tech-chat-1

[surreal totem]

yooo thank you so much

[royal loom]

My fans make a strange ah sound but I use headphones anyways but I'll replace them which RGB so I can lock them on a diff color

[hidden hill]

what size should i have my pagefile set to

with 32gb ram

[ivory mountain]

Let windows manage it

[hidden hill]

top box or the system managed size thing?

[ivory mountain]

System managed

[tidal geyser]

Stop fucking with it

This is how tech support threads get generated

Also, do you even need a pagefile?

[rigid fjord]

pagefile.sys is automatically created, however should only be messed with if you know what you're doing

because i knew what i was doing, and i set my pagefile.sys up

[indigo basin]

my pc blue screens because I did some wonky config but it only blue screens under certain page file conditions so I just avoid those conditions rather than fixing it

[obtuse adder]

Can someone help me My monitor turned off when playing games now it wont even give a signal but rarely it gives me a signal for about 20mins then again turns off the monitor like no signal.

[rigid fjord]

you did a fuck up that you should fix

[rigid fjord]

#1027757333117415424

[indigo basin]

I actually know what's wrong too I just fall asleep by the time I remember I need to do it

[obtuse adder]

@rigid fjord Nobody replies 😢

[indigo basin]

check your cable, check your hdmi/dp/vga port(s) and try a different port on both ends

[obtuse adder]

I did

It turns on sometimes not everytime

[random junco]

if u have an igpu then test that

[obtuse adder]

When i leave it a bit and turn on it turns on

Btw at idle its temps are like 55 celcuis

[stable beacon]

bruh it's the third time my pcs turned on on its own tonight it's 12am rn 😭

still turns on even shut down

i disabled wake on lan that's what it was last time i think

[hearty shale]

#1413421646064255026 Guys help me pls

[stable beacon]

bruh

actually guys i need my sleeeep

lol i just realized i pulled it out of a hdd copy from my windows xp computer 😂💀

not even the native command prompt

[rigid fjord]

it's all on a voluntary basis, so if you want an immediate response, you could go to a tech shop and pay for help

[obtuse adder]

Thanks that helped a ton

[final quest]

Not sure if this is the right place. But I have had a thought wandering my mind. Let's say you have a Corsair 4000 D airlfow case, but your system JUST fits. Is it still airflow efficient or?

[stable beacon]

wdym by that

i put a giant nhd15 in my 4000d

worked fine without any case fans

[final quest]

I have a 9070 AMD gpu in my system now and it just fits into the case. My question just is if the case is still airflow efficient with that little space left.

[rigid fjord]

still fairly efficient enough

[stable beacon]

shouldn't matter as the gpu doesn't care about front air

[final quest]

Okay good. Thanks lads.

[rigid fjord]

actually does matter though, as it can affect the flow of air going over it

[final quest]

I have 3 fans in front, two on top and one out. All flowing as they should.

[placid belfry]

My pc was never creating any I lost my mind I gave up to get it to work

[stable beacon]

shouldn't matter how close the edge is though as long as it exists

anyways it's the FOURTH TIME my pc just turned back on

[final quest]

I am saving money to get the 7000D airflow in any case.

[stable beacon]

someone actually help it's getting so fucking annoying

[stable beacon]

why you need that much space that is huge

[final quest]

Power cord?

[stable beacon]

i ain't dealing with that man

[final quest]

Or maybe 5000D.

[stable beacon]

it was perfectly fine for a month what's up with it now

every wol setting should be disabled nothing makes sense

[final quest]

Your PC has come alive.

[stable beacon]

actually though

i have to wake up in less than 7 hours

im never getting enough sleep

ill probably wake up at 6am again... 🤦‍♂️

[pale flint]

found something unusual

why is there downloading folder while im not downloading anything

[stable beacon]

i swear to god i pressed this thing twice already

if its going off at 1am i aint gonna use this thing anymore

the internet on this is weirdly slow since 2024 or even just a few months ago

[lost lance]

how usable is a gtx 970 today

[stable beacon]

ts is actually getting on my nerves

[stable beacon]

relatively cheap but then again i used a gtx 670 which isn't that much of a gap and it ran csgo (i last used it in 2023) actually decent

ive used worse before like i have a lot of old amd hardware back before ryzen and i probably cant get rid of those even if i gave it away for free

[pale flint]

why

[stable beacon]

no one wants e waste. not even grandma because grandma ain't building that computer herself.

[pale flint]

gpu is in working condition?

[stable beacon]

i have a celeron cpu i call "expensive cpu cover"

[stable beacon]

yes but so are my pcs from 2006

[lost lance]

i have a hd 3450

[pale flint]

well

[stable beacon]

will you ever want to use them no because it doesn't even support 1080p and windows 10 will definitely fry it

[pale flint]

only person who'd use that gpu is probably gonna be someone who's cpu has no igpu so they want to use a gpu for display output

[stable beacon]

im giving it a run for its money if i even have it linux (primarily internet)

[pale flint]

oh f

everything i said above, ignore it!

[stable beacon]

if you still use vga 💀

[pale flint]

many people do

if it aint 1080 p then its a no no

[stable beacon]

i barely ran csgo on this thing at 9fps 900x600 dvi

[pale flint]

atp i recommend scavenging copper from that gpu and sell it

it will earn you 0.1 $

[pale flint]

cs1.6?

[hearty shale]

#1413421646064255026 can someone help me

[pale flint]

dvi

[stable beacon]

nope definitely go

i don't own 1.6

[pale flint]

bro

[pale flint]

great

[stable beacon]

idk if it will still run 2

[pale flint]

scavenge that thing bro

[stable beacon]

i have even worse

[pale flint]

😭 🙏

[stable beacon]

2006 ati x300se

0 fans, half card slot with full slot extension on the pcb for extra ports

[midnight rampart]

Hey, is it safe to reuse IO shield?
I got a replacement new motherboard so I am thinking of using the same io

[stable beacon]

as long as the holes line up yes

[pale flint]

wow

[stable beacon]

it was bad even at its time

apparently you can get one 15$ on ebay

[pale flint]

?

[stable beacon]

a modern celeron can do better i guarantee

[pale flint]

i am not even paying a single penny for ts

fym 15 $ 😂

[pale flint]

128mb

when will we get to see 1tb vram gpu's

[lost lance]

what about a geforce 6800

[pale flint]

?

[stable beacon]

this is a heater with a display output

[pale flint]

dual dvi

[rigid fjord]

no that's a 12900/13900/14900k

[stable beacon]

ill just either sell it 50 or give away my motherboard and cpu and shit ddr3 ram for 100

[pale flint]

ok

[stable beacon]

that's a heater on a pi calculator with a free display there a difference

[rigid fjord]

what cpu and mobo?

