tech-chat-1

[regal marlin]

why would i give a fu

[regal marlin]

are you high

[proper gull]

Are you high?

[pale wharf]

I have been playing Arc Raiders Recently but when in lobby screen I have had my pc have 2 critical errors that have shutdown/blacked out my pc/screen. I currently have an 800W power supply but this seems to be the issue when I googled the ID of the fault (Happened back to back after reboot). I checked the wattage needed for my device and it says about 600W is needed. Has my PSU just gone bad?

[golden lava]

when you say "your device", have you taken all the components into consideration? motherboard, GPU, everything that will pull from the psu?

[pale wharf]

BTW ^Fault ID 41

I used Seasonics wattage calcualtor

[regal marlin]

do i really need to be worried about ESD and if so how can i prevent it

[formal sonnet]

KoolCordell knows what's up... #tech-chat-1 message

[regal marlin]

does that video answer it

[formal sonnet]

https://tenor.com/view/barackobama-talks-press-con-maybe-classified-gif-11864017

[pale wharf]

what do you think? I have been playing arc a lot and it just started happening but then again I have had it happen to me when playing TheFinals too

[golden lava]

what are your temps at before it shuts off?

[pale wharf]

Is there a way to check that from last shutoff or would I have to re-create the situation to see

[grim moon]

Just download and run hwinfo and check temps. Might need to run the game again to see what's spiking.

You should be able to see abnormal temps on idle too though

[pale wharf]

through the nvidia app its showing 84degrees Celsius in lobby

of arc raiders

Lobby I feel pulls the most

it just crashed on me again :/

how would I be able to see if the PSU is getting overdone?

[manic fjord]

ive tried google but i dunno what to do anymore, can anyone help me change my laptop brightness? the slider won't work at all after a screen repair, i've tried adding in another power plan, it didn't add that, i tried the steps it showed on google and i know you guys are smart technologically

it's so bright i genuinely cannot see if white comes on the screen or smth in game is bright

[pale wharf]

have you thought of just putting tinting film on it?

[manic fjord]

wdym

[manic fjord]

dont have any right now

the sliders just straight up broken sliding it from 0-100 does absolutely nothin

[swift stream]

arc raiders looked mid to me just from its steam page

[pale wharf]

My Pc has shutoff a number of times do to EVENT 41 - I think it may be because the PC is needing more power or the PSU has just gone bad - its an 800 W PSU and I should only need like 600

[manic fjord]

what specs you got ?

[pale wharf]

Ryzen 9 3900X - RTX 2080 SUPER

[manic fjord]

maybe you're getting power flickers/ungrounded outlet and it's a faulty one or something?

i had that happen before where the electrical in the building wasn't updated and it was faulty wiring causing my pc to fail whenever htere was too much power, everything else worked but the pc would turn off

[pale wharf]

I have played it for a week with no problems but the lobby pulls pretty hard

Ive had it happen to me in TheFinals game too

[manic fjord]

yea mine did that too it would shut off after playing fortnite or another game

[pale wharf]

My PC is older so I wouldnt be suprized if someone has gone bad but Idk how to diagnose

something*

[manic fjord]

i can help you tomorrow but my brightness is lighting the whole room up right now

[grim moon]

Try downloading WhoCrashed from here https://www.resplendence.com/downloads then run it. Should give you a little bit more info on crash logs.

[manic fjord]

Mr. Howard do you know why my brightness slider isn't working google didn't help, i tried the steps there and it only started after a screen repair earlier today

[grim moon]

Can't help much since im away from home but this should help get you started.

[formal sonnet]

Did you do the repair yourself, or pay a shop to do it? Was the EXACT SAME screen model used?

[grim moon]

Hard to say. Sounds like screen wasn't calibrated after repair. Without knowing full details, cant say.

[formal sonnet]

Could also be that. ^^^ Some devices use drivers to control the screen brightness. If a different model was used (or even a different version of the same model) the drivers may no longer work correctly .

[manic fjord]

a shop did it and everything was the same i'm on it right now, but i noticed dark spots on the laptop when i started it up

[formal sonnet]

Contact and ask them to do the repair correctly. You paid them to do a job. They're responsible for doing it right.

[ancient shale]

weirdest thing abt my new system... it boots into windows just fine but only after showing "no display" once. ????

[grim moon]

Also make sure to do your due diligence when picking repair shops. Convenience is not always the best answer.

[hardy horizon]

My work pc was reimaged to windows 11 .... the brightness slider doesn't work and it trys to blind ne all day 😭 night light doesn't work either they are "looking into it "
This is not related to your issue, but I feel your pain

[manic fjord]

what does this even mean man i'm on windows 11

it just popped up!?

[manic fjord]

thanks im trying that tomorrow

[manic fjord]

ngl i was trying but they were the only ones to answer

[pale wharf]

I am on the Windows Reliability Monitor but how would I know what the issue is?

[formal sonnet]

I haven't seen this on Windows 11 specifically, but I remember fixing this on Windows 10 machines.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/-we-couldn-t-update-system-reserved-partition-error-installing-windows-10-46865f3f-37bb-4c51-c69f-07271b6672ac

[grim moon]

WhoCrashed will get crash dump logs and break them down a little better than resource monitor does.

Event Viewer*

[pale wharf]

and WhoCrashed is safe to download?

[grim moon]

Yes.

[manic fjord]

Thanks! I'm gonna be trying this tomorrow oto, it's gettting really late and i'm tired of this 🤣

[grim moon]

Time to just nuke the whole OS (joking)

[pale wharf]

Okay I downloaded it, do I have to re-create the crash now?

or how does it work?

[grim moon]

Nah just open WhoCrashed, press analyze and it'll pull from your crash dumps from previous crashes. Sometimes gives some detail, sometimes not but worth a shot

[pale wharf]

it says no valid crash dumps have been found on your computer

[grim moon]

Is it your game crashing or whole pc?

[ancient shale]

Guys my 3DMark score is below average for my specs, anything I'm forgetting to do that could affect my performance?

[grim moon]

How much below average?

[pale wharf]

my screen goes black and the the fans start going fast speed

[ancient shale]

150 or so

Lemme check again

[grim moon]

Could probably chock that up to losing the silicon lottery ngl

[grim moon]

So not a valid bsod crash. Ok a little harder to diagnose.

[pale wharf]

all I see if ID Event #41 Kernel-Power

[grim moon]

Let me get discord on my steam deck real quick so I can try to help a little more effectively

[grim moon]

Just means was shut off improperly, doesn't say much

[ancient shale]

Actually around 250 (I think.)

it's 215. math

[grim moon]

Yeah thats just kinda negligible point difference. Lots of people who do overclocking run 3dmark to push their scores as high as possible which brings up the average a little.

That score shouldn't be a concern

[ancient shale]

Awesome then. Thanks so much

Any way you think I could target a specific score on 3dmark?

I want to target a specific number

[agile stag]

people will bench ts and then start worrying about not getting expected performance out of whatever they bought

[ancient shale]

weird question. my case came with a fan hub. any way to sync that with my ram or my cpu cooler?

[agile stag]

yeah plug in the signal input into the cpu fan header

and then make sure that your cpu fan is still controller by the cpu fan header in some way

(optional)

[ancient shale]

i just need the rgb synced lol

[grim moon]

If its using an argb header on the mobo you can control it with your motherboard lighting software

what case is it

[grim moon]

what have you tried so far?

