🔌│tech

[novel canopy]

they took it down

[novel goblet]

I needed 80 for editing

Oh they did ?

[novel canopy]

yup

so you don’t realize how much of a chud loser you are

smart on their part

they almost had me

[novel goblet]

I have mine screenshotted somewhere

[novel canopy]

me too lol

[novel goblet]

Yea I’m so glad I haven’t touched a game from that company in over a year

[novel canopy]

down payment on a car btw

on virtual chud skins

sad

can’t wait for the riot skin class action lawsuit where they paypal me 50 for my trouble

[novel goblet]

20*

50 is generous

[lunar elm]

So far I’ve spent like 90 SGD on val lmfao

[novel goblet]

Oh that’s not bad at all

[novel canopy]

what is sgd

[novel goblet]

Nice!

[lunar elm]

singapore dollar

[novel canopy]

im an ignorant american sorry

[dull hollow]

what car and where are you buying one with a down payment of 1500

[novel canopy]

NJ, and 1500 is more than enough with a good credit score

shit man you go to a dealer with 500 and a 800 credit score they’ll order you food

[novel canopy]

what car do you drive

[dull hollow]

just using my parents to get around when i need to atm

doesnt make sense for me to pay for something im not gonna use everyday

[novel canopy]

no i get ya

[dull hollow]

most definitely not driving into the city

[novel canopy]

nyc?

[dull hollow]

gotta pay 3 tolls just to get into manhattan

[novel canopy]

stick to bikes and subway

nyc driving is aids

[dull hollow]

verrazano, tunnel, midtown fee

[novel canopy]

people drive like it’s a gta 5 server

[novel canopy]

don’t worry mamdhani will save us

[dull hollow]

its cause of all the fuckers thinking theyre squeezebenz and blowing insurance up

and wreaking bmws/benz

[novel canopy]

nothing like cutting up traffic in a m3 comp

top 3 degen activities

[dull hollow]

fine doing it in game but irl is just dumb as fuh

[novel canopy]

nj isn’t too bad

you’ll see someone in a beamer or kitted out honda every now and then

don’t know if it’s because i’m older now but it’s so lame to me putting people’s lives at risk like that

[sullen bear]

@novel canopy if u want to go for a 9800x3d and in europe, you can buy them at ali for 340~ euros

But seeing as you’re talking about nyc and nj you’ll have to check na prices

[novel canopy]

if you wanna do it at 12-3 am no traffic and speed all you want ig but risking other people lives is insane work

[novel canopy]

on facebook marketplace i can get a good deal

[sullen bear]

If 9800x3d + ram turns out too expensive you’ll be fine with the 7500F too

[lunar elm]

you lads with ur thousands of dollars to get a car

i need 100k to get the stupid paper for just 10 years

[spring lagoon]

Figured I’d ask the pros here. Are there any hubs/docks that you guys use? I want to get one to easily switch my peripherals between my laptop and desktop but I’m worried about latency… is that not even a concern? Does anyone here use a dock and also care about this kind of thing?

[lunar elm]

You’re referring to a KVM switch. Of course you will get latency drawbacks, but higher quality ones arent as bad

[raw zephyr]

If you are going to end up picking one, make sure it's powered otherwise you are not going to have a great time running your 80HE 😅

[winter patrol]

I use one of these for my 8k stuff, you can plug in a 2nd usb cable for more power

[lofty pivot]

latency will almost always be added from a hub, but it's minimal if it's a good hub (1-5ms probably? depends on the hub), but whether that minimal latency is something you care about depends on you

[analog sinew]

did you contact support like we discussed

[magic minnow]

No one tells me what to do

https://tenor.com/view/lilochipie-cat-angry-lilo-gif-14290841734798074197

[lofty pivot]

that's pretty neat actually, smart of them to advertise it as a spot to plug in wireless mouse dongle

since everyone has the wireless mouse dongle already sitting there

[winter patrol]

pretty cheap too, got a silver cnc one for 110 yuan

[lofty pivot]

might buy one to check out. Would be nice to have a usb hub that's been checked to be compatible with 8k signals

since we do get that question from time to time

[vapid ruin]

dew it

[winter patrol]

new colorway too for the pro sku. black wing and silver wing

[lofty pivot]

is pro any difference or just cosmetic?

[winter patrol]

more internal storage for more onboard pics

[lofty pivot]

ah worthless for me lol

[winter patrol]

yeah some people just wanna cycle thru gifs

[lofty pivot]

oh they have white, nice

[viscid karma]

Has anyone else had issues with their keyboard where when you’re playing a game and holding down a for istance to move it’s not moving like tapping will make you move for say one step but to sort it I have to unplug and replug back in

[azure otter]

i used to do this

it was fun for a while, then i grew up

[nimble arch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UqlWOBFt3Y

[smoky parrot]

I suggest maling a thread in #1019755933959733258 , anything else will get lost in here

[graceful stump]

anyone here that uses a KVM switch for work or whatever reason?

[smoky parrot]

Apoligies for tagging, but do you have a name for this I could google?

[winter patrol]

https://arbiterstudio.com/collections/accessories/products/hm-lab-zneo-8k-hub?variant=51587135734043

[smoky parrot]

Thank you!

[nimble arch]

https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2026/01/introducing-apple-creator-studio-an-inspiring-collection-of-creative-apps/

[nimble arch]

Apple's education discounts are top notch.

That's how I got Final Cut and Logic for a very low price.

[rough osprey]

and still no photomator updates

[umbral heron]

https://www.techspot.com/news/110879-jensen-huang-relentless-ai-negativity-hurting-society-has.html

[rough osprey]

😭

[sullen bear]

Ya

[analog sinew]

oh no the billionaire is sad :CCC

[frozen ingot]

its working

keep bullying the billionaires

keep shitting on everything they like

[analog sinew]

he got this close to understanding

or he's lying through his teeth, your choice

[frozen ingot]

only thing these people understand is profit and spreadsheets

hurting their bottom line is the only way to stop them

[graceful stump]

My issue was that my vga monitor which is plugged into a vga to hdmi adaptor that is then plugged into my KVM didnt work, i tried giving more power to the kvm with the cable it came with but to no avail, anyway in the end gpt told me the kvm very likely takes only true hdmi signal and thats why it wont work

but i really dont wanna buy a damn fourth monitor its more that im too lazy to bend below my desk every time i start/end my work shift

[ashen spindle]

first step dont ask an ai about tech issues

[graceful stump]

is it wrong tho

[ashen spindle]

idk in this case but the last guy in here almost killed his ram/cpu because it told him to set a 120x speed multiplier for it

[graceful stump]

wtf

[sullen bear]

Hmm yea i dont have vga lmao

[graceful stump]

its my first 1080p monitor from like 2015

simpler times

[tribal dirge]

gotta have 4k now!!!!

[graceful stump]

2k max ill go

dont wanna get less than 60 fps at max settings in games

for 4k i need giga pc

[leaden kiln]

I want 4k but don't wanna pay for a 4k monitor 👴

[unkempt lake]

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6281791

[reef patrol]

I'm confused. The Taiwanese are suing over money funneled TO Taiwan?

I guess because the software created is shipped to China?

[bright briar]

https://tenor.com/view/lilochipie-cat-angry-lilo-gif-14290841734798074197

oi oi oi

[coral sapphire]

hey shh that’s me

rookie mistake 💔

[novel canopy]

jesús man i didn’t expect the cpu to be so pricey

insanity

[autumn hazel]

Anyone have photography tips? I wanna have a good looking post for my full setup

[grizzled prism]

does anyone know if it's a common issue on the wooting 2 HE that the cable port has a shitty connection? tbh mine always had that but now when I had to move my keyboard a bit (still being gentle) it refuses to connect at all, i can only get a momentary flicker of light

[reef patrol]

Got a different cable that fits you can try?

