tech

[gilded stone]

quicc

[sick yoke]

Can anyone help me? I wanna get a new gaming laptop or desktop. The budget I have is $1000 for computer and $200 for a monitor or two. Any suggestions?

[gilded stone]

Is building a computer something you can do?

[spiral yew]

gaming laptop are a waste of money for the price

[gilded stone]

If you need portability, they aren't.

Battery life won't be very good though.

[weak lark]

If anyone needs a portable gaming computer, then you have plenty of money to invest in almost 2 very decent desktops

[gilded stone]

bruh

[sinful monolith]

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> sfc /scannow

Beginning system scan.  This process will take some time.

Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Verification 100% complete.

Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them.

😐

[wide temple]

Run DISM repair

[sinful monolith]

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.18362.1

Image Version: 10.0.18362.295

[==========================100.0%==========================] The restore operation completed successfully.
The operation completed successfully.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> sfc /scannow

Beginning system scan.  This process will take some time.

Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Verification 100% complete.

Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files and successfully repaired them.

😐 x2

might be time for a full reset

oh I actually misread it

it didn't fix the issue tho

[wide temple]

Have a read of the CBS.log files

What’s the issue? 🤨

[wide temple]

Did you try running the Microsoft Store Troubleshooter?

[sinful monolith]

no, just various instructions on MS support sites

[halcyon rune]

6/5

[compact cove]

the case is chopped ✂ - 4/10 IGN

[sick yoke]

so, I have a lenovo thinkpad T410. So basically ANYTHING is better than this.

not to mention 8+ years old

and no, I don't know how to build a computer

[halcyon rune]

Dat case sucks a$$

[sick yoke]

:/

[halcyon rune]

You srly dont know hoe build öv

Pc*

[sick yoke]

no

I don't

[halcyon rune]

Ohh

[sick yoke]

Ohh what

[halcyon rune]

What is your budjet

https://youtu.be/jM6kIWJAW-I

[sick yoke]

oh cool

I'll check it out

[halcyon rune]

Ya look it

[sick yoke]

can I just buy one pre made lol

I have almost zero computer knowledge

[spiral yew]

yea but it'll cost more

[sick yoke]

yeahhhh.......

[bright parcel]

Has anyone owned an IPhone XR? If so what was it like as a daily

[halcyon rune]

Idk iphone xr if you drip it and screen brokes it will cost almost same than new phone

[mighty vine]

[gilded stone]

wait for the new ones to come out

the price will go down on the older ones

[wide temple]

Or it'll be fine if you don't drop your phone... or use a decent case 🤷

[latent rune]

Ok, so I need opinions, if anybody can help, on a cheap SSD I am looking to buy, my HDD failed me

Kingston A400, 480GB, at around 55$, for ETS2/ATS (mainly), maybe F1 2017 (optional), Dirt 3 and Dirt Rally, and once in a while a CS:GO, all while running Discord in paralel.

[flat grove]

How much capacity do you need? Are 500-ish GB enough?

[latent rune]

Yeah, that's my aim

480-500

I'll go lower if needed, like 250, but I highly doubt

[compact cove]

WD Blue 3D NAND

doesnt matter if its m.2 or 2.5", they are both reliable

[gilded stone]

no phone case gang

but seriously if i drop this thing i'm going to be p i s s e d

[spiral yew]

Thoughts about this https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-FireCuda-Gaming-Solid-Hybrid/dp/B07H28SY38/ref=pd_cp_147_2?pd_rd_w=kmPjp&pf_rd_p=ef4dc990-a9ca-4945-ae0b-f8d549198ed6&pf_rd_r=407H3QYJMF1FWN7894GJ&pd_rd_r=440cd38e-a685-46c2-8f73-3a16afdfd28a&pd_rd_wg=X7iRk&pd_rd_i=B07H28SY38&psc=1&refRID=407H3QYJMF1FWN7894GJ

[agile ermine]

that works if you can't afford an SSD

[spiral yew]

I don't really want to spend $300 USD on a 2tb SSD

[agile ermine]

it won't be as fast, but it is still faster than an SSD

[spiral yew]

I know it will be faster than a HDD

But not sure if I really want to transfer 1TB of game data to a different drive

[agile ermine]

no, that won't work

that kind of drive uses flash memory to store the files the pc often needs access to, in order to accelerate the softwares

but its not a very big amount of memory, so it will work exactly like a standard hdd in the case of a big file transfer

[hidden shell]

Buy multiple smaller SSD drives and create multiple Steam libraries!!

I have 3 SSD's, 1 nvme for Windows and a large 5TB external drive for backups

So I split my games to multiple, affordable, smaller SSD drives.

[sinful monolith]

can confirm that works well

[halcyon rune]

Can i connext like this or do i need buy 12 pin pcie

[drifting horizon]

@halcyon rune What's the connector?

[halcyon rune]

PCIe

[drifting horizon]

But I meant these from power.

[halcyon rune]

Ya

[drifting horizon]

I think that if they fit, you can plug-in GPU to motherboard.

[agile ermine]

thats fine like that, the 6 + 2 pins connector is designed to work that way

[halcyon rune]

Ok

[silent violet]

anyone noticed ets being very unstable atm

[compact cove]

@halcyon rune might wanna durst that off....

[halcyon rune]

@compact cove ya i know i just got it from friend for free

[compact cove]

if its older than 3 years, change the paste too

[halcyon rune]

Its 4 years old graphics card but frend said last time he changet was in newyear

[compact cove]

should be fine then

[compact cove]

@wide temple still havent fried it yet? 🤔

[halcyon rune]

Yaas it works :O

[sand valley]

ur messing ah room

[halcyon rune]

Sshhh....

[sand valley]

Guys what would you say is better for ets2 oculus rift or htc vive, I’m planning on getting one but idk what ones better. I’m tryna get the full ets2/ats experience lol

[silent violet]

that cable management tho

[spiral yew]

@sand valley if you plan on using it for mp, tmp doesn't support VR

[sand valley]

mp tmp?

[woven turtle]

Put a "," in between and it reads better

[sand valley]

Ohhhhh right yeah I know

[hard remnant]

Guys, does somebody know - can i plug gpu in my notebook?

I just want to have it) Because have only Cpu :3

v

[sand valley]

if you have an external gpu then yes

if you have a gpu that fits in a pc then no

[hard remnant]

Hmmm

I will watch, ok, thanks a lot 🙂

[sand valley]

its better off buying a pc anyway

save up for one 😉

[hard remnant]

Ok)

When i will have money, i will buy)) But i dont have 😅

I can go to work in Macdonald', but i am learning in collage)

[remote estuary]

Hi guys. My mint condition Galaxy S7 (flat) broke down recently. Tech support said it's a mobo issue and they want 100€ to fix it. Is it worth it or should I get a new phone? I kinda dig the design of the Xiaomi Mi9T..

[agile ermine]

100% worth it

Because even if you don't keep it after the repairs you can sell it for more than that

[remote estuary]

I'd use it until next malfunction tbh, after repair. Then I'd switch phones. I'm looking for opinions rn :)

[harsh imp]

Any pics of your guys setups? 😄

[sand valley]

this was before i moved the shifter onto the ground

[harsh imp]

I see a lot of people with the Playseat. Does the bar get in the way?

