public-chat

[woeful minnow]

It's because 90% of our land can only have ugly single family homes

[full fossil]

Majority of AUS is just uninhabitable desert lol

[manic torrent]

Oh yes that is also a problem

[full fossil]

Y'alls prices would probably fall if people could spread out

[frigid prism]

bruh
average person is paying off a house with their full paycheck because min wage hasnt raised according to inflation
so how do you suggest they just also pay interest on their second property they somehow have enough down for?

[manic torrent]

Lol this is technically true but it's also huuuuuuuuuge

[woeful minnow]

Investing in regional areas? Nah can't do that

They can just fall apart it's fine

[summer folio]

I got 690 Square foot(~64m2) apartment for 485$/month, it's aight imo.

[frigid prism]

if we stop working at 60 and start (really) at 20, then youll be retired by the time you can start saving for your capital gains investiment property down payment

[full fossil]

I mean you'd have to FUCK the environment up to make it liveable though

[manic torrent]

Dude. I am not suggesting people do this, I'm saying categorically that many people in Australia are doing it.

[slate tulip]

The problem I have is luck - I make good money, but keep getting laid off due to no fault of my own, then spend my savings, so it's hard to get a downpayment saved, even with really good credit

[full fossil]

You're essentially trying to terraform the Earth's equivalent of Mars

[manic torrent]

Dude. You have no idea - that couldn't be more wrong

[slate tulip]

like, twice in a row I worked for a company that got bought out then the new company laid everyone off. The second time was a few months before 2020 and EVERYONE stopped hiring

[summer folio]

Thought Mars was cold

[full fossil]

Fuck you're right

Mars also doesn’t have fucking oxygen

[woeful minnow]

Australia is a huge country with many different climates

[fossil frost]

i had a similar issue not long before i bought my house.. made me scared to buy... but then i just dove in... face first... with a "fuck it" attitude... struggled like fuck for a few years, but been fine since

[slate tulip]

Intel compensates fairly, but I spent a year of working just getting out of debt from 2020

[full fossil]

Have you ever heard of coober peddy or however you spell it

[summer folio]

trifles

[full fossil]

Where it's so hot people built their fucking homes underground

[manic torrent]

I've been to Coober peady, yes 🙂

[frigid prism]

mole life

[full fossil]

That's crazy lmao

[frigid prism]

id be naked mol;e

[full fossil]

I'd be a mole tbh, if I had good internet

[manic torrent]

It's also literally thousands of kilometres from here.

[frigid prism]

ayyy

[slate tulip]

I have 2Gb/s 😛

[summer folio]

Australia is also a continent.

[full fossil]

I wish, best I get here is 1gb and it's still cable, no fiber

[frigid prism]

6 Mb up and down

[full fossil]

Bros in somalia

[summer folio]

There is 1Gbit non-fiber internet?

[frigid prism]

aw no! 😦

[full fossil]

Yeah lol

[full fossil]

Probably in the usa

[summer folio]

cool adsl speeds

[full fossil]

So I get 1Gb ish down and like 40 up since it's not symmetric

[fossil frost]

florida there looking like australias dick hanging out

[gilded quest]

rip alaska/hawaii

[full fossil]

But honestly nobody is using more than 40 up

[slate tulip]

yup. But you need more than 1Gb/s LAN, which gets costly

[full fossil]

Very marginal gains on like YouTube uploads and shit

[summer folio]

why is it upside down?

[slate tulip]

I upgraded to 10Gb/s LAN, it cost a pretty penny

[full fossil]

What are you even doing with that

Waste of money

What psu should I need for a 4070 Ti/ 13700k?

[slate tulip]

I run a big homelab

[full fossil]

750w

[manic torrent]

750

[full fossil]

PC motherboards don't even have more than 2.5 I don't think

[summer folio]

fast one

[slate tulip]

multiple servers in a Ceph-based SAN, 6+ multi-node hyperconverged cluster

[full fossil]

ooh, that's exactly what I have right now lol

[fossil frost]

they are a networking engineer for intel... sort of a requirement

[manic torrent]

*typically

[full fossil]

None of those words are in the bible

platinum rated efficiency, so I should be good?

[slate tulip]

my boss said that my homelab is part of why he hired me actually.

[full fossil]

Shintel 🤮

I'm running DDR5 as well, don't know if that changes anything.

[full fossil]

Go with gold if it will save you some money

[woeful minnow]

Ayo Tasmania wasn't left off les go

[full fossil]

Already have a plat one

Anything higher than gold is not necessary

[unique needle]

nothing slightly more power but nothing actual changes

[manic torrent]

Likely yes, but the PSU tier list is the reference you should use

[full fossil]

Ah word

[full fossil]

Where do I find that?

[fossil frost]

thats an efficiency rating, not a quality rating

[woeful minnow]

https://cultists.network/140/psu-tier-list/

[manic torrent]

https://cultists.network/140/psu-tier-list/

[frigid prism]

ahhh what do i get for my birthday

[full fossil]

It only measures like energy efficiency, so if anything is wrong with the psu that doesn't have anything to do with it

[frigid prism]

i require help!

[full fossil]

I know, EVGA has done me well in the past though

[summer folio]

My Pentium Dual-Core E2160 can do 100% Overclock, 1,8Ghz -> 3,6 Ghz on air -

[lone crater]

need help, RTX 3060 artifacting (bought it 5-6 months ago), took a look at MSI afterburn to see its running on max performace for some reason

[full fossil]

Me too

[slate tulip]

This is my current router+firewall:
https://shop.opnsense.com/product/dec2750-opnsense-rack-security-appliance/

[manic torrent]

Still, something at platinum should be decent you'd expect.

[slate tulip]

liking it so far

[unique needle]

something you like 🙂

[fossil frost]

i could make several suggestions, but the bot would delete them

[frigid prism]

What would you do with a budget of 450 on newegg or 100 not newegg for a birthday present

[full fossil]

You want it to run on max performance, that's kinda the idea otherwise you've got a bottleneck

[full fossil]

Tier-A Single-Rail

That shouldn't be causing artifacts

[frigid prism]

aww idk what I like

[fossil frost]

you would hope so... but there have been very efficient, but shit, psus

[frigid prism]

I already have procured za

[manic torrent]

RC car 😄

[frigid prism]

somethign elsethan za

[slate tulip]

Sorry, we don't have anything to do with Shins, only software and computing hardware

[full fossil]

Have you overclocked it at all?

[summer folio]

Why is NewEgg 350 more budget? 🥚

[full fossil]

Shame

[frigid prism]

gift card

[lone crater]

im still kinda scared to game on this PC now becaus of this

[ionic vine]

is there wan show today?

[fossil frost]

1 100 dollar hooker bot... or... 100 1 dollar hooker bots

[summer folio]

Some of the EU peeps can still get some sleep hours rn,
They are waiting until EU peoples sleep gets totally wrecked before going Live

[full fossil]

How many infant babies do you think it would take to beat you in a bare fist fight

[summer folio]

It is the WAN custom

[errant valve]

Just wanna ask, can one access bios without ram?

[fossil frost]

i forgot... most people in here are only just old enough to use discord... and dont get the futurama reference 😄

[slate tulip]

idk, but that's a lot of bear fists. Poor bears

[full fossil]

I don't think so? But I'm often wrong

[slate tulip]

Yeah. Seems like there's a lot of younger people into LTT. At least on the linux discords, it's always the younger ones. I don't even watch LTT, I just joined because someone linked me to some drama 😂

[errant valve]

I see, cause I’m just waiting for my ram to arrive

[full fossil]

I joined to troubleshoot something and now I just kinda hang out and talk about fighting babies

[summer folio]

just download some more RAM while u are waiting

[fossil frost]

was i involved in that drama? im usually berating somebody for their idiotic opinions 🙂

[errant valve]

My PC is built, everything’s ready except the ram. I was hoping to play around the bios whilst I wait for it to come today

[slate tulip]

haha, idk. I'd have to go look now 😂

[summer folio]

You get mail on Weekends? wtf

[fossil frost]

yeah, where doesnt?

