tech-chat-2

[low sorrel]

i fucking hate this game

[vestal granite]

i can assure you that you are not good enough to complain about your team

[whole coral]

I think it’s fair to say we are buried

34 inches of snow reported here. Literally waist height

[brittle trellis]

Unless I'm reading something wrong that's only 32

[whole coral]

Yeah that’s my measurement

Trained spotter reported 34

Should’ve specified

[cosmic gazelle]

kinda want this just because it’s $5

[edgy laurel]

paperweight

[cosmic gazelle]

lmao

[grizzled lily]

Is there any impact on having 2 monitor connected to same graphics card(9070xt), One monitor is1440p with 300 hz and other is 1080p with 144 hz

[cosmic gazelle]

yes but it’s generally negligible

[brisk jolt]

minimal

1% and below

[shell void]

the impact comes from whatever youre running on the second monitor moreso than just having the monitor connected

[grizzled lily]

like cs2 and just like youtube or discord

and do I have to plug same type of cable, Or I can mix and match with DP or hdmi to gpu?

[cosmic gazelle]

you can mix and match, and both of those will have a non-zero impact on your framerate

but it’s not really enough to matter much

[grizzled lily]

sounds good

[hoary hatch]

Sometimes wifi be funky

[floral spear]

Mom keeps doing some bullshit on the internet fucking up everyone's homework time

https://tenor.com/view/jonah-hill-frustrated-wolf-of-wall-street-annoyed-smh-gif-9553858

[topaz veldt]

Good thing trained spotter doesn't do my taxes

[pure garnet]

how tf do you get trained to spot snow

[low sorrel]

Oh no they were calling me slurs

[edgy laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/burnt-peanut-the-burnt-peanut-mmhmm-mmhm-mmhm-gif-8170698848261710513

[low sorrel]

I have realized why I play valorant

[faint shuttle]

don’t just don’t

[brisk jolt]

ok

[low sorrel]

Play omen

One trick omen like me

[brisk jolt]

i havent touched the game since

[steel stream]

called it

[fervent scaffold]

Do I swap out my Phanteks XT pro for a O11 D Mini v2

[edgy laurel]

if you want to

[fervent scaffold]

I think I do

Lol

I just found out it comes with a vertical gpu mount and has swappable front/top io

[edgy laurel]

i have the v1.. for the past 5 years

over that style

[shell void]

https://tenor.com/view/pirate-cat-funny-pirate-cat-copyright-gif-4934137659474778795

[floral spear]

I've been laughing my ass off at this one video

So there's this guy reviewing a Lenovo Legion Gaming Monitor for 150£

And for like 5 solid seconds you can see his wallpaper is Animal Crossing NSFW Art

And most of the people in the comments section are pretending to not notice it

[hoary hatch]

Bruh
SSDs really came with DVD driver packages? 😭

[indigo walrus]

They sure did, back in the day. https://archive.org/details/SAMSUNGSSD4.0

[hoary hatch]

I guess my 2015 850 evo probably had one
I tossed all my driver CDs a year or two ago because they had never once been used

[arctic bronze]

bup

[pallid marsh]

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/gigabyte-b850-eagle-wifi6e-socket-am5-amd-b850-atx-ddr5-wi-fi-6e-motherboard-black/J3ZW92VVCC damn best buy having a clearance sale for $81

[shell void]

sheesh that's like b350/b450 era pricing

[edgy laurel]

thats not bad at all

[low sorrel]

To bad ram costs b350 but without the b

[low sorrel]

@edgy laurel what was that mouse with the hot swap batteries that you were looking at?

[edgy laurel]

It was from glorious

[pure garnet]

i think i made fun of my viper too much bc now the sensor feels off

[low sorrel]

Fucking amazon

I would rather buy a superstrike atp

[pure garnet]

that's less than the us price

[brisk jolt]

I’d like another wanling mouse>

[pure garnet]

idk what i'll replace my v3 pro with

superstrike sems to have really odd qa issues atm

i just know it's coming up for replacement soon

unless i buy a new battery and bottom shell

[low sorrel]

Superstrike but chinese

[pure garnet]

i can actually just buy another viper v3 pro for $70 new from amazon

and use my existing 8k dongle

[low sorrel]

chinese superstrike will probably be around that price

and come with an 8k dongle

[pure garnet]

yah in like 6 months or so

[low sorrel]

i for one am going to buy it because shits cool

[pallid marsh]

bro will buy anything but a gpu

[low sorrel]

it's ragebait atp

[pure garnet]

ennui bought my 4070 before jerry did

[low sorrel]

I shoulda bought the 4070

now the prices are up up up

[brisk jolt]

dudes gonna be out here goin “Spare change”

https://tenor.com/view/homeless-squidward-spare-change-gif-25810212

[low sorrel]

@pure garnet hey lets buy some keyboard switches

[turbid locust]

probably the cleanest shit ive ever hit ngl

@low sorrel

[low sorrel]

Not bad

[turbid locust]

@edgy laurel this is why I like tac shooters btw

[brisk jolt]

thats right get the stupid reyna player

https://tenor.com/view/squid-game-squid-game-2-cheers-happy-excited-gif-13406404385856133045

[low sorrel]

i mean chamber is basically the same

[brisk jolt]

no fuck the reyna players

[small river]

https://tenor.com/view/paypal-30000-arknights-arknights-endfield-perlica-gif-604696076763371309

[reef lance]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cat-meme-credit-card-gif-5379748197515488745

[fringe fossil]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/221392883314327553/815772220924231680/giphy_-_2020-08-11T154220.479.gif

[woven osprey]

I plan on M-Flashing my BIOS today, will it matter if I stick the USB into the front or at the rear in the dedicated BIOS USB port?

[devout ridge]

Shouldn't matter, best to just plug it into a motherboard USB slot tho

[shell void]

@hoary hatch rip the Cove team

Ecore team is more chad

[topaz veldt]

Yeeeeehaw https://videocardz.com/newz/apple-says-mac-mini-manufacturing-will-start-in-texas-later-in-2026

[low sorrel]

That sounds... Confusing

[topaz veldt]

E cores are here to stay

[devout ridge]

E cores are great, as long as there's enough P cores to go along with them

[low sorrel]

@topaz veldt my stash... Is 50 Ven 4s...

[edgy laurel]

I'm glad that you're happy lol

[low sorrel]

Who is giving this feedback

[devout ridge]

fuck that, make scrappy cluck more

Scrappy deserves to express himself in his truest form

[edgy laurel]

what did the stitcher and kettle ever do to anyone apart from being tragically bad in starter form

[woven osprey]

Preparing to flash my BIOS
Take it it’s the HH0?
Does system volume information on the stick matter?

It’s a 64GB Philips USB

[devout ridge]

volume on the stick doesn't matter, and it should be HH0, correct

[woven osprey]

I pressed enter but now the screen is frozen

I used arrow keys to select it, pressed enter to select but it didn’t do anything and now my screen is stuck

[woven osprey]

Doesn’t react to any inputs now

Stuck on the M-Flash screen

[reef lance]

#JUSTICE4SCRAPPY

[woven osprey]

It’s supposed to give me this menu after selecting HH0 but it’s stuck

[edgy laurel]

so many parts. https://www.reddit.com/r/watercooling/comments/1rdbzo4/custom_white_block_for_rtx_pro_6000_with_corsair/

(gallery is wild)

[shell void]

8x96GB o_o

[edgy laurel]

the whole motherboard is covered in waterblock

[shell void]

gpu temps must be crazy with four 480mm rads

[edgy laurel]

you can't see it

[shell void]

it’s probly like having an external mora

[low sorrel]

Oh no the stitcher and kettle needed a nerf, a kitted out stitcher had a LOWER TTK to the head then a bobcat with better accuracy

[edgy laurel]

whats amazing is how little tubing you can see, even on the backside

[brisk jolt]

looks like a puzzle icl

[edgy laurel]

ok yeah the more you look, the tubing runs to, between and from the radiators is probably the most impressive part

[reef lance]

He plans on playing Civilization 1, Stardew Valley, Age of Empire 2, and DOOM on that bad boy.