[mighty vine]

Im getting the Xiaomi Mi 9T today Falco. But it depends on how much you want/can spend on a phone

Also the Red variant is epic

[hidden shell]

I tried the playseat and I hated it. That bar does get in the way.

[marble chasm]

High speed printing

[mighty vine]

I just got it!

[mighty vine]

It looks very

Nice

Although I find the keyboard smapp

Small*

[remote estuary]

@mighty vine I'm interested in the blue variant

But I opted to repair the S7 this time, if this succeeds then I will save up for a Mi9T

Because I don't know how long this fix will last

[mighty vine]

Blue looks also coop

Cool,*

But buy a screen protector with it

It doesn't even come with a plastic foil

[remote estuary]

A glass one would do the job nicely.

[mighty vine]

I bought one yesterday and it will arrive tomorrow

[dawn kiln]

I am so relieved right now

Something broke in my computer and it couldnt start up correctly

I powered it on and the screen lit up and went black but the light on the side showed it was on

Well, before that, it actually opened the BIOs settings menu on startup. That would've been the 1st sign something was wrong

So after a few times of me messing with it, i powered it on while holding down the windows key and it performed and automatic repair

[gilded stone]

For a sheet of glass with some adhesive on it...

[remote estuary]

But it's an elite screen protector so it must be good

[halcyon rune]

@gilded stone idk i paind my screen protector 40euros and someone applied it on my phone and idk is it just for me or someone else too but if you uy protector on samsung galaxy s8 it will break in your pocket or glue wont stick on screen...

[remote estuary]

Just buy a glass one for cheap and install it yourself, it does the job done

This is what I did with my phone

Also, it doesn't stick on s8 because it has an edge display so a screen protector can't really bend

[sand valley]

http://prntscr.com/p8mu3q

[halcyon rune]

tomorrow first time i put my graphics card in oven hopefully it fixes this

[spiral yew]

fixes what?

[halcyon rune]

graphics card if there is bad soldering it will resoder it

[void prawn]

You should put it in the dishwasher works 100%

[agile ermine]

Uh

No

Der8auer does that to clean his motherboards, not to resolve soldering issues...

[carmine topaz]

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/product-10194549-pdt.html

Would this be good for running ets2?

On MP

[spiral yew]

8GB Ram is a little on the light side but it'll work

but with 4hrs of battery life you might wanna keep it plugged in

[agile ermine]

A 120hz display with a rx560x looks a bit stupid...

Ets2 should run without issues in solo, but it will be tougher in mp

You might have to play the game in low quality

[halcyon rune]

i think on simglepalyer on ultra will be 100fps and mp will be on low est 70fps?

[agile ermine]

In singleplayer in high/ultra, it should hold around 60 to 70 fps

In mp, it probably won't often get above 30fps

Excepted if you stay in areas where there are no players

[carmine topaz]

Kk

[carmine topaz]

should be much better than my current specs though

[compact cove]

welcome to 2013

[wide temple]

@compact cove didn't notice you pinged me
nah, waiting for the ABBA BIOS to fix the boost clocks though

I can see 5 of the cores hit 4.4 GHz but the rest stay at about 4.35

[compact cove]

i think i pinged you last week?..... jeezus christ Moh

[wide temple]

I get many pings and messages on a daily basis, sometimes I forget

[compact cove]

oh wait, it was 2 weeks ago

hecc

[wide temple]

stop this bulli

[compact cove]

also, gettin a new case and new cpu

[wide temple]

It was pretty funny to see MSI leak the ABBA BIOS beta before the actual release date tho

when they've been the slowest for BIOS updates in the past

which 1?

[compact cove]

evolv shift air and 3700x

[wide temple]

hubby finally treating you huh

[compact cove]

ive been very very good

[wide temple]

that's one tall boi

[compact cove]

xD

[wide temple]

insert smirk face

[compact cove]

im not gettin the shift X

gettin the small one

[wide temple]

o the baby version

looks kinda cute

[compact cove]

also gettin a new 4k freesync tv soon

since my pc will now become a couch console

[wide temple]

not much room for a long GPU though

unless you can mount it vertically?

[compact cove]

gpu goes top to bottom

[wide temple]

o

[compact cove]

^ layout

[wide temple]

[compact cove]

i might watercool it 🤔

[wide temple]

custom or AIO?

[compact cove]

aio doh.....

where the hecc would you put a loop in that

[wide temple]

I don't think it's worth slapping an expensive AIO on a 3700X, the gains are so negligible

I would have been fine with the stock cooler tbh

[compact cove]

its limited to 120mm aio anyway

was lookin at an alphacool LT 120

[wide temple]

I like it, smart and simple

sticking to the same motherboard I assume?

[compact cove]

same everythin

[wide temple]

ooo

[compact cove]

not sure what ill do with the raven case 🤔

[wide temple]

sell it

or build a HTPC server for Plex

[compact cove]

but its the only one in the country 😹

[wide temple]

Imported?

[compact cove]

its not sold here, i got mine by accident

was supposed to get the rgb version

phanteks shipped the argb version

[wide temple]

argb?

[compact cove]

addressable/digital rgb

rgb strip = 1 flat color

[wide temple]

ahh

[compact cove]

argb strip = rainbow puke strip

[wide temple]

I can't turn off the RGB strip on my motherboard rip

not that I see the case anyway for now

[compact cove]

what mobo was it?

[wide temple]

B450M Mortar

[compact cove]

so msi

[wide temple]

ye

[compact cove]

mystic light not working?

[wide temple]

It does, but there's no option to switch it "off"

I guess I could set the light to black

[compact cove]

you can trick it then

red: 10-0-0

unless it lets you set it to 0-0-0

[wide temple]

It does

[compact cove]

pretty sure neither of our asrock mobos have an 'rgb off' button

polychrome app is pretty buggy

but i can go 0-0-0

[wide temple]

The software is pretty shoddy though, as always from MSI. ASRock (at least when I used their software on my Z97) was really nice

[compact cove]

if i open polychrome now

i have to set it, apply and the close the app

i cant apply again without restarting the app

[wide temple]

wat

[compact cove]

quality mobo software 👌

[wide temple]

only the finest lel

[compact cove]

asus is by far the worst

[wide temple]

It seems to be a common theme for all the mobo manufacturers, really really badly written Windows apps

[compact cove]

aura sync didnt even want to start on the old z170 that we had

[wide temple]

oof

[compact cove]

in the almost 2 years of using it

it had 3 windows installs

didnt work on either

[wide temple]

[compact cove]

quality asus products 👌

[wide temple]

In other news, I did break something on my old PC whilst I was cleaning it for sale the other day. Power switch ripped off along with the LED yaaaayy

Had the flimsiest solder I'd ever seen

[compact cove]

you mean the power button on the case?

