🔌│tech

[cursive summit]

Yeah he really does look like an assmung too

It's alright, I only bully you cause I like you

[reef patrol]

Well for one his name actually remotely rhymes with what you said. Samsung... does not 😛

[empty wren]

Did you pull.that out of the urban dictionary?

[cursive summit]

T'was a joke Mansen

One of those " wait what does this... oh"

[hasty thunder]

well, if the S24U is going to use Snapdragon 8g3 i will consider it if it's a serious upgrade from my S23U

[cursive summit]

Assmung is a commonly used term here tbf

[hasty thunder]

but knowing the trend it won't be an upgrade

[cursive summit]

Well, somewhat

[steep creek]

i like the competition, i think its good. but imo it really should not leave r&d before its on par or better than snapdragon lol

[hasty thunder]

just like AssUs?

[cursive summit]

That one I have not seen yet lol

Asus is pretty ass though

[woven laurel]

im not asking again 🙂

[cursive summit]

I have never once had an Asus product that was of any good quality

[cursive summit]

[hasty thunder]

Gigglebyte, AssRock, NZXTrash, Razor, StealSeries...

[cursive summit]

Jiggybyte*

Cause.. you know

Booba

[hasty thunder]

gotta swipe that card for more Woots

[cursive summit]

I am really tempted to ping Arden again

[hasty thunder]

https://tenor.com/view/dew-it-galactic-republic-palpatine-gif-21847982

[cursive summit]

But eh the lad's done with it, I will honour their wishes

[hasty thunder]

i dare you

[empty wren]

Inb4 it causes Arden to evolve to blastoise

[pale sigil]

Android 14 is so fucking bad lol

[empty wren]

Why?

[hasty thunder]

So was basically every other version before

[pale sigil]

13 was fine?

[pale sigil]

Many many bugs

[empty wren]

Funny that they had developer betas for that

[pale sigil]

Was looking in reddit for the one I have just now after install and saw so many reports.

The bug I have is fucking rough though

[hasty thunder]

i really wish Samsung would finally leave the permission settings in peace... I hate the permission access restriction so badly...

[empty wren]

Which is.....

[cursive summit]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-wordpress-backdoor-creates-rogue-admin-to-hijack-websites/ @dawn epoch

[pale sigil]

I'll dm

[hasty thunder]

ah yes, WordPress

[pale sigil]

The video kinda shows shit I don't wanna post

[ashen spindle]

wordpress and backdoor is like synonyms

[cursive summit]

Still incredibly popular, if you'd believe

[hasty thunder]

https://tenor.com/view/whet-what-ew-can-you-not-stop-gif-9908266

[cursive summit]

What now

[pale sigil]

Watch the whole thing

[crisp granite]

back into the cage, Pleasant

[hasty thunder]

ik, yet i still cringe every single time when someone uses it and asks us running a pentest

i'm refusing it straight off the bat when i see WordPress

because WordPress itself is a fucking huge backdoor already

[cursive summit]

https://old.reddit.com/r/Monitors/comments/167dphy/force_enabling_auto_hdr_on_unsupported_games/

@ashen spindle Is AutoHDR supposed to be important?

Will it make HDR400 not useless?

[ashen spindle]

the idea is to make non HDR output HDR

nah hdr400/600 still is a scam

[cursive summit]

Unfortunado

[pale sigil]

My game still looks better with HDR400

[ashen spindle]

basically IP see dlss4 or whatever they call it as a thing to auto convert SDR to HDR, would make sense

[pale sigil]

Idk why

But I cba with how shitty it is to alt tab

[hasty thunder]

never actually bothered with HDR xD

[cursive summit]

I mean, we knew you were weird, but not THAT weird

https://videocardz.com/newz/samsung-preparing-hbm4-memory-for-2025-launch

[ashen spindle]

proper hdr is >>> RT

[cursive summit]

HBM4!

[ashen spindle]

hdr400/600 can make things look better but its more like when you go into a store and they show you TVs with contrast cranked up

[pale sigil]

As quin suggested I probably just need to recalibrate

[cursive summit]

Yes, in the mental asylum

[ashen spindle]

its can appear better but it's like some weird mix of what it should be and shouldnt be

[pale sigil]

Vex

[cursive summit]

[ashen spindle]

specialK has a better autohdr than windows iirc for now

but the idea is nice as a basis

[pale sigil]

You're lucky that every mod action has to be logged now

So I can't get away with muting you

[cursive summit]

You know I love you my buddybud

[pale sigil]

[cursive summit]

What's a specialK?

[crisp granite]

nah, mute Vexxsie for old times' sake

do it

do it

[cursive summit]

Nuuu

[ashen spindle]

https://www.special-k.info/

[cursive summit]

Powermodding shall not be tolerated

[crisp granite]

it shall be openly encouraged specifically when dealing with you :3

[cursive summit]

Inb4 I become admin and the tables be reversed

[cursive summit]

Wait so what is this

[pale sigil]

Muted for asking for mod abuse

[ashen spindle]

open the link and see what it does

[crisp granite]

I didn't ask

[cursive summit]

I did

[hasty thunder]

such actions are logged in the Audit Log anyways

[pale sigil]

Ik

It's a joke :p

[hasty thunder]

[cursive summit]

Alien language

[woven laurel]

no u

[hasty thunder]

https://tenor.com/view/party-hard-crazy-drinks-beer-gif-12674178536228891800

[crisp granite]

you know what else is a joke?

[pale sigil]

Me

[crisp granite]

this segway to our sponsor

[woven laurel]

I live less than 1hour from those boys

[hasty thunder]

Honestly, i hate the Dutch for hating on New Kidz, you guys didn't understand the humor at all

[crisp granite]

nie
nie jesteś żartem

Zamknij się.

[crisp granite]

I might just dilate

[hasty thunder]

quite offensive, mate

[cursive summit]

So as far as I could gather it's some kind of copy of ReShade

[ashen spindle]

it does that but also more

[woven laurel]

[ashen spindle]

just open the link and scroll down it has a list of things it does

[woven laurel]

just give us good german beer

[crisp granite]

https://tenor.com/view/log-cabin-log-logged-get-logged-lolol-gif-20978297

[woven laurel]

and some of that amazing bread 😄

[crisp granite]

no such thing exists
only good beer is Czech beer

[cursive summit]

Tbf I totally didn't just completely forget ReShade's name and spent 10 minutes browsing "software to change gamma, colours etc in games" to try and remember wtf is the name of ReShade

[woven laurel]

I never had a czech beer

[crisp granite]

...damn

[frozen ingot]

have you even lived

[woven laurel]

anything but heineken

[cursive summit]

Alcohol is for numbnuts

[woven laurel]

[cursive summit]

Just have some pepsi max, it's better for you

[crisp granite]

arguably worse

[frozen ingot]

yes, but beer is nice

[cursive summit]

We don't have Cola Light in this country so I'm stuck with Pepsi Max

Hamoa be the new Snapdragon X @ashen spindle ?

