tech-chat-1

[median warren]

And I've dealt and see far worse in my job, poignee, you can't phase me

Honestly, you don't want to hear the stories

Canada eh

[deep musk]

Don’t wann to have to explain puppygirl stuff to the custom’s officer

[median warren]

Why not, might have a fun conversation

You never know, they might also be into it

[deep musk]

Some of them let us keep our collars (very rare) but I don’t want to have to explain the Belgian’s officers why there’s multiple “toys” in my suitcase/bag might bring my ears and tail, will see

[median warren]

Honestly for the sake of everyone in the server, probably move the convo to DMs, if you wish to talk about it

[gaunt spade]

flying cars they said

[deep musk]

Yeah

[median warren]

Reasonable ram prices they said

[gaunt spade]

no one ever

https://giphy.com/gifs/speed-ishowspeed-ishowmeat-SSSFLrolJMWntt6ntq

[deep musk]

Yes, everyone every time a new ram standard comes out

[gaunt spade]

ddr6 2031 here we come

[gilded harness]

now this is A LOT better than before 🥀

[supple basin]

Gj

[gaunt spade]

what cpu

[mint trout]

Welp enshitification of starlink accelerating https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlink-to-drop-tech-that-helps-beat-gps-spoofing-maritime-users-are-alarmed

[red bluff]

Which IGPU is faster and why? It's the Iris XE (80cu) on both, but for some reason, specs are different.

[gilded harness]

only 12100f

i love that little cooler so much

[gaunt spade]

12100f and 3070?

[gilded harness]

little guy

[gilded harness]

yea

i play on 1440p anyways so it may be alright

[kindred halo]

One second, let me check

[viral kayak]

i need help im trying to upgrade to windows 11 but the installation assistant is just saying
Error cant make files. check that you have permisson to make files

[kindred halo]

Okay so the "[X] x [Y]MHz" is for CPU

GPU speed depends entirely on the power budget provided to it

[gilded harness]

the 1135G7's is faster by 100mhz

but 1235U's has DP 1.4a, HDMI 2.1

[viral kayak]

can anyone help me update to windows 11 from windows 10?

[red bluff]

Oh interesting! Thank you!! ❤️

Got a lenovo (1135g7) for 80 bucks, and for the life of me I can't find anything better without going dedicated gpu. LMAO

The Iris XE is better than most igpus from amd. What the heck is amd doing. Lol

[kindred halo]

Which Lenovo? Also - congratulations!!

For $80 you'd probably be lucky to get anything with UHD 620, so a whole Iris-Xe laptop for that price? Great stuff!!

[red bluff]

It's a helluva plasticky ideapad TBH, but temps are decent (1 big fan from what i've seen on disassembly yt videos) and im careful with laptops.

[random junco]

yaaaayyyy

[kindred halo]

Ooooo IdeaPad, not bad!!

[red bluff]

Full HD + 512 nvme. Downside? 8gb ram, but im not concerned much

[kindred halo]

Just make sure to repaste it if you can, and get a laptop stand to let it breathe properly

[kindred halo]

Soldered?

Is there no SODIMM slot?

[red bluff]

I wanna sink my teeth on this, but it's a 3 hour drive from where I am. (That's 200 bucks)

[fringe prairie]

1235u would be nice for efficiency

[red bluff]

Didn't disassemble yet, youtube shows there's a slot! 😄

[kindred halo]

Usually Lenovo did a Soldered + SODIMM config

[fringe prairie]

but tiger lake is still good so

[kindred halo]

Oh that's great!

Which model is it specifically?

I can get you TONS more info

[red bluff]

Lenovo 15itl6 82h8

[kindred halo]

One second

[kindred halo]

Congrats, you have a SODIMM slot

Oh btw, can you get me the full model number?

82h8 is just the prefix

Enter msinfo32 in "run"

Tell me the number that has 82h8 and extra numbers/letters after it

Lenovo has pages dedicated to each model they produce

[red bluff]

Oh snap

Hold on, yes I can do that

System SKU?: Lenovo_MT_82H8_BU_IdeaFM_Ideapad 3 15ITL6

System Model: 82H8 (no extras)

[bronze summit]

I might purchase the LTT TrueSpec Cables im ngl

[agile stag]

it would be insane if there was like ifixit but closer to youtube where you upload stuff and then people watch ads and then if enough people click on a guide then you get a little money

but theres so many things that could use a good disassembly guide and id disassembly guide something if i thought i could get a mcchicken out of it

[gaunt spade]

gonna be 240 when you arive

[red bluff]

Worse, he might not be there.

Or it had the hinges repair and he wont state it, but 3 hour driving (3 going, 3 coming back) is a big oof factor.

[haughty compass]

Bro idk what to do. I found my old phone but it literally won't let me sign in. I put in my password, or request to sign in via email code and it says success only to ask me to sign in again

[viral kayak]

Could i get some help i want to install windows 11 but the update thing in windows 10 isn’t working how else can i install windows 11?

[red bluff]

Found the masoquist

Isn't there a thingie in the microsoft website to get w11?

[plain cypress]

Thingie

[viral kayak]

I tried the installation assistant but that just gave me a error

How would installing from usb work when i already have windows 10 installed?

[carmine yew]

since they can't keep them in stock, you're clearly not the only one

[bronze summit]

I know right its so weird

[carmine yew]

what's weird?

[bronze summit]

Like it cant be that good

But its sold out

[carmine yew]

sure it can, there's a fuckin' plague of bullshit cables out there, and here's someone guaranteeing the spec, and then some

[viral kayak]

The installer thing is working now i think

[carmine yew]

when you grab one of your USB C cables, do you have any idea of what data speed and PD it's rated at?

[viral kayak]

It says my pc doesn’t support secure boot when it does

[carmine yew]

is secure boot turned on in the bios, and legacy boot disabled

[viral kayak]

I can’t turn off legacy boot because then it won’t boot

[bronze summit]

Ni I mostly assume its the same tbh

[carmine yew]

then your C: Drive is MBR Formatted.

Look up how to convert it to GPT

[carmine yew]

that doesn't make any sense

[bronze summit]

No i mostly assume the data speed is the same but the power delivery isn't on all USB c cables

[carmine yew]

a USB C cable can range from 480mbps to 40,000 mbps

That's "not the same" so, that doesn't mean shit.

[agile stag]

do you not want the hinges repaired

if its an issue on that model you should tighten the hinge screws so that they dont rip the standoffs out of the plastic when the hinge gets a little bit of play from them loosening

[carmine yew]

but also: make sure you backup everything you'd want to save, in case you eff something up along the way.

It's not a super risky procedure, but people do mess stuff up all the time anyways.

[agile stag]

i wouldnt get that laptop though since it still feels pricey for me but they do make more expensive laptops

some people go out and buy like a 4070 though with their money but not me yet,,

[viral kayak]

Uhhh it failed?

[carmine yew]

it says it successfully converted the drive.

I'm not sure about that last part.

[viral kayak]

I’ll just try changing it to uefi now then

[carmine yew]

yeah it should work in UEFI now with Secure Boot

[spark tinsel]

why is my monitor goes off then on when someone walks on my pc

i have a double deck and im on the bottom and the pc is on the ladder part if someone goes up my monitor turns off and on

[viral kayak]

Where do i find secure boot in bios? Like under what category

[carmine yew]

varies bios to bios

[empty quartz]

Fun fact

[carmine yew]

loose cable?

[empty quartz]

In bc canada, you can drive on a single highway without stopping for 22 hours, and still be in the same province

[viral kayak]

Yeah British Columbia is huge

[spark tinsel]

the display port is tight and the gpu has a bracket

[carmine yew]

try another DP cable?