[stable beacon]

z79 with i7 2600

[pale flint]

i72600

[stable beacon]

11 years original miles

[pale flint]

eh

[rigid fjord]

nope, that's a space heater that claim's it's a cpu that has an igpu built in

[rigid fjord]

wouldn't pay more than 30 for that

[stable beacon]

i swapped it out from a celeron i got from my cousin

i have extra ddr3 as well

[pale flint]

i5 6th gen goes for 120 euros here

[stable beacon]

just not the gskill on my lga2011 setup

ill need to do something about that system eventually

[limpid dune]

I had an HD7970 (aka the Radeon 280X) and it was 🔥

I mean, only 350W, but still, that's a room-heater right there

[pale flint]

real 🔥

2 in 1

[stable beacon]

i also have a radeon 6700(???) with a spoiler

[limpid dune]

big difference between the HD6000 series (2009?) and the RX6000 series (2021)

[rigid fjord]

you could get an 8th gen core i5/i7 dell optiplex for that tbh

[pale flint]

https://tenor.com/view/spoiler-alert-spoiler-go-time-gif-13921804794138892823

gpu with spoiler

imagine

[pale flint]

🤔 im telling you retail prices of refurbishing company

[rigid fjord]

gpu isn't worth more than $20 btw

[pale flint]

before 2 years

and yeah it was hp pc

[stable beacon]

this one had the gpu cable in the front not the side a lot closer to the motherboard edge

[pale flint]

why do they have spolers tho

wait

[stable beacon]

i assume they were universal and didn't want to cut off what they didn't need because they were out of money then idk

[pale flint]

isnt that supposed to be support

[rigid fjord]

and you're in a place where you be getting screwed then for sure

[pale flint]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

this thing clicks into place in case so i assume its for support

[rigid fjord]

it is in a sense

[pale flint]

modern gpu's need this

[solar moat]

its only realy OEM that add it the shit HP prebuilt GN locked at today as thhat

[long goblet]

i feel like halo CE in MCC is much harder than original halo :/

i literally can't get through the flood level

flood moves much faster than it used to

[rigid fjord]

you do realise it's still the same game and not been changed from the original

[spiral oracle]

as someone who lives a few blocks from LTT's main studio im genuinely considering applying to the badminton center receptionist job on their site

[rigid fjord]

tbf, it's primarily used only on workstation/server gpu's

[long goblet]

i'm playing this game on normal. not even a hard difficulty level.

with keyboard and mouse

and i'm getting wrecked. it's different.

[rigid fjord]

it'll only appear faster due to your hardware

[safe delta]

what software should I use for monitoring temps
HWMonitor or HWinfo?

[sinful cobalt]

i use hwinfo

but if you want overlay, MSI afterburner

[safe delta]

does Hwmonitor not show accurate temps?

[hollow creek]

they do, but afterburner and rivatuner shows temp real time in game

[solar moat]

software can be wrong

[solar moat]

hwinfo64 what i uses but they can be just not real

i seen cpu report lower temps then what a thermal probe saying the ihs is

[safe delta]

Im not using the pc for gaming but its freezing when i am trying to browse stuff on the internet

[solar moat]

regless of software used

[hollow creek]

change anything in the bios?

[safe delta]

ok

if i only want to monitor cpu temps should i use coretemp

some people are recommending me to use that software

[rigid fjord]

not as accurately as hwinfo does tbh

[solar moat]

that is vaild software since its way lighter since it dose not chcek most sensers

[rigid fjord]

hwinfo can show temps in game without the need for rivatuner tbh

[solar moat]

like if you software only looking at 8 vs 800 thing its dose not take as long

[safe delta]

ok

[rigid fjord]

tbf the worst one for showing temps is speccy

[solar moat]

hwinfo64 since it show everyinth

[safe delta]

which AIO is best for cooling a ryzen 9 7950X3D

i was building a new pc

[solar moat]

dont get that cpu

[safe delta]

i currently have a 4090

[rigid fjord]

an air cooler, you don't need an aio

[long goblet]

speedfan

[rigid fjord]

no

[safe delta]

which cpu should i lean towards ?

[solar moat]

whats for

[rigid fjord]

are you just gaming?

[solar moat]

7950x3d kind of bad for every uses case

[safe delta]

productivity and some gaming

[solar moat]

ok 7950x/9900x i gess are better

maybe 9950x if buget for it

[long goblet]

lol, i haven't looked into this crap in 15 years. don't even know if speedfan still exists.

[rigid fjord]

7700x/9700x then

[safe delta]

no i am going towars editing and a little bit gaming

[solar moat]

the programs your using scailing with cores yes?

[safe delta]

yea

[rigid fjord]

don't really need to go for them, a 7700x/9700x is quite a good cpu for that combo of uses

[long goblet]

personally i just use ryzen master

[solar moat]

fair but if workload can make uses of extra core the R9 cpu kind of smash them in terms of raw allcore power and be fine for gaming on side

[rigid fjord]

how to kill your ryzen 101

[safe delta]

so should i go for a 8-core processor?

[long goblet]

?

i thought we were talking about temps monitoring...

[solar moat]

whats the main proglrams you usse

[safe delta]

for now some editing software

adobe premiere

[solar moat]

what ones?

[rigid fjord]

it only shows averages for that, it can still cause 1.6v+ to the cpu while using it

[solar moat]

https://tpucdn.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-9950x/images/premiere-pro.png

[safe delta]

oh

X3d doesnt matter

[long goblet]

this doesn't seem very well threaded...

[midnight rampart]

Yea it's the same motherboard, every hole lines up

[solar moat]

the first gen x3d are slower in many workloads due to lower clocks

[long goblet]

i was actually talking about the 7600x vs 5950x

[solar moat]

i just dumped the data i not saying its worth

[safe delta]

so can i go for 9950X?

[long goblet]

almost 3x the number of cores, lol.

[true stirrup]

screw you windows

[long goblet]

"No, I insist, screw you." --Windows

[solar moat]

yes being able to do task in 85% the time with x2 the core not best scailing but its still faster and some that matter more then incressed cost

[safe delta]

ok

[long goblet]

my point. it's not a very well threaded task.

[pale flint]

hmm

[safe delta]

ill go for that

[solar moat]

and? i just sent that as idk how some cpus stack up not what ones to get its allso funny how 7950x3d slower then 7950x

and same with all the first gen x3d

[safe delta]

is it due to the X3D Cache?

[solar moat]

.

second gen x3d far betetr with that

but still not perfect

like 9800x3d faster then 9700x in it

[long goblet]

we're just noting different parts of the same lineup. I don't have an x3d processor, so i ignored it. i do, however, have a 5950x. so i noted that, and its relation to a 7600x, a lesser chip, even if it's a more recent chip.

[solar moat]

and with tune can even beat 9900x but i gess you can tune 9900x aswell

[solar moat]

it scails with cores but allso with single core

it dose not scial to 16 cores well

but 9950x is faster

[safe delta]

can u recommend me a AIO for the processor?

[solar moat]

no

air cooler all the way

[long goblet]

whatever maximum your case will support.

[safe delta]

it can support both

[long goblet]

dunno what "both" you're talking about

[rigid fjord]

less about the clocks, more about the ipc and also thermal tollerance 1st gen x3d's have

[long goblet]

choose AIO's based on maximum dimensions the case will support.

[safe delta]

hmm

[solar moat]

its the same core/ipc but with more L3 but cant run as fast in clock as reson you listed

[rigid fjord]

a peerless assassin 120 se

[long goblet]

after that, pick brand. i have no experience with that shit, tho.

i use air coolers

[solar moat]

L3 vs IPC vs memoery is hard

[long goblet]

my file server has one of these.

ridiculously overkill

[rigid fjord]

literally no need for an aio with amd cpu's @safe delta

[safe delta]

ok i will order that thanks

[long goblet]

some people don't like massive towers hanging off their mobos.

if you're intending to transport your computer, i can see the appeal of an AIO.

[rigid fjord]

you should see the id cooling a620 pro se

[safe delta]

that is one of the reason

[long goblet]

also, you don't hear as much increase in fan speed when hitting the CPU hard, as it's delayed.

but for my personal use, i always way over-spec air cooling, and run quiet fans.

so it's not that big of an issue.

[solar moat]

vaild

[rigid fjord]

you wouldn't hear this with a decent case that has good airflow and a decently tuned fan curve

[rigid fjord]

and tbf, the pa120se isn't a massive tower, it's just slightly chonky

this is a massive cpu cooler though

[plush wren]

what the helly

[rigid fjord]

the ice giant

[midnight rampart]

Hey @rigid fjord

[rigid fjord]

mhm

[midnight rampart]

My old IO shield is fine should I reuse it?

It's basically the same motherboard

All holes should align

[rigid fjord]

use the one that comes with the mobo

[midnight rampart]

Even if It's the same motherboard?