[summer folio]

SWeden

[fossil frost]

ah ok.. .well.. sweden sucks 🙂

[errant valve]

Asia dif

[gilded quest]

we get a lot of junk mail in the us

it would pile up if they didn't deliver on weekends

[summer folio]

Every Other Monday-Friday, unless holidays.
Like this week Friday was a holiday
So mail came Monday & Thursday this week.

[slate tulip]

In Little Whinging there's no post on Sunday

[summer folio]

📬

[fossil frost]

yep, its the reason USPS is still a thing :), its paid for entirely by the junk mail

[fossil frost]

uk, its every day monday-friday for royal mail... but any other courier for parcels, delivers 7 days a week

[summer folio]

I remember how Amazed I was,
When I ordered from US once & DHL transported my package on a Saturday?!?

Then it arrived in Sweden, & postal workers didnt work for another 72 hours here

long weekend kek

[gilded quest]

Works for me

[fossil frost]

you need a better system

[full fossil]

Sweden is not a real country

I'm convinced it's a myth

[summer folio]

It's true.
Just 1 giant IKEA store house.

[summer folio]

Just put a "No Ads" on your door, gg ez

Everybody does that in Sweden

[fossil frost]

that just creates a "we look at the ads and get annoyed by them" flag... so you will likely get more

[summer folio]

How? Open the door & shove the junk mail down the mail mans throat smh

(don't shoot the messenger)

[slate tulip]

why? it's not his fault

poor guy

[summer folio]

I said don't shoot

[slate tulip]

yeah, we sent at the same time, lol

[summer folio]

[pulsar violet]

Never watched a WAN show ever and have 20 Months subbed on twitch just found out

[summer folio]

Bamboozled

[pulsar violet]

lol

[slate tulip]

what is a "WAN Show"?

[pulsar violet]

https://www.twitch.tv/LinusTech

[slate tulip]

I don't want to watch anything, just curious what it is 😛

[summer folio]

It's a Show on a Wide area network

[slate tulip]

I mean, I assumed that's what WAN stood for without further context - but is it just a show about what a WAN is, or what?

like, are they explaining how the internet works and what BGP is?

[summer folio]

Linus & Luke going over this weeks TechLinked News, while playing the devils advocate personal opinion with each other about the stuff

[cold jacinth]

https://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/ergolux-london-office-chair-white-frame-grey/36014761 anyone know if this chair is good ?

[summer folio]

Something like that~

[slate tulip]

ah, okay. Who is or what is a "Luke"?

Assuming "Linus" refers to "Linus Sebastion" of LTT considering the discord server 😛

[summer folio]

Low-payed house-slave, used for starting up tech video companys

[slate tulip]

ah, okay. Thanks :)

[summer folio]

Np! :3

[slate tulip]

I don't actually watch LTT, or really any streamer or youtuber for that matter

I'm old and grumpy. Information is better shared in a wiki than a video, and playing sports and video games is better than watching someone else play them 😛

[summer folio]

I like their TechLinked sub-channel, which summarizes the world tech-news 3 times/week in a fun way.

[slate tulip]

That sounds like a good format :)

[summer folio]

like 5-8 minute long

instead of the fluff content in WAN show which is several hours long

[slate tulip]

sometimes that's all I want - just a TL;DR of things

[sharp dew]

no WAN show today?

[toxic monolith]

I've been wondering the same

[carmine coyote]

Nah they can’t break their streak

[full fossil]

Linus tech tips

Lol

[vapid crown]

late wan show tonight?

[gilded quest]

theyre live on floatplane.com

[vapid crown]

okay now they're live on twitch

[craggy yew]

mines finally came in today

[summer folio]

Live on YouTube

[full fossil]

My name is Glenn quagmire

[finite cloud]

Luke is the WAN Show co-host and the owner of floatplane

[lyric plinth]

Looks so clean bro

[manic torrent]

Pretty sure fp is owned by lmg and Luke is the CEO or equiv

[lyric plinth]

If i wasn't a brokie I'd buy one

[finite cloud]

Oh, yeah. CEO

[icy oak]

Yo wtf is going on with D&D?

[cold dock]

anybody know why i have that one my status?

[summer folio]

That was what I said

[full fossil]

[burnt bone]

I think Luke got a bit chungified over the years.

Maybe Linus only fed him scraps in the early years.

Jk

[full fossil]

Can I use two 6+2 cables instead of the traditional 8 pin for 8 pin power splitter in to the gpu?

Don't think I have any native 8 pin cables

[full fossil]

They’ve talked a lot about how tight money was in the beginning and poverty food is awful for your physical health

Like dang, fruits and veggies are expensive

[twin schooner]

is 39C too hot for hard drives in an array?

Want to keep as long of life as I can

[full fossil]

No

[native crag]

no

[twin schooner]

I've heard 40 is the max you want to go, so I think I may look into noctua-swapping my NAS

[native crag]

HDD or SSD?

[twin schooner]

hdd

[native crag]

It's fine

If it was too hot, it would throw a SMART error

[twin schooner]

Just learning about NAS building and such, jumped in with a Lenovo SA120 jbod

[native crag]

You don't want them going over 60c

40c is fine

[twin schooner]

fair enough

[native crag]

https://www.truenas.com/download-truenas-core/

[twin schooner]

thank you 🙂

[fluid ridge]

if it hasn't melted there are no problems

[twin schooner]

I went with unraid ^^ looked at truenas but wanted expandability that unraid offers

took advantage of their black friday sale on licenses

[native crag]

unraid sucks

[twin schooner]

in what way? i've been quite happy with it thus far

[native crag]

You want want a ZFS pool

And parity striped across all drives, not just a dedicated drive for parity which is what Unraid is

[twin schooner]

has benefits and drawbacks, but I went with unraid to avoid having to pick a single drive size and stick with it -- i'm aware that ZFS has several advantages

[native crag]

Unraid is basically a form of RAID 4

[twin schooner]

the performance limitations of unraid isn't a huge deal to me, dual parity protection + cloud + cold storage backup should be more than adequate

[native crag]

If it works for you, but it could be worse, you could have gone with MS Storage Spaces which really sucks

[twin schooner]

oh ive heard very bad things about storage spaces

If I had the money to commit to a single drive size i'd have definitely gone with ZFS

(or two drive sizes in two vdevs)

but I'd like to be able to expand it at will for the time being

[native crag]

Yeah, never use Storage Spaces. It's the devil

[violet lark]

anyone use HONOR X9a?

[native crag]

You have a SAS card to connect that to? It's not a NAS, but a storage array. Not the same thing.

The Lenovo SA120 is basically a high performance external drive enclosure. It must be uplinked with a SAS cable to another server with an HBA

[twin schooner]

yeah

[native crag]

Cool, just checking

[twin schooner]

I have an LSI 9201-16e

its been working great

[native crag]

Sweet

[twin schooner]

I was just lumping the sa120 and server its hooked up to as the "nas"

[native crag]

Yeah, hate to see someone drop coin only to realize the RJ45 is serial connectivity, not ethernet

[twin schooner]

also runs HA and game servers and such in VMs

yeah I got a good deal on the SA120 as well, picked it up (including the HBA & cables) for $190 locally

[native crag]

That's a good deal

[twin schooner]

I might end up replacing the hba at some point with something 2u compatible so I can transplant to a smaller case at some point, and get 2Us of my rack back

but we'll see. not urgent for the time being

currently just in a silverstone case on a rack shelf that happens to be exactly 4U/rack width

[native crag]

The general rule is that the less U space, the louder the fans as they're smaller, more of them, and spin higher RPM to retain the same level of CFM air flow

[small zephyr]

wow i think gamestop is official dead now

[native crag]

So, do your research on that.

