tech-chat-2

[merry stirrup]

prolly not in advanced dram config then

[vapid belfry]

It was already set to 3200mhz

[merry stirrup]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35

[vestal granite]

yeah so thats saying you need DirectX Runtime to run this program

[merry stirrup]

i feel as though you have a 3200 kit then

but whatever, save and exit see if it turns on

[vapid belfry]

I dont see anything about SPD

[merry stirrup]

memory-z

yeah they all name it differently

board vendors

[merry stirrup]

xmp support info?

[vapid belfry]

Thats for DIMMA2

[merry stirrup]

but yeah it is a 3600 kit

[merry stirrup]

& only 1 xmp yeah

[velvet sedge]

then i get this when i try to install it

[vapid belfry]

I just REALLY dont want to undo my rtx 5070 to clear cmos I would love to avoid if possible lol

[merry stirrup]

yeah just save and exit, you set(it already was ig) to 3200, hopefully you dont have that much of a dud cpu

lol

fair enough, then dont do anything lol

but it will probably turn on

[vapid belfry]

Says 3200mhz dram frequency but both a xmp profiles are greyed out and seem to be locked at 3600mhz

I tried many times in the past with a xmp set to 3600mhz and pc wouldnt boot

[merry stirrup]

yeah

but we're setting it to 3200 w/xmp timings manually

[vapid belfry]

Ok here goes nothing..

https://tenor.com/view/ren-and-stimpy-button-red-button-gif-17817058773535336732

[merry stirrup]

[vapid belfry]

Any final words?

[merry stirrup]

racism

[vapid belfry]

Loool

This all thats changing

So is there a plan B if pc doesnt boot?

[merry stirrup]

you know the plan b

[vapid belfry]

Is it manually change timings and frequencies or just buy a 3200mhz kit?

[merry stirrup]

this is not your first radio

i mean we can do the first one its just how much time do you want to spend fiddling with it

you could literally just have the worst memory controller of all time or a pisspoor kit

[vapid belfry]

Ok so it successfully booted to windows

[merry stirrup]

yeah i figured

[vapid belfry]

Fml this is awesome

[merry stirrup]

go download and run zen timings off techpowerup

[vapid belfry]

Now do I send you the new ram info?

[merry stirrup]

i am 100 steps ahead

[vapid belfry]

Before I do I have CPUID HWMonitor would that suffice?

Yeah you're a fucking legendary beast

[merry stirrup]

zen timings generally more accepted

makes my life easier

[vapid belfry]

Anything to make your life easier

[merry stirrup]

although i think wondows may flag it as a virus but im pretty sure its just cause of the driver it uses

so more up to you, hwinfo is a better 2nd choice than hwmonitor

gives me most of the info

[vapid belfry]

Downloading zen timings

Ok next step?

[merry stirrup]

go find out if its better in star citizen

also you have 32gb ram lol

[vapid belfry]

At first glance are you seeing any difference?

[merry stirrup]

and its corsair

[vapid belfry]

In values

Yeah corsair gargabe rgb ram

[merry stirrup]

well if you had XMP off previously and no other settings changed, it was running at like 2133 or maybe 2666, with timings of sorts

so 3200 should be a little better

[vapid belfry]

It was running at 3200

I had it already set at 3200mhz

Manually

This is the first screenshot I sent prior to turning xmp on, you can see it at 3200mhz

I guess my question is, did turn on xmp but leaving it manually at 3200mhz change anything?

[pure garnet]

xmp was on in this screenshot btw

[vapid belfry]

No I had turned it on but didn't save and exit

@merry stirrup Theoretically, do you think getting my BIOS up to date would allow my CPU to run at 3600mhz?

Meh still getting the same performance in SC, does seem a little snappier but that could just be placebo and wishful thinking lol

Before Floppa's magic:

40-50 fps while in warp in space in 1st person inside my Tuarus, 80+ fps in 3rd person.
25-30 ms latency

After Floppa's magic
70 fps while in warp in space in 1st person inside my Tuarus, 105 fps in 3rd person
15 ms Latency

[edgy laurel]

Nearly two hours of friggin cool science https://youtu.be/v0afQ6w3Bjw

[merry stirrup]

possibly

[merry stirrup]

always repeatable if you want to gather definite data

[vapid belfry]

Should I do chipset driver too?

[merry stirrup]

probably wont do anything

[vapid belfry]

Well Star citizen is the worst game to benchmark, too many factors

[final glacier]

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/the-same-asrock-b850-motherboard-kills-three-ryzen-7-9700x-cpus-worth-usd1-000-one-by-one-in-south-korea-victim-used-updated-bios-and-never-overclocked-but-still-lost-all-their-processors

[merry stirrup]

nice

[shell void]

ayymd

[brisk jolt]

amd harbour butcher

[wraith steeple]

[final glacier]

with asrock boards it really feels like some sort of design flaw at this point, if it was a bios issue you'd think they'd have sorted it by now

[wraith steeple]

TFW ASrock had the best overall AM5 boards previous gen to this is wild

[brisk jolt]

its either design flaw or QC problem

[merry stirrup]

jarvis, get silly on it

[brisk jolt]

I’d be more willing to be on QC

This is still somewhat rare to happen

[final glacier]

or dodgey parts in the supply chain, capacitor plaguge in the early to late 2000's for example

[grizzled lily]

anyone got secret newegg black friday deal list early

[devout ridge]

the list:
tvs, maybe a couple laptops, that's it, cause fuck consumers

[fringe vigil]

Does BFriday end at the end of the month

[vapid belfry]

@merry stirrup Just wanna say a huge thanks bud for real for walking me through and helping me out

https://tenor.com/view/proud-goat-proud-of-you-paramount-plus-paramount-goat-football-gif-2374676430597613403

[merry stirrup]

no worries

if u want maybe a little faster do

[vapid belfry]

Next time around I'm going to try and updating my bios and try running AXMP in 3600mhz

See if the bios update lets my board run it

[merry stirrup]

tRRDS 4 tRRDL 4 tFAW 16

[vapid belfry]

Ok gonna save this!

[merry stirrup]

had to fix tFAW for ddr4 mb

[vapid belfry]

Copy that

[merry stirrup]

should work, I don't think there's a d4 ic that it doesn't work on

but don't quote me on that or something

[pure garnet]

my asrock timing is a bit blurry now

[merry stirrup]

still cooking though

aside from 128 tras

And everything else

[pure garnet]

i dont feel like karhuing 64

all i set by hand was twr tfrc2 and tfaw iirc

rest is just ocf doing ocf things

[teal orbit]

today: updating the bios to latest on the ewaste skylake machines fixes them not booting headless

[pure garnet]

@merry stirrup did you ever get tempted by tl04

it's been sitting on my desktop for a few days

[merry stirrup]

idk, they weren’t too certain on what it did in the post. i might ask

[topaz veldt]

yawn

[devout ridge]

Snail what timezone are you in?

[arctic bronze]

sneeze

[arctic bronze]

yes

[edgy laurel]

eastern

[topaz veldt]

best coast

[edgy laurel]

UTC−05:00

[topaz veldt]

yaP

[topaz veldt]

you are a mad man

[merry stirrup]

stable too

cl34 woulda been cool but was not happening

i think past 1.75 signal integrity

[topaz veldt]

lol

insane but what does it do for aida

[merry stirrup]

lol havent looked yet ill check when im not gaming

[topaz veldt]

if you want to stress it play BF6

its insane how much power it uses

[edgy laurel]

frostbite eats cores

[topaz veldt]

my stock CPU doing like 84C

[edgy laurel]

always has

i remember that thing eating my i7 930 in the battlefield 3 days

[merry stirrup]

i have an i7 920 i think?

