public-chat

[coarse kayak]

youtube edits take 3mil years to process so will be while before they undo if is case

[wispy marsh]

How much better will the 7800X3D than 5800X3D

[stiff shore]

aoui

[vapid smelt]

69

[manic torrent]

7

[wispy marsh]

What

[vapid smelt]

420.69*

[thin hemlock]

Yo

[vapid smelt]

it will be as fast as the i7 69420666k

[wispy marsh]

[vapid smelt]

dont know what answer your where expecting non of use work at AMD nor can tell the future 🔮

[full fossil]

guys any engineers here?

need help on sign convention on shear forces and bending moments

[mossy tusk]

someone that I am talking to wants to buy a pc from lytetechnology.com and from what I've read it seems trustworthy, does anyone know something bad about this website that I'm missing

[wispy marsh]

[vapid smelt]

holy shit the mark up is allot

[mossy tusk]

I thought it was standard prebuilt markup tho so im confused

I dont know much about this but I'm doing my best to help them lol

[mossy tusk]

the one that he wants to get is this one lytetechnology.com/product/lyte-ember-pc/

[full fossil]

Ltt is very very late to the party on the rubberducky usbs
Ive seen super popular and informative vids on it, and Alr bought and messed around with one

Still nice having a linus twist but ye

[vapid smelt]

the msrp is $159 right now its $99 but the show it as costing $199 and include it in the price

Skytech, Maingear and ABS (neweggs brand) all make good prebuilt tested by Gamers Nexus @mossy tusk

[mossy tusk]

oh ok ty

[vapid smelt]

@mossy tusk whats your friends budget

[somber sphinx]

hello peeps

[vapid smelt]

https://www.newegg.com/abs-ali641/p/N82E16883360306

[hybrid shell]

so funny

[young bloom]

oo

[vapid smelt]

[young bloom]

we need to go to Uzbekistan

[vagrant echo]

No u

[young bloom]

ive already been there

[vagrant echo]

So why did you leave?

[young bloom]

because i dont live there

[full fossil]

Discord on phone is cringe so ig I'll test the slow mode here

[young bloom]

ok

[full fossil]

Ok, 👌

[vagrant echo]

So if you don't live there, why do we have to go?

[young bloom]

because tashkent

[wispy marsh]

What are your opinions of premarital kissing?

[young bloom]

what

@vagrant echo what about Kyrgyzstan

[vagrant echo]

reverse card

[vagrant echo]

I prefer tepito

[young bloom]

not allowed

Central asia only

[vagrant echo]

INDIA

[young bloom]

that's south asia

[vagrant echo]

RUSSIA THEN xd

[teal goblet]

I just scammed Best but out of 270 dollars

Buy

[vapid smelt]

Best but

[vagrant echo]

Still have Best buy in the United States? Here already broke xd

[vapid smelt]

thanks for the evidence ill send this to best buy and your local police station

[teal goblet]

Thank you

[eager notch]

LOCK HIM UP BOIS

[teal goblet]

WWW

[vagrant echo]

If you commit a crime don't say it out loud

[manic torrent]

only if it's other men

[vapid smelt]

biden kisses his grandkids on the lips

[eager notch]

4 students were murdered at my college yesterday, one of them was in my (very small) major.

[vapid smelt]

you own a college?

[manic torrent]

shit

[dreamy rose]

rip

[manic torrent]

I am not going to say things about politics, because that's not what we do here, but holy fucking shit, something is deeply deeply wrong with countries that this sort of thing occurs in

[dreamy rose]

its a Crime to own a College

[fluid ridge]

so most of the countries in the world?

[manic torrent]

not really, no.

[fluid ridge]

i mean murder isn't a geographic specific occurrence

[eager notch]

Wasn't guns, but I agree with your sentiment on that issue

[vagrant echo]

Typical of United States

[manic torrent]

honestly.... that isn't why. That's often the how, but the why is the problem.

[fluid ridge]

my guy you can cross all 5 bodies of water and you will still find death

society's all over are painted by blood

[manic torrent]

hurrrr.

[eager notch]

There were two killings on college campuses in the US yesterday, so it wasn't just my school

[manic torrent]

I mean, I'm not saying you're an idiot, but if you were standing next to one, I couldn't tell the difference

[fluid ridge]

how are you going to say something like that when you have yet to address any of the points i made

good faith goes out the window when one party makes an argument expecting a counter but the other person just goes "haHa yoU must be stoopid for disagreeing"

like ?

[manic torrent]

I have PMed you a study which definitively refutes your idiotic position

[wispy marsh]

What

[vagrant echo]

Is student death so normalized among green jackets🇺🇸?

[eager notch]

Not getting into the guns issue but statistically there are a hell of a lot less murders by civilians in countries where guns are much less prevelant than the US

[vapid smelt]

tech anyone?

[eager notch]

Green jacket?

[teal goblet]

Naw but fr I returned my old monitor cuz hdmi got ducked up and they didn’t have a replacement so they gave me full price refund on a card and it was for 370 then I picked up a lg qhd but it was mislabel as a fhd

[eager notch]

I really want to buy another monitor to replace the one I broke but I'm too poor right now so I only have 1 monitor and it SUCKS

[manic torrent]

just get more money

[eager notch]

Oh wow, I didn't think of that. Thanks

[manic torrent]

I broke my 34" widescreen 😦

[tender geyser]

I would run Twitter better than elon musk ever can 😒

[manic torrent]

so I bought a 27" 144hz 1440p to replace it

[tender geyser]

Dumb billionaire…

[manic torrent]

a literal rotting lettuce would run it better

[tender geyser]

I’m just some kid on discord but I’m probably smarter than elon musk…

[vagrant echo]

During the MEXICAN-U.S War in 1864, The Usanian soldiers wore green jackets, and remained as a nickname to all the Usanian, because the name of their country is very generic

[vapid smelt]

https://tenor.com/view/nerd-alert-gif-19367699

[vagrant echo]

Well I'm elon musk and you start tomorrow as CEO of Twitter but I will still be the owner, if you fail I will sue you for 40 billion dollars

[vapid smelt]

elon is a dick head

[wispy marsh]

Potato head *

[dreamy rose]

head dick

[vapid smelt]

i have both of those

[wispy marsh]

Not gonna lie

He looks like a potato from pvz. Just more square

I don't have a word for that shape

It's a square that is also spherical

[vapid smelt]

the ugly shape

[wispy marsh]

Maybe I'll just call it squarical

[dreamy rose]

Rounded Square

[wispy marsh]

squarical

[dreamy rose]

is that picture from 2002?

[vagrant echo]

Mexicans are proud, we do not forget the wars, the French, English, the U.S., the chinese, Spanish or the Japanese, as soon as they are weak we are going to twist them, xd, except Japan, he already apologized and we are panas

[dreamy rose]

🤷‍♂️

this is a Tech Server

[vapid smelt]

and this is our sponser

[vagrant echo]

I calm down, he touch the nationalist vein xd

[vagrant echo]

Glasswire

[tawny thicket]

Weeee Seagate RMA #4

[gilded quest]

Oof

[modest sierra]

college application essays r hard

[manic torrent]

I am really fuckin awesome, you should pick me bro, cheers, Jas.

[silk sail]

What's wrong with the wan show upload? is it supposed to be 0:29 runtime? https://i.imgur.com/aHPyTC7.png

[manic torrent]

it's broken

[silk sail]

Ah

[vapid smelt]

how many pixels

[gilded quest]

Take time to write something interesting

[silk sail]

?

[manic torrent]

yes but it's about him, why would it be interesting?