And how old is the pc? Ever reapplied thermal paste? From what you've said it seems like thermals but tryna get more details

[real lantern]

was trying to desolder my blue yeti and broke a capacitor 😭

[grim moon]

did you tear the solder pad off?

[dusk acorn]

Hey guys so I had a ps5 controller and when I plugged it in to my pc I went to a website that tests adaptive trigger and when I pressed L2 and R2 at the same time the controller just died and it doesn’t show any signs of life. I’ve tried resetting it from the back and charging it but both doesn’t work. I just want to know if anyone has a possible fix. Thank you!

[grim moon]

Is it showing up at all in device manager?

[dusk acorn]

nope

[grim moon]

https://controller.dl.playstation.net/controller/lang/en/2100004.html could try updating the firmware of the controller to see if that brings it back but if its not being detected I doubt this'll work.

Worth a shot regardless

[dusk acorn]

yeah i dont think its connecting

[formal sonnet]

Died or... perhaps ran out of battery? Asking because it could be a coincidence and... I've run into MANY computer USB ports and USB chargers and cables that Sony controllers do not like. (Try other USB cables and/or multiple different USB wall chargers.)

[grim moon]

Yeah could be as simple as a cable as silly as it may sound

[dusk acorn]

i was using a apple usb c to usb c charger plug to my laptop usb c

[formal sonnet]

I'm talking about the controller... not your laptop. I have no idea why Sony is so picky, but I have multiple certified USB-PD chargers that DO NOT charge Sony products in my house, yet the Samsung Galaxy S6 charger I have from 10+ years ago works just fine every single time. Thanks Sony.

[dusk acorn]

yeah any charger wouldnt work

im just confused with it working then instantly dying, it did say it was at a 100

on one of the apps I had opened but i dont remember

also it was plugged in when it just randomly died

did i overload it by using both the adaptive trigger at the same time?

[grim moon]

I highly doubt it

[dusk acorn]

cuz it was working then prior to that incident

[formal sonnet]

Never heard of such a thing. Did this controller come with a Playstation or was it bought separately? I have had a couple friends who ended up with fakes that looked convincingly real.

[grim moon]

I'm wondering if while you were testing windows decided to just chuck some random generic driver to it causing it to not be seen properly

[dusk acorn]

seperately actually one of the contribution is it was from ebay...

[formal sonnet]

Welp, my bet's on "fake" 😉

[grim moon]

RIP

[dusk acorn]

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/297770369265

[grim moon]

I think you should be able to check SN on sony's site although that's easy to spoof

[dusk acorn]

opened it up and it did have a sony battery

[formal sonnet]

You mean it claimed to have a Sony battery. It's incredibly easy to fake anything these days.

[grim moon]

Its stupid easy to fake "real" parts

[formal sonnet]

To be clear, we obviously have no way to verify this... Just trying to provide ideas as to why X stopped working.

[dusk acorn]

seemed like a legit shop and the seller is responsive, i think its just because its late at night so no ones answering but ill see tomorrow

[dusk acorn]

how do I do this?

[grim moon]

Could just try to register the product on Sony's website. If SN is invalid then it wont register but like I said, those can easily just be copied and also since its a used controller it may already be registered.

[dusk acorn]

yeah thats true

i mean is it easy to copy the adaptive triggers?

cuz ive heard theres only a couple of third party controllers that offer it

[hidden nymph]

its so unreal this isnt actually Windows 7 but if anyone walked upto it and used it, theyd think it was

[fickle ivy]

So useful for night honestly

[grim moon]

green

[hoary agate]

isnt this reunion7 or whatever its called?

[dusk acorn]

update: It just started working idk but its fixed now

[hidden nymph]

no

[grim moon]

huh weird. At least it works now

[hidden nymph]

revert8plus

and i dont use custom isos

[dusk acorn]

now im scare to try the adaptive triggers again

[hidden nymph]

https://teknixstuff.com/Libraries/Projects/Revert8Plus/

he also makes a tool that patches the Windows 10 LTSC installer to allow upgrades from any edition, without loosing anything including Windows 11 25H2 to Windows 10

best part is all of the mods are only done in your user

they dont affect other users on the system

u can one click disable it all

[hoary agate]

oh ok

[hidden nymph]

see now its Windows 10

now its Windows 7

[strange atlas]

Should i get Samsung Galaxy a16 4gb ram version in 2025?

or its not worth it?

I'm sick of this 2010 phone cant install a damn thing to this

[random gyro]

for basic tasks like texting, calling, watching youtube videos, doing emails, yeah.

[strange atlas]

i can do the same thing with my current one i was hoping to play some games on it too

[random gyro]

but dont be expecting anything in the performance category, about galaxy s10 to galaxy s20 performance, which still are decent phones

you can get a second hand s10 or s20 too but i think its better for you to get the a16 since the battery wont be as degraded

[strange atlas]

i wouldnt mind second hand but my people dont understand what second hand is and they sell even over brand new price for second hands

[random gyro]

itll do fine in some games like clash of clans, minecraft, and pubg, but dont be expecting to be playing genshin impact

[random gyro]

its an honor for them to use that device XD

[strange atlas]

oh i was expecting to play genshin to pass time

imma pass on it then thank you

[random gyro]

i mean it can but it wont be the best experience when it comes to graphics

[candid crow]

Hi

[random gyro]

but constant 30 fps is good

[strange atlas]

wouldnt mind the graphics if its 30 fps i'm good

[random gyro]

then itll genshin fine for you...at the lowest graphics settings

also emulation is a good thing on these cheaper devices, not gamecube or wii, but older, like gba, ds, etc

[strange atlas]

can i do that on huawei y7 2019

gba games would be nice

[random gyro]

kinda, gba will work but ds and psp, no

older games basically

i had a y6 2019, what an experience

[strange atlas]

i'm okay with that i was hoping to play old 2d games anyways

[strange atlas]

so fucking shitty

doesnt even have nfc i cant use bus cause of that

[mint umbra]

This is prob wrong server for this but I need a new electric Razer any recommendations

[random gyro]

youtube freezes up at fullscreen 720p ;-;

[strange atlas]

yeah :d

[random gyro]

even 480p struggles

[strange atlas]

480 was fine for me but 720 is bad

[random gyro]

480 was fine

but it freezes up

[strange atlas]

it was freezing on idle anways

[random gyro]

also 32 gb storage ;A;

[strange atlas]

oh yeah

[random gyro]

i wonder how huawei made em so cheap...

[strange atlas]

phone doesnt even have enough storage for bank apps

[random gyro]

i did get celeste working on my huawei y6 a couple months ago

(and what i mean by celeste is the full pc game, not pico 8)

[strange atlas]

how was it

[random gyro]

ehhh, was working at 60 fps but it was stuttery af

[strange atlas]

i've played java minecraft before it was a really shitty experience though

it was at like 15 fps

at that time java and bedrock were not able to play together*

[random gyro]

pojav launcher?

[strange atlas]

pretty sure it wasnt that but i dont remember exactly what was it

[random gyro]

btw celeste and winlator took up 1/4th of the storage on this phone ;A;

[strange atlas]

[random gyro]

YAAA FRRE TV

[random gyro]

update: not work

i dont think i can bring it back since yeah

FUCK. im stuck with a paperweight

[somber mauve]

Hey team, have a question. I am paying for a server for my community to play MC and I was thinking of using a i5 7th gen micro pc to be the server to save on costs and have more power for mods. MY only concern is that if I use it from my house people will knwo where I live. Is there a way to host it from home but it not be trackable?

