technology-discussion

[sly elk]

i've never driven an altima but i have driven a maxima

[umbral moss]

I stand behind my "nissans are garbage and I'm glad they're going bankrupt"

[sly elk]

with the vq v6

[hot shadow]

hm what else was there

[sly elk]

and what made me laugh

the maxima is fwd, has less front leg room than my 300... gets worse gas mileage... and requires 91 gas

it's slower too

[dire viper]

Ur bloodline will be cursed for generations

[sly elk]

but the vq does have an entertaining sound to it

in cvt auto mode it sounds like a sheep

going baaaah

[dire viper]

VQ more like V poop

Jk

It’s ok in the Z’s

Minus the new one

350/370 are pretty good

[sly elk]

the altima is a legendary car

[dire viper]

370 NISMO is a genuinely impressive car

[sly elk]

even car wizard acknowledges this like

idk what people do with them but they're basically the nokia of cars

you see them sometimes driving around with 2 doors the wrong color, missing bumpers, missing paint

still runs better than some new cars

https://tenor.com/view/nissan-gif-25592290

[sly elk]

it's kinda like the miata but like

maybe a mustang? dodge charger?

"It's a great car but I don't wanna be seen driving it"

[dire viper]

The 370 is not like that

Maybe the 350

370’s are unobtainable

[dire viper]

Like I haven’t seen a 370 for sale for months

NISMO? Still MSRP sometimes

[sly elk]

they are cool little cars

[dire viper]

The 350 is always comparable to an M3 or M4

[sly elk]

i also think the miata stigma is long gone

[dire viper]

Or sorry

[sly elk]

car stigma is a funny thing though

[hot shadow]

you can't curse people who already have a bigger curse

[sly elk]

when people are like

"I'd never wanna be seen driving that"

[hot shadow]

👼

[sly elk]

and then you're like

well what DO you drive?

[dire viper]

350/370 get to be BMW M competitors

[sly elk]

and it's somehow worse lmao

[dire viper]

Ur not Filipino tho

What curse is greater than Filipino

[hot shadow]

hmmm

[sly elk]

huh

[hot shadow]

lots of other regions in the world actually

[sly elk]

i thought mrab was filipino lol

[hot shadow]

is worse

[dire viper]

Damn LMAO

[hot shadow]

man you guys have like 0 memory

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/proud-to-be-picmix-philippines-filipino-kita-ikuyo-gif-13220520029549093627

[dire viper]

Rab is everything and nothing

Rab be going to Taiwan occasionally which should tell you

Well

It doesn’t actually cause

[sly elk]

it doesn't mean anything anyway lol

[dire viper]

she has my curse oh no

[sly elk]

honorary filipino

[dire viper]

People think ur basic person from one country and ur like “nah im multiple bitc”

[sly elk]

lets go get some lumpias

[sly elk]

like me lol

[dire viper]

@potent arrow

What in the fuck

[sly elk]

i wanna see more

but at that point why isn't it just a volkswagen

i can't find a version that cheap

[odd talon]

Some VR good news. My headset now works again

[sly elk]

yay1

[dire viper]

New tariffs literally impact less than 10% of imported cars that’s so funny

They do impact parts massively tho

Wow all these decades old supply lines that make it incredibly cheap to manufacture complex machined parts in Asia and Europe thrown out the window

There is a reason why bearings come from Korea and starters/generators come from Japan

[sly elk]

i stumbled upon a whole genre of funny youtube videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG4IaHgqH00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bko6frPsXqg and this

[sly elk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGRP02cgOVM i like the ding dongs

[kindred brook]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/296977712616?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5337259887&toolid=10001&customid=d8ed31720c3d11f0a9476a503c720cbb0INT

this is pretty decent

for the price no?

[sly elk]

-giggles- @hot shadow we should tell him to put an aio cpu cooler in it

ever since that incident i never forget when i see that asus computer lmao

the gpu is worth like $400 raz

idk what prebuilt economics are like, but it's probably not worth more than the sum of its parts

also per the joke, those come with a little heatsink/fan combo for the cpu that gets loud

[hot shadow]

I'm strong supporter of everyone just getting an aio tru

only further enthusiasts who don't mind can go fiddle with tubing n custom colors n the pump n Sarah leaks

[sly elk]

hehe nah i was referencing one time someone bought that asus tower

and they complained about it running so hot so someone told them to stick an aio in it

and they actually tried that but they had no idea what they were doing so they broke something

but they were able to fix whatever they broke so it all worked ou

[hot shadow]

ono

how tf you break something in that context omg

it's like two sturdy blocks and 2 pipes lmao

[sly elk]

i forgot XD

[kindred brook]

oh I was going to recommend my buddy who doesn't know how to build PCs

get this

[sly elk]

fair

that's how it goes with prebuilts ^^

[hazy frost]

Not really

The only rly valuable part is the 3080

And it’s a 10GB 3080 so it’s barely worth half of what the pc costs if that

If they’d take like $700 I’d think that’s more fair

[kindred brook]

Hmm OK

[hazy frost]

If u can’t find anything better and need it now it’s definitely better than the majority of prebuilts I’ve seen new but I’ve seen better deals on eBay recently too

[kindred brook]

its not for me its for a friend lol

[lost python]

gdi, my gfs 6700xt keeps booting into a blackscreen and doesnt get a signal. sometimes we gotta reboot it 1-2 times before it works just fine, other times like today its 10-20 times before we get a picture.
so i guess its time for a new GPU

[lost python]

good to know that there are many people who had this or similar issues with the asus x570 dark hero

great QC for your 450€ board asus. thank you.
tried a different gpu now and still no picture, good thing i still have a B550 steel legend here

[hazy frost]

ASUS stuff

Tbf they don’t go wrong often but when it goes wrong it’s a pain in the ass to resolve with them

Well their rog stuff doesn’t go wrong as often

The tuf ones are of dubious quality

And prime

[lost python]

maybe it isnt asus after all

someone tell me if i missed something but:
we tried a different gpu, no success
we tried only one of 4 ram sticks, no success
we tried an entirely different board, this one first said memory issue, so we reset cmos etc
now it keeps saying it cant detect a VGA.
fans of the gpu are also not spinning, but all cables sit as they should.
this makes me think that it might be a power supply issue

for whatever reason.
but the only other we can test with is the one in my pc and i really dont wanna undo my cable management for testing purposes lmao

[sly elk]

i heard asrock is the same 😦

[hazy frost]

Nah they’re fine

[sly elk]

it was one of a few reasons I sat on my new gpu for like a week before opening it

[hazy frost]

Or atl better than ASUs by a lot

[sly elk]

lots of bad cs stories

[hazy frost]

ASUS don’t only ignore u but when they do ‘help’ u they try and rip u off in repair costs

Someone got charged like twice the value of a 4090 for a repair once back last year

[sly elk]

and asoooose doesn't really have the build quality deserving of the reputation they are uh given by the community

[hazy frost]

Worst case asrock just aren’t super easy to contact

[sly elk]

like

i think it's just the marketing

people be like

[hazy frost]

But their warranty is solid and they don’t fuck u over if u can get them to talk to u

[sly elk]

REPUBLIC OF GAMERS

-builds computer of nothing but overpriced white ROG parts-

[hazy frost]

ROG stuff is good, it’s not anywhere close to that price they’re charging

[sly elk]

EXACTLY

you can get similar quality from other brands for less

[hazy frost]

It’s probably the only thing they sell that is good but it’s twice the price it needs to be half the time

Gigabyte aorus is sooo much better

[sly elk]

and idk about their current crop of GPUs

[hazy frost]

They’re not amazing

[sly elk]

but their 10 series strix cards weren't that great

their vega strix cards were junk

[hazy frost]

The 50 series astral one had an issue but no idea if it’s QC or not

[sly elk]

i'm not sure asus ever made a good radeon card lol

[hazy frost]

GN bought it I think or whatever

[sly elk]

the 10 series were too flexible LOL

some gpus are more likely to sag than others regardless of their size

[hazy frost]

Next thing I buy is yeston or gigabyte if they’re semi reasonable

[sly elk]

i want a yeston >>

[hazy frost]

Gigabyte I avoided for 40 series bc of PCB snapping

[sly elk]

i now have an asrock and I like it!