[modest sierra]

i don't have time i have 27 hours before they are due

and my main essay is about me building a pc for the first time with my dad 😭

[vapid smelt]

your name says pixelated, and i want to know how many pixel it is

[graceful jackal]

exactly 2987 pixels

[manic torrent]

Given the late stage capitalist hellscape we all currently live in, I'm writing to you to beseech you to offer me a place where I can pay you vast sums of money primarily for prestige, but also for education, so I can get a foothold and a step up the capitalist ladder, so I don't have to wallow in squalor like so many of my fellow americans.

needs a bit of work, too many commas, but you get the idea.

[vagrant echo]

I didn't understand

Nothing

[manic torrent]

I'm helping this dude write a college application essay

[stuck stratus]

na we're not late stage yet

just you wait

[manic torrent]

we are, you're talking about end stage 😉

[full fossil]

What do you all think about this build

CPU: AMD Ryzen™️ 7 5700X 8-Core, 16-Thread

CPU Cooler: DEEPCOOL Gammax GTE V2

MOBO: MSI B550-A Pro B550

RAM: Teamgroup T-Force Dark ZA (16x2)

Memory: TEAMGROUP T-Force CARDEA Z44L 500GB NVMe

GPU: Zotac Gaming RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC 8GB GDDR6

Case: Silverstone Primera 02

PSU: MSI MAG A550BN / MAG A650BN Bronze PSU 550/650 Watts 80+ Non-Modular Power Supply Bronze

[gilded quest]

lmao

[lilac sage]

get a better cooler imo, you could go for a cheaper matx motherboard, no clue what speed an dCL ur RAM is hopefully its a cheap 3600CL18 kit or 3200CL16, never heard of the storage before.

also you dont have a single price here

[full fossil]

i think u meant "storage" on the memory part

[lilac sage]

is this US pricing?

[vagrant echo]

What is a College Application Essay? Not only do you have to apply for the exam for higher education? How does the system work?

[manic torrent]

oh I only know from media consumption etc. I'm not american, plus I did university 20 years ago

[lilac sage]

some colleges ask you to do an essay

topic is whatever they ask

[manic torrent]

I love writing essays now, isn't it ironic.

[vapid smelt]

just send them the bee movie script

[lilac sage]

essays can be good but Only when I dont need to cite anything

fuck citations

[manic torrent]

like I could write 1000 words right now about the camera focus motor and how I'm integrating it using an arduino

oh, 1000% fuck that - I mean I don't mind having citations, but having a bullshit formal strict citation method makes baby jesus cry

I am more of a white paper type guy

[vapid smelt]

not rock "paper"?

[lilac sage]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Dr3tbK here since you cant do it.

[full fossil]

I just want to get the job done, I can upgrade it into 2 terabytes

[lilac sage]

read the bottom

thats why you stick it in pcpp

gonna need an adapter for some front USB or go without the port

[vapid smelt]

13600k is only $70 more then a r7 5700x

[vagrant echo]

Change the case and the gpu for something cheaper like a 2060 and put a better cooler and storage

[glacial basin]

Z44L is similar to the NV2

[lilac sage]

thansk for letting me know

[glacial basin]

Gen4 drive at Gen3 speeds iirc

[lilac sage]

ew

[full fossil]

Upgrade storage?

No i just want to get the job done

[glacial basin]

why the fuck do you want a 2060

[full fossil]

I can upgrade it

[lilac sage]

wtf is that advice?

if you want to do anything downgrade the cpu before you touch the gpu

[full fossil]

What the fuck?

[fervent prairie]

Imagine good prices. 230 vs 380€

[glacial basin]

3060 Ti >>> 2060

and even then the 6700 XT exists

[full fossil]

I need multi-core processor for work?

[lilac sage]

ok 5600 has 6 cores

that should work

[glacial basin]

which country are you in

that can help us with the parts selection

[full fossil]

Oh its Philippines

[lilac sage]

welp there goes all pricing knowledge

[glacial basin]

just use Shopee/Lazada/Aliexpress or something

[vagrant echo]

You will not take advantage of such a powerful graphics card with 500 GB of storage

[full fossil]

I did shopee and lazada

[glacial basin]

alr

[full fossil]

How?

[glacial basin]

budget?

[lilac sage]

?

[full fossil]

That budget build is 1000 dollars

[lilac sage]

Ive literally run a 3070ti with 500GB SSD

trust me my limiting factor was my monitor

[full fossil]

@vagrant echo how old are u

[lilac sage]

at least 4

[vagrant echo]

I want one, please i have a ten years old gpu help

[glacial basin]

my GPU died

[gilded quest]

Moment of silence for the late GPU. What was it's name?

[full fossil]

My keyboard died

[vapid smelt]

rx 6600 is only $190 in America

[lilac sage]

quite honestly I think there are cheaper motherboards that could work.

[full fossil]

Nah that mobo i pick, It has big heatsink and it also have many ports

[lilac sage]

heatsink doesnt a good motherboard make

[full fossil]

Some people said its good for overclocking

[lilac sage]

B550-a is fine you can just go cheaper

[full fossil]

And plus, Its not that expensive

[vapid smelt]

just go intel 12th/13th gen

[fervent prairie]

You won't be overclocking much on ryzen🦆

[glacial basin]

Quadro 4000M

[full fossil]

Oh the misery

[fervent prairie]

At least with air. Ln2 sure

[lilac sage]

7000 pesos? how many USB you need?

[vagrant echo]

I don't believe you

Here in mexico, it cost 500 dollars

[lilac sage]

I don't believe you

[vapid smelt]

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/M9ytt6/msi-radeon-rx-6600-8-gb-mech-2x-video-card-rx-6600-mech-2x-8g

well it was

[vagrant echo]

That page makes shipments to Mexico?

Omg

[lilac sage]

no clue

[full fossil]

depends

[lilac sage]

well the B550m pro vdh wifi is around 6500 pesos

has 6 USB vs the B550-A Pro's 7

you also get wifi/bluetooth which is nice I guess

[full fossil]

wait 6 is kinda enough for me

plus i need wifi instead of buying wifi card

[velvet marsh]

Mine has 12 and I'm using 11 lol

[full fossil]

What are those

[velvet marsh]

usb ports

[full fossil]

no i mean

like keyboard

headset?

[glacial basin]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/LPyksL this is the best I can do and I haven't included storage

[lilac sage]

oh yea the 6 USB is counting any USB ports on ur Case's front panel

[full fossil]

mouse?

[full fossil]

my case usb ports are 3

[velvet marsh]

headset, speakers, keyboard (2 ports), mouse, camera, 2 external drives mousepad, fingerprint reader

[full fossil]

FINGERPRINT READER?!

[velvet marsh]

yeah, it's super convenient

[full fossil]

You're a fucking gamer

[velvet marsh]

oh card reader

[gilded quest]

Yes

My keyboard has a USB passthrough

So windows hello on keyboard now :)

[full fossil]

tbh you can add more usb when you bought 4-port USB

[vagrant echo]

What keyboard do you have?

[gilded quest]

Corsair K100 for now

[vagrant echo]

Thx

[gilded quest]

Idk if there are many custom boards with USB passthrough

There's also "desktop"/standalone versions

[vagrant echo]

Interesting

[placid osprey]

How?

[dreamy rose]

not only will they Zap your money out of Existence they will Zap your entire PC

at this point they may as well be Tesla Coils

[amber cairn]

Those actually work pretty well for what it's worth, I have the version that's more of a thumb-drive form factor. So much more convenient than having to login using a pin or the full password

[manic torrent]

soooo, buy a monitor

[lethal copper]

Uh

I don't have much money

[manic torrent]

....... my brother in christ this is how ebay works.

[lethal copper]

Honestly the one thing I'm kinda looking into is getting a reMarkable 2

[manic torrent]

so good.