[pure garnet]

damn bro might be time to upgrade

[topaz veldt]

Oh yeah I had i7 920 G0 at like 4.4

no speedstep, constant - must have used so much power

That system lasted me so long

[quaint osprey]

which one of these screws on this broken laptop work for my m.2 slot

[devout ridge]

depends on the motherboard threading

[pure garnet]

or just don't put on the heatsink

[edgy laurel]

first gen of HEDT

[oak vector]

Laptop repairs

[quaint osprey]

no the laptop is deadass broken but i need a screw for my m.2 cause one is missing

[edgy laurel]

Standby, using through-discord scanning. Will let you know in a minute

[pure garnet]

https://www.amazon.com/ELUTENG-Heatsink-Thermal-Silicone-Rubber/dp/B0CR69GG3W

put one of these on the nvme and just not use the stock heatsink

otherwise, pull one screw at time till you find one that fits

we can't guess thread width or length over a picture of screws in a laptop for a spec we dont know

[quaint osprey]

idk pulled some of these out of the broken ass laptop

[devout ridge]

those look like random ass screws indeed

[topaz veldt]

doing 500W thru GPU and 165W thru CPU,, hnng

I should go to bed

[devout ridge]

you should

it's technically tomorrow now

[lethal topaz]

not in the good timezone its not

[quaint osprey]

i don’t have a magnetic screwdriver so putting the screws in are gonna be shit

[lethal topaz]

should drop 80$ on the ltt screwdriver

[quaint osprey]

you sponsored or something

[lethal topaz]

no, just shilling a product i have no stake in

[quaint osprey]

i might just have to get a ltt screwdriver #notsponcered

[devout ridge]

wdym? i am in the good timezone

[devout ridge]

it's worth it, i have two

[lethal topaz]

you are in the timezone that makes up half of the internet i suppose

[devout ridge]

More or less

[lethal topaz]

west coast is best coast

[devout ridge]

Far from it, you don't even have tolerable beaches, or bojangles

[lethal topaz]

sorry but its true. east coast is least coast

[quaint osprey]

bojangles?

[devout ridge]

best fast food place in existence

[lethal topaz]

nah we actually just got a bojangles here but its not great. does not represent how good it is on the east

[topaz veldt]

@edgy laurel lol

[lethal topaz]

i have been nearly everwhere in the us and the only place that has decent weather on the east coast is new jersey, but thats also new jersey

[topaz veldt]

That's a ridiculous statement

[lethal topaz]

you cannot compare to southwest weather

nodiff

[topaz veldt]

Dry, hot, sand. yeah fuck that

[wraith steeple]

Saying the coast of Jersey has decent weather is wild

[lethal topaz]

most places ive been on the east has been in summer months

[topaz veldt]

the best part about the south west is wildfires and earthquakes yay

its like the continent hates it

[lethal topaz]

better than hurricanes

[devout ridge]

in the south east we just have hurricanes

hurricanes aren't bad, as long as the waffle house is open you're fine

[lethal topaz]

waffle house is fire

[devout ridge]

waffle houses closes, you're fucked

[shell void]

New York will always be the capital of the world no matter how much you cope and seethe

[topaz veldt]

I'd take a thousand hurricanes before I'd take West Coasters trying to manage their multi-state wild fires

[twin pine]

anyone have experience with their apple id being locked?

[topaz veldt]

That may change soon

[devout ridge]

hurricanes only recently became frequently catastrophic

[topaz veldt]

Hurricanes have always been catastrophic

[devout ridge]

gotta love those warming ocean temps feeding stronger storms

[wraith steeple]

In Michigan.... Seasons don't exist, it's whatever Mother Nature is in the mood for

[devout ridge]

We didn't use to have such frequent catastrophic storms

[lethal topaz]

the fires are only in california;
fires need dry, and things to burn.
oregon wet
arizona, nevada, W New Mexico have nothing to burn

[topaz veldt]

I've been evacuated in hurricanes my entire life from FL

[wraith steeple]

It even snowed in June..... FUCKING JUNE

[devout ridge]

It's a documented trend that hurricanes are becoming stronger and more frequent

[topaz veldt]

Bill Gates even admitted its fake news

[lethal topaz]

michigan is kinda nice the parts i visited

i do like the east coast but i do not like the weather

[devout ridge]

yeah i don't take a CEO's word on scientific matters

[wraith steeple]

West side and northern MI is beautiful

[devout ridge]

there's peer reviewed studies on the topic that are far more credible

[lethal topaz]

people hating on the west coast like my backyard doesnt look out to a cliff

[topaz veldt]

Add to this that in 1875 they couldn't see more than a mile away... and radar wasn't even invented until 1935 and not used for mainstream weather forecasting until 1959 LOL

[wraith steeple]

The west side of MI I dare say is underrated

[shell void]

bow to Her Majesty you schmuck

[wraith steeple]

Even north and UP

[topaz veldt]

But hurricanes plummeted at the peak of leaded fuel and 6000 lb V8 land yachts

Its like it begs further questions

[devout ridge]

Almost like short term changes don't affect long term trends due to environmental changes

[indigo walrus]

Possibly the screw holding down the WiFi card.

[topaz veldt]

Almost like literally lacking the technology to see past a few miles made it hard for storm tracking

[devout ridge]

even in the last 50 years the trend has continued

[topaz veldt]

50 years ago it plummeted

1970s was the height of smog and pollution

that rationale makes no sense at all

[topaz veldt]

The catalytic converter wasn't implemented until 1975... so CO emissions and NOX through the roof, but all the pollution/climate change weather was at an all time low, weird

[devout ridge]

Where exactly does the Atmospheric CO2 plummet where these beneficial changes occurred?

[lethal topaz]

this is why we manifested destiny

all pictures ive taken

[topaz veldt]

What source is this random chart of global CO2 collection from?

1960 we couldn't see russia putting nukes in cuba

but we can read the worlds CO2... Cmon dude

[devout ridge]

www.climate.gov

[lethal topaz]

probably carbon ice dating from antartica

[devout ridge]

The modern record of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels began with observations recorded at Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. This graph shows the station's monthly average carbon dioxide measurements since 1958 in parts per million (ppm). The seasonal cycle of highs and lows (small peaks and valleys) is driven by Northern Hemisphere summer vegetation growth, which reduces atmospheric carbon dioxide, and winter decay, which increases it. The long-term trend of rising carbon dioxide levels is driven by human activities. At Mauna Loa, the highest monthly value each year occurs in May. In May 2024, carbon dioxide hit just under 427 ppm—a new record. NOAA Climate.gov image, based on Mauna Loa monthly mean data from NOAA Global Monitoring Lab.

[topaz veldt]

Fucking cavemen not using catalytic converters and shit

CO2 pollutoin thru the roof circa 20M years ago

[devout ridge]

I don't see how that is at all relevant?

[topaz veldt]

You are quoting a measurement and deeming it responsible for climate "warmth" and yet there surely was no emissions 5M years ago that would lend to the same synopsis but we just ignore it

[lethal topaz]

the earth had different conditions 5M years ago

the earth was very hot for a while

[topaz veldt]

including global warming apparently

Dinosaurs not driving fuel efficient vehicles and shit

Its cyclic

[lethal topaz]

global warming just shows humans have had a measurable impact on the overall temperature of the planet

[devout ridge]

Correct, but we're drifting from that natural cycle due to human activities

[topaz veldt]

I think fish in a tank think t hey're very important, also

[devout ridge]

improper analogy

[lethal topaz]

is it bad to think that both the earth goes through heating and cooling cycles, and that humans have a measurable impact on global temperature?