[topaz veldt]

With mag 3 there's basically unstoppable

[low sorrel]

Wait embark wtf, you nerfed the sell price of cores by almost half? Right before the expedition where I had most of my 1.5 million in cores

So now I need to grind 500k

Like I could care less about the other parts

[low sorrel]

But this is just fucking annoying

[edgy laurel]

at retail pricing, that is somewhere in the $900 range in corsair fans

[reef lance]

So one thing I don't get. Most AIOs use a copper coldplate but an aluminum radiator (like this Arctic Liquid Freezer III). How are they getting away with that without galvanic corrosion? I thought that using anti-corrosion inhibitors was basically bullshit?

[topaz veldt]

They don't use an aluminum radiator

Some do some don't but there are coolants that do not cause galvanic corrosion

Anti-Corrosion additives are not bullshit. They've been used for a long long time. Think about every old house that has copper plumbing but cast iron radiators

[fringe vigil]

hi

[hoary hatch]

Bro this is exactly what I've been asking for

[topaz veldt]

@low sorrel would it be unethical to buy Arc Raiders again for "my son" and hand him all my blueprints

[low sorrel]

just use steam family sharing

[topaz veldt]

Can't play 2 at a time

I would need to team up with him and give him all my shit

[low sorrel]

greenl-

[topaz veldt]

Not worried about the $40 its more of a like "should I?"

[low sorrel]

not really

[topaz veldt]

I have every single BP duplicated

Survivor, safekeeper, etc.

[low sorrel]

I feel like you scam yourself out of the grind

[topaz veldt]

LOL

[low sorrel]

like whats the point of wiping

if you have all the bps ready

and your already at end game

[topaz veldt]

You lose all your BPs?

[low sorrel]

yeah but if you give the bps to your son

and then get it back

[topaz veldt]

right

I am thinking I could dump him a Mk3 survivor and just do 3 at a time safe pocket surrenders

Evac all my shit of value, then do the reset, and get the shit back

[low sorrel]

you could

or you could be ballsy and move it all at once

[topaz veldt]

well I think i'd do like super valuable "it took me forever to find this" shit safe pocket

then i could just do like cores and shit to his character w/ a hatch key

[low sorrel]

I mean you could but haven't you been complaining about nothing to grind for

and then you're giving you're self like 60% of the grind

[edgy laurel]

smells scammy

[brisk jolt]

ah yes my bullshit technique i havent used this since the heian era

(reply is saying he’s running 6kc26 at 1.3v)

[hoary hatch]

<@&750150305383186585> they joined today, seems like a scam

[topaz veldt]

I am not anxious to go searching for a 1/1000 BP again

[topaz veldt]

Could be - dude my 6000 CL26 H16A work at 1.3

or maybe it was 1.32, but either way, its low

[topaz veldt]

perfect

[brisk jolt]

he has a 2x24gb 6kcl28 1.35v kit

[topaz veldt]

Ok - I also have 2x24GB 6K CL26, I could try it low

[brisk jolt]

he sounds like he entirely doesnt know what he's saying

[topaz veldt]

possibly

That part I cannot attest to

[brisk jolt]

"yeah my hdr config is great"
-autohdr

[fringe vigil]

Snail why are you gae

[edgy laurel]

extremely modest

Zen3 non-x3D the beefiest CPU suggestion is telling

[steel stream]

wow, awesome to see

nixxes has done it again

[topaz veldt]

UPS Simulator 2.0

[steel stream]

it's a very popular game amongst the unemployed

[edgy laurel]

Oh, this is interesting.

For the first time on PC, you’ll find Pico as an option in Upscale Settings. This “Progressive Image Compositor” is developed by Guerrilla for the Decima engine and is the same upscaling technology that’s used for Death Stranding 2 on PS5. Pico upscaling can be used with all supported graphics cards and can be combined with the various options for frame generation offered in the game.

All upscaling options can be used in combination with Dynamic Resolution Scaling, or with an upscaling quality setting of choice to improve performance. Native AA options are also available for maximum fidelity.

[shell void]

i’m curious if this company: https://kuycon.us/monitors will put out 5K 120-165Hz and 6K 120-165Hz monitors after Apple unveils their new Studio monitors in a couple of weeks

they offer apple-like designs, but with normal I/O and PC support

i would be intrigued by a 32” 6K 120Hz+ glossy IPS monitor with a metal chassis and DP2.1 for <$2000

[hoary hatch]

Dream Router 7 just shipped

[hoary hatch]

Another one of those Korean brands?

Imagine
Hyundai IONIQ 5K QD-OLED

[shell void]

chinese, and they’re the best clone company from what i’ve seen

[steel stream]

oh wow that is super cool

I'm really excited to see that

[turbid locust]

Thanks

[steel stream]

@edgy laurel I wonder if we will ever get PSSR on PC, it's pretty familar to FSR4 afaik, would be neat to see

[edgy laurel]

so thats not what this is? i'm very unfamiliar with PS upscaling apart from the "pisser" jokes

[steel stream]

from what I know, it's not the same. I think PICO is the "checkerboard" rendering method console uses, but PSSR is a different thing only found on PS5 pro

oh what it might be something different?

https://www.digitalfoundry.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2024-playstation-5-pro-what-does-the-ps4-image-enhancement-feature-actually-do

this what shows up when i google "ps5 progressive image compositor"

we might have to wait and see for a DF video about this PC port

[hoary hatch]

The 2 PS4 games I've played on my PS5 look as shit as they did in 2013

[steel stream]

yep

can confirm that

[hoary hatch]

I'd love a killzone remaster

[steel stream]

not happening

[hoary hatch]

I know

:(

[steel stream]

Guerrila for some reason is making a Horizon multiplayer game

[hoary hatch]

I think this is a mistake

[steel stream]

yes it isd

it's pushing Horizon 3 back, and even diehard Horizon fans I know are not interested in the game

[hoary hatch]

Oh wait

This is an interim title before Horizon 3?

I thought this was supposed to be horizon 3

[steel stream]

no, interim title

[hoary hatch]

Is this the fallout 76 of horizon

[steel stream]

probably

[hoary hatch]

Wait is fallout 76 the last fallout title

[steel stream]

yeah there hasn't been a new one since

[hoary hatch]

Oh fuck we're so fucked

[steel stream]

I think Fallout remasters just got announced recently

[hoary hatch]

Okay akn
I have one possible thought

Maybe they have a team working on horizon 3 set to debut as PS6 launch title

[steel stream]

I'm sure they've got it on the back burner, but it's gonna be years before we see anything I bet

[hoary hatch]

Closer to 2030 than 2025

I mean PS6 I think is expected late 2027 at earliest. If Sony pushes it back a year, I could see a late 2028 launch

[steel stream]

with all the layoffs and studio closures, I fear having some underperforming multiplayer title will not help Guerrila

[hoary hatch]

Oh it may very well sink the studio

[steel stream]

yeah, it was not received well in a very heavy focused horizon discord I am in

[hoary hatch]

Is this just HDR fanatics

[steel stream]

no it's a Horizon speedrunning community lol

[hoary hatch]

Is there a way to disable all dialogue/cutscenes

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/no-shaking-head-funny-kid-sad-eyes-gif-13285243

[hoary hatch]

Wow that seems so painful to speedrun

[steel stream]

HZD is about 1 hour 45, HFW is about 1 hour 40

so not terrible

Δσ=qδp(μn​+μp​)

[pure garnet]

[topaz veldt]

Crazy inventory for a level 0

https://tenor.com/view/nervous-nilly-30rock-drink-shaking-nervous-gif-15622273

[steel stream]

I meant to paste that elsewhere

[steel stream]

hmmmmmm

[pure garnet]

why is my class on windows system administration just every week installing windows server 2022 on loop

are people in a 4th year college program not capable of using an installer or something

[steel stream]

nope

[pure garnet]

i'd believe it man

if my display flickers only when i’m not at my desk that’s usually the displayport cable right

[edgy laurel]

"Death Stranding 2: On the Beach" sounds like the beach volleyball spinoff

[brisk jolt]

Dude I hate “broke” mentality people like- Those with mentalities and habits that keep them broke like holy shit

[fringe vigil]

No

[edgy laurel]

thanks jorj

[brisk jolt]

Ive started death stranding like the other day

Im not sure if I even completed the tutorial since I’ve only just reached the part where the objective is to meet the president

[edgy laurel]

I think thats about as far as I got

[brisk jolt]

Maybe I shouldnt have given back my friend his keys back home 💀

[steel stream]

I was gonna write a fun comment back but Jorj shut this down

[edgy laurel]

yeah man, guy doesn't get jokes but makes them all the time

[fringe vigil]

Have you played the first one

[steel stream]

I've played like 30 minutes of it

[edgy laurel]

same

[steel stream]

you best believe I will buy the second!

