different transmission

And annoyingly a different exhaust routing so none of the wrx exhaust systems will fit

[dire viper]

yuh

just buy a Legacy Spec.B

touring WRX STi basically

[umbral moss]

I'm trying to get an ev and I'm just slowly replacing the broken bits on this stupid thing

[dire viper]

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a18201413/2006-subaru-legacy-25gt-specb-short-take-road-test/

[umbral moss]

I hate how expensive it is to feed this car

[dire viper]

shoulda bought a Lexus LS 😔

I cant even find an LS400

its like a true dream car

I want one with the variable suspension

[umbral moss]

I'm not made of money

I didn't hit the stock market lottery

[dire viper]

LS400's are like

8k at most really

the best way to find one is an estate sale

I think its one of the longest owned cars on average or something crazy

I will forever not be disappointed in newer cars after having driven older more mechanical cars

https://youtu.be/DGiiSEIR9FI?si=nKbk2f1i962fv1U6

those old 911's 😩

[sly elk]

the Lexus LS

the car that looks worse every generation lol

the first one was the best :3

the later ones aren't the worst thing in the world but it just doesn't have the "I am a proper luxury car" vibe to them

then again nor does anything caddy makes anymore lol

BMW has never been terribly successful at that either

but it aint bad

[sly elk]

ewww

https://old.reddit.com/r/fender/comments/1b1qeaz/bugs_in_the_body/

[wide hill]

how tf do i use the new-new-reddit

i can't even exit the posts

like, the new reddit update made me prefer going to twitter instead, jesus

it's that bad

[inland mauve]

you don't

the writing has been on the wall for Reddit for a while now

[burnt swallow]

@deep sapphire help

[potent arrow]

watcha break

[burnt swallow]

I'm trying to mod a game I've modded in the past

With the latest version of a file I need to run the exe that adds the mods

But it's setting off my antivirus through Windows and gets auto-deleted

So the exe won't run since that file gets nuked when I try to run it

[potent arrow]

o-ok and is the file 100% safe? lol

[burnt swallow]

It is

[potent arrow]

if it is, you can go into Windows defender and find it in quarantine/actions and allow it to exist

[burnt swallow]

It's a false flag going off that's also present in Cheat Engine if you're familiar with that

[potent arrow]

yeah, just go into defender. Find the quarantined file and allow it

[burnt swallow]

Defender nukes the file when it detects it

It won't let me allow it

[potent arrow]

are you admin?

[burnt swallow]

I am

[potent arrow]

that's uh

odd

[real edge]

one of the cracks on an old VN gets detected and I am pretty sure I could go and white flag it under windows defender settings

or sth

[burnt swallow]

It gets more odd when the previous version of this file doesn't set off either Defender or my virus detection

But the newest version sets off both

Virus detection quarantines it and then Defender nukes it into orbit before I can even look at it

[potent arrow]

oh your other AV night be locking you off defender lol

I don't know if they still do that, but I've had some avs do that

[burnt swallow]

I don't have another AV except for the free version of Malwarebytes

Which doesn't really count I think?

[potent arrow]

nah shouldn't then

weird

is it greyed out or

[burnt swallow]

Defender Firewall doesn't let me select the file at all to allow it through since it isn't an exe

[potent arrow]

that's not what I mean

there's an area that says actions under AV

and you can see the recent actions

there will be a drop down that lets you select and allow the file

click actions and hit allow or w/e

[burnt swallow]

There's no actions tab since Defender nuked the file

I think I need to turn this off, download the file and let it be quarantined and then come back to whitelist it

[potent arrow]

you shouldn't have too this is odd, but I guess you can try that. I never liked recommending turning it off lmao

[burnt swallow]

That's what I had to do

Turned off virus protection and downloaded file then turned it back on

I actually had to do it twice

The first time it just restored the file

The second time it tried to nuke the file and then I had the option to allow it

So stupid

[potent arrow]

windows

love ut

[bitter girder]

tim sweeney is actually dr giggle touch

[sharp star]

is this about the Epic Games hack

[kind rune]

what epic games hack

free vbucks?

[inland mauve]

a ransomware group claimed they stole like 200 GB of data from Epic

including a lot of personally identifiable data

[kindred brook]

why doesn't NA

get Waifu edition

graphic cards

[sly elk]

https://old.reddit.com/r/LGR/comments/1az34x4/found_this_relic_in_a_thrift_store/

neat computer

lol https://old.reddit.com/r/LGR/comments/1aud053/found_an_imeron_igs350_speaker_chair/

[sly elk]

ooo

i should check if my monitor has firmware updates lol

[wraith agate]

It works like that too

Sees helldivers, calls in bots

[kindred brook]

if my mobo and dd4 4 is kind of working but kind of not lol

is it worth getting a z690 board with ddr5

or is it like meh

I got a 12700k

[modest moss]

shut up Raz

[modest moss]

pinging to make sure you hear me

12700k and ddr4 is fine, so is your 3080ti

stop trying to waste money

[umbral moss]

Pin it so we can use it in every channel

[modest moss]

I'm running 12700k with ddr4 and a 3070ti and it's great

the only game it struggled with at 1440p was the last of us which was a known dogshit game

[umbral moss]

I, however, am using hardware from 2016 so it's time

[modest moss]

you'll build one eventually

[umbral moss]

2025

[modest moss]

5090 maybe?

[umbral moss]

Probably a better deal

The 5090 will be like 8x my current GPU performance lmao

The 4090 is just under 4x the titan xp if I recall

[kindred brook]

oh I mean I was moving

and uh

I had my tower standing

and the video cardd kind of fell out

and now I got to sit my tower sideways

the sag was too much

and it pulled the card out of the slot lol

its kind of jank

my DDR won't run in XMP anymore either

[umbral moss]

That's why you should water cool gpus at minimum 👍

[kindred brook]

lol

[umbral moss]

Blessed one slot cooling that doesn't weigh 30kg

[kindred brook]

I mean my PC is working LOL just if its standing upright

even with a stand off

the monitors sometimes turn off

and I have to readjust it

sideways seems to be working fine

[umbral moss]

Sounds like your slot is also pulled off the board lmao

[kindred brook]

I'm pretty sure the PCI-E slot

yeah

[kindred brook]

pretty sure the PCI-E slot is kind of jank now

its pretty stable atm sideways

[umbral moss]

Don't know why we still expect a thin piece of plastic to hold up a literal 3kg copper brick

[kindred brook]

it was a thin piece of metal WITH a thumb screw

[umbral moss]

It's time to make good quality pcie ribbons or stop shipping air cooled gpus

[kindred brook]

TYVM

[umbral moss]

No, the slot itself is just plastic shoved over the metal contacts lmao

It's not actually a structural support, it's held on by friction and prayer (that you won't put a heavy ass brick on it)

[kindred brook]

OHHHH

LOl

there were some nasty ass potholes

on the freeway

atleast I got to where

its fuckin stable now

[umbral moss]

That's also why you usually take the GPU out when you're moving

[modern iris]

PCIE ribbons?