[lethal copper]

The concept of a paper tablet sounds exiting if I can run it self hosted

[amber cairn]

doesn't the magic trackpad work on windows? Sure you need a 3rd party driver but it works

[manic torrent]

no idea, we just paid for the thing

[compact gust]

wondering why this chat was so bad
realized it was public
scurries back to pilot

[manic torrent]

I like slumming it with the plebs

[lethal copper]

I can't pay for online stuff and don't trust any web services that aren't hosted in my country

[compact gust]

braver man than I

[amber cairn]

just use the built-in apps in offline mode then? If you want it to just take notes and do monochromatic scribbles and maybe sideload some ebooks it should still work fine

[lethal copper]

👍

Just looked at its price here though and... nope

Better to continue using checkered A4 48 page notebooks

[amber cairn]

or just get something like a used galaxy tab 6 lite or something if you want to take notes and just buy a coarse screen cover

[lethal copper]

Cheaping out on the feel when I can just use paper, doesn't make much sense to me

I don't need smart features, I just thought not having to later store the notebooks was an upside

[manic torrent]

not even close

[lethal copper]

Is ADATA Ultimate SU750 a good choice for a server SSD?

It seems to have an insane TBW

So by my calculations could theoretically be one of main SSDs for around a decade

It seems like it's cheap and durable, with main downside being a low speed

Which is irrelevant for me as it's for server and not games

[forest wedge]

I got 2 pics in #tech-chat-1 can someone help to tell if I can install an SSD in that

[manic torrent]

you can install an SSD in anything

[forest wedge]

Issue now tho is the power plug of the ssd

My psu is pretty old, (so is the whole system)

There is no wire going in the psu

[manic torrent]

you mean... coming out?

[forest wedge]

Wait, is the power cable for SSD directly connected to psu normally?

It's connected to the mobo right?

[manic torrent]

an m.2 ssd gets power and signal from the same slot in the motherboard. A sata SSD gets power from the power supply and sata from the motherboard

[forest wedge]

#tech-chat-2 is this a power cable

[full fossil]

What do you all think about "Asus DUAL MINI OC GeForce GTX 1650"

[full fossil]

Aight I wanna ruin a song for yall rq

Listen to aurora cure for me

Then To Mario kart coconut mall

[dreamy rose]

i don't like political speak but we need Gaben as President so we never get World War 3

[full fossil]

The conflict in this sentence

I dont like political talk - so here is the most political thing I can think of

[devout hare]

Yeah, we have an DEFCON 1
HaveibeenPwned has been Pwned

https://twitter.com/andreasdotorg/status/1592486456387375104

[manic torrent]

awwww yeah

[wispy marsh]

Lolol

[manic torrent]

I think my webcam not turned on yet picture is sufficient 😄

[dreamy rose]

if Oculus dies alongside Meta doesn't that make SteamVR a Monopoly?

[manic torrent]

..... No.

What crack are you smoking today?

[sonic barn]

Bruh I wrote down the wrong day for my appointment and it was yesterday

Gotta reschedule now

[dreamy rose]

how does it not? Steam VR is BIG, the only Competitor Oculus really has.

[night heron]

you know that oculus uses steam vr right

when you play games on steam

steam vr is just a set of tools

and oculus and meta are the same thing so how would oculus die alongside itself

[dreamy rose]

well they are now,

they are Still Oculus. just owned by Meta. because the Parent Company was the rebrand.

[manic torrent]

yes, thank you, idiot who still calls AMD ATI

Reality Labs is a business of Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook Inc.) that produces virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) hardware and software, including virtual reality headsets such as Quest, and online platforms such as Horizon Worlds. Reality Labs is the corporate successor to Oculus, a company that was founded in 2012

[dreamy rose]

whatever. its Still Oculus. the Rift isn't going to be referred to as the Meta Rift

[manic torrent]

yeah, because it's discontinued

[dreamy rose]

if Oculus was Meta it would have been renamed regardless

they Discontinued when they renamed

[wispy marsh]

Metalus

[dreamy rose]

Metulus would be a Better fusion of the two

[wispy marsh]

Metalius

[manic torrent]

It's literally reality labs but hey

[wispy marsh]

"On the way to paranoia"
"On the crooked borderline"
"On the way to great destroyer"
"Doom design!"

This is a song that Metalus would make

[manic torrent]

My love for you is like a truck, Berserker

[halcyon beacon]

Guys, is it a big deal that i break up that "gpu slot safety pin"

My gpu is working perfectly and is attached to pcie connection firmly

Idk how, but i ended up breaking apart that gpu safety pin

[wispy marsh]

Barbarian strength

[dreamy rose]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-squarepants-strong-buff-ripped-gif-24036188

[halcyon beacon]

Idk how, ;-; but it should not be an issue right?

[wispy marsh]

Hmm

You've probably been training agility at the barbarian outpost and picked up some rowdy habits

[halcyon beacon]

Will it be a problem?

[zinc spindle]

Hey guys I have a weird problem I'm not sure if it's fixable so I can't seem to get internet to work through my ehternet back port of my PC but it works when I use USB tether through my phone it shows it's connected with the Ethernet port but I can't seem to load any websites google you tube nothing open any suggestions I've tried doing the windows run key inputs and whatever but it doesn't work I blocked a few devices on my wifi before like my phone accidently could I have maybe blocked my PC from accessing it is that a thing?

[halcyon beacon]

I think it can be dns issue

[zinc spindle]

Not too sure what that means 😅 is there a fix around it because It shows I'm connected with Internet but doesn't do anything

[halcyon beacon]

Wait

[zinc spindle]

Okay thank you

[halcyon beacon]

https://youtu.be/NVCh_ECxgGw

[halcyon beacon]

Here try this

[zinc spindle]

Thanks so much 🦾

[prisma ermine]

60ms 4k monitor ok for video editing

reference monitor

[full fossil]

When you join a cod match late but still end at the top of leaderboard 😌

[dreamy rose]

when you get filled a lobby of 6 year olds

[full fossil]

Nah i heard em

Make some grown ass men shit their pants

Also aren’t you literally 6 lmao

[dreamy rose]

fuck no. i know what a Good game is

[fossil dirge]

I play Overwatch 2 and Valorant

[dreamy rose]

so i dont laze around playing Fortnite or Apex. i sit here playing on Source games and N64

by source games i mean portal 2. because thats the only one i own at this point

[thorny helm]

Finished assembling my pc, turns out both my drives one hdd and one ssd are the exact same size, what do i do xDDDD

Windows install doesnt name them lol

[midnight gazelle]

That's an interesting predicament

Are both of your drives sata?

[thorny helm]

Lol

One is m.2

[midnight gazelle]

M.2 is usually the 2nd one

[thorny helm]

I'll try, thank you!

Worst case ill install windows twice and erase one of them inside windows

[midnight gazelle]

Cause HDDs show up before m.2s for me

That's fair

[full fossil]

Hello

[thorny helm]

Hello!

Copying windows files finished in an instance, i guess i chose right

[dreamy rose]

take the HDD out and install to SSD

[thorny helm]

I did it right by choosing the second one, thank you jay! And thank you bionic for trying to help!

[dreamy rose]

you should do that with systems with multiple drives because windows can fuck it up somehow

[full fossil]

@manic torrenthi bob

[thick cloak]

hi bob

[dreamy rose]

hi Bobbert Brownie Bunior

[leaden gale]

Yep, there's no guarantee that the disk order a current Windows install shows will match the one shown in Windows installation media

The only reason I don't unplug my secondary drives when installing Windows is because my boot drive is the only one with 3 partitions, so it's a dead giveaway during install

[gilded quest]

Yeah I have a slim one stuck on my keyboard and it's fantastic

[midnight gazelle]

Np! I'm glad it was the right one!

