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quiet crescent
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Is the lekker key caps different from normal?

fair gull
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if u buy us layout thats the keycaps

quiet crescent
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As in hard to switch out

fair gull
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@quiet crescent ur pc decides what key prints which character

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so if ur pc is set to nordic

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ur keyboard can be whatever layout

quiet crescent
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Heck I would switch to US, so I know where the keys are 😂

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And rebind the some letters and symbols

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Just wondering If the lekker key caps are different from normal keycaps?

fair gull
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they are normal keycaps just different color and different font

quiet crescent
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Ait got my answer

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Normal as in the star :p

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Star, plus, x, cross whatever we call it 😂

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Was more like if I went with us and then it turned out to be a different design, would sucked if I wanted to get those Nordic letters later :p

fair gull
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ya the cherry style stem is prob the most widespread

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no use to order a us lekker if u buy nordic later

quiet crescent
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Besides would made no sense getting us if I can't change the keys either :p

fair gull
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cause they are special caps

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as in color and stuff

quiet crescent
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Yh, the countdown will show

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I just see a bigger shift

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Been wondering if it feels better :p

fair gull
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sad no wooting logo on spacebar

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lekker edition not worth it

quiet crescent
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Key caps as in letters should be same size?

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O. O

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They are not? :o

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That ik, but letters

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Letters and numbers are no different shape

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Haha I would made it different 👀 👀 👀

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Lekker edition different 👀

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Good name for lekker 2😂

fair gull
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psure ud need to replace all caps

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cause of it being hard finding custom colored dye sublemented pbt caps in the lekker color scheme

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with the same surface texture

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or to not learn touch type but an advanced mix of touch typing and the eagle search thing where you dont need to look either but also dont rest your fingers anywhere but know where keys are when u start typing

quiet crescent
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Mean ik the keyboard inside and out, just for some reason I still look. But ik where the keys are

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All these years of mmorpg have learned me that much 😛

fair gull
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Typing is the process of writing or inputting text by pressing keys on a typewriter, computer keyboard, cell phone, or calculator. It can be distinguished from other means of text input, such as handwriting and speech recognition. Text can be in the form of letters, numbers a...

quiet crescent
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So much playtime that it will make pro csgo players wonder if they really been playing that much 😅

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2 and a half hour left, maybe maybe not I'll go with us

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Was mainly for more options later on

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Lekker will be hotswappable like wooting right?

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I see

reef patrol
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An example of a board with no easy complete set... yet

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Nordic ISO on a mostly ANSI board.

quiet crescent
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Looks awesome!

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Also omg, make the lekker like that board!

old marlin
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nice board

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would 100% buy a lekker with that layout btw

reef patrol
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Konto Kira. Uses a 96? Key compressed layout.

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It's the weird hybrid between numpsd full size and TKL.

pale sigil
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Literally this

reef patrol
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😂

timid chasm
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I like that Kira keyboard. Not so much the keycaps but that layout seems super handy.

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Their original keycaps on their Kickstarter and site, I mean

old marlin
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the kira is kinda overpriced imo

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a ymdk96 kit is like 130$

reef patrol
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The keycaps are just borrowed from my Ducky Shine, because I wanted Nordic labels. I have another Kira with stock caps, @timid chasm

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The ymdk96 doesn't have this case though.

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@old marlin

Some people just want a nice looking, finished product with hotswap

old marlin
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I mean it isn't bad

reef patrol
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I do agree that it definitely isn't cheap 😄

wheat plume
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I can code!

ashen spindle
wheat plume
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I need help....is no work

fair gull
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why is 10 a float

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and not integer

wheat plume
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incase the input is a float

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actually it is a double

fair gull
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you know that only integers have factorials right?

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or how does it work with decimals

wheat plume
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I changed to int just now

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no work

fair gull
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no like in actual maths how do u get factorials of decimals

wheat plume
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idk why it was showing with a decimal

fair gull
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wolfram alpha can calculate decimal factorials so there must be a way

wheat plume
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oh wow

quick kraken
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basically magic

fair gull
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gl implementing that

wheat plume
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i aint

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cant even get int to work...

fair gull
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apache has a lib with gamma

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just loop through it

quick kraken
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what even is a gamma function?

wheat plume
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^^^

fair gull
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result = 1;
for (int i = 1; i <= entered_number; i++) {
    result *= i;
}
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if java has *= operator

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@quick kraken gamma is the r(thing)

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its not an r its a greek letter called gamma

quick kraken
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yes, but how does it work?