[hazy frost]

They seem fine now tho

[hazy frost]

Yeah they’re making good GPUs and motherboards rn

[sly elk]

their stuff is also cheaper than average

for the apparent quality lol

[lost python]

i dont fucking understand
we got error d6 all this time, then someone said "hey unplug monitor", which we did to no success.
then we tried just power and nothing else and got error d7, which is no keyboard or mouse found.
plugged one in, no dice, back to d6 or 98.
98 apparently is a potential issue with usb devices, so we tried a different mouse and no keyboard and it still didnt work, gave us error 98.
plugged it out again but with monitor plugged in and suddenly it boots???
plugged in old keyboard and mouse and it just fucking works now??? what

oh right, because someone said it on the internet, we also put the gpu in the second slot to test and there it worked

because second slot is pcie 3.0 and not 4.0 and someone said that the b550 steel legend has some fuckery going on with pcie 4.0

welp, set it to 3.0 in the bios now, so lets see if it still boots when we put all ram back in and gpu back to slot 1

[sly elk]

yikes 😦

[lost python]

nope, doesnt work anymore. error code 0d which means whatever the fuck

[inland mauve]

zero dick

[lost python]

found the broken ram stick i guess

so in summary:
if you get a variety of error codes from your mainboard, ranging from pcie failure over no vga found or usb device error etc and you try different GPUs and mainboards and even your GPU fans arent spinning as they normally do, then its probably the ram

i fucking love technology

i fucking love that cosair only gives 2 years of warranty

also we still got errors when we only had that one working ramstick in there. so this is even more of a fucking mystery

five fucking hours of troubleshooting lmao
also mindfactory wiped their database so i had to make a new account, so my order history is gone and i cant give corsair the receipt.
still fuck asus tho

[sly elk]

it makes sense

[hazy frost]

Yeah their x870 is crazy like $180 lol

Same price as the msi and ASUs b650

[sly elk]

All DRAM memory modules have a limited lifetime warranty

corsair ram is lifetime and... for some reason likes to break lmao

[lost python]

"limited warranty" is what they say but never explain what the fuck it actually means

but yeah i need the receipt either way and i cant get it anymore

so i will just have to buy new ram i guess, because 16gb is cutting it very close

[sly elk]

limited == "we only cover problems caused by defects it had when it was made"

[lost python]

oh great so it dying 3 years down the line wont count huh

[sly elk]

it usually counts

thing is, they sell you ram that they promise will run at an overclocked speed

really when you buy overclocked ram you and the manufacturer are gambling that it will actually last the length of the warranty at the overclocked speeds

[lost python]

sure, but dying after 3 years of 3600mhz is kinda pathetic

[sly elk]

if you overclocked some white label jedec spec ram they won't warranty it lmao

it is

but you should be covered anyway

since it's lifetime warranty i'd suggest contacting them anyway

usually you need the receipt to establish the warranty start datte

[lost python]

also the weird ass fucking issues it caused. like the pc booting up just fine just refusing to give out signal until you reboot 1-20 times like wtf

well, i would try either way, if i had the receipt

[sly elk]

try anyway?

like contact cs?

eve without the receipt they should be able to do something

[lost python]

maybe if mindfactory gives me the written confirmation that the deleted it all and cant give me my order history

[sly elk]

no email confirmation of the order or whatever?

from way back then?

[lost python]

dont have them anymore

[sly elk]

that sucks 😦

[pine thistle]

We’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11. This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account.

ah yes, "enhance security"

[sly elk]

security of their profits

i already said this before, ms is a bit of a user hostile company

[hazy frost]

Which Corsair ram was it

[pine thistle]

"a bit", what a understatement

I mean I'm not really surprised that they're doing

[hazy frost]

If it’s LPX there’s no surprise

[pine thistle]

just find the reasoning funny

[hazy frost]

Ur lucky it went 3 lmao

[sly elk]

I'm surprised they don't just straight up say it

[lost python]

4x8 lpx ye

[sly elk]

MS doesn't respect end users because they don't sell windows to end users

they sell it to businesses for their employees to use it to do their jobs, and they provide all sorts of knobs and buttons for the business management to control and monitor what their employees do with it

that's every MS product ever

[hazy frost]

Yeah they’re known for dying, happens

[sly elk]

the 'consumer version' of windows just swaps out the business controlling/monitoring it, with ms and their real customers (advertisers or whoever they sell the data to)

[hazy frost]

The only ddr4 that’s been this bad

I think we talked about it here before with someone else

[lost python]

funny how everything corsair i have ever owned either didnt work properly or died spectacularly

[hazy frost]

lol

Their other ram wasn’t as bad but I wouldn’t buy it

[lost python]

my 2 psus from them all died in a shower of sparks

[sly elk]

mmm

[hazy frost]

My first ddr5 kit was Corsair that stopped working after a month

[sly elk]

my vengeance rgb ddr4 had a stick die too lol

[lost python]

my RGB mousepad still never works unless i unplug and replug it post boot

known issue, they fixed it

[sly elk]

oh mine works but

it has a mind of its own

[hazy frost]

Only Corsair product I have is the psu now

[sly elk]

a lot of the time it only lights up when the computer is off lmao

i have a corsair keyboard, it's beautiful :3 but i need to switch one of the switches out because it keeps chattering eeeeeee

[hazy frost]

I have a steelseries keyboard bc it was cheap as hell

[hot shadow]

you ever buy switches so slim + FAT THICCCC O rings

yea don't do that

[sly elk]

lol

[hot shadow]

lmao my numpad can't register press

O RING FAT THICC LIKE BOOTY

[sly elk]

sometimes actual mechanical keyboards/parts show up in amazon vine

most of the time it's just shitty ipad case keyboards

ahh imma put bazzite on a usb stick and see how it likes my 9070xt

[dire viper]

if you are really lucky and get a ferrari allocation that lets you do full custom options, you can get colored carbon under the hood!

