tech-chat-2

[edgy laurel]

bro have you watched this

episode 2, first 30 seconds

scared for life

[fringe vigil]

I serve ser arlan of pennytree

[edgy laurel]

its pretty funny, i didnt' realize it was part comedy

[fringe vigil]

Why are you scared

[edgy laurel]

if you watch the first 30 seconds of episode 2, you'll know.

[fringe vigil]

I’m on ep3

and I still don’t know

[edgy laurel]

then you're blind or you skipped past it

[fringe vigil]

Ohh scared

Lmaoo his big package

[edgy laurel]

bro, that was wild

[fringe vigil]

It’s not real but lol that was funny

Are you starting to understand about egg?

[edgy laurel]

When asked whether actor Danny Webb used a prosthetic, Parker said, “Was that a prosthetic? I forget,” and added, “I thought he just showed up on set in that condition.”

[fringe vigil]

so it’s real?

[edgy laurel]

i don't think so, i just think thats the joke they're making

[fringe vigil]

Yh

[edgy laurel]

but i only finished episode 2 last night. i know there is something up with him but haven't figured it out yet

[fringe vigil]

Well

I looked why he was bald and if it was to do with soemthing irl but it told me

Makes sense

A common thing done in westeros by certain people but you’ll find out why

[pure garnet]

looked at all the mice they had and i think i just want another viper

[fringe vigil]

Also these episodes are so godamn short

[edgy laurel]

oh. OH

I know why, just from GoT history

spoiler! lol

[merry stirrup]

coulda got a job there

[fringe vigil]

Yeah and house of the dragons it’s done in there

[wise bear]

I have digital chicken tendies and I am way too happy for the level of minutae this is

[edgy laurel]

ya

[edgy laurel]

i thought that shirt was fried egg at first

[wise bear]

EVERYONE DOES

It's either an egg or ramen

[edgy laurel]

egg on ramen

[wise bear]

ok yes but

it bear

[pure garnet]

they offered me one awhile ago but i declined

i don't wanna work corporate retail atm when my mom and pop is nice

[edgy laurel]

i can just feel the annoyance of trying to grab that controller, lift it off the dock then under the monitor without hitting a button

even though there is no great way to grasp it without holding one of the buttons down, and I feel like you shouldn't do that as its turning on because my brain is weird

[turbid locust]

just found out one of our new hires likes hardcore music

my goat

[merry stirrup]

neither do i

never have before im not too good with people who lack thought

[pure garnet]

dont come to my state

[turbid locust]

being in the general public for an unspecified amount of time usually causes a temporary superiority complex

[wise bear]

wow its florpa

[pure garnet]

fr

[merry stirrup]

IM NOT REAL

[hoary hatch]

Why are you so pixelated

OH MY GOD IT'S A GAME

[wise bear]

LMAO

[wise bear]

I PERCEIVE THEREFORE YOU ARE

[wise bear]

welcome to secondlife lmao

[fringe vigil]

Episode 3 is wild

[leaden dawn]

Egg

[uneven bane]

Made the switch back to team green today from an rx 6650xt to a 5070

[shell void]

nice that’s a huge upgrade

[hoary hatch]

Don't real GPUs feel so glorious

[uneven bane]

Yes I can load vtube studio and obs and my PC isn't screaming to death anymore

It used to instantly 100% load my GPU

[turbid locust]

I should check in with my homie on a 10400F + 6650XT system and see how he’s holding up

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/dead-sad-pouting-rain-overdramatic-gif-5377165

[turbid locust]

As far as I know he’s still on 1080p and doesn’t play the latest AAA games so he’s probably fine unironically

[steel stream]

yeah probably then

[granite dirge]

im a bit confused is it intel core or core ultra, that is for gaming, the naming scheme iss a bit confusing as the intel site lists both as gaming,

[pure garnet]

@shell void @merry stirrup holy shit look who's mentioned

wait mlg and mpower next to each other, that's just my lineup 😭

[shell void]

intel doesn’t have any CPUs that are specifically targeted at gamers

the “Ultra” branding is used for their premium options

[granite dirge]

these ones mention gaming

[shell void]

yeh you can game on both of them, but neither of them are marketed specifically as gaming processors like the 9800X3D is

[topaz veldt]

@low sorrel whoops

[turbid locust]

non-X3D chips cannot open video games so

[low sorrel]

woops i murdered 5 people

[shell void]

true

[pure garnet]

9800x3d is min spec for cs2

[steel stream]

i'd still shoot for 9850X3D though, 9800x3d isn't enough imo

[topaz veldt]

Dude bought my one 9800X3D I said I have another "No this is for me, I am good with one." 5 mins later "how much?" lol

[granite dirge]

is their a cooler running card that preforms better than a 7900xt on nvidias lineup?

[cosmic gazelle]

can verify

[topaz veldt]

5070 Ti

[granite dirge]

so one of the top resuslts when ssearching that gpu says do not buy it?

[turbid locust]

not for current prices

[granite dirge]

its from a year ago?

[turbid locust]

oh idk

5070Ti was arguably the best card to buy this gen

[cosmic gazelle]

was

[turbid locust]

ya

[steel stream]

🐐

[prime topaz]

quick quastion every one i have a good psu 80 plus standerd with a 600 watt i want the 6700xt gpu that have a TDP of 230 my psu use what they call a pigtail or daisychain two 8pins cables the cables look very good quality but do i gonna be fine or do i undervolt the gpu when buy it

[cosmic gazelle]

bro what

punctuation

[turbid locust]

that was copy pasted so I’m assuming crosspost

[steel stream]

pigtailing is probably fine

[pure garnet]

40% chance the pc explodes when you turn it on

or something it’s hard to parse what you wrote

[cosmic gazelle]

at least 50 tbh

[prime topaz]

no one answerd me there

[steel stream]

almost like you said was 🤔

[turbid locust]

good luck in your future endeavors

[pure garnet]

at $750 the 5070ti was definitely the best card to buy

[cosmic gazelle]

dude every single damn fedex shipment is late

why does this company exist

[pure garnet]

now that it’s close to 5080 pricing may as well get the 80

[prime topaz]

sorry for copy paste but yeah i have no one to ask and AI said that it may shutdown when the gpu try to pull the 230TDP he needed

[cosmic gazelle]

i run a 3080 on a 750 watt so you're probably fine

[prime topaz]

i have ppenty watt for the gpu but they say pigtail cables not good for 230

plenty*

[pure garnet]

pig tails are fine, if they weren’t capable of delivering power reliably they wouldn’t make the cables in a pigtail

[cosmic gazelle]

i've been delivering like 380 watts to my gpu through a pigtail for 5 years

[steel stream]

especially when it's 230 watts, and PCIE + 8 pin gets you to 225w

[turbid locust]

anyways just ordered the Endgame Gear XM2we I’ll let you guys know

[prime topaz]

that what i wanted to hear thank you all soo much and agein sorry for the copy paste

[pure garnet]

i looked a bunch of mice today and the v3 pro shape still is king for me

[cosmic gazelle]

not powerplay don't care

[shell void]

5080 is up to $1300+ again so sadly a $950 5070Ti isnt an unreasonable decision

[cosmic gazelle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbsCJbU6JSo oh boy

[shell void]

though id say just cope on a 5070 if you can

[cosmic gazelle]

$100 2070 is always the reasonable decision

[turbid locust]

I liked my V2 Pro a lot so I’m sure I’ll visit the V3 sometime, but considering there’s V4 prototypes seen out in the wild now, may skip it lol

[shell void]

Jayztwocents triggered some 9070XT owners in his latest microcenter pc build video

[pure garnet]

the v4 protos look like the same shape as v3 in photos

[low sorrel]

i mean what was the price differental

[pure garnet]

the b850 mlg making an appearance in the latest jay video made me giggle

my waifu board with 3 owners may eventually hit 4

[fervent chasm]

whos right?