[spark tinsel]

it's a week old pc just set it up

but ill try it thanks

[viral kayak]

Thanks I’m installing windows 11 now

[deep musk]

Gotta love it when you’re in an it support class and some people don’t know how to make new folders and files or when they don’t know how to do something they go straight to the teacher to ask them how to do something instead of trying to find out on their own

https://tenor.com/view/elmo-sigh-gif-5895699729383201961

[carmine yew]

I was in a computer class, and people were drawing diagrams of the mousepad in their notes.

NEVER underestime the average person.

(Basically you can't underestimate their stupidity, there is no bottom of that well)

[deep musk]

Yes but I’m in a formation to learn a job (it support) and I can tell you the next gen of it support is doomed

[frail sequoia]

Welcome to ps3 cfw airlines

[empty quartz]

@deep musk im torturing myself

Windows 10 with a celeron 3150, and 1gb of ram

[viral kayak]

Jesus Christ the install is slow

Why does windows 11 install take so long

[empty quartz]

What kind if drive are you installing to?

[rigid shale]

should i get this xfx card from newegg or amazon? the price difference is about $80 in neweggs favor but i hear their return and refund policy is very bad

[limpid ivy]

giving me the high school experience with slow ass laptops lol

Also keyboard is on its way finally

[versed creek]

anyone know if theres a way to make those cheap "plug and play" USB handbrakes and H pattern shifters work on linux? the kind that dont have any of their own drivers and instead rely on windows' built in packages

[viral kayak]

Ssd

[frail sequoia]

Try a 2gb game update on a ps3

[viral kayak]

I remember that it was a pain

The WiFi cards in those things were so shit

[frail sequoia]

It is, im doing it for battlefield 3 right now

On a ps3 slim with cfw

That I bought today and I have cod mw2 2009 arriving at somepoint

[viral kayak]

I have a ps4 slim and ps3 slim next to me

All i want now is a Xbox 360

[rigid shale]

probably wouldnt post your order info

[frail sequoia]

Thats why i removed it

[rigid shale]

lmao

[viral kayak]

Atleast not before blurring out certain things

[rigid shale]

anyone with experience with newegg?

i will spend the extra 80 if that means i dont have to deal with awful policy and response times

but i really want this 9070xt

[viral kayak]

88% and slowly going up

[stable beacon]

this is probably when i ran a debloat app a year ago but i did restart i'm stuck in a loop

[frail sequoia]

This is a bit better to send

[rigid fjord]

@empty quartz my plasma tv just died with 2 loud pops

[iron glen]

Wsg rauko

Did you happen to pull the trigger twice?

[rigid fjord]

Just having to find a new tv, and no, it's clearly a couple capacitors that went due to the sound of it, you?

[iron glen]

Waiting for my dad to get back from his trip so i can sell my dirtbike

The exhaust fell off

And my only option is to buy a brand new one

[iron glen]

The header, not the entire thing*

[iron glen]

Because there aren't any bikes listed as spare parts, no headers listed on their own and none in the local scrapyards

I would just get one off of another bike
But there aren't any of those either

[tulip sparrow]

https://www.destructoid.com/destiny-2-is-dead-but-its-final-update-is-everything-we-ever-asked-for/

[deep musk]

Oof good luck

[kindred halo]

I hope I am paid by tomorrow

I need something to act as a distraction

And PC parts are the perfect distraction

[dull oar]

Is Thermalright Aqua Elite 360 V3 good to use for a 9800x3d and/or 9900x3d

[grizzled frost]

It's a 360mm aio that's compatible with am5

[kindred halo]

Yeah

[fringe prairie]

9900x3d

but yes

[dull oar]

I found a bundle that is with the 9900x3d but is a bit cheaper than 9800x3d, it gives "AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D CPU + ASUS TUF GAMING B850-PLUS WIFI Motherboard + T-Force 32GB D5 6000MHz CL30 RAM" for $1200 CAD

Should I cop it or just stick with getting a 9800x3d and wait for a good deal

[kindred halo]

Sorry, can't help you any further

Usually I could, but I am a tad tired right now, it's late

[dull oar]

Im *planning * on getting a 5070ti as well

[kindred halo]

It really depends on your budget

[carmine yew]

the 9900's are a weird series, because they're worse than the 9800's, but also better in other ways

mostly we tell people to avoid 9900's

[grizzled frost]

it's either 9800x3d/9850x3d, or the 9950x3d

the 9900x3d is a weird middle ground where it has dual 6 core ccds, but only one ccd has the extra L3 cache

[kindred halo]

9950X3D2

[fringe prairie]

honestly meh i’d spend the extra $60 on the 9800x3d if you want the best gaming performance

[carmine yew]

said nobody ever

[grizzled frost]

So sometimes you can get worse multicore on the 9900x3d even though it has more cores

[kindred halo]

.. It's a joke

[carmine yew]

it IS a joke chip lol

[kindred halo]

Fair

[grizzled frost]

the joke is that people actually bought it

[dull oar]

I found a similar deal on newegg for $1216 CAD "CORSAIR Vengeance RGB 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6000 (PC5 48000) Desktop Memory Model CMH32GX5M2N6000Z30 MSI PRO B850-S WIFI6E AM5 AMD B850 SATA 6Gb/s 5G Network Wi-Fi6E DDR5 Motherboard AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D - Ryzen 7 9000 Series Z"

Except its the 9800x3d

[carmine yew]

the need to brag about the biggest number being in your box is a real thing.

It's batshit

[dull oar]

And ram got rgb lol

[grizzled frost]

RGB makes it a no go for me /hj

[dull oar]

I think the motherboard is slightly worse tho but im not that sure

[kindred halo]

I have a R(5) 5,600 on my box!!! It's good enough :3!!!!!!

[carmine yew]

just post a link

[dull oar]

Mb didnt know I was able to

https://www.newegg.ca/Product/ComboDealDetails?ItemList=Combo.4870398

[gaunt spade]

how does this work

[odd sparrow]

chat what yall think about ps5 pro

[grizzled frost]

I think it's a ps5 pro

What else do you want me to say?

[ivory mountain]

cant say that im shocked

[odd sparrow]

i forgor to delete
jst forget it

[stable beacon]

i just ran update and turned it off after

[south arrow]

If you can get one for cheaper then retail thatd be cool

Amd it has the titles you want to play

[devout rain]

650w good for 9060xt and 7600x3d?

[south arrow]

Plug all the components into pcpartpicker.com im not sure off the top

Sounds probably fine but to be sure

[tidal geyser]

yes

[gaunt spade]

maybe 670

[tidal geyser]

https://media.discordapp.net/ephemeral-attachments/1002690209776935063/1506656756418478170/caption.gif

[median warren]

Caption.gif

[tidal geyser]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/859801724393881630.gif?size=48&quality=lossless&name=thiscatisd

[median warren]

[tidal geyser]

why does this one embed

https://media.discordapp.net/ephemeral-attachments/1002690209776935063/1506656756418478170/caption.gif

[median warren]

[tidal geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/frog-hello-darkness-kermit-my-old-friend-drm-gif-9482307

[empty quartz]

[sharp ivy]

You gonna try fixing it?

[rigid fjord]

Nope, swap out with a new 4k screen instead

[nimble burrow]

is a 1gbps ethernet port just 1gbps down (or up) or is it 1 gbps up and 1 gbps down at the same time?

[tidal geyser]

ethernet is full duplex

[nimble burrow]

ty

[tidal geyser]

so yes can do 1Gb send and 1Gb recive

[red bluff]

ram fault? nvme fault? motherboard fault?

google says it could be ram, nvme or motherboard. however he can boot ocassionally and play games. im leaning towards nvme fault.

(asus zephyrus g15 / 6800h / unspecified nvidia rtx, might be 3080)

[gaunt spade]

mustve been the wind

[urban blade]

It’s windows it borkes itself every 10 seconds

[grizzled frost]

Only if you suck at using a computer

[urban blade]

Welllll

[grizzled frost]

Hundreds of millions of people use it everyday without issues

[urban blade]

True, but it’s also windows and the recent patch Tuesdays seem to break a lot

*cough cough

Random file corruption

[onyx idol]

Any good clip-trimming software? Clipchamp requires Microsft Sign in so fuck that, & I'm tired of using DaVinci all the time just to trim a fucking clip for something out of context, not to mention the file sizes that comes with

[tidal geyser]

run a ram test?