[wide temple]

yup

[compact cove]

not surprised

my husband old(er) pc case is 9 years now

[wide temple]

I thought about just leaving it, and wiring the reset switch as the power but then that would lower the price

[compact cove]

the wires are as thin as hair

[wide temple]

At least Fractal sell spares so I ordered one, now I gotta wait for it to ship all the way from Germany yaaaaay

[compact cove]

my raven case came from germany 😹

[wide temple]

did it take long to arrive all the way in Romania?

[compact cove]

well it was in january during the massive snow storms

took almost 3 weeks

[wide temple]

that's actually... not that bad

[compact cove]

the truck got stuck for over a week in austria or somethin like that

like, snow stuck

would have gotten it in less than a week otherwise

[wide temple]

I wonder how much I'll be able to get for my old PC

Processor: Intel Core i5-4690K @ 4.2 GHz
Cooler: Phanteks PH-TC12DX_BL
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 EXTREME4
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1866
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB
Video Card: XFX R9 280 Black Edition DD
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Black Pearl)
Power Supply: Corsair RM650 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB DVD/CD Writer
Fan Controller: NZXT Sentry 3
Fans: 4x Fractal R2 Silent 120mm
Operating System: Windows 10 Pro

[compact cove]

everythin is decent apart from that R9

[wide temple]

ye true, it's been sat in storage for like 3 years

[compact cove]

psu has to be replaced anyway

its most likely 5+ yo

maybe 3-400eu

[wide temple]

5 years yeah, July 2014

I've ran a memtest on the RAM, it passed with no errors. AIDA64 pushes it to about 65c-70c average

Haven't done any GPU testing though

[compact cove]

dont bother, its too old

[wide temple]

You say that, but I did spend like 3 hours the other day cleaning it 😹

[compact cove]

a cheap 1650 will smoke it

[wide temple]

It was really dusty tbh

[compact cove]

even an rx470 would smoke it....

[wide temple]

Probably run a lot cooler too, I noticed that even on idle the side of the case is so warm

[compact cove]

expect the thermal paste to be brick-paste

[wide temple]

I considered replacing the GPU's paste, but I doubt it's worth it

I did change the CPU one as it did look sparse

[spiral yew]

i still have my R9 290 and 390

[compact cove]

owning =/= using

[spiral yew]

i'm using a 1080ti now

[indigo geode]

its using 3.75 amps?

assuming your mains voltage is 240v (only one im aware of xd)

what power does your laptop need?

[dawn kiln]

so I go to turn on my laptop and the power light turns on but the screen doesnt. My caps lock light starts flashing. Anyone know what this means?

[placid dragon]

What model and brand laptop?

@dawn kiln

Because my HP laptop did that when the ram failed

[dawn kiln]

@placid dragon HP Stream laptop

[placid dragon]

How many flashes does it do?

[dawn kiln]

It doesnt stop. It flashes a couple times and then quickly flashes

[placid dragon]

How many is a couple?

[sleek star]

i want to kms, designing a pcb for a 16 bit sequencer, no Arduino, all with ICs

nearly freakin done

[sleek star]

one thing for sure it's not in #tech

[drifting horizon]

@slow widget You should rather put in #irl-trucking ...

[dawn kiln]

@placid dragon Idk

[sand valley]

is ETS2 CPU or GPU bound?

[agile ermine]

Mp or solo?

In solo, it should be more gpu intensive

But MP hits the cpu quite hard if im not mistaking

[sand valley]

windows?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/616400653153206289/629039463301120004/unknown.png

[agile ermine]

Uh

Your ram looks seriously messed up

[distant zodiac]

Ok so, flash drives aren't meant to do this. Right?

And when I say flash drive, I really mean dash cam

[placid dragon]

Looks kinda corrupted

I once had a USB that randomly had 2 files made in over 1000 years

[distant zodiac]

Got it working, oddly by switching USB ports. They are both front panel as well on the same MB header so 🤷
It repeats exactly the same when I plug it back into the same port as well lol

[forest steppe]

Maybe it’s the port

Kinda obvious

😂

[distant zodiac]

Port works fine for literally anything else.

Light bulb moment, I use that port for Arduino. Maybe that's affecting it?

[forest steppe]

Never had issues like that with mine

[sand valley]

I have no clue why windows wanted to use most of my ram

I’ll see what it’s like tomorrow

maybe swap them around

[dawn kiln]

My laptop has a RAM issue

[sick yoke]

my laptop is an issue lel

[sinful monolith]

nom

[gilded stone]

hit em with the 64GB RAM

run everything at the same time

[distant zodiac]

64gb of ram will be good for 4 chrome tabs, at a stretch maybe 5

[sand valley]

lol

12.8 is being used

i dont know why

maybe its just windows doing 64bit stuff

nom

[sand valley]

literally nothing is being used and its really annoying seeing my ram at 40-50%

does anyone know how to free up cached ram

14.7gb of it is cached

[spiral yew]

clean out your cookies and browser history

[sand valley]

that is an idea

[spiral yew]

i use firefox and have it set to delete browser history and cookies after i close the browser

[sand valley]

15.1 cached now

still clearing history

k im just gonna try a restart

[spiral yew]

k

[sand valley]

much better

[spiral yew]

nice

[dawn kiln]

should I be scared? When i plugged in my kindle it tried unlocking itself and kept doing the password 7777 several times until it said it was entered incorrectly too many times and gave me the option to wait, reset the password, or factory reset. Factory reset got highlighted. I shut it off and powered it back on. When I took it out of sleep mode it made weird noises

[sinful monolith]

sounds like it's damaged somehow

[sand valley]

yea that sounds damaged

[bronze minnow]

@sand valley cleanmem is good for memory leaks or ReduceMemory

[sick yoke]

Would it be practical to get a monitor with a laptop? Because the whole point of a laptop is portability right?

[sinful monolith]

it depends

if you spend a lot of time somewhere specific, but also need to carry the laptop around a lot, it might make sense to get a monitor for it

there are also some travel monitors, which usually aren't very good, but do their jobs

[sick yoke]

I spend a lot of time in one place and I don't really need to move it around a lot but i do use my desk for other things and would need to move it out of the way

I think my desk is 2x4 feet if that helps?

[sinful monolith]

might have trouble fitting both a laptop and a monitor comfortably on a desk that small

[sick yoke]

I see, thanks for the help.

