tech-chat-1

[icy sundial]

Yes

[elfin echo]

fancy audio is light

its light and red

[icy sundial]

I have plugged many using the tip of my fingernail while blind

[rigid fjord]

audio header also

[icy sundial]

Usually audio is just a single plug though right

As opposed to single pin sticks

Or dual

[odd marsh]

do you mean the front panel audio?

[hallow jasper]

For what? Front panel connections? HD Audio standard, in the image above

[rigid fjord]

is a 10 pin dupont connector but also has 2 different pinouts depending on what kind of audio

[icy sundial]

Yeah Or case

[rigid fjord]

front panel header is also standardised like guilty shown

[hallow jasper]

well, you did lol

[icy sundial]

I tell you what it took me. Way too long to realize how much getting a well-engineered case is worth the money

[obtuse yew]

The front panel connection on my board has like 5 billion pins on it and I only use like a third of them

[icy sundial]

I'm still not sure why they did away with cases that have motherboard trays. And why they get so much hate these days that shit was convenient

More or less a built-in test bench

[hallow jasper]

Front panel audio has historcally been garbage, in my experience. Case manufactures simply put no effort into properly shielded cables and robust connectors.

[icy sundial]

I am Keen to them relocating the PSU to the bottom though

[rigid fjord]

i paid £135 for my case, i'd be super annoyed if it wasn't decent for that price

[hallow jasper]

I haven't bothered hooking it up in the first place in years

[icy sundial]

Or any shielding for that matter

[obtuse yew]

Switched my h5 flow for a lightbase 600 recently, the build quality blew me away

[rigid fjord]

always poor grounding

[icy sundial]

Yeah man a good case can literally make a build 2 hours shorter

Modular power supplies are also a godsend

[rigid fjord]

15kg just for my case itself

[icy sundial]

I had a cooler master that weighed a metric ton once

[rigid fjord]

i have joked about my case going "do you even lift?" more than i should tbh

[icy sundial]

Does it have a built-in handle on top at least?

[rigid fjord]

that and it's a tank

[icy sundial]

My cooler Master did

[rigid fjord]

2 handles

[icy sundial]

Right now I have a bequiet something 900

[obtuse yew]

https://tenor.com/view/dap-dap-up-bro-homie-cyclops-gif-4428096331414899113

MY MAN

[rigid fjord]

google cougar panzer max-g

[icy sundial]

My whole build is bequiet almost

Silent power PSU, all fans, CPU cooler

Case

[rigid fjord]

corsair psu in my case

[icy sundial]

Their fans are legit Noctua contenders for the first time ever

[obtuse yew]

I use a montech century

[icy sundial]

Their cooler is legit too

[rigid fjord]

arctic fans and cooler for me

[icy sundial]

I like the shape of their fans you can tell they really engineered the airflow

[rigid fjord]

meanwhile arctic > noctua

[obtuse yew]

I want a bequiet cooler but I already have 5 unused aios lying around and I can't have another

[icy sundial]

I think Mike is dark rock or something

Mine

[river oak]

noice

i have it its like an oven

should have gotten amd instead

[river oak]

they goof

good

[icy sundial]

Crap pic and mismanaged RGB but here

Oops

[river oak]

when i bought lf3 it was the best liquid cooler on market

[icy sundial]

I haven't done AIO yet. But I'm also an air cooling purist

[rigid fjord]

yup, fans be out performing noctua if you got the pro model

[icy sundial]

I like that part of a build, and getting the results

Cable management, air flow, etc

[obtuse yew]

I do want an air cooler because I have my case on its side and my aio sounds like a stream of water

[rigid fjord]

cable management hehehe

[hallow jasper]

airflow, never heard of it

[icy sundial]

Am I just too new to post pics?

[obtuse yew]

My dad is a hospital tech and he finds cable managing relaxing so I usually just recruit him to do it for me

[icy sundial]

Probably

[rigid fjord]

you can post them here with no issues

[icy sundial]

That's another thing I love about a good case

Cable management is a breeze with tie down points everywhere

[clear canyon]

I work in the health care side of IT and we dont have time to sit around and make it perfect lol

[rigid fjord]

i went ocd on it, and took 6 hours total, otherwise it would have been a 2 hour build

[icy sundial]

I can feel putting that panel back on

[rigid fjord]

you can't, it clips in with no issues

[icy sundial]

I stole a roll of cut to size Velcro cable tie stuff, it is nice

[river oak]

the macbook neo looks delightful

[obtuse yew]

He has been working the same job for over 20 years now and I'm 90% sure he has ocd so he is really good at it

[river oak]

but too underpowered

[icy sundial]

Well I meant the holding your breath the first time after all that work

To check clearance

[tulip sparrow]

Just no

[icy sundial]

Eww but ok

[rigid fjord]

the side you usually see @icy sundial

[clear canyon]

i agree, apple sucks

[icy sundial]

I swear apple would pioneer infinite battery tech if it meant they could get rid of the power port

[clear canyon]

would look better if it had a gt 210 instead

[icy sundial]

Are those the rubbery Corsair bendy led strips

I have those

[rigid fjord]

nope, but there will be either an rx6700xt/7700xt or 9060xt going in there at some point

[clear canyon]

how dare you disrespect the gt210!

unforgivable!

[icy sundial]

I'd have kids with my 7900xtx if she had the right ports

[gaunt spade]

rich gold gpu

[icy sundial]

[clear canyon]

https://tenor.com/view/commence-the-mass-stoning-gif-5759304547419891834

[sinful cobalt]

Did you get all that?

Now send in the nukes to his location

[icy sundial]

What's that radiator thing in the back? The cooler Master box

[rigid fjord]

nope, 12v strips for a car under gpu/where a reservoir will eventually go, and around the outside, it's a 5v rgb strip to light up the tempered glass that has vinyl on it

[rigid fjord]

120mm rad, waiting for me to pull my finger out and properly connect it up to the 240mm rad on the top and add in a 280mm rad on the front

[icy sundial]

I like the rubber ones, the white rubber refracts the light so it's a solid strip of color like a neon light

[clear canyon]

https://tenor.com/view/smiling-friends-psychicpebbles-pim-smiling-friends-pim-mr-boss-gif-1373626090718171797

[icy sundial]

Double rad

[rigid fjord]

i intended for 3 rads

[gaunt spade]

what is fruit company tryna do

[icy sundial]

https://tenor.com/view/fallout-rads-radiation-counter-gif-6369229076219259168

Perfect gif is perfect

[boreal tiger]

need assistance

[icy sundial]

Let her rip

[boreal tiger]

im on hugging face trying to download qwen 2.5-7b and there is no download option or quantization option to choose from

[gritty panther]

ive never used a Mac in my life

I dont think ill ever buy one. im fine with my 299.99 base ipad. I think they're announcing a new one too

[long brook]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvx8Q1RdZkI
what a amazing video

Vex learned and modded a 3070 from 8gb to 16gb himself to see the performance benefits of more vram for gpus that where starved with low vram. He was trying so hard, failing many times but eventually he got it to work with a great payoff at the end.

the result

impressive especially from this card

[cold skiff]

10% gainz

Oh wait that’s v 5060

[rigid fjord]

pretty obvious the vram amount is what hurt the 3070, the 16gb vram equivalent is a quadro a4000

[cold skiff]

I mean I couldn’t bring myself to buy an 8gb card

For a second pc sure. Main gaming rig, nah

[long brook]

yup benchmarks at 54:48

[clear canyon]

its 2 generations newer, id hope it would be better

[elfin bridge]

Forget that 1999 was actually a pretty long time ago

I pity the poor suckers trying to use MacOS 26 on 8GB of unified RAM

[plain cypress]

That's literally me

[long brook]

this is old 3070 vs 16gb 3070

[elfin bridge]

I have 16GB on my work mac and it runs like it has broken legs as it is

[plain cypress]

Eh, lately all I've had time to do on my MacBook is web browsing and 8gb is fine

[elfin bridge]

My lab mac has 8GB (M2). Chrome alone is torture over 2-3 tabs and I am clearly a moron for daring to run xcode

Wanted to see if I could port my two page Android app to iOS. No. I get an OOM on trying to compile it.

