🔌│tech

[unkempt lake]

Lol

[nimble arch]

ASSRock

[whole bramble]

on the bright side, we getting a GN video soon

[reef patrol]

ASRock just can't catch a break these days.

[frozen drift]

isn't asrock like a really good brand, why I recently keep seeing their mobo frying CPUs left and right.

Like damn son, this is not good man.

[unkempt lake]

Are we?

Last video was literally

we dont know here's 45 mins of info

[frozen drift]

Also, how does 9700X compare to 265k from intel? Are AMD non-X3D chips better than intel in terms of productivity?

[unkempt lake]

intel beats amd in productivity

At that tier

• you can get intel ultra chips for dirt cheap as of late

For gaming tho it's amd all the way

[frozen drift]

9700X destroys intel's 265k or even 285k in terms of gaming as well?

[ashen spindle]

if you want the top gaming you get amd with the 9800x3d, otherwise intel in 90% of cases

well also depends on how fast you go with your memory, if you take time for OC etc.

[whole bramble]

if you want something mid range, and be able to upgrade for cheaper 4 years later
go amd

i'd argue amd is the better option in 99% of cases

[frozen drift]

In a standard condition, meaning normal, no intensive bios settings/OCing, does the 9700X beat 265k in terms of gaming? Or 285k. I know future proofing is important but let's not factor that in.

[ashen spindle]

depending on where you are thats just a lot more expensive so even if you have to get a new platform intel is the better deal with how cheap arl is in some deals

285k is often faster, it depends

[whole bramble]

intel 15th gen is a shitpost sometimes beaten by its older 14th gen chips

[ashen spindle]

its gotten a lot better since release

[whole bramble]

proof?

[ashen spindle]

the 200s boost is quite a nice upgrade

[whole bramble]

compare prices yourself

[frozen drift]

the ram overclock/memory boost for the core 200 series has improved the gaming performance a lot IIRC.

[whole bramble]

msrp wise amd was always cheaper

[ashen spindle]

arl has dropped in sale price a ton

[whole bramble]

and you can keep your mobo for 6 years or smth

[frozen drift]

Anyway, I really hope intel can turn things around in the nova lake series lol.

[whole bramble]

arl?

[ashen spindle]

arrow lake

[frozen drift]

Like I don't understand wtf is intel doing with their fking socket longevity.

[distant tapir]

Asrock never again

[whole bramble]

okay for me theres a 20 euro diff between 285 and r 7 9800x3d in favor of intel

but imo it has to be like 100-200 dollars cheaper in order to make up for intel forcing you to buy a new mobo every year

[unkempt lake]

*when it works

Its like saying everyone should turn on pbo

[ashen spindle]

no

[whole bramble]

And the am5 mobos are cheaper so doesn't matter

quin i don't know why you simp so much for intel

when they released the same products 3 times in a row

[lyric hatch]

It's never really been a thing on intel, and realistically the majority of the market isn't utilizing the upgrade outside of enthusiasts

[whole bramble]

same fucking performance

[ashen spindle]

intel is in a bad spot that doesnt make it bad when they are having good things?

[whole bramble]

can you show me the numbers

[ashen spindle]

boards are starting at like 100$ same range as am5

[whole bramble]

We live in different continents

lowest i get is 160 euros from am5
intel? 220

[ashen spindle]

sorry, intel boards start at 82€

also am5 is cheaper than 160 as well lol

[whole bramble]

again, different continents

[ashen spindle]

what other continent uses euros?

[whole bramble]

the dollar sign here threw me off

[ashen spindle]

i looked at both us and eu prices

[whole bramble]

where in europe

because germany is not the same as sweden

[ashen spindle]

oh so from different contients we now go to different countires when I started by saying

[whole bramble]

regadless am5 is going to give you a cpu upgrade 5 years down the line

intel will tell you to buy another mobo

[ashen spindle]

no its not, its going to give you 1 more generation thats it

[frozen drift]

no but, look at AM4 and AM5 socket bruh. Intel is already losing the CPU war SO BADLY the recentmost decade and they are ending their latest socket support after only 1 generation of CPU? Like how?

[whole bramble]

a generation that's going to realistically havea 10-5% performance gain

[frozen drift]

Zen 6 is still in AM5 right? Then zen 7 moves to AM6

[ashen spindle]

yes

[whole bramble]

am6 hasn't been officially announced

you're running on rumors at this point

[ashen spindle]

no im running on dram production timelines

you cant make am5 use non ddr5 memory so that require a socket change

[frozen drift]

Like I'm not tripping right? They are ending the socket support after 1 generation(arrow lake) and nova lake will be utilising a new socket. Now, admittedly, I know intel understands that they fucked up so badly that they are going SUPER BIG next gen(assuming the leaks are accurate), like introducing more cache and having a buttload more cores, which requires massive redesign for the socket, so it make sense that they need new socket. But oh boy if the next gen CPUs from intel still sucks, then it will literally be AMD being the CPU version of nvidia and they run the show for at least another 10 years.

[whole bramble]

2027 or h2 of 2026

okay that's fair

[frozen drift]

make sense. DDR6 ram coming soon?

[whole bramble]

still years in the future and Amd are probably going to keep releasing am5 chips after that

[ashen spindle]

sure but nothing you could consider an upgrade, the usual apu on desktop maybe and such

[ashen spindle]

not soon for desktop

[whole bramble]

whatis soon

[ashen spindle]

relative to when server gets it

[frozen drift]

no defined answer, maybe like H2 2026 or 2027

[whole bramble]

Yeah as i said above from google

I just wanted to see if quin had a different number

[ashen spindle]

not on top of my head

[lyric hatch]

The reason Intel is losing is not because of their socket longevity

[frozen drift]

tbh, why do people care about AM4 new releases when it's already such an old platform? For example, are there still many people running on like 5600 and is really looking for an upgrade like 5600X3D(hypothetical release)?

Otherwise I don't understand why AMD is releasing new budget AM4 options, like for who are they catering towards?

[ashen spindle]

its for certain regions, oem contracts etc.

[lyric hatch]

And what you're describing of AMD is where Intel was for a long time before very recently

[frozen drift]

I know, it's mainly because the X3D chips are destroying intel in terms of gaming competitions and also intel not having significant gains on their chips in recent years. But it doesn't help that the socket longevity is ass. Like for example, even if the core ultra 285k or 265k is cheap and provides good all-around value for people who wants BOTH productivity and decent gaming performance, people don't feel like buying it when AM5 have better longevity and the core ultra 200 series is a dead-end after one generation on this socket.

[lyric hatch]

Honestly gaming chips at all mean very little as to why either of these companies are doing well/badly at the moment

[frozen drift]

At least that's my opinion, but of course I don't know too much about market share and business side of stuff, and I am not even a desktop user, so I may not think too deep in terms of things like that

[frozen drift]

Oh? Then why is intel struggling so f ing badly then?

[frozen drift]

and yes I am aware of this, wasn't AMD like a bit of a laughing stock prior to the introduction to zen CPUs?

[lyric hatch]

Because their chip manufacturing fell very far behind

And you can't have competitive products without also having the manufacturing process to make them

[frozen drift]

manufacturing in terms of what? volume or tech/efficiency or what else?

[frozen drift]

are you saying this for intel's recent struggles or AMD's struggle prior to introduction to zen 1/2 CPUs?

[fickle ore]

It's actully not behind ANYMORE, just that it WAS for like 5 years

[ashen spindle]

so the reason intel started to fall behind was their 10nm node

ever since then they went from leading with the best node to lagging behind tsmc

now they are like half a node behind roughly still

[fickle ore]

^from speculation because we have no 18A numbers

[frozen drift]

they are using TSMC's process node for arrow lake?

[ashen spindle]

the otther issues are manifold, like LGA1851 which is the current cpu socket actually was planned for 4 generations

we only have arrow lake on it, but it was supposed to have metero, arrow, panther and beast lake

MTL was kinda bad so its laptops only

PTL also was moved to laptop only

[frozen drift]

oh, I didn't know intel was using their own process node up until the raptor lake

[ashen spindle]

BST was cancelled

[fickle ore]

Arrow lake sucked, next product you should take real interest bc it uses their newest node + will get X3D variant

[ashen spindle]

so the socket was made for 4 generations but only 1 of them ended up on desktop

[frozen drift]

Arrow lake legit regressed in terms of gaming performance, though the power efficiency and productivity performance improved.

[ashen spindle]

its not a x3d variant its more haswell-e with L4 cache base tile

[frozen drift]

Until they introduced the memory controller boost

[ashen spindle]

the other big issue was intel started having massive issues with server chips, sapphire rapids was had to do like a dozen revisions

also, the next intel platform is also planned to have 4 generations at this point

[fickle ore]

Yeah it was I think their first try at Chiplets so bad cache latency. I think it's pretty solved now so expect better next time.

[ashen spindle]

no its not solved yet, the hope is with nova lake it will be much better

[frozen drift]

Yeah I think the ultra 300 series have to be good lol.