[fickle ivy]

How does one manage this

[tranquil pulsar]

guys what do u think i might get an arduino uno and a sound sensor and code myself a clap detector to do smth like turn on lights through razer chroma
it’d be so cool and a fun project

[tulip sparrow]

Guess is "Network(Cloud)" drive and they ran out of pro and revereted to free

[snow mauve]

yea, some sort of quote reversal

quota*

you likely will have to 'revert' to whatever you had even temporarilly

[tulip sparrow]

May have to pay for a month just to be able to empty it

[arctic kettle]

How to download ram? I need it. 🙏

So fucking expensive rn that someone might believe I meant that honestly. 😔

[tired bear]

you can download this png of ram right here

[arctic kettle]

Thanks, I'll sell it as a NFT to make the difference.

lol

[gaunt spade]

do not play cs2

[arctic kettle]

Did some Russian guy call you a racial slur after you went triple negative?

[grizzled frost]

I'll be at your house in 5-10 minutes to take this

[stable sigil]

Are ARM laptops good?

[ivory mountain]

If u went triple negative it was deserved

[grizzled frost]

Yes, macbooks are amazing

[stable sigil]

except macbooks

[grizzled frost]

Solidly mediocre for anything but battery life

[arctic kettle]

LOL

[grizzled frost]

Battery life is pretty damn good on ARM

Performance and compatibility? solidly meh

[terse pewter]

i think he is asking for risc-V laptops hehe

[gaunt spade]

no i wish i got russians i get kazakhs that dont even speak russian and theyre always at a internet cafe cuz theyre bum ass cant afford a pc

[stable sigil]

Exactly. Do they even make laptops that can last more than 3 hours?

[gaunt spade]

whats triple negative bru

[ivory mountain]

“cuz they are bum ass cant afford a pc” son 😭

[grizzled frost]

Does who

[stable sigil]

Like besides ARM laptops it feels like they don't last very long.

[grizzled frost]

There's plenty of x86 laptops that last 8+ hours doing stuff like streaming and web browsing

[snow mauve]

he been slinging them dimms

[gaunt spade]

none of them have pcs

[grizzled frost]

A stack of DDR5 DIMMs feels like that one scene from the mandalorian with the beskar

Most appropriate way to transport RAM

[snow mauve]

nice lol

[stable sigil]

My grandma is looking for a laptop for traveling. Says her current one (It's a beast) is too big.
Obviously browser stuff and remote pc is all. I don't want her to buy e-waste but also don't want her to spend a ton of money one something that is way too overkill.
I figured ARM computers are light weight and last a long time. But i actually know nothing about using them. I don't have a laptop.

[grizzled frost]

MBN

[deep musk]

Im so impatient to start hrt like omg can’t wait to start this summer, but I just started school in which people are really not lgbtq friendly I’ll have to talk wif da TES (technician in specialized education) to see what me and they can do with that

[stable sigil]

I'm already full time tech support for her. How do i teach her mac os now

[grizzled frost]

WOMAN JUICE

[stable sigil]

Also I feel like MBN is over rated. $700 for 8gb of ram. Most tablets are better than that.

[deep musk]

Yes, im just scared of people’s reactions now , people in this school are very religion oriented and very conservative

[grizzled frost]

$600*

500 with the education discount

[sharp ivy]

Wait also random question

why is your name Door Handle

or is my french just really that bad

[shy arch]

fr

[deep musk]

Was my summer camp name

[sharp ivy]

oohhh ok

[shy arch]

Interesting

[deep musk]

And I liked it enough to use it as my username

[tulip sparrow]

$700 if you want the touchid and 512gb of storage

[sharp ivy]

It's cool

especially as a lot of people don't speak french so many won't know what it actually is lol

[grizzled frost]

okay? doesn’t sound like OP’s grandma needs that

[deep musk]

Yeah, cool little “Easter egg” for those that read French

[tulip sparrow]

Does Apple sell external drives for their laptops?

[deep musk]

You now need a student email for this

[deep musk]

Any external drive should work

[grizzled frost]

steal a student

[tulip sparrow]

I don't think grandma is going to ahve a .edu email to purchase a neo with the student discount

[shy arch]

Wait, any school email will work?

[tulip sparrow]

Pretty sure my old college allowed us to keep our edu emails after we were done

[deep musk]

I don’t know how it works over here cause none of our school emails end with .edu

[deep musk]

No idea, also very dependent on the country you’re in

[tulip sparrow]

Pretty sure in the US Apple wised up to non students using the student discount

https://mashable.com/article/apple-closes-education-store-loophole-for-discounts-for-non-students-teachers

[shy arch]

I searched it up and you need to verify your student enrollment using a third-party service

Or you can just go in store with some sort of id or proof

[tulip sparrow]

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1t75jq1/apple_now_requires_unidays_verification_for/

[snow mauve]

reason 510652 to never own a fking apple device

[tulip sparrow]

Yeah I assume a Legit up to date student id would bbe needed in store

[snow mauve]

apple's never had a stellar discount program anyway, even among employees

[gaunt spade]

never play this game

[tulip sparrow]

Yeah student is just $100 off a multi hundred/thousand dollar product so yeah

[snow mauve]

well thats better than employee

employee is like 1.5%

unless they changed it recently. childhood friend of mine has been with them for like 15 years

[grizzled frost]

more than 100 on their more expensive macbooks

[tulip sparrow]

Employee could be better then studennt if its a multithousand dollar products

[deep musk]

Over here in Canada we need a unidays account

[grizzled frost]

iirc i saved like 200usd or something on my m5 pro MBP

[shy arch]

I believe it's $200 for macbooks and $100 for ipads

[snow mauve]

thats not bad

[grizzled frost]

lower price macbooks are 100usd

[snow mauve]

remember the deals best buy had for employees?

once a year you could get some insane but random combo of hardware/software for like $60 and of course it got abused

i worked there part time while in the army still right as they were phasing into the geek squad idea

[shy arch]

I wish I knew that

[snow mauve]

yea normally it was a mobo/intel cpu/cooler, windows/office combo with a few other randos

normally was about a $800 setup

[deep musk]

Everyone stop what you’re doing and watch this, you need to see this https://youtu.be/1VNgZtVfD-4?si=qvn2MHyrnQZq8WbJ

[arctic kettle]

0.25 kd is insane.

[gaunt spade]

actual bots playng the game

[steel umbra]

yes

btw dandelions taste decently

just don’t confuse them with false dandelions

[deep musk]

Apparently dandelion salads aren’t that bad

[steel umbra]

clover blossoms can be sweet if you harvest them at the right time

[deep musk]

@kindred halo and @sharp ivy kitty in dandelions :3

[steel umbra]

sometimes i wish there wouldn’t be as many pets locally so i could eat the stuff grass has to offrer

i don’t believe pets stores sell only healthy pets as i was literally sold a rabbit with pastereullosis

and even if they do, it doesn’t believe disease don’t spread pet to pet and to humans

[deep musk]

They can’t always detect everything

[steel umbra]

ooh no they get a bad batch and sell them anyways

[deep musk]

“Bad batch” they are still pets

[steel umbra]

to them it’s bad batch

obviously they do it for the cash

the conditions where the rabbits multiply are inhumane

no matter how fluffy the pets look at the store

[fervent schooner]

Is this bad

[deep musk]

Over here we have multiple “petshop” that sources all the animals they have for adoption from local shelters

[steel umbra]

if all of these and bitdefender trip as well it raises a lot of flags

[fervent schooner]

Its a game i uploaded

[steel umbra]

you got me then

[steel umbra]

those are way better than reg stores

[random junco]

..

