technology-discussion

[muted compass]

I did it worked fine for a bit then crashed even on low for some reason

I saw others could run it on 10 idk why im having problems with it

[lost python]

thanks windows. very cool of you to force me to update my windows despite me pausing your ai slop updates

[final stirrup]

Lately using Disney+ has been causing my GPU to freak out, both monitors will go black for like 10 seconds, my pc locks up and any games I have running will crash

Reinstalling graphics drivers didn't fix it

[muted compass]

is my cpu clock speed normal for the R7 5800xt? I feel so slow i think that's above standard performance but i didnt overclock my cpu

[muted compass]

it even puts my cpu at 70c even though it doesnt do that sigh
when it's idle too it's speed is at 4.5GHz

[tepid gulch]

It's boosting slightly above standard max clock

4.8ghz is normal boost for it

With pbo it gets closer to 5ghz

4.95 is perfectly respectable

Hitting consistency over 5ghz is entirely up to the silicon lottery

Each cpu has its own boost max

[tepid gulch]

Idle speed is weirdly reported on amd from my experience. You'll almost always have the main core and the secondary boosting to be prepared for a load and then all the other cores are in the 2ghz range to save power. Software though only reports the fastest core

[muted compass]

I found out pbo is on auto would that be the cause of it? I didnt really toy with overclocking and didnt have my clock speed on during past benchmarking but i noticed a shift in resource consumption on certain games and temperature from my normal 65c to now 70-75c after updating to windows 11 and then when i rolled back 10 it remained the same

[tepid gulch]

I just out pbo to on

Put

Messing with it anymore beyond just setting it to on is just diminishing returns

[muted compass]

Alright ill change it to on permanently once i boot it up again

[tepid gulch]

Idk why temperatures would.be different now

[muted compass]

Definitely a relief to know 4+GHz is completely normal on idle

[tepid gulch]

Only thing I could think of would be chipset drivers or some stupid thing in windows 11

[tepid gulch]

Yeah it's not reported the same as intel does

My motto has become if it works don't fix it

[muted compass]

Definitely caught me off guard to see it go nearly 5GHz though cuz i noticed most cpu benchmark tests didnt even reach to that point

[muted compass]

Yeah 😭😭😭

[tepid gulch]

The more you touch something the more cursed it becomes somehow

Modern hardware is great

[muted compass]

Idk temps is like below its max capacity but its just weird

[muted compass]

[tepid gulch]

Im usually around 70 on my 7800x3d

[muted compass]

On an air cooler or aio?

[tepid gulch]

Amd gets hot but uses less power

Aio

I need to clean fans to be fair

[muted compass]

Okay seems more reassuring then

[muted compass]

Oop yeah no mine is like clean clean so idk how it suddenly reached from a cool 60 under gaming load to 70 at times

[tepid gulch]

Could be a specific game using more cores

[muted compass]

There was a point where it hit 80 too after the swap to 11

[tepid gulch]

Windows 11 isn't the greatest

I've had no issues on it personally tho

[muted compass]

Now i really regret going to 11 cuz it still left s curse when i wiped my pc and went back to 10

[tepid gulch]

Yeah that's weird to me

But also not surprising

[muted compass]

Its very wishy washy made me swap between 10-11 at times

[tepid gulch]

I've seen weirder

My pc has always been on 11

Since i built it

Knock on wood no issues

[muted compass]

Thanks for the help though definitely brought me some relief and reassurance that my pc isnt kicking the bucket after i just upgraded it

If i still find more discrepancies i hope a third wipe and a fresh windows install from a usb does the trick 😭🙏

[tepid gulch]

What I've leaned with messing around with overclocking and trying to undervolt etc is that in the end the best option is just to turn pbo on, set everything else on auto, make sure your ram profile is running at its rated speed and thats it

[muted compass]

Or... ill just rma my cpu or change the thermal paste or something

[tepid gulch]

Let amds pbo software do its own thing

I wasted so much time just to reach that conclusion

[muted compass]

I know pbo has different options too yeah should i leave it at the standard on option or should i look into the others

[tepid gulch]

I just leave it on, on

And let it figure itself out

The cpu is smarter than you

Trust

It knows what it can do

[muted compass]

Alrighty 🫡🫡🫡

Thanks for the help

[tepid gulch]

You could theoretically get more performance if you tinker around but that's something you'd have to get set to your own cpus capabilities

Which is trial.and error

And for like maybe 5% more performance

[muted compass]

Yeahhhh id rather let the cpu do its thing instead of accidentally messing something up too

[tepid gulch]

If you're lucky

The minecraft modpack I just started is running perfectly and I refuse to touch anything

#goodenough

The true test of a computer is late game modded minecraft

[muted compass]

Me with the vr modpack i set for it lmao

[cerulean talon]

The silicon lottery is also mostly over

[muted compass]

I dont know how its not crashing with shaders

[cerulean talon]

Binning is so good now, you’re not likely to get lucky any more

[tepid gulch]

Minecraft runs like ass eventually for every pc in existence

[tepid gulch]

True

[cerulean talon]

That’s because you don’t give it 256gig of ram

And 80+ cores

[tepid gulch]

Don't do that

Java will explode

[cerulean talon]

Good, it deserves it

[tepid gulch]

Java isn't even optimized to use more than like 10gb of ram on a standard jvm

[cerulean talon]

You gotta bust out the -Xx gc mods nods

[muted compass]

Kinda cant wait to see how performance truly changes once minecraft is on vulkan

[tepid gulch]

You literally have to go use alternate jvm's like graalvm and use custom garbage collection algorithms to allow java to not wanna die

[cerulean talon]

Not gonna matter, the main choke in mc is the sole thread nature

[tepid gulch]

Yeah

I personally use eclipse adoptium for my java

[cerulean talon]

I’ve done my fair share of tuning, both professionally and on mc xD. You can do some wild stuff if you really want

[tepid gulch]

They make a good release

Graal is the best for pure performance but can be iffy with certain mods

[cerulean talon]

These days I just chuck it 16 gig of ram, shove up a server, and let it do the really intensive work elsewhere

[tepid gulch]

The recommend for this particular pack im playing is eclipse adoptium

And its perfect

Thats also what the server runs on

It just works

[cerulean talon]

Seems suspicious. Java never just works

[tepid gulch]

I only use 9gb

Server is on 8gb rn

For now

Eventually I'll probably have to up it

[cerulean talon]

Not bad

I kinda miss old mc modpacks

I know they’re out there, but I like the mood, but I want modern blocks 🙁

[tepid gulch]

I'm playing a pack called project infinity

It's an expert skyblock

My favorite kind of pack

[cerulean talon]

I’ve given my soul to the factorio gods for the next few weeks

[tepid gulch]

I had that happen before

[cerulean talon]

Decided to do a modded all-planets run

Looking forwards to the command and conquer planet with Tiberius

*tiberium

[tepid gulch]

I played it like 10+ hours a day for a month

Don't recommend

[tepid gulch]

I did krashtorio

Before i stopped

Then i got bored

[cerulean talon]

I’ve got over 5k hours xD

[tepid gulch]

Jesus

[cerulean talon]

I love me some factorio, if I can’t get on the mood to play, I know something’s wrong xD

It’s my depression detector

[tepid gulch]

I have over 20k in Minecraft

Am i special now

I have played for, checks clock 14 years

[cerulean talon]

I used to play eve-online as a full time job with 10-15 accounts at the same time for almost 20 years?