You mean like making it like an IDE cable and putting the GPU in a drive bay, that kinda thing?

[umbral moss]

That's how those super small volume boxes work

The GPU is mounted parallel to the board instead of perpendicular with a ribbon jumping the card to the board

[modern iris]

GPUs are way too heavy now.

I have to wonder though, in that case why aren’t horizontally-oriented cases a bigger thing like they used to be? That would solve part of the issue.

[kindred brook]

look I moved lasst time with it inside

and it was fine lol

the roads this time

were just really really rough

but yes

as a precaution

will take out the GPU lol

@modest moss

Did you see the conversation lol

[modest moss]

it still works you said

gg

mmm delicious electricity bills

[modest moss]

@potent arrow Ropalolyst, let's go

I can't solo it

nm I got a squad

[compact pine]

Hey I put those in

That heat pump installed is like 20k +

Sounds bout right

Sure I didn't install it ??

[potent arrow]

why this chat lmao

[modest moss]

that other channel is muted for my mental health

[compact pine]

I did one job last fall for 60k

[potent arrow]

LOL

[compact pine]

CAD

OOP

BRUH

[modest moss]

make them fix it

[compact pine]

That's a fix they ain't gon do

[modest moss]

you can't bill for a thing and not install it

are the GS inferior to the F?

I ain't reading that lol

yeah tell them you're paid in full

[compact pine]

Got one of these? Or this a multi head condenser?

[modest moss]

they'll counter, you counter, etc

[compact pine]

ATTIC those poor bastards

This was the 60k

Ottawa :haha good guess

It's right on the river big custom house dude went all out think my most expensive job

TWELVE

Amazing thats what

Very reliable. I never fix mitsu

Technically ..... you can cool in cold weather

With that unit

I never have anyone to tell this to expect customers hahah noone wants to hear HVAC I SWEAR

[umbral moss]

Hvac is the only way to get your energy efficiency up

[modern iris]

So this is a stupid question- in theory, would turning a desktop on its side with the GPU and fancy bits pointing up be harmful to it, since it wouldn't be blocking the vents or anything?

[umbral moss]

No, that's how pcs used to be

But keep in mind a full atx is 12 inches wide and 30 inches tall

So if you flip it you're 12 inches tall and 30 inches wide

[modern iris]

I mean literally flipping the tower on its side and placing it on a solid surface under the desk.

[umbral moss]

Yes

Your tower is rectangular

If you flip it that major axis isn't taking up vertical space

[modern iris]

I'd kill for one of those 1990s style cases you can sit the display on.

[umbral moss]

You can still do that with one of those turbodense tiny volume cases

They're just a pain in the ass to build because everything is so stacked

[modest moss]

They still sell desktop cases I'm pretty sure

[potent arrow]

with how cold it gets there surprised heat exchangers are efficient

freezed my ass off living there for a while and was like nooope

[compact pine]

thats why they enormous and takes three guys to get these damn things up

[sly elk]

i thought the 60k was for all the work involved in setting those up lol

[compact pine]

i should have also said it was a two week job reconfiguring ducts and units in the basement

[sly elk]

ya i could see that lol

wait you have mini splits and still have ductwork?

[compact pine]

yes what if i told you that id a new thing now. havnt combo'd it yet like that but we cna use a coil on a air handler and split heads in teh same system

[zealous wolf]

am unsure why not only FF14 keeps crashing, but also other programs, even firefox too

even ran virus scans etc and nothing so far has sniffed anything out

[sly walrus]

check your ram

[dire viper]

Also if you never turn your pc off turn it off

[latent ore]

Turn off your pc once in a while

[full shale]

I'm looking at replacing my laptop that is really struggling with loading word documents now with the 2023 Asus Zephyrus G14

Has anyone run FFXIV on it?

And along those lines, is FFXIV considered a heavy load game? (I main on PS5 so the terminology is lost to me)

[latent ore]

Ffxiv is not a hard game to run

[potent arrow]

any modern laptop or PC within the last 3-4 years will run ff14 well. Even with the new requirements

[latent ore]

If you can I would heavily suggest you go for a pc over a laptop

And that laptop would 100% be able to run the game

Not even a question

[full shale]

This week be my work laptop than I can play FFXIV on when at my in-laws house

[latent ore]

From what I see from a quick google, depending on which one you get you could run pretty much every game

Specification wise that is

[potent arrow]

I'm guessing you are quebecoise/Canadian. Canada computers sometimes have pretty good deals on legions if you really need a laptop

[latent ore]

Legion 5i is what I have

Very much recommend

[zealous wolf]

so i tested the ram and nothing came up

[full shale]

I'm actually in Texas, working in a social work related friend

[zealous wolf]

and so far im not sure where to go at this point

[potent arrow]

oh lmao

Fleur de lis is a Quebec thing

so I assumed

[latent ore]

What’s your issue?

[potent arrow]

my bad

[latent ore]

Ram not showing up or something?

[potent arrow]

if you open a forum post I can work with you on this issue

should be able to help you sort it out or at least get some diagnostics going

[full shale]

Cajun family so the Acadian transplant group

[potent arrow]

ooooh

[zealous wolf]

problems started out when XIV was crashing madly after a couple mins of each time booting up, it got to the point where even firefox crashed as well, even a couple of my other games too

[latent ore]

Are you 100% sure that’s an issue with just your ram?