[gaunt cave]

questio for you guys, i know we're all used to seeing marketing lies especially in technology but the lies told in networking gear is like a WHOLE another level...how come ppl don't make a bigger deal of it?

imagine you went to buy an 8k TV, and everything you see tells you that it's 8k but you go home with the TV and find out that ACTUALLY it has 4 HDMI ports each capable of only 1080p so it's 1080p*4=8k AND actually it's not even 1080p it's 1080i at best

[lilac sage]

ppl dont make a bigger deal of it because not nearly as many ppl buy networking stuff or even know how it works

I know an 8k TV is a lie when it requires 4 HDMI ports to plug in for full 8k because I know how TVs work.

ask me if the marketing on a network switch or router is correct. I got no idea how to test it

[gaunt cave]

yea that's kinda what i mean though, it's interesting to me that we've placed so much importancee on educating ourselves about TVs and visual media but like not nearly as much on audio, networking or really any other technology

the dude at netgear literally admitted to me that MU-MIMO isn't at all what it says on the tin, like not even close. "even with mu-mimo you can't exceed the bandwidth of the lowest number of client antennas per channel"

[lilac sage]

its because we interface with that technology

and audio wise its very hard to test

tbh if some1 sold you an 8k tv and it was actually 5k, you probably wouldnt know unless you connected it to a PC and found out for yourself in display settings

[full fossil]

yep

diminishing returns at that point

[gaunt cave]

honestly even with 1080p to 4k, it's hard to tell depending on the video...a LOT of streaming stuff isn't really well done or presented esp. on windows

[night heron]

you view a tv from so far away that there's almost no point for 8k tvs to exist

it's so far beyond retina anyway

[full fossil]

I view my programs from 3 inches away wym

[gaunt cave]

i remember Linus saying at some point that this was the reason he liked the way apple marketed displays, rather than using numbers just the term 'retina'

[night heron]

based

[gaunt cave]

do you think...taht at some point we'll reach a stage where we no longer care about visual numbers just like with audio, cuz between our eyes and how good cameras and photography etc is we'd haev pretty much reached the limit ...i assume that's what happened with audio

[night heron]

yeah we will

we're not quite there yet though

most people are gaming on 27" 1440p monitors which isnt even close to retina at the average viewing distance

we'll eventually reach the point where going up in resolution is a waste of power and resources

[gaunt cave]

i still think at about 6' away - 480p to 1080p was much more of a difference than 1080p to 2160p...at least to me

[night heron]

oh for sure agreed

[gaunt cave]

like genuinely i thought it'd be a LOT more "holy crap" when i upgraded my TV

[night heron]

i had no problem with my old 1080p tv from a resolution standpoint

[gaunt cave]

i actually did, but i think that was more the TV itself than the fact it was 1080p (it was an insignia LCD)

aside from gaming though, do you folks set your monitors to 60hz? 30hz? 120hz?

[night heron]

you should set your monitor to the max that it supports

lowering it is detrimental

i use a 31.5" 1440p 240hz monitor at my gaming pc setup if thats what u meant

[gaunt cave]

240hz? damn

[full fossil]

I unironically want one of the new 480hz monitors

there's just no point though

[night heron]

having daily driven a 390hz monitor myself

[full fossil]

the diminishing returns are insane

[night heron]

over 240hz i would prioritize picture quality instead of trying to get as high refresh rate as possible

[full fossil]

plus if I'm upgrading monitors, I'm just gonna go 4k

time to go 4k 240

[night heron]

240-390hz is noticeable but it's very minor and the pixel response time is more important imo

i would take a 240hz 0.5ms panel over a 360hz 2.5ms panel for example

[full fossil]

makes sense

[night heron]

i think 240fps is smooth enough to where i care more about extra clarity than extra smoothness

[full fossil]

I currently use a 1080p 60hz 10+ms monitor

[night heron]

yikes man anything will be a monstrous upgrade

[full fossil]

it's noticeable delay

[night heron]

when you see 240hz for the first time youre gonna fall backwards in your chair

[full fossil]

I used to daily 1440p 144hz

then i broke it

[night heron]

oh, did it break?

f

[full fossil]

i dropped it like 6 inches onto the corner of a filing cabinet

the panel cracked

[night heron]

lcd monitors are extremely fragile

ive cracked two panels myself

[full fossil]

I was so bummed

[night heron]

we did the same thing practically

[full fossil]

and at that point I didnt even have another monitor that was 1080p

[night heron]

i also broke my original 27" 1440p144hz panel

[full fossil]

my secondary monitor was 1600 x 900 75 hz and like 25ms

[gaunt cave]

diminishing returns?

[full fossil]

yeah

[night heron]

yeah 240hz is a diminishing returns wall

[full fossil]

mine was 300$, I saved up for it at 13 also

[night heron]

you have to make massive jumps over 240hz for it to be worthwhile

[full fossil]

took like a year

[full fossil]

720hz when

[gaunt cave]

oh interesting...didn't think 240hz was that high

[night heron]

same pretty much, mine was a TN panel i bought as a kid too

[full fossil]

1080p 1080hz

[full fossil]

VA for me

The jump from 1600x900 to 1440p 144hz was MASSIVE, then I had to go back cuz im a dumbass

[night heron]

i prefer the motion on my 240hz odyssey g7 over my 390hz acer monitor

1.5-2.5ms response time 240hz > 4ms 390hz

[full fossil]

The dream for me is honestly 4k 240hz

[night heron]

same

[full fossil]

but practically nothing can drive it natively

[night heron]

4k 240hz is the point of diminishing returns for almost anyone

[full fossil]

yep

but it's the dream

just like how the 4090 is stupid but it's still the dream

[night heron]

just get a 4090 and use frame generation

easy $2000 gpu + $1300 odyssey neo g8 monitor

pocket change $$

[full fossil]

plus if I got a 4090 now it wouldn't be bottlenecked

which is cool

[night heron]

it would actually at 240hz

[full fossil]

a 13600k would bottleneck it?

hmm

[night heron]

if youre trying to hit 240fps in brand new demanding games yeah

people dont realize that brand new AAA graphical games are also extremely cpu intensive

[full fossil]

then at that point 14th gen would be out and use that

14900K

or the 6ghz base clock 13900K

[night heron]

14900ks could be 7ghz single core out of box with the claims intel is making

[full fossil]

god damn

well, they want to hit 10ghz out of box by 2030 right?

[night heron]

no clue

[full fossil]

which is just fucking insane

[night heron]

they probably can though if they want to

we are approaching the limit of silicon density though

[gaunt cave]

yea, damn, even now i think 5ghz is a lot

[night heron]

we'll have to switch to a different material or start prioritizing multithread performance and optimization

and make larger core count processors

[gaunt cave]

at SOME POINT, i feel like we'll catch up with physics

like idk much about this but i feel like we're almost there already

[night heron]

we're not far off the limit at all, it's a matter of a few years

[full fossil]

I mean, amd is on 5nm

[night heron]

intel 14th gen is 5nm+ tsmc equivalent
15th gen is 3nm
15th gen mobile is 2nm

[full fossil]

we can't go much smaller for nodes

[night heron]

it's basically impossible to go below 1 nanometer with silicon

[full fossil]

it's possible, but might as well be impossible

who knows, maybe we'll hit a massive breakthrough in manufacturing

[night heron]

theyll figure out something

they have so many billions of dollars to play with

[full fossil]

cuz once we hit the limit of silicon density, we'd just have to go bigger or optimize

[sonic spruce]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/155258680593?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=JrzT_GEYTaK&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=-ie92xqqthi&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[sonic spruce]

BigCheese

[gaunt cave]

we're already well past the point where crazy quantum shenanigans happen, we still don't understand 100%

[night heron]

it seems like theyre already preparing for the switch to multithread prioritization

[full fossil]

When we hit 1 nm, we'd absolutely wreck current power efficiency

[night heron]

i mean we have 24 cores on mainstream now

[full fossil]

yup

fucking 14 core i5's

still insane to me

[gaunt cave]

this is what i want to see, there's SO MUCH room for growth here, much easier than "less nm"

[full fossil]

not even that long ago, even 16 core cpus were server-exclusive

[night heron]

now amd just released a 96 core epyc processor

[full fossil]

yep

[night heron]

that supports 12 channel ddr5 and has well over a hundred pcie 5.0 lanes

[full fossil]

96 cores per goddamn socket

[night heron]

true that

[full fossil]

192 cores in a dual socket machine

[night heron]

hopefully programs get better and better at using all threads to their advantage

[gaunt cave]

WHAT? where?