[wide temple]

You could mount the monitor on an arm so you can swing it out the way, giving you more desk space

[sick yoke]

yeah, but that's complicated and would cost more

:/

[wide temple]

Monitor arms are relatively simple, you could get one that just does up and down, those are fairly cheap assuming you don't need something heavy duty

[spiral yew]

https://www.amazon.com/VIVO-Computer-Free-Standing-Adjustable-STAND-V001H/dp/B01FE2BCR8/ref=sr_1_4?fst=as%3Aoff&qid=1570305815&refinements=p_89%3AVIVO&rnid=2528832011&s=office-products&sr=1-4

[sick yoke]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

that actually looks pretty good

[spiral yew]

most monitor stands come with screws to attach your monitor to the stand

[wide temple]

You can also get one of those fancy book style tops which you can prop the monitor on and slide the laptop underneath

[sand valley]

My setup

[sick yoke]

e.e

[spiral yew]

lol nice cardbox setup 😂

[sand valley]

Yess

[spiral yew]

oh look i found a old setup pic from 2017 from this discord https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/307433337126125568/391819753221783552/20171216_230910.jpg

[wide temple]

Interesting streamer you're watching there

[sinful monolith]

[spiral yew]

lol that's a 2 year old picture

nothing wrong with watching those kind of streamers moh

[wide temple]

oh come on, we all know they're not streaming for the gameplay

[spiral yew]

atleast she admits that she wears a pushup bra

[wide temple]

🙊

say no more haha

[spiral yew]

there is one that i follow that has 2 bigger personalities than those and they are real

[chilly imp]

😂

[spiral yew]

3v i can give you the link but don't go banning her

[sinful monolith]

chances are I already know

[spiral yew]

she's from canada

[sinful monolith]

I don't go researching where they live 😂

[sand valley]

[sand valley]

Saskia

[hasty flint]

@sand valley right

Does anyone has any experience with the trust Master tmx

[sand valley]

Yes i had one

[hasty flint]

How is it*

@sand valley pls say

[sand valley]

Oh well it broke in 1 yr

[hasty flint]

@sand valley ok

[spiral yew]

i still have my logitech G27

[sand valley]

Does someone know a good Shop for Nintendo DSi xl Battery?

[pastel lodge]

Buy one with a broken screen or something online

And then swap the battery

[distant zodiac]

They'll probably have them here: https://uk.webuy.com/

[sick yoke]

Hey guys, so good news and bad news. First the bad, my current computer was overheating and dying (yup dying, it was crashing and not turning back on) so I opened it up. the good news is that I was able to put it back together AND find the problem!

unfortunately, I don't have the necessary pieces so imma need to buy them.

[sand valley]

what was the problem though @sick yoke

[hasty flint]

Building my pc :)

[forest steppe]

Nice

[hasty flint]

I'm going to turn it on after a few minutes we build it together with my dad

That's the backside don't wonder

I'll send the front side too

[mighty vine]

[amber swift]

I run ETS2MP with a potato

[sick yoke]

@sand valley the fan is dead and the thermal paste is hard as rock

[sand valley]

Oof lol

[sick yoke]

yeah, I'm currently relying on an external fan

[wide temple]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajJaYGnKpu4

[sand valley]

his face is spooky

[compact tree]

😄

[placid dragon]

You could've used white text Microsoft

[gilded stone]

no that's too complicated

[viral gust]

Hey guys, completely off topic here but I'm building a pc and need storage, would appreciate some input/opinions or such on these 2.
4x 1tb 970 evo plus 3500mbps read/3300mbps write

Or

4x 2tb 970 evo 3500mbps read/2500mbps write
Yes I do need the THAT much space

Not off topic just copy-pasted from #general cause I'm lazy

[pastel lodge]

why so much space tho

[viral gust]

Games

Jk

Unless...

[pastel lodge]

[spiral yew]

well i've almost used half of a 2TB HDD just for games

if i were to install all of my steam games i'd need at least a 6TB HDD

[proud plaza]

Rate my desktop: ( note it is custom )
Intel i7 3rd gen. Clocked at 3.40ghz with 32gb of ram and a NVIDIA Gtx 960..
Rate 1-10..

[gilded stone]

better than mine

[proud plaza]

Whats yours @gilded stone ?

[gilded stone]

i3 3220, 8GB RAM, and a GTX 1050

basically half your i7

[proud plaza]

Gtx 1050 isnt bad.. its a really good gpu tbh

Better than a 960 for sure

[gilded stone]

no

the 960 is about the same

[proud plaza]

Beg to differ.. but anyway, depends what the i3 is clocked at..

Do you know how many ghz?

[gilded stone]

3.3

[proud plaza]

Thats not bad

Also Comparing the 960 to a 1050, really the 960 has better statistics, but the 1050 gets a few more frames on certain games

So yeah your partially right..

If its the ti, then theyre both evenly matched but if its not then the 960 blows it away lol

[gilded stone]

yeah the 960 is better

[void prawn]

ok, can someone help me? i just bought a new pc and it says it has aerocool fans, but when i try to install the software is says no device detected

[agile ermine]

Which software?

[void prawn]

the aerocool one

[agile ermine]

The fans are plugged on an aerocool fan hub?

If not, you will have to use the softwares from your motherboard manufacturer

[void prawn]

well idk it's prebuild

and it says aerocool in front of the pc

where are the 3 fans

[agile ermine]

I can't tell you where your fans are plugged in

But its probably the motherboard that controls them, so you should try

[void prawn]

so i should type the motherboards name and then install that driver?

[agile ermine]

Yeah, all the motherboard manufacturers have dedicated softwares

[void prawn]

ok, thanks

ok so i found the thing but there are multiple of them

which one?

does someone know?

[sinful monolith]

VGA and Audio are drivers, BIOS is the basic I/O for the motherboard...

[agile ermine]

@void prawn these are the drivers, thats probably not what you're looking for

There is asus suite III, but Im not sure it is compatible with your mobo...

[void prawn]

so what should i do

[agile ermine]

Asus fan 2+ should work though

Just download the software from the asus website

[void prawn]

asus fan 2?

[agile ermine]

*asus fan xpert 2

[void prawn]

ok i will try it when i finish the match

[agile ermine]

Just checked, the latest one is fan xpert 4, thats the one you should download to control your fans speed

[void prawn]

just the speed or the color too ?

[agile ermine]

If you have rgb fans, you will also have to download asus aura

[void prawn]

ok

thx

yes they are rgb

but now are only on pink

thx for ur time

[agile ermine]

Np

[void prawn]

wow

how idiot can i be

i had a buton on the pc all the time

omggg

[agile ermine]

[void prawn]

it's the first time i buy a pc

and i didn't know

sorry

[placid dragon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/443059372181028865/633787521737818123/image0.jpg

Hate it when that happens

[crisp sparrow]

+1

[void prawn]

Nvidia entered the chat

[sand valley]

where is core 0? 😄

should be 0-9 and not 1-10 ^^

[placid dragon]

On holiday

Core 11 went too

[spiral yew]

Did core 12 go with 10 and 11?

[agile ermine]

Have you ever seen a 13 core cpu?

[sand valley]

buyable CPU DLC :D.... 😄 buy a 6 core and unlock up to 12 cores 😛

[agile ermine]

😂

[brittle mountain]

buys Ryzen 3600
buys CPU DLC until it's a 3900X

seems fair

[halcyon rune]

does anyone know how fix my gpu when i am in homescreen i hear small static noise and when i try open some game it will work little bit and whole pc crashes or game goes black?

[agile ermine]

What kind of noise? A sort of whining?