[ashen spindle]

dont quite follow phone stuff

[cursive summit]

Not sure what Orion Core is, but 12 cores don't seem too impressive to run Windows on, on paper

[ashen spindle]

but I think so yes, oryon should be the nuvia core so next snapdragon

[cursive summit]

Most phones have 8 cores already

Adreno 740 be disapointing as well

PCIe4 is pretty nice though

[cursive summit]

Well this is the Qualcomm for Windows thing

[ashen spindle]

eh still same thing

gimme zen5 is all I want

[cursive summit]

Zen 5 will be very cool

Not too long to wait for it

[fickle ore]

ye of little faith

intel 15700k>

[cursive summit]

We literally know Intel 15th gen will be ass

He doesn't know

[ashen spindle]

15th gen is like half a year later

And sucks

[cursive summit]

Arrow lake right?

[fickle ore]

https://tenor.com/view/hippo-babyhippo-baby-gif-21108278

[cursive summit]

Pffft AHAHAHA https://www.notebookcheck.net/Detailed-Intel-Arrow-Lake-and-Arrow-Lake-Refresh-leak-reveals-massive-performance-gains-release-dates-and-core-counts.757849.0.html

"Massive gains"... according to MLID

We know this is factually not true cause Arrow Lake has been benchtested already innit?

And it's absolute ass

https://www.igorslab.de/en/intels-internal-performance-projection-for-raptor-lake-s-refresh-and-arrow-lake-s/

[fickle ore]

faithless

[crisp granite]

your mom has been benchtested already
and she's absolute ass

[cursive summit]

I mean, you not wrong she does have a fat back

[ashen spindle]

I indeed have no faith

due to intel themselves having no faith

[cursive summit]

Wake me up when Intel stops consuming watts the same way Intel's engineers keep doing heroin every day to try and compete with Zen

[crisp granite]

they aren't doing heroin

they're on nothing but the finest of columbian nose sugar, uncut

[fickle ore]

the more you buy the more you save

[ashen spindle]

yeah you save performance

[fickle ore]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDpDesU_0zo

[cursive summit]

https://tenor.com/view/copium-meme-pepe-frog-gif-26117735

[astral haven]

ive been shocked by how the 5800x3d is matching the 7800x3d in cs2

[fickle ore]

Wish someone would buy my 5800x so I could get x3d

[cursive summit]

I can't find any graphs on AMD 7000 vs Shintel 13000 series TDP differences.. sad

[ashen spindle]

if you looked at GN results they forgot to disable fps cap

[astral haven]

[ashen spindle]

or rather didnt know thats a tournament legal options since its a cvar and all

so anything up there is not that accurate

[cursive summit]

Watts off the wall

[astral haven]

performance

[cursive summit]

Oh I found something

7600 be efficient though

[astral haven]

https://tpucdn.com/review/intel-core-i9-13900ks/images/power-games.png
and heres the actual consumption in games rather than stress tests

https://tpucdn.com/review/intel-core-i9-13900ks/images/efficiency-gaming.png
FPS/watt

[cursive summit]

That looks AI generated lol

[ashen spindle]

yeah the 115% is ashes of the benchmark btw lol

[fickle ore]

for non-china

omg ff screenschot

[cursive summit]

Like, it literally doesn't matter when Intel costs so much more

And sips so much more power

That never came to be

Bigworld is only used on World of Warships still

WoT is fully on encore and has been for years

Encore RT was never released

Bigworld is pretty useless anyways

Ancient RPG engine

But yeah WG Sydney was sold cause they effectively had not much to do

They were a tech branch for a game engine that's being obsoleted lol

Prolly what used to be Minsk

Now it's Prague I think

[reef patrol]

Did Putin nuke Minsk and rename it Prague?

[cursive summit]

[crisp granite]

💀

Byelorussia sadly gone bye bye

[final flame]

Why do all toy makers make the most annoying and loud toys
like bruh

I'm about to pull out all the batteries in these toys

[woven laurel]

I heard some city with the eiffel tower is named kiev mister putin

[cursive summit]

Paris is named after a chicken fillet?

[woven laurel]

no kiev

[cursive summit]

Chicken fillet?

[crisp granite]

the vibe won't work if you do

dingus

[crisp granite]

mmm yes chmickin kyiv

my favourite

[cursive summit]

@crisp granite These damn uneducated westerners don't know the godly food that is chicken kiev

I actually had one yesterday

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/rbUmpl4c7A8

This is the only camera review for the new iPhones where he actually talks about features that make recording video worse than the previous phones

1. Stereo Sound Recording
2. Auto FPS

[final flame]

https://tenor.com/view/child-minecraft-technoblade-gif-18880610

[crisp granite]

dang
wifey treats you right

[cursive summit]

Kiev for me is nearly daily food

[woven laurel]

glaxes

[cursive summit]

Amazing life

[crisp granite]

I have competition 🫤

[cursive summit]

I fuckin love that herby butter inside a kiev man

Some potato mash with it?

Absolute bangers

[crisp granite]

I tend to do roast veggies with my Kyivs

not really a potato mash gal

if I do make mash, I add parsnip and celery root for flavour...and to up the nutritional value a bit

oh, and leeks

[woven laurel]

I edited wikipedia because this isnt right

https://tenor.com/view/ron-swanson-throws-out-his-computer-gif-26050062

[cursive summit]

Westerners trying to steal kiev for themselves

#LeaveChickenKievAlone

[crisp granite]

that's one of two holes I like dripping fluids on a nightly basis

https://tenor.com/view/bonk-cute-gif-22208331

[pale sigil]

Xiaomi Pad 6 doesn't have gps

I'm very saddened by that

[cursive summit]

Quite a bit

Not planning to go to America ever in my life, but if I ever am forced to, good to know I can look for authentic ukrainian kitchens

[pale sigil]

Ooft

UK has less than 50k

What why

[reef patrol]

Ah yes - My night terror.

[cursive summit]

Kebabs be yanking though

[pale sigil]

Germany is the land of kebabs

[fickle ore]

God I want kebab

[pale sigil]

UK is the land of shitty kebabs you eat when drunk

[steep creek]

Kebab shop owners are too nice lol

Hey boss what can I get you boss

[cursive summit]

https://tenor.com/view/hey-filthyfrank-heyboss-boss-gif-5743585

[pale sigil]

Yes

[pale sigil]

Because of their profit margins

The ones that call you boss have the nastiest donner meat

[steep creek]

Lol yeah, I can’t deny that

The pricier ones are restaurant themed with menus and all that

Last time I had a kebab I got food poisoning and had to skip math class

[pale sigil]

There was one I used to go to near me but every single time and I mean every single fucking time I would || be shitting on the toilet all night ||

When I stopped having it because of that I tried it for the first time in years at a pricier place and the results were a pleasant full belly with no || shitting ||

The moral of the story is I didn't get called boss at one place and had a good evening.

[steep creek]

Yea basically that’s a trade off I’m willing to take lol

I’d rather not ruin my weekend over saving a few bucks

[pale sigil]

I rarely have takeaway anymore

But there was a point I had it too much

I think this year alone I've had maybe two kebabs?