[ashen spindle]

the d2d clocks even with 200s boost and what not have limits that just bottleneck the chips

[fickle ore]

We'll see. I have no reason to doubt them if AMD solved that too

[ashen spindle]

well amd has been doing chiplets much longer and better

but even if that is solved with nova lake that doesnt guarantee they can leapfrog all of a sudden

[fickle ore]

Well theyre not bound by IF

IF is slow iirc

[ashen spindle]

neither is amd

zen6 has the same interconnect as strix halo, new packaging without SERDRES between ccd and iod

[fickle ore]

Ah mh

[ashen spindle]

the other issue intel had with arrow lake is that it ended up on early N3 which wasnt a great node

but they had already commited to it, amd pulled out and put zen5 on N4 instead

[fickle ore]

is N3 still bad

[ashen spindle]

not really just the early variant that arrow lake uses is meh

[fickle ore]

lul talk about luck

[ashen spindle]

they just over commited to it, amd moved out and only put Zen5c on it

[lyric hatch]

Guess we'll see how it turns out hopefully good for us as consumers if we have two competitive companies

And hopefully Arc stays alive

[ashen spindle]

yeah thats a bigger doubt

[fickle ore]

2 competitive companies is great for customers

This land has been dry for decades

always one or the other sucks turd

[ashen spindle]

with LBT wanting 50% margins on new greenlight products arc is looking mighty dire

[fickle ore]

I dont really care about graphics myself that much. Always want the best cpu however

[kindred birch]

does wootverlay record and display analog input from other he/tmr keyboards?

im using monsgeek fun60 tmr and sayodevice to test it but it wont display analog inputs

interested to know if it displays analog input fine for other keyboards

[crimson wigeon]

Only if they support the SDK, which is highly highly unlikely

[gusty kiln]

@ashen spindle lmao basically everything AH yesterday never happened

[crimson wigeon]

There might be third party adaptions floating around

[ashen spindle]

classic lol

[gusty kiln]

it's always those ER Timmies

[fickle ore]

damn

[fickle ore]

@gusty kiln What ETF to buy

[chilly edge]

I was looking at other Hall effect switches such as the gateron jades and was wondering will I still be able to get the rapid trigger and all that if I don’t use wooting lekkar switches in the wooting pcb? If someone can give me more info on this topic. Thank you so much.

[dull hollow]

you can still use anything wooting provides as long as its a hall-effect switch as those are software based

[kindred birch]

i see it still ends up whether or not its supported

[empty wren]

The pcba is able to recalibrate when you plug it into the computer it can also be reset by removing the cable from either end.

Depending on the switch you may lose travel distance.

This all depends on the switch

However, to better understand wooting has quite decent sensors and one certain magnetic orientation works.

Everything else, the analog the extra features are all purely software from the data the sensors can gather.

[frozen drift]

https://youtu.be/I8HdlK3LIz4 damn holy sh*# that power draw

[lunar elm]

its only 700w

5090 eat like 550w during gaming

Im not sure how intel CPUs fares in power draw but I think theres gonna be another 100w between XTX and 5090

[frozen drift]

Yeah I mean let's compare the 7900XTX to the 4090. Like damn. Also the 14900K is so horribly inefficient jeez

[lunar elm]

10nm eating away at it

[frozen drift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zydSB0LA5vg&t=633s

damn acer and MSI f**king sucks lol.

The worst is definitely from MSI because how can they have such a poor cooling system when they claim they use the largest vapor chamber + the way they advertise their dedicated gen 5 SSD heatpipe and so on lol. RIP. Imagine using a "better" CPU than the competition and still having worse performance.

and it's thicker than most of them(except for the alienware 18 area 51). Acer's predator helios 18AI is also not good but at least it's because they just decided to compromise on the cooling(no vapor chamber) + it's the cheapest. It's terrible from MSI lol. Not to mention no advanced optimus or g-sync from MSI, and it's the most expensive. Jeez MSI

[umbral heron]

18"
I'd prefer whole PC at this point

[lyric hatch]

gaming laptop, mistakes made

[frozen drift]

I think certain gaming laptops are fine, the legion 9i is actually a really great product all things considered.

[umbral heron]

Good gaming laptop is a laptop with nice screen and good networking card to stream from PC

[vapid ruin]

not everywhere has enough wifi speed to do that

[frozen drift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tf7GfXNScc razer getting roasted lol

[umbral heron]

OnlyLANs

[frozen drift]

it's funny how razer made a TERRIBLE blade 16 in 2025 with some of the WORST QC but the blade 18 is really good because they focus on performance while still having SUPER good build quality and weighs light(relatively to 18 inch laptops)

[vapid ruin]

Guess it's okay... a way to isolate PC's heat to a single room

[umbral heron]

I mean if you want to play in bed it's a better option than keeping hot laptop in the bed sheets

[frozen drift]

Btw, would it be a viable option for wooting to build a TKL/Full-sized keyboard but mix in mechanical switches for the F keys and non-important keys and numpads(for full-sized), which would technically save SOME power consumption and allows them to add in a USB pass-through? Just a question

[umbral heron]

It will save very little power though
LEDs are eating the most of the power

[frozen drift]

like the RGB lighting?

[umbral heron]

[frozen drift]

But uhh, I remembered one wooting staff here mentioned how it's mainly because of tachyon mode + HE switches are generally more power hungry tho. So that's why I had this idea. I mean you can always tune down RGB brightness by a bit to save power xD

• in tachyon mode the RGB is also toned down no?

[umbral heron]

Tachyon mode is not as much about power as much about signal integrity and processing power of MCU, that's why RGB effects are turned off in Tachyon mode

[frozen drift]

Also, are wooting's keyboards compatible with other switches such as gateron? Will it still retain the analog input capability?

[old marlin]

For passtgrough you want a dedicated usb header anyways

[old marlin]

Wooting uses gateron switches

[covert steppe]

Calsy since your in this chat, do you know if the v2 of the travel case also releases tomorrow?

[old marlin]

They have to be ks-20 compatibke though

[frozen drift]

Doesn't wooting's keyboard use lekker switches?

or does gateron manufacture lekker switches?

[old marlin]

Which are modified gateron ks-20s

[frozen drift]

oh

[umbral heron]

[frozen drift]

like a USB dock? Nah I prefer having 1 USB passthrough on my keyboard, it's pretty useful for me. I don't need that many USB plugs

but on laptop they are pretty limited so it's nice to have 1/2 extra ones.

[old marlin]

No you want a dedicated usb cable that goes to your pc is what i mean

Orherwise you can't supply a fully specced port

[lyric hatch]

Andrew did some rough power testing if you wanted to see the power draw with different settings https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1404877920677269633/1410946884981231686/Power_Draw_Keyboards.png?ex=690d2cef&is=690bdb6f&hm=cd07d6e468f4b0862bcc3f773ae21b4780255d22e28758a7780147be71d9af40

[umbral heron]

80HE here

[frozen drift]

Like connecting my a wooting keyboard to my laptop/PC via USB cable?

[frozen drift]

what's that third keyboard on the rightmost column?

Also, thank you for the information.

What is white RGB though?

[umbral heron]

UwU

https://wooting.io/uwu

[reef patrol]

It does!

[covert steppe]

Yippee!

[marsh glade]

Today not tomorrow

[hasty thunder]

ffs guys... Just when i put 5k aside to buy a 5090, water blocks and stuff you drop that... You want me to be poor...

[marsh glade]

Yes

[umbral heron]

Whoever is not using UTF-8 in big 25 in their programs may forever have wet socks and warm pillow

Program was crashing because one of files in my home directory had Polish diacritic in name
Program made by Polish company mind you

[crimson wigeon]

And on Linux you dare have a space in a file or directory name and some script is going to choke on that sooner or later

[magic minnow]

[rough osprey]

damn no one wants the iphone air

[old marlin]

yea

[crimson wigeon]

I guess that's why it's called attackshark

[old marlin]

S25E and iphone air tradeoff is just too big

Motorola Edge 70 strikes a decent balance between being thin and being functional

[rough osprey]

if air and 17 is at the same price now i might have to compare them again

[old marlin]

not that I know why people want phones that thin

[rough osprey]

lots of people still selling their air used for more then new rn

😭

[umbral heron]

Tiny batter

[rough osprey]

i sadly couldnt really test the weight in store

[umbral heron]

Why buy Air + powerbank if you can get base which is basically the same thing

[rough osprey]

the mechanism to secure it is way too heavy and bulky

[analog sinew]

battery life is like the nr1 or 2 thing besides display quality that you want soo i see why

[umbral heron]

But you can have powerbank that wastes 40% of energy stored in it because Apple didn't want to include 2 pins on the back of the phone

[magic minnow]

https://sherwood.news/tech/apple-google-siri-gemini-deal-report/?

Big munnies

[marsh glade]

https://tenor.com/view/200504-renhyuck-hyuckren-dongren-rendong-gif-19987914

[umbral heron]

Apple not very Intelligence

[marsh glade]

https://tenor.com/view/buzz-lightyear-toy-story-to-infinity-and-beyond-i-love-you-to-infinity-and-beyond-no-sign-of-intelligent-life-gif-5140930768280843620

[magic minnow]

Honestly their Ai is so dogshit

[fair gull]

so pocket change for the month

[nimble arch]

TV man made a video on CD and MP3 players

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVpjnBFU2Ys

[frozen ingot]

imagine not having a ton of cd's and dvd's rotting away in their cupboard

[nimble arch]

I just have some vinyl records in a cupboard

[rough osprey]

no thxx

[umbral heron]

I like my FLACs

[nimble arch]

Just don't FLAC in public

[dim light]

I have not used a CD or DVD in probably a decade... lol

[vivid wigeon]

Someone here might know but does enabling VRR (freesync/g-sync, etc.) on the monitor side add any latency (even if disabled in gpu driver), specifically when fps is outside of the monitors max refresh rate (like 300+fps on a 240hz monitor for example)

[sudden imp]

Open ai bought half of the entire supply chain of the worlds ram now it’s double the price for all ram

[vivid wigeon]

You're forgetting the part where memory manufacturers openly make deals to produce less and drive the prices up to increase profit but yeah

[ashen spindle]

for best latency you want to use VRR+ vsync + reflex(where possible)

[magic minnow]

Or tariffs you know

[dim light]

dont think they do this much longer, they just asked the US gov for assistance haha

[quasi nova]

will my wrist pad from the wooting 60 v1 work with the wooting 60 v2?

