tech-chat-2

[shrewd parrot]

im making a copy of my world in my sandisk 128gb flashdrive usb3.0

[silk vault]

is 16gb ddr3 1333mhz worth it for 12 dollars?

[shrewd parrot]

yes

for 12 is a steal

[edgy laurel]

if you need it for something to function.. its $12

otherwise who the hell wants DDR3

[shrewd parrot]

ai

[silk vault]

me, because my machine takes that

[edgy laurel]

i'm sorry

[silk vault]

i got the pc for 40 bucks i honestly couldn’t care less about what ram gen it is

[shrewd parrot]

god forbid old tech users from getting bullied

[silk vault]

eh it is what it is, people who think tech showing its age is obsolete

they’ll always be around

[shrewd parrot]

eg- me

[pure garnet]

"showing it's age"

the first ddr4 consumer platforms are 11 years old, are we fr?

[shrewd parrot]

eh?

[devout ridge]

ddr3 is absolete

unless you just want some bs machine to fiddle around with

[pure garnet]

the ewaste arbitrators will always wonder why people think their 15 year old system is out of date

[edgy laurel]

[pure garnet]

like you don't need a 9800x3d but we are not doing another haswell is all you need

[steel stream]

mint

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-job-listing-mentions-unified-core-cpu-design-team-as-hybrid-p-core-and-e-core-era-continues

[steel stream]

wait you're playing the game off of a flashdrive?

[livid flame]

News that is not news

Tech industry is slow and boring. All people can do is complain about AI and RAM

They had to come up with such news that is not news just to give us something else

[shrewd parrot]

im maing a copy so if the files are ever deleted i have a copy

does nobody keep a copy of their worlds?

[hoary hatch]

Is unified core not already under way? 😭

[livid flame]

It’s just a new job listing to add to the team already doing it

[hoary hatch]

W

I can't wait for e cores to graduate to the big leagues

[livid flame]

That’s how stuck that site is for something to write about. Nothing major in it

We can call them the Big E

[shrewd parrot]

what are e cores and p cores?

i still dont get it

[edgy laurel]

Which part don't you get from all the explanations already out there that you 100% already read?

[shell void]

the main point is that Ecores aren’t as powerful individually, but they’re far smaller, and you can pack several of them in the same amount of die space as a single Pcore

they’re great for applications where single core performance isn’t the priority

[hoary hatch]

But over the last few years, E cores are improving much quicker than P cores

They're still not as fast as a P core, but they went from very basic to quite potent

[shrewd parrot]

ah

[hoary hatch]

I'm still betting a future unified core will resemble the current E core more than the current P core

[shell void]

if they can actually succeed with unified core then that’ll be cool

i dream of a world where the Ecores in a cluster can cooperate to execute a single thread faster if needed, and the CPU has a chiplet of Ecore clusters sitting ontop of a chiplet of L3 cache

maximized performance per die area

[atomic garnet]

the dark ring around the solder joint means it's cracked?

[edgy laurel]

these two? certainly appears to be a broken joint for these two. Would need it in my hands to verify, should be pretty obvious

[reef lance]

Holy shit, 10 megabytes for $3600? What a steal!

[atomic garnet]

both are cracked? alright, confirmed my theory. idk much cause when i google cracked solder joints i get stuff like this :o

[edgy laurel]

really just need to poke and prod it in person

if its a broken joint, you should be able to easily make it move

[atomic garnet]

just poke it with a toothpick?

[edgy laurel]

whatever. you've got the PCB and the component, just jiggle them

its just basic stuff if you're trying to verify its loose

[reef lance]

Looks more like flux, but I would have to see it in person. Just feel the surface with tweezers.

[edgy laurel]

yeah I mean with your eyeballs and hands, it should be real simple to tell if those joints aren't connected

[atomic garnet]

ive only soldered mouse switches ive honestly got no clue about anything

[edgy laurel]

its a pin through a hole

and liquid solder flowed around it and solidified

if that solder is no longer holding them together... there would be some movement if you grabbed both ends

[topaz veldt]

Does anyone have a recommendation or preference for a USB dock w/ video output (4K 60 Hz) that they like?

[edgy laurel]

as in, the PCB and then the soldered component. just jiggle them and watch for movement at the joint

[reef lance]

I worked in electronics manufacturing. It looks fine. I would just double check it with tweezers. Sometimes solder joints have ridges, sometimes it's just left over flux. Sometimes they reflect light weird. To me that looks like either flux or a ridge reflecting light.

[edgy laurel]

for a Mac?

CalDigits are kinda the standard for high end

[atomic garnet]

oh yeah

[edgy laurel]

exactly

a very broken solder joint

[reef lance]

Oh yeah that's fucked there bud.

[atomic garnet]

the other one doesn't move like that but because they have the same fault

i think ill have to do both

[edgy laurel]

luckily, with a good iron, some flux and maybe a solder wick, thats an easy fix

[reef lance]

I used both of these at one point or another. They were both fine. Didn't have any issues.

[atomic garnet]

if only i could find where i put it 😿

this amp has gotta be like 30 years old so

[reef lance]

Yeah might as well. You should be able to just reflow it but you might want to add a bit extra just to be safe.

[edgy laurel]

you can tell from that PCB lol

[atomic garnet]

also are these demon screws common or is this a 90s thing

[edgy laurel]

looks like a pretty normal hex head screw

[atomic garnet]

damn i had to plier them

[edgy laurel]

easier with an 1/8" ratchet and appropriately sized socket

[atomic garnet]

probably

the more i look...

[edgy laurel]

yeah I mean, vintage amp repair is a thing a bunch of people like to do as a hobby

and most of it is fixing old, broken solder joints

[atomic garnet]

it would probably be worth it if it wasnt a budget bulky bass amp from the 90s

that i bought for a questionable price

surprised i could use (with issues ofc) this for half a year even

[cosmic gazelle]

anybody ever used one of those hdmi cec adapters for gpus? i'm looking to be able to simulatenously turn my TV on and un-sleep my media pc

[steel stream]

go join the team and find out

[fringe vigil]

You think you can defeat me?

[stoic crater]

what is this a board of

[woven osprey]

Which version is the most reliable Nvidia GeForce driver around?
Looking towards downgrading to troubleshoot my issues.

[arctic bronze]

the latest

[woven osprey]

That’s the one I have for my 5090.
Experiencing blackscreens that lead to restarts in BF6 after a few minutes, occurs after ~1-2 hours on other games.

[south shuttle]

how is this only $14

[reef lance]

🪄 Economies of scale

[reef lance]

Seriously though it's literally just economies of scale. Those components are cheap and abundant.

[south shuttle]

do you know of any legit dirt cheap 3.0 usb c to usb a hubs (2-4x ports are fine)

the ones i find are fake 3.0 and only have a 2.0 controller

if even that

[reef lance]

Just check Ugreen and Anker. They have a bunch of USB hubs and they make some really great ones for the price.

[south shuttle]

some don’t even have a 2.0 controller but are directly soldered with bunch of resistors and they perform like usb 1.1

[south shuttle]

i need cheaper though

[reef lance]

Then I have no idea. Amazon Basics maybe? We used those at work.

Otherwise you're just rolling the dice on random chinese shit

I would check the reviews.

[south shuttle]

no luck with those most are w cheap usb 2.0 controllers

sometimes there is a place for a 3.0 controllers on the pcb but they don’t put it in to save cost

[cosmic gazelle]

@south shuttle lol

can get free shipping with a big enough order too

[atomic garnet]

peavey basic 60 bass amp

[rich idol]

anyone here good at configuring the MSI Afterburner OSD?

[young void]

Aliexpress for dayzz

Where else would one get a duck

[fringe vigil]

Nom

[pure garnet]

define good, you just check show in osd for what you want?