[fickle ore]

Kebab + Legend of Vox Machina =

[steep creek]

Same I have a sushi occasionally but I prefer eating at home now. Tbh it’s so rare I eat out

Most times when I’m in a hurry I just grab a sandwich or baguette from the store but they are safe

[pale sigil]

I've been getting reduced food lately tbh

[rough osprey]

what could this mean

😀

[crisp granite]

no word on if they're HE joysticks all over the site

holy shit this isn't that hard

[true quest]

also weird dpad

[crisp granite]

that kind of dpad already exists on the current xbox controller

makes it easier to use for some games that require two dpad inputs at once, getting 8 functions out of the dpad

I remember the first gen pro controller had that as an option for the replacable dpad
and I also vividly remember it popping off in the middle of me playing

mmmhm

would have advertised if it was

quite disappointing

it would be so nice to get a controller I don't need to throw out after a year or two

[mild dome]

I wouldn't be suspired if avoiding HE was a planned obsolescence move, as it increases failure rate, and thus purchases of new controllers

[true quest]

never had to do two dpad inputs simultaneously

hope they have a standard option

[warm schooner]

Wooting mouse

It be cool if it did

Wooting TwoClick Or something

[true quest]

still need a vibrating mouse that isn't chinese made rusting bin items

[reef patrol]

About the same as putting one in a controller.

[crisp granite]

ah, the good ol days when the game came with accessories

I think the last dying breaths of that was the Skylanders series, Disney's Infinity, and Nintendo's "amibo" or whatever it was called

I still have all my skylanders
missing a few
collection incomplete

[young pecan]

No hall effect, lame af. NEXT PRODUCT.

[late topaz]

when will they make wooting keyboards

i think that’s something wooting should design as their next product

[young pecan]

Split ortho fans are either unhinged and scary or extremely specific in their setup and scary.

[tough crypt]

Im building my new pc with that Ryzen 7800x3d 🔥

[reef patrol]

Fucking Microsoft

It just force rebooted my PC to do a very not critical update, After I specifically paused updates last night.

No warning or anything. Was mid email.

[digital cliff]

you love to see it

[empty wren]

It is for your safety civilian

[old marlin]

apparently hte ps5 1216A/B likes to overheat

because the cooler is only attached with glue

that likes to just fail

[severe phoenix]

You don't edit your registry to make it so Windows cannot reboot your PC automatically no matter what?

Amatuer.

[reef patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/listen-here-you-little-meme-you-little-shit-damn-you-damn-it-chicken-kiev-gif-25718782

[severe phoenix]

https://tenor.com/view/lils-silly-duck-lilsduck-ducky-duck-duck-riri-the-duck-gif-19719423

I recommend doing so, registry or policy, it's well worth doing, it makes it so that no matter what Windows cannot reboot unless you tell it too via updates

[warm night]

personally i just make windows defer all updates as long as possible and make it not get in my way

i dont wanna get blasted by updates every time i boot into windows (doesnt happen often)

[digital cliff]

love the OS just doing what it wants lol

[smoky frigate]

@final flame https://www.linsoul.com/products/kaei-tap-1s?variant=43511157653721 this may interest you. it advertises a dual CS43131 DAC circuit, which is very probably the same chipset as the Moondrop Dawn Pro. optional (!) 4-tube amplification, this and a phat linear power supply for under 400bux... and it's portable!

[cursive summit]

https://youtu.be/NzYvudM9BmI

I swear I am blind or someshit

Unless they heavily slow down the footage to 2%, I can't see any problems with the AFMF footage

50% I can notice it, but I don't have any problems with it

100% it looks perfectly fine

Only input lag is a big consideration factor

[ashen spindle]

Keep in mind Videos aren’t 120fps or such

[cursive summit]

I am pretty annoyed when the narrator is saying "oh this is really bad" and I can't see the bad

[smoky frigate]

yeah I don't think that can be adequately conveyed in a 60fps video

[cursive summit]

If they ever bring the AFMF tech to my RX 5000 card, and they prolly won't cause they seriously want me to buy RX 7800XT I bet, I'd test it out

[final flame]

very cool device, especially with the tubes
can't afford it currently but a high impeadance tube amp on the go for iems seems cool

[smoky frigate]

I may buy it next month. with import taxes, it's gonna be a fair bit more, but I don't think you can get something zanier for the price

[final flame]

lemme know how it is, I'm also curious whether it needs the power supply to function

[hollow vortex]

and considering the youtube video bitrate

[ashen spindle]

Yup

The thing will be neat for reaching like 1kHz fps but for now it’s just baby tech that’s not useable for me and many others

For some it’s good even on like a steam deck and if your brain removes the jitter, lucky you

[hollow vortex]

id be willing to give it a shot

I just want a good fucking framerate on modded stalker anomaly man

[ashen spindle]

I know dlss3 fg isn’t good enough to fool me yet so no need for me to try it

[hollow vortex]

im fine with the current state of dlss

it heavily depends on the game you use it on

[ashen spindle]

Not it’s still unuseable

[hollow vortex]

bannerlord with dlss just looks like you have anti aliasing

some games look like you traced them over with crayon

[smoky frigate]

DLSS was originally intended as an anti-aliasing downsampling filter iirc

[hollow vortex]

it was something of the sort yeah

it was not intended for upscaling

[smoky frigate]

it's epic. shame it's proprietary tech and requires manual integration. I love it and would like to have it wherever possible

[hollow vortex]

still though it's great to see fsr3 taking huge leaps

making frame generation globally available was pretty epic

now we just need people to actually start using it in games that are

uh

fun

that aren't forspoken and immortals of avernus

like what the hell even are these games man, it would have been more impressive to implement it into minecraft for god's sake

[ashen spindle]

Yeah typical amd move, likely binding contracts or the only option because someone had to mention September release

So the first opinion will be formed from really bad games lol

[hollow vortex]

probably yeah

[ashen spindle]

Afmf at least shows it’s possible for all and just needs more tile to get better, tensor cores might make it better sooner but are not fully needed

[hollow vortex]

if afmf ever gets to dlss quality

I am super content

[ashen spindle]

If Nvidia was willing we could have streamline as a good open solution where you get whatever works best for your gpu

And then AFMF for games that don’t implement it

But with rdna4 I could see them adding Xilinx IP to improve FSR for amd options like XeSS does

Or if intel would not have lied and made XeSS actual open source…

[smoky frigate]

tbh frame gen looks like a good idea for consoles to me. PC not so much

unless your engine is otherwise capped to 60 (looking at you, Wolfenstein The New Order)

[hollow vortex]

well fsr3 is globally available so it isn't something that inplausible

wouldn't be surprising if a game rolls on console with frame generation now

[ashen spindle]

Not really for a long time FG is still only a recommendation if you base fps is like 100

[smoky frigate]

bleeeeeh.