[tepid gulch]

Ah so you're one of those

[cerulean talon]

We can keep going down this spiral, it doesn’t get better for either of us zzz

[tepid gulch]

I could.never get into eve

[cerulean talon]

Used to play competitive counterstrike 1.5? xD

[tepid gulch]

I never did comp

[cerulean talon]

I ended up getting my dad to play eve, then got him into factorio

He beat me to finishing space-ex in factorio

[tepid gulch]

I haven't played any games in like over a year

And i choose an expert Minecraft pack to get back in

Im a masochist

[cerulean talon]

The last 3 days I’ve played a couple hours of factorio, but otherwise it’s been almost 2 years

Been too busy fixing up my house for the last 18 months xD

[tepid gulch]

I can't wait to do recipes that have more steps than a vector calculus proof

[cerulean talon]

Never did calc, so no idea xD

[tepid gulch]

Vector calc is stupid

Unless you wanna be a rocket scientist

[cerulean talon]

One of these days I probably will, I’m considering that it might be college time for me

[tepid gulch]

Applying and calculating vectors to 3d objects as they move through a 4d plane

[cerulean talon]

…. I hate math people

[tepid gulch]

I love math

[cerulean talon]

I’m going back to sane programming

[tepid gulch]

I hate programming

[cerulean talon]

Programming is love

[tepid gulch]

Nuh uh

[cerulean talon]

Two complete opposite sides of the spectrum, all is in balance

Can we agree that physics people are just weird?

Cool toys, but weird

[tepid gulch]

The only programming I know is the scripting language in the super factory manager mod in Minecraft

[tepid gulch]

No

[cerulean talon]

[tepid gulch]

Somebody created a mod for item,fluid,energy etc logistics, that uses a custom programming language to code how things get moved, to where, with filters, limiters, stocking, etc

It's pretty ingenious

[cerulean talon]

Neat idea, pain in the rear, sounds like a bad version of computer craft

[tepid gulch]

It's like a better computercraft

Has autocomplete as well

[cerulean talon]

Cc just used lua tho

The lazy answer

[tepid gulch]

And great documentation

[cerulean talon]

Custom languages are usually a bad thing

[tepid gulch]

And videos on everything

It's all super logical code as well

[cerulean talon]

This isn’t a positive for me personally, but good to know

I have an intense dislike for video tutorials, if your stuff isn’t obvious enough ingame, or I can’t wiki it, it’s not getting done in my games xX

[tepid gulch]

It's literally like at the most basic
Input
From a
Output to b
End

[cerulean talon]

Blessed state machines

[tepid gulch]

I think he even added regex recently

[cerulean talon]

Mmm, the blessed language

[tepid gulch]

You can go as deep as you want or as simple as you want

And it has great performance

Somehow

Truly a remarkable mod

Ofc there's if, or, nor statements as well

Theres also stocking modifiers that I'm forgetting the formatting for rn

Like limiting the amount of items has a specific code to be checked less frequently

For performance

I forgor

There's even a vscode extension so you can write your code there if you want to then copy it in game

[cerulean talon]

[tepid gulch]

Good times

I wonder if the pack im playing has it

[cerulean talon]

I might do a Minecraft run once I’m happy with this factory, it’s been calling for awhile

[tepid gulch]

[wraith agate]

I should do a harder factorio run but I wonder, can you use the DLC stuffs in base game?

[sly walrus]

how u mean

[wraith agate]

Like elevated rails

[sly walrus]

and just not engage with the space shit?

unsure

[wraith agate]

Yeah

[odd talon]

Probably

[muted spoke]

you can, they're all separate

so if you want quality + rails but not space, just uncheck the space age mod when you're starting a new save

[wraith agate]

nice

[lost python]

anyone got a mouse recommendation that isnt razer or corsair and isnt the logitech g502?
ideally i want a decent sensor, optical switches and a quiet mousewheel as well as at least one extra button outside of the regular thumbbuttons.
i dont care for weight and all the snakeoil. feels like its impossible to find one like that these days, especially a mouse that doesnt have doubleclicks or a dead mousewheel after the first year

g502 would be perfect if it just wasnt so loud

[muted compass]

I wouldve said razer naga v2 pro... but like... never mind 😭😭😭

[potent arrow]

your gonna hate me but I'm still of the opinion the superlight is the best mouse rn. Besides the weight, which is a huge factor for me because of RSI...I've just had really good history with it. The only complaint is scroll wheel. I'm gonna swap the superstrike version as well soon

but it's only forward and back, m1 and m2

if your gonna be doing work stuff not gaming MX master is also just perfect

always love seeing the charts and the g502 is somehow still there

if you worry about the noise/double click what's stopping you from switch swapping

pretty basic soldering job

[hot shadow]

i generally only like when a mouse is hotswappable switches in case it dies and the company dies

but i will risk it if not

cause it's real demanding to ask for that I SUPPOSE

[potent arrow]

I swapped the switches on my superlight with heavier actuation ones lol

[hot shadow]

nice

i like when a mouse is fix-it-friendly

not disintegrate the moment i think about it

[potent arrow]

well it needed soldering lol

I'm very excited for the superstrike

it's hall effect

so no switches

and I can customize the actuation point

also no click

[lost python]

dont have a soldering iron. and i shouldnt have to given how ridiculously expensive mice are these days.

i like my deathadder v2, but razer got rid of the additional buttons with all successors and i really hate how annoying synapse is.
superstrike looks cool, especially with how silent it is, but yeah. not enough buttons for me and its 180€

as for the mx master, i am not sure if i can get used to the thumb rest. had a mouse with one before and it always felt like i had no precise control

[potent arrow]

I feel ya tho, I have a lot of friends who like 5 button mice but it's either like 4 or 283728282828282 lol

[lost python]

yeah. the single extra button has become rare and 2 extra basically doesnt exist anymore

[potent arrow]

I would still give the master a shot, it's my favorite productivity mouse by like a mile. Not sure what you define as accuracy but my small hands can click vertices in blender and do my Photoshop work so it's like not a problem to me

[lost python]

productivity i can imagine, but i also play a variety of games and apparently it has a quite significant delay compared to regular mice

[potent arrow]

it does

that's why I specify for work only

I'll whiff shots in the finals if I use it lol

my recommendation is just to get your g502

a 20$ soldering iron

and quiet switches

call it a day lol

[lost python]

id need to replace the mousewheel too because its like you are cranking one of these

[potent arrow]

that's just Logitech unfortunately

my only gripe with the Goro superlight

why didn't they fucking put the anywhere scroll wheel on it

[lost python]

[potent arrow]

the anywhere scroll wheel is electromagnetic

so it's free balling or ratcheting

[hot shadow]

i miss having a dpi button

even though i really like my mouse

if only because i use the dpi button for keybind u_u

[potent arrow]

streamdeck changes it for me

but my mouse also has per game profile so I barely touch it

[daring elk]

I dont like the v3

It feels flmismy

Like i know its lighter

[lost python]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uETMOsxlZMw

[hard drift]

My brothers early christmas gift because he was talking about buying himself a new laptop before my mom and i could 😭

[fathom elbow]

Early is an understatement

Its march lol

[hard drift]

he was talking about buying a new laptop within a month or two and i have been planning this with my mom since late last year 😭

so we were forced to move up the timeline

going to be giving it to him saturday since that's when they're both off work. He's going to love it going from a 3060 laptop to a 5070 so it'll be massive for him

and then as a gag gift for his bday going to get him this skin and put it on his laptop before he notices

[sly walrus]

cover up the text so it just says Leg

[hot shadow]