[rigid fjord]

yes, there can be variances

[midnight rampart]

The holes do align

Msi B660M-A and MSI B760M-A

Even if holes align etc, then you don't suggest I'll use the new IO

[rigid fjord]

use what comes with the mobo

[midnight rampart]

It's not like I'm going to do anything by rotting it in my box

[midnight rampart]

Cool, gotcha.

[hearty shale]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdqB6a9y/

[rigid fjord]

we don't do shittok here

[limber jetty]

hey, looking to buy a good laptop and i'm not very knowledgeable on their processors.. can anyone help me pick which one i should take

both have a 4060

[rigid fjord]

the 8845hs is the better cpu of the 2 though msi laptops aren't great afaik

[limber jetty]

ive had a few and they werent horrible but they were the old gtx 1050/ti era ones

i'm still looking around and trying to compare everything before i make my decision and tbh i'm not really interested in msi but they seem to be the only ones at my price point

[rigid fjord]

i'd look at lenovo legion 5's, asus tuf/rog scar, dell g15/xps, hp victus/omen

[hollow turret]

I don't know about those specific models but it would mostly depend on what you are going to use the laptops for

[hollow turret]

Also MSI laptops have terrible battery life. I have a MSI 16 sword and the battery is horrible. I am basically glued to the wall. So check battery life (not just the size) before buying.

I have found the online website to be un helpful when checking for specific battery life times

unlike with other brands

[rigid fjord]

look up jarronds tech, his reviews will tell you their battery life depending on use

also part of the shit battery life is the cpu and gpu being used

[exotic valley]

which card should i purchase? in my local availability, rtx 3080 20GB is priced roughly the same as rtx 5060ti (i do mainly AI type of works, involving both training and inferencing.) (20GB is not a typo, im from a market where they offer at least 1 year of warranty for this type of modified card, and they are very accessible)

[rigid fjord]

intel for a long time has had terribad battery life when in use

[exotic valley]

they are both around $300 with one year warranty

i dont consider AMD cards since they suck

[rigid fjord]

you'd want the 3080 no matter what

[exotic valley]

why, i thought rtx 5060ti features a newer architecture though?

[rigid fjord]

it's not just ram, it's the overall performance

[exotic valley]

(but it has a much lower memory bandwidth)

[rigid fjord]

doesn't mean better performance in comparison

a 3080 with 10gb or 12gb vram will still out perform a 5060ti with 16gb vram

[exotic valley]

im a tech savvy person though, as far as im aware of, rtx 3080 doesnt even support FP8/FP4, right?

[limber jetty]

mostly gaming, pretty much all the time, maybe some emails or whatever sometime in the future, but main use for it would be gaming

[rigid fjord]

nor does a 5060ti

[rigid fjord]

definitely avoid msi and gigabyte laptops then

[limber jetty]

i know a desktop is cheaper and also better in terms of performance but im tired of not having the.. whats the word.. well i cant carry it around

[limber jetty]

why so? just curious

[rigid fjord]

show the site that actually states it, do not go with what an 'ai' states

[rigid fjord]

portability

[limber jetty]

my previous ones were exactly like that too, i thought being glued to the wall was the norm with laptops like that?

[rigid fjord]

not great performers, the dgpu's are generally max-q models so they're really restircted in power and performance

[limber jetty]

ahhh so that's what max-q means

Okay then i'll exclude msi from my choices

[rigid fjord]

like a 100w normal 4060 mobile on most laptops, meanwhile a max-q version would be at 60-80w instead

[limber jetty]

also question, ive heard from other people that the 4050 compared to the 4060 is pretty poor so should i avoid the 4050?

i could also opt for something cheaper with 3000 series but at the same time i want this laptop to last for years to come, i dont really play any demanding games really, but when i do want to play them i still want that to be an option

[exotic valley]

it feels kinda wrong when you ask me to ignore AI results when im already kinda an expert-ish in this type of field, and more aware of its actual capability and accuracy in its output. But fine, is the source from nvidia directly reliable enough in comparison?

[limber jetty]

im fine with low presets too on the high demand games, i dont care about how it looks as much as i care about it being smooth

[midnight rampart]

I can't even find FP connectors and this one doesn't have manual!

[rigid fjord]

gemini and chatgpt both get info wrong on way to many occasions, so no they're not best to be relied on for info like this

[limber jetty]

can you send a closer picture

[rigid fjord]

the manual for this will be on it's manufacturers website clearly

[terse pewter]

which is why i run my own LLMs locally so i KNOW the output is unreliable with how small the models i run are

[rigid fjord]

also as it's an oem one, the front panel header is proprietary

[midnight rampart]

It's a lenovo B460
And I can't find anything on it

[exotic valley]

So anyone else on any suggestions if I should I get 5060ti 16GB or 3080 20GB if priced the same, for both gaming and training+inferencing AI models?

[rigid fjord]

an example of jarrod's tech reviews, the one in red is an msi laptop, and the best ones in the list are using amd cpu's there

[limber jetty]

you can also try just shorting the pins while its plugged in to find the pwr pin, ive used that before and it SHOULDNT cause any damage to anything but dont take my word for it

[rigid fjord]

you look up the model that's on the case not the mobo

b460 is just a chipset, not an actual mobo model

[rigid fjord]

no you can't not on an oem mobo

[limber jetty]

okay so definitely amd as i see a 3070ti config outperforming that msi one by miles

ok i'll just go do more research instead of bothering people here 😆

thanks for the help though!

[rigid fjord]

3080 would be better still for it's overall performance

[rigid fjord]

jarrod's tech's reviews will be really helpful for you on multple laptop models

[midnight rampart]

Ignore camera quality

[rigid fjord]

https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/pd015044-detailed-specifications-thinkcentre-m71e-type-312931333136314141503156316631753177

literally first results from googling lenovo + model number

though you still ignored what i said about the model on the case itself

[midnight rampart]

It says processor i3 2100 and that
This is is 10100

[rigid fjord]

earlier model of the same thing possibly, yet you're ignoring the clear info i gave about looking up the model from the case

[exotic valley]

fair enough, thanks for the advice

[midnight rampart]

Ok wait lemme do that

[limber jetty]

in my price range i think this is as good as it gets in terms of buying new

[rigid fjord]

now check the specific model on laptopedia to see if it's upgradable in any way

[limber jetty]

in terms of storage/ram?

[rigid fjord]

yup

you may find that it's using sodimms and not soldered on ram, and it could have more than 1 m.2 slot

which in both cases means you can upgrade it and add in a second much larger extra storage drive

[zealous plover]

Some people complain about their 3050…..

[limber jetty]

as much as i know about the market here everything that comes has sodimms.. i've only seen soldered ram on a very cheap asus vivobook

[naive adder]

Goodbye O11 😢

[rigid fjord]

me disappointed by the p2 tbh

[zealous plover]

My laptop is 15.6 inches but it has so much space inside the laptop

So flimsy

It bends😭

[limber jetty]

laptopmedia also has only good to say about it

ram and m.2 is also upgradeable

i highly doubt i'll ever need more than 32gb but if that time ever comes then i could

[sinful cobalt]

i personally bring along a 9070xt with my laptop when I feel like it

[zealous plover]

I’m tempted to replace the wifi adapter with a m.2 to pcie x16 adapter and putting some 2013 Radeon card

[sinful cobalt]

I need to try cyberpunk 2077 on the laptop

nvidia didnt allow me to download 5090 drivers which sucks lmao

[zealous plover]

The only good thing about my laptop is because it has zen cores

[junior valve]

npc case

[sinful cobalt]

8945HS vs 3200x2000 display for me

So I just bring a tank along if I wanna game

[zealous plover]

Can I borrow a core😭😭😭

Maybe a thread

Maybe a graphics chip

Maybe some pixels

Maybe a not flimsy chassis

Maybe a fan with no butt fluff clogging them

What is Linus’s tech tip?