[reef patrol]

Yes. But it won't have the hook to keep them together.

[gusty kiln]

https://youtu.be/Nt_Cw7ofXRQ?si=18XeV4dlJ3N3vXug

Finally HD6__ but with more bass and better sound stage

[vapid ruin]

$700 though

[gusty kiln]

Fair for the all the small upgrades

New driver tech too, so someone is going to have to help offset the R&D cost

[vapid ruin]

Hmm, I guess that's fair. Not the sound signature that I like but I can see people liking this.

[proud badger]

what is the difference between Wooting 60HE v2 and Wooting 80HE?

[crimson wigeon]

The size

[minor citrus]

The layout. And the 60HE v2 comes default with Lekker Tikken switches

[warm ore]

Yes, with VRR on (even in your monitor's OSD menu specifically), when your framerate exceeds your refresh rate, input latency will be introduced.

[pale sigil]

Mine went to charity

[void flicker]

Hey guys i just ordered my wooting v2 but i regret not choosing the split spacebar so i want to cancel and re-order my wooting but this time with split spacebar, how long does it take to cancel my order and to get money back so i can rebuy?

oops wrong channel

[distant tapir]

I'm surprised he says reaching 107 dB on some of the focal headphones which is the driver exertion limit is «extremely loud» which it isn't really. Reaching 107 dB in low frequencies is not hard

[unkempt lake]

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-5-7500x3d-6-core-3d-v-cache-cpu-clocks-100mhz-below-7600x3d

[distant tapir]

Focal headphones are a no-buy to me because after improving bass with EQ the exertion limit is not that hard to reach

He'd be right if he said that 107 dB at 1 000 Hz is extremely loud but he didn't even specify frequency. He's always so misleading

[gusty kiln]

I mean he is sponsored by the a company that basically have exclusive rights to ask the old clear and elex

At the same time, he's saying that the D1 is better than the focal in that regard

[distant tapir]

The D1 does look good

[gusty kiln]

Yeah I'm tempted to get it

Was looking at the HE600 before but this seems to blow it out of the water

[wheat plume]

🤔

[gusty kiln]

I also don't eq my headphones so I probably would have been fine with either focal

[distant tapir]

If I were to get back into headphones I would maybe get the D1. It's not too heavy, and has a very linear smooth easy to EQ FR, and low enough distortion to be inaudible at any volume I listen to

Though I'd also wait for more measurements

[distant tapir]

Why don't you EQ?

[gusty kiln]

I swap between like 3 headphones daily for work, gaming, and since earbuds for comfort

So would be a pain to need to turn on and off eq or change eq

Head set for work, earbuds for general use and 6xx for music

[umbral heron]

So bump multiplier by 1 and you have 7600X3D?

[lunar elm]

So… if I add +200mhz I have a 7650x3d?

[tacit ore]

i just bought a pc with a 5070ti and a 9800x3d W or L

[latent mural]

If any of you know anything about laptops (not my cup of tea) my mother is looking for a Windows 11 one exclusively for work. I've done some research, but with a budget of $800 I don't really know what to go for here. Laptop market seems horrible, would rather her experience be optimal though.

She mainly needs it as a work laptop, doing excel sheets while screensharing. So I would expect 1080p 60 hz display, nothing crazy. I'm quite ignorant in this department, as I only deal with desktops and haven't looked at laptops in years.

Whole market just seems like a minefield and Amazon is turbo sketch with their sellers :L

[gusty kiln]

Can you go to a local best buy?

[latent mural]

My initial idea was one of the AMD Gen 3 Thinkpads with possibility of upgrading the ram/adding NVMe straight from website

[gusty kiln]

Probably don't need to spend more than 500 for a simple email machine

[latent mural]

I just literally don't know what these things are capable of tbh. Last time I bought a lappy was almost a decade ago for college, some ODEN bullshit with a RTX 3060 in it and I wanted to die.

I live in a different country and she's busy 24/7 but I'll see if she can swing by

I won't lie though I (personally) was mad crushing over the YouTuber only 128 GB RAM Laptops I was seeing in the past year or so.. People were saying a lot of em were tech releases only for hype (or outright $3000)

[bright briar]

@pale sigil this could have been you

@unkempt lake @dull hollow

[steady sail]

Letsgooo

[analog sinew]

that 16gb icon looks like a lego logo lol

[reef patrol]

I legit though that was a LEGO card until you pointed that out and I took a second look.

[analog sinew]

right? the design does have something legoesque to it

[fallen laurel]

am i right in thinking magnetic switches don't need debounce algorithms? i just got the g515 rapid tkl to compare against wooting and it seems that has 20ms which can't be removed

g515 rapid tkl

60/80 HE

[tribal kelp]

I have not had any issues with bounce. It may be switch and spring and keycap dependent?

[fallen laurel]

wooting doesnt have anything that's noticable, it's just the logitech

[fair gull]

correct. debouncing is for the metal contacts in the switch as they bounce a bit

[fallen laurel]

i thought so, thanks tony

weird decision from them, kinda defeats the purpose of adding rapid trigger if you isolate it's application to single key

wonder if it's also a thing on their full depth version

since this is their 2.5mm switch one

[fair gull]

they might also just have ported firmware from another keyboard and not even thought about adjusting/removing debounce time

[fallen laurel]

yeah

[marble robin]

?

[severe thicket]

what are u useing to test that

[ashen spindle]

if you want to test it for yourself accurately you need external hardware

[willow nebula]

can u somehow chance the macro from 20ms to 1 ms is this possible ?

[ashen spindle]

what macro?

[willow nebula]

like for a keybind in the macro app

[ashen spindle]

I dont think the macro app is actively maintainted at the moment

[lunar elm]

afaik it isnt at all

[willow nebula]

oh okay unlucky

[frozen drift]

https://youtube.com/shorts/4SoL7y3_2os

This looks so freaking cool not going to lie

Btw, does anyone know if the corsair k70 pro max HE keyboard uses full HE layout or is a mix between HE and mechanical switches?

[hasty jay]

I'm planning to order a Wooting 60HE V2 and have a question about the case and keycaps.
I really like the Optimum case and keycaps—are they fully compatible with the 60HE V2?

[steady sail]

Yes if u dont pick split space bar version

[hasty jay]

Thanks 👍

[frozen drift]

https://youtube.com/shorts/xdB8P4N2_YA

A i9 9900K with RTX 5090? Holy bottleneck lol

And okay wtf, what kind of i9 9900K runs on such a nice looking modern AIO?

[steady sail]

Soo true

[frozen drift]

https://youtube.com/shorts/M15rOIFHPrg

[halcyon moss]

1.000.000.000.000 Usd for musk. That's just utrerly sickening

[tribal kelp]

Might not like the dude.
Might not like his companies.
But hard to deny his work ethic.

[umbral heron]

Sitting on Twitter whole day and shitposting?

[tribal kelp]

lol

[fair gull]

hard to deny its a nice one isnt it

[umbral heron]

Fair

[halcyon moss]

I wish I got that amount of money for it

[tribal kelp]

Pretty sure when you have that kind of money you pay people to shit post for you, just like you pay people to play games for you.

[umbral heron]

[tribal kelp]

Or maybe he does personally shit post too, just because he bought the toy to rename it? Heck if I know.

[fair gull]

na you pay people to play and work for you so you can shitpost all day

[tribal kelp]

Plausible. 😂

Kinda sums up big corporate CEOs in a nutshell.

[rough osprey]

https://x.com/polymarket/status/1986480203301068840?s=46

Polymarket (@Polymarket)

Polymarket x Google

We're excited to announce Polymarket odds will be integrated into Google. Coming soon.

X · Nov 6, 2025, 5:06 PM

what??

[umbral heron]

GAMBA

[analog sinew]

lul

[latent mural]

[alpine patio]

nice

i can now easily see my odds for jesus returning in 2025

[umbral heron]

You gotta be like this guy who put a bet that someone will run onto the pitch and then did it himself

[vapid ruin]

Financially motivated people be like

[alpine patio]

bro 47% jesus returns before gta 6

[vapid ruin]

Aww man, i want jesus to return after gta 6

[distant tapir]

I think Half Life 3 will be released before it personally

Or at the very least be announced

[frozen drift]

I don't know about his work ethic but he is kind of arrogant considering he has limited knowledge on his own field and coming up with impractical ideas for many engineering stuff. Not to mention how he messed up twitter right after he bought it. Although it's getting better now.

[warm ore]

We have too many of those people in this day and age, very bad.

[frozen drift]

Are you referring to musk or who?

[warm ore]

I won't compile a list for you, but plenty of arrogant and clueless spitting words around.

[frozen drift]

Like no but, how can we say elon musk is a good engineer when he comes up with ridiculously dangerous things like cybertruck, which has terrible safety because of overcomplicated electronics/non-functional electronic systems, a stainless steel outer body that rusts because he doesn't understand basic material science required for his engineering work, and the shape of the panels that can cut off human flesh(fingers even).

[frozen drift]

Which I assume includes elon musk since we are talking about him?

[warm ore]

You are, i haven't said anything about him.

[frozen drift]

I was continuing from a conversation that ended earlier so-, anyway...