[topaz veldt]

The science is there people just choose not to read it

It also doesn't fund lobbyists

We are quite literally in cycle with thousands and thousands of years of fluctuations

[lethal topaz]

thats cool

[topaz veldt]

It is really cool

[lethal topaz]

i bet theres a mathmatical equation you can use to represent that graph

[topaz veldt]

but that doesn't fund my new $900M city project to install EV chargers

(nevermind the primary generation method of electricity in the US is fossil fuel lol)

[lethal topaz]

well hey with power demand being so high maybe the us will want to compete with china in nuclear power

[devout ridge]

a, Power plant generation is vastly more efficient than combustion engines
b, the use of fossil fuels is a primary concern for climate change activists

[lethal topaz]

my primary concern is what am i gonna print now

i need more things to organize my shelves

[topaz veldt]

1.45M metric tons of CO2 from ICE vehicles annually, 1.567M metric tons of CO2 from electrical generation

[lethal topaz]

not to dog on ICE vehicles but isnt there a lot more joules being produced by power plants than cars

[topaz veldt]

To power cars

Remove the EVs from the road and the requirement would plummet

[lethal topaz]

i dont even think they are that big of a factor today compared to AI requirements of power plants

[topaz veldt]

10-15 years EVs are going to prove to be one of the most caustic technologies implemented

[topaz veldt]

huge factor - most of SE PA has had its electricl grid upsized because it couldn't support EVs in people homes in summer

[lethal topaz]

SE PA being south eastern Pennsylvania?

[topaz veldt]

Yes

Basically entire infrastructure of PECO

[lethal topaz]

zamn

[topaz veldt]

HVAC is more efficient than ever

Most homes are on natural gas/propane cooking

The only surge is the demand for EVs really

[zealous orchid]

Hi guys

[lethal topaz]

hello whatsapp freeman

[zealous orchid]

Gonna put this little guy in my dell optiplex 3050, which is kinda fitting lol

[lethal topaz]

does your optiplex have a full length pcie bracket?

[pure garnet]

do not pay $230 for that

[lethal topaz]

yeah you would be better off with an arc a380 for that price

[pure garnet]

asus store at $190 which still isn't great but https://www.asus.com/us/motherboards-components/graphics-cards/dual/dual-rtx3050-6g/

[lethal topaz]

190 for a 3050 is not really a good value

oh wait is it a card that doesnt need pcie power?

[pure garnet]

the 6gb variant implies no external yeah

[lethal topaz]

ah makes sense then

[pure garnet]

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1809977-REG/msi_g3050v2x6c_rtx_3050_ventus_2x.html ventus for 180

[lethal topaz]

daylight savings is so strange

i feel like im getting tired earlier

[zealous orchid]

It does but the only full slot is at the bottom next to dells weird power supply’s

This is the motherboard

So the only one I found that will fit is a single slot

[pure garnet]

putting $230 into a computer worth 50 bucks isn't a great idea

you'd be better off putting together some form a tower together and not being stuck with a 1060 equiv

[zealous orchid]

Well more like $70 because I have 32gb ddr4 in it actually🤓

[zealous orchid]

Yea but I like the small guy and also this is a cool image

[pure garnet]

it's your money but

it's not a great idea

[zealous orchid]

Yea but I’m not doing heavy gaming on its, the only game I really play is Gmod, and it runs it high but I want it to run it faster so idk now lol

[ripe needle]

How intriguing 🤔

[pure garnet]

that doesn't seem like much of a deal

https://www.newegg.com/asus-b760m-ayw-wifi-d4-ii-micro-atx-motherboard-intel-b760-lga-1700/p/N82E16813119744?item=N82E16813119744 same price for newer chipset

[ripe needle]

I just find it funny that used costs more

[pallid marsh]

yeah asrock boards are super cheap right now because no one wants to buy a motherboard that might/will kill thier cpu

[lavish gull]

My 6750xt broke what the best recombination under £350 to replace it. Gutted as it seems like such a good card for the price I got it at

[livid flame]

Should be able to find a 9060xt 16gb around that price

Amazon selling for £330 the 16gb my man. Don’t get the 8gb

[frozen sparrow]

That's exactly what I need

[green marsh]

Aliexpress experience when you have multiple items bundled together:

• main plastic bag containing everything
• internal plastic bag for the specific supplier
• which then contains a plastic bag for the actual item 😄

[livid flame]

Sounds like a good experience

[mighty marten]

3080

[stable turret]

According to optimum, 720hz monitor offers roughly 10-15 percent more smoothness for him, and I wonder how far the refresh rate goes before getting no returns?

Imagine in the future 720hz becoming the baseline and people complaining about the sluggishness and wanting to upgrade to something like 1440hz

[brisk jolt]

you literally wont be able to tell the difference between 540 and 720 unless you have a sandevistan to see all the frames

[stable turret]

At least the YouTuber from a trusted channel says the improvement is roughly 10-15% of his own discretion

[blissful marten]

Is human benchmark a good benchmark for a new computer

[mighty marten]

people are insane, i barely seen a difference going from 160 to 480hz 🤓

[stark sphinx]

The human eye cant see more than 0.998 hz anyway

[dry tide]

Wow. Upgrade to new phone with android 15. Android 15 has a feature to hide to device name to the wifi network. But my phone won't connect to the wifi if I don't give it my device name

[dusty lotus]

currently have 240hz and i dont need more, i may downgrade to 144 soon

this dude is crazy

[blissful marten]

im over here with 75

with an rtx 5000 ada

[dusty lotus]

at 480 i got motion sickness

[blissful marten]

I reakon I have the worst bottleneck in the entirety of this server

[stark sphinx]

I mean i could possibly show you an worse 1 if i use bad data

[dusty lotus]

you have a needleneck

[blissful marten]

i have 256 gb of total storage

[dusty lotus]

and i got 3 tb

[blissful marten]

with 128gb of ram and a 19 14900hx

[stark sphinx]

Atleast i can manufacture one in a specific game

Where i will be getting up to 11% cpu usage and 100% gpu usage

[devout ridge]

4x32?

[blissful marten]

yessir

[devout ridge]

gross

[blissful marten]

why

[devout ridge]

lower max speed, higher latency

[blissful marten]

i only have 4 slots

[devout ridge]

correct

you should have gone 2x48 or 2x64

[blissful marten]

I got it from Hp

[devout ridge]

my condolences

[blissful marten]

its a laptop

cant really confiure that

[devout ridge]

oh, how the fuck do you have four slots in a laptop?

[shell void]

@merry stirrup

[blissful marten]

hp fury 11 g16

[lavish gull]

Hi there, it turned out the shop told me my CPU is broken, not my graphics card. What is the best replacement under £120 for this build? Thanks https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/vPfn74

[devout ridge]

the CPU is "broken"...?

[proven cairn]

Hey gang

[proven cairn]

Cop a 5700x3d

Oh £120

[edgy laurel]

skip over the section where he says while that may be true, the PQ as a result of it being 720p makes it not really worth it at all?