[void prawn]

if it's goes black it's probably overheating

[cursive cave]

Make sure there are not any cables that block the fan of the VGA. At next, download MSI Afterburner, and there you will be able to download RivaTuner in the Afterburner setup wizard. If you downloaded them, open MSI Afterburner, go to settings -> monitoring -> click on GPU temperature -> and tick "Show in On-Screen Display, then OK it.
Now open RivaTuner. Turn on Show On-Screen Display, On-Screen Display support. And you ate done, now it will monitor you the GPU temperature in real time, when you play.
Please, if you answer, let me know that what GPU do you have, is your problem solved, and finally ping me. If it doesn't help, I will try to show you an another method. @halcyon rune

[halcyon rune]

umm if i try use some stress on card it will crash or go black screen

[cursive cave]

Fine, check the cables in your computer case, or try to use another cable for your monitor.

[halcyon rune]

help i yry download windows 10 but give this error code 0x8007025D

[placid dragon]

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_install/solved-windows-10-error-code-0x8007025d-0x2000c/ccf9be3a-d6d3-475b-a322-e1a761800dcc?auth=1

[remote estuary]

Googling that was so hard eh?

[halcyon rune]

yes

but

how i run admistor when i dont have pc

idk

lol

[halcyon rune]

toshiba power worked better thanmaxwell

[halcyon rune]

if i use same email on windows what i had before does it use same windows 10pro because im missing watermark rn

[compact token]

When installing windows from usb drive, try to use a USB2 port instead of a USB3 port. Drives in USB3 ports are sometimes not detected.

[visual notch]

[halcyon rune]

finally got pc working and i invested on ssd 😋

[placid dragon]

And your download ETS2 and Promods with it nice

[brazen mountain]

Damn that HP keyboard is sick

[gilded stone]

there's a ton of those at my school but they're old and have been used a lot so they're shit to type on

[hasty flint]

Well that's my setup

[sand valley]

a chair would not be that bad 😄 but nice and clean

[mighty vine]

[hasty flint]

Ty

[marble forge]

nice Cars poster

[halcyon rune]

@brazen mountain lol i have 2 keyboard hp and some shitty mechanical keyboard ynder the hp

[brazen mountain]

Well if it works it works. We still also have them at my workplace 😉

[sinful monolith]

here's some tech gore https://i.3v.fi/1571704526-89de.png

that Minecraft world was a bit larger than I thought it was

[hidden shell]

You need more storage boy

[hidden shell]

Ouch

[sinful monolith]

[hidden shell]

Geez, looks like Star Citizen big

[sinful monolith]

it's around 4 million chunks

going to take around 3 hours to convert this world and I won't know if it even worked until then

[sinful monolith]

found out what's taking so much disk space

[spiral yew]

not enough SDK's 😂

[hidden shell]

I use WinDirStat to find out where all the space is used, I recommend it.

[placid dragon]

Same

And it's less than a mb itself

[sinful monolith]

3 years later

[placid dragon]

[sinful monolith]

around 18GB freed uninstalling the old SDKs

[remote estuary]

[placid dragon]

Modern console emulation is a pain!

[sand valley]

just buy the console and the game 😄

[placid dragon]

I do though

Emulation is for preserving the hardware

[fading stump]

Just changed my SSD

250GB nothing much, mainly to store windows on. I got a 4TB HDD for my games and some small other apps.

[toxic talon]

Put your documents and pictures and stuff on your ssd then you have fast opened you documents

hey youre dutch

[fading stump]

Yes i am.

But picture and documents on the ssd yes

But games on my HDD

[placid dragon]

At least ASUS makes installing BIOS updates easy, no stupid plug a USB into this port and mash a key on boot up. Just click update in EZ-Update and it does everything

[pastel lodge]

i got my pc over a year

still dont now how to update my bios

[placid dragon]

Probably a good idea

I can now actually OC my ram without it crashing

[hexed lion]

@placid dragon is that your monitor ? 👀

[placid dragon]

Nah, my bios goes to my 2nd monitor for some reason

And that’s only a cheap TV I’ve had for a long time

[hexed lion]

i thought you have a 2080TI and play on that xD

[placid dragon]

I do, but I just put YT, Discord and OBS on it

Mainly Discord though

[tender quartz]

Spent in all on a 2080ti

[bronze minnow]

@placid dragon Updating BIOS on MSI is even easier, you just plug in USB and press BIOS button, you do not even need cpu, ram, gpu. It fixes a corrupt bios too. 🙂

[placid dragon]

Oh nice

[sterile crypt]

Is 3440x1440 worth it? Or should I stick to 2560x1080?

[sand valley]

when you got already 2560 than next step should be 4k

so nothing under 3840 width

[sterile crypt]

But 4k would probably be a bit too much for me to drive. I have a gtx 1660ti laptop

It is a replacement for my main monitor

And I believe you read it wrong, currently I have 2560x1080 not 2560x1440

[agile ermine]

A 1660ti will have difficulties running big games with a 3440x1440 monitor

I would recommend getting at least an rtx 2060 super to run that kind of screen with comfortable framerate and a high level of details

But 2560x1080 will be fine with a 1660 ti

[sterile crypt]

I assume you are talking about ultra settings right?

I don't mind having to lower the settings a bit to get playable framerates

[sweet shard]

bruh, for some reason every windows login rests my G27 in 200° what can be?

[wide temple]

3440x1440 is worth it, even though my opinion is biased

I use such a screen with a GTX 1070

[halcyon rune]

@sweet shard go on setting and change turning

in this

[agile ermine]

Depends of the games... if you run only games like ets2, then a 3440x1440 screen will be perfectly fine, but it you want to play some AAA games it won't be the best idea

Im running a 2560x1440 screen paired with a 1070 ti, and it still struggles to reach 60fps with ultra settings in games like deus ex... with a 1660 ti and a wider screen, that won't make above 40fps, which is still playable but not very comfortable

[sterile crypt]

I do play AAA games from time to time, but most of the time I play either ets2 or rocket league

The most demanding game I have right now would probably me AC: Odyssey (in which I don’t even have an hour of time spent after having it for half a year)

[agile ermine]

Uh

AC odyssey is...

An ubisoft game, lets put it like that

But if you don't play it, then running a 3440x1440 screen wont be a problem

But its a lot more expensive, so think twice before getting one

[wide temple]

If you get a G-sync monitor or any monitor with adaptive sync, you won't have a problem

[agile ermine]

Don't get a g-sync monitor unless you're willing to spend over 800€ for a monitor

[wide temple]

If you’re getting a 3440x1440 monitor it’s gonna be over 500 euros for something decent anyways lul

Makes no sense to cheap out if you’re going all out

[gilded stone]

3440x1440 would kill my GTX 1050 lmao

[wide temple]

Probably

Mine was CPU bottlenecked for years until I upgraded

[gilded stone]

I have an i3 3220 so they go together pretty well

like there might be a little bit of a CPU bottleneck but it's not too bad most of the time

[wide temple]

I was barely peaking 50% GPU utilisation with my 4690k

[gilded stone]

What do you have now?

[wide temple]

3700x

[gilded stone]

cash money

[wide temple]

It dented my balance quite a bit, especially as I went all flash storage

[gilded stone]

I'm gonna be doing that with my next build. I don't want my next system to have any slow spinning storage.

[wide temple]

Flash storage is becoming cheaper by the day now. Worth it

[gilded stone]

I currently have this.

6700K and an MSI Z170 Krait Gaming 3X board housed in a white Corsair 400C.

