tech-chat-2

[low sorrel]

you have what?

[wraith steeple]

I have an EVGA 450BR unit where its sole purpose is for my retro build and the occasional "use separate PSU for filling the loop" duties

[spiral quarry]

just these

[low sorrel]

we don't have that

[spiral quarry]

also these

[civic reef]

Use separate psu for filling the loop?

[spiral quarry]

Near my college you'd be damn lucky if someone stopped for ya because they always blow pass those

ahemm the students on escooters

[civic reef]

Also on the topic of PSUs

I am so glad I went here before buying a PSU

I chipped the extra $10 in for the A550BN instead of a no-name 500W because of SPL's list

[low sorrel]

@topaz veldt @pallid marsh @pure garnet also how do i make this turn properly because i got dinged here for moving too far out to try and see the other side of the road

im on a big ass hill and i need to turn left and i can't see shit

[pallid marsh]

Wait for tall van to move

[low sorrel]

it's parked

[pallid marsh]

Oh

Call the cops on the illegally parked van

[edgy laurel]

dinged?

[pallid marsh]

Points marked off

[low sorrel]

i failed my road test and i got a mark off for going too far into the intersection

[edgy laurel]

by who? the cops? go to court. A rando? fuck em

oh this was a test? eh yeah you just fucked

unless you needed to stop first where you should stop then creep up

[low sorrel]

i stopped creeped up

stopped again when i could see the other lane because there was traffic

[arctic bronze]

why am I up?

[low sorrel]

but i was slightly in the road

[pallid marsh]

Or

[arctic bronze]

why not

[pallid marsh]

[low sorrel]

im pretty sure thats marks off to not listening to examinators instructions

[pure garnet]

i probably would've did what you did

for the drivers test just blow up the van with your mind next time

[pallid marsh]

Go back and get the plate of the van and report them for illegal parking

[pure garnet]

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/jensen-huang-says-gamers-are-completely-wrong-about-dlss-5-nvidia-ceo-responds-to-dlss-5-backlash

[low sorrel]

Why didn't I just use xray vision

[pure garnet]

funniest headline i've seen

[low sorrel]

what about this https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-general-fired-after-missing-anti-tank-mines-were-found-in-ikea/

[pallid marsh]

You only need to listen to them if they are an old white guy

[low sorrel]

it was an asian woman

don't make the joke

[pallid marsh]

I was tempted

[frank cypress]

hmmm i was doing some scrolling on linkedin, and i saw something kinda interesting

[low sorrel]

hi ennui

i failed my road test

[pallid marsh]

Paying in ram?

[frank cypress]

it seems as if the demo of DLSS5.0 is a lot different than what nvidia showcased in the past

[pallid marsh]

Dl55

[frank cypress]

in the sense that what was shown last year at GDC was more subtle and natural

[cosmic gazelle]

some guy on reddit posted these secondaries as the "safe" baseline so i'm gonna see if my micron dookie die can handle it

[frank cypress]

so it's possible that nvidia made everything a lot more contrast and... poppy? as well as more shiny to try to appeal to mass audience

[pure garnet]

why is the scl set to the moon

[frank cypress]

but it seems that they underestimated how much people generally dislike genAI and the look it gives

so it kinda backfired

[pallid marsh]

It made things blue

[edgy laurel]

they knew

[cosmic gazelle]

idk brah i'm just taking it easy to start with because this ram sucks

[pallid marsh]

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/dlss5-breakthrough-in-visual-fidelity-for-games/nvidia-dlss-5-ea-sports-fc-geforce-rtx-comparison-screenshot-001/ blue ball with dl55 white ball with it off

[pure garnet]

honestly to keep it real if you're on the x3d just leave it alone

optimizing micron will do nothing for you since the cache just equalizes out most ram

[low sorrel]

uniform also goes blue

[cosmic gazelle]

i’m just bored this is not going to get me a single extra frame in anything

[frank cypress]

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nikimarinov_gameart-dlss5-materialart-activity-7439671647646924800-6p65?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAEtVgMcBAj9fx5qWJfZl4UYtB5OfmRzrlg0

[frank cypress]

Last year at GDC, I attended some of Nvidia’a demos of this tech and it looked a lot more natural and promising then than what it is now.

[cosmic gazelle]

i dont have enough gpu for memory tuning to matter even if i had better dimms, im just doing it for fun

[edgy laurel]

this is the kinda thing that I can see past. A full pallete of options means ultimate control. The only person to blame in these specific instances is the person on the sliders at the time.

I'm fully able to see after some more communication from Nvidia that what we saw doesn't have to be what everything in production will look exactly like. In short, wait and see how actual game devs make use of it.

however.. reposting...

[frank cypress]

☝️

trying my hardest to remain cautiously optimistic about it being mroe than a slop filter

[edgy laurel]

also

[pallid marsh]

Wait why would creeping in matter if the roads are one way each?

[frank cypress]

tbh, i think the thing it feels most guilty of is it seems to just ignore the texture maps created

[low sorrel]

🤷

[frank cypress]

which makes sense, idk how'd they implement that but

it feels to me that they be oiling up all the characters

[edgy laurel]

Yeah i'm between hating what I saw in a 30 second demo but being wise enough to realize that can't possibly be exactly what we're going to see in every game designed this way.

[pallid marsh]

It made the hair look better

[low sorrel]

they got back from a diddy party

[frank cypress]

i think the core concept is actually pretty decent if i'm understanding it correctly

[edgy laurel]

The real killer was using games we know and are used to as the examples. That shouldn't have happened.

[frank cypress]

it's trying to emulate better material responses that'd you normally only see in offline renders using AI

[edgy laurel]

Taking someones own memories and twisting them like that was not the play

[low sorrel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHRfcDUpg_Q dafaq

[frank cypress]

which if it did exactly that, i think would be phenomenal

[cosmic gazelle]

tech hobbyists when someone has an unpopular opinion lmao

[frank cypress]

idk, waiting to see

[pallid marsh]

Can you set dlss 5 to only do the hair?

Hair works v2

[frank cypress]

i think if it doesn't get better it'll just not be used much and if it does and provides better results (in the sense of sticking to the material values painted by artists) then i could get on board

[frank cypress]

i mean it makes sense, hair is notoriously shitty to have to make and render for real time renders

i'm not sure if we have strand based hair in actual gameplay now (though, UE5 definitely supports it)

but the more traditional hair card approach is just.... a mess

you're basically stacking a bunch of planes with opacity maps on top of each other to build the illusion of hair

[cosmic gazelle]

i would honestly be pretty pro ai hair if we just left faces completely alone

[pallid marsh]

It looks so much more life like for the hair

[frank cypress]

but that's horrendously expensive (in the sense that opacity is expensive to render, especially if you have a shit ton stacked on top of each other), and a huge fucking pain to make

[civic reef]

A case of the ignorant and idiotic having a voice

[civic reef]

I was thinking exactly that 😭

[hexed karma]

Love Philip and love that he found something to be obsessed over but the glazing can be too much

[civic reef]

Tbh the hyper-realistic look is off-putting to me, even though it's technically better

[civic reef]

Well he kinda has a bit of a point
You're pretty much taking source material, and "enhancing" it right on your graphics processor in real time with what seems to be insignificant delay

[frank cypress]

dear god did someone oil jensen and his jacket up too??

[low sorrel]

Honestly, I can see DLSS 5 as going the same way as DLSS 1 in the future

[frank cypress]

bro got the dlss 5.0 treatment

[hexed karma]

Is DLSS 5 kinda like a better version of reshade or enb’s in that it’s more of a filter added at the end of the pipeline?