[hollow vortex]

like 60

no one recommends frame generation over 100fps

you aren't benefitting from anything by that point, you would just be butchering clarity for no reason

[ashen spindle]

If you have a 240hz screen and your game runs 120 that’s great to use it then

You still have increased clarity and ideally better pacing but the extra input lag is minimal at that frame rate

[rough osprey]

https://twitter.com/HazzadorGamin/status/1712819012093268385?t=X0WF1YNBQNq4O6k7F21kOw&s=19

[pale sigil]

I used ai to look up a condition my dog has

Pretty neat tbh and built into my launcher

[ashen spindle]

Now to reread it all because it could all be faked

[reef patrol]

I mean at least it provides some sources. But uhh.. yeah

[pale sigil]

Yes

I read the sources

[wheat plume]

NVIDIA RTX A500

https://youtu.be/iP_8TzDGGVU

[ashen spindle]

good morning internet explorer? a500 is from 2021

[fair gull]

so they just took an embedded gpu from years ago and stuffed it into a shell

i think an rtx40 series mobile gpu would have been a way better choice

[ashen spindle]

looks like the product is form july

ao put AI in the name like crypto to cash in on investor money

[fair gull]

makes sense

ofc it needs the flops as well

like the only upside this thing has is the TGP

although thats also bs i think its officially 50 or 60 or so

[wheat plume]

so basically, don't shove the Pixel 8 up your arse
TechSpurt - 2023
https://youtu.be/zvajAnKga2Y

[severe phoenix]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlXr37mggUE

[gusty nexus]

Hi, I wanted to ask is this normal ?
The price seems too much interresting to be real..

[ashen spindle]

idk what it says but it seems like an offer

[gusty nexus]

Rx 7900 xtx nitro+ for 877 euros, it's normaly at 1200 something

[coarse cloak]

-28% is crazy

[gusty nexus]

Yeah that why I'm scared that it's a scam..

Should I buy ?

[ashen spindle]

its amazon, if its fake you just return it

[gusty nexus]

I need help ;-;

[gusty nexus]

How does it work ?

[ashen spindle]

like a normal return, you said you want a refund and send it back

[coarse cloak]

does it say it's sold by amazon and shipped by amazon?

[gusty nexus]

Okay

[coarse cloak]

I mean even if not, you've got protection like quin said

[warm night]

if its sold by Amazon its more likely to not be a scam

[gusty nexus]

No but the seller has a lot of 5star review

[warm night]

but regardless returning is available

[coarse cloak]

sounds fine then

[ashen spindle]

?

posting your idea here wont do anything

[thick elk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsWx1iO-aeA
I thought last I checked Amazon did some cleaning up of these, seems not / they found a new workaround.
Especially the manual review part is pretty bad.

[gusty nexus]

Who are you talking too ? 😅

[ashen spindle]

someone posted something and its deleted now

[reef patrol]

I cleaned it up a little, so it's only in one channel.

[cursive summit]

Holy fuck that's the bios set limit for throttling on a 14900K?

115 is insane

[reef patrol]

I wonder if that's with an offset?

Both Intel and AMD have been known to do that.

[cursive summit]

I never wanted an Intel CPU, and I definitely am not buying one in the future

[ashen spindle]

its just something thats on default 115 already

doesnt mean anything bad

[gusty nexus]

Oh okay 😅

[ashen spindle]

saying 115 is insane is the same as saying zen4 running into tjmax is insane, it's still not water it doesnt evaporate at those temps

[hardy idol]

wdym?

[ashen spindle]

on amd you are basically maxed out by just using curve optimizer

and memory oc wont do much till zen6

[hardy idol]

right so

[ashen spindle]

so if you want to manually tweak and enjoy that intel likely offers more

[hardy idol]

intel has more capability?

[ashen spindle]

no just more options to manually tweak

[hardy idol]

ah so basically amd is nicer because it does it itself

or

[ashen spindle]

for most consumers that's how you could say it yes

[hardy idol]

ah yes

[ashen spindle]

thats a nice plan but time to revisit that statement once next gens are out

[violet notch]

Anyone knows a clean black braided replacement cable for the wooting

[reef patrol]

Why is derbauer arguing with Loki?

[pale sigil]

Why are you typing that here

[reef patrol]

Scroll up.

[ebon wharf]

Lmao

[pale sigil]

My mate has an apple tag in his car and I was thinking to myself, isn't that useless now because if a person robbing had an iPhone it would tell them there's an airtag following them

[crisp granite]

very professional review

also yikes
cameraman has earned his rakija

[true quest]

teal is underappreciated imo

[reef patrol]

...teal?

[cursive summit]

Idk man that looks like blue and black to me

[crisp granite]

It begins

[reef patrol]

It's a pastel cyan.

[crisp granite]

Your mom is a pastel cyan

[reef patrol]

I suppose you could call that Teal. I wouldn't 😄

It's more of a.... gulf stream?

[cursive summit]

GULF

[reef patrol]

I'll stream your gulf.

[true quest]

mint

take it or leave it

green, maybe

cacti? lol

[reef patrol]

It's slightly more green than blue, and slightly more blue than red.

[true quest]

more of a hagane blue myself anyways

[reef patrol]

No no NO!

Blue does not make go fastah. RED DO

[thick elk]

I assume with those color options there is also a pink one

Damn, pink looks really good on sports cars imo.

But honestly not much of a car person, I respect the tech, I enjoyed more arcadey racing games in the past but that's about it.

That is indeed something. Especially considering US drivers licences don't have a reputation of being hard to obtain

For me it's sort of interest like many things but not a major one.
My drivers licence I basically only got because my parents arranged it and strongly encouraged me.
Only actually drove more than a few times during covid and still much prefer public transport given the choice.

[crisp granite]

seems to always be closer to the next paycheque

And getting a paycheque resets the sanity

[woven laurel]

we building a new pc debil ??

[crisp granite]

No

Remember how V thought you were from southern Europe because of hairy arms?

…yeah gals here get that too

part of our charm

[crisp granite]

Yes

[woven laurel]

Do show

[crisp granite]

So far I just have the psu and case

xD

This is the plan

I’ll have a functional pc by Chrismukkah

[gusty kiln]

5800X3D, DDR5

[woven laurel]

you're doing it wrong students have no money

[ashen spindle]

^ was about to say that

[crisp granite]

7800X3D lol

[gusty kiln]

oh lol

[crisp granite]

My brain is fried

[crisp granite]

I have multiple income streams

[crisp granite]

Speaking of which, onlyfans…hehe take it I can’t post a link here

[wheat plume]

Hhhhhhhhmmm

[woven laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/shocked-surprised-gasp-what-cat-shock-gif-635629308990545194

[crisp granite]

Counts as self promo, ja?

[crisp granite]

[woven laurel]

DEFENETLY

dont post of links

[crisp granite]

I'd happily DM you it if you'd like :>

[woven laurel]

maybe some other time debil

[crisp granite]

aight
whatever floats your boat

[coarse cloak]

[gusty kiln]

[shadow minnow]

Now fairphone phones are very cool with repairability but I am kinda confused what’s the point of fairphone earbuds if they follow non of the brands principles, not having replicable battery or being repairable

[gusty kiln]

[crisp granite]

ecosystem, numbnuts

[final flame]

Ironically I was literally talking about this today at around the same time you posted this

[young pecan]

Fake student then.