[slim solstice]

Should I get a Dell 14 laptop the 30k variant

[lavish gull]

That’s what the shop said

[lavish gull]

Any other recommendations

[south shuttle]

5600/x 5700x 5800x /used

if you manage used 5700x3d

[steel stream]

nah bro 720P is totally usable

don't mind the pixels the size of my fingernail

[south shuttle]

doubtful

[topaz veldt]

Zzz

[digital plume]

do you really

my main computer has an i3 10100F and an RTX A2000 paired with a 768p monitor

i reckon i could put my a2000 on my athlon computer

would that create a bottleneck?

[edgy laurel]

Sure, there is always a bottleneck

[digital plume]

but it would be so hilarious

[keen wigeon]

Nerds.

[digital plume]

i'm not a nerd but

im typing on this beast here right now

like come on

[keen wigeon]

🤮 windows

[digital plume]

and on an ibm rack server!

isn't it hilarious

2009 x3550 m2 plus a gt 730 and windows 10 version 1900 something

[keen wigeon]

No, it isn’t. It’s a computer running software.

[digital plume]

i am however installing linux on my government issued laptop from 2014

[digital plume]

yes it is because it's got all the features which would make sense for a business of a decade ago

it was never made for a consumer like me

what do i need redundancy power supplies or dual xeons or 6 SAS drive bays for

or a light panel diagnostic and IMM?

[keen wigeon]

I’m not sure of the humor in any of that situation but hey, if that’s what makes you laugh

[digital plume]

this fine machine here once was a powerful VMware ESXi running machine

now its running windows

[digital plume]

it would've been hilarious to a younger you

[steel stream]

"it is" "need to run the games at higher res"

I do

[digital plume]

768p user here

it's fucking pain

[steel stream]

you are saying run it at a higher res and downsample, so you get rid of aliasing, but then why not just run at the higher res anyways

[digital plume]

i've never managed to run a game at a higher res than my monitors

[devout ridge]

i do it fairly often for low poly games

[digital plume]

my newest monitor dates back like a decade or so

so womp

[wraith steeple]

What even are these fucktarded takes, holy shit

[digital plume]

the only thing i know is that vga fucking sucks at detecting possible resolutions

[devout ridge]

it's analog okay, it's doing its best

[digital plume]

i cant wait to get my hands on a dvi cable

im telling you the future is digital

[wraith steeple]

TFW I have built rigs older than some of the folks here

[digital plume]

TFW i have built rigs youngre than some of the folks here

[steel stream]

I am losing it man

[halcyon osprey]

quick question i recently put together a build and ive been wondering if its worth uprgrading my motherboard To a b650, as of rn i have a A620 Am5 board just want to know if its worth the change

[ripe needle]

True?

[halcyon osprey]

specs sending

ryzen 7 7800x3d 5070 12gb 32gb ram

[edgy laurel]

no you don't understand

[halcyon osprey]

just really want to make sure itll run fine on that board at its full power

[edgy laurel]

Couldn't say, don't now what board you have. That being said a 7800x3D barely requires anything to run. Damn thing is like 90W fully loaded

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/shake-freak-out-crazy-wild-ahh-gif-15649052

[edgy laurel]

(I own one)

[edgy laurel]

I'd never buy a board that doesn't give me PBO to play with for undervolting, however. The one main thing missing with A series.

[halcyon osprey]

i got a a620 wifi plus not sure how good it is

[edgy laurel]

You could stick a 7800x3D in there and be perfectly happy for the lifetime of the parts.

I just wouldn't buy it for the aforementioned reason.

[keen wigeon]

You… can run at low res and use anti-aliasing to smooth the jaggies.

That’s how it has worked for a long, long time 🙂

Back in the day we didn’t have 1080p or 720p

We had them jaggies and liked it.

[topaz veldt]

Remember when 1280x1024 was boss? Then 1600x1200 was amazing

[wraith steeple]

CRT monitor life

[devout ridge]

i’m too young to enjoy CRT, the whine just gives me a headache

[topaz veldt]

1600x1200 85 hz

[devout ridge]

gotta wait till i’m too old to hear it

[keen wigeon]

I loved a good CRT.

When LCDs hit the market they were terrible

[wraith steeple]

Mine was a Sceptre Dragon Eye

[keen wigeon]

my first LCD was some beige thing I bought from best buy or something. Tiger Direct maybe

[edgy laurel]

some garbage 1280x1024 TN from Staples

ahh yes, there it is.

[hidden birch]

I grew up with the screen of my Nintendo DS. I would always get pixel-eyes for a few minutes after playing on it for more than half an hour because it was so pixel-opposite of dense. My first laptop already had a 1080p LCD and I've stayed on 1080p LCDs so far. My main display is TN but I'm soon going to replace that with a 1440p OLED

[keen wigeon]

What is pixel-eyes?

[edgy laurel]

and pixel-opposite

[wise bear]

You develop eyes like a fly

[keen wigeon]

Sounds like some good drugs

[wise bear]

Right?

[wraith steeple]

Exact model? I don't remember.... But it looks very close to what I had

Dragon Eye on the top right I remember vividly

[dusty lotus]

i had vga detect 1920x1080 on a 1280x1024 monitor

[topaz veldt]

Cool @edgy laurel FAA implemented 30 mile separation whole we're taxiing.... 30 mins for 4 plans to take off

[edgy laurel]

uhh

[keen wigeon]

Those ATCs are suffing seriously

a little bit of breathing room doesn't do justice to how screwed they are

[wise bear]

did the FAA shut down airspace yet?

[topaz veldt]

Not shut down but limited capacity

[stable turret]

didnt try to justify the 720p resolution. its up to your personal opinion and i hate using any desktop monitors below 4k

[topaz veldt]

Oh god this guy

[steel stream]

scroll up a bit and you can see bad takes left and right

[topaz veldt]

I think I'd rather read about FAA shutdowns

[steel stream]

yeah

[hoary hatch]

Ugh

My work laptop did the windows thing in my backpack twice the last 24hrs

[steel stream]

oh the update thing

or the bitlocker

[hoary hatch]

No the "it's completely dead" thing

[ancient turtle]

thank fuck w10 doesnt get updates anymore

[steel stream]

fireeeee

guess you can't do any more work

[hoary hatch]

All my unsaved spreadsheets

[wise bear]

God last night's dinner was fantastic

[steel stream]

Akin to the burning of the library of Alexandria, RIP my friend

[hoary hatch]

I'd rather burn down a Burger King

[ancient turtle]

how the fuck did windows task manager say my PC has been running for 21 hours this morning when i even unplugged my psu for the night

[pure garnet]

fast boot

[wise bear]

^

[ancient turtle]

the bioluminescent government employees are getting closer

[pure garnet]

turn it off

[hoary hatch]

Psychopath behavior

[lone scarab]

🥶

[hoary hatch]

I always turn off fast boot

[ancient turtle]

sure thx

i thought it was turned off already

mustve been the last W10 update fucking shit up

[steel stream]

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-arc-pro-b60-24gb-workstation-gpu-to-launch-in-europe-mid-to-late-november-starting-at-e769

[ancient turtle]

yeah i swear i turned it off ages ago lmao

it was back on for som reason lol

[edgy laurel]

I'm glad to see, of all things, what appear to be thin and well cooked asparagus. nothign worse than those fat, stringy ones then undercooking them. I want em charred!