[rich idol]

I want a space between the group name and the usage, i could shorten the group name i guess, but i kinda wanted all that info

Just noticed it shows total usage and not the game's usage, though idk if that matters

[low sorrel]

https://youtu.be/xPaKRV76Tlc?si=SqQeQt8ezgG0t4Zq

[pure garnet]

why do you need “ddr5 6000mhz 64gb” hard coded in an overlay

[low sorrel]

So he can flex his ram

[pure garnet]

what’s there to flex

even the crappiest bins do 6000

[rich idol]

Sorry for asking, i guess

[edgy laurel]

some people spend far too much time prettying up a stats overlay like they play with it on all the time.. or other people are going to see it

[turbid locust]

I’ll have you know I ALWAYS have an fps counter

[edgy laurel]

noob

[low sorrel]

I'll have you know I sometimes have 4 fps counters up at the same time

It varies between 0 and 4 throughout the day

[pure garnet]

you always gotta leave the fps counter up when you stream for the homie

[pure garnet]

i even got an overlay of my pc part picker list up at all times

[edgy laurel]

[pure garnet]

the only place i really leave an fps counter up is my steam deck

so i can see the battery remaining

[edgy laurel]

acceptable

[topaz veldt]

put it on its own line

[topaz veldt]

nah for windows laptop

[edgy laurel]

well the same still applies. CalDigit stuff is

[south shuttle]

i can buy this for €2-5

considering it has a working hdmi i assume it has a 3.0 controller?

[edgy laurel]

I would assume so if its passing through HDMI

[topaz veldt]

mounting a share persistently is such ass in macos

[rich idol]

It is on its own line, i just removed the "6000Hz" part

[topaz veldt]

No it's not - for usage call it its own group "Usage" below DDR5

[rich idol]

Is this not its own line? it's the lack of space between the number and group name that's the issue

shortening the group name (which i didn't initially want to do) was the only solution i found

[topaz veldt]

omg you made the whole thing a group name

[fringe vigil]

Snail you think you can defeat me?

[rich idol]

I was just following the first tutorial i found on how to set up the OSD

[topaz veldt]

I thought you had the speed as a measurement

[rich idol]

It's neat, but the lack of space between the group name and number bugs me

[topaz veldt]

nah I am just an amateur idiot

[fringe vigil]

Funniest meme out the uk

[topaz veldt]

well your group names are kind of insane

[atomic garnet]

6000hz is really slow wow

[topaz veldt]

Yeah its not 6000 Hz

[pure garnet]

walking memory speed

[atomic garnet]

6 mhz.. maybe a calculator

anyway why would one need all that

[pure garnet]

hey i was playing pokemon red on my ti 84 ce

[atomic garnet]

i think you would know your own specs

[topaz veldt]

Just put "RAM"

[atomic garnet]

i wonder how far you could go nowadays

with a cellular connection, maybe chatgpt cheating device

[pure garnet]

you'd have to have custom hardware

ti 84 ce has a z80 and 256k of ram, 154k for user

[shell void]

0.006 MHz 🔥

[pure garnet]

64gb of fclk

[fervent scaffold]

Um? Am I dumb or is this an insane deal?

[pure garnet]

isn't the 5070 like 550 new

[fervent scaffold]

Idk thats kinda why I think its great

I thought everything got way more expensive

I dont see that card for less than $630 anywhere

[edgy laurel]

don't worry guys, i'm using my magic touch to provide answers

[fervent scaffold]

Im not buying it, i dont need it, but im tempted

[edgy laurel]

$630 forthe cheapest new model in the US today

[topaz veldt]

omg the mac quirks continue

[edgy laurel]

used models are selling for this on Ebay

So subtract Ebay fees, its a little cheaper

[shell void]

a pny one like four months ago

450 for an aero is pretty good

that’s a $690 card new now

[edgy laurel]

$640 but whos counting

[topaz veldt]

@edgy laurel https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/updated-to-tahoe-rear-usb-c-thunderbolt-ports-not-working.2475931/

[edgy laurel]

welp

[pure garnet]

why do i have to write c++ for 1998 instead of the modern one, this textbook sucks

[fringe vigil]

i am from the future

[topaz veldt]

so fucking annoying

[random flame]

Wait, which book exactly?

[pure garnet]

it's through zybooks so it just has the class name

[south shuttle]

from the reviews across multiple listing it seems like all of the output usb ports are 2.0
do you have a teardown of those hubs

[pure garnet]

<@&750150305383186585> the usual scam is back

[shell void]

looks like somehow bhphoto is cheaper than elsewhere

it’s 690 at microcenter, newegg, and walmart

[topaz veldt]

Hmmm

[civic reef]

Who's it this them

Elon? Mr. Feast? Drake?

[low sorrel]

For what tho

@frank cypress do people actually respond to buying posts on HWS or nah.

Kinda wanna make one to see if I can nab a GPU

[topaz veldt]

Still trying to figure that out

@edgy laurel lol - this is on my M4 Pro 14-Core w/ 48GB and 1TB

[low sorrel]

Isn't that like a 2-3 grand machine?

[edgy laurel]

Quite the deal….

[topaz veldt]

yes it was $2300

[topaz veldt]

like wtf

[fringe vigil]

hi

[low sorrel]

Kick me in the balls and steal my clothes at that point apple wtf

[reef lance]

It's me, Elon Musk. Anyone who gives me bitcoin will get double the bitcoin back. Totally real. Not a scam guaranteed by the Better Bitcoin Bureau

[low sorrel]

Daylight robbery

[topaz veldt]

lol i just picked it up

[low sorrel]

Inb4 the mods ban atomic

[pure garnet]

beast

[civic reef]

Mlem

Guessed it

[low sorrel]

No you wrote mr.feast

[reef lance]

https://tenor.com/view/small-mrbeast-funny-meme-hahahaha-gif-14300745468208619201

[low sorrel]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/toys-r-us-canada-files-for-creditor-protection/

Aww man toys r us is closing down?

[celest cairn]

Can anyone help me fix my pc rq? it keeps crashing

[random flame]

@plucky finch, shame this man.
Shame this man, his cow, his hoe, his bro, and his toe-may-toe.

[prime topaz]

i am buying an rtx 2070 gigabyte windforce version x3 and the seller actully gave me the card for a full day to test it before buy it so can i ask you about it real quick please before i buy it

[edgy laurel]

don't ask to ask, just ask

[prime topaz]

ok ok thanks

Gigabyte 2070
Scores: Furmark2 (7231), Heaven (2807), Superposition (5309).

Temps: Max 72°C Core / 86°C Hotspot. Correct 175W power draw.
it is stable no shut down no wierd colors no glitchs on screen

[low sorrel]

Steal it and run away

Just run 3d mark/ furmark heaven and compare it tonother results online

[low sorrel]

Seems fine, I have no idea if the scores are good or not because ain't no one here memorized the score of a 2070

[prime topaz]

@low sorrel i wish to run with it but he know where i live

@low sorrel in general if the scores of it is very close to the internet ones and the temp as you see are good as that mean i am good to buy it or there is other thing to consider

i am worried to get a fake or die card or maybe a baked one@low sorrel

[low sorrel]

Yes

[brave panther]

if you want to run advanced diagnostics on it you have to use mods/mats

[low sorrel]

How does one have a die or a baked card

[prime topaz]

@brave panther what is mods/mats

[brave panther]

https://repair.wiki/w/Nvidia_GPU_Memory_Testing_Guide

[prime topaz]

@low sorrel some cards came with a old gpu but get added to new PCB board and new rom file and you have a 2070 that dont run as 2070 at all

[pallid marsh]

Canada sucks at hockey you guys need a new sport @low sorrel

[prime topaz]

@brave panther @low sorrel thank you both so much i gonna visit the site and what they say THANKS ALOT

and do*

[brave panther]

also inspect pcb carefully for any rework being done

[prime topaz]

@brave panther i will do that too thank you very much man

[brave panther]

for 2070 you might be in micron memory "dead" zone that happend in aprox 2018

check if your card uses micron memory and manufacture date

[prime topaz]

i feel like i overtest it and over thinking about it what do you think

@brave panther it is micron memeory but it pass the OCCT vram test for 20min 60cycle

[brave panther]

what is the manufacturing date?