[crisp granite]

I'm the best kind of student
the one that makes her money work harder than she does

seriously though my investments make me more money than my job if I work full time hours 💀

[young pecan]

Mate, that means you're not a student. When you're successful you automatically stop being a student.

Music students never get there. :C

[crisp granite]

xD

I actually worked with one

dudebro did nothing but smoke pot and jam out on a guitar

half decent player, really cute
absolutely useless

[young pecan]

I...

That's a form of success I suppose?

Wouldn't trade what I currently have for that but I do suppose it's a form of success.

[crisp granite]

that is the thing
I am not successful
at all

I'm technically barely scraping by and I'll be housepoor till I'm 40 at least

I hate it here, can you tell?

[young pecan]

Could be worse.

Could be California.

[crisp granite]

[young pecan]

I'm not wrong.

[crisp granite]

yeah...I think I was scared of Cali enough when I spent 8 bucks on a jar of peanut butter

wasn't even a one kilo jar

this was also like...half a decade ago

[young pecan]

Oh so that costs 12.50 now?

[crisp granite]

probably would need to sell my liver to get the ingredients for a PB&J at a grocery store tbh

😐

that shit barely work at this point, so...

as long as I get a replacement, we good

[young pecan]

Love the American lifestyle where you pay 8.5% interest on something that costs $15 because nobody there can manage money.

Kek

[crisp granite]

ah yes

loans as an income stream

works great till the INTEREST hits

[young pecan]

Truly.

[crisp granite]

living beyond your means is a recipe for disaster

and Americans are the masters of preparing that dish

[final flame]

truly

purchasing cars you can't afford is a true pastime

[crisp granite]

and I thought I was being smart by financing a motorcycle instead of just buying in cash outright because I can do better than 6% a year if I put my mind to it

...I can get 5 and change a year, guaranteed, via government guaranteed assets
so...

6?
pffff

[young pecan]

You guys can afford car loans?

[final flame]

hell naw, I don't own a car

[crisp granite]

^

none of us can actually afford a car that is functional

what we can afford are shitboxes on their last legs

[final flame]

anyone have any experiences with toppings?

they look nice, I just heard some shit stuff about their lower end products

[rough osprey]

ma dx3pro+ has been working great 👍

[late star]

hey guys, how to use othher pro players wooting setting

[sharp badger]

Don't know about pro players settings but if they have some Profile code linked for their Wooting keeb then just import it in Wootility. But the settings that works for Pro Players might NOT work for you so trying out and finding out what you like is better imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PNwcNugjwk Cat PC

[late star]

thanks

[sharp badger]

Yep

[hardy idol]

fuck loans

[smoky frigate]

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/topping-a70-pro-hp-preamp-review.44636/

Topping is usually quite good in terms of sound quality, I have a 2014 speaker amplifier from them that I don't like because of lacking build quality

when I'm not sure about something, I usually refer to audiosciencereview. if it measures well, it does its job. I can still change the sound with EQ if I want

[final flame]

I can mostly trust measurements, asrs opinions are eh

[smoky frigate]

yeah. psychology plays a huge part in audio

[final flame]

overall the measurements look good, especially that frequency response, no dropoff in the bass region

overall I think I may want to get that amp and dac over the schiit
just because it overall is more visually appealing

[sharp badger]

I've heard that Topping is good but have also been looking at these
https://jdslabs.com/product/atom-amp/
https://jdslabs.com/product/atom-dac-plus/

[final flame]

yea the atoms are good

less performance than a schiit magni and modi, but they're the best alternative if you're in the EU

you can also get custom designs on the atoms

[sharp badger]

Yeah

[final flame]

Schiit has a EU store, but from what I heard is they don't have stock all too often

may have changed but that's what I've heard
doesn't hurt to check availability

yea these are a lot more expensive than in the US

[smoky frigate]

sometimes, there are resellers of chinesium vendors. been looking at https://dethonray.nl/en/product/dethonray-honey-h1 for a headphone amplifier, but 700bux lol

[final flame]

and outa stock

[smoky frigate]

europe has a strong tradition of being pricier in electronics too

I wish I could plug my asus xonar essence STX sound card that I got for 70 bux into something portable. wishful thinking 😛

bosnian listeners not allowed

[final flame]

only single ended allowed in slovenia

[smoky frigate]

I am kinda interested in the Dethonray Honey H1. small form factor, powerful, apparently the quality is good, but price is high, and other dethonray products have measured terribly in the past. I am of the opinion that if it sounds good to your ears, measurements are not important. however, it's always a gamble, especially for a 700bux product

when I say their products have measured terribly, I mean balls-to-the-wall terribly

but I can't find anything bad about the Honey H1! tough decision

oh you need windows to do firmware upgrades... that complicates things even further

LOL the upgrade process. I kinda like it tbh

[final flame]

I wonder at what point you start hearing issues when the sinad is too low

many people agree that sinad isn't good for a realistic measurement as you're unlikely to notice issues when all the products are simply a few vaules apart
but at what point do you start being able to hear it

[old marlin]

China basically destroyed the entire low end

Low end aka like 300 and below

Only a few outliers survived that

[smoky frigate]

that's the thing, I have historically liked things with bad SINAD. I also like my coffee with milk, and I don't mind some flaws

[old marlin]

Guh

Depends on what you call a bad sinad ig?

[final flame]

well tubes exist and many people like those so

Sometimes you just don't like purely accurate sound

[smoky frigate]

logic tells me to buy things with good measurements, but experience has told me I like the imperfections. so perhaps the Honey is a good thing to buy for me

yeah, I have a turntable preamp with tube sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERhDs6sG3IU

I recorded this with it, I like the sound

[old marlin]

Yea, but if your amp gets called an "industrial noise machine" that is a different thing

[final flame]

Well there's a spectrum to these things

[smoky frigate]

talk about being autistic about things...

[old marlin]

And sinad does not tell you everything

meanwhile i just want functioning philphones

last ones I bought somehow ended up being mono

[smoky frigate]

I'll think about it and maybe make a decision next month. I got time

[old marlin]

even phil doesn't know how they ended up being like that

[teal mantle]

anyone got cheap straight aviator cables?

[cursive summit]

You want it to fly?