[shell void]

$580 vs $700

[low sorrel]

i found the vid and low key

[shell void]

id still take the 5070 even if the 9070XT was $550 XD

[low sorrel]

5070 being more powerful is kinda a lie

[cosmic gazelle]

Based on random youtube videos, in raster the 9070 xt is absolutely faster in pretty much every title

[low sorrel]

i would take it but

[cosmic gazelle]

in some titles by a considerable margin

[pallid marsh]

Nah the $400 5070

[shell void]

crazy price

[pallid marsh]

But they both have similar rt performance

[cosmic gazelle]

cheapest 5070 being $630 is crazy, i'm so glad i don't need a gpu upgrade until next gen

[cosmic gazelle]

i know this is not the dominating opinion anymore but i still think rt performance is smoke and mirrors

[shell void]

i dont even use raytracing on my 5090 most of the time

i wouldnt want to give up dlss and rtx vsr

[cosmic gazelle]

if fsr 4 becomes better supported or they make it a dll swap like fsr 3 is then i wouldn't mind a flagship amd card

but imo fsr 3 is borderline unusable

[shell void]

yeah when i was on my 6900XT i just didnt play games that wouldve required me to use FSR3 to get a decent framerate

it looks absolutely horrendous even with 2160p native aa

[cosmic gazelle]

it's funny because in yuzu or other switch emulators, the graphics are so simple that fsr 2 looks FANTASTIC

but modern games are too noisy

[low sorrel]

low key the 9700x over the x3d cpus is kinda wild pick

[shell void]

i only skimmed through the gpu portion because i was curious, idk what else he picked

[cosmic gazelle]

to be fair the 9700x bundle is a great deal

[turbid locust]

literally 99% of people do not need an X3D chip and I’m tired of pretending they do

[cosmic gazelle]

and like, on a 5070-class card the x3d is probably not gonna benefit much

[low sorrel]

i would rather take a 7800x3d for 50 bucks more or the 7500x3d for 200 bucks less

[cosmic gazelle]

9700x is a lot more efficient than both of those chips at equivalent gpu-constrained framerates afaik

[shell void]

if youre a person that optimizes game settings and isnt afraid of upscaling then it's really easy to be cpu limited even on a midrange card

[pallid marsh]

But we don't live in the UK we don't care about our power bills

[cosmic gazelle]

i mean yeah, i have a 9800x3d and a 3080 10gb, and i get use out of it all the time

but what percentage of pc users are actually optimizing settings an shit

my friends will literally just play a game and not even access the settings menu which pains me immensely

[pallid marsh]

Only on my steam deck

[turbid locust]

my optimization is generally setting everything to max or setting everything to minimum

[pallid marsh]

On PC I just turn off motion blur and find a default settings that get me over 140fps

[cosmic gazelle]

i don't quite have that luxury on a 3080 these days

[shell void]

ill fiddle with settings for a long time before actually playing the game because i find it fun

[cosmic gazelle]

lot of ue5 games go sub 60 on ultra now

it's kinda crazy that motion blur even comes on by default on the pc ports of any game these days

[shell void]

i tried playing dragon ball z kakarot last night and it has permanently enabled heavy motion blur

[cosmic gazelle]

the hell is happening to microcenter's website rn

[pallid marsh]

Can't even edit the files?

[shell void]

i tried putting a flag in engine.ini but it didnt do anything

[pallid marsh]

Disgusting

[cosmic gazelle]

i was gonna mess around with prices but microcenter's "cart" page is just completely nonfunctional rn

[shell void]

that along with the 60fps lock (not recognized in nvapp so you cant force smooth motion on it) makes it proper ocular assault

[low sorrel]

seasonic core psu over a cheaper and better msi mag psu that had 100 more watts

[shell void]

i guess you could use lossless scaling framegen but that's not going to remove the motion blur filter

sparking zero>>>>

[shell void]

[sharp heart]

how much noise would i remove from my system if i were to swap the OG thermalright frozen prism 360 fans with Arctic P12 Pro PST fans?

any knowers?

[cosmic gazelle]

arctics are not the first choice for acoustics afaik

[sharp heart]

the thermalright ones are loud as hell at higher rpm

[shell void]

are the stock fans defective?

with a custom fan curve or even better a static slow speed they can be made to be inaudible from your seat

[hoary hatch]

The user is defective

[sharp heart]

correct

[sharp heart]

probably not

[shell void]

p12 pros have good noise normalized performance, but if you just plug them in and do not setup a custom fan curve or static speed then theyre going to be really loud too

thatll happen with any 3000rpm peak fan

[sharp heart]

well duh, i would obviously set a custom fan curve like i have right now

[pallid marsh]

Move your PC further away from You with barriers between you and the PC ezpz

[sharp heart]

no room for that ezpz

[pallid marsh]

Hang it above your door

[sharp heart]

that sounds... like a disaster

actually im probably better off getting a new case so i would have a better mount for the radiator anyways

[shell void]

@steel stream i peeled off my matte screen protector just now, it lasted a grand total of 3 days before i had to peel it off

i think that's longer than the last time i tried one

[steel stream]

good good

[steel stream]

next time you'll get to 4 days

[edgy laurel]

I just make sure when my phones are put in my pocket they are facing my body and there is nothing else in there that could scratch it. Haven't needed a screen protector yet knock on wood

[low sorrel]

https://tenor.com/view/jacksparrow-jack-sparrow-captainjacksparrow-captainjack-captain-jack-gif-22081901

[shell void]

i am debating just rocking no protector because the antiglare coating is a lot nicer than any protector

but itll eventually feel bad after the oleophobic layer is degraded

[steel stream]

phone gets its own dedicated pocket, and screen always faces me

[edgy laurel]

never thought about that, now that you mention it

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/bullish-bullish-af-buy-buy-moar-crypto-gif-4023638677059070706

[edgy laurel]

In my jacket pockets sometimes my keys are there too but always on the backside

[shell void]

same, my right front pocket is for my phone exclusively

[steel stream]

my man

[edgy laurel]

in my pants, phone only

[steel stream]

i just don't ever really put my phone in my jacket pocket

[shell void]

i would hate not being able to feel the phone against my leg

[steel stream]

only for a quick stash when I need my hands quickly

[shell void]

it would make me worried about losing it and not realizing it

[steel stream]

yeah if it's the front pocket i dont have to worry about it

if im wearing jeans, phone in the back pocket is acceptable for a quick stash again

[edgy laurel]

back pocket baffles me

all that goes through my head is me sitting on it

[steel stream]

by quick stash, it's like carrying groceries from the car up to my apartment, or walking to get the mail

[low sorrel]

how is the phone in the back pocket ever comfy

like if you sit

[steel stream]

I would never sit with it

sometimes it's just convenient for me to put it there for a minute or two

[edgy laurel]

thats fair. i just don't ever think to do that

mentally it bothers me lol

[steel stream]

fair enough

I also never do it with sweatpants

I like my magsafe wallet, but I will be happy when it kicks the bucket, looking forward to a slim phone again

it's just nice to be able to grab my phone, keys and do whatever i need. Less likely to forget a phone compared to a wallet

[fringe vigil]

Knight of the seven kingdoms happened 70-90 years after house of the dragons

[hoary hatch]

I never use my back pockets to hold anything

Phone in front right, everything else in front left

[steel stream]

this is the way

[hoary hatch]

And emergency pocket sand goes with the phone of course

[steel stream]

emergency pocket sand is a must with a foldable phone

[low sorrel]

right into the hidge

hinge

[hoary hatch]

When I get a foldable I'll upgrade it to emergency pocket industrial grade diamond shavings

[steel stream]

real

[edgy laurel]

90 years before the events of the novels

[fringe vigil]

What novels sir

[edgy laurel]

A Song of Ice and Fire

which became the Game of Thrones TV show

[fringe vigil]