[inland mauve]

https://tenor.com/view/but-why-why-but-why-gif-gif-meme-gif-4514043479169756766

[sly elk]

i'm guessing you have to be born to a certain family

[dire viper]

no

the allocations are randomized at that point

some people get full allocation, some people dont get the atelier service

so you can be unlucky and own 5 different f40's and get an allocation where you cant do a full bespoke mismatching seat every panel is a different color type deal

its kinda the deal with porsche even

not everbody can just go "I want the special treatment with my car and have it done by sonderwunsch"

and then its not even a matter of whos who most of the time, its usually just Porsche likes doing commissions that reflect good on the brand, sometimes the special wishes cars are attrocious however

the 993 Speedster they did was one of those examples of a car that exists purely because Porsche engineers thought it would be a good exercise in custom fabrication

Brand new 27 year old car

[sly elk]

I always thought the matching was cool. like having stitching/seat panels/dash panels that match the exterior color or play off it nicely

like those yellow gauges and steering wheel stitching are awesome

idk from that angle that porsche reminds me of a 2006 thunderbird

i think it's just the shape of the headlights combined with the shape of the fenders heheh

https://old.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1jmqajy/dead_9800x3ds_in_asrock_boards/

this is a bummer

[hazy frost]

It should be an easy solution really

It happened for the exact same reason with the 7800x3d

And it was specific board manufacturers asus and asrock included

[kindred brook]

why are those manufacturers killing the x3d cpus

[sly elk]

maybe the intel ones were more profitable

lol jk

[wild wyvern]

Is the corsair vengeance ram ok?

[potent arrow]

https://www.reddit.com/r/laptops/s/A3jrgA3zoC
@lost python @inland mauve

holy fuck LOL

[inland mauve]

you know it's a good bug when the whole thread is full of "wait what the fuck"

[potent arrow]

I've never seen anything like this

holy fuck

[lost python]

WTF indeed

[lost python]

Small update to this adventure: once again no signal on boot

Is the fucking cpu toast or what

If it ain’t the board, ram, gpu or psu then I am running out of options

No error code on the board. Just no signal idgi

[sly elk]

hahahhahahahah

if I had to guess, a lot of web video players are doing some kinda hardware decoding thing where the video is overlaid (dumped straight into the framebuffer). My terminology and what's actually going on might be off

my guess is the split screen thing is screwing up with the hardware decoding

it'd probably stop if they disabled it

but they're not using like some kinda software to literally split the screen so idk that's a hilarious glitch

[potent arrow]

probally a nvdia hardware thing yeah

[hazy frost]

bios issues bc the x3d CPUs are voltage sensitive probably

U couldn’t OC the 7800x3d for similar reasons

I would’ve expected the 9800x3d to not have so many issues with it tho so idk

[paper tusk]

because asrock engineers are eating glue https://videocardz.com/newz/first-user-reports-ryzen-9-9950x3d-cpu-not-booting-on-asrock-x870-motherboard-after-just-9-days-of-use

[hazy frost]

Idk what’s going on with them, it’s interesting

Hopefully it gets fixed soon anyway

Although I imagine it’s much like the earlier issues and 40 series issues where the failure rate is actually incredibly small relative to how many are produced but large enough in number to look bad online

[fringe pendant]

Are issues with 9070 fixed already? I was wondering between 9070 vs 5070 and while 9070 seems to better choice overall it struggles a lot in ffxiv.

[hazy frost]

It doesn’t struggle at all

It’s getting 120+ fps at 1440p and it’s just further behind the 5070 than it should be

[fringe pendant]

According to gamer nexus it does underperform compared to other titles

[hazy frost]

Yes

But that doesn’t mean it’s struggling

It’s still pushing well over 100fps at 1440p max and over 60 at 4K

And that will get fixed eventually anyway but it’s more than usable rn

[fringe pendant]

Yeah I was just wondering if it's fixed already

Since gpu was released like a month ago

[hazy frost]

Not yet

It was released like 3 weeks ago

That’s not actually that long for an issue that’s not high priority anyway

AMD has always fixed drivers for games that aren’t working as they should tho this won’t be any different

[fringe pendant]

Let's hope so

[hazy frost]

The only company id be concerned about drivers for is Intel bc they take about a year to fix things

[gentle star]

Yeah

Honestly if I still had to upgrade from my 1080ti I'd have gone with the 9070xt tbh

Currently have a 4070ti super since it was imo the better choice a year ago when the main other option was 7900xt mainly cuz localized pricing differences, and, at the time, "features".

Of which I actually use like none of, realistically

[hazy frost]

Yeah I bought a 4070ti bc AMD decided to make the 7900xt like £900

They wanted to upsell to the xtx

[gentle star]

Found out I prefer raster performance over upscaling

Yeah

[hazy frost]

Idc about upscaling that much especially with fsr4

But I care about DLAA if I’m not using upscaling

Ray reconstruction also very cool

[gentle star]

At the time I was looking at performance for HFW specifically

But then I ended up just playing xiv the whole time

[hazy frost]

I just play a lot of cyberpunk lol

Path tracing is the only reason I’d buy another Nvidia gpu if they’re reasonably priced

The 9070xt can do it now just not that well still

[gentle star]

I am still glad I got a strong gpu either way tho since my gpu still gets maxed utilization in xiv with mxao at the resolution I play at even with an 8700k lmao

[hazy frost]

RT is eh in a lot of games but games that support PT it’s like going up another 2 settings above ultra in texture quality when u look at it

[gentle star]

Yeah it looks interesting to me

I haven't played any games that support it yet tho

[hazy frost]

Cyberpunk or AW2 are probably the best ones out there

[gentle star]

Know of any off the top of your head as some examples? I kinda live under a rock in terms of what games are out

Quicker than me on that one

Ooh survival horror

Interesting

[hazy frost]

There’s a few others but their implementation isn’t as impressive

Or they’re just not actually that good as games and are more tech demos

I imagine the next Witcher game will have it as well bc it’s CDPR

In dark scenes it made a huge difference

Actually character models and the shadows on them were also pretty huge

But yeah 9070xt can do it now u just need mods to optimise it further to make it more playable lol

[gentle star]

That does look a lot better tho

[hazy frost]

Yeah and character lighting lol

Lights get diffused properly instead of randomly popping up in shadows where there’s no light source

[spare elbow]

anyone know if the newest amd update plays well with xiv? im still on 24.12 lol

[modern iris]

Yup!
And considering their new UE version is super modded (Mix of UE and their Red Engine with further optimisation on the UE side for open world games)
I suspect we'll see something new on the RT side as well, considering Nvidia gave them the new RTX cards BEFORE they were even announced (and let's be real, CDPR is literally just a walking AD for game technology at this point)

[hazy frost]

Yeah red engine is crazy for the RT stuff especially

Mixing the best parts of it with UE so it’s easier to do development and optimise could be great or terrible

[modern iris]

It's CDPR

Cyberpunk runs great on/using certain CPUs alone

I doubt they'd do pep talks in certain events about UE optimization for open world games and have their first game using UE run terribly

Especially considering Witcher 4 is only releasing post 2026 (likely late 2027) which means it'd be in development for 5 and a half years

[hazy frost]

Are we forgetting how the Witcher games and cyberpunk released

[modern iris]

That's before

[hazy frost]

I want them to release it in the state they are a year later usually

[modern iris]

Phantom Liberty released flawlessly

[hazy frost]

Yeah but that’s not difficult

[modern iris]

And they now implemented a new system

Witcher 4 already has the longest pre-production timeline of ANY of their past games

It's double Cyberpunk pre-production time

I have hopes.

(yeah I've been pretty on top of CDPR related stuff )

They're also implementing AI to run around their maps to check for bad performance spots, so ye, I think it'll be a pretty solid launch performance wise. Hopefully.