I remembered my mic has xlr

it's time

to audiophile the fucking microphone (in a budget way)

with a vocaster one because they're 35 dollars on ebay

USB mic people do not have this power, sorry nerds

gonna have to get yourself XLR mic for that

[pine thistle]

What if it has both

[hot shadow]

then it's xlr capable still

it's superior to usb for voice quality and messing with it

similar to buying nice cans headset and buying a DAC that can power it properly, you get a xlr mic, a xlr cable, and a ADC aka shit like a vocaster one then that links to PC, same idea

[potent arrow]

me with my shit ass Scarlett solo that barely works

[pine thistle]

probably not super worth it if all I use it for is discord calls

[hot shadow]

eh

it does improve it still even for that

less muddy voice

[pine thistle]

guess its something to consider after I got a better headphone setup going

[odd talon]

It lives

[dire viper]

prime sleeping place for huntsmans

[odd talon]

If they can handle the heat

[sly walrus]

isn't aus nothing but heat

[hot shadow]

you guys fixed the crooked pins? pog

[odd talon]

it was actually something else

[hot shadow]

yay

scary

[odd talon]

it was either grounded or not installed correctly

other then paying $450 to have it rebuilt with the technicians help. it good now

[hot shadow]

did you discover the board was warped and was shorting because it happens to new cases still if stands are weird

[odd talon]

probably

either way it is working

now begins the process of transferring everything over

[hard drift]

450????

that's so expensive 😭

[hard drift]

but then i gotta glitter bomb it myself

[kindred brook]

I can't believe rting is now paywalled

anyone got another extensive hardware review site that is free

[odd talon]

Yeah... in hindsight I should have paid my coworker to help for cheaper

[wild wyvern]

@pine thistle is an laptop more worth it or an pc?

@hot shadow budget gaming laptops arent that worth it right?

[warped siren]

budget laptops are borderline e-waste

you'd be better off buying a steam deck and a dock for less

[pine thistle]

desktop unless you really really need the mobility and keyboard attached to the screen

[hot shadow]

it depends on your life honestly

cause like if you're a student you rly should have a laptop for the beginning of your life all the way into college

starting from middleschool (which your parents were supposed to help provide)

if you have more money then yea you would have both a budget laptop and then a budget PC

then when you have more more money you finally get a better PC and eventually ditch the laptop. thats how a life would look like unless they still need the on-the-go feeling for work or chilling

cause if you travel you obv still need a whatever laptop

People have had a chromebook for highschool into college and only a phone, that was all they had

But ideally you would have some other generic laptop that just works, like a thinkpad for school life into work life though, chromebooks are for nongamers nonprogrammers

If you dont have that much money but you game then your only choice really is just go get a gaming laptop like most students/young adults on budget. I absolutely would NOT get a steam deck for that life, its not good for work/uni

also honestly the steam deck sucks anyway, you can get more versatility/power out of a real laptop. Nobody should have a steam deck as their only major device at home, that's fken cursed and desperate. Most people who have a steam deck already have a billion other things cause it was a QoL device to begin with.

[wraith agate]

agreed

if I buy steam deck, I do it to play comfortably when normally I can't

[hot shadow]

there's some good comfy use case out of it if a person only ever has small devices like phone, steam deck, or phone and those GPD win max 2 laptops or w/e

that's a different vibe, that's micro tech nerds

it's sorta hipster tho, cause they tend to really like handhelds and have a secret gba collection

[ashen mirage]

There's a few reasons I prefer laptops over desktops personally. When the power goes out you don't have to worry about losing everything, if you need to evacuate you can bring it with you, and it's portable enough to bring when staying at family's for any visits over a day. I also like having everything I need already in the device instead of buying tons of separate things + powerbank to simulate what laptops already have all in one.

The only time it's annoying is when the battery gets old and you need to change it- many modern laptops don't have an easy way to change the battery (ultralights) so it ends up needing to stay plugged in or set to hibernate. This is only after many years of use. I have at least 4 functioning laptops for various uses, most on Linux and 1 on an older Win10 for now

Gaming laptops tend to be extremely expensive for what they are and compatibility troubleshooting is the same as on desktop due to manufacturer configs. In my experience there has been a much bigger push for making sure things just work on Steam Deck and it is vastly more portable. What you prefer will be up to you in the end but I can say steam deck is definitely worth it if you don't mind tinkering every now and then.

If you hate tinkering and just want things to just work always, usually console is the way, the deck's been a good middle ground in my experience

[hot shadow]

ya it def depends on life and how comfortable one is with tinkering

some people freak out catatonically at the thought of fixing anything

so they need to understand they have normie needs

[ashen mirage]

So for example (using very old prices) you can get a decent laptop and steamdeck for about 1k. The cheapest just OK gaming laptop I've seen started at 2k

scaling for inflation will likely be a similar gap

[hot shadow]

rn if you are a gamer who wants a normal gaming laptop the 4060/5060 8gb vram ones are fine

you can play every mmo, emulate whatever you want, you can play battlefield 6 without crashing (crazy i know), you can play resident evil rn

they are less than 2k

esp if refurb, always look for refurb/lightly used if you like gambling, or even look for a better flagship laptop that was a yesteryear model if lucky

some of the asus rog and lenovo ones fit well within this

cause im assuming a person needs to just be wow'd by playing modern games at all, some of them are even OLED, <1ms screen response, 120hz, that kinda thing wows most people

can also buy a cheapo laptop stand for at home to cool it more

it's when you demand 16gb vram that it'll start being priced up more

a lot of gamerboys are ok with their 8gb peasant vram, they already live like /r/malelivingspace people anyway with a mattress on bricks w/e

sometimes you help people fix their gaming desktop they have no business having, and you secretly wish they bought a laptop instead cause then they wouldnt have to call you at 3am panicking IME

[ashen mirage]

feel that

I will say if picking steam deck, getting a silicone grip has made it MUCH more comfortable to play with and reduces the risk of it getting bumped or slipping out of your hands, the material it ships with isn't the greatest for grip. I use the JSAUX one and it's like $20ish

compared to about 80 for the cheapest powerbank, more if you want more than a few minutes to shut down gracefully

[hot shadow]

yea i feel that way about my switch lite before too

needed a way better grip, idk why nintendo thinks we have lego people clamp hands lol

[ashen mirage]

If you're not afraid of customizing just a little more, installing a similarly cheap custom back cover with more airflow helps with the really heavy games like MH wilds where any cooling helps

those are the only 2 things I've ever done to my deck and I don't want to change anything else unless it's just for visual flair

[hot shadow]

ya esp for monster hunter (and RE by nature) on any PC, small or big, i would be modding it to remove shit like fog and doin performance tweaks

drastic fps increase

[ashen mirage]

Actually I forgot, I did get thumbgrips but that's a super personal thing which depends on your thumbs

mine are just skinny and gripless lmao

wow yeah refurb gaming laptop prices are v reasonable

[hot shadow]

refurb life is dope

[ashen mirage]

So if you game at a desk anyway and have controllers you already like then gaming laptop makes sense

But if you want to game anywhere outside of a desk, look into the deck

[hot shadow]

so many people junk their shit for like no reason, ive seen open box prices be slashed like 50% just because some guy probably got it then immediately got buyer's remorse

like ok thanks bro now it's mine

[ashen mirage]

frfr

[hot shadow]

o i forgot people draw

so i would get a ipad with procreate if you draw

and dont already have a drawing tablet at all cause one would need to learn basics anyway, and having an ipad is nice for other tasks. People do work/school on ipads all the time