[twin schooner]

yeah, I'd just stick some 80mm noctuas or similar in, should fit in a 2U (i think)

[small zephyr]

at least in europe

[native crag]

gameflop?

[twin schooner]

the other components in the system aren't that hot, Ryzen 3600X and a basic dgpu

[small zephyr]

more and more stores are closing

like in germany alone they closed 170stores already

[fluid ridge]

germans

[native crag]

Gamestop will probably be around longer for retro gaming. The industry has been moving away from physical media. Nintendo is a holdout with the switch, but many games purchased online and stored via internal flash or SD card

[fluid ridge]

where the titans live in the walls

[fluid ridge]

the best solution

[sonic barn]

I thought about shorting them when it was 30$ a share

[native crag]

Does the MB support ECC? If so, get that

[small zephyr]

nope

[twin schooner]

it does, B550 STRIX

[small zephyr]

our gamestops the oldest they have is ps3

[twin schooner]

I plan to add ecc

[small zephyr]

and you cant realy call it retro in that perspektive

[sonic barn]

more people are switching to pcs

[small zephyr]

everyone buys ps3 games online or just homebrew it

[native crag]

Very important for storage. You don't want a bit-flip in RAM, only for it to commit corrupted write-backs to your array. Bit-rot is a nasty thing

[small zephyr]

and i think nowadays gamestops main source of income is funko pops

[twin schooner]

yep I only recently built the system, planning to upgrade to ecc in the near future (and probably 64gb up from 32)

[native crag]

RAM performance isn't important for storage, so don't worry about that. Just be sure to get ECC if it supports

[solemn cedar]

Guys my computer was running iffy and was stuttering in games after one bios update, it is no longer stuttering :D

The wonders a bios update can do

[twin schooner]

[small zephyr]

to keep their gaming income stable they would need to work on their pricings.

[twin schooner]

I'm surprised that the ConnectX3 nic I have in there doesn't get too warm

[native crag]

AMD? It's a known issue

[solemn cedar]

AMD cpu

[small zephyr]

horizon zero dawn for ps4 for example: new with all dlc 9,99 used without dlc 17,99

[twin schooner]

the SAS card got ridiculously hot so I had to make a 3d printed mount for a fan directly on it

[solemn cedar]

Running an RTX 3050

And yes AMD chipset, motherboard is a b450m ds3h

[native crag]

Yup, there was a bug with the AGESA code that AMD rolled into BIOS images. Involved USB. They fixed it

[twin schooner]

even with fairly significant case airflow

[small zephyr]

their used stuff is somehow more expensive as the new stuff

and they dont even pay you money anymore if you trade in stuff they just give you gamestop credit

[errant valve]

Gpu short circuit, is there any general reason why this happens?

[graceful burrow]

do you know what a short circuit is

[small zephyr]

🤨 how i am to lazy to turn my pc off and unplug the hdd led

[sonic barn]

youtube channel

[native crag]

Really wish the industry would bring back squirrel cage fans. They move so much CFM with high static pressure and low noise

[errant valve]

Spark and smoke?

[small zephyr]

the hdd led from my case is so bright it lights up my whole room

[twin schooner]

me with my NVR lol

had to tape over it, normally i'm not particualrly sensitive to the LEDs

[native crag]

I would put tape over it, or crush it dark

Or unplug from MB

[small zephyr]

and it kinda disturbs my sleep stupid tepered glas side panel even if i put something on it it will still shine through

[errant valve]

short circuit
Learn to pronounce
verb
gerund or present participle: short-circuiting
(with reference to an electrical device) malfunction or fail, or cause to do this, as a result of a short circuit.

[native crag]

Just unplug the HDD LED cable (2 pin)

[small zephyr]

i know im just to lazy

and theres some stuff thats anyoing on reboot

[errant valve]

Please educate me, I’m just trying to figure things out

[small zephyr]

ubiconnect for example it gives me literally 4 yes launch windows

[errant valve]

It is the yt channel as well yes

[errant valve]

If u want additional details, I’ve posted on tech support

[native crag]

A short circuit is when the electrical path completes in an alternate way that wasn't intended. This will lead to malfunction, safety issue, or both

[small zephyr]

i would need to unplug my gpu to get to the power conectors

[fluid ridge]

ubisoft connect has never remembered my password ever

[small zephyr]

my hand wont fit between psu shround and gpu

[fluid ridge]

it makes me wonder why they have a "remember me" checkbox

[errant valve]

It melted a few things on my card, does that count?

[small zephyr]

or the remember my pc and still ask for 2fa every single time

[hollow pulsar]

Website?

[fluid ridge]

no their launcher

every time i boot siege i have to type in my password

[native crag]

I use a wooden or plastic chopstick to push the GPU PCIe eject tab. Works every time 🙂 Safe because it's non-conductive and wont scratch the MB

[pliant karma]

I haven't opened the for 4 months lol

[fluid ridge]

somehow one of the largest game developers in the world is incapable of making a remember me function properly

[native crag]

Yeah, that's bad.

[pliant karma]

but when I had razer synapse it would not remember my account at all

[errant valve]

Melted, sparked and there was smoke

[small zephyr]

the latch is no prob can reach it from above

[errant valve]

is there anything I can do to avoid what happened?

[fluid ridge]

have you tried unplugging/plugging it back in again

[small zephyr]

my hand would barefit between gpu and shround but i wouldnt be able to grab anything

[errant valve]

PC shut down all of a sudden without warning, so I figured it might’ve crashed. Turned it back on and sparks were flying

[small zephyr]

theres like 1,5-2inches space left

[native crag]

@pliant karma @fluid ridge Open an account with Bitwarden

I'm paying the 10 bucks a year for the Premium. But they do have free accounts.

[fluid ridge]

i have an account with bitwarden

[errant valve]

I did this after the first shutdown

[pliant karma]

Anyways looks like the 130w charger for my xps15 hates plane outlets

[fluid ridge]

bitwarden is my only way of knowing my passwords

[errant valve]

then when I turned it on it started smoking

[fluid ridge]

ive also subscribed and ive been subscribed for more than a year

[native crag]

When you have 100+ accounts, Bitwarden is the only way lol

[pliant karma]

thank you for reminding me to change password managers. I gotta get down to that after the lastpass breach

[native crag]

PWs are 32 characters or longer when supported.

Here, have a 64 character pw (generated, not real) ixytpDUuf&D@nnXU9oiGsC#^hyY3E6pxwAhs$R23EiwDcCs&eTB@BHxN9PuKQuD5

[warm horizon]

lmao so im selling my old motherboard, and some guy wants me to drop the price by $20 because he's driving from a city that's 30 minutes away from me

[native crag]

Funny, because I just bailed on LastPass because of that. I cleared out all my old PW, reset the account, then closed it in that ordered. Basically nuked that bridge on the way out

[errant valve]

I have a backup card, which is why I wanna ask before I install it

[fluid ridge]

true

i dont even know my BA password or my paypal password

if someone got into my BW account i would be done for

[native crag]

Can always issue a PW reset if you know the email addy it as assigned to

[fluid ridge]

idk what the email addy's password is either

i only know the password to my bitwarden account

[pliant karma]

I changed the essential accounts banks/personal email the day before I left for my 2 week vacation . But my non essential stuff I'm not bothering to change it since well no personal info is on them.