There’s like 4 generations that happened before house of the dragons then after that knigh of the seven kingdoms

[edgy laurel]

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is based on the Dunk and Egg novellas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_Dunk_and_Egg

[cosmic gazelle]

thing looks pretty badass for 2014

[edgy laurel]

same gen, another yellow (gold) done right

[low sorrel]

https://www.theverge.com/news/884824/corsair-ending-drop-shopping-site

Nooo

[pure garnet]

putting the cooler hardware on before the cpu is a choice

[hoary hatch]

Idk what everyone expected when Corsair bought them

[brave panther]

it even has m.2

[south shuttle]

bruh

rip 6xx

why tf is corsair doing this

[shell void]

6xx was practically a permanent 50% sale on the hd650 from 2016 to 2026, that's legendary

[cosmic gazelle]

i didn’t know you can’t do that with this hardware i’ve been on amx for like 6 years 😭

[pure garnet]

damn i never got to upgrade to the 6xx after putting it off for 7 years

[south shuttle]

corsair is literally doing the opposite of what a business should do

[steel stream]

damn, that shit was awesome. Got my 6XX and my deskpad from there

[brave panther]

if it wasnt profitable it would be cut off years ago

[shell void]

im sure therell be no shortage of 6xx on the used market because it was one of the most popular headphones for a decade

[south shuttle]

i mean, they’re mass produced and the materials don’t cost much

[steel stream]

i will list my pair for $1000 to get ahead of the curve

[south shuttle]

i assume they’ll jump to $300

[hoary hatch]

They bought drop for the custom keyboard stuff

[cosmic gazelle]

WOOHOO

IT LIVES

[south shuttle]

look how many 6xx drop sells a year

roughly 20k units

also drop’s custom keyboards aren’t as good as they used to be (competition caught up)

[cosmic gazelle]

@pure garnet how the hell did such an old board have a bios with dpi scaling

[hoary hatch]

To be honest I have no idea how well drop was doing as a business
Maybe they were raking it in, maybe they were hemorrhaging cash.
Real world was probably somewhere in between.

Corsair isn't interested in running a, relatively, small marketplace. They saw a few key markets they wanted to focus on, and thought acquiring drop could help them compete.

[steel stream]

ex-Corsair employee spills the beans

[cosmic gazelle]

goofy ah cable management but i’m happy

[pure garnet]

1080p is very old so that doesn't surprise me

[hoary hatch]

This was all after I got laid off LOL

[cosmic gazelle]

well i got a great motherboard for $40 so big W

i can finally stop buying shit

[steel stream]

[cosmic gazelle]

these leds on the board were probably the coolest shit back in the day

[pure garnet]

not like my hd 58xx are broken so it's fine, i'm on pads 3 and cable 3

dogs ate cable 1 and 2 bc they're evil

[cosmic gazelle]

@merry stirrup this one has em lol

[south shuttle]

why they didn’t acquire one of the many small chinese keyboard makers (i assume regulatory issues) or buy oem/odm keyboards from china slap their logo on them and ship worldwide

their keyboards aren’t at all competitive

it’s the marketing that saves their revenue

[shell void]

mr kvetinky do you still actively follow the keyboard market?

im interested in getting an 8KHz TMR board

[south shuttle]

a bit but less than in the past

[shell void]

https://tenor.com/view/invincible-mark-nodding-nod-yes-gif-14160440670085518260

i havent follow it hardly at all for a while

when i built my last board we were just starting to get decent 1KHz mechanical chinese boards

[south shuttle]

budget?

[south shuttle]

my last board i bought is an irok mg75 pro

[shell void]

i dont mind paying up to around $500, but i dont want to wait months for shipping

[south shuttle]

is weeks fine?

so no group buy

[shell void]

if it's cool beans, what do you have in mind?

[cosmic gazelle]

@pure garnet @shell void if core temps and package temp are different do i just look at whichever one is higher

[south shuttle]

nothing but i could recommend you materials to look for

[shell void]

it's crazy to me that you can get a preassembled 8KHz HE board with an aluminum case for $88

[south shuttle]

the body shall be brass or at least aluminum at that price if you like metals

[shell void]

when i last built people were still spending around $100 to build plate mount plastic case boards with gateron yellows lmao

[edgy laurel]

i actually just impulse bought some shitty redragon 75% for $45 to replace this broken as hell Logitech on my second rig

[pure garnet]

yeah

[shell void]

[south shuttle]

mb i thought you meant tmr

not just he

[shell void]

oh no i was looking at your MG75Pro on Amazon when i said $88

[south shuttle]

yeah anyways at $500 if you’re absolutely fine with that i’d look for kbs with brass casing

[shell void]

well i dont want to spend as much as possible for no reason xd but if it's really cool then i dont mind

[south shuttle]

ah

[pure garnet]

does razer do tmr yet or are they still just on he, because that's what i saw in person today

and honestly the only reason i knew it wasn't mechanical was because they have a screen on it that shows how much the key is reading you pressing it down

[south shuttle]

i’m not sure, i just ignore razer as i find them irrelevant unless you live in some remote region or when imports are taxed high

as you can see i’m sleepy

[pure garnet]

i hit a keyboard in store i wasn't planning on buying it

i was looking at the keychron q3 pro he but i decided to just get new switches instead

[south shuttle]

@shell void prefered keyboard size?

don’t forget you can always but a dedicated numpad or macro pad so 96% or 100% may not be always necessary if you need numpads

[shell void]

i prefer 80% / TKL

i dont understand the appeal of 75% but im using it and it's tolerable

windows 10 PC on the 115" samsung rgb miniled TV 🔥 @edgy laurel

[south shuttle]

i guess xtrfy mx 8.2 tmr fits that? but i doubt it’s a good board otherwise for $250

[cosmic gazelle]

i did my first memory overclock lol

(i’m not done i just have to go to work)

[south shuttle]

it’s more compact

[edgy laurel]

Sacrilege. I guess we're going to start seeing more RGB MiniLED?

[steel stream]

hah paint

[shell void]

geez that looks like a $40 board being sold for $250

[shell void]

yeh that's the trend for lcd tvs this year

[south shuttle]

that’s cherry for you

[shell void]

Hisense is doing "UR8" and "UR9"

rgb miniled tvs

[south shuttle]

i don’t know of any tkl tmr keyboard sorrey only 75%

[steel stream]

how many zones? afaik RGB mini-leds in monitors nerf zone count hella

[south shuttle]

at your budget you can get better than i have in mind

[shell void]

i have no idea, they havent revealed specs yet

[shell void]

im so triggered that the 75% mind virus has killed the tkl market

the space saving is totally meaningless

[south shuttle]

womier sk75 tmr and monsgeek stuff otherwise i don’t have anything in mind

i’ve always tampered with $30-150 boards

[south shuttle]

96% and 75% effectively killed tkl for many yes

96% is almost as wide as tkl and 75% is decently less wide

if you don’t need tmr or even he there are many brass 80% out in the wild

but they do cost a kidney and all you get is sound change over something like aluminum

and well extra heft which may add the feel of premiumness

[shell void]

speaking of heft i just discovered that keychron makes a copper case 75% keyboard that's 4KG

[steel stream]

blunt force weapon

[patent gorge]

I've always used full size but did consider testing out TKL as a secondary

anything below TKL is "how about you retrain your 20 years of practice to use this new bullshit layout we came up with"

[shell void]

optimal

[steel stream]

real

[edgy laurel]

I've said that about my GMMK Pro since I got it. First thing I thought when I unboxed it was holy shit you could use this as a blunt weapon

[pallid marsh]

The game I play squad needs the tilde key ~ to open console so them small keyboard lads can't type respawn to fix their stuck character