[zealous wolf]

did a virus/malware scan, they sniffed only fresh air, ram test yielded nothing, even nuked the gpu drivers to different versions

right now, amd driver ver is at 24.1.1, the only one thats been working before the crashes

[latent ore]

Oh

Amd

[potent arrow]

is it a black screen or a BSOD crash

[latent ore]

I’m of no use here sorry

[zealous wolf]

black screens occured with XIV earlier today

[potent arrow]

ok so

with the other users I've worked with

let me double check the path one sec

[zealous wolf]

the card i have is a non-xt ver of the RX 6700

[potent arrow]

Documents/My Games/Final Fantasy

take that final fantasy folder and back it up

and delete the one in the original location

so it's empty

those are your configs and hotbars

and then run the game see if it's stable

I had two people recently with a black screen after a few minutes of running the game

and their configs were corrupted

[zealous wolf]

ah so take the ARR folder and back it up into a different place

[potent arrow]

yeah and run it clean

so the game regenerates those folders

if not, I do ask you create a new forum post in the tech support forums so I can help you more. Keeps track of the issue and let's others jump in too

[latent ore]

It’s not just ffxiv though @potent arrow

[potent arrow]

jeanz

[latent ore]

Yes

[potent arrow]

just let me try

[latent ore]

Understood

[potent arrow]

it's very similar and been common recently so I'm doing the obvious first.

otherwise I will go further.

I have my methods

[zealous wolf]

at first i thought the newest AMD drivers were the culprit

and also i run XIV with shaders

[latent ore]

my method is to hit it

Did you try that?

This is a joke

[potent arrow]

jeanz let's not joke around when we are trying to diagnose

[potent arrow]

usually when drivers crash it's a BSOD not a black screen

or you get a directx error

ff14 likes to spit those out a lot

[zealous wolf]

gonna run the game now

[potent arrow]

kk

[latent ore]

As always make sure drivers are up to date and such

Sometimes it’s small things like that that cause all the issues

[zealous wolf]

im not running the latest AMD drivers cause i thought the crashes are related to it

[potent arrow]

rolling back is fine

[latent ore]

I’m not an expert on AMD but a lot of issues with stuff can be caused by outdated drivers

But a lot of issues can also be caused by up to date drivers too

[zealous wolf]

alrighty, im ingame now

[potent arrow]

your hotbars and stuff are all reset right

[zealous wolf]

let me play around for a little bit and see if it crashes or gives a black screen

[zealous wolf]

yup

[potent arrow]

good good

[zealous wolf]

rip

the game crashed

[sly walrus]

check ur ram

windows memory diagnostic

run that shit

[zealous wolf]

i did ran a ram test and it found nothing

@potent arrow

[potent arrow]

aight

can you open event viewer

see if there's any recent critical events

[zealous wolf]

like where to look?

[potent arrow]

open start, search for event viewer

run that program

and it'll show you a whole slew of events that happen on your computer

[zealous wolf]

the only critical events are related to kernal power or so

but the last one happened around 4:30pm

[potent arrow]

that's like kernel id 41 or something right?

that just means unexpected shutdown

not much to go off by hmm

!faq repair

[opal panther]

File Repair

To repair game files using the unofficial launcher, download from this post; ⁠⁠#974369719987630150 message
After installation, open the launcher and right click the login button. There will be an option to 'Repair game files'

Please be aware this will reset your installation entirely so it is strongly suggested you back up your settings.

[potent arrow]

you can also try this

[zealous wolf]

let me try that then

it says all files look valid or so

[potent arrow]

aight so ff should be fine.....just from a preliminary guess

just to get caught up to speed
updated GPU drivers
ran windows updates
check game integrity
not corrupted settings
checked the ram settings

[zealous wolf]

ram came out with no errors

[potent arrow]

we sorry that's what I meant

[zealous wolf]

let me launch the game and see if i get another puke crash

now, ill run a random dungeon, and see if a crash will occur

[jaunty nacelle]

sometimes my games will randomly start crashing and I'm like "it's driver updating time"

that always fixes the issues

[deep sapphire]

typical AMD response

[zealous wolf]

well now

i completed the dungeon

without crashing

so i think the problem might be the shaders....

[potent arrow]

welp

time to uninstall them and do a clean reinstall and see if it still crashes

[zealous wolf]

i can do this tomorrow and see how it plays out

welp this is new

a BSOD

kernal security check failure or so

[latent ore]

[zealous wolf]

so uh yeah, im not sure what to say on that

[latent ore]

Kernel security check failure

So have you updated windows at all?

[zealous wolf]

it occured after i closed out XIV

[latent ore]

I’m gonna take a guess and say memory corruption

[potent arrow]

usually that's a bad driver or some corrupted system file or hardware issue. It's 1:30 am so I need to start winding down. I do encourage opening a new forum post so the other tech mentors can see your issues and keep track. I will try and pick up the issue tomorrow either way.

[latent ore]

Sleep well

Personally my go to after trying everything is just wiping the device and starting over

You can try booting into safe mode and running some scans

[sly elk]

sega does things 8bitdont

[zealous wolf]

welp, i posted the thread

[sly elk]

what thread?

oh a tech support one? that's a good idea ^^

sorry to hear you're having so much crashing X_X

[sly elk]

https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1b35mcl/lenovos_latest_transparent_monitor/

this is hot

i kinda want a sff pc

wow

https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1b3nrf9

full out custom loop in a tiny case lol

wow lmao

https://old.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/1b17lyi/just_got_a_intel_ppro_workstation_and_im_more/

didn't know these were a thing haha

[kindred brook]

@modest moss

My fix lol

Had that to water bottle

It's heavy enough to press down the gpu on the pci-e slot

Pretty jank but it works

[compact pine]

Oh that it some real jank

[modest moss]

Looks perfect

[kindred brook]

it has not

black screened once

I FIXED IT

so eds theory on

it ripping off the pci-e slot

was right lol

I don't know if there is any other method in pressing down the gpu onto the slot

[potent arrow]

permanent solution would to be replace the motherboard and not risk your stuff by your GPU going out randomly lol

[kindred brook]

Shue thinks it's fine tho

I listen to dad

Father knows better

[potent arrow]

yeah.....relying on flexing the PCB surely is the long term solution.....