[full fossil]

new amd epyc cpus

[night heron]

im sick of seeing myself be at like 15% overall cpu usage but being bottlenecked

because it's only using 1/2 cores

my foot is completely asleep

[full fossil]

Yeah, single threaded optimization is outdated and stupid at this point

[full fossil]

I stretched my leg and it cramped

I am in so much pain

[night heron]

you ever wake up in bed and immediately stretch ur leg out

[full fossil]

yes

[night heron]

and get an insane cramp

[full fossil]

it happened like that, except in a chair

[night heron]

and then you hold your breath as a tear runs down your face

[gaunt cave]

BAHAH that TDP though, is like a GPU

[full fossil]

400w tdp isnt that dumb though

[gaunt cave]

no, not for what you're getting that's fair

96Core/192 threads, damn

[full fossil]

it's actually efficient

waiting for 128 cores per socket

256 thread

1024 thread in a quad socket system

[full fossil]

yep

the best thing to do is to immediately stand up

it helps, next time it happens try it

trust

[gaunt cave]

so if i have one of those new Epyc CPU's...and a 4090...would i need like 1200W PSU?

[full fossil]

for people with epyc

you wouldn't use 1 gpu, you'd use 6

[gaunt cave]

or more? what's the thumb rule here? +30% or +100%?

[full fossil]

usually I like to keep a 30% surplus of power

[gaunt cave]

dude that's like 4000w just with CPU+GPU+small headroom

[full fossil]

so if your pc consumes 1000 watts, get a 1300w psu

[full fossil]

yep

[gaunt cave]

so...no 120v? lol

[full fossil]

and most servers are redundant

[full fossil]

oh yeah

[gaunt cave]

i think that's hilarious...that you need 240v power for a PC cuz too many watts

[full fossil]

240 or 480v

[gaunt cave]

480 is a thing?

[full fossil]

some servers use 480v cuz less amps per watt and more efficient conversion I believe

[night heron]

technically the most efficient setup is to have twice as much power as you need

but that’s more upfront cost

a psus max efficiency point is around 50% usage

[gaunt cave]

yea i just upgraded my GPU and pcpartpicker says i'm at like 550W or so but dont want to upgrade from 850w yet

[full fossil]

thats PLENTY

[sonic spruce]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/155258680593?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=JrzT_GEYTaK&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=-ie92xqqthi&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Is this good or bad?

Like is it worth replacing

My i5 3570s with it

[full fossil]

Old

I’d replace

[fossil dirge]

I don't think eBay is a good site to buy PC parts

[full fossil]

It’s fine

[lilac sage]

ive seen you say this about half a dozen times

personally

save ur cash for a better upgrade

unless you can sell the 3570S for like 20 bucks profit

[hybrid shell]

what are third party sellers on amazon?

[midnight gazelle]

Non amazon sellers

[hybrid shell]

ohhh

[quaint drum]

What flavor of Wingstop wings do I get

[indigo widget]

You don't. Wingstop isnt good.

[hollow pulsar]

Wingstop is delicious. Maybe it's the local one having issues?

[night heron]

i’ve never had wingstop

[wispy marsh]

Do you guys just chew on chilli whenever you have the urge to eat something?

[night heron]

i live in NY so there’s hella pizza shops with their own wings

i actually just had chili for lunch

[full fossil]

no

[night heron]

like the meal not the pepper

[wispy marsh]

Why would they have wings at a pizza shop

[night heron]

pizza and wings

[wispy marsh]

That's chili

[night heron]

that’s the default combo

[wispy marsh]

I mean chilli

[full fossil]

want pizza now.

[wispy marsh]

So the pizza delivers themselves on wings

What do you do with the wings after you finish the pizza?

[night heron]

you eat the wings

[wispy marsh]

The cardboard wings?

[full fossil]

Nah the feather wings

I eat the wings and give the bones to my animals.

[wispy marsh]

Don't pizza come in cardboard boxes

[full fossil]

Cardboard can’t fly

[wispy marsh]

No but the pizza comes with wings

[wind pulsar]

I usually eat pizza with vegan kebab (because meat allergy) and sauce hollandaise, lol

[full fossil]

Ye real wings like from a bird

[wispy marsh]

So the wings are on the cardboard

[full fossil]

so my pizza can fly

The flappers

[wispy marsh]

That's what I'm thinking

The wings are made of pizza then ain't it

[indigo widget]

No. every Wingstop i've been to tastes like poo.

[full fossil]

[lilac sage]

every wingstop Ive been to has tasted like wings

[night heron]

cooked chicken wings aren’t good to give to animals

[full fossil]

I'm talking about the bones it's fine.

[wispy marsh]

You put chicken wings on a pizza

[full fossil]

Buffalo Wild Wings > wingstop

[night heron]

the bones is the bad part

[full fossil]

why?

[night heron]

cooked chicken bones are fragile and splinter

[indigo widget]

Chicken bones splinter. Don't feed to animals.

[wispy marsh]

The pizza would be full of chicken wing bones

[night heron]

not advised to give to dogs

[gilded quest]

mmm chicken

[wispy marsh]

Hey

Why would you put wings on pizza?

[full fossil]

Never said I was given them tiny pieces of bones

[indigo widget]

to fly...

[fossil frost]

There is a uefi tool I saw a few months ago, it lets you edit advanced/hidden bios settings via a uefi app on amd laptops. But cannot remember what it's called, anybody remember what it is? I seem to remember that it was maybe 1usmus who may have released it

[lilac sage]

brother if you give them big bones they splinter into sharp ass pieces

[wispy marsh]

So they're cooked wings

But cooked wings make the pizza...

[full fossil]

The wings are Not cooked

[lapis mantle]

is a hp probook 645 g4 a good laptop for like casual and normal grpahics gaming?

[wispy marsh]

So you have raw wings and bake it with the pizza

[full fossil]

Bake the pizza without the wings. Then put the raw wings on top afterwards.

Keep ‘em raw

[gilded quest]

casual gaming is probably all it can handle

[indigo widget]

Nooo you attach the wings to the pizza then it flies!

[full fossil]

If I can buy big ass bones to get to my dogs Then I don't see a problem giving them wings, Besides them choking

[indigo widget]

beef bones are ok. Chicken wings are the problem. they splinter.

[wispy marsh]

Fuck, guys, give me a straight answer

[full fossil]

I have never seen a beef bone at the store before

[lilac sage]

usually its a cow or pig bone they sell

sometimes horse?

[full fossil]

Huh

[lilac sage]

ye horse

[indigo widget]

Don't give chicken wings to animals.

[full fossil]

Heerse running

[wispy marsh]

Is it a kfc pizza?

[full fossil]

ah......

[full fossil]

Unless boneless and sauceless

[wispy marsh]

So you have those pizzas with kfc wings

[indigo widget]

Human bones are also ok for animals.