[fringe vigil]

Same

[brisk jolt]

same

[fringe vigil]

Bro doesn’t even know what’s going on why would you do that

[edgy laurel]

lol

[steel stream]

is this the quickest turn around for a PC port?

[steel stream]

so it can sit in my library like the first one

[brisk jolt]

my friend said its nice, everyone said its nice but at the same time “everyone” also said its a walking simulator

[edgy laurel]

the classic jorj. you didn't even play the first one, why play the second.

jorj it doesn't matter

[brisk jolt]

Just skip to the 3rd

[edgy laurel]

facts

[fringe vigil]

if it’s a non linear game I can understand

but you’re gonna be lost

[edgy laurel]

Youtube exists to get the gist of previous games stories

if it matters enough

[steel stream]

I'll play the first one through

[steel stream]

facts

I want to play the game to get to that one scene in the amusement park

with all the sparklers

[edgy laurel]

man, was that like a year ago at this point

that you posted that

[steel stream]

Just about, released late June last year

[fringe vigil]

I’d rather play it and experience it myself but do yoy

[cosmic gazelle]

just found someone trying to sell a 5950x for $500

and the cherry on top is his description says “will trade for 5800x3d”

[brisk jolt]

another day and no 5070 mini

[shell void]

[brisk jolt]

however floopie is going taiwan and i asked him to find a 5060ti 16gb cyclone

https://tenor.com/view/arknights-endfield-arknights-endfield-sunglasses-glasses-gif-11912564503946093605

[shell void]

i forgot about that card

5060Ti undervolt testing from Nordic on TPU forum:

[brisk jolt]

should remove that fan and slap a t30 onto it

truly low cortisol

[shell void]

but the stock lil white fan is cute

[brisk jolt]

its cute but I dont imagine it not being a jet engine

[shell void]

i can guarantee that it’ll be absolutely fine with a 0.95v limit topping it out around 120W

[hoary hatch]

I still need to under volt the roommate's 3090

[edgy laurel]

that thing is beautiful

[hoary hatch]

But it's not too much of a concern in the winter

[edgy laurel]

all 5060Ti's should be that small

[pure garnet]

@shell void my mousepad is now baking outside to dry but i made the mistake of doing it during a cold day

my damn fingers be frozen

[edgy laurel]

..is it going to freeze?

because that seems counterproductive

[pure garnet]

nah it's just 42 and windy out so i was just freezing myself

[turbid locust]

The entire time I was out of state it was 70 and sunny

I come back and it’s 10 degree windchill and flurries

fml

[edgy laurel]

I think I just used a fan indoors and mine was dry WAY faster than I expected

like an hour

[shell void]

how long does that take to dry usually?

[turbid locust]

I drape mine over the spare shower and flip it after a day lol

[brisk jolt]

inb4 I flash a asus TUF bios for 234w limit

[edgy laurel]

fuck. a day?? i was blown away how just a fan blowing over it for an hour completely dried mine

[turbid locust]

well I have like a giga LTT pad

It probably doesn’t take that long I just don’t care lol

[edgy laurel]

I did do that wrap it up with a towel and squeeze method first

to get the excess out

[shell void]

it’s essential

my big soft pad is ready to be used right after washing

[steel stream]

42 is shorts weather smh

[edgy laurel]

or rather, roll it up with a towel

[shell void]

having to wait a day is absurd

[topaz veldt]

what pads you guys using

[edgy laurel]

LTT

[turbid locust]

The largest LTT makes

[shell void]

towel burrito tech is mandatory

[edgy laurel]

lol

[steel stream]

I use a Lord of the rings pad from Drop

[shell void]

95% dry 3 minutes after i just washed it and ready to use immediately

[turbid locust]

Of course you do

[brisk jolt]

some xl artisan pad

[edgy laurel]

yo i just saw a post on /r/lotr about Andy Serkis' reading of The Silmarillion and I saw I had an Audible credit. This will be my commute entertainment for the next few weeks.

[pure garnet]

i let it bake for about 2 hours and then towel dry the rear

[turbid locust]

so overrated it’s not even funny

“Control pad” words spoken by the utterly deranged

[pure garnet]

i air dry because i can't buy the pad anymore

[steel stream]

hell yeah, from what I've heard the Andy Serkis audiobooks are fantastic

[pure garnet]

control pad is just ali express mousepad

[shell void]

sister i must ask why you would towel after air drying

[steel stream]

thanks bud

[shell void]

that’s backwards

[brisk jolt]

its aite, im gonna just keep it as a pad for the ITX when I get a glasspad so I dont need to really bother tht much with maintenance and wear

[turbid locust]

Control pad is just lower your fucking sensitivity lmao

[pure garnet]

because im not letting the rear bake for 2 hours

[turbid locust]

glass pads

[pure garnet]

my mousepad is just sitting on my dryway rn

[edgy laurel]

yeah, i'm going to check my old audiobooks of the other books to see if it was him. Interested to see what the silmarillion is all about.

[brisk jolt]

you underestimate the chinese

[pure garnet]

so the bottom will be dirty when i pick it up

[shell void]

we have opposite interests in these tiny gpus

[steel stream]

iirc it's essentially just a collection of stories and lore about Middle-earth

[pure garnet]

and then i wipe it off with a towel

[shell void]

i see the cyclone and i want to undervolt it to 75W

[turbid locust]

Glass mouse skates on cloth pads will always be my method

[pure garnet]

i've used tiger esports ice ptfe for like 4 years

[edgy laurel]

@topaz veldt only us OG's know

[brisk jolt]

nah we do have similar ones its pretty much the voices in my head telling me to be a menace

[steel stream]

i just use whatever pads came with my superlight

[pure garnet]

i run stock feet till they're wore out

then i replace with esports

this is the first time i've owned a mouse this long so

[edgy laurel]

well i'm down. probably going to prompt a full re-listen of all the books

[turbid locust]

I swap to glass dots within 3 days of buying a new mouse

[steel stream]

I just started reading LoTR but I've not been very good about reading it everyday

[pure garnet]

im thinking of just buying a viper v3 pro se to replace my v3 pro because it's the same mouse just with a 1k hz dongle, and then i'll just use the existing 8k dongle i have

[turbid locust]

8K Polling is still a meme

[edgy laurel]

Why audiobooks work so well for me. I'm consistently in the car multiple times a week for an hour at a time, no real excuses.

[brisk jolt]

its still very noticeable in eating ur battery

[turbid locust]

mhm

[steel stream]

starting may I will have a commute so maybe I'll pick up some audiobooks

[pure garnet]

like this looks like the method

[steel stream]

probably a better way to spend the time other than listening to my one playlist

[turbid locust]

May I recommend a mouse double the price

[pure garnet]

you can but i can't guarantee i buy it

[turbid locust]

I need everyone on a Pulsar X2CL Mini

[pure garnet]

oh i dont have baby hands

[turbid locust]

I don’t either

[brisk jolt]

no thanks Im gonna get a wlmouse huan

with maybe a glasspad, we’ll see

[edgy laurel]

I go through phases of audiobooks and podcasts. I'm finishing a few months of just doing podcasts so I think i'm headed back into audiobooks with this one. And yeah I do find them more interesting than music but thats just how I am with music.