[prime topaz]

do you need a gpuz pic if you want

[brave panther]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vtMPQ_bXUw

[random flame]

...
I'm starting to wonder if that's what has happened with my 2070S...

[brave panther]

it most definitly did lol

[prime topaz]

@brave panther

[random flame]

[prime topaz]

and thanks @brave panther

[pallid marsh]

Good thing I got a 5700xt over a 2070, it could've died before I got my 9070xt 😆

[brave panther]

i wouldnt risk it

[prime topaz]

@brave panther even if it pass the OCCT vram test with no errors

[brave panther]

if it has early micron ddr6 it will die eventualy

[pallid marsh]

Wait the 2070 is nearly 8 years old

[plucky finch]

I want even awake

[prime topaz]

@brave panther there is no way to verify it so i just ignore the buy, if you suggset so

[brave panther]

probably by batch number etched on to memory chips but i havent looked into it that deep to know exact batches affected

[prime topaz]

thats a big help for me i will do as you say man but as the seller said it was on his gaming pc for a while so shouldnt it be dead since that time it is a 8 years old card after all

@brave panther can i do something to test that idea

[brave panther]

apart from disassembly no

i just ignore all 20 series listings with micron vram

[cosmic gazelle]

yo i feel like i know the answer to this but, gpu oc results won’t change at all based on motherboard or cpu quality right?

like the actual frequencies it can hit

[prime topaz]

@brave panther i dont want to disassembl it becuse i didnt buy it yet so i may skip this one if you say so

the seller gave it to me to test ir for a full day before buy it

[brave panther]

he seems honest but this is hardware flaw that he probably doesent know about

it might live for 5+ years, it might start dying in couple of months

[pallid marsh]

I wouldn't buy a 8 year old gpu

[prime topaz]

if i want to use the card for mid useage like normal mid games without puting a huge stress on it does that sudden death may happen

@pallid marsh i am in syria so the market here is dead

sorry for too much quastions but this is my first gpu buy

[pallid marsh]

Ah

[prime topaz]

and it is not cheap

[brave panther]

are you able to order stuff from aliexpress?

[prime topaz]

and it is clean card too

[prime topaz]

no

it is banned we dont even here in syria have credit cards or paypal

[wise bear]

cringe

[prime topaz]

@wise bear yep that what we have here in syria

@brave panther it is a 200$ here in syria and alot of people from out of syria tell me it is very expensive

but that just an avreg price here

[brave panther]

yea i know its bad in middle east

very closed markets, low avalibility

[prime topaz]

yep so even a 2060 would be around that same price

[brave panther]

it would probably be cheaper to travel to somewhere else, buy gpu and return lol

[prime topaz]

@brave panther if i didnt found other card i may risk it and take it is it a huge risk in your opinion like his temps are good and the benchmark scores are good occt test done good so do i fold the sell for that memeory thing is it worth it or no

that is the final quastion

[brave panther]

at the end its your money and if risk is accptable then go for it

[prime topaz]

is a 6600 may be better safer if i found one

[brave panther]

6600 is definitly good card, too bad amd already put it in driver maitnence mode

[prime topaz]

@brave panther Thanks alot for your huge help man you are a legand dude

[prime topaz]

such a great time for me to buy it

[low sorrel]

peyton I just missed out on a 7700x + 4070ti + 32gb of ddr5 for 1k CAD 😭

[pallid marsh]

Stupid idiot

[south shuttle]

ure

[pallid marsh]

Trade AKs to Americans for gpus

[prime topaz]

dont even have that too

[civic reef]

There're some files I had on my old phone that got deleted, and I can't find them on this new one

Hopefully searching through the internal files by connecting the new one to my PC will let me find them

I am assuming they're there because I told Samsung pairing to copy everything

Down to the 4 year old stickman model zips I've never used

[green marsh]

when people sell motherboards for parts and it looks all fine till you see the issue 😄

dude was playing scratchboard with it

[brave panther]

looks repairable

[cosmic gazelle]

would that even affect anything

[brave panther]

if only top layer is fucked

[green marsh]

for some maybe. not for me. 20 euros tho for Z370 board

[brave panther]

if trace is broken...

[green marsh]

you never know. I had a P67 board make a spark in the southbridge area, and since then it doesn't detect RAM

[brave panther]

i am waiting for cheap b650 mobos that i can harvest prom21 from

[cosmic gazelle]

does not bode well for the untested z97 i ordered

[green marsh]

reminds me of the 10 euro board i once bought https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z87X-UD3H-rev-1x

[brave panther]

https://youtu.be/FY3cqK4RRFk
why was this in my reccomended lol

[green marsh]

it was 10 euros because i quote "it randomly restarts sometimes". Never happened to me, must have been his USB peripherials or his RAM 😄

[cosmic gazelle]

i have a ud5h coming for $40 shipped and looks brand new

has original box

[brave panther]

if its random shit it is tipically psu or ram

[cosmic gazelle]

psu faults act like literal ghosts

it’s my default answer if somebody has some weird shit happening and it isn’t their ram

[turbid locust]

explode

[brave panther]

https://tenor.com/view/i-can-imagine-anything-imagine-smart-big-brain-huge-brain-gif-5334238097904652592

[green marsh]

my case was not not a PSU issue, it was just a 15 year old board dying for unknown reason

[topaz veldt]

https://youtu.be/xxtZ9DnQJVk?si=yOpcZLsT_bmsSpeN

[vestal granite]

holy shit thats a cool radiator

[wraith steeple]

Adding this to my watch list

[turbid locust]

it goes it goes it goes it goes

[steel stream]

holy shit thats a rad rad*

it was right there pepe

[vestal granite]

it was a trap placed specifically for me so i had to avoid it

it was too perfect

[steel stream]

ah ok I see

[vestal granite]

a mouse stays alive by eating the cheese carefully akn

not by not eating the cheese at all

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/word-oh-thats-why-realization-wow-gif-10000098

[fickle narwhal]

The mouse stays alive by eating double a batteries

[fervent scaffold]

I keep thinking about downgrading my monitor and im so lost on if I should

32” 240hz 4k OLED being ran by a 5070ti. I keep thinking I should go back to 27” 1440p but OLED this time

[steel stream]

nah don't

[fervent scaffold]

I love the monitor, I just want to hit that 240fps tho lol

I also considered just upgrading my gpu, but obviously thats a shit load of $ to dump

Idk, just dumb thoughts i guess

[pure garnet]

use a setting below ultra

[fervent scaffold]

I do lol

[pure garnet]

for aaa stuff though you don't really sit in the top refresh rate even on a 5090

[steel stream]

what FPS do you hit anyways?

[edgy laurel]

D L S S

if you're not getting the frames you want at DLSS Quality, you probably still won't if you get a 1440p monitor

[fervent scaffold]

I use dlss, but for more competitive titles i feel like I shouldnt be using it due to the “added” latency. Like I said, its just all thoughts

[edgy laurel]

well I can't help you there, I think that idea is crazy

[fervent scaffold]

I do still use it

[steel stream]

DLSS upscaling doesn't add latency right?