[wispy marsh]

Like them cheese fries pizzas with kfc crispy wings

[full fossil]

At that point why do you call it boneless

[wispy marsh]

No

[lilac sage]

they are tho

[full fossil]

sus.

[full fossil]

They R tho

[lilac sage]

make the best out of an amputation

[wispy marsh]

Kfc wings pizza

[lilac sage]

keep ur flesh in the family

[wispy marsh]

[full fossil]

Have u guys tried fried pizza before. It called calzone

[indigo widget]

So you take a pizza and attach the wings then the pizza will fly around and serve slices to friends. It's basic.

[full fossil]

KFC here sucks,:((

[wispy marsh]

Ok

Fold the wing pizza into a calzone, then fold it twice again

Now you have a kfc wing pizza crepe

[indigo widget]

Attach wings for flying.

[full fossil]

Creppin’

[wispy marsh]

A flying kfc wing pizza crepw

[indigo widget]

Yes

[full fossil]

Crepizza wings

Yall have some weird ideas.

Nah fire

[indigo widget]

Science bro

[full fossil]

😎

[wispy marsh]

This is michael's idea

[full fossil]

Flying pizza. it can now fly into your mouth.

Ez

[wispy marsh]

And it has two feelers and six legs

[full fossil]

well..

[full fossil]

Shaggy and Scooby type shit

[full fossil]

yes

Scooby snacks tho

Rooby Racks 💎💵

opinions on dell pre-builds?

[wispy marsh]

Buy them so that i don't have to dirty my hands

[midnight gazelle]

Buy them if you like to burn money

[gilded quest]

honestly they all kind of suck

[full fossil]

what about the older ones?

[gilded quest]

dell laptops are fine, but their desktops are meh

like old Optiplexes?

[full fossil]

Yeah like the 9020

[wispy marsh]

No mux lol

[gilded quest]

is it cheap?

[modern terrace]

dell's pre-built gaming computers are shit

[full fossil]

U can get them cheap

[gilded quest]

in this context, price matters

[modern terrace]

alienware is terrible and they use proprietary parts like the mobo thus increasing the ewaste of the system (tbh, the entire computer is ewaste)

[gilded quest]

like if you can get an old optiplex for $20....then the concerns about proprietary parts kind of don't matter

[full fossil]

ugh, so let's say a i7 4770 with 8x2gb on ram with a 256gb ssd for 90 to 120$ usd used on ebay

[gilded quest]

are you going to try and put a GPU in it?

[full fossil]

hm yeah why not

maybe a rx 570

[gilded quest]

you might run into troubles adding a GPU

but, especially if you can get it for $90.......its not a terrible deal

[full fossil]

Only problem I see is the power supply, But you could just get one of those shit 8pin to sata cable for the gpu

[gilded quest]

thats my main concern

[full fossil]

I currently have 2 and 1 already burned up using 80watts.

[gilded quest]

I would probably try to stick to a lower power card

[full fossil]

Maybe a 1050

[fathom meteor]

fedex be like https://youtube.com/shorts/Q_-MTPjVOIE?feature=share

[gilded quest]

yeah

1050/ti would be a better fit

[fathom meteor]

sry for interupting the flow

[vale kernel]

Is this worth more than they’re asking for it?

[gilded quest]

https://youtube.com/shorts/Q_-MTPjVOIE

ahhh
the embed is portrait

[full fossil]

What about the 1650?

[fathom meteor]

you can embed?

[gilded quest]

i really do not recall the power draw, but maybe

[gilded quest]

floatplane subscribers get embed permissions in #public-chat

[fathom meteor]

oh

[gilded quest]

sub 2 floatplane

[fathom meteor]

still dont order with fedex

[gilded quest]

usually don't have a choice in shipping provider for most retailers

if I could select UPS every time, I would

[fathom meteor]

we have hungarian posta over here, quality is even worse than fedex

[chilly schooner]

So I know most CPU watercoolers are made by that one manufacturer (forget the name), is there a defacto cheap CPU watercooler on the market? Something that isn't name brand, and works just as well.

[full fossil]

A lot of those used dells don't come with well known brand ssds tho

[fathom meteor]

and to noones suprise the dogs destroyed it

or even more expensive

cant rememner bc a Bestbyte Sales guy told me this a while ago

but its such a big bruuh

[rocky harness]

have a seagate ironwolf Pro, crystal disk reports warning but seatools short and long tests passes. ( unraid also flags it and disables disk. )
any idears to what to do.

[eager obsidian]

Hey

[leaden gale]

Did you check which field in the S.M.A.R.T. status is causing the Warning flag

[frozen sonnet]

does anyone know of any software that automatically scans and installs the correct drivers on a windows 10 pc?

[leaden gale]

Yes, it's called "going to the manufacturer's support website". I have yet to find a single reliable driver detection and installation utility.

[rocky harness]

@leaden gale yes it was Reallocated sector Count

[frozen sonnet]

okay? i didn't ask about that, i asked if there is software that does it automatically, no need to be a smartass lmfao

[graceful burrow]

He gave you a correct answer

[frozen sonnet]

im not saying he didnt,

[lilac sage]

switch to linux and make it a script

[leaden gale]

I've had this one pop up on a couple of Seagate drives in the past. If you use SeaTools CLI, there's a command to fix those sectors

[graceful burrow]

^

[woven stump]

Hey everyone. Just curious has anyone won a argument for XFinity in which you can get their "Xfi Complete" package without their horrible Modem/Router combo? I know people say use "Bridge" mode.. But there is a reason they push that device... Many actually. I dont want it. Looking at options for ISP. Just curious if anyone knows a way to actually make a deal with Xfinity?

[lilac sage]

dont worry aldon I know that was meant for me

[frozen sonnet]

okay, you expect me to know linux lmfao im a mac guy

[leaden gale]

I'm trying to remember exactly what it was, lemme reference the readme for SeaTools real quick

[graceful burrow]

[lilac sage]

switch to mac?

[frozen sonnet]

you cant really game on a mac though.

[leaden gale]

Yes, it's called "Get a normal Xfinity service package and just add the $30 extra for unlimited data"

[graceful burrow]

Not really expect you to know
Just to be open to learnin

[frozen sonnet]

hence why i need an app to install the drivers that allow the pc to work correctl y

[leaden gale]

They will not let you get xFi Complete without their dumbass combo unit

[frozen sonnet]

yeah no, i have many other things to learn, i just need the computer to work for me

[gilded quest]

why do they cap at 1.2TB 😢

[graceful burrow]

Guess you got a couple things left to learn
Like manually installer drivers lmao

[woven stump]

Yeah :(. Its sad. I guess I will just go with less reliability.

[lilac sage]

maybe you could powershell it? i doubt it tho

[leaden gale]

Because why be reasonable when you can profit

[gilded quest]

fuck corporations

[leaden gale]

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "less reliability"

[woven stump]

Other ISPs in my area

[frozen sonnet]

how am i meant to install drivers if i dont know which ones i fucking need ????

drivereasy looks alright tbh, ill try that

[woven stump]

I can get Wow or Xfinity really for my needs. Wow is always having issues. But they are good at giving you at least 3TB of data a month. And are great at letting you use your own modem

[gilded quest]

Xfi complete has no real world difference than running your own hardware

[graceful burrow]

Common sense
Have fun with your adware lmao

[leaden gale]

But why? The only difference between a normal Xfinity plan and xFi Complete is that stupid combo unit, "advanced security" (whatever the fuck that means), and unlimited data, which you can already get on a normal Xfinity plan for 5 bucks more than you'd pay for the xFi Complete add-on.