[pure garnet]

cursed

[shell void]

that’s cap your honor

[edgy laurel]

glass mousepads just seem like they'd be uncomfortable

and cold

[steel stream]

music for at the desk now for me, I don't even have AirPods or earbuds for commutes or gym anymore. Audiobooks are probably better for keeping me engaged

[pure garnet]

true i do love my baby girl phone

but i still need adult sized mouse

my s22 ultra feels like a tablet now in comparsion to my phone

[shell void]

i like my 17pm more now that i’ve been running it with no case

[pure garnet]

yeah it feels nice no case

[edgy laurel]

we just got in some test phones for troubleshooting things. iPhone 16 base and Galaxy S25 FE

The Galaxy kinda makes the base iphone seem like a toy

the display refresh is killing it

[pure garnet]

yeah it took till 17 base for the base to be good again

[fringe vigil]

Jork

[turbid locust]

In all fairness I play claw

[shell void]

i love the finger feel of a matte glass protector on a touch screen, but i always get sick of the screen being blurry and peel it off after a while

[pure garnet]

i do something inbetween palm and fingertip

[turbid locust]

I think that’s quite literally claw

I was on a Viper V2 Pro before the X2CL and it has more ass and it was still comfortable

[steel stream]

you'd have to pay me to put on a matte screenprotector

[pure garnet]

model o wireless -> viper ultimate -> superlight -> superlight 2 -> v3 pro

[steel stream]

Also, too many people now have those privacy screen protectors

[shell void]

privacy protectors also put a texture on the screen that i hate

[steel stream]

just ruins the screen for me

[brisk jolt]

idk ive personally used a glass table with no mousepad before

[steel stream]

also what are you doing at 20 that needs a privacy protector

you're just scrolling reels and sending texts

[shell void]

it feels soooo nice for a touchscreen tho bro

if only we could have it without the disgusting blur and grain

[brisk jolt]

I want to go from my 14p>19pm

[pure garnet]

i still miss the dock the viper ultimate had

that was the coolest mouse charger i owned

[steel stream]

yeah this is my issue with them

[shell void]

as soon as anything white is on screen it’s like EUGHHH

looks filthy

why does every small tech channel that likes apple always orange tint their videos

[brisk jolt]

I want either a black or a red wlmouse huan

ill probably go for red since I dont want to keep a boring colour

[vestal granite]

i hate razer products but the viper mice are so cool lookin

[brisk jolt]

nah personally i hate every razer product regardless

[vestal granite]

deathadder looks like shit - always has - thing looks like bell-bottom pants. but viper? i like a viper mouse.

[shell void]

i wish this was the norm

having to plug my mouse in for charging occasionally kills wireless mice for me

especially the ultra lightweight models that only have like two days of battery life

[vestal granite]

thats why i use a battery mouse so i can just pop a new battery in instead of playing with it wired

when im not using it for games its mildly inconvenient but the battery also lasts anywhere from 4 days to 2 months on a battery

[shell void]

i don’t mind the shape of the G305 but i prefer mice to be <60G which isn’t going to happen with AA/AAA battery mice

[pure garnet]

i keep a g305 on me for mouse use on campus

back when i was using the g14 as my daily

[vestal granite]

i use g305 the receiver is the worst mouse receiver ive ever used in my life

[steel stream]

my lightspeed cable is already falling apart

[vestal granite]

i will never buy a logitech mouse ever again unless its $5 at a goodwill

going back to steelseries after this one

[final glacier]

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/meta-could-end-up-owning-of-10-amd-in-new-chip-deal/

[vestal granite]

maybe then AMD will fuckin DO SOMETHING

that does actually make sense for meta since they'll eventually want to do a verse of the meta variety again and amd hardware runs the new steam valve valve eyeball set

[shell void]

more investment inbreeding to bolster the overvaluation

[vestal granite]

a royal faangily or something

[topaz veldt]

@low sorrel If I have $11.5M coins and burn through my stash items themselves, I can still get max expedition shit right?

[turbid locust]

same

after having two $150 mice with QC issues within 6 months

[topaz veldt]

huh that sucks - I have been lucky I suppose

[steel stream]

yay!

[pure garnet]

@shell void my mousepad is now done

so about an hour total

[hoary hatch]

My GPW double clicked within 90 days 😭

[turbid locust]

LOL

[pure garnet]

yeah my superlight 2 scroll wheel failed super early into ownership

[turbid locust]

yeah I had two superlights and both had click and scroll issues within 6 months

[pure garnet]

meanwhile i've had this viper for 2 years

[hoary hatch]

Credit where it's due, their RMA for it was surprisingly painless

[pure garnet]

and the only issue it has are user caused

[turbid locust]

Yeah they just straight up sent me a new one didn’t ask for the old one back

[pure garnet]

i blew a tactical hole in the under carriage below the feet bc i didnt know it was honeycomb

and after 2 years the battery is getting worn

[topaz veldt]

dude truly

[steel stream]

https://videocardz.com/newz/the-witcher-3-multiplayer-mod-witcher-online-gets-client-update-1-11 did not know this was a thing

[pure garnet]

rebooting back into windows from plasma is always such a joy

[fringe vigil]

shall i get

[steel stream]

back to functionality

[merry stirrup]

my girlfriend thinks this is her room smh

movin my stuff around smh

[topaz veldt]

wait until she's your wife and it is her room

[steel stream]

invoke the 3rd amendment

if she is military

[steel stream]

that must be the one room in your house without a computer

[merry stirrup]

you’re right

[frank cypress]

i bought a better projector 💪

[steel stream]

best of luck 🫡

[steel stream]

dope, which one?

[frank cypress]

i bought a lg pf50ka

im kinda limited on the size of the projector so i went with one of these, rtings doesn't have great things to say about it but

generally people online seem to be happy with theirs and it was one of the cheaper small 1080p projectors i could find

[vestal granite]

i wonder what the people at the store think of me when i buy a thing of pre-cooked chorizo links, can of dolmades, 4 monster energy drinks, and 2 rolls of bread.

they probably think im sick and goated and fly as hell

[frank cypress]

it literally cannot be worse than my XGA projector 💀

600x800 💀

[steel stream]

sweet. As for rtings, who cares it's a projector meant for side content I am assuming

[steel stream]

"Another gym-bro with their insane diet"

[frank cypress]

i've been using my projector to lie in bed and watch content

[vestal granite]

dont need a sommelier for box wine

[steel stream]

yeah a projector is goated for that

[frank cypress]

it's been really nice cause by the time i finish my couple of episodes, my bed is nice and toasty and i can fall asleep quickly

[steel stream]

have you ever done the tour de franzia

[vestal granite]

ive noticed a direct correlation of how well-made my bed is and how well i sleep

[vestal granite]

no

[steel stream]

even this shitty TCL tv is so nice for youtube in bed

[frank cypress]

oh for sure

[turbid locust]

still over this

[steel stream]

It's fun you should try

[turbid locust]

not to self glaze but I’m clean asf w it ngl

[vestal granite]

what happened

[frank cypress]

a TV probably has way better picture quality, but the reason why i'm going with a projector is because i can put the projection nice and high up, which lets me lie flat on my back

[turbid locust]

lil flicky

[steel stream]

yeah that's goatedc

[frank cypress]

and also it's nice and easy to set up with my pc, cause i can just put it on top of my bed frame cause that's next to my PC

[steel stream]

hmm maybe I also need a projector

[wraith steeple]

[frank cypress]

I don't know if they're necessarily worth buying over a TV, it was just really convenient for me

[vestal granite]

i cant project stuff onto my bedroom ceiling cause i have to look away from any noises to sleep but i cant sleep on my stomach because my face will get submerged into my pillow and ill die or my neck will hurt

[frank cypress]

that poor reyna

[steel stream]

nah projecting onto the ceiliing would be peak

[frank cypress]

rip, i can't project onto the ceiling cause i have shitty popcorn ceiling

i hope it's not full of asbestos or something

[steel stream]

get earplugs man, they're so amazing

[frank cypress]

probably not

[vestal granite]

no its not about the noise itself i can sleep with noise but the direction of the noise is what i have to face away from and i dont know why

[frank cypress]

i mean if it works for you it works for you

[edgy laurel]

guys getting minorly roasted on /r/battlestations for one thing

[vestal granite]

so my tv shows are on in the direction of my bedroom windows and then that way all the noise is in one direction

[turbid locust]

I’m a chamber off angle abuser ngl

[frank cypress]

headphone wire?