[kindred brook]

. >

[modest moss]

is it okay that I am amused by you telling Raz not to do something that I think you'd definitely do to your own rig

[potent arrow]

you know how I operate lol

[modest moss]

like yeah, Raz should get a new mobo if he was a normal person

but he's dumb with money and might as well build a new rig with DDR5 when 5090 drops

[potent arrow]

wtf

[kindred brook]

whaaaaaaaat no I'm not! I am just saving money for a house deposit right now

I definitely have money lol

hey atleast I dont' have any uh vices

or simp for vtubers

[umbral moss]

Experience is the best basis for conjecture

I broke one of the usb panel headers on my case that way, the connector got ripped off the board and fucked the crimp on the cables or something

Only one set of front headers works anymore

[kindred brook]

Oh lol

[umbral moss]

That's why I want to build a new case before I buy a new pc

Set up all the harnesses for the pumps and panels before the actual board goes in

[modest moss]

the price difference on your link yesterday was minimal

just tell them to sue you for the balance and a judge can sort it out

[deep sapphire]

just top it up with freon

[sly elk]

you know

i just noticed something funny today about my computer

when I changed out my 9700k for the 7800x3d

i put the fan in backwards lol 😄

[lost python]

lol

[sly elk]

it doesn't really matter much because the top 3 are exhaust anyway

[lost python]

well, it does unless your back also has dustfilters

[sly elk]

only the bottom of my case has dust filters

and tbh they don't really do much to stop dust from getting in lol

[lost python]

otherwise you are just throwing r a w u n f i l t e r e d air into the case

they would, if you keep them clean and not have another input throw dust inside

[compact pine]

I straight up tell clients immediately when we get it wrong hahha and refund anytime for those problems

[compact pine]

Listen here you degenerate

[sly elk]

i don't get it

didn't you show us a page last night where the difference was like 80 bucks

those guys sound like shysters

yep

that's also what i am thinking

plus they have to recharge the system because unhooking it means all the coolant goes bye-bye no?

either way ugh that leaves a nasty taste

blah my brother decided he wants to use one of his dvd-recorder-vcr units from his collection but it doesn't have a remote, and AS USUAL the majority of the functionality requires a remote. And as usual the universal remotes we have on hand don't have codes for that model lmao

dvd recorder + vcr units are hella niche

but what i've noticed much to my amusement is universal remote support has gone down the drain, too

[deep sapphire]

wym

[kindred brook]

@modest moss my brother has his old ddr4

going to take that

just need to rget a new board lol

that can hold me over

[compact pine]

You can pump down the units and save a vast majority of the charge without waste

[random marlin]

Jeez dude $219 for best buy’s protection

[sly elk]

on what?

[random marlin]

Laptop i’ve got coming in on monday

[umbral moss]

Scam as usual

It either arrives dead or never dies

[sly elk]

that's only true for people who take care of their equipment

[umbral moss]

You never have something die after the warranty period but before you're ready for a new one

[sly elk]

that's an accidental damage plan

[umbral moss]

Those horseshit policies have a billion exceptions for "accidental" damage

[sly elk]

the target audience for those is someone who is buying a new piece of gear because they accidentally killed thier last few

yeaaa i'm not surprised

[umbral moss]

They're never a genuine "you broke it, here's a new one"

[sly elk]

but still

[umbral moss]

It's basically pure profit because you can't collect on it

Huge scam

I don't know why those things are still allowed

Oh right, stocks go up so it's legal, never mind

[sly elk]

idk i've bought those for office chairs a few times

every time they actually did just send me a check/gift card with the $$ i paid for the chair in the beginning when I made a claim lol

they do usually make it kinda annoying to do that

buying those for tech items is kinda meh because if you can get past the first year or so the item is often usually only worth about what the warranty cost in the first place

my favorite is the appliance version!

I've heard of appliance extended warranties where, say, you spend $1000 on a washer and the washer totally dies. You spent $350 on a warranty. You call the warranty company and they send a tech out. Tech says it'll cost $600 to fix.

Warranty company says: "Congratulations! Your machine is totaled! Here's the $350 you spent on the warranty!"

[umbral moss]

Insurance is a scam

give us money to protect you from accidents, actually, nah, youre not getting it back because the incident occurred on a Sunday during a full moon and since jupiter is in retrograde that means your policy doesn't cover the incident

[random marlin]

o ya also

[sly elk]

LOL

[random marlin]

do you guys prefer samsung or western digital for ssds

[umbral moss]

Should have paid for the platinum plus policy, which is only invalid for microgravity fluctuations

[sly elk]

i did get the warranty for my galaxy fold 4 and I don't feel totally ripped off by it

[umbral moss]

Wd, Samsung sucks

[sly elk]

but at the same time not exactly ecstatic about it either

[random marlin]

[umbral moss]

Don't let Samsung try to coast on their mini quality revolution in the early 2000s

[sly elk]

atm crucial is my favorite

wd is also fine

[umbral moss]

They make garbage now and take advantage of their size to avoid any serious blowback

[sly elk]

honestly i'd buy either crucial or wd without worry

there are some other ones i've heard great things about

[umbral moss]

Like, who's going to challenge the galaxy series, they simply just waited out the competition

[sly elk]

like sk hynix

afaik the corsair ones are also ok?

[umbral moss]

Corsair is just a rebrand, probably crucial honestly

[sly elk]

^ yea whenever buying corsair PSUs or SSDs it's good to find out who made that specific model

[umbral moss]

The crucial t700 is the fastest thing you can buy right now

[sly elk]

although I'm not sure they straight up rebrand the ssds

it's sad to think about samsung ssds lol

[umbral moss]

I doubt they actually make them

[sly elk]

up until the 980 disaster they had a really really good reputation

[umbral moss]

So did Intel until Samsung shit on them with high capacity drives

[sly elk]

like for a short period of time they offered 10 year warranties on their pro line lol

i am a fan of my crucial ssds though

got a couple p5 plus and a p3 plus laying around

[umbral moss]

Yeah, before they started using their own firmware and controller to cut costs

And then they realized that firmware costs so much for a reason

Crucial just uses phison

[sly elk]

also crucial is 'murican so

[umbral moss]

All made in Vietnam anyway

[sly elk]

kind of a mix of everything lol

afaik micron does make a lot of nand and dram in the US

the SSDs themselves might not be assembled here and the chips themselves might not either (looks like the P5+ for example uses a micron-specific chip that was made in taiwan)

i wouldn't be surprised if the nand flash made here was earmarked for aerospace and/or industrial applications

[umbral moss]

Probably military because of the berry rule

[sly elk]

LOL I'm playing with making phone calls from my mac so I can set up the stream deck for my mom's computer

turns out you can do this with applescript. yay!

so I did that and it says call failed. Then after a few seconds my phone starts ringing lmao

except by then the computer totally gave up on making the call.

https://tenor.com/view/i-love-technology-jauwad-family-feud-canada-tech-enthusiast-im-a-tech-guy-gif-27185251

[odd sand]

Well that was a good ego boost today

Still feeling anxiety over the upcoming performance reviews for work bc I feel like they're gonna ream me for the way the last project went and that giving me a panic attack when they put me on the spot for why certain stuff wasn't finished.