[south shuttle]

make sure to not damage the coating otherwise not so nice patina may form on it

[shell void]

yeah not having tilde or the function row is absolutely asinine

ive tried 60%, 65%, 75%, 80%, 96%, and 100%

75% is the bare minimum

65 and anything smaller is a valorant player meme

[south shuttle]

there are also bronze keyboards

steel but they’re ultra rare

[south shuttle]

giving up the f row for nothing ngl

[hoary hatch]

Because Corsair is run by absolute morons

[low sorrel]

i feel like that's everyones reaction when they get a cnc alumimum keyboard

[south shuttle]

like you gotta be careful with what you wipe the kb

[hoary hatch]

First thing I said about my keychron

hmm, yes, maybe I will bludgeon my enemies with this fine instrument

[low sorrel]

actually first thing i did was say shit and almost drop it

yeah so turns out i wasn't supposed to just dump the keyboard onto my left han

[steel stream]

all i've got is this stupid plastic keyboard

[low sorrel]

buy a new one

[merry stirrup]

1600x1200 projector

40$

[low sorrel]

yes

[steel stream]

no money in budget

gotta buy speaker stands, and I want a piano for my room

[low sorrel]

https://drop.com/buy/wobkey-rainy75-mechanical-keyboard?defaultSelectionIds=994394

only 79 dollars

[steel stream]

i see 99

[low sorrel]

20 dollars off orders over 100

[steel stream]

eh i'd rather have the piano and stands over a new keyboard tbh

[low sorrel]

what kinda piano you buying

aren't they like 500 bucks minimum

[steel stream]

not on FBM

I just need some cheap one, with a headphone out

[low sorrel]

see see

you use the keyboard as a weapon

[steel stream]

pacifist route

[low sorrel]

I wonder is a baseball bat cheaper or more expensive

Not like a shitty one

[steel stream]

a baseball?

[low sorrel]

Like the ones used in the MLB or something

[south shuttle]

@shell void i have my experience with rubbing copper surfaces, when you wipe the natural oxide layer it tends to corrode faster and uglier than when you just leave the copper alone

[steel stream]

40-50

[south shuttle]

i’ve noticed that on non nickel plated cold plates

[low sorrel]

Like a bat that would be used in the MLB

[steel stream]

oh you meant a bat

[low sorrel]

Well the ball being 50 bucks

Kinda answers the question

[steel stream]

quick look was 190-400

[low sorrel]

I'd reckon the bat costs more then the ball

[steel stream]

good estimate

[cosmic gazelle]

jerry what’s the over under I can hit 2133 on this shitty mismatched kit of ddr3 i got off ebay for 15 bucks

[steel stream]

50/50

it either happens or it doesn't

[low sorrel]

50/50 it happens or it doesn't

You motherfucker

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/you-got-to-be-quicker-than-that-gotta-be-quicker-than-that-quick-you-gotta-be-quicker-than-that-gif-17491322042216115294

[cosmic gazelle]

It’s kind of insane this board just by default throws 1.31v at the 4790k

like that would thermal throttle under any cooler that isn’t very good

[south shuttle]

49/51 better

that’s the rate when you want someone to sell your books or magazines in my country

49% for u and 51% for le sellah

not 12% for sellahs like ebay

[merry stirrup]

i didnt get the projector

but i got a new sound bar and sub instead

[south shuttle]

give it to me

option 2: face death

[steel stream]

dope

i will always support purchasing new audio and video equipment

[south shuttle]

@steel stream steal floppa’s sound bar for me

[steel stream]

he's too far from me tbh

[south shuttle]

or i’ll nuke your city

sound bar or city gone choose one

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-thinking-monkey-thinking-think-money-gif-9734025314392564509

blow up my city please

[south shuttle]

oki doki

[steel stream]

i live in Chicago

[south shuttle]

no more chickago

[steel stream]

go

[south shuttle]

gif fail

[devout ridge]

NO, we need chicago for the next cyberpunk game!

[south shuttle]

how embarassing

[steel stream]

chicago tunnels would be a cool environment ngl

[south shuttle]

i promise cb will be in NY

[devout ridge]

"NY"?

[south shuttle]

the stinky place fits better

[devout ridge]

oh i brain farted

they've already heavily hinted at it being chicago

[steel stream]

Las Vegas

[fringe vigil]

I’m pissed

I think I basically got the ending of knight of the seven kingdoms in 5 years to come

[devout ridge]

read the book

it's all of 300 pages

you can listen to the audiobook in under 6 hours

[south shuttle]

yeah but when i nuked chicken ago it’s now going to be in NY >:]

[steel stream]

we need a cyberpunk game in Detroit

[fringe vigil]

Which one

[devout ridge]

i forget that cities like chicago and detroit actually exist in boring ass states

[steel stream]

fuck you

Michigan is not boring

[devout ridge]

the three "Tales of Dunk and Egg" novelas

[south shuttle]

i would prefer wyoming or oregon

[fringe vigil]

I want to watch the show and see what happens but google told me what happens to them I think I’m so pissed

[devout ridge]

what is there even to do in michigan, all of like 3 people live there outside of detroit

[fringe vigil]

Have you read them iroh

[devout ridge]

but also the other option is to live in detroit

[devout ridge]

I binged the whole audiobook in a day while working on some other stuff

[fringe vigil]

Bro got all the spoilers

[steel stream]

Sand dunes, lakes, Upper peninsula, plenty of rivers and water activities

[devout ridge]

It's not spoilers if you are just consuming the source material

[fringe vigil]

Also this era is not as good there’s no dragons

[devout ridge]

that's what you would think

Aerion targaryen would disagree

Now go read the books so you understand that reference

[fringe vigil]

That little guy

Egg

[devout ridge]

Aerion is the big guy that's a total asshole

Aegon is the lil Egg boy

[fringe vigil]

Areion brightfire

[devout ridge]

Aerion Brightflame

[fringe vigil]

Yh him

Vhagar is dead

Isn’t she?

[devout ridge]

All the dragons are dead

Vhagar died near 100 years before the events of dunk and egg

[fringe vigil]

The dance of dragons gonna be crazy

Part 2

[devout ridge]

Dragons are something only the oldest people in Dunk and Egg could even maybe have a chance of remembering seeing

[fringe vigil]

no in this era dragons are nothing but past which is like eugh

[devout ridge]

Correct, but the oldest people alive at the time of the show would have a chance of being alive at the same time as the dragons

Think like Maester Aemon old

[fringe vigil]

the targeryeans now never experienced the true power of them

[devout ridge]

Targaryens, yes, the ancient ass people, mayhaps not

They'll have existed at the same time as the last dragons

but dragons slowly got weaker and weaker, each new dragon born got smaller and smaller

[fringe vigil]

No they all died after house of dragons

[devout ridge]

the last one was the size of a house cat

[fringe vigil]

Lool

[devout ridge]

Nope

[merry stirrup]

SB3621n-E8

[fringe vigil]

Yes they did

[devout ridge]

A lot of the powerful dragons died in the Dance of the Dragons, but there were some still alive

Their power was largely gone though, there was still dragons born after, but they were incredibly small

[fringe vigil]

Yeha them mfs don’t exist in KOTSK now

[devout ridge]

I'm aware, i'm not saying dragons exist in AKOTSK

[fringe vigil]

So what

[devout ridge]

i'm saying that the oldest people in AKOTSK could have seen a dragon when they were little

[fringe vigil]

People that are 80-90 sure

When they were kids

[devout ridge]

Correct, which was the extent of my claim

[merry stirrup]

40$

[steel stream]

i approve

[merry stirrup]

gonna get a remote for 8$

[merry stirrup]

sub and all

[steel stream]

you didnt have a sub before this right?

[merry stirrup]

nah the one i found didnt have it

but this one does and it s epic

[steel stream]

yeah this will be great

[fringe vigil]

The targeryean dynasty would rule for so long but they choose to fight within their house and cause all this choas and the ending of GOT makes so much sense bec it’s just a cycle of deatha nd destruction

[merry stirrup]

remote for 8$ too which is awesome

[fringe vigil]

The dragons could have flourished for many years if they didn’t do the civil war

[steel stream]

any physical buttons on it for now?