[frigid blade]

the most you can get is a nearby city

[somber mauve]

Ohh so they currently could only tell what city I lived in?

[frigid blade]

yes, they wont get a specific house number if thats what you mean

ISPs and backbone providers say “this block of IPs is used in/around City X” when they allocate infrastructure, and geolocation companies ingest that kind of routing and registration data, thats how they can approximate it

but they wont get more than that, a lot of times it can be off by miles

[somber mauve]

I am happy with city but dont want people finding the street or suburb at all

[frigid blade]

if you want to check yourself what they'll be able to see, google whats my ip, then google ip address lookup and use that IP from earlier to check

[somber mauve]

Ohh wow it thats amazing thank you

[frigid blade]

there's also some pretty cool geolocation you can do with SSIDs near you, but you have to be physically there

I was able to aproximate my location within a few meters just based on the networks around me

[topaz shale]

if you set up a reverse proxy or a tunnel through something like Cloudflare or DigitalOcean it will not return your ip address

[frigid blade]

cloudflare would need paid version for the proxy i think

[topaz shale]

usually adds quite a bit of complexity though

the only cost is to register a domain, i was able to grab two domains at about 10$ per year each

[frigid blade]

you can get them for a buck for a year

[topaz shale]

exactly

i just wanted something that wasnt awful

[frigid blade]

https://www.ionos.com/domains/com-domain

[topaz shale]

one domain i have im not using much is badgerraccoon.org

[frigid blade]

i get all my domains from them

i dont care about keeping the same domain so i just rotate yearly

[topaz shale]

im not gonna share the domains im currently using because honestly my setup is probably not fit for penetration testing

[frigid blade]

Oracle Cloud free tier is also good if you want to reverse proxy, with Nginx, apparently theres simpler solutions than nginx

[topaz shale]

im using digital ocean with a domain from squarespace, and proxied through nginx

i am still learning. there is probably a better way

but this is what all works for me

[normal belfry]

LTT

[rough salmon]

Anyone know how much steam machine will cost

Cuz I’m saving for it

[frigid blade]

at least 500

[topaz shale]

valve is not subsidizing and the estimated cost of parts is around 430$

if the BOM really comes out to around 430$ valve could comfortably sell the steam machine under 700$

however for now all we have is speculation and a giant tank of copium

[rough salmon]

So maybe 700 then

I only have £50 saved rn, better get going with the rest

[topaz shale]

better start saving

[rough salmon]

I’m saving £150 a month from December will I make it on time

They said early 2026 so that means like first 1/3?

[topaz shale]

perhaps

do the math yourself

[rough salmon]

I did haha, I save £150 a month I might just make it

[forest spruce]

yall this looks like an above average amount of files to scan for my pc. is this amount of files normal for the full scan

[random gyro]

peek the desktop

a random 8 year old naked external HDD

because i broke its case

[random gyro]

what capacity? hehe

512GB

also how did you "break its case" qwq

when its plug was clogged with dust

so i opened the case and snapped the locks

[random gyro]

oh my

but still that happend 5 years ago

still works?

Yes perfectly fine

impressive

So i installed Omarchy on it

a arch based linux distro

linux good

havnt heard of that distro though, is it good?

i was also pretty impressed when it actually worked while being 8 years old and 5 years without an external casing

[random gyro]

In a nutshell, its just arch linux with hyprland(wayland)

[random gyro]

the "stephen hawking" hard drive

also it's from Western DIgitals

if you were wondering

im still surprised though

am thinking of getting an atom based windows tablet (an older used one) ;-;

i just randomly found it laying on the corner of my closet

windows

should i go for microsoft surface 3 :>>>

[random gyro]

windows is alright

windows is good if it didn't have the bloat

NT is amazing

and windows 8 and 10 is fun to play around with a touchscreen device

they are optimized for touchscreen devices

[random gyro]

gotta agree, windows does have too much bloat. WHY CANDY CRUSH AND TIKTOK for gods sake

[random gyro]

i know, i had one, more specifically an acer one 10 tablet with windows 10

[frigid blade]

youre talking about windows version that are bloated though, its pretty easy to install a non-bloated version like enterprise

[random gyro]

a hospital computer doesn't need candy crush, tiktok and LinkedIn

[frigid blade]

hospitals shouldnt be running consumer versions of windows

and they most likely arent

[random gyro]

well enterprise exists

[rough salmon]

I think most companies use ltsc

[random gyro]

they do

[random gyro]

microsoft adding candy crush to their 200 usd operating system:

[rough salmon]

Enterprise don’t have bloatware?

[random gyro]

as a very advanced user, i don't really like it and use linux

[frigid blade]

no, its meant for well, enterprises lol

[random gyro]

i cant switch to linux, atleast fully.

stuff that i use arent on linux, which IS the on the companies of those programs, which is why i still use what still works with me

windows should keep like subscription to remove ad bloatware (youtube premium inspired) ] \j

[frigid blade]

the same way for example "monitors" that are used as displays for companies, they have a high markup and are debloated

[frigid blade]

have you tried wine with them?

[random gyro]

use wine

[random gyro]

specifically adobe software and microsoft office

[frigid blade]

apparently adobe works with wine

Win 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC is the least bloated windows version

[random gyro]

i just want to boot up my computer and use it, i dont really wanna bother with wine

[frigid blade]

yah, you run it like any other app

[random gyro]

only if you don't care about windows exclusive software

[frigid blade]

instead of double clicking, you go where the exe is and wine appname.exe

actually you can configure it so wine automatically runs exe's if you double click/start apps

[random gyro]

well i have 4 linux distros: Ubuntu(WSL2), Arch Linux, Omarchy and Alpine Linux

[random gyro]

thats a nice feature

i have used linux before, with lower end devices like older laptops

same

[frigid blade]

you just associate exe's with wine, the same way on windows if you install for example winrar, you can associate .rar files with it and you can double click to automatically open them in winrar

[random gyro]

but im not really comfortable with using it with my main device since windows already works for me

[frigid blade]

oh i was just giving examples

linux has gotten very compatible for windows users lately

especially with proton advancements for gaming

[random gyro]

It's fine, What you are comfortable with is the best option for you

[frigid blade]

I actually prefer windows over any linux distro because im used to it, but theres lots of bad excuses that people make because they have an older understanding of linux

[random gyro]

same here. been using windows since 6 years old XD

[frigid blade]

Linux got up to 4.27% of the OS user base in june this year

[random gyro]

well as fellow Linux user, i mostly recommend what you are comfortable with

amazing

@random gyro have you tried haiku os before?

[frigid blade]

Obviously its not a lot compared to windows at like 70%, but in 2020, it peaked 1.93%

It has over doubled in 5 years

[random gyro]

Never tried but heard about it

[random gyro]

i love it :>
really good with really old hardware

yes power of backwards compatibility

[random gyro]

you should try it if you have random crappy hardware lying around :>

not old, but my HDD is the only oldest hardware i have in my entire house

[random gyro]

i think you can download it with a usb device, try a cheap 32 gb thumb drive

i have a 16 gb thumb drive, maybe i can do something

[random gyro]

thatll work, haiku takes less than 3 gigabytes

[rough salmon]

I want to pre order steam machine bruh

[forest spruce]

do these scans usually last so long?

[astral oasis]

Hey guys is the facebook one a good combo for its price or should i take the second one?

[astral oasis]

Depends on the amount of files you have

[forest spruce]

i didnt think i had 5 million files

[astral oasis]

How many gb does that represent?