Go-based web server for work? OOM during build.

I can run netflix on it if I don't open anything else. Yay.

Plus of course every modern OS seems to need over 1GB of VRAM to run a compositor for some reason

[gritty panther]

48gb 4090 mod still cooler /jk

the performance increase is pretty impressive

[gritty panther]

this is cool

[long brook]

yeah but the 4090 wasnt vram limited unless you doing AI stuff however a 4080 Super vram is faster and has a higher OC headroom so maybe if you put the 4080 super vram chips on the 4090 maybe

[gritty panther]

yea im just kidding. the 4090 mod isnt very good because you need to transfer to a different board with a blower style cooler

they mostly do it for AI 😄

I havent said it in a while. fk the AI bros

[long brook]

yes because the 3090 board is double sided

[gritty panther]

was that a 3090 board they use? cool stuff

[cold skiff]

Like a whole new tier

[gritty panther]

I thought it was custom made by out friends in china.

[long brook]

but keeping the same 4090 board, BGA soldering faster vram from say the 4080 super would be cool

[mellow sonnet]

what is this idle bro

[cold skiff]

Define idle

[mellow sonnet]

no 3d tasks are happening and gpu is idling at 20w

[cold skiff]

Show us

[mellow sonnet]

??

[cold skiff]

The whole thing

Cause something is happening on that gpu

Unless it’s 10 years old and no paste

[mellow sonnet]

thought the fans would turn on already

[long brook]

yeah they transfer the 4090 core to a 3080 board ahaha which has double sided vram

[cold skiff]

lol what gpu is that. 210mhz

[mellow sonnet]

4080s

[cold skiff]

Looks like that dreaded bug

[mellow sonnet]

its literally idling bro

[long brook]

or something isnt making contact to the cooler

[cold skiff]

Pulling 19w. That 4080s is maxxing out

IIRC 210w is limp mode

Even at idle

210mhz*

[mellow sonnet]

thats just it dropping frequency

[cold skiff]

Yes. To save itself

[long brook]

looks like a application of new PTM is in order

[cold skiff]

That’s what a limp mode is

[mellow sonnet]

it boosts to 2.6ghz when anything is going on

[cold skiff]

You best look at that heatsink and paste

[mellow sonnet]

its been doing that since new but ok

[cold skiff]

Cause your 4080s about to asplode

[mellow sonnet]

it tends to idle high

[cold skiff]

Yeah that’s too high

[mellow sonnet]

but the fans havent turned on yet

[cold skiff]

The memory is at 70c idle.. something wrong buddy

[long brook]

recently did a fresh ptm application on my 4090.. its amazing stuff for on die applications

[cold skiff]

Even with 0 rpm

[mellow sonnet]

no thats hotspot

[cold skiff]

Yeah you always go by hotspot

[mellow sonnet]

i had 102 hotspot once

[icy sundial]

My sister just got a house by a meat processing plant

[nimble frigate]

PSU fan up or down?

[icy sundial]

The smell of mass death isn't what you'd expect

More poopy than one would think

[mellow sonnet]

there you go, went to 104c hotspot the moment i turned on minecraft with shaders lmfao

and the fans IMMEDIATELY went full speed

hotspot has dropped to 88

i dont understand how does this zero rpm mode works on ts

its like clearly above 50c yet its off and then panics when sudden load is applied

now as the temps got normal the fans calmed down

msi what kind of software have you put in this thing

and now the fans spin until the temp is below 40

this gpu makes no sense

[long brook]

considering this is Asus's 0dB fan behaviour thresholds

[mellow sonnet]

the gpu can do sudden 320w which is not enough for those massive 140mm fans to spin up when the idle is high resulting in the fans going full speed for the first 2-3 minutes of high load

[hybrid fulcrum]

is having no IO shield a problem for a pc build?

[mellow sonnet]

having a hole

[icy sundial]

Dust and affecting your back pressure or air flow or whatever

At least what is assume

[hybrid fulcrum]

alr thanks

[jovial swan]

how do i reallocate like 4 gigs back to the thing itself i dont need 8 gigs allocated

[charred lotus]

Bro I went to sleep at 2am and your still on?

Have you slept

[icy sundial]

It's 11am

[charred lotus]

Did you sleep?

It’s 10am for me now

[icy sundial]

I slept too yes

[main reef]

Gah

[elfin echo]

why do i like the blue

[frigid blade]

lol, this was $1.4k when I bought it in december and it came broken

[ionic peak]

Who knows this guy?

[frigid blade]

https://tenor.com/view/kurt-angle-kurt-angle-stare-stare-guy-meme-guy-staring-meme-bald-guy-meme-gif-15047706772155378501

[distant frigate]

Yay my Ethernet adapter broke

Time to buy a new one. Not a big deal

[main sleet]

Welcome back Macbook.

[hallow jasper]

how many times will be this be posted

[hallow jasper]

McIntosh has been selling people on shiny blue screens for decades. Its one of the only reasons people spend that kinda money.

[elfin echo]

from what year is that

[hallow jasper]

that particular model is current, this year

[elfin echo]

my vcr is from mid 80s i think

Yes.

mitsubishi parts

[hallow jasper]

but the point was McIntosh has been making gear with those blue VU meters for many decades

1984

you can see the similarity

[elfin echo]

mm.. old 🤤

mitsubishi everywhere

[rigid fjord]

average 40+ y.o's response about everything even when their body is failing

[hallow jasper]

can confirm. it usually works, too

[rigid fjord]

body part in an unusual angle?
"i'm fine"

[hallow jasper]

it'll buff out

usually does in a week or two

[rigid fjord]

"it's only a flesh wound"

[hallow jasper]

really gotta be old to know that reference lol

[rigid fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/black-knight-draw-monty-python-gif-8453752444373485023

when you're raised on this being the cure all for everything @hallow jasper

[hallow jasper]

are those just your bog standard industrial paper towels from public bathrooms lol

sure looks like it

[rigid fjord]

also found in the nurse's office at school, or used to be

[hallow jasper]

Oh yeah, for sure.

[rigid fjord]

scratch your knee? a little water and one of these towels will fix it says the nurse

lose a finger, wrap the towel over it, and get back to doing what you was doing

bone sticking out?, water and a couple of these wrapped around as a cast

i do miss back then at times

[elfin echo]

fine

i just poopd my pants, when i ejected my vhs casette, it didnt make a shhvvvvvsvhsv, instead it made a shshbrvrhegagrhrvr

[rigid fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/i'm-fine-okay-feeling-good-no-problem-im-good-gif-9309976056095478317

[serene python]

i love crypto!!

[elfin echo]

its ok

[serene python]

my beloved

[hardy horizon]

With apple having

• Tier 1 - "Super Core" -M5 perfomance cores
• Tier 2 - New Performance Cores - Less performance than M4 performance cores, but better perf/watt (NEW)
• Tier 3 - Efficient cores- M5 efficiency cores - Same as before.

Will the battery life decrease?
Is it possible that the reduction of high power cores necessitated the need to increase these in between cores?
With Fusion (Infinity Fabric) between 2 chiplets, why do we not have 2x M5 performance cores on max?
With 3 18 core chips, it seams like M5 pro 18C would be the best Bang for buck no?
Will memory bandwidth hold back the Pro chips enough to really differentiate them from MAX? on M4 it didn't.
Appears like GPU cores are the same, jut getting bigger memory pipes from architecture, and Neural engines in each one. still no dedicated path trace hardware.