But regardless of how our assistant lead on the contract may feel, my direct mgr said he was going to put in a favorably review and then on the contracting side of things, the overall dept lead said he was gonna talk with mgmt on my contractee side recommending what would amount to a promotion for me to a full engineer position

As I've been in this pseudo engineer position for awhile now where it's the wonderful them paying me as an analyst while I'm often doing engineering work

[glossy ravine]

I am once again telling Macrohard that Windows 11 sucks.

As it turns out, OneDrive in enabled by default if you sign into your MS account and automagically puts files in it.

Which is fine, a little annoying but. Whatever. Your free storage limit is 5 GB. Anything more and it harasses you to pay for more storage.

There's one tiny, Itty bitty detail. if you delete OneDrive. Those files you thought were saved on your desktop locally? They vanish. Because they were never on your storage device to begin with.

I don't want your damn storage Macrohard.

[modern iris]

Have faith in yourself. It sounds like you’re on the way up in the world.

[odd sand]

I have faith in myself but if the ppl who pay the money out dont i dont get a raise lol

[modern iris]

Oh. Just trying to be positive, sorry

[sly elk]

onedrive is cheap tho

i set up w11 with a local account and then added onedrive to a custom folder lol

i don't know why they couldn't just do things normally

[glossy ravine]

I begrudgingly have a Macrohard account because of Xbox/Halo. I just wish all the extra shit wasn't forced down your throat.

[sly elk]

if you feel bad about that you should see the apple side lol 😄

idevices get pretty hostile without an icloud account

even if one isn't required

[warm pine]

Any good budget PCs for new owners like me?

[sly elk]

what's your budget like and what do you want to do with the pc? :3 and are you in the US?

[vestal crane]

@potent arrow

What if I just... pin it

Right here, right now

[potent arrow]

it's glorious

[vestal crane]

I can never leave a merch message

How could I ever top that masterpiece

[potent arrow]

I need to figure out who did it

it could be like

5 people I know lol

[vestal crane]

...

How many people know the meme?

[sly walrus]

it wasn’t you?

[potent arrow]

my entire car groups and cohort

[vestal crane]

...

[potent arrow]

my partner's circle too

so it's like

a handful

I know five people who use it as an email notification noise lol

more people use the bark

[vestal crane]

...

[potent arrow]

Meara you don't understand how far memes on discord goes in my friend groups lmfao

I hate LTT and would never give them my money

so it has to be one of the car guys or my partner

[cold yacht]

Fuckin poggers meara immortalize in ltt

[vestal crane]

[potent arrow]

I cannot believe this is how you are immortalized

[warm pine]

Us anything in general from gaming to other stuff, at max 1,500

[sly elk]

usually you start with the budget and then work backwards with priorities like

1500 is a good budget

[warm pine]

Cause like I'm scared to build a PC

[sly elk]

if you were interested in building

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/b47ppB

that is 1606 including a windows 11 home license lol. A lot of people ignore those when pricing things out

i think there are possible places to trim some fat

for example, if you had a microcenter nearby 😄

that gpu is also on the expensive side for a 7800xt. You can find 7900xts on sale for just a tiny bit more.

[warm pine]

I have no idea what you just said

Also do I like build it myself or do I have a tech expert build it

[warm pine]

What about something at least 900

[sly elk]

not sure I'd really go with this but just playing around with an idea

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/2Qpmvj

also, 119 sounds like a lot for a friggin "OEM" copy of windows 11 home

you can buy a retail version from ms with a nice usb stick for 139 >>

[warm pine]

I legit don't know anything about PCs

[sly elk]

it's ok, there's always prebuilts

https://www.costco.com/cyberpowerpc-gamer-xtreme-gaming-desktop---13th-gen-intel-core-i5-13400f----geforce-rtx-4060%2C-black.product.4000202717.html?sh=true&nf=true

here's one for $900

it has faster everything than the diy build i linked lol

[warm pine]

Never bought anything from Costco ( don't have one at my location) can this run 4k ?

[sly elk]

lots of things can 'run 4k' but what do you have in mind?

[dire viper]

uh

4k what

4k 60fps?

on a modern game?

[warm pine]

Yeah

[dire viper]

probably not

[golden stream]

likely not, or hard to find ngl

[dire viper]

4k is exceedingly intensive on GPU's

[warm pine]

Watched a review , cons are hugh temps and loud fans but pros , cheap and more than likely a good starter

[golden stream]

also if you have a laptop, you can just install windows by yourself

[sly elk]

prebuilts really don't make good 'starters' these days

[warm pine]

I don't mind 1080 p 30fps

[dire viper]

they do work if you want something plug and play

[warm pine]

Unfortunately I only have a Chromebook

[sly elk]

yep

[dire viper]

and honestly a 4060 isnt awful

[sly elk]

what I mean by that is don't expect to be able to toss a 4090 in there

yea it'll be fine, especially for a $900 pc lol

that said

[warm pine]

Plus I found out it's really upgradeable so I could probably fix the high temps and loud fans I think

[golden stream]

I have 4060 lappy, it's fine and it's the only lappy 4xxx with 6gb vram in the prie bracket tho

[dire viper]

if you are playing at 1080p a 4060 is like perfectly fine

[warm pine]

Is Costco even reliable shipping tech?

[sly elk]

i'm sure plenty of games run ok at 4k lol 😄

like 4k 60fps maybe with some old games

[dire viper]

wait thats a costco link lmao?

wild

they do actually sell everything

[sly elk]

i saw that on slickdeals

[warm pine]

But can it run FFXIV well

[dire viper]

yes

if the BIOS is setup right it shouldnt have any issues

[warm pine]

alright now I just need to save up

[dire viper]

I would hope they dont have XMP turned off @_@

[warm pine]

Crazy thing is the review I see said if you want to get a higher costing one the I7 is the way to go .....BUT ITS SOLD OUT NOW

[warm pine]

Xmp?