Replacement daughterboards are possible.

[grizzled prism]

wait the keyboard is working inside of the OS just not when it was in sleep mode but the lights are totally off, weird

[grizzled prism]

i guess it's not the cable if it's halfway working?

or it's getting enough power to run but not enough for the lights 😅 i'll try another cable

[grizzled prism]

another cable completely new doesn't work either, i do get typing but no rgb, the rgb has tended to flicker whenever i move the port ever since i got the keyboard, it just got worse now where it's impossible to get the rgb

[reef patrol]

https://wooting.io/support
Reach out to support for help. Most likely need a replacement daughterboard.

[grizzled prism]

thanks appreciate it. i bought the keyboard a little over 4 years ago so i'm guessing i wouldn't be able to get a free replacement? 😅

technically the issue was there since the start though it just got worse

[reef patrol]

About two years and change too late for that I'm afraid. 🙂

[grizzled prism]

yeah that's the risk i take not buying from a norwegian retailer lol alright

[sullen bear]

Check aliexpress

[novel canopy]

no i already bought it

bought 7800x3d

now just find the best price for ddr5

[tribal dirge]

Good luck lmao

[novel canopy]

bet you i won’t spend more than 200

175 if i’m lucky

and i’m a betting man

https://tenor.com/view/truth-is-the-game-was-rigged-from-the-start-fallout-new-vegas-gif-14316695

[vague vector]

There is no good price for ddr5 now days

[novel canopy]

just for that i’m gonna find some for 150

they never believe in me

[vague vector]

💀 bro under 300 is nothing

Wait

About what are you talking abt

@novel canopy

[novel canopy]

32 gigs of ddr5

[vague vector]

Ye bro under 300 impossible

[novel canopy]

when i’m involved nothings impossible

[vague vector]

Tf they got more expensive again

Respect if you find not used ones that are under 400 usd

[novel canopy]

im gonna find it

and take a picture of me doing a money spread with ram

https://tenor.com/view/jibba-money-spread-rich-off-airpods-gif-8155473963704434130

give me 2 days

[magic minnow]

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/trump-announces-that-ai-companies-must-pay-their-own-way-for-energy-consumption-to-prevent-consumer-utility-bills-from-going-up/

[sudden imp]

Inb4 someone lobbies for that to not be the case. Socialize the losses guys.

[pale sigil]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monitors/comments/1q7hlfd/a_simple_example_of_ips_vs_oled/

[wheat plume]

YouTube Premium is getting ads now if they deem the video "important enough" ....

[sudden imp]

Pardone?

[wheat plume]

https://youtube.com/shorts/DozOqFX_004

[sudden imp]

So I would assume high traffic videos would get ads regardless now…?

That’s fucking stupid

[wheat plume]

Seems videos that have products in them

[ashen spindle]

checks the video date

[wheat plume]

Hmmm

[sudden imp]

hmmmm

YouTube must be rage baiting you with the algorithm

[wheat plume]

Maybe...

[ashen spindle]

yet another case of shorts not being good source of news

[sudden imp]

YouTube seems to spew out more controversial videos ie politically charged stuff nowadays

[wheat plume]

My YouTube is just Minecraft and tech xd

[tribal dirge]

they do, just like twitter LMAO

or AI slop

[nimble arch]

I’ve got a lot of motorsport in mine

The algorithm for my YouTube ads is entirely dating sites that are apparently filled with Eastern European women.

[lunar elm]

https://tenor.com/view/initial-d-mf-ghost-gif-16503815423853188264

[fair gull]

ho many 5090s worth of ram is laying at the top

fudge the ssd

[tribal dirge]

holyyy

[pale sigil]

I might try to sell my ddr4 ram

I have 4 spare sticks (32gb and 16gb)

[dull hollow]

wrong gif

[sullen bear]

You should

[lunar elm]

Im currently running double 2x16 6000C30 PCs

One of them has C26- but im gonna swap back the white ones thats also 6KC30 back in

[sullen bear]

Why not run c26 then?

[lunar elm]

i am doing 6200C26 bcs im limited by ryzen imc- also just lazy jn

im gonna transfer the c26 over to a ARL build

[tropic sundial]

this is perhaps the best money spread to exist

[sullen bear]

Another guy on a dutch server has an even better one lmao

[tropic sundial]

oh god

i can only imagine

[tropic sundial]

LMFAOO

[sullen bear]

I run the 64gb sticks though, sold the other pair of 32, last pair i bought for my gf

[lunar elm]

I know way worse

they have like double digit amount of kits

[tribal dirge]

I also use 64gb sticks

[lunar elm]

They never showed- They have a small box storing them and they use the ones they binned for OC

[sullen bear]

Yeah not much which uses it up so far though ngl

[sullen bear]

Sheesh

[lunar elm]

dude before the crisis was like “Do I want to go through the effort to sell these”

[tribal dirge]

I barely get by with 128gb of RAM with the things that I do LMAO

[sullen bear]

Ah but u run ai stuff right

[tribal dirge]

not AI but mostly fluid simulations and static analysis

[lunar elm]

Reminds me of another guy who has 128GB in their ITX systems

And dude bought ram during all this 🗿

even a astral 5090

[sullen bear]

https://tenor.com/view/gif-gif-15379971984385267012

[sullen bear]

An rtx 6000 would impress me

[tribal dirge]

lmaoooo

[lunar elm]

They absolutely can if they wanted to

they have 2 5090FEs and a 5090 Astral White

[sullen bear]

FE is the best looking version

2 slot full metal

[lunar elm]

He has 1 FE out for decoration btw

dude just stacked it on top of the build he has his first FE on

[sullen bear]

That sounds weird 🤔

[tribal dirge]

yass, I love my FE 5090

[lunar elm]

theres another pic where he stacked it on top vertically with a miku figurine sitting on it

[sullen bear]

My issue is that its the best looking part in my system though lmao

Idk what else can match the bronze ish black metal

[lunar elm]

I want a 5070 or 5090 FE

[sullen bear]

Ngl if i didnt have a 5090 id go 9070xt

Nvidia is kinda ass

[novel canopy]

so uh

who here wants to sell me ddr5 at a bargain

im mexican and you’d be looked at with honor and grace from my mayan ancestors

[tribal dirge]

I have a fully blacked out system so it works out for me LMAO

[lunar elm]

i had a 9070xt and ive had multiple driver timeouts and drivers shitting itself entirely

Its not catastrophic like launch 50 series but it was annoyng

I decided to just jump to a 5090 and went for the master ice model

[sullen bear]

Same but when the sun falls on it its still different

[distant tapir]

This is my intention for my build but the GPU won't be blacked out

[lunar elm]

I wouldve kept the 9070XT if it was eligible to use in my ITX case, sadly wasnt so it got sold

[sullen bear]

Same with my 5090 though

[potent willow]

https://tenor.com/view/i-really-dont-think-i-can-afford-this-eric-cartman-liane-cartman-south-park-s16e10-gif-23122686

[lunar elm]

For my ITX i went with a 5070ti prime, wouldve preferred if I could get a 90FE but being in SGP, its complicated

I want a 5070FE now just for another ITX build

[tropic sundial]

can you make bomb ass tacos and enchiladas?

[novel canopy]

davy i promise i can do more than that

especially for some ddr5

https://tenor.com/view/so-good-wink-smile-oh-yeah-its-true-gif-24163876

[lunar elm]

So far with my 5090 (Since July 2025) I’ve only had the overlay having issues

And the 0 RPM being wonky

[tropic sundial]

me with my 5070

[lunar elm]

Stand proud, thats still better than like 70% of average gamers

[tropic sundial]

It was perfectly in the budget i had thankfully

plus i knew id be upgrading to 1440p and from what id seen reviews wise, it was solid for 1440p gaming

[lunar elm]

It can do 4K with DLSS4.5 performance

[tribal dirge]

preset M or preset L?