[edgy laurel]

nope

[steel stream]

first I thought it was the noctua desk mat, then I saw

[edgy laurel]

you of all people know

[merry stirrup]

well he plays rust so

[frank cypress]

im lost

[edgy laurel]

speakers are the main reason I'll never have my monitors directly touching eachother

[merry stirrup]

but is it the monitor light

[steel stream]

see I can't sleep on my back so stomach it is

[frank cypress]

oh the speakers

[merry stirrup]

oh he’s mad the speakers don’t point at the guys ears

[edgy laurel]

he at least needs to flip them so tweaters are further apart

[frank cypress]

mine don't either

[merry stirrup]

my soundbar is mounted on my wall

[frank cypress]

but im a monke and it sounds fine to me

[steel stream]

yeah at least flip them if you aren't putting them vertical

[merry stirrup]

to my right

[steel stream]

wrong reply

[edgy laurel]

i got it

[hoary hatch]

Oh God it's infected mobile now

[frank cypress]

huh?

[vestal granite]

light bar, wall tile things, mic on giant arm, bottom case fans look weird, speaker paths converge before where head would be, left side drawers unusable half the time due to headphones holder placement

[steel stream]

I'm about 1 week away from hooking up these klipschs to my $150 TCL 4K TV

[hoary hatch]

Name font

[edgy laurel]

well, one of those is accurate lol

[vestal granite]

yeah the case fans look weird

its true

[frank cypress]

ah

[frank cypress]

🔥

[vestal granite]

also amazon alexa echo on the desk to hear everything you say

like bro just get a siri on your phone or something

[edgy laurel]

appears to be

[steel stream]

finally going home and getting rid of the soundbar box, so I can have space for speaker stands

these klipschs have been sitting on my floor for a month now

[edgy laurel]

sad

[vestal granite]

i still dont have a TV for the main reason of i dont know how to put a TV in an elevator

[steel stream]

with care and respect

[steel stream]

soon, soon

[edgy laurel]

walk inside it with the TV?

[steel stream]

also you can put it vertically

[frank cypress]

leggooooo

[vestal granite]

well i know physically how but i dont know how i should do it mentally i dont have yalls' millenial cargo shorts and sandals swagger to do it

[edgy laurel]

you know what would be neat, is if the soundbar had like a "center channel" mode and could use powered speakers for the main L/R's

[steel stream]

man fuck you

[edgy laurel]

damn he called you a millenial

[vestal granite]

my brain chemistry is fucked up from being on the internet my whole life so like ill travel internationally with no hesitation and then getting the mail i gotta mentally prepare for 25 minutes in case someone talks to me

[wraith steeple]

That case is something I would love to build in someday

[steel stream]

for q990d you can kinda do that? there's a settings in the app where you can use the rear speakers as front left and right

also sorry pepe that fuck you sounded really harsh

[edgy laurel]

i feel that

[vestal granite]

bro dont worry not even snail can offend me

he comes close but he cant

[edgy laurel]

yeah, though i prefer the BF360 from them

[edgy laurel]

Well its half way there

in that case though you'd just lose the rears

[steel stream]

yeah

I guess you would do that if you wanted really wide stereo but the soundbar does a decent enough job as is

[edgy laurel]

what made me think of it are some TV's have a "center channel" mode. So you can hook up external powered 2.0's/2.1's but then the TV itself will function as a center channel for a 3.1 setup

[low sorrel]

Yes

[steel stream]

yeah I think for samsung it's called Q-symphony or whatever, but I don't see the point in it since the soundbar will probably just be loads better compared to the TV

[wraith steeple]

That's fair, though even as a non-fishtank guy this is one of the select few I actually dig

[edgy laurel]

oh for sure, this is more for someone without a soundbar

so I was thinking that maybe the soundbar could just be the center then have auxilliary 2.0 powered speakers acting as the mains

all this is kinda janky anyway lol

[patent gorge]

center channel doesn't really make sense to me since practically no audio is intended for a left-center-right layout 🤔

that's 5.1

[edgy laurel]

its entire job is dialog

its a big job

[patent gorge]

🤔

so you play 5.1 audio where you combine the rear and front left to just left, combine rear and front right to just right, to play it in sort of 3.0 mode?

[edgy laurel]

Everyone point and laugh at @steel stream who got himself muted for trying to say movies 3 times 😆

[wraith steeple]

[edgy laurel]

are you asking about a 3.0/3.1 setup?

Yeah I mean, its not common. My dad is still doing this because he can't be bothered to work out a surround solution after living there for 15 years.

[patent gorge]

no, I'm asking in what combination of source channel mode and actual speakers would tv as center speaker make sense

[frank zealot]

This is a bizarre listing. Zero description of what is in it.

[edgy laurel]

not the TV as a center channel thing, he's got a proper center channel, but just not having any surrounds

[cosmic gazelle]

good news, I found out that a problem I was having with an H87 board and power states was just old Intel ME being broken and needing an update

[patent gorge]

if you have stereo source, then it does nothing. if you have 5.1 source, then either it routes to your 5.1/5.0 setup, or is combined to 2.0

[frank zealot]

TV as a channel almost never makes sense

[edgy laurel]

I don't really understand the question. If you were using exteral 2.1/2.0 speakers already and you maybe wanted to experiment with moving dialog to a more centalized speaker, some TV' just offer that as an option

[fringe vigil]

[patent gorge]

based on some AI voice separation model to extract dialog from stereo audio?

[frank zealot]

Wtf.... what

[patent gorge]

if you have a stereo source, you can't just "send dialogue to center speaker" without doing some advanced processing to first separate the dialog from the rest of the audio

[fringe vigil]

[frank zealot]

If you're running audio through an ai model, you'd use the digital file, not an analog speaker out

[edgy laurel]

well presumably you'd be connected to the externals over S/PDIF so either old school Pro Logic would seperate out vocals or if true multichannel, your tracks are provided for you

i guess he's asking in say a stereo situation, what is making the decision to send to each channel

and the answer, at least for Dolby, was ProLogic/II

[merry stirrup]

accurate listing

[frank zealot]

Most accurate ever

[wraith steeple]

Least unhinged FBMP PC listing

[edgy laurel]

I shoulda went on a misinformation rant while akn was muted

i missed my oppurtunity

[steel stream]

I have served my sentence

[frank zealot]

I mean, maybe?
On 2 channel source, to make it 3, it'd just filter between X and Y frequencies and pump those to the center

[pure garnet]

akn loves edge lit lcds with all his heart

[edgy laurel]

yeah I mean a simplified explanation for what ProLogic would do

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/excuse-me-but-wtf-dog-wth-gif-18128750

[frank zealot]

(At)mod!!!