[ashen mirage]

Yeah it's very nice for drawing

[hot shadow]

i dont have a nice experience on android tablets unfortunately, they seem to die faster

or lag a lot

[ashen mirage]

I don't have any apple stuff but got an old lenovo yoga for drawing, but it probably costs much more, maybe OK if refurb instead

I think ipad refurb price would still beat out laptop refurb price but I could be wrong, haven't looked into much

[hot shadow]

it may sometimes yea

a lot of people chuck their ipads a lot sooner than a laptop!

we all climb this tech ladder together

my ipad is still here with me, so is my chromebook 😭

i used my old thinkpad as a media pc for a while, it does have that extra use

[ashen mirage]

For sure, we're working on setting up a pihole on one of our laptops, I think the only laptops I had to stop using were one that got water spilled on it (cat problems) and another where the HDD failed after many years

I had a third one HDD fail but I liked that one a lot more and it's big and still has a CD drive so I just replaced the HDD and it's on linux now and works like a breeze

[hot shadow]

i thought about pihole'ing multiple times before but i found out it was ineffective against yt and twitch lmao

so i would be messing up my household internet for everyone else just because i didn't wanna see 1 google ad

[ashen mirage]

That's fair, it's only my SO, me and cats so we'd get good use out of it

plus we have a really intrusive ISP that forces a branded modem on us for fiber, we don't even have the option of using our own now

but it's that or no fiber which is way worse and cuts out constantly in our area

since the branded modem has 0 privacy options, pihole helps a lot here

[latent plank]

A PiHole doesn't have to be network-wide, you could just use it (or something similar) via setting DNS on each machine/per-device you want.

There's also options like NextDNS and if you're more savvy setting up Tailscale, etc.

Or even for some cursed reason running Pi-Hole in a local container.

[hard drift]

Do you have a Micro Center near you? they have a pretty good laptop bang for your buck wise for about 1k

[wild wyvern]

Im not on the US

[daring elk]

you are really mr worldwide with your bio

idk bout getting a laptop rn especially in this day and age with the ram, malls selling 8gb ram models of gaming laptop at a premium 1200 dollars

at least from my end

[wild wyvern]

Welp

I already have an pc lol

[ashen mirage]

On amazon you can get refurb models for just a few hundred, like 500-800 range, the only issue would be if you want to replace the HDD which has always been standard advice, but getting a new HDD is the same price as the laptop so it might be less advised now

but the drawback is you risk kernel viruses that withstand wipes

[hot shadow]

a nonzero chance but basically doesn't happen

more chance of mailman going postal

[daring elk]

bruh i dont have amazon shopping here

and yeah refurb laptops are eh

im more confident in getting to see the laptop in person meetups

[hazy frost]

Apple sells certified refurb in a lot of countries and does student discounts which helps a lot of people

Tho now if ur a student and need a laptop Apple have conveniently made a $600 one that’s actually very good

[agile sun]

is this normal for my task manager processes? idk if i should be having 7 battlenets and whatnot.

[latent plank]

Bnet has that many due to it using CEF

[hot shadow]

i have 4 so i guess it's normal....?

[latent plank]

Just like Discord and Steam WebHelper

It's a variable amount, but yes, that's normal.

[agile sun]

Oh okay tysm

(Sorry for dumb question)

[pine thistle]

If you enable the command line column you can even see what they're for :D

[sly walrus]

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/japanese-furniture-brand-reveals-the-electric-gaming-bed-2-the-forbidden-layout-built-for-the-supremely-decadent/

i may never leave my room again

[severe flax]

I have tried gaming while lying down and its a struggle ngl

You can do casual games but comp games kinda suck

[hot shadow]

yea idk how people have the blood flow to stay awake like that cause im going to bed if i do that lol

i do not have the cortisol required to lay down n game

zzzzzzz bih

literally i actually made it a personal rule to do ZERO phone shopping laying around

big purchase need big computer

because i can feel my blood flow leave my damn brain

maybe that happens to other people and they dont realize it and then they get all animal brain impulse with their Apple Pay omg

[muted compass]

next level bedrotting

[dusty otter]

got some MOA shape kuromi keycaps on my keychron k6 pro, quite like the rounded edges of these

[wide lava]

It looks really nice, my favourite is the shift key

[odd talon]

The smell and dust would be bad

[hard drift]

noctua pc case incoming

[hot shadow]

then the only loud thing in the room soon will be the human body

better find a way to get a robot body

[sly walrus]

or find a way to quit fartin

[lost python]

my tinitus is already overpowering a lot of things

[pine thistle]

okay then windows

[hazy frost]

It will be $500 and do the same thing as the $50 cases do

But also be poop brown

[peak pollen]

i hope it's a black case

and not the ugly brown color

[pine thistle]

the image does look like its very dark brown so

[odd talon]

Welp, time to figure out how to transfer nearly all my files from the old pc to the new one

[warped siren]

i like the home depot wood moulding they got in there

[hazy frost]

I can’t imagine it’s much better than the existing top 3 cases certainly not better priced from noctua lmao so

I genuinely expect it to be like $250 minimum lmao

[hot shadow]

move ssd

or is it more complex

[sly walrus]

take the old ssd and plug it into the new mobo

and if it doesn't boot, that's a sign from gaben to start fresh

[odd talon]

Mostly file integration between the OS SSD and storage SSD

Also space

Desk space

[hot shadow]

[odd talon]

I need to get some shelving to shift my xbox and ps5

[hot shadow]

i think my solution was buy 1 more bigger ssd and start moving things, repoint Steam files to correct pathing, yank out old ssd cable while leaving it in lazily, then call it a day

[hazy frost]

Buy bigger ssd now costs $50000

I was gonna buy storage last year but said hmm £80 too expensive it’ll go down and now it’s £250

[odd talon]

Alright, now which game to run max settings on this bad boy

[pine thistle]

MHWilds so you can still only get 30 fps

[odd talon]

Having 2 PCs running is hot

Because goddamn the temperature

Pretty at least

[hazy frost]

Black myth wukong

Good luck

[odd talon]

Don't have that

Will get eventually

[odd talon]

Geez I should have started transferring earlier

[daring elk]

you using the 2nd pc as server?

[odd talon]

Maybe, or a streaming pc

[odd talon]

Welp, transferring os slower than downloading

[sly walrus]

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gaming-keyboards/split-spacebars-are-surely-the-next-big-gaming-keyboard-trend/

hmm

hmmmmmmmmm

[hot shadow]

hmmmmmm

[wraith agate]

okay so

what's the point of the split spacebar?

[hot shadow]

different keybind possible

opens up some possibilities

[wraith agate]

I guess

[hot shadow]

most people hit the left side only

or left n center but not right so i guess it depends on person

its just extra

[void plover]

Not a fan

[sly walrus]

of course it's not a fan, it's a spacebar

[odd talon]

Split keyboards though

[odd talon]

This is a 10 MB/s faster compared to my last pc

[dusty otter]

sorry is it safe to press "pin channel to top" button?
its only for me right? won't affect other users of server?

