tech-chat-2

[karmic pendant]

Rtx 3080=rx 9060xt same price btw

[pure garnet]

3080ti isn't a ton faster, whats the price diff

i'd take a 3080 over a 9060 xt though

[karmic pendant]

About 120$ more than the 9060xt

[strange ginkgo]

wow i already hated GPU pricing in 2023 when i build my PC but now even the used market doesn't really help much

[karmic pendant]

Isn't it a bit old though?

[pure garnet]

nvidia just dropped the 2014 gpu line in their drivers last october, you get a much longer support cycle

a used 3080 is just faster than the 9060 xt for the same money

[karmic pendant]

But it's 10gb vram

Is 12gb vram enough these days?

[pure garnet]

it depends on if a setting below ultra exists for you

the 9060 xt isn't a bad card though

[brisk jolt]

i dont think it’ll be an issue unless you raytrace or play indiana jones

[karmic pendant]

No I don't care about RT

[brisk jolt]

or even more stupidly for their place in modern standards, native 4K

[karmic pendant]

But my Rx 6700xt was maxing on Cyberpunk on 2k

[karmic pendant]

No No 2k is more than enough

[brisk jolt]

can you stop calling 1440p as 2K

[karmic pendant]

7800xt is a big disappointment

[karmic pendant]

Well sorry

2.5k?

[pure garnet]

the funny thing is 1080p would be the 2k resolution

[karmic pendant]

I am just used to 1440p being 2k

[pure garnet]

1920 rounds up to 2000, 2560 doesn’t round down

[strange ginkgo]

still using 2 1080p 60hz lcd monitors to this day

[brisk jolt]

lets do the most UK thing and round it about

[karmic pendant]

Absolute kanata

[brisk jolt]

even amd jesus says RDNA has been fumbling

[wise turtle]

whats the best place to get a pre built from

[karmic pendant]

Oh so avoid AMD now?

And go Green?

[strange ginkgo]

is PC gaming even worth it anymore with current prices?

[pure garnet]

when you realize that ram pricing didn’t really shift build prices massively yeah

[strange ginkgo]

pretty much all components in my PC now cost more than 2 years ago when i bought them

power supply might still be the same

[brisk jolt]

Q2 2025 was prime time

mobos have def increased in pricing from what i see

[karmic pendant]

@pure garnet is 12gb vram enough for 1440p gaming?

[strange ginkgo]

paid about 50€ for my am4 mainboard (used ebay) and would still get it for about the same
but the CPU would be much more expensive.. well the ram... would be about 400€ more now at best

[harsh sail]

depends what you do
aaa games 8GB is starting to be insufficient in 1080p
fortnite though is only 2GB on performance mode even in 1440p though turn RT on on that or do minecraft with mods including shaders and it’s bacck to 4-5GB, though, again, 1440p

[brisk jolt]

ah yes raytrace a kid’s battle royale game

[harsh sail]

exactly im trying to make it ccontrived to make a point that it really epends (if you go cpu-handed, the game take no vram)

[strange ginkgo]

raytracing is so good that the minecraft version of it that was created in cooperation with nvidia to promote is now gone

[karmic pendant]

I really don't care about RT
Tbh if 12gb is enough for everything and I say everything I mainly play with high-ultra settings.
So yeah Rtx 3080ti might be the better choice ATM

[brisk jolt]

12GB is fine with 1440p, raytracing just use DLSS to make up

you have the tool just use it

[harsh sail]

10GB? cause i think that 2GB matters and he’s considering a 3080

[karmic pendant]

5060Ti is no good?

Ti

[harsh sail]

it’s pretty good value if you get the 8GB model

[karmic pendant]

[strange ginkgo]

8gb...

[harsh sail]

then again, if he’s considering no aaa games, then it’s more than enough

[harsh sail]

ay if you need no vram then it’s great

guys that’s what im saying the whole time lol

[karmic pendant]

Ah no I changed my mind
Rtx 5060ti is not worth it

[indigo walrus]

As a new 5060 Ti 16GB owner, it can be good... depending on the price you purchase it for, the resolution / refresh rate you play games at, and the types of games you play. At the end of the day, everyone's needs differ.

[karmic pendant]

It's More expansive than the Rtx 3080ti

[indigo walrus]

Sure, if you can get your hands on a 3080 Ti. Unfortunately, not everyone has access to a decent used market.

[karmic pendant]

Like I said I play everything
From world of tanks
To valorent to elden ring
To battlefield 2042 To overwatch to marvels
To expedition 33 to Hogwarts

[strange ginkgo]

what would you even cosider a good price for a 3080ti?

[karmic pendant]

I really don't know man
All I know that the Rtx 3080ti Is expansive

120$ more than Rx 9060xt

Could be more

Well in my country that is

[harsh sail]

under 400 maybe but apparently it aint that much better than 3080 and 3080 is even slightly faster in raster than 5060ti so if you are fine with leaving new features, get that for lower price, vram bump, and faster raw performance
btw i find 3080 for 330 (one outlier listing at 300) and 5060ti at 340

[strange ginkgo]

i got my used rtx 3090 for about 750€ 2 years ago but thats also a 24gb card

from what i can see on ebay right now it got worse

[karmic pendant]

9060xt lacks so much I expected more of it

[harsh sail]

whaa
just in november i saw a few 3090s for 460 dollars

makes sense but dam even 30 generation got hit

[strange ginkgo]

all i see for 3090 now is 900€ or more

[harsh sail]

24GB is 24GB

so wow 3080 is just slaying rn

went from 280-300 to now 300-330 in price which is something but it was alrready good

[strange ginkgo]

the ddr4 well lets say now it would be more than 200€

i hope the prices well go back to the old normal

[brisk jolt]

that is not everything

[strange ginkgo]

before covid and ai when we only had bitcoin to blame

[brisk jolt]

bitcoin and covid are literally together

[strange ginkgo]

ok true

[harsh sail]

2028 supposedly if the optimism from some executives proves wrong (which it most likely will) but apparently intel,unlike asus’s trivial move, is actually going to make RAM-like thing (“ZAM”) for the servers that will relieve supply issue.
and then 2029 will be consumer ddr6

[karmic pendant]

Well a bit of everything

[strange ginkgo]

i wouldn't mind grabbing a epyc 9965 from ebay when AI datacenters implode

[harsh sail]

may 9995wx be cheap 🗣️

[wise turtle]

where are good places to get pre builts

theres no micro center in my state tho

[merry stirrup]

265K
and the ram question is silly ofc it’s hynix ram yes

[brisk jolt]

micron cudimm 6400 jedec 1.1v

[lethal topaz]

uh oh

how bad is this

zfs reports zero errors of any kind

[strange ginkgo]

can you get the actual smart data of the drive?

[lethal topaz]

yeah i believe so what would you like

[strange ginkgo]

generally i would probably replace a drive if i get a warning like this but

[lethal topaz]

i do have a couple spare. however they are all used enterprise drives, ~15k power on hours

im just worried about the rebuild since its raidz1

[strange ginkgo]

but this drive for example has reallocated sectors because i dropped it and i still trust the drive because i know the reason and it it was fine for more than a year now

[lethal topaz]

this is part of my media pool so i would like to not lose it but it wouldnt be the worst thing to lose. im backing up the data i 100% want from it before i decide what im doing

[strange ginkgo]

your drive might just had a high data error rate because it ran too how but for now just expect it to fail

[lethal topaz]

too hot?

[strange ginkgo]

I've seen the seek error rate value got up on my drive when it had no cooling so i gues that can influence it

[lethal topaz]

that would make sense

the cooling is not the best in the case

[strange ginkgo]

btw how difficult is the rebuild process?
I've only done raid 0 so far and never used raid for data parity

[lethal topaz]

well it will be a first for me so idk yet lmao

but its tough on the drives. the most common time for a failure is during a resliver / rebuild

my friend lost his pool during a rebuild as well

[strange ginkgo]

i've only see this old ltt video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSrnXgAmK8k
and my conclusion was that i don't want to deal with that and should just use a boring external drive and 7zip to pack everything in one file

total waste of space but whatever

[lethal topaz]

this will surely take a while, backing up 1tb of data

luckily i have two pools with decent capacity

[strange ginkgo]

jbod

[lethal topaz]

what the

why do you have so many drives and not pooled

are you doing all this through windows?