[spring raven]

maybe they'll include another segment that triggers photosensitive seizures in Witcher 4 and when it's pointed out by a reviewer, their deranged fans can send videos and images deliberately designed to trigger seizures to the person who writes the review!

you know

again!

because once wasn't enough

[hazy frost]

I have hopes but there’s a chance they somehow do mess it up

I’ll buy it either way bc they always fix their issues

Something I do actually appreciate is they care about games after they release for more than a month

[modern iris]

It's a day 1 for me regardless

But I do hope they actually learned their lessons and so far everything points to a big Yes.

[modern iris]

Some of their fans do be weird

There's also the weirdos in every fanbase

[hazy frost]

Witcher might be for me, next cyberpunk game definitely is but we got a few years before that one

[modern iris]

Witcher 4 is (very likely) Late 2027

Orion is (allegedly) heading to Pre-production this year so release date is likely 2032/2033

Witcher 1 remake is probably 2029

Witcher 5 likely 2030

Witcher 6 either 2033 or 2034

But that's my guess

The new IP I'm not sure

[hazy frost]

Cyberpunk I wouldn’t be surprised to see later than 2033 somehow

It feels like the game series they care more about experimenting and getting right compared to the Witcher

[modern iris]

I'm a bit worried about the writing quality in Orion tbh

Nothing against Sony and their studios, they have amazing stories, but CDPR hired a lot of writers from Insomniac for Orion

Dunno how that'll translate

Tho! We have the dude who designed New York for the Spidey games! That's huge!

[hazy frost]

I think it’ll be fine they have enough talented people working for them

[modern iris]

Definitely

The lore master for Cyberpunk is a huge snob (in the right way)

[hazy frost]

If anything takes a hit maybe the side quests won’t be as immersive which I don’t necessarily mind if the campaign is phantom liberty quality

[modern iris]

Cause yeah! They now have Lore masters for their IPs

(Tho the Witcher ones have caused some "drama" , just X being X lol)

[modern iris]

Knowing the people on the helm for Orion... We might be headed to Depression city

[hazy frost]

im replaying 2077 again rn

forgot how much better the dlc is to base game for story

and how much easier to run everywhere else is compared to dogtown god damn

it came out after the ps5 instead of before

[modern iris]

Yes!

Dogtown was them taking things fully next gen

[hazy frost]

its great

[modern iris]

Which in 1.5 they had started doing it for the graphics (even on pc)

[hazy frost]

honestly surprised its my cpu that took most of tyhe hit tho

[modern iris]

Yup!

[hazy frost]

im not buying a 9800x3d tho so

oh well

[modern iris]

If they do great optimisation in a mess of an engine

Imagine what they do when they have a semi-working one

[hazy frost]

yeah managing to make stuff work in redengine means ue5 should be fine

[modern iris]

More than fine id say

[hazy frost]

the PT in redengine looked way better t han UE5 tho imo

hopefully they keep it looking as good

[modern iris]

I think Witcher 4 will bring back PT (thought you said Path Tracing for some reason)

In Phantom Liberty they used Path tracing to do the normal (in engine) shadows

[sly walrus]

https://tenor.com/view/hideo-kojima-pt-playable-teaser-horror-game-ps4-gif-24378388

[modern iris]

Meanwhile most studios nowadays just brute force RT (fuck you Ubisoft)

[hazy frost]

i can run path tracing at a good 60fps atm lol

[modern iris]

Les gooo!

[hazy frost]

same as i get in MH wilds with regular RT

funny

[modern iris]

Yeah... MH Wilds is a mess

But I already expected that after Dragons Dogma

And knowing they still didn't release RE Engine Next lol

I hope to god Re9 uses RE Next

[hazy frost]

theyre going to beat every ounce of money they can out of that engine

honestly i can run it fine and i know it runs fine for most people on low settings but it doesnt LOOK that good

[sly walrus]

i mean unless they make re9 an open world game for some reason

it should be fine

[modern iris]

It's rumoured to be a tad open

But there's like 90 million rumours about that freaking game

[sly walrus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f0OgmD47zg

[dire viper]

E46 M3 CSL safety car for MotoGP

[dire viper]

https://youtu.be/mVQaM8Wn-Es?si=hBSyBNOHG4VLqxS0 @potent arrow non turbo stroked 930

[sly elk]

Finally installing bazzite on here hehe

Funny thing is it's still a fedora derivative

Tbh I am tempted to just buy a red hat license so I can use the amd pro drivers

Their prices are fucking high way robbery though

199 a year and I think once it expires your package manager stops working

[lost python]

thank you stack overflow for once again allowing me to do someone elses job who earns double my salary because they dont understand their own tasks

[wraith agate]

I just remember the one time someone leaked the US missile control code because they didn't know something and just uploaded a snippet of it on stackoverflow

[dire viper]

[gritty belfry]

wif

[sly elk]

wtf

[wraith agate]

Hello wif

[dire viper]

The pricing jumped pretty aggressively, ford planning ahead lol

[sly elk]

i'll say

might as well buy a grenedier or something lol

is the bronco not made in the US?

[dire viper]

The normal bronco is made in Michigan

But the pricing is gonna get super bad

Main issue being power train is 25% applicable

And fords are just assembled in America lmao

All the bits and pieces are come strictly overseas

[dire viper]

@potent arrow glorious V8 ITB's

Alfa Romeo Montreal. Uses a 3.25 Liter flat plane V8, this car produeces more power than a Ferrari Daytona while weighing 400kg less.

[hot shadow]

damn that's gonna be a TAN CAR later

trashbag window phtphthtbthtptbptbhtpt

[dire viper]

OKTech is the shop and they only do custom stuff

so the owners are at least not terrible!

They rebuild even race car engines n shit

[dire viper]

https://youtu.be/o0zwgV3sn4E?si=hRZJsY0N1XgDH6DX

@hot shadow buy one of these when they enter production :D

[sly elk]

red duct tape tail lightrs

[lost python]

new investigation dropped

https://youtu.be/-qbylbEek-M

[wide hill]

What you guys think of my network?

[tepid gulch]

58% packet loss?

[sly elk]

welp, I figured out why my gpu wasn't driving my monitor at full res in linux with the 9070xt.... it doesn't wanna push that many bytes down hdmi right now LOL. Yay drivers.! When I tried displayport it worked fine. at 120hz but still.... that might actually be because I don't have a long enough cable and used my old kvm to extend it LOL

[pliant iris]

Buy ps5 or nah,?

[hazy frost]

I mean more context needed for the decision

Do u have anything else already.. what do you want it for..?

[modern iris]

If you have a good PC, don't.
If you don't have a good pc, price for price, go for the Pro.

[hazy frost]

I’d say u can build a better pc for pro price tho as well

If ur just getting into games the digital edition one is the only rly good value one but if u own games already then disk is worth it

[modern iris]

ps5 has a 2080

that alone is fairly pricey

[hazy frost]

yeah but everything else about it is not impressive

5600 + cheap b450/550 and 32gb of ram is like $200 if u buy it new

buying a gpu equivalent is like $200

if u buy half the stuff used it comes in under a ps5

if u buy it new its like $50 more and the utility of having a pc far outweighs anything else

[hot shadow]

buy better pc, we beg you

[glossy ravine]

PC will last you longer than a console imo

[pliant iris]

Final fantasy

[sly elk]

so it turns out the reason I wasn't getting 7680x2160@240hz on hdmi is the HDMI org doesn't allow open source drivers to use HDMI 2.1

GG.

and! AND! I need displayport 2.1 to do anything more than 120hz.... and that requires a dp54 cable... and getting dp54 to work further than 3m (9.8ft) is pretty dang hard/expensive

and I need at least 4m lol

[brave oxide]

any way to shorten that distance?