[edgy laurel]

I mean maybe the smallest amount (not googling it now) but if thats why you're losing a game.. i got some bad news

[pure garnet]

for cs2 im playing at like almost all low and the game looks basically the same as max settings

[steel stream]

nasoca;;y

[pure garnet]

yeah idk how to home row and my keyboard was off to the left

my fault

[steel stream]

unacceptable.

[edgy laurel]

been there

[pure garnet]

these are the settings im playing at

[shell void]

upscaling does not increase latency

[steel stream]

i can't remember what I play Cs2 at, I was hitting my 144 cap and was fine

[shell void]

the effects are rendering more frames, and/or reducing gpu load which both decrease total pc latency

if you were trying to minimize latency then youd use the most aggressive upscaling that produces an image that doesnt bother you

[turbid locust]

My CS2 performance was dogshit the last time I played it

I was on like 4K low FSR Performance and still not maintaining even like 300fps

It’s the only game I play uncapped

cause source feels like ass capped

[edgy laurel]

i'm installing it outof curiosity

[steel stream]

mac just has a differnt feel for the game it feels fine to me tbh

[turbid locust]

It feels even extra input-delay’ee than it does normally

like the entire game no matter what feels like you’re playing on Xbox 360

Capping your fps makes it feel even worse

[edgy laurel]

curious, given what people say i wonder if capping with rtss feels any different

in that title

[shell void]

iirc the game doesnt have reflex so it very well may be fricking up your latency if you cap the fps ingame

[steel stream]

idk capped and uncapped feels the same to me

[turbid locust]

Idk just it seems like nothing I can do to that game makes it feel not shitty

[steel stream]

nah it's got reflex now

[shell void]

oh good

[turbid locust]

Gsync just straight up doesn’t work in game

[steel stream]

tbf Mac I only did my "competitve" pvp stint on console so I am not a good person to analyze this

[edgy laurel]

challenge accepted

[turbid locust]

I play valorant like a degen and that game, for all intents and purposes, is perfect when it comes to performance and feel

Like zero games feel as smooth to me as Val does

[steel stream]

never got into val so no clue

[turbid locust]

Like idk what it is about that game but it’s vsync and reflex implementation is

and like when they went from UE4 to UE5 it felt the same

That game just feels like butter 24/7 with the correct setup

[arctic bronze]

same, i didnt like the game

[turbid locust]

I enjoy it too much

I recently got back to diamond so my competitive drive is back in full swing

[pure garnet]

i've been playing at a mostly locked 400 in cs and it's fine

my issue with cs2 is more people just don't talk

because my mmr is cooked

valorant is way more optimized though yeah

[turbid locust]

400 is probably fine

[pure garnet]

that's what i lock valo to as well

[turbid locust]

I play Val at 138 locked

vsync + reflex

I used to play uncapped but I would feel the microstutter when it would fluctuate from like 800 to 500 when something’s going on for example

That sounds super cope but like iykyk

[edgy laurel]

what should I load up to get a feel for a real game without actually joining a real game

[pure garnet]

just queue for a deathmatch or a casual, you can leave those no penalty

[topaz veldt]

@turbid locust which 9950X3D would you custom loop?

[pure garnet]

well you forfeit match xp but who cares

[turbid locust]

casual so you get like smokes thrown and whatnot

[turbid locust]

either one tbh

[pure garnet]

1st one seems better

[topaz veldt]

I agree - realizing the 2nd has SP116s in there

[low sorrel]

how do you get vsync to even work in that game

[shell void]

first chip is better for sure

[low sorrel]

it legit doesn't even work for me

nvcp frame cap also doesn't

[turbid locust]

In Valorant? Switching it from off to on.

[edgy laurel]

this feels good but i don't know what the fuck i'm talking about. 270-350fps uncapped with the same settings @pure garnet posted

[topaz veldt]

I forget which cores are X3D - it must be 0 - 7 right

[low sorrel]

i switched it on and it's not capped

[shell void]

yeh it's the 5525 cores 0-7

[faint shuttle]

may i ask, why cmaa2

[turbid locust]

you might have to be in fullscreen exclusive idk

[shell void]

the first chip has a higher quality 3D CCD

[low sorrel]

that might be it

[topaz veldt]

I wonder if that matters at all

[pure garnet]

cheaper than msaa2 and i think it looks slightly better

[turbid locust]

ok now cap to 116

[low sorrel]

msaa x8 or bust

[shell void]

no youll never notice the difference in real use lmao but you might as well use the better one in the loop

[edgy laurel]

i'm getting my ass kicked. I despise this style of game. I feel like a wooden pole just gliding around.

[low sorrel]

install faceit and play faceit comp and then leave mid game

[low sorrel]

unc

[turbid locust]

I always played in windowed fullscreen until the most recent update. Started getting weird stutters.

[low sorrel]

actually gulity can you show us some gameplay im curious now

[faint shuttle]

its smooth for me somehow

[pure garnet]

yeah im not playing at the res of 1812 so 8x msaa would cost a lot

[low sorrel]

also fsr in this being fsr 1 is a war crime

[low sorrel]

why you don't wanna render at 8x 4k?

[shell void]

@topaz veldt you might be able to get 5.9GHz on your two best non-3D cores with +200MHz PBO

[pure garnet]

fr

[low sorrel]

it does look good

[faint shuttle]

im gonna run benchmark

[brisk jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/fsr-gif-22015334

[turbid locust]

But yeah the last time I played CS2 the game ran like shit no matter what

it’s whatever games bad so lol

[edgy laurel]

i dunno this feels super responsive

(to me)

[pure garnet]

i honestly think that's just your cpu vs mine because the 4090 is faster than the 5070ti

[edgy laurel]

maybe

GSync according to my TV's framerate readout is working now that I've capped it

[faint shuttle]

why the fuck being smoked drops to 200-300 fps

[turbid locust]

what does it say in the video settings of the game though

[pure garnet]

because the smoke isn't cheap to render

[edgy laurel]

enabled

[turbid locust]

wtf

[vestal granite]

when someone throws a molotov at a chicken in inferno my game is locked to 50fps for the round

[faint shuttle]

bruh

[turbid locust]

I have literally never gotten it to say anything but disabled and instructions to go to control panel and enable it etc etc

[pure garnet]

everytime i open the game on reinstall it yells at me for having it disabled but i refuse to enable vrr

[turbid locust]

across like 4 different OS’s

[edgy laurel]

truth be told, I think I kinda liked how it felt uncapped

at least vs. capped IN game

[vestal granite]

the game is better with higher fps its true

[turbid locust]

It’s the only game I run uncapped.. and you know how hard I’m on the capped train.

[pure garnet]

pretty sure it's measurably better in source games to have 300+ fps for mouse inputs

[low sorrel]

it tells me that like 30% of the time

[edgy laurel]

omg the preview here is wild, lets see what happens when i upload it

[faint shuttle]

playing with vsync feels clunky

[edgy laurel]

can see framerate in top right. it was lower here once i started recording

[low sorrel]

is that stuttering on my end on the video end

i am on mobile data

[pure garnet]

google ai just linked me to this guys video at this point, wtf is this

[vestal granite]

thats your end

[edgy laurel]

probably your end lol

[turbid locust]

I haven’t tried it since I upgraded to X3D but I can’t imagine it making that big of a difference

[low sorrel]

maybe if i download it?

[vestal granite]

its always fascinating to me watching people play CS who arent CS players

[pure garnet]

it do

[turbid locust]

At 4K from a 14900K?