I have no money so it's been like this for a while. My old laptop dying and me having to buy a computer and upgrade it so it's usable for gaming set me back quite a bit so I haven't been able to get this thing in a functional state.

Not having a job doesn't help either.

[sterile crypt]

Last question in my search for a new monitor, IPS or VA. I do love some good blacks but I'm afraid I'll lose out on colors

[gilded stone]

A good IPS panel will have good contrast.

Probably

[sterile crypt]

IPS is always 1000:1, VA is 3000:1 most of the time

[gilded stone]

h m m

[wide temple]

Viewing angles are really important on a wide monitor

[sterile crypt]

At my normal viewing distance the outer edges would have an angle of 56 degrees

[hexed lion]

I mean.. most of the time you'll see colors unless you play Metro and stay in the tunnels all day.

In my opinion Colors > deep black

And about G-Sync. You can get a AMD Freesync monitor and activate G-Sync on it if you have a nVidia GPU

[void prawn]

Yo, does someone know what should i do if i get 85 C when playing games?

[flat grove]

Playing what game(s)?
CPU or GPU Temp?
After how many hrs of playing?

Also what are your specs? CPU? GPU? Cooler?

[sterile crypt]

@void prawn Are you on laptop or desktop?

[void prawn]

Desktop

Rx 580 8gb

I5 9400f

3 fans

After 30m

Cpu max 92 gpu max 87

Playng Cod ww2

[cursive cave]

What PC case do you own? Bad airflow can cause this kind of errors.

Do you often vacuum your PC?

[void prawn]

I don't really know but it's aerocool

And i just bought it like 2 weeks

[cursive cave]

Could you send an image from it, please?

[void prawn]

Yeah

[cursive cave]

So yeah, there is the problem. This PC has got a fully blocked front. It does not matter how many fans does it have, because there is only a very small place where the cold air can go into your case.

Also, as far as I see, you do not have a rear fan.

[void prawn]

Well, the shop that i bought it from said it will have 4 but came with 3

[cursive cave]

Now this pc case works like a hotbox.

[void prawn]

So what should i do?

[distant sparrow]

throw it out the window

[cursive cave]

Buy a fan to the rear panel.

Firstl

Y

[void prawn]

I don't have a window :d

Well idk how to install a fan or smh

I can't just like make anything else?

[cursive cave]

Do you have any experience in BIOS settings? It could help you a little bit.

[void prawn]

Well one time i entered bios on my laptop

That's it

[cursive cave]

Oof...

[void prawn]

But you can tell me

[distant sparrow]

So you aren't tech savvy

[void prawn]

I really need help, i just bought this pc and can't play games

It has fps

But no cooling

[distant sparrow]

At least your room will be warm and you don't have to use fire which damages the earth.

[cursive cave]

Yes, I can catch your point. Can you bring it back to the shop and ask for a refund? I can recommend you a case that has got a really cool airflow.

[void prawn]

I'm gonna call them

[cursive cave]

Ok nice.

[void prawn]

But the shop is closed now and tmr

[distant sparrow]

Well, wait

[void prawn]

Yea

But i can't enter bios like u said?

[cursive cave]

Later, the case that I recommend you is the Cooler Master mastercase H500. It has got perfect airflow, I own it too.

[void prawn]

If helps i can do it

[cursive cave]

Add me on discord, we can talk about it in pm, and not there to not spam the #tech channel.

[distant sparrow]

But then I can't help :(

🙁

[spiral yew]

@void prawn is there anyway you can remove the front panel if patrik hasn't already suggested that

[void prawn]

idk

i can give you the case

and u can look

it has some little holes

in the front

[spiral yew]

do you know what the case is called?

[void prawn]

private

i'm gonna get my screwdriver

and get to work

[light palm]

Was looking at new laptops, not looking for the best thing out there as I stick to a few games (not interested in desktop as I need something portable) are these specs good enough to run truckersmp in populated areas with at least high graphic settings in game. Also open to suggestions. (Nothing more than 870€)

[chilly imp]

If my £200 PC will manage, that definitely will 😂

[placid dragon]

For high FPS in high traffic situations on TMP you want a decent CPU

[light palm]

Is this any better? I don’t know much about laptops and PC’s in general. @placid dragon

Or even this

[placid dragon]

And even then my PC struggles with a lot of people around and it's overkill

And I'm not sure about laptop CPU's but I'll take a quick look for you

Okay the last one you posted is much better for gaming since it has a slightly less powerful CPU, but the GPU in it is much better

[chilly imp]

^

[placid dragon]

Only downside is that it has less storage, but it is an SSD

[light palm]

Okay great, I’ve found the same one but with 512gb ssd so I’ll probably go with that 👍

as I said, I’m only onto a few games

into*

[placid dragon]

Fair enough, that laptop will allow you to set a lot of games to high graphics and possibly ultra for some older titles

[light palm]

Thanks for the help

[placid dragon]

No problem

[agile ermine]

You can spec your laptop on pcspecialist if you're in europe, idk for other regions

Nevermind, it might be too expensive for a low end laptop

[hasty flint]

This is my beast

Rtx 2080 super aorus

Ryzen 7 3700x

32gb Trident Z neo

Nzxt Kraken X52

Aorus X570 ultra

Bequiet! Straight Power 11 750 watt

Phanteks Enthoo Luxe tempered glas

Phanteks idk gpu bracket

[remote estuary]

[void prawn]

🤐

[hasty flint]

And my pc also struggles In Duisburg 30fps avg

Wqhd

And everything on max

[remote estuary]

It doesn't matter how powerful is your PC, in ETS2. You will always lag when there are a lot of people nearby. This is because the game uses like one core and it is not optimised for MP

[eager fossil]

can anyone help me?

i played modern warfare and my pc crashed, is a AMD Ryzen 5 2600 with 3400 MHz good or should i get a better cpu?

[marble chasm]

what kind of "crash" bluescreen ? blackscreen ?

pc extremly hot ?

what other components you have in your pc ?

[hasty flint]

@eager fossil hmmm the ryzen 5 2600 isn't even a bad cpu

[eager fossil]

its doing the bbbbb sound

and my screen is still on but i cant do anything

[remote estuary]

Press the power button for 5secs
Wait a bit and reboot

[eager fossil]

but how can i solve the problem

[chilly imp]

the bbbbb sound

It could be overheating, or something in your system isn't up to the task so it's dying a death

[eager fossil]

CPU overheating?

[chilly imp]

it's a possibility

[eager fossil]

i got the stock cooler -.-

[remote estuary]

Nothing wrong with that tbh

[chilly imp]

for an R5? That's not terrible

better than Intel's 😂

[eager fossil]

the cooler is weak

[remote estuary]

[chilly imp]

well what's the rest of your system like?

let's narrow it down to what might be wrong

[remote estuary]

The Wraith RGB cooler from AMD is cool and effective

[eager fossil]

GPU is getting hot CPU sometimes

wait i can tell you which things got in my pc

[chilly imp]

what GPU, RAM, etc.

see if it's up to the task

[eager fossil]

Case: Chieftec Scorpion II
Mainboard: Gigabyte B450 AORUS ELITE
SSD: 500GB
HDD: 4TB
RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4-3600 DIMM
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor, 3400 MHz
CPU Cooler: Ryzen Stock Cooler
GPU: Radeon RX Vega 64
Power Supply: be quiet! 700 Watt Pure Power 11
@chilly imp

[chilly imp]

okay, so how much RAM do you have? 8GB, 16?