[pine thistle]

I love that teams on win11 can apparently bypass the system muted volume

It keeps muting itself whenever I disconnect/reconnect it to a docking station and when I joined a meeting the other day I could still hear shit even though it was supposed to be muted

[sly elk]

nope not happening

[sly elk]

at least it isn't unmuting your mic

hehe

https://www.jalopnik.com/1825203/seoul-motor-show-genesis-concept-cars-coupe-convertible/

i approve

[real edge]

https://old.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/1jql0fp/pc_goes_into_a_black_screenhard_crash_need_to/

if any1 can help or has any idea about this

please tell me

[brave oxide]

My first thought was PSU, but apparently ram is a more likely culprit

Are you able to easily reproduce it?

[real edge]

my ram is new

like, completely new

I got it a few weeks ago to replace.... broken ram

this is gonna be a clown show if it ends up being ram again

[real edge]

yeah, just launch total war warhammer 3, enter a campaign and zoom in and out fast, or play for a few minutes

I bought my ram and reinstalled my windows in order to get rid of my old borked ram that kept showing memory-related blue screens

ahh yeah and I also got a new windows SSD

[hazy frost]

It probably is psu related tho

It would be drivers usually but u already did that

[real edge]

I do not want to spend more money again

I hate this

this does not happen

when playing master duel or dead by daylight

or another light game

it was happening in daybreak 2 when I had dlss4 enabled

I disabled dlss4 and the hard crashes went away

now I launched tw wh3 to play it and it happened after starting a campaign and its easily reproducible

[hazy frost]

Is it some weird scaling thing in the Nvidia app that’s been turned on by default

If DLSS 4 is causing it

[brave oxide]

Try setting your GPU power limit to 80% to lower the load on your PSU and see if it still happens

My initial thought was transient spikes and your PSU not being able to handle them, but the fact that it didn't start happening until recently + you changed your ram before it started happening...

[real edge]

ill do that through the nvidia app

thankfully I do not have to use MSI afterburner now

my PSU is old

but its a Corsair HXi

it is supposed to be really good

[brave oxide]

I was gonna buy Corsair, but then I read Seasonic makes most of their PSU and decided to skip the middle man

Plus the Seasonic I bought was the cheapest one listed in the highest tier of that one PSU tier list

[real edge]

I set the power limit to 85%

[hazy frost]

Seasonic don’t make all the same quality psus as Corsair despite being the current OEM for most of their models afaik

[real edge]

lets see now

[hazy frost]

Corsair has the better 1000+ ones

[real edge]

im just tired of having PC issues

ok so interestinf fact

for tw wh3

I kept the installation files from my old system

without the c drive stuff ofc

scrolling really fast does not seem to trigger it now

maybe we're getting somewhere

no pc hard crash..... so far

maybe it is my PSU

ill enter a battle to see if that does it

no hard crash

hopefully this fixed it

I feel like I massacred my mouses scrollwheel

[brave oxide]

Should be okay to keep using it with the power limit, but that means gotta start thinking of replacing the PSU soon

[real edge]

:<

I knew it was a long shot to expect my PSU to survive until the 10 year mark

but well, if setting a power limit is enough for now then sure I guess

I'd rather not spend 200+euro on a PSU now

[real edge]

if I was gonna replace it, I was thinking of this one https://www.bestprice.gr/item/2158870433/fspfortron-hydro-ti-pro-1000w.html?qid=aQ97sXLfKdv_3c0c8&seq=1&qo=fsp+hydro+ti+pro+1000w&from=search

but its soooo expensive

that one seems to be highly praised by some

but I have not heard of fsp/forton before

corsair does have a 1000w HXi with atx 3.0

but it is not on any top lists

[brave oxide]

never heard of that brand either

its in this list though as A+ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1akCHL7Vhzk_EhrpIGkz8zTEvYfLDcaSpZRB6Xt6JWkc/edit?gid=1973454078#gid=1973454078

[real edge]

https://www.bestprice.gr/item/2160176079/nzxt-c1000-1000w-trofodotiko-ypologisth-atx-31-80-plus-gold.html?qo=nzxt+c1000+gold&from=search-single

a cheaper one is this

that ive seen praised

ill keep those in mind

:<

[brave oxide]

could also go 850w

[wild wyvern]

Ur psu went shite again?

[brave oxide]

the extra 100w can handle the transient spikes

[real edge]

not again

I have had this for

7 years

and it never had any issues

until now apparently?

[wild wyvern]

Idk if its the gpu being fucky wucky

But doubt it

[real edge]

its brand new, I got it last year so logically it shouldn't

the most likely culprit is the PSU cause its old

but HXi models are very sturdy

[wild wyvern]

You say it hard crashes everytime you play tw wh3?

[real edge]

jumping down in efficiency is a bit of a feelsbad moment ngl, even tho it does not make a difference

[real edge]

demanding game, not necessarily tw wh3

[wild wyvern]

Do you have audio when it hard crashes?

[real edge]

it happened on trails through daybreak 2 when I had dlss4 enabled at DLAA levels which makes it more taxing

[real edge]

no

[wild wyvern]

WTF??

[real edge]

I mean like

the game stops, what am I gonna hear lol

[wild wyvern]

And u dont hear windows notifications?

[real edge]

notifications from what?

I cannot see shit and the game hard stops

black screen

[wild wyvern]

Like when ur gpu drivers gets disabled and its back on

[real edge]

hm? I have to hard shut down my system and re-boot it to get it to work again

even my USB connections shut down

when it happens

[wild wyvern]

Holy sheet

[real edge]

the pc is a fresh windows install with new ram and new ssd

so

[brave oxide]

that's why i pointed fingers at PSU, though some posts made me think RAM could be a culprit

[wild wyvern]

cpu?

[real edge]

im sure that if it was a cpu issue

[brave oxide]

• seems to have stopped by limiting GPU power to 85%

[real edge]

I would have gotten a blue screen or an event viewer ID

[real edge]

hopefully

but in my case I get no BSOD or even an event viewer ID

which is....unique

[wild wyvern]

Wouldnt the psu spikes turn the whole pc off?

[brave oxide]

I have zero personal experience with it so I'm not sure lol just guessing game here

[real edge]

this essentially partially happens

when playing a demanding game

[wild wyvern]

I had an black screen issue once

[real edge]

which uses more GPU power

and system power

[wild wyvern]

Turns out its my gpu shatting itself cuz its a ex mining card

[real edge]

when playing shit like master duel nothing happens cause the game is so light weight

same with dead by daylight

[potent arrow]

it's a power issue.