[forest spruce]

i am not sure

i dont have mych knowledge about computers so how do i check that

[low lagoon]

Good evening everyone oh I'm soo exhausted from drivers installation how you guys going

[thorny saddle]

shouldn't really be that exhausting

[astral oasis]

Go to your file explorer, under my pc you’ll see how many gb are used

[astral oasis]

Well i’m hesitating between 2 pcs to upgrade to but i’m doing fine wbu?

[forest spruce]

my thing is at 5.6 million files scanned rn

an hour ago it reached a million and the bar hasnt moved since

[frigid blade]

its gonna take a while for a full scan

how long have you had this pc/windows install for?

[astral oasis]

If it’s a complete scan i suggest you to wait

[forest spruce]

ive had my pc for like a year and a half

[frigid blade]

do you install a lot of software?

[forest spruce]

yesterday i tried resolving my lag issues and i didnt really get a straight answer to help

[astral oasis]

If the amount of files scanned doesn’t move then it’s not normal

[forest spruce]

so i tried doing this scan

it might just not be moving because i dont have 5 million pixles

[frigid blade]

Just as an example, the least bloated version of windows 11 that ive had for a few months on my laptop, with very minimal applications installed, the windows folder has 175k files

[astral oasis]

Yea so it’s very possible that you indeed have 5M files

[forest spruce]

do you know a way i could check to see any outliers for a file that might have a ton more files in it

like maybe i have one file that has like

a bazillion files in it

[frigid blade]

you mean a folder with a lot of files in it?

[forest spruce]

yeah

sorry im not to good with talking about technology

[astral oasis]

It usually checks every folder

Is this the windows defender check?

[forest spruce]

um

i just did windows + r and tpyed mrt

[cold skiff]

2.2 files per folder seems a waste

[forest spruce]

and then a full scan

[frigid blade]

tell that to microsoft

[cold skiff]

How many empty folders you got there son

[ocean sphinx]

That would usually not be a file. Well, only if it's an archive, but the contents is usually not evaluated separately. What you are referring to here is "folder" lol

[forest spruce]

thats what i meant. i mix things up alot i dont know to much about this stuff

[frigid blade]

Yes but there's no need, what are you trying to do?

[astral oasis]

btw just putting this back so someone can see it 👀

[frigid blade]

You seem to be doing a virus scan on the entire system, is that what you think is causing lag?

[forest spruce]

im doing a full scan of my pc cause its been running slow lately and lagging but ive been told it shouldnt be lagging without an actual answer

[ocean sphinx]

Don't wanna flex my build, but I have about 10 GB of files on here plus my full OS

[astral oasis]

@forest spruce i would suggest you to do a microsoft defender scan

[cold skiff]

Trust me it’s not a flex

[frigid blade]

Do you have a lot of files on there that you care about?

If not, just do a clean install of windows

[astral oasis]

Don’t you play competitive games?

[forest spruce]

im sure i have a good amount of files i care about but how do i do that

[ocean sphinx]

Good. I have neovim, discord, a bunch of language servers, a bunch of compilers and tooling, git, the whole os plus more installed in about 25 GB

[frigid blade]

firstly, find the files you want to keep, and copy them over to a flash drive or something to back them up on

[ocean sphinx]

It's my laptop and I do not actually

[frigid blade]

leave stuff thats easily reinstallable, like games

[ocean sphinx]

Has he already emptied caches? Like update caches?

[forest spruce]

how do i do that

[forest spruce]

now that i think about it theres probably a lot of things that i value that i dont remeber how to get back and i dont have a drive so ill just not do that thing

should i wait for my current scan thing to finish

[frigid blade]

Yah just let it run

[frigid blade]

Full systems scans will take forever sadly

[forest spruce]

i shouldve just done this before going to school

its 4 am on a school night

[frigid blade]

lol, its still on your minecraft files?

[frigid blade]

just go to sleep

[forest spruce]

i guess

[ocean sphinx]

I would actually recommend using a second opinion scanner like Hitman Pro, Norton Power Eraser, Bitdefender Free or anything like that. Malwarebytes is also quite good

[frigid blade]

will most likely be ready in the morning

[forest spruce]

i feel like its been on my minecraft files for an hour

[cold skiff]

Still not a flex

[frigid blade]

do you have a minecraft server on your pc?

[forest spruce]

like am i in one or do i own one

[frigid blade]

do you run one on that computer

[forest spruce]

nope

[frigid blade]

damn, then minecraft has hella files tf

its been on it since 4.8m files and its over 6m now

ah, its probably local worlds

[forest spruce]

😭

ok so once this 8 trillion minecraft scan is done i should do the other scan

[forest spruce]

this one

[frigid blade]

if you want, i doubt its a virus

[forest spruce]

ive been told my pc shouldnt be lagging cause of like

[frigid blade]

if you check task manager, is there any outliers using a ton of resources?

[forest spruce]

i forget what its called. something 64

lemme see

can i sort in task manager to see whats taking up alot

[frigid blade]

yah just click the part you wanna sort by

[forest spruce]

idk why opera has 82 things

ive tried getting rid of those but they dont go away

[frigid blade]

how many tabs do you have open?

[forest spruce]

6 tabs

id switch to chrome or something but i want the miniplayer for youtube ;-;

because now that i look at it opera might be the big issue

[frigid blade]

Nah thats normal

[forest spruce]

alrighty then

[frigid blade]

each part of opera runs in its own instance, like the sidebar is separate from the page itself

[forest spruce]

so opera having the little 82 thing is ok

thats stupid

[frigid blade]

nah, its more efficient

[forest spruce]

ig i just wouldnt get it tho

should i switch browsers or is opera not my issue

[frigid blade]

opera is chromium based and so is chrome so it wouldnt change that much

[forest spruce]

alrighty

[frigid blade]

I have 2 loaded tabs open

[forest spruce]

gotcha

would it help alot of i only had like

3 tabs

[frigid blade]

do you have any extensions on opera?

[forest spruce]

i dont think so

[frigid blade]

ah ok, ignore that, but you can give chrome a try anyway

[forest spruce]

i closed 3 tabs and it went down to 18 so thats something

[frigid blade]

go to opera hit Shift+Esc in the browser title

you should see what each process is for

[forest spruce]

am i able to disable some things

nvm i see i can

[frigid blade]

you can but it may break some website functionality until you refresh

anyway, I dont think opera is the issue, what do you mean by laggy?

[forest spruce]

i mainly play roblox so ill give an example from that if thats ok

every like 45 seconds to a minute my game will either get super delayed like ill let go of the w key but keep running for like 30 seconds, or my game will just dip super low in quality and freeze

[frigid blade]

when that happens, does the rest of your system slow down? or just the game

[forest spruce]

not all the time but about 30% of the time everything does slow down

like my miniplayer will stop playing

and i wont be able to leave the roblox tab

[frigid blade]

how much ram do you have?

[forest spruce]

how do i check again

[frigid blade]

task manager

[forest spruce]

i did it like 2 days ago but ive forgeten

[frigid blade]

performance tab

[forest spruce]

is my ram one of these

[frigid blade]

yah its memory

[frigid blade]

ok, when youre playing a game, using miniplayer, etc, how much RAM are you using?

[forest spruce]

i just closed roblox and this is without it

ill show what its at when i open roblox

[frigid blade]

i was thinking maybe youre low on ram but at 16gb it shouldnt be an issue

yah that wouldnt be an issue

what GPU do you have?

[forest spruce]

this is that i believe

i dont know to much about my pc it came in one piece

[frigid blade]

have you updated your graphics drivers at all since you got it?