[wise bear]

air fried with butter and lemon

[edgy laurel]

close enough

[wise bear]

that lobster was fucking, amazing

[edgy laurel]

as long as they're thin and well cooked

[wise bear]

agreed

I wish there was more though

[steel stream]

surf and turf

[hoary hatch]

I had 5 day old leftover soup last night 🔥

[steel stream]

I had leftover spaghetti

I plan on making scallops tomorrow though

[hoary hatch]

Akn last night

[steel stream]

i was hungry leave me alone

so what if I became a shapeless creature when eating spaghetti

[dawn plover]

what the heck is this microsoft? when I try opening it, it asks me to agree to a privacy policy to use it...

more windows bloat yay

[hoary hatch]

I'm not a big Star trek fan but damn I want one

[wise bear]

early ai was better

[hoary hatch]

I miss the days that Google Now was fucking magic

Oh shit I need to buy new renters insurance

[wise bear]

dude I have like 6 lego sets sitting in my office that I have to build

[proven cairn]

Hey gang

[wise bear]

dont make me want another one 😭

[hoary hatch]

Same

I got the following new sets:
NASA Artemis
Concord
Shuttle carrier
AT ST UCS
Gameboy

I have the following sets from childhood that I need to fix up:
Star destroyer
AT TE
A couple more star wars sets

[steel stream]

damn

that's dope asf

[wise bear]

i need to get the artemis tbh, I also want the iss

[steel stream]

I've got the Lego DeLorean which is super cool

[hoary hatch]

I'm still missing a box of LEGO from childhood

It's in my parents house somewhere

[fringe vigil]

I hate

[steel stream]

this is all I want

[ancient turtle]

brother is playing with kids toys

[hoary hatch]

Meh

For better or worse I lack interest in middle Earth

[steel stream]

damn

I've got this which is pretty neat

[hoary hatch]

Same

I need them to make a Thunderjaw

[steel stream]

they should have made a lego thunderjaw, that would have been sweet

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/my-man-my-man-hd-my-man4k-gif-23532578

I'll take a thunderjaw or a tremortusk

[hoary hatch]

I haven't finished HFW yet -.-

[steel stream]

I don't blame you tbh, HFW is still good, but man HZD clears

https://mocbay.com/product/thunderjaw/

[steel stream]

Can buy this, which gives you an XML file with all the bricks needed

[hoary hatch]

Oh, I mean I just bought HFW a month ago

But right now I am in the grinding slog

[steel stream]

ah

PC version comes with DLC right

[hoary hatch]

Got 1 tall neck and trying to complete most early quests I can and level up before doing first cauldron

[hoary hatch]

Yes? Idk if it did at launch but right now all you get is the complete edition

Oh fuck

[steel stream]

I think I will be buying the collectors edition of the next Horizon game, HZD is still in my top 5 all time

[hoary hatch]

NGL, I kinda want to buy HZD remaster just for Frozen Wilds eye candy

[wise bear]

oh horizon zero dawn

I thought forza at first and was trying to put the acronym with racing

[hoary hatch]

Forza is for imperial scum

[pure garnet]

i should probably try a real game at 4k

[ancient turtle]

metro exodus is still one of the most beautiful games ever

[steel stream]

it's $10 right if you own the original?

[ancient turtle]

i fucking love metro

[steel stream]

i suppose I am at home and can check

[ancient turtle]

currently trying to 100% last light

like every acchievement

[wise bear]

IT IS NOT

[steel stream]

ok sweet it is only 10

OG is 72GB, remaster is 105GB

[hoary hatch]

I don't

[steel stream]

damn

[hoary hatch]

Steam family library

[steel stream]

ah

[hoary hatch]

So I can try to convince my roommate to buy the upgrade

HZD feels so much better than HFW

KB/M usage seemed like a real fucking afterthought in the second PC port

But it worked so well in the first one

[steel stream]

i've very sparingly played HZD on PC so idk

I've thought about HFW for pc but it's still like $35 on sale

[sly moon]

Has anyone made a waterfall cooled pc, like one of those garden waterfalls

[steel stream]

I know of pond cooled PCs

[wise bear]

That would be.. interesting to say the least

diy perks my love

[steel stream]

and I think river cooled

[ancient turtle]

Ive had this idea for a while of running antifreeze as coolant and putting a watercooler radiator outside my window

Could get some crazy temps in the winter

[wise bear]

what if we make a micro hydro turbine and run that to make power for the pc that's cooled by the discharge from the hydro genny

[sly moon]

Yeah a mix of that and the backward heat sink video from LTT had me thinking

[steel stream]

all that to cool an RX580 🥀

[ancient turtle]

Lol

[sly moon]

My thought process is to use one of those backward heat sink motherboards and have the water fall down the cpu heat sink

[wise bear]

hasnt someone already done this

[wraith steeple]

[ancient turtle]

Mineral oil cooling is interesting

[sly moon]

That’s what I am asking if someone has, would be a nice vid to watch

[wise bear]

mineral oil cooling is so 2012

[ancient turtle]

XD

[ancient turtle]

But yeah it can get like -20°C here in the winter

Usually around -10

[wise bear]

that'd cause moisture buildup

on the pc components

[ancient turtle]

Yeah true, would have to insulate em well

[wise bear]

and that mess is not worth it

[hoary hatch]

It's worth it but also no urgency to get it so you can wait for another $5 off next year

[steel stream]

yeah I'd really like to play it on PC as opposed to PS5 but $30 will be worth it

downloading ZD remaster rn

[edgy laurel]

I think i'll play the ZD remaster before I finish FW

[steel stream]

tsk tsk tsk

gotta finish it

[hoary hatch]

FW is such a slog to start

I'll let you know if it ever picks up

But the intro/tutorial for HFW is awful

[steel stream]

guilty probably doesn't even remember where he's at in the game

[hoary hatch]

He has photo mode screenshots

[steel stream]

kind of similar to HZD, HZD didn't really hook me until pretty decently late into the game

[hoary hatch]

Not that it helps much

[hoary hatch]

HZD picks up faster

[steel stream]

true

[hoary hatch]

Also they made the weapon/crafting system a little more complicated in HFW

More specialized weapons/armor

I think it was an unnecessary revamp

Most people just wanted more map/story and an improved inventory system

[steel stream]

yeah, there was a lot of new stuff with the weapons we didn't need

I still just kept using bows

and the slingshot bomb things

[hoary hatch]

Yep

[steel stream]

oh I like the rattler gun or whatever it was called that was cool

but i didn't really use the spears or the tripwires

[edgy laurel]

so i'm not the only one that a portion of the weapons I couldn't find uses for

or they were just less convenient

[steel stream]

yeah

[edgy laurel]

I know I don't have the flying machine yet

and TBH i should probably stick it out till then

[steel stream]

that's pretty late in the game lol

[edgy laurel]

I feel like that would make travel feel less of a slog

[steel stream]

yeah it def does

[edgy laurel]

oh

[steel stream]

gotta stick it out till then!

[edgy laurel]

damn i was hoping that came in like the first 1/4

[steel stream]

nope lol

I just google where it's at, and it's not pretty

I've already spoiled too much

[wise bear]

I got a dope little mobile setup tbh

both 3k oled panels

[steel stream]

Penjamin Franklin

[edgy laurel]

what youtube channel is that

[wise bear]

sovietwomble

[edgy laurel]

i knew it!

[wise bear]

arma 3 antistasi

I fucking love soviet, dude & his gang are hilarious

[edgy laurel]

i haven't watched in many years but it just immediately came to mind seeing that still

[wise bear]

the text tracking is such a dead giveaway

[edgy laurel]

i think thats what did it

[ancient turtle]

g502?