[pine thistle]

Of course

You don't have any mod or admin rights in here so that'd be quite the oversight if it applied to everyone

[ashen mirage]

Apparently this is a renamed "Favorite" command which just favorites channels in your own channel view, so yes, but that is a really dumb rename by discord imo

[peak pollen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZlwTtgbgVA

what the fuck is this shit

[sly walrus]

i hope someone walks up to jensen and punches him in the jaw

[peak pollen]

this must be a joke

[dusky magnet]

Literal AI filter lol

[peak pollen]

yassified leon

[dire viper]

Is that Grace or Megan Fox

Just like edited her facial structure

[dire viper]

EUGH

[peak pollen]

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/dlss5-breakthrough-in-visual-fidelity-for-games/

oh it is reaaal

[hazy frost]

half of them l ook awful and half of them look just decent

waste of resources

[lost python]

bro

no

this is literally the kind of shitty AI edits that all the rightwing G's post on twatter to explain why a game isnt good.

"lets shit on the artistic vision and just make this whatever we think it should be" - nvidia

[dire viper]

The faces change scene to scene obviously cause it can’t store information

It makes games look like that picture that’s “they should make Frozen look like this” and the person responds going “how did you white wash white people”

[odd talon]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/s/yioxOa3Kz2

[hazy frost]

its bc they made them look aggressively american in the beauty standards lmao

which is very different to whats even seen as attractive by other white countries i feel

especially the edit ur talking about

[lucid falcon]

This looks so ass

Companies really are desperate for people to use their slop

[peak pollen]

"it is not a filter"
so it is a filter with options

lmao

[lost python]

cant believe how ass this is

[peak pollen]

now my feed is fed with this

and not forget

[real edge]

kill it with fire

[lost python]

what cursed day is this today

because razer also just introduced a haptic seat cover so you can feel your back or ass vibrate when shooting? :

and vibrating headset

[low fiber]

There is a market for that, but it's a hard one to penetrate considering there already are better existing tools for it

[lost python]

i can imagine it for simracing and flightsims but not from razer

[low fiber]

Yeah, racing

absolutely

[hazy frost]

if its cheap enough itll be good for sim racing setups

bc like most people wanna add on to their desk not a dedicated one

but i bet its too expensive lol

[lost python]

it has to beat the usual "i slapped a subwoofer on my chair" price of "i went and got one for free from facebook marketplace"
but its razer. it will be $259 or something and only work with razers special USB-C cable

[hazy frost]

Idk what I’d pay

Idc that much so like $50

I’d rather put the money towards the best wheel rn instead but some people are dumb

[hot shadow]

why they need razer one when we have lovense one huh

pfft

cheaper too

[spring raven]

https://youtu.be/CItHcQhfJS4?si=7KQmAnr83VukrIvj

[odd talon]

DLSSlop

[muted compass]

This feels like an early april fools joke i reFUSE to believe dlss 5 is a thing 😭😭😭

[paper tusk]

The DLSS 5 early preview demo shown at GTC is run on two GeForce RTX 5090s. One RTX 5090 is dedicated to rendering the game while the other is dedicated for running the DLSS 5 model. DLSS 5 will be optimized to run on a single GPU for release.
this part was omitted from the hype

[muted compass]

https://tenor.com/view/higuruma-hiromi-higuruma-jujutsu-kaisen-jujutsu-kaisen-meme-jjk-memes-gif-10370496866020481076

[muted compass]

Genuinely a spit to videogame artists and the art directors ohmygod why would they want to change what the game devs think is the perfect artstyle for their game grace does NOT look like grace ashcroft thats disgrace AI ffs 😭😭😭

[buoyant falcon]

I recently upgraded to a 5070, and tonight I tried playing it on my 4K tv for the first time. For some reason the audio is coming out completely garbled through it, regardless of whether it plays through my TV or soundbar speakers. Does anyone have a clue as to what could possibley be causing this?

[compact pine]

drivers?

[hot shadow]

can also be hdmi related and audio starts crackling

unfortunately it could be a number of reasons and you'll need process of elimination

you can try lowering refresh to 60hz to see if it's the 2.1 to 2.0 issue too (which means you need a new 2.1 hdmi cable)

[muted compass]

Switch 2 got a new update and honestly I'm happy they finally brought in a useful feature for older switch 1 games that wont get S2 support

I finally dont have the problem where i play FE3H or shield and it looks like a pixely mess on handheld it acc looks a lot more tolerable

[odd talon]

The urge to get a 3rd monitor grows

[hazy frost]

What could one possibly need a third one for

[pine thistle]

terminal, ide/editor, browser

[odd talon]

2nd computer is using the second monitor

[hard drift]

https://videocardz.com/newz/antec-flux-pro-noctua-edition-case-announced-costs-399 they got you 😭 it's "only" 400 😭

[hazy frost]

oh its literally just the flux pro LMAO

but for 4x price

actual joke

buy a normal one and like 3 t30 fans and it would probably be quieter for $200

[hard drift]

comes with 6 fans, 1 fan hub and 36 anti vibration feet

[hazy frost]

things that cost like $50 for only $250 extra

idk why people still even pay for noctua stuff its not even the best u can get now lol

[hot shadow]

i think some people dont care about 'best'

they just like noctua like it's coolbro thing at this point

[compact pine]

Not like nocturnal just got bad all the sudden

[hazy frost]

Yeah but they reason it by saying ‘it’s the best’

But it’s typical thing expensive must be good as well

Like the cheap stuff now is too good to be true but is actually true and is what people should buy lmao

[compact pine]

I Choose the factory
fans that came in my fractal ,and they're completely fine

[hot shadow]

it's like boys and trucks

i just dont question it anymore lmao

they buy shit they dont need, we buy shit we dont need, happy earth

[hazy frost]

I mean there’s levels to don’t need where like this is smth just completely useless

Like a good fan is smth u don’t NEED and then noctua is top of the overpriced stuff u don’t need even then

[hot shadow]

people dont sweat anymore over a few tens of bucks rn from what i see

100 is like 10 to some others too

[hazy frost]

if u only talk to rich people maybe

average person does not think like that but gets tricked into spending 100 still bc of bad advice online

[agile sun]

That’s why you do extensive research before you buy

[hazy frost]

Most outlets people trust give bad advice even if they think they’ve researched it

And then they don’t trust the actually good sources bc they go against it and they already have existing biases

[wraith agate]

I generally think people willing to buy the more expensive stuff because we all got conditioned into thinking that cheap equals poor quality Chinese products. So these people think that higher price means more quality

[odd talon]

Ironically some Chinese stuff is cheaper and in much higher quality

[hazy frost]

america especially liked to push that narrative to sell their producsts

unfortunate

the chinese stuff is cheaper yeah but often the same or better for mass produced stuff

[odd talon]

Tfw I can probably get a good cheap 144hz 4k ultrawide monitor from Xiaomi

[hazy frost]

they do make one of the few affordable and decent IPS mini led monitors

it had firmware issues btu so does every other option lmao

im sure their ultrawides are fine but n ot exceptional

[dire viper]

I mean “you get what you pay for” is generally very true with some exceptions that have more to do with the manufacturer than anything else

Daiwa is one of my favorite examples. Japanese fishing rod and reel company. They make very expensive stuff and very cheap stuff. The cheap stuff is of the same quality of the expensive stuff because even though they have factories in places with a lower standard of living, they have the same factory requirements and equipment. You can buy a 100 dollar Daiwa 9 foot fly rod that comes with a reel and a case and it’s genuinely competitive with even Daiwa’s own stuff up to like 400-600 dollars and it kinda destroys a lot of other brands. The only trade off is that it’s not got a perfectly crafted feel but for 100 dollars? Unbeatable.