[eager fossil]

16

[chilly imp]

alright

and are all your drivers and updates and stuff all up-to-date?

[eager fossil]

what u mean?

[compact cove]

3600 on ram is a bit too much for that cpu, knock it down to 3200

[eager fossil]

how?

[remote estuary]

In the BIOS ofc

[eager fossil]

-.-

[agile ermine]

That motherboard can't even support ram at 3600mhz...

So its probably running at the 2133mhz base speed...

Ram might not be the issue, but you might change its settings to 3200mhz if its not the case

You should check the cpu temps with some software like ryzen master

[void prawn]

.

[sand valley]

cant decide... got an old pc with i5 and GTX 750 Ti... add a capture card in this one and use as streaming pc... or put the 750ti as 2nd gpu in main pc and use it there in OBS as encoding device

[sterile crypt]

What cpu do you have in your main pc?

[sand valley]

i7 8700K

but im encoding with nvenc so cpu is not used

[sterile crypt]

I'd say just put the 750ti in your pc as a secondary just for encoding

[sinful monolith]

swapped the cooler on my i7-7700K and now I'm running 4.8GHz

[flat grove]

Air or Water/AiO?

[sinful monolith]

air

[flat grove]

nice

[sinful monolith]

stock cooler was thermal throttling at 4.4

[flat grove]

stable and without AVX offset?

[sinful monolith]

only core ratio modified

stable enough to complete the short stress test but need to leave it running for longer

[sand valley]

OCing is still a thing? 😄

last time i did it was with an Ahtlon XP back then on Sockel A 😄

[sinful monolith]

a free way to squeeze more performance after you don't care about the warranty anymore? Of course it's still around

[distant zodiac]

I could argue this is tech based ('whatever technology based')

Like this youtuber I've also noticed alot of these cheap inverter welder units on eBay and similar sites and they've been tempting me as well.
https://youtu.be/--1lSmtuyUg?t=304
"the stinger and ground clamp are wireless" Made me chuckle 😂

[hidden shell]

I love This Old Tony, he is really funny 🙂

[placid dragon]

Anyone had any experience trying to run Windows 7 on an X570 chipset?

Actually nvm my mobo and case only has USB 3.0 and newer no point

[sand valley]

AFAIK X570 doesnt even support officialy Windows 7 😄

min is W8 or W10

[placid dragon]

It's possible, but it's a pain

I managed to get the Win 7 installer running but once it rebooted since I only have USB 3.0 or newer nothing worked so

Just gonna put it on my laptop since that has a haswell CPU

I’ve seen some people who have a PS/2 port on their motherboard be able to set everything up and load drivers but well I got no hope

But I’ve got 2 10gbps Ethernet ports

[chilly imp]

Windows XP is where it's at

and 2 10gbps? Jesus I want that board 😂

don't have a use for them but it makes me feel cool

[placid dragon]

Yep xD

My home internet connection is only 100mbps xD

[sand valley]

well 😄 without a fitting 10gbps switch / router 😄

[placid dragon]

nvm both ports are only gigabit

Odd one is realtek and one is intel

[chilly imp]

What I want know is what happened to Ethernets 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6

👀

[placid dragon]

Let's just say this windows install has existed for 4 years

So I've had different motherboards, virtual networks, etc.

And apparently windows remembers those

[remote estuary]

Yep, I've reached about 50 connections with my old phone via USB tethering

[placid dragon]

Oh yeah I forget that is a thing too

It's weird how one port is Ethernet 4 and the other is Ethernet 7 though

[sand valley]

Lol i think i have about 400 connections with USB tethering. I finally have LAN though lmao

[chilly imp]

I think I reinstall windows like twice a year at least 😂

[sand valley]

[chilly imp]

that's just on my PC, my brother's laptops has to be done at least every 3 months

he keeps breaking it

<--- so unnecessary

[sinful monolith]

I haven't reinstalled windows on any of my current PCs

windows just doesn't slow down over time anymore like it used to

[wide temple]

I only reinstall to get a fresh start

[chilly imp]

^

Or when something breaks and it's the easiest way to fix it 😂

[sinful monolith]

don't break things 😉

got sandbox for testing things

[placid dragon]

Sandbox doesn't always work

[chilly imp]

besides, it's fun keeping count of how many times you re-install

I've done it at least 4 times on this PC alone, overall I've installed/reinstalled windows over 20 times in my lifetime (ignoring the 6 months working at a company doing nothing but installing windows)

If i include that 6 months, you're looking at over 100, it was painful 😂

[agile ermine]

It must be so boring to do nothing but waiting for windows to install on some sort of slow crappy pc...

[chilly imp]

it was, but we basically had free reign over some of the better PCs while we waited so we comandeered one for playing random web games 😂

then reset that one so they didn't know 👀

[placid dragon]

That's a cheap SSD

But apparently they work

But how to get it shipped to Australia is another story I guess

[pastel lodge]

XD

[placid dragon]

That's a 240GB SSD for like $2

[sterile crypt]

$10 delivery fee

[placid dragon]

Still most 240GB SSD's are no where near that cheap like wow!

[sterile crypt]

It says 240GB but it's actually 240MB 😏

[placid dragon]

No it's legit

[chilly imp]

there's gotta be some kind of catch surely

[sterile crypt]

It simply can't be that cheap

[chilly imp]

like it's a repurposed floppy disk or some stuff

[placid dragon]

These guys used one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJkaizRujWM

[chilly imp]

🕵

[placid dragon]

Windows XP remnants in Windows 10

[pastel lodge]

lol

[chilly imp]

👀 👌

[placid dragon]

It’s cool to see that it’s all built on the same kernel

Deep inside they’re all the same thing

Windows NT iirc

[chilly imp]

aye I believe so 👀

[sinful monolith]

which has improved over time though

[spiral yew]

https://youtu.be/8ZtInClXe1Q?t=11

[wide temple]

Someone want to buy me a new GPU? https://youtu.be/1_HvBaD3imk

[chilly imp]

ouchhh

[chilly imp]

whoaaa

I just found out that you can do a screenshot of a specific region with win+shift+s

[sinful monolith]

@wide temple I remember getting similar artifacting when I pushed my GPU memory clocks too far... tried turning those down?

[wide temple]

I only have a +50 memory OC, but I've reset everything to the stock values. Hopefully that will help in the meantime as I guess the silicon has degraded enough that it can't OC as high anymore

[sinful monolith]

I had it with any memory OC at all

I could go well above the normal core clock but any memory OC and it pooped

[eager fossil]

man I got a 60 Hz Monitor... I want a better one but i dont know which is good for gaming and cheap

In Rust im getting like 80 FPS but I just can play with 60 FPS 😐

[sterile crypt]

Do you regularly play games where you get like 144 fps?