[pure trellis]

Oh, even Apple doing 3 core design for consumer market

[hasty garnet]

How would you build or go about a mini keyboard? i want to build a calculator sized raspberry pi pc but theres just no good option for a keyboard, they’re all too wide or bluetooth or simply won’t work
the best option would be a modded blackberry keyboard but they’re all sold out, so what do i do? do i just use a pi pico and wire a bunch of push buttons to it? there’s gotta be a better way right

[elfin echo]

it works its so silly and speedy

[rigid fjord]

already exists tbh

[elfin echo]

still keeping up the 1500 rpm

[hasty garnet]

for example?

[hasty garnet]

yeah but i want to build it myself, no fun there

plus i’m pretty sure it’s not even out yet

[rigid fjord]

https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/1f1q4p0/creating_a_portable_modular_minicomputer_based_on/

[hasty garnet]

sold out and $179

[hardy horizon]

yes, though we dont get the all on a single product, at least not yet

[rigid fjord]

https://www.parts-people.com/blog/2012/12/20/mobile-raspberry-pi-computer-build-your-own-portable-rpi-to-go/?srsltid=AfmBOoqoaPMDvoOz6joRVb_ORWlT4c6gdcj5NLPMVX7y2O70zxhecLvr

[hasty garnet]

way too big man

[jaunty apex]

I'd have loved that as a kid

[tulip sparrow]

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-aluminium-os-sameer-samat-interview-3646400/

[jaunty apex]

Hate the keyboard though

[jaunty apex]

AI? In the headlines? No way

I gotta see it now 😪

[icy sundial]

I like those mini PCs

They look like something from teenage engineering

[jaunty apex]

“A lot of Android users are excited about the ability to have their phone and their laptop interoperate and work better together,”
I gotchu, use KDE Connect

[icy sundial]

The brand not engineering by teenagers

All of their products look like renders of cyberpunk tech that doesn't exist but they all do

[tulip sparrow]

Using the "compute" module I take it?

[jaunty apex]

2012

Probably a pi zero

[icy sundial]

Like, would you ever expect this to actually exist?

It does lol

[jaunty apex]

Or original Pi

[icy sundial]

Such aesthetic

Doodads and their doohickey counterparts

For the betterment of beeps and boops

[jaunty apex]

Yea

[royal flint]

Hey everyone, I'm an industrial design student engineering a new controller design for my studio class. I need some hardcore data on controller ergonomics, stick drift, and switch tactility to make the CAD models accurate. The survey is 100% anonymous (no emails collected), all multiple-choice, and takes 3 mins. I'd massively appreciate your input to help make a controller that doesn't actually cause hand cramps! https://forms.gle/4nrzteJKomMeYAZd7

[tulip sparrow]

Could go the Xbox accessibility route with it

[jaunty apex]

Stick drift? Dont use potentiometer based sticks

[tulip sparrow]

Not sure what the self promoting rule is here lol

I assume its don't do it

[jaunty apex]

Well it def doesn't need to be crossposted

[quick tinsel]

I just want good features from w11 onto w10 and I'll gladly switch over. Besides not only would I be able to utilize my 4k display at full speed, (w11 is too slow) It would also look way nicer. W10 design language was pretty good except it was poorly implemented

[jaunty apex]

What good features come from Windows 11

[quick tinsel]

Task added to to-do list: install w10 ltsc 2021

[quick tinsel]

The better file explorer

The better notepad

[odd marsh]

the notepad glowup is insane

[jaunty apex]

Isnt notepad a uwp

[quick tinsel]

The better Bluetooth and windows

[tulip sparrow]

Task manager having a dark mode FINALLY

[quick tinsel]

It is but it's not directly usable

[jaunty apex]

?? That didn't exist?

[quick tinsel]

no

[tulip sparrow]

Not before 11 no

[jaunty apex]

Weird I totally remember it being a thing.

[ivory mountain]

how does this fuckass game launcher manage to use 1.5gb ram

[quick tinsel]

Me too but no it was with patches

[jaunty apex]

I mean I ended on 11 but still I used 10 for like 10 years

[jaunty apex]

Mm that would make sense

[jaunty apex]

Starting to get pissy at bottles. Says ICU.DLL isnt working right, I grab a copy from an 11 install, still doesn't launch

[ivory mountain]

im loving faugus it simplifies everything

lutris wouldnt even detect my steam games properly

[jaunty apex]

I mean faugus ain't much better

[ivory mountain]

It detects my games so it works fine for me

[jaunty apex]

I don't like how simple it is IG. I don't need it to detect games

[abstract hollow]

Whats a good VPN for windows 11? I got Xfinity so it blocks bad sites. Ping me if anyone has a good answer. thanks

[jaunty apex]

Use cloudflare dns

[tulip sparrow]

cloudflare and google are the 2 I use

[jaunty apex]

If its at router or ISP level idk if I can help with that

[tulip sparrow]

1.1.1.1 8.8.8.8

[jaunty apex]

I use quad9 personally but cloudflare is my other go-to

[tulip sparrow]

Pretty sure Xfinity blocks things at DNS level so change the DNS

[jaunty apex]

Oop our answers were bad.

😭

[tulip sparrow]

@abstract hollow change to cloudflare/google DNS

[hallow jasper]

stop going to bad sites

[ivory mountain]

Usually thats caused by a premade dns filter from your isp, js change it

[ivory mountain]

Spectrum blocked this tech youtubers website so idk 😭 not very reliable

[tulip sparrow]

IPS DNS has always been garabge

[abstract hollow]

Xfinity monitors so I need a full vpn Google AI suggests Express VPN, NordVPN, or Proton VPN. Any of those really good?

I need to be able to quickly toggle it on/off so I can get to my banking sites

[jaunty apex]

I'd recommend proton of all of them

[tulip sparrow]

Only monitoring they do is torrents so stop uising those LOL

[abstract hollow]

They blocked audiobookbay completely.

[jaunty apex]

LMAO

[hallow jasper]

did they, or did the url change (again)

[odd marsh]

I just got to it and I'm like 80% sure we use Xfinity

[abstract hollow]

no I can get to it through online free web browser vpns but they pop up adds and forbidden tabs

from a search it just said ISP's block it all the time

its been unable to get to it or its mirrors for over 24 hours now

[jaunty apex]

Adds and forbidden tabs

[tulip sparrow]

If its just websiute usage use something like protonVPN which works fine no torrenting without paying tho

[jaunty apex]

Brother you got other things to worry about than vpns I think

[lost frost]

Hi I am making a big decision today and I need help I have budget of 500 for an OLED monitor any suggestions I mainly play single players games and watch series and anime and sometimes I play fps with the boys but I really do not care to get a monitor that gives me an advantage in fps I am more concern on video quality. Any suggestions??

[abstract hollow]

yeah Im not adverse to paying. if I get a subscription what one is best to get Nord, Express, or Proton? I have a paid proton mail already but the VPN is expensive compared to the other 2

what other things do I have to worry about?

[rigid fjord]

nope, ras pi 5 on one, and couple pico's on another

[jaunty apex]

Mullvad is €5/m

[hallow jasper]

you don't have many options, and they're all built around the same panel tech from Samsung. https://pcpartpicker.com/products/monitor/#P=7,9&sort=price&X=0,50000&r=256001440

[lost frost]

Is that panel bad?

[odd marsh]

no

[ionic peak]

Do you know him?