[forest spruce]

like 2 months ago i think i did that

i think the bar moved a little on my thing

sweet

[frigid blade]

try updating again

newest release was nov 4th

[forest spruce]

where that at

and should i wait for my full scan to finish before doing that

[crude phoenix]

Hi i have a question im building my pc currently and im putting my cpu cooler on it but everytime i put it on it becomes uneven

[frigid blade]

um, just go to sleep and continue tomorrow lol

[forest spruce]

good idea

[frigid blade]

not worth it to stay up on a school night for this

[frigid blade]

uneven how?

[forest spruce]

well thanks a ton for the help. ill try updating my driver and doing that other check tmrw

have a good one 👋

[crude phoenix]

i dont know if this would show u

but the second screw is like 2 far away

to be able to actually screw in

[frigid blade]

by too far you mean the cooler screw is going past the screw hole right?

on the bracket

what mobo and cooler is that?

[crude phoenix]

yes

[crude phoenix]

it is a noctua nh-u12s and the mobo is a prime z390-p

[forest spruce]

i know i said i was outta here but where do i go to update my driver

[frigid blade]

well, the compatibility page for noctua doesnt list that motherboard as compatable

https://www.noctua.at/en/products/nh-u12s/compatibility/motherboards?vendorId=5&socketId=8

Now, I dont know if this page is final, and how many the actually tested

[frigid blade]

is that bracket on the board by default or did you install it?

[crude phoenix]

i installed it

[frigid blade]

can you take it off, and see if you can install the cpu cooler just to it?

if it will fit at all

[crude phoenix]

yes ill try that it will take a minute

[frigid blade]

np

it seems to me the issue isnt the board but the bracket

[forest spruce]

where do i update my driver

my thing just finished

[distant frigate]

https://x.com/curtisnetworks/status/1993519193782997233?s=46

CurtisNetworks (@curtisnetworks)

Home network upgrade at my parents today, 2.5gig fiber out in the middle of no where WV! 🐐#Citynet #WV

X · Nov 26, 2025, 3:16 AM

2.5 gigabit fiber in the middle of nowhere lol

[frigid blade]

nvidia app

[forest spruce]

ty

[distant frigate]

Also 2 ms latency. Really nice

[forest spruce]

ok NOW good night

oh that

ive never updated my driver then

[frigid blade]

@crude phoenix it looks like its because you need to modify the cooler itself with some parts, have you done that?

did you read the manual before this installation?

[bold olive]

my vrms are damn hot what do i do 😭

it burns when you touch it

[crude phoenix]

okay i got it off

wait i did not ..

it looks like i did everything it says in that manual tho

i might be missing the clip on spacers

[frigid blade]

well if its not lining up something is installed wrong

[glass perch]

Hi guys, my pc fans suddenly start making lot of noise and monitor loses signal in pc, this happened randomly with no pattern to anything. Does som1 know whT the issue could be

would really appreciate some help on this

[delicate lion]

Yall think chain lube works for a gpu fan bearing

[distant frigate]

https://fixupx.com/curtisnetworks/status/1993534357223723490?s=46

CurtisNetworks (@curtisnetworks)

Here’s a look at the new network setup for my parents house and a Speedtest on Wi-Fi, using a U7 Pro. They also have a failover connection with Starlink if fiber goes down, since there’s no cellular service for miles here. #UniFi #Ubiquiti #Citynet #Starlink

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FixupX · Nov 26, 2025, 4:16 AM

Their networking setup

[cosmic idol]

do the parents actually need the failover 😭
do they need that speed? 😭

[distant frigate]

Yeahhh it’s a little insane lol

They don’t need much speeds probably

They could do just fine with 500/500 speeds

[cosmic idol]

I'd be grateful if I got 100/20 rn lmaooo 😭

[distant frigate]

Ok I just searched up the ISP

I just searched up the ISP. Nice prices

[cosmic idol]

Honestly 500/500 is overkill IMO unless you have a large household, or just do a lot of stuff that uses a lot of data (and doing it faster would be beneficial)

[distant frigate]

$36 a month starting for a gigabit symmetrical

[glass perch]

can someone please help a bit

[cosmic idol]

that's only for one year unfortunately, but still alright prices

[cosmic idol]

#1027757333117415424

[glass perch]

i searched it up on google and it suggests a new PSU, But I don't know what to do

[glass perch]

okay

[crude phoenix]

perfect thank you

[glass perch]

what the hell is your processor going throigh

[glass perch]

i made a post

[wispy forum]

Okay so my friend got hacked on discord he got his account back, the only thing I did on the pictures which he sent me was save it, am I in trouble now? I didn’t press any links the only thing I did was I was on my phone and pressed save. Without pressing links. the jpg’s looked like url’s to me.

My friend just told me that the jpg’s had url’s I didn’t press those only the pictures and saved that.

[glass perch]

turn 2fa on

[wispy forum]

I only saved the picture I do have it on but nothing weird happened in like 3 days

[next hill]

uhhh, wasnt 9070 gre canceled? or has it been already released for china only kind of thing?

[tawdry pond]

How much of a hassle it is to do a dual boot from singular drive? (Windows and Linux)

[wispy forum]

I think I should be fine as the virus was in the links

[next hill]

oh yeah, region specific

[mint umbra]

If ram shortages end I doubt companies will lower prices to old prices cuz these companies greedy and know mfs will just buy the shit anyway

[frigid blade]

its pretty simple if you follow a tutorial

its basically just shrinking the windows partition to make space for and installing the linux distro on it

[tawdry pond]

That I get but I've also heard that there can be issues with boot loaders

[frigid blade]

maybe on older devices im not sure, ive never had any issues

[glass perch]

please help me in https://discord.com/channels/375436620578684930/1443225780447477951

[frigid blade]

Ubuntu for example has a bootloader to handle windows vs ubuntu installs

well, its the grub menu you get

the UEFI for most pcs I think only knows about the windows boot manager, so the ubuntu boot loader/manager fills that gap

[tawdry pond]

Gotcha

[frigid blade]

now as far as other distros, no clue

i would assume its pretty similar

[mortal mantle]

what the fuck

why is it trying to reinstall 25H2

[frigid blade]

