tech-chat-1

[steel umbra]

my board likes dynamic/auto refclk which makes the base value at 99.8 instead of typical 100mhz

[solar geode]

just .2 makes it that much worse?

[steel umbra]

it was causing bsods, errors with my ram oc

[solar geode]

How can a company take something so usable. So functional

and put electron on it

SKYPE WAS FINE

JUST MAKE THAT BETTER

The outcry for native apps is justified

[steel umbra]

found it less distracting personally than other social media

[solar geode]

It really was

Then they tried being a phone service, for some reason

[empty quartz]

@steel umbra

[mint umbra]

I don't understand why ppl hate denuovo or whatever it's called so much

[empty quartz]

Dont question why my 11 pro has 2 separate batteries

[mint umbra]

Most of the time it don't effect performance that much

Unless your one of those who's just trying to pirate the game

[steel umbra]

fon

[shadow hedge]

because it's technically malware

it can cause fps drops

[unkempt blaze]

Recently shifted to solar energy. This is my setup, this is what it shows. PV is greater than output, does that mean solar energy is covering everything already?

[midnight wind]

you should probably check the user manual for that specific device

[stark flicker]

Hello,

I have crackling pops sound issue on my system, any ideas as to why?

Rtx 5080 out putting in hdmi into a denon avr x3700h outputting in rca into a 3E audio acting only as a power amplifier for the front speakers or directly to the speakers for the rest
And the denon also outputs to two subs

The speakers are 2x focal aria 948, 2x aria 906, 1x aria cc900, 1x focal sub1000f, 1x arendal 1961 1S

Any tips on why I would have crackling audio?

[limpid dune]

Not 100% sure, but I've had pops/buzzing when using the GPU audio output before. HDMI sends audio digitally, so the screen's DAC is what actually makes the audio signal, and the screen DAC is usually powered off the screen's PSU, which (if badly made) can fluctuate depending on framerate/vsync/vrr/etc

[stark flicker]

It's not a screen that has the dac, it's a 1300€ denon avr

And it got measured and had a good dac

But yeah maybe it's still the gpu
I need to check if I have an optical out and cable or smth

[limpid dune]

TOSlink is ideal, yeah. And it's a bit of a crime to feed such a nice AVC off of motherboard audio, but it's worth a try just to see if it helps.

[stark flicker]

It's not the motherboard audio since I use the hdmi output of the gpu for audio

Oh wait, I didn't understand the sentence sorry

Yeah I have to try that

I really hope it's not a hardware issue from the audio gear

[tidal geyser]

intel doing some magic

i do not understand how amd cant manage to do this

[steel umbra]

It's amd

[south nova]

i am thinking about getting a 5060 8 gb to go with my ryzen 5 9600x

is this a good idea or should i get a different gpu

[gaunt spade]

lazy

[tidal geyser]

what res, what games do you play and at what quality, what other things outside of gaming do you do and so on

[tidal geyser]

i can also say, WOOOOOW igpus have become so dam good and upscaling is one of the nicest things

a 2 year old igpu giving playable framerates while the game still looks amazing, all while the framegen output still needs to display out on a 3440X1440

tho for some strange reason framegen in this game seems to have some kinda issue with input latency or something

it just makes me want a panther lake even more to see what it can do

[vapid ibex]

Dude what kinda fire ass name is that man

[tidal geyser]

m yes tech chat

[vapid ibex]

M yess

[tidal geyser]

amazing

[vapid ibex]

Idk why

But he looks hopeless

[limpid dune]

the magic being shared GPU memory? AMD has been doing that since at least 2011 afaik, the main thing that makes that iGPU fast is the fact it has stupid fast DDR5-8733

[median warren]

Don't get an 8gb gpu

[tidal geyser]

no i mean the whole games not knowing that so they have to FORCE a certain amount of vram on the igpu that cant be used by the cpu

and yes i already had a argument about that shit

[median warren]

If you can get the 5060ti 16gb version but if you can't it's okay, 5070 is also 12gb

9060xt is also a 16gb model that's cheaper than the 5060ti and pretty good

[tidal geyser]

people think unified memory is a apple only thing or whatever

anything with a igpu has it

[solid spear]

Hi

[tidal geyser]

but the way memory managment software level is different is what makes apple different, almost like making a OS around your own self made chips comes with benefits over stuff having to deal with many many many years of backwards compatibility

and even then apple has some amazing translation layers

[keen stratus]

Can someone help me chain my fans together

[tidal geyser]

more info needed

[keen stratus]

My new fan has
1x sata
1x 2 pin connector
1x 2 pin socket
1x 4 pin socket

I have 3 fans already in my case 1 exhaust 2 intake
I'm trying to link them together so the rgb syncs

My existing fan has the same but only 1 existing fan has the same connector rest 2 have only 4 pin connector which goes into the 4 pin socket

These are all the connectors my new singular fan came with

1 existing fan also has these which Is already connected and running

[grave jay]

if i say windows 11 is efficient enough as it is, more efficient than macOS....

[steel umbra]

Damn i've got so weak can't even carry this

Not even 6kg

[solid spear]

Hey can someone help me with my windows installation issue 🥹🙏🙏

[steel umbra]

I could maybe

Wat is the problem

[solid spear]

Can we do it in the dms

I dont rlly wanna flood the chat with messages

[steel umbra]

You can though

It's tc-1 and the channel isn't very active

rn

[solid spear]

So basically I had a processor and I decided to swap the gpu + cpu + ram into a new case cooler and nvme m.2 ssd
And i followed linus' tutorial on how to setup windows 11
And i downloaded the windows installer on a usb stick
And started the upgraded pc and and spammed f8 and booted from the usb stick and did the installation process
And i don't rlly know what happened but it seemed like it succeeded in installing the windows and it restarted itself multiple times
With the asus (motherboard) logo and at the final restart
The mouse keyboard and monitor isn't receiving anything
And the power button on the processor is blinking with gpu, fans etc working completely fine
And its been like that hours
Note: after moving the components to a new case and motherboard it still had its old ssd (it was outdated and short so I couldn't screw it in and it kept hanging there) and I could boot normally and play games normally but then there was a windows update and I updated it and I think it corrupted my old ssd windows when it turned off accidentally

[rugged tusk]

Check that there is no loose screw floating around the case, or motherboard screw not tight, maybe give the case a gentle shake. Then try reinstall windows from your usb key.

[south nova]

siege all the way bad performance

[tidal geyser]

what gpu do you have now

[stone shard]

windows found a ps1 script on my laptop, who can i send it to for them to tell me what is does

[south nova]

3050

i am wanting to buold a new pc

[tidal geyser]

full system specs

[south nova]

gigabyte b650 motherboard and ryzen 5 9600x is all i have so far

[tidal geyser]

why build a new pc then

just upgrade the gpu

[south nova]

no

[tidal geyser]

yes

[south nova]

that is the new pc im building

[tidal geyser]

not what i was asking

[south nova]

ryzen 5500 3050

[tidal geyser]

there we go, how much budge do you have planned out for the new pc

[south nova]

uhhh im just going w ith the flow fr

i dont want to spend more than 400 on a gpu

[tidal geyser]

DO NOT budget like that

prices change constanly

how much do you plan to spend for the entire new pc

the ram alone will be like 200-400$

[south nova]

nah ik thast

[tidal geyser]

if you go am5

[south nova]

i got my cpu for 100$ case for 50$ motherboard for 160

im not worrying about total im just buying stuff i need to build it

[tidal geyser]

wat, motherboard for 160

even here in Norway you can get a good b650 for 140$ brand new

[tidal geyser]

DO NOT buy part for part

[south nova]

wait

mb 140LOL

154 countingm shipping

[south nova]

and why not

[tidal geyser]

prices change and you waste money for parts that lose their value and become worse that you cant even use

well they do not become worse but rather the average goes up

not really a true waste but just bad managment of money, could rather i dono invest it or just have some spare change in case anything happens

[ionic peak]

I see 3080 ti for 350

[tidal geyser]

wtf

[median warren]

Cup of butter

[tidal geyser]

discord is so broken

[median warren]

Fork found in kitchen

[last barn]

very insane reach but is there anyone here who is/knows someone who has a first authored paper on arxiv in CS?