[merry stirrup]

yah usable

[devout ridge]

Yep, the targaryens only ruled for about 300 years

[merry stirrup]

the sub is way too punchy but i can live until amazon comes thru

[fringe vigil]

They destroyed everything

[devout ridge]

that's between the time of Aegon The Conqueror and the death of King Aerys, the mad king

[edgy laurel]

the story of AKOTSK took place before the events of ASOIAF, not after. according to wikipedia

[fringe vigil]

Their own house

[devout ridge]

Correct

[steel stream]

gotta play BF6 or smth

[merry stirrup]

just music rn

[steel stream]

i thought knights of the table was a prequel

[merry stirrup]

i dont speaker game so

[devout ridge]

In chronological order, it's:
HOTD
AKOTSK
ASOIAF

[fringe vigil]

GOT

[devout ridge]

Prequel to ASOIAF, sequel to HOTD

[fringe vigil]

It’s the middle era

[devout ridge]

Mhm

[steel stream]

man I really gotta watch this stuff

[devout ridge]

The complete story spans across a good couple decades, but they skip around quite a lot

[edgy laurel]

GoT is just one book in A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of novels. (That made up the GoT tv show)

[devout ridge]

Between each Dunk and Egg Novella there's a pretty sizeable time skip

[fringe vigil]

What they need to do is make a sequel to GOT

[devout ridge]

NO

That's how you end up with Season 7/8 of the show

[fringe vigil]

Lol

[devout ridge]

what George RR Martin needs to do is release the winds of winter

[fringe vigil]

Snooze

[edgy laurel]

wait what is HOTD

[devout ridge]

House of the Dragon, the TV adaptation of Fire and Blood

[merry stirrup]

george rr martin is not going to release the rest of the books because he knows they suck so his family is going to release it when he dies

[fringe vigil]

Youve never seen HOTD?? Omg

[merry stirrup]

• lady floppa

[devout ridge]

bitch can he die already then?

[edgy laurel]

oh, shit i forgot all about that. started to get into season 1, fell of.. then never wentback

[fringe vigil]

Almost as good as GOT

[devout ridge]

GOT, HOTD, and AKOTSK are all shows that just have to be experienced

[fringe vigil]

No he needs to experience HOTD

[devout ridge]

He needs to experience all 3, in the order they released

[edgy laurel]

i'm only seeing 2 seasons of HoTD, thats doable. if it was like 6 then na

[devout ridge]

The whole GOT show, seasons 1 and 2 of HOTD, then season 1 of AKOTSK

[fringe vigil]

I wish meleys and sunfyre was my dragon

[pure garnet]

she aint wrong

[devout ridge]

They've confirmed a third coming out this june

[fringe vigil]

Bro season 3 I’m waiting for summer

[edgy laurel]

(i've seen GoT.. of course, as it was being released)

[devout ridge]

Not quite sure if they intend on that being the last season or not, i'm not quite sure how much source material is left

[fringe vigil]

I cannot waittt

[devout ridge]

I can tell you that HOTD will end with the Fire and Blood book

[fringe vigil]

Yeah so now watch HOTD bruh

[merry stirrup]

💀

"exacctlyyy"

[devout ridge]

Guilty go watch HOTD, right now

The first two episodes are kind of boring on first watch, but after that it's amazing

[merry stirrup]

sound bar is quite nice

[edgy laurel]

I'll grab, but I don't wanna deal with figuring out where i left off. Will do dunk and egg first

[merry stirrup]

im sure media will be a blast on it

[devout ridge]

The first two episodes are pretty heavy on the political environment setup

[merry stirrup]

where the balls do i put the sub akn

[fringe vigil]

bro hasn’t experienced daemon and rhaenys targeryean 😭

[merry stirrup]

i just have it next to my computer

[devout ridge]

Daemon might be a bitch, but boy does he do a good job of protecting Rhaenyra

[fringe vigil]

I love him

[devout ridge]

"He can keep his tongue"

[fringe vigil]

Rhaneyra I mean

[edgy laurel]

S01

[devout ridge]

Better not bad mouth the Queen, or you're losing your mind

[merry stirrup]

my wife is tweaking over this

[merry stirrup]

aw hell nah

[fringe vigil]

https://tenor.com/view/hotd-house-of-the-dragon-matt-smith-daemon-targaryen-gif-2192516349323017530

Guilty this mf has so much aura

[edgy laurel]

my ratio has been in the gutter for a decade, fuck it

[fringe vigil]

and I love caraxes

[devout ridge]

Daemon Aura farmed during 50% of his screentime

[fringe vigil]

He’s a farmer bro

[merry stirrup]

same lowk i just seed until i click stop

[fringe vigil]

Aura farming

[devout ridge]

Caraxes is one of the coolest dragons IMO

[fringe vigil]

Her only weakness is her neck man

[devout ridge]

i love how unique it is from the rest, and it fits Daemon so well

idc, it's fucking cool

[edgy laurel]

i'm that guy

[fringe vigil]

Can we also appreciate the performance of king visery

Guilty some of the best acting you did see

[devout ridge]

Coolest chart

[devout ridge]

I wish we saw Viserys ride Balerion

[fringe vigil]

His dads dragon

[edgy laurel]

tbh what i'd like to do is watch GoT again from the start but thats so much its overwhelming

[devout ridge]

Nah, Jahaerys didn't ride Balerion

[fringe vigil]

Wait what happened to B I thought he died after jahaerys died

[devout ridge]

BI?

[fringe vigil]

No he died in jahearys time I think

Balerion

[devout ridge]

Nope, Viserys rode him one time

[fringe vigil]

Yh when he was a kid perhaps

[devout ridge]

Also it was his First Cousin Once Removed's dragon before Viserys

Princess Aerea in this chart

[fringe vigil]

Wym

[devout ridge]

Aegon was the first rider of Balerion (Daenys also rode him in the TV show), then it was Maegor, then it was Aerea, then it was Viserys

Jaehaerys rode Vermithor

[fringe vigil]

Vermithor scary mf

[devout ridge]

Vermithor is heavily underrated

[fringe vigil]

We haven’t even seen that mf in action

[devout ridge]

Vermithor poses a major threat for Vhagar

Even though Vhagar is bigger, Vermithor is a lot more maneuverable

[fringe vigil]

Bro

[devout ridge]

Now imagine if someone rode the Cannibal

[fringe vigil]

Vhagar is an old bish she’s too slow now

If she was in her prime she would eat that mf for breakfast

[devout ridge]

Vhagar is essentially the grandma of the group of dragons we see in HOTD

but yeah, Vhagar is old as fuck

Vhagar in her prime would smoke any single dragon we see in HOTD

[fringe vigil]

Obvs

[devout ridge]

Really the only dragon we know of that is more powerful is Balerion

But Balerion is just a whole other breed

Fire capable of melting stone in mass, absolutely massive, quite maneuverable given it's size

[fringe vigil]

she’s like 2-3 X Smaller than Balerion

[devout ridge]

Not really

[fringe vigil]

She is lmao

[devout ridge]

by volume she's probably about half the size

[fringe vigil]

nooo

Maybe like 75 % smaller

[devout ridge]

This is a better size comparison

It's based off book descriptions and what we see of the skull in HOTD

[fringe vigil]

Nah bro this is my favourite dragon

https://tenor.com/view/rhaena-sheepstealer-rhaena-targaryen-hotd-house-of-the-dragon-gif-12976743484522941176

[devout ridge]

Sheep stealer is such a funny name

[fringe vigil]

Lmaoo

That mf is a hobo dragon

[devout ridge]

Most of them have cool Valyrian names, or at least menacing ones like The Cannibal, then you have Sheep Stealer

[fringe vigil]

Sunfyre gorgeous

And dreamfyre will fck you up

[steel stream]

my ratio is about the same

[devout ridge]