[tulip sparrow]

Pretty sure Oleds are $500 these days

At leasst some of them are

[plain cypress]

Some are as low as $400

[tulip sparrow]

Yeah not surprised

I am still haning around $250 or so for a monitor

[stoic nova]

Ultra wide qd OLED at 4k 240hz is 700

[lost frost]

What about this one from amazon Samsung 27” Odyssey OLED G5 (G50SF) QHD & QD-OLED Gaming Monitor, 180Hz Refresh Rate, 0.03ms (GtG) Response Time, NVIDIA G-Sync Compatible, AMD FreeSync™, LS27FG500SNXZA https://a.co/d/0c1nidpP

[plain cypress]

My 27" QD-OLED 1440p240 in 2024 was cheaper than my 27" IPS 1440p165 in 2020 💀

[odd marsh]

I personally wouldn't

get it from a brand other than samsung

[tulip sparrow]

Yeah I have a 2560x1440p@165hz Pixio I picked up in like 2020(!?) for $260 or so

and yes it has "Freesync"(VRR) onboard and yes it works fine with gsync

[ivory mountain]

im thinking of buying a 4k qd-oled for anime viewing, i dont like watching stuff on tvs for some reason

these monitors have gotten so cheap recently

[odd marsh]

I <3 OLED TVs

[tulip sparrow]

Only Oled's I have are my Sasmsung phones lol

Including my Samsung S5e Tablet

[odd marsh]

Two TVs, Monitor, Laptop, and my phone

[tulip sparrow]

everything else is IPS and it's been fine

[silver yacht]

New quest;

[tulip sparrow]

I am not on my phone for long stretches at a time so it being oled has never been an issue

[silver yacht]

find a non-Mac that can get close to the price of that exact MacBook with 16GB memory and M.2 upgradeable storage

[unique aspen]

i just wanted 16gb ram

[tulip sparrow]

I am on my desktop/laptop for 16 hours a day at the very least so oled there is a nogo for me honestly

[silver yacht]

cuz the Neo looks neat but all it did was make me check for the Air

which I guess means the upsell worked.

[tulip sparrow]

Lenovo Yoga or thinkpads or similar?

[unique aspen]

thinkpad is good ( P and T series)

[tulip sparrow]

I currently own a Yoga with AMD 8840HS 16gb of ram and a 1tb ssd that I got for $650

[silver yacht]

funny you mentioned Lenovo

IT department at my workplace has been begging management to ditch Acer

[tulip sparrow]

15.6"(16") 1920x1200 60hz VRR screen

[silver yacht]

and just go with Lenovo instead, but no dice

[tulip sparrow]

Yeah Acer really isn't that good

[frigid blade]

i know you labubu gamer

[silver yacht]

Thinkpads legit look like they're the ticket for non-Mac stuff

[tulip sparrow]

I love the trackpoint on the thinkpads

[ionic peak]

The guy on the picture

[tulip sparrow]

I disable the trackpad via BIOS and just use that when I used one

[ivory mountain]

job time

[tulip sparrow]

I have the trackpad disabled on my Yoga as well and use a dedicated wireless mouse and touchscreen if I need it

[unique aspen]

i have a job

[formal lagoon]

so is the "stop recommending me subscriber-only videos" the "not interested" button?

[tulip sparrow]

Nope Youtube(google) changed it so that they aren't privite anymore and are int he normal feed now

[silver yacht]

MacBook Air configurator ain't live yet but did find a listing locally for le Thinkpad

very compelling

[grizzled frost]

there is no "stop recommending me subscriber only videos" button, if you click not interested, it will stop showing you videos of that type

the algorithm doesn't properly recognize member only as a descriptor

[formal lagoon]

so why did LTT say that it was possible to not be recommended members only videos?

[grizzled frost]

uh it isn't afaik

youtube has no incentive to allow that

the more member-only videos you see, the more likely you are to become a member

[silver yacht]

oh no it's just straight-up on the Lenovo site lmao

[ionic peak]

Daniela do you know him

[tulip sparrow]

32/1tb vs 16/512 gb on the lenovo site @silver yacht

[frigid blade]

who

[tulip sparrow]

aka lesss ram and storage ont eh Lenovo site

[ionic peak]

Him

[frigid blade]

no clue

[grizzled frost]

the air configurator is live

has been for a while now

[silver yacht]

but can't select stuff

wait nope I'm dumb

[grizzled frost]

must be region locked

[silver yacht]

had to pick color first lolz

[steel umbra]

Ifixit on budget

3d print

[silver yacht]

holy fuck that is hella close to the Thinkpad

on the other hand, Mac has no games

j/k

[steel umbra]

Thin

[ionic peak]

It's a celebrity

[hallow jasper]

Im scrolling at this URL, I can't find any videos that are members only. Frankly the only time I do see them is when browsing videos directly in a chanels Video page. https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions

[elfin echo]

Beautiful it is now.

[tired bear]

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadp/thinkpad-p14s-gen-6-14-inch-amd-mobile-workstation/21qlcto1wwus1

[silver yacht]

that's actually where my thread has been hovering at, funnily enough

[plush wren]

cant u use a credit card of something

[tired bear]

hp has one for 600

[silver yacht]

Hmmmmmmmm

[brave brook]

i will request a Pro with 32GB RAM from work i think, but not sure if i should ask for it now or next year (my intel mac still works one more year for iOS developmetn)

[steel umbra]

it's way thicker

[azure fog]

what does this unlock warning mean? I've just hard reset my pc, for context.

[ivory mountain]

could it be bitlocker from your other install?

[hallow jasper]

Possibly had Bitlocker encryption on those drives and it appears to be paused (note the unlocked padlock)

[azure fog]

possibly, i dont remember every encrypting my drives though

can i remove this encryption?

[south arrow]

If theyre unlocked just remove the encryption I had something similar when I added/replaced my wife's boot drive on her laptop

Itll take a bit for it to go through

[hallow jasper]

I've not personally played with BitLocker directly but there appears to be a lot on Google about this

What does the old Bitlocker control panel give you as options?

[south arrow]

Its not to hard, just if a laptop detects major hardware changes rada rada yada yada. But Microsoft saves the key to ones account so its not so bad but annoying

[hallow jasper]

this one

[tulip sparrow]

I have a Pro version of windows and don't use bitlocker personally

[hallow jasper]

not many do on DIY desktops

[jaunty apex]

According to this wall tester my PC is a lot less power hungry than i expected

[hardy horizon]

Is 16% off on apple for current gen a "good" deal?

[coarse grotto]

any one happen to know what the difference is between an intel be200 be201 and be202 (non vpro) , since somehow the "number is higher is better" doesnt work here , ... 202 is ~euro cheaper then the 201 , and on a price of 20euro 10 euro differece is allot

bitlocker , yeey , you dont get to know your own key ,and microsoft stores a copy in the cloud for you and anyone that wants to see whats on your pc ,... 😛

[tired bear]

yes, if it doesent end on zero or two it wont work via pcie

[coarse grotto]

how then isnt m.2 always pcie ?

[tired bear]

M.2: CNVio3

be202 only supports 160mhz, meanwhile other two support 320mhz

[coarse grotto]

ah but wouldnt that make the m.2 cheaper?

[tired bear]

thus half the bandwidth

[coarse grotto]

ah thats prolly the reason then

[tired bear]

what cpu will you use them with?

afaik there is still a bug where be cards wont work with amd at all

https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/SoftwareFirmwareIssueTracker/issues/99

[coarse grotto]

i9 9900k

[tired bear]

be200 or be202 should work then

[coarse grotto]

i9900k that is but i can also put it in my laptop wich is a i5 core ultra S1 125H i think , and move the wifi card from that one to my main system

[tired bear]

be201 needs 13th gen or newer and m.2 needs CNVio3 support

[tired bear]

what card is currently in your laptop

[coarse grotto]

ax 210

[tired bear]

definitly get be200 or be202
maybe laptop does not have CNVio3

[coarse grotto]

i planned to its a framework , and i dont think i ever encounteree CNVIo when installing , the one in my main rig currently is a Intel Corporation Wireless 8265 / 8275 (rev 78)
, and moveing 7TB at 10mbit a second is a bit slow 🙂 the other end is connected over ethernet ,... an the router can do wifi 6 and is in line of sight 8m away , and since them cards only cost 20 euro's round and about, i figured its not worth doing filetransfers for several days this way,... folly should just upgrade , i still ahve a m.2 pci-e adapter from a tplink 200ax so

[hallow jasper]

my guy, get a wire

[south arrow]

[empty quartz]

Chat

Yesterday i impulse bought a ps4 pro, do i return it, or keep it as an upgrade to my og ps4

[tranquil thicket]

I want to do a Mini-ITX sized build

[plain cypress]

I don't like watching stuff at my PC 🤷

[topaz shale]

i think valve is right about piracy being a service issue

[hallow jasper]

The key is a 4K OLED TV for your PC. 👍

[ivory mountain]

Is this the method

[topaz shale]

i really want an lg g5 for my setup

would go so hard

[hallow jasper]

it is

[verbal prawn]

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/lg-48-class-b5-series-oled-ai-4k-uhd-smart-webos-tv-2025/JJ8VPZTK9F

[ivory mountain]

I was joking im not using a 48 inch tv at my desk 😭

Lowkey didnt specify that it was for my desk tho so thats on me

[verbal prawn]

why not

it's average size

[plain cypress]

Rip $550 48" B5 from black Friday

[wheat torrent]

My pc just black screened for first time

Some sort of driver error but I didn't get to read...

