tech-chat-2

[brisk jolt]

but thats more troublesome to navigate over SM

[pure garnet]

it takes like 3 seconds to change the setting in the registry

[brisk jolt]

it takes 2 via nvidia

[steel stream]

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1s7jyvu/low_settings_of_project_shadow_optimized_pc_game/

it looks good, but look at the models popping in lol

[pure garnet]

change the one in the registry would let you actually do this

and you’d have more frames to interpolate

[shell void]

idkwym

oh are you talking about unlocking the fps limit in a particular game?

[pure garnet]

yeah

hoyo games are “locked” to 60 on pc but they’re easily bypassed

[brisk jolt]

I know HSR can be edited to 120 while zenless has the unlimited option

[pure garnet]

and then you have genshin

trust some random dudes fps unlocker

[brisk jolt]

i dont even know shit about genshin

[steel stream]

genshit

[edgy laurel]

you playing with 6x yet? I'm seeing people talk about it being available in NVApp

[brisk jolt]

only other game i care about is wuthering waves since like all my friends play it lmao

[pure garnet]

i quit every gacha i just larp with the evernight pfp bc they're cute

damn wally world wtf

[steel stream]

michael what refresh rate is your new monitor? Isn't it one of those dual mode ones

[brisk jolt]

friend borrowing 5070ti rn got capped at 60 fps previously because they have a 120 fps requirement being like 8 cores- With FG he’s getting 140 FPS which technically bypassed that 60 FPS cap

[steel stream]

someone scored a 5060 for like $80 at walmart clearance

[brisk jolt]

4K240/1080p480

[shell void]

naw i’m at work unfortunately

i’m going to play with it for a bit this evening

but then i’m gonna read my first invincible book, i bought a physical copy

[steel stream]

🐐 that's dope as fuck

[brisk jolt]

the only bummer about the dual mode is that its 1080p480 and not 1440p360 or something

like i cant with the 1080p

[pure garnet]

michael does it actually require the new driver

i went back to 591.74 and i've been sitting on it like a hermit

[steel stream]

I know you need to enable NVAPP beta, I would assume latest driver too

[shell void]

iirc the post said it requires 595.79 or newer

[edgy laurel]

dynamic is a thing now too but you just need to change a single value in NVPI

[sharp heart]

1200W psu arrived, cant wait to never have to think about it again

[steel stream]

https://videocardz.com/newz/geekbench-says-intel-bot-rewrites-benchmark-code-geekbench-6-7-will-detect-optimized-runs

[slim pebble]

The current season is lit fr

[pure garnet]

geekbench version what

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/elf-will-ferrell-shout-excited-happy-gif-3570641

[brisk jolt]

inb4 michael does some weird shit with 1080p480, slaps DSR 5K and boom 5K480

[shell void]

geekbench devs mad that intel is making their iphone-optimized benchmark work better on their cpus

[steel stream]

I love seeing Geekbench news because it's so useless

[shell void]

i don’t see how they could consider it invalid if it’s still completing the same work

they’re just being pissy

[steel stream]

i mean it's quite literally the point of the tool right? Same work, just optimized

[shell void]

yeah

it’s not corner cutting the end result in any way, it’s just reaching that result in a way that makes more sense

[pure garnet]

wait till geekbench sees what real benchmarks let you change

[shell void]

it’s like geekbench saying no you can’t put the butter in the pan instead, you MUST spread it on the bread first even though you don’t have a butter knife and the butter isn’t soft

even though the grilled cheese comes out the same or better

[steel stream]

nah they're def cheating and uploading the work to an off-shore LLM

[turbid locust]

because it’s literally rewriting the test

[merry stirrup]

yea

[civic reef]

https://overclock3d.net/news/gpu-displays/intel-arc-pro-b70-gaming-tested-does-big-battlemage-impress/

[turbid locust]

You wouldn’t pass a kid on an Algebra exam if he changed his test to times tables would you?

[civic reef]

Intel w ❤️

[shell void]

it’s still completing the same math equations demanded of it in the benchmark so that’s not an applicable comparison

[brisk jolt]

michael did ya redeem the free re9

[cosmic gazelle]

basically the public school system so at least some people would

[turbid locust]

It’s literally not the same work

[civic reef]

What where

[shell void]

who’s giving out free re9?

[cosmic gazelle]

if i’m inexperienced is there a pretty low chance i perfectly optimize it? it seems like a pretty difficult variable to isolate honestly

[turbid locust]

Shit was only intended for games anyway. Why Geekbench was listed as a game is beyond me.