[warm ore]

I'm sorry but i was not aware of that.

[mild patrol]

is AMD Ryzen 7 5800x good?

[ashen spindle]

it can be

[mild patrol]

for val?

and streaming

[ashen spindle]

are you looking to buy a new pc with it?

or do you have one or are you getting it cheap etc.

cant just ask these things in a vacuum

[umbral heron]

GPU matters more for streaming, although AMD and Nvidia both have codec chips which help during streaming

[frozen drift]

For valorant(only for gaming) and not streaming, going down the 5800X3D might be better since valorant is a competitive FPS title that is not so GPU heavy and is very well optimised, it is definitely more CPU heavy. Either that or the 5900X 5950X is also good but I'm sure that 5800X3D would be the best option if you are stuck on AM4 platform

The 5800X won't be a terrible choice though, it's just that if you have the money 5800X3D might be worthwhile.

[umbral heron]

x900 are not - they have 2 CCUs with 6 cores each, while x800/x950 have 1/2 CCUs respectively, both with 8 cores
Consider x900 only for productivity tasks, not for gaming

[ashen spindle]

thats why I asked first about more details because it vastly differs on if its an existing pc, cheap offer, new pc etc.

[mild patrol]

too bad 5800x3d is long gone here in the phillippines, they said they weren't restocking that chip for the past months

[frozen drift]

Is the 900 really very bad for gaming? It's just reduced core count, no? Does it affect gaming performance by a lot? If yes then I take back what I said since I'm not well versed with it

[frozen drift]

Then 5800X or 5950X it is. Both should be good enough. Edit: more like more than good enough

[ashen spindle]

please just answer my questions, are you looking at buying a new pc or what is the situation

[mild patrol]

oh, im upgrading my cpu

my pc is new

[ashen spindle]

what is your current cpu

[umbral heron]

Yeah, but only because x800s are cheaper while performing better at games than x900s

[mild patrol]

5600g

r5

[frozen drift]

How.

[umbral heron]

More cores on one CCU, which matters here the most
Latency of communication between CCU is what kills performance

[ashen spindle]

then look if they have the 5700x3d or 5600x3d those would be the options to get, if they dont have them the next best option would be to upgrade the entire thing

[frozen drift]

Uhhh, that can't be it no? If it's 12 core I'm pretty sure the X900 CPUs have 6 cores on both CCDs

[mild patrol]

they said it's not restocking for the past months ;-;

even the shops i know said it too

[ashen spindle]

for any of them or just the 5800x3d?

[mild patrol]

x3d series

all of them

[umbral heron]

Yup, and preferably you want to keep game on one CCU, that's what game mode for x950s do
When you limit it on x900s then you have 2 cores less, and thus less performance than x800s

[frozen drift]

Make sense I guess.

[mild patrol]

my pc is just 2 years old

[ashen spindle]

I mean then the 5800x is the best option yes, but do check if its not too much compared to getting a new platform

[mild patrol]

turning 3 in nov 30 :3

[mild patrol]

i did, that's why i'm looking for validations if the 5800x is good enough

[ashen spindle]

yes thats fine then

what is your gpu?

[frozen drift]

Depends on your targets too tbh. What is the refresh rate of your monitor and is your FPS target

[mild patrol]

a 3050

don't judge me

[ashen spindle]

thats fine

[umbral heron]

I did UPS (updates per second) testing on Factorio the other day
On both CCUs it reached 284 UPS, on only X3D one it got 454
#🔌│tech message

[frozen drift]

Oh lol, nvm 5800X will be fine. I think any better CPU and your GPU will bottleneck your CPU.

[ashen spindle]

just wanted to make sure you werent using the integrated gpu of the 5600g

[mild patrol]

shit things happens to me, when i'm planning to buy parts they don't have it when i don't have plans they have it

[frozen drift]

It's okay man, at least you have a rig. No one will judge you just because you own a 3050.

[mild patrol]

does it interrupts the main gpu?

i mean does it interfere my rtx with the integrated one?

[vapid ruin]

try looking into aliexpress 5700x3d

not sure if it still exist though

[mild patrol]

can't

[frozen drift]

Shouldn't be

[mild patrol]

i'm asian

[vapid ruin]

that shouldn't stop you. Aliexpress is also asian.

[mild patrol]

also they dont ship

in ph

[ashen spindle]

nono I just wanted to make sure you werent using the igpu and replacing it with a cpu that didnt have one xD

[mild patrol]

also it doubles the price

god

the normal price is 13k ph pesos

[ashen spindle]

rip

[warm ore]

bad? no, just potentially not better relative to whatever you compare it to

[warm ore]

what about taobao, do they ship to you?

[pale sigil]

@ashen spindle how's gigabyte these days with mobos

I vowed to never use them again but I might have to

[ashen spindle]

They are all the Same

If you do OC and some other advanced features like idk raid setups or whatever maybe there’s reason to avoid some

[pale sigil]

https://amzn.eu/d/3oL845y

Costs more but it's the only decent first slot GPU matx

Which is kinda needed for the GPU to breathe in the case in thinking about

[ashen spindle]

Oh you mean where it is physically on the board?

[pale sigil]

Ye

It's kinda my solution to the whole worrying about GPU heat

[ashen spindle]

Yeah that would avoid it all

[pale sigil]

However I did also find this case which is a lot bigger but I like it.

[umbral heron]

If you want mesh then why not Fractal North

[ashen spindle]

Well case with handle makes sense if you think about moving it around

[pale sigil]

Well that and helps me pick it up easily to maintain and access the io

Which btw jn a wheelchair is a giant pita lol

[pale sigil]

Can you not get from this conversation that I want a small case XD

Also the first pic I sent has a mesh version I'll be getting

[umbral heron]

Big case, set it on desk, very easy access to IO, even on wheelchair

[pale sigil]

It isn't though

Also my desk is 120cm

[pale sigil]

Id have to reach behind it or pull it out, I can't stand up a little to access it.

And having to pull it out and rotate would be annoying, even so if I got the fractal it would be on the floor like my current

And again it would be a pita for maintenance for me, my current one already weighs a ton lol

It would be nice to be able to put my computer in the livingroom for gaming too maybe, with the handle and all.

Moonlight I just can't get running well on my TV unless I plug my laptop in and tbh Id rather play native on a TV.

Also fractal is overpriced

I am conflicted though, I've always wanted an itx build in general but didn't like the compromises, however this case uses micro atx which is neat, on the other hand I want to not worry about thermals etc 😅

Do I go with what I've wanted for literally 10+ years or do I carry on with a more logical approach?

[warm ore]

Hard to say, SFF can be made well cooled, but you spend more if you wanna do it properly, you also don't really have the components to justify that however.
Mid tower and up is cool cause some of them are pretty small still, but fit alot of capability for cooling to never have to worry.
And from all your exchanges it's evident that you are very mindful of budget and don't come to conclusions fast, so you won't be spending big.
I would say take some time to make the decisions and then stick to them.

[fervent kraken]

small builds will always have compromises. you have to accept the fact that the thermals won't be full optimal, and that's okay. with your desk situation, id say go for it

[tribal kelp]

Small builds can perform well with top tier gaming CPU/GPU in them. You're just stuck with very specific part selection and the GPU availability can be a challenge, like if you're only able to fit a Founder's Edition, that becomes problematic.

Are you technically thermally compromised? Yes. Are the thermals actually throttling your performance? Maybe not in any meaningful way.

I'd say if you have the GPU already, then build small around it and enjoy the tiny build.

If you're hunting for a GPU to finish your tiny build, my condolences.

[mild patrol]

is this enough for r7 5800x?

[lunar elm]

yes

[warm ore]

absolutely, even a Burst Assassin would be

[pale sigil]

It's still gonna be on the floor

[pale sigil]

9800x3d and rtx 3080 XD

[pale sigil]

https://www.ikea.com/global/en/newsroom/retail/the-new-smart-home-from-ikea-matter-compatible-251106/

Pretty cool

[gusty kiln]

Apparently the super cards are canceled?

[pale sigil]

I just read that too

[rough osprey]

nice

[gusty kiln]

Ai cards slurping up all the memory chips

[nimble arch]

It's like there's enough competition to justify new cards

[rough osprey]

someone should make a new company that also produces gpus

[gusty kiln]

AMD lucked out, 18gb 5070 would have killed any reason to buy a 9070xt

[nimble arch]

How about a console instead?

[unkempt lake]

WE LOVE AI

https://www.techpowerup.com/342705/gddr7-shortage-could-stop-nvidia-geforce-rtx-50-series-super-rollout

If they arent cancelled

The price is gonna be a good meme

[reef patrol]

[vapid ruin]

rest in peace, my dream for 48gb vram setup

[ashen spindle]

maan the boring gambling ad bots are back

[nimble arch]

<@&1098943457654997093>

[gusty kiln]

Modddddddsssss

[nimble arch]

Time for Cals to earn that next maid outfit

[tribal dirge]

I thought most AI processors use HBM3/HBM3e rather than GDDR?

cauz like, GDDR7 is dog slow compared to HBM3

[ashen spindle]

ai is using fab capacity not any one specific memory type

[tribal dirge]

true, those B200s need to be fabbed somewhere

speaking of, I got to demo a DGX B200 system not too long ago, and man is that thing a beast.