[strange ginkgo]

external drives via usb

[lethal topaz]

this is quite the setup

[strange ginkgo]

whatever works

[lethal topaz]

this is running in truenas

[strange ginkgo]

I'm sure it's great and convinient but i never liked the idea of attaching my storage via lan/wlan

[lethal topaz]

my network setup is decent so it makes sense to me

plus my network interface is about as fast as a usb connection...

i can still make all my files appear in windows as well

[strange ginkgo]

all my drives are sata so USB was never the bottleneck

sadly i can't combine the drives into a raid

tried a few ways but nothing worked for usb drives

[merry stirrup]

idk if you did it on purpose but the ataching joke is pretty funny for sata drives

had me gigglin

[strange ginkgo]

don't be mean to my sata drives :(

[merry stirrup]

im ok with sata drives kinda sometimes

idk i use a total of 3

[lethal topaz]

i have 3 sata drives total in use as well if you dont count cache

otherwise i have 4

[strange ginkgo]

my board has only one nvme slot anyway

[patent gorge]

only set up NAS late last year, should have done it sooner, it made things so much more convenient

[lethal topaz]

my gaming pc has 2 nvme 1 sata ssd,
my nas has 8 SAS, 2 sata HDD, 1 sata ssd (cache)

[lethal topaz]

is that all optane

[topaz veldt]

No

[strange ginkgo]

no but MLC nand

[topaz veldt]

They're s3710

[strange ginkgo]

nvme was not a thing when these were made

[brisk jolt]

why is spending $300 on clothes so pain

[livid flame]

Don’t you live in a country where clothes are like $3 a piece?

[brisk jolt]

i wish

[livid flame]

It was.. just not widely adopted

[south shuttle]

I love cotton

synthetics eww

Their strenghts are also their weaknesses

[livid flame]

If I lived or went somewhere like India or Thailand where I can just pick up clothes for like 1 or 2 quid I’d end up wearing it all on the way home to avoid paying baggage fees

[south shuttle]

If something is under 60% cotton that is touching me, into the trash it goes

[devout ridge]

woke up, promptly slipped down the stairs, fucking amazing way to start my day

[shell void]

that sux brother iroh, are u wounded?

[devout ridge]

scrapped my forearm a bit on the banister, but otherwise perfectly fine

just pissed me off

one of those things where it just ruins your morning

[vapid ether]

is the banister allright ? did you hurt him ?

[devout ridge]

it has some Iroh DNA on it now

[vapid ether]

https://tenor.com/view/uncle-iroh-flow-avatar-uncle-iroh-iroh-flow-gif-17310650

[livid flame]

https://tenor.com/view/steven-gerrard-liverpool-epic-fail-soccer-missed-gif-14167603

[lone scarab]

those are not that good tho

[wraith steeple]

Ancestors from Ba Sing Se sounds rad

Tough crowd

[brisk jolt]

Dude would be stacking armour

[topaz veldt]

That sucks but at least you didn't slip UP the stairs so... Look at the bright side?

[quaint osprey]

okay this is tech chat but i have an issue with vortex mod manager would anyone be willing to help with this issue i have im in dire need ive been at it for like 2 hours now

[brisk jolt]

drinking coffee at 9pm
whack

[edgy laurel]

no idea. i use mods through vortex quite a bit but always manually manage them (or with game specific mod managers)

i always hear about how vortex just fucks shit up in most cases

[fringe vigil]

Don’t use vortex

[edgy laurel]

https://klipy.com/gifs/wtf-wth-19

[devout ridge]

the day is still young, there’s always a chance

[livid flame]

£100 could last 5 years. Cheap af

[lone scarab]

i tried not my fit tbh

tho they good if you wanna wear at home

i got a hoodie with big nike logo for 6 euros

[livid flame]

That’s good

We bought an Ali express north face knock off to see if they were selling proper counterfeits or not for a tenner

The tracksuit came with “TIIC NOPTI FACE” on it instead

Pretty warm tbh. Worth the tenner

[fringe vigil]

whys my pc not recognising my usb bro

[topaz veldt]

how would we know jorj

[fringe vigil]

like wth

[young void]

Need coffees

Also try a diffrent slot/could be driver for said item

[shell void]

msi lightning reviews are up snail

[fringe vigil]

https://youtu.be/EriEensiy0I?si=g0bjn8J7i1Sq0T5e

[wraith steeple]

TG discord is talking about RN

[shell void]

looks like the cooler works well

[wraith steeple]

Dual 12vhpwr

Which makes sense since it's an XOC card and all

[shell void]

$5090usd and limited lottery tho :p

far better off just getting a gigabyte card

[turbid locust]

chat I’m officially coffee age

[turbid locust]

meanwhile I limit my 5090 to 450W

trading 5% performance for 20% less power is peak

but @shell void told me about voltage limiting it the other day and in need to experiment with that

[young void]

Nothing wrong with power limiting for efficiency

[livid flame]

It should do considering the price of the thing

[wraith steeple]

Two month delivery time is wild

[edgy laurel]

thats a hilarious but also sad meme

[shell void]

you do indeed

it’s more effective than a wattage limit if your goal is to improve efficiency

[turbid locust]

right but if there’s a better way to do it

[turbid locust]

yeah because with a 138fps cap my gpu isn’t hitting 450W in 90% of games anyway

[edgy laurel]

oh, apparently the math was updated earlier last month and now 144hz = 139fps

[turbid locust]

lol bro

[edgy laurel]

get that extra frame bro

[shell void]

it’ll drop your power draw a lot even when you’re fps capped at like 60% gpu util

[turbid locust]

It may be more effective but I’ll have to measure performance

[shell void]

ive seen it shave 100W off in cyberpunk even tho my fps was capped to the same value

[wraith steeple]

We actually be doing frame chasing and efficiency yo

[turbid locust]

hmmmmmmm

will it shave 100W off in valorant when my gpu peaks at 100W in that game

[topaz veldt]

no one should buy this thing

[turbid locust]

Everyone should buy that

[young void]

XD

[topaz veldt]

I am like 30 points from being on the "hall of fame" for Port Royal

[edgy laurel]

At $5090 US asking price, no one will

[topaz veldt]

Nah people will

[young void]

Lfg

[turbid locust]

why do you not just flash XOC bios atp

[young void]

I believe in youu

[edgy laurel]

its all relative. the few hundred they sell is effectively no one

[topaz veldt]

I am on 800W, it scores better usually

[turbid locust]

2000W bios + EVC with the babiest amount of additional voltage

[shell void]

it’ll probably drop you to like 70W

[topaz veldt]

I need to get the 2nd 12vhpwr on

[turbid locust]

If you’re doing that add EVC leads atp

[topaz veldt]

eh

[livid flame]

Number 98 has the best name

[topaz veldt]

Going to go move that PC to the garage and get a 45500 round later

[wraith steeple]

https://tenor.com/view/biggus-dickus-smile-hold-laughter-gif-17949586

Monty Python reference

[turbid locust]

Literally the freest performance

EVC also just kinda nukes the power limit anyway

might just misreport power

[turbid locust]

I also need to do some extreme efficiency tuning on the 9850X3D

quietest non custom loop 9850X3D + 5090 build on the planet?

I will do a full custom loop one day but. That day has to be in a time where im not swapping platforms in the daily every 3 months

[topaz veldt]

I might be battling you for that. Mine is in the NCase M3 about 20 in from my ears and completely inaudible

[turbid locust]

the only thing I can ever actually hear right now is my 5090 when I’m playing a game that actually uses it

my case fans and AIO fans are limited to like 850rpm

[frank zealot]

holy shit I just got offered the dumbest warranty ever:

5 bucks for a 2 yr warranty on foam microphone covers

[wraith steeple]

My local Micro Center has this inside joke about this; "would you like a two year warranty on the Bawls drink and Snickers bar?"