[ionic peak]

Play roblox

[mortal mantle]

how is this thing using so much fucking VRAM

(almost maxed out)

(and yet again 60FPS)

[tidal geyser]

well

[mortal mantle]

(below the min reqs and without framegen)

[tidal geyser]

there is a reason why people are freaking out about vram

also it looks like you are over maxed out

[mortal mantle]

am I?

[tidal geyser]

it has some amount of headroom just in case

[native path]

its there for you to use why not use it

[mortal mantle]

the fuck

FSR and framegen literally change nothing

[tidal geyser]

tbh it more so looks like you have vsync or smn on

[tidal geyser]

eh could also just be the game locking itself to those 8GB

many things i still have more to learn

[mortal mantle]

what engine could this even be

UE?

[tidal geyser]

RE Engine

[mortal mantle]

and ofc without V-Sync it jumps to over 100 FPS

[tidal geyser]

xd

[mortal mantle]

where the fuck are they getting these numbers out of

[tidal geyser]

one thing i do have to say, wow the lowest settings on certain games still look unreal

[mortal mantle]

(since I have it on max everything that the game allows without FSR and it's at 60FPS with vsync)

[tidal geyser]

you might have optimized it a bit more here and there while they might have gone for the lowest fps on maybe a demanding erea

[mortal mantle]

also why does FSR basically change nothing

[tidal geyser]

what quality setting

[mortal mantle]

how the fuck is blocking screenshots

(Win+Shift+S does nothing)

(print screen worked)

[tidal geyser]

at least in directive 8020 it got native xess 3 and WOW its stunning i can run at ultra performance and hard to notice any defects on anything but moving objects and even then its not the worst

oh jebus yea 9GB

[mortal mantle]

still works though

(somehow)

[tidal geyser]

well yea its spilling into ram

but upscaling is off

[mortal mantle]

turned it off (since it does literally nothing)

in-game FPS

[tidal geyser]

ok

[clear canyon]

@tidal geyser wanna hear a joke

[tidal geyser]

o no

[dusky spindle]

do i have any chance to get my data back

[mortal mantle]

press F1

[proper gull]

People really need to read things properly

[teal sphinx]

you guys reckon the price of the pc components will ever go back to pre price hike?

[dusky spindle]

one of the sections of the drive im not able to get the data back

[mortal mantle]

then go into Boot Manager and pick Windows Boot Manager (or if you are on Linux then UEFI OS) and then backup whatever the fuck you have on that drive

[tidal geyser]

well its backed up just take from there

[dusky spindle]

it isnt

[tidal geyser]

then its not important

[stray portal]

Bro what is that camera

[tidal geyser]

anyways high chance the ssd is in read only mode

you should either borrow a computer or install windows on another drive in that pc boot into it recover what yo can and back it up to a offsite NAS or the cloud

i just want to drive it home that if you have stuff you care about then make sure its in a safe place

your ssd can always fail, your hand could always slip and so on

[native path]

criminal speaker placement

[rapid wave]

Hi I need help finding the right authenticator app Microsoft uses on PC I think I used the wrong one can anyone help please

[stray portal]

All that aesthetic stuff yet has messy things

I dont like the white minimalism bs it feels empty and unnatural and most of the time its not done right

Also its hard to maintain properly

[native path]

my white case is because it was cheaper than the black cases

#realone

[stray portal]

Hmm

[ionic ember]

my case is only available in black and it also doesn't matter because I am vehemently anti-windowed side panel

[native path]

my side panel is away from me

[ionic ember]

tbh if a case isn't going to use a windowed side panel it should at least have some ventilation in it, that's my major gripe with my current one

excellent front ventilation though

[clear canyon]

This rat never had a father, ig he is a rat bastard 😔

[ionic ember]

for reference, this is my current case
https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/computer-chassis/FARA_513/

ripped out the stock fan and replaced it with a noctua + added two noctua 140's in the front

[native path]

i already bought a 360mm rad before getting my case i kinda put myself in a shit situation

[ionic ember]

peerless assassin 120 time

[native path]

https://phanteks.com/product/nv5-white/#Product_Select my case

[ionic ember]

it's enough for a 9950X3D, it's enough for whatever processor you're running

[rapid wave]

Pls anyone help

[ionic ember]

nice case, too much glass for my liking

[native path]

it is but then what about my lf3

[ionic ember]

what about it?

[native path]

i cant just let it rot in a closet

[ionic ember]

what's stopping you?

[native path]

i would feel bad cuz i spnet like $130 on that

well $100 usd

[ionic ember]

peerless assassin 120 is 35 bucks and cools anything

[native path]

well doesnt matter i already have my lf3

[ionic ember]

yeah fair

[native path]

i put a peerless assassin in my server i've been happy with it

[sinful cobalt]

i paid 150 for my galahad 2 and tho performant it has a loud pump

[ionic ember]

air cooler gang

[native path]

i only bought it because i wanted to try something new :(

[clear canyon]

Yo same

[native path]

fair - i got it because it was the only case available at the time large enough for my LF3 that looked half decent

which ive realised doesnt matter because its on the floor anyway i dont look at the darn thing

[ionic ember]

yeah that's valid, I tried to return to CLC's and everything was way too fiddly for my liking but that could have been down to my choice of fans at the time and my inability to tune a good fan curve

[sinful cobalt]

I have a fatass assassin 4 VC sitting in my closet

that thing is quiet as fuck

[native path]

its deadass plug and play my server makes 0 noise

[sinful cobalt]

its also hella big tho

[clear canyon]

Yeah and its pretty good at cooling too

[ionic ember]

you can get around not tuning a fan curve though by just shoving noctuas everywhere which is what I ended up doing

[native path]

i dont tune my fans i just put them in and hope for the best

[clear canyon]

Same

[native path]

my air purifier makes more noise

[clear canyon]

I only did a fan curve with my ippc industrial noctua fans bc they are loud as shit

[ionic ember]

lol my air purifiers are those cleanairkits ones that use PC fans

[clear canyon]

Same lol

[ionic ember]

I was looking at a pile of random fans I had been holding onto for years and it was the only way I could figure out how to use them

anyways, computers

[sinful cobalt]

i think i need an air purifier ngl

colin are you the guy with the 4070TiS

[ionic ember]

sure am

[sinful cobalt]

aite i have shit memory remembering peeps

[ionic ember]

all good lol

[ionic ember]

https://www.cleanairkits.com/products/luggables

[sinful cobalt]

hell nah LOL

[ionic ember]

they work incredibly well actually

the nice thing is that when the filter dies I can just go 5 minutes down the road to the hardware store and pick up more

[native path]

Good lord I’m excited

[ionic ember]

just not recommended if you have pets/kids running around because the filter is way too easy for a cat to sink their claws into

[native path]

Oh I want a cat

[median warren]

And not a penguin?

[red light]

Is this an electronic waste?