[sly elk]

if you can afford a few bones more

https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/omen-40l-gaming-desktop-gt21-1000m-6m9k9av-1

something like that would probably be a nicer machine

[dire viper]

XMP means extreme memory profile

[warm pine]

Bones?

[dire viper]

im not sure how it works but XMP basically means your RAM is a lot faster

[sly elk]

ah nevermind that one

[dire viper]

and its a setting to turn on

there is a huge difference between XMP off and on

and some companies dont turn it on for whatever reason

luckily you can do it from home

[warm pine]

Could I transfer history or data from Chrome to the PC?

[sly elk]

yep

[warm pine]

HOPEFULLY I won't have to see another Russian badger BEGGING me to download opera GX after this lol

I get too many of that ad

[dire viper]

I just use firefox

its the most neutral out of the browsers

[warm pine]

What's bone do?

[sly elk]

rofl sorry i meant it cost a little more

[dire viper]

bones as in money

[sly elk]

don't bother

[warm pine]

Oh

Lol

[sly elk]

buying direct from hp is a pain in the ass

[dire viper]

nobody knows where the slang bones came from for money

[sly elk]

after i read about it i was reading some comments and someone ordered like in december and just got theirs lmao

for a big brand prebuilt the omens are nice though

[dire viper]

who knows what prices will be like in a few months tho

or when NVIDIA launches 50 series

whenever that is

[sly elk]

true that

if you're not buying right now don't worry about what's out there right now lol

[warm pine]

Never ordered anything from Costco , I hope once I save up

A. it'll still be there

B. It actually works and runs well and isn't broken

[dire viper]

by the time you save up the money for a prebuilt it may end up being a much better time for PC buying

[sly elk]

chances are you'll get something better when you have the $$ 🙂

[dire viper]

yea

market always changing

I think NVIDIA woulda already kicked the bucket if they didnt restrain themselves as much as they do

50 series will probably be vastly better than 40 series 💀

I hope so so I can buy someones 4080 heheheh

[warm pine]

Lol , my mom be saying "800-900 for a computer is expensive" there's no such thing as a PC 2 plus you can upgrade PCs CONSTANTLY

[sly elk]

mmm

[dire viper]

I would say 900 bucks is certainely an amount of money but also its not a crazy amount for a PC

[sly elk]

i have a 3080ti and am waiting to see if someone fire sales a 7900xtx 😄

yeaa

900 for a pc with a real gpu is on the cheap side

remember, nvidia makes gpus that cost more than that

[warm pine]

Like I could the next couple months make it into a 1600 dollar worth PC with enough knowledge

Eh?

[dire viper]

my pc is around 1400?

and it would be a lot cheaper now than when I bought the parts

[warm pine]

From the beginning or upgraded?

[dire viper]

ive upgraded it a few times but currently it would be 1400

[sly elk]

4080 super and 4090 cost more than $1k

[dire viper]

4090 not even worth 😔

[warm pine]

I always feel overwhelmed cause pretty much Everyones PC is unique

[dire viper]

its like buying a titan to watch youtube videos

[warm pine]

It's nothing like a console where everything is the exact same

[dire viper]

thats fair

we were all there at one point

PC's arent crazy complicated at the surface level and a lot of the basic knowledge is all you need

[modern iris]

At least more stuff is integrated compared to the old days. Right?

Like you usually don’t need a sound card, network card, etc.

[potent arrow]

it's not too unique tbh,
there are like 4 good recommended CPUs
a one or two recommended GPU in each price range,
then you have things that don't really matter too much just gotta do some research if they suck or not(motherboard features) and looking at latency/timing(ram)

you can learn a lot from watching a handful of YouTube videos and you will see the extra common parts

if you want to further narrow down what you need, type in like game you play often PC build benchmark

and it'll show you videos with parts and how they run on it

the PC building community is big too, so if you throw together a list of parts people will help out usually

[sly elk]

28 sounds hot

82

that's nice and warm

[odd sand]

There are a couple incredibly common builds, and there are very few things you can mess up these days. Most things are keyed to only go in one way, even the CPU marks the one corner with a triangle and has 2 notches in the PCB so you basically can only insert it one way. Many CPU coolers have thermal compound pre-applied and you simply pull off the sticker before placing it down

Yeah that doesn't sound properly installed. You shouldn't have issues with a heat pump until you start getting to like -15C to -25C range depending on the model I think

If you want the FOTM bandwagon build, it would be something like MSI B550 Pro-A or something like that I think its called motherboard, O11 Dynamic case, AMD 5800X3D and like a 4070 Super or 7900XT

Or you could go with like a 13700K if you wanted intel

[sly elk]

yea admittedly the builds i was poking in pcpartpicker at were with ddr5 and beefy power supplies lol

i do agree that assembly is usually not hard at all

honestly getting windows onto the ssd might be the most funky bit sometimes

or tweaking firmware settings

[golden stream]

esp to a distrohopper, ya
GRUB hates me lol and my windows partition is also kinda hating me rn

[odd sand]

You sure it's not simply recirculating the air in your room already if its 28? lol

[sly elk]

just give windows its own drive and unplug your other drives when installing windows

windows installer is a fucking asshole when it comes to other OSes

[potent arrow]

Im the worst

I have a drive switch LOL

[sly elk]

?

[potent arrow]

its just a flip switch I soldered inline to the satapower

so if its flipped up my Windows os drive is connected

if its flipped down my Arch os drive is connected

its cursed

if its middle nothing gets powered

[sly elk]

XD

AH RIGHT ITS YOU

xD

yes that sounds exactly like the kinda bullshit you'd do 😄

but it's convenient!

it's the only downside of using nvmes

[potent arrow]

WDYM ITS ME

[sly elk]

i didn't realize you were you xD

i wasn't paying attention

lol at your icon too

the willy's candy factory thing

i haven't seen one of those cosmos cases in a while

[velvet flint]

Okay so due to some bs on my side

They disabled the 3D driver on my laptop

Will that affect anything?

Let alone anything Nvidia related

[potent arrow]

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

3D driver?

that's um

I didn't think you can disabled a 3D component of nvdia lol

because wouldn't you need that to play any games.....