[frank zealot]

lol, at least that's a joke

[young void]

If she runs ya know

[brisk jolt]

Same here, only problem I have with the 5090 is that it absolutely eats power particularly in valorant

200w is ouch compared to the 5070ti eating like.. 80

[topaz veldt]

200w...bro

[brisk jolt]

I dont mind 200w but its eating it in a game not graphically intense, plus at twice the wattage of 5070ti

[frank zealot]

I just realized something, and now I want to try:

I've got a dead mini PC with a 13400....

And I've got a crappy HP Mini Tower with a 12100 sitting on the shelf...

Why don't I upgrade that chip to a 13400.....

[hoary hatch]

https://videocardz.com/newz/samsung-display-brands-five-layer-qd-oled-penta-tandem-for-monitor-panels-up-to-1300-nits
Penta Tandem is a name of all time

[brisk jolt]

Lets watch them butcher it with another matte coating

[hoary hatch]

@steel stream https://www.theverge.com/tech/877396/samsung-tv-software-volume-on-screen-display-switch-hdmi-input-tizen
Amusing

Tizen ruins everything

[shell void]

hexa tandem next year?

[hoary hatch]

10 layers is minimum viable panel

Y'all remember when Intel was investing Penta level cell nand

I member

[shell void]

PLC SSDs are coming soon

[wraith steeple]

PLC?

[hoary hatch]

Programmable logic controller

Safety PLC is the bane of my existence

[shell void]

penta level cell nand like mr carter just said

more density for higher capacity enterprise ssds

[cosmic gazelle]

lovely. msi releases a 1000 watt 5090

[hoary hatch]

I wouldn't say we never get PLC nand

But 3D stacking and density just kept getting better and better, so there hasn't been much of a need for PLC

And there's some real downsides for durability and speeds

If it could be cheaper than HDD per TB (which it won't), then I could see PLC useful for large capacity archival purposes

[cosmic gazelle]

seemed like the cheapest nand was headed that direction... until...

[frank zealot]

.... We Rate Dogs (of all groups)

Came out swinging at Ring for the new "AI Detection" surveilance they're implementing

https://www.avclub.com/great-job-interview-weratedogs-super-bowl-ring

[livid flame]

Great use of AI. Game changing

[frank zealot]

if you have an install base of over 20 million outdoor cameras in america? Yeah, it's really a scary thing.

It is game changing

[livid flame]

It is. Especially when you apply it to people and think, if you can use the palantir facial recognition database… game changing

[frank zealot]

just in the "oh good, evil's winning" game changing way

[livid flame]

Think how many criminals we can catch!

Your friend comes over, knock at the door, palantir AI on your ring doorbell has indicated he’s a wanted man. Boom. Justice served

Easy to find now they know he’s inside

[warm urchin]

If you live in a big city, chances are there’s already plenty of CCTV that’s being monitored by someone for some reason

We are so past the point of surveillance state it’s not even funny

It’s been at least two decades in London for example

[frank zealot]

most of that isn't centralized into one multi-national database that can AI your privacy away

If Joe's house of pizza has a unifi NVR in the back room and a few cameras inside and outside?
IDGAF. That's security for them.

If that same thing is controlled by Ring and now gets added to the national database they can monitor for whatever they choose?

That's a VERY Fuckin' different thing.

[merry stirrup]

successfully used me hot air station today

[frank zealot]

noice

@edgy laurel This looks sick:

more PCBs should be translucent!

[turbid locust]

only if you’re running uncapped framerate

my 5090 like basically idles that game at 4K 144

like 100W lol

[brisk jolt]

im running 360 to match the monitor’s refresh rate, all low graphics and its still at 200w+

[turbid locust]

well that checks out ig lol

[brisk jolt]

I say its weird cuz the 5070Ti at the same FPS is doing like 80w

[turbid locust]

I wonder how much of that 200W is just powering the vram lmao

Sidenote I’m on the shuttle bus at work and the two people next to me are discussing Chuck E Cheese lore

[brisk jolt]

that 512 bit bus really bites back xd

[steel stream]

based article

[edgy laurel]

It does. I bet many thin old school pcbs are tbh

[merry stirrup]

hot air station is also great for melting hotglue nicely cause your hot glue gun sucks

but yeah i redid one of my sisters ps5 controllers with mostly no issue after buying this

[edgy laurel]

back when I was into RC, i bought a "nice" hot glue gun

amazing how much better that worked from the cheap arts and crafts stuff I'd used before

[pure garnet]

i think i read 70w somewhere is the minimum power draw for the memory

which is why the 5090 mobile is gb203

[green marsh]

today i decided to look at alternative to zigbee... omg, matter/thread is such a overcomplicated system/protocol. Zigbee is such a simple thing in comparison. I think i will avoid matter until i can't 😄

[topaz veldt]

matter/thread is baller

[jaunty horizon]

Random tech advice needed lol

Trying to find a good portable SSD as the MacBook I may be getting only has around 500GB of space so I would half love a backup drive and it also needs to be fast as videos aren’t exactly small for 4k also must be durable as I’m on the road most of the time

And must have at least 1TB of space for a backup and some working space

[topaz veldt]

there are tons of thunderbolt external ssds

[jaunty horizon]

Looking for good ones not a cheap crappy one that will break on me after like 5 uses

[merry stirrup]

i basically just used the shitty glue gun to tack things on then i "reflowed" the glue iwth my hot air station, worked well

[topaz veldt]

@merry stirrup you ever chase Port Royal scores?

[merry stirrup]

nope

[topaz veldt]

its worse than RAM tuning

My 285K, on my desk, like 65 degree office, ran 45315 with 800W BIOS and tweaking

moved it to my garage, its like 15c core temp idle, same settings, I can't get over 45,000

Swapped to my 9950X3D machine, 800W BIOS, same custom loop, this GPU boosts even higher, to 3.3 GHz, and I get 44600 lol

[merry stirrup]

yeah sounds like gpu benching

[topaz veldt]

so frustrating

meanwhile yesterday I had the 285K do 45105, 45210, 45315

inching up with afterburner adjustments like clockwork

[merry stirrup]

Redid my i2c mod. The original jst header broke off and I lost it so good old fashioned wires

[turbid locust]

Do you have the explorer kill script

[pure garnet]

don’t you still need a 14900k for top scores on that

[topaz veldt]

No

[turbid locust]

cpu doesn’t really matter for port Royal as long as it’s not limiting

[topaz veldt]

naw

[pure garnet]

what test was the one splaive did with ln2 at ltt

[frank zealot]

Buddy is napping with his MerSloth

[turbid locust]

well you don’t really need the script ig? But kill explorer before the run starts and then run it again after

[pure garnet]

because that’s the one where he said 14900k was meta

[turbid locust]

anything with a cpu physics score like TimeSpy

[turbid locust]

also I’m assuming you’re on a high refresh rate monitor? it can effect scores believe it or not

[topaz veldt]

i am

its just weird the 9950X3D is 1000 points off

[turbid locust]

but yeah try killing explorer before the runs

[topaz veldt]

Ok will try

i have every startup thing disabled

[turbid locust]

also if you’re not on a bench or clean OS

[topaz veldt]

Its an aged OS

but like... 1000 points is srs

[turbid locust]

might be worth installing a fresh OS or bench OS

I could probably throw you a wegg image maybe but you could probably strip an OS yourself I’m sure lol

[topaz veldt]

wegg?

yeah i have a post install stripper script I made

[turbid locust]

ya

[turbid locust]

biggest hwbot team

[topaz veldt]

oh

[wise bear]

MAKE A LAMP WITH IT

[merry stirrup]

really happy with the hot air station stuff i did today though it was pretty challenging but i got through it

and i replaced with some nice hall effect joysticks hurray

[brisk jolt]

idk who needs to know this but that msi lightning 5090 has a 2500w vbios you need to request and it voids the warranty when in use xd

[merry stirrup]

im sure it will promptly be put on tpu

[frank zealot]

I'm laughing right now.

Dude elsewhere is dying on the dumbest hill.

Him: "An 850w PLATINUM PSU might be enough for a 9800x3d and 5070 TI"

Everyone dunking on him: No, it's fucking not gonna need 850W+.