Dreamfyre is also a cool dragon in that almost only Targaryen Dreamers claimed her

[fringe vigil]

That mf lowkey will do dmg

And silver wing

[devout ridge]

Dreamfyre gonna read your fortune, then make sure you don't live to prove her wrong

[fringe vigil]

I’m going to vhagars funeral

[devout ridge]

I wish they showed more of Helaena's relationship with dreamfyre

in the books they have a super deep relationship, and Helaena enjoys regularly flying with Dreamfyre

[fringe vigil]

Ain’t no relationship there they locked her up

[devout ridge]

Only true in the show

[fringe vigil]

going to rewatch s2 soon

need a recap

[devout ridge]

In the books, Helaena is specifically stated to frequently ride Dreamfyre, but in the show they specifically say Helaena doesn't like flying

Helaena and Dreamfyre's relationship is the exact opposite from the show and the book

[fringe vigil]

This bish a looney

Yeha I think they had a good connection but the show doesn’t show it

they needed to expand on her dream prophecies more and her connection

[wraith steeple]

Damn Pub Chat is borderline depressing

[south shuttle]

yes

[wraith steeple]

All it is.... It's like watching debate bros looking under a microscope over the most minute things to find something to argue about as a gotcha moment

[steel stream]

yeah no thanks

[turbid locust]

I’ve sent maybe 10 messages there in the… 3 years I’ve been in the server?

4 years sorry

[topaz veldt]

https://x.com/i/status/2026751056839864523

NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG)

Valve, a video game developer, has made billions of dollars by letting children and adults illegally gamble for the chance to win valuable virtual prizes.

These features are addictive and harmful.

That's why I'm suing to stop Valve’s unlawful conduct and protect New Yorkers.

X · Feb 25, 2026, 8:08 PM

We don't hate these people enough

Valve, a video game developer, makes really fun games that cost money and we don't see any of that money so we're suing them.

[gentle gale]

i assume this has to do with cs cases?

why go after just valve

[brisk eagle]

is it 2010 again??
video games with guns make 7yr olds want to get a gun and kill people!!

[topaz veldt]

It's hilariously inaccurate in the lawsuit

Lol

These people are incredibly stupid

[vestal granite]

the gold never appears if you didnt get a gold, there are no near-miss golds

they were removed in like 2016

[topaz veldt]

Yep

This is the AG from NY charged with fraud

[vestal granite]

i hate when people take their dogshit and run it alongside other peoples' existing causes to try and drum up support for it

they took a dogshit lawsuit and then they throw "hey look its also theres bad gun violence from video games" to try and rile up the anti-gun crowd to get behind them when they obviously dont care because the user base of CS is not the anti-gun crowd

i do think the young people gambling stuff is bad but there are much worse offenders, valve doesnt even have a withdrawal system

[keen wigeon]

The CS crowd is a bunch of sweatpants wearing “gun experts”

[vestal granite]

exactly

[keen wigeon]

🙂

I think the army stopped making that game “Americas Army” because they realized that video games make people soft.

[vestal granite]

yeah i passed ranger training in America's Army 3

no big deal you know just casual you know

[keen wigeon]

When most people realize they can’t respawn they have an aversion to combat. Only the hardest ones will go in.

[vestal granite]

problem is theres no matchmaking rank or elo rating in real combat

[keen wigeon]

😂

[vestal granite]

how am i supposed to get dopamine if i cant even scroll youtube shorts in the trenches

[keen wigeon]

Right? Although the kids who are amazing at StarCraft apparently make insane battlefield commanders

[vestal granite]

yeah i saw that movie enders game thats real life i think

[keen wigeon]

lol

I dunno. There’s no way to put the firearm cat back in the bag in the US. The only thing we can do is hope that all the circulating iron doesn’t make it into bad people’s hands.

Because a good guy with a gun shouldn’t be stopping a bad guy with a gun unless the good guy has no choice.

You won’t find me trying to be a hero. I’ll nope right the fuck off.

[vestal granite]

i really just think places like schools and hospitals should just be built like bunkers and most of this fuss can be avoided without vulnerable people getting hurt

[keen wigeon]

https://www.amazon.com/Left-Bang-Marine-Combat-Program/dp/1936891301

Damn you Amazon

[vestal granite]

like yeah good guy with a gun allat sure but kids cant own guns so maybe good guy with steel doors and window shutters is a good compromise

[warped mountain]

Mac mini + terra master 9 Bay $1,200
Ugreen 8 bay $1360
Or DIY in a N3 jonesbo? https://pcpartpicker.com/list/LmTRBv
Assuming it can be at or below $1,500.

[keen wigeon]

What are you trying to build? A NAS?

[vestal granite]

my elementary school growing up was built like a fuckin rust base, had like 2 airlock steel doors on either end of every hallway, airlock steel doors between the front office and the rest of the school which was locked at all times unless you buzz in. every classroom had shatterproof windows but they were pretty big windows so they were supposed to just drop shades and if the threat was outside they go into an inner compartment of the school

[warped mountain]

NAS, or DAS, I don't care honestly. With DAS, never going to use the computer that's connected to it so

[warped mountain]

The most intense thing it'll do is transcode to whatever the device or network needs, other than that I would like to get off of cloud storage because paying for four terabytes of month is expensive. I need some data redundancy cuz I just had a drive die thankfully it's the OneDrive I have a duplicate of...

[keen wigeon]

Yeah, a Mac mini or something cheap like a used mini PC/minisforum PC would be great

Heck a raspi would do the trick

[warped mountain]

Can a raspberry pi handle transcode like that?? I thought they were like minimal IPC?

[edgy laurel]

jake just did this https://youtu.be/gWAMsj5D77I?si=GC4B2019HgktqUOT

(didn't end up being 60TB)

[devout ridge]

for basic file storage, they’re pretty decent

for transcode, give up

raspberry pi ain’t gonna transcode anything in a reasonable amount of time

[edgy laurel]

$400 M4 MacMini + dual Thunderbolt enclosures (don't need to be thunderbolt for HDD's)

[warped mountain]

Ye that's what I thought.

[devout ridge]

They work reasonably well as a low power, small form factor backup NAS

[warped mountain]

Yeah $700 Mac mini and a terra master 9 BAY 10gbps USB DAS

[devout ridge]

if you wanna transcode, get a DGPU or a relatively modern IGPU

mac mini unironically makes a pretty good NAS on a budget

[warped mountain]

I love the idea of the Mac mini because the crazy low power consumption, and for $100 I get 10 gig It costs more to do at via adapter Cool. My concern though is data redundancy.

It seems like most people that do NAS with Mac tend to just do JBOD, or software RAID 1. But at $500 per hard drive raid 1 would get awfully expensive awfully quickly.

[devout ridge]

storage cost is largely fixed

regardless of what host machine you use, still gotta buy the same HDDs

[warped mountain]

Well ya but raid 6 vs Raid 1 is hella different $/GB

But yeah, I don't normally do these like low power builds, all of my builds have been 1400 watt monsters that then I keep in service for 10 years .. so I'm really lost when it comes to like choosing these lower level components.

[frank zealot]

Needs the noctua psu

20 goddamned noctua fans + gpu

[wraith steeple]

Q: How many A12x25s do you have?
A: Yes.