[low sorrel]

shit first generation but keeps on getting better over time

[edgy laurel]

no

[edgy laurel]

yes

[frank cypress]

it's higher fidelity

[hexed karma]

Kinda?

[frank cypress]

not better imo

well in the case of starfield.... maybe

[low sorrel]

Still won't get me to play starfield

[edgy laurel]

#tech-chat-2 message

[frank cypress]

https://tenor.com/view/cringe-eeee-gif-24636179

[edgy laurel]

big update coming soon, looking forward to another playthrough

[civic reef]

Higher-fidelity, but it just looks.. Off

[frank cypress]

it's very highly in the uncanny valley

[low sorrel]

Really?

[frank cypress]

or should i say, very low in the valley

[civic reef]

YEAH exactly

[low sorrel]

I played through starfield once and it was just...

[civic reef]

I'd genuinely rather 'worse' models than that

[low sorrel]

A game

[frank cypress]

well the models themselves and the textures aren't really the problem per say

[civic reef]

They'll need to train more AI or try to lessen the degree of AI enhancement for it to be usable

[frank cypress]

or not the bottleneck i mean

[civic reef]

It's the AI model

Too stable-diffusion-like

[frank cypress]

we have the capability to make photorealistic people fully digitally without the use of ai, we just can't have that in real time

[low sorrel]

I'm hyped for dlss 5

In 5 years time

[frank cypress]

honestly these days, it's mainly lighting and material response that's lacking

[frank cypress]

i'm being cautiously optimistic about it depending on the way it progresses

if it goes down the path that's being shown, then you can throw it away

if it does a better job respecting the authored textures, then i can see it being a leap forward in fidelity without sacrificing artistic vision

[edgy laurel]

speaking of, there was an animated film from 2001 that I remember being talked about as taking 4 years to render. I bet that can be done in realtime today.

A render farm of 960 workstations was tasked with rendering each of the film's 141,964 frames. It took a staff of 200 about four years to complete The Spirits Within.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy:_The_Spirits_Within

[frank cypress]

probably yeah, there's some pretty exciting things happening on the offline rendering side at the moment

i went to a siggraph presentation from Pixar about Renderman XPU

[edgy laurel]

meanwhile a single 5090 could crank out that film in a weekend

(maybe not, i have no idea)

[low sorrel]

Oof

[frank cypress]

it's crazy how they got both the CPU/GPU//XPU renders in renderman XPU to look the same as RIS

[civic reef]

Probably could lmao

[frank cypress]

lemme see if they have anything like that posted online to show

[edgy laurel]

oh yeah it tanked but it was still pretty cool for nerds

[civic reef]

NVidia's offering in 2001 is the GeForce 3

[frank cypress]

https://www.rassoul.net/blog/pixars-renderman-xpu-offline-renderer-of-the-future

[civic reef]

That thing had 64mb of DDR VRAM

[civic reef]

4 Pixel shaders
1 Vertex shader
8 TMUs
4 ROPs

[edgy laurel]

oh it looks like that was used in the spirits within too

[frank cypress]

TTFP is lower, but that's probably cause they have to load shit into the vram which takes time

[low sorrel]

How much faster is ris compared to the ones used in that movie

[civic reef]

@edgy laurel In pure memory, one 5090 is worth 768 of their GPUs

Btw that had a 128 Bit bus

[edgy laurel]

The first 18 months of development were spent creating the in-house software SQFlesh, which plugged into the programs Autodesk Maya and RenderMan. The majority of the rest of production was spent on animation.[21] Square accumulated four SGI Origin 2000 series servers, four Onyx2 systems, and 167 Octane workstations for the film's production.[22][23] The basic film was rendered at a custom render farm created by Square in Hawaii. It housed 960 Pentium III-933 MHz workstations. Character movements were filmed using motion capture technology.

The film consists of 141,964 frames, with each frame taking an average of 90 minutes to render.[20] By the end of production Square had a total of 15 terabytes of artwork for the film.[20]

[civic reef]

.. And NVidia is giving us 96 bit in 2026

[frank cypress]

rendeman yeah, but a really old version of it probably

[low sorrel]

Imagine if you time traveled to 2001 with one of those

[pallid marsh]

Is this 9gb 5050 really coming out?

[frank cypress]

idk, it seems to me GPU rendering just weren't that useful for high end productions up until relatively recently

just cause of the sheer amount of vram the 6000 blackwell pro has

96gb of gddr7 is still bonkers to even think about

[pallid marsh]

I can't imagine Nvidia using 3gb gddr7 for a 5050

[low sorrel]

Actually give a 6000 Blackwell pro to NASA in 2001

Would that be faster then the supercomputers that they had back then?

[frank cypress]

probably not

[civic reef]

Oh look NVidia has the 5600 XT and 6800 XT

:3

[pallid marsh]

And use it in what pcie slot? It was a thing yet

2003 for pci express

[low sorrel]

Wow it isn't even close

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCI_White#:~:text=ASCI White - Wikipedia,of 12.3 teraFLOPS (TFLOPS).

[low sorrel]

A 3090 has 3x the compute

[merry stirrup]

yeah until you run into memory limits

[civic reef]

It's coming out yeah

But on the plus side, some companies are using the 3GB chips to make 12GB laptop 5070s

[low sorrel]

Pfft who needs memory

[pallid marsh]

Nvidia said we couldn't have 24gb 5080 because of the small supply and cost of 3gb gddr7 but will put it in a fucking 5050

[merry stirrup]

24GB on a 5080 would make it no more useful of a card it is now

if you want more than 16GB you have gotta be running an ai girlfriend on the side

if the 5080 had 24GB the next complaint would be that its nowhere near fast enough

because its not lol

[pallid marsh]

Yeah the 5080 is lack luster but still why give the fancy 3gb shit to the lowest end sku

[merry stirrup]

because people are going to actually buy that and be able to give them insane margin

nobody wanted a 5080 anyways because its 1200$ lol

[pallid marsh]

5080 super/ti for $1800 with 24gb vram could sell in the current market I think

[civic reef]

Because you can go kick rocks for all they care

I wouldn't even be mad if they gave it to the 5060

Makes it a semi-1440p card

But nope, 9GB RTX 5050

[shell void]

it's seen in shipping manifests so yeah probably

[turbid locust]

getting mildly tired of grown ass mfs beefing at work like teenagers

[pallid marsh]

Remove the 8/16gb skus for the 5060ti and make it 12gb then sell it as "MSRP" $400

[pallid marsh]

:/

Still can't understand why a 5050 gets 3 3gb gddr7 chips

[shell void]

i think MLID had the right idea when he said that nvidia keeps the xx50 card in production for several years, and they were probably just trying to make a sku that doesnt use gddr6 so that theyre not still making gddr6 cards in like 2028

and make that sku as close in vram quantity and bandwidth to the original as possible

[pallid marsh]

Is 3gb gddr7 way cheaper now?

[shell void]

ive never found a site that tracks 3GB G7 chip pricing so i have no idea

[pallid marsh]

I'm going hunting

I will find it

[civic reef]

Genuinely doesn't deserve it
It's the ONLY card that's okay with being 8GB in 2026

5060 12GB, with a Ti 12GB

5070 Ti Super would be 18GB, or 24GB if they use 8 chips instead of 6 (8 chips being current 5070 Ti layout, 6 being 5070)

[merry stirrup]

its not so simple as just using 8 chips homie

[topaz veldt]

blah

[pallid marsh]

Maybe it's also going to be a quadro/ work station sku one card two names

[edgy laurel]

ok ok, i see the vision. what AIO is that?