[odd marsh]

gone too soon

[verbal prawn]

i should have bought it to piss off @hexed tapir

[coral mirage]

MICROSLOP

MICROSLOP

[odd marsh]

you gotta buy yourself a new GPU first

[verbal prawn]

570 usd 5070?

[odd marsh]

sounds ok

[verbal prawn]

openbox

[odd marsh]

hmm

[wheat torrent]

most interesting

[verbal prawn]

or 440 usd 4070

used

[thin bloom]

I did some research last night and i understand why my pc crashes. Vrchat is now the only game that brings my pc to it's knees to the point were the undervolted cpu becomes very unstable. Hopefully it doesn't crash again after decreasing the cpu undervolt from -45 to -40

[odd marsh]

if you're gonna go used i would just do the 5070

[verbal prawn]

or or or

800 usd 4080s

used

[odd marsh]

i fuck with that

that would be my choice

[verbal prawn]

pro photo taking skills holy

[hallow jasper]

I can't trust a seller who can't take a decent picture

[odd marsh]

3 and a half stars, 27 reviews hm

ethan wang

[verbal prawn]

seems like just shit communation

i wonder if my facebook reviews are trash

[wheat torrent]

kernel shat itself

[verbal prawn]

i just lowball people icl

[odd marsh]

you have to send a few messages at least to get a review i think

[empty quartz]

Too small for a pc setup, you need at least a 150” tv at your desk so you have you turn your neck in abnormal ways just to see anything

[verbal prawn]

most of my messages are like heres a low offer ill pay cash today etc

[wheat torrent]

holy fuck

blender.exe was at fault...

[verbal prawn]

two odd ball options 270 usd 3080 but it's waterblocked but comes with aircooler as well

1.1k usd 5080

[odd marsh]

don't bother with 3080, but 5080 is baller

[verbal prawn]

it is baller

but that 4080s

[odd marsh]

yeah i'd rather go for 4080

better value

[wheat torrent]

GeForce 595.71 driver should I update?

[pure trellis]

Which GPU?

[hallow jasper]

are you missing a feature or trying to solve a problem solved by a later one?

[pure trellis]

NVIDIA's re-released 595.71 driver fixes broken fan control, but it came at the cost of causing severe performance drops for some users.

[verbal prawn]

4070s 500 usd just found one when i widened my search radius

kinda far

[wheat torrent]

blender.exe just blackscreened my computer

An attempt was made to access a pageable (or completely invalid) address at an interrupt request level (IRQL) that is too high. This is usuallycaused by drivers using improper addresses. If kernel debugger is available get stack backtrace.

[odd marsh]

if you can lowball to 450 sure

[hallow jasper]

Well, you can get as many drivers as you want and try them, DDU in between

[wheat torrent]

My system never blackscreened like this

[pure trellis]

Oh,new drive can hit with 16% performance degradation

[wheat torrent]

it says my driver is from 2024 but it can't be true

[verbal prawn]

idk why but the 4080 super listing to me feels sus

i can't put my finger on it

[wheat torrent]

most interesting, I swear I updated my drivers like a few months ago

maybe it downgraded the drivers after the crash no idea

[pure trellis]

Is that default windows driver?

[wheat torrent]

IDK

after the crash my system restarted like 4 times telling me windows is nearly ready

so I think so, it was a kernel crash

[pure trellis]

Ddu and fresh install drivers

[twin plover]

Is it bad that the bottom 2 fans are my only intake fans and the rest are exhaust fans? Like my temps stay pretty low should I flip the front fans and make them intake or no?

[wheat torrent]

which one

there is like 5 sources for ddu

[grizzled nova]

the official one

[pure trellis]

https://www.guru3d.com/download/display-driver-uninstaller-download/

[wheat torrent]

right....

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-bateman-silly-me-oh-silly-me-patrick-bateman-gif-25589956

[verbal prawn]

@odd marsh hear me out 7700x 32gb of ram 2tb ssd with a 4070 for 1000 usd

[tidal geyser]

65w ish 800$ laptop doing 50-60 fps in arc raiders while being so unbelievably thin is amazing

[wheat torrent]

is this the official source?

those guys just host a bunch of shit

[verbal prawn]

1100

[odd marsh]

meh

[tidal geyser]

Arc raiders 1200p xess ultra quality medium settings with textured being cinimatic

[verbal prawn]

i mean isn't the ram like 400 usd

[tidal geyser]

Lunar lake is amazing

[wheat torrent]

ok so this is the official source https://www.wagnardsoft.com/

[pure trellis]

It's like 30 years tech forum, they are trusfull

[wheat torrent]

it is a bit confusing since techpowerups also have download page for ddu

[wheat torrent]

so do I boot in safe mode then uninstall every driver?

[tidal geyser]

look at how good it is

[odd marsh]

we love lunar lake

[tidal geyser]

intel has come such a long way with their drivers

this thing does about 10-12hrs+ for normal work so not as much as i had hoped for but still decent, and for gaming its giving me so much fps

[topaz turtle]

i ordered this for a new laptop a few days ago https://www.laptopoutlet.co.uk/hp-omnibook-x-flip-14-fk0002na-bg3e2eaabu.html

[tidal geyser]

i had the 350 its a decent long lasting cpu

tbh feel like it might last longer than my current 258v, but wow is there a difference in igpu power

i already promised to sell away the 350 laptop but probs would have just kept it if i did not do that, but the 258v i got now is REALLY nice but only had it for a day

[topaz turtle]

i got this becuse of the very steep discount pretty much .. 500 off is well its a lot

i did have a recent intel option but i went with AMD becuse i like AMD

[grizzled nova]

would you buy a 4500$ laptop for 4000$ bc its 500$ off

[topaz turtle]

if my budget was 4k, yes

[cloud sparrow]

Love corsair right now
Had my 4000DA for 3y and my front typec port has rusted
Like why?!

[grizzled nova]

ok

[hasty garnet]

i did it myself

[topaz turtle]

yeah i forgot to say my budget was 800 so this fitted nicely

also i dont do much gaming anymore so did not need a gaming laptop

tho i did look at some, but they did not have very good screens at this budget

[steel umbra]

how thick is the plating? is it well attached? is it even real gold?

[cloud sparrow]

It's yellow because it's corsair's color

[steel umbra]

oh

well, metals just corrode… that’s how they are

do you live in a humid area or near the sea?

[hexed glade]

What program?

[cloud sparrow]

Kind of near the sea?
It's been in an ACed room (with a humidifier)
~65f

[hasty garnet]

kicad, looks kinda overwhelming but i got the basics of it today after an hour or two

[topaz turtle]

im not seeing any traces connecting the buttons to the MCU ?