fair gull
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this is how

wheat plume
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for(int i = 1; i <= number; i++)
        {
            Fact += Fact * i;
        }
``` I had this code
fair gull
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why +=

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what

quick kraken
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it isn't fact += fact * i

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it's fact = fact * i

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or just fact *= i

wheat plume
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yeh....I messed that up

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ok it works

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woo

fair gull
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literally just wrote that up

wheat plume
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what is [0, 1]?

fair gull
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an array

wheat plume
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oh yes, you love arrays

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I forgot

fair gull
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na its just easier to check than an ||

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less characters and same amount of compute time

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and yes i love array soooo much

wheat plume
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hmm, recursion.... it is almost as trippy as arrays

fair gull
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not really

wheat plume
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What other thing should I add to my calculator?

fair gull
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just copy the microsoft calc

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its opensource

wheat plume
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hmmm

ashen spindle
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just send in the link to the microsoft calc instead of doing anything yourself

fair gull
quick kraken
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ooh, nice

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they have the factorial function worked out including the gamma function

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it's magic to me

wheat plume
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the unixporn discord is toxic -.- only if you use Manjaro it seems

warped dove
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Which is the gaming keyboard with the oled screen in the top right?

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"Amazon unveils seven new Alexa-powered devices, including a smart ring and glasses"

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[ There's currently a kickstarter for some smart glasses that used a WIRED connect to your phone, and they're thick and fugly, it's like a parody ]

thick elk
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Well you use manjaro when you could be using linux from strach

warped dove
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samsung foldy boy out
huawei foldy boy next month
meanwhile the new iphones are actually pretty good
and pixel 4 and xl specs are out but I'm not impressed

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mobile consumer tech berserk right now

zenith mirage
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They fold

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And have multiple cameras

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Yeah phones are lame

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But they slow down all the time so you want a buy a new one

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I'm sure thats not by design

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Currently using my 2015 flagship, doing a lot better since replacing the battery

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Although I am cheating, because I also use a budget Huawei when I'm out and about and that was from last year

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Save the battery on it so it lasts longer

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Can't replace it so I'm making it last hy abusing this old phone

warped dove
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There are amazingly affordable good phones competing with flagships save a few gimmicks, that's what's really hot with phones right

zenith mirage
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Yeah it's a bit whack but I can do it so why not you know

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Had that newer phone for like a year at this point and the battery is same as when I got it

warped dove
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But €1500 flagships are way funnier

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I'm using an old phone, but I argue that digital cameras will be completely redundant in 2 years, apart from for cinema/TV level photography

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There are already great movies being shot on iphones

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So that's pretty neat

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no way, 48MP stabilised sensors are just a small fraction of the cost of a phone

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and they can be found for €400

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I mean, on a 400 phone

zenith sonnet
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Flagships are like almost 3000$ now

warped dove
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That term flagships...

zenith sonnet
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The new Xiaomi

ashen spindle
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I prefer halo product for such a thing not flagship

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flag ship can be a cheaper product

zenith sonnet
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Flag ship = halo product

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Means the same thing

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Something that's for show

warped dove
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I don't think people think of them as the prototypes like the folding phones - the expensive important phones are like $1000 from the big companies

zenith sonnet
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To call attraction to the brand

warped dove
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yes flagship is for show

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but it wasn't used for that purpose for a while, it was just the premium product for a long time

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/ hilarious phones like this xiaomi with screens on both sides are clearly flags but not relevant / it's only recently that joke phones are feasible since these companies are so rich to afford such R&D

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Ye they're tech demos .. but on the other hand they actually work

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so if you have the money - it's a genuine option

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Which is kinda awesome

ashen spindle
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Rumor : AMD Zen 3 Architecture to Support up to 4 Threads Per Core thinken

crimson wigeon
warped dove
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Yeah I don't understand, need to watch a bideo

ashen spindle
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would be a first on x86

warped dove
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I think I heard of a 3 thread 1 core processor a while ago

ashen spindle
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well there are one core 8 thread ibm chips

crimson wigeon
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Zen3 TR 256 threads WTF

ashen spindle
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but afaik nothing on x86

warped dove
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right...

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Well we're moving to an age of a lot more processing to be done and a lot more viable uses of parallelism

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so pumping cores and threads will keep paying off

ashen spindle
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wonder if we at some point get a cpu with one core dedicated to single threaded performance, maybe two and the rest as flexible cores with more threads

warped dove
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Everyone's commited to av1 video codec but it needs a lot more multithread and optimisation but then it'll half to size of web video amongst other benefits

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That's pretty close to what snapdragon chips do tbh quin, a mixture of different use cores

ashen spindle
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interesting

warped dove
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and who knows about the apple processor but it has like 50 dedicated accelerators

ashen spindle
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sure but thats more of a mix that a "pure" cpu

warped dove
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well traditionally cpu included the main memory so it's already a pretty blurred term

ashen spindle
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then again with now having 2 dies minimum on zen2 chips, maybe we are now moving towards different chips in a cpu

warped dove
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the current zen proccesors have a dedicated io chip aswell as the 2 logic dies

zenith sonnet
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The only other implementation of 4way SMT in x86 so far was intel's Phi coprocessor

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Then there's IBM's Power8 or whatever they call it

ashen spindle
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ye

zenith sonnet
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But if the rumour turns out true, it might be the first relevant implementation of it

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Doubt we'll see it outside of Epic any time soon, though

ashen spindle
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oh yeah definitely

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but if it works well and is easy to optimize for

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boy will they grab server market share

zenith sonnet
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Although, if it works similar to Power8, then we might

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Power8 has the ability to change SMT mode on the fly

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It can reserve core resources for single threads, or share them between up to 8

ashen spindle
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exciting stuff either way if its true

warped dove
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I love the fact that the internet is raving about how ugly the pixel 4 is... fucking fashion buyers lol, where's the iphone notch hate when it's needed?

ashen spindle
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I know