[velvet flint]

Yeah I’m wondering about that too

[velvet flint]

Damn not even turning off the 3D driver helped

[warm pine]

My setup ( old photo )

[wraith agate]

is that a TV with a Mono speaker?

[celest violet]

Looks like liquid went where I wasn't supposed to lmao

I didnt make this mess, but they want me to work on this shit

[wraith agate]

Does it even work?

[celest violet]

Yeah it powers and shit, but they want me to find out why it blue screens occasionally lmao

Bigger concerns than that

[deep sapphire]

It can’t be… a mono tv

Don’t worry snake

[sly elk]

eep

luckily that part with the usb ports is removable so it can be replaced no?

[sly elk]

it looks like it might have stereo speakers to me

ahhh I remember when I was a teenager my parents bought me a bedroom tv for some reason one year and we went shopping for it and picked one that had stereo speakers. Well... the one that they put in our car at the dock, turned out it was a cheaper model that had a mono speaker. On the plus side that's also what they billed us for.

i was kinda pissed about that for a while lol

[celest violet]

It's a cyberpower/ibuypower case so they might as well swap anyway

[sly elk]

it looks like an o11 to me

without having seen much of it lol

[kindred brook]

https://www.corsair.com/us/en/p/pc-components-accessories/cc-8900489/icue-5000x-5000d-5000d-airflow-left-tempered-glass-panel-black-cc-8900489

nice

corsair sells these replacement panels cheap

20 bucks

[sly elk]

what did you break one?

[kindred brook]

yes

it landed on my brothers tile

[sly elk]

ohh

the pcmasterrace meme

[kindred brook]

and tile + glass

= your fucked

[sly elk]

only if you drop the glass on the tile

or set it on the tile

[kindred brook]

i set it on the tile

[sly elk]

https://lian-li.com/product/o11de-3/

it's not quite the same io box

but they do sell em

[celest violet]

Could be a re badged one, but its got the cyber power branding all over it

My work charges 40 per part so I'd rather them just do it for themselves and not over charge tbh

[sly elk]

yea it is lol

cyberpower buys from lots of oems including lian-li

in the meantime maybe unplug the headers that go to that box and see if it helps with the bsods

[snow cypress]

Anyone know much about fifine products like theirs mics?

[warm pine]

There both stero

[sly elk]

isn't that just some amazon brand

[snow cypress]

Not sure, just liked the look of their am8 mic

[sly elk]

it's only $55

you can always grab one and give it a try and send it back if it aint

"only" hehe sorry but it doesn't seem that huge a risk

i think it's interesting they claim it's a dynamic mic

and the ad pictures are confusing to me

they show it on the table as a side-address mic

but then they show it on a mic arm as a front-address mic

in fact they do this IN THE SAME PICTURE wtf

which is it

[snow cypress]

Cause I already have the elgato wave 3 so it’s probably a downgrade if Iget that lol

[sly elk]

How can I get loud and clear sound quality while recording?

You should keep speaking to the top of this computer gaming microphone within 2-6 inches to capture loud and clear sound quality, you have to turn the gain knob to a proper level before you use it.

[sly elk]

it depends on if you use it as a USB mic or an XLR mic, probably

from my brief time spent looking at various videos on usb mics a year or two ago, the wave 3 is one of the better sounding usb mics, but the difference between them isn't much

like, anything from a $50 samson to a $150 wave 3, they all sound like within 5% of each other if I had to quantify

there are slight differences but the differences are tiny

I think when you introduce XLR you can tweak the sound more so some would claim even a cheap XLR mic can be made to sound better than any USB mic

[potent arrow]

it's even less then 5% imo

[sly elk]

oh I'll argue it really is about 5% because some of the usb mics support higher bitrates and stuff

and they really do sometimes sound a tiny bit different

[snow cypress]

They even have a bundle deal for the mic and an audio mixer

[potent arrow]

you are not gonna hear that over discord which is what most people's use case is

[sly elk]

I have a quadcast s and a wave 3, and imho from the videos I felt the quadcast S sounded more 'natural' and the wave 3 seemed to add just a tiny bit more bass

[potent arrow]

USB mics are practically only used for VC and zoom and shit

[sly elk]

but yea the difference was real tiny

[sly elk]

yep!

and then it comes down to other features

like how good the hardware controls are

[potent arrow]

that's why I say it does not matter.
you'll only get XLR if you are really serious about sound because the interfaces cost money, not the mic

[sly elk]

both my mics have the 'tap the top to mute' feature and I love that feature!

(but I hate the way elgato does it)

[potent arrow]

the mic you can get like the classic Shure sm57 for dog cheap and it'll sound good

[sly elk]

for me xlr is going to eventually happen just because I need to buy an audio interface for my guitar but i've been dragging my feet lmao

[potent arrow]

but then you have an interface that's literally four times the price

[sly elk]

yeeep and even there

[potent arrow]

used Scarlett solo is usually what I recommend lol

[sly elk]

audio interfaces are the same game lmao

oh my gosh it gets ridiculous

every single brand of audio interface has people who are like "this is the best thing ever" and "this is trash"

the focusrite scarlet line definitely being one of those

[potent arrow]

objectively there's like.....3 XLR interfaces I would recommend just from being in the space

otherwise it's just... expensive

solo isn't the best but it's really the hd6xx of the space. just common and reliable

and doesn't disappoint

[sly elk]

wow it seems amazon stopped selling them cheap 😦

yea the scarlet series is probably the most common by a lot

[potent arrow]

at least in the amateur space

[sly elk]

also i think it's more like the sony MDR headphones than the hd6xx

[potent arrow]

in the pro space yes

but gamers and casual users? hd6xx by milllesssss

everyone and their dogs

[sly elk]

-looks at his dt880s-

[potent arrow]

lots of behringers too

[sly elk]

outside of those, the behringer um22 i think is

popular? but considered a cheap inferior option?

[potent arrow]

yeap

[sly elk]

i was dragging my feet thinking about getting a ua volt 2

[potent arrow]

also uh

[sly elk]

that one i've heard more good than bad

[potent arrow]

go XLR is shooting up in popularity

[sly elk]

the ua apollo looks fancy but overpriced. motu m2 is also highly recommended but i find em ugly

[sly elk]

didn't the company behind that go bust?

[potent arrow]

uh?