[fluid ridge]

the day i hit my head a little too hard and get amnesia is the day i start a new life

[native crag]

So, both Gmail and Outlook.com (formerly Hotmail) will let you pair a Yubico Key. I suggesting getting two. Register them both and store one as a backup in another location

[fluid ridge]

yubikeyu is expensive

[pliant karma]

lol while on vacation some places asked for an email to access wifi so I just used 6 of my burner emails to do it

[native crag]

Yeah 45bucks, but the NFC is nice for cell phone use

[dreamy otter]

I installed VaultWarden the other day in my Home Assistant VM, pretty neat. (Vaultwarden is self-hosted Bitwarden)

[native crag]

Get type A as that can be used anywhere

https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-5-nfc/

2-pack is ideal if you never owned one

[sonic barn]

Magnetic NFC is gonna get phased out

Eventually we'll be all digital for currencies

[native crag]

Also, if you're married, the spouse can have one, and both become backups of each other in case one loses their own key

[formal pumice]

Did the wan show only just start

[random jolt]

2.5hrs ago by now

[native crag]

It's not magnetic, it's a radio handshake where the NFC device is powered via induction current from the reader (cell phone)

[pliant karma]

not related to NFC but I use a bar code scanner as the way to log into my pc

5900x box as my password

[native crag]

NFC is safe on the Yubikey. Not even the Flipper can emulate it

It's not a real PW in use. Just a generated 64 character string that CAN be used as one. It's an example, so don't use it

[manic torrent]

here's me storing my passwords in a keeppass db on google drive like a crazy person

[hollow pulsar]

For each character in your 64 character password, use a random character from UTF-8.

Bonus if you can include characters not filled yet.

[tribal compass]

What’s a good laptop to compete against m2 MacBook Air 16gb ram

[hollow pulsar]

Better yet- what is your use-case?

[frosty sluice]

6:45 xd

[manic torrent]

ok, so when I start MW2 now, my PC simply crashes and reboots. Excellent. Updating graphics drivers now

[manic torrent]

an m1.

[tribal compass]

College, just word docs and stuff

[woeful minnow]

a chromebook

[tribal compass]

What’s good places to find used MacBooks, already check Craigslist and I don’t have a fb

[hollow pulsar]

Why a Mac though? I’m not opposed to it, but the price to benefit ratio seems a bit off. Some folks just like Mac and that’s fine too- but didn’t seem to fit your goal…

[tribal compass]

Seems like a quality product I keep going back and forth between a surface pro and a MacBook, I left bestbuy feeling like I wished the MacBook was running windows on it and that I could get used to the MacBook’s os

I wish the surface book didn’t go away because I like the surface but I like the metal design of the Mac, I’m not opposed to other laptops though, I just like how thin these are

[hollow pulsar]

Oh. I mean. Me personally? I’d take the Mac. I do not like the Surfaces at all.

[tribal compass]

Why though? Elaborate if you could

[woeful minnow]

if your main aim is to type, unless you get a surface laptop theres not much point to a surface computer

[tribal compass]

Right dude I just always wanted a surface pro but I realized the max or another actual laptop would be the better choice once you spend that much money

Or if they made a metal keyboard it could attach to id buy it

[hollow pulsar]

Absolutely. I support them at work and Microsoft makes it a pain to figure out what random combination of hardware is associated with the model. And they obscure the model too. The hardware in general has been less reliable then all other laptops I have dealt with.

[tribal compass]

That’s what I saw as well actually was that it’s hard to repair them or soemthing so it can be a hassle

[manic torrent]

omfg yes. such a pain

[tribal compass]

What makes them bad?

[manic torrent]

compared to a macbook... way worse battery life, heat, size, weight, power .....

[hollow pulsar]

I have a family member that got 3 or 4 free Surface upgrades from a physical MS store because I guess that was their warranty policy? The store eventually closed.

[native crag]

It can be secure, but the problem is that a keepass db can get corrupted or inaccessible. Just go with Bitwarden, or roll your own via Vaultwarden if your into it. IMHO, it's worth spending the 10 bucks a year for Bitwarden

[manic torrent]

how is it going to get corrupted or inaccessible

[hollow pulsar]

It was so ridiculous that this family member - a die-hard MS-Only user, tried Mac and was blown away by the reliability. He just literally doesn’t have any problems with it.

[native crag]

Stuff happens such as an improperly closed handle on the file. Though you can always restore a backup.

Maybe I've poor luck with Keepass in the past.

[tribal compass]

I can get an M1 16gb for 1079

[manic torrent]

yeah I've never had issues, and as you say, it's backed up

[hollow pulsar]

They realized that mistake in their name well after they became a company. Hind-sight is 20/20 cough

[tribal compass]

I just really like the midnight color of the m2

1299 tho

[native crag]

Well, it's better then losing your ass

[pliant karma]

I still have an older surface 3 sitting on my storage shelf. But I've had a love/hate relationship with them. Mostly cause repairing is a pain, then again my mom's work only uses them for the active plant people walking around on forklift/fruit packing area. When they have problems it was pure hell to fix, though I was like just scrap it since no warranty left on them.

[tribal compass]

What it bitwarden

[native crag]

https://bitwarden.com/

It's a password manager

[pliant karma]

But I source parts from laptops to repair other laptops sent to be scrapped when I can working with HP and Dell. Mostly same motherboards, screens, keyboards depending on the condition it is in

[hollow pulsar]

We don’t repair these at all. We just replace and send for replacement. Always fun when you replace a machine and find out the my needed a mobile card and the unit you just gave them didn’t have it.

[tribal compass]

Would you guys go with the M1 for 1079 or the m2 for 1299

[hollow pulsar]

M1 will probably last you through most of college. Money is probably going to be tight.

[native crag]

One day, laptops and tablets will be solid pieces of laminated material. You don't repair, you shred and drop the material in a vat of acid to reclaim metals as part of the recycling method

[pliant karma]

I see yea her boss asked me if I can try to repair them, never will attempt repairing surface devices in general

[hollow pulsar]

I like it. Make is so.

[native crag]

Phones will be the first to go that route. Plus, can dive underwater with them. Screw the IPS stuff

[hollow pulsar]

MS is a software company trying to make hardware and… it is taking them a WHILE to het the Surface right.

[pliant karma]

Hp I've had luck, one of the laptops mobo crapped out, but I was able to retrieve the same model that was gonna be scrapped bent chassy and swap the board out.

[hollow pulsar]

Hmmm… makes me wonder how solid of a choice their GPU’s are..

Tried some AV1 encoding this evening. High quality… was getting 0.1fps. Would take at least a week to encode a 1080p source.

…source was an h.264 though.

[pliant karma]

Few days ago but, the joy of rushing to our everything back in your camera backpack after security tells you to take empty your backpack

[native crag]

AV1 encoding in hardware is too new. Decoding in latest hardware, but only high-end new hardware supports AV1 encode

[full fossil]

they just do that to annoy you

[pliant karma]

yes and panda went petty, you tell me to empty I empty, but when i empty I take up the most bins

[native crag]

That sucks

[hollow pulsar]

I was doing CPU-only encode.

[full fossil]

1 bin per piece

[pliant karma]

oh and i accidentally walked through the with a luggage lock in my pocket so I caused more havok that morning

[full fossil]

"accidentally"

[pliant karma]

so I went through 3 times, first time they told me to go back with my backpack, second time was lock, and third time

[native crag]

Sure. But ideally would be done in hardware. Just pulled up spec for Intel's QuickSync. AV1 Decoding is only supported on Tiger Lake, but Encloding requires their dGPU (Arc Alchemist).

[full fossil]

lol, I hope you were as petty as humanly possible

[hollow pulsar]

Oh. I thought it was also in quicksync on the latest gen. Guess not.

[pliant karma]

I like to test security at different airports so Barcelona did not pass the test. Portugal didn't bother asking me to take anything out of my backpack

[native crag]

Decode and Encode CODEC abilities are always a generation behind, with Encode being the one that lags

Encode taking more silicon and whatnot

[hollow pulsar]

I took my wedding ring off once. The TSA lady got offended. I was proud of her.