[midnight rampart]

I literally can't find any shit on this.

[zealous plover]

That’s a potato

[midnight rampart]

I know

I want to swap cases on this potato

At least it's i3 10100
I can attach GTX 1650 to it

[junior valve]

5060

[midnight rampart]

5060 will work?

I think it's pcie 3 slot
I got to check bruh, imma put serial number or some shit

[zealous plover]

Can I borrow a core🙏😭

I’ve only got 2

[naive adder]

Yeah I got it a while back before they became super popular but it is a prety basic case

It’s good looking to be fair I can see why

[midnight rampart]

I think I got 2 as well

[zealous plover]

Is my laptop support to overheat without the bottom panel

[junior valve]

same

[zealous plover]

Well thermal throttle

[naive adder]

I’m switching to a fractal north mesh also a not super crazy case but I just got tired of rgb and tempered glass and it’s very tasteful looking

[zealous plover]

Has it got zen cores?

[junior valve]

intel

[midnight rampart]

Go Hyte my guy

[zealous plover]

Has it got sen cores?

Or ultra cores

[junior valve]

idk

[zealous plover]

Or I-cores

[junior valve]

i think i cores

[naive adder]

Don’t want glass, or rgb anymore

Hyte definitely look nice though

[junior valve]

corsair 9000d airflow

[naive adder]

I think they do the fish tank a lot better

[zealous plover]

I really wanna add an rgb strip inside my shitty laptop

[naive adder]

I want it to be easily transportable for college lol

9000d is the exact opposite

[junior valve]

frame 4000d

[naive adder]

Plus I’m doing a wood themed setup

I got a keychron k10 he

[zealous plover]

Or I might take the main board out of my laptop and put it in a cardboard box

[naive adder]

Nothing crazy but it looks professional

[junior valve]

asus proart cases

[zealous plover]

Cardboard box pcs are peak

[naive adder]

All those have glass

[junior valve]

dell optiplex oem case

it can fit alot

[naive adder]

🤮

That’s just wrong

What’s wrong with the fractal north? It’s not like super uncommon but it’s definitely far less common than O11.

Good airflow to

[glad gale]

according to amds website the ai laptop chips have a configurable tdp between 15 and 54 watts. but this laptop im looking at says it has a 90w power limit in the highest power profile and plugged into the wall. what am i missing?

[junior valve]

looks good tho

[naive adder]

That’s not what ide describe as looking good lol

[glad gale]

one from the laptop and one from amd website

[naive adder]

To each their own

[cosmic lance]

how can you even close the case

[glad gale]

i like it👍

[naive adder]

The bright blue rgb and grey interior though is just cheap looking

[junior valve]

you dont

[glad gale]

yeah i guess a lick of paint would be a big improvement 🤷

[naive adder]

Spray some bed liner in there lol problem solved

[glad gale]

lmao yeah

[junior valve]

i did that with the 2000s case

[ivory olive]

Is a dell precision prebuilt with 11900k 3070 32gb ram worth 300 bucks?

[pale flint]

sounds goof

its i9 right

[ivory olive]

Yeah.

Gonna get more picture and see if I can buy for a friend.

[limpid dune]

realistically that'd be worth more than that, even a 3070 alone would be a deal at $300

[ivory olive]

At my place 300 can get around a 3080.

[pale flint]

used

[ivory olive]

Yes.

[pale flint]

used 3070 aint 300 bruh

[limpid dune]

might be the difference between TDP (average power) and TMax

[ivory olive]

Used 3080 is around 300-350 here.

[pale flint]

is it 300 $ or 300 euros

[ivory olive]

Usd

[pale flint]

oh ok

yeah i think the pc is worth it

i'd buy it

and even resell for profit

[limpid dune]

I mean, consider that THIS isn't uncommon for pricing

[ivory olive]

Yeah I'll try to get it.

[limpid dune]

although that one's customized ofc

[pale flint]

yeah but i9 11th gen

32gb ram

this pc is worth it

[ivory olive]

Just wanna test my luck haha last time I got a super dirty 3090 for cheap and it works. Took me 3 hrs to clean and test tho.

[pale flint]

fow how much

[ivory olive]

360. It was overheating so much the previous owner strapped a water cooling block on the backplate, squeezed thermal paste over the thermal pads.

[pale flint]

also where are you buying this from

[ivory olive]

Fb

[pale flint]

good

[limpid dune]

water cooling block on... the backplate???

[pale flint]

people who dont know what to do in such situation end up selling gpu for cheap

they think the gpu is the problem

[limpid dune]

omw to make special water blocks for each VRM

[ivory olive]

Yeah idk the details. I asked why are there scratches on the backplate he said the vram was 105c and he put a water block? Or smth on it

[limpid dune]

ooooh ofc the 3090 had VRAM on the back too, I forgor

[pale flint]

oh

so he didnt clean the gpu

[ivory olive]

I got it down to under 90. Barely lol. Mid zotac cooler

[sinful cobalt]

3060ti 8gb FE> has msi gpu

[nimble idol]

How do I avoid having to log into microsoft while installing windows 11 on a new pc

Anyone

[pale flint]

any other options?

are you gonna do it or currently doing it?

[nimble idol]

We are gonna build it soon

[pale flint]

oh

[nimble idol]

in a few minutes

[pale flint]

there will se some videos on yt on that tho

[nimble idol]

I heard the command prompt method got patched or smth

[pale flint]

oh

[nimble idol]

but we will try it out nevertheless

[pale flint]

yeah thats the method i knew

[pale flint]

if windows copy is old it will still work

since its pateched in newer versions 🤔

[nimble idol]

hmm yeah

[pale flint]

https://youtu.be/QIAgn5nWt90

new method

this is local account

[brave brook]

well RIP, bought my dad a phone for his 70th birthday, today someone stole it from him. Now i wonder what should i do. Order a new one, or send him one of my old ones and then later (christmas?) get him another

[unique olive]

Find the guy who stole it and teach em a lesson

[brave brook]

ah yeah, i totally can figure out who stole it 150km away

[pale flint]

fair

[unique olive]

I drove twice that far to get to work today doesn’t seem like that should be an issue

[glad gale]

and what does that mean?

[brave brook]

yes, i totally also have detective skills better than local police (which won't do anything anyway)

[grizzled frost]

TDP doesn't mean average power, it's essentially an estimate for how much cooling capacity you need

TDP is almost meaningless

[glad gale]

on desktop its meaningless. in mobile devices it means everything.

[solar moat]

no the power limit dose

[true stirrup]

125W TDP on my 12600kf
Then proceeds to pull 210W without any OC on it

[solar moat]

and tdp and power limit are not the same

like 7600X has 105TDP but 142 PPT

same many of amd mobile parts

and intel is same

[grizzled frost]

TDP used to be kind of helpful, but has become meaningless nowadays

[solar moat]

but they do things like 125 tdp but power limit at 253W

[grizzled frost]

average power draw from third party sources is your best way to get an idea of power draw

[brave brook]

to be fair, the PPT comes down to other components too. I mean put in 4 modules on AM4 CPU and boom, 20W goes just to the SoC

[glad gale]

heres an extended view of the picture i sent

[solar moat]

PPT limt dose not change based on soc power draw

[brave brook]

yes, but it takes away from the allocation for the CPU. With 2 modules SOC takes like 6W, with 4 modules 20W. That is 14W less for the CPU section within the PPT

[elder kelp]

Guys, does the Gigabyte B650 Eagle AX support Bios flashing?