[pure garnet]

@merry stirrup i got bored and pulled up my local craigslist, bro wants $300 for a 4790 and a 1060

[merry stirrup]

jesus christ bro you should start scamming your local area, thats an HP board

[pallid marsh]

3gb 1060?

[pure garnet]

6gb

[pallid marsh]

Damn

[merry stirrup]

ignore the mess

i have its newer brother lyinh around

[pallid marsh]

Oh it's a $40 sama case bro is just being a shitty flipper

[pure garnet]

$350 for a 8100 + 3050gb

[civic reef]

Pretty clean, I like this

[pure garnet]

he didn't change the case on this one

it's obviously just some ewaste tower

[merry stirrup]

lmao

[edgy laurel]

this is the Office Depot special from 2007

[pure garnet]

Please, serious inquiries only. Price is firm unless you are a young person.

scamming kids too 😭

[merry stirrup]

pause

[pure garnet]

hold on floppa knows where i live immma just dm him the listing

[merry stirrup]

true 💀

[edgy laurel]

no low ball offers, i know what i've got

[shell void]

imaginary memory bus

[frank zealot]

Tree fiddy

[shell void]

clean as

[merry stirrup]

oh it has a bomb

intel 1tb ssd tho hey thats points

[merry stirrup]

"! I've also installed a few other choice utilities. "

[frank cypress]

for the general public yeah

[pure garnet]

https://tenor.com/f6b7wQ13LG6.gif

[frank cypress]

i'd kill for one

[merry stirrup]

this guy has malware preinstalled just for you

[merry stirrup]

W gif

[pure garnet]

The computer requires a monitor or TV (screen), mouse, keyboard, and most importantly, a SURGE PROTECTOR (not just a power strip). I will include the power cord and some extra case screws. As always, I am happy to field any questions!

[merry stirrup]

insane

guy must be banned from our local scrapyards

my bad heres the title

still wanna go out and bu this

[devout ridge]

looks like copper coated aluminum

[merry stirrup]

pretty good price for a 9800GX2 if it works, 2gpus on board

[edgy laurel]

nvidia did more of those than I realized

in fact I missed at least one #tech-chat-2 message

[lethal topaz]

hello chat

vertical ultrawide lol

[pallid marsh]

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/micron-joins-the-3gb-gddr7-party-introduces-36-gbps-modules-for-gpus-lags-behind-speeds-of-samsung-and-sk-hynix I give up im. Just going to believe 3gb chips are just as cheap as 2/4

[merry stirrup]

lol

[pure garnet]

bro

[edgy laurel]

any others?

[merry stirrup]

bro

[merry stirrup]

7950 gx2

are we counting unofficial but still nvidia

cause all the 2win cards as well

the mars cards

[edgy laurel]

wait that wasn't single PCB

[pallid marsh]

I want to see what benchmarks he is using to believe it's like a 1070ti

[edgy laurel]

I remember now I was just looking for single PCB cards

[merry stirrup]

gigabyte has a 6600GT dual

295 has a single pcb variant

[edgy laurel]

yeah I got that one

[shell void]

"5070ti/5080 it performs the same as 5080 when overclocked trust me bro" ($1200)

[merry stirrup]

2win is single pcb

pretty sure the 6600GT x2 is single pcb

yeah it is

if unofficial ones count then like 460 2 win, 560 2 win, the mars cards

[edgy laurel]

i love how they're putting two midrane sku's on there

[merry stirrup]

cause 2 midrange skus is faster than 1 high end at the time

[pure garnet]

i got close to a 5080 in synthetics but i crashed in games

[merry stirrup]

by a good amount

[pure garnet]

granted i may also not know what i’m doing

[merry stirrup]

like youd have more luck with 2 960s if your workload worked with multi gpu than a 980

[pure garnet]

idk if you do curves or not when ocing

[edgy laurel]

I just don't remember anything working better lol

[merry stirrup]

mars 1 was dual pcb so it doesnt count

[pure garnet]

i just punched in +350

[merry stirrup]

mars 2 is single

[edgy laurel]

this is god damn beautiful

[merry stirrup]

i assume we're not counting business/anything other than gaming cards

if we are counting those,, tesla k80, m60, and so on

[edgy laurel]

ok don't pull out the XFX nonsense

er, not XFX, 3DFx

[merry stirrup]

nah still nvidia here

[low sorrel]

I love nexus mods: turn off ad block for a faster download speed

each page takes 15 seconds to load because of how many ads there are

[merry stirrup]

k80s are cool

[cosmic gazelle]

you stole my capacitors

[merry stirrup]

24GB vram in the kepler era

each i think 780(ti?) having 12GB memory

[fringe vigil]

crimson desert pre load started

[cosmic gazelle]

these are $65 lol

surprised llm people haven’t decided to buy them all

[merry stirrup]

unfortunately thats more money than they were 2 years ago

because kepler cant do shit

[cosmic gazelle]

because no one seems to realize that llms don’t magically run on old shitty vram with old shitty gpus

[merry stirrup]

they did they just quickly found out theyre useless

minimum you need volta, and i cant imagine they do well

[edgy laurel]

the guy from a few weeks ago that wanted to buy a bunch of Grid K2's to run LLM's. Damn things are Kepler based

[merry stirrup]

yeah

[topaz veldt]

Cooler master atmos II lcd

[edgy laurel]

Interesting

[merry stirrup]

@pure garnet shawty do you live in the middle of nowhere

theres 6 craiglist posts where you live

[pure garnet]

no it’s just a tourist town so most stuff is facebook marketplace or not here

[merry stirrup]

oh ok

[edgy laurel]

I feel like.. kyoko are you in one of the carolinas?

[merry stirrup]

bro

how does one "feel" the state a person is in

[topaz veldt]

@edgy laurel I think you'd really like this case - its awesome to build in and apparently the fans flow even more than Torrents

[edgy laurel]

i thought I knew and now i forget

[edgy laurel]

what is it?

[merry stirrup]

epoch?

[edgy laurel]

new Meshify?

[topaz veldt]

HAVN BF 360

[merry stirrup]

oh i was going to buy one instead of y40

[edgy laurel]

oh, yeah. had that been out at the time

[topaz veldt]

yah maybe next time

[edgy laurel]

in 2022, Torrent was top dawg

[topaz veldt]

yah

[pure garnet]

yeah

[topaz veldt]

still nice - this will look decent in the family room

[edgy laurel]

see, I knew it!

[topaz veldt]

torrent looks a little too much

[merry stirrup]

i knew you were right it just blew my mind

i have kyokos addy bro 💀

10 million dollars and ill share it no more no less

@pure garnet if i get an offer you gotta take one for the team

i'll slide 3m

[edgy laurel]

I work with someone in the Moorseville area. nascar country

[cosmic gazelle]

i’ll do 2.7 final offer

[pure garnet]

i mean at that price i'd just move yeah

[merry stirrup]

see

it works out

kyokos local market is insane

[fringe vigil]

chips you playing crimson desert

[cosmic gazelle]

is it free

[pure garnet]

no

[cosmic gazelle]

then no

i’m playing this riveting thing called

how high on the passmark list can I get my ram

i’m in the top 1% with about 30 minutes of tuning lmao

because presumably nobody cares enough to tune micron

[merry stirrup]

on ddr5 maybe

is more because nobody is full tuning ram ocs for passmark performance

and more for yc,7zip,pyprime

[graceful marten]

could ram be the issue for like certain stuff restarting in the pc? I feel like it isnt but sometimes my usbs and bluetooth just resets out of nowhere and stops working for like 15 seconds. It's not a killing problem so I dont need acute help, I was more just curious

[pure garnet]

are you on ryzen

[graceful marten]

Yes

AMD was said to be good, I've only had fucking problems with the gpu drivers so far so 😛

[pure garnet]

am4?