[lunar elm]

both works tbh

[tribal dirge]

they do but they are different

[sullen bear]

L is way better no?

[tribal dirge]

only for 4K Ultra performance really

on others its no different from preset M

[sullen bear]

Tbh ive just been running M on everything anyways

Havent test it myself

[tribal dirge]

preset M on 4K Ultra performance can look pretty funky where Preset L handles it way better

[lunar elm]

I’d stick to 4K performance unless your FPS really doesnt do what you want- Otherwise switch to that ultra perf preset

I havent kept up with the preset letters tbh

[tribal dirge]

probably because preset L was specifically optimized for 4K ultra performance

[sullen bear]

Its just the alphabet and then guessing which one does what man!

[lunar elm]

Personally I just run DLSS balanced on my peasant 1440p display

Its a decent way of reducing the power draw when I dont have the AC on or have windows closed

[sullen bear]

Meh i still run 1440p even on my 5090

Ill go 5k dual mode once thats a thing

[tribal dirge]

it is

[sullen bear]

Not with the specs i want rn

[tribal dirge]

which is?

[sullen bear]

5k w woled or qd oled idc, as long as its matte. Above 160hz and pref above 200 hz for the 1440p mode. 4th or 5th gen panel

[lunar elm]

Theres one thats 5K2K 165hz and 1440p 330hz as an OLED

[sullen bear]

Maybe in my new apartment glossy will be fine but idk yet

[lunar elm]

Im not sure if its matte or glossy, but many people prefer glossy

[sullen bear]

In my current room matte is mandatory ngl

[lunar elm]

I also prefer glossy so I view samsung as straight up shooting themselves in the foot

[lunar elm]

Why’s that?

[sullen bear]

Sun exists

And im not gonna game with my curtains closed for 24h

I enjoy the sun

[lunar elm]

the monitor’s from LG btw

a 45” chonker

[sullen bear]

Yeah i prefer lower form factor if possible

Its probably impossible in 27 or 32 inch

But around that size

[lunar elm]

I dont like matte because of the light dispersion

also feels like you nerf the monitor

[sullen bear]

I prefer matte over seeing everything in the reflection

[lunar elm]

but I do understand the sun can mess with reflections on glossy

Do you have the sun facing the monitor?

[sullen bear]

No it’s on the side

[tropic sundial]

wtf is dat

all i know about dlss is its apparently fake frames?

[sullen bear]

Dlss is black magic

Frame gen is fake frames

[tropic sundial]

wait my pc is secretly a damn wizard???

[sullen bear]

Just check YouTube on it

[tropic sundial]

this is the first nvidia gpu ive had because i hated amds software

[tribal dirge]

I mean, we dont even fully understand transformer models even

to most of our greatest mathematicians it is quite literally black magic

[tropic sundial]

i am now going to youtube because i have dlss on for some games and no idea what it does

[tribal dirge]

its basically AI powered upscaling

thats all

render the game at a lower res, then upscale to a higher resolution

[tropic sundial]

oh, thats neat

[tribal dirge]

yeah its an interesting technology

[tropic sundial]

Guess i should try the dlss 4.5 then because i still havent

[tribal dirge]

you should, its much better than DLSS 4

[tropic sundial]

will absolutely be giving this a whirl later today

[distant tapir]

I like framegen

[tropic sundial]

still fairly uneducated regarding gpus so will be fun

[tribal dirge]

im ok with framegen, only 2x though

[tropic sundial]

ive heard more “fake frames” than anything

does it mess with latency or something

[tribal dirge]

it adds additional latency yes

[distant tapir]

They are fake yes. But that's the point. Some people seem very butthurt over it for some reason. Outside of Nvidia's misleading marketing I see no reason to hate it

[tribal dirge]

but on 50 series cards it will be at worst like 7-8ms of additional latency

[sullen bear]

I think the latency jump is still a bit high

[tropic sundial]

i mean additional frames for more latency seems like a fair trade off but idk much about how that kind of technology works

[tribal dirge]

the main issue is that the latency will feel like the actual rendering rate of the PC rather than the frame generated rate

[tropic sundial]

if my pc struggles fps wise with any games, additional latency for more fps is fair

[distant tapir]

It makes Avowed more playable to me

[tribal dirge]

also makes games more playable on laptops

[tropic sundial]

i only really play maybe 4-5 games and none of them are really that demanding other than maybe CoD

[tribal dirge]

because laptops are massively hindered due to limited power budget

[tribal dirge]

please tell me you did not buy BO7

[tropic sundial]

Uh.

Lets not talk about it

[tribal dirge]

LMAO

[tropic sundial]

i did it for zombies, and zombies is ass.

but cant get refund because too many hours

[tribal dirge]

yeah I didnt buy BO7 this time around

[tropic sundial]

Was originally buying it to play it with my sister as my ps5 has it so we could play together

That didnt happen.

[tribal dirge]

lolz

[tropic sundial]

i just haven’t really tested what my pc can output honestly

so cod is like the only thing i seen as demanding and on hand

[lunar elm]

base fps and blah blah blah but I think 5090 is like the only mfg x4 viable card on an older title

[lyric heath]

sorry to bother you, so you'd basically pay 30% extra in serbia right?

[novel canopy]

i’m back

my search continues for the fabled cheap ddr5

im so close i can taste it

[empty wren]

Maybe check walmart's site

Unless you want to go used

[lunar elm]

that honestly isnt bad

[hasty thunder]

depends on frequency and latency

[empty wren]

Horrendous link though

[distant tapir]

That's a terrible price for someone that just woke up from a 6 month coma

[warm ore]

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Kingston-FURY-Beast-RGB-32GB-2-x-16GB-DDR5-5600-PC5-44800-Memory-Desktop-Memory-Model-KF556C36BBEAK2-32/1128747447 there you go, fixd

[empty wren]

https://tenor.com/view/southpark-gone-gif-4781884

[lunar elm]

doesnt matter in the current situation and even less so with x3d chips

[bright briar]

opp turning it off then

for multiplayer games

[umbral heron]

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.0-Tomorrow

[steady sail]

I found some 120 and 240gb sata ssd’s at home

[marsh glade]

Damn Takko striking gold like finding a Rembrandt in their grandmother's attic

[steady sail]

Indeed

[reef patrol]

I have some ancient 32 and 64GB ones. Surprisingly heavy. Back when the cases were thicker alu and the full board was needed I guess.

[umbral heron]

I have 2 120GB GoodRAM SSDs that have died on me
Now they do well as coasters

[steady sail]

All of them works that i find samsung 850 evo and a kingston one

[umbral heron]

WHY?
WHYYYYYYY https://github.com/er-bharat/Win8DE

[fair gull]

because linux lets you do it

[nimble arch]

Linux was a mistake

[hushed herald]

quick question do you guys think the shure sm7b is able to be ran with the Wave XLR without any cloudlifter ^^

[modern sphinx]

probably don't need https://www.reddit.com/r/elgato/comments/zivh74/wave_xlr_shure_sm7b_cloudlifter/

[hushed herald]

do you think Elgato are restocking it or do you think there is a mk.2 coming

[modern sphinx]

I've no idea, sorry

[hushed herald]

all good but thank you mate

[raw zephyr]

Should be fine, its just going to be quiet

[lofty pivot]

that's what I have now, works plenty fine

[nimble arch]

https://x.com/flightradar24/status/2011425827964289260

Flightradar24 (@flightradar24)

As some of you guessed this is the first @SAS flight with @Starlink active. Currently we are getting speeds of about 400 Mbit/s at 39,000 feet.