sfc /scannow
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
``` as admin

[bold olive]

some ptsd running this 500 times and nothing is wrong cuz I have a blue screen 'dxg_krnl_fatal_error' on my old laptop

[frigid blade]

yah it doesnt always work but it can

[mortal mantle]

what does 0x8007042b even mean

[waxen wasp]

hey

what are yall discussing

[frigid blade]

corrupted system files

[glass perch]

is this normal guys?

fans not spinning at almost 51C?

[mortal mantle]

shouldn't a upgrade fix that anyways

[frigid blade]

cant upgrade if the files for ugprading are broken... lol

[glass perch]

can someone tell me

[mortal mantle]

it did actually try the upgrade (failed at 30%)

[frigid blade]

right, then it ran into a dll or something that it needed to use an borked

[cloud solstice]

What is a recommended M2 drive these days? 2-4TB

[mortal mantle]

oh what?

[mortal mantle]

would that do it

@frigid blade

[frigid blade]

those seem to be related to debugging stuff (the dlls) but maybe

[mortal mantle]

those are the files SFC repaired

[frigid blade]

ik, restart and give the reinstall a try

[delicate lion]

Ye i broke my shit while trying to seperate the fan from the motor.

They really built this shit to not be fixable

[frigid blade]

did you try to read a guide on how to do it? or did you just start pulling it apart?

[delicate lion]

I both watched and read guides, trouble is they all look different

[frigid blade]

it happens, I broken my first motherboard

[delicate lion]

I was gentle but i dont think it wanted to come off

Yeah both gpu fans stopped spinning so i was gonna try and clean the motor but fk

I dont even know if replacing them will work

[mortal mantle]

4th time

[tacit lintel]

Windows

[bold olive]

it's a feature. put a big load, like games, and watch the fans ramp up

[frigid blade]

Is this the first try since the system files fix?

[mortal mantle]

this attempt would be

[frigid blade]

well lets hope it works

[delicate zodiac]

when i am updating bios on asus board, can i just drag that bios update file to usb drive with windows on it or do i have to empty it?

[delicate lion]

Has anyone removed a connector like this before? I cant get it out.

I dont want to pull the cables and accidentally break it

[frigid blade]

you pull by the actual connector not the cables

[delicate lion]

Ik but there is barely anything to grip

[crude phoenix]

hi again daniel

[frigid blade]

i assume youre back from the install?

oh wait wrong person

you had the cooler, ah youre booted into your pc, nice!

[cold skiff]

Normal. Most silent modes kick in at 70-80c hotspot dependant on gpu

[crude phoenix]

this is my progress so far im trying to get these wiring right but it is confusing

[frigid blade]

aw haha, I thought you were in

[frigid blade]

which parts are confusing?

[crude phoenix]

nono i dont have a ssd yet i will buy one today

[crude phoenix]

both of these wires are for fans

but i dont know if id put them bottom right where the power led is

or what

[frigid blade]

let me pull up your mobo again rrly quick and check the fan headers are

[cold skiff]

Look for the fan headers with a plastic backing

CPU will be top of the board

Another next to it (or more) and bottom / side of board

[crude phoenix]

i see cha_fan 1 and 2 but those wont fit in them

[cold skiff]

It will have a divider for 3/4pin

[cold skiff]

Similar to this

[frigid blade]

wdym wont fit?

[crude phoenix]

one problem one of the fans cords are to short

[cold skiff]

Extension or use a closer header

[frigid blade]

the CPU fan header is right next to the RAM

[crude phoenix]

yes that one is plugged i booted it already once and that fan worked aswell as the gpu fans

[frigid blade]

well cha_fan 1 and 2 is all you have left for case fans

[delicate lion]

This is the plan

[crude phoenix]

see why i cant plug it in

[cold skiff]

If it doesn’t fit. Go without for now and buy an extension cable

[crude phoenix]

i see i see

[cold skiff]

They’re cheap, like a few bucks

As long as your cpu fan is in you’ll be fine

[crude phoenix]

should i replace the fans in general they are old

[cold skiff]

If it works it works

I got 15 year old fans in a rig that still go fine

[crude phoenix]

okay thats out the way last thing is

[delicate lion]

You gave me advice earlier @cold skiff, what do you think about the pic

[cold skiff]

The gpu temps. It’s fine.

[crude phoenix]

power sw cord reset sw hdd led and a unamed cord with a + on it its paired with another cord to

ik the power sw cord goes in the 3rd and 4th place on the bottom right

[frigid blade]

those all go together, theyre single pins right?

[crude phoenix]

okay simple

is pled power sw?

bottom right

[frigid blade]

no

look at my chart

[crude phoenix]

yes what is ground

[frigid blade]

can you please list every single one you havent plugged in?

[gray sierra]

[thorny saddle]

[crude phoenix]

i have hdd led bottom left reset sw right next to it power sw is unplugged then its the one with the plus and no label

[frigid blade]

Power SW is PWRBTN I think

[crude phoenix]

correct

now its just the unlabeled one

with a + on it

• and - correction

[wheat torrent]

I rub my screwdriver all over those pins until it turns on

[frigid blade]

its 2 connectors?

[crude phoenix]

yes

[frigid blade]

separate?

[crude phoenix]

yes

[frigid blade]

then its PLED+ and -

[empty kelp]

is data rot a big concern when buying a new ssd?

[wheat torrent]

data rot

[empty kelp]

when is it an issue?

[frigid blade]

three o clock

[crude phoenix]

this is what i have thats all the cords

[frigid blade]

one sec lemme match

looks right, that bottomr right green and white is the PLED right?

[crude phoenix]

yes

[frigid blade]

should be good then

[crude phoenix]

should i give it a boot and see if everything turns on properly theres still no ssd or hdd

[frigid blade]

let it post yah, test out the parts to see if they works

HDD LED, power button, etc

now, are these connected to a case?

or just separate parts

[frigid blade]

i think you just short power switch and ground

generally the 3rd and 4th pins from the left on the top row

[wheat torrent]

I can't see

the pins

[frigid blade]

ah. lol

get a switch, theyre cheap

[wheat torrent]

it's in dark often

wait I was thinking

yeah well idk

[crude phoenix]

there all connected to a case

[wheat torrent]

I should order a switch from somewhere idk

[frigid blade]

can just use this lol

[crude phoenix]

would this be right

its labed aafp

[frigid blade]

yah AAFP is the front panel audio connector

[crude phoenix]

so now all i need is a ssd and ill be running from what i see

[frigid blade]

do you have a USB drive?

[crude phoenix]

yes

probably

[frigid blade]

you can install some sort of live linux distro and give it a try

[crude phoenix]

i dont know much about linux i used windows

[frigid blade]

like ubuntu lets you run the system from the USB drive before installation

[frigid blade]

ah, well windows doesnt like running off of a usb so cant do anything like that

[crude phoenix]

yes i could imagine

if i put a hdmi in and booted it would it boot to the bios?

[frigid blade]

yah, but just for future as something to learn, boot is when you go into the OS (like windows), post is when the pc turns on successfully

so right now youre just posting because theres no SSD/OS installed

[crude phoenix]

okay good to know sorry ive never built a pc before this is my first time even getting parts of this quality

[frigid blade]

oh no problem, Im trying to help you learn a bit more than needed but I wanted to make that distinction

[crude phoenix]

which its nothing to crazy just a 1050 ti and a i5 6600 i had a 1050 ti before but i had a bad cpu

[frigid blade]

we all start somewhere, its better than my first pc so Id say congrats

[crude phoenix]

thanks the next thing i should upgrade is my cpu no?

[frigid blade]

next you should get an SSD to install windows first :P

oh um, do you have another computer to set up the windows USB?

[crude phoenix]

yes i do

[frigid blade]

ok, youll need that

you said youre getting an SSD tomorrow?

[crude phoenix]

all i have to do is go on microsoft website right

[frigid blade]