[gusty kiln]

Think all the gddr7 is going to the rtx pro 6000

[ashen spindle]

no you dont fab memory on wafers that could make the dies, its just the capacity they or any ai chip needs

[gusty kiln]

Or at least the remaining supply

[ashen spindle]

nah they dont exist in high volume

[tribal dirge]

the crazy part is that you can get a whole system of multiple DGX B200 systems called the SuperPOD

iirc the SuperPODs have like 72 B200s in one system

[ashen spindle]

yeah, that way you have a lot of spares when one fails

[tribal dirge]

I mean, the units are literally hotswap when you use Nvidia's full vertical integration.

[sleek herald]

hello guys do any of you have any wireless mouse recommendations that arent super expensive

[fervent kraken]

whats your budget?

[fervent kraken]

ive heard this is basically an ultralight but for less half the price https://mechkeys.com/products/incott-g23

[sleek herald]

idk probs up to like 80-90 quid ill have a look at that one tho cheers pal

[unkempt lake]

https://youtu.be/kLS5Cg_yNdM?si=ag4MeBnJRZK2kAWN

[pale sigil]

Yay or nay

[unkempt lake]

yay

the tldr is it doesn't matter

myth busted

1% battery health difference over 2 years basically negligible

[ashen spindle]

thought that was well known?

[unkempt lake]

not to most people

Same with people thinking wireless charging kills their devices

Just good old myths persisting

[ashen spindle]

well I wouldnt call it a myth, just like it used to be that you should fully drain the battery first or not overcharge it etc. its mostly from the first implementations

[unkempt lake]

Ye

[ashen spindle]

fast charging can still be bad just they usually put it into safe margins

[unkempt lake]

I still remember getting shit luke an rc car as a kid and having to fully charge it once before i used it smh

but those remnants of old tech most people just have it stuck in their minds

Same with old cellphones or old mp3 players

[unkempt lake]

Also addresses the famous 80% thing... basically it ends up being a small improvement but ya know its kinda whatever

2.5%-4% battery health difference

[halcyon moss]

On my S25u 80% is enough to easily get through the day

[unkempt lake]

If it is then use it that way but dont overthink it

[halcyon moss]

Nah. Sometimes I put it to 100 when I expect a long day

[unkempt lake]

The only device i enabled a charge limit on is my switch 2 because it sits in the dock a lot

If i was going on a trip i'd turn it off tho

[halcyon moss]

I'm at 11% now though.. But this is far from a normal day... 🤒

[pale sigil]

I get about 7-8 hours out of mine, I charge to 80 or 100% just before I sleep and unplug it so it's not charging overnight

I'm quite happy with it since I didn't pay an obscene amount for a phone

I could probably get far more if I didn't force 1440p all the time and 120hz, I disabled dynamic refresh rate as it annoyed me

[halcyon moss]

I'm also at 1440p and 120hz

[warm ore]

decisions

[heavy parrot]

Took a flyer on this as an open box deal from Amazon, and I think literally only the outside box was opened because the seal on the anti-static bag was completely in tact. Assuming it works properly (can't test until later this weekend), it'll be a heck of a find for $200. I'm going to hold onto it as a spare GPU and sell it with the rest of my current desktop hardware when Zen 6 comes out, which I'll be pairing with my current RTX 4080 FE.

[abstract igloo]

a

[wheat plume]

why am I missing VRR now???

[tribal dirge]

re-install graphics driver?

I know AMD drivers like to explode like that

[compact scaffold]

my pc makes this funky noise literally all the time when it’s on, how do i fix it and what is it?

[heavy parrot]

Fan out of balance or a bad bearing maybe? Can you disconnect them one at a time and see if it goes away?

[compact scaffold]

um do i disconnect it like physically or is there an app that i can use on the pc to turn the fan off?

[warm ore]

just pull it off the header to locate the one with the bad bearing

[heavy parrot]

That's the easiest way to do it. Just be sure to pull from as close to the motherboard plug as possible instead of from the fan side, and obviously for safety, shut your PC down first.

[compact scaffold]

guys what’s a header i don’t know anything

i’m like 99% sure it’s this one right here

[heavy parrot]

Follow the wire from your fan to the spot on the motherboard where it's plugged in. Disconnect it, turn on your computer again, and see if the noise stops. If not, turn your computer off, reconnect the fan you just unplugged, then go to the next fan. Lather, rinse, repeat. If you unplug your CPU fan (the one that says Intel on it), you can still troubleshoot the noise, but the computer likely won't boot. Just hold the power button to turn it off in that case.

[compact scaffold]

okay i know i sound dumb and stuff but i don’t touch the computer at all and i know nothing about it, im pretty sure its the fan i drew a circle around but i don’t see any wires coming from it

[ashen spindle]

if you can open the other side try looking from there

[warm ore]

If you still can't see it then, shut it off, unscrew that fan, and as you pull it a bit away, you will see the cable and can track it

Dusting it out could also help, had occasions where it got rid of sounds for me.

[compact scaffold]

thank you guys you are great

[rose folio]

Why are gaming PCs so much easier to shop for than gaming monitors

[dull hollow]

1 answer for monitors: oled

[distant tapir]

Picking a monitor before we had high refresh rate monitors was horrible

Every display was matte and with numerous compromises

[nimble arch]

OLED for life

[gray edge]

i went oled and now all my friends call me weird caus ei refuse to play anything other than on OLED

[nimble arch]

Nah, your friends are weird for not using an OLED.

Dab on the haters.

[unkempt lake]

miniLED>OLED

[gray edge]

hmmmmmmm

[unkempt lake]

Brighter + no burn in + great colors

And the blacks still look great

You get the best of both

• no oled vrr flicker

[gray edge]

buttttttttttttt OLEDS have Perfect blacks, infinite contrast, instant response time, better color saturation in dark scenes and ofc they have a slight burn-in risk and some VRR flicker but its nothing crazy especially in higher end models

[pale sigil]

Your psu must be super budget to have them colored wires

[warm ore]

savage

[gray edge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1278490562777055316/1327635322774753310/togif-1-2.gif

[rose folio]

Sure, OLED is great but still doesnt make it easier to find what im looking for. Im a little picky what I want and its hard to find something that checks all the boxes.

[warm ore]

It's not easy even for some of the most informed of us, because manufacturers make some obscure ass SKU codes, sometimes differing several times between geographical locations

[distant tapir]

What do you want? It was easy for me with what I wanted

[rose folio]

Looking for a 240Hz+ curved (1500R preference) monitor with 16:9 aspect ratio and 1ms response time or shorter, less than 4k resolution cause I don't wanna give up too much performance and 4k can have issues with scaling, with really good color accuracy

[warm ore]

And there were instances of this where the base model had a feature or module you needed, but the region specific one didn't, so you can always get bamboozled that way

[distant tapir]

Curved 16:9 isn't too common. But I know that each time one is announced people usually moan about it since they hate curve at 16:9

[rose folio]

Lmao why

[distant tapir]

You're locked to getting oled btw if you want that with 1 ms response times. I'm not aware of any curved 16:9 LCDs with very low response times

[distant tapir]

Because 16:9 (at the typical 32 inch sizes) is not wide enough to justify the curve for most people

They usually say it's distracting or that it forces them to sit very close to the display

[rose folio]

(Me who likes my 27" curved monitor)

Idk how that make it so you need to sit closer?

[heavy parrot]

My problem is I can see distortion on the edges.

[rose folio]

Maybe with the harder 1000R curve? I haven't used 1000R but I know its a tighter curve

[distant tapir]

Having a curve does kind of give you a narrower ideal viewing spot

[rose folio]

I found of pic of my setup, I sit fairly close

[rose folio]

That's why 1500R is preferred

[balmy vector]

Seal and tortle

[rose folio]

Lul, ye. I got so many nicknacks sitting under my monitors

Just bought a new PC and I wanna get a new monitor since my graphics card is way better now

And while my current main monitor is very nice, I could def get more with a better one

[dull hollow]

monitor upgrade before i upgraded my pc

[rose folio]

Originally I was gonna replace the 2nd monitor but most gaming monitors nowadays are better than my main and it would be silly to have my 2nd be better than my 1st

[dull hollow]

retired my old main monitor to be my 2nd

[rose folio]

That what I did before and gonna do again once I replace it

[distant tapir]

Do you ever dust your desk when there is so much stuff on it or does it make you lazy and avoid doing it

[warm ore]

nice to hear, hope you can find something that suits your needs :)

[rose folio]

Def makes me more lazy to do it, at least for the top half where all the nicknacks are but I cant let it get too bad cause I'm also staring at it all day and it starts to eventually get in my head and bother me

[pale sigil]

It comes from a place of concern

Genuinely

[rose folio]

Hope so too, it would be nice to not have to settle/compromise on something that I would like

[balmy vector]

So much umbreon

[rose folio]

I have so much Umbreon & Yoshi merch

Yoshis sit elsewhere in my room tho, not enough space on the desk

[balmy vector]

Based picks

[bright briar]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-stare-catstare-cat-stare-sus-catglare-cat-glare-gif-14942558849944709546

[dull hollow]

https://tenor.com/view/dexter-doakes-squint-stare-suspicious-gif-14432154109786838518

[pale sigil]

Why is choosing a case so difficult

[distant tapir]

It's like using your name as your password.
You don't say!