[woven stump]

Until you get the bill for going over 1.2 TB a month

[gilded quest]

lol when i signed up for Xfinity, even though I was using my own modem, they still shipped me a coax cable

[frozen sonnet]

come to think of it, ive used driverbooster 8 before, so that is what im going for

[eager notch]

I have fiber, I have no idea what the hell you're complaining about

[frozen sonnet]

ill let you know as to whether my genius plan is going to work

[leaden gale]

Which is why you pay the $30 unlimited add-on, which is 5 bucks more than xFi Complete anyway

[graceful burrow]

Don't bother tbh

[dull granite]

article 5 time

[frozen sonnet]

sorry for hurting ur feelings

[gilded quest]

yeah i just pay for Xfinity unlimited data

[dull granite]

russian bombs just hit nato territory

[frozen sonnet]

dont cry about it its okay

[gilded quest]

its dumb, but better than having their hardware

[graceful burrow]

I accept your apology I really was in shambles

[eager notch]

Source?

[woven stump]

Well I want unlimited data. Thats all I care about. 1.2 I go over pretty quickly :(. But for 65 for internet, and 30 dollars on top its 95 a month. For Wow its 55 a month with gigabyte.

[frozen sonnet]

clearly you were, worrying about someone elses fucking problem lmfaooo

[graceful burrow]

I made it the fuck up

It did actually happen tho

[woven stump]

Just was curious is all 😦

[graceful burrow]

They hit poland

[frozen sonnet]

bro just learned how to swear?

[dull granite]

https://wiadomosci.radiozet.pl/Polska/rakiety-spadly-na-polske-sa-ofiary-smiertelne

[dull granite]

not english tho

[graceful burrow]

You're missing the reference

[leaden gale]

With xFi Complete, it'd be 90 bucks instead of 95. Not much of a difference.

[dull granite]

cuz dumb west always verifyin info and things >:C

[frozen sonnet]

i honestly do not care

[leaden gale]

You have to decide if the reliability factor is worth the extra cost.

[graceful burrow]

[frozen sonnet]

?? this guys flexing his nitro on me

[woven stump]

For sure. I will just deal with Wow :(. Was just hoping Xfinity had a department anyone was able to get through to 😦

[gilded quest]

xfi complete isn't worth it

[frozen sonnet]

buddy youre probably using the free trials, shush

[eager notch]

I live in Moscow so I'm not biased at all

Fuck Putin

[leaden gale]

Actually, now that you mention it, there is. If you go to an Xfinity store or an Xfinity authorized dealer, you can actually get some sick deals. My dad's done that before.

[woven stump]

if you do not go over 1.2 tb a month. If you do it for sure does. When you get that $200 dollar internet bill. Xfi Complete is needed.

[eager notch]

A city called Moscow, but in the USA

[gilded quest]

for fucks sake
just pay for unlimited data

[leaden gale]

THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING

[frozen sonnet]

yall cant go over 1.2tb a month, bro in the uk we get unlimited 1000 up 1000 down for like 20 pounds a month on a contract

[gilded quest]

also if you read their terms of service, overages are CAPPED at like $50

sheesh

[leaden gale]

Actually $100, I checked yesterday

[woven stump]

It depends on the area...

[frozen sonnet]

sorry mr xfininty worker lmaoo

[gilded quest]

well its changed since I read my contract a year ago

[woven stump]

I've had them before

I've had the bill 😦

[gilded quest]

but just pay the $30 for unlimited

[eager notch]

Just live somewhere with fiber and stop bitching

[woven stump]

Well thank you all for the help 🙂

[gilded quest]

i fucking wish

[frozen sonnet]

FR LMAOO

[leaden gale]

@woven stump I don't think you quite understand the point I made about xFi Complete. xFi Complete is an ADD-ON to their normal service which costs $25 more per month. There's no reason to get xFi Complete when you can keep your own router and modem and just pay $30 a month for unlimited data.

[gilded quest]

FCC says CenturyLink is supposed to serve symmetric gigabit fibre to my neighborhood, but most I can get from CL is like 50 down

[frozen sonnet]

i hate to be rude and shi but just STFUUUU

[leaden gale]

I still don't trust that dumbass xFi combo unit, it looks like trash.

[woven stump]

Price

[leaden gale]

I don't remember asking you a goddamn thing

[gilded quest]

ISP hardware is sketchy at best

[woven stump]

Budgeting is the reason

[lilac sage]

get cellular and live with the issues

[frozen sonnet]

'ceo of demon slaying'

[leaden gale]

Then there's your answer. You pick the best option for your use case and budget, which in this case is Wow.

[eager notch]

Gigabit symmetrical internet is really pretty amazing

[gilded quest]

world of warcraft is an ISP now?

[leaden gale]

I just wanted to make sure you understood that the unlimited data isn't tacked onto xFi Complete, or vice versa

[gilded quest]

i miss it so much
had it back in some dorms.....they didn't even block peer-to-peer

[frozen sonnet]

buddy its discord u dont have to advise ppl on what wifi to get and then bitch abt it when they dont agree with u lmao learn to shut the fuck up

[leaden gale]

You were never a part of this conversation, you injected yourself into it because you were butthurt about my response to your driver issue.

[woven stump]

Ohh I completely understand :). I appreciate it. I know its not that much and I can afford it. But to be honest $55 a month vs $90 or $95 is not worth it. And I just dont like or trust Xfinity with their modems and forced adoption to get their best prices :(. Corporations am I right?

[frozen sonnet]

you injected into the conversation too LMAO

[leaden gale]

I was trying my best to make sure James understood all the options at his disposal so he can make an informed decision on what is right for him.

[woven stump]

Just wanted to see if there was anyone who broke through the corporate shield 😦

[tender glade]

chill chill

[gilded quest]

then don't get their modems

[frozen sonnet]

u coulda just said i wanted him to make the right choice rather than writing the fuckin decleartion of indipendance or sum shi

[gilded quest]

I use Xfinity with all of my own hardware, and the experience is fantastic

[leaden gale]

You asked a general question addressed to "anyone":

[woven stump]

Happy for you Navy :).

[gilded quest]

I have complaints about my plan speeds/stupid data caps, but the service is very reliable

[frozen sonnet]

thanks for reminding me of something i did

[lilac sage]

the answer is no btw

[frozen sonnet]

jeez its like i said it myself

[night heron]

spectrum internet is extremely unreliable

[eager notch]

Not my experience, it was great while I had it

[night heron]

i’m sure it’s fine in a lot of places but where i live it’s awful

[leaden gale]

I think the point he's making is that it's pretty sus that xFi Complete includes unlimited data for $5 less a month

Truthfully, that irks me as well, especially considering that those combo units are really trashy

There's a reason we haven't used those in a long time

[frozen sonnet]

youre complaining abt unklimited data prices but then ur also worried about going over ur data cap like at the end of the day just accept the extra 5 a month and move on

[gilded quest]

because they'll find a way to do more data tracking or tack on extra fees if you have their hardware

[leaden gale]

Bingo

[tender glade]

chill

[frozen sonnet]

its true though lmao

[gilded quest]

sometimes their hardware is free for the first year of a contract or something

[woven stump]

So for me with new contract its $65 a month for 2 years with their modem. Its $95 with your own modem. Thats what im annoyed with.

[leaden gale]

Woah woah woah, what?

[woven stump]

Thats what I was trying to get around

[eager notch]

Can't you put the combo unit in bridge mode and just use it as a modem?

[frozen sonnet]

^

[woven stump]

Yes, thats why I was asking if anyone could get through to comcast for the deal.

[leaden gale]

Yeah, but it's not particularly good at doing that either

[woven stump]

Bridge mode has issues in itself

[gilded quest]

Xfinity really wanted me to take a free streaming box with the promise that I'd get ad-free peacock

[leaden gale]

Let me make sure I'm understanding this right: the main online deal they're offering you is for an Internet plan with xFi Complete included for $65/mo with a 2-year agreement. What's the speed on this plan?