[frank zealot]

Bah, it's fuckin AI

Zoom in on the side fans. They're not slits, they're text garbage

[wraith steeple]

The PSU even looks off

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/s/0RkODAvgCe

[frank zealot]

Ai bullshit. I hate the 2026 internet

[wraith steeple]

TFW AI slop has gotten more up votes than most posts on that subreddit

[brisk jolt]

thats a 2 year post

but yeah the pic looks suspiciously low quality

[wraith steeple]

Even the PSU looks unnatural

[cosmic gazelle]

maybe one day i’ll be normal enough to not reinstall windows compulsively every time I change one minor hardware component

[turbid locust]

sad

[sharp yoke]

Does anyone know why my laptop would randomly bsod with this error? I was just studying with Google chrome open and it popped up with this

[indigo walrus]

Reason 364527 to not install malware onto your PC. 🤷

https://support-leagueoflegends.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/30677122946195-vgk-sys-Error-Troubleshooting-13th-and-14th-generation-Intel-CPUs

[vestal granite]

splendid

[burnt socket]

proof that im an actual linux user

[livid flame]

One does not simply use Linux

[livid flame]

The error literally tells you what happened

[south shuttle]

Corsair styled mesh with coolermaster logo that has traditional looking chinese on it

299% no AI

Guarantee

[south shuttle]

This looks more real

[green marsh]

they promote that like this

[livid flame]

I’m guessing that’s AI as there are fans against the glass panel

[green marsh]

that was way before AI existed

[livid flame]

That can’t be a real design

[green marsh]

https://thermaltake.azureedge.net/pub/media/wysiwyg/key3/db/products/case/core_p8_tg/video_p8.mp4

[scenic cloak]

Is Intel® Core™ Ultra 5 225U or AMD Ryzen™ 7 250 better for computer science in the Lenovo Thinkpad e16

[brisk jolt]

@shell void do you know anything about tablet displays? heard best one’s ipad pro with them tandem oleds but I dont think I can justify the price, plus heard they can get quite warm under load

I think ill be content with an AMOLED one unless the ipad pro M6 can get a VC

[burnt socket]

for the people who says 'not enough airflow'

[uneven bane]

Last month I picked up 2 smart1500 ups' for 20$ one of them didn't work and the other did. Battery replacement is all it needed. Old ups' with old batteries are stupid cheap especially since they are rack mount

[manic sigil]

I should check local market for that

[uneven bane]

Yeah while they are several years old, the fact that all I had to do was buy new batteries was stupid. I understand why the place I got them from was getting rid of them but still for that price im not going to argue.

[random flame]

Wow. That's one hell of a dumb design.

[random flame]

That's a real design, I can tell. Lol.

[shell void]

i don’t follow the tablet market king

[brisk jolt]

https://giphy.com/gifs/nooo-vanish-GifmYfMh85CWnAd80Z

[leaden dawn]

Gnoment

[shell void]

what use are you thinking of for the tablet?

[brisk jolt]

media consumption outside like movies
id like something strong enough to handle few mobile games natively
then stream from my itx to it via moonlight

[shell void]

hear me out

small 2-in-1 touchscreen oled laptop with panther lake

[brisk jolt]

i only want like at most an 11” screen tho

I might just forgo ptl handheld plans to do this

redmagic astra is tempting bcs it has active cooling and amoled

Im also pretty sure a ptl handheld on launch would be x2 the price of a 12/256gb astra config

[shell void]

o

one of my acquaintances from the monitor discord got a red magic tablet and loves it for game streaming

👀

[brisk jolt]

ipad pro with the tandem OLED is the best screen and quite a powerful chip, but from what ive heard it does get pretty toasty and I wont be able to justify another like, 3-400 sgd for it over the redmagic

still get a amoled screen@120hz so its nice enough

[fringe vigil]

i think mr beast is a

[fervent chasm]

https://tenor.com/view/mrbeast-playing-phonk-gif-2131330407614460981

[fringe vigil]

he likes them

[merry stirrup]

cant wait to buy this off aliexpress in 8 months for 200$

[edgy laurel]

the copium

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-fsr-4-1-dll-reportedly-leaks-and-rdna-3-users-are-already-testing-it

NGL its kinda sad to see.

[frank zealot]

bruh, Monday's storm was wild.
This was in Providence RI:

[edgy laurel]

wild

we did not get it bad at all, maybe 10 inches

[devout ridge]

10in would send my state into a state of emergency

[livid flame]

So when I said I bought rdna3 hoping they’d support it… they really will now?

[pure garnet]

10in would shut my state down for at least 2 weeks

[livid flame]

10in would shut my country down

[devout ridge]

valve is a total bro

[topaz veldt]

I am so glad that Letitia James is becoming more universally hated

[livid flame]

Who?

Is she the obese chick that tried suing that Uber driver?

[topaz veldt]

I dunno how to respond to that

[pure garnet]

it’s gotta be hard to be a radeon enjoyer

[topaz veldt]

I have bought two recent gens of AMD top tier GPUs to give htem a chance

[pure garnet]

hopped up on copium your 7900 xtx gets a better upscaler when the 2060 has dlss 4.5

[topaz veldt]

No one enjoys that shit

[random flame]

Iiii haven't experienced any difficulty in being one, sooo...

[pure garnet]

https://tenor.com/view/fsr-amd-fsr2-radeon-upscaling-gif-14361789650951144310

[edgy laurel]

fine wine

[topaz veldt]

fine boxed wine

[cosmic mica]

is a ultrawide oled 4k monitor gonna be like costly?

[pure garnet]

fsr 1 was so good it ruined an entire console generation

every game i fire up on my ps5 is just blurry

[pure garnet]

i mean yeah read that back

[random flame]

Still only plays in native with no reason to use upscaling

[topaz veldt]

no

[topaz veldt]

fails to mention native resolution is 1080p

[pure garnet]

idk my 5070ti at native 4k leaves much to be desired

but i also have an upscaler that doesn’t make my eyes hurt so it balances out

[edgy laurel]

5120x2160 OLED? That exists now.

[pure garnet]

i think to get the same performance i get with dlss in xiv at native 4k id need a 5090

[random flame]

A lot of them do, while for me it depends. Most of the time, my native res is at 1440p to match the monitor I'm playing on.

[pure garnet]

well yeah we’re not on vga resolutions

[edgy laurel]

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/KMCCmG/lg-ultragear-oled-45gx950a-b-445-5120-x-2160-165-hz-curved-monitor-45gx950a-b

[topaz veldt]

I'm not trying to play connect 4 with my pixels

[pure garnet]

your monitor res is like the input res we use dlss on

[random flame]

Yeah, and so it makes sense to just play at the res, unless it's a game I prefer windowed.

[topaz veldt]

I feel like this is the way all AMD enthusiasts go

"I game native without issue" turns into "and sometimes I play in a window"

[random flame]

Which I've always done with all the setups I've ever had for years.

[topaz veldt]

So maybe you're not the person we're talking about

[random flame]

It's whatever feels like a good fit for the game I'm playing.

[livid flame]

I game in a window

[edgy laurel]

its an epidemic

[livid flame]

But brah. There’s no other way to play osrs

[pure garnet]

running in a window without dlss 💪

[topaz veldt]

my AMD GPU provides me hours of high performance game play of minesweeper

[random flame]

Yeah, I am definitely not your target guy then. Lmao.

[livid flame]

My 7800xt is stressed to the max on osrs. 3% utilization and 1.6gb vram. That window needs to stay

[topaz veldt]

Its like a video I watched the other day of a guy talking about how he heats his 7,000 sq ft of house, garage, and workshop with a central wood heater and how great it is

about 10 mins into the tour he mentions he is self employed as a tree farm owner

[livid flame]

Wood is rare too

[topaz veldt]

like yeah i bet burning 8 tons of wood IS affordable when you live in iowa and have a fucking tree business

[shell void]

@topaz veldt based on the rubin gpu that nvidia launched today i think that 1000W is going to be normal on 6090s

[topaz veldt]

I would hope so

[shell void]

the new Rubin DC gpu has 1800W and 2300W configs up from the 1000W and 1400W of blackwell, both using dual ~800mm designs

which gives us an idea of how much more power dense 60 series will be

[random flame]

I wonder if that entails how much worse the fire hazard will be too. Lol.