[graceful marten]

Am5

7600X, 9060XT 16gb

In the early stages of having the pc, it crashed alot when alt-tabbing out of fullscreened games. Also when playing Roblox I cant go on manual and full quality because it sucks for some reason, could just be roblox tbf.

But not a worry, Roblox I play like once a month if that

[cosmic gazelle]

these sticks are d die but i watched bz’s video on a die and its wild how bad it is

can’t handle 38cl at 5400

[turbid locust]

peak technology

[merry stirrup]

all those leaked trade secrets for what

[pure garnet]

value village memory

[turbid locust]

happy St. Patrick’s day mfs

[merry stirrup]

was gonna say its early but i realise its 6pm even my time

[vestal granite]

these tall rectangles are green today

my window is damp from the fog today and i had to zoom in a lot for the photo but its green and thats all that matters

[turbid locust]

lived an entire lifetime before this Guinness floppa

[grizzled lily]

dlss 5 is cooled

[merry stirrup]

cooled

[grizzled lily]

imagine the frames though😂

[fringe vigil]

concrete jungles where dreams are made of

[merry stirrup]

guys i just cant get behind the noctua computers

[turbid locust]

same

$400 antec case cause it has Noctua fans and was slightly painted brown

[merry stirrup]

it just looks like shit

[turbid locust]

No clue who’s keeping Noctua in business

your products are 200% more expensive while being maybe 5% better than the competition lmfao

[merry stirrup]

if even 5%

[turbid locust]

fr

[spiral quarry]

I'm sorry what 400$ . Shit ima diy it that that point.

[turbid locust]

yup

[wise bear]

idk i kinda like it

[merry stirrup]

for why

for the 6 different shades of brown? idk

[wise bear]

It looks woody

[merry stirrup]

it looks brown

[wise bear]

idk what to tell you

[spiral quarry]

Funny I got 2 of their A4x20 fans recently to replace the fans in a network switch but that didn't work. Was lazy to return it so now I am repurposing it for some other cooling in my case

[topaz veldt]

Am I the only one who thinks the Flux looks cheap af?

[spiral quarry]

ram cooling potentially

[merry stirrup]

its antec bro

even in your time antec was cheap as fuck

[spiral quarry]

needed no, but cool otherwise

[turbid locust]

Ironic considering it’s $400 USD.

[topaz veldt]

Like this in person looks complete ass - it looks like fake wood dishwasher covers from the 1980s

[merry stirrup]

the screens arent even screens theyre just segmented displays

i get it but at the same time its a 400$ case

even with a 3x profit margin target its a shit product idk

[spiral quarry]

wait the case includes the fans?

huh I guess so

[merry stirrup]

4 noctua fans it seems

must take up 3/4ths of the case cost

[spiral quarry]

welp that explains that lol

[shell void]

i was hoping it was going to be an actual custom noctua case, not just an antec flux

[pure garnet]

well it’s a $180 case bundled with $272 in fans and hub

[shell void]

i also have zero interest in their upcoming AIO that's just a generic oem unit with a piece of noctua foam on the waterblock

very lazy product launches

[pure garnet]

you do save money but realistically who wanted that specific case and those fans

[merry stirrup]

that case cannot be 180$

[pure garnet]

that’s the actual msrp

[merry stirrup]

man

[pure garnet]

https://www.amazon.com/Antec-Included-High-Airflow-Radiator-Full-Tower/dp/B0DDNS2SY3

163 rn but list from 180

[merry stirrup]

bro

thats wild

[pure garnet]

wow that’s lazy

20 years for some foam

[shell void]

carefully tuned austrian cooling instrument

[pure garnet]

if noctua made a collab north with 4 fans for $250-300 i think that would’ve gone better

instead of $400 for this

[merry stirrup]

i hate that the brown on the flux isnt even noctua brown though

[pure garnet]

like the north momentum xl

that is a PERFECT case for chromax black fans

[merry stirrup]

noctua brags about the thousands of dollars they spend on color matching and making sure their product is consistent but dont care what their collab partner does

[merry stirrup]

hot

[pure garnet]

that and chromax

would’ve been perfect

[shell void]

okay but where's nh-u12a g2?

[pure garnet]

2027 q3

[shell void]

im prob going full lian li whenever i rebuild

[pure garnet]

idk what i’ll do when i rebuild but unless i have a hardware failure my next upgrade will be a full rebuild

[shell void]

but like this, not a lianli A3

[pure garnet]

damn calling out the macster and his average sized box

i like my epoch but i wish i had room for the xl on my table

because now i can’t put a cool 6090 in it

[shell void]

last i checked the LianLi TL120s were the best performing "beauty" fan

[fringe vigil]

https://klipy.com/gifs/johnny-laugh-four

[pure garnet]

the green mag logo sticks out like a sore thumb in that build

[shell void]

time to setup a shop bot to get a FE

[pure garnet]

nah i’m gonna wait to see for whatever card lets you do the fun stuff

like how 5090 master owners won with the matrix bios

[shell void]

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

naturally we all have to get 1000W dual connector cards

(i probably wont get a 6090)

[wraith steeple]

[shell void]

nova lake 52 core for sure though

[pure garnet]

final fantasy 4k 120fps with dlss uses like 60% power on my 5070ti

so the only 6090 benefit is tinkering with it

[shell void]

yeah and i dont think 60 series is going to have any exclusive features

because we got the full SM redesign with new NVFP4 instruction, and the new display engine with blackwell

[devout ridge]

BONUS CHECK SOON, you know what that means, OLED!

[shell void]

it's probably just going to be a performance boost which is what people want, but that's less interesting to me

[shell void]

[devout ridge]

that’s the financially sensible choice right?

[shell void]

yeh

[devout ridge]

thank you, i can always rely on you michael

[pure garnet]

rebooted my pc and the nvidia app still broken :\

[shell void]

your bonus check should go straight towards the ASUS ROG STRIX OLED XG32UCWMG now that it was discounted two days ago

it calls to you Iroh https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16824281378

[shell void]

is it doing the bug where things dont load, and you cant access dlss override options?

i get that if i fuck with bios swaps and driver swaps and windows reinstalls

it goes away eventually without me doing anything

[pure garnet]

yeah i just blew away the entire app and reinstalled it

i wanted to get fortnite off it's geriatric dlss 2

[shell void]

youd think that Epic would be more proactive with adding new nvidia features

it surprises me

[pure garnet]

no they want you to use their ue upscaler

[wraith steeple]

As much as I love the Flux Pro..... I honestly would say that the Meshify 3 XL beats it by an eyelash for me

[cosmic gazelle]

bad news- in the year of our lord 2025, asus makes an oc capable board with no way of clearing cmos besides just taking the battery out

good news- bios profiles persist through the reset

[turbid locust]

https://x.com/jakkuh_t/status/2033984684749951270?s=46 lmao

Jake Tivy (@jakkuh_t)

Putting a 2mm thermal pad on top of the processor in the MacBook Neo = 10-15% higher multicore performance (@ 1-2W higher power)

highly recommend

X · Mar 17, 2026, 7:11 PM

[pure garnet]

it probably broke when i swapped to the revised 400w bios

but the fans are way quiter so im keeping this bios 100%

[cosmic gazelle]

does no one test their own products

[pure garnet]

apple isn't going to have the bottom of a laptop soak heat by default

and the neo target market does not gaf about 15% more multi

[shell void]

Apple purposefully doesnt let the chips in the Neo and Air dump into the chassis because it makes your lap and fingers hot

especially if you thermal pad a M4 or M5 air

[edgy laurel]

you don't think in the entire company knows how their own chips perform in every possible thermal condition an environment? they know.