[wise bear]

502x hyperwhatever wireless

[ancient turtle]

ah

im still running a 1st gen 502 :D

[edgy laurel]

my favorite mouse in years

[wise bear]

I retired my 1st gen 502 for this

[median blade]

i have a 502 hero and 502 lightspeed, both are great

[edgy laurel]

non-Pro, because fuck RGB on a battery powered device

[wise bear]

the left click was giving out and the scroll wheel was very much not good

yeah I'm really glad I got the non rgb mouse

[median blade]

my 502 hero kinda died? the button for the scroll wheel broke, so just resting your finger on it will cause it to click

[wise bear]

yeah you gotta open it up and clean it every once in a while

[edgy laurel]

they went optical with the main left and right switches so no more typical Logitech double clicks

[wise bear]

yes

[median blade]

i did open it up, the button literally just is broken it seems. the top part of the button looked kinda like it caved in or something so it was super close to the bottom part where it makes contact to click

[edgy laurel]

but.. because of course it did, the "back" thumb button now occasionaly double clicks

[ancient turtle]

same happen with mine, i just rebinded mouse 3 to the dpi button behind the scrollwheel

[median blade]

idk why i didnt think of doing something like that

[edgy laurel]

might help some people but if you're using Logitech G products and you correctly despise GHUB, the best software to make changes is Logitech Onboard Memory Manager (OMM)

small little exe, doesn't run in the background

can run it, make your changes, hit save, and you're done

[median blade]

i use piper (arch btw)

[edgy laurel]

https://support.logi.com/hc/en-ca/articles/360059641133-Onboard-Memory-Manager

[ancient turtle]

same can be done with ghub nowadays

[median blade]

yeah but ghub always runs in the background unless you explicitly kill it

[edgy laurel]

its not the same

[ancient turtle]

i guess

[edgy laurel]

OMM is a super tiny little portable exe

you don't install it

has no system tray component

[ancient turtle]

oh cool

thx

[pure garnet]

i shut rgb off on my gpw and that thing lasted forever battery wise

all of my superlights died of their own causes though

bad scrollwheel on the last one pushed me to try razer

[keen wigeon]

mx master 4?

[pure garnet]

i’ve never tried an mx master but i’d assume it’s not targeted at me

[edgy laurel]

i use it at work, i don't really like it

[pure garnet]

yeah that’s like 3x the weight of my viper

i’d hate it for what i do

[edgy laurel]

not a weight issue for me, i just find it uncomfortable

finger positions feel unnatural

[pure garnet]

i can use heavier mice but i wouldn’t buy one to replace mine

i keep a g305 in my backpack when i take my laptop and that’s about as heavy as i’d want

[keen wigeon]

I've used the masters for a while, the 4 is a bit... off.

It doesn't seem the have enough of a palm arch vs the 3

this one seems to be tailored for the sweatclaw gamers

[topaz veldt]

MX Master 4 does feel a little weird

But I'm used to super light x pro 2 or whatever

[steel stream]

I need a new work mouse so myabe I will pick up a master

[topaz veldt]

Aw yeah boys

[steel stream]

can you not dox me pls

[keen wigeon]

Right on

[brisk jolt]

I feel like anything way above the 60g region is straight up a rock for me

[pure garnet]

for my desk yeah

i like the g305 for laptop though since battery lasts eons

[brisk jolt]

stupidly enough i feel like 320 edpi is high sens (1600x0.2)

[raven citrus]

can anyone explain why vrchat for me in non vr mode runs like absolute dog poop even though i got a ssd a good cpu and 32 gb of ram with a 2060

[fringe vigil]

Guys

[brisk jolt]

im comfortable on like 224 edpi rn

[brisk jolt]

that 2060 is shit

[raven citrus]

its at 20% usage the whole time

[proven cairn]

🙁

[raven citrus]

the game is literally freezing so bad

[proven cairn]

What cpu

[raven citrus]

5600x

[proven cairn]

Ok

[keen wigeon]

your first mistake was running vrchat

[raven citrus]

its running on desktop mode

[keen wigeon]

lol

[raven citrus]

at the lowest settings

[pure garnet]

what res is your monitor

[raven citrus]

1080p

[pure garnet]

have you tried vr mode

[keen wigeon]

I would start tracing where the hangup is. It shouldn't be the CPU, that's a fairly proper proc

[brave panther]

in your private world or in some server where people use gazilion effects and poligons

[pure garnet]

honestly wouldn't be surprised if it's the gpu

[raven citrus]

same issue on vr mode

[keen wigeon]

Min spec is an R9 290

[pure garnet]

6gb of vram is extremely tight, especially for vr

[raven citrus]

i play on NON vr mode

[brave panther]

vrchat is very unoptimised as they allow peoples custom avatars with as much poligons as they want

[keen wigeon]

What kind of VRAM pressure are you seeing?

[raven citrus]

like 2gb

[keen wigeon]

and GPU utilization?

[raven citrus]

20%

[keen wigeon]

and CPU?

[raven citrus]

5%

[keen wigeon]

and storage

[raven citrus]

100%

[keen wigeon]

hey look we likely found the problem

[frank zealot]

well, there's your problem

[keen wigeon]

it isn't the GPU or CPU, the drive is getting smashed.

what is your network utilization?

[raven citrus]

like 100mbps

[dusty lotus]

how would someone get 100% storage util unless its a hdd

[keen wigeon]

I would look for quality settings

You may have an option to drop texture quality, that's usually where you are going to run into problems

[frank zealot]

SSD get 100% all the time

[dusty lotus]

mine certainly dont

[keen wigeon]

if it is sata that can be easily saturated

[frank zealot]

if you're accessing a lot of tiny files, you can easily hit 100% while the ssd transfer speed is still low

[dusty lotus]

mine are usually below 50%

and 100% for a split second

tbf they are nvme

[frank zealot]

doesn't matter, NVME can cap out, too

[keen wigeon]

small block IO is rough for SSD and NVMe

[pure garnet]

optane needs to come back

[frank zealot]

nothing compared to what HDDs have happen lol

[dusty lotus]

if the util is constantly 100% thats not good

[pure garnet]

random read is more important for users but it barely improved

[keen wigeon]

get you those random reads

[dusty lotus]

bro must be running it on a hdd

[frank zealot]

it can also be a process gone haywire and fucking with the drive causing it

it doesn't have to be sustained read/write on something to hit 100%

[pure garnet]

yeah just look at task manager with the game open

you'll see if something is slamming the drive

[dusty lotus]

i always have tm open

i like looking at whats happening

[frank zealot]

Also:
It's 20-fucking-25 and a bunch of games have SSD as a system requirement.

Anyone running stuff on a HDD today deserves what they get.

[pure garnet]

isn't helldivers 2 like 3x the size because of hdd users

[dusty lotus]

my second pc has a hdd for games and its ok

little slower but the whole pc itself is slow so its fine

[edgy laurel]

Depends on what you mean by "fine" https://youtu.be/gl8wXT8F3W4?si=jnhVlFT-b4hGf5EU

[charred lava]

I miss Samsung SSDs being the de facto reliable option

Now I gotta do research for every purchase 😨

[pure garnet]

my 990 pro has been fine

[keen wigeon]

I just get some WD black whatevers and call it good. That perf dragon is ephemeral lol

[merry stirrup]

herro

[charred lava]

Yeah, I'm not doing anything to necessitate fastest of the fastest

Would be mostly fine with a SATA drive tbh

My personal rig is still all Samsung, but I've seen too many die in the field as of late. And not even all 980 Pros on old firmware...