Him: "Well, transient spikes are a thing!"

Me: 400W of Transient headroom is more than enough. You're making shit up.

[wise bear]

https://tenor.com/view/intergalactic-intergalactic-quality-intergalactic-robert-downey-jr-robert-downey-jr-robert-downey-jr-eye-roll-gif-26804824

[brisk jolt]

5nail would be sprinting towards it

https://tenor.com/view/naoya-naoya-jjk-jjk-jujutsu-kaisen-speed-gif-15797125621977248595

[topaz veldt]

will literally do nothing unfortunately

800W BIOS and 5090 can't get over 700-720W

[brisk jolt]

We all know you’re gonna hit one of em 5090s with another 12vhpwr

Unless you’re already VRM limited at that range iirc

[strange ginkgo]

my water kettle can do 2000w

[topaz veldt]

but it doesn't change how much it draws

[frank zealot]

I'm not giving them clicks, but come on guys... is this really a goddamned thing to make more videos on?

[civic reef]

Money makes people shameless

[frank zealot]

IDK how much money 2.5 k views is gonna make tho lol

[topaz veldt]

like $5

[frank zealot]

so, coffee money?

utterly unrelated, but I really kinda dig this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3g9jTZIs68

[cosmic gazelle]

moistcritikal and his consequences

people think that reporting on stupid drama is how they're gonna make it big

[green marsh]

also once a company goes above "small company" amount of people leaving is normal. We usually have around 5 people leaving every year, which is a normal fluctuation level for a company of ~100

(and many would still consider 100 people company as small)

[frank zealot]

100 is firmly small-medium business

it's not small small, but it's nowhere near big.

Big by youtube standards? sure. But not big by others

[green marsh]

i mean we are a software development company, but again, ~5 is a normal amount of people leaving a company every year (because we also hire the same amount or more). But for a youtuber company, if every person also makes a 'i quit' video, that will be visible.

Plus obviously people will not say it's their fault they have to go sometimes (not saying anything about the 'leaving LTT people', i do not watch those videos). But we had a person who was let go for being double employed without disclosing it first - i bet if it was someone fired for that from LTT he would make a sad person video 😄

[frank zealot]

LTT's had way more departures than there have been videos

I feel like most have been pretty quiet about it, unless they went on to make channels

Speaking of leaving LMG...

I wonder what Emily's up to now... She hasn't made a video in forever

[green marsh]

OT: watching olympics, damn, how much i hate the drone buzzing noises. Yes, they give amazing pictures, but the noise is so annoying

[low sorrel]

@topaz veldt arc raiders?

[edgy laurel]

why the hell is a mic on the drone being broadcast in the first place is my question

[green marsh]

even if it isn't, you would hear it, as the drones fly only few meters behind the athlete

[edgy laurel]

fair

[wraith steeple]

[topaz veldt]

aint no body got DIMMs

[green marsh]

you cashed in on your collection ?

[topaz veldt]

nah i still have a ton

dunno what im waiting for

im lazy

[green marsh]

i mean as i said, i have 720GB of RAM or so, but they are actually installed (well, most of it)

[nocturne hatch]

soon the "your engine has a nice car" meme will start being "your ram has a nice computer"

[green marsh]

still mostly annoyed by the fact that i can't combine my normal RAM with SODIMMs in that DIMM adapter

systems run with either normal DIMM or SODIMM in DIMM adapter, but noth both - because SODIMM is single rank, while all my DIMM are dual RANK

[topaz veldt]

I have way, way, too much memory on hand

[shell void]

gotta sell it brochacho

[wraith steeple]

[nimble pike]

Some are drowning in an ocean while others die of thirst

I was planning on upgrading to 64GB this year and well... guess I'm not.

[edgy laurel]

same. same.

[low sorrel]

32gb for life

[green marsh]

well for consumer market you can still find 64GB DDR5 kits for 500 euros or so. Sure, they might not be 6000CL30 modules, but 500 euros is still somewhat acceptable for 64GB kit, if you need that

that is on used market

yeah, they aren't new modules, but hey, RAM is RAM

and if for some reason you want new, then it's 750 euros for 6400CL40

[frank zealot]

I've got a (99% sure) working 13400 out of a dead mini PC

and a random HP Business Mini Tower with a 12100

What're the odds the 13400 drops in and just works?

[green marsh]

hell, even this exists 😄

[green marsh]

is the model officially supported ? OEM manufacturers like to strip microcode to only CPUs they support

@frank zealot (if you laugh at 'free' - google translate sucks, by "free" they mean they are not blocked for some buyer)

[buoyant basalt]

Does the brand of the gpu matter that much? The asus dual rx 9060xt and the sapphire nitro plus for example like the other one is 30 dollars more expensive ?

[nimble pike]

Oh, I'm still on DDR4

[pure garnet]

not when you’re buying that low end of a card, no

[green marsh]

DDR4 has gone up too, but it is cheaper than DDR5

[frank zealot]

I don't know, it's an oem box, so no idea if they'd even have one

[green marsh]

like these SODIMMs
250 euros is a lot for 64GB compared to ~120 euros when it was bottom, but it is still not in 'oh no, it's unreachable prices' territory

[green marsh]

can you find the exact model ?

[nimble pike]

Right now, just buy what's cheapest. I usually aim for XFX, Powercolor, or Sapphire for AMD, though.

[buoyant basalt]

But they all have similar performance right

[nimble pike]

Yes

[frank zealot]

basically identical

brand means almost nothing

[nimble pike]

For me, I go for those brands, especially Sapphire, because of good engineering and warranty. They're somewhat less likely to screw you over.

[frank zealot]

HP Elite Tower 600 G9
PN: 86T49UC#ABA

[nimble pike]

Sapphire and XFX in particular have AMAZING cooler engineers.

[topaz veldt]

I mean... if you ignore the ones that literally didn't cool

[nimble pike]

Which ones?

We going back to Vega?

[green marsh]

12th gen seems like a yes, 13th gen dunno for now

[nimble pike]

The R9 380x I had from XFX was great.

[green marsh]

Google AI says 13th gen is also ok, but who knows

[frank zealot]

And hp made the most annoying nvme cooler

[nimble pike]

Wait no, 280x

But look at how cool this card looks. She ran well.

[pure garnet]

what even is that

it has a screw so what do the retention clips do???

[frank zealot]

hold the heatsink on

[frank zealot]

I may fuck with it tomorrow and find out

at worst, I put the 12100 back in

(but 12100 to 13400 is a significant jump, so worth it if it works)

[green marsh]

can you open https://www.cpu-world.com/cgi-bin/CPUID.pl?MODEL=i5-13400 ? if yes, can you check what is the CPUID of the 13400 ?

[frank zealot]

the PC it's in is dead

so I'd have to move it to a new board first

[green marsh]

no, i mean if you can open that link. I extracted the bios from the website, but i don't know the CPUID of the i5-13400

[green marsh]

so i see this, but dunno what CPUID is the i5-13400 😄

[pure garnet]

i feel like swapping the cpu is faster than trying to see if it works

[topaz veldt]

5700 XTs were plagued by bad cooler contact

[green marsh]

nevermind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_Lake says Raptor lake as group is CPUID code B0671, so it is supported by latest BIOS for HP Elite Tower 600 G9

[green marsh]

supported by this one

[frank zealot]

neat! 😄

(I've had several of these die in one are of the plant, I feel like it's related to the book gluing machine there. So I've been slowly swapping them out with fanless industrial PCs instead)

[green marsh]

step by step guide:

1. download EXE BIOS file
2. extract using WinRARE
3. find the big file (32MB in this case)
4. install python3
5. download MCExtractor (https://github.com/platomav/MCExtractor) and latest DB
6. run python MCE.py BIOSFILENAME
7. check if the CPUID of desires CPU is in the list

[frank zealot]

ohhhh, I just realized these dead PCs included WiFi 6E Cards. sweet! 😄

intel AX211NGW cards

@topaz veldt
Here's a random find you won't see often:

[green marsh]

that specific BIOS file supports CPUID 90672, B0671, 90675, B06F2, B06F5, B06F6, B06F7, B0671 and B0674

unfortunately cpu-world is going crazy and banned my ISP, so i can't check the database

[frank zealot]

weird

FB Marketplace..