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I have a 6s and it is still working but idk how much longer but I dont want a notch on a new one

warped dove
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I think you're right about more threads being for server workloads. It sounds like virtualisation will be the big beneficiary

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But man, I'm fairly sure that chip designers are literally the smartest people in the world, I might just stop paying attention especially as it's only gonna get more complicated.

ashen spindle
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I'm pretty sure on some stuff they actually take like LSD in a controlled environment to come up with some of the shit

warped dove
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They actually do, to make them more alert over extended, regularly/reliably, periods of time and force their mind into divergent thinking mode

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ok found the oled screen keyboard, steelseries, that's funny they have the oled mouse too

zenith mirage
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Yeah a lot silicon valley types have taken acid

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If the rumours are to believed anyway

wheat plume
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wtf

timid chasm
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@reef patrol I meant I liked your white keycaps. Not a fan of the Kiras default keycaps. Either way that's a slick kb layout.

reef patrol
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😄

pale sigil
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Gnome in a nutshell

limpid panther
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year of the linux desktop

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you're the 1% (:

crimson wigeon
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😉

golden girder
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@fickle ore Please let us switch to this channel, because it's not related to support.

fickle ore
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true true

golden girder
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A few year ago I must speed up a communication on a MCU too, so I needed to synchronise it. It was a mess to get it fast as possible and synchronised. Took me some time and a lot of testing to archive it. I had a lot of trouble with it. That's why this isn't normally done as far as I know.

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If you move the mouse very fast the rate of data is as fast as possible on a gaming mouse, but on lower movements it's slower. I read it somethere and was even able to see it by looking at the RAW data over USB.

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I used Wireshark to look at the data of my mouse.

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I use a Logitech G903 with the old sensor.

fickle ore
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yeah that's the mouse sensor (camera) frame rate. That rate was static in the past but nowadays its variable due to being more accurate that way, as you said...Because somehow at low speeds having high fps (12k fps) it induces random acceleration for some reasons... quantization? So they made it variable, and the framerate rises linearly with the speed you move

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There are negatives in that with low speeds such a variable framerate is very low.. Like if you move at 0.2m/s, the framerate could be at only 1khz or less? I'm unsure on the values, but it starts to feel noticeably laggier than a mice with more static framerate

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3360 sensor has like 4 modes for variable framerate, they are like 3k/6k/9k/12k for 0-1m/s and so on, the exact values are incorrect but cba to look them up, but you get the gist

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for that reason I prefer 3360 vs the new logitech hero sensor that has variable linear framerate with no "gears"

golden girder
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The problem is on lower speeds the difference between two scans are that small that the error for the values are much higher conpared to the difference. So they use a much more lower rate so the error isn't that big.

fickle ore
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would that be alleviated with higher scanning rate of the mcu?

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Zaunkoening does internal MCU scanrate of 8khz

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and 1khz polling rate

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the carbon mouse

golden girder
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No only a much higher resolution can avoid this, but I guess most sensors are at the limit rigth now for 1 kHz.

fickle ore
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you mean the photodiode array size?

golden girder
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The function is like a camera as far as I know, they take pictures and compare the current one with the last one.

fickle ore
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36x36 afaik for the 3360 sensor

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yes, you are correct

golden girder
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So if the resolution is to small the difference for two pictures with a tiny difference would be very small.

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Like if the sensor is really only 32² a error of just one pixel would have a big effect.

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And if you accumulate this for one second for 1 kHz, this will lead into a big error because then the error is multiplyed by 1000.

fickle ore
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iirc the sensor can see subpixels

golden girder
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Yes, but here is still a limit.

fickle ore
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yeah I can see the problem with 1khz scanning but I dont understand why at 8khz internal mcu scanning would not alleviate the problem?

golden girder
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It would be even worse with 8 kHz, because then the error would accumulate over 8000 samples for one second.

fickle ore
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because the movement is so slow nothing changes?

golden girder
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Imagine a slow movent, then the difference for two pictures would be maybe smaller than a pixel, but imagine a standard error of one pixel. Than the error is higher than the difference.

fickle ore
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ahh thanks

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thankfully keyboards are a bit simpler

golden girder
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And if you scan it at 8 kHz, the MCU takes 8000 pictures over a second, than the error is accumulated, like maybe multiplied by 8000 in a very bad situation.

fickle ore
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hmm I don't think it changes the amount of pictures taken, the sensor framerate dictates that. I would think it's just the speed at which the images are delivered to the mcu for processing to digital input

golden girder
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If you are lucky the errors are nullified, but thats normally not the case, because the error is dependent on the sleed you are moving the mouse.

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We don't had specifyed the values here.

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So it depends on the contect for what they stand for.

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The 8 kHz was just a theoretical value from you I guess.

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I forgot how fast the current sensors are in a modern mouse.

fickle ore
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Most sensors are up to 12000fps and some at 16000fps.. But in commercial mice the mcu usually scans at 1khz, and polling is the usual 1khz

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this one kickstarter mouse (zaunkoening) has the usual 12k fps sensor, but has internal mcu scan rate of 8khz, and polling rate of 1khz

golden girder
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It can be that the scan rate is much higher than the polling rate.

fickle ore
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Yeah its good

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I wonder when will microsoft allow for overclocking usb natively to 8khz?

golden girder
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Never, this don't make sence. It's already possible for a fast speed USB device to have a rate faster than 1 kHz, but not for an interrupt transfer.

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So by using an isochronous connection instead of an interrrupt one, the rate can be higher, but then the period isn't constant anymore.

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And because input devices are handled typically with an interrupt transfer you need to write a custom driver for it.

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I don't really see an advantage for an user input faster than the 1 kHz polling rate.

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The whole delay of a monitor is much higher.

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Even if the rate of your monitor is at 240 Hz it has a typically constant delay of two frames.

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Means that the delay is 8 ms for that.

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For 60 Hz it would be 33 ms.

pale sigil
reef patrol
plush summit
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you payed for idm

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bruh

timid chasm
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A friend asks for a build under 1k USD that can do rendering as well as stream and when I mention a 3600 I get "why amd thooooo" 😫 🔫

zenith sonnet
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Because it's the only way he'll get that for under 1k

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@@golden girder Monitor delay can vary A LOT, the best we can do rn seems to be about 1.5 frames + 3ms actual signal to photon delay
So while shaving a few ms of the button to photon delay helps, going beyond 1000 Hz doesn't really do much any more
The whole issue is button to signal delay, and that can still be improved

golden girder
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Did you have intern informations about this? Do you work in that area?

zenith sonnet
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What do you mean?

golden girder
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Did you work for a screen manufactor or something like that?

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1.5 frame seems a little less to me.

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I know there are multiple buffers, like double or triple buffering (for Vsync). Meaning that I expect at least one frame and up to nearly two frames on a double buffer and two up to nearly three on an triple buffer.

golden girder
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But yes, in the average it would be 1.5 for a double buffer and 2.5 for a triple one.

zenith sonnet