[deep musk]

Yessssss, and much better on the ethical side too

[steel umbra]

but won’t form an opinion on whenever they’re actually beneficial, as there could be some sort of encouragement one way of another for the suppliers to produce more pets

[steel umbra]

yes

[fervent schooner]

So am i cooked

[random junco]

depends if the file is executable and what you actually did with it

[fervent schooner]

It is an execubtable

it didnt open bc i havent got steam installed on the vm

[random junco]

well then it's most likely fine

check with defender

[steel umbra]

anyways if you get a pet it better be happy

i’m getting ptsd again seeing the slaughter house

it is indeed normal but i can’t handle it yk yk

ethicality depends on person’s view i can’t probably say it’s unethical

[valid garden]

no clue why rebar ruined preformance on windows but whatever it works well on linux on my RX580

[mellow sonnet]

chat opinions on the 980 and 980ti

[valid garden]

1080/1080 Ti is better but literally nothings wrong with the 900 series

[mellow sonnet]

i rather avoid 10 series because of the fanboying it gets

[valid garden]

its not that bad anymore I wouldnt think

[mellow sonnet]

the 1080ti shill is still strong

980ti is the hidden gem

[valid garden]

my friend has a 12400 and a 1080 Ti bro

[mellow sonnet]

im currently on a mission to collect gpus and 900 series is my first

so far on a 960 2g

[valid garden]

I'm on a fairly fanboyed platform and nobody cares

[mellow sonnet]

found decent deals on a 980 non ti

[valid garden]

good old AMD Polaris

[deep musk]

980ti is bare minimum, I have a 980 lying around and it truly lacks vram

[valid garden]

I have the worse RX 580 variant but its whatever

[mellow sonnet]

4gb is still usable since i was testing the 1650 and it did better than i expected

[valid garden]

what this guy is saying

[mellow sonnet]

it wont run the latest titles

in old titles it will shine

[valid garden]

I have a 4GB RX 580 and its good, wont run latest titles but its good when it fits

[deep musk]

Yeah, but the 980 suffers a lot these days

[mellow sonnet]

will it though?

cool to collect one

[valid garden]

MSI reused the 980 ARMOR OC cooler on the RX 580 ARMOR OC, I had to replace my RX 580s cooler because of that

[mellow sonnet]

itll sit on a shelf anyway

[valid garden]

ah 2GB

[mellow sonnet]

that one runs fine, the blower motor bearing is busted

might need to replace the blower

[valid garden]

I had a kepler 730 2GB for the majority of 2024 (you dont wanna know my other specs then), 2GB wasnt disgusting for what I did

[azure topaz]

not really

[mellow sonnet]

why not

[valid garden]

in 2024 I was in denial about how bad my computer was yo

[azure topaz]

because theres better cards to buy for the same money

80-100$ for a 980ti id rather find a 1070 or 1080

[mellow sonnet]

or is it

https://tenor.com/view/vsause-michael-michael-vsause-vsause-michael-gif-25125732

[valid garden]

AMD FX 4300, 8GB DDR3-1600, 2GB GT 730
it worked but looking back my only joy was overclocking

[mellow sonnet]

the main thing is that im trying to collect them

[azure topaz]

in my opinion i think if youre going to collect hardware your main computer should be more than adequate

[mellow sonnet]

the price matches the performance according to tpu

[azure topaz]

hes hittin that tho

[valid garden]

🔥

[mellow sonnet]

my 4080s might want a talk

[azure topaz]

graphics cards cant talk, but cool, collect away

[steel umbra]

false

[mellow sonnet]

i found some insane deals on the 980 as i said

50 euros each

[azure topaz]

thats not an insane deal

[steel umbra]

you can get an x16 microphone and audio

[azure topaz]

that is a normal adeuqate deal especially if its not a 980Ti

[mellow sonnet]

for what the average appears

[azure topaz]

brother thats 60$ US

thats 10 whole dollars cheaper than ebay omg

[carmine yew]

It's true, GPUs have audio out via HDMI, so they can talk.

[mellow sonnet]

majority appear 80

[steel umbra]

@azure topaz you need to mod a 4080 now to prove that 4080s can’t talk

[azure topaz]

true

[mellow sonnet]

firstly i plan on collecting 900 series and then maybe 700 series

[steel umbra]

what do you think of rtx 3050 ti m

[carmine yew]

I'll run an AI model on my gpu so it can talk

[steel umbra]

and rtx 4010

[mellow sonnet]

might collect a 1080ti to use as a doorstop

[valid garden]

I do like how rebar really gave me some extra preformance

even on an older card

[azure topaz]

sounds about right

an percent

[valid garden]

only on linux though

[deep musk]

That’s pretty much how stuff works

[valid garden]

on windows forcing rebar broke things

[mellow sonnet]

i still think the 980ti is a hidden gem

[steel umbra]

some games also tend to run slower with rebar

it’s not always a hit

[valid garden]

not games, the entire system

[azure topaz]

and your reasoning is?

[valid garden]

I had to reduce BAR0 on windows from 4GB to 2GB windows to operate at all

on linux its fine, it handled it the moment I forced my GPU to run in UEFI

[azure topaz]

sure if you get a 980Ti for free or very cheap yeah it will play games much above its priceclass but if youre paying normal people pricing for a 980Ti (ebay, fbm) 70-100$ just aint owrth it

[steel umbra]

there are also things like rx 5600 xt

sometimes 2060 pop up for $80-90

maybe not rn due to the shortages

[azure topaz]

yeah i wouldnt bet on it now

[inner veldt]

Is it safe to use that cable on Thor 1200P3 with RTX 5090? 3x8 pin to 12vhpwr I have https://store.cablemod.com/product/cablemod-rt-series-pro-modflex-sleeved-12vhpwr-pci-e-cable-for-asus-and-seasonic/

[valid garden]

the 980 Ti is about as much as a gem as the 4 gigabyte RX 580

it just isnt

unless you find it for like 20$-30$

[azure topaz]

for the case of the 570/580 4GB i wouldnt even pay this id just see if you can get it for free

if you can pay 50$ for a 8GB model id do that instead

[valid garden]

I bought one for 30$ and it died because i lost the silicon lottery and it hated overclocking

but of course, MSI just reused the gaming x board for the armor oc

[azure topaz]

that is a typical thing

[valid garden]

so a cooler swap fixed the cooling issues on my armor oc 580

my armor oc 580 handles overclocking better

[azure topaz]

says its for asus and seasonic

[snow mauve]

yoiu lost the silicon lottery lol

[mortal plume]

how do y'all deal with double clicking? i really don't wanna buy a new mouse ts is 200 dollars 💀

[mellow sonnet]

what are you looking at thats 200

[mortal plume]

mainly just the same thing i have

tho even if i get 1 tier down it's still 100

i got a 502x plus (i only paid 112 cause i got a crazy good deal on an open box one 2 years ago) and they're like 180-200 where i live

even if i just get a g502x wireless it's 100 bucks

and besides the back and forward buttons there's no double clicking

biggest downside of being a g502 fan is nobody does a good copy

[mellow sonnet]

why do you need a mouse for 200 if it breaks

[mortal plume]

i alr have the mouse

but it's broken now and i am not buying a new one

that's why i'm asking people what they do when their mouse starts double clicking

[deep musk]

Get a g305 lightspeed

[mortal plume]

because it works but it's annoying

[mortal plume]

had one, too small

gave it to my friend

[deep musk]

Get a new one

[mellow sonnet]

i got a corsair wired thing for like 20 euros i dont remember the exact price and its going strong

[mortal plume]

my wired g502 was running fine too but i wanted to switch to wireless because the cable was pissing me off

[mellow sonnet]

my last corsair mouse lasted me like 7 years

until the sensor died somehow

[mortal plume]

damn

i think it's an absolute joke that this expensive ass mouse is double clicking on 2 buttons i barely even use after just 2 years