Please never change. (Dafuq is a "collector's hammer" ?)

[topaz veldt]

mmm ewaste

[frank zealot]

I remember when Sun Sparcs were cool

ROFL FB... WTF is this for?
Who would buy this?!

[green marsh]

demolition companies ? it is same level as those small excavators from aliexpress

[edgy laurel]

nice. i mean its a CPU so good chances

[topaz veldt]

https://tenor.com/view/wrecking-ball-miley-cyrus-i-came-in-demolition-destruction-gif-27302054

[frank zealot]

squints
This is sus good pricing

[edgy laurel]

crazy price, massive punctuation problems in the listing..

[frank zealot]

if real, you could easily flip those for double (or more) your money

but I feel like there's a hell of a catch

[green marsh]

"only PCB, desoldered NAND" 😄

[nimble pike]

Of course it's good pricing.

There's Gunners all over the place you have to hide from.

That's where the Minutemen were wiped out.

[frank zealot]

lol

Quincy was a rough fight

[nimble pike]

Preston still has nightmares about it

[merry stirrup]

either its fake or the pricing is in relation to their username

[nimble pike]

That's also not how they look

[merry stirrup]

yeah its apart of the description lol

[nimble pike]

It's hard to tell with the resolution

But I'd be quite suspicious

They're either fake or heavily used.

[frank zealot]

give you one guess now lol:

[nimble pike]

AH, new account

I've been seeing Steam Decks near me for like $200

And I'm like, there's no way.

[green marsh]

or they plan to rob you /s

[hollow temple]

I dont have a Profile Photo or any Friends
I only use it for Marketplace

But Due to this Facebook shuts me down alot
So its not impossible its legit

[frank zealot]

the account is (at most) a month old
I don't think it's real at all

[raw zinc]

Yo so like my PC will have a complete freeze at no specific time or interval it just freezes entirely and the only way to fix it is if i restart my PC also when I restart it turns on turns off then goes to the BIOS screen i click exit and then it turns off again and turns on normally

[devout ridge]

#1027757333117415424

[topaz veldt]

literally no information

[devout ridge]

the equivalent of "my car is broken, fix it"

[raw zinc]

Do you want specs?

[devout ridge]

We want all the information imaginable, in #1027757333117415424

[brave panther]

https://tenor.com/view/pondering-my-orb-monkey-swimming-pondering-my-monkey-ponder-monkey-monkey-gif-25207113

[raw zinc]

okay

done

[topaz veldt]

OMG - @edgy laurel did you hear about the EPA change today

I don't care what you think of this administration... they just removed the requirement of auto manufacturers implementing auto start-stop mechanisms!

[edgy laurel]

I did see that headline

[topaz veldt]

AMAZING

[edgy laurel]

It is, for my own sanity

[topaz veldt]

I have it coded off on every car I have but dude that bullshit cost so many people so many bearings

[edgy laurel]

but I've also never bothered to look into the data of what good it did to begin with

for normies

[topaz veldt]

imho its unsafe

I can't count how many times im sitting in traffic and someones car doesn't start right away, as they sit in the intersection

[edgy laurel]

I've been meaning to get the cable from FCP to keep mine off

[topaz veldt]

but also yeah you are basically starting your engine over and over and over w/ no or low oil pressure

[edgy laurel]

when I forget to turn it off which is rare at this point and the engine stops, my heart sinks for a split second

[topaz veldt]

yup

[frank zealot]

Pondering an Orb

[edgy laurel]

yeah I did not like that aspect either

multiplying starter motor wear too

[topaz veldt]

its considered one of the reasons why BMW N20 engines had timing chain failure

[pallid marsh]

Our starters won't die young!

[steel stream]

wait can you not disable it in some cars?

[topaz veldt]

you can but you have to do it EVERYTIME YOU DRIVE

[edgy laurel]

I'd be ok with it staying a thing but there being an option to permanently turn it off in settings.

[steel stream]

ah hell nah

[brave panther]

my obdeleven would disagree

[topaz veldt]

The problem is that 99% of people don't understand how detrimental it is for your engine

[steel stream]

In the Audi my family has it's just a button, and you don't have to do it everytime

[edgy laurel]

thats changed

[brave panther]

tbh where i am going we are not stopping for a single second

[edgy laurel]

if you follow automotive news, whats worse is some ADAS features that require you to turn them off every time, and some are burried in the menus

[topaz veldt]

yeah its insane

No longer a requirement... thank god

It'll take a long time for them to roll it out

[edgy laurel]

well, start stop at least. The lane keep BS is another story

[topaz veldt]

but maybe dealers can officially offer a "permenant" flash

[steel stream]

Oh I don't like that stuff either

[edgy laurel]

that stuff scares me, at least the versions that actually can control the steering

[steel stream]

yeah we've got an EV that can do it

[fringe vigil]

Yo

[edgy laurel]

Yo

[brave panther]

yea, once it almost rammed me into a barrier block due to road being painted with those temporary construction lane markers

[edgy laurel]

exactly the kind of story i hear over and over

[steel stream]

you have to fight it pretty hard which is not great

[edgy laurel]

I have automated braking and radar cruise, but those i'm good with. The latter I love a little too much

no lane keep assist

[brave panther]

they will soon figure out how to ruin that too

[steel stream]

I am too fearful to try out automated braking

[steel stream]

bro did I miss luge today

[frank zealot]

dunno

[steel stream]

fuck me i missed luge

[arctic bronze]

thats a feature not a bug

[fringe vigil]

freddy fazbear

anyone played the fnaf games

[steel stream]

har

har har har har

[fringe vigil]

yh i har har them anyway

i har har har god of war

[topaz veldt]

i am so bored of PCs right now we need new shit

still wondering wtf happened with 290k

I bet they couldn't get 285Ks stable higher 🙂

[fringe vigil]

1 more year bud

[turbid locust]

This guys lying

[steel stream]

great image mac

[turbid locust]

thank you sir

@topaz veldt any luck with the explorer kill trick

[topaz veldt]

havent tried brother

[turbid locust]

wack

[topaz veldt]

lol werkin

[shell void]

supposedly just too niche

not enough interest in a 285KS in 2026

theyre going for value with the refresh

[pure garnet]

i mean why would you buy a 290k with the identical core config as a 270k yeah

[fervent scaffold]

Wifes over the top build that she wanted is complete for a total of $700

[nimble pike]

We need AFFORDABLE shit

[fringe vigil]

How did that cost 700

[low sorrel]

@topaz veldt arc?

[nimble pike]

2070 or 3070?

[fervent scaffold]

Marketplace 3080 for $300, strix z370e gaming + i7 8700k for $100, asus case for $70, 10 asiahorse fans, $50ish for a 3 pack

[fringe vigil]

Nice bro

[nimble pike]

3080 for 300 is a good deal.

[fervent scaffold]

Oh yeah, BRAND NEW 32gb ddr4 for $60 off marketplace

I dont think the guy knew whats going on with ram, i picked that up last week

[nimble pike]

I desperately need more RAM

[fervent scaffold]

Oh yeah also the thermalright aio for $50 new

And a new 850 watt vetroo modular psu for like $70? $80? Can’t remember

1 500gb inland nvme and 1tb pny nvme

I had those laying around

[topaz veldt]

dinner time brother

[topaz veldt]

https://tenor.com/view/enorym-pssh-gif-21051436

[fringe vigil]

Ok

[low sorrel]

i forgot timezones are a thing that exist

[cyan canopy]

Bed time

[topaz veldt]

😭

[atomic veldt]

would a 5080 be good to pair with a 5700x3d? or is that to much i play 1440p btw

[nimble pike]

Just get 5070ti

[unreal vector]

I’m using memtest if 3 passes pass with 0 error should I do the 4th pass or should I do the 4th pass just in cases

[harsh sail]

You can on eBay
I see several at 330 and one at 300

[edgy laurel]

I have this problem where I need to buy a thing at the grocery store but I only remember I need to buy this thing when i'm home and not at the grocery store. Its aso not important enough to need to make a special trip just for it. This was the AA's i finally remembered to buy for my C2's remote. Its been complaining that they are dying since Thanksgiving.