[lime grail]

I might just get a 9060xt and hope that my ryzen 5 2600 can handle it for a few months

[dawn zephyr]

Can anyone help me I just built my pc and tried turning it on

[dawn zephyr]

Nothing happened lowkey mad rn

[wheat torrent]

Is the PSU turned on

[dawn zephyr]

Yup

[wheat torrent]

Does fans spin

[dawn zephyr]

Nope

[hexed glade]

Is pc plugged into wall

[dawn zephyr]

Case does show there’s power

[dawn zephyr]

Yup

[wheat torrent]

Does the motherboard have any lights (error indicator)

[rose stream]

Whooooaaa that last one has a noice compact keyb I see.

[austere pendant]

Props to whoever is at zero trust world and did this lmao

[dawn zephyr]

Don’t see any indication

[wheat torrent]

I can feel the pain in my fingertips

[elfin lantern]

Thoughts on the 870E-E strix?

[wheat torrent]

Round (probably stiff) buttons digging into the nervers of my fingertips...

[rose stream]

Well that can be solved by switching to softer rubber ones.

[wheat torrent]

Did you plug all the cables, for example motherboard 24 pin... CPU mobo power connector

[dawn zephyr]

Plugged in the 24pin and the 8pin cpu

[wheat torrent]

Well there is plenty of space to spread out the area by using some keycap

[rose stream]

True.

[hasty garnet]

figured that out a couple of seconds after sending

[wheat torrent]

Like this

[rose stream]

Oh hey!

[hasty garnet]

need way more buttons + its fun to do it yourself

[hasty garnet]

this is what i wouldve done if those blackberry kits where available anywhere

[wheat torrent]

Pretty sure the first image uses gesture buttons

[dawn zephyr]

@wheat torrent

[wheat torrent]

Up, down, left, right per button

[wheat torrent]

Make a post in tech support forum listing everything you've tried so people don't ask same questions over and over

[hasty garnet]

i wont be learning that

want it to kind of look like a calculator

[wheat torrent]

This is what I'm working on

This is the editor on desktop

[hardy horizon]

What the actual 🤬

Started melting ....

Saw "magic smoke" and immediately started unplugging everything 🤦‍♂️

Imma be pissed if it killed all my components, we didn't get video out, and I saw the smoke out of the corner of my eyes

[wheat torrent]

[hardy horizon]

Both the sata power wires are wired differently... Oh and my 2.5 drive is hot AF. Probably killed. I'll find out later after work 🤦‍♂️

[wheat torrent]

I honestly think they should add a sensor to every connector

[ivory mountain]

it looks so crooked

[hardy horizon]

Common post COVID quality

Look at the motherboard's io 🫤

[hardy horizon]

I have NEVER had an issue. This is behaving like a hard short The question is was it in the PSU is it because it was wired incorrectly and what all did it kill because that connector led to the motherboard the drives as well

[tidal geyser]

usb port

hdmi port

usb-c port

[fallen sky]

Hello tc1

[wheat torrent]

One is thunderbolt

Or both of them...

[gaunt spade]

i was lightning

before the thunder

[wheat torrent]

🤓 ☝️ lighting and thunderbolt are not the same

[hardy horizon]

What Abt them?

[tidal geyser]

thunderbolt 3 and above are type c only

[tidal geyser]

they USB

[hardy horizon]

The point was poor quality

[tidal geyser]

looks fine to me and well its on the back of the pc

[hardy horizon]

$300 motherboard

[wheat torrent]

He means the io shield not being properly aligned

At least your motherboard io shield doesn't have pins shorting the USB-C

So be happy

I'm never buying motherboards with non integrated io shields

[tidal geyser]

the io shield just has extra room

its not poorly aligned

[wheat torrent]

Idk I think io shield should be part of the mobo, integrated...

[tidal geyser]

no io shields

just go raw

[wheat torrent]

My server like that

Cant bother to take everything out to put io shield

[hardy horizon]

Much "extra" room 😭

[frigid blade]

You don’t have to take everything out tho

[tidal geyser]

yes

[hardy horizon]

Yep crazy what things cost now days.

[hardy horizon]

AGREED!

[tidal geyser]

well yea that is how economics works

things cost more but uh things have started costing a lot more than they should

[gaunt spade]

what

[tidal geyser]

ark has never listed to music

[hardy horizon]

But ya, so USB drive is dead so whatever it was doing it fed it all the way up to the USB port.

Anyone have the pinout so I can try and isolate everything else it killed?

[frail sequoia]

that annoys me, it aint lined up properly

[tidal geyser]

pinout of the usb controller?

[frail sequoia]

my ps5 is missing the blue bit on one of the usb ports on the back (the plastic bit, it still has the pins)

[nova onyx]

guys my pc is hacked can someone who is knowledgeable pls dm me

he just listed a scam on facebook marketplace from my account and my phone is blowing up

[shrewd heron]

Hi

[serene pumice]

Windows 11 sucks, force us to switch to Windows 12 already

[heady bough]

what are the pros and cons of and ssd compared to a hdd?

[shrewd heron]

My PC parts list is gonna be outdated by the time ddr5 reaches a stable price point

[dusky axle]

does anybody have a recommended gpu stress tester? i want to run my 2080 super through its paces

or was this the server that doesn't allow recs...

i always get them mixed up

[frigid blade]

i like 3D Marks stuff

[serene pumice]

ssd fast
hdd slow

[serene pumice]

furmark

[frigid blade]

SSDs are much faster but cost more compared to HDDs per GB

[shrewd heron]

Ye

[flat cliff]

How do I get Google to remove AI images from search results it SO annoying when ALL the images AI slop because yes its slop but I can't find anything. I'm looking for ref pics and dam.

[serene pumice]

RAM even faster & cost even more per GB
You can make a RAM Disk Drive

[frigid blade]

Yes you can, but everytime you power off the pc the data is wiped from it

[scarlet marlin]

is it a good idea to spread peanut butter on the cpu heatsink

[shrewd heron]

Probably not

[frigid blade]

There is Intel Optane, which is in the middle of SSD and RAM

You insert it into a RAM slot

[obtuse yew]

They made dimm optane?

Last I checked it was a pcie only device

[frigid blade]

Its nothing new

2018

launched 2019

[serene pumice]

Just get a laptop

[frigid blade]

Started with 2nd gen xeon scalable

Theyre pretty cheap

[scarlet marlin]

can a motherboard be turned into a weapon? like can you sharpen the edges and turn it into a throwing star

[flat cliff]

?

[frigid blade]

google it

[scarlet marlin]

add before:[date] in your search before ai was invented

example :
Google : How to make money by growing crabs in your bedroom drawer before:2002

[serene pumice]

does this work with search results that's been censored?

Before:itwascensored

[scarlet marlin]

only one way to find out I guess

[serene pumice]

the biggest repellent of accessing old, dead/lost media is how furiously slow archive.org/archive.today is

[steel umbra]

Depending on the metal you could use a solution that removes corrosion such as vinegar + salt for copper (but beware with the example i gave it also removes the protective natural patina layer which may regenerate or may not and the metal then tends to corrode faster without any proper/appropriate coating) clean it up and apply coating that can hold into the metal without much damage

Do not use the same solution for various metals as some can react fine but some can absolutely get ruined

which includes spilling due to in your case not being to reach the port

I assume the scratching might have contributed to the corrosion

Option 2 is to replace the port or surrounding materials

Option 3 is to ignore it

[hardy horizon]

Yep!

[hardy horizon]

The power supply

[hardy horizon]

#tech-chat-1 message

[obtuse yew]

Do I buy some old boards to practice repairs on or should I jump into the deep end with an actually dead modern one on the off chance I get it running on the first attempt

[fringe prairie]

“-ai” at the end of ur search

[frail sequoia]

😭

[hardy horizon]

pick your starlink up off the ground

https://tenor.com/view/funny-face-cszworldwide-falling-down-fallenandcantgetup-fallen-gif-16836331531068363770

[frail sequoia]

i have virgin media

[obtuse yew]

What does being a virgin have to do with any of this

[flat cliff]

I did that and with quotes was only AI shit and without quotes was as if I did not put anything at all.