[pure garnet]

@shell void holy shit 360w

[shell void]

but we're kinda at the point where even the base M series is too much heat for the 13" Air chassis

[devout ridge]

my bonus check ain’t that big

[shell void]

it has a substantial performance deficit compared to the mac mini and 14" Pro

im wondering if theyll stop selling the 13" Air if the Neo is successful

[turbid locust]

The Neo will be successful at that price

[shell void]

the 13" air feels redundant to me if the Neo serves that "cheapest 13" macbook" market

[pallid marsh]

At the student discount of $499 it's a great deal

[shell void]

wowza

[turbid locust]

I’m considering buying one

my predicament is if I want a $500 Neo or a 15” refurb M3 air for $900 lol

It will entirely be determined by when I check out a Neo in person

Not sure I’ll be happy with a 13” display

[pure garnet]

preset l made it power hungry

[shell void]

i know i wouldnt be, i love the 16" 16:10 form factor of my Pro, but im not putting it on school desks

[shell void]

yeah the power difference is surprising

it's like +100W compared to preset K at 2160p on a 5090

[turbid locust]

I can’t justify the price of the Pro

[shell void]

putting those tensor cores to work

[cosmic gazelle]

wouldn’t it make more sense to just thermal pad it and then apply a hard power draw limiter

to reduce overall core temps while not actually outputting more heat total

[pure garnet]

no because the entire point is to not heat up the chassis

this same hack has applied to basically every unibody macbook

if you don't care about heating up the bottom you could just use it as a heatsink

[lethal topaz]

is VRR desirable

[shell void]

it depends on the framerates youre playing at, and whether or not youll be using dlss framegen

but it's not really detrimental to leave enabled

[pallid marsh]

Them damn laws about laptops not giving us dangerous heat burns

[lethal topaz]

like if im above or below my frame target?

[shell void]

oh wait you have the 540Hz PG27AQWP right Badger?

[lethal topaz]

yee

[shell void]

i wouldnt use VRR on that panel

[lethal topaz]

thanks

i just redid my setup and now my monitor is fucky

the tv has been impemented

[fervent chasm]

Has dynamic frame gen been released yet?

[shell void]

march 31st

[fervent chasm]

I thought it had come out with DLSS 4.5 but then someone told me it was just videos of it like a preview

[fervent chasm]

Oh that’s not long

[lethal topaz]

okay its finally working

my dsc ratio is so fucked lmao

dont worry i will not be using a 21:9 vertical monitor

but i have finally upgraded to a sit / standing desk

and a television

[shell void]

cool beans open frame case

[lethal topaz]

well it turns out the adapter i needed for the ultrawide will be delayed

so i cannot plug that in tonight

[eager elm]

where yall get wallpapers

[lethal topaz]

i took the photos for mine

[shell void]

based

[lethal topaz]

a few of them are taken with 200MP so they have to be downloaded to see

[merry stirrup]

if you just preview the first two images and then use ur arrow keys the client will work to view it

[shell void]

good pix king

[lethal topaz]

ty

[lethal topaz]

thanks for the info! didnt know that

[arctic bronze]

bro, not the mewing freddy

https://tenor.com/view/freddy-mewing-gif-16618854983432963802

[pure garnet]

dude alfredo fortnite horror is the xp meta

i get like 40k xp a day in 5 minutes

[arctic bronze]

you lost me at fortnite

[topaz veldt]

That fuggin scoopy/duct on the floor of the HAVN BF 360 is super effective

[cosmic gazelle]

i can’t lower my tRCDRD past stock expo value

lovely

[brisk jolt]

afaik the only 2 that really matter are trfc and trefi

[shell void]

5090 master eating that good air?

[cosmic gazelle]

this is a massive oversimplification

and trfc is barely a factor half the time from what i gather

[brisk jolt]

I could try to target 120ns range

Or I just downgrade to a 9850x3d and actually hit 8k g2

[pure garnet]

at this point you are more likely to get one that doesn't

[shell void]

yeah pretty much

the rest of the timings are for fun

tightening refreshes has the biggest impact on game lows

and itll matter even less when next gen CPUs have 144MB L3 per chiplet

[cosmic gazelle]

i’ve definitely raised benchmark performance by doing tertiaries, but obv games have different demands so if we mean games then yeah

[brisk jolt]

nah if the macbin gets a normal bin mine would also be pretty normal

9850x3d is the pity chip

[shell void]

it seems to be impossible to get a shit 9850x3d

[brisk jolt]

yeah

[pure garnet]

macs cpus have all been better than yours unless you're just skill issued

[shell void]

they seem to be at least somewhat binned

0 chance in hell i would downgrade from a 9950x3d to a 9850x3d tho

i only have a single ccd chip because amd delayed the 9950x3d at the last minute so that they could polish the chipset drivers

[cosmic gazelle]

also i realized g skill rma’d my 32gb kit by sending me a 16gb kit which seems like a mistake but im already lowkey scamming them so im just gonna leave it

[brisk jolt]

I just still need to run corecycler to optimise my power draw

[pure garnet]

if the dual ccd chips didn't rely on gamebar to work best i'd like one

[brisk jolt]

but for 16 cores im kinda going “this might be a waste of time”

[cosmic gazelle]

what does this do, you’re the second person to talk about it

[pure garnet]

but since 90% of my windows use is just games then i stick with single ccd

[shell void]

relying on gamebar is a skill issue

[brisk jolt]

undervolting

[shell void]

if you underclock the slave CCD then it's deprioritized and unproblematic like Ecores in an Intel CPU

[cosmic gazelle]

yeah but how specifically does it help dial offsets

[pure garnet]

yeah but then i lose giga hurts

[shell void]

i wouldge bought a 9950X3D if it was out on day one

[shell void]

as opposed to not having the cores at all? xD

[pure garnet]

cores i realistically don't need yeah

[brisk jolt]

you stress each core individually to isolate them and see if they turn up any errors at x negative CO

[cosmic gazelle]

just do 6ghz on your 3d ccd silly

[pure garnet]

im not doing the linux build stuff on campus anymore

so the 9800x3d multi is fine for me

[cosmic gazelle]

like in ryzen master or with a reboot every time

[shell void]

fair enough queen

[pure garnet]

when i was building a kernel or whatever every day the cores were nice

[shell void]

i just find big core cpus fun to mess with so i want ultra 9 495k

[cosmic gazelle]

to be fair most people who need better multi core performance than a 9800 know they need it

and at that point just get intel lol

i yearn to have two pcs like most of you freaks

[brisk jolt]

theres a corecycler feature that adjusts the CO everytime one fails

[cosmic gazelle]

oh that’s sick i might do that

[frank cypress]

is this nitobe memorial garden by any chance?

[cosmic gazelle]

so it’s like set and forget it?