[low sorrel]

oh yeah im getting 800kbps download

[edgy laurel]

bruh

[vestal granite]

thats bad and low

[low sorrel]

even better

[vestal granite]

7/11 only has cheese pizza today not the pepperoni due to the blizzard this fucking sucks (the only good pizza from 7/11 is pepperoni)

[turbid locust]

One of two things always happens: they either 1: don’t understand you have to stop moving or 2. One shot headshots blow their mind (literally)

[faint shuttle]

jeez

[vestal granite]

naw its the W + A / W + D peeks that are so funky to me

[edgy laurel]

they hell are you using for playback

[faint shuttle]

from start

[pure garnet]

at 1080p hub has the 9850x3d almost 2x faster

[low sorrel]

7/11 has pizza?

[turbid locust]

oh lol

[edgy laurel]

i hate it

[pure garnet]

also just judging by guilty's footage vs mine it's a big difference with 9800x3d/7800x3d

[wise bear]

eeeeee

[vestal granite]

yes but crucially do not get the already made pizza from them, get one freshly baked in the store they have a $10,000 oven that cooks it instantly and perfectly and if you get the already made one itll be shit

[turbid locust]

It’s my preferred method of shooter lol

[wise bear]

EEEEEE

[low sorrel]

crosshair placement crosshair placement

[vestal granite]

crosshair placement unironically good for inexperienced player

[turbid locust]

I hate games with no movement inaccuracy because it almost always devolves to who can spam WASD faster while tracking.

[wise bear]

"crosshair placement" fuckin tryhards 😂

[vestal granite]

gold nova crosshair placement off the rip thats how you know he played quake tournament

[pure garnet]

amd paid valve to make cs2 run well on x3d only its a big conspiracy fr

yeah cod being jump on the floor and shoot is lame as hell

[low sorrel]

debatable

[edgy laurel]

let me fly, please https://youtu.be/4hmsNkYEl-c

[brisk jolt]

run and gun everywhere, reload every 0.5 seconds

[vestal granite]

gold nova+

[low sorrel]

im ass at cs lol

[edgy laurel]

lol I was walking around to show performance

[vestal granite]

im ass at cs in the same way that a chess player will always say theyre bad at chess because they know magnus carlsen exists

[turbid locust]

Ok don’t get me wrong I like when the movement is actually skillful

but games like cod make me throw up

it’s literally whoever can spam the most movement keys

[low sorrel]

titanfall movement best

[turbid locust]

I liked Titanfall

[pure garnet]

• guy who got double pumped jump shot in fortnite

[turbid locust]

I just don’t find it fun

[low sorrel]

Im above average in cs only because of aim

wtf is util

[pure garnet]

fortnite i’ll play a couple games a season

[turbid locust]

I also don’t enjoy shooters where people don’t die when I shoot them in the head

[pure garnet]

i’ve been playing a good chunk of deadlock now and i like the movement it has

but it’s also more of a moba still

[vestal granite]

same im just faceit level 8 still working on getting to level 10

[brisk jolt]

@low sorrel niceone

[pure garnet]

when it comes to a shooter alone i want a tac one like cs yeah

[low sorrel]

We do not talk about my faceit

[vestal granite]

yeah i already checked its level 1

[brisk jolt]

beat it suckers im level 0

[vestal granite]

you know you start at level 5 right

[pure garnet]

allegedly one of my faceits is banned

[low sorrel]

Uh huh see it's too much effort to grind out of it

Because I was at the minimum faceit elo at one point

Turns out 9 year old me

Not good at faceit

[turbid locust]

I’m like… trying to gain interest in that game but I also don’t like games where you just get dumpstered for not having 8000 hours in the game already

[low sorrel]

Level 4 actually

[low sorrel]

GP2 ENGINE GP2 ENGINE

[brisk jolt]

gp3*

[pure garnet]

tbh with all the new heroes and stuff it’s a good time to jump in

[turbid locust]

I played like two matches and got like 3 kills between em

[pure garnet]

kits are becoming more important so it’s shifting away item knowledge being required

[brisk jolt]

that is so sad wtf

[low sorrel]

See I had deadlock

[edgy laurel]

man, i miss when I 1, actually played this game. the movement was so fluid https://youtu.be/3CfMYszB21s?t=150

[low sorrel]

Looked at it when it was new

[turbid locust]

absolutely laser beaming people for 4 damage

[low sorrel]

Ehh I'll get into later

I looked at it now

There's 48737 new heros

[pure garnet]

the game a year ago i hated but in its current state i think its pretty good

[turbid locust]

popping my ult and it getting cancelled by a guy pressing E

[pure garnet]

yeah jerry that’s how mobas work

[turbid locust]

so like yeah couldn’t be fucked

[pure garnet]

there’s like 160 league champions

[low sorrel]

Sir that's Kayo

[turbid locust]

Not really

[low sorrel]

Also the average life of a KJ main when Tejo came out lol

[vestal granite]

theyre up to 172 now

[low sorrel]

Wtf

[turbid locust]

It’s just so hard to get into games nowadays unless you’re playing since like fkin beta

It took me like 3 months to get ok at valorant and I started like a year after launch

[low sorrel]

See I've been playing valorant since beta

[turbid locust]

Deadlocks been “out” for what? A year? Already too far gone

[low sorrel]

And no one told me I was supposed to tap until last year

[turbid locust]

Jerry your brain should’ve told you that

[brisk jolt]

m8 i started that shit in 2024 and my playtime is still multiple times below my friends

[low sorrel]

Magically my rank improved

[brisk jolt]

His brain isnt working

[turbid locust]

Only time I’m spraying someone in Val is if they’re within 5 feet of me

I’ve improved mechanically a lot recently for some reason

[low sorrel]

I think the current advice is crouch spray >=10m

[low sorrel]

I've regressed

[turbid locust]

anyone telling you to crouch spray anything is high as fuck

[brisk jolt]

odin

[low sorrel]

Woohoojin

[turbid locust]

Woohoojin is a fraud lmao

[low sorrel]

Pros do it to

[turbid locust]

Jerry please stfu

we are not playing the same game as pros

[brisk jolt]

you can crouch spray to throw off crosshair placement and somewhat lower your recoil as long as its within 10m lol

[turbid locust]

you’re playing against plats with dogshit aim

[vestal granite]

i dont like valorant because crouching sucks in every game

i prefer to be able to counterstrafe and not feel like i slathered peanut butter on the ground beforehand

[turbid locust]

or you crouch and put your head in their crosshair because they’re spraying

[brisk jolt]

thats a skill issue

[low sorrel]

Skill issue

[brisk jolt]

the bullets natually go up with recoil so like

[turbid locust]

you guys are telling ME skill issue while sitting here talking about crouch spraying like it’s a strat

[brisk jolt]

shit thing about crouching is that you’re immobile with it so its shit

[turbid locust]

I need both of your trackers right now

[low sorrel]

It is, but there's a time and a place

[brisk jolt]

its quite literally a crutch to crouch

i crouch spray with odin specifically

[turbid locust]

Jerry what’s your Val name and tag

[vestal granite]

now watch this drive

[turbid locust]

nvm I found it. Do not talk to me about some skill issue

[low sorrel]

Pepe carry me in cs

[low sorrel]

Skill issue

[low sorrel]

I've literally only instalocked omen this act and smoke sprayed

[vestal granite]

how are you people getting 20% hs% in valorant i thought everyone moves slower there

[low sorrel]

Counts every hit

[turbid locust]

Valorant and CS track HS% differently

[vestal granite]

oh

mine per-shot is 22% in CS

[brisk jolt]

you sure?

thats dogshit but funny

[turbid locust]

CS is just kills/headshot kills

well other way around

Val is headshots/all hits

[vestal granite]

hs kills im 60% (i dont awp), hs hits is 22%

in cs

[turbid locust]

I average a little over 30% in Val recently

[brisk jolt]

I literally play shotguns and snipers all the time on chamber

[vestal granite]

depends on map because preaims are different

[low sorrel]

If your spraying instead of tapping in val your commited, if your commited more often then now you should crouch

[brisk jolt]