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1.5 frames is sort of a best case scenario: VRR on, vsync off, Radeon Anti-Lag or Nvidia ultra low latency mode enabled or a scenario without GPU bottleneck and running the application in exclusive fullscreen

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With Vsync on, no VRR, (borderless) window mode, and potentially FPS smoothing techniques such as pre-processed frames, you can easily hit 4-6 frames of latency

golden girder
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Like I wrote, GPUs use a double buffer so because of this the delay is around 1.5 frame behind in the average at least.

zenith sonnet
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Except in exclusive fullscreen with VRR
There should be no buffer at all
Image is sent to the display as soon as it finished rendering and is displayed immediately

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It still takes at least one frame and some to calculate and render each frame, so that's your minimum possible latency

Plus, the outside factors: input latency by your keyboard/mouse, and the time it takes your display to display the image

golden girder
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So it's impossible to have a delay less than 1 frame.

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Even there I bet there is a buffer, otherwise the picture would look terrible.

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Because you would never see a complete picture.

zenith sonnet
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Technically, yes
But if you render a frame in 1ms, and display them at 60Hz, you can display a frame in under 16ms

golden girder
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If there is just one buffer the screen would just display the current picture where the GPU is working on.

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It doesn't matter how fast it is, you need at least a double buffer.

zenith sonnet
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That's what VRR exists to avoid
You have one image the GPU is working on, and one that is immediately delivered to the display, no buffer inbetween

golden girder
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But the GPU don't wait until the screen receives it!

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The GPU will instead start immediately beginn with the next one.

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Because of that you have tearing. Because the buffer for the display is updated during the sending to the display. So one part of the picture is from the previous frame and one for the newest one.

old marlin
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you should consider nvidia + intel HT too

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adds some more delay

golden girder
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A delay because of a bad CPU schedule is a whole different story.

old marlin
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well

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it is nvidia drivers causing this

golden girder
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I assume that the synchronisation with FreeSync or G-Sync aren't influencing the buffer, but instead just synchronise the commands between GPU and display.

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Yes, but a bad schedule even if it's only effect the driver and not just the game is a different story.

old marlin
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it adds extra delay

ashen spindle
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Wasn’t that NVIDIA +intel HT only in the nanosecond Range anyway ?

old marlin
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so much that some tasks that would be faster on a gpu might be faster on the cpu

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I know a guy that made csgo HVH hacks

golden girder
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The main thing from me was that 1 kHz polling rate with the same scaning rate is enough and there isn't a need to have it faster. Instead the screens should be optimized for faster refresh rates.

old marlin
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where stuff like that matters

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well

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lowering input delay is definetley more important than polling rate

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as long as your refresch rate doesna't come too close

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which currently isn't the case

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even on a mouse with constant input variances 500hz and 1000hz mostly are different in smoothness

golden girder
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The polling rate on a mouse isn't constant, at least for a fast gaming mouse.

zenith sonnet
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The new LG panel is pretty darn good in that regard
144Hz IPS with just under 3ms signal to image latency in their own monitor

golden girder
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There are 240 Hz displays available and 300 Hz are comming...

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And I don't get why people insist in a 1 kHz scan & polling rate but play on a 60 Hz display or even 120 Hz.

zenith sonnet
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Most of which are actually slower

golden girder
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Yes, a lot of keyboard manufactor advertise a polling rate of 1 kHz but have a much slower scan rate.

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To bad that people love that kind of non-sense...

zenith sonnet
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I meant the displays

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The 144Hz LG is faster than most 240Hz displays on the market

golden girder
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With a 240 Hz screen the rate would be around 4,2 ms, so the grey to grey value must be much faster to archive good quality.

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It's a bit more complex I think. You can overclock nearly every monitor, the only problem is that the picture will just look bad as hell.

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Even if there is enough bandwidth.

zenith sonnet
dusk adder
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Has anyone got the wooting piano working?

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i get red HID status

fair gull
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what wooting do you have

dusk adder
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two

fair gull
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thats probably why

dusk adder
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and thanks for that answer

fair gull
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you probably need to change the dll sdk/api dlls for some that support the wooting two

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most of those projects from coding challenges are written with the old sdk/api which only supports the one

dusk adder
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🤷

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where do i get those?

fair gull
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not sure if u can get those anymore

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since the sdk/api got reworked

dusk adder
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damn

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i was excited when i realized it can be used for midi

fickle ore
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gpu does not have to use double buffering (front/back buffer swapping)

fickle ore
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From highest input lag to lowest:
FSE + Double Buffered framecapped V-Sync with three frame swap chain
FSE + Double Buffered framecapped V-Sync Borderless (desktop-level triple buffered uncapped v-sync) (can have timing jitter)
FSE + NVIDIA FastSync (driver-level triple-buffered uncapped vsync) (can have timing jitter)
FSE + no V-Sync (tearing)
FSE + frontbuffer rendering (no tearing, no jitter, might have drifts)
FSE + frontbuffer rendering + dedicated input polling thread (no tearing, no jitter, might have drifts)
FSE + frontbuffer rendering + timewarp (no tearing, no jitter, no drifts)
FSE + frontbuffer rendering + timewarp + dedicated input polling thread (no tearing, no jitter, no drifts)

fickle ore
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1.5 frames is indeed the best possible scenario, but very much out of reach atm @zenith sonnet

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for that you would need: Fullscreen Exlusive + Front buffer rendering + hard sync (pre-rendered frames 0), dedicated input thread in-game at 1khz, input devices at 1khz etc

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tbh I'm not sure if pre-rendered frames is a thing with front buffer rendering

zenith sonnet
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Nice info you got there

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HMD = head mounted display, aka VR headsets?

fickle ore
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yeah

zenith sonnet
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Have you seen any button-to-photon delay testing for any VR headsets yet?

fickle ore
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nope

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but I doubt its that simple, dont buy VR headset for csgo 😄

zenith sonnet
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Should be just as simple as with monitors

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Solder an LED to the button and press it

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Record with high framerate camera

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Decided to check in here again, found a recent new video on this

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Time to watch

fickle ore
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I watched that

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it's pretty meaningless as he plays with stupid settings

zenith sonnet
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Wish he included VRR in that test as well

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Anyway, nothing new

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He basically just confirmed with numbers what we already knew

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When you hit a GPU bottleneck, the CPU basically runs ahead, and starts stalling when it gets too far ahead

fickle ore
#

yes

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anyway all gpus atm do have double buffered rendering (no front buffer rendering)

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so lag is higher

zenith sonnet
#

What he did was remove either hardware bottleneck, so CPU and GPU both are given fresh data to work on, and they complete this work before the next frame is prepared

fickle ore
#

and for every game out there, input is processed per frame, so if you play at 60fps, your input is also delayed by 16ms..

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Yeah

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But he should have tested at lowest settings at 1080p, 100% render scale not 200%