[devout ridge]

anything is a fire hazard if you try hard enough

[shell void]

i think we’re just about to see the end of people buying the top gpu for a gaming pc

even for whales that like to play with big hardware

[turbid locust]

Maybe they’re just not big gpu guys

[pure garnet]

how are we powering 1000w, 2x 12pin?

[shell void]

yeh

[devout ridge]

i vote dual EPS at 500w per

[random flame]

I've thought of that before honestly.

[shell void]

the other detail is that it clocks 25% higher which would put a hypothetical 6090 at 3500-4000MHz up from the 2800-3200MHz of a 5090

[topaz veldt]

challenge accepted

[pure garnet]

power limited 6090 might honestly be more reliable then if they load balance

[devout ridge]

i'd trust EPS with 500w more than i would 12vhpwr

[turbid locust]

I want a 6090 because… 6…9…

[pure garnet]

you need a 6070 bro

[turbid locust]

no

[devout ridge]

NVIDIA missed out on their chance for a 4020

[shell void]

you have a 240v circuit so youre ready xD

[topaz veldt]

we all have 240v circuits

[shell void]

i don’t have one in my bedroom >:(

[random flame]

I just want a better CPU, man...

[turbid locust]

same

[devout ridge]

anything can be 240v if you don't tell anyone

[shell void]

i mean idk maybe they’ll lower the voltage limit on consumer gpus to keep wattage in check

but if they still use a ~1.1v cap like blackwell then 1000W is going to be the norm

[topaz veldt]

nah we know they wont run 1000w

[brisk jolt]

i laughed harder at this than i expected

[shell void]

i don’t see how they could avoid it unless they lower the voltage limit

i would be fine with that

[pure garnet]

if you think about it plugging in 2 120v cables gives you 240v fr fr

[brisk jolt]

in 2 years we will be figuring out whats the best voltage:clock for efficiency

[shell void]

time to boot up our 750W 52 core nova lake cpus and 1000W 6090s to play 15 year old games

[hoary hatch]

200W of ddr6

[pure garnet]

one catgirl per core with that cpu

[brisk jolt]

50 AIs in beamng with that

[devout ridge]

the funniest part is this works in some cases

as long as you have circuits using two different 120v phases

[shell void]

as low as the fused VF curve will allow without weird boosting behavior or nuking performance which is about 870mv on a 5090

the lower cards can be ran at like 820mv

[brisk jolt]

I have 2 separate profiles of 0.95v and .875v

[shell void]

a broham on a forum tested the 5060ti with a few limits

got it down from 160W to 75W

[brisk jolt]

im going for that 0.9v if i get the cyclone

[shell void]

that’ll be mint

[shell void]

sames and a third one that’s full blast

which does like 750W @ 1.09v in a game at 2160p DLAA

i only use that occasionally for benchmarking

[brisk jolt]

lets see what this 5070ti prime can do

[hoary hatch]

Videocardz is having a slow week

[fringe vigil]

bruh i didnt know c5 has speaker

[pure garnet]

i just run my 5070ti at stock

maybe i try yanking some voltage out

[shell void]

i don’t remember what voltage i ran my 5070Ti at but it can go lower than the 5090

[brisk jolt]

the 5070ti maxes at like 1.02v

the most Ive been able to squeeze out of this prime was like 290w

[pure garnet]

i think yours is defective

[brisk jolt]

My aero could do 330w and almost 3.3 but this seems to be maxxing at 3.2 due to the card’s limit

[pure garnet]

i’ve seen like 320w out of mine

at stock with certain titles

[brisk jolt]

highkey imma just flash the aorus master onto this

[shell void]

i found this

i don’t remember what game settings i was using but this was on the 5070Ti

[cobalt holly]

1070 is better than a 1660 right?

[brisk jolt]

ever since I’ve got the T30s I’ve found that the 265K can actually go above 160w without throttling as compared to before

With this LP cooler

ok maybe its just the benchmark diff im now seeing 310

oo, I think its ready to do 180w

https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/277082/277082 looks fun

[shell void]

i didn’t know there were 400W 5070Ti VBIOSes

that’s basically no wattage limit because you’ll be voltage limited

[topaz veldt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R-UW6fMJ2o

dafuq

[slim pebble]

That's going to get messy since we can only do some 1600 watts from our 120V 15A circuits.

Time to unplug the drier for that 220V outlet.

[shell void]

trying to run cinebench and furmark at the same time:

https://tenor.com/view/power-outage-mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning-global-lights-out-gif-14121918963037988414

[wise bear]

Bro imagine the world literally turning off at the same time

like a fuckin' lightswitch

just all the power grids, offline

[shell void]

the martians watching the earth go dark

[wise bear]

"Oh fuck get the popcorn they's doin' something"

omg imagine a globally synchronized light display viewed from space

that'd be dopeeeeee

[south shuttle]

don't forget to load the vram as well

[shell void]

[brisk jolt]

apparently they’re giving away RE requiem for their buying card thingy or whatever

sadly 5060ti wont qualify for it

https://tenor.com/view/fade-away-oooooooooooo-aga-emoji-crumble-gif-20008708

[steel stream]

3/4 of the communal washing machines at my apartment are broken

[brisk jolt]

nice

[steel stream]

someone has their shit sitting in the only working one

[fringe vigil]

They don’t exist on mars

[steel stream]

you haven't heard?

they're real man

https://tenor.com/view/alien-guy-thats-crazy-woozy-crazy-scientist-gif-8609893263374809391

[shell void]

says you bozo

[fringe vigil]

Why are you g

[brisk jolt]

yeah no i cant flash the 400w funny onto the prime

[cosmic gazelle]

yo i feel like someone told me not to disable intel graphics while overclocking, but it reserves ram for vram that i don’t want it to have

is it actually BAD to disable it?

[steel stream]

nah

[shell void]

[cosmic gazelle]

@pure garnet @turbid locust so i just let this sit there until it says a percentage i’m satisfied with right

[brisk jolt]

yeah so no voltage limitation funsies

[turbid locust]

basically

[pure garnet]

holy shit that speed though

[shell void]

i was already hitting volt limit before 330W anyway

[turbid locust]

it’s haswell

[pure garnet]

i do 50000% for daily roughly

and my bench setup is about the same too

[brisk jolt]

just do it for like 12 hr i doubt ur chasing the absolute limit

[cosmic gazelle]

it’s also stock rn i’m just sanity checking lol

but yeah i would expect ddr3 to be pretty damn slow

if it makes you guys feel any better my cpu is at 54c while running it lol

[brisk jolt]

dude my cpu was running karhu at like 95c when I was playing with H16A

[cosmic gazelle]

lmao

[brisk jolt]

it is rather unfortunate that it cant flash the 400w vbios but whatever

apparently white astral can flash 800w matrix

[shell void]

the people on OCN forum call that the astral zebra mod

amusing name

[brisk jolt]

LMAO

[cosmic gazelle]

why would this happen btw i feel like karhu isn’t a cpu stress test

[hoary hatch]

https://youtu.be/SZ6RczIC8T4
Battlematrix time

[brisk jolt]

its more of a “indirect” stress

bcs it has to drive the imc to the limit as well

[steel stream]

YES

oh he doiesn't have the dual versions

[cosmic gazelle]

do you think faster ram would result in a hotter cpu, because maybe my cpu isn’t stressed because ddr3 is so slow?

[brisk jolt]

1: Indirectly
2: Its not that DDR3 is slow, its just a very outdated generation, which ur pairing with also an old CPU

[cosmic gazelle]

interesting

this motherboard just automatically chucks 1.31 volts at my cpu during cinebench so i’ve already basically got my baseline for how much voltage I can afford to cool lol

[shell void]

[brisk jolt]

cute

back to reading peak i go

[shell void]

XDDD

[turbid locust]

lol

[edgy laurel]

I hate it already

[brisk jolt]

based maelle

[steel stream]

hold on I gotta find the right gif for this

[turbid locust]

Unintentional banger

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/tweak-gif-9306576739412501377