[frail sequoia]

its the name of the provider 😭

fixed the wifi

[jaunty apex]

You dont

You look at my bio @flat cliff

Link 3

[wheat torrent]

so your provider isn't fucking you over?

[frail sequoia]

no 😭

[wheat torrent]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cat-meme-orange-orange-cat-sit-gif-17620673121542959593

[frail sequoia]

when iturn 17 end of august imma take driving lessons and buy a 1993 toyota corrola

[gaunt spade]

https://giphy.com/gifs/love-i-you-bey-DsuxVAkGDzqs5n4PAU

[haughty compass]

Throw back to my old phone that used to be just so amazing

[ancient lion]

Modding a Z87 board can be frustrating gosh

[jaunty apex]

My pixel 4 after 2 years eol

[icy sundial]

Did any other android users notice they added a nipple to the battery gauge?

Noticed it today

[flat cliff]

Dam its gotten so bad that even duck duck go hide AI does not really at all do that anymore. Least what I'm searching.

[odd kestrel]

is this worth it?

[icy sundial]

is it?

After quickly googling eBay for that same laptop. They're going for half that price

Highest price I can find is $480

And just one listing

[shrewd heron]

Looks more like a water bottle than a battery

[jaunty apex]

Thought it was always there

[icy sundial]

My first thought was oxygen tank

[icy sundial]

Nah it was added within last few weeks, at least

The update itself might have come out a little longer back

Yeah this screenshot was from yesterday

Wait the nipple goes away on charge

[haughty compass]

I have a question about something I'm not sure of entirely. I bought a used 4k elgato capture card a while back that plugs into a pcie slot, but turns out the bottom pcie slot on my motherboaed doesnt have the right specs even though it looks like it would. (pcie 4x1 power that looks like a x16) so now the capture card doesn't work cus it doesn't get enough power... And I don't really have the money to shell out for an external capture so I was wondering if there are any alternatives I could follow to be able to use it?

[rough wing]

Making me act up

[meager coral]

…could anyone just help me make sure I have everything connected to my PS5 just right to see if audio and video show up in OBS please?? Just need someone to help me making sure sound and video look ok

[native path]

no the neo is unironically better

well no i lied sorry i didnt see the 16gb memory, still not worth it at all

[jaunty apex]

Lmao

[frigid topaz]

Need y'all opinion, how much should I sell this for i7 4790s, with hp oem motherboard, 16gb of ram 1600mhz and a cooler ?

[jaunty apex]

About tree-fiddy

[frigid topaz]

Alr

[steel umbra]

that’s assuming you get the 256gb version

and 256gb on a laptop is yikes

plus yk if you want larger storage you’ll have to pay up

[jaunty apex]

No tunderbolt

[steel umbra]

at that point you might as well get a used m2 or something similar

[wheat torrent]

I hate thunderbolt

[steel umbra]

it’s just hs usb c basicly

[wheat torrent]

hahahaha your computer can do 40gbps!!

[jaunty apex]

Its just USB c but better

[wheat torrent]

hahaha every thunderbolt device costs 700 USD before tax !

[fringe prairie]

well no

[wheat torrent]

very capable very nice

[steel umbra]

it’s not really a good laptop when you think about it twice, it features a mobile sku that goes into phones and not laptops

[hexed tapir]

[steel umbra]

it’s fine at the price point but nothing abt it screams value

[fringe prairie]

$499 is pretty decent

[steel umbra]

imo the neo is about battery life

[steel umbra]

again it features a phone sku

[jaunty apex]

How much does an iPhone cost

[hardy horizon]

too high

[fringe prairie]

which is fine? it outperforms the m1 in 1t which is more than enough for web browsing and basic tasks

[steel umbra]

$499 is the student’s discount with the barebone 8/256gb model

[fringe prairie]

8gb ram tho is quite bad for any laptop in 2026

[jaunty apex]

Especially with shared vram

[native path]

they're also looking at a 6 year old laptop i don't know if they're worried about "yikes"

[fringe prairie]

a 14 mbp on ebay isn’t much more and would be a lot better

[steel umbra]

256gb will get filled up instantly

[native path]

on a neo? what would you be installing

[fringe prairie]

its pretty easy to get the student discount even if you’re not a student

[steel umbra]

even with that’s it’s pretty meh

again, nothing is impressive about it unless you like the os

[native path]

well yeah you're in a tech server where most people are interested in tech that can game or do something that the average user is not using

[native path]

dude clearly doesn't need all the performance if they're looking at a used M1

i'd say a $499 macbook that's good enough for most students with a retina display and a pretty alright chassis is quite impressive

[jaunty apex]

Til how to use second factor pin on graphene. Its a different pin than your usual

Was like why tf would I use this if I can just bypass it and enter the code with one factor anyway

[pearl apex]

So I got a pc of fb marketplace that had a corsair rm1000x in it and I also bought a 5070 ti but the pc did not come with the power cables. I need help sourcing the correct cables

the cables from a diff corsair same generation should work right

[steel umbra]

btw he’s in EU so this whole argument was kinda pointless as those neos with vat cost around €699 and €599 w students discount

256gb is not good for €599

the better lcd of the neo and the aluminum chassis won’t save it

you will have to rely on external solutions which cost from €70 to €100-150 (1tb) for the faster ones and €35-100 (512gb) it also adds clunkiness

and 512gb model (still with only 8gb) will cost you additional €100

the used m1/m2s in that price points have 512/16gb

[obtuse yew]

it is honestly impressive how well the m1 has held up over the years

[steel umbra]

also remember at those lower capacities even your os will seem like it’s taking quite a bit of space

so 256gb… won’t really be 256gb

[clear pebble]

Wifi driver/adapter/controller not working or says it Uninstalled how do I fix?

My wifi isn't even being shown

[agile topaz]

Also asking here just in case, got a 2025 Corsair RM850e with a spare 12v-2x6 to 2xPCIe adapter, would it work to power a 5070ti using a 2025 RMx 1000x or would this be a stupid idea

[empty quartz]

Never a good idea to mix and match cables

[gritty panther]

bad idea if you're not sure

that kills your gpu

[agile topaz]

True that, they'd be the same generation and type of cables considering corsair is standardized among itself if that helps

[gritty panther]

my RM850x (older version) didnt have 12vhpwr. I had to buy one

[empty quartz]

https://www.corsair.com/ca/en/s/psu-cable-compatibility?srsltid=AfmBOoov3uFZLr3NJTO789qpBKXsG2HjrAYXk0TCjhNHsSB436wa2DaR

[empty quartz]

Smol

Imagine having less than 1.2kw

[gritty panther]

1200w psu but 9600x and 4060 lol

[empty quartz]

I have a 14600k, 6800, full custom loop, and a bunch of hdd’s

My custom loop and hdd’s kept tripping ocp on my 850x

[gritty panther]

really. I have 9950x3d and 4090 with my rm850x

works just fine

I just realized I only bought corsair PSU's probably the last 12+ years. clearly I have a preference

[wispy thunder]

right, but M1 is gonna get dropped way before A18 pro.

Then what happens?

[native path]

still regardless, €590 for a refurb M1 16G 512G is still not worth it, no where close. 256G is still more than suitable for someone who wouldn't be doing much, which again, they wont be doing if they're looking for an m1. they've held up yes, doesn't change the fact that it's 6 years old on a deal that's already not worth it. if you're insistent on recommending the m1 then sure i don't care just find a better deal

[fast girder]

Anyone happen to have the T-Mobile home internet? I can't figure out how to access the features like handling clients and so on...

[wispy thunder]

Not only that, Apple has long been reliant on external media for storage

But anything that really does need storage say, FinalCut, works perfectly fine with external media.

[agile topaz]

On the chart a 12v-2x6 to 2xPCIe is considered a native 12vhpwr, and native 12vhpwrs are compatible with both the 2025 RM850e and 2024 RM1000x, which is what these two are; logic seems sound, or am I wrong about something?