[native path]

Why would I want a replica of myself in my room that’s kind of weird

[ionic ember]

https://tenor.com/view/pen-pen-evangelion-reading-relaxing-newspaper-gif-12294684

[median warren]

Nah not a replica, just a brother innit

Penguin bro

[brave brook]

probably an ewaste a decade ago /s (but it all depends on what is inside)

[median warren]

Exactly like this

[native path]

I don’t want a brother I want a cat

[median warren]

I want a penguin

[ionic ember]

my pihole is running off of a very discontinued NAS box that can only write to SD cards so basically any amount of post-486 computing power is still useful for something

[brave brook]

on other side you can literally get Sandy/Ivy bridge/Haswell hardware for next to free, so no point in bothering with Core 2 Duo era hardware

[glossy veldt]

you do NOT

[ionic ember]

the only thing better than "next to free" is actually free, so if you're given it for free then more power to you

[native path]

Yes I do

[glossy veldt]

@native path this FUCKER here who sleeps soundly PISSES the shit out of my motorcycle

[native path]

My dog shits and pees everywhere anyway

[glossy veldt]

yes but they pee on the floor or on some vertical surfaces if they're male

cats will spray their pee

[native path]

It’s ok

You can’t convince me otherwise

[glossy veldt]

they pee on places you didn't think were possible in the animal kingdom

[native path]

I know I want a cat 😭

[glossy veldt]

female cats are nice tho if neutered they can live for decades

but you need to buy them food for neutered cats or they'll suffer

[ionic ember]

god bless micro center, I don't need any of this but it's nice that they're still offering reasonably priced bundles

[glossy veldt]

that's cheap as dirt

[ionic ember]

yeah that's really good in this market

[glossy veldt]

in my country Argentina just the 7800x3d goes for 500-600 usd

[ionic ember]

200 bucks for ram though

[glossy veldt]

it's two ddr5 16gb sticks

those go for exorbitant prices down here

[ionic ember]

I know but I am still in disbelief that memory is as expensive as it is

[median warren]

I also saw a prebuilt pc with 270k plus, 5090, 2tb storage and 32gb of ram for £3.7k, the 5090 alone costs 3.2k lmao

[glossy veldt]

a 32gb ddr5 trident something kit in my country goes for well over 700 usd

[median warren]

Sad times

[glossy veldt]

I'm fine with my 16gh ddr4 2666 crucial

it does what it needs to do just fine

my A2000 runs good for the games i need to play

like, it can run Subnautica 2 at medium settings with 50 fps

i think game's not that optimized though

6gb of vram sucks but oh well

[ionic ember]

you can still make 6gb of vram work and devs that demand 12 should be publicly shamed

[calm quarry]

I have two cats not an issue just get rid of their balls

[calm quarry]

I did not know that I buy Felix but I plan on switching to something not nestle

But that’s a next month problem

[fallow yacht]

damn this upgraded train station looks CLEAN

[serene python]

needs a 20 lane highway right there

[steel umbra]

both dram manufacturers and ram stick manufacturers take a lot larger margins

[turbid reef]

time to change laptop's thermal paste? constantly whining and idle temps over 50C

[ionic ember]

can't hurt, replace it with PTM

[tidal geyser]

well you are using a avg of 6.4w

[steel umbra]

load temps?

[turbid reef]

lets see

with 30% load about 70C

[oblique shoal]

I know Forza Horizon 6 is still not fully released to the whole world but does anyone know how well a 9070 xt paired with a 7800X3D would run the game?

[turbid reef]

100% hits 92C, cores 89-90C

fan giving it all

max cpu power was 19W during 100% load

tough dunno is 3dmark's cpu profile a good benchmark

[ionic ember]

prime95 will bring any cpu cooler to its knees but I think that might be too much for your little laptop

as is, I think a repaste would do you well, and you could also replace the thermal pads with putty

[turbid reef]

ordered PTS from local supplier

tough they're out of stock, but new shipment of 100 should be within 2 weeks

[craggy cove]

ptm helps a lot with laptop chips

usually i just dont bother with pads

only worth it with like gddr6x or if its realllly bad

[turbid reef]

well I have liquid metal but I have been constantly been advised not to use with chips that do not have heatspreader 😄

[ionic ember]

tbh I just flat out do not recommend liquid metal anymore

[tidal geyser]

i never did and never will

LM under a BGA chip, gg

[ionic ember]

I do have liquid metal under the lid on my old 8700k but I delidded that thing like a decade ago when I applied it

[tidal geyser]

that was the last gen to use paste right

[ionic ember]

if not that then close to it

that cpu just runs my NAS/plex server these days

little overkill but whatever

I'd be interested in upgrading that platform to something else because I am running into PCI lane limitations but it's not a big enough deal for me to mess with atm

[steel umbra]

it just tends to spill at application or when you mount the cooler, over time

it also tends to corrode a lot of things

none of these are pretty much an issue with pastes

[ionic ember]

yeah but I've seen so many horror stories of factory liquid metal on GPUs and laptops leaking out and frying everything

[steel umbra]

just don’t put paste where the socket is and you’ll be fine

[ionic ember]

I have PTM on my GPU and stock thermalright paste on my CPU (which seems to be working fine) so I have no reason to mess with it right now, but if I ever have to pull of my CPU cooler I'll probably put PTM on that as well

[steel umbra]

maximum overdrive

[ionic ember]

the liquid metal in my 8700k has been stable for like a decade now but I'd probably not buy it again

[steel umbra]

i’d not disassemble it and look for what it has corroded meanwhile

[ionic ember]

only reason I did it that time was because there was a measurable 10-15 degree drop with a delid at the time

[steel umbra]

if it works it works

[ionic ember]

temps are still fine on the 8700k

[steel umbra]

which software do you use to log temps

[ionic ember]

that's just TrueNAS

[steel umbra]

interesting

[ionic ember]

even when you zoom out to a month it's fine

those little spikes are probably when stuff was getting written

I'm also using that pink thermal grizzly stuff on it because i have no intention of actually doing any maintenance to it besides cleaning out dust when I actually power it down once a year

[steel umbra]

personally i use hwinfo to log

not only you can check sensor info but you can log it directly through hwinfo into a .csv file

[ionic ember]

hwinfo isn't available on truenas scale but it also doesn't matter, my nas is less of a computer and more of an appliance

I pay about as much attention to my NAS's health as I do my refrigerator or dishwasher

clean out the dust once a year and then throw it right back into service

[steel umbra]

i wish manufacturers would pay more mind to lifespan of appliances

[ionic ember]

yeah but then they can't sell you new ones

[steel umbra]

instead of AI slop for example

[steel umbra]

well, then they themselves get sold worse quality appliances, machinery, etc. if you use this logic

agaisn’t them

[ionic ember]

oh no the industrial stuff is miles better than consumer grade

it's also 10 times more expensive

[steel umbra]

i meant the logic

i sell you a device that lasts a limited amount of time, so why should you sell me devices that last long? when you can do the same

[ionic ember]

You can buy a Maytag washing machine for 800 bucks and it will do the job just fine but your local hotel will be using a Speed Queen to wash hundreds of pounds of bedding a week and that machine will cost $8000

[ionic ember]

nobody here is selling products to manufacturers

[steel umbra]

manufacturers are people in the end

which have their own requirements

[ionic ember]

despite the citizens united verdict corporations are actually not people

[steel umbra]

doing planned obscolecence or products with short lifespan due to ignorance fuels fake economy instead of anything positive

[ionic ember]

it does do a positive thing and that is to make the balance sheet look better and if you think these companies care about anything else I have oceanfront property in montana to sell you

[steel umbra]

liike is it that hard to produce reliable drums, simple electronics instead of as much of digital stuff as possible and apply a thin layer of hydrophobic coating?

[ionic ember]

it's the philosophy of designing stuff to a budget instead of a purpose

"we want to sell this prospective new product for $800, where can we cut corners to get the cost down to $600 (or whatever) so we can make $200 on each sale?"