[full fossil]

You should pack a knife and just see if they take it. also, you knw the tsa agents get to keep those right? I'd use a tool to break the knife, just to be as petty as possible

they make tools specifically to break the knife

[pliant karma]

ayo

I do have a multitool I forgot to close so the Philips head was showing on the scan. though it was small so nothing too harmful

[native crag]

Naw, you just get a "banana" shaped object and wrap it in foil. Dare they ask questions as it goes through the xray? 🤣

[full fossil]

THERES A KNIFE ON THOSE gets arrested

[hollow pulsar]

Oh they just might

[native crag]

Some people like to pack their toys

[hollow pulsar]

Oh NVM. I was thinking TSA- they have no issues inspecting anything

[pliant karma]

you know what is worst, getting SSSS or SSS on your boarding pass

[full fossil]

whats that mean

[hollow pulsar]

Snakes on a plane?

[full fossil]

plane snakes

[pliant karma]

searched after passing security, and searched again before boarding basically

[full fossil]

how does that even work

you already got searched lol

[pliant karma]

beats me but in the land down under it happened

[full fossil]

aussies are weird

[hollow pulsar]

And helpful. Showed me how to pump gas.

[pliant karma]

I see so I must invade now

[full fossil]

yes

[hollow pulsar]

You pump - THEN pay. A completely foreign concept to me.

[full fossil]

pump and run

😉

[hollow pulsar]

Apparently gas stations trust the general public. Gas stations in the US absolutely can’t afford to do that.

[pliant karma]

when people were filling plastic bags with gasoline during the shortage.

[full fossil]

idiots lol

people not even affected by the shortage too @pliant karma

[sick root]

hey guys for the 5800x3d in power plan should i do balanced or high performance

[static aurora]

just bought my pc parts is the NZXT C750 bronze semi-modular still good for the 5600x 6700xt?

[native crag]

High performance if it's a desktop

[young bloom]

we need more machine

[sick root]

ok thanks

[gray wigeon]

hey is there anyone that can help me with audio for mic to speakers

[north gust]

How is i11 57-289K Processor with an U-RTX9090 coupled with 32PB DDR60 RAM (3200 KMhz) 60 channel with PSU 80Plus Uranium 30000KiloWatt

[indigo plume]

trading in my 7900xt for one 4070ti or 4080

cuz my pc just keeps crashing cuz of driver problems

[manic torrent]

Ask your question

[undone snow]

i need to upgrade my ancient i7 4790

someone help me pls

[wanton mirage]

Ok I need a rather urgent help. I'm currently installing new drivers for my gpu. Clean install through geforce experience but now the screen's just black. Do I shut down my pc?

it's been a few mins

[gray wigeon]

i have a scarlett solo with wireless mic imput going through the 1/4 in imput and i need to get this to a speaker system using an xlr cable

[native crag]

Give it at least 5 minutes. If still a black screen, then press the power button to initiate a graceful shutdown of the computer. Once powered off, boot it back up again and hopefully you get an image again in Windows

[gray wigeon]

i have a pv 10 at and a kenyx 802 but dont know how to connect anything

[wanton mirage]

I'll try it. 5 min timer it is

wow it's been a pain in the ass. I just finished installing all my custom loop stuff and somehow windows got corrupted so I had to reinstall it and now this

[native crag]

Right, and if it doesn't respond to a single momentary press of the power button to shutdown (usually takes a few minutes after the initial press), you might have to resort to holding the button down to force a power off.

[random jolt]

#1027757333117415424 is a better place but what's ur budget?

[native crag]

Anyways, good luck. I'm out for the night. Others should be able to help

[wanton mirage]

oh noice it did shut down gracefully

[random jolt]

yeah sometimes driver updates (updates in general) just takes a while

[wanton mirage]

oh man why is it so difficult

[gray wigeon]

it is all in audio tech

[wanton mirage]

it seems like every time I try to update drivers, geforce experience or not it just results in a blackscreen & my pc doing nothing

display disconects aswell

[lyric plinth]

Did you use DDU

[velvet cobalt]

At least your rig didnt brick itself after a driver update... just got mine running, felt great, updated Nvidia drivers and rebooted, now it wont even let me go to BIOS

[unkempt widget]

there should really be someone who is actually competent to write subtitles

there are so many mistakes

[full fossil]

So nvidia is fighting to be the worst american company while amd releases bad gpu's

[strange viper]

I own a 5500XT
really cannot complain one bit

does the PC release of God of War rather nicely

considering I also have it paired to a Ryzen 3 2200g

[wanton mirage]

yep. I ddu'd it in safe mode, booted into windows and tried to update drivers but same result. so I went into safe mode, ddu + installed drivers and now it won't even let me get into windows

got no clue what's going on.

[lyric plinth]

Seems sus

[wanton mirage]

I did a fresh install of windows so windows shouldn't be the problem..

[lyric plinth]

Then we got bigger problems

Almost ended my career there

[lament siren]

need some advice on managing audio between a PS5 and a PC, what's the best place in this discord to ask?

[graceful burrow]

Considering #audio-tech exists I'd imagine #audio-tech would be the best place to ask about stuff related to #audio-tech

[lament siren]

i have no idea how i didn't see that channel, thank you

[full fossil]

Windows moment

[lyric plinth]

This isn't a windows moment this is a he has a hardware issue moment potentially and everything else about his PC needs to be checked

[graceful burrow]

Just install Linux tbh

[lyric plinth]

Please don't

[graceful burrow]

Or do
Linux rules

[full fossil]

Linux users when anyone exists

[graceful burrow]

If you install Linux yer gud

[lyric plinth]

Isn't Nvidia worse on Linux

[graceful burrow]

Ye a bit
Just don't have an nvidia card

[lyric plinth]

Ok fair but maybe he can't return it or needs Nvidia for a specific reason

[graceful burrow]

L tbh

[full fossil]

Actually there was a guy here earlier with similar problems @ Damocles#3233

[lyric plinth]

I saw

And he's a shithead

He bought into next gen amd

[full fossil]

Lol

[full fossil]

So?

[lyric plinth]

Deal with the early adoption problems

He didn't wanna wait for other GPUs to get back in stock

[full fossil]

Which gpu he bought?

[graceful burrow]

So why should he not install Linux then?

[lyric plinth]

Maybe he doesn't want to use Linux

[graceful burrow]

L

[lyric plinth]

L take

[full fossil]

He would get stuck at Rufus

[graceful burrow]

L skillset

[graceful burrow]

Most people do

[lyric plinth]

I installed pop os, it's fun to mess about with

But i can't main Linux

[full fossil]

Ik, I need to fix that, I really want actually easy to use distro

[graceful burrow]

I use kubuntu but I'm not a novice

[lyric plinth]

Using Rufus isn't rocket science so major L if you get stuck there

[graceful burrow]

Kubuntu is nice

[lyric plinth]

Rufus even has an option to skip the privacy selection screen for windows isos

Pretty neat

[graceful burrow]

Or just use ventoy :)

[lyric plinth]

I'll keep using windows until Microsoft dies

[graceful burrow]

Do you use android

[blissful summit]

hi everyone

[graceful burrow]

Hi

[lyric plinth]

Yeah and in before you say "ah hehehe that's actually Linux bro!!!"

[graceful burrow]

It is :)

[lyric plinth]

Damn life turned upside down

Can't cope

[unkempt widget]

i feel like linux is the type of thing that's like super cool but just not very practical

[graceful burrow]

It's extremely practical if you know what you're doing

[full fossil]

I hate kubutu, and I hate debian crap,
You can't install anything without googling how to install something, then adding those stupid repositories.
Arch: yay lutris done.

[lyric plinth]

Put Ubuntu in front of an old person who only uses chrome and they will never tell a difference

[graceful burrow]

There's a reason 90% of servers run Linux in one form or another

[unkempt widget]

so many games don't support linux and you need to modify them to play it

[fast parrot]

portage ebuilds

[lyric plinth]

Steam with proton

[graceful burrow]

No you dont
You just enable proton in steam and boom

[lyric plinth]

[graceful burrow]

99% of games that didn't work, do work

[unkempt widget]

what about games not on steam

[full fossil]

What you mean?