[brisk jolt]

dont even try I already redeemed it like 10 hours ago

[steel stream]

idk but cinebench is my favorite game so I hope they optimize that

[merry stirrup]

basically just RNG anyways

[brisk jolt]

asus with the xg32ucwmg purchase date before 30th march

[shell void]

in the end nobody gives a shit about geekbench because it’s known that it’s a phone optimized benchmark and doesnt translate to real world experience on x86 cpus

[merry stirrup]

like you have to know but knowing doesn’t help that much

[turbid locust]

Except the significant amount of people that bench it for XOC

[civic reef]

Oh it's a bundled item

[turbid locust]

like it’s not that complicated to figure out why they’d consider it invalid

[shell void]

now they have an opportunity to have fun rerunning the benches with a new tool no foul

[turbid locust]

External software that modifies the test

like use your brain

[cosmic gazelle]

yeah people did kinda say just start putting numbers in and see what works

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/use-your-brain-joe-bartolozzi-funny-memes-meme-stupid-gif-16825119743901351939

[shell void]

i don’t understand how this devolved into you insulting me

[turbid locust]

me to Michael anytime there’s talks of XOC or benching

[brisk jolt]

high cortisol

[turbid locust]

Because you’re being purposefully dense

[cosmic gazelle]

it’s tech chat 2 silly

[pure garnet]

yippie sticker aio launching

[merry stirrup]

i fell asleep without setting an alarm or anything i just guessed it

woke up at the normal time we so lit

[turbid locust]

We so lit

[shell void]

i did not see this on newegg when i bought mine

wait i got mine on amazon actually

how do i claim this?

[brisk jolt]

idk if the US has the promo but it should

[pure garnet]

check your email

[brisk jolt]

go search the asus resident evil promo and click on like whatever shows just asus and not the 50 series stuff

[pure garnet]

what is the difference from XG32UCWG and XG32UCWMG

[shell void]

oh you had to register your device before the 24th and it’s over

[steel stream]

LinkedIn

[shell void]

M is 240Hz

[pure garnet]

oh i didn't notice the obvious

i figured it was gonna be some bullshit

[brisk jolt]

i registered my stuff yesterday

[shell void]

i guess it’s different in SG

[merry stirrup]

bought a psu from work yesterday as my first official part from them

[steel stream]

it's gonna blow up the moment you install it at home

[shell void]

i don’t have any interest in RE9 beyond using it for a benchmark so it’s okay

[pure garnet]

it's a good game

[brisk jolt]

my friend played the game like 3 times over 20 hours

[merry stirrup]

C+ probably, but it’s not mine so yippie

[shell void]

five big booms

[pure garnet]

that’s resident evil yeah

[shell void]

did u complete it?

[pure garnet]

yeah it’s like a 10-15h first run

[shell void]

[fringe vigil]

[shell void]

i am so hype

i haven’t bought a physical book in several millennia

[brisk jolt]

somehow I remember the last book I bought which is um

not that long compared to urs prob being 4 years ago

[pure garnet]

i bought a ffxiv book for an in game hat

[brisk jolt]

did i inherit the kyoko curse or smth

[shell void]

i don’t think i’ve bought a physical book since i used to get the guinness book of records in the elementary school book fair

[shell void]

[pure garnet]

i bought asus so my issues are gone

[brisk jolt]

i should just take out the 5090 and put it on top of the T1 with the 265K

and just say its optimal

[pure garnet]

even secure boot works properly on the strix vs the mlg

[brisk jolt]

ok so right i think i found the problem

[edgy laurel]

👀

[pure garnet]

i miss when games just ran once they were installed

[brisk jolt]

is my riser fuckin cooked or something

[hoary hatch]

Here we go

[brisk jolt]

are we deadass rn it doesnt want to work with the monitor

[merry stirrup]

safe boot?

[pure garnet]

no secure boot

msi just boots literally whatever regardless of signing status

on asus i had to actually sign my linux install

[merry stirrup]

no but i’m asking if safe boot works

[hoary hatch]

Rate these ratings

[pure garnet]

oh i haven’t tried

[merry stirrup]

context?