Most goods manufacturing is garbage everywhere

So many players in the pool that only a few are doing things well for a reasonable price

[hazy frost]

theres several factories for all sorts of items that produce stuff for big name brands but also produce their own product of the same quality at a fraction of the price

good instruments have gotten a lot cheaper and widely available because of it in the last 10 years

[ashen mirage]

Yep, the real test between offbrand and knockoff products is that offbrand is just an identical product quality without brand name, whereas knockoff is a cheap imitation that you can't really notice until you actually try using the product. It's the only real risk when buying no name brands

[hot shadow]

this vocaster one unit is hueg

but dang this mic sound good

3 feet PINK xlr cable

the aesthetic is real

[lost python]

logitech trying to auto add me to the discord server after starting their software. love it

[potent arrow]

what mouse did you end up getting

[lost python]

OP1 8k v2 and g502 x
Will keep the op1

[dire viper]

Waiting until I’m not broke to get one of them big Razer mice cuz even the Naga is still kinda small…

Also the mouse wheel finally is starting to go in my naga

[lost python]

i considered the naga v2, but all the people reporting battery issues and the coating/paint falling off the buttons within months made me reconsider

especially my bad track history with razer stuff this far

the op1 feels surprisingly great after i added their included grip tape. clicks are nice, mousewheel is silent

and its cabled

[dire viper]

noice

i just need something big

idk why but my hands arent even like... that big but its just not comfortable for me to grip something if it isnt large

[lost python]

i understand that

its why i used the deathadder v2 for so long

[dire viper]

the naga is a lead brick, i have a v1

i cant imagine they have gotten any better

I think I will get a deathadder tbh

they are a good enough price

[lost python]

the new ones are different and slightly smaller

and no the naga is still heavy af. i think the V2 pro was 180g?

and the battery still only lasts for 1-2 days

[dire viper]

what da hell

Razer aka Lead Brick Factory

[lost python]

i do have to say though: the new G502 x feels good to use, but the click and mousewheel noises are so obnoxious. Its so much worse than the old version lmao

also the software is ass

[pine thistle]

Wouldn't a wired mouse be a better choice if you care about weight

[hazy frost]

the wireless ones arent bad for weight

the ones with batteries for wireless feel weird with the weight to me tho

if its rechargeable its not as bad

[hot shadow]

no because the wired part is annoying now and there's super lightweight wireless mice with excellent battery

tech moved on

i dont wanna ever see a mouse bungee ever again

g502 sucks rn, it's not as good as the og one in some respects, then it breaks

that's why it's inevitable Baby Gamer's First Mouse then you move on

[hazy frost]

I do bc the equivalent of mine is $200 more for no chord

No thanks

It never snags or anything anyway

[solemn geyser]

Decided to switch to Logitech for my peripherals.

https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/shop/p/g203-lightsync-rgb-gaming-mouse

https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/shop/p/pro-mechanical-gaming-keyboard

[lost python]

good luck

[solemn geyser]

Why? Are they not good?

[pine thistle]

their mice are apparently notorious for developing double clicking issues

my g502 had that too

their software was also hot garbage last time I used it

I think I uninstalled it when discord randomly popped up a authorisation prompt for some Logitech thing, unprompted

but it's been a while so don't quote me on that

[lost python]

yeah it kept trying to add me to the logitech discord 2 times in the short period i had it open

[solemn geyser]

Is 8000 DPI too high for most gaming? My old Naga was at 9000.

[lost python]

depends entirely on you and your ingame settings

[hazy frost]

their mice are fine i guess everything else is just not worth it

dont rly make anything worth buying overall

and no point in going for just one brand for peripherals u gain nothing from it bc u dont rly have to use their software besides setup

[solemn geyser]

They weren't too much. The keyboard is nice, although getting used to the smaller size isn't easy.

[hot shadow]

i would NOT use anything above 1200dpi

you

need to drop that

you need to use your elbow more

[solemn geyser]

err, sorry.

[hot shadow]

no more baby wristing

i actually got a lot better at killing people once i dropped it

because i had real control and not just me guessing

[solemn geyser]

I went down to 3200 at least.

[hot shadow]

go further down

you'll get used to it

do like 2k at most honestly, i dont really think most people should go above that

2k is plenty

anything above that is like mouse scam

[solemn geyser]

it feels sluggish at lower DPI though. like the cursor is made of cement or it's a shitass normal office person mouse.

[hot shadow]

1000hz polling rate is fine btw you dont need more

rite

that's why when you boot up a game these days, it feels wildly crazy sensi

because they dont want us to use crazy dpi to begin with

so i would play around with game settin too but not to copy what you used to play as

tbf if you're gonna do this im also assuming you have a bigger rightside of your desk with a big mousepad, you can't do this shit with a small mousepad made for office workers

[solemn geyser]

Ok, 1200 feels good.

[hot shadow]

ye 1600 feel good too

the whole idea is that you need real control, finely grasped

so when you play another shooter soon, you won't over-aim, you'll have to get used to it again so you don't under-aim

you'll miss a lot less now

[solemn geyser]

I got a temporary mouse pad, but I'm searching for a bigger one.

[hot shadow]

but yea this stuff is why pro esports people dont play above 1000 dpi yknow

that's a thing

some of them even go all the way down to 400dpi, that's how much control theyre working with, they put more elbow into it

they FLICK accurately

we cannot do this with 3000 dpi 😛 no way

so for avg gamer just stay below 2k dpi or it's gonna be a real mess. i've had to fix this for some of my friends who never played bf6 or csgo/cs2 before

[solemn geyser]

400 is slow.

[hot shadow]

yea 400 is more for csgo/cs2 people

depends on game

[solemn geyser]

EuroShooter

[hot shadow]

cause that game we're not doing crazy movement

a lot of apex esports people use 800 to 1000 dpi because they need fast movement ofc

so i would stay around there for fast games that need that + add a lil for comfort

there's also advanced concept like you can use 1600 dpi for fast movement tech games like that but you zone down sensitivity to create a 800 "edpi" but i wouldn't worry about this right now

[solemn geyser]

😵‍💫

[hot shadow]

it's just people really saying ' keep mouse low, turn up game'

to create an overall balance

and you should never touch your mouse ever again, only ever touch up game

[hazy frost]

i use 3200 its fine

only mouse s etting u need to turn off if u want to play competitive games is mouse acceleration on windows

so u actually know where ur cursor is

[hot shadow]

ya

it just depends on setup but generally people dont go above 2k

i think there is a correlation with smaller lighter girl hands being ok with higher dpi, i've felt that

[solemn geyser]

I have big dude hands.

[hazy frost]

i dont have a lot of s pace and small hands lol

some games i will turn down to like 0.7x but i like it at 3200 for using outside of games as well

mouse accel is definitely smth people need to get used to not having tho

will ruin ur ability in any game

[hot shadow]

ye dpi can be higher with small light hand and small mousepad, but it's def a diff feel

[odd talon]

I love it when my rgb fan lights decide when they want to be on or not

[lost python]

my odyssey g7 just died lol

opened a bright image and suddenly it started popping and flickering

[real edge]

me praying that my own will continue to work properly

[lost python]

you won the lottery so i guess you will be just fine

i lost it and had to deal with all sorts of crap from this thing

[lost python]

Time to go back into the monitor rabbithole because waiting til may aint an option anymore now

[hot shadow]

cheap sansui time

[pine thistle]

fuck you mean you opened a bright image and it "exploded"

how does that even happen :D

[lost python]

Dunno what exactly happens but the noise +flickering of the screen makes me believe its shorting

[potent arrow]

wtf did you do lol

[lost python]

Bought samsung 5 years ago

[hazy frost]