[mellow sonnet]

nothing matches the reliability of cheap corsair mice

[mortal plume]

when my regular g502 had no such issues after 4 years

[mellow sonnet]

i couldve had the mouse for longer only if the sensor still worked

[mortal plume]

true

i think you can solder a new switch onto the mouse

as for the sensor yeah you're kinda cooked

[mellow sonnet]

i had my current one for almost 2 years now

[mortal plume]

i really wish that there were good alternatives to the g502 with the same shape and features

but there's genuinely none

and don't say the basilisk that thing is just shape no features

[mellow sonnet]

also for a cheap mouse it had 8k polling rate as max

[mortal plume]

jesus

[mellow sonnet]

"had" has

i just use it at 2k

but 8k is possible

[mortal plume]

yeah no keychron has no excuses charging you 140 bucks for a keyboard with only a 1k polling rate

idc if it's got walnut 140 and no 8k in a hall effect is criminal

[mellow sonnet]

my kb also got 8k

i paid like 120 euros for it 3 years ago

also corsair

my ram is corsair, flawless operation

[mortal plume]

yeah i plan on switching my pc over to full corsair whenever i rework it and upgrade it

my arctic fans decided that new software will no longer detect them

[mellow sonnet]

corsair is solid

[mortal plume]

and now i'm stuck with rgbless rgb fans

[mellow sonnet]

like the metal gear

[mortal plume]

and ram that works just fine but only with icue software

[mellow sonnet]

i mean snake

[mortal plume]

but yea

don't buy the g502x plus it's bad, get the non rgb wireless if ur committed to the shape and features like me

[mellow sonnet]

also no rgb on the mouse because i find it useless on a device that is covered by the hand

[mortal plume]

and don't get no k2 he

[craggy fiber]

whats the most average ssd i can buy that isnt that expensive lol

[mortal plume]

wd blue are fairly solid and not obscenely priced

[mellow sonnet]

in case youre wondering what kind of kb i use its the k70, a specific one

[mortal plume]

i'd say crucial p3 but they killed crucial like george did to lenny

[mellow sonnet]

i got 2 wd blues and theyre solid

[craggy fiber]

is that of mice nad men reference i havent read the book

[mellow sonnet]

100% health after 2 years

[mortal plume]

yea

[limpid ivy]

Lol I have it atm. Hate it and like it, but have another board on the way next week.

[mortal plume]

i have one too

[limpid ivy]

TMR and mechanical so best of both worlds

[mortal plume]

i had to pay 200 bucks because poland sucks

[mellow sonnet]

i buy whatever

[mortal plume]

i love how it looks but hate how it sounds and performs

[limpid ivy]

Sound I can deal with, it's one of the better sounding boards I own.

[mortal plume]

keychron keyboards are built to be good for the first 2 weeks to a month that reviewers use them for then turn to absolute shit right after

[limpid ivy]

Battery life is bad so it lives plugged in 90% of the time

[craggy fiber]

have ssds gone up in price? £165 for 1tb?

[mortal plume]

my friend's bone stock ajazz ak820 mogs the sound of my k2

[mellow sonnet]

im only serious when it comes to part brands and monitors, peripherals are whatever

[mortal plume]

yea they have

[limpid ivy]

I just hate the switch options it is limited to

[mortal plume]

i don't even use the wireless bc it's pointless

the cable length is criminal tho, fym it's only 1 meter

[mellow sonnet]

i use some random ass logitech desk speakers

[limpid ivy]

basically the bigger complaint with keychron when it comes to some of their tmr boards.

Oh I barely use the stock cable

[mortal plume]

i hate keychron's quality control and long term use

[empty quartz]

I just finished building what i honestly think is the best looking lego car set

[mortal plume]

quality control is absolutely fucking abysmal on them and i will die on this hill

[limpid ivy]

tbf this is my 4th keychron board so it's been decent otherwise

[nocturne crater]

Never even heard of them

[mortal plume]

my v1 was so bad i couldn't pull out half of the switches because they were in too tight

[empty quartz]

:3

[limpid ivy]

out of the 8 other boards I got I rotate between.

[mortal plume]

and the k2 he comes assembled unevenly

there's places where the metal sticks out above the wood

and the fact that it's only half metal is insane like what year are we living in

[limpid ivy]

The MacOs and Windows switch on my V1 broke when I was putting back together lol.

[nocturne crater]

I’ve always used either Corsair or Logitech keyboards. Currently using a cheap 70 dollar Logitech keyboard with blue switches

[limpid ivy]

So it is stuck in windows for the rest of its life, but it's just a test board now.

[mortal plume]

their quality control is awful, they sound good for a month at best before the grease in the stabs wears out and the lube on the switches evaporates

[pulsar root]

How much would an rtx 6000 would have to cost for you to buy it

[mortal plume]

genuinely dog shit brand

do not fall for their lies

[nocturne crater]

200 dollars

[mortal plume]

you want a good budget keyboard? get an ajazz ak820

[mellow sonnet]

i love the fact my keyboard has a detachable usbc cable

[mortal plume]

you want a good hall effect? get literally anything else

you want it to sound good? build your own

don't buy keychron

[nocturne crater]

I’ve had a 3080ti for the past 4 years, EVGA Hybrid that still works amazingly

[mortal plume]

3.6ms input delay in a category where <1ms is the standard

[mellow sonnet]

i found an evga 980 for sale, do i get?

[mortal plume]

for 140 dollars when keyboards for literally half of it reach 0.8ms

[nocturne crater]

I don’t plan to upgrade my gpu until 2032

[mellow sonnet]

never had a evga card before

[limpid ivy]

H2 HE was my first magnetic switch keyboard. Did I need it..nah, just got it to try out, but I can't return it now the return window is out.

[mortal plume]

words cannot describe how much of a scam keychron is as a brand

get anything else in the custom space

[nocturne crater]

Great for a retro game of for your living room, if you basically just want to treat it as a console. But ultimately depends upon price, because that gpu doesn’t get driver updates anymore

[mortal plume]

yeah it's my first magnetic and 2nd custom but i love how it looks

[mellow sonnet]

greatly aware, as mentioned before in chat i already got a 960 on hands

[mortal plume]

i have no plans on replacing it bc sunk cost fallacy and whatnot

i'll just try my best to fix my issues with it whenever i get the money

but rn i'm all in on aquariums so it's gonna be neglected for at least another year

[nocturne crater]

If you think it’s a good price, why not? If you’re looking at cards like that, I doubt anything new would interest you at all

[limpid ivy]

I'm just too far into the hobby so I buy random boards that interest me or parts and build my own.

[latent gull]

Those looked cool if you needed trigger controls for like racing or anything, but mostly useless

[mellow sonnet]

as mentioned before in chat, i plan on collecting old gpus starting with 900 series

[mortal plume]

valid, at least ur presumably in a country where the price of custom keyboard stuff isn't obscene

[limpid ivy]

Ha that is the fun part I can't get it to work .

[mellow sonnet]

just found a great deal on a 980

[limpid ivy]

It's not too bad yea.

[mellow sonnet]

10 series is too much for what i would do with them

[mortal plume]

here i'm stuck dealing with either import pricing or some other bullshit

[latent gull]

Do games just not support it or what?

[limpid ivy]

Only the group buy boards and any of the more expensive ones are out of reach.

[nocturne crater]

I’d say go for it then, if you’re trying make like a display for it

[mortal plume]

it's 50 bucks for a set of durock v2 screw ins

[tardy scarab]

Hey guys I just got Forza horizon 6 and my 5070 is absolutely struggling to run game is only using 10gb out of my 12gb I’m getting micro stutters and crashing any ideas

[mortal plume]

what's ur cpu, storage space left, ram etc

[limpid ivy]

FH5 should support it so I tried with my xbox controller plugged in but it did not work.