[fiery lagoon]

[tribal dirge]

major issue with MiniLED: Bloom

MiniLED Bloom is so obvious too, its high key annoying

[rose folio]

I would not choose a scented one for that, its so my legs dont turn into chalk

[rose folio]

going back to my monitor thing -
I was looking at the 27 Inch Odyssey G6 G65B cause it fits almost everything I want, the thing is it's 1000R which im not sure about cause ive never tried it and it might cause problems with my setup and where I sit but idk, its also VA and not OLED but idk much about that either

[dull hollow]

i prefer not having a curved display

i feel like at 27in it isnt required

[rose folio]

idk if I could fit larger than a 27" having 2 monitors up top, plus idk if I really need it bigger anyways

[tribal dirge]

I hate curved displays with a passion, I could never

[rose folio]

Ive come to like my gentle 1500R curve

[dull hollow]

i can only imagine using it on smth like samsungs g9 49in giga ultrawide

[rose folio]

I worry I would feel weird having a main be flat and a 2nd be curved

[dull hollow]

yeah thatd look kinda weird but ive seen flat + curved setups beofre

[rose folio]

lmao

[dull hollow]

tho the curved is usually vertical

[tribal dirge]

oh hell no

[dull hollow]

i mean

with how my 2 montirs are positioned

it might as well look like that

[rose folio]

mine is already kinda that but the curved is my main

hmmm

[dull hollow]

i got 2 flat horizontal 27in angled slightly

i couldnt center my main one

[rose folio]

yeah, mine are slightly angled

[dull hollow]

cable is too short

[rose folio]

I bought longer cables

[dull hollow]

i need to buy one

[rose folio]

im told I should use display port when possible

perhaps I should get a different cable if thats true

[dull hollow]

i dont think i have any modern hdmi/dp cables

that supports my monitor at least

[rose folio]

monitor shopping is the worst tech shopping imo

[dull hollow]

i need a cable that supports 1440p@360hz

looked a little before but its like

$45

[tribal dirge]

I mean, just get a DP 2.1 cable and you are chillin

[dull hollow]

id also have the move my monitor arm and both monitors… eh problem for future me

or i can center it and have it hella close to my face or a massive gap behind my table

[rose folio]

monitors be getting expensive sometimes

$650 for the one im looking at... hoping for a good sale for BF

[dull hollow]

paid under that for a brand new oled 360hz

[unborn wyvern]

LG 27GR83Q-B

[frozen drift]

are all OLED monitors now around 500-700 USD? I thought OLEDs(especially good quality ones) would cost around 1000 USD or more

In my country they are all minimum around 1000 USD. Not cheap.

[lyric hatch]

There's a wide spectrum of prices for OLEDs

[frozen drift]

I was planning to buy a MSI QD-OLED 34 inch 3440X1440 240 Hz monitor

but I am hoping that there's a tandem OLED for 3440X1440 34 inch monitor coming out soon, and hopefully a minimum of 240 Hz.

Tbh, I am hopeful that asus or gigabyte might release it soon. Especially asus since they already made a 27 inch 1440p monitor with 540 Hz. If the market demand for 34 inch monitors are big I think asus will easily release it within 1.5 years.

And oh god asus's new tandem OLED 27 inch(the one reviewed by optimum), their coating is SO GOOD, it makes overhead lighting on OLED seem like a total non-issue. How great is that. Like man I don't want to buy things from asus if possible but if they release something like that for 34 inch, I am 100% buying it.

[lofty pivot]

now if asus could make the same screen but minus the silly silver front border

[frozen drift]

oh yeah this too i guess

but seriously the screen coating for asus's OLED monitors are unmatched, even if I dislike them as a company.

If within 1-2 years no tandem OLED 34 inch comes out, I would just either buy QD-OLED 34 inch from MSI or mini-LED 34 inch

[rose folio]

i am now learned there are multiple kinds of OLED

[frozen drift]

there's only really 2 types. Tandem OLEDs are an evolution of the more traditional W-OLEDs.

And tbh, don't let the name fool you, both WOLEDs and QD-OLEDs are more similar than different to each other. It's just that QD-OLEDs are enhanced with Quantum dots technology, offering better colour volume and some other colour related advantages, but there's also the issue that most manufacturers(especially asus) pair QD-OLED with some screen coating that makes the screen look pinkish when exposed to harsh front-lighting directly on the screen, rather than bright white.

There are other subtle differences, but OLEDs are still OLEDs, both W-OLED and QD-OLED will offer you GREAT visual experiences.

[lunar elm]

their monitors quality are killer but everything else is dogshit

[rose folio]

I'm looking at Samsung's 27 Inch Odyssey OLED G6 G61SD

[lunar elm]

price and naming is especially horrendous

[frozen drift]

and tl;dr, tandem OLED is basically just two layers of OLED stacked together, improving brightness, longetivity in terms of OLED burn-ins(making them practically non-existent) and greater colour volume and so on. Tandem OLED screens can reach 330+ nits in terms of brightness(full screen), compared to 250-270 nits from non-tandem OLEDs.

[distant tapir]

I use the PG27UCDM, Asus

[frozen drift]

Tbh, it depends, asus is one of the few companies still trying to innovate, I can respect them for that, except for the pricing being utterly atrocious.

[rose folio]

interesting, though I dont think I would ever need such brightness

[frozen drift]

Like, they are the first one to make a split HE keyboard

[frozen drift]

I think the jump from 270 to 330 is VERY important for people like me who uses overhead lighting, because my light source is directly above me(on my house celling).

[rose folio]

wacky

[rose folio]

yeah, I could see that being a help. I live in a batcave myself so I would just burn my retina's out with such brightness

https://tenor.com/view/reaction-my-eyes-cant-unsee-burn-gif-7225082

[frozen drift]

And also their eGPU docks like the XG mobile, and even their upcoming thunderbolt 5 open eGPU dock that actually has the portability that makes sense(although no PSU included), still better than the stupid razer chroma V2 dock from razer, like oh boy that eGPU dock is dogwater in terms of design because it defeats the purpose of portability.

Again, asus charges a butt-ton of money for their products, I think it's ridiculous, but at least they do make innovative products(somewhat). So I can respect them for this specific thing.

[rose folio]

they get the ball rollin

[frozen drift]

Like, I don't see MSI doing anything like that, maybe only razer but still other than a oversized non-portable eGPU dock and thunderbolt 5 docks(which aren't that impressive IMO), I really don't see many other companies coming up with new products.

Except lenovo who does some fancy stuff like 3D monitor for their legion 9i, which is pretty darn cool IMO.

And also I guess you can say like asus makes other innovative stuff like their RTX 5090 limited edition with custom BIOs for 800 W of power draw(designed to draw power from both the 12-volt HIGH FAILURE connector + their BTF connector), which is pretty innovative too IMO.

[lunar elm]

that custom bios is only special if we exclude the exclusive 1000w version

Then you have china with 2001w 5090d vbios

[frozen drift]

exclude or include?

[lunar elm]

only possible on galax HOF

[lunar elm]

exclude

if we include the 1k the 800w isnt special

[frozen drift]

I didn't know this was a thing lol

oh wells, but it's still pretty cool regardless.

I feel like MSI is also just making me go "WTF" in terms of their product quality. So seriously, as much as I want to support other companies because I don't like asus's customer support(I never experience it myself before) but MSI cannot even make a competitive high-end gaming laptop properly.

Like brother, how can you market your cooler having the industry's biggest vapour chamber, slap on the highest price tag, and the end product has poor performance because of inadequate cooling, no g-sync, the monitor sucks because it's 4k 120 Hz only(I mean I know 4k 240 Hz mini-led doesn't exist), and no advanced optimus? Not to say asus makes much better 18 gaming laptop, but man it's a tough pill to swallow lol

[unborn wyvern]

34 inches is crazy

[frozen drift]

not really?

[unborn wyvern]

nah like i mean it shifts the purpose

[frozen drift]

I mean many people are using 32 inches monitor too(I think majority uses 27 inch)? Also got people use 45 inches 32:9 aspect ratio(I won't go down this route, too hard for me to see/use tbh).

[frozen drift]

shifts what purpose

[unborn wyvern]

like i would never tell you what to do so dont take it like that but

just buy a TV at that point

[frozen drift]

o_0

[unborn wyvern]

from my perspective and opinion

if you want gaming 27" is the sweet spot

[frozen drift]

Would you say that to people who uses 32 inches monitor then?

[unborn wyvern]

i use a 32

but not as my main

[frozen drift]

the thing is 34 inches monitor is an ultrawide 1440p monitor, so people buy it not just for the size but also the immersive experience, especially for games like cyberpunk and F1 25 or other games that supports it.

[frozen drift]

this is true

[unborn wyvern]

wait u right

[frozen drift]

but TV screens are like 50+ inches lol, the size is still A LOT bigger than 34 inches

[unborn wyvern]

battlefield 6 on a 34 would be like

crazy good

[frozen drift]

• like, TV don't have high refresh rate

[unborn wyvern]

oh no yeah totally

[frozen drift]

• I doubt you would want to place a TV on top of your desk, and spinning your head around just to look at the whole thing, imagine the neck strain lol

[unborn wyvern]

but what i mean is bigger screens are more for like watching shows nad stuff and cinematic

so might as well go all out

[frozen drift]

Yeah but I'm talking about using 34 inches monitor gaming and everyday task tho?