[pastel lodge]

i honestly dont now why people lock their fps to their monitor hz

[wide temple]

To reduce screen tearing

[sterile crypt]

Example, I can hit 80 fps in a game while I have a 60Hz monitor. I get screen tearing all over the place. If I then enable VSync the game looks much smoother at locked 60 then at unlocked

[pastel lodge]

i have no problem with that surprisingly

[sterile crypt]

On the other hand, rocket league at 250fps looks smooth as hell even though I have a 60Hz monitor

It really depends on the game

[wide temple]

Basically you want to get as close as possible to the refresh rate of your monitor in terms of FPS, but that's almost impossible without Vsync which adds input lag, which is where adaptive sync comes into play :)

I also find that some games are horrible for screen tearing where as others are not, but I don't notice it so much with Gsync :p

[pastel lodge]

xd

[eager fossil]

Cassie i dont know

[brittle mountain]

@wide temple your VRAM is shot

what card is it?

[wide temple]

EVGA 1070 FTW

[brittle mountain]

try a +400 Mhz OC on the vram, see if it still has artifacts

[willow aspen]

@brittle mountain I had to send my card back because of the artifatcs

[brittle mountain]

GDDR5 is extremely unstable

mine hates +200 OC, but absolutely loves +500 OC

[willow aspen]

I hate it that it is impossible to play with multiple monitors connected when they don't have the same resolution in ETS2...

@oak quartz ohhh, cool monitor👌 👌

[brittle mountain]

27" is a bit too much for 1080p

[willow aspen]

Depends on preferences

[brittle mountain]

i can count the pixels on my 24" 1080p panel from 1 meter away

[willow aspen]

You have good eyes lol 😂 😂

[sand valley]

[brittle mountain]

you can call bs, but i do video rendering, i'm used to noticing very small details

+0.75 prescription actually

[willow aspen]

@brittle mountain Ohhh, cool, soo, 3D stuff or "actual footage" (I mean recored with a camera)

[brittle mountain]

3D architecture

[willow aspen]

Yeyyyy, awesome

[brittle mountain]

i use 3 screens, for convenience

[willow aspen]

@brittle mountain hehe, what renderdo you use??

@brittle mountain mee too, lol, 3x 2.7k

Render**

[brittle mountain]

Blender, Maya, Cinema 4D

depends what the project needs

[willow aspen]

Cinema 4D all day long, yeet and Octane for me everytime😉

[brittle mountain]

3900X for days 😄

C4D loves it so much

[willow aspen]

Hahaha😂 😂

@brittle mountain it sucks recently.... as my projects get complexer, my 32GB Ram doesn't do it anymore...

[brittle mountain]

and before you ask why not TR4/X299, i also game

[willow aspen]

@brittle mountain I had to send my 2080ti back just after 3 months in use

[brittle mountain]

because it's RTX

"it just works"

[willow aspen]

😂 😂

[brittle mountain]

my 1080ti is still going strong

[willow aspen]

It was something with the memory I guess, at least what I thought, something was getting too hot🤔

@brittle mountain I only bought it because of Octane 👌

And it was my first PC, I only had a laptop

[willow aspen]

With a GTX 930m or something 🤔

[brittle mountain]

welcome to custom air cooling, there's a 1080ti somewhere behind those fans

[willow aspen]

@brittle mountain Yeah, I thought of it, to take it apart and watercool it, but I'm not sure, because as you know, the warrenty expires then

[brittle mountain]

if a card runs for 6 months, it will run until it burns itself

[willow aspen]

So you would go for it then? 🤔 👀

[brittle mountain]

if rather strap bigger fans to it than watercool

air cooling will always be more reliable than water cooling

[willow aspen]

Will look into that! 😉 👀 thanks man ❤

[brittle mountain]

this is what my card used to look like

[spiral yew]

i have a 3 fan 1080ti

[willow aspen]

@brittle mountain Ohh, cool, will definitely try it out. 👌

[spiral yew]

my case has 2 fan mounts in front of the gpu

[willow aspen]

@spiral yew Mine also, but wasn't enough apperently 🤔

[brittle mountain]

stock fans on video cards have poor static pressure

[spiral yew]

i heard the 2080ti's were plagued with memory issues

[brittle mountain]

no 90/100mm video card fan will ever outperform a good 120mm fan

[willow aspen]

@spiral yew Because when I render, the card runs 100% for several hours, about 20 for a small video

[spiral yew]

sounds like you need a cold room lol

[willow aspen]

@spiral yew Yeap, that's what I think happend with mine

@spiral yew hahaha, no heating in winter 😂 😂

[brittle mountain]

i can sit in shorts in my house in the winter 😂

air water cooled PCs make the best heaters

[willow aspen]

And a CPU that runs 5.2Ghz all day long uff 😂 😂

[brittle mountain]

i almost fried my 3900X trying to run AVX at 4.5Ghz all core

[willow aspen]

Yeah, some false voltage adjustnents and it's done 🤔

[brittle mountain]

1.4875V was a bit too much

it went from 50 C to 103 C almost instantly

[willow aspen]

I would have to look it up, because as I said, never touched the settings again, because I am hapoy with it 👌

Mine sits at around 84 C when doing 100% computations

[brittle mountain]

i get around 90 C on the CPU and 65 on the GPU

[willow aspen]

Wooww, 90 C 🤔 😉

GPU always like 65 alsoo 🤔

[brittle mountain]

keep in mind, it's 12 overlocked cores at full load on air

[willow aspen]

Truee, hmm... I didn't take the 12 cores in account 🤔 I have it watercooled🤔

I only have 6🤔

[brittle mountain]

sounds like an intel

8700K?

[willow aspen]

Yeyy, i7 8700k

[brittle mountain]

nailed it 😄

[willow aspen]

Wooww dude

Loooll 👌

[brittle mountain]

i needed more production "power" so i went high core AMD

[willow aspen]

Woooow, this is cool when someone knows so much about all these products I know mine, but that's it

[brittle mountain]

i've been through 10k euros worth on parts in the last 3 years

[willow aspen]

Woooowwww, shiet

[brittle mountain]

and constantly stay up to date with tech news

[willow aspen]

I built my PC with around 3k

[brittle mountain]

my current rig is around 4k

[willow aspen]

@brittle mountain that's rad I only follow news of 3D things and stuff👀

@brittle mountain how much Ram would you suggest for 3D, I need to upgrade

[brittle mountain]

LTT, TechQuickie, JayzTwoCents, Gamers' Nexus, BitWit etc

i'm only running 32 gigs since it's enough for me

[spiral yew]

get 128GB

[brittle mountain]

depending on your workflow, you can bump it up to 64 or even 128

[willow aspen]

I thinking about 64, because I struggle with 32

[brittle mountain]

not sure if the 8700K can handle 128 gigs tho

[willow aspen]

@brittle mountain my Mainboard can only hold 64 though

[brittle mountain]

then go 64

[willow aspen]

I would need to upgrade everything fore higher than 64GB 🤔

[brittle mountain]

are you on 2x16 now or 4x8?