[mortal plume]

and temps

[tardy scarab]

64GB of ram r7 5800XT and 2 tb left

[mellow sonnet]

i might even use it for a week, used the 960 in the pc for few days and it just sucks for 4k playback as it runs out of vram on the desktop alone

[mortal plume]

oh and another issue with screw ins, they cost extra

[mortal plume]

might be drivers

[mellow sonnet]

it played farcry 3 well

[tardy scarab]

I updated all to latest drivers

[nocturne crater]

Lol

[mellow sonnet]

age accurate gaming

[latent gull]

You plugged it into an Xbox controller?

[mortal plume]

that or the game just fucking hates you, fh5 had that issue for me before and would crash a lot

and then just fixed itself a few months later

[tardy scarab]

Apparently people with 5090s are having similar issues and low frame rates

[limpid ivy]

To make it work I had to have my controller on and plugged in then I linked the WASD to one of the joysticks and all

[mellow sonnet]

i might go for the 980 if its fully functional

[mortal plume]

oh and quickly going back to keychron's quality

[tardy scarab]

I feel like they did not optimize FH6 enough before release

[latent gull]

Oh, that seems… excessive. Was that through steam or Xbox app?

[nocturne crater]

I think if you can’t get Forza running, the next best step is Burnout Revenge for the PS2

[limpid ivy]

It's complicated without asking, luckily I was talking to one of the keychron server mods so they were able to help me.

[mortal plume]

their keycaps wear out fast and their stems snap in just 1.5 years of use

[limpid ivy]

steam

[mortal plume]

genuinely awful quality all around for the whole brand

nothing is safe

[latent gull]

Wait that’s the official suggestion from keychron? Shits fucked ig, glad I never bought one

[mortal plume]

also they never lowered the price of the v1

[limpid ivy]

Some had luck others didn't

[tardy scarab]

I’m kinda bummed out cause I’ve been waiting for this game forever and it seems like a big let down for us pc users

[limpid ivy]

Really depends.

[mortal plume]

a mechanical custom with a full plastic plate mounted case

it's still 100 dollars in a world of 100 dollar hall effect alu cased keyboards

[ivory mountain]

runs great on my 6900xt, what hardware are you running?

[mortal plume]

again, the ajazz ak820 is what the keychron v1 should've been

genuinely amazing option i will die on this hill

[limpid ivy]

Waiting for my steam controller reservation so FH5 and if I buy FH6 will be played on a racing wheel lol.

[tardy scarab]

R7 5800xt 64GB g skill ram 5070 ventus 3 x corsair 360mm aio and. NZXT h7 flow with a tomahawk max b550 mobo

[mortal plume]

yeah it's prob just forza acting up

[tardy scarab]

Like I have good hardware and cooling so I know it’s not an issue on my side

no overclocking or undervolting either

I’m running all factory clock speeds and ram timings

[mortal plume]

yeah game just hates you

many such cases like actually

[tardy scarab]

Like it’s playable in some parts of the maps but then it goes full penguin quality then I don’t wanna play anymore

[ivory mountain]

even my forza at 1440p extreme no RT is pulling ~8gb vram so idk how yours is pulling 10

[median warren]

Oh cute, I'm pulling 11.5gb vram on 3440x1440p

Max settings, RT

[ivory mountain]

Uh cool

[tardy scarab]

Yeah something is def wrong with the game

[median warren]

Can you

Give me your magical powers

And tell me how I can save 3.5 GB of vram

[ivory mountain]

youre running a higher res and RT obv ur gonna use more vram 😭

[tardy scarab]

I’m on extreme 1440p no rT

[median warren]

Damn it, reasonable answer

[ivory mountain]

my 6900xt sucks with ray tracing, except for pragmata, idk why it works so well on there

[median warren]

I wonder how a 9070xt would perform in Fh6 tbh

I'm sure there's benchmarks

[ivory mountain]

wont have to worry about ray tracing shittiness for much longer im getting a 5070ti in 23 days 😩

and a qd oled

[median warren]

The countdown begins

[median warren]

I'm getting woled

[ivory mountain]

W bday countdown

[median warren]

By the end of this month

[median warren]

Hell yeah

[tardy scarab]

I turned DLSS completely off and still get 10gb of VRAM. Usage and a low video memory warning even tho I have another 2 gb of memory left

[latent pasture]

cuz its one of those games where rt basically doesnt do anything or is super mild

[lilac mist]

I know this is fine for a NAS but 32gb of RAM with a Pentium

[latent pasture]

even on reflective surfaces the stuff isnt significantly different

in my opinion at least

[tardy scarab]

Also the game puts an extreme load on my CPU as well like 88%

[median warren]

88% cpu usage?

Is your system okay? Does it need therapy

[tardy scarab]

Yes only while in game

[solar moat]

cpu% dont realy mean much

[lilac mist]

I am tempted to throw the 4070 into a SFF machine I have to play Forza on the 4k entertainment room TV

[median warren]

Imagine 100% GPU utilisation, 10gb of vram and 88% CPU usage in a game

That's insane

[ivory mountain]

Idk the difference and im too lazy to use google

[tardy scarab]

I think it’s cause the cpu may be choking the GPU

[median warren]

White oled, brighter colours better HDR

But colour accuracy is not as good

[mortal plume]

dude my shitty ram choice lowk ended up making it so i can break even on my pc if i sold it now cause of the prices going up

[tardy scarab]

I don’t think I should have paired a 5070 with a r7 5800xt processor

[median warren]

Well, it could be worse but it's not a bad system

[mortal plume]

i spent like 1250 on it total and 150 of it was the ram cause my dumb ass wanted dominator platinum and now it's worth 300

i can literally break even for selling it now

[lilac mist]

a 5800xt should even in 2026 be an alright CPU

only midrange nowadays though

[median warren]

I think you need 9950x3d2 and 5090

[mortal plume]

5700x3d my beloved

[tardy scarab]

Yeah I wanted to get a 5800x3d but it was hard to find one local

[mortal plume]

to this day only a 10 fps difference at most in 1440p between it and a 9800x3d

[lilac mist]

I have a 5800xt in one of the 4 LAN party machines for my entertainment room but it's only a ARC A750 in that box

[mortal plume]

and i got the thing for 175

fuck am5 🔥

20 years of am4 baby

[tardy scarab]

All other games run amazing on this system but Forza

Modded Minecraft with shaders I get 200 fps

[mortal plume]

only games that run like shit on my pc are helldivers 2 and subnautica 2

[median warren]

Yeah but theres a lot of factors

[mortal plume]

except helldivers has no excuses, it's just poorly optimized

[median warren]

Amount of mods, type of mods, what shader, shader settings, etc

[median warren]

It is?

I've never felt that

[mortal plume]

dude i get 50 fps in cities 😭

and in jungles

it was 40 at 1080p because the game is mad unoptimized on the cpu front

it's the only game where i got cpu bottlenecked at 1080 everything else had no such problems

even star citizen and tarkov didn't cause cpu issues

[median warren]

Now for the real test

City skylines 2

[tardy scarab]

My boy is running a 5080 on a similar setup to mine he says his processor just maxxed out on most games

[mortal plume]

true

why every game with a 2 in it run like absolute bootycheeks

[tardy scarab]

Omg fr

[sharp ivy]

Yayyy 4:3 Content

[tardy scarab]

Can I send a pic of my rig

[median warren]

Usually because the first variant of the game got released WAY WAY too long ago, when a 1080ti was the best GPU you could get, and the titan was considered baller asf

And today idk

[mortal plume]

i will never get over how the cheapest 1080 tis were literally less than the cheapest 5060

[median warren]

Yeah

[mortal plume]

while being the best cards of their generation

[median warren]

1080ti still holds the world record btw, well. 4 of them do

[valid canyon]

I mean
Tech costs money

RnD and whatever the fuck

[tardy scarab]

Don’t mind the one noctua fan

[median warren]

Clean your pc

[mortal plume]

true but i refuse to believe it costs anything within the range of 2000 dollars to make a 5090

[tardy scarab]

Doing it this weekend

[mortal plume]

guarantee you it's sub 500 for manufacturing

if not less

[median warren]

https://tenor.com/view/zaunvi-caitvitwt-gif-1251875630135871970

[valid canyon]

Yeh dude, it’s absolutely filthy, have you considered drowining it in isopropyl alcohol so tomi can feel at peace?