a little more than that, but yah

if you want, add me as a friend on discord so when you get your SSD ill help you through the setup

[crude phoenix]

today its morning for me ive been up since like 1 am building this

the cooler took me the most time honestly

[frigid blade]

hahaha, you remind me of myself, I did the same thing for my first build

up until the morning

[frigid blade]

my motherboard took me the longest... because i broke it

[crude phoenix]

i just got home from a work trip to my friend gave me the parts i didnt even touch my bed yet i js got to building

[frigid blade]

Was it fun at least?

[crude phoenix]

im kinda scared i might have messed it up but i think im good

[crude phoenix]

Building it FFCKK NO but working yes

[frigid blade]

yah I was about to say, youll get a nice feeling when you first boot into windows

[crude phoenix]

this has to be bottom 5 experiences 🥀

yes i havent been able to use a pc in months

console gaming isnt as good

[frigid blade]

and from there you can learn a lot more, like overclocking, but theres a lot to learn before that

computers are really fun, but you have to want to learn, which a lot of people dont these days

I went from a 1060 3GB with an 8th gen intel, to 3070Ti with a 13600kf, to my main right rn 13900kf with 4090

and im about to upgrade my CPU and motherboard once more, they come in 3 days

[crude phoenix]

i get that i like playing more then anything but i feel like its good to know how to put these things together instead of taking them to the shop everytime

[frigid blade]

exactly, its like learning some stuff around the house like how to fix small electronics or plumbing, its good to know just in case, and can save you some money in the long run

on top of that, for some people it becomes a passion

the bad part, is everyone in your family comes to you for help with their electronics...

[crude phoenix]

i basically stripped this pc and put new parts in it twice these pictures are from 2022 when i had no idea how to fix it and last year i had a friend help me so now i feel set

[crude phoenix]

they already do bro 🥀 but my dad works with this type of stuff i js wanted to do it by myself the only problem with pc building is how much everything cost

[frigid blade]

yah the cost is a huge issue

my upgrade cost $900 right now, hopefully my old computer will be able to sell to cover most of that

[crude phoenix]

why rush a upgrade? is a 4090 not good enough

[frigid blade]

im doing the CPU

i bought memory that my cpu's memory controller just cant handle

not at the speeds I want the memory running at

its because its 4 sticks and ddr5 doesnt like being in a dual channel 4 stick setup

I was thinking about just selling my RAM because of how much it went up in price

but I already bought the upgrades so thats off the list

[crude phoenix]

isnt ddr5 like 50 dollars a stick?

[fossil oar]

i love modern technology, i download an app on my phone and now i can use it as a mouse

[frigid blade]

32gb of ddr5 is like $250 rn

[fossil oar]

quadruple that

maybe quintuple

i may sell some of my leftover ddr4

thats up in price too

[crude phoenix]

smhh is the preformace really that much hetter

[frigid blade]

thats what I was talking about, I bought 4 dimms of 48GB 6800 DDR5 for $250 very early this year, apparently they sell for $600+ each kit now

[fossil oar]

no but modern cpus only use ddr5 because its new

[frigid blade]

compared to what?

like ddr4 vs 5?

[fossil oar]

i assume ddr4 vs 5

12th gen intel didnt really get affected too bad by ram speed

[frigid blade]

its only like 20% increase in performance between 4 and 5

[left dove]

its jaysus crisp

[left dove]

the performance is also better than ddr4 sooooo

[frigid blade]

yah its not cuz its new, its cuz its faster lol

enough to consider a new generation

more performance with less power draw

but i bought this ram for AI

and the gpu

its fun running the larger open source models, theyre just slow on the 4090 if you have a single one

im talking the 70b parameter models

[crude phoenix]

yes

[storm oasis]

Hello I was looking to buy a system with these parts

10700k
Asus z590 Tuf wifi
32gb (8gb x4) 3600mhz cl18 Corsair
MSI rx6700xt mech
Noctua nh d15 cpu cooler
Nzxt Case

Its second hand for 475$. Mostly figured it was a good deal due to the DDR5 price explosion. But was just wondering if anyone had different options or advice.

[crude phoenix]

also im trying to post but im not getting any signal back

[errant fulcrum]

why is Users taking up almost twice the size of physical size

[fossil oar]

intel is finally putting more l3 cache in their cpus

nova lake is supposedly gonna top out at 144mb l3

finally some competition knock on wood

[glacial hound]

Rtx3060 12gb for 140usd, what we thinking

(200 cad, if you understand the Canadian market lol)

[craggy cove]

pretty good

[glacial hound]

Coming from a rx580 8gb

[craggy cove]

theyre like extinct here

other than those installed in pcs

or those weird rtx 3060 for 300€ listings

[craggy cove]

oh hey basically my upgrade, rx 580 8gb to rtx 2060 super

and the 2060 super is slower

[glacial hound]

Yeah I'm also in fairly rural Canada, so it's hard to get something shipped here at a relatively normal price

[sinful cobalt]

andddd AMD is getting sued for X3D design

[fossil oar]

its prolly not gonna go anywhere

im sure there are a few different ways of splicing cache into cores

but idk lithography so

[craggy cove]

companies like adeia are such a negative for humanity

literally just patent trolling to stifle innovation

[left dove]

"we want our money tooo"

[craggy cove]

you gotta pay the toll patent troll

[muted fox]

omg 48mp should I cop??

[delicate zodiac]

should i turn hardware accelerated gpu scheduling? rtx 3050 i3 12100f

[craggy cove]

not unless youre having problems with it

dont bother with extreme optimization on windows, youll probably just break something and lose 2 fps somehow

[left dove]

The fuck, no

[craggy cove]

what if i wanna be a wedding photographer tho

[delicate zodiac]

ok, i just updated every driver bios etc because on christmass i am gonna give this pc to my sister and this pc was sitting here 11 months and i was just wandering

[cold skiff]

Buy a fancy Nikon or sutin’

[foggy marsh]

'

[high elm]

tell adeia to sue tsmc lol

see what happens

actual clowns

[sinful cobalt]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/381193840159358976/1429172046046433390/IMG_7512.gif

[next adder]

Someone. i tried to play FaceIT and the anticheat detected a driver called PawnIO and i can't uninstall it. it throws errors

[left dove]

uninstall fancontrol

[next adder]

which one??

i dont have one anymore

[left dove]

Then search for pawnio and delete it

[next adder]

it says some errors

[left dove]

That's incredibly unhelpful.

[left dove]

Instead of trying to run it search for the actual files.

[next adder]

i cant find the files

[left dove]

did you actually search in explorer

did you actually wait for the search to finish

[next adder]

i think its in programfiles

[left dove]

because unless you index everything on your drive, it's not that fast.

[left dove]

cool so delete everything in that folder

[next adder]

done

Now do i just restart my pc

[left dove]

try running the software that was having issues

[next adder]

GOSH

[left dove]

that'll be a bios thing.

[next adder]

yeah i think i know how to enable

[clever burrow]

why is my ram up 300% in price

[left dove]

ai

[craggy cove]

assembling an aio is not cheap bruh

in a stack of shit i found this ml 240l v2 argb with nothing except the aio itself

[left dove]

melt it

[craggy cove]

nah i sunk too much cost in to this, i cant do that anymore

maybe theres a fallacy for this

[left dove]

sunk cost fallacy?

[craggy cove]

11.6€ for lga 1700 mounts and its gonna be 12€ extra for some fans and fan screws

[craggy cove]

that would be ridiculous

[kindred halo]

Currently scared shitless I am getting blue artifacting

Okay desktop isn't getting anything

Downloading OCCT just incase

[raw trout]

Saare Jahan se aacha

[kindred halo]

What

😭

[raw trout]

It's a sad hindi song

We normally use it to tease our friends when something bad happened to them