Scamsung

They just decided quality control doesn’t matter anymore one day

[sly walrus]

that day was over a decade ago

[opal panther]

Ban Issued for whisqwis

@boreal spindle has been banned by sarah_olivetti for the following reason:

advertisement scam

Banned from Final Fantasy XIV

[kindred brook]

is it time to upgrade my 12700k

[lost python]

https://www.headphonesty.com/2026/03/sennheiser-officially-discontinued-operation-actually-worse/

lets see who buys and inevitably massacres whats left of sennheiser

[pine thistle]

I wonder why Sennheiser even sold it

[lost python]

money

[hazy frost]

Idk u decide whether the game runs fine or not, the ‘device overloaded’ stuff in settings is just almost useless information bc it can still run acceptably

Base ur decisions on whether ur happy with it not the fact a game tells u to

[potent arrow]

Ive moved onto focals, very sad to see seinny go down the drain :(

[kindred brook]

Thanks waffle

[hazy frost]

Had a game tell me I’m overloaded on graphics and then run at 70fps constantly in game lol

[kindred brook]

Probably save till next year

[pine thistle]

I'm pretty sure most of those just look at how many settings you have maxed and then claim it's overloaded

you could buy a new PC in 20 years and they'd still say it's overloaded while running at 500 fps

[muted compass]

Just found out sora AI is shutting down and im jumping for joy

[warped siren]

GET FUCKED

[spring raven]

https://tenor.com/view/donald-glover-glad-gif-11528681

[severe flax]

"Sir, what if we marketed a product towards the laziest motherfuckers ever born that won't grab a pen or pay anyone to grab a pen?"

"MARVELOUS! Surely they will pay for this!"

[peak pollen]

did sora have any monitization methods in it?

[warped siren]

yeah it was like $20/mo for 50 thefts a month or $200/mo for unlimited thefts

perfectly sustainable

i wonder how divorced and hobbyless someone would have to be to willingly spend that

[hazy frost]

Horrible day for grifters and losers everywhere

They lost their billion dollar deal with Disney for it too

Watching the downfall after people insisted it’s the future is enjoyable

[lost python]

its so weird. i have used a curved screen for the past 5 years, but now i have to use my second monitor until my new one arrives and its flat, which makes it look like its reverse-curved

[glossy ravine]

Good fucking riddance.

[lost python]

My new screen has a 360w power brick

[hazy frost]

The hell is it powering

[potent arrow]

which did you get

[lost python]

[potent arrow]

oh no

what did you do rob

[lost python]

[potent arrow]

ROB

[lost python]

I may have received a monitor that elminated my space for a second monitor

In my defense: my gf bought it for me

[potent arrow]

dude lol

[lost python]

Its a 45GX950A-B

[potent arrow]

ah

the powerbrick makes sens now

OLED lmfao

[lost python]

[potent arrow]

Enjoy the brigtness

[lost python]

Its supposed to only eat 100w

[potent arrow]

may it blind you

doubht

my monitor eats more then that and its smaller

[lost python]

Honestly so many people complain about brightness but my past monitors all ran at 30-50% brightness max

Which puts them below the average brightness of most modern oleds

Oh my god its so big it changes the way my voice travels around when i speak and gives me the feeling that i am hearing bad on my right ear

[warped siren]

catchier name than a sony product's

[hazy frost]

I like to have window open next to the desk which means I can’t see anything if it’s not at 100% in the day lmao

[potent arrow]

Meanwhile me who cardboard up the window

[hazy frost]

At night I use like 70%

I don’t have a super bright monitor either but it’s above what same size oleds do

[potent arrow]

im usually in pitch black lol

[glossy ravine]

Get flashbanged lol

[hazy frost]

Vampire

[potent arrow]

sunlight fucking sucks

what can I say

[hazy frost]

Get ur vitamin D

[lost python]

Oh its bright enough for me. I have the window behind the screen so it isnt too much of an issue for me

[hazy frost]

That’s not as bad yeah

Mines on the left side of it

I have a radiator on the wall under the window so couldn’t put it there

[warped siren]

i need to do that, i have blackouts bc i gotta use a portable AC but it bleeds thru a lot still </3

[hazy frost]

The sun blinds me anyway in the evenings in summer so I have to shut it lol

[lost python]

oh this is soweird

but oh i have so much space

[hazy frost]

I had an OLED monitor for a couple weeks before it stopped working and then couldn’t get another one that cheap

[lost python]

hmm i can see some text weirdness, but only in my browser and only when its fullscreen

[hazy frost]

Yeah woled has worse text clarity

But u won’t have to deal with raised purple blacks if ur room has light in it lol

[lost python]

nah its like parts of the letters arent being rendered properly, like someone took a slice out of it. it keeps changing too. weird

outside of that, the text is super fine, probably because of the 5k res

oh yeah its very bright today and this thing is BLACK

[hazy frost]

Need a panel that has readable text and doesn’t turn worse contrast than LCD in the sunlight

The worst thing is whether VRR flicker annoys u tho

[lost python]

i will have to find out. so far i cant notice any, but i have to see ingame

[hazy frost]

It drove me crazy on a lot of models I used for mini led and OLED

Supposedly they improve it with newer ones so u might never notice it lol

[lost python]

i gotta say, the curve doesnt bother me at all. probably because i was used to them beforehand already

[hazy frost]

Curves make sense on stuff that’s that big at a normal sitting distance

It’s just stupid on 22-27” stuff they make

And most standard aspect ratio stuff under like 40”

[lost python]

yeah i understand that. my previous was 32" with a 1800r curve which was still alright

[hazy frost]

Trying to use an ultrawide that isn’t curved is kind of just annoying

Flat 34” monitor is useless to me as a main display

[lost python]

this really is quite the experience, damn#

[potent arrow]

i love oled

[lost python]

what i love even more is that i dont have scanlines on certain colors anymore

to hell with samsung

[real edge]

did you look into MiniLED

[lost python]

my TV is mini LED

but i dont want it for a monitor

[real edge]

any particular reason?

[lost python]

the big selling point for miniLED is brightness and contrast due to dimming zones, but dimming zones dont make much sense when sitting this close to the screen. they arent small enough to really do much for the haloing

also there is hardly any mini LED monitor on the market right now that isnt a samsung shitbox or 27"

[hazy frost]

theres definitely monitors with enough zones to minimise the bloom from it rn

acer aoc ktc and xiaomi all make them

[hot shadow]

🗣️ samsung shitbox

[kindred brook]

team blue is back?

[lost python]

it depends.
but if power consumption isnt relevant to you, then the new cpus are really good choices for low prices, especially if you need multi-core performance, like when rendering stuff

lets just see if they will eventually kill themselves or not

[hazy frost]

It’s highly dependent on exactly what ur doing whether they’re actually better

They win in synthetic benchmarks for performance but it’s not like that in half the stuff you’d use them for

The 250k plus is the only actually relevant choice tho imo

9950x is still top over anything else for majority of tasks if ur spending big money

[real edge]

unless intel make their own x3d cache

intel cpus will continue to fall behind in gaming

[hazy frost]

The 250k is reasonable for gaming bc it’s like $200 and matches the $200 amd options

Any of the others are too expensive for what they do

It does what the 9600x does for gaming

The 265 270 and 285k are all extortionately priced for gaming and then even in productivity they’re not rly well priced

[lost python]

https://youtu.be/_ErnOjwcWK8

lol

208mb cache

[hazy frost]

More

[kindred brook]

what if the goal is to load all limsa thots and still run the game at 4k 120 FPS

[hazy frost]

9800x3d

Or 9950x3d2 lol

[kindred brook]

lol

[glossy ravine]

996967X3D420

[severe flax]

I have a 9800X3D

It serves me well

I got a feeling this may be my last PC, I am getting older

[warped siren]

i'll take it when you inevitably bite it before 40

[lost python]

i need a 5090

[odd talon]

They be chunky

[dire viper]

lovely my PC finally is having issues

its deciding to hitch on startup and become inoperative

and the only 3 dump files on my pc are from when this started 2 days ago

[potent arrow]

probally ssd hitting eol

[dire viper]

narrrrrrrr!

do u think :(

is there any way to easily read dump files and figure out whats goin on

[hot shadow]

??????