X · Jan 14, 2026, 1:11 PM

[reef patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/bender-futurama-neat-wow-gif-5744318

[hasty thunder]

doesn't matter if every flight has easily 100 passengers

[umbral heron]

From the company that melts your CPUs - introducing melting GPUs https://videocardz.com/newz/asrock-launches-radeon-rx-9070-xt-taichi-white-with-built-in-screen-and-12v-2x6-power-connector

[nimble arch]

ASSrock

[reef patrol]

I genuinely don't get the hate for Asrock over everyone else. Never had any issues with them, and god knows ASUS and MSI have had their fair share of fuckups 😄

[umbral heron]

Give it few years and people will forget

[distant tapir]

I'm mad after my CPU died

[ashen spindle]

It’s just the most recent issues are their issue with 9800x3d voltages

So uh next year someone else messed up and they are the bad ones then

[compact relic]

isnt asrock just cheaper asus

[ashen spindle]

nope

it was a sub brand of asus but its a seperate thing for like almost 20 years

still part of pegatron though

[reef patrol]

ASrock are usually the funni guys who go a little wacky with their BIOS.

[frozen ingot]

asrock brings another level of excitement to pc ownership

[old marlin]

their AM5 launch boards were prob the best at the time, their GPUs are overall really solid

[thick elk]

In terms of mistakes the latest asrock sort of understand, something goes wrong but it's just a hard issue to debug.

[old marlin]

but they took AGES to figure out the 9800x3d thing, not sure if it was fixed by now tbh

[thick elk]

They tried multiple things and I think Asrock doesn't know either.

[old marlin]

I legit had someone tell me that asrock was just an asus subbrand on the weekend

[old marlin]

yea, but it was less of a "crash and burn" situation than it was with asus

[lunar elm]

its not just assrock burning cpus

[thick elk]

Still bad but with Asrock I can see them trying their best at least.

[lunar elm]

and nah it prob aint fix

[old marlin]

yea, but asrock is the one the biggest in the media, and it is a slow consistent burn

[lunar elm]

yeah if u go onto the asrock subreddit they’re still burning

MSI and gigabyte are the rarest to burn

assrock and asus are the ones with the most stories afaik

[thick elk]

The problem is media attention is self-amplifiing cpu's fail due to different reasons and once the story is there people are far more likely to post about it.

[lunar elm]

The problem still ongoing in my opinion just bad AMD qc

[old marlin]

eh, hard to say

[thick elk]

So to know when exactly it is solved, lessened is hard to point down.

[old marlin]

I mean afaik we still don't know why they die exactly?

[ashen spindle]

we dont know the cause and we dont know sales numbers

[lunar elm]

which is the problem because AMD just dumped the fault onto mobo manufacturers aka assrock

[ashen spindle]

so hard to say if asrock is just vastly outselling in DiY and thus getting more etc.

well the initial issues were mostly fault by mobo makers just like on intels side where they ignored safe voltage ranges

the intel degradation issues got exacerbated by boards going out of voltage ranges so it happened faster on them and at first was a possible root cause

[lunar elm]

personally I’d really just chalk it up to bad amd QC

[ashen spindle]

sure but we got no indication for anything at this point still

[thick elk]

In any case the 13th and 14th gen failures were of a far larger scale than here.

It is hard to know the exact defect rate

[old marlin]

yea with 13th and 14th gen the defect rate was 100%

[lunar elm]

bcs they had a direct cause

which was fixed by microcode upd

[old marlin]

well yea

you at least know what you get (shit)

[lunar elm]

we still have asrock here out here scrambling their brains going “WHAT THE FUCKKKK”

[old marlin]

I do not regret getting a 7800x3d knowing that it is rocksolid in my asrock mobo

the 9800x3d is barely faster and my mobo also is not known to kill it

and then get my warranty denied because asus is doing a funny

[ashen spindle]

meanwhile I will just upgrade to the next x3d on the same asrock board probably

[old marlin]

yea let's see how it will turn out

[thick elk]

Probably same here, if there is enough of a performance uplift. otherwise my 7800x3d will do for a while longer.

[old marlin]

I doubt a 9850x3d is gonna do it for me

[ashen spindle]

tbh it depends on how much they juiced the IMC, might be that I need a new board to not cripple the memory

[old marlin]

or whatever they will end up calling it

a true next gen one might

[ashen spindle]

oh no I meant zen6 not the 9850x3d ks sku

[old marlin]

makes sense

[ashen spindle]

because despite upgradability a lot of people will be fucked if x3d suddenly scales with memory and all the mig budget and cheaper boards cant clock memory for shit

[old marlin]

man kde documentation is pretty outdated in some cases

[thick elk]

Wonder what naming scheme they will use, maybe just replace a 0 for ai

[old marlin]

does not seem like it refelcts plasma not being X11 anymore

[thick elk]

Oh yea it is pretty garbage

[lunar elm]

time for the dual dimm rabbit hole

[old marlin]

I just want to know how to make xcompose work with GTK applications

[ashen spindle]

well its likely having an NPU was wasted space so they might just call it ryzen AI 500 like the mobile scheme

[old marlin]

but their solution does not work since some of the files just do not exist, at least not where they are supposed to be

[lunar elm]

amd on their way to also slap rdna3.5 on that

[ashen spindle]

well yeah what else

[old marlin]

ngl if most DDR5 boards were dual dim, it would make it a whole lot easier for a lot of people

but ig CAMM2 would also solve that

[ashen spindle]

nah camm isnt working out atm

[old marlin]

yea doesn't seem to be the direction the market is going at least

[ashen spindle]

no they cant get the signal integrity up for any camm atm

[old marlin]

can't wait for 2027 to be the year of camm2 12VO back connect boards

[old marlin]

[ashen spindle]

so no camm because no speed

[old marlin]

guh

[thick elk]

Maybe with memory prices if the cpu's support lpddr, could be a workaround to get some laptop memory but not sure they do.

[ashen spindle]

thats the likely future path anyway

but isnt changing prices

[old marlin]

💀 lpddr5 will prob not come to desktop

but it would be funny

[ashen spindle]

no it would be lpddr6

[old marlin]

I could see some chinese companies make boards with soldered on mobile chips just for the compatability

[ashen spindle]

lower end gpus are going to get lpddr next gen

[old marlin]

but I doubt it is gonna be worth it as a western consumer

[rough osprey]

do we really need ram

[ashen spindle]

no theres a legit chance we wont get ddr6 on desktop

[old marlin]

does not mean there will be boards for it

[old marlin]

wel some ram at least

[ashen spindle]

and instead of ddr6 its going to be lpddr6(x) next platform

[rough osprey]

cant we just generate the memory

[ashen spindle]

yes https://scp-iota.github.io/software/2025/06/16/download-ram-swap-gdrive.html

[thick elk]

I could see it as a got to try something solution if lpddr prices are lower than regular ddr5

but unlikely

yea

[rough osprey]

thats sadly not what i meant

[ashen spindle]

current lpddr wont work, the latency wont be enough for it

[rough osprey]

why does silly cloudgaming company nvidia even sell gpus anymore

[ashen spindle]

so you're not going to see lpddr5 replacing ddr5, it also doesnt save costs because its more or less the same

[old marlin]

have fun with the 1MT/s swap

[rough osprey]

quin and Pronin both screaming

[old marlin]

nah I am sitting on my couch and looking at my cat

I am more annoyed by xcompose not doing what I want it to do

[rough osprey]

yall profile pictures are very similar in a way

[old marlin]

ig that kind of is the case

not even sure where quins originates

[rough osprey]

have u asked the cat for help

[old marlin]

yea he started pressing random keys and then went away

[rough osprey]

a true professional

[old marlin]

par for the course for onsite IT support ig

I'd know, that was my job for like 6 years

[tribal dirge]

Lmao, is it worth the gamble!?