[worn willow]

wy my ram filled

[steel umbra]

coating costs few cents to spray on

but let’s say the process costs $5 in the upper range for some reason

[ionic ember]

versus on the commercial/B2B side they are more concerned with increasing the reliability of the product so they don't get hit with warranty claims by the businesses they're each selling hundreds of units to

lose one consumer who might buy your product? drop in the bucket
lose one business who buys a thousand every year for hundreds of thousands of dollars? there goes a quarter of your company's revenue

[clear canyon]

Why are you asking us?

[worn willow]

because idk wy

[clear canyon]

No one here is at ur pc

[worn willow]

maybe virus

[clear canyon]

Then look for one, check task manager and see whats running

[steel umbra]

yeah but even when you increase price tag to $1000 and manufacturing & transportation, etc. cost to $750 they still tend to put that extra money into more features instead of reliability

[worn willow]

eh the usual'

windows is running

[steel umbra]

well, it’s not exactly one customer when your washing machines consistently die with regular usage after warranty

[limber nacelle]

because unfortunately planned obsolesce is what they want :/

[clear canyon]

Wdym "the usual" thats unhelpful

[ionic ember]

and that's why I'll never buy a samsung washing machine, good thing they don't have dozens of other industries to prop up their sales if they slump

[worn willow]

edge
virtualbox
roblox
vsc

[clear canyon]

How much ram is being used by virtualbox?

[steel umbra]

i’ll never buy anything samsung expect panels

[worn willow]

like 20 gb

[clear canyon]

Bruh

[steel umbra]

the last drop was when my a52s touch screen died almost right after warranty

[clear canyon]

You have 24gb of ram

[steel umbra]

and the battery has degraded a lot

[limber nacelle]

hey i think i had one of those

[clear canyon]

And 20gb is being used by VB

Thats ur issue

[limber nacelle]

yeah my battery degraded like crazy iirc

[worn willow]

i need more ram

[clear canyon]

@worn willow

[clear canyon]

Well duh, dont run a vm with 20gb lol

Use dynamic allocation

[steel umbra]

yeah and the batteries tend to go really bad if you don’t use your phone for a longer time

[ionic ember]

anyways yeah corporations only care about how much money they make, any notion of a better product is a result of competition in the space they operate in or laws that prohibit them from selling junk advertised as gold

[steel umbra]

turn into spicy pillows if you don’t use your phone for 2+ years

[worn willow]

tats a thing?

[clear canyon]

Give it the ability to use up to how ever much you need but with dynamic allocation, it wont use/set aside that ram

[clear canyon]

Yes

[worn willow]

i never had a spicy pillow issue

[steel umbra]

gold is lame it’s diamond+ pro max ultra++*

[clear canyon]

Bc it can be useing like 3gb of ram but if you gave it 20gb, it will say its using the full 20gb

[tender relic]

Just some advice please
Would this fit in a montech 95 king pro

[steel umbra]

check video from mrwhosetheboss and from other yters

[worn willow]

i dont use sumsan

[steel umbra]

sumsan

better than samsung

[turbid reef]

But hey thanks... I remember people recommending indium heat springs like a decade ago 😄

[steel umbra]

indium is fun

you can easily forge it with just a hammer

and bite the metal

[ionic ember]

LM technically has the best thermal conductivity but the juice isn't worth the squeeze when PTM is available and only performs like 20% worse (versus regular thermal paste which is somewhere to the tune of 80% worse)

LM made sense when we were delidding to get 20 degrees back, it's kinda dumb these days

[steel umbra]

it depends on what you apply lm on, lm is a ton more thermally conductive / less thermally resistant

could be up to 5x better

[ionic ember]

have fun bricking potentially multiple components in your system with today's hardware prices

[craggy cove]

how tf does an igpu artifact

[steel umbra]

if you apply lm on something like 7800x3d w ihs (you don’t do that), i doubt you would notice bigger than a 2-5c difference

[ionic ember]

just like that, looks like

[craggy cove]

interestingly enough before it just didnt give me a video out

[steel umbra]

the ihs is just way too thick, the die is too dense and you have the cache on top of the die

[worn willow]

remove ihs entirely

[steel umbra]

but if you have a specific extreme high performance scenario, it could be up to 5x better

not sure if such scenario exists though

[steel umbra]

i prefer when it corrodes xdd /s

delicious nickel tarnished by le evil lm

btw unlike zinc corrosion or copper oxide, nickel oxide or other forms of nickel corrosion are poor conductors of heat

the amount of damage lm does over time isn’t that much but it could be notiable especially on nickel

[ionic ember]

I haven't removed my delidded 8700k from its socket since I installed it and I have no intention to at this point, if it dies it dies, but it's been going for a decade now and I don't think it's going to go anytime soon

if anything it might be the mobo that goes in that system but even then, it's a ROG Maximus X Hero which is a pretty solid motherboard

[mortal mantle]

wait Pragmata's demo is this short

beat it in 20 minutes

[iron glen]

hi https

[craggy cove]

helo

[steel umbra]

helium

hill

o2

[craggy cove]

also on the topic of copper oxide

totally never sent this before

i just dont know what to do with this

feed it to wildlife maybe

[steel umbra]

nothing

you can easily clean it off though it’s not recommended

[craggy cove]

no mounts + trash cooler

[steel umbra]

you’ll exhaust the copper and it’ll corrode faster over time

[craggy cove]

is that why they have those stickers

[steel umbra]

anyways if you want to remove it regardless, vinegar + salt

it works like magic

but you have to thoroughly and i mean thoroughly wipe it off

[limber nacelle]

ngl, with how cheap a decent single tower is now.... just buy a new one mate

[steel umbra]

literally as soon as you drop the solution the corroded copper tends to instantly turn into brand new looking coppah

[ionic ember]

peerless assassin 120 is 35 bucks

cheap, cools anything

[iron glen]

How did it only oxydize in that spot

Looks kinda like mold

[steel umbra]

bad paste ig

[ionic ember]

some sort of contamination I'm thinking

[limber nacelle]

not a single tower, they might've bought a single tower before for a reason and besides, it may be just overkill af

not to say it's a bad cooler at all, just may not be what they need

[ionic ember]

Assassin X 120 is $16

[steel umbra]

4 heatpipe 120mm tower coolers can be found for $10 on places like aliexpress

you gotta replace the fan though

but for some the stock fan’s going to be acceptable ig

they’re just dc

[worn willow]

ow can i take pic of my cursor

[limber nacelle]

speaking of which, kinda want to replace the shitty fractal DC fans my other PC has 😔

are the thermalright tl-c14 any good?

been just looking for something decently quiet and PWM that's cheap

[steel umbra]

i also had shite fractal fans in a define c 😔

[limber nacelle]

not expecting like noctua levels of performance, just anything better than what i currently have

though in fairness to the shit fans.... they're not too loud actually

[steel umbra]

probably not, i suggest looking for sound captures on youtube or by reviewers

thermalright has good stuff expect fan bearings

[limber nacelle]

argh

[steel umbra]

they tend to be a miss most of the time

[limber nacelle]

cheap though 😔

[steel umbra]

sort of the nidec gentle typhoon fan noise at low rpms

[latent gull]

turn it into a golem

[limber nacelle]

i guess you get what you pay for

tbh i feel like every fan that i've owned that's not the a12x25 has disappointed me

[steel umbra]

same lol

a12x25 bearing supermacy

[limber nacelle]

i was considering the silent wing 4 140mm but i also don't want to pay $40 cad per fan again

[steel umbra]

it’s just $30 >;(

too muccch

[limber nacelle]

yeah they're so expensive but like everything that's not it is just so shit on god

[steel umbra]

those have resonance issues

[limber nacelle]

🥀

[steel umbra]

i was highly disappointed by them

[limber nacelle]

no good 140mm fan options

literally 1984

[steel umbra]

be quiet doesn’t even know what they sell because they misadvertised the minimum rpm for the bq sw 4 hs 120mms

[limber nacelle]

GADDAMNNNNN

damn the chromax is the same price as the non chromax? fuck me

[steel umbra]

“great fans”

[craggy cove]

just sitting in a box

got it from a dumb seller

[limber nacelle]

i know those are the fans on the new nh d15 but uh.... $113 for two fans is a bit much for me :^)

[craggy cove]

and not in a "4090 for 200 dollars dont need it anymore dumb"

but "i will ship this motherboard, cpu and cooler across the country in a plastic shopping bag"

looked unused just with no mounts

[steel umbra]

.