zenith sonnet
#

That would only cut whatever few ms the hardware would need less per frame
I assume he wanted to change as few settings as possible to measure the impact of the individual setting

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Even when it's not used in an ideal scenario?

fickle ore
#

optimal scenario is the only one worth testing for imo

zenith sonnet
#

A CPU bottleneck should have very little impact on latency, though

fickle ore
#

I'm running Overwatch at 200fps, I get 5ms delay from stupid framerate-dependant input system, on top of the 1-2 frame delay from rendering pipeline

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so I'm at 15ms + traces + usb + input device, which lines very well with test in the past of battlenonsense

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minimal motion-to-photon delay has been like 16~20~ms

zenith sonnet
#

So, the ideal scenario still remains:
VRR on
Framerate limiter(RTSS) set to VRR range max -3
Settings adjusted so you're not bottlenecked by the GPU (ideally you'd maintain that max -3 stable, but that's rarely possible)

fickle ore
#

VRR?

zenith sonnet
#

variable refresh rate, Freesync/G-sync

fickle ore
#

thats not ideal for latency

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cause you can go 300fps at lowest settings with gpu not being capped, but can you with VRR? I doubt

#

3rd party framerate limiter adds a frame of delay I thought? So must always use ingame limiter

zenith sonnet
#

If the ingame limiter is good

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Both cases are good

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But let's be honest, outside of a very few competitive games, you're not gonna maintain framerates of 200+

fickle ore
#

ideal case is gpu-utilization at 70-80% and making sure it never goes beyond that in any map.. Maximum fps possible given that constraint, so lowest settings possible..

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not much else u can do atm

zenith sonnet
#

Whether you cap FPS at 141 or 300, you'd have to use a limiter for minimum latency

fickle ore
#

yeah

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well

zenith sonnet
#

Going uncapped increases latency again

fickle ore
#

why?

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if its not bottlenecking gpu

zenith sonnet
#

In that case, you're at worst increasing latency by the time the GPU is still processing the previous frame when the CPU is ready

fickle ore
#

CPU is always at present time, it prepares the frame so it cannot get out of sync with itself, so, in essence CPU is the present

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Only GPU can be out of sync with the present

zenith sonnet
#

Yeah
If the GPU has resources to spare, it doesn't do much difference

#

I'd like to see more testing, though

fickle ore
#

Yeah

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It might be more complex 😄

zenith sonnet
#

Something funky will probably happen

fickle ore
#

actually I had this funny thought

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so by going lowest settings possible, reducing the gpu work and having uncapped fps would always mean being gpu-capped?

#

atlaest that is the case for me in OW

#

cpu utilization of 100% would increase input lag for sure

zenith sonnet
#

Anyway, with VRR on your display waits on your GPU to present a frame
With VRR off, your GPU waits on your display to be able to receive a frame

So, with a 144 Hz display, VRR on, cap at 141 FPS (ingame - 0 frame, RTSS - 1 frame)
You'll get a 7.09ms frametime without presentation delay

With a 144 Hz display, VRR off, cap at 300 FPS
You get a 6.94 ms frametime, but a presentation delay of 0-3.3ms, depending on how long ago the GPU finished the frame

fickle ore
#

huh

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source?

zenith sonnet
#

So, if you're neither bottlenecked by CPU nor GPU, VRR achieves slightly better latency, although minuscule, but also more stable latency

fickle ore
#

what incurs the presentation delay?

zenith sonnet
#

Well, the GPU might process frame 1 and finish 2.5ms before the display, set to a fixed refresh rate of 144, is able to display the next frame
So, once the display is ready to display a frame, it will receive frame 1 from the buffer, because the GPU, working on frame 2, is not allowed to refresh the buffer until 3.3ms (300 FPS) have passed

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With VRR your frame will always be displayed with the lowest delay possible

#

Also, one thing:
Reality rarely aligns with facing a static wall in Overwatch and setting your FPS cap to 300
How many other games can do that? Lol, CS, what else?

fair gull
#

many games

zenith sonnet
#

Using Apex as an example, on lowest settings I would still dip below 80 FPS on a 5820K@4GHz. A 9900K might help, but still not be able to perfectly maintain a cap of 141 FPS
BL2, i'd get dips even below 60 FPS

And VRR helps tremendously in those cases.

fair gull
#

minecraft can reach thousands of fps

zenith sonnet
#

Never played Bedrock, but Java can't, lol

fair gull
#

it can

zenith sonnet
#

Under what conditions? 2 chucks view range?

fair gull
#

they even showed it a few years ago on gamestar i think

#

lowest settings, void creative

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no blocks or mobs to render or calc

zenith sonnet
#

Lol, even better

fair gull
#

its pmuch like starring at a wall

zenith sonnet
#

It's even better

#

There isn't even a wall

fair gull
#

will actually see how much i can get

zenith sonnet
#

Nor a game

fair gull
#

with BDO running in the background

zenith sonnet
#

Fine, we can add minecraft to the list, though

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Makes it 4 games

fair gull
#

theres more than those tho

#

gta5 can do the same

zenith sonnet
#

Maybe good, old Quake?

#

Maintain stable 300 FPS, under all conditions

fair gull
#

og doom

old marlin
#

rocket league

ashen spindle
#

low settings tf2 also goes surprisingly high

fair gull
#

if id turn down graphical settings it would prob run faster

#

but cant give a damn

zenith sonnet
#

Lel

fickle ore
#

back, do you have the source for that VRR?

zenith sonnet
#

Not on hand

fickle ore
#

from what I can find, VRR can speed up the frame-delivery time compared to other syncing methods, but is at the same speed as non VRR (vsynch off) so the frame delivery speed of a 144 hz VRR would be at 300 fps, same as the game running at 300 fps on VRR off

fickle ore
wheat plume
#

Ballistic Overkill can reach 1000FPS for me during the loading screen

timid chasm
#

not uncommon to see thousands of fps in loading screens

pale sigil
#

It’s more common than common which in itself is common

ashen spindle
#

damn samsung stopping to make B dies, now we get micron e dies doing 5 ghz

#

on just xmp

reef patrol
zenith sonnet
#

@fickle ore Interesting info in that link

zenith sonnet
#

Youtube needs a 'Copy scrrenshot of current time' feature, lol

#

Even beats a TN type panel in pixel response time

#

Urgh, I'm torn

#

Buy it because currently it's the best
Or wait for a superior monitor featuring the same panel?

zenith sonnet
#

I probably should pull the trigger on this

#

But its so tempting

fickle ore
#

nah

#

wait for 240hz panels

#

or better

zenith sonnet
#

WQHD 240Hz? When?

#

Anything announced yet?

#

Although I'm more interesting in moving toward UHD 144Hz, with HDR1000 or something than to WQHD 240Hz

fickle ore
#

meh

#

oled or bust

#

until then get whatever

ashen spindle
#

Get what sounds like a good upgrade for you or I‘ll see you think about maybe getting one in here for another year or longer lmao

zenith sonnet
#

If there's a date on it, I could wait
If it's some unannounced future tech, then it's on the list for upgrade times

#

Several UHD 144Hz panels are already announced
But it doubtful we'll see one in a display for under 2000€

#

Maybe in 2H 2020

fickle ore
#

can you get 240hz 4k?

#

you can integer scale 4k to 1080p easily if you need framerates, or play 4k at lower hz, and enjoy the improved frame delivery time of 240hz even at 144hz or 120hz, or whatever, the frames are delivered to the monitor at 1/240... Just make sure it uses HDMI 2,1 or better and quick frame transport (QFT), and that the graphics card supports those specs, so you're not reliant on VRR

wheat plume
#

the Uk want to make all internet traffic unecrypted

#

-.-

#

so that they can see whats happening

zenith mirage
#

Is this a surprise?

#

UK gov has been eroding privacy for a while now

wheat plume
#

they think itll make illegal images better to spread

ashen spindle
#

do they know that means https would need to be disabled? aka disabling basically any site?

zenith mirage
#

With any luck Scotland can leave and ditch these laws

ashen spindle
#

not really much on firefox to do anyhting there

wheat plume
#

Ahh
I can't wait for the day that online banking will be the equivalent of doing your banking to a voice assistant needing to day everything you need to login while being in a room of hackers waiting your money

#

Wanting*

zenith sonnet
#

@fickle ore 240Hz UHD is 'future tech'. We know it'll come, and it'll be great, but we don't know when. Does DP 2.0 support it without compression yet? I don't remember exactly

fickle ore
#

HDMI 2.1 can do 4k 240hz with DSC, so can DP 2.0, which is already released.. Just waiting to come to new monitors I guess

mental basin
#

@zenith sonnet

#

have you seen omen x 25

#

created specifically for overwatch league

#

240hz monitor with an INSANELY low response time lol

timid chasm
#

I cant imagine 240hz even being useful to me right now

#

or even in 5 years

fickle ore
#

why not?

#

you can use 4k 120hz on your 240hz panel, and reap the benefit of faster frame delivery to your display.. The 120hz signal gets delivered in 1/240 due to native 240hz panel

timid chasm
#

and 4k 120 wont be useful to me for a long tme

#

I only game and nothing would run at 4k 120

#

^

#

If you want decent graphics most don't run at 1440p@144 lol

#

its only useful for esports

#

hell, 1080p@144 is a pain for some titles and some gpus unless you want ultra low

fickle ore
#

I usually run medium or medium low

#

4k is more valuable to me than running on ultra quality, looks more high fidelity

timid chasm
#

which will net you 60fps most of the time with modern titles

#

unless you have a 2080 Ti I guess

wheat plume
#

wait a second

#

they all do at this point -.-

fickle ore
#

60 fps is fine @timid chasm, and that would benefit the most from 1/240 framedelivery =]

timid chasm
#

but that means there's no point of 240 hz

#

1903 has been out for a while though right?

#

If that's what offered the PC game pass then I think a lot has been fixed since it first went into beta or w/e

wheat plume
#

someone once bragged to me h ow they could beat my ass in any game while playing it at 15FPS

#

because "anything above 15FPS is not any more smooth than 15fps"

timid chasm
#

that sounds like a troll 100%

wheat plume
#

yeh for sure

fickle ore
#

What do you mean no point?

timid chasm
#

Why get 240hz if you can't utilize it

#

it's for an extremely niche crowd

fickle ore
#

for the frame delivery speed?

#

and integer scale 1080p lossless if u wanna see actual 240hz for the occasional csgo round

#

otherwise 60-120 variable refresh rate for the RPG's and the like

zenith sonnet
#

I hope to get a new CPU soon...

#

99% of the time it limits my performance

#

Unless I use ridiculous graphics settings

fair gull