[ashen spindle]

I mean I had a 7800x3d and just upgraded

so wasnt really a gamble, I run memory at jedec and all at stock so I expect to be the least likely group to get hit

[tribal dirge]

Fair lmao

[clear perch]

is this a good price (about 200k dollars)

[rough patrol]

yeah cause its dell compatible

wouldnt want it to be dell incompatible

[novel canopy]

found some for 140

but someone beat me to it

very unfortunate

[umbral heron]

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/jeff-bezos-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-bezos-envisions-that-youll-give-up-your-pc-for-an-ai-cloud-version

[analog sinew]

i hope he gives up his yacht for an ai cloud version

bro this is what they steal our ram for

[wheat plume]

[analog sinew]

lie machine can't even satirize the capital

[vapid ruin]

just type a bald e-commerce billionaire

[reef patrol]

Amateur. Gotta phrase it clever like. "Bald Billionaire on a yacht surrouned by sticky brown matter"

[analog sinew]

u must be one of them prompt engineers

[balmy vector]

Vibe prompter

[reef patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/duck-gif-19056525

[umbral heron]

Sloperator

[marsh glade]

The term is sloperator

Ah hell classic discord not scrolling down

You win this time, Cals

[reef patrol]

[umbral heron]

Second time today

[marsh glade]

It must be Thursday, never could get the hang of Thursdays

[reef patrol]

Ohhhh no... no... not yet. Sorry

[balmy vector]

Maybe if you’re in Australia

[marsh glade]

Typical Thursday-like behavior, feeling like a Thursday while not actually being a Thursday

[magic minnow]

https://fxtwitter.com/lextorias/status/2011466471118102650

not lextorias (@lextorias)

>Popular web service (Tenor) removes its most used feature (searching GIFs) for absolutely no reason
︀︀>Look inside
︀︀>Owned by Google

Quoting Discord Previews (@DiscordPreviews)
︀
Discord is moving their default GIF Search Provider from Tenor to Giphy and Klipy.
︀︀This is due to the Tenor API shutting down in June of this year.
︀︀In a new experiment, Discord is testing which provider users prefer.

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FxTwitter · Jan 14, 2026, 3:52 PM

[unkempt lake]

theyll kill our favorite gifs

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/195907610640121856/1339473814295150682/3dgifmaker32090.gif

Save the mous

[umbral heron]

Tenor is owned by Google and Giphy is owned by Meta
Also Giphy is chockful of GIFs of this guy who makes unfunny version of GIF with himself and DMCAs original GIFs

The one that cosplays founding father

[nimble arch]

Enshitification arc

[umbral heron]

Ah, BenJammins, that idiot

[empty wren]

https://search.app/Y3b38

[analog sinew]

is klipy good then

[pale sigil]

they dont use klippy

afaik

klipper

[tribal dirge]

It's a nozzle changer, which is fine tbh,

[tribal dirge]

Bambu uses their own custom made firmware and operating system yeah

[empty wren]

Their motor drivers are software based

And klipper does not support tool hangers technically

Makes sense to do it via in house firmware

That way bondetech is gonna work is through macros

[tribal dirge]

It's like lower level kind of software, MCU level

[empty wren]

Makes sense

Probably tuned very well

[tribal dirge]

Tuned extremely well

All the host does is stream gcode to the MCU really for movement

Very unlike klipper

[empty wren]

Klipper is kinda dated anyways

Kalico or danger klipper some nice features

[tribal dirge]

Yet people still glaze it

[magic minnow]

I’d buy this if they ever made it

https://www.architeg-prints.com/blog/mp-1-reimagines-the-modern-walkman-with-a-playful-teenage-engineering-twist?

If the Wide ends up being real that could be interesting

[old marlin]

That seems so stupidly designed

I like the idea of a "minimal" mp3 player but they just stuck ginormous controls on it

And made it gigantic

That's gonna be horrible to carry in your pocket

[tribal dirge]

iPod Nano my beloved

so tiny, and also super thin

5.4mm thick

[covert steppe]

They honestly could've just made different colors of the iPod nano and it'd still be selling just fine today

[tribal dirge]

they kept the iPod touch alive for a while

and then they axed it lmao

[covert steppe]

iPod touch was just budget iPhone with a different name and price tag tbh

I feel like when they released the iPod touch it honestly marked the end of the stand-alone mp3 players

[tribal dirge]

and also most importantly, no cellular

[covert steppe]

Lmaooo

[tribal dirge]

lel

[unkempt lake]

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-to-launch-adrenalin-edition-26-1-1-drivers-with-ai-bundle-next-week

i love slop

[ashen spindle]

nah if that is decent rocm integration thats actually an important update

[unkempt lake]

dont care, would rather have fsr4 int8 official support

they can shove their rocm ai up their butts

[ashen spindle]

you do understand that their ai and rocm stack is what they used to train fsr4 in the first place?

[unkempt lake]

yes

But this isn't gonna give it to us

[ashen spindle]

wasnt happening in the first place the int8 version clearly was abandoned early on in the dev phase

[tribal dirge]

ROCm is very nice for stuff like PyTorch and TensorFlow if you're into that

[unkempt lake]

but hey it works fine when using optiscaler

Just make it official this is moronic

And braindead

Not to actually implement it

Give users options

Literally

[ashen spindle]

the newer versions already are much heavier so clearly they arent going to make a way that would work all the way and wont make a vastly worse version for the older cards now

[unkempt lake]

It looks better and the performance loss isn't enough to bother anyone and if they want to run fsr3 nothing stops someone

[tribal dirge]

it's basically AMD's solution to CUDA

and it looks very promising for AMD users

[unkempt lake]

We don't need the most up to date version. Literally just implement what we have in the leaked version

bare fucking minimum

[ashen spindle]

could sell it like an upgraded fsr3 sure, but the newer versions wont work so i assume management dont want to split the baby

[unkempt lake]

How dare we give features to consumers of a product 1 gen older

They absolutely can do it

[ashen spindle]

you'd not make this work on not top rdna3 skus so I imagine thats why they dont want it because the first updates already would make it unusable on lower end rdna3

[unkempt lake]

Oh yeah i dont expect it to work nicely on lower end rdna3

I mean

It always was a little iffy

[ashen spindle]

yeah a toggle like experimental would work in the driver

[unkempt lake]

But the base model works really nicely on my xtx so...

It's just frustrating to me

Like i'm seeing it work, i use it in multiple games but i'd like not to have to use optiscaler

[ashen spindle]

just saying thats probably a reason, you'd have one or two versions that are fine and then you'd have to drop it again

[unkempt lake]

Even just an Experimental/beta toggle i'd be happy with xD

Hide in deep in adrenaline or something

I mean there is a toggle for beta features but i don't think it ever works

Can't even dl optional beta drivers from adrenaline with that ticked

Always gotta do it manually

[mild dome]

Well my portable dongle DAC the FiiO KA5 is dying on me, Even after replacing the cable its struggling to connect to anything.

Anyone got any advise for picking out a replacement portable thing so I can run my headphones off my phone? Or should I move onto dedicated music player?

[tribal dirge]

Could give a dongle DAC a try

[mild dome]

Wouldn't the KA5 count as a dongle DAC? It hangs off my phone via a short USB-C cable I need to replace every 6 months, which isn't too bad now that I found a good source of short cheap cables

[tribal dirge]

Yeah true

You could give the crinear protocol max a try

It's probably my favorite dongle dac

[mild dome]

Looks nice will add it to the list of considerations

[empty wren]

voice and watching my screen is not necessary but paint feature is cool

[novel canopy]

okay im back boys, is 16 gigs of ddr5 ram for 100 worth it

[sudden imp]

yes

[unkempt lake]

get an apple dongle

you most likely do not need anything fancier

[vapid ruin]

fiio qx13 is a nice upgrade from that, if you want something similar, fiio ka15.

protocol max has same chip as ka5/ka15, so that could be a good option too if you want it to be just a replacement with upgrade to power.