My last game on valorant was literally me lagging and odin spamming the entire game

the VC was an absolute mess

[turbid locust]

Jerry I mean this in the most respectful way possible: you’re fucking trolling yourself

[brisk jolt]

the immortal was going “HOW ARE YOU 3 DIAMONDS BELOW THE GOLD GUY WHO IS LAGGING”

[turbid locust]

I will literally unbind my crouch key sometimes to stop myself from crouching cause it’s so bad

[vestal granite]

in CS this isnt the thing, the moment you crouch is the moment you have 100% committed to a peek and you will probably die if you dont know a specific reason as to why youre crouching

[brisk jolt]

mac versus pearl sewage

[vestal granite]

you can be fully committed and NOT crouched and still be fine because you remain evasive

[turbid locust]

the amount of times I just click on people’s heads because they commit a crouch spray

[turbid locust]

REAL LMAO

[low sorrel]

In valorant 90% of the time if you're not tapping you're throwing

[brisk jolt]

mac versus silent jumping would also go hard

[low sorrel]

Yeah because you're crouching too much

I'm not saying you should take every fight crouching

[vestal granite]

thats because the guns are slow and shoot playdough every 8 seconds when you spray

[brisk jolt]

odin

[turbid locust]

I’m not saying you shouldn’t crouch at all I’m saying people heavily over emphasize the importance

[edgy laurel]

you guys know video games are just supposed to be fun, right

[brisk jolt]

im not over emphasizing the important im an odin player mac

[low sorrel]

THATS WHAT IM SAYING YO-

[low sorrel]

I play tarkov when I want to have fun

[turbid locust]

You’re not really lmao

[vestal granite]

guilty you dont understand the new generation guilty. its like getting good at playing golf or bridge or chess or whatever the elderly does these days, its a challenge to the brain that keeps it occupied but also gives enjoyment

[turbid locust]

like crouching hurts you more often than it helps

in any situation

[south shuttle]

it’s situational

[low sorrel]

So your saying the guy 5m in front of me I shouldn't crouch

[south shuttle]

sometimes it works as a surprise

[edgy laurel]

https://klipy.com/gifs/i-never-thought-of-it-like-that-tracy-jordan

[turbid locust]

Everything’s situational

[vestal granite]

valorant is clunky and therefore you should skip the "never crouching" part and go right to the "never playing" part

[turbid locust]

Not every time no

[south shuttle]

in rainbow six i pretend to go crouching with shields and it works they get fooled and give me extra 500ms of time

[vestal granite]

cause rainbow six is fast paced game i would assume

[brisk jolt]

pack it up

[faint shuttle]

smooth butter

[turbid locust]

Realistically if there’s a guy 5m from you and you don’t kill him in the first 3 bullets you probably lost anyway

[south shuttle]

nope ubisoft nerfed everything into oblivion

[low sorrel]

But crouching helps in that fight on average

[south shuttle]

name a thing they didn’t nerf

[brisk jolt]

or both of you suck balls somehow

[turbid locust]

Not sure I agree but yk

[brisk jolt]

im pretty sure unlesd you have a panic attack you can easily flick to someone’s head right in front of you

[low sorrel]

Still better then not

[turbid locust]

I mean I’m trying to explain to Jerry in a respectful way without being like “yeah I literally have double your HS% stfu” but he keeps going lmao

[south shuttle]

oh yeah health

[brisk jolt]

respectfully only thing crouching would do here would “throw off” their crosshair but it isnt effective enough because you also nerf yourself

[south shuttle]

basicly with smgs i just take the highest rpm ones and aim for heads as they’re one shot

rook has really nice one

and his armor is too op ngl

ubitrash can’t balance the game

[brisk jolt]

im surprised the matches im not playing odin i have a 20%+ hs rate

[low sorrel]

See but the thing is when you decide to crouch he has to react to it, but you can adjust your mouse as soon as you start doing it

[brisk jolt]

shut ur-

[vestal granite]

the reason i dont like valorant is look at all these valorant players saying throw off crosshair etc but not talking about ferrari peeking the enemy

[south shuttle]

if valorant had destructible walls i’d maybe or maybe not play it

[vestal granite]

in CS crouch is to kill momentum. you do that if you have a lot of momentum you cant counterstrafe or you get caught off guard moving in a difficult way to counterstrafe against

so i assume in valorant is similar but maybe wide swings dont exist because valorant is so slow idk

[brisk jolt]

my last match played was literally one I was lagging in and that was almost a month ago

[turbid locust]

Crouching felt much more useful in CS than it does in Val my experience

[vestal granite]

and in CS it is not useful at all outside of very specific peeks

[turbid locust]

Right

[fervent scaffold]

Phanteks or Asiahorse fans? Anyone have any input for 2 cheap brands lol

[brisk jolt]

arctic

[vestal granite]

i dont think any player should crouch in CS until theyve done 10,000 years in the prefire maps

[fervent scaffold]

Im trying to get infinity mirror fans

At least the hubs, not necessarily like the lian li ones

[vestal granite]

worst map in the map pool ever

[faint shuttle]

wdym

its good

[vestal granite]

50fps map = i permaban

[faint shuttle]

im just checking faceit, last match 23 sept 2025

[vestal granite]

and its uninspired CS everytime i play it, team just autopilot afk no lineups no creativity in their gameplay

people just cant be bothered to learn it

[vestal granite]

my last match was around there until this week when i started playing again, im trying to get to lvl 10 sometime soon but im barely maintaining 50% winrate with these -15 elo 4v5s so its gonna take a while

[turbid locust]

CS2 is just rough for me cause every time I return to play it it takes me 3-5 games to get used to the worst shooter game netcode on the planet

[faint shuttle]

damn, if i won last match i'd get to level 7

[vestal granite]

and then i win a 4v5 and its just +29

[faint shuttle]

i barely play it

[turbid locust]

I think I peaked at FaceIt 7 at the end of CSGO’s lifecycle

[vestal granite]

i only started taking it more seriously around september

but i stopped because i was struggling after getting to lvl 8 so ive just been trying to get better in times where id otherwise be playing matches

[faint shuttle]

my lowest ELO in csgo lol

[vestal granite]

and i think i have gotten better, so once i break out of this lvl 8 rutt i think i can make it to lvl 10

[turbid locust]

CS is harder mechanically

[low sorrel]

Wide swing exists in val because spraying is punished so hard in most fights

[faint shuttle]

and managed to the end of csgo

[vestal granite]

i think people under-estimate the complicated macro of CS when compared to valorant, i feel like things get more complicated when you have fewer tools at your disposal

[low sorrel]

Also eSports is so much more exciting in CS

[vestal granite]

where youll see an organized CS team look for the tiniest of advantages through conditioning vs oops guess they have their ability up that lets them see our entire gameplan

guess they know where all 5 people are oopsies guess they summoned an earthquake through the entire map to kill us oops

[cosmic gazelle]

larper as a woman in my tech chat 2

[vestal granite]

guess they teleported behind us aw shucks

[turbid locust]

I don’t agree. People have been throwing the same smokes in CS for 15 years lol.

[vestal granite]

you havent been paying attention then

[turbid locust]

They evolve but they’re fundamentally the same

[low sorrel]

NGL I'm kinda done with tac shooters

[wraith steeple]

[low sorrel]

I don't feel the want to grind anymore

[vestal granite]

its not the smokes. they throw defaults, they build off of the defaults.