#

8k vr with RTX

zenith sonnet
#

@fickle ore Most displays actually have higher latency at 60Hz than at native resolution

fickle ore
#

some do, not all

zenith sonnet
#

Weirdly, so you'd want to specifically look for one that doesn't

#

Although I see no reason to use fixed 60Hz when VRR exists

#

And is faster

fickle ore
#

Abnormally high latency of lower refresh rates than higher refresh rates.
Cause: Display buffering to scan-convert a slow-scanning 60Hz signal to a fast-scanning 240Hz panel.

#

Yeah VRR is nice for 60-120 range

zenith sonnet
#

The LG supports <20 to 144Hz

#

Would be a huge upgrade over my Foris

#

There's so much new display tech releasing these months

#

After like 3 years of nothing new

#

I suppose I'll go for the LG or another display with the same, wait out a year or so, and see if they still have new things to anmounce and where we are

fickle ore
#

Mm

#

I'm waiting for JOLED to release their 27-32" panels

feral jolt
#

I want to meet Joe Led

zenith sonnet
#

Haven't heard about them

#

Any announced panels?

warped dove
#

OLED panels with perfect darks would be beautiful for games, especially space and spookys

#

but JOLED... well they're Japanese

#

and OLED is exponentially expensive when larger, like processor wafers

#

I know JOLED claim their objective is most cost effective panel

#

They've had so much financial investment and with the Japan premium I expect them to be years away from being justifiably priced for any middle class consumer... maybe 21 inch for a few hundred euros in 2021 if we're lucky

#

Anyways... oled laptops first

#

I dunno but probably

#

It's not easy to create a vanity/fashionable brand anymore

#

because we live in a world of investors and stakeholders

#

So names are boring unless they're designed to be attention grabbing

#

historically big japanese brands name after the region they were birthed in

ashen spindle
#

and japan oled sounds better than tokyo oled lmao

glad scroll
#

While on the subject of OLED, on the oculus they were discussing the possiblity of having lower latency with oculus link on the quest, than on the rift s. Because the quest has an OLED display, and rift s has LCD.
Oculus Link: Connecting your oculus quest to a pc over type-c, enabling it to play rift games on it.

fair gull
#

rgb is purely light show

reef patrol
#

How dare you - I want to change my LED colours at will without spending a fortune on new single LED stuff 😄

ashen spindle
#

I mean gigabyte and co already did that with fan control before rgb was a thing because it was easier than making a secure way to control your fans

fair gull
#

well who says other manufacturers dont do similar things

ashen spindle
#

?

#

I said gigabyte and co becaue this case is about gb and I dont know if every other aib is at fault or just most

fair gull
#

i mean in rgb

#

and not to invalidate your statement

#

just as a u know

#

smth to think about

ashen spindle
#

oh yeye

fair gull
#

especially those "everything needs to be RGB" guys

fair gull
#

guys i think java might be in decline even thought many people install it for minecraft

#

still just 3billion devices on their ad banner in the installer

zenith sonnet
#

Lol

#

I wonder if nobody thought about updating that in years

fair gull
#

for what

#

which one

#

isnt that foss

#

the fact they have a repo

#

and u can fetch any commit

#

and build it

#

cause usually gentoo is build from source

#

so they dont store versions

#

you just pull a different commit

#

and build it

#

done

#

wha

#

literally a git repo

#

you also literally just pull from a really old commit of this which is around the time u want

#

build it and done

#

gentoo in old

#

yes

#

why

pale sigil
#

nvm

fair gull
#

?

#

i feel like there was pics in the pic we werent supposed to see

pale sigil
#

Lol

#

No

#

I just realised this was just down to me changing the UI last week

#

to show previews

fair gull
#

thats the default now tho

pale sigil
#

ah

#

i see

fair gull
#

i didnt change shit and also have previews

pale sigil
#

Meh I was on 82% when I woke up at 10:40 and now I'm at 41% (3:26), 41% in thst time feels a bit bad

#

Mostly music

wheat plume
#

I dont like that the blur is gone in the notification shade when in dark theme ;-;
but also a lot of battery usage from android system 😮

fair gull
#

android system is pmuch everything... screen time, network shit

#

and all that

wheat plume
#

ooohh

pale sigil
#

Still seems rough

wheat plume
zenith mirage
fair gull
#

got myself a new 65" Smart TV

#

4k, hdr10 and all that shit

chrome estuary
#

noice

#

mine's that as well. It's one of Samsung's nice ones

glad scroll
#

What an awesome repo YukiSugoi

zenith sonnet
#

@reef patrol X570 Aqua? 🤔

reef patrol
#

No thanks. But thanks for offering

pale sigil
#

Used a lot of data this month lul 500mb

#

I really don't use much data agha

old marlin
#

on phone?

#

I have like 10gb per month

#

was the smallest I could get

#

meanwhile the telekom offered me 300mb for more

old marlin
#

I used only 1.7gb or something

pale sigil
#

My fingerprint is doing my head in

#

I was gonna wait for updates to see if it was a software issue but it isn't

#

Sometimes it takes so long to scan my finger

crimson wigeon
#

Ha!

wheat plume
#

Is it the in display scanner?

old marlin
#

try removing and adding it again if you haven't

wheat plume
#

Scan the same finger a few times

fallow bison
#

Try removing the display and readding that might help

old marlin
#

hek

#

for non german speakers, the european court has decided that you soon ahve to accept every setting and reading of a cookie seperately

#

which will make browsing the internet hell

wheat plume
#

Uh.....

#

Fuck

crimson wigeon
#

Yay

fallow bison
#

Pft there will be extensions to auto dismiss it

zenith sonnet
#

Now they desperately need to do this for ads.
'Do you agree to be shown ads by this website?'

pale sigil
#

Gonna trigger a few vive owners

old marlin
#

Tbh

#

That seems terrible

#

Since it stops working as soon as your hands leave the viewing angle

#

And you grip into thin air

pale sigil
#

Not much tbh

#

Tracking is pretty decent

#

But the point here

#

Is its possible and very usable

#

You'd still use controllers though really for a lot of games like best saber

old marlin
#

Anything where you grip an object will be more immersive with the knuckles controllers

pale sigil
#

I want gloves

#

Tbh

#

Which oculus are also making

old marlin
#

That could work

#

As long as you don't sweat in them a lot

pale sigil
#

Ye

old marlin
#

Tbh it'd be pog if they could stiffen them on closing

#

Dunno how to solve that well though

pale sigil
#

Jesus christ

#

Need more pixels

old marlin
#

Well

#

Those two examples are pretty simple

pale sigil
#

The are gonna have haptic

#

Base on the patent

old marlin
#

Ok?

#

Well

pale sigil
#

Which is dope

old marlin
#

An improvement at least

pale sigil
#

All these vr gloves these days are huge

#

And crazy annoying

old marlin
#

Now they just need some high end HMU to rival the index

pale sigil
#

They need to stop with now allowing sensors

#

And bloody allow best of both worlds

fair gull
#

those gloves arent nice tho

#

the ones that actually restrict ure movement are

pale sigil
#

Ye I saw this but they are way to big etc

zenith sonnet
#

@reef patrol Yeah, it's probably not a good buy
But damn is it tempting, lol

halcyon moss
#

tracking on WMR headsets is more than acceptable, but i would not call it excellent.

zenith sonnet
#

What the hell is Windows Core? Some sorta package manager?`

#

Also, Windows scheduler is supposed to finally get a real update in the Fall Update

reef patrol
#

My main issue with boards like it, is that if the board fails, you're stuck with an expensive fullblock. @zenith sonnet

zenith sonnet
#

Do high end motherboards still have significant failure rates, though?

reef patrol
#

Hard to say. Our last fullblock motherboard lasted six months.

fair gull
#

@zenith sonnet windows is, iirc, just a way for windows to have an os for all formfactors

#

tablets, smartphones, smartwatches

#

etc

#

also basically tries to remove win32

#

and use more UWP

#

which is dumb imo

#

basically the future is: Windows Core OS (in all variations) or Windows 10 Pro

#

cause as far as i know Windows 10 S and Home get replaced with Core OS

#

@zenith sonnet any source for the task scheduler thing?

pale sigil
#

zynga gad a huge data breach

#

lol

zenith sonnet
old marlin
#

@fair gull fully restricitng movement may not be needed

#

just stiffening them would probably be good enough rn

fair gull
#

i like that it restricts it completely

#

since that simulates reallife pretty well

#

u cant just crush a steel pipe with ur bare hands

#

so restricting it so it doesnt go further is part of the immersion imo

#

@zenith sonnet no mention of the task scheduler tho

#

oh wait u mean the thread scheduler

old marlin
#

ye ik

#

but if just stiffening would be lighter and more accessible it ='d be far better imo

#

restricting is much better obv

zenith sonnet
#

Let's just hope the thread scheduler gets a little better without breaking too many things

broken badger
pale sigil
#

wtf lol

#

$200
Mainsteam

#

Implying hotswap is new

broken badger
#

Not from Arnhem ... 😦

zenith sonnet
#

Says 150$ though

#

And it's not new

#

It just says they bring it to mainstream

#

Which maybe is true

old marlin
#

tbh

pale sigil
#

oops thats the bpro

old marlin
#

I liek that they popularize it

broken badger
#

I hate patents normally.... but now I'd wanted for Wooting to have one on this. (assuming they were the first)

old marlin
#

and it is probably one of the best ways that a generic user can get into keyboards

zenith sonnet
#

Looks to similar to the Wooting to not draw attention to it

pale sigil
#

Ye also cant patent it i dont think.

#

They never came up withit

#

(hot swap)

broken badger
#

Maybe it's made by Wooting as OEM 😇

#

(I know it's not...)

halcyon moss
#

For a ryzen 3700x is this a good choice (a board with wifi)?
MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC

reef patrol
#

Sure. As long as you don't need those PCI 4.0 NVME disks. And does the board have USB flashback?

#

Needs that to boot up a 3700X without an older CPU for BIOS updates first.

halcyon moss
#

need to check that still, but i tihnk it does.

#

Flash BIOS Button: Simply use a USB key to flash any BIOS within seconds, without installing a CPU, memory or graphics card.

#

so thats a yes.. 🙂

feral jolt
#

I think if you are going Msi you want the "max" motherboard with the larger bios

halcyon moss
#

why? i've not been in the component game for 5 years.. since i bought my last system.

feral jolt
#

They struggle to fit the zen 2 bios into those motherboards so have to cut some stuff out

#

And pretty much everything in a bios is essential

halcyon moss
#

is that overclocking stuff? im not super interested in that.

#

nor am i in rgb things. Closed case. Little noise i am interested in though

feral jolt
#

Has more to do with general system stability than overclocking

ashen spindle
#

wouldn't get that 5700 model

#

unless its a lot cheaper than other models

halcyon moss
#

its super silent though

ashen spindle
#

you can take another, set it to lower rpm and its the same

#

cooling/vrm from that model isn't as great as others

ashen spindle
#

the pulse should be fine, need to check if the red dragon was good or if I'm mixing it up with the red devil (stupid naming if you make both as an aib)

halcyon moss
#

that one is more expense by a few euros :p