[distant tapir]

Protocol Max has PEQ which already makes it better than most other options

[mild dome]

Will that still be suitable for Focal Elears?

[unkempt lake]

Yes

The apple dongles are well rated

[vapid ruin]

seems to be light enough power req wise.

so yeah

[novel canopy]

it’s nothing crazy but

16 gigs for ddr5 is a steal

[empty wren]

More than enough for gaming guessing

I used ddr3 for 8 years with generic looking sticks

[novel canopy]

havent bought it yet

its reserved tho

but im tempted to shell out an extra 40 bucks for 17 gigs but its 6000 mhz instead of 5400

[mild dome]

17 gigs?

[analog sinew]

bbbbut my gamerrgb

[old marlin]

Hell, i would like a modernized ipod shuffle

[umbral heron]

tf they did to me Tidal
Before I could just search for artist - song and it'd happily show me
Now it puts songs of the same name from the most popular artists first in search
I have to go to artist's page and find song there

[clear perch]

is the logitech g pro x superlight 2 good for a 1-3-1 grip

[reef patrol]

Has to be at least a 4-4-0 setup. Though 2-8-0 also works.

https://tenor.com/view/hypetrain-gif-2362827093116668529

(Also expect silly responses outside of the aptly named #🌐│pc_gear channel. I *will *troll you)

[nimble arch]

The original/best version of Cruel Summer is at the top though?

Right?

[umbral heron]

[nimble arch]

Fuck Tidal

[umbral heron]

Time to rip playlists and cancel sub

[old marlin]

?

[nimble arch]

That was more tongue-in-cheek than serious. Stupid-ass change to the search functionality though.

Plus I don’t like Taylor Swift.

[umbral heron]

I don't mind Taylor Swift, some of her songs are cool
But her fandom is a bunch of psychos

[old marlin]

I am not even sure what they were trying to find

I don't listen to taylor swift at all

could not name a song

[nimble arch]

She’s incredibly overhyped

[umbral heron]

You don't know the No 8 on 1983 UK Single Chart and No 9 on 1984 US Billboard Hot 100 legendary pop song by Bananarama called "Cruel Summer"?

[umbral heron]

True
Nothing really special about her
But she is the very epitome of US celebrity culture

[nimble arch]

Sabrina Carpenter on the other hand.

For her, I kneel.

I’d be the goodest little boy… just as long as I get headpats.

[umbral heron]

I had no idea who she was until there was this album cover drama

[nimble arch]

I’ve never actually listened to her music

[umbral heron]

[dark kayak]

Every keyboard works on my wooting60he but windows key and controller key dont work ugh

[ashen spindle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yteN21aJEvE

g*mers pay up for 16gb or suffer

[crimson wigeon]

Good riddance, now end the rest of the "consumer" cards except the lowest end to force plebby consumers into renting hardware

[umbral heron]

16GB? That's way too much VRAM for you peasants! Also pretty please don't hate on AI

[analog sinew]

thank you salami nutella

[vapid ruin]

8gb is all you need

[umbral heron]

Wanna play AAA games? Oh look, there's GeForce Now

[smoky parrot]

Ew

[vapid ruin]

Just buy ps5

[smoky parrot]

The future is handhelds anyway imo

Pc and handhelds

Consoles are bleh, in my humble opinion

[nimble arch]

Switch 2

[smoky parrot]

More like 3ds CFW :D

And psp cfw :p

Cut out the actual corpo

[umbral heron]

Luma3DS my beloved

[smoky parrot]

Yaaaay

You can even run linux distros on 3ds now

Which I find hilarious

Someone emulated the pokemon infinite fusion on 3ds running it on linux natively :v

Which is cool as beans

[lunar elm]

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidias-new-geforce-rtx-50-allocation-scheme-prioritizes-the-top-sku-in-each-memory-tier

https://tenor.com/view/mydei-honkai-star-rail-death-flame-reaver-amphoreus-gif-3035115378262921512

[karmic falcon]

Happy I got mine for 750 in time

Card I got is now 1000EUR as well 😭

[frozen ingot]

don't be so picky, just buy the regular 5070

those billionaires really need those 4 extra gigs per card you know

[marsh glade]

People laughed at me when I bought my 9070XT at launch for a bit over MSRP

Who's laughing now?

[frozen ingot]

I got my 5070 at below msrp this black friday

[marsh glade]

Shit quin is typing

:runaway:

[ashen spindle]

me because the savings surely mean you want to buy my 9800x3d when I upgrade

[marsh glade]

Nah I'm good with your last CPU for another couple years

[ashen spindle]

maybe I'll sell it to tony or idk someone else at wooting so I can slowly create more backdoors in the company

[marsh glade]

Stealing corporate secrets from selling second hand hardware with custom malware microcode?

[frozen ingot]

I might upgrade my cpu sometime this year, if they don't arbritrarily jack up the prices on those too because fuck us consoomers right

[ashen spindle]

nono I put a little personal spy I hired under the heatspreader so he can hop out after it arrives at your place and has been logging all your data and passwords

[marsh glade]

Rats

[umbral heron]

can I go home now?

[ashen spindle]

some go with macro economics I go for micro aggression hiding in cpus

[ashen spindle]

no!

[distant tapir]

Really? Wow. I guess I can feel vindicated about considering upgrading to a 5080 instead of a 5070 Ti then

[ashen spindle]

why would them slowing production matter for what you bought in the past

[reef patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/jesus-reaction-reaction-jesus-jesus-reaction-gif-19654103

[distant tapir]

I haven't bought it yet. It's something I'll do in the future

But a lot of the time saying I want to buy a 5080 was met with «that's stupid get a 5070 Ti instead»

[reef patrol]

That's stupid. Get a 9070XT instead.

[ashen spindle]

I mean in most markets that was true and still is whhile stock is around

[reef patrol]

[ashen spindle]

also if its further in the future the super cards might be out so if you're not looking at something very soon it's rarely the best idea to be set on something

prices could always go up or down after all

[distant tapir]

Well I hope that stock depletes quickly then!

[marsh glade]

Or sideways

[ashen spindle]

sideways is the worst just like with stocks

[marsh glade]

Seek and destroy is the worst in stocks

[marsh glade]

Obliterating both sides of the market, making sure everyone loses

Or with options, IV crush

[ashen spindle]

oh no someone always wins even then

the bank or the trading fee collector

[frozen ingot]

there were peanuts hiding in the fully functional AK47 he got trick or treating and he's allergic to peanuts

someone could have died from that

[iron wave]

What a 2FA code: FUC2DM

[tribal dirge]

HBM eating up precious wafer area.

GDDR7 supply was already strained enough, seems like it's gotten so bad that to companies like Asus it's no longer feasible to produce them anymore. Jeez

Ever since Nvidia stopped including GDDR7 with the GPUs it's been pretty bad

[ashen spindle]

not related

nvidia isnt making the dies for the lower margin cards of the same vram capacity

so doesnt matter if they could get more gddr7

[tribal dirge]

Well no, GB203 is not dead, it's just that the 5070 Ti bin of GB203 is not gonna be exiting fabs anymore?

5080 is still being made no?

[crimson wigeon]

For now

[ashen spindle]

yeah they arent shipping it for the lower margin models

[tribal dirge]

Wait, then what happens for Blackwell Pro 4000 if they aren't making the 5070 TI bin of GB203 anymore?