[teal mantle]

ofc

imagine not having a cable that flies planes

[pale sigil]

@misty saffron do et https://www.samsung.com/uk/try-galaxy-on-your-phone/

[cursive summit]

https://youtu.be/BnPFaT1ZaNI

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-squashes-bug-that-impacted-zen-4-security-features-in-linux

[wheat plume]

https://twitter.com/ubuntu/status/1712593893319930079

[pale sigil]

Samsung drag down is so ugly

[warm night]

samsungs ui in general on Android has come very far but I still hate it

[wheat plume]

Their status bar icons are ugly

[warm night]

idk stock android just clears

honestly

[wheat plume]

Stock Android looks better

[warm night]

only reason i got a pixel

yesss

[wheat plume]

I want a pixel ;_;

[warm night]

what do you have

[wheat plume]

I have a ROM that ports the ROM from Pixel 6A on my phone

[warm night]

but which phone

and I did the same before

[wheat plume]

Xiaomi Mi Note 10 Lite

[warm night]

i was using pixel experience on my oneplus 5t

worked pretty well honestly

[wheat plume]

I have PE Plus 💜

I love it

[warm night]

yeee

it was really solid

[wheat plume]

I also used it on my Mix 2S when I daily drive that

[halcyon moss]

What do ugly about it?

[wheat plume]

I was in the telegram channel for that phone custom ROMs
And the maintainer for PE and EvolutionX was there to ask questions

Its a different person for my current phone but I'm in that channel too

This phone doesnt have nearly as much support from custom roms and kernels as mix 2S did

[warm night]

the maintainer for the 5t decided to just vanish one day

dont even have telegram anymore so i dunno if he came back but

not long after 12 released he just dipped

[wheat plume]

Oh...

[thick elk]

I really wish people would stop using telegram for custom rom talk and just moved back to XDA, some many questions needlessly repeated there, so many answers not easy to find.

[warm night]

so much better to use a forum

its not like search engines can index telegram channels

[pale sigil]

Looks old and annoying icons

[warm night]

and in general forums are just so much easier to find info on

[pale sigil]

Peak

[warm night]

truth

[wheat plume]

Peak

[halcyon moss]

So huge

[wheat plume]

Hmmm?

[severe phoenix]

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

[cursive summit]

You are pretty ugly too

[pale sigil]

Ur mom

[cursive summit]

More GRE

[cursive summit]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-iphone-15-pro-max-121837669.html

H.. how did you fuck that up?

[ashen spindle]

looks like compensation cycle isnt running instead of burn in from that

[cursive summit]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/head-tracking-eye-tracking-monitor-promises-3d-sounds-and-sights-acer-claims/

3D is back?

3D was always a bit of a gimmick

[sharp badger]

Didn't enjoy movies with it really 😅

[misty saffron]

Furthermore, some users are reporting that poorly optimized third party apps like Snapchat are suffering from UI glitches and blurry images

thanks, didn’t read past that

"quick, find EVERYTHING wrong for any amount of people, we need the clicks"

[pale sigil]

@cursive summit played around with the Samsung tablet again today

Speakers sound as poo as I remember

[cursive summit]

You couldn't be more wrong lol

I can get behind you shitting on the OS, or the pencil or whatever

Speakers are universally considered as great on the Tab S8U

[pale sigil]

Ok XD, not poo

Just exaggerating

It genuinely makes me wonder what Apple does with their speakers on the pros because no other device seems to march them in quality.

At least from my experience with Samsung/Lenovo/Google/Apple and some other laptops which aren't tabs

[cursive summit]

Idk I don't really care

[pale sigil]

Fair

Tbh

I wish it was a bit cheaper

[cursive summit]

I like my Samsung's sound, planning to keep this for a long time

[pale sigil]

They fixed issues I had with it

[cursive summit]

Well Tab S9 is out, maybe S8 is cheaper

[pale sigil]

S9 is recent?

[cursive summit]

Quite new

[pale sigil]

That explains the fixed things

[cursive summit]

https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_tab_s9_ultra-12217.php

2 months old about

[pale sigil]

Ye that's the one I tried hmmm

[cursive summit]

Idk what they changed

I have the S8U and quite happy

[pale sigil]

Some where software but some apps would also be weirdly laggy.

The screen would be nicer if it was closer to the glass like apple

Was playing around with the iPhone 15 pro and iPad pro and

To look at anyway

[cursive summit]

https://www.techspot.com/news/100481-tsmc-2nm-manufacturing-process-coming-along-but-take.html

If 2nm is cursed, below 2nm is even more cursed

[pale sigil]

@cursive summit do you ever leave the house with your S8U

[cursive summit]

Intel just casually doing 18A is interesting, they must be doing things very differently to TSMC

[cursive summit]

I mean, I can pop it into my backpack

I don't really, not sure why I would

[pale sigil]

I take my iPad everywhere which me and I considered a bigger tablet but I kinda get a bit frustrated with my 12.9" haha

[cursive summit]

Idk why I would carry around a tablet

I have a phone

[pale sigil]

Phones are smol

And I don't want to have a phabet in my pocket XD

That's my reasoning anyway

[cursive summit]

I don't watch videos outside anyways so that's some weird mentality

[pale sigil]

When travelling?....

[cursive summit]

I don't travel but then I'd prolly pop my tab into my backpack

[pale sigil]

Man If the S9+ was cheaper I'd totally consider it

Specs are nice

I don't really like aspects of the OS but I'd cope.

One thing about Samsung I find attractive lately is Dex (ik it's not a new thing)

[cursive summit]

I have never used Dex since getting this thing

Failing to see much use in it

[empty wren]

Replace your desk with it

[pale sigil]

Exactly

One thing I'm looking forward to going back to android for tablets is YouTube Vanced

Or wherever it's called now

For sponsorblock

[cursive summit]

There's some sort of vanced equivalent on iOS

[pale sigil]

I'm sick and tired of hearing in video ads for VPNs, keepes etc

[pale sigil]

Pita side loading

And you have to jailbreak for other means

[steep creek]

eu is forcing them to allow sideloading by 2024 hah

[cursive summit]

Uh, not that one

There's YouTube++

[pale sigil]

Yes YouTube++

It's a tweak and iPa

But iPa has to be signed every week

I can't be assed

[cursive summit]

What about uYou+

No jailbreak required

Has sponsorblock apparently as well

[pale sigil]

Again

Side loading every single week

Would you re install an app every week XD

Have to plug it into the PC and relog into it

Every single week

[cursive summit]

Idk how it works on iOS tbf, but I would probably tbf

If it ain't a hassle, weekly 10 min chore is fine

[pale sigil]

I always forget

I also think it's designed for phones

So it would look horrible on iPad

[dim lantern]

When I plug wooting in keyboared as analog, xim only detect WASD as analog. Other than that keystroke doesnt detect. Can someone help me

[reef patrol]

Into what?
Using what profile?
Make a thread over in #1019755933959733258 with more information and screenshots of the profile in Wootility

Indeed. But the lack of information makes it difficult to help

[cursive summit]

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03214

So, Google's engineers say that Google search engine is worse than AI search engines

[thick elk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwnrIWJoxk4
I wonder how many people will buy this laptop only to realize they have no real warranty and a pretty high failure rate.

[reef patrol]

[thick elk]

Guess they have to work with the anti-cheats to fix it.
Gotta love anti-cheat.

[ashen spindle]

CoD doesnt even support anti lag+?