#

the red dragon has a delivery of 5 days though.

ashen spindle
#

ye but has better cooling

#

I'd say the red dragon or pulse over the xfx

halcyon moss
#

lets add an Intel 660p 1TB... and the build is complete :p

#

thanks guys!

ashen spindle
#

enjoy the new fps

halcyon moss
#

took the pulse 🙂

reef patrol
#

Can recommend 660P

#

😄

zenith sonnet
#

@halcyon moss How much extra for 3600 C16 Ripjaws?

crude cipher
#

Better to go 2×8 @ 3600 than 2×16 @ 3200 unless you definitively need the extra ram

#

Re: hotswap, you could already get hotswap cherry keyboards from certain boutique manufacturers

quiet crescent
old marlin
#

Wooting also didn't invent it

#

And simce there is no physical contact between switch and pcb it is easier to do on the wooting

#

also logitech allows all MX switches

#

since they probably use kailh hotswap sockets

#

so basically a higher profile gmmk tkl with removable cable

royal pebble
#

Yeah

#

Hotswap has existed for some time

quiet crescent
#

Still think wooting should be honorably be mentioned in the article, as they mentioned other projects.

royal pebble
#

It's not comparable tech

#

They mentioned other mechanical boards with hotswap that came before it

halcyon moss
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@zenith sonnet Already ordered it last night.

zenith sonnet
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FInally it's time

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19.9.3 adds support for RIS for VEGA owners

halcyon moss
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Well if i install the AMD drivers the display goes black... gonna try a display port cable tonight.

glad scroll
warped dove
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Currently 3 laptops with USB-C power delivery (no proprietary charger blocks)(which means you can buy your own third party mag-attach adapter that you also use on your phone if you're into that, or just use any high quality USB-C cable + a good wall plug) they're also WiFi 6
Welcome to the sexy future

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Props to Lenovo, HP, and Razer for being goodlads

old marlin
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inb4 everything on that lenovo breaks

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how it likes to do on lenovo laptops

zenith sonnet
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@halcyon moss It's normal for a display to go black when installing GPU drivers

reef patrol
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Cheaper series of Lenovo perhaps. Their ThinkPads and legion are solid.

old marlin
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I have a x1 carbon which has pretty much everything partially broken

pale sigil
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Ur trash

plain locust
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My work give me a T460 for work and I only wanted to snap it in half about 3 times a day 🙂

reef patrol
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😄

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I love Thinkpads. Old and new

static edge
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I love them, too.
Had a Surface Book but switched to a Thinkpad P43s a few weeks ago, and did not regret it at all.
Hopefully, it will be as durable as my old T420.

fair gull
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i have a thinkpad t60

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dont regret getting it

reef patrol
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I bought a Legion instead of a Thinkpad only because it was on sale...and dat 1060 😄

sand carbon
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i have a t60 still too, that thing kicked ass when i needed it

chrome estuary
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i still use an x230t

fair gull
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the t60 is like an old nokla 3310

safe patrol
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it never gets too old? 🙂

old marlin
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Old thinkpads are great

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Imo up until the t420s

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The t430 had the new keyboard

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After that stuff started to get worse

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Failing screens, powerbuttons and cooling fans

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Worst one I have seen was one of those with a swivel display that just had the keyboard coming out of the frame, idk how

feral jolt
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I sure am glad I've never really needed a laptop. The idea that all that stuff can brick you and be impossible to fix without professional skills sounds awful

old marlin
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I actually completely broke a dell laptop

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the bios factory reset completely destroyed the bios

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and the bios recovery factory reset

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completely destroyed the bios recovery

plain locust
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I have a fancy smancy laptop with a MXM 980M which died on me while playing Witcher 3.

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Asked the Interenet for help and actually got directions on what to do.

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Manned up, bought hot air desoldering station and got to work replacing the MOSFET.

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Worked fine afterwards.

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Would have been nice had I not gotten another laptop though 😆

reef patrol
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MacGyver theme plays

zenith sonnet
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Uhhh

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AMD Agesa 1004 incoming with 'over 100 fixes and new features'

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Just before availability of CLX and the 3950X in November

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Now I'm excited

reef patrol
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Too bad first gen users won't get it on most boards monkaS

old marlin
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that picture

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is something special

halcyon moss
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@zenith sonnet yes, but it should come back after a few flickers...

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it did not. But i switched from the hdmi>dvi cable toa displayport cable. and it works now!

zenith sonnet
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DP > HDMI anyway

halcyon moss
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yes 🙂

zenith sonnet
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@reef patrol Is it really backwards compatible all the way to Zen, if the manufacturers update the BIOS's?

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Also, Eizo released a 4k OLED 21.6" display with 60Hz and 0.4ms reaction time

reef patrol
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Depends on the fixed involved. If the BIOS chip is large enough to store first gen (only MAX boards do iirc) then it could affect them.

zenith sonnet
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That's for MSI, right

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Not every manufacturer went cheap on the BIOS chips, though :p

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That OLED panel has such a weird size, I wonder if they used binned and cut down 8K 43" panels for it

old marlin
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wait

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is it that limited foris novadisplay

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which only gets 500 made

zenith sonnet
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Yeah

old marlin
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panel; is apparently by joled

zenith sonnet
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Only 500? That's few...

old marlin
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could be 8k oled panels

zenith sonnet
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Oh, so it's more like a closed beta? ;P

old marlin
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that they cut in quarters

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not especially bright either

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the only good things about it is pixel density, oled and color reproduction

zenith sonnet
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And reaction time

old marlin
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oh ,right

zenith sonnet
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But yeah

old marlin
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reaction time with that refresh rate though

zenith sonnet
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It's a very fancy gimmick

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It might be as motion clear as a 144Hz gaming display

old marlin
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and very much a gimmick

zenith sonnet
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Not sure how much that reaction time helps, given the refresh rate

old marlin
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like "this one has a golden sticker on the back" is a more noticeable gimmick

fickle ore
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O.o

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the 0.4ms is not a gimmick if it's close to its advertised value

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Which Oled should be

zenith sonnet
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Nobody said 0.4ms would be a gimmick

fickle ore
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what then?

zenith sonnet
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The Foris Nova display

fickle ore
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aha

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anyways nows a bad time to be buying anything monitor wise

zenith sonnet
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Yes and no

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There's a lot of new tech to grab
But it'd also be wise to wait a year and see if the dust settles

fickle ore
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HDMI 2.1 missing on 95% panels releasing atm, and no 2.1 capable graphics cards exist atm

zenith sonnet
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Why do I want HDMI 2.1?

fickle ore
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the new LG oled TV's have 2.1 capability but no graphics cards have that yet so u cant even use it

zenith sonnet
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What can it do that DP 2.0 can't?

fickle ore
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DP 2.0 spec made this july, its not out yet

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How much is that Joled Eizo 4k 21.6"?

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Would be cool

zenith sonnet
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If you wanna buy high-end, wait until Summer next year