[patent gorge]

there isn't really any frequency ranges unique to human voice though, so that wouldn't really be "dialogue" channel, but just function like, say, a tweeter on a speaker

[steel stream]

Just time me out around 6:00 pm so I actually go to my exam

[civic reef]

5600x is (from what it seems like) out of stock, doubt it'll get back in stock anytime soon 💔

Will either need to switch to Intel, or risk it with used processors

[edgy laurel]

In 2000, Dolby introduced Dolby Pro Logic II (DPL II), an improved implementation of Dolby Pro Logic created by Jim Fosgate.[4] DPL II processes any high-quality stereo signal source into five separate full frequency channels (right front, center, left front, right rear and left rear), while also decoding five channels from stereo signals encoded in traditional four-channel Dolby Surround. DPL II implements greatly enhanced steering compared to DPL, and as a result, offers an exceptionally stable sound field that simulates five-channel surround sound.

[frank zealot]

Yup. Which is about the best you'll get on a 2 channel source audio without a ton of preprocessing work. Not something to expect during live playback

[low sorrel]

why u get muted

[steel stream]

you should type the same word in a row 3 times in separate messages

[edgy laurel]

jerry does this all the time

[frank zealot]

No

[steel stream]

HAH

[frank zealot]

Lololol

[topaz veldt]

https://tenor.com/view/ok-ok-ok-gif-16007513558671214940

[edgy laurel]

and he's gone

[frank zealot]

Again

[topaz veldt]

who is gone

[edgy laurel]

it was part of the discussion! trying to edumacate the children

[steel stream]

my 08 receiver did this for some audio sources and it made me lose my mind

[patent gorge]

I wonder how it could possible decide how to distribute some sound between front and rear

[edgy laurel]

yeah man like any recevier from the 2000's would default to PLII for stereo sources if it knew you had 5.1 speakers

unless you specifically set stereo only

[steel stream]

if I changed the settings or something, I would hear dialogue behind me when it shouldn't be. I had to put my ears right up to the speakers and figure it out

[patent gorge]

one guy walks in from the front in the movie. the other guy walks in from behind the camera. it's not like based on stereo audio alone you can tell that the first footsteps should come from front speakers and the second ones from the rear

[edgy laurel]

ProLogic can do even more.

The Dolby Pro Logic IIx system, available since 2003, can take two-channel stereo, Dolby Surround (sometimes called Dolby Stereo Surround) and Dolby Digital 5.1 source material and up-convert it to 6.1 or 7.1 channel surround sound.

[wraith steeple]

https://tenor.com/view/good-burger-some-of-these-gif-12933391

[edgy laurel]

https://klipy.com/gifs/anchorman-science-1

[patent gorge]

or snake oil

[steel stream]

yeah that would be near impossible to do

[patent gorge]

like those headphones that claim they magically turn stereo input into "surround sound"

[edgy laurel]

ugh

[steel stream]

would need something watching the video and then deciding where audio goes

[edgy laurel]

this stuff does work, been playing with it since the early 2000's. I can't explain how but it very much so functions

[patent gorge]

you can often tell if a feature is snake oil based on whether actual professional equipment has it or not

[steel stream]

it's cool and all, but man I hate upmixing

[patent gorge]

don't really need upmixing anyway since I'm always gonna stay on 2.0 or 2.1

[edgy laurel]

you sound younger and completely out of the loop with the advancements of home theater since the 90's.

yes, professional equipment isn't used in home theaters, you've cracked the code

[steel stream]

I am sorry for your loss

[edgy laurel]

ok this explains everything then

[patent gorge]

it's not loss, stereo is superior for music, especially if given the same budget

[frank zealot]

0.o

[edgy laurel]

who's talking about music?

[steel stream]

I know my messages got taken down, but this has been clearly been about surround formats, and uh movies

ok did not get muted for that one

[edgy laurel]

now excuse me while I go find out why my radiators are squeeling in my office

[civic reef]

So it's both capable of providing 5 channel surround, AND decoding stereo 4 channel into said 5 channel?

[patent gorge]

this was the explanation for why I don't get surround speakers. because I use the speakers mainly for music. that's the context

[civic reef]

I am not really informed on Audio, but this sort of enhancement in audio technology sounds exciting - especially for the turn of the millenia

[edgy laurel]

depending on the generation and version, its capable of a lot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Pro_Logic

DSP's are ever evolving and can do some wild stuff

but don't forget, rando who's never heard surround done well thinks its bad

[steel stream]

maybe if I get a nicer system I would use upmixing, but the current 7.1.4 setup I run is sweet

[patent gorge]

4 channel to 5 sort of makes more sense than 2 to 5 tbh. since center speaker is often for certain types of sound rather than position. you can't really reconstruct position from stereo, but you can make a guess on whether something would likely have been assigned to center speaker

[civic reef]

Dolby Pro Logic was introduced in 1982????!!!

That's older than first generation IRCCM oh wow

[steel stream]

oh I should have looked for Dolby internships that would have been cool

[edgy laurel]

Yes. Stereo tracks were actually crudely encoded in a way that, in the articles words, could be 'unfolded' into 4 channels

[patent gorge]

I mean then it's not really plain stereo if it's intentionally designed to be "unfoldable"

then it's similar to things like the MQA stuff that was also designed to "unfold"

[edgy laurel]

if you're curious how all that worked, you could just read the article instead of just assuming none of it works becuase you don't understand how

just a thought

[patent gorge]

I mean of course it works if the audio is specially crafted for that

if the information is there, it can be extracted

[civic reef]

Yeah I am reading it on the wiki - If I got this right, that was first introduced on the Dolby MP Matrix?

Wait, no, that encodes 4 channels into 2

[edgy laurel]

which is then decoded back into 4.

[civic reef]

I think the feature I am trying to reference is what's commercially called the Dolby Surround??

[steel stream]

if it had to do this hypothetical stereo upmix, I supposed I would use the center as a mono channel, but probably at a lower volume compared to the left and right so you still have some directionality

[civic reef]

Though here, it says first generation Dolby Surround from 1982 was three channel

Left, Right, and I think Mono is supposed to mean front/centre?

[steel stream]

are you referencing my message? or the article

[civic reef]

The Wikipedia article

[civic reef]

So, three effective channels?

[steel stream]

yeah

[civic reef]

You can most probably get away with using the actual first generation Dolby Surround system from 1982 for that LOL

It's allegedly capable / encoded for 4 channel, but in reality was packaged with 3

[steel stream]

yeah from reading that's practically what it sounds like

[civic reef]

Audio stuff is fun I should read more about all this

[steel stream]

it's very cool stuff

[civic reef]

Could definitely make use of it further than just learning..

I could probably set up something in my room for surround,,,

[low sorrel]

@topaz veldt so the comet is just a big pop?

[steel stream]

I had a surround setup in my dorm last year, it's fun to have

[civic reef]

Duly noted!

[low sorrel]

why is this face so funny to me in arc

[steel stream]

it wasn't anything crazy, just an old setup from 2008, so all I had was those older dolby formats, but it's still cool

[arctic bronze]

https://tenor.com/view/padme-4-panel-meme-attack-of-the-clones-padme-meme-anakin-padme-gif-6902972594242919448

he has anikans face

and expression

This one

[cosmic gazelle]

https://tenor.com/view/the-other-guys-im-so-fucking-scared-gif-4838628526013979817

[arctic bronze]

if you turn off ur pc, you will unlock an easter egg

[cosmic gazelle]

free overclock?

[arctic bronze]

an extra 3ghz, 4 cores and a gpu on par with a 5090

[cosmic gazelle]

dude let’s go i’m unplugging it right now

it’s not starting, is it memory training?

[arctic bronze]

its epic gamer training

it takes 420 days and it must have 2L of mountain dew

[cosmic gazelle]

oh i don’t have that long

wtf dude

[arctic bronze]

too late now

[topaz veldt]

yes but insane-o explosion

like instas-knock out

[granite dirge]

is thier a limit on legnth of usb c to c cables, and are their different types, to be aware of when trying to get one for a xbox series x controller

[steel stream]

yes and yes

[topaz veldt]

man oh man

[granite dirge]

care to elaborate?