[median warren]

Yes

Please

I'd feel satisfied if you did that

Although if you did do, you'd be fine

As long as you let it dry out afterwards

[valid canyon]

Why not? Those are hefty chips, area wise and technically

[tardy scarab]

I have pets it’s hard to keep it clean with 3 furballs in the house

[median warren]

Pets or pc, you choose

[mortal plume]

call me crazy but i don't believe a low end gaming pc should cost 1000 dollars

[valid canyon]

No no I understand
Have you considered crowing Tomi in isopropyl alcohol so you can feel at peace?

[latent pasture]

nothing costs that material wise
its all to pay for the factory/machines/development time

[tardy scarab]

Bahahaha

[valid canyon]

A low end gaming PC should probably not have a 50XX card though

[median warren]

I don't clean my pc btw

[mortal plume]

still, feels like we're just being fleeced because they realized they can charge more without improving enough to warrant it

[tardy scarab]

Btw I made sure the 5070 was happy it has a 240hz 1440p monitor

I went from a 2070 to a 5070

[valid canyon]

It has always been like that. Cutting edge tech costs a pretty penny. Last gen hardware is manageable

[mortal plume]

it gets to a point

[tardy scarab]

Btw Amazon has amazing dual monitor desk mounts surprisingly

[valid canyon]

Anything under 100 is a win in my book

[tardy scarab]

I do need help in the cable management department

Should I even send a picture of the back of my desk

[mortal plume]

the price thing becomes especially bad in countries like poland where cards like the 5080 start at 1500 when their msrp should be 1000

[nocturne crater]

5080s are even more where I live

[mortal plume]

almost all tech here is either as expensive or more expensive than in countries where people make 4x as much

like why i gotta pay 500 more than a guy in america for the same shit

[nocturne crater]

I've had a 3080ti for 4 years, I want to keep using it for another 6

[mortal plume]

i plan on upgrading to a 4080 super whenever i get the money, those have gone down to 1000 for a used one

[nocturne crater]

What do you have now?

[mortal plume]

4070

but i'm a goblin and i want more

[nocturne crater]

Pretty good card, it has 12gbs of vram no?

[mortal plume]

and frankly the 4080 super is smth i have the most hope in lasting like 5 or more years of game graphics improving

[mortal plume]

yea

[naive shale]

Looking for a solution, one laptop fan is spinning and working while the other is not

Can vc or send pics lmk

[tardy scarab]

Is it dusty

Laptops usually get pretty dusty

[naive shale]

I removed and cleaned it

[mortal plume]

broken fan

[tardy scarab]

Worn out fan

[mortal plume]

or not connected properly/at all

[tardy scarab]

Or broken connection

[mortal plume]

yea

[naive shale]

how to check connection

[median warren]

4080 super owner here

[nocturne crater]

3080ti is pretty much equal to that in terms of raw raster, maybe a little better. But it doesn’t have the native frame gen support, which sucks

[median warren]

It's great

[tardy scarab]

Check with a multimeter

[naive shale]

It’s connected right here

[mortal plume]

yea it's abt on par with a regular 3080 actually

[tardy scarab]

If it’s above 5 v or at 5v it’s ok

[mortal plume]

3080 is like 5-10% better on average

[naive shale]

idk what that is lmao

[mortal plume]

and 3080 ti is a little more than that

going for a 4080 super bc the regular 4080 is just a 4070 ti super with a higher tdp so why even bother

and anything below it isn't worth the extra money spent as the performance isn't much better

while with the 4080 super i'm getting at least 40% more with as much as 60% in some games

i think 400 extra dollars for 60% more performance is pretty worth it

i will never not be anxious about that hellish connector tho

genuinely fuck em for that one, evil choice

[nocturne crater]

Before my 3080ti, I had a GTX 680

[tardy scarab]

Buy one brother it is super useful

[mortal plume]

yeah before this 4070 i had an rx 7600 and before that a 1650

[tardy scarab]

You can check power supplies and fans and multiple other things

[mortal plume]

7600 will forever be the reason why i will avoid radeon it was such a shit gpu

[naive shale]

considering buying mini pc is it worth it

[mortal plume]

lost like a third of it's value in a year while my 4070 only lost a third recently

and the guy who bought it had to have it repaired after just a couple months

and i had nonstop driver and temp issues with it

[frigid blade]

for what

[tulip sparrow]

JUST A HEADS UP PEEPS https://www.androidauthority.com/steam-controller-puck-pixel-watch-sparks-3669928/

[naive shale]

Games

[valid canyon]

Eh dépends? If it has gpu pass through then why not

[mortal plume]

none of which are present with my 4070 despite me using the same pc for both

[nocturne crater]

Depends on what you’d want it for. I’d only recommend them for office work or for a local plex server or something

[frigid blade]

you mean eGPU?

[valid canyon]

Yep

[frigid blade]

pass through is for virtualization

[tardy scarab]

Honestly dell optiplex with a 5090 sounds like a good build

[mortal plume]

type shit

[frigid blade]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/381193783296917507/1498648214633713734/heart-locket-8f0e116e.gif

[mortal plume]

dude u just reminded me i have an optiplex on my floor i still haven't done anything with

[grizzled frost]

they make some pretty good dell optiplexes if you shop brand new

[valid canyon]

I really don’t care for the terminology

Get the one that can handle the external gpu. Without that it’s a deadbeat piece of shit

[grizzled frost]

was there always the green dot?

[frigid blade]

https://tenor.com/view/iroh-my-beloved-beloved-heart-avatar-the-last-airbender-gif-27121731

[grizzled frost]

aka e-gpu support

[valid canyon]

Iroh im gonna fight you some day

[frigid blade]

Right but calling eGPU something its not is not good lol

[valid canyon]

Run I’m rapidly approaching

[tardy scarab]

Mini pc w/5090 sound appetizing

[grizzled frost]

Do i send a picture of my second amendment safe or no

[frigid blade]

also, mini pcs without eGPUs are pretty good now

you can get a 4060 ish performance for like $1.5k (iGPU)

[grizzled frost]

some mini pcs have DGPUs

[valid canyon]

ATP just get a Mac mini

They’re nice

[valid canyon]

Unfair

[grizzled frost]

Depends on what you wanna do, but yeah that’s honestly a good choice for a lot of people

[grizzled frost]

Life ain’t fair

[tardy scarab]

I absolutely hate Mac I hate anything that is made on a legacy model

[shy arch]

Yeah, plus I'm pretty sure you can thunderbolt a gpu to it

[valid canyon]

Only for ai shit

[grizzled frost]

what do you even mean by “made on a legacy model”

[shy arch]

Oh nvm, egpu's are only for intel mac minis

[tardy scarab]

Built to destroy it self when it’s new counterpart arrives

[valid canyon]

Eh?

[grizzled frost]

Yeah that’s very much not true for macs

anything M1 or later runs phenomenally even today

[valid canyon]

Apple pcs have always been a great thing to get for long term support

Intel Macs are meh but even still

[grizzled frost]

Really the only apple product that noticeably gets worse overtime is the IPhone

Almost every other product they sell has amazing long term support

and even then, swap the battery out on your iphone and your good to go for another couple years

[tardy scarab]

There’s also not much aftermarket hardware you can run in a Mac

[shy arch]

My 2014 mbp still runs beautifully

No worse than it was when new, except for battery ofc

[grizzled frost]

There’s lots of stuff you can run with its monstrous TB4/5 ports

[shy arch]

Throw in a bit of oclp and even better

[grizzled frost]

But also, you kind don’t need to run external hardware on a mac, it performs phenomenally on its own

Apple ain’t perfect, but they did pretty damn good with their macbooks

[shy arch]

Yeah, apple silicon is lowk great

intel, though...