[cosmic gazelle]

i think it’s arguable the original macintosh is more impactful on the world as a whole than the original iphone

other cell phones existed but there was nothing like the macintosh

[merry stirrup]

there was nothing like the iphone either

not everyone has a computer but everyone has one in their pocket

[hoary hatch]

Best apple products of all time (apple is turning 50 this week or something)

[merry stirrup]

ah

[cosmic gazelle]

yeah but how much of the worlds industries wouldn’t even exist if the macintosh hadn’t ever existed

[merry stirrup]

idk put i tunes lower just because of the windows version

[hoary hatch]

Community ranking

[pure garnet]

i think the m1 is higher than it should be personally

[hoary hatch]

Well, paid subscribers to The Verge website ranking

[pure garnet]

original iphone was a you gotta be there thing though

[turbid locust]

AirPods arguably brought true wireless to the mainstream

[cosmic gazelle]

i also would put m1 high but not number 1 high

[hoary hatch]

To be honest I'd rank the wedge MacBook air as more influential than the M1

[turbid locust]

when’s the last time you saw someone with wired earbuds

[cosmic gazelle]

ipad is too high imo there’s kind of nothing revolutionary about a phone but bigger and kinda shitty

[hoary hatch]

I feel like the MacBook air shaped a decade of laptops

[cosmic gazelle]

i feel like apple pay has had a larger impact than the iphone 5s lol

[merry stirrup]

i pads then for sure we’re shittier i didn’t like them

[hoary hatch]

Apple extended keyboard II is way lower than it should be 😤

[pure garnet]

like 90% of decently built windows laptops have been macbook pro clones at some point

[merry stirrup]

now ipad is like actually good

[merry stirrup]

supa strike

[pure garnet]

where’s our paypal warrior to shit on it again

[hoary hatch]

I hope they get demo ones at best buy cause I need to try this shit in person

[pure garnet]

i wish they made a black super strike

like i know the colorway is to differentiate it but

[hoary hatch]

They probably will

[edgy laurel]

panda look is best look

[merry stirrup]

wrong

[turbid locust]

Yeah I life it a lot actually lol

[indigo walrus]

"Designed by Apple in California, with help from Pegatron" 😉 Part of me wonders if Apple did the math with this gamble, since there's no way a manufacturing partner would not "borrow" their designs for non-Apple laptops.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/13/apple_reportedly_squeezing_supplier_to_stop_building_macbook_air_clones_from_asus

[hoary hatch]

I feel like Logitech likes to drop new colors ways over time to refresh interest/news cycle

[merry stirrup]

i see so many people built black and white computers and they’re all so gross

[pure garnet]

hey

[merry stirrup]

every panda build i see at work is not pretty

[pure garnet]

i was just impatient

[hoary hatch]

Damn my PC is black and white

[merry stirrup]

🙄✋

[hoary hatch]

and fucking clown lips ram

[pure garnet]

mf says with his white and black y40 too

[hoary hatch]

What's black and white and red all over

[pure garnet]

or did you get the red one i forgot

[merry stirrup]

mines black

[hoary hatch]

Carter's fucking clown lips pc

[pure garnet]

my computer is all black less the obnoxiously white case i bought

but i didn’t wanna wait an extra 2 days

[turbid locust]

🖕

[hoary hatch]

I think Apple's sticker cutouts are better

[merry stirrup]

this looks fine but man you should see some of the computers

[merry stirrup]

like people choose these parts? 😭

[cosmic gazelle]

faaaa ship my shit ebay monkey

[pure garnet]

the white cables

[hoary hatch]

Trade you GPUs

[cosmic gazelle]

the mismatched top fans make me want to cry

[pure garnet]

the eps cables get dented if i put a 140 up top

the airflow direction is just how air moves though

[cosmic gazelle]

dude to put a 280 in my lancool 207 all my shit is so crammed in there 😭 i’d be damned if i was buying a new cooler tho

[turbid locust]

just put the ram in the board SI boy

[pure garnet]

i’ve seen floppa build like 5 radeon computers at work i already know he isn’t serving the brightest clientele

[cosmic gazelle]

https://tenor.com/view/rage-gif-15936507315900549043

[pure garnet]

am i crazy or is there actually no good way to route the gpu cable

[turbid locust]

If I were still broke I’d build a 9070XT system no doubt

[pure garnet]

i don’t like how i did it but there’s nothing better to do

[merry stirrup]

oh what there’s more nv pcs for sure the ones i build just so happen to have radeon cards idk

i built this one it’s a 5080

[pure garnet]

yeah idk who be ordering the radeon when the 5080 is front and center

[turbid locust]

I remember after Floppa said he got this job I was like “haha I’m gonna figure out what SI he works at” as a joke and accidentally actually found it in like 20 mins LMFAO

[pure garnet]

i said i eliminated one and he just told me

[cosmic gazelle]

idk if i’m just a hater but that is a nasty ass motherboard

[merry stirrup]

😭💀

[merry stirrup]

not hating but it is actually a decent board

does 8400 ram and 300w cpus no problem

[cosmic gazelle]

it doesn’t look like it’s functionally bad

[turbid locust]

Bare minimum imo

[cosmic gazelle]

it looks like a soviet designed the aesthetics

the hell is there an 8 pin on the bottom for anyways

[edgy laurel]

the contrast is nice

[cosmic gazelle]

https://tenor.com/view/speed-ishowspeed-ohio-respect-foxy-gif-17451501218491172722

[shell void]

that's clean, but im a little triggered that they didnt buy a set of reverse fans for the side intake

[edgy laurel]

or the bottom. setup as exhaust there..