[steel stream]

for an Xbox controller, I don't think it really should matter. It only starts to matter when you go to look at super high data transfer rates or power delivery capabilities

basically just get one from a reputable brand with decent reviews and you should be good

[granite dirge]

then why would you say yes, then say it shouldnt matter?

[steel stream]

because I read your question wrong tbh

I saw the first two statements, but did not read "to be aware of"

whoops, my bad

[granite dirge]

so i could get like a 16 foot cable?

i thought usb had a limit?

[patent gorge]

optical ones can be much longer

but they're expensive

[hoary hatch]

I have a 20 ft or something USB extension cable. It's not been used in years and I don't recall how reliable it was

[steel stream]

https://www.amazon.com/ULT-WIIQ-Charging-Transfer-Monitor-Samsung/dp/B0DDX4XL49/ref=sr_1_2_sspa smth like this would probably be fine

[hoary hatch]

This is true
My roommate has a 50 meter optical thunderbolt cable

[steel stream]

must have cost a fortune

[hoary hatch]

I think like $430

[steel stream]

jesus

[hoary hatch]

The difference in price between the shortest and longest versions was only $50 or $70

Most of the money is in the connectors

[steel stream]

makes sense

still nuts though

[hoary hatch]

The motherboard was also like $450

[steel stream]

ProArt?

[hoary hatch]

Z790, yes

[civic reef]

I should start looking at stuff on FBMP

[steel stream]

god I'm good

[hoary hatch]

Wanted those displayport injectors

[topaz veldt]

Mrs. 5nail5 got her bonus 😬

btw I think @merry stirrup suggested steelseries desk mat maybe, either way - so far so good

[merry stirrup]

YAH

[steel stream]

if it had Postcodes I would be buying protart mobos all the time

[topaz veldt]

@low sorrel very interesting, deadline needs the new guy part

[steel stream]

I think LTT even has a video about cheap home audio stuff

[steel stream]

new car money?

[hoary hatch]

Never once needed it on his system

13700K whatever factory bios defaulted to

No instability 😎

[civic reef]

Well that makes things even easier

[merry stirrup]

please make post codes a standard

[steel stream]

I barely use mine, but if I am paying for a nice mobo I want it

[merry stirrup]

i had an insane setup for when i was doing a couple benches for the oc comp

[patent gorge]

90% of the time I look up a post code in a mobo manual, it turns out to be an undocumented one

[merry stirrup]

camera pointed at it, overlayed thru obs

overclocking mini map fr, didnt have to look away

[hoary hatch]

Dual DP input isn't exactly common so choice was limited

[hoary hatch]

This is so true

[steel stream]

yeah yeah

[merry stirrup]

all i care is if its memory training

[hoary hatch]

Almost every time I look up a post code "this is useless"

[turbid locust]

you guys are the reason $600 motherboards don’t have 5 cent post code readers

[patent gorge]

on the topic of post codes, it would be cool if consumer mobos had some post code history as well, the way server ones do

[topaz veldt]

I dunno what - just, they applied a multiplier on top of > 2.0X - fucking insane

[turbid locust]

you’re complacent.

[merry stirrup]

deadass

[cosmic gazelle]

can only undervolt my rx 580 by about 120mv on stock boost clocks

bummer

[low sorrel]

look at what the wolfpack needs

[civic reef]

I should try OCing once this i7 4770 is no longer my main processor

See how high it goes before I brick the system

[cosmic gazelle]

you will hit temperature limits before breaking anything

[steel stream]

holy cow

[turbid locust]

Polaris go brrrr

[cosmic gazelle]

still only sits at about 71c on my test bench with a rinky dink little cooler so i’m fine w it

hit 1030mv before crashing at 1015 so i set it to 1040

[edgy laurel]

what is your practical use for this again?

So dual DP input to inject into the TB outputs

how does this work with multimonitor?

is each input linked to only one of the outputs?

[topaz veldt]

woooow ok so while I think that sucks... people were going into rounds with like 15 wolfpacks

[low sorrel]

true

vitaspray needs a tickpod now

dude the new hurriance condition is insane for loot

i just came out of raid with a tempest 2, ren 4, ven 2, ren 2, anvil bp and vita spray bp

[topaz veldt]

wow

i will have to try it

[hoary hatch]

So according to the mobo manual, it claims if you use both DP injectors, you get 2 display signals sent out via the thunderbolt connection

[edgy laurel]

yeah i'm just trying to work out the output side

like is each input corresponding to only one output

so its one display signal per TB/USB4 connector

[topaz veldt]

@edgy laurel I have had my windows in my office open all day - have that mild winter breeze, someone has a fireplace going... the life

[hoary hatch]

So we weren't sure if we wanted a thunderbolt dock at both stations his desktop is used, dual injectors solves for this to make sure no iGPU passthrough has to be dealt with
In practice, we have not used this configuration

[hoary hatch]

Oh on the output the dock just does 2 displays

Fuck if I know how it works

Total bandwidth? Does it send 2 DP signals through it? Beats me

I bet we can do a third display since the docks support it iirc

He uses a 2160p240 and 1440p165 with it

[edgy laurel]

so, this blizzard.. i feel like the snow two-three weeks ago was worse

[hoary hatch]

Although, I don't know if he gets full 240 on the 4k

[edgy laurel]

it was WAY colder

[edgy laurel]

ok wow this is confusing me

wait, no it doesn't

ok this is easy

[hoary hatch]

Also another flaw to our original plan: the PC would always be near one of the setups, so we can (and do) just wire the tv directly to gpu

Actually, maybe I should try using dual thunderbolt docks

No way it can be less reliable than single thunderbolt dock

Right?

[edgy laurel]

so each TB output is mapped one of the inputs, 1:1. I'm still having a hard to figuring out where that would be used other than dual Type C only monitors

lemme re-read what you're explaining lol

so he's connected to two docks at one time?

[hoary hatch]

Not currently

PC is next to TV and all inputs for that are direct connected

We then run optical thunderbolt to his desk

[topaz veldt]

yeah for sure - I think because of the temps

[hoary hatch]

Run 2 displays and peripherals over a single thunderbolt cable at his desk

We have considering changing the TV setup to a thunderbolt dock, but have not acted upon it

[edgy laurel]

ok so end goal is just having TB output with video so it can be run to the TV

which could be done with only one DP input on the board

[hoary hatch]

It gives flexibility

But yes, the actual way we use it is fine with single DP injector

[topaz veldt]

I bought another cable to try my stupid rear ports on Mac mini

[hoary hatch]

And this is all just to avoid passing through to iGPU which is probably a good enough experience

[edgy laurel]

software update breaking them doesn't inspire confidence that its a cable issue

[edgy laurel]

Yeah so my USB4 outputs are linked to only the iGPU, no inputs on this board

[hoary hatch]

I think the newest iteration Proart boards only do single injector

Oh my

[edgy laurel]

man I shared that 4K AV1 Mincraft video I have in TC1 and none of them can play it back 🤣

[hoary hatch]

Z890 Proart has thunderbolt 5 integrated

[edgy laurel]

if any board would get TB5 first, it would probably be that one

I still have yet to see any real world implementation of TB5's asymetrical 120Gb/s mode

[steel stream]

like butter

[edgy laurel]

mmmm

butter

[steel stream]

yeah I am very curious about this

[edgy laurel]

also how does that work if DP itself can't do it

[hoary hatch]

Thunderbolt 5 rollout has been super slow thus far

I guess TB4 was accelerated since it was basically just TB3 with a minor revision

[steel stream]

wasn't that mode made for displays?

[hoary hatch]

DSC 🤷‍♂️

[edgy laurel]

Yeah but like, isn't the DP signal whats being tunnled over TB?