Because both use the same bin of GB203

[ashen spindle]

margin

pro makes massive margin, you get that a lot still

[tribal dirge]

True

[ashen spindle]

but the same die could go into something more profitable so thats where its going

[tribal dirge]

So Nvidia just shifted allocation then

[ashen spindle]

and AiBs can only buy and make what they are allowed to product with it

[tribal dirge]

Yeah I was thinking because it wouldn't be feasible to abruptly end production of a specific bin of a gpu die after you've spent the money on diffusing it and assembling the final chip. Reallocation seems more feasible and it's probably what Nvidia has done here.

[ashen spindle]

its the same dies anyway

they just disable parts of the chip

but tsmc has like >95% or whatever yield rate for hvm anyway

[tribal dirge]

Yeah BW Pro 4000 and 5070 Ti are the same except vram capacity

[tribal dirge]

HVM? Or HBM?

Actually

[ashen spindle]

high volume manufacturing

[tribal dirge]

What is HVM?

[tribal dirge]

For their N2 node for Nvidia or just overall with all their high volume nodes aggregated together?

[ashen spindle]

for what nvidia is making blackwell on

thats process is so old relative to when yields still get improved you might as well not expect defects on a wafer

[tribal dirge]

Ah so 4N

Over 95% is honestly really impressive

[ashen spindle]

hvm is basically started when yields get up to an acceptable rate for mass production of products and ramps up over the time

[tribal dirge]

Makes sense

[ashen spindle]

and n5 started MP at around 88% yield iirc

[tribal dirge]

Takes a lot of experimentation as well

And then fine tuning after the fact

[ashen spindle]

n2 also started HVM in december

[tribal dirge]

I see

Large majority of which is probably going to Apple

[ashen spindle]

nope

lead customer is amd

zen6 and mi400

[tribal dirge]

Really? From most reports I've seen Apple reserved around 50% of the production schedule of N2

[ashen spindle]

yeah no thats nonsense

apple doesnt care about hpc chips being made

they get their wafers when they need them

which is towards end of the year for the new phones

[tribal dirge]

Hmm, then from where did you hear about AMD being the majority when it comes to N2 production time?

[ashen spindle]

they are the lead customer, first production wafer shown by tsmc was zen6, they showed 2 n2 products and nobody else showed anything yet

they arent going to stay the majority but they are the lead customer for it

[tribal dirge]

Thing is Apple already reserved 50% of N2 production for year 2026 from the majority of sources that I've seen.

[ashen spindle]

they might end up with 50% by the end of the year that idk

but you can see most of those articles lead with dumb stuff like

This multi-billion dollar commitment ensures that Apple will be the first—and for a time, the only—major player with the volume required to bring 2nm-based consumer electronics to the mass market.

which is just wrong when we know mi400 is shipping in summer with zen6 and both are n2

so I also dont trust the first source to even be accurate

[tribal dirge]

No lmao, most sources point to Apple taking up 50% of N2 2026 production from TSMC

[ashen spindle]

it also doesnt make sense, if you launch phones in september you arent going to start production in january

like multiple sources had these already on the list and they arent even listing mi400 or similar that also comes before apple

[tribal dirge]

Apple is also known to launch new products in the spring.

[ashen spindle]

did they ever do that outside the one refresh to get m series laptops off of the horrible first gen N3?

[tribal dirge]

Historically they've had spring events in the past. Although it is kind of random if they do it or not historically as well.

[ashen spindle]

none of the apple leakers talked about it so I dont see it happen but I suppose it could

but unless that happens they wouldnt be the first

[tribal dirge]

Yeah

[tribal dirge]

Also what did Nvidia do to my boy Richard Feynman!?

[ashen spindle]

hes compressed and forced to generate ai numbers now

[spiral island]

Is Feynman their next codename?

[tribal dirge]

Yeah

[ashen spindle]

its the one after rubin

[spiral island]

😣

He didn't deserve this

[tribal dirge]

Fr

[ashen spindle]

be happy you didnt hear jensens talk about hopper and how he misrepresented the things she did in her life

[tribal dirge]

Should have named it after the creators of Transformer models, Alphabet

[tribal dirge]

Did bro at least mention her pretty groundbreaking invention of FLOW-MATIC?

[ashen spindle]

idk I was asleep but a friend who studied astro physics was pissed lmao

I saw his last keynote at ces and havent watched any of his since, better for my sanity

[spiral island]

It's all pretty grim coopting people's names

[ashen spindle]

eh its just a way to have a codename for products that cant run into trademark or similar issues

you wouldnt want to end up having to recall gpus because of a trademark lawsuit about the name

some use names like nvidia, amd/intel use lakes or places

[tribal dirge]

Or big cats for some reason

[nimble arch]

It’s been Pro models in the winter and Air models in the spring since Apple silicon

Plus we’ve only gotten the base M5 chip so far

[ashen spindle]

yeah so we're not getting M6 in the spring

[tribal dirge]

Yeah which is the weird part,

[nimble arch]

M6 is for the OLED MacBook in 2026-27

[tribal dirge]

Unless apple just produces so many iPhones every year that they just take up 50% of 2026 production

[ashen spindle]

google tells me people expect m5 pro and such later this month so thats too early on n2

so yeah, apple is getting N2 end of the year after others

[nimble arch]

Apple does sell something like 80 million phones a year, no?

[tribal dirge]

They're consistently the best selling smartphone in the world every year

[ashen spindle]

whats the size of the current phone chips

or rather, its the a19 right?

[tribal dirge]

Pro or non pro variant of A19?

[ashen spindle]

either one

[tribal dirge]

98.7mm^2 methinks

Smaller than previously

[ashen spindle]

so 150k wafers for 80 million chips

[tribal dirge]

A18 was 105mm^2

[ashen spindle]

and estimates put N3 at 200k wafers per month

[spiral island]

Sure, I get the purpose but using real people's names for corporate purposes just gives me the ick.

I used to work for a company that named all their conference rooms after scientists and technologists. I wonder if they still have the "Thiel" room.

[ashen spindle]

so apple would need MUCH less than 50% of total capacity to fulfill all phones assuming they would use the newest chips

[tribal dirge]

How much is N3P?

[ashen spindle]

N3 total

[tribal dirge]

Ah

[ashen spindle]

which variant doesnt matter they use the same lines

so with our napkin math lets say apple grabs 2 months of chips because early yields are less or whatever and they'd be set for this and next year

so, reserving more that you cant use doesnt fit to get to 50%

[tribal dirge]

Well they also make M series chips

And R series chips

And S series for Apple Watch

But those don't sell nearly as well as iPhone

[ashen spindle]

yeah lets say we add another month

would be 400-600k wafers when they needed like maybe 100k this year

[umbral heron]

That's a lot of wafers
Will some of these be with chocolate?

[ashen spindle]

nope, Ian is eating them all alone

[umbral heron]

[tribal dirge]

Awh

[umbral heron]

Stupid Big Tech

[ashen spindle]

hey ian isnt big tech he's just really hungry

[tribal dirge]

Subscribing to computers!!!!!

It's kind of sad that I know a lot of friends that unironically use GFN

[ashen spindle]

https://vxtwitter.com/IanCutress/status/1971748906267709603 see he eats wafers and goes to cat shelters, he's allowed to have the wafers

𝐷𝑟. 𝐼𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑢𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 (@IanCutress)

Cats cats cats

QRT: IanCutress
I'm back @LanaiCats!

vxTwitter / fixvx · Sep 27, 2025, 1:29 AM

[tribal dirge]

GATOS!!!

[ashen spindle]

https://x.com/aschilling/status/2011738186649911449/photo/1 also if you want to scale how much those wafer nubmers are in total for tsmc

Andreas Schilling 🇺🇦 (@aschilling)

Wafer shipments in thousands (300 mm equivalent)

X · Jan 15, 2026, 9:52 AM

[tribal dirge]

Looks about right

This is across all TSMC owned fabs correct?