I wouldn't recommend an intel mac

[grizzled frost]

Oh yeah, intel mac’s really kinda sucked

Everything since the M1 has been great though

[tardy scarab]

I don’t really like intel in general they got better for a point but AMD is way more affordable

[grizzled frost]

Intel is actually kinda awesome in the mobile space rn

their new panther lake looks really nice

[tardy scarab]

Yeah I’m talking desktop stuff

[grizzled frost]

Yeah AMD has been soundly beating them for a good few years now

[tardy scarab]

I switched from intel back in 2015

[grizzled frost]

the 250k plus and 270k plus are some damn nice chips for the money though

Honestly the only intel chips worth considering

[tardy scarab]

I do like their laptop ultra chips tho I have one for my work laptop runs amazing when I’m doing spreadsheets and running machine coding

[grizzled frost]

There are some usecases where they beat out their amd price counterparts

[tardy scarab]

But when it comes to gaming pcs I always go for team reds CPUs

[grizzled frost]

I’ve been a loyal mac user on the laptop side for a few years now since i use a lot of Audio/Visual software, and it just plain works better on mac

For desktop, Windows with AMD cpu and NVIDIA gpu all the way

Servers i mostly use old ass intel xeons since they have good price to performance

[shy arch]

Tho the 50 series lower end gpu's are a bit ehh

psst psst 5060 psst psst

[tardy scarab]

Yeah the only time you need newer is if your running extreme AI environments

[grizzled frost]

Yeah, the only things worth buying from the 50 series is the 5060ti 16gb, the 5070ti, and the 5090

[grizzled frost]

Yeah and i don’t, so it’s a non-issue in my case

Though i am going to be getting a gpu compute node soon-ish

[shy arch]

Yeah, the way their price tanks is wild

[grizzled frost]

Right now i run 2 2690v4’s and 2 2690 0’s

[shy arch]

My server came with 2 2620 v3's, still gotta upgrade those

[grizzled frost]

Future server will most likely be dual Intel Xeon Gold 6252’s

[tardy scarab]

My work server has one of the new EPYC CPUs recently was upgraded after a lightning strike smoked the server room

[shy arch]

and then i had a server with 2 xeon silver 4208's but it got destroyed

[grizzled frost]

though that may change a bit depending on the exact pricing when i finally pull the trigger

[grizzled frost]

Sadge

Rest In Peace poor EPYC

[tardy scarab]

Bro the server’s motherboard looked like melted butter when we pulled it off the rack

[grizzled frost]

My god

[tardy scarab]

Talk about poor power surge and lightning arrester mitigation

[grizzled frost]

Did it strike nearby and back feed the ground connection?

[tardy scarab]

Def wasn’t up to code

[shy arch]

I'm pretty sure my "server room" has better surge protection than that

[tardy scarab]

Yeah hit mains line went back feed through the breaker and even smoked my coworkers phone too

[grizzled frost]

Damn

[shy arch]

Wild

[grizzled frost]

I do! :)

Worst case scenario that UPS blows up

[tardy scarab]

That’s a beautiful rack

[shy arch]

Fr

[grizzled frost]

Just don’t ask to see the back

[shy arch]

Like holy that ac looks so clean

[grizzled frost]

We don’t talk about the rats nest in the back

[tardy scarab]

The patch cables are a work of art

[shy arch]

Quite a lot of disks as well

[grizzled frost]

24 2.5in 1.2tb SAS drives in a 4 vdev raidz2 pool on my main NAS

[tardy scarab]

We just got 6 RTX 6000s for our AI rendering server

[grizzled frost]

Dual 512 sata ssd as a metadata cache (mirror), plus mirrored 256gb data SSDs for boot

[tardy scarab]

The graphics design department is very happy now

[grizzled frost]

That’s the 1u R630 plus the JBOD above it

then i have a non-functional R730xd, and a custom built 2u super micro LGA2011 build with 512g of ddr3 1133

[shy arch]

Wow

[tardy scarab]

Anyone else find the sounds of server fans relaxing

[shy arch]

YES

[grizzled frost]

10g networking with my ubiquiti switch, plus a 1g switch for anything rj45 and management

[shy arch]

it's like calming white noise

[fallow yacht]

sup nerdz what did i miss

[valid canyon]

What in the fuck

[grizzled frost]

They give me tinnitus if i’m around them too long

[valid canyon]

Have you all never worked in a datacenter?

[grizzled frost]

I have not

[valid canyon]

I’d pay good money to never hear server fans EVER again

[fallow yacht]

nah but personally i like the smell of a computer lab

[shy arch]

I haven't set up networking yet, so i just have 1.5gig wifi rn

[valid canyon]

Bitch please you have your own

[fallow yacht]

yk that specific smell

[tardy scarab]

I currently work at assembly plant for ford motor company I help program automation machines and fabrication machines

[grizzled frost]

Yeah that 24 bay 2.5in JBOD is loud

[shy arch]

language

[grizzled frost]

Add in the sound of 24 12k rpm SAS drives and it’s even worse

[shy arch]

I've always wondered how loud factories are

Can't possibly be worse than a server room

[valid canyon]

Im not six mom, this ain’t a funeral house

[tardy scarab]

Very loud the robotic stepper motors are satisfying tho

[grizzled frost]

Loud enough that everyone is required to wear hearing protection, and still get hearing damage after some years

[south arrow]

Its pretty intense ngl the hummm is real

[grizzled frost]

You ever heard a drop forge running?

[valid canyon]

Hey hey hey at least get some sound isolation

[shy arch]

Only factory I've been in was a lead recycling plant

[valid canyon]

WORM HI

[grizzled frost]

My sound insulation is that it’s in an isolated corner of the house in its own room

[grizzled frost]

He’s been lurking for a while

[south arrow]

[valid canyon]

Per usual

[tardy scarab]

The building has so much sound deadening you can shoot a gun and no one would hear it

[shy arch]

My server is in my bedroom...

[valid canyon]

Uuuuught I don’t wanna go to woooooorkkkkkk

[grizzled frost]

good to know

[valid canyon]

They’ve canceled the corporate event

[grizzled frost]

I think i’d go insane

[valid canyon]

No free food

[grizzled frost]

My rack is a 700w continuous load, i’d cook

[grizzled frost]

(peak 1000w)

[shy arch]

I don't use it all the time tho

only for the odd experiment here and there

[shy arch]

my server is peak 800w

2u tho so fan noise is a bit less than 1u

[south arrow]

Pixal3d license loosened up a bit need to test it at some point

[valid canyon]

2.4kW per feed, two feeds per rack gets SO fun

[grizzled frost]

the 2u JBOD is the loudest thing in my rack

10k rpm doesn’t sound good regardless of fan size

[shy arch]

Interesting

[grizzled frost]

At home or in the datacenter

[shy arch]

I've only tried stable diffusion

[valid canyon]

I failed to bully tech support to wear PPE

[valid canyon]

Dc, I’m not that rich

[grizzled frost]

I was about to say

[south arrow]

Trellis 2 is cool to using comfyui, ive been mostly using tripo but certainly running out of credits soon so back to the pc

[grizzled frost]

One day, they won’t be able to hear your complaints

[valid canyon]

True that

[shy arch]

Gl

[south arrow]

Made some slugs today for enemies of the leafs lol

[grizzled frost]

SLUGS

[grizzled frost]

Looks reminiscent of slugterra

[shy arch]

They look nice

[valid canyon]

Each feed is a 48 outlet smart pdu that has its own alerting and per-outlet measurement. My child, my beloved child

[solar moat]

https://tenor.com/bq0W3Aibeol.gif

[south arrow]

I thought itd be kinda fun

[grizzled frost]

You’re making my 3d models feel inadequate

[south arrow]

Thats just from tripos 16$ monthly sub to