[turbid locust]

yeah

[faint shuttle]

same, it's unexpectedly got bored

[turbid locust]

It does kinda become demotivating in games like Val where it seems like the only way to climb is to no life it and play more lol

Like I’m a way better player now than I was 2 years ago but my peak rank is the same lol

And the game knows that because I constantly queue into matches against players much higher rank

[faint shuttle]

after surgery i couldn't play properly, because my balance wasnt stable lol

[turbid locust]

Solo queuing is also miserable

[faint shuttle]

true

[low sorrel]

See I was underrated by the MMR system so I had like at 55-60% win rate and was climbing every act

And now I'm at my actual rank

And now I have do something called get good

[turbid locust]

My actual rank has always been lower than my MMR

[faint shuttle]

how do you even peek in valorant, their movement system is ugh

[turbid locust]

I don’t play enough to get to my MMR being my real rank

[vestal granite]

just play the whooshy wind lady and 500ms xantares peek everything

[turbid locust]

Literally the same way you do in CS but without the floaty-ness

[low sorrel]

Am I the only one that counterstrafes in valorant still

[vestal granite]

the floatyness in... CS?

[turbid locust]

Nah I do

[low sorrel]

I know it's not better it's just muscle memory

[turbid locust]

Yep

[vestal granite]

sorry wait you dont counterstrafe in valorant?

[low sorrel]

Letting go is the same speed as counterstrafing

[turbid locust]

You don’t have to but many people do that played CS before

[vestal granite]

so you take your hand off the keyboard when you peek

[turbid locust]

No

Because you’re shooting two bullets and then strafing again

[faint shuttle]

feels clunky ngl

[vestal granite]

so hand off keyboard until you strafe again yes

[turbid locust]

I guess

[low sorrel]

Yeah

I still counterstrafe

[turbid locust]

Like I said I still counterstrafe so

[vestal granite]

why

[low sorrel]

Muscle memory

[faint shuttle]

lol

[low sorrel]

It's not worse it's just not better

[turbid locust]

I had several hundred hours in CSGO before I ever touched Valorant

[low sorrel]

CS was my first shooter

I fucking counterstrafe in arc raiders

[turbid locust]

That’s wild

[vestal granite]

my first shooter was cod world at war

[low sorrel]

Every game I counterstrafe

[turbid locust]

yo same lol

[low sorrel]

I really wanna say it

[vestal granite]

people dont know the stress of someone opening the stairs in cod waw zombies

dont open the FUCKING stairs dude dont OPEN the stairs

[low sorrel]

That game came out 11 days before I was born

[faint shuttle]

i might try valorant again

[vestal granite]

oh wait no my first shooter was halo 2

[turbid locust]

It’s in a weird state rn but worth a try

[low sorrel]

I just realized my first group of CS friends were a bunch of weirdos

[turbid locust]

you can get to diamond off pure mechanics even if you don’t know what half the agents do lol

[faint shuttle]

oooo since when they fixed it

[vestal granite]

i cant have conversations with most CS players they always bring up some shit ionwannahear when im playing a video game

[turbid locust]

Probably about a year or so ago

[faint shuttle]

[low sorrel]

Like what kinda 25 year old streams on discord to a 9 year old them smoking/doing a bunch of drugs

[turbid locust]

I assume 99% of people that still play CS as the Reddit meme guy like basement dweller lol

[vestal granite]

i try but like ill ask "do yall like spinach artichoke dip" (my go-to for starting conversations) and then theyll drop some vocabulary nuke and i have to just say to myself okeydokey thats enough of that conversation

[turbid locust]

99% of my Val matches start with “yo what’s up yall ready to win?” And then actual game comms

[low sorrel]

What you don't wanna hear about oranges thoughts on black people and greens thoughts on the geopolitical situation in the middle east? Or yellows thoughts on gays or blues thoughts on Chinese people

[low sorrel]

I remember getting called the n word at 9 years old when I first used my mic in comp

[vestal granite]

in faceit my matches are usually like that and then some guy complaining that teammates are from another country (usually ukrainians) which soils the whole mood like bro i get you have beliefs but shut the fuck up its a video game we're all losers playing a video game and it is through that that we are united

[low sorrel]

Why are we even complaining about euros in our faceit games

[vestal granite]

they literally carry everytime theyre on my team

[low sorrel]

The average European faceit player is much better then NA

[vestal granite]

i am overjoyed to have a ukrainian on my team to topfrag and carry me

[low sorrel]

NA CS is so dead

[low sorrel]

Did you see donk in faceit 10 lobbies?

[vestal granite]

thats different he does that in FPL lobbies too

[low sorrel]

https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/1lcrkde/what_playing_na_faceit_is_doing_to_donk/

[vestal granite]

that is literally him in every lobby, even EU CS lobbies at his rank hes gonna drop 50 kills

and he also loses his mind in all of them if he doesnt have pros on his team

[low sorrel]

YUPPP

[vestal granite]

only difference is EU CS lobbies have more pros for him to get on his team

[low sorrel]

Is T1 NA CS just elige?

[vestal granite]

there are a few, but the elo is different here so its hard to compare

[low sorrel]

I mean in T1 teams

[vestal granite]

like our top 1000 is 2600+ elo, their top 1000 is 3600+ elo, so the elo cant be directly compared

[vestal granite]

twistzz is canadian and probably top 3 riflers mechanically

and thats sentiment among pros not na cope

[low sorrel]

I thought twistzz retired?

[vestal granite]

no hes on faze

[turbid locust]

I should start watching CS pro play again

[low sorrel]

WHAT ELIGE IS GONE FROM FAZE

[vestal granite]

his team sucks right now due to mismanagement but hes back on faze

[low sorrel]

WHAT ARE THEY DOING

[vestal granite]

no hes on faze

[turbid locust]

Me when SEN allowed Zekken to leave lmao

[vestal granite]

he took liquid paycheck for a bit then came back to faze after faze sold all their good players

[low sorrel]

Huh

[vestal granite]

rain (cs rain not other Rain, big difference) has a kid now so he has retired to paycheck stealing from NA orgs i think

[low sorrel]

When is Stewiestole2k coming back to CS

[vestal granite]

literally never hes a mid-tier faceit 10 now

[turbid locust]

Last time I paid attention to CS pro play, Dev1ce was the goat

[vestal granite]

ok i lied hes still good at the game actually

top 300 NA

[low sorrel]

Didn't he win that one IEM thing with g2

Dallas

[vestal granite]

you could put me on that roster and G2 would still win

[low sorrel]

Didn't they beat vitality in the finals

[vestal granite]

m0nesy niko masterclass

[faint shuttle]

why did my internet died when deathmatch started smh

[low sorrel]

ZywOo more like ZyWHO

[vestal granite]

this was before the vitality era started, they didnt have ropz yet

[low sorrel]

Low key I wanna be in a T1 game

I wanna see how many kills I can get

If any

[vestal granite]

you could get a kill or two im sure

id probably end something like 3-18 if i had to guess

[faint shuttle]

fuck i hate valorant

why the fuck people spamming A D

[low sorrel]

My ego wants to say I go positive by hard baiting but every part of my brain says otherwise

[faint shuttle]

fucking rat player

[vestal granite]

heres why ropz started the vitality era, this is the 3 teams ropz has played on - total in his life

[low sorrel]

Has Niko won a major yet

[vestal granite]

no

wait

no

probably the best player to never win a major

and its all his own fault, if he wanted to win a major he shouldnt have taken the saudi paycheck roster position

[low sorrel]

I just realized imagine being Niko going into the dallas grand final back in America when he lost in Boston but this time he has the homecrowd cheering for him

[vestal granite]

im sure he isnt unhappy with the pay though

[low sorrel]

Who's the worst to win a major

[vestal granite]

one of these players

[low sorrel]

Skadoodle is my goat

And I will not have you slander him

[vestal granite]

all other major winner rosters have at least one player who still plays at a high level, that C9 roster all disappeared from the scene

[low sorrel]

I mean... Not the ones from the 2013 major and shit

[vestal granite]

the ones from 2013 are coaching now or streaming (get_right, f0rest)