[lyric plinth]

I hate Linux mfs

But Linux has its place

[fast parrot]

portage ebuild repositories

[graceful burrow]

Add the exe to steam as a non-steam game and it'll play it with proton

[unkempt widget]

oh

that's genius actually

[graceful burrow]

It's pretty legit

[lyric plinth]

Linux degenerates are a different breed that I've seen

[full fossil]

I have no idea what that is OwO

[lyric plinth]

"anyways I'm gonna go install mint and snuggle up with my miku pillow"

[graceful burrow]

Why are you so aggro my guy

Calm down kek

[fast parrot]

lol?????

[fast parrot]

portage is a package manager in gentoo

[lyric plinth]

Install Linux it solves all your problems bro

[graceful burrow]

Epic embed fail

[lyric plinth]

🗿

[full fossil]

Is there something special about it? OwO I haven't used Gentoo yet

[fast parrot]

"you can't install anything without googling how to install something, then adding those stupid repositories"

[indigo plume]

well taking pc to shop when I wake up

hope they know

[full fossil]

Yeah I use linux, the linux community is insufferable

[lyric plinth]

They probably won't and they will run with your money

[full fossil]

Gatekeeping an OS is not a personality

[fast parrot]

but in portage enabling repositories is much easier than apt

[indigo plume]

how do u know

[graceful burrow]

Damn xalen out here like a negative Nancy sheesh

[indigo plume]

ur just being toxic

[graceful burrow]

Absolute depressing dana

[lyric plinth]

That's the way it is

[full fossil]

Damocles have you asked for help with driver issues here?

[robust loom]

Can anyone help me with a Windows 10 issue, when i Alt+Tab i keep getting a file history list come up as well as the active windows and it's pissing me off.

[full fossil]

Sounds very cool xP Gentoo is really awesome.
Kubuntu still remains shit xD

[indigo plume]

ive done a few things ppl suggested and didnt work

[lyric plinth]

I asked if he used DDU and he said he reset windows 4 times, maybe we could check other things

Do you blue screen

[indigo plume]

woofy was helping me yesterday

but didnt work out

i would install drivers

would be all good

[fast parrot]

I would avoid Ubuntu solely because of snap

[indigo plume]

then id update windows

then gg

couldnt run pc anymore

[full fossil]

Are you using windows 11 btw? I forgot to ask

Sounds like windows is installing the wrong driver automatically

[lyric plinth]

Perhaps windows is trying to forcibly update the driver when it shouldn't be

[unkempt widget]

also what are yalls recommendation for overclocking cpu? what software should i use

[indigo plume]

windows 10

my windows usb is windows 10

its like idk 3 years old

[full fossil]

Try 11 today and see if it works maybe

[indigo plume]

so has to update after I install

I heard bad things about windows 11

[full fossil]

That doesn't sound good xD

There’s also a utility for windows that lets you select what downloads you want

[lyric plinth]

Did you try doing updates first then the GPU driver?

[indigo plume]

so try to stay away

[fast parrot]

I would skip windows 11

[full fossil]

I have to use it on my laptop

[lyric plinth]

Oops

[unkempt widget]

?

[graceful burrow]

11's fine

[lyric plinth]

Did you try doing updates first then the GPU driver?

[full fossil]

It's better than having not working PC at all xD do it

[indigo plume]

how do I even get windows 11

[full fossil]

True
Windows might not like forcing a backpedal on the driver

[fast parrot]

download the iso

burn it to your usb and boot off it

[graceful burrow]

Media creation tool or upgrade from 10

[full fossil]

The windows update utility? Same way you got the 10 update

[indigo plume]

last time I tried getting windows 11 on old pc said my hardwear wasnt compatible

[graceful burrow]

Probably wasnt

[full fossil]

Pretty sure he did, I don't remember tho

[lyric plinth]

Well that's because it probably didn't have tpm or it was disabled

[fast parrot]

the requirements make no sense at all

[lyric plinth]

You can install windows 11 without the requirements

[fast parrot]

it literally runs on 2gb ram and an old ass Celeron

And it's actually usable

[toxic dune]

i mean i wouldnt want to use windows on 2gb of ram

[fast parrot]

Well, that's if you are running it on a ssd

[indigo plume]

my windows install is the one I got in a box when i bought windows like 3-4 years ago

[fast parrot]

that's not my point

[full fossil]

That might be the problem tbh xD

[lyric plinth]

You can't update that USB even if you wanted to

[fast parrot]

my point is that you can run windows 11 on hardware much worse than what the requirements are

[toxic dune]

but it kinda is, if no one would want to use windows on 2gb of ram. thats why the uped the requirements lol

[indigo plume]

yeah I know

so i just update windows after

[full fossil]

Yeah this explains a lot

Find a different USB drive and put a fresh copy on it

[toxic dune]

fair then you can use like rufus to remove the requirements so

[fast parrot]

7700k "unsupported" by windows 11 😂

[indigo plume]

what the difference

[toxic dune]

any cpu should be supported it just depends if you have tpm

[lyric plinth]

It's before 8th which was when they started including tpm

[indigo plume]

isnt is still gunna be on same version of windows after I update

[full fossil]

You’re using hardware that didn’t even exist at the time, it could be anything

[lyric plinth]

But again you can get around that and even a 4th gen intel CPU could run 11 just fine

[indigo plume]

yeah but I dont get issues really till after I update

[toxic dune]

tpm is just a added security measure added by most companies ever

[fast parrot]

I ran it on 2nd gen

[toxic dune]

like mac, dell, HPE etc etc

[full fossil]

Because it’s trying to force something to work and it’s failing

Make a fresh usb

[indigo plume]

like pc seems to be alright till I update till update windows when drivers are installed

[full fossil]

Could be, that's why I want you to install windows 11 this time, it's free on their website, just find some USB to install it to

[indigo plume]

dont I need a windows 11 key to active it tho

[full fossil]

https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11

[lyric plinth]

You can activate it later

[indigo plume]

activate*

[toxic dune]

and you can just get around that using shady methods

shady 🙂 totally not illegal

[indigo plume]

like will a windows 10 key even work on a windows 11 update

[full fossil]

Nope, install xP i gtg

[full fossil]

Yes

[toxic dune]

if you have a microsoft account and had a windows 10 license on it, then yeah

otherwise i don't believe actual windows 10 license keys work on windows 11

[full fossil]

You shouldn’t even need the key
My desktop did fresh installs automatically because it recognized the hardware

[indigo plume]

well it asks for product key when I install

[toxic dune]

you just skip past it

[full fossil]

There’s a skip button

[indigo plume]

if i skip it says some features are unavalible

when I finished download

[full fossil]

Then try putting in the key

At this point what do you have to lose

[indigo plume]

guess ur rigt

well I was just planning to get somone else to look at since they prob know what their doing

[full fossil]

That sounds ominous
I meant it won’t hurt anything to try

[indigo plume]

cuz I dont want to mess it up even more

[toxic dune]

you cant

[full fossil]

You won’t mess it up

[toxic dune]

its just worth a shot man, if your windows is having issues its always good to have a fresh start

[full fossil]

Plus it’s possible (unlikely) that the usb key for 10 has gone bad
It can happen, just not usually

[polar fern]

“Hey whats up guys today we are going to”

[full fossil]

“Whopping”

[wanton mirage]

do you think a riser cable might be causing this?

[full fossil]

Try it and see what happens

Couldn’t hurt

Sitting on a metal throne is cold

Why is it not ray traced?

Why isn't it?

😳

[polar fern]

Wahahaha

Trademark closet door backdrop

Banner?

[past egret]

shameless plug

[polar fern]

Shameless plug? 🔌

Dunno

[tawdry rapids]

i dont like the weird glowy wibe on the sides, and its too simple for my tastes.

[polar fern]

🔌🪛

Banner?

[tawdry rapids]

color scheme is good

[polar fern]

Bruce banner?