[icy sundial]

A tisket, a tasket

A green and yellow basket

[spark path]

should I keep adaptive sync on in my monitor settings?

[icy sundial]

Depends on if you have tearing and stuff going on

[obtuse yew]

Took a few months but I filled my storage

[pearl apex]

Chat pls help in pc build

[wheat torrent]

😊 nop

[obtuse yew]

With what?

[pearl apex]

The newest post in there

[ripe osprey]

Do i plug the cpu wire one the left side or the right where it says cpu/pci-e

[obtuse yew]

Am I blind because I don't see a post

[ripe osprey]

Can someone help me please on the power supply problem I got

[icy sundial]

It's three ports that all can be used for CPU or PCI 3, The important part is the other end

[obtuse yew]

Either works

[pearl apex]

12vhpwr 2x6 question

[icy sundial]

Pcie*

[ancient lion]

exactly this

[ripe osprey]

So your saying i can use either of the 3 ports on the cpu/pcie section because there's only 3 im just scare rn its my first time building a pc by my self

I need it for the cpu

[obtuse yew]

Nvm I'm too stupid for that

[icy sundial]

There's going to be a specific cable that came with your PSU that will fit on one end in one of those three ports you showed

And the other end will fit on your motherboard somewhere

[obtuse yew]

Yuh

[pearl apex]

Know Any1 that can help

[icy sundial]

They make it pretty hard to fuck this up

[frigid blade]

thank you for asking, because even though something looks like it will fit, it might not be right, see:

[icy sundial]

It's much harder to force in PSU plugs

[icy sundial]

Damn

[obtuse yew]

Nah I know nobody here

[icy sundial]

Nobody here can be helped

[obtuse yew]

Signalrgb ass stunt

[icy sundial]

Hey, the plug said SATA

[nova lotus]

Good?

Or no?

[icy sundial]

Good what

[nova lotus]

Idk

[median carbon]

Is this a good build for $2,400?

[nova lotus]

Mounting pressure

[median carbon]

https://buildcores.com/builds/mdKN2N2Fy

[obtuse yew]

Yes

[icy sundial]

Yeah I'll agree

[median carbon]

Thanks

[frigid blade]

more people need to see the value of buying some stuff used

[icy sundial]

Anything between snug and hearing something crack is usually good enough

[obtuse yew]

Facebook marketplace is the goat

[icy sundial]

Or just buying last gen in general

[nova lotus]

Only thing cracking was my thumb

[frigid blade]

i got my pc (with 4090 and 13900kf) back before the huge ram issue and all that for $2.5k because it was used

this was probably a year and a half ago

today the GPU is worth that, but ive also upgraded the parts

[icy sundial]

You should have experienced seating a cooler for socket a CPUs

[frigid blade]

i did a little bit of upgrading

[median carbon]

Does anyone remember negativerog

[icy sundial]

They literally invented ZIF (Zero insertion force) because if it

Because the required insertion Force prior was obscene

[nova lotus]

Good 'n Tight

[median carbon]

Thanks

[icy sundial]

Tell those other cores to get off their ass

[obtuse yew]

Another arrow lake user?

[frigid blade]

half of them are parked

ive got 2 games running in the background so theres not much going on

[icy sundial]

You got more threads than my bed sheets

[frigid blade]

im testing my remote desktop app rn so theyre closed

been trying to fix this stupid issue for over a week now

[icy sundial]

I have a measley 3264

[gleaming rose]

what's the best affordable 512 nvme rn

[frigid blade]

a stolen one

sorry, indefinitely borrowed

[obtuse yew]

Idk check pcpartpicker

[distant frigate]

https://fixupx.com/pubity/status/2029289431258071179?s=46

Pubity (@pubity)

Downdetector and Speedtest have just been sold by their parent company as part of a $1,200,000,000 deal.

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[icy sundial]

Quite literally anyone you can afford apparently

[distant frigate]

Oh no not Speedtest

[frigid blade]

one of the first commentors lol

[icy sundial]

How will I ever be told my speeds are legit

[frigid blade]

i love x

[cinder glen]

damn

[icy sundial]

I just download something and look at it

[cinder glen]

download a steam game and see how it goes

[cinder glen]

ye lol

theres probably an open source thing somewhere

[icy sundial]

My grandma once told me speed tests will tell you if something is wrong. Not if something is wrong

Probably

I mean strong, you choose which one

[pliant edge]

Update on my 10 dollar monitor
Tcon arrived today 60 dollars for that and it fixed it
49 inch oled

[icy sundial]

I use one of those for work!

[pliant edge]

i hope your work got the extended warranty these things die very often

[icy sundial]

Actually not that one. Is it just the angle or is it seriously bowed out in the ends

Is it actually more narrow in the center than it is on the edges or?

[pliant edge]

its a ultra wide oled.

[icy sundial]

Yeah I know that but when I take pictures of mine it doesn't look like that

Like a bow tie

Actually it kind of does never mind

I have a janky first Gen Odyssey g9, not OLED

[pliant edge]

i will say samsung makes some of the worst tv's and monitors

[median carbon]

The build looks like this now

https://buildcores.com/builds/mdKN2N2Fy

[icy sundial]

Fun fact, Samsung makes the panels for most TVs and monitor companies

Or is that LG or maybe it's both?

Samsung has market share followed by LG

No matter what TV or phone or laptop

Apple and Google phones. Sony TVs. Asus laptops

[spark path]

nvm don't listen to me man go back with the 1000W what one I do not know how much power the 7800x3d need, I similar build but saphire pulse for the gpu and ryzen 7 7700, and 850W and peerless assassin 120 SE ARGB for the cooler so idk if you need more power since you got a different cooler and a better CPU

[icy sundial]

All Samsung display panels

[spark path]

also my case is different, it's lian li 207 digital

[icy sundial]

Not to mention Dell, HP and Lenovo laptops as well

Asus MSI gigabyte Acer monitors all Samsung

[empty quartz]

Is this at like your workplace?

[pliant edge]

garage. workshop

[empty quartz]

Damn, sweet workshop

[formal sonnet]

Depends on the panel type. Even Samsung has ramped down or stopped production of certain panel types.
https://www.reddit.com/r/avoidchineseproducts/comments/u0rdrh/tv_brands_and_display_panel_manufacturers/

[empty quartz]

Rn i am doing a clean install of my gpu drivers

[sinful cobalt]

he can quite literally get away with a 600w PSU tbh

[empty quartz]

Because my workstation has had quite a few gpu’s in its short lifetime

[spark path]

nah that's too low gang if you wanna overclock the gpu or the cpu but I don't really know for sure

[empty quartz]

My arc b580 was not playing very nicely with the other drivers

[sinful cobalt]

He’s not gonna be blasting both at the max at the same time and its also accounting for OC

Unless you have enough RGB fans to make it look like a funeral- Its enough.

[spark path]

yeah you're probably right

[gritty panther]

beast

[frigid blade]

yah but its for something else im not done yet

im splitting it into 3 VMs + Host running Windows

[mystic knoll]

The KTC M27T6 seems to be packing decent specs, is it better on paper than it is in person? Would it be more useful to get a same priced higher quality 1440p LCD (non oled/microled). The pc can handle it and I would use the monitor for some FPS games but also for video editing and HDR content. My budget is under $600 CAD (Around $439 USD)

[sharp ivy]

Actually epic

[clear pebble]

Am I cooked?

Should I just give up on this motherboard?

[nova lotus]

After much cursing

I have elected to not install the backplate I've acquired

[molten patrol]

macbook neo competing against who

[icy sundial]

Yeah because they want to sell the more expensive ones

[icy sundial]

Dream hack, I miss lan parties

[wheat torrent]

[plush kettle]

https://tenor.com/view/eating-the-chip-chips-chip-eating-chip-man-eating-three-chips-gif-18885184