[woven stump]

The issue is there is reasons they want you to use their modems. There are good reasons and bad. Most of the bad theoredically you can turn off. But since its Xfinities equipment they can do things you wont see in the background. Lots of reasons I do not like their unit.

Gigabyte 1000

[gilded quest]

Gigabit*

[woven stump]

Thank you Navy. Sorry phone autocorrected

[leaden gale]

Okay, so this is their Gigabit plan. And if you try to just buy the normal Gigabit plan plus the unlimited add-on, the Xfinity website lists it as costing $95 a month?

[woven stump]

Correct

But with their deals. you get it down to $65 a month for two years

[leaden gale]

Yeah, that's gonna be a huge fucking yikes from me. I'd personally try and see if you could try and get a better deal at an Xfinity authorized dealer without taking the xFi Gateway, but it probably won't make much difference in the end.

[woven stump]

However, you have to use their modem either in bridge mode or with it. Or you pay the extra money. Simple options. Just trying to get around it 😛

[leaden gale]

Does that $65 include the rented equipment fee, by chance?

Or is that tacked on after the fact?

[woven stump]

That is everything included

• Taxes and fees of course

[leaden gale]

Man, they REALLY want you to take that combo unit. That's particularly worrisome.

[woven stump]

That is why i'm annoyed

That is why I would rather go with un-reliable internet over good reliable internet.

Wow is not horrible. It just has great days and weeks... Than it gets cold... And rainy and wet.... And then it has its bad 😦

[lilac sage]

cellular internet

[woven stump]

That is a option. But I work with 3DExperience for a living... 3DExperience is Cad that is all being downloaded and uploaded for every change and edit. Without good upload speeds i'm not efficient.

[lilac sage]

rip

[tender glade]

id rather reliable slow internet than cutting in an out fast internet

[woven stump]

Among other issues. Just is not good for me :(. So I think I made my decision 😦

[gilded quest]

i can't even pay for greater than 30Mbps upload

[modern terrace]

We’re paying for gigabit fiber yet can barely go past 500mbps

[full fossil]

i cant post in the tech support forum

[gilded quest]

are you on slowmode timeout?

[hearty spear]

Jesus Christ:
Someone bought Steve Jobs' old Birkenstocks for OVER 200,000$!!!
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/15/1136637908/steve-jobs-auction-sandals-birkenstocks-apple

[full fossil]

that was the issue ty lol

[leaden gale]

Okay so I found what you need to fix those errors. First, you'll need to grab SeaTools Utilities from here: https://www.seagate.com/support/software/seachest/

[graceful burrow]

I miss henry

[vale kernel]

This makes me sad

[full fossil]

Nruh

[full fossil]

Micro center? That’s a privilege for living on east coast. Don’t take it for granted

My closest micro center is a whole state away

[graceful burrow]

That's best buy

[vale kernel]

No it’s bestbuy

[graceful burrow]

That's what I said

[vale kernel]

In Tennessee

Like

They have a 1660 and a 1060

[gilded quest]

$500 for a 3050?

[vale kernel]

I came hoping they’d have 40 series

[hybrid shell]

☠️

[modern terrace]

That’s a no from me chief 🤣

[vale kernel]

They have nothing mid to high end

Like not a single 1440p monitor in sight

[gilded quest]

are you in a small town?

[hearty spear]

Tag should be for a 3060TI (Still a no, but way better than a 3050)

[gilded quest]

my best buy has tons of monitors last I was there

[hearty spear]

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/msi-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3060-ti-ventus3x-8g-oc-lhr-8gb-gddr6-pci-express-4-0-graphic-card-black/6480307.p?skuId=6480307

[gilded quest]

thats....better at least

[lilac sage]

they dont put them in the shelves but they prob have FE cards

[hearty spear]

it's only "pretty bad" instead of "porking me in the rear with a cactus"

[gilded quest]

for a while stores were receiving 30-series FE cards, but were reserved for online orders

[midnight gazelle]

I have a microcenter 65miles away

[midnight wigeon]

...

ive been in the server 2 years and i JUST realized there was a chat

wooooow

[timber storm]

🧢

on ur profile it says you joined on jan 11th

(2022)

[hearty spear]

not a random day trip, but if you need stuff, you could def make that worthwhile.

Head to Microcenter, buy some parts and such, and grab a bawls for your trip home

[woven stump]

Tried talking to the store employees as well just now :(. They could not even get around it. Its $65 or $95. No other options. Just as a FYI. Lol I give up with Xfinity. I just wanted to say thanks for the advice. And in the end understanding. Its simple to say just pay the $30. Its the point though. Its the issue of them forcing it. Its just frustrating :P.

[midnight gazelle]

Was gonna go there to check out their 13th gen CPUs during black Friday maybe

[hearty spear]

keep an eye on sales, they're running them all month

[leaden gale]

Yeah, when I first said "pay the $30", I was imagining that it was merely the difference between $90 a month and $95 a month. I didn't realize it was a heavily discounted promotional deal you were contending with.

[acoustic pond]

Anyone here actively use Topazlabs AI upscale?

[hearty spear]

And going shopping on black friday itself? You're a godless heathen.

[acoustic pond]

Do you think they will have a sale on it during black friday?

[midnight gazelle]

Eyeing the 13700k w/z690 combo

[woven stump]

Yeah for $5 or $10 I guess I would not complain. Its sad using your own equipment costs you. But So be it. But $30 for 24 months is $720. Thats a good chunk of change.

[leaden gale]

Agreed

[hearty spear]

good cpu!

[midnight gazelle]

Yees!

Thinking of getting the D4 board to save on buying new ram

[vapid smelt]

Ddr5 sees a noticeable improvement

$170 for a decent kit of 32gb ddr5

[midnight gazelle]

I have 64gb ddr4 I'd rather take the performance hit than spend more on ram

I'll upgrade in the future

[vapid smelt]

Do you use your PC for work?

[midnight gazelle]

Yes

[echo ridge]

Did you see with Walmart with gpus

The

[vapid smelt]

A faster PC with ddr5 would make you more money over time since the work will go by faster

[midnight gazelle]

Integrated systems PCB design/simulation and scalable virtualization developer

Yes but I don't have the money to drop 300 on ddr5 64gb when I go through 48gb on my current workload

[full fossil]

i want to finesse my dads hades canyon nuc

[midnight gazelle]

The difference in performance isn't worth it for the time being to upgrade

To ddr5

[vapid smelt]

Damn it's $400 for a good kit of 64gb ddr5 $$$

[midnight gazelle]

Yeah exactly

It's not worth it for what I need it for. I need memory size> speed

[acoustic pond]

Why does my creative cloud keep making me sign in each time I fire up illustrator or photoshop, getting annoying

[summer sphinx]

i need yalls opinions onsomething

[hoary hearth]

How big a difference is 1440p vs 1080p really? Like it doesn't look like that much when you look at one of those comparison diagrams.

[quaint elm]

Any reason the Rubber ducky video is not visible on LTT channel?

[full fossil]

age restriction?

[quaint elm]

i watched it earlier today. And if i use google i can still find it easily

[full fossil]

yeah id say age restriction

[quaint elm]

Nvm im a dumbo

[full fossil]

ah

[hoary hearth]

I still have it.

ah ok

[quaint elm]

searched LTT and got thrown to ShortCircuit 2 times 😅

[full fossil]

ha

[quaint elm]

Way to first introduce myself to the discord server ey? 🙃

[full fossil]

ong

i am going to steal the nuc from him without him knowing

it will be funny

[lilac sage]

2560x1440 is 3,686,400 pixels. 1920x1080 is 2,073,600 pixels. around 1.6 million more pixels or 77.78% more pixels

[full fossil]

bro did the math