[dire viper]

some other people I know have had similar issues apparently? *in the last few days

i wonder if windows 10 had a fucking thing happen

[hot shadow]

maybe your boot ssd is dying

[dire viper]

probably

[hot shadow]

did you use crystaldiskinfo so the anime girl can tell you if you fucked up or not

[dire viper]

nar

lemme do dat

[hot shadow]

lmao

LET HER TELL YOU

[dire viper]

im downloadin the standard one...

[hot shadow]

😏

[dire viper]

how da hell do i use this

[severe flax]

I dont think I'm building another PC if prices keep getting crazier

[dire viper]

https://tenor.com/view/ishowspeed-ishowspeed-yeah-right-ishowspeed-yeah-ishowspeed-right-ishowspeed-stream-gif-2870397197282141259

[hot shadow]

yea prob not, true

[hot shadow]

WHUH

it's straight up ZERO? o fuk

well you figured it out, something normal wouldve said 'good 95%'

[dire viper]

how are my HDD's better off

[hot shadow]

i had a good ssd fail last year so it happens

[dire viper]

the issue is

that its not doing it all the time?

but also i understand hardware is dumb like that

but also wouldnt it just say bad

why does it just say caution 😭

the only thing it has flagged on my SSD is percentage used so im assuming its close to end of life

im gonna start gutting hings cause i have a feeling its not the SSD

[hazy frost]

I never even seen someone get to 0 before replacing it

[sly walrus]

does that mean the drive is just a walking corpse

[dire viper]

who knokkws

i think that maybe the drive isnt dead and uh

maybe something else is broken

i had a weird software interaction earlier this week that crashed my pc and i think maybe that is causing some issues

cause afaik it would just go BAD on drive life

but its only flagging the percentage used

which afaik is just an estimation, but a really good one

[hazy frost]

It should go bad if it was dead yeah

But I’ve never seen one that low and yellow

[dire viper]

yea so i think my shit broken in other more evil ways

gonna do some driver shit

[hazy frost]

Either the yellow is wrong or id imagine the 0 is wrong

[dire viper]

(it was riot vanguard that opened while i was doing something and just insta crashed my pc lmao)

[sly walrus]

time to nuke and repave?

[hazy frost]

Do you use windows 11

[dire viper]

nar

im still windows 10

[hazy frost]

11 keeps having more vanguard issues

[dire viper]

today I only had to do one reboot, yesterday and the day before it took 3 reboots to get the PC not dying

and its totally stable rn

[hazy frost]

If it’s always vanguard just fully reinstall vanguard

It literally just needs to turn off and on again most of the time

[dire viper]

well i havent touched a riot product for a while so i just gutted it all

tbf i was looking at getting another NVME

so if it is the drive it is what it is

[hot shadow]

idk the usual test is go change a sata cable and see if it still does that, just leave the case open

but yea it's probably the drive still in some way...

or as you said, a weird software interaction

[dire viper]

ill order two drives and see

somehow my HDD's are still chugging and they were 40 dollars

[hot shadow]

2much catgirl pix

[dire viper]

its just like wuh

idk, in event viewer there isnt anything other than the dump files and it looks like my pc is hitching on the ctl check sometimes

[hot shadow]

but yea generally this means your drive has died to the point where currently it's read-only mode or about to be. like it 'ran out of blocks'

it'll work until it die-dies.

so whatever you got on there i hope you can copy it off

[hazy frost]

unlucky

presumably u use ur ssd for most imporatnt stuff and it gets more usage by a lot

HDDs will probably last longer for most people if u dont drop them bc they just read and write less in most cases but also dont sit and rot

[dire viper]

Yea

SSD is at 58 TB read and like 150 write

[hazy frost]

it lives

[dire viper]

Holy

[hazy frost]

i think they r ate it for 1200tbw

i will have this for like 10 years at this point

[hazy frost]

i only have one drive tho i need another bc i have no space

why u doing so many writes lmao

[dire viper]

idk!

i wonder if its from when I played arma

[hazy frost]

straight up abusing it

[dire viper]

cause this is a 1TB

and it used to be 400GB of Arma 3 mods

and those get constant updates and stuff

[hazy frost]

lmao

i mean the 131tb written might make slightly more sense

still shouldnt be dying

[dire viper]

yea...

[hazy frost]

drives too expensive now

2x price

[dire viper]

yup thats why i havent pulled the trigger

[dire viper]

i use my pc too much

[hazy frost]

idk what i be doing

[dire viper]

whole lotta 2 hour sessions of looking at the screen and not finding anything to play

[hazy frost]

i use mine for everything outside of games as well

[dire viper]

thats at least 10,000 hours of my drive run time

[hazy frost]

idk how i only have 2822 hours feels like a lie

[dire viper]

safe mode fixed issues so im assuming its a driver issue as the dmp file error is driver

i have a drunk floridian man assisting me in this because he is unfortunately helpful even when he doesnt wanna be

also idk he runs an IT department for a government audited agency so he kinda knows what hes doing

[pine thistle]

oh hey I recently passed 90k

[real edge]

this is the oldest drive in my system

[glossy ravine]

Is this... hopium?

[hazy frost]

No

[hazy frost]

Upon looking at what happened in the last day that I missed yes this is probably good lol

[muted compass]

damn i shouldve waited instead of sticking to am4 😔

[severe flax]

what happened?

[hazy frost]

OpenAI failed to follow through on the deals to purchase the amount of memory they came up with in the first place, they’ve shut down plans to expand data centres again and Google talking about a way to significantly reduce the memory cost of running LLMs

Some things aren’t going to go back to normal but I think it’s going to get noticeably cheaper than it was still

[severe flax]

https://tenor.com/view/starship-troopers-paul-verhoeven-robert-heinlein-only-good-bug-is-a-dead-bug-its-afraid-gif-23642454

[hazy frost]

There’s a lot of deals and plans falling through and things being cancelled by openAI idk how long is realistically left for the company

[severe flax]

They really thought that they could make money out of a customer base (aibros) known to refuse to pay artists and anything?

[peak pollen]

is the bubble bursting??

[glass wadi]

no theyre just predicting that theres gonna be a lower demand for ram

[hazy frost]

The bubble is going to burst tho

[dire viper]

TurboQuant is now a thing

Googles research doc that come out a couple days ago

apparently that paper alone is massively reducing ram requirements by companies

maybe less data centers means less climate change meaning my Culvers concrete doesnt melt as fast

https://tenor.com/view/richard-grayson-dick-grayson-nightwing-culvers-midwest-gif-14682675030840566499

[hazy frost]

Less ridiculous electricity and water costs for people within 500 miles of them lol

[muted compass]

does anyone think they can give any recommendations for a open back headset? i lowkey need one when im gaming at night TT

[daring elk]

no

helium supply is down 50 percent

that also makes computer parts