[nimble pike]

I mean a 3080 is faster than a 5060 or 9060, so you're getting a good card for $300.

[harsh sail]

Yeah that’s why I’m saying it is so outperformant
Better price, raw raster, 2GB more vram, in exchange for two generations older

[edgy laurel]

5+ years old, possibly needing a repast/repad, hot and potentially loud if a crappy AIB model. There are tradeoffs buying vintage gear beyond raw raster.

[nimble pike]

Nahhhh 3080 runs great

[edgy laurel]

that statement doesn't make any sense

[nimble pike]

Buy an EVGA one and you're golden.

[edgy laurel]

and neither does that. Being EVGA doesn't preclude it or any card from the aformentioned points.

[harsh sail]

I see a bunch of gigabyte ones for 330 and the one for 300 is water blocked so probably a bit more work to do there

[edgy laurel]

If its what you want, no worries. Just making sure all points are out in the open.

[nimble pike]

Even heavily used EVGA ones run fine like brand new.

[harsh sail]

Oh wow 4080s will be 300 dollars …. in 2029

Not so exciting anymore then

[edgy laurel]

No, this is misinformation given how you're wording it. You're insinuating that if EVGA made it, no matter what, there will be nothing wrong with it. This is blatantly false.

[nimble pike]

I mean, there's always a risk to buying a used GPU, sure. But the EVGA ones I've used have NEVER needed anything more than a dusting.

[edgy laurel]

But you know what, turns out I don't care lol. Seems like a brick wall situation.

[nimble pike]

Gigabyte on the other hand... you're gonna need to tear that thing down.

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/guy-arguing-guy-talking-to-wall-talking-brick-wall-gif-18667615

the slow passage of time affects all things

[edgy laurel]

Only so much GAF to go around

[nimble pike]

I mean, it depends on the era and manufacturer, but from personal experience, every EVGA 20 or 30 series card I've encountered has run fine with the pads and paste it came with. Compare that to the Gigabyte cards I've run which have had dried icky paste from the same era.

The TUF cards are pretty good with that, too.

Different brand and models DO skimp out on paste and pads.

[pure garnet]

im surprised you don't own the usb c rechargeable ones

[edgy laurel]

ehhhhh I own like.. shoot. Two things that need AA's so its not even a once a year issue

[low sorrel]

why not just use rechargeables?

[edgy laurel]

see above

[pure garnet]

do i have more remotes then you then

[edgy laurel]

almost certainly

[low sorrel]

side note

the ltt precision screwdriver is so annoying

i keep spinning it too much

[edgy laurel]

I kinda wanted to see how long my C2 remote would go on the "dying" batteries but the popup every time I touched it was getting irritating

[pure garnet]

ac, tv, dac, bed, atv remote (recharges on it's own)

9 aaa total

[edgy laurel]

I have more things that use coincells than I do AA or AAA's lol

[low sorrel]

I never use coin cells im not going to even lie\

[pure garnet]

my mom goes through c batteries like candy

[edgy laurel]

two keyfobs and I guess motherboards (though i've never actually needed to change a coin cell on one of my own motherboards)

[edgy laurel]

like the big ones?

[low sorrel]

oh right keyfobs

[pure garnet]

yeah

all the amazon led decorative stuff she’s bought over the years uses them

[edgy laurel]

looking at a 4-pack of Type C rechargeable AA's for $17. I paid $4 for the normies. Eh, i'll survive another few years

[pure garnet]

yeah fair

[edgy laurel]

stupid two-way RF smart remotes. I wanted the remote to just stop working one day instead of the annoying popup

[pure garnet]

i think my tcl remote is bluetooth

because the apple tv couldn’t find the signal to mimic volume control

i have to use earc

[edgy laurel]

yeah I think since remotes started moving to RF over IR, a lot of that happens through HDMI now

CEC

[pure garnet]

this is really my first time ever using cec for anything

[edgy laurel]

oh, was the Optimum video on the 5090 Lightning shared yet

I was pretty busy this morning

[pure garnet]

my vizio i got for free did not do much in the smart department besides “yahoo stocks”

[edgy laurel]

its pretty neat, actually. With a full TV/Receiver/multiple input devices into the recevier setup, there is basically no "setup" anymore. One remote and it just kinda figures it out when you power up a device. All the inputs switch to where they need to be, volume works, etc..

Frankly, a necessary step. The old way of programming remote codes and manually switching inputs was ass.

[pure garnet]

i had to reprogram the cable box remote enough times growing up to not miss doing it

[edgy laurel]

exactly

[pure garnet]

my cable provider is just iptv with free fire sticks now

so i guess they’re tried of it too

they’re not rented they just give you one with the first month of service

[edgy laurel]

they're cheap enough, i can see it

[pure garnet]

they’re also relatively easy enough for the elderly to figure out

[cosmic gazelle]

placed a bid to get a ryzen 5 2600 for 30 bucks

we’ll see if i get it

people near me sell b450 boards for 50 bucks

[steel stream]

yo @edgy laurel Death Stranding 2 on PC March 19th

[brisk jolt]

dude just out here glazing evga and saying shit

[brisk jolt]

ngl i might pick up DS if thats the case since thats pretty close to my holidays

https://tenor.com/view/beetle-washing-get-washed-bug-insect-gif-7983678301223916343

[shell void]

evga kingpin products were awesome, but the rest was medicore

[lethal topaz]

I have mildly bad news

i have ignored the smart warning and now my raid pool is degraded

[shell void]

[young void]

[lethal topaz]

well i restarted and now the pool is not showing degraded anymore

the backups are still commencing

[cosmic gazelle]

@merry stirrup you ever done memory on zen+ before

[lethal topaz]

the error number here used to be 32 but i guess zfs is tripping or something

[cosmic gazelle]

@young void what dat mean

[young void]

Floppas does all the mem tuning so probs

[cosmic gazelle]

i’m potentially gonna get a $120 r5 2600 system thrown together and learn to oc

so that if i blow something up i haven’t lost much money

[young void]

Wishing lucks

[cosmic gazelle]

if i get outbid on this ebay auction ill probably go for an apu instead

doing a max oc on a 200ge or something could be fun

[young void]

Happens, ebays a tough market. Can still get the occasional deal but roughs

[cosmic gazelle]

as a result it’s great as a seller lol

i got almost 70 bucks for a 3600x recently

$212.50 for a 12700

[nimble pike]

i7 4790k is your friend, you can get board, memory, and RAM combos for like $90

[proper forge]

trying to part out my old rig

old fx 8320 rig with 16 gb of ram

[cosmic gazelle]

i already have this minus a board, but it’s in a dell prebuilt and i don’t really feel like tearing it apart atm

[lone scarab]

oc it to the max

[cosmic gazelle]

i wanted amd because it’s potentially more challenging than intel

and ddr4

[proper forge]

i reoverclocked my rig after sitting not oc for awhile and cooked a memory channel and some other features lol

[cosmic gazelle]

i wanna see if i can get to a stock 3600 score on passmark

[nimble pike]

Yeah but 4790k can overclock to infinity with the right chip and cooling

[lone scarab]

✌️gl mate

[lone scarab]

untrue

[proper forge]

anyone want 16 GB of ddr3 ?

[lone scarab]

that makes that chip fastest

which it isnt

[lone scarab]

no sorry, i can only afford gold

cant afford ram

[proper forge]

lol

[cosmic gazelle]

i would want a mini itx z97 board for this and those are HILARIOUSLY expensive

[lone scarab]

💔

[shell void]

i wasnt aware that thermalright sold monitors

[proper forge]

Its only worth like $20 DDR4 and DDR5 are nuts

[nimble pike]

I just sold my 4790k yesterday. Gonna miss her.