Lots of new, unrefined (in consumer products) tech with excessive price tags

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No public price
You're asked to contact Eizo directly for a quote

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I wouldn't expect anything affordable, though

fickle ore
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:I

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Not worth at 60hz

zenith sonnet
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Although, I did order the 27GL850 a month ago
They're to arrive Monday

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I'm wait out the time until I can get 4k, 120+ Hz, HDR1000 / HDR1400 with great reaction times

fickle ore
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the eizo is 0.4ms black-white-black which if advertized is very nice, about 5ms quicker than fastest TN panels :

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Input Terminals
HDMI x 2 (Deep Color, HDCP 2.2 / 1.4)

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Could have released with HDM! 2.1 but didn't

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Yeah same, biding my time

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Maybe next year or after that

zenith sonnet
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I haven't heard anything about the new AU Optronics panel or other monitors featuring the LG one yet

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I'm still not a 100% sold

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It's a very mediocre monitor that one thing better than anything else on the market, and the only one that does it 'good enough'

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But contrast, build quality, features leave more to be desired

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You got some response time measurements on the 'fastest TN panels'?
I'd like to compare some data

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Got some

pale sigil
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Xiaomi are sending me a "jiffy" bag to send my phone in, seems a bit risky for a phone to be in a very thin bag

zenith sonnet
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It's gonna go to the grinder anyway

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And you'll get a fresh one

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The devices themselves are so cheap to make they're not worth repairing a lot of the time

fickle ore
warped dove
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Well... I like the Cooler Master MM710 much much more than the Glorious Model O (standard size)

sick creek
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looking for opinions- for pc purely for gaming, is 16gb still a good amount? or should i just spend the extra and get 32

warped dove
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Yes 16 is enough for gaming with many extra apps open, the only exception would be if you play max settings huge games they're still in alpha like Star Citizen, or hosting arma 3 while also playing. Even the biggest RTS easily fit in 10gb while running.

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So try to get high quality ram at 16gb

sick creek
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yeah i'm looking at corsair dominator

warped dove
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2 sticks of 8 and you can get another 2 sticks of 8 if you need later

sick creek
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i'm doing a ryzen build

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3700x, x570, re-using my 1080ti, and then trying to decide on the ram

warped dove
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That's pretty beefy

sick creek
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i'm waiting for a pci-e 4.0 card before buying a new gpu

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i play a lot of VR

ashen spindle
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get some crucial ballistix ram sticks

warped dove
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So you can afford 2x8Gb 3600 Mhz at really good timings, corsair seems to always have ass timings and they obfuscate / practically lie about it

sick creek
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i plan on OC'ing at some point, i'd rather get the dominator line

ashen spindle
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they are micron, often e-die and 3000 sticks almost always can be pushed to 3800

warped dove
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Your eyes will thank you for the saved lag

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^ What Quintosh said

ashen spindle
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(the crucial ballistix are, not the corsair ones)

sick creek
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but i dont want 3000

ashen spindle
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yes but you can OC them to 3800, or at least 3600

sick creek
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i dont want to HAVE to OC the memory if i can get some that starts above what i'd OC to

ashen spindle
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you dont want mem clock above 3800 on ryzen 3000 chips

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you'd ned 5000+ before you get the same performance as on 3800 again

sick creek
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so i can bump the 4000 down to 3800 and they'll be more than fine

ashen spindle
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sure, its just a waste of money

sick creek
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i'm not on a budget

ashen spindle
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I mean there is a difference between a budget and spending money on something that does 0 or even worse performance in this case lol

sick creek
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if you can point to benchmarks that prove this, then i'll consider it

ashen spindle
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ryzen IF clock is set to 1:1 mode to the mem clock of your ram

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up until 1800/1900 depending on the chip you got

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after that if goes into 2:1

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so you get half the IF clock

zenith sonnet
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@sick creek Starting to run into the first bottlenecks with 16 GiB nowadays

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My next build is going to be 32

ashen spindle
sick creek
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yeah, so i might do 32 anyway then. but i dont want to fill up all my DIMMs because that has always caused me stability issues in the past with vdroop

zenith sonnet
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I'm eyeing with Trident Z Royal

sick creek
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so if i do 32 i'm doing 2x16

zenith sonnet
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That's what I want, too
But you might have to sacrifice timings

warped dove
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Why? So you can upgrade to 64? heh

sick creek
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no

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so i dont fill up the dimms

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full dimms is generally bad for OC

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because the VRMs have to work a little harder because there are double the memory sticks drawing power

warped dove
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570x should be better than ever at handling that kinda thing

sick creek
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well i hope so, but i also don't 100% trust marketing lol

ashen spindle
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most x570 boards are daisy chain so 2 sticks are still better than 4

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the power drawn by the sticks is absolutely no concern lmao

warped dove
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even x570x probably has dual channel memory right?

sick creek
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of course it has dual channel, or i'd get 1x32 lmao

warped dove
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So as usually 2 is more performant than 4 (in no way that is ever perceivable in the real world)

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I mean compared to quad channel

ashen spindle
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no that comes down to the memory layout on the board mostly

sick creek
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oh, well, idk, i've never had a quad channel board

ashen spindle
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but again, even 4 sticks can easily do 3800 and you dont really want mroe on ryzen 3000

sick creek
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lol so i'm watching this video

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i love how he's talking about "you want to do this"

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and then i look over to the stable? column

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and i'm like spinthink

crude cipher
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2×16 3600MHz gskill today for 165usd

sick creek
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i mean i get what he's saying, it makes sense

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but i think i'm gonna buy some higher speed ram and lower the clocks

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and lower the timings

ashen spindle
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I mean I put my 2133 sticks to 3000 lmao just get something fitting and just tighten the timings, lowering clocks on higher binned chips doesn't always equate to more options for tighter timings

sick creek
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btw when you say IF clock, IF = ?

ashen spindle
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Infinity Fabric

sick creek
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oh ok

ashen spindle
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the stuff connecting i/o die and core die

sick creek
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yaya

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i was like i feel stupid for asking but i assumed it was something ryzen specific

ashen spindle
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yeye its something new no worries

sick creek
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and refresh my memory

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dual rank is mem chips on both sides of the stick right

ashen spindle
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see there it gets complicated, generally yes, though there are some weird sticks out there that don't follow the norm

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but probably not relevant for anything you might get

sick creek
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well that guy's video was saying dual rank is actually better for perf

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so i just want to make sure

ashen spindle
sick creek
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pcppicker doesnt have a memory rank option