[unborn wyvern]

but its 100% preference

like im crazy and i use 24.5

nobody agrees with me

[frozen drift]

of course I use it for netflix too

[frozen drift]

It's not a bad thing per se, it's a bit small but still plenty big and good for people who has small desk

[unborn wyvern]

24.5 is like for professional gamers

[loud tulip]

Hello Guys im new to wooting, is it possible to make a pickup macro? Like If i hold E then it will macro the button E

[unborn wyvern]

besides that it doesnt have a good use becuase you dont need that extra milisecond of less eye movemnet

so i wouldnt reccomend it to someoene else

[frozen drift]

but like, you yourself said it, TVs aren't meant for on desk setups and gaming/close screen uses, so I kind of don't understand why you would suggest people buying 34 inch monitors to get a TV lol

[unborn wyvern]

wait you dont use monitor stands

bro you are missing out

its the most beautiful thing ever

i almost cried when i got mine

im joking*

[frozen drift]

no but even if I use monitor stands why would I use 50+ inches TV? And no I'm not a monitor user in general because I'm on laptop lol

[unborn wyvern]

i dont think monitor stands support tvs

i think its only for monitors

[frozen drift]

lol.

You are just trolling me right 😂

[unborn wyvern]

no i wasnt

in a non rude way i said who would ever propose that a monitor stand could hold a tv

it was obviously meant as a separate question not pertaining to the discussion earlier in the conversation

[halcyon moss]

It's about weight and mounting options.

[magic minnow]

Wow!

https://www.ereetle.com/?

I do love reading on e ink

[blazing oak]

j

[magic minnow]

The ai bit is a bit dumb

[spring ginkgo]

Went from 27" 240hz 1440p oled to 24.5" 400hz 1080p tn with dyac. Miss the overall clarity of the oled, but dyac makes tracking while spraying a breeze.

[robust swan]

My first PC is finished

[halcyon moss]

Enjoy!

[sour flume]

anyone got any gaming headsets that are good in basically everything, like noise isollation, sound quality, comfort etc reccs? i was thinking of the new blackshark v3 pro

[rough patrol]

Gaming headset or sound quality

Pick one

[pale sigil]

Honestly gaming headsets are so meh

especially wireless ones

[sour flume]

sound quality

tbh i just saw how good iems are

they have everythign i want

[rough patrol]

I would recommend a good pair of headphones and a separate mic

[sour flume]

yeah i was thinkign that too

[sour flume]

i do already have a hyperx quadcast

[halcyon moss]

Beyer dynamic mmx200

[umbral heron]

I feel like Linux devs are choosing the worst way to do things possible
I just wanted to play Android game on PC
I had to install Waydroid, integrate it into system, install libraries because it's x86_64 and doesn't recognize ARM and now I have to play with evdev, because they didn't bother to include keyboard to touch mapper

[dull hollow]

I’m getting the kiwi ears astrals on Black Friday

Hoping they drop to somewhere around 250

[nimble arch]

Linux devs arguing over which flavour of autism is correct meanwhile Microsoft and Apple are mandating it.

[sour flume]

they look like they're really nice, quite expensive tho

[dull hollow]

It’s a recommendation from @misty scaffold and outclasses other iems a little above its price range

[vapid ruin]

hd560s or if you want more comfort hd490 pro. The latter is an upgrade to hd560s in every way but cost $250 more. If you want something good. IEM wise, Kiwi Ears Astral is a good pick for $200.

IEM is great for sound quality and noise isolation, so maybe go with that.

[misty scaffold]

IMO, they are one of the best sets in its price range

[vapid ruin]

not sure about that when crinear Reference about to come out.

[misty scaffold]

quality is on par with $300-400 sets at $260 cant really complain about

[misty scaffold]

"one of"

[vapid ruin]

oh yeah, lmao

[misty scaffold]

best is highly subjective

[vapid ruin]

for $150 I would go for supermix 4 if you okay to EQ. It has a really nice separation and detail, the only bad thing it has for me is the tuning.

[wheat plume]

Is there a good local media player for iPhone?

[ashen spindle]

yes

[unkempt lake]

You're meh

There's good wireless gaming headsets out there

Like the fractal scape

Or the maxwells

[unkempt lake]

Vlc

[sour flume]

tysm for the reccs, i was looking at the hd 560s and they look like an amazing option, though they do lack noise isolation

[minor zealot]

should i get Asus XG27AQWMG or ROG Strix OLED XG27AQDMG Gen2 (XG27AQDMGR)

[vapid ruin]

I too want the same kind of headphone but with noise isolation. I have a feeling Crinear Reference and 7hz x Crin Divine is going to be similar to it somewhat.

[bright briar]

im switching to iems

cant stand headsets anymore

https://tenor.com/view/head-ache-dent-gif-25328517

[bright briar]

400 cad

[dull hollow]

270 us

[bright briar]

@unkempt lake price of ram dropped on amazon

340 to 309 team group

[unkempt lake]

still completely overpriced xd

[bright briar]

yesh

but maybe the world is healing again

[unkempt lake]

nah

[gusty kiln]

nah they just reach the point where no one was willing to buy it at that price

[unkempt lake]

they dont need to sell

xD

ai will buy it

[gusty kiln]

they won't be buying it from amazon, they will be buying b2b

[devout raptor]

iems drove me insane because of uneven seal/ear pressure

[distant tapir]

Dette

[left fjord]

what is the differences between lekker tikken and the lekker v2 60

[distant tapir]

My left ear is apparently incompatible with any earbuds I have ever tried. Doesn't stay in for more than 10 seconds. Th technology is unusable to me

[tame charm]

Im trying to decided what headphones I should even get

I dont want one with a mic on it

[distant tapir]

Sennheiser HD560S + EQ beats 99,99% of headphones in existence

[leaden kiln]

most iems fit pretty poorly for me but not that bad
Some sculpted iems fit well and most tws I’ve tried too

[tame charm]

kinda leaning towards sennheiser

what about the 490s? @distant tapir

[distant tapir]

They are more expensive and worse-sounding stock to me

I'd EQ both of course, but the 560S is a lot cheaper

[tame charm]

I just want something to upgrade from the the original hyper x cloud headphones 🤣

Ive had them for long enough

[tame charm]

so the 560s are cheaper and sound better?

[distant tapir]

Yes imo

If you won't EQ then I wouldn't buy them. You'd probably find the low amount of bass disappointing. But it can be fixed and perfected easily with EQ

[tame charm]

The only problem I have with eq is I’ve lowkey never done it

[distant tapir]

It's easy. You just download equaliser APO and the Peace plugin. Peace now lets you automatically load Oratory1990's presets into it so with one press you can use his Harman EQ and personalise it from there if you wish to

https://www.reddit.com/r/oratory1990/comments/1oncjnu/peace_gui_now_directly_includes_oratory1990_eq/

[wheat plume]

wow

[tame charm]

@distant tapir actually perfect timing they have one pair left at my nearest best buy

i can get them today

[distant tapir]

Go get it and see if you like it with EQ

[bright briar]

buy third party ear tips

[devout raptor]

nah imma just use fiio ft1

[tame charm]

its 80 dollars off too

its like 199 instead of 280

[pale sigil]

Lol I've seen these comments

Nothing really fucked up

I feel bad that I encouraged my sister to get one

[wheat plume]

It comes with Facebook, insta and Twitter preinstalled I think, and Glimpse on the lock screen

[minor zealot]

lets say i have a 280hz monitor, i can easily run that fps but i cap it at 240fps ingame since its way more stable and you will most likely never notice the difference between 240 and 280, is that a good idea?

[ashen spindle]

does your monitor support VRR?

if yes just enable vsync and VRR and you're set

[minor zealot]

but keep the monitor hz on 280 for out of game activities?

its a new monitor that is coming out so i assume it will support vrr

[ashen spindle]

yeah no need to change it in windows

[minor zealot]

should i also enable g sync compatibility in the nvidia configuration screen?

[ashen spindle]

that is VRR yes

[thick ermine]

If you have gsync monitor, just enable gsync on monitor and pc, along with vsync (in nvidia control panel or nvidia app only...not in game), and low latency on ultra. It has been tested by numerous benchmarkers and display snobs (IE Blur Busters) to deliver the smoothest and lowest latency experience.

[minor zealot]

alright so keep vsync ingame off?

and on in the control panel

[thick ermine]

yeah

[minor zealot]

got it

[thick ermine]

the control panel setting will override it. if you enable in both, itll cause a bunch of latency and stuttering

if you don't have gsync though, don't follow any of those instructions.

[ashen spindle]

uh, for newer games in dx12/win11 you want to use the ingame vsync not the nvcp one

[minor zealot]

it does have vrr

[minor zealot]

i mainly play solo games and then stuff like fortnite

wait do i turn on vsync for game specific in the nvcp

[ashen spindle]

just set it as on in general as a override that makes it easier

[minor zealot]

fair

[ashen spindle]

and enable reflex in games that have it, fortnite probably does

[minor zealot]

do you mean low latency reflex ?

[ashen spindle]

nvidia reflex in ingame settings for games that support it

whatever they call it in the settings idk

[minor zealot]

yea they do call it there

[ashen spindle]

thats an ai answer thats not saying anything

but yes its going to be called something like that

[minor zealot]

yea its that

[thick ermine]

doesn't matter. if you do it in nvcp it overrides application setting (to ensure you have it for applications that don't have the setting). but if you enable in both it can cause some weird bugs.

blurbusters does a decent explanation

[minor zealot]

so just put it on for everything in nvcp and disable it in all games

[ashen spindle]

yes thats the easiest and will work

[thick ermine]

use on if gpu is your bottleneck or on+boost if your cpu is your bottleneck

[minor zealot]

also an additional question, i will have a 280hz main 1440p oled monitor a 144hz 1080p ips side monitor and 1 75hz 1080p ips side monitor, do i cap both side monitors to 60hz since its literally only used for browsing, discord and music?

[minor zealot]

uhhhh 9800x3d and msi 5070ti gaming trio

no clue whats the bottleneck

[thick ermine]

up to you

[minor zealot]

it doesnt impact anything if i have 3 different hz performance wise?