[dusty lotus]

i went for wd blue and they run

[keen wigeon]

lol this software is called turboshaft

[frank zealot]

I had a 970 that went supernova at like 1/20th of tbw

[arctic bronze]

Blues are decent for budget options

[heavy spire]

Had a 960 die after 3 months. The replacement is still going strong though

[frank zealot]

WD Blacks FTW 😄

[arctic bronze]

Yeah

[gloomy vault]

ive had a 990pro die prematurely my PM9A1A is still fine though my previous 970 Evo Plus soldiered though many years

[dusty lotus]

they were ok price but they have been serving me well over a year

[keen wigeon]

I have two 4TB WD Black gen4 whatevers in my gaming computer and then sprinkled everywhere lol

[charred lava]

I went Sabrent for a bit, but they seem to have pulled most of their SKUs

[keen wigeon]

two of them in a ... hey I should turn on this alienware laptop and update it since I'm in a holding pattern while arangodb compiles

[frank zealot]

consolidation of markets is a fuckin' bitch

[hoary hatch]

Never had an SSD die

[charred lava]

Lucky

[frank zealot]

Remember when Solidigm did consumer drives?

[charred lava]

Bet you've never had an LED bulb die either

[hoary hatch]

Counterpoint: why did SK Hynix have 2 consumer brands

[frank zealot]

I love/hate LED Bulbs.

[charred lava]

They don't die smoothly and slowly

[hoary hatch]

Solidigm brand was born from the Intel acquisition (rip), it was amusing but odd that SK Hynix sold the same products under 2 different brands

[frank zealot]

and I almost guarantee that the LEDs themselves on those lights are still perfectly fine

[charred lava]

Instead it's "now I'm on!" "now I'm off!" "now I'm gonna flash for ten minutes and then randomly start working again!"

[keen wigeon]

lol I put ubuntu on this thing

[charred lava]

Yup, it's the boards

[frank zealot]

it's the control board inside most lights that die

I wonder if actual heatsinks as a base would increase lightbulb lifespans

[charred lava]

I recently had some OG Hue bulbs die. Those were pretty solid.

[hoary hatch]

None of mine have died but some display purple when trying to do cool white

[charred lava]

Mine did something similar before they kicked it

[charred lava]

Gonna install loud fans

[frank zealot]

I hate that they avertise bulbs as lasting 200,000 hours or whatever

[hoary hatch]

I stopped using them because I never bothered to reinstall when I moved

[frank zealot]

when in reality the shitty PCBs in them can't even dream of lasting that long

[hoary hatch]

Still sitting in a bin ready to use

I'm kinda over setting up smart home stuff in rentals

[frank zealot]

deltas

[charred lava]

yes

[charred lava]

I'm kinda over smart home stuff, full stop.

[hoary hatch]

Knowing I have to take it all down is a huge demotivating factor to set it all up

[frank zealot]

https://www.lowes.com/pd/GE-LED-9-Watt-EQ-A21-Full-Spectrum-Dimmable-LED-Light-Bulb/1002559374#no_universal_links
Fuck smart bulbs, buy these:

[charred lava]

I don't care if I have to set a timer for my wash cycle

[dusty lotus]

what do you chat think about miniled monitors

[charred lava]

don't want or need a notification from my Android washing machine

[karmic folio]

$24 for one bulb

[charred lava]

they be bright

[hoary hatch]

Your washer doesn't just stop when it finishes the cycle?

[charred lava]

Of course it does

[hoary hatch]

I'm confused

[charred lava]

But I gotta transfer the load to the dryer

[frank zealot]

what?

[hoary hatch]

Oh I'm just stupid, I see

[dusty lotus]

since i noticed dead pixels on my oled i plan on selling it and getting a miniled instead

wise or unwise?

[karmic folio]

nvm yea i couldnt open the link and the same bulb is $24 on amazon 😭

[frank zealot]

you failed a second time:
https://www.amazon.com/GE-Color-Changing-Remote-Required/dp/B07WC324HZ

did you look up their actual smart bulb at 25 each?

[frank zealot]

that's a very different bulb

[karmic folio]

[frank zealot]

WITH A BUILT IN SPEAKER lolwut

[charred lava]

..............

[karmic folio]

i saw a bulb with a camera the other day not sure how that works

[dusty lotus]

you can listen to the sound of electricity with that speaker

[charred lava]

If I see that lighbulb above someone's head I'm discarding their idea

[charred lava]

What the fuck

[karmic folio]

😭

[charred lava]

If you don't wanna run power...

[karmic folio]

failed the third time

[charred lava]

lmao

[karmic folio]

micro sd card slot

[keen wigeon]

I like the idea but I hate the idea

[charred lava]

The best kind of product tbh

[keen wigeon]

yep

[charred lava]

It's like everything Silverstone makes

[keen wigeon]

I should make my winter project to burn through my arlo cameras and go to unifi

[charred lava]

yes

do that

[green marsh]

So i got my M.2 SATA ASMedia adapter... and the usual bonus item from China.

[fringe vigil]

Why are you g

[charred lava]

Right after I mention Silverstone

[green marsh]

i start to wonder if the majority of production in china are these mini screwdrivers and they bundle other stuff with the screwdriver, and we just misunderstood them

[karmic folio]

fuck these mini screwdrivers

waste of resources

[green marsh]

hopefully with this adapter, i can then pass it through in whole to the VM, which will then allows the system to spin down the drives, driving the idle power consumption even lower than it is now

dude is trying to sell an AT case, but 80 euros ?

i mean yes, it is nicely painted and stuff, but meh

[pure garnet]

do you collect them

[green marsh]

hell no 😄

[vagrant cargo]

im curious what is the best pc case in 2025 for been easy to clean and manage but also atx mid tower or full tower, and also have stuff inside to make the pc more quite?

i cancelled the pc case i was ordering

they sent me it but it wasnt right so i got a refund

[proven cairn]

V100

[karmic folio]

lian li

[steel stream]

https://videocardz.com/newz/geforce-rtx-5070-drops-to-record-low-480-arc-b580-now-at-235-both-12gb-models damn

[karmic folio]

are there even any good deals during black friday for pc parts

[steel stream]

in todays day and age not really

[karmic folio]

great

[brave panther]

Mandatory shitty screwdriver

[proven cairn]

Nah

[steel stream]

hi jorj

[proven cairn]

hi jorj

‘Gurt ( short for yogurt )

[edgy laurel]

https://youtu.be/fFtk9gJLnfk

[proven cairn]

Hi akn876

[south shuttle]

it's been quite a while since launch of the 5070

considered nvidia sucked life out of the 80, 70 and 60 series... 5070 aint that attractive

[proven cairn]

Ip grabber

[wise bear]

I want this to go on sale :(

[proven cairn]

The image isn’t loading, what is it

[wise bear]

it's a radiacode 103

[proven cairn]

Ok

Why

[edgy laurel]

i linked it yesterday but i'll tell you all again, the most recent Smarter Every Day is great. Nearly two hours and the most in depth tour of a modern nuclear power plant on the internet

like a feature film

[south shuttle]

what about aliexpress geiger counters?

[wise bear]

I watched it :D

[wise bear]

nuh uh

[pure garnet]

pc gamers when nvidia doesn't sell the 5090 for $400

[warped mountain]

if i want good all day battery life its going to have to eb Lunar lake or MBP huh?

[steel stream]

you can wait for panther lake

[warped mountain]

i cannot needs to be here this month sadly. my primary device has to go to depot for repair and will be gone 3-6 months.