[brave oxide]

more than a black screen it's more of a partial shutdown

[real edge]

yea

[brave oxide]

since it's not just the screen going black

[wild wyvern]

Never heard of it before tbh

[real edge]

its rare, cause once PSUs fail, they fail all at once

usually

[wild wyvern]

Mhmm

[real edge]

(I think)

[potent arrow]

not really that rare isn't your PSU Giga old

[wild wyvern]

Ur right

[real edge]

6-7yrs old

[potent arrow]

yeah lmfao

[real edge]

but its a corsair HXi

[potent arrow]

please go bring it outback

[real edge]

mhm

[brave oxide]

https://tenor.com/view/nino-brown-meme-gif-12573636828218859098

[real edge]

I will once I get more money

moneys tight atm after having spent money on new ram and ssd

[potent arrow]

idc : P I would've been antsy putting high draw devices on an older psu

[real edge]

[potent arrow]

hxi or not lmao

[real edge]

I was too, its why I went with a 4080Super instead of anything more powerful

[wild wyvern]

My no name psu died when i was gaming lul

[potent arrow]

ok back to sleep I go lmfao

[real edge]

but ye dw ill replace it

[brave oxide]

man... that brings me back, when i was much much younger I bought one of those generic-brand chinese bombs, it lasted a year before that thing made the foulest smell

i can still recall that smell

[real edge]

but I need more money first

[brave oxide]

ive never unplugged a pc so damn fast

[wild wyvern]

WTF a smoke smell?

[potent arrow]

my client had a dell OEM PSU in his shit box and when I booted it BANG

[brave oxide]

it never smoked, just a really bad smell

prob something inside started to melt

[wild wyvern]

WTF lmao

[potent arrow]

caps going bad

weeeee

[real edge]

at least for me, my PSU did not die all at once

[wild wyvern]

Its loud i bet?

[real edge]

thankfully

[brave oxide]

did it trip a breaker?

[real edge]

thank god I purchased an HXi instead of some no name trash

[wild wyvern]

Yeet

[real edge]

does gold/titanium/plutonium/whatever efficiency matter for the quality of the components inside

beyond a certain point ofc lol

I know some bronze trash is a no go

cause NZXT is gold but that ti hydro forton whatever is platinum

and my current hxi is platinum

like the hydro ti pro is a clear winner on tierlists and whatever

but its also 100euro more expensive

but I also know that I shouldn't skimp out on the PSU

ohh...the hydro ti is titanium, not platinum

[hazy frost]

thats why they have 10 year warranties as well

high quality should last a long time but they can go wrong

[hazy frost]

somewhat related in that the w orst titanium one is going to be better than the best bronze one but not because that was the focus

the higher quality PSUs usually are more efficient as a product of their design and thats all that 80+ measures

theres bronze psus better than gold ones tho

theres a few gold ones over platinum as well

cybernetics ratings are arguably better but no one uses them rly still besides like corsair

[real edge]

ive heard of cybernetics

its hardwarebusters right?

I have heard that aris is a bit of a clown

[dire viper]

https://youtu.be/5UKPh-fooLg?si=CS-GCJBCtYosvKdj

[hazy frost]

I miss the Ford cosworths

My dad had the sierra and the escort when I was growing up

Somehow didn’t get stolen

The fact that half of them in the UK were stolen or wrapped round a tree means they’re now expensive tho lol

[wide juniper]

Sonic CD is running way too fast. I have AMD Graphics drivers and gpu. How do I force it to 60fps?

I found a General Frame Rate control but not specifically for Sonic CD

[paper tusk]

emulated or one of the ports?

if it's the steam version install this https://gamebanana.com/mods/534792

now capping the frame rate...

https://dege.fw.hu/dgVoodoo2/ (site is down currently)

supposedly changing monitor refresh to 60 might work also

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Sonic_CD_(2012)

[potent arrow]

well

I'm finally replacing my mouse

[dire viper]

https://youtu.be/oPD4G0XQFNs?si=SrBx2tQxEZ8mqGAz

[wide juniper]

I set the refresh to 60

[wild wyvern]

@real edge wtf my pc just shutted down by itself

I was just watching a yt video

[real edge]

try booting it back up again

[wild wyvern]

Nothing happened?

But

Could it be my cpu temp?

[real edge]

is it outright refusing to boot?

[wild wyvern]

Nope

It booted to windows ok

@real edge

[real edge]

check the event viewer

an event might be there that gives a hint

[wild wyvern]

nothing either

@real edge

[real edge]

weird

u can check cpu temps ofc but if you're just watching a youtube video

it will not use the cpu much

[wild wyvern]

i just unsleeped the pc and it shutted the pc down after that

after abit ofc

@real edge

So yeah idk

[real edge]

well, you were planning on upgrading your computer anyway

[wild wyvern]

I am

[real edge]

so its most likely that the issue will go away as you upgrade your stuff

if you change everything but the PSU and you still get random shut downs then it will be the PSU

[wild wyvern]

@real edgecould be my cpu tbh

[real edge]

92c is very high

throttle territory

I would defo re-paste the CPU

put new thermal paste on

[wild wyvern]

oh

but idk what casuing the shutdowns

[real edge]

re-paste the CPU for now

[wild wyvern]

oh idont have any paste i think xD

[hot shadow]

if it's been years since you have pasted it (or you don't even remember ever doing it and prob used stock film of paste) then it overheats then shuts down...

[real edge]

its like a couple of bucks a tube

just buy one and re-paste it

[wild wyvern]

nope tbh

[hot shadow]

if you have never once thermal pasted a CPU before you should watch a video on it

you can't use too much or too little

also some of us use 90%+ rubbing alcohol wipe to clean the old stuff off both surface

obv you never use water

it'll be good practice for when you ever need to do this again in future for new PC. cause you will need this knowledge again and again

[wild wyvern]

i usually would bring it to an pc store

[hot shadow]

idk, it's faster n cheaper to just do these things yourself

more independent anyway

[pine thistle]

I should probably repaste my CPU some time

it's not overheating but probably still good to do

after uh, 10 years or something

[hot shadow]

yes recommended is like 3-4 years as a deadass preventative measure since most people like replacing stuff around then but it's bare minimum to at least check things out in there

but it should definitely happen by the 5 year mark............

fan coolers are ok but still have to check. if liquid cooler than even those get totally replaced in like 5 years

as always you guys need to be airdusting your PC like minimum 1-2 a year, three times if you have a pet, or it will overheat worse

it can't cool itself if you have literally never opened the PC before and inside is a buncha dust

I've seen what happens if you don't. It can go BZZZT and start smoking in the summer randomly

Mobo will fry and be dead

also usually people replace their power supply like 5-7 years

[hazy frost]

I mean it rly doesn’t matter how long u leave it if ur checking ur temps and they’re fine

Just use Liquid Metal and leave it forever

Ur meant to replace it more often but it seems to last longer anyway

[gentle star]

Liquid coolers don't need to be replaced until they fail, if you're not constantly taking them in and out of your PC

My x62 has been in my PC for 7 years and still gets ridiculously low temps on my 8700k at 5ghz

Haven't repasted since then either

I'm on the liquid metal bandwagon too. Delidded; temps haven't increased at all since install

[gentle star]

Good power supplies can last 10 years easily. In fact many good PSUs have traditionally come with a 10 year warranty, and that's just on the warranty

If youre monitoring your voltage levels on each of the rails using something like hwinfo once in a blue moon and you're still getting good, stable voltage and power delivery without excessive heat or noise, you should be fine

Over-maintaintaining a machine can introduce its own problems as every time you disassemble and reassemble a machine to maintain it, you have opportunities to introduce damage or error, or wear or damage to fasteners and hoses. Part of why I mentioned it about liquid coolers lasting a long time if you're not constantly removing and reinstalling it is since the rubber in the hoses does get less flexible with time and if you just leave it alone, it can maintain a good seal for way longer than if you were moving the hoses around a lot and increasing the risk of introducing micro cracking into the hoses.