[brisk jolt]

5nail with like 5 goes hard

[shell void]

if ram pricing didnt get silly then i wouldve been tempted to build a Xeon 676X PC to have 32c64t in a single chiplet with 8 channel memory

[lethal topaz]

which image? the pond?

[shell void]

but i dont want to pay $1-1.5K for ram

[frank cypress]

yeah

[brisk jolt]

i havent tried the feature the last time I used core cycler my 9800x3d passed 12hrs on +200 -30CO

[lethal topaz]

imperial palace garden, tokyo

[frank cypress]

oh i see

cool!

[brisk jolt]

which will not work as easily bcs the 9950x3d boosts up to 5.7

and i have turds in my ccd1

[cosmic gazelle]

i’m just seeing direct scaling with undervolting in heavy cpu benchmarks so if corecycler can automatically find my best per core offsets then that sounds great

[shell void]

im too impatient to per-core tune

[cosmic gazelle]

all of my offsets are just guesses rn

[shell void]

i just use per-ccd offsets and run ycruncher vt3

[brisk jolt]

you only have to tune 8 cores while I have to tune 16

[shell void]

i would still use per CCD on a 9950X3D

[brisk jolt]

but 9800x3d is ez to just +200 -20 anyway

[cosmic gazelle]

my worst core only does -10

lmao

[brisk jolt]

core 8 only does like -10 so ive already identified a turd

[shell void]

no problem

it should still hit 5425 ingame with -10

[cosmic gazelle]

wait so can corecycler adjust your offsets on the fly or does it just turn them off if one crashes? i’m confused

[cosmic gazelle]

yeah everything that isn’t shader caching hits full boost for me i just start seeing clocks drop on full 100% usage scenarios

[brisk jolt]

it adjusts if it crashes then it can restart the process

but you need to properly configure it

[cosmic gazelle]

hmm i may look into this

[edgy laurel]

since when does corecycler interact with and adjust pbo settings?

[cosmic gazelle]

just googled it, apparently since version 1.0 they have implemented an automatic test mode

[edgy laurel]

oh, thats new

[cosmic gazelle]

this is AI but presumably true

[edgy laurel]

there wasn't a full website back when I used it. just a script from the dude on a forum

[brisk jolt]

not sure, heard it last year in another server where someone did it for their 9950x3d and had a full list of what it could do

[cosmic gazelle]

so basically just set an offset that’s too high on every core and let it find the highest stable value

[edgy laurel]

when it would fail you had to head back into the bios and just that core and start again

[cosmic gazelle]

it looks like it just uses a rudimentary system of “if the test pass on core x did not complete, a crash is assumed, so raise offset by 2”

[edgy laurel]

yeah but the act of actually adjusting the offset needed to be done by you

i'm reading the readme on the github, i can't find anything about it now doing that on its own

[pure garnet]

you could probably do it with the ryzenmaster sdk but only if it wasn't a fatal crash

[cosmic gazelle]

what i’m seeing people say is that it just saves the test progress in a log file and looks at it the next time your computer starts

it’s kinda assuming you’re going to bsod a bunch of times

[edgy laurel]

that might be it, looking in the config script

its calling on an AMD CLI tool

man this is one comprehensive config. it didn't have all this back then

it was just prime95, now its all sorts of loads it can run

ok yep, thats neat.

that should significantly improve how long the process takes, assuming your not hard crashing all the time

[cosmic gazelle]

from what im seeing, hard crashing all the time is kinda how it goes lol

you just set a started offset of like -50 and it just keeps stepping each core and waiting for it to crash or not crash

[edgy laurel]

remembering back, the threads would crash and just restart pretty often

it would log it all

[brisk jolt]

-50

[cosmic gazelle]

wait can your system handle a single core crashing without a bsod?

every time my offset has crashed it’s been a bsod

[edgy laurel]

yes, thats kidna the whole concept of the script

[cosmic gazelle]

ohhhhh that’s way cooler

no pun intended

[edgy laurel]

thats a crazy comprehensive script, little daunting to configure

[cosmic gazelle]

what would you need to change besides starting point and step size?

[edgy laurel]

i'd just start going through the config script and adjusting thigns as you like. defaults to prime95 but there is no AIda, ycruncher, and linpack to choose from

[cosmic gazelle]

i’ve heard most people just use yc but idk

[edgy laurel]

probably don't need to change much if you plan to just sit there and watch it work

[cosmic gazelle]

this sounds nice for cores i know can only handle around -12

[cosmic gazelle]

yeah i kinda just planned on doing that while watching youtube or something

[hexed karma]

could burn in protection settings interrupt my games or does it only kick in when idle?

[young void]

2nd psu prepped keks

[rocky shoal]

Nerd

[low sorrel]

@pallid marsh have you gone snowboarding

one of the bug reports of all time i've seen

[pure garnet]

okay throwing the master vbios into furmark with an oc/maxed voltage slider i saw 375w

still not the full 400 but realistically most im gonna get

[merry stirrup]

im putting the master on

[pure garnet]

lmk if it works, wait lemme link the good one after this nomad run

there's 2 400w vbioses and one has a loud ass fan curve

[merry stirrup]

i mean i can change it regardless

[pure garnet]

@merry stirrup https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/276936/276936

[merry stirrup]

unfortunately no dice on the master ill just put the strix on

[pure garnet]

did you try reinstalling the driver

[merry stirrup]

yur

[pure garnet]

oh rip

[merry stirrup]

ive flashed plenty a gpu in my day

whats the strix one?

380?

[pure garnet]

https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/277405/277405 350w here

[merry stirrup]

i dont think thats any different than just the stock prime bios

quite interesting

[pure garnet]

oh wait that's a tuf

[merry stirrup]

yeah

strix is only 350w as well but with a higher base limit

[pure garnet]

https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/278016/278016 yeah this one

[merry stirrup]

yeah

[pure garnet]

well i broke 7800

[merry stirrup]

idk i put it on there i doubt itll be any diff performance wise tho

[pure garnet]

3dmark website is fucking cooked though

[merry stirrup]

strix seems to have worked

[pure garnet]

kinda lame that asus this gen blocks all the cool flashes on their cards

[merry stirrup]

yeah

likely not intentional

[pure garnet]

oh it tired it lmfao

[pure garnet]

on the astral it's 100% intentional, it's one resistor

[cosmic gazelle]

why does 3dmark show no comparison scores here

[pure garnet]

because their website is literally dying

it will not load for me

[cosmic gazelle]

kyoko did you see the earlier convo

[merry stirrup]

well then where is the resistor on the prime? i’m not no bitch

[cosmic gazelle]

there’s core cycler that automatically determines optimal per core offsets now i’m gonna try it tomorrow

[pure garnet]

oh on the prime you just got board layout diffed iirc

[merry stirrup]

i see

[pure garnet]

but like macs card can't run the matrix vbios because of literally 1 resistor being in a different spot

the matrix expects 3 fan channels and asus used 2 on their cards before it

[merry stirrup]

interesting

i mean i can just shunt it and then evc it anyways

fuck yo vbios wars i get manual 1.2v

[pure garnet]

yeah but that's a lot of work

(i only flashed the master bc i got bored)

how does hwbot handle crossflashed cards anyway

i haven't found a ruling and im scared to ask

[merry stirrup]

what it doesnt matter

pretty sure you can check a box that says you unlocked shaders or something through a vbios flash but thats different