[sly elk]

I never took the goxlr seriously because it has no mac support

[potent arrow]

first I'm hearing about it

[sly elk]

that was a "wait, what?!" moment for me

[potent arrow]

looks like they are fine

[sly elk]

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1518639-tc-helicon-maker-of-the-popular-goxlr-channel-mixer-fired-entire-software-development-group-developing-news/

i was thinking of this

but aslo digging around

tc helicon is owned by the company that owns behringer

https://stealthoptional.com/tech/goxlr-audio-mixer-support-loses-developers/

but yea, no mac support made those a non-starter for me lol

[potent arrow]

yeah weird for creative types

but idk how good Mac Os handles streaming tbh

which is what that centers around

not traditional audio/video production

[sly elk]

better. by a long shot. especially audio lol.

idk if ms fixed their problems

but windows used to be a notoriously bad platform for audio things due to wonky latency issues

but yea maybe MS fixed that

it's like how I used to detest using windows for dev work but it's actually pretty ok now

[potent arrow]

audio yeah, but I mean like obs streaming

like twitch streaming

yeah looking at Reddit and forums here everyone just hates obs on Mac Os

missing features all around

not like I agree or anything with them. But I can see how a smaller company like tc Helicon who develops a product fore basically one program chooses to focus only on the one operating system that most users use

and seeing that they laid off their driver development team, they also probably kinda suck in that department

[inland mauve]

why are you a French egg

[celest violet]

I'm tempted on an xlr mic but I was gifted a yeti so I feel a little indebted to use it lmao

I use reapervfx for obs and that eq works really good for trimming the fat, but I know it could be better

[sly elk]

to be fair, twitch streaming focusing on Windows makes a lot of sense because twitch streaming is mostly game streaming

and even for art things or cute girl streaming or whatever, windows machines are cheaper (especially the beefy ones)

(honestly I think apple really shot themselves in the foot with the 'premium' stuff in the 2010s because they basically locked a whole generation of aspiring artists out of using macs)

like the whole 'macs are good for creating media' thing has kinda died lol 😄

ahh i'm still a sucker for these

one of the rare PRS where the back matches the front

even the neck is blue 💙

i'd still probably swap the pickup frames with black ones, and the knobs, and the tremolo arm. And some of them for some odd reason haev those ugly putty tuners - definitely would swap those for chrome ones

but they're so pretty XD

hmm

oh good there's a local reseller still selling scarlett 2i2 3rd gens for 139

i'm also a sucker for the UA boxes though

https://www.amazon.com/Universal-Audio-Volt-476-Interface/dp/B09J1T8RPH

that one's pretty lol

i think it's funny how the 476 only costs $56 more than a volt 276 >>

[warm pine]

I just realized this build nor site itself has a GPU add option

[warm pine]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/

Tweaked it abit , not sure what motherboard to add cause the one it came wasn't compatible with the CPU I switched

[warm pine]

Wait is video card GPU?

[wise jay]

yes

[warm pine]

Alright in that case found good GPU and motherboards for the ryzen CPU , everything else is the same except memory , had to down grade to DDR4 instead 5

The Intel video card is crap so I changed it to this

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/D9ytt6/asrock-radeon-rx-6600-8-gb-challenger-d-video-card-rx6600-cld-8g

[sly elk]

If you're going to do a Radeon like that try to get a 6650xt

I don't think the arcs are worse than a 6600 but I don't hand benchmarks on hand lol

The 6650xt can be had for 220

Ahh 239 on Amazon for an xfx

A 7600 is also OK for around that price

The reason I put ddr5 in was that ddr5 6000 will last you a while probably

Ddr4 is a better value for sure

And truth be told if you upgrade in a few years even 5h3 ddr5 6000 will probably make you want something better anyway lol

[warm pine]

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Someone suggested this butttt I couldn't find it on part finder

So I have no clue if it's compatible

[modest moss]

https://www.bee-link.com/catalog/product/index?id=434

<@&607647345936695316> talk to me about that ^

should I buy one to run plex off

[deep sapphire]

doesnt load for me

but uuuh

is it like a minisforum box or somethin

https://www.minisforum.com/

these are pretty cheap

[potent arrow]

N100 is a newer CPU

I'm not sure how well the HW transcoding works with that and plex

but based on specs I'tll probably transcode 1080p more then fine

minisforum has been popping up everywhere and are pretty decent so

7 months old post but has my worried
https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/11vf91z/alder_lake_n100_hw_transcoding

[modest moss]

as it is I just run plex off my old i5 2500k box, but it's annoying turning it on and off whenever we want to watch shit, thinking it might be nice to have something on 24/7 headless if it'd be cheap enough

[potent arrow]

but I think that box would be fine

[modest moss]

ngl I'd probably just throw windows on it anyway

[potent arrow]

fair

I just like the overhead lol

I'm not sure what Plex does these days either fair warning

I swapped to jellyfin

[modest moss]

trying to figure out what it'd cost to run 24/7 and I think it'd be like £5/month which isn't awful

[potent arrow]

is it electricity that expensive?

[modest moss]

pulls 25w at max turbo

here it's pretty high yeah

[potent arrow]

damn

[modest moss]

based on current prices, it'd be 17p/day, so £62/yr

that's at max load though so if it's idle half the time it'd be less

this is tempting

hmm throwing in extra storage would add to it though

[potent arrow]

yeah

what's stopping you from going full nas?

like a big ass disk station or something

because I'm assuming you are only using it for storage

and not homelab

[modest moss]

I don't like spending money that I don't need to spend

[potent arrow]

not meeeee

[velvet flint]

So uhhhh now

My family is trying to convince me to get a gaming desktop

[sly walrus]

based

[sly elk]

lol

I always found those funny

where it's like, the new one has way way shittier specs on paper than the old one... and somehow gets more fps

[sharp star]

wait

Thermalright released an upgraded Phantom Spirit?

[sharp star]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I37mxlDqLrk

[random marlin]

[real edge]

[wise eagle]

recently moved and when turning on my pc it stays on the "press f2 to open bios" screen like 3x longer than it used to anyone know why that might be

[royal forge]

damn 4070

👏

[random marlin]

[warm pine]

Is 750w good with my PC or should I upgrade to 1000 w power supply?

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/skymorris523%40gmail.com/saved/pjQfmG

[lost python]

750 is fine

[real edge]

I have a 5800X3D and 4080SUPER running on a 6yr old 750w HXi Corsair