[solar moat]

yes that is pain with a few of amd cpus like ah yes soc drawing so much power at idle and lower soc voltage makes good bit faster on some of there cpu if you run lower power limit

[solar moat]

did you check the maunal

[ebon marlin]

Check the online manual

Yummy

[brave brook]

every board supports BIOS flashing. If you meant flashing with just an USB key without a CPU, that is another question

[glad gale]

okay i used the wrong word, im talking about power limit.

[grizzled frost]

every standard board supports BIOS flashing

[solar moat]

yes its a pain

[tired bear]

every bios chip can be flashed

[dawn violet]

hi

[solar moat]

but not all of them can do that with out cpu/ram installed

[dawn violet]

I wanna install linux again but the install is so boring id rather stick with windows rn

[tired bear]

yes you can but you need this fella

[true stirrup]

All B650 have bios flashback

If you meant that

[dawn violet]

guys does anyone know a good distro for linux?

I dont have any one in mind rn

[glad gale]

how can a laptop have a higer power limit than what amd supports? is that kinda overclocking?? and how does performance scale

[elder kelp]

I mean with a USB, I don't want to have to buy a whole damn cpu to flash the bios

[dawn violet]

since when can you oc laptops

[hard chasm]

Tech companies have long long neglected zoning regulations

[dawn violet]

afterburner didnt work for me on a laptop

[tired bear]

you are limited by thermal envelope anyway

[hard chasm]

You might have an inter grated graphics card which doesn’t get picked up by afterburner

[true stirrup]

Yeah all B650 have that

[tired bear]

gaming? server? mobile?

[dawn violet]

Every day use and gaming

I will dualboot anyway so I dont care about games

I just want something fun to play with

[tired bear]

you can try bazzite

[dawn violet]

Im thinking of void linux rn

[hard chasm]

Hmm

What about the one that is for cybersecurity

[glad gale]

care to elaborate?

[dawn violet]

and I want something arch based because im familiar with arch

[dawn violet]

I think theres blackarch for that

[hard chasm]

I’ll go have a look at that tomorrow

[dawn violet]

I installed one blackarch one time and got called a skid

[hard chasm]

That’s silly 😜

[tired bear]

https://tenor.com/view/laptop-laptop-user-portable-gaming-laptop-be-like-gif-27191601

[dawn violet]

ikr

like ur so idiotic u call people using linux a skid or a hacker

[elder kelp]

guys, what's a step down from the 9600?

[tired bear]

7600 or 7400f

[dawn violet]

ok where the hell is the void linux iso

imma just watch a tutorial honetly im too tired from school for this stuff

[true stirrup]

That's Kali

[dawn violet]

I forgot about kali

[hard chasm]

Oh yeah I remember that one now

[dawn violet]

I personally would rather use blackarch

im more familiar with it

[true stirrup]

it's basically just a bloated distro
not worth considering tbh

[hard chasm]

Been a few years since I last used Kali Linux

[dawn violet]

ive never used it

no point for me

[hard chasm]

True

[dawn violet]

I would rather use blackarch

[hard chasm]

I’m in my 3rd year of University for cybersecurity that’s why

[dawn violet]

any linux works just ask your teacher or something

[hard chasm]

Was planning on doing that Tomorrow

[glad gale]

that is a solvable problem. how do you know im not talking about the acer predator 21x? obviously the cooler is the limiting factor but my question still remains how does power limits (if the cooler can handle it) over what amd specifies, work

[hard chasm]

Guys should I run my PC in a Fish Tank?

[dawn violet]

I would use ventoy but i dont wanna learn something new

[dawn violet]

doesnt matter what case just get some air flow

[true stirrup]

then add some mineral oil and some fake fish

[hard chasm]

I’ll see where I can buy Mineral oil bulk in Australia before I decide to un alive my fish

[dawn violet]

im writing void linux on my USB rn

[hard chasm]

Amazing

[dawn violet]

I hope it goes well unlike last time where I formatted my windows

[hard chasm]

Skull

[dawn violet]

this time I will use a tutorial

and not try to be a smart guy

[hard chasm]

The software

Don’t select C drive

[dawn violet]

I know

[hard chasm]

and everything should work for the USB

[dawn violet]

Im not that dumb I have 2 drives

alr im so close to being done

10 more secs

[hard chasm]

That’s fire right there lit 🔥

[dawn violet]

yeah this is too👍

Oh thats normal I just had to replug I forgot that always happens

alr gonna boot to bios

[cosmic lance]

man my pc run so much cooler now

[cosmic lance]

updating bios?

nvm its linux

[dawn violet]

Yeah

I dont update bios a lot

[hard chasm]

My bios hasn’t told me that it has a new update

Had the motherboard since 2016

They stopped doing updates since 2019

It was ddr3 ram

[hard chasm]

Portable Smoke machines nowadays

[dawn violet]

I booted into my usb

Looks bad but i bet it looks better when installed

[timber sun]

What’s the best console dashboard?? 👀 some didn’t have a dashboard but had a mod system that I would also consider a “dashboard”

[west hound]

What do you all think about the HP ZBook Ultra G1a?
128GB RAM and 2TB NVMe SSD.
I mainly do DaVinci Resolve editing & Blender. Could get it for 1k new directly from HP
pls @ me

[latent pasture]

1k??? is that a typo

[cosmic lance]

rendering is mainly gpu heavy

alot of ram helps, but not as much as the gpu

[latent pasture]

its the ryzen ai that has an igpu bigger than many dgpus

ram is only available 64gb and up bc they required it to be in like 8 chips so it can feed the igpu bandwidth

[swift thorn]

kindly recheck all the details you've provided, and if that's correct please check if that's actually directly from HP.

[west hound]

Nope 😄 Helping out on a sales event for a HP reseller and that's the deal they made me, lol.

[west hound]

yeah, that's my main concern, not sure that iGPU can do anything haha

[latent pasture]

unless its like 1k grams of gold then that price for 128gb ram and 2tb storage with even the worst ryzen ai one (6c12t and 16cu igpu) is alr great

[west hound]

Although vRam often is the limit for me, 12GB rarely is enough

[west hound]

It's all correct, I'm helping HP out, so it's not an official price, it's a backhand deal

[west hound]

Do you know how it would compare to a 3080?

[swift thorn]

oh so it's not a listing? it is an actual steal for 1k

[latent pasture]

in non cuda workloads (rip blender cycles ig) its only around laptop 3060 4060 tier

but at half the power consumption

[west hound]

hmm okay, might be tight for my bigger composites, but good enough to just do edits I guess

[latent pasture]

thats for the 8060s

[dawn violet]

I already messed up installing void linux lol

I made a simple volume not unallocated space

Now i need to reinstall the whole thing

[latent pasture]

you can configure ram size as vram bc its supposed to be for ai shit
there are people that made it have 16gb ram 112gb vram

[west hound]

That's probably gonna be me xD 32GB RAM for DaVinci is enough, rest I can throw at the GPU 😄

[dawn violet]

guys what should I install 1st when I get void linux

[west hound]

Any ideas about the battery life of the HP ZBook Ultra G1a? Probably pretty toast?

[lean flame]

My trip to the sharronville micro center.

[latent pasture]

7hrs on a browser surfing test on notebookchecks review

[west hound]

not too bad

I think I'll accept the deal then 😄 basically 2500$ discount for 5h of work sounds good 😄

[elder kelp]

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/ZwM7Lc
Any changes I should make? (Mainly on about the power supply, gpu and cpu)

[latent pasture]

its the least battery 14in workstation and less than half of other models nbc has reviewd
but its $1000 vs $3-4000 for the opponents idt ppl r gonna complain lmao

[west hound]

Batterywise or in general?

[latent pasture]

battery

thats time in minutes

[west hound]

ah okay, not too bad, for 2k I can buy a nice powerbank to extend it's life xD

[white sphinx]

Gonna sell my old beater gaming desktop, 5600g, 1660 super, 16gb ddr4 3200mts, 1tb ssd. What is a reasonable price?