[reef patrol]

Maybe introducing something that tampers with DLLs wasn't such a good idea to have a blanket enable for

[ashen spindle]

but anti lag+ is a thing that only works in supported games

so that means the game devs should know and wokred on adding it

[thick elk]

To add to this Apex Legends is on the list of supported games

explicitly.

[reef patrol]

Appears to not be the case.

[thick elk]

Still I expect this to be only a starting issue, which will probably get resolved pretty soon.
It's not like graphics drivers don't do other modifications to how a game runs, just this type needs to be whitelisted.

As for game support, it does seem to be a whitelist which AMD is expanding rapidly with minor driver updates.

https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/amd-radeon™-anti-lag-supported-game-titles-2023-10-14-total-30-games-supported.449465/

[reef patrol]

Or AMD should stop auto-applying it to all titles if enabled 😄

[thick elk]

Considering they actively add games to the list and not just blanket allow everywhere, it kind of makes it worse to have these issues.

You'd think at that point there would be some validation.

Either way this issue will probably resolve itself once all the major anti-cheats adjust to the existance of antilag +

[zenith silo]

Happens on apex too?

Glad I saw this before tryna turn it on/open apex🤷

[thick elk]

https://community.amd.com/t5/drivers-software/false-bans-in-counter-strike-2-and-apex-legends-anti-lag/m-p/638264
This is all there is to it with apex, a quick search leads to a single result, so unsure if there may have been a different cause.
It wouldn't be the first time a cheater tried to use something like this for their advantage.

[zenith silo]

Not gonna risk losing my heirloom and a second account to eac false bans

[tough crypt]

heard some people got banned in csgo for that

[zenith silo]

EA already stole my 200$ I'm not losing any more

Yeah it's a thing in cs2

Cs devs said something about it

[tough crypt]

yeah

[thick elk]

Of course, as an end user I would not try it right now, but as a viewer seeing where it goes wrong, the evidence for apex banning is somewhat slim right now.

[tough crypt]

good thing it happend now not when i build my new pc in a few days with amd

[zenith silo]

Yeah I'm just not even gonna play apex until I know for certain that won't happen

[ashen spindle]

ryzen has nothing do with it

[zenith silo]

My luck it would be on by default and ban me

[thick elk]

Unless you play on the igp on mobile

[ashen spindle]

still not zen then if we're pedantic

[tough crypt]

i meant amd xD

[thick elk]

Meh doesn't really matter either way

[ashen spindle]

well just saying amd cpu means nothing for this, and since it could be amd +intel/nvidia

[zenith silo]

You'd think they would at least test this before releasing it to games like csgo where people can get false banned with $20k+ inventories

But ig they just didn't really care?

[ashen spindle]

or maybe they tested it and it didnt happen?

[thick elk]

I have no doubt it will be fixed soon. Just want to make sure the record is straight on what games are actually effected. 1 game with bans and a few with crashes is a different story from all major anti-cheats.

[astral haven]

vac bans arent instant, and only apply in competitive

[zenith silo]

I haven't even updated my driver's in ages

[zenith silo]

Vac bans don't just apply in comp?

[astral haven]

well vac is one of the most widely used anticheats in terms of player counts

[astral haven]

they are only applied while you are in comp

afaik they dont apply out of "vac secured servers"

so if you just play offline or in private games, theres zero effect

[zenith silo]

Yes that just means any official server or community server without -insecure

If you, or a server has -insecure vac just isn't enabled.

[astral haven]

the more important part is it isnt instant

[zenith silo]

So long as you don't queue official servers with it yeah

[astral haven]

you can cheat for a tiny bit outside of competitive, itll only kick you live while in comp

[thick elk]

Just going by the tomshardware article claiming the following game:
cod mw2 cod warzone apex legends and cs2.
Of those the cod games are just crashes and were marked as a tech preview apex was based on one report on the amd forums and that only really leaves CS2 as a confirmed ban.

[zenith silo]

You can cheat as much as you want in non competitive csgo

Vac is a joke

The only real thing that makes comp cheaters get banned is overwatch

Or if they are using some shitty pasted cheats.

[astral haven]

well i mean yes?

[tough crypt]

i dont understand

[ashen spindle]

ryzen = amd cpus, if you have them but not an amd gpu that means this whole part is not relevant

[astral haven]

thats the whole point, the antilag hijacking the game is setting off the anticheat

[zenith silo]

Yeah I still don't get how that was pushed through, unless they did test it and it never happened for them

[thick elk]

Nuance here is that gpu drivers generally make modifications to games at runtime for driver optimizations.

[astral haven]

if they never went into heck an online game they may never have figured it out

[thick elk]

it's just a different type of modification.

[zenith silo]

Good point, they very well could've just went private matches

[thick elk]

CS2 also has delayed bans which could make it seem like it's working at first

[astral haven]

NO
they interpret the graphics code differently depending on how the game runs

[tough crypt]

yeah i understand that but im building with a amd gpu and cpu

[ashen spindle]

fair, just you only said ryzen at first

[astral haven]

the game code remains exactly identical, but when it enters the gpu, the gpu does different things with it

[thick elk]

I don't know enough about GPU drivers, but it would not surprise me if they override certain functions in other places as well.

[empty wren]

Still it was better when stock android had circle quick tiles or any of the smaller ones

[astral haven]

sometimes they do, but those are mostly banned in competitive

eg nvidia ANSEL

[tough crypt]

anyone got some tips for building a first time pc?

[thick elk]

Ansel is a pretty extreme example though.

[astral haven]

yep

but theres not a whole lot that actually modifies the game itself on the competent side

broadcast pretends its an input device, but thats not changing game code

[thick elk]

Either way the likely outcome would probably be that the specific modification of anti-lag+ will be whitelisted in anti-cheats.

[astral haven]

im actually not sure about that

antilag modifies game visuals depending on mouse input with zero delay

[thick elk]

Or alternatively build into the games themselves if that is easier.

[astral haven]

yea, building it into the game is possible

but i dont think they will let it hang out externally

[smoky frigate]

@final flame after a refresher, I think I have an answer to the SINAD question: you'll hear bad SINAD, but it will not necessarily be an unpleasant type of noise. stuff that measures well is colloquially referred to as linear, while stuff that doesn't while still sounding good leans toward the subjective side

[astral haven]

also you cant always hear even relatively awful sinad

many compression techniques rely on obliterating inaudible data that would absolutely show up on sinad

[tough crypt]

yeah have friend but he on vacation right now ):

[sharp badger]

Don't overthink it and watch some videos about building a PC 🙂

[tough crypt]

yeah gonna try just little nervous handling such a expensive parts : )

[sharp badger]

Yeah i've built 2 PCs myself but been overlooking friend's builds and when my dad built my first PC, Take your time!

[sharp badger]

What specs?

[tough crypt]

im building with a 6800xt red dragon and a 7800x3d cpu with the lian li lancool 216 case and the msi tomahawk b650 wifi : ) just nervous about the cpu

[sharp badger]

Nice and with AM5 it's way better to build with because the pins are on the Mobo now

[thick elk]

For inserting the CPU it just moves the problem, motherboard pins can also bend and are harder to bend back.
Removing a cooler that is actually better with lga.