[ashen spindle]

well iirc the special K dev talked about in win11/dx12 things have changed so the ingame one technically is superior but its not like it matters much

[minor zealot]

yea its prob something where the numbers are superior but in reality 99% of ppl wont notice

[thick ermine]

first I'm hearing about it

[ashen spindle]

thats something you need to try out, because it can be if the extra monitors are not a multiple of the others that you either need to set it to the same or like 1/2 of the others etc.

[minor zealot]

fair, ill just cap both at 60 to be safe, i only use them for discord and music anyway

[ashen spindle]

don't think I'm in the specialK discord or remember where it was posted so cant search for it atm

[minor zealot]

@thick ermine which is the bottleneck btw

[ashen spindle]

there is https://wiki.special-k.info/Presentation_Model which explains what changed by going with the flip presentation but dont think this talks about sync settings

[thick ermine]

if you're running applications that are tasking your hardware to max out performance of the monitors it can. But like if you are running discord on one its not going to actually run at max refresh rate

[ashen spindle]

well it's not about the apps running hard, its if you use something like discord or a browser with hardware acceleration on monitors with different refresh, that could cause stutters

[thick ermine]

depends on the game. hard to run games, the gpu. easier to run, cpu

[minor zealot]

i see, so something like fn or mc its cpu and games like GOW or sekiro, elden ring its gpu

so for fn its on+boost since cpu is the bottleneck

[thick ermine]

I personally keep hw acceleration off because I'm not going to sacrifice game performance for a youtube video that's running on my second monitor. Will also typically ruin the performance of the video at the same time.

[ashen spindle]

I mean thats not how that works, hw acceleration means it uses the decoders in your gpu its not using the hardware the games are using

unless your gpu is like super in its power limit I guess maybe that could draw some power away

[thick ermine]

@ashen spindle ok so I went through my settings because maybe I'm not communicating it right. In display settings I've got the hardware-accelerated gpu scheduling on but in my browser I've got graphics acceleration disabled. When I'm playing a game and want a video or movie to stream in the background on my second monitor, the quality of the streamed video is bad when acceleration is enabled in the browser.

[ashen spindle]

HAGS in windows is something else yes

[thick ermine]

pretty much. when in doubt, on+boost won't hurt

[ashen spindle]

if the browser settings makes it look worse that means either a driver or browser setting seems to be broken

[thick ermine]

nah dude

[ashen spindle]

yes its a commonly known issue that people run into

[minor zealot]

alright so TLDR: keep monitor hz at 280, cap to 240fps ingame, turn on vsync and gsync in nvcp, turn off vsync in games, set both side monitors to 60hz, and put the reflex low latency mode on boost+on

got it

[thick ermine]

don't worry about capping fps. vsync will cap your fps anyways

[ashen spindle]

obv if you dont get a benefit the simplest way is to not enable it, but usually changing the rendering setting in chrome flags or w/e browser or a driver change fixes that and it no longer looks blurry or worse

[minor zealot]

ahhh so just leave fps in games uncapped?

even if its in games like GOW where i wanna run max graphics and it def wont hit 280?

[ashen spindle]

vsync is to keep the fps in your monitors refresh rate so you dont go above VRR range

[ashen spindle]

yeah VRR takes care of that

unless you drop so low its out of VRR range but thats usually like <30fps or so

[thick ermine]

unless they have a setting to cap fps for menus (I lower that so its not running full throttle in menus)

[minor zealot]

but wouldnt that make ur gpu run at max performance causing stutters?

[minor zealot]

pretty sure fn lobby is capped at 120 always

[ashen spindle]

no you want your gpu to run at max, thats what you have it for, let the hardware work

[minor zealot]

Fair so i do those settings in nvcp and never cap fps in games?

[thick ermine]

prob. most games either have a built in cap or selection when you select frame limits

[warm ore]

You can test it, but Vsync on it's own shouldn't cap FPS.
It's used in conjuction with Gsync to prevent tearing in ALL instances (sort of a frametime compensator).
You would wanna use in prio Ingame cap>RTSS cap.

[thick ermine]

if there's a frame cap setting for menus, it'll often require an in-game cap as well...if that's the case just set that to your monitor's refresh rate or higher

[minor zealot]

so you wouldnt cap it at 240 if monitor is 280?

[thick ermine]

vsync caps fps dude

[thick ermine]

nah

[minor zealot]

so fn has a ingame cap of 240 then 360, you would turn on vsync, gsync and low latency and put the cap on 360 then?

why not 240 tho?

[ashen spindle]

you dont need to set any cap, vsync+vrr takes care of that

[thick ermine]

the old method was something like -15% of your monitor's refresh rate (but at least 3fps) to ensure vsync wouldn't double buffer with gsync but its a non-issue now afaik

[warm ore]

It still overshoots, thats why it's recommended to cap.

[minor zealot]

yea why would i let my gpu and cpu run at max performance getting 500+fps when i only need 280 (240 for fn)

[warm ore]

There are some menus that go far higher even, zero reason to let it.

[thick ermine]

if you're getting 500+fps your settings aren't right

[minor zealot]

well no, its performance mode, i think in those settings the game looks the best anyway

i dont need super smooth leafs and trees or clouds in fn, i dont look in detail to it

in single player story games and stuff like mc, sure

[ashen spindle]

cs2 devs and nvidia say you want to to vsync+ VRR+reflex because that takes care of preventing overshooting the refresh rate but you still get people saying the old method of setting lower fps caps is the way to go..

[thick ermine]

you're not going to get 500fps if you set gsync, vsync, and low latency modes properly

[tame charm]

@twilit schooner from here whats next

[warm ore]

I don't know how CS2 in specific behaves, but from experience the overshoot happens without a proper cap in other titles.

[minor zealot]

so if i set it up properly and leave fps uncapped it will max out at 280fps ingame?

[thick ermine]

a few fps below but yes

[minor zealot]

well around,

alright ill try it out when the monitor comes in

[warm ore]

Also RTSS now has Reflex implementation instead of Async, it's been fairly consistent.

[thick ermine]

like with the settings enabled, it automatically caps my 120hz monitor at 117fps and my 240hz monitor at like 235fps

[minor zealot]

okay so ur gpu/cpu wont be ''overworking'' on useless frames if u setup up the nvcp properly

[thick ermine]

wonder how much latency that adds. Even though its using reflex settings for the limiter, it's still technically 3rd party implementation with rtss

[warm ore]

exactly 1 frame of input lag, but only if compared to ingame limiters.
Hence the priority Ingame cap > RTSS cap

Atleast thats what it should be, i'm not sure since the Reflex implement if it lowered at all (doubt).

But ingame caps aren't always available and RTSS is a very handy tool anyways, closest to no additional latency possible and you can use your custom or premade OSDs

On games where i have ingame cap, i disable RTSS handling it obviously

[thick ermine]

Exactly 1 frame of input lag? That's hardly scientific since 1 frame can vary wildly

[warm ore]

Then spend some time to read about it so it meets your standards, this is how it was explained.

[thick ermine]

source?

[minor zealot]

so this should be set to ''on'' instead of ''use the 3d-settings''?

[ashen spindle]

well yeah but if you set a limiter its a set rate so its always the frame length you set it to as added input delay

[minor zealot]

wait couldn't i set a fps cap globally in nvcp???

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1lokih2/putting_misconceptions_about_optimal_fps_caps/

i found this

[ashen spindle]

why are we still on fps caps

[minor zealot]

idk i just thought of it

and found that thread

[ashen spindle]

ignore it, in games like counterstrike or fortnite where you want best latency you reflex which has a built in frame cap anyway

[minor zealot]

alright

[minor zealot]

also for gsync, i run games in fullscreen borderless for easy alt tabs, i should turn on the second one right (the one thats turned on)

top one is for ONLY fullscreen i think

[ashen spindle]

im not sure if with the new way to render fullscreen that is still needed but yes that definitely covers it

[thick ermine]

do the bottom one so it'll optimize for both windowed and fullscreen

[minor zealot]

yea i turned on vsync and gsync, unlimited fps but it doesnt go over refresh rate and is way more stable

nice

[warm ore]

I didn't see what game or games you were looking this info for, but in case it's competitive, if the absolute lowest latency was the actual priority, consider uncapped without all the above, as that would still be king.
Ofcourse if tearing is something that bothers you, the sacrifice have to be made.

[ashen spindle]

consider uncapped without all the above, as that would still be king
no its not thats why cs devs even put a popup into the game that says vsync+vrr+reflex is the best

[thick ermine]

this

[twilit schooner]

I have no idea about any of this, not sure why I got pinged

[tame charm]

pinged the wrong s

my fault

[vapid ruin]

Best tips is just play a song and adjust the slider up and down just a little bit (like 1-5 step). The first few handles how loud the bass, the middle ish handle the most instrument, and for the latter, adjust until it doesn't feel harsh/painful/boring to you.

If it sounds 'bad'/not to your liking no matter what, it means the default tuning is perfect for you and you don't need to use that(EQ).

[distant tapir]

Use Oratory's preset

You are very likely to find it to be an improvement

Adjust it from there like instructed. I'll show you

Click on auto EQ (which I don't know where is), or just type them in manually

Okay I downloaded the software to show you

You need to use the version with the expanded menu

Just exit the program and choose it when you re-open it

Click here

Here in the top bar you want to select the OPRA by Roon Labs one

Select this one (not the one below) and click use

Then when you try it out by listening to music, adjust these to preference