200$?

[latent pasture]

lvl up barter and chr and sell for $400 to some kid

[white sphinx]

I mean im in more of the “i just want to get rid of it asap for a reasonable price” mood

[solar moat]

worth more then 200 i think put to at least 350 and if some one trys lowballing i gess let them

[gloomy sleet]

5500 for £45 is quite wild

[rigid fjord]

why pay the extra for ram that has a 50/50 chance of running at xmp speed with the 7600x when you can get a kit of 6000 cl30 for slightly cheaper that will be running at it's xmp speed with the 7600x

[rigid fjord]

half my mind screamed "pull" "kaboom"

[elder kelp]

what kit should I go with then?

[sinful zealot]

Pidgeon shaped drone

[rigid fjord]

the patriot venom one, that's going for £88 if memory serves me right

[rigid fjord]

rats with wings shaped drones you mean

[sinful zealot]

That’s not very nice

[rigid fjord]

it's true about them though

[cosmic lance]

y'all rate my desktop

[cosmic lance]

in stock? in this economy?

[lean flame]

oh yeah... that one fnaf remake i completely forgot about.

[iron glen]

its windows? nothing impressive ig

[lean flame]

Rate MY Desktop!

[iron glen]

taskbar is very cluttered

atleast yours works

[ebon marlin]

Stock isn't an issue it's just the pricing

All 9070xt's are 700$+ even though it's msrp is supposed to be 599

[south arrow]

[iron glen]

hi worm

[south arrow]

I neeeeed coffeees

https://tenor.com/view/tuesday-after-christmas-gif-246022315313086585

[cosmic lance]

W list of games, too much app on the botoom bar, would say a 6.7/10 (if you play those games i recommand you to play ULTRAKILL)

wait, is that Microsoft Edge that I see?

0/10, remove windows and install linux

[lean flame]

i don't use edge. i use firefox.

if i install linux then i can't game due to most games not being able to run without modding or third party software like proton.

[cosmic lance]

it was a joke

[lean flame]

ik.

i was trying to be clever or funny as well.

[lean flame]

https://tenor.com/view/rockstar-energy-drink-energy-drink-fireworks-gif-14854482

[true stirrup]

just force proton on a game through steam and everything except some games with a virus kernel level anticheat might not work
like fortnite, valorant, league,...

[south arrow]

Used to drink 2 orange whipped rockstars during grave shift used to have your guys heart leaping out my chest

https://tenor.com/view/tom-and-jerry-heartbeat-in-love-with-you-crush-my-heart-gif-15041846

Morning shift coming in to see me like^

[latent gull]

I’ve never understood energy drinks. Is it just the taste of drinking battery acid that makes you stay awake?

[south arrow]

Increases the heart rate and blood flow till you crash

But then id drink coffee in the morning after 3am so meh had to drive home and when you dont sleep much and have 2 jobs life gets meh

[latent gull]

Never has seemed to have an effect on me. And the flavors are just disgusting

[south arrow]

Was running on nicotine and hatred

[latent gull]

The running on hatred part I understand. Used to work the night shift at a factory where they had “optional” overtime where it was basically 12 hours a day, and we got 3 days off per month every month.

[south arrow]

Most energy drinks i do find pretty gross

[south arrow]

Ive been in berry factorys, meat processing plants, rubber production, packing into trucks at a distributor no stranger to the labor life of suckkk

Picking up mi hermano Juan from the slaughterhouse though it could always be worse, or the fields

https://tenor.com/view/super-mario-bros-nintendo-smb3-super-mario-all-stars-allstars-gif-18466363

[latent gull]

Luckily this wasn’t a bad factory, as far as factories can be not bad, it was a steel fab, so we just took in rolled steel and made parts

[south arrow]

Steelworks can be pretty solid if you got a good crew

And its not to hard on the back*

[latent gull]

We didn’t. And poor management didn’t help. Turnover rate was through the roof

[latent gull]

…? It wasn’t exactly good on the back

[cosmic lance]

why are the color blocky? any help?

[latent gull]

A lot of our parts moving was done by hand, including sheets of metal 100+ lbs

[plain cypress]

Are you asking why YouTube has color banding?

[south arrow]

Happens dont miss it much though labor was rough my back could never now

[latent gull]

They might mean the sections in the playtime bar

[plain cypress]

Who was that YouTuber with the red shit and jeans and grey seeater

[latent gull]

Sorry idk what YouTuber shit what color

[plain cypress]

Okay the play bar is broken into chapters

Idk if that's what they wanted

[plain cypress]

Ohhhh it's Tom Scott
I kept thinking Michael Scott 😭

[cosmic lance]

its those block right here

or i think you cant see it since i think its a problem of my monitor

[south arrow]

https://tenor.com/view/cheers-cheers-to-that-wink-steve-carell-gif-23705252507487769

[latent gull]

I’m just now realizing he always wore the same clothes

I never noticed that once

[plain cypress]

His signature look

Sometimes he wears a high vis vest

[plain cypress]

Are these blocks in the room with us?

[latent gull]

God I fucking hate YouTube search now. When I look up tom Scott, why the FUCK would I want to see unrelated videos that I’ve ALREADY watched

[cosmic lance]

color bending or sm shit

[plain cypress]

The problem is he's posting this on discord with embed compression

[cosmic lance]

i think its the color depth issue

[cosmic lance]

fr

[plain cypress]

https://youtu.be/h9j89L8eQQk
Does this answer your question

[cosmic lance]

yes ty

[south arrow]

Oh hrmm

[latent gull]

Oh this is the thing that always made the windows 11 dark background look terrible

I think they’ve fixed that one but it was bad for a while

Sadge

[plain cypress]

Oh that's like real money

[latent gull]

it’s real dollars, not dollary doos

[unique olive]

Freedom pesos

[latent gull]

I really want it but have to like, actually think about it with it being that much

The cheaper one is 1099, if it was less than 1k I would’ve bought it immediately, but both are just a wee bit too much for an instant buy

[dawn violet]

Hi

[tidal geyser]

math aint mathing

[unique olive]

Is there a handheld with cut down specs but a great display would be nice for streaming from my pc

[tidal geyser]

steamdeck oled?

[plain cypress]

$1400 is desktop money

[tidal geyser]

1400 is wine money

[latent gull]

1400$ is good DGPU laptop money

[plain cypress]

Gaming laptop 💀

[tidal geyser]

it is pretty cheap for what it is

[unique olive]

Nah I’d want 4k

[tidal geyser]

4k in a handheld?

[plain cypress]

It's not $500 more handheld than the first gen

[latent gull]

I mean, it might be

[plain cypress]

It's not like it has a massively larger soc

[tidal geyser]

why larger

[plain cypress]

The extra 16gb ram is like $20

[latent gull]

32gb ram, Hall effect joysticks, new CPU, significantly better battery, 144hz OLED screen

[tidal geyser]

its rdna 3.5 and zen5

[cosmic lance]

for that price this should make you able to travel in time

[tidal geyser]

dat OLED is 100% a major reason why it costs so much

[latent gull]

Yeah, this is what’s confusing me. They haven’t released the specs for the 32gb model, the only different we know is the ram difference, which wouldn’t explain the price change. I’m gonna have to wait for the tech specs for the 32gb model to be released

[plain cypress]

233mm2 die vs 178mm2 die

It's bigger but it's not hundreds of dollars bigger

Of course, this product is introduced with tariff pricing in mind

[latent gull]

Which is why I was ready for it to be up to 1k and I would’ve happily bought it, BUT I think the tariffs fucked that

[plain cypress]

Yeah if it was $999 I wouldn't bag an eye

[latent gull]

I just wanna know why there’s a 300$ difference in the 16 and 32gb models

[plain cypress]

Ehh, id complain that they could have done 2tb at $999 but still, it would be much better than $1349

[latent gull]

The 16gb model is 1099$

Which is much more reasonable

[plain cypress]

Bruh

[latent gull]

Sorry, 250$ difference, but it’s 16gb of ram, I wanna know where the other 200$ is coming from

[plain cypress]

I need steam deck 2

[latent gull]

Steam deck 2 OLED would go hard, but haven’t they worked on a new console instead of a new deck?