Generally you don't need to pre emptively repaste if you're still getting good temps. Clean your dust filters on case intake. That's about all the maintenance most machines need

Aside from like occasionally monitoring temps and voltage once in a blue moon as mentioned

[wild wyvern]

My cpu is an toasty 91c

[hot shadow]

ya but people usually replace in that time period because they can afford a new one already by 7 years, they don't usually try to drag it out to 10 on principle

being a miser is gonna blow your shit up

same with aio

[pine thistle]

my psu died way before the 10 year mark

[hot shadow]

saving money too much on principle ultimately fucks your shit up yes

same my PSU died before 10yr mark too

they're always 'good psu'

besides if you can't afford new PC parts in over half a decade it means your adult life has other problems you should be prioritizing, frankly

there's no nicer way to say that

I agree with people not trying to over maintain and repaste if they don't need to but holy crap a lot of them do a terrible job the first time lmao so they def need to

the stock film paste can be shitty too

[potent arrow]

I usually wipe the stock paste off and use my own shit

[hot shadow]

yea

but you and I are different

[potent arrow]

OEM stuff tends to dry out much faster

[hot shadow]

newbies never do that

their OEM film goes Bzzzzt

lmao

[potent arrow]

people just needa learn

[hot shadow]

they won't if they keep bringing their PC to the repair shop

[inland mauve]

I had to repaste recently

that shit was like dried toothpaste

very disappointing since it was the shit that came with a Noctua cooler

I expected more out of Noctua

[hot shadow]

just by principle if somebody built their first pc at say 17yo and then they're like 25yo looking in there later I would HOPE they replaced or repasted something before then

cause it would be a whole era of your life gone by already

yea the OEM shit sucks

[inland mauve]

actually used the same paste again bc I had nothing else so I will probably have to repaste again in a year or so LMAO

[potent arrow]

cryonaught

get some

expensive but worth lol

[inland mauve]

at least my PC has been a lot more stable since then

the problem really was overheating

[potent arrow]

your PC had so many issues

[inland mauve]

god

[potent arrow]

the fucking SSD lol

[inland mauve]

the fucking drive with a bad sector

[hot shadow]

esp Americans who were here for like two stimulus checks, if you didn't buy PC parts with it then you spent it wrong sorry

[potent arrow]

[hot shadow]

because shit was cheap

it's not like GPU rn

ok or car parts

[inland mauve]

my PC is insanely powerful but holy shit I am finding ways to push it to its limit

is gonna get even worse once I start having to run L2D software as well

[hot shadow]

just kinda boggles the mind when I see people spend on gacha and they don't even like, at least check on their everyday things they use

[inland mauve]

I hate it so much that DLSS isn't used by AAA games to push graphical fidelity even further but just to compensate for worse and worse optimization

[potent arrow]

eh I just Overcompensate with hardware

[inland mauve]

my work laptop is updating its bios and the fan is going nuts

I'm worried

[hazy frost]

There’s PSUs u definitely keep for 10 years

If u bought like a 1600t2 or an old hx1000i or buying an ax1500i ur gonna keep it for a decade bc u won’t need a new one for anything and they’re made to last with a warranty on it

If u bought like a RM750 then yeah people might have a reason to upgrade it later even if it’s in warranty

[gentle star]

Being a miser?

[gentle star]

I know zero people that replace a working PSU before it shows signs of degradation; if you're one of them, you'd be person number 1 for me

[hazy frost]

I know people who do if they went from a 3060 to a 7900xtx

But not for reasonable upgrades

[hot shadow]

you don't know enough people with disposable income then

[hazy frost]

I know a lot of people with disposable income and they still don’t

[gentle star]

Ah yes because anyone not in first world country with a living wage just have priority issues

[hazy frost]

I just don’t know people stupid enough to replace a working product with another almost identical working product

[hot shadow]

usually they replace it cause they get tired of having their starter 500w

even if it's working

[gentle star]

I make plenty good wage and I count myself fortunate but it's pretty insensitive to imply that it's a "them" problem if people aren't in an awesome financial situation

[hot shadow]

that's basically everytime I've seen them do that

they jump to 750w then jump to 1000

[hazy frost]

I’m not going to get rid of my hx1000i unless I decide to buy a 7090 that uses 800w on its own

[gentle star]

Yeah that's a different use case scenario, that's a given

[hazy frost]

I’m just keeping it for the next 8 years until warranty is out

[gentle star]

I'm not gonna replace my 750w g2 supernova just because it hit 7 years old if it shows no signs of dying

[hazy frost]

Yeah

If u have smth 750w and not garbage there’s basically no need to upgrade for anything

If it’s 500-650 maybe

People see power spikes and go out to buy a 1200w psu not knowing psus are built to handle power spikes and only need to consider the average TBP

[hot shadow]

ya I agree if it's 750w you can just keep it forever

[wild wyvern]

But wouldnt 650 still be fine if i dont use high power parts?

[hazy frost]

Yes

[hot shadow]

yes

[hazy frost]

A good 650 will last ages so long as u don’t have a power hungry cpu

[hot shadow]

you can be very very happy with middling pc

[hazy frost]

Can run a 7600 and a 5080 on it still for example lol

[hot shadow]

or even like between mid and high ya

[hazy frost]

Most people don’t bc they had more money anyway

But u can

[hot shadow]

idk why they go buy a 1200w anyway when even 1000w is more than enough

it's already the braindead default

[dire viper]

Seasonic 1200w looks cool and smells good

(Why do PSU’s smell good)

[wild wyvern]

Theres a 1200w psu?

WTF xD

[hot shadow]

hahaha

smells like a warm robot

[dire viper]

Yea

Manufacturing smell

It’s like natural gas based motor oil

It just smells good

[wild wyvern]

That waifu gpu from yeston tho @hot shadow

[potent arrow]

I literally have the big fucking watt silverstone

it's so based

[brave oxide]

#technology-discussion message

ima send you one of those

to traumatize your nose

[wild wyvern]

Lmao pls alukah

Not that hahahah

[hazy frost]

There’s more than that

There’s 2000w ones

[wild wyvern]

[hazy frost]

And one like 2100 or 2200

[wild wyvern]

Bruh

[hazy frost]

750 is more than adequate for most people and 850-1000 is more than adequate for regular high end systems

Some niche setups might have people with 1500 or 1600w ones bc they’re almost the highest quality models some companies sell

[gentle star]

Yeah depends on what you get/use -- the most important thing to do before buying a PSU is to look it up on the PSU tier list to make sure it's a quality one

According to various calculators, my 4070ti super and 8700k with all the other stuff I have is estimated to be around 530w, tho my cpu is overclocked to 5ghz. But even then that 530-580w is just under 100% load for all components, and it's not common to have it fully loaded since you're gonna be bottlenecked by one of the two processors unless your system is somehow perfectly balanced

Like I run 100% load on the GPU when doing xiv with shaders but the cpu is only like half loaded

750w is pretty comfy for me for this load; because I have disposable income I might opt for 850w just for additional future headroom but 650w is also plenty if you're not using super high draw parts

[dire viper]

https://youtu.be/5GT6nMIDXFM?si=7-T5TGaIckD9pZnK

[wild wyvern]