[low sorrel]

2018 is like 8 years ago

Hey what happened to nip

I used to be big fan when I watched CS

[vestal granite]

katowice 2014 winners include snax (gamerlegion IGL), taz (BC.Game coach (s1mple's new team), NEO (Faze coach), etc

[vestal granite]

tier 1/2 now, occassionally relevant

xizt coaches NiP now

they have good players, i think their current roster will do really well once they get situated

[edgy laurel]

@topaz veldt https://youtu.be/gWAMsj5D77I?si=mnTvmXD7wtybR6_A

[topaz veldt]

oh lord

[vestal granite]

they have a new donk type of player, xKacpersky, big heavy hitter whos either gonna fizzle into obscurity or be absolutely insane

[low sorrel]

Who is the fuck are these players other then snappi

[edgy laurel]

haven't watched, but didn't you just watch one of his videos? and macmini so I figured it was relevant

also servers

[low sorrel]

Did you see the arc raiders update that coming out tmw

[topaz veldt]

yup

[topaz veldt]

yeah def, checking it out

[low sorrel]

2 new arc

[vestal granite]

sjuush is a pretty good player who got caught up in a bad time of drama for the team he was on, r1nkle, xKacpersky, and cairne are scouted players from lower tier rosters/faceit leaderboards who NiP is trying to build a roster with

so they have snappi/sjuush/xizt and 3 rookies to get up to speed but theyre still top 30 world

[low sorrel]

C9 is still dead right

[vestal granite]

yes, they made an all-russian roster for a bit which won nothing and died

there is no NA CS team that is relevant past tier 2

[topaz veldt]

oh shit i guess my mac mini has TB5

[low sorrel]

So na=TYLOO now?

[vestal granite]

even teams like Liquid are mostly european and based in EU now for training purposes

[vestal granite]

no, china has more teams in tier 1 than us

m80 is our best team i believe

[low sorrel]

Oh mibr long time no see

[vestal granite]

so they arent doing too well either but theres always mongolia right next door to china which has the #7 team, "The Mongolz"

oh we also have NRG at #19

so we're making a little bit of an appearance recently

problem with NA tier 1 CS is that all of the tier 1 teams have to practice against european teams so all the tier 2 teams have no better teams to practice against

[steel stream]

oh what

[low sorrel]

https://arcraiders.com/news/shrouded-sky-content-update

[steel stream]

tiny little baby arc

[low sorrel]

yeah you should play the game

[steel stream]

midterms

https://tenor.com/view/basketball-peter-griffin-ballin-correct-gif-3683286355521616854

[frank zealot]

Wtf is bro thinkin

[edgy laurel]

jakes dream editing server

[frank zealot]

If he had a quarter mil to build it

[edgy laurel]

dude asking more than brand new?

[steel stream]

I suppose it would get the job done

[topaz veldt]

prob not, thats a 4 nodew

[edgy laurel]

a who what now

thats just what he said in the video

[topaz veldt]

oh

That's weird that he'd want that

Its 4 servers in 2U each with very few drive bays and DIMM slots

[devout ridge]

my guess would be for some of his network hosting stuff

[topaz veldt]

Guilty said dream editing server

[devout ridge]

but i would assume that would be on a completely separate machine

[edgy laurel]

might just been a standin for the video, dunno. he's doing fast U.2 SSD's, 25Gb networking and lots of Thunderbolt into that $400 Mac Mini lol

this is just entertainment at this point lol

[topaz veldt]

did he get the 30TB jawns to work

[devout ridge]

not quite yet afaik

[edgy laurel]

i'm a little over half way in, they weren't working yet

[devout ridge]

he got the cm6’s working, but not the cm7’s

likely an issue with the mismatched pcie gens

[edgy laurel]

yeah so like, if the drive (or device) is in a dock and not a PC directly, I guess you can't "force" which Gen to work at

[devout ridge]

That would be my assumption

[edgy laurel]

so you're reliant on the firmware in the dock at that point

assuming thats the problem in the first place

its actually amazing how well that works

editing with footage/project files on a remote system, that is. assuming the storage system is fast flash

damn, the MacMini deal is back up to $500

[low sorrel]

@vestal granite look who im playing with

[hoary hatch]

I would have gotten the $400 mac mini if best buy had been in stock (price match to microcenter)

[steel stream]

i should have just ponied up and got one

[edgy laurel]

same

[steel stream]

TC2 is now a support group for people without Mac minis

[frank zealot]

With a cooler you probably can't use

[steel stream]

it'll be ok guys

[low sorrel]

@vestal granite oh my god cs is so much better gunplay wise

[brisk jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/twerking-purple-thing-purpleguy-twerk-twerking-purple-guy-gif-25863430

[steel stream]

compared to val?

[low sorrel]

yeah

why did i quit this game

[steel stream]

playerbase I would guess

[low sorrel]

92 in 1 92 in 1 92 in 1 92 in 1 92 in 1

[frank cypress]

seldom

what are you trying to buy?

gpu wise

[low sorrel]

4070~

[frank cypress]

hmmm

im about to pull the trigger on a better projector

ive been really happy with the setup (not the actual projector, the one i bought is dogshit)

💀

[shell void]

holy sin

[frank cypress]

it was an accident

i got lowk scammed

boutta buy a proper 1080p projector

[low sorrel]

no no

i have my doubts about a 4k projector for 370 cad

[shell void]

i havent played with a projector before, it's one of the display types that i havent owned

[frank cypress]

the cheap chinese ones are really cheap but shit so afaik

[frank cypress]

for my room layout, it's really convenient

which is why i got one instead of a TV

[shell void]

it sounds sweet for watching videos in bed

[frank cypress]

also lets me project it nice and high so i can lie down flat on my back and watch shit from bed

yeah exactly

[vestal granite]

dam

[indigo walrus]

Well, well, well, if it isn't "deceptive markting" and "read the fine print."

Native 1080P resolution / supports 4K decoding ...

[frank cypress]

i think there's very few true 4k projectors on the market as well soooo

[indigo walrus]

This is like saying "yeah, my minivan supports 97 Octane petrol!" ... technically true, but the engine in your minivan isn't going to do anything performance related with high-octane petrol... it'll just burn cleaner.

[frank cypress]

that sorta thing is really comon

[indigo walrus]

There are lots... they just start around $1000 CAD and up. At least, the acceptably okay ones do.

[frank cypress]

oh yes, i meant for cheap

idk, i think based on the one i have rn, i'd be happy enough with 1080p

especailly since the one im looking at is a lot more compact

which is ideal for me since it's going above my bed

so not a lot of space

[low sorrel]

just mount a tv directly on the celing

remember to put it not on the studs and just pure drywall

and place it directly above your head

[indigo walrus]

Same. I'd rather have a GOOD image from a QUALITY 1080p projector than a questionable image from an off brand quabbity™ "4K" projector.

[frank cypress]

seems to be a common sentiment amongst the projector people on reddit

[low sorrel]

did they buff the mp5?

feels way better then last time i used it

and my teammates are buying it

[frank cypress]

im just imagining a really scaled up version of dropping your phone on your face

https://tenor.com/view/dropped-a-phone-on-face-pudgy-penguins-hit-myself-with-the-phone-gif-3520948715129934014

[low sorrel]

im imagining flat stanley

[frank cypress]

LMAO

[frank cypress]

from my basic research, it just seems like the shitty chinese ones just die really quickly

they're all basically quickly ewaste

hence not worth buying

[edgy laurel]

LTT video on the IBP build from Costco. Is it just me or do the heatpipes on that cooler appear to be crimped at the cold plate.

[low sorrel]

yeah they do wtf

[vestal granite]

yes

[low sorrel]

i just 1v5d with it

this team is not real