[tidal geyser]

im so tired

[latent gull]

https://tenor.com/view/22-getwell-gif-18545184

[tidal geyser]

i bet steamdeck 2 will be rdna 4 maybe even 5 if we are lucky and zen 5 or 6

[plain cypress]

They have no interest in rapid deck iteration

Yeah it seems like some sort of steam box is in the works before they think about a deck 2

[tidal geyser]

amd has already managed to go so much further

[unique olive]

Yes. Why does that not exist?

[tidal geyser]

eyes

you can only see so much detail

[plain cypress]

But maybe a deck 2 is just an soc rev. Could be pretty to surprise everyone with

[vestal stream]

why tf has sata ssd been completly phased out

[tidal geyser]

also uh its a handheld, its not gonna be close to your gaming laptop

[tidal geyser]

slow?

[latent gull]

And that’s fair, very fair, BUT it’s been 3 years, and 2 years since steam deck OLED. I don’t think a 5 year release window is rapid development when it’s already developed PC/laptop hardware

[tidal geyser]

expensive

[plain cypress]

My steam deck 2 wishlist would be quad core zen5c with 12 RDNA4 CU (using current architectures)

[vestal stream]

no, as in barely anyone produces it nowadays

[tidal geyser]

more compact stuff

[vestal stream]

sata isnt that expensive

[tidal geyser]

what do you mean no

[tidal geyser]

expensive to make

[plain cypress]

They're very interested in treating it like a console which means console release cycles

[carmine yew]

on average it's more expensive than NVME today

[latent gull]

But if they already have the m.2, why would they go back to sata?

[tidal geyser]

what costs more a shitty little pcb stick or something that needs a whole ass enclosure, you also have that extra weight and size

[vestal stream]

nowadays only kingston and pny make sata ssds. hell i need to take good care of my mx500

[tidal geyser]

xd

[carmine yew]

I've got a collection of sata SSDs I've harvested from old PCs

[tidal geyser]

i really wanna work in a it department

[carmine yew]

some 256, most are 512's, and a small handfull of 1tb

[latent gull]

It’s nice

[carmine yew]

at times

[tidal geyser]

i just put in a 256GB sata m.2 in some i5 8th gen laptop i got for free

[carmine yew]

but your patience is constantly put to the fucking test.

Users are impressively braindead on the regular

[rigid fjord]

when no tickets appear

[vestal stream]

i need a 256 or a 500gig one to pop in my ps3

[latent gull]

It’s nicer than any other job I’ve worked by a long shot

[vestal stream]

funny thing is. i have like 4 2.5inch hard drives

[carmine yew]

huh, I've got a fat PS3, I should look into modding that

[rigid fjord]

find a ps2 and mod it to fuckery for the lols

[vestal stream]

i found 2 ps3s by the dumpster and i had a ps3 super slim way before that

[tidal geyser]

xd

[latent gull]

A bad day in a tech department is better than most good days at other jobs IMO. A bad customer can last 20 minutes to an hour, but you can always escalate or hang up, and once they’re off the phone it’s over

[vestal stream]

now i have a ps3 fat, slim and super slim. flipped the ps3 fat for a profit and the just modded the Slim to play ps1 2 and 3 games

[carmine yew]

wtf is this dude smoking:

[rigid fjord]

you know dude, i do wonder how many IT departments don't have people being doing time for murder, because i know some fuckwit will bring you to the point of wanting to go on a homicidal rage

[tidal geyser]

i always love being able to do something, tech is a constant thing that never stops

[vestal stream]

one could argue that i shouldnt have sold the FAT, but eyhh guy bought it for 60 euros

with no controller, i just repasted it

[carmine yew]

don't suffer a cyber attack

[latent gull]

Well, that’s where it’s a little iffy. Depending on what the job/tech department is, there can be a lot of downtime, or you can never have downtime.

[tidal geyser]

no crypto options

[tidal geyser]

i hate downtime

[latent gull]

Don’t work for an ISP then :p

We have so much downtime here

[tidal geyser]

nice to know

[vestal stream]

girl* i bet she has one of those color circle flags

the hippie ones

[tidal geyser]

but yea ISPs do not do much

[rigid fjord]

carrier board and compute card, the bundle could actually be worth the price they're asking for

[carmine yew]

ngl, when I see something that dumb, I don't even look at the seller's name lol

[vestal stream]

imma pop open this ssd and put a thermal pad on the nand. ts aint going under 95 health

[latent gull]

We do a lot, but most of the systems run automagically after being set up, and when there’s a major problem the tier 3s handle it, tier 1s take the basic stuff, and that’s all boring extreme low level stuff that doesn’t take a lot of time or effort

[tidal geyser]

wat

[vestal stream]

check smart data

96%

[tidal geyser]

why thermal pad it

[lofty trail]

So I got a 4.4mm version of the Wan 'er 2 just coz I was getting some other stuff for my cheap microphone setup. I made the mistake of not checking the output port specs and turns out it only takes 1/4 inch connection. I was so hopeful that my iems were gonna sound so elevated with the uphoria um2 but now I am looking up 4.4mm to 1/4 inch connections on Aliexpress and those are more expensive than the iems themselves. Do I have to get a 4.4mm to 1/4 adapter? Does the balanced and unbalanced thing make it complicated? I don't have any other devices with a 4.4mm output. Just asking here in case there's actually something I can do. Tia

[tidal geyser]

also jesus that mx500 is good

[vestal stream]

fun fact the ssd enclosure is just that an enclosure

[tidal geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/fish-spin-sha-gif-26863370

[flat cliff]

Been using Garmin for privacy wise with my smart watch (for context I run GrapheneOS already) but I really like the idea if being able to have LTE and I'm not paying 1k on there ultra high end watch that is supposed to be coming out with it.

Is there a way to bypass login or root a pixel watch or something? (Best looking smart watch period) or is there a different watch that I should be using? (But from the very limited research I've done, aren't Garmin, Google and especially Apple the top 3 most accurate for tracking so what then if I'm using yet another watch? Still I'd consider it?)

[tidal geyser]

fun fact, this fish is a fish

[vestal stream]

so if you use it frequently the only heat dissipation it has within said enclosure

[tidal geyser]

privacy wise?

[tidal geyser]

no shit

[vestal stream]

if ur case is aluminum or metal or you can just pop it open, stick a thermal pad on the nand and now you have a heat sink

[rigid fjord]

the carrier board there, could be worth 50-70 usd dude, not sure on the compute board's price

[carmine yew]

but only to very specific people

[vestal stream]

idk why not alot of people do this tbh, its lowkey worth it and prolongs the ssds life

[carmine yew]

TIL aluminum isn't metal

[tidal geyser]

not by a lot

[vestal stream]

transition metals

[tidal geyser]

also the mx500 is QLC

[carmine yew]

https://www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/crucial-mx500-2-tb.d78
TLC NAND

[tidal geyser]

fuck me im blind

BX was the shitty QLC

[vestal stream]

THATS MY BOY

[carmine yew]

yeah, MX was DRAM Cache and TLC

[tidal geyser]

no you have 1TB

[carmine yew]

BX was neither of those for very few dollars less

[tidal geyser]

ok yea the MX500 is fine and no you are not gonna wear it out

i wanna sleep

im giving too much effort at school

[carmine yew]

I've got 4 1TB MX500's on the shelf
2 Samsung 860 QVO's (QLC, but also has DRAM, so still pretty good)

[tidal geyser]

sata is sad

sata is only simplex

[vestal stream]

mx500 is goated imo

[tidal geyser]

10 years ago maybe

but now a days we have pcie

[vestal stream]

heyyy hard drives still hold up to this day, even in gaming

[tidal geyser]

uuuhhhhh

[vestal stream]

remember when ppl said direct storage was game changing, to this day only 1 ( slop game) has used it lol

[carmine yew]

Samsung 870 EVO > MX500

But the MX500 was still really good

[tidal geyser]

nope

[tidal geyser]

not slop just not good also 57 games you mean right?