[craggy cove]

like why

[limber nacelle]

bruh

[steel umbra]

yeahh no

[limber nacelle]

i kinda dont want another pair of arctic fans either so now im stuck

OH i just remembered

@verbal prawn you don't have p12 pros

it was the p12 max that i bought

fuck the max

i mean they are very high static pressure but they're annoying as FUCK

[steel umbra]

yes

[limber nacelle]

i used to not care but not anymore

[steel umbra]

same experience

[limber nacelle]

never again

[steel umbra]

ticking issues at low rpm

[limber nacelle]

are the p14 pros alright?

[steel umbra]

idk

didn’t test those

[limber nacelle]

fair enough

i might just get a pack of them cause if they're closer to like, the p12 pst which i remember buying and them being alright, it's decent for $75 cad for 5

[steel umbra]

oh yeah i remember someone here mentioning them ticking at low rpms too

[limber nacelle]

are you fucking kidding me

🥀

[steel umbra]

sadly nou

[limber nacelle]

bro imma just pay for the noctuas at this rate

actually have you had any of the redux fans?

[steel umbra]

maybe check fans from other brands?

[sinful cobalt]

ive had a phanteks t30 sit in my drawer for the past 4 months

it yearns to go somewhere

[steel umbra]

i’ve had like 1 i don’t even remember which model it was, wasn’t a fan of it

[limber nacelle]

argh

[limber nacelle]

yeah i'll have to look into it, but ngl everything just seems so disappointing lol

[steel umbra]

i might have to look as well because i haven’t been really active lately with fans, at least as i used to be

[ionic ember]

noctuas are the pay to win solution to your fan problem forever but that doesn't mean they're great value

[steel umbra]

well, if you want the best bearing i can’t think of anything better or equivalent

[ionic ember]

hey, I say all that as a guy that runs noctuas wherever possible

[steel umbra]

i mean if your fans last a long time (noctuas do last) maybe a worthwhile investment for $30/fan

idk

i also try to not buy them bc it’s $30 and psus don’t need $30 fans

[ionic ember]

the only non-noctua fans in my build are on my processor because I'm not paying 4 times the price for a noctua tower cooler that might be 5% better under very specific circumstances over a peerless assassin 120

[steel umbra]

i’m also not buying noctua coolers

[ionic ember]

I think my GPU's fans might be louder than my CPU's fans anyways

[worn willow]

i got cursor

[clear canyon]

Iv ran p12s for 5 years and its been awesome

[steel umbra]

i usually buy heatsinks by heatpipe count, thickness, fin density and size

[clear canyon]

I usually buy heatsinks by how much sink they can heat

[steel umbra]

and ofc mounting as well

[steel umbra]

:
hhdd[[[|[£

[clear canyon]

https://tenor.com/view/emoji-gif-21920724

[steel umbra]

frogored to mentjon price $$

[solid spear]

Guys is it safe to use a gen 4 nvme ssd on a gen 3 motherboard?

[steel umbra]

yes

[ionic ember]

yeah it'll just run at gen3 speeds

[steel umbra]

what’s wrong here?

guess

[ionic ember]

that's not a noctua cooler or fan

[steel umbra]

took you record 5-10 seconds

[ionic ember]

https://tenor.com/view/unc-still-got-it-gif-6384030002593541773

[steel umbra]

yeah i experiment with these cheapo coolors

[solid spear]

Would it show any errors when im tryna boot from that ssd after downloading windows from a usb ? I did it and booted from that ssd but it did the restarts and now it's still running with the mouse n keyboard off

I never installed windows

This my first time

[steel umbra]

it would be the case if the ssd itself was defective

or motherboard

[solid spear]

Both brand new

[steel umbra]

yeah considering what you described before your installation should’ve worked

[solid spear]

Should I just let it do it's thing for a couple more minutes? I don't rlly know how long it takes to do em

[steel umbra]

i ran out of ideas on how to fix your pc

there’s probably one that i forgot ofc

[solid spear]

😭 ✌️

[steel umbra]

which will fix your pc

[ionic ember]

yeah the lack of noctua branding was the dead giveaway but also the injection molding on the fan looks worse than I've seen with any of the fans I have, plus the blades themselves don't have the indentations in them that you'd see on an actual noctua

it's like they just took the 80mm noctua and scaled it up

[steel umbra]

it does look like a $10 cooler

the fins are flimsy as well

you can literally remove them

so cheap they didn’t even… it’s just too cheap to explain

[solid spear]

Should I just let it keep running until it fixes itself or could it be an issue w stalling or hanging

[steel umbra]

i don’t think it’ll fix itself but you son’t lose anything in the process right

well maybe time

[solid spear]

Wdym i wont lose anything in the process

[steel umbra]

@solid spear you tried to install another windows installation media on a different flash drive?

[ionic ember]

on second thought I might swap in a NH-U12A for my peerless assassin 120 just so everything can match but it's going to be a tight fit in my case

[steel umbra]

time

[solid spear]

It's late for me so I don't mind having it run all night lol

[steel umbra]

put the fan from u12a on peerless assasin

[solid spear]

I don't think it's the usb

I used my very precious 512tb usb it's like so stable

[steel umbra]

idkkdkdkd then

[solid spear]

I doubt it would make it install a faulty or fail to be read

😭😭😭😭😭

[ionic ember]

@solid spear when's the last time you updated your BIOS?

[solid spear]

Wdym by update

[ionic ember]

I think I found the problem

[solid spear]

Can u clarify

[steel umbra]

you can flash your motherboard and upgrade version

but you said it worked before or?

[solid spear]

It worked completely normally before

[ionic ember]

can't hurt

[steel umbra]

ther a smool chance you can brick le bios

[solid spear]

Like i had a diff ssd in without a m2 screw in and i could play vid games etc then there was a Microsoft update and when it restarted it was repairing windows and it got corrupted so I had to clean install but then I decided to use a diff ssd that's mountable so I js got a different ssd card and I also resented the bios by pullin out da cmos battery and ye

That's basically the whole thing

[steel umbra]

i don’t think flashing bios would fix the issue but anything is possible soo idk

[ionic ember]

most recent windows build might not play nice with the bios/hardware configuration

[solid spear]

Alr

[steel umbra]

just if you do flash be careful

[sinful cobalt]

damn bro got a 512tb usb

[steel umbra]

if you brick your motherboard and it has no way of reverting it like bios flash back

[solid spear]

I meant gb chill

[steel umbra]

you’ll have one less motherboard potentially forever

[solid spear]

Yo wait so

What do u exactly get to flash it

[steel umbra]

you must be rich gib me 32tb now

[steel umbra]

there are guides on youtube

similar to windows installation

[steel umbra]

you install it on a flash drive

and put into motherboard i/o in the manual where it says flashing supported

sometimes your mb doesn’t have it indicated, in that case plug it anywhere on your mb’s i/o

[limber nacelle]

@steel umbra huh it turns out the p12 max we bought might've had double ball bearings instead of fluid dynamic bearings

[steel umbra]

both have ticking issues

[limber nacelle]

🥀

[clear canyon]

Ur engine be ticking

[steel umbra]

i’m ruining your dream sorre

[limber nacelle]

every pc fan sucks

only noctua is worth it 🥀

it's joever boss

[steel umbra]

i poured diesel into gasoline

turned your 50km/h vehicle into 0km/h

ajajaja

[steel umbra]

i have a p12 max white fdb and it also started leaking a bit of lubricant

well it stopped it seems

but it did leak some lightly tinted yellow lube

idk how that happens

btw there is no p12 max dbb white

[clear canyon]

Lets goooooooo

[steel umbra]

whaataaaaaat

[clear canyon]

0km/h bc you're instantly there

[steel umbra]

creeper is crazyeye

@clear canyon this better than yor house

bowling.