I see

Im planning to get an decent gaming pc

that doesnt break my budget

by too much

[potent arrow]

remember what we discussed, don't go further then this here

[hazy frost]

530w? Tf do u have in ur pc 50 hard drives

290w gpu and maybe 100w with OC cpu

530 seems high

[potent arrow]

530 seems a bit high, 400-450 at most is what I'll assume it draws

[hazy frost]

Yeah extra 50 maybe for whatever else u have is probably a safe assumption

Unless u have a lot of old hard drives and 30 LED strips

I think my 4070ti was using 300w with OC and my 7700x uses like 125w

[potent arrow]

my friends PC has those old precursors to led strips

it's just a neon bulb

so it uses 100-150W on its own 😂😂😂

[hazy frost]

Lmfao

[gentle star]

Not my current specs anymore since I upgraded a lot of my ssds to nvme PCIe ssds and stuff but it's close enough -- this is pcpartpicker estimate. Actually I forgot the motherboad which upped it to 600w maximum

[gentle star]

Realistically probably only draws that much but the calculators also factor in everything else in the system including ram/mobo/etc see above

[hazy frost]

29w for ram..?

I don’t think so

[gentle star]

Yeah does seem weirdly high lol

Twice as much as the pump on a CLC feels pretty erroneou

[late basalt]

Tfw your IRA portfolios get torpedoed by over 10% in just two days despite being a low risk spread

Thank fuck I’m not using an aggressive portfolio strategy

[dire viper]

Yuh

[late basalt]

I suppose on the bright side, I can invest more money into the accounts at effectively the same cost basis as when I first opened it

[sly elk]

CHANGE MY SCREEN'S BRIGHTNESS FOR NO REASON ONE MORE TIME, KDE

https://tenor.com/view/mad-anime-anime-girl-mad-black-mad-black-anime-gif-9801680199954311748

[inland mauve]

every time I open Twitter one of Limes' tweets is in my notifications

I don't even follow her

why doe she keep showing up in my notifs

it's so weird how this website will just insert tweets into your notifs

[wild wyvern]

Help

PC shutted down again

[real edge]

buy a new thermal paste tube for like 2 bucks and re-paste it

the cpu

[neon shell]

https://youtube.com/shorts/29oIHWHW5Yc?si=rI_Ceejw2DQDRST6 touch grass phone case by dbrand. lol wtf

[neon shell]

Is there a big difference between the different brands? I usually go with noctua but I don’t think it matters

[real edge]

some swear by cryonaught or sth but for me it does not matter

[sly walrus]

paste is paste

[hot shadow]

yesssSSS the one grass is reallLLLL

[neon shell]

What is cryonaught

[real edge]

they make thermal paste

[neon shell]

Oh I see

I thought it was like an ingredient in like specific thermal pastes or something lol

I saw a brand on YouTube that is testing with using molten metal ( probably gallium) instead of thermal paste. They made this “cage” to stop the metal from going on the rest of the motherboard. Really sketchy though @real edge

[hot shadow]

I like graphite thermal pad idea more than that.....

[real edge]

yea 99% of ppl should just get a normal tube of thermal paste lol

[neon shell]

https://youtube.com/shorts/HBtW4Tye2YU?si=IUvgmT0ahRlil6v8 found it

Agreed lol

[sly elk]

just avoid the weird ones that use metal, they conduct electricity and that's a pain in the butt

like liquid metal or whatever

[sly elk]

the wagoneer s still strikes me as such a weird take on a car

oh dangit

in reality it's shaped like a hatchback car

but then they tried to give it the side silhouette of an suv. so it's like the opposite of those mercedes/bmw suvs that try to look like a hatchback

what it really is, is a stla large.. just a taller dodge charger lol

for people who for whatever reason would rather have a car that cosplays an suv

I don't know why people would be like that like "I don't need all that extra space but I want it to look like it has it"??????

"I want my sports car to look like mom's minivan"

[hazy frost]

Yeah they’re mostly for people who use water cooling but people have taken to using them for regular builds for some reason

[hazy frost]

They’re trying to look like a coupe not a hatchback tho

SUVs kind of just do look like bigger hatchbacks but slightly different

Helps that crossovers basically are that and they’re included in SUVs by most people

[sly elk]

yea

the wagoener s is just weir because it's a 'coupe' trying to look like an suv lol

ignoring that, i think it does look nice

though, like the full size wagoneer, I think they should toss a chrysler badge on them and not call em jeeps

[dire viper]

I really like it

The pass through backs are just a thing now

Even on a Singer

Singer is fucking nuts btw

Went to an event yesterday for them

The rear window glass on the DLS is mind boggling because it has an incredibly varied slope on the edges because they’ve lowered the middle portion of the glass while SLIGHTLY raising the edges of the rear roofline to allow for corner windows to be intakes

Oh also the side ram intake glass is impossibly complex as well

[hot shadow]

my MR2 finally passed smog and is alive again

gods be praised

now I will go back to not caring about it and somebody else will drive it

the shittiest ugliest MR2 to exist in 50 states

the paint sunscorched more than a Nevada hooker's face

[sly elk]

i saw a really clean red mister two the other day

like stupid clean

looked factory fresh. wish I had gotten a picture

[sly elk]

"and I've been running full fat ubuntu linux on it! Which unfortunately, has borked itself somehow"
well that's a familiar story lmao

action retro on mx linux and steam: "I've had more problems installing things on windows 10 than this" 😄 yeaaa sounds about right

[lost python]

Fucking temu ads telling me I can buy CRM tools and python courses on there lmao

[pine thistle]

not the python course from temu

probably gonna teach you 2.7 or something

[lost python]

With spelling mistakes

[sly elk]

the whole python 2 thing makes me laugh

i learned python on the job over 10 years ago and even then, python 3 was already out and had been out a while

a couple years later some fng comes along and writes this huge thing using python 2.x

and it was done by a different group so I didn't see it until it was already a thing

[cerulean talon]

Temu gonna break out the mod_speling apache modules. nods

[sly elk]

@dire viper was at fedex this morning and noticed the ferrari dealer was overflowing into the fedex lot lol

[dire viper]

Yea that sounds right

Ferrari is selling more cars than ever

It’s literally just the boomer gen x doom posting that makes people think they’re not doing well

“Oh well I don’t wanna buy a car to get an allocation for another car if it depreciates.” Tough shit man!

You buy the 400k car to get to buy the 2 million dollar one you got fucking money to spare

[dire viper]

https://youtu.be/4FkU2yKvCxg?si=MnGP0tQtxRFD0j0r

America 🇺🇸 🦅

@sly elk you can still buy Hellcat Durango's!!!

this is news to me

[sly elk]

so in the end the 3080ti -> 9070xt upgrade cost me $303

https://tenor.com/view/good-enough-i-guesss-good-enough-anime-confused-anime-girl-gif-21708055

tbh probably not the best use of $300

[hazy frost]

gpus are gonna get more expensive soon for reasons, and ur gonna feel that extra vram at the resolution u play so id call it worth

[sly walrus]

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/microsofts-head-of-ai-wants-to-create-an-artificial-overly-attached-companion-for-us-all-it-will-have-its-own-name-its-own-style-it-will-adapt-to-you-it-may-also-have-its-own-visual-appearance-and-expressions/