[vestal stream]

i was talking about forspoken tbh

looking at steam db i only see like 5 good games that used it https://steamdb.info/tech/SDK/DirectStorage/

[tidal geyser]

what about euro truck or ghost of tsushima directors cut, the last of us part 2 remastered, ratchet and clank rift apart, horizon forbidden west, warhammer darktide

[vestal stream]

valid apart from last of us

[tidal geyser]

wat

[vestal stream]

naughty dawg can do better than remaking sequels dawg

[carmine yew]

why is this so far south of my place, I want this:

I want it, but I'm not sure I want to spend 90-120 minutes round trip picking it up >.<

[tidal geyser]

shipping?

[carmine yew]

most fbm sellers don't ship

[tidal geyser]

sad

my class is so strange

i was the only one who knew what a file system was

and its not one of those, "im a god i am smarter than all people i know everything" kinda things as this was the first time this has happened before to the teacher, nobody having zero clue

[south arrow]

After selling enough tech stuff most people just wanna have fun not learn how things work

You'll find most people dont know much about electronics in general

[tidal geyser]

no shit but they did not choose to study electronics

how its meant to work here is interest based

tons and tons of choices

[south arrow]

anyhow hopefully you do good

[tidal geyser]

i am just bored

and lonely

almost nobody local has been interested in the same things i have for my entire life

[south arrow]

Takes time, gotta give alittle to get alittle. Meeting new peeps can be meh im more of a enjoy my solitude type a creature. But for those that like to hang with others gotta be interested in what others like sometimes (even if your not)

Still finding people you click with will take time. All you can do is try to hear peeps out and offer a hand when you have the extra strength

[robust trail]

Go on adventure!

[carmine yew]

maybe an excuse to go to ikea?

[tidal geyser]

after 18 years and going computer tech i have yet to meet someone truly interested

[south arrow]

Gotta fake it till you make it life's all about masks

[robust trail]

That and taking backroads the whole way there can be fun. I spent a lot of time exploring the little towns, parks etc in new england

Take a day and don't look at the clock lol

[south arrow]

Non the less we are always around maybe not the greatest company. But company lol

[carmine yew]

lol, I'd be taking a very meandering route, as straight line is right through boston

[robust trail]

Nope

Boston is wonderfully shitty

[south arrow]

Idk why i started saying Boston with the accent

[carmine yew]

boston is also an hour away from Boston

[robust trail]

I can get into boston from the north and park near the aquarium. THat's it - no more.

I dare not drive anywhere else

[latent gull]

https://tenor.com/view/blahaj-gif-27048745

[latent gull]

Bahstahn

[carmine yew]

omfg:
I realize nobody really "likes" linkedin, but come the fuck on, AI is not gonna do this:

[tawdry nest]

I'm looking to get a new laptop. I currently have a 2019 zephyrus g14, but due to condensation, the battery contacts became desoldered and my attempts to fix it with a new battery have been unsuccessful. It always needs to be plugged in to the wall now, and that wont work at college. I don't really need my laptop to be a gaming laptop since I have a desktop I built. Here are the 2 I am looking at. While the HP might be the obvious option because it has a better cpu, I dont want 2in1 because of the weight and less battery. I don't think id ever use it. The only intensive thing I might be doing on these is some lightroom classic and photoshop. Although extra power never hurt anyone.
https://www.bestbuy.com/product/hp-omnibook-x-flip-copilot-pc-16-3k-oled-touch-screen-laptop-intel-core-ultra-9-32gb-memory-2tb-ssd-eclipse-gray/JJGH2Y9TPC#tabbed-customerreviews

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/samsung-galaxy-book5-pro-copilot-pc-16-3k-amoled-touch-screen-laptop-intel-core-ultra-7-32gb-memory-1tb-ssd-gray/J3ZYGXCV37

[south arrow]

https://youtu.be/sw7FyFix434?si=1PkUgG5TdvKU_-oH

[tidal geyser]

all this to not post it in build a pc

[latent gull]

Honestly this would probably be better than LinkedIn just from virtue of how shit LinkedIn is for actually finding jobs

[robust trail]

LinkedIn is shit from top to bottom. MS bought it and it went to shit.

[latent gull]

I thought this was the normal floppa and was about to give so much shit

[carmine yew]

@azure topaz

[tawdry nest]

haha ive talked to him before

I've had this username for like 8 years

[tidal geyser]

i just call him floppy

[latent gull]

This one’s floppy

Other ones floppa

[tidal geyser]

no i call floppa floppy

this one is just a fake

[tawdry nest]

im not fake

[tidal geyser]

yes you are

[tawdry nest]

what makes you say that

[robust trail]

I'm working on trading my suv for a truck and forgot how absurdly slow rivian is. It is almost like they're in no rush to sell a vehicle

[latent gull]

Usually when I see a really cool hat

I’ll say hat and point aggressively

[tawdry nest]

😂

So can you guys help me with my laptop search?

[tawdry nest]

bro 😭

[latent gull]

Did you have a rivian before or are you getting one or both?

[robust trail]

I have an r1s right now but my wife has been pressing me to get an r1t

[tidal geyser]

collecting cars like i am used computers

[wet ember]

why does 16 gb suck nowadays

[latent gull]

If I had to buy an EV right now I would probably choose an R1S, is there any reason yall want to switch or just preference?

[tidal geyser]

the t looks so bad

[latent gull]

I think they both look great, just not whatever abomination they made the van into

[robust trail]

We don't use the third row. The r1s is amazing, super fun and as androgynous as an suv can get, which I love. BUT the 3rd row is unused and people who sit back there get car sick

[latent gull]

Saw one of these fuckers the other day, god they’re ugly

[robust trail]

because... I drive my vehicles and that fat ass wobbles a bit like a jello dessert lol

[tidal geyser]

one thing i do always wonder about, why so many trucks and SUVs and such

[robust trail]

hey, the rivian delivery vans are amazing

they're weird as hell but they're badass

[tidal geyser]

stupid good

[wet ember]

i hate the rear end because those rivian vans don't have separate amber turn signals

[tidal geyser]

they are made to just be good

[wet ember]

i'm a big fan of amber turn signals

[tidal geyser]

i LOVE IT when things are not made to look good

[latent gull]

I’ve really enjoyed more midsized SUVs, rav4 and CRV and such, and I haven’t seen any EVs in that class that pop other than just hybrids

[robust trail]

rivian's design team wanted to get as far away from normal as possible

[tidal geyser]

its a tool

[latent gull]

They might be good, but man are they ugly

[tidal geyser]

na i like em

super practical

[latent gull]

Better than the new USPS vans though

[rigid fjord]

better than the tesla ones?

[robust trail]

instead of aggressive and masculine they wanted to be completely... devoid of anything other than "it is"

[tidal geyser]

the people who drive the vans love them like no other

[tidal geyser]

at least that one is not gonna hit you in the head or chest if it hits you

GOD i hate trucks and SUVs

[robust trail]

tesla has delivery vans? I thought they only had negative sales, like they actually buy more cars than they sell

[azure topaz]

dont lie

[rigid fjord]

the looks of someone that's been stunned

[tidal geyser]

tesla has trailers