[sharp badger]

Yeah but it's waay better with AM5 just slot it in carefully and that's that and don't force it

[hasty thunder]

oh no... oh no... MS bought ActiBliz...

[thick elk]

Just saying PGA does have it's benefits even if I'd agree it's overall a worse system.

[tough crypt]

okey 👍

[astral haven]

except its substantially harder to bend, and its very much protected

and the bigger problem with pga is the shear risk

[thick elk]

While true, dropping the cpu wrong can still mess things up, storing a motherboard without a cpu comes with more risk.

[astral haven]

it has a cover over it tho

unlike storing the cpu without the motherboard

[thick elk]

Yea it has one when you buy it.

[astral haven]

yes and no

[reef patrol]

[thick elk]

Either way, mostly find pga find besides that yea.

[sharp badger]

They've got COD,WOW,Diablo? is there any other games of interest? just can't be bothered with those games anymore

[hasty thunder]

THAT happens if you don't wiggle the cooler off

but simply pull it off

[astral haven]

you cant wiggle the cooler on am4

you can shear the pins

you have to run a stress test right before shutting down the system to pull the cooler so that it heats up and is easier to remove

[thick elk]

Never had that, but I guess it could be possible.

[astral haven]

but also its practically fine to pull it off

[hasty thunder]

prefer not to burn my fingers, but i'll take the advice nonetheless

[astral haven]

tap on the ihs with a screwdriver and itll pop off

[astral haven]

just for an extremely short time, dont need to heat soak the cooler

yep

[thick elk]

It also depends on the thermal paste I will also add that I have more experience with am3 and am3+ systems than am4.

so I don't know if the pins are worse on am4.

[astral haven]

am4 pins are substantially smaller than am3 right?

yea am4 is 1331 with a hole in the middle
am3 was 941

[thick elk]

Seems so, that explains the difference

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Reddit loves to mess with image links like that

[astral haven]

1.27 vs 1mm pin pitch

[thick elk]

Looking at this shearing am3 seems a lot less likely

[astral haven]

thing is tho, the force holding the cpu down is so weak you can just pull it out, just gotta remember to pull it straight out without twisting, turning or anything else

[thick elk]

I have personally always just given the cooler a slight twist, not with a lot of force just enough to weaken the bond a bit.

[astral haven]

i always just forget lmao

[tough crypt]

you think a 360mm lian li aio would cool the cpu fine?

[astral haven]

only bent a row of pins twice, was able to bend em back with a razor blade no problem

[astral haven]

yes

[sharp badger]

More than enough, yeah, can get by with Aircoolers

[tough crypt]

okey nice : )

[sharp badger]

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120, Deepcool AK620 etc.

[gusty nexus]

The Thermalright Phantom Spirit is better than the Peerless Assassin at mostly the same price 😅

[sharp badger]

Yeah gave some quick e.g.

[gusty nexus]

It's the best for the money

[gusty nexus]

I know sorry 😅

[sharp badger]

It's all good

[latent mural]

why a ultra giga mega rtx premium product costs the same as a basic product

[vagrant pagoda]

Yeah 939/am2/am3 pins fit perfectly in a mech pencil, am4 you have to over shoot when bending them because its loose

[astral haven]

not my mech pensils lel

i use .7mm

[vagrant pagoda]

Also twisting won't shear pins

You're playing even forced to all pins

[astral haven]

unless the cpu slides out slightly

[vagrant pagoda]

Never damaged pins or sockets on any am socket

Then you weren't twisting

You were pulling

[astral haven]

🤷 it happens

[vagrant pagoda]

I've never done it

I've also just straight up yanked upwards on ones that won't twist lol

Gets them out without bending pins

The only really can do that with a stock cooler though

[astral haven]

sure but on am5 you can just twist and pull and do whatever with no risk

[vagrant pagoda]

Towers are kind of hard to grab

Yeah it's lga though

Twisting with pushing down slightly is the best way for any PGA

[astral haven]

its still awful

pga should only be for exceedingly cheap chips

[vagrant pagoda]

It's cheaper and harder to damage

Much easier to be delicate with a CPU than it is for an entire main board

Way more LGA damage than PGA damage

[astral haven]

except the board has a protective partial cover

[vagrant pagoda]

And PGA works better with direct die

[astral haven]

thats uh

[vagrant pagoda]

PGA isn't reliant on mounting pressure

[astral haven]

thats not a downside

[vagrant pagoda]

Yes it is

You never had memory channel not work on LGA even though the cooler is torqued correctly

[astral haven]

pga doesnt have the capacity to have enough pins to support enough connections where that would be a problem on lga

[vagrant pagoda]

Dual channel isn't enough?

Lol

[astral haven]

if you have too many connections, you switch to lga

i am not aware of any pga platforms that use organic substrates that are over 1500 pins

heck i dont think anyone has done ceramic pga in the last 20 years because of how good lga is

yep

the z chips that were pga were all ceramic

[vagrant pagoda]

Yeah but am3 to 4 was a bigger jump

[astral haven]

and the new z chips are all bga

[vagrant pagoda]

It's signal integrity more than density

Pins are long and straight

[astral haven]

which is advantage lga

[vagrant pagoda]

It's horrible for crosstalk

Nothing to do with pin count

[astral haven]

its better to have significantly shorter connections from lga

bga works best ofc, but noone likes that

wait nvm ibm uses sockets on telum????

[tall crown]

guys what do you think about 3060 gpu for laptops is it worth to buy right now ?

[astral haven]

if it does what you need in a gpu sure

[tall crown]

for valorant cs go lol

it comes with i9 12 gen

and im wondering it is worth to pay 20 % more for 4060

[astral haven]

probably not today, but depends how long you expect to use it

and you probably get a better cpu with the 4060 which is far more important for el shooterz

[brave laurel]

hi, anyone know if dks would be detected by faceit anti-cheat?

and some setting recommendations for valorant and cs:go?

[quaint lily]

I'll join in discussion about valorant and specs. It's cpu heavy game, my rtx 3070 has no problems at all. Upgrading cpu had biggest impact on fps.
Currently I have ryzen 7 5700X3D - 240Hz monitor
It won't go under 500fps

[tall crown]

ye thats what i thought its better to get better cpu but idk if 3060 is enought in 2023 for a few next years to handle those games in future

1,543. eur for i9 12 gen 3060 but i7 12gen with 4060 is 2,182 eut

eur

[ashen spindle]

God no the 4060 isn’t even that much better especially in laptop

[tall crown]

so its better to get i9 12 gen with 3060?

for cheaper price

[ashen spindle]

Absolutely

[tall crown]

do you think it will last long?

for next 5 years ?

its asus zephyrus M16

[ashen spindle]

Depends on what you want to play and what games come out

[tall crown]

i play 99% of time cs go valorant and league of legends

[ashen spindle]

Oh yeah totally fine