[south shuttle]

me when i mistype 999 times

[vagrant cargo]

found this on pricerunner on overclockers uk https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sparkle-intel-arc-b580-titan-oc-12gb-gddr6-graphics-card-gra-spk-03779.html?sv1=affiliate&sv_campaign_id=696205&awc=28821_1762459949_f62706add7e8741ceb77a980116ca27e&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.klarna.com _696205_Shopping+Directory

get a pick of one of four games with it aswell

[warped mountain]

my 2022 g14 was basically perfect (other than the heat) and teh fake USB4 and HDR claims.

i think i want that size again

[karmic folio]

neat

[gentle urchin]

What is a g14

https://tenor.com/view/g14classified-g14-classified-rush-hour-gif-16009810

[pure garnet]

if you want battery life the m macs make the most sense

[warped mountain]

Asus

[karmic folio]

whats the 2nd best option

[gentle urchin]

Phone

[pure garnet]

idk probably lunar lake or the new ryzen chips

the arm macs just last forever though

[warped mountain]

sadly, though in my use it will be operated as a Chromebook. that's why i was trying to avoiid. it cant run what i need natively.

[gentle urchin]

Surely you can just hook up a bluetooth keyboard to a phone

Basically a laptop

[warped mountain]

i like this 14 inch Samsung Book pro.. but idk i kinda want a convertible. and i have ZERO idea of teh sustained nits.

[karmic folio]

[steel stream]

why bother with HDR on a lapotp

[gentle urchin]

A Book? Like e-ink?

[warped mountain]

primary media viewing device. its that or my phone.

[pure garnet]

macbook pro would unironically be the move again then

120hz miniled

[warped mountain]

https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/galaxy-books/galaxy-book5-series/buy/galaxy-book5-pro-16-intel-core-ultra-7-1tb-gray-np960xha-kg3us/

[vagrant cargo]

ok so case wise if i were to buy something like the Corsair AIR 5400 or corsair 5000d case im most likely gonna buy the Corsair Xeneon Edge aswell

[steel stream]

yeah idk what laptops are using those nice tandem oled displays

[vagrant cargo]

because its handy either in the pc case on the pc case os as a second monitor under or to the side of my 32 inch monitor for media controls

[pure garnet]

$250 for a touch screen is dumb but not my money

[edgy laurel]

to much "stuff"

[warped mountain]

they have a 360 2-in-1 but its a 16 and my i9 is a 16 and doesn't ride right in the LTT backpack, they straps put forces on the corners of the notebook. thankfully mine is carbon fiber so no issues yet. but a weaker chasis gonna stress teh motherboard

[vagrant cargo]

whats a good corsair dual chamber case what can be silent or help with sound what i can attach the Corsair Xeneon Edge to?

[edgy laurel]

Corsair lists their cases on their website

heck you listed one just 3 minutes ago

[warped mountain]

i know i need 550 minimum sustained ti see it indoors at work. (thats what my 9i needs) outdoors or near a window will need more, easiest way is HDR. could go interprise, but once you use a GOOD screen all day, its hard to go to a washed out mess.

[echo hedge]

https://discordapp.com/channels/375436620578684930/1436088218079461436 anyone who can help would be great

[warped mountain]

I know $2,800 plus tax tho :/

[wise bear]

good laptops cost money

[edgy laurel]

its amazing what you can find if you look https://www.corsair.com/us/en/explorer/gamer/monitors/xeneon-edge-case-compatibility/

[pure garnet]

where are you getting $2800 from

[warped mountain]

so far, Yoga pro 9i has teh 1000 nit model. the asus pro art p16 with the 700 nit version. thats all i have found so far.

[warped mountain]

well OFC i have a $5,200 unit im typing on right now. just $2,800 to ONLY run chrome seems silly is all. fell liek there shoudl eb something better on teh market that has more sue cases.

[devout ridge]

this gets you to 2769usd

[wise bear]

well... run more than chrome on it!

[pure garnet]

yeah buying that spec for chrome is dumb though

[devout ridge]

very

[wise bear]

only 2tb tho, megamid

[pure garnet]

i've been using the base spec 14" 2021 pro for years

i don't have a whole steam library on it so the drive is fine

[warped mountain]

have to go to m4 pro for4 memory bandwidth, then 48GB since it shared GPU and CPU. if you want it to last through updates.

i used an m1 air and it was the NASTIEST thing i have ever used.... locking up in chrome trying to play youtube and stuff.

[wise bear]

m1 pro was goated

[pure garnet]

i have an m1 air as well that doesn't lock up in chrome

[warped mountain]

cant, not compatible with mac sadly 😭

[pure garnet]

you don't need the pro for web browsing and updates

[devout ridge]

you very much do not need 48gb of unified memory for chrome

[pure garnet]

the only time it's ever felt "slow" is gaming but even then that's just me trying to 4k game on an igpu

[warped mountain]

it couldnt handle 4k 60fps youtube video, and another brower window open next to it. seemed liek a memory bandwith issue.

[topaz veldt]

@edgy laurel bummed I reserved X7 only had Q7 left

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/noooo-star-wars-darth-vader-gif-8348766

[warped mountain]

my chrome right now is 10GB and this is about 1/4 my normal window load.

[pure garnet]

bro what

[warped mountain]

look up m1 memory bandwidth

[karmic folio]

[warped mountain]

the M1 SoC has 68.25 GB/s memory bandwidth

[pure garnet]

yeah and

[warped mountain]

thats why it was studdering in my use

[wise bear]

what are you doing on chrome that uses more than 60gb/s of obandwidth

[pure garnet]

you think a 4k youtube video and a chrome tab require >70gb/s memory bandwidth?

[warped mountain]

now i would never m4 MAX in the 14 because of the power cap and the limited cooling.

[devout ridge]

how many chrome tabs are you using dude?

[warped mountain]

40-50 depending on work load, and cant park them with memory saver

[devout ridge]

you're definitely doing something wrong

[wise bear]

^

[devout ridge]

there is no way you can actually use 40-50 chrome tabs at once

[warped mountain]

i had teh 4k video going, was using google sheets, and had typing in word and it kept freezing

[warped mountain]

its so i get alerted to issues via notifications, thats why i cant use memory saver 🙁

[devout ridge]

why do you have 40-50 different things issuing you notifications

[warped mountain]

eachone is a seperate system

[warped mountain]

so i can stay on top of things

[devout ridge]

why isn't it just a single software that monitors it

[rich idol]

Anyone know where i can buy a router or modem with a coaxial port on it? My area doesn't have fiber and if i ask my ISP for a second router it'll cost me 80 dollars extra a month on top of what we already pay for the first router and TV

[devout ridge]

whatever "it" is

[warped mountain]

thats an excellent question for IT ...

[devout ridge]

you'd need a modem that can convert from DOCSIS to ethernet

[warped mountain]

but yeah so i shoudl get the m5 and it can game borderlands call of duty and stuff?

[pure garnet]

my 8gb m1 air is handling 4k playback and a second chrome tab with testufo up just fine

[wise bear]

you shouldn't be running two modems on one line, you should be running your modem and a seperate router that you can use as a range extender

[rich idol]

I already have two lines, one is vacant, i want to put a second router on it

[pure garnet]

moca is what you're looking for then

[warped mountain]

this is me rn not working or anything

[pure garnet]

to put a 2nd ap over coax

yeah that's how web browsers work

it's not a gb per tab though

[merry stirrup]

guys

long car ride

ram overclocking please