[proper forge]

that monitor looks like someone took a normal monitor and stretched its image

[cosmic gazelle]

still does a good bit of gaming if you exclude ue5 titles

[proper forge]

I miss my fx 8320

[lone scarab]

[proper forge]

got a decent deal on an i7 9700k 32GB 1080 ti and 1.25 tb of m.2 ssd storage and a seasonic PSU

[lone scarab]

how much

[cosmic gazelle]

9700k 😝

[nimble pike]

It does, but it's time to move on from it. I'm better off using that money towards the main rig.

[proper forge]

to replace my fx 8320 wth 16 Gb and an rx 590 and only 120 gb of ssd

had two hard drives.

[nimble pike]

I want a new GPU

[cosmic gazelle]

absolutely blows cheeks these days if you do anything besides gaming tho so it’s understandable lol

[nimble pike]

I got the guy's number I sold it to, in case I eventually want it back.

[proper forge]

Paid $650 for the new rig a little high maybe but I dont have money for new ddr4 or ddr5 memory or m.2 ssds

moved all my storage over to it and transfered my 120 gb boot ssd to 256 gb m.2

[nimble pike]

That's not horrible to be honest.

[proper forge]

so I now have like 5 tb of storage

with memory prices it really isnt guy just upgrades frequently

was an evga card too

[cosmic gazelle]

i’d say it’s a little overpriced given the current used landscape but at least you got 32gb

[nimble pike]

We love EVGA here

[cosmic gazelle]

you didn’t get screwed and that’s what matters

[proper forge]

my market isnt very dense with used. live in the boonies in nw Iowa

[nimble pike]

Yeah, that's moreso what I meant.

[proper forge]

lots of people thinking there i7 4700k rig is worth $450

[nimble pike]

I managed to sell the 4790k for that much.

[cosmic gazelle]

dude there’s people here selling core 2 era laptops with “gaming” in the headline

you wouldn’t believe it if you saw it

[proper forge]

well it probably plays doom well

[nimble pike]

Actually those are gonna be pricey soon.

[cosmic gazelle]

i have a laptop with a core 2 duo t8300, one of the better mobile core 2s. it will launch rimworld and it plays at approximately 2 frames per second

[nimble pike]

A few years ago Penium 3 was worthless. Now they're going up in price.

[cosmic gazelle]

well my sample is nearly perfect condition and has 3gb of ram. so maybe it’ll get some attention soon haha

it loads up ubuntu 24.04 without complaining too much

[nimble pike]

I have a really good condition MacBook Pro that I'm waiting to become "vintage"

It can run YouTube at 900p!

[proper forge]

My first system I really gamed on I truely remember is a dell inspiron 1501 or similar

[nimble pike]

I should clarify MacBook Pro

[proper forge]

it got like 5 fps in minecraft

[nimble pike]

I mean... THE MacBook Pro

2007

First Intel MacBook

Core Duo and Nvidia 7600GT

She gets a good 10fps in Bioshock

[cosmic gazelle]

the gma graphics in my t8300 system don’t have the requisite extension for h264 apparently, or maybe they do the info is a bit sketchy, but overall it can’t play youtube effectively at any resolution

a bit sad

[nimble pike]

At 100% utilization my MacBook can load an LTT videom

[cosmic gazelle]

I’m waiting for the greatest mobile processor ever made to become vintage, the i7 3632qm

truly unparalleled for its time

[proper forge]

good old days when intel was king

and their cpus didnt draw to much power and kill themselves about as effectively as emo kids

my first pc that could really do something was an i3 3220 dell desktop

and a r7 265

[cosmic gazelle]

mine was a i5 4670 and rx 550 4gb lol

stupid purchase but i made that thing game its little heart out

[nimble pike]

My biggest regret was selling my Rampage board

[brisk eagle]

good old days when 4 core cpus were the best for 10 years

[nimble pike]

They still work if ALL you do is game

[brisk eagle]

yes they “work”

[fringe vigil]

WTF IS going on with youtube

[indigo walrus]

[fringe vigil]

bro

[indigo walrus]

Seems to be working fine for me in Google Chrome on my desktop.

[fringe vigil]

its always saying this content is not available, please try again later

[fringe vigil]

send me your yt channel

[lone scarab]

region issues probably

[fringe vigil]

naaa

its not

[charred lava]

https://www.youtube.com/linuscattips

[hoary hatch]

Are you the talent or behind the camera? 🤔

[charred lava]

I'm the cookie

[cosmic gazelle]

hey you're tech support right, how can i increase fps

[charred lava]

replace the missing keys on the model m

[cosmic gazelle]

this subreddit is awesome

[charred lava]

lmao

love the intake fan

[edgy laurel]

i can totally believe some kid is actually playing on this

[edgy laurel]

👀 might have to finally play one of these

[cosmic gazelle]

@edgy laurel figured you might get a little bit of pain from this one

[edgy laurel]

interesting. wouldn't have expected that

[pure garnet]

disable vrm throttling
vrm explodes
problem exists between keyboard and chair

[turbid locust]

good ol pebkac

[edgy laurel]

how shitty does a board need to be to blow on an AMD 8-core

[turbid locust]

I mean that’s an HDV, should be more than fine for a 9800x3d

I suspect more fuckery ngl

[brisk jolt]

yes rico kaboom

[pure garnet]

probably a hotbox case with 0 airflow and pbo +200

[turbid locust]

banger

[brisk jolt]

you might be overestimating the case part

prob put it in the drawer tbh

[livid flame]

I have to question what he was doing to get his VRM to 125c

[brisk jolt]

Playing CS2/Valorant planting the bo-

[livid flame]

https://tenor.com/view/how-did-this-happen-detective-south-park-season23ep08turd-burglars-how-did-it-happen-gif-19428773

Probably prime95 extreme and he’s all like

[pure garnet]

the hdv isn't a very high end board so i wouldn't be surprised if a power virus just blows it up

[livid flame]

Someone once told me not to worry about VRMs on a motherboard when recommending people don’t buy budget

This is why I always tell people never to buy a PRIME motherboard which has worse VRMs

Disabling VRM throttling though

[fringe vigil]

I lost my pet snail Gary

[turbid locust]

People have LN2 benched 9950x's on the HDV, it has plenty VRM

[wise bear]

come around more :(

[turbid locust]

that guys just an idiot

[brave panther]

Can you send link to this post, i wonder if he was using an AIO cooler or air

[low sorrel]

have yall ever wanted to just close your eyes for a split second

and wake up 5 hours later

[indigo walrus]

Every single night for the last 15-20 years.

[reef lance]

https://tenor.com/view/gary-snail-please-begging-teary-eyed-gif-8382811

[merry stirrup]

no but it’s probably pretty easy just like the rest of ryzen

[merry stirrup]

old intel core gonna be a lot more fun and worth while

[merry stirrup]

everything besides that on am4 yeah, not apus tho

[zenith apex]

insane, my PC appreciated by over $1k in value

from barely $1k to over $2k

processor, ssd, ram, and gpu, all became more expensive than when i bought it

[south shuttle]

my gpu +$250 and ram +$200 + $300 + $150

[burnt socket]

i read as mem training 😭

[merry stirrup]

yeah im the little goblin in your pc

[frank cypress]

hell yeah

set the 13700k back up

[frank cypress]

what the fuck goppa you're still awake?

[lavish moth]

Hey guys what do you think about risc-v

[burnt socket]

lesson 1-

[burnt socket]

raid your drives

[frank cypress]

https://tenor.com/view/talking-ben-no-gif-27130396

[karmic folio]

No

[livid flame]

Just found the worlds best anti sag bracket

Not my system btw

[burnt socket]

may as well stack some erasers 🥀

[proven saddle]

Which,gary?

[proven saddle]

Now a titanium cabel

[reef lance]

You may take my money, but you will never raid my drives.

[proven saddle]

Raid a Vault ?

[burnt socket]

takes credit card and buys an aorus b850m elite

buys 64gb ddr5 6400 cl30

[brisk jolt]

you really couldnt have picked something better with a stolen cc?

[fringe vigil]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-spongebob-sad-spongebob-meme-spongebob-crying-spongebob-gary-gif-9934357558627916795

[random flame]

Need more context to this question.