[shell void]

and these arent bundled to look tidier... let's just stop looking closely

[edgy laurel]

ole' 10-footer

[cosmic gazelle]

i have an old nzxt aio with 14 cables coming from it (because nzxt) and i have this same thing going on

i’d still get that message deleted for doxxing even though that’s a 5 mile radius so whatever bye bye

[pure garnet]

with or without terms

[merry stirrup]

just needed pu pd which is cpu sided so

[brisk jolt]

@shell void have you encountered the XG just… black screening? Mine is just entirely blackscreened…

[pure garnet]

maybe i'll try with the x670e-e eventually

[merry stirrup]

for above 8 anyways

[pure garnet]

rn i am not really interested in touching the daily system

[young void]

Whats xg?

[pure garnet]

6400 works im happy with that

[low sorrel]

This is taobao

[merry stirrup]

intel version of that board topped out at 7400-7600 i wouldn’t bet on it

[shell void]

i had some black screens when using dp1.4

[merry stirrup]

my homie has the board it does at least 7600 boot i didn’t try to post any higher

[pure garnet]

when i tried 8k on the b650e-f originally it booted into windows but just error'd immediately in tm5

[shell void]

there are now framegen "Preset A" and "Preset B"

im guessing that B is FG2.0

[pure garnet]

it's quite possible it can't but i also just deadass do not care

gear 2 is just for screenshots on single ccd chips

[brisk jolt]

im on hdmi 2.1 and the monitor is just blackscreened- Powered on and off and it is detected in windows but its still just black

[merry stirrup]

allat bandwidth for ddr4-4800

[pure garnet]

setsuna bin monitor

[low sorrel]

@topaz veldt HOLY SHIT THEY DID IT LESS LATE SPAWNS FOR PLAYERS WITH KITS

[pure garnet]

(the only time you see bandwidth is aida)

[merry stirrup]

i play ycruncher sir

[pure garnet]

yeah so you wouldn't see fraud numbers

i wish kde plasma had a windows dynamic lighting clone

my board is stuck in rainbow mode for the day

[shell void]

did it recover yet?

[brisk jolt]

im searching rn and I see that it sucks with HDMI so im gonna try DP

[brisk jolt]

no Im gonna try dp on it

[topaz veldt]

honestly I plugged it in and it feels like a mouse

[brisk jolt]

the OSD is usable but problem is I cant see the OSD

[shell void]

if the OSD doesnt even pop up then you might be screwed

[indigo walrus]

That... Sounds more like the backlight died.

[shell void]

i hope you dont have the bug that i did where my XG27UCDMG just randomly stopped turning the panel on

[topaz veldt]

Yeah? no more spawning at 19 mins?

[young void]

Rip alienware panel that just decided it wasn't going to life anymore, was nice before that

[brisk jolt]

…………

i literally bought this monitor and opened it yesterday

WHAT THE FUCK

DP doesnt work…

[young void]

What monitor?

[shell void]

my XG27 had less than 8 hours on it before it started acting like yours is right now

[brisk jolt]

XG32UCWMG

[shell void]

if power cycling doesn’t work then you’re probably boned

[brisk jolt]

mine isnt even 10 hours as well

[shell void]

make sure the power cable is all the way inserted, but i’m sure you know that

it can squeeze out a bit

[young void]

[brisk jolt]

yeah I tried that already and it was secure

BROOOOOOO this stinks 💀

[shell void]

that does frickin stink

does your reseller accept returns?

[brisk jolt]

bro i alrd fkin threw the box away while transporting the old monitor to a friend holy fucking shit

[shell void]

[brisk jolt]

im forced to do an rma arent i

[young void]

Id mess with it a bit more,unplug for 10 seconds try to power cycle, see if it has a reset button/combo, plug a console into it see if its a weird configure bug

[brisk jolt]

both hdmi and dp are not functional im power cycling it rn

[low sorrel]

Yeah

[indigo walrus]

Oof. Unless space is a premium, I always try to keep my new product boxes for at least the return period, if not the full warranty period. Without this, you're stuck doing an RMA through the manufacturer...

[pure garnet]

bro no way

[brisk jolt]

okay its wraps power cycling did nothing