[ashen spindle]

yeah

[tribal dirge]

Looks like it scales pretty linearly across this timeline at least

[unkempt lake]

it is stupid to buy a 5080

[crimson wigeon]

Yeah get a 5090 instead

[tribal dirge]

like, no, good luck finding one at MSRP in the big 26

you are literally paying double the price for slightly more performance and double the video memory

for most people a 32gb video card makes no sense

[unkempt lake]

no get a 5070 ti while they're still in stock or a 9070xt

Especially if it's just for gaming

[tribal dirge]

If only AMD made a 9070XTX

or a 9080XTX

Heck maybe even a 9090XTX

If only

[unkempt lake]

not with what's currently going on

[tribal dirge]

Sadge

[ashen spindle]

I mean whatever is going on currently doesnt matter for that, that was a decision 2 years ago or so to not have that

[unkempt lake]

9070xt price is gonna go upppp

[lunar elm]

https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-reportedly-says-rtx-5070-ti-is-no-longer-being-produced-rtx-5060-ti-16gb-to-follow

https://tenor.com/view/fishwood-kevin-magnussen-nico-hulkenberg-haas-f1-team-double-dnf-gif-7340352581217907572

[tribal dirge]

♻️ ♻️ ♻️

[pastel galleon]

before they skyrocket

[pastel galleon]

that would have been pretty cool, but I would still have liked a card that would be about the same size as a Prime OC

that aint happening with a 9090 XTX

[frozen ingot]

better just find a new hobby

[magic minnow]

there's one on amazon for 4k

[pastel galleon]

worth it 😎 👍

[magic minnow]

I should have bought this last month

I genuinely fucked up not picking it up

[lyric hatch]

Something cheap like photography instead

[fickle ore]

microscope photography

[vapid ruin]

rhythm game time

[magic minnow]

wireless fans? https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-120-Triple-Fan-Infinity-Mirror-Daisy-Chain-Design-Customizable-Effects-Controller/dp/B0DMVYQXJP/144-0102616-7181901

[vapid ruin]

only need gtx 1050

[leaden kiln]

igpu

[lofty pivot]

impressive. I was curiously looking last week at 5080 and 5090 prices, was still a few reasonably priced 5080s then and a handful of 5090s left. Now all the 5090s are gone in local retail and all the 5080s are +500 dollars lol

[nimble arch]

I wonder what used 4090 prices are currently

[ashen spindle]

if you want mine I'll take it for the low price of a 5090

[lyric hatch]

5090 or new GM lens

[nimble arch]

About £2000 for a used RTX 4090

[warm ore]

Would you like that medium rare Sir? per chance with a side of 12VHPWR?

[nimble arch]

Might be a good time to sell my rarely used gaming PC fr fr no cap

[frozen ingot]

scalpamania soon

[vapid ruin]

at least 3090 would be still be enough

[lofty pivot]

i'm glad i did the 4070ti upgrade awhile back. Will hold me over for next couple years of this bs lol

[vapid ruin]

yesh, 4070ti + 5700x3d is nice

[frozen ingot]

yeah I don't regret gpu shopping this black friday

[vagrant pagoda]

msrp 5070ti is perfect with 5800x3d

[warm ore]

Kinda glad 6090 is only 2027, more time to save up, initial plan was severely underestimating and target date i set was this may for the full budget.

[pastel galleon]

it's still the second fastest gaming gpu for raster, isn't it?

[vapid ruin]

also more vram than 5080

[pastel galleon]

they had better add HDMI Ultra96 support if they take that long

[ashen spindle]

unlikely

nvidia is really slow at updating the display engine and blackwell got a new one first time since I think 20 series

[pastel galleon]

they will probably take another decade to do that

AMD was much faster to the punch but they didn't adopt the full UHBR20, not even on RDNA 4

[ashen spindle]

the pro cards have it, the consumer cards just dont have it up to 20

[pastel galleon]

yeah, makes me kinda sad

its fine tho since I wont be able to justify a new display until maybe the next 3-4 years

[rough osprey]

https://x.com/highyieldyt/status/2011846166778905049?s=46

High Yield (@highyieldYT)

Updated @NVIDIAGeForce RTX 50 Super line-up leaked 🚨
- RTX 5090 Super 16GB
- RTX 5080 Super 8GB
- RTX 5070 Super 6GB
- RTX 5060 Super 4GB

X · Jan 15, 2026, 5:01 PM

[vapid ruin]

At that point just get a 1060

[bright briar]

your 4090 is good

you dont need 5090

[leaden kiln]

do need like 5 phones though

[pastel galleon]

1060 6GB > 5060 Super 4GB

[pastel galleon]

I'm telling this to my friend too

I'm trying to convince him to not get one because he has a 4090

[bright briar]

all the 5090s are sold out where im located

[pastel galleon]

some guy said he was willing to trade his 5090 for a 4090 + 800 CAD or something

seems too fishy

[pale sigil]

Finally replaced my cable on my Desktop so now i can utilise 2.5g to my server

[tribal dirge]

BWAHAHAHA

[rough osprey]

nvidia would actually do that

[tribal dirge]

nah, they'd rather sell you Blackwell Pro GPUs

[spiral island]

Envious, I only have 1Gb to my server

[unkempt lake]

you have a 4090 stop being stupid

[pale sigil]

But the 4090 is shit now

[fair gull]

only got a 4090 smh these days the cool kids got a 5090

[lunar elm]

4090 is a fossil

u def need a 5090

[sudden imp]

Honestly the 5090 is kinda old now you mind aswell wait for the 6090.

[bright briar]

69 gpu goes hard

[novel canopy]

the fabled ddr5 for 100 dollars

no one believed in me

but i did it

the underdog comes out on top fr

[unkempt lake]

You didnt need the heatspreader xd

green stick best stick

[novel canopy]

is it normal for with this new cpu (amd 7800x3d) to randomly go from 39 C to 45-49 C (it ranges between there) for about 1-2 seconds then back down

[tribal dirge]

thats fine yeah

[novel canopy]

just wanted to confirm this

[vapid ruin]

https://stopcitingai.com/

[novel canopy]

god i’m such a chud loser

i wasted 5 gallons asking when i could’ve came here

[spiral island]

"100% normal and honestly good"
no wonder people get weird when they talk to these things

[magic minnow]

I use Gemini for theory crafting on Warframe

And sometimes I gotta fucking correct it so much

[vapid ruin]

AI is only nice for repetitive or fictional thing

[halcyon moss]

Good thing my code is completely fictional

[spiral island]

Fictional, unmaintainable, same diff 😉

Offshoring with fewer humans

[azure otter]

honestly the 6090 is too soon, might as well wait for the 7090

[azure otter]

hi

ive been doing a bit of grinding in warframe

[lunar elm]

yall tripping balls

the real game’s at the 9090

[azure otter]

True

[tribal dirge]

I wonder how well the 6070 will sell

[azure otter]

i want the 6090 more

[tribal dirge]

ovo~~

[lunar elm]

6090 is the next meta

[tribal dirge]

[lunar elm]

6070 is so lame

it just indicates you have a lack of testicles

https://tenor.com/view/cyberpunk-stick-some-iron-up-your-mouth-and-pull-the-trigger-johnny-silverhand-gif-26931703

[tribal dirge]

or the Rubin Pro 6000

[azure otter]

i want the ryzen 5090

[tribal dirge]

[lunar elm]

thats for those who’s balls are excessively large

[tribal dirge]

no I want the Ryzen AI Max+ 5090 Ti XTX Pro

[azure otter]

wallets*

[azure otter]

i want this.

[tribal dirge]

well I am tempted to get one if they release one

[lunar elm]

if you dont have a 5070ti or above ur fake