[kindred halo]

Oh lmao

[craggy cove]

i once had weird artifacting but it was my cable or gpu being loose in the slot

was a testbench config, i just kinda bent it back

posting this here as cope for u

[patent bolt]

My friend is being a dumbass with his CPU and l3 cache latency, he says it's a detective unit. Can a big brain help me out?

[delicate zodiac]

is it ok?

[kindred halo]

Yeah I already checked, cable just needed a push

[craggy cove]

i mean just ask the question, no point being vague like this

[craggy cove]

more than fine

those parts consume like no power

[delicate zodiac]

i am only running 3 intake fans when i will mount exhaust fan its gonna be ok

[patent bolt]

Don't wanna flood chat: https://discord.com/channels/375436620578684930/1443269057477349447

[thick hound]

Is a Asus tuf x870e plus wifi good

I’m looking at a microcenter bundle with it and a 7800x3d

[craggy cove]

dude its completely ok rn, you can just put one of the intakes as exhaust for example

[craggy cove]

its a pretty high end board, doubt you will need the features of it

its good, possibly even overkill

[thick hound]

the one thing I liked was it’s got really good IO

And a lot of nvme ports

[craggy cove]

i guess if you need 5 morbillion usb ports and 4 nvme drives

[delicate zodiac]

is it ok that my boot time is 13.8s? i have new WD Blue SN580 1tb

[craggy cove]

nothing wrong with that

you can enable fast boot in the bios if you want (if its not already enabled)

[delicate zodiac]

ok

[muted fox]

Is boot time still a big metric? I feel like people restart their PC less these days

[delicate zodiac]

i was just asking

its pc for my 20 year old sister who will use pc like 2 hours a day if she has time for it

[craggy cove]

i think she will survive the 15s

[craggy cove]

i mean 7 vs 15 seconds is not a big deal, something like 1 minute with a hdd is

i guess with am5 its a bit of a topic again but i dont really mind like that

and i fully shut down my pc every time

even turn off my monitor but thats just cause i dont like the small orange light when sleeping

[muted fox]

Yeah I used to but I have stuff running like python scripts and discord bots so it's always on haha

When I was in middle school we had some windows 7 laptops in a cart and they legit took 10+ minutes to boot it was crazy

[delicate zodiac]

any win11 programs that are like 3dmark but around 1gb?

[left dove]

get a bigger ssd lmao

[stray portal]

Samsung photos are tuff

[muted fox]

is it real didn't Samsung get in trouble for their moon pics haha

[stray portal]

Its real

[stray portal]

This is on s25 ultra but i did some things so it might not be best quality

[thin ember]

quick question, is it possible a 50000 rpm compressed air duster to dmg the GPU components im not worried for the fans cause ill hold them but the other stuff like the components are my worry with that high RPM or should i just use the cheap compressed canned air and also i wont be disassembling the whole gpu so the components will be covered but still better safe than sorry

[random junco]

real moon no ai

[grizzled frost]

if you manage to break metal solder with an air duster, never buy a lottery ticket

[wheat torrent]

this real also no editing or ai

same sensor seen in phones, just slightly bigger lens

[delicate lion]

My gpu fans broke down and now its running cooler then ever.

Worried about the zipties though.

[craggy cove]

gpu fans are usually pretty poo

ziptieing some noctuas is pretty common

[distant frigate]

DOCSIS 3.1 getting a lot more usage than DOCSIS 3.0. I’m not surprised

[stray portal]

Ts would go hard with a custom 3d printed shell

[cosmic idol]

My 4060ti triple fan doesn’t go above like 65c
But I kinda wanna add noctua fans anyways

[craggy cove]

thing probably still has warranty

i wouldnt bother, noctuas aint cheap either

[dusty axle]

in 2 days i will build a "new" gaming rig, which is not actually completely new, but a big upgrade from a ryzen 5 1600 and a radeon rx 570 4gb

[stray portal]

I sometimes do

[stray portal]

What new cpu

[dusty axle]

the cpu is not new, it was used for 2 or 3 years i think, but it works and it's a gift that i will get. it's an i7 12700k

unfortunately the motherboard where the cpu came with got broken pins, so i bought an MSI b760 gaming plus wifi ddr4

[stray portal]

sad

You could have gotten a 5700x or 5800x without having to get new mobo

[delicate lion]

IT's working suprisingly well.

My gpu is averaging 60-80 on high load so im happy, i went from thinking i ruined my pc and had to buy a new gpu to actually making it work better then before.

[dusty axle]

the old motherboard i have is an asus prime a320m-k

and it fits only 2 sticks of ram, while my cousin will gift me 4 sticks of 8 gb kingston fury

[glad skiff]

Hi yall. Im looking to replace the baterry in my old 2021 Zephyrus G14 and im wondering whats the consensus on aftermarket batteries or batteries claiming to be genuine?

[delicate lion]

i have that same ram

[frigid blade]

Look at reviews, it’s the best source of info

[dusty axle]

3600mhz?

[delicate lion]

nah 3200 actually

[dusty axle]

close, i don't think it have huge difference, but small

[delicate lion]

Depends on cpu

[glad skiff]

sadly theyre a bit scarce. most reviews i found was on an aliexpress listing but just the nature of that source makes me not trust it

[stray portal]

Scam

[delicate lion]

Im never buying shit on aliexpress ngl

[glad skiff]

thats what im saying

[plush wren]

@ebon marlin

[ebon marlin]

@ebon marlin

[glad skiff]

hehe domain expert im guessing?

[plain cypress]

Consensus is buying from a seller with good return policy /s

[ebon marlin]

^

[cosmic idol]

@ebon marlin

[ebon marlin]

AliExpress is pretty solid for buying aftermarket batteries

[plush wren]

https://tenor.com/view/flaming-kitty-gif-10300523518141974644

[glad skiff]

oh, really? alright well im gonna take the leap then i guess

[delicate zodiac]

is this good?

[dusty dew]

cant see 1/4 of the pic, my phone screen broke.

[gleaming rose]

it says in the left doesn't it?

[delicate lion]

it says good right there bro

[gleaming rose]

it says your score is pretty much the same as average for your hardware - is reading really this hard?

[delicate zodiac]

just making sure

i wish i have temperatures like this with my rx 6750 xt

[ionic peak]

Bruh why are epic login down 😭

[spare herald]

bro is it just me

[ionic peak]

nah login is down on many epic games

[spare herald]

im stuck on please wait while we start your update

[ionic peak]

im stuck at it didnt got torough

[spare herald]

before i was stuck on logging in and it saying it couldnt connect but now its stuck on 'updating'

im happy it isnt just me

omd down detector has 1000 reports i really watched all those support vids for nopthing

[ancient shale]

Does anyone know if we have a good price DisplayHDR True Black 600 monitor

[rough salmon]

led or oled?

[ancient shale]

true black implies OLED... i think?

[rough salmon]

yeah i think

u wanting a gaming one or just 60hz?

[night delta]

Cpu clock having a stroke

[delicate zodiac]

Does it matter? Temperatures were ok

[night delta]

Eh well, youll get more consistent smoother frame rates

[delicate zodiac]

I ran occt on full for 20 minutes and it didn’t go above 66C

[tulip grotto]

Could someone help me in my tech support channel? It’s been a while and nobody messaged inside of it

[night delta]

its good temps but im just saying a snoother cpu clock would get a smoother gameplay

[serene pumice]

CRT

[rough salmon]

i have crt emulator filter on my switch 2

[serene pumice]

I had this on my room growing up, built in VHS player.

[delicate zodiac]

Ye I get it but it is harmless right? I did not overclock anything bios and every drivers are fresh new

[tulip grotto]

Should I get a new case and rgb fans?

My case literally looks like those library computers back in 2012 but has the power of a 3050 rtx

Motherboards practically from 2012 as well

[delicate zodiac]

if you need more airflow or you just want it because of looks then do it

[ebon marlin]

gpu with performance of a 2012 gpu aswell

https://tenor.com/view/grey-goose-vodka-move-oops-smile-gif-17705114