[pure garnet]

i thought they got mad if the hardware didn't match

[merry stirrup]

tell them you flashed the vbios and to jork it

you can just leave a comment on the post if ur scared or somethin

[pure garnet]

well first i gotta wait to get a score that i can sub when the website works 🧌

[merry stirrup]

damn you right

[pure garnet]

if you squint hard enough

[merry stirrup]

basically the same

[pure garnet]

my friend has a 5070ti even lamer than the prime though

he has the pny single vbios one

[merry stirrup]

euuggh

[pure garnet]

walmart base model

[merry stirrup]

ah i mean i almost went with that one

i think it looks fine

[pure garnet]

oh it's fine but

[merry stirrup]

hows it cool? its a triple slot so i imagine nicely

[pure garnet]

i finally got something useful out of the gaming trio

[merry stirrup]

at least nice enough

[pure garnet]

he uses a case with 0 airflow so

enough i guess

[merry stirrup]

yeah

[pure garnet]

i should probably put my stock vbios on like, google drive, or something

[merry stirrup]

put it on my fileshare

i'll make a named folder for you in the fileshare

we good

[pure garnet]

kyokovbiosvault.floppa.com

i just got this rn

[merry stirrup]

well now you know its stored in my house for some reason

[pure garnet]

old master is because the first one i flashed was a diff build date and had louder fans

[merry stirrup]

ah

[pure garnet]

you'll need it for when you buy this card for $30 and a ham sandwich

[merry stirrup]

yeah probably

[pure garnet]

because there's no reason for me to go back to the trio one anyway

same power target and now fan curve is chill

[merry stirrup]

fair enough

[pure garnet]

thought this was the ocf ngl

[merry stirrup]

LOL

[merry stirrup]

this motherboard is just so dogshit

[pure garnet]

assrock

[brisk jolt]

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

[pure garnet]

@merry stirrup did the strix bios do anything for you

[merry stirrup]

ive only played apex so far

[pure garnet]

can you feel the power of 20w higher target

[merry stirrup]

in apex my card draws less than 200w 😭

[pure garnet]

dude my card uses like 160w in xiv i feel you 😭

i run it capped at 120fps and then dlss to drop the util/power so i can watch youtube when i play

[brisk jolt]

I remember being on a 4060 and my yt video on the other monitor dropping from 1080p to 360p 💀

[pure garnet]

yeah

[brisk jolt]

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

[lethal topaz]

i understand now why 4k is so good

i thought 1440p was good enough

holy shit

[vestal granite]

yeah it's 4000x better than 0.001K

[low sorrel]

anyone know good places to buy ski shit

[pallid marsh]

Temu

[pallid marsh]

Why you looking for it at the end of winter?

[low sorrel]

i impulse bought a season pass which includes this spring

inb4 you have enough money for a season pass but not a new gpu

[pallid marsh]

Legitimately

[low sorrel]

why is all of the larges OOS

[indigo walrus]

To be fair, here in West Canuckistan, end of season is when all the used ski/board swapmeets happen.

[low sorrel]

wasn't there no snow on the mountains until january?

[low sorrel]

oh im stealing my cousins snowboard

[indigo walrus]

More or less. Our singular ski mountain didn't get enough snow to open even the nordic side of things until... like 2-3 weeks ago?

[low sorrel]

but i feel like sharing pants and jackets is a little... unhygenic

[indigo walrus]

If they're washed properly... it's no different than swimming in the same pool as someone. 😉

[low sorrel]

anyways kirashi you know any places to get good ski/snowboarding clothing and a helmet over here

[pallid marsh]

Temu has you covered

[indigo walrus]

Swap. Meets. Unless they don't do those in your area? (When I said ski/board, I didn't mean only skis / boards. All the meets over here do boots, snowpants, jackets, gloves, etc. too.)

[pallid marsh]

Thrift store

Just not for helmets

[pallid marsh]

Skis cost over $500 US but you won't buy a fucking GPU

I don't get you. Jerry

[low sorrel]

sorry snowboard

[pallid marsh]

Okay, it's like $100 less for a snowboard

[low sorrel]

ill buy a used one

[pallid marsh]

Why not a used gpu 😭

[low sorrel]

same price as new

[pallid marsh]

https://www.helmet.beam.vt.edu/snowsport-helmet-ratings.html

$200 usd for helmet

[low sorrel]

yeah i need an xl helmet

big brain

[pallid marsh]

A fellow large head

[low sorrel]

which is incredablity funny because i have tiny feet

the proportions don't make sense

[pallid marsh]

https://outdoormaster.com/products/snow-helmet-kelvin numba 9 $40

[pallid marsh]

Same wear 9 xx wide and I'm 5"10

[low sorrel]

can i get a number 9 extra large

https://tenor.com/view/big-smoke-number9-number-nine-gif-5899637

[pallid marsh]

Just remember after every crash where you hit your head, you need to get a new helmet

[low sorrel]

no mips

[pallid marsh]

So it tested well in Virginia tech testing and is ASTM F2040 and CE EN 1077 certified

And cost $40

[low sorrel]

but mips

[pallid marsh]

I bet you're going to be smacking your head a lot so you're going to go through a lot of helmets

[low sorrel]

what about this https://outdoormaster.com/products/kelvin-2-mips-ski-helmet?_pos=1&_sid=626d58016&_ss=r

[pallid marsh]

You're going to fall backwards and your head while trying to snowboard

[pallid marsh]

Idk VT didn't test the second version

[low sorrel]

i mean it sohuldn't be any worse right?

[pallid marsh]

They could have done an Nvidia make a good rtx 3060 12gb then sneak in a 8gb version

[low sorrel]

Fuckers don't have an XL size

Is this purple or pino

[brittle trellis]

Pink

[pallid marsh]

The color says purple blue

[indigo walrus]

https://tenor.com/view/nimona-metal-netflix-gif-7656955279592810629

[indigo walrus]

Whatever color people call that, it's METAL 🤘

[ripe stag]

Liquid metal on laptops is such a problem

They always leak out and eventually leave a giant hotspot on the cpu or gpu

Idk why laptop makers still use it

Me and my GFs laptops now have scorch marks on the CPUs

Ptm 7950 is such a godsend for laptops

[next ginkgo]

first time?

the moment I got my G16 I PTM'd it

[brisk jolt]

@low sorrel wtf

[ripe stag]

Yeah i should have when i got my g14 back in 2024

Though i didnt expect my GFs laptop to use liquid metal

Its an rog strix g15 from 2021

Didnt know they used it even back then

She just asked me to clean it and since i was gonna clean mine i opened hers up as well

[low sorrel]

i almost ended up with an white jacket, a white bib and a white helmet

before i realized with uhh

the small issue with that

[inland dome]

I've run into someone who doesn't know dual mode ram is a thing and also thinks ram literally just doesn't work unless it was made specifically for amd or intel

[brisk jolt]

if dude gets lost nobody is gonna find bros corpse ever

[wise bear]

GOOD MORNING

[merry stirrup]

nuhuh

its 3 am our time fuck you talm bout good morning for

[wise bear]

idk i went to bed at like

[brisk jolt]

its almost 6pm for me

[wise bear]

7 last night? I almost got up at 1 but decided against it

[merry stirrup]

damn

you ever had that cambodian food truck in eugene?

shits fire as fuck go get their skewers

this place

absolutely smackular

[brisk jolt]

wheres the sauce thats supposed to drench the rice

[merry stirrup]

that lil cup

i personally wasnt a fan of the sauce stuff but it was actually pretty insanely good otherwise

i think it was like, 12 $

[wise bear]

I made some fire maccy cheese last night

spinach sauce with cheddar and gouda

and the fish fillettttt

[merry stirrup]

quite nice

although i do not like mac and cheese

i was gonna ask what the fried thing is but its feesh

[wise bear]

floppa have you tried lani moku

[merry stirrup]

nah

[wise bear]

like down by thurston area

[merry stirrup]

yeah i know

[wise bear]

its rly good

they got good noods

[merry stirrup]

what about hawaiian time or whatever im told constantly that its good

[wise bear]

uhh hawaiian time that i got off of uber was aight

I got teriyaki chicken and steak with ac salad and rice

kona cafe is the one to avoid tbh

[merry stirrup]

kona seems gross i think they closed anyways

[wise bear]

the one just after st vins

[copper yoke]

Hi I'm having major fps issues like fps drops etc, especially in games like elden ring, fortnite and even rocket league, and usually after I leave the game the PC starts performing bad overall after playing it

[merry stirrup]

yeah pretty sure kona is gone

[wise bear]

LMAO did kona close??