[clear canyon]

https://tenor.com/view/why-gif-25417921

[ivory mountain]

i like mine

i use p12 pro and p14 pro

[gleaming rose]

I'm getting a pixel 10 pro

speak now or forever hold your peace

[steel umbra]

wanted to get a 9a until i realized my 7a has a larger sensor

[clear canyon]

[Goes into politics for no reason]

[steel umbra]

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 banned, mods ban, eliminate, terminate, mute. explode

[steel umbra]

to give them some credit from reviewers, they do perform well db/celsius cooled

although imo the best thing is measuring frequencies with a sensitive mic for that purpose at a set % to get a more normalized audio recording

to get the fuller picture

although mics that properly pick up those noises tend to be expensive

and not everyone has a sound chamber

so i’d not rely only on db/c

[pulsar root]

does anyone like the asthetic of the founder edition cards much better than the other variants

[keen stratus]

I installed warzone and it said I needed bios firmware update so I updated my bios to latest version but now when I started warzone again it again told me to update my bios
Is there a fix for this?

[median warren]

Yeah try googling it and see what it says

Just always try Google first, there's going to be a fix most likely or a random Reddit post

[alpine heron]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0D9F1Z8KB/

I'm looking at racks anyone got recommendations? Any brands or better way of finding something I can somewhat reasonably put on a truck, take to an event, and such

I ultimately need 2 racks that are 34U or taller, they ideally are kinda shallow during transport so I can easily get through doorways etc as needed, the associated other supplies are all living in https://www.therestaurantstore.com/items/199449

[tired bear]

you should be looking at AV racks, they are often mobile

https://boostindustries.com/product/36u-av-rack-cabinet/

[alpine heron]

Note security isn't a concern for the racks

They're holding cheap displays and BNC connectors so odds of someone wanting them is low

[tired bear]

36u of it lol?

8u ones are way more common in av

[alpine heron]

Yeah. I'm pushing a meme hard with this

https://marshall-usa.com/discontinued/monitors/V-R44P.php

[tired bear]

if its just patch pannel shit you can actualy mount it on both sides of rack

[alpine heron]

16 of these is what I'm transporting

8 per rack.
4u each
Add another couple U for a BNC patch panel and a power supply

Each is 12v 1.5A or whatever.
So a 12v 20a CCTV power supply which is only 1U should more than handle a rack of 8

[tired bear]

this is all equipment that is really shallow right

[alpine heron]

Yep that's why the thing I linked is only 15in deep

Which is still overkill. I need probably like 8in really other than the power supply

[tired bear]

tbh i would fabricate some shit that folds on itself

[alpine heron]

Not sure what you mean

I did consider fabbing something but that takes time and I sadly don't have tons of fab time available these days

And it's not something I can easily hire someone to fab for under a couple grand probably

[tired bear]

two of these, hinge on the base and top
folded it would have this equipment on both sides of rack, unfolded it would be like two racks side to side

[alpine heron]

True. Main concern with the 2 post stuff is I figure they're tippy

And not sure about attaching wheels

[limber shale]

genesis aio opinion?

[tired bear]

https://tenor.com/view/google-exists-google-search-it-geekboy-geekboy-cz-gif-25933207

[hexed tapir]

Why aio $30 dual tower better

[limber shale]

yeah but you see, everyone talks about price which is different in my case

[limber shale]

visuals, also i have a 15$ voucher for a genesis product i got today

well its not just visuals

[hexed tapir]

But longevity of air-cooler outweighs the $15 voucher

[limber shale]

my vrms overheat, and instead of buying 3 fans, i can just buy an aio

[limber shale]

i alr have an aircooler just incase

[tired bear]

aio wont improve vrm temps

[limber shale]

arctic 7x

[limber shale]

i installed a single very loud fan on top (2008 lcd fan), and it cooled them down a bit

like from thermal throtling at 4ghz to letting me use 4.4ghz on the i5

[hexed tapir]

Aios don't blow air over vrms unlike tower coolers

That's why artic added a fan on their aio

[limber shale]

??

[limber shale]

vrms are up on my mb

[hexed tapir]

The Genesis aio have a fan over the CPU block?

[limber shale]

bro

all of this has air drawing upward right

[hexed tapir]

A lot of the air gets stolen from the top right fan, rear fan and the GPU moves it around and sends up it's hot Air

[hexed tapir]

Ignore the bottom horrible corsair air-cooler, but the air-coolers have better vrm temperatures over liquid coolers that didn't have a dedicated vrm fan on the CPU block

[limber shale]

yeah but thats when the vrms are on the left right

so they get hit by a fan

[hexed tapir]

Left and top

[limpid dune]

stupid idea: a motherboard with a bajillion fan headers, and you select the fan profile by just choosing which header you want 🤣

[snow mauve]

well, having the physical range to choose from is still helpful

especially considering routing of wires, etc may m ake some locations better

[sharp ivy]

I've looked this up on the internet, but I bought a Dell laptop a couple days ago that hasn't been used in a few years and as such is quite behind on windows updates

I don't want to connect it to my home wifi because it hasn't been updated in a long time

how would I update it without internet?

it seems to involve a USB drive and microsoft downloads but it isn't making sense

[craggy cove]

wow my facebook marketplace smurf account has (estonian) ebay built in

[craggy cove]

i assume you mean factory reseting here?

like just download windows 11 installation media on your main pc, make a bootable usb and then format and download windows

not a detailed guide by me but you get the idea

[quasi moat]

Crimson Dawn is one hell of a test for this gpu

I’ve never seen my shit struggle like this

DLAA + Ray reconstruction and max everything in 4k

Had to turn fake frames on to get over 140 fps

Still not even there really

[craggy cove]

is that a 5090

600w 🔥

[quasi moat]

Yea. Shit got me side eyeing my 12vhpwr every 2 mins

[hexed tapir]

600watt gpu/space heater combo just in time for summer

[sharp ivy]

Win 10 BTW

[fast girder]

Picked this box for $50 at the flee market! It's an RX 5600xt 6g.
My son has GTX 1080 right now, will that be an upgrade?

[sharp ivy]

So I just reinstall windows? I already factory reset it cause I didn't need any of the old owner's info

I'm just worried that if I reinstall windows I'll need to activate it

and I don't have the key

people have said that I won't need the key cause it's built into the motherboard, but I don't know if the laptop has that cause it's an older model (Dell Latitude D530)

[hexed tapir]

In newer titles /game engines the 5600xt should be faster

It's really title dependent in world of tanks at 1440p the 1080 was much better

[craggy cove]

probably not but a certain powershell script can fix that anyway

[craggy cove]

with rufus you can install win 11 if its too old to meet the requirements

[craggy cove]

oh

well i mean why wouldnt you just update it and use it if you want win 10

unless you open weird stuff you'll be fine

my grandma is using a win 7 pc and that pc is fine

if you install a new windows 10 installation it won't be updated out of the box anyway

[ionic atlas]

Asus 2026 new laptop prices are kinda apple.

the 16" here costs 6470eur. that's way more than what my macbook pro 16 max costed.