[tawdry rapids]

im not sure, but i think the lines of the hexagons could be thicker

and maybe instead of the glow, make the colors of the lines fade from left to right to the 2 colors of glow you have on the sides

i guess? idk

[pulsar violet]

I heard parsec is a good solution for removing into my PC (especially since it also get bought by unity), would it be viable over other option like Chrome Remote Desktop and TeamViewer? Main use case is because my school has Chromebooks that take 2-3 business days to load

[tawdry rapids]

??

im confused

oh, i see

lol.

honestly, it adds up, I've read that series

[unique granite]

is it better to run a single stick of ram at higher frequency or have dual channel at a lower frequency?

so frequency doesnt matter as long as its dual channel?

[full fossil]

Depends, what cpu

And what are you doing with the computer

[unique granite]

basically i have a ryzen 5 5600 and the freq is 2667mhz on dual channel but if i go back to single it just goes up to 3200mhz

and its a lenovo prebuilt and the mfs dont let u set up any xmp profile

[full fossil]

Let's make a CPU using graphene

Douche

[unique granite]

literally no option to change the memory speed, lenovo bios is doo doo ass cheecks

its xmp

lenovo proprietary motherboard

ofc

yeeep, gonna change the mobo in the future

cba rn

gimme a sec

[cerulean canopy]

same thing

one is for amd other is for intel

they serve the same purpose, only diffrent names

[unique granite]

https://www.coolblue.nl/en/product/892452/lenovo-legion-t5-26amr5-90rc019smh.html#product-specifications

here it is

it says 2 sticks of ram, but it comes with only one

gg lenovo

[cerulean canopy]

but you missed most important feature
it comes with 1 year of norton

[unique granite]

ahhahahaa

ill just buy another motherboard so i can have access to xmp, fuck proprietary shit

i just didnt had time to build it on my own

and i think my timings are fucked because of this

fuck u lenovo

[cerulean canopy]

this is where the fun begins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFNJVaO9E-o

[full fossil]

Is it true that consoles are more upgradable then Macs?

[indigo plume]

How long till gpus are just plugged into the wall

With how much power they pulling

[cerulean canopy]

how long untill we mount gpu on the outside like those mini split air conditioners

[full fossil]

Absolutely not

Repairable probably

[manic torrent]

than

consoles are not upgradeable at all, more or less. bigger storage, sure, but nothing of the fundamental APU/RAM/etc is upgradable at all.

[visual rain]

is 270$ a good price for a used(not mined) GTX 1080 TI?

Aorus xtreme edition to be exact

[full fossil]

Ehhh it’s not great

[visual rain]

I found from another seller 240$

the same gpu

[full fossil]

You can't change storage on the new Macs, so that's my point xD

[visual rain]

yeah just the storage

and adding external stuff which don`t make a difference

but i heard about external gpus

do they work with consoles?

[full fossil]

No idea xD

Interesting xD wtf were they even thinking, it's like they trying so hard to prevent people from buying Macs

[manic torrent]

no

[full fossil]

It’s a mac
They’re good products

[full fossil]

Me when I don’t shill hard enough for a brand

louisssssssssssss

[north gust]

Can I use other monitors power cable on another one (one has big Plug other has smaller plug but both have some connector)

[full fossil]

no idea, i swap pc power cables all the time, but haven't tried monitor xd
i dont see any reason why it wouldn't work,
tho i imagine the cable could be rated for different amp/voltages, so could be a fire hazard to use some weak cable on powerful monitor xD
tho i have no idea

[whole talon]

Can someone explain why GPU prices started going up again in the uk

I'm so lost

[full fossil]

Supply

[whole talon]

Frick

[full fossil]

Less and less 30 series are on the shelves, and the 40 series is WAY too expensive

[whole talon]

I was going for AMD actually

[full fossil]

Same thing applies

[whole talon]

The 6900xt price went up by £200

[full fossil]

Supply mostly on AMDs side though

[whole talon]

Why tho

[full fossil]

Demand has dropped since crypto crashed but chip supply still isn’t fully back up to speed

It takes months upon months to get silicon from sand to product

[manic torrent]

sales are wayyyyyyyy down though

[full fossil]

Could also just be price gouging

Companies across the planet have record profits along with record high prices, they could just be doing that

[polar fern]

Man this is going to be very bad.

[signal lodge]

Not me with my 1650 super 💀

[full fossil]

Nah I get it, 1660ti

You have me 50 shades of fucked up if you think I’m paying for a 30 or 40 series

[signal lodge]

Exactly

[signal lodge]

40 series isn't even worth it rn until they actually fix the overheating and melting issues

And then the 30 series is just expensive

[summer folio]

1337 EU!

[full fossil]

Strangely enough, the 4090 is actually a decent “value”

Perf/price I mean

[signal lodge]

True

[simple oracle]

Can somebody explain what does headphone silent mean on my av receiver

Its a yamaha one

[signal lodge]

Good question

Too bad I can't answer it

[full fossil]

Read the manual

[simple oracle]

There isnt anything about it

Hold up

[full fossil]

Holding

[simple oracle]

Im currently using this janky big version of the 3.5 converter to actual 3.5 jack and i can hear music

It sounds absolutely terrible

1sec

Can i tune headphone output? Wdyt

[full fossil]

That’s a 6.35mm jack, also known as a full size headphone jack

[simple oracle]

When i plug it in (headphone adapter) the actual audio from the stereo setup sounds better

[full fossil]

Can you post images in #audio-tech ?

[simple oracle]

Of what

[simple oracle]

Hm?

Im so scared that i push one wrong button and it will start up really loud

I once pressed something when i was 5 and the volume went up to 0db on the radio and our friends a street away could hear it

Alright i found what does silent headphones mean "allows you to enjoy dsp effects on headphones"

I feel like the audio is biased towards my left

The jack wasnt plugged in completely 💀💀💀💀

Dude it sounds so good

[full fossil]

Glad you figured it out!

[simple oracle]

Do you think this 20 year old av receiver could compete with my 2020 mobos sound quality?

Think*

Whoa i can really hear static

[whole talon]

I Wanted An Opinion on This Configuration https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/NdpTgb What Do You Guys Think

[wanton mirage]

I've been scratching my head with this & getting pretty frustrated... I've been having an issue where I can't seem to update my gpu drivers. Every time I update drivers it just blackscreens and never receovers. I tried swapping gpus but no dice. What could be causing this?

[whole talon]

Try deleting the drivers?

And reinstalling

[wanton mirage]

Yep here are the things I tried

1. Reinstalling drivers
2. DDUing drivers
3. Reinstalling windows

[vestal sentinel]

I need some help trying to do water cooling but my stuff won't fit the traditional ways

[wanton mirage]

all of them several times until I gave in and decided to swap gpus and it still doesn't work... Idk what's going on

[wanton mirage]

Custom loop?

[vestal sentinel]

Yes

[wanton mirage]

noice. I got all my watercooling hardware from barrow. I'm pretty happy with it so far except this software issue I'm having

[vestal sentinel]

I have custom loop for gpu and aio for cpu cause I'm too broke rn for a custom cpu cooler

[wanton mirage]

did you already buy the components?

[vestal sentinel]

I've gone through 2 cases now that won't fit I tried nodding my nzxt h510 and it didn't work

[vestal sentinel]

Yeah the rad I got is like 35.5 mm I didn't realize there was ones this big lmao didn't realize it was a thick Boi

[wanton mirage]

ah.. unfortunate if you didn't buy it yet I would recommend the barrow stuff I got

400$ with dhl shipping

[vestal sentinel]

I tried getting the corsair icue 220t thinking it was bigger then a nzxt h510 it's smaller

[full fossil]

If I get an iso of a game for a save coppy how easy would it be to look through the files if I wanted to add difrent sound files because metalhead

[manic torrent]

Uhhh

[cerulean canopy]

can be extremely easy or more likely extremely hard

[fossil dirge]

Nah Razer is better

[dusty rune]

-said no one ever

[simple oracle]

https://tenor.com/view/chad-gif-22350927

[full fossil]

Yo guys i just want to say

Is 2 grams of thermal paste arthic mx4 is enough for 2 cpu?