[merry stirrup]

i dont think theres a store anymore

pinkish building right?

[wise bear]

yellow front, its still active it looks like

[merry stirrup]

oh no its the yellow one

oh then another place that sounds similar closed as well

[wise bear]

yeah hawaiian is kinda hard to get right here

but lani moku is fireeeee

[merry stirrup]

o i think its the mckenzie

[wise bear]

also jack in the box is kinda fire

the tacos kinda suck but the egg rolls are surprisingly good

[merry stirrup]

ive been seeing it

I GOT TWO FREE TACOS

[wise bear]

I got the stupid combo box that has 2 burgers, 2 chicken burgies, 4 tacos, and 4 fries

and then i got a salad and a fish sammy and eggy rolls

the burgies are okay

[merry stirrup]

idk im not super into fast foood burgers to begin with, i usually get a sonic smasher

[wise bear]

I tried five guys for the first time last week

[merry stirrup]

and the last?

[wise bear]

honestly I wouldn't order it for myself but if I'm being dragged there I'll get a burgy

i like toxic burger more

or killer burger

[merry stirrup]

killer burga is actually good

[wise bear]

it IS

[copper yoke]

How do u clean rhis

[merry stirrup]

distilled water and a microfibre cloth

[wise bear]

the teemah is one of my favs

with the swiss fondue and blue cheese

[merry stirrup]

idk im a basic hoe when it comes to burgers bro

just give me the burger and typical toppings no tomato

[copper yoke]

I can't find any distilled water anywhere

I do have the cloth that came with the monitor but not the wayer

[wise bear]

god you're so bland

[merry stirrup]

use distilled water its not worth potentially scratching a 600$ monitor over 2$ distilled water

[brittle trellis]

Too much for me

[merry stirrup]

if you dont have it just wait till next time you hit the grocery store

[copper yoke]

alr

[merry stirrup]

idk i think it actually lets me know whether a spot is good or not

[wise bear]

like, I get that

but also burgy toppings

burgies are like pizzas, the options runneth over

[livid flame]

Tomatoes are vile

They’re little red, yellow, green, brown, purple, orange balls, pink of earthy tasting juice that grow on green vines. They should never have been a thing to eat.

[scarlet raft]

just found out my 5070 ti ROG has fan headers the heck

[topaz veldt]

might have RGB headers also

[brisk jolt]

there might be a pcb inside

[topaz veldt]

Sooo one thing about this new case

https://havn.global/products/havn-h18-pc-case-fan?variant=56269588169088

These bottom out at like 550 RPM at like 25% DC

20% they go off

Wish they could run at like 400 rpm

[shell void]

u must have a very quiet living room to be able to hear them at 550 across the room

[devout ridge]

my tinnitus alone would be louder

i forget just how good quality green tea is

[shell void]

@steel stream @edgy laurel Subnautica 2 maybe saved? potential second wind?

[devout ridge]

What makes you say that?

The new building system they debuted?

[shell void]

the publisher Krafton lost the lawsuit so the old CEO of Unknown Worlds was reinstated, and the deadline for the $250M bonus was extended

[devout ridge]

Oooooh

I'm really glad to hear that

I'm hopeful for Subnautica 2

Wasn't a fan of Subnautica: Below Zero, but i genuinely believe they'll take what they learned there and do better

[merry stirrup]

bro jamiroquai is british

crazy.

[edgy laurel]

Oh yeah I saw this. Good, gooood

[shell void]

https://tenor.com/view/conquest-invincible-conquest-very-good-conquest-very-good-invincible-gif-3945700666894580744

[reef lance]

I'm like 75% sure my 13900K is degraded in some way. I messed around with settings and trying to even do a simple overclock with this thing seems to either barely raise the cinebench score or actually lower it. Not to mention it also can become unstable in general when doimg that. It also doesn't seem very stable when under volting it beyond 0.02500v or so. Plus a bunch of other stuff. It's possible it's microcode changes, but idk. I'm probably going to RMA it when I can in a couple months. Luckily it is stable when just running at stock settings, so it's not completely borked. I have that going for me.

Also at stock settings it gets a score of ~36000 on Cinebench R23, which is pretty normal, so that's good too.

[shell void]

if it’s stable at stock settings then it’s an invalid RMA

[brisk jolt]

it wont be rma’d if its working properly

chances are you have a turd

[steel stream]

🙏

@edgy laurel mind testing this out for me? https://videocardz.com/newz/death-stranding-2-pc-build-reportedly-leaked-on-steam-ahead-of-launch

[edgy laurel]

heh i saw a story about that and thought you'd be testing it yourself lol

[steel stream]

I've been thinking about reinstalling windows so maybe lol

[steel stream]

I do really want to mess around with pico

[fringe vigil]

No it can’t

[pure garnet]

considering there some egregious bins for the final vf point it’s unironically likely

1598mv 14900k 💀

[civic reef]

My brother found a guy selling this PC (plus a screen [unknown yet], UPS, and chair) - Total selling price is $1300, what do you think?

I'll have to sell the NVMe and get a decent TLC drive, but.. Other than that, I don't see any apparent issues

Oh oops didn't embed the spec sheet

[steel stream]

it's fineeeeeee

[pure garnet]

i have no clue what is in that computer

[civic reef]

I forgot to embed the spec sheet

Well I didn't forget but I had to remove it because discord didn't recognise the edited ver with stuff censored out

[steel stream]

display, ups and chair is included you say?

[civic reef]

And I can't delete the full message as it's pending

[civic reef]

Yeah
Display unknown for now

But even if it's a VA panel, I can probably sell it for an okay price

[edgy laurel]

whats wrong with the SSD?

seems like a solid little system though the price

[civic reef]

NV3, QLC drive that allegedly slows down to HDD speeds upon extended R&W

[steel stream]

For lebanon, and getting display UPS and chair included it seems alright to me

[edgy laurel]

Oh, missed all that

[edgy laurel]

Eh, if this is just stuff you've read I think youll find the reality is it'll work just fine for most things most of the time.

[civic reef]

Fair

[pure garnet]

idk what a segotep psu is but otherwise it seems like a fine computer

[civic reef]

In that case I'll probably just retire it to secondary drive status eventually, or put in an enclosure within a year or so

[edgy laurel]

NV2 is the garbage one

[civic reef]

Oh I forgot to mention that

I am using my on-hand cash to replace that

[civic reef]

A850GL/GLS immediately

[civic reef]

It's not even on the list btw
"MU750G"

[pure garnet]

that is about what i expected