[sharp ivy]

So I can connect it to my wifi?

I was worried about it getting infected cause it was last used in 2016

[formal sonnet]

What version of Windows did the laptop originally ship with?

[sharp ivy]

it has a Vista sticker and Vista key on the bottom

[hexed tapir]

Non arm based laptops are stinky but arm based windows laptops are stinkiest

[formal sonnet]

But it was upgraded to Windows 7 / 8 / 10 over the years through natural updates? You can also just check the activation screen in the Settings app.

This is on Windows 11, so you'll have to find where it is on Windows 10. Should be in a similar place.

[formal sonnet]

Ah, so it might not even have a legitimate Windows 10 license anyway...

[sharp ivy]

well I don't have it connected to wifi rn

[formal sonnet]

Oh jeeze yeah I wouldn't upgrade that to Windows 11 even if you had a license. That needs to be replaced.

[sharp ivy]

?

what needs to be replaced

the windows?

[formal sonnet]

The laptop. It's almost 20 years old. The Latitude D530 was released in 2007.

[sharp ivy]

I wanted to keep it on the most up to date version of 10

oh the specs sticker is lying

it has Core 2 Duo T7250 and 3GB ram

[limpid ivy]

Oh lord a centrino I have one of those laptops still lying around lol.

[sharp ivy]

I mean it still seems snappy

I was gonna install mint XFCE

but I wanted to keep the OG windows

[formal sonnet]

How much did you pay for this laptop?

[sharp ivy]

$15CAD at Value Village

[formal sonnet]

This is the better choice. Some flavor of linux would be best on this hardware.

[sharp ivy]

I run Mint XFCE on my MSI laptop

Which has Core 2 Duo T6600 and 4GB of RAM

[sharp ivy]

alr

Thanks for the help!

[fast girder]

Mostly Roblox and Minecraft

[empty quartz]

1 week until whale lan

Chat is dead today

[formal sonnet]

https://tenor.com/view/sousou-no-frieren-葬送的芙莉蓮-冷-cold-anime-gif-5893318260666915381

Chat just needs the touch of a freezing cold hand on their face to wake them up.

[limpid ivy]

relaxed day 🙂

[formal sonnet]

110% this. Now that I've dropped off my defective monitor for return, the rest of this long weekend is nothing but sipping beers on the back deck in the sun.

[jovial swan]

Mhmhm yes collection

[cosmic stratus]

Unlocking nimo n154s.

Need to unlock voltage settings so I can tune the i3 1215u

[sly chasm]

i am going to throw me pc at the wall if it wont stop crashing

[latent gull]

but why beer when you could have dr pepper?

[azure topaz]

both

both is good

[formal sonnet]

Eh, I've never really been a fan of Dr. Pepper to be honest. I do like the Strawberries & Cream variant though.

[latent gull]

that ones fine, too syrupy imo. The zero sugar ones goated

[formal sonnet]

I can't do any zero sugar sodas. Aspartame gives me headaches. Stevia makes me need the services of a plumber.

[latent gull]

thats a great excuse to drink full sugar drinks

[sly chasm]

what is a reasonable temp to see your gpu hotspot at

[limpid dune]

there are two kinds of overclockers:

• "chatgpt, does a big MHz make my PC faster"
• "yeah I BIOS-modded a tiny U-series locked laptop chip from four years ago, no problem"

[limpid dune]

ideally below ~80C, if it's above 90C you should be a little concerned

unless it's a laptop, in which case: it will be a bajillion degrees no matter what

[sly chasm]

so this is bad

[limpid dune]

what GPU? they tend to vary a lot, 101C might be acceptable for an ancient Radeon or something

[sly chasm]

7600xt

[limpid dune]

oh yeah that's quite hot... not danger-hot, but hotter than it should be

consider a repaste

my 4080S was at 110C for a while, turns out the OEM paste was just crap. I PTMed it and now it doesn't get above 80

[sly chasm]

that somehow isnt my crashing issue tho

[limpid dune]

it might be, since silicon gets less stable as it heats up

what does the full OCCT spreadsheet look like?

[sly chasm]

the test i was running finished

[limpid dune]

your 5V supply is 4.7V, and your 3.3V supply is 3.0V 😅 that's not too bad but it's unusually low, maybe give your PSU a check

[sly chasm]

its like 5 years old its a seasonic 850 focus gold

[limpid dune]

yeah, having an average temp at 75C and your peak at 100C is a very wide gap, which hints that some of the GPU is uncooled (eg. the paste got crusty or something), a repaste should help. This is what my 4080S looks like (although it's a very different GPU ofc)

[limpid dune]

and this is what my 4080S looked like with the messed up OEM paste 😅

[fleet raft]

I know nothing about android under the hood and I saw a pop-up I've never seen before

stock pixel 8 pro settings app says "can't communicate with (ipv6 address)" any ideas what that is?

[sly chasm]

ill have to pull it out and do that and i'll probably repaste my cpu as well while im at it

[ivory mountain]

FSR stroking out as usual

[limpid dune]

CPU actually looks alright, 70C on what looks like a ryzen 9 is pretty good actually, mine is hotter 😅

[sly chasm]

so i'm starting to belive my power supply is why im crashing because it doesnt happen on a seperated cpu+ram and gpu test but if i combine them it crashes immediatly

thats the temps running a cpu ram test

[ivory mountain]

holy shit mushoku tensei pfp

havent heard of that anime in a while

[limpid dune]

could be, if you have another one it might be worth the test, although both CPU and GPU don't actually use the 5V rail (they shunt down from the 12V rail, which appears steady on your graphs)

For some reason, sometimes the motherboard can cause problems with the 5V/3.3V rail 🤷‍♂️

[sly chasm]

not a 4th motherboard

ive been through 3 already

[azure topaz]

its probably psu then lol

what unit?

[limpid dune]

@azure topaz check out her 5V and 3.3V rail in this graph

[azure topaz]

its not within spec

[azure topaz]

so, yeah, replace the psu

[limpid dune]

hear ye hear ye, we shall consule ye excel spreadsheet of greatness

[azure topaz]

3.14 is the spec minimum of 3.3 rail

probably turning off cause uvp on one of the minor rails

so yeah replace it

[limpid dune]

yeah, this is not +/- 5%

[azure topaz]

youre also hardly within the 5v spec

so yeah the unit is just bad atp

[limpid dune]

not a Forza expert but I feel like the car is supposed to stay on the road? maybe I'm just old fashioned

[sly chasm]

if im getting a new one should i go higher than a 850

[swift moss]

drifting a ferrari on the beach? hehe`

[azure topaz]

the wattage capacity isnt why it failed, so no

[swift moss]

i like doing fun stuff with photo mode

[azure topaz]

if you want to get a high power unit in hopes of it lasting longer do that thtats fine

i typically dont buy under 1000w, but i also buy used power supplies cause im a freak so dont listen to me

[proper gull]

What 5V and 3.3V? I only see 4.7V and 3V rails 🤪

[limpid dune]

@vale briar Try running OCCT with your benchmarks and send us its values for the GPU. Also what CPU/GPU, what benchmark, etc

[gray sierra]

my bro

[swift moss]

jorj

[gray sierra]

sup

[swift moss]

ciao

[gray sierra]

bonjournooo

[swift moss]

i'm lowk knees deep in work lol

[gray sierra]

what work

[swift moss]

took 5 minutes out of my day to goof around on fh6

[gray sierra]

is it good

[swift moss]

elektricity

[swift moss]

its fh5 with a far better map, so it's like basically the same game just better map

[gray sierra]

i mean

i expcetd that

[languid isle]

just got my upgrade y'all

||RTX 3060 > RTX 5070 12GB||

[hexed tapir]

Pretty big upgrade

Happy you didn't get a 5060ti 16gb

[languid isle]

I was thinking abt the 5060

but they were both basically the same price

[hexed tapir]

5070 has way more raw powa

[stray portal]

Holy shit, i might be changing my monitor soon and i have to redo all my cable management 😭 😭

[hexed tapir]

How much was the ai apocalypse 5070 price?