[simple oracle]

Prolly

It depends

[dusty rune]

yes

2 epyc cpus? no

2 normal sized ones? yes

[full fossil]

Uhhh lets just say the first cpu is not quad core

And the 2nd was.

[simple oracle]

💀

[dusty rune]

cores dont matter

epyc and threadripper cpus are just bigger

the die size is like double

[full fossil]

Actually quad core must be the X method

[simple oracle]

🤨

[dusty rune]

said who ever

[simple oracle]

No?

[dusty rune]

where did u get that from lol

[full fossil]

Just use the dot method for everything

If you were pasting server cpus, you wouldn’t be in a discord asking

But i dont?

Exactly

🤨

[tawdry rapids]

i spread on every CPU

because the paste i have basically has to be spread

it has the mayonnaise jar syndrome (the paste isnt in a syringe)

[unkempt widget]

does it have bulk syndrome?

[tawdry rapids]

yea basically, i have the thermal grizzly kryonaut extreme tub

[unkempt widget]

i thought that's not good

[tawdry rapids]

its fine

i mean, why wouldnt it be good, it competes with other LN2 pastes @unkempt widget

[unkempt widget]

i just remember linus making a video about why thermal paste in bulk is bad

[tawdry rapids]

oh? thats unrelated

this is a high end paste in bulk, not paste thats like "bulk"

ill probably buy some arctic MX6 tho, cus that released and i like arctic

[unkempt widget]

although why would you buy high end paste in bulk

most people don't need that much paste

[tawdry rapids]

because thats the only way you can buy it

and i swap parts very often

im thinking of maybe doing liquid metal for my next round of pasting tho

[unkempt widget]

why would you do that

[tawdry rapids]

better temps

which means lower fan and pump speed

[unkempt widget]

it feels like it has a really high probability of going horribly wrong

[tawdry rapids]

thats fine, my entire PC has that anyways since its custom cooling

[full fossil]

I was just getting clowned hard for liking a quiet computer earliee

[jaunty compass]

That's not a good sign

[full fossil]

Hdd won't get better on these days 💀

Just upgrade like 256 ssd

Trying to fit a 4070Ti in a H510 Flow, I’m hearing some sites say the h510 flow has a max gpu clearance of 360mm and on the NZXT site I’m seeing 381mm without rad or fans. If 360mm was correct I would be short 7mm because the GPU is 337mm in width, while my x63 radiator is 30mm in width which would put me at only 330mm of clearance. Anyone know which one is the accurate measurement?

Why a 4070ti? Genuinely asking

Pretty much the middle ground for me, I would like 40 series, but I cannot justify $400 more for a 4080

[full fossil]

Some people say that NZXT cases are suck

But i think its better

Would a 3080 be an option?

[full fossil]

Even a 3060ti

Was thinking about that, yes. Not sure where to get one for a good price though

[wary ravine]

I was at micro center yesterday and me and a worker were talking about the absolute stupidity that is the 4070ti

They have an overstock of them

[full fossil]

Well I guess it is just a 4080 12gb but the price is a little steep

[wary ravine]

It’s a greedy cash grab

[full fossil]

Yeah, the 4070Ti value just, it makes my brain hurt

[wary ravine]

Tbh I’d rather get a 3070ti

I can justify it.

I can’t justify a greedy upsell of a card that’s arguably worse in many aspects

[full fossil]

Nah rtx 4000s gen are beast

[full fossil]

Yeah, not even $799. In actuality it’s around $850-$950

[wary ravine]

Yep.

[full fossil]

Don’t get me wrong it’s a good card
But the price? Nvidia is out of their fucking minds

[wary ravine]

I need to upgrade from my 1660s, but I’m not buying a current gen gpu. I have no reason to.

[wary ravine]

Should be a $750 card at the absolute max

Closer to $700

[full fossil]

At the absolute maximum

[wary ravine]

Yeah

I mean I can justify a 7900 xt over a 4070ti

[full fossil]

4080 should be an $800 card if “inflation” is the actual excuse as nvidia keeps claiming

[wary ravine]

It’s not. It’s just them being greedy

[full fossil]

Unfortunately

[hollow pulsar]

Someone mentioned the 40-series was priced to move 30-series.. and that makes sense to me.

[full fossil]

Nah rtx 4000s gen are beast

Thats why its expensive

[wary ravine]

Yeah and so is the price tag

You can’t justify a $1600 gpu

As a consumer product

[full fossil]

The 4070ti performs the same as the 3080 and costs MORE

Explain how that makes sense

[full fossil]

Wow really?

[hollow pulsar]

Sell old 3080 inventory

[full fossil]

It’s very close

[wary ravine]

I mean 1k for a 3090ti makes sense. 1600 for a 4090 makes less sense

[full fossil]

Iirc the 70ti has a 6% lead

[wary ravine]

Yeah

[iron sundial]

The 70ti has lower memory bandwidth so certain games at higher resolutions perform worse than the 3080

[wary ravine]

Also watching Steve tear nvidia a new one with his review was hysterical. I’ve never laughed so hard at a tech review before.

[full fossil]

Nvidia copied apple lol

[full fossil]

How?

[hollow pulsar]

Didn’t consumers prove to NVIDIA their prices were too low?

[full fossil]

Is it not better? Heard it’s around 3080Ti performance

I might think that they just updated the design

[wary ravine]

What’s funny is that you can buy a maxed out m1 ultra studio and it’s more reasonable than a 1600 gpu that’s a fire hazard

[iron sundial]

Anyone here heard about or have the Scythe Kaze Flex II slim fans? The name is an absolute mouthful

[full fossil]

Tongue twister

[wary ravine]

It’s closer to the 3090, granted the 3080ti is basically a 3090 with less memory

[full fossil]

Yeah, I’m referring to userbenchmark but not sure if that’s accurate

Woah wait since when does the 4070ti equal a 3090?

[wary ravine]

It’s not. Don’t trust that site. Passmark is better.

[iron sundial]

It really is, but I really want some slim fans that aren't trash but the Noctua NF-A12x15 is a tad bit expensive for me

[wary ravine]

Only in very specific situations

[full fossil]

Ah ok

[wary ravine]

85% of the time it doesn’t

[iron sundial]

In a better world the 3090 should be at the price a 4070ti is

[jaunty compass]

In a better world the 4070 ti would be $600 and also a not bad card

[wary ravine]

It basically is

Which is what’s so damn funny

[iron sundial]

Are 3090's already 800USD? Damn scalpers in my country need to catch up to the times

[wary ravine]

Nvidia needs to pull a 2015 Nintendo and cut the price of their cards by 33% to move more units

Unless they want to get clowned on for the next 3 years

[jaunty compass]

I'll just buy the used 5700 XTs

[iron sundial]

Not that I got 800 to drop, more like I have 80, which is why I'm looking at better case fans and not a new GPU

[full fossil]

Gotcha

[wary ravine]

My machine is loud as all hell. Don’t buy Corsair fans

Like it’s louder than my laptop

[iron sundial]

Oh don't worry, I was priced out of those as well. I got some CoolerMaster Halo(?) fans rn, and the loudest thing in my PC is my RX580 fighting death

[wary ravine]

My old build had a 2700x and a 1650. Both of which I had overclocked to the absolute limit. (The 1650 was redlining) with only two case fans…. Yeah that thing got hot as hell

Especially when I was running doom eternal

Poor bastard throttled hard

[iron sundial]

I think that would catch fire where I live. As it is with fans at 100% my RX580 reaches 70C in a 26C AC room, if I didn't have AC on it would be closer to 90C

[wary ravine]

Yeah I have no idea how hot it got. But it was hot enough to have my system throttle itself to the point where eternal went from 60fps to like 15…. So yeah it wasn’t happy. And the air coming out of it was comparable to that of a hairdryer