[snow holly]

I used to game on a laptop with a broken screen hdmi to tv

And the laptop was propped up on a cardboard box

https://tenor.com/view/i-used-to-pray-for-times-like-this-i-used-to-pray-meek-mill-dreams-and-nightmares-dreams-and-nightmares-michael-jordan-gif-4600240804856944817

[random flame]

I see the white PSP there.

[random flame]

Oh damn, the whole collection.

[brisk jolt]

steel legend build hmm

[shell void]

pretty ass board

[brisk jolt]

little wonder why the macbin can do 6400

[shell void]

[topaz veldt]

The IO matrix thing scratches unbelievably easy, though

https://www.overclock.net/threads/official-zen-5-x3d-owners-club-9800x3d-9900x3d-9950x3d.1812505/page-586?post_id=29558989#post-29558989

for those interested in the above screenshot

[brisk jolt]

Do i want to sell my 9950x3d for a 9850?

Considering now I have the 265K

[topaz veldt]

what SP is your 9950X3d?

[brisk jolt]

With PBO? CCD0 gets up to 5.75 and thats it

I firmly believe gear 2 8000 on this is a lost cause

Outside of gaming I find myself using the 265K more bcs both it and the 285K trade blows with the 9950x3d

[shell void]

that’s a shame

you’d think they would’ve given it a scratch resistant glass cover

[shell void]

why downgrade?

[topaz veldt]

its plastic

[shell void]

that’s lame

[brisk jolt]

Get back into gambling zen +5%

[shell void]

[topaz veldt]

Its funny... somehow, with AM5, I hit the lottery

Intel? Once in a blue moon

[shell void]

same and i didn’t want to like AM5

[brisk jolt]

all roads lead to am5

[shell void]

i was hoping my 9800X3D was a turd so i could just return it and wait for the 9950X3D

[topaz veldt]

Out of 71 CPUs binned they got 3 SP121s.... I binned 1 and got 1 SP121 🙂

[brisk jolt]

my zen 5 so far have all been turds

[topaz veldt]

I had one dud 9950X3D

I sold that puppy on

but my 9800X3Ds were generally good, my 9850X3D is the highest SP you can get, my current 9950X3D is high/highest

[brisk jolt]

My CCD1 9950x3d doesnt handle OC well

[shell void]

5750 is good for 3d cores bro

[brisk jolt]

as for CCD0 it seems to be a similar sample to my 9800 for PBO

[shell void]

oh you said ccd1 nvm

[brisk jolt]

yes it does 5.75 for ccd0

[topaz veldt]

I am still not convinced 9950X3D2 is real

[brisk jolt]

but ccd1 stinks

[shell void]

same it might end up cancelled like 290K

[brisk jolt]

I need to redo my ITX cables next

[topaz veldt]

Some clown in another discord I am constantly competes with me regarding datacenter/enterprise knowledges insists he has some backdoor channel with AMD and "its coming its coming"

and yet like... day 124 no coming

[wraith steeple]

level1tech?

As for the discord server

[shell void]

XD

[wraith steeple]

Always bet on nothing

[brisk jolt]

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

[topaz veldt]

Shit btw I was reading the wrong chart

[turbid locust]

Time isn’t real

[topaz veldt]

Unicorn time is non-linear

[cosmic gazelle]

i just saw a huge car fire on a parked mercedes

i heard mac was still trying to overclock his 9850 inside

[arctic bronze]

@brisk jolt dude i had the weirdest dream, linus made a movie and it ended up just being a long ass youtube poop / parody

[topaz veldt]

I had a dream that I borrowed my father in laws car to pick up docs at a hospital and it got broken into and someone stole the steering wheel, then the hospital came to have it towed

[arctic bronze]

Lmao, yeah thats simular to the dream i just had, btw, the dream changed half way through to an old lady asking me for a key to her lock so i pulled out a random key and unlocked my gum

[topaz veldt]

Locked gum is alpha move

[arctic bronze]

Then sitama from one punch man appearded with a tiny face and was like half bald and said "im about to release" after staring at the camera for what felt like an eternity and then punched a hole into something, idk what it was as for some reason i got distracted and then the movie ended and linus appeared in tin foil and asked how the movie was

[arctic bronze]

[turbid locust]

We should bring back the guillotine for anyone who parks so shitty that they take up two spots

[arctic bronze]

Lol, or parks way too close to one side

[turbid locust]

I can deal with that. When your parking is so ass that it stops anyone from parking in the space next to you is when I have a problem

[shell void]

people that park in the street in winter even though they have a driveway can line up right after them

[arctic bronze]

I hate when ppl park too close, making me maneuver around. I have a small car

[shell void]

unsurprisingly a Z990 board with beefy VRM is req. for U9 495K

“we have HEDT at home”

[turbid locust]

I can’t wait for NVL to be an uncoolable hellscape

[shell void]

the fact that it can get up to 700W shows that it runs cool mac

it’ll be the coldest running consumer cpu at any wattage normalization

the easiest to cool

[wraith steeple]

Having the BassBone WC Consulting Team on speed dial

[devout ridge]

most chips with lots of cores run decently cool since the heat is so spread out

[wraith steeple]

[devout ridge]

it’s the low core count, high clockspeed chips that run hot

[shell void]

just leave it at the default 350W or whatevs and it’ll probably run at like 50c in cinebench with a peerless assassin xD

it’ll be the coldest running and most efficient consumer processor for multithread

anyone who spins a different narrative is a fraud

[raw zinc]

is overclocking with GPU tweak worth it?

does it give less lifespan to the gpu

[turbid locust]

ya momma

[turbid locust]

It will explode and melt your power connectors

[young void]

[raw zinc]

ah

[turbid locust]

(you can’t hurt a card with gpu tweak or msi afterburner) lol

[raw zinc]

should i use MSI or GPU my card is done by MSI would it be btter to use MSI

[young void]

If it crashes reduce oc and try again

[turbid locust]

worst thing that happens is you set unstable OC settings and the drivers time out

[raw zinc]

also is this a good PSU? anyone have this one?

[topaz veldt]

i have several of those

[turbid locust]

I’ve got the RM1000e and it’s solid

[young void]

Love me some good corsair psu

[turbid locust]

ran my 14900k 5090 fine

[wraith steeple]

CWT is its OEM and it's solid

[turbid locust]

Silent the whole time

[raw zinc]

right now iu have an older version and its 750W and its failing so I need to replace it

I was gonna go with that one the newer model

and more wattage

[topaz veldt]

If you want a really fun PSU to work with get the SF1000

[south shuttle]

Cinnamon Waste Treatment

[south shuttle]

it depends on price

[young void]

So much room for activities

[raw zinc]

yeah its all i can afford

its 150

[wraith steeple]

currency?

[south shuttle]

any other 1000w or 1200w units

[topaz veldt]

RM1000x is solid

[raw zinc]

euro

[topaz veldt]

And great warranty

[south shuttle]

country?

[raw zinc]

spain

[south shuttle]

vanish

[raw zinc]

home address?

[raw zinc]

woah we aint bad

[south shuttle]

naww if you would name any european country i’d make fun of it

[raw zinc]

ah okay

let me guess ur american

[young void]

https://tenor.com/view/huge-spider-catch-disaster-fall-gif-3616822

Anywhere there is bird spiders or similar i shall avoid

[south shuttle]

nope

[wraith steeple]

Either way, the RMx unit you showed is a quality unit

[south shuttle]

i’m from eu

@raw zinc https://es.pcpartpicker.com/product/yJkqqs/montech-century-ii-1050-w-80-gold-certified-fully-modular-atx-power-supply-century-ii-1050w i saved you 25 pesos

[raw zinc]

we dont use pesos thats mexican aslo where are u from

ohh this one looks nice

[young void]

I hear some peeps enjoy their montech, havent seen any burn out yet. Mind you I havent really looked into it

[south shuttle]

🌮 = 🇪🇸

[steel stream]

god, life is good

[topaz veldt]

One reason I don't recommend these newer cheap (but same OEM etc as others) brands is because of warranty and support

Montech popped up in the last year

Who knows where they'll be in 10 years - at least Corsair is well established and the difference is like $10-20 who cares

[wraith steeple]

I have a Montech unit actually. Titan Gold 1200W to be exact