[languid isle]

£540

and bru

it drops the next day (in my current situation I could really use that extra £30)

[stray portal]

Worst part about cable management ngl

[hexed tapir]

Oh that's $710 usd $40 away from the 5070ti imaginary MSRP 😭

[stray portal]

Huh no way usd is so bad now

[limpid dune]

yesterday I was trying to benchmark Linux RT performance and I kinda realized... I don't play any RT games 😅

...except for Indiana Jones ATGC, CyberPunk, and War Thunder, there really arn't many games that actually use RT in the big 26

[hexed tapir]

In the states Amazon won't refund the difference not sure what the rules are in the uk

[stray portal]

Because its mostly pointless, only good for certain things

[hexed tapir]

With Linux you can run Indiana Jones without raytracing

[stray portal]

Imo ray tracing sometimes looks worse

[limpid dune]

I took my RX 6600, disabled the hardware RT unit, and used the RADV_EXPERIMENTAL=emulate_rt emulated raytracing option and... it only lost like 10% performance, it actually worked just fine. So I did some more reading through AMD's docs and it turns out that, on RDNA 2&3, raytracing is pretty much 90% emulated anyway, so removing the RT unit only actually changes the way VP_INTERSECT is handled 🤣

the extra funny part: turns out that the RX 5700XT has faster emulated raytracing than the 2050Ti hardware raytracing lmfao

[ivory mountain]

W bro enjoy 🔥

[hexed tapir]

Yeah..

[sly chasm]

4.63v and 2.99v rails

[limpid dune]

the 5-ish volt rail

[sly chasm]

more like 4 and a half

[limpid dune]

the 5V rail (80% cash, 20% shares)

just DLSS an extra 0.4V onto that rail

[sly chasm]

ay that will do it

whats the amd version of that

[languid isle]

isnt it just a conversion tho? aren't you still technically paying the same price just in a different currency

unless the 5070 is actually $800-$900. then thats like £6-700 (sry for u know what)

[limpid dune]

AMD users can emulate DLSS by taking off their glasses and squinting at the monitor

[sly chasm]

lol

[hexed tapir]

$630 for a 5070 here before sales tax (some states have no sales tax) my state it's 4.7%

[nimble burrow]

anyone know what burn prevention stuff the hp omen transcend 14 has?

[sharp ivy]

That's a very cool system

[languid isle]

I was going to try running the 3060 as well for my two side monitors and the encoder/decoder for obs, but games kept using the 3060, and I didn't know what to do

[sharp ivy]

I think it's a setting in Nvidia app?

I know there's a graphics priority setting in windows

[civic patrol]

hey y'all, I've been stimming over these 40-60usd portable monitors and want to buy more for display boards home assistant etc, I was wondering if anyone is familiar or knows of any writeups that compare specs of all the different brands. There are a ton of choice from 40-80usd I got this one but I wanna compile the best choices in each price range or ref a good list https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B9NNWXVP?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

[languid isle]

currently overclocking this badboi

[jovial jasper]

Nord VPN might leave Canada if Bill C-22 passes. Due to the bill requiring the capture of logs

[unborn oyster]

trying to set custom res using CRU, but its not letting me use the full refresh rate, only below 199HZ works, any solutions/reasons why?

[limpid dune]

could be a bitrate problem with your GPU? sadly IIRC there's no way to override that

[unborn oyster]

got a RX 7900 XT

well I can create it at 60hz in CRU, and then change to 240hz in the display settings, so i guess that works

[empty quartz]

That would not wake me up

My mom once threw a shoe at me, and i slept through it

[tidal geyser]

xd im following some game i guess modding tutorial and they are just using a cracked version of the game

[limpid ivy]

Feel this.

[empty quartz]

ayo

[limpid ivy]

My grandma does this and barges into my room if I’m sleeping past noon

And not just a simple barge but a full on door kick

[limpid ivy]

Also my battery health has dropped to 96%

[empty quartz]

L

[limpid ivy]

Still lasting a whole day so that’s fine

[empty quartz]

@limpid ivy checkmate

[limpid ivy]

Right now not so much

Race weekends=rip battery life

[tired bear]

at 80% people start to complain

[empty quartz]

apple allows you to replace it at 79%

[tired bear]

if you have apple care i assume

[empty quartz]

nope

you dont need applecare to get your iphone serviced

it costs less with applecare, but otherwise doesnt matter if you have it or not

apple may have abhorrent pricing without applecare when it comes to broken laptop displays, but they're not entirely scumbags

[tired bear]

i wanna see how phones will look when new battery regulations kick in

[empty quartz]

i hope apple says fuck you to the eu, and stops selling phones there

i prefer a water resistant phone

[south arrow]

Most agro ive ever seen ace

[tired bear]

lol

[empty quartz]

fucking hate the eu tbh with thier BS regulations. like why must you require phones to lose water resistance in trade for battery servicability

[empty quartz]

one drop of water, and that phone is cooked

(exxageration, but i dont care)

[south arrow]

https://tenor.com/view/explosion-gif-22881282

[empty quartz]

smasnug momnet

[tired bear]

ip67 while new iphones have 68

[empty quartz]

i wouldn't trust a phone with a removable back near a body of water

even freshwater

[tired bear]

macbook neo is new rule compliant (except pentalobe screws) and no one is complaining

[empty quartz]

the m4 air is mostly rule compliant too

has a metal panel

i dont understand why people hate on apples non genuine part warning tbh

how else would you know if you're getting screwed over by a repair shop

[tired bear]

if they sold it for what batteries actually cost there wouldnt be a 3rd party battery market

[empty quartz]

those third party batteries suck ass

[tired bear]

ik

[south arrow]

S8 30 minutes into cod like

[empty quartz]

last time i had a 3rd party repair, they charged the same price as the apple store would've charged, and they gave me a non genuine screen, and an aftermarket battery

the non genuine screen looked like absolute shit and had issues not even 20 seconds after i got the device back

[tired bear]

you got the real iphone to fake iphone conversion kit installed

[boreal elbow]

Just installed this motherboard can anyone tell me y it's taking between 1-7 minutes to enter the bios

[ionic ember]

memory training perhaps

[gleaming rose]

^^

[pulsar root]

Visually what’s the best graphics card ever made?

[ionic ember]

like, which one looks the best?

[sleek ibex]

That is very subjective

[ionic ember]

if so, the yeston husbando gpu

[sleek ibex]

Though if I were to choose

I do dig the look of those Titan cards with that Gold Rose finish

[ionic ember]

any gpu company that puts cool graphics beyond different styles of their logo on their cards is cool to me

looking at you asus

[sleek ibex]

Oh the ones who made the Ishtar Gate GPU

Or as it's officially called "Astral Dhahab"

Dhahab is Arabic for "gold"

[ionic ember]

of course asus would make a gold gpu for the saudis

[sleek ibex]

The backplate does look identical to the skyscrapers in Riyadh

[ionic ember]

it can't be for any reason other than the saudis

[sleek ibex]

Damn Khaleejis

Us Levantines/Mesopotamians can't have shit

[pulsar root]

Yes

[ionic ember]

the yeston husbando gpu

say what you will about yeston but at least their designs have personality

[sleek ibex]

I remember when everyone in the mid 2000s were doing this (albeit it was on blower style shrouds)

[ionic ember]

yeah they should start doing that again