I don't know, once you introduce TB into things, standards get wonky

unless we have a standard above UHBR20 (80Gbs), thats integrated into a display that supports the 120Gb/s mode, i don't know how its working

maybe there just isn't anything that exists yet

[steel stream]

I would bet it's just this

[edgy laurel]

ya

and if we do get standards above UHBR20, will they become available over normal DP

and not require TB5 to connect to these super high res/refresh displays

[hoary hatch]

The z890 Proart has an entire manual about how to use TB5 display connections

[edgy laurel]

i'm going to read it.

oh boy

[hoary hatch]

I'm guessing hubs just act as daisy chain for multiple displays?

I can probably Google that

Discord really ain't a search engine

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-it-yes-thats-it-that-right-there-omg-that-thats-what-i-mean-gif-17579879

[fringe vigil]

lool

roblox aint real

[hoary hatch]

jorj what

[edgy laurel]

yikes

eh, fixing it broke it

[slim pebble]

Jorj, that game is for 10 year olds and like criminal adults that want to hang out with the little kids

[fringe vigil]

roblox is funny asf

its an adult game too but people use it to talk to kids

?

thats like saying minecraft is a kids game

[manic sigil]

That's one way to say it

[lethal topaz]

https://giphy.com/gifs/son-crine-im-ASwmUY2VfvxG5b6b4j

[turbid locust]

yeah

[lethal topaz]

yea

[leaden dawn]

ye

[fringe vigil]

wym

[topaz veldt]

whatever happened to BIOOICCCCCCC

[edgy laurel]

Biostar board blew up, last we heard

was very sad

[topaz veldt]

Good

[pallid marsh]

But biostar told me biostar makes the best boards

[hoary hatch]

Let's see if they can blow up more CPUs than ASRock

[pure garnet]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FfnJ2vkHTcU

[turbid locust]

penguins

[cosmic gazelle]

just installed the pa120, what a pain in the ass for real

[topaz veldt]

are you kidding

[steel stream]

he's in #audio-tech spewing stuff not even I can comprehend

[turbid locust]

well. Maybe the mounting system is bad for whatever socket haswell is on

[pure garnet]

i don’t think they qa the mounting stuff a ton

my spirit evo was more poorly machined than my pa mini was

[turbid locust]

I mean how much QA is there to do on mounting hardware? Either it lines up or it doesn’t.

[pure garnet]

the dual drilled holes on mine were the issue

it kept sliding into the other hole and misaligning

[turbid locust]

skill issue

[pure garnet]

i threw that cooler away

[cosmic gazelle]

this was kind of annoying but it was mostly that the two actual screw mounts for the tower wouldn’t line up

literally took 5 minutes just to get them both to actually seat

[pure garnet]

honestly the lf3 is still the crown of crappiest install method to me

[wraith steeple]

Audio speak is like a foreign language to me

[cosmic gazelle]

i think the hyper 212 is underappreciated for pain-in-the-ass-ness

[pure garnet]

i may have overdone it on the mousepad my room still smells like dawn dish doap

[pallid marsh]

Damn using fancy expensive soap on your mousepad

I just use my bathrooms hand soap

[cosmic gazelle]

oh wow, the pa120 is remarkably effective at cooling though

4790k at stock hits 63 in cinebench

[hoary hatch]

Is dawn supposed to be "fancy"?

[pallid marsh]

Ok then just expensive

[hoary hatch]

Is it expensive?

[cosmic gazelle]

like 4 bucks

[hoary hatch]

It's just detergent

[vestal granite]

dawn is for the ducks

[wraith steeple]

Your bank account must be on death's doorstep if Dawn is considered expensive

[cosmic gazelle]

this is actually much better than i expected tbf

[pallid marsh]

Store brand ftw

[cosmic gazelle]

well sweet. that gives me lots of OC room temp wise

[hoary hatch]

I get Mrs Meyers

[cosmic gazelle]

it’s so quiet too

test bench might be the loudness meta

[pure garnet]

bro

[vestal granite]

no thats the bad one you need the ultra platinum premium plus deluxe 2

i get the ultra platinum premium plus deluxe 2 dawn dish soap

its the same price

[steel stream]

that's why I use it as body wash, if its good enough for the ducks its good enough for me

[pure garnet]

what happens when i order a singular dollar of soap for today delivery

[turbid locust]

Agree. Genuinely ass. Slightly less ass on Intel.

[vestal granite]

you need the dawn ultra platinum advanced power 4x soap for that

[pure garnet]

i got so mad at my lf3 i swapped the cooler in my girls parts list

because i wasn't putting her though that shit

[turbid locust]

LF3 is on my “do not buy” list. Hate to say it.

[steel stream]

that one doesn''t have a duck on it though

[vestal granite]

make sure youre getting the 4x power soap not the 4x faster soap biiiig difference

[wraith steeple]

Arctic fell off hard

[vestal granite]

i swear walmart has an entire fucking aisle dedicated to dawn dish soap

but god damnit i love ducks

[pure garnet]

clean the ducks 🐐

[turbid locust]

My LF3 was significantly louder after 6 months vs new. Super disappointing

[pallid marsh]

Nearly double the price per fluid ounce

[vestal granite]

bro they cant even legally call it soap

they call it dish liquid bro

[pure garnet]

yeah that would matter to me if we weren't talking about a $10 67oz bottle of soap

[cosmic gazelle]

i’m getting 5062 stock in r23 at 64-65c on the stock fan curve (posting this so i can look back at it later)

[pure garnet]

how much soap are you using to drain the refill jug fast enough to need to cost savings on dish liquid

[vestal granite]

no actually are there like fda guidelines on what you can and cant call soap

[steel stream]

like I said, body wash

[cosmic gazelle]

soap has to have lye in it yeah

[steel stream]

but I still go for Dawn

[vestal granite]

i could go for some pastrami on marble rye

[cosmic gazelle]

https://tenor.com/view/italian-hand-fancy-glove-suit-gif-8085361

[pallid marsh]

My oil spills on the driveway....

[vestal granite]

for body wash i use some stuff its like citrus and ginger and it smells like oranges and i like oranges and i like smelling like oranges so i use that

its proper body wash soap its just scented like citrus and ginger

[pure garnet]

oh i don't drive a bmw

[pallid marsh]

Same

[vestal granite]

i like when i peel an orange and then my hands smell like orange from the orange that i peeled so i try to replicate that as often as possible

[cosmic gazelle]

interesting sentiment

[pure garnet]

dude that orange soap is elite

[vestal granite]

just a top tier fruit all around i would say

[pure garnet]

you wash your hands with this soap and they feel dirtier than when they started

[steel stream]

citrus or vanilla scents on top

[pallid marsh]

I just drive a 32 year old GM car and do messy diy oil changes

[vestal granite]

its citrus, ginger, and whatever the fuck sea buckthorn is

[steel stream]

sounds made up

[pure garnet]

i feel like that's a skill issue because i swap my oil at home without spilling half the contents

[steel stream]

like blue raspberry

[vestal granite]

oh this is sea buckthorn

[patent gorge]

sea buckthorn is delicious

[vestal granite]

people make orange juice out of it apparently

[pure garnet]

and wait how often are you doing your oil (and spilling it) to need to save on dish liquid 😭

[vestal granite]

once a day before every drive gotta keep it fresh its like taking a shower but for your car

[pallid marsh]

Before it was magically losing oil 2-3 times a year, now I put some magic liquid moly oil saver it's once a year or 4kish miles

we ignore the fact I lost like 3 liters when I cross threaded the filter and flooded the driveway last year

[topaz veldt]

You're doing it wrong - you don't use water

[steel stream]

oof

[pallid marsh]

And it was in the winter so I couldn't use soap and water to clean it off

Just sand box sand

[outer lodge]

ik #1027757333117415424 exists

why does my pc turn on and then once i turn it off and its been a while then it doesn’t turn back on until i take out the cmos and put it in again?

now everytime i put in the cmos battery and the power button my motherboard light only comes on for half a second and turns off and the pc doesn’t turn on

the psu i have is from a prebuilt but i upgraded the entire pc except the psu should i upgrade now?

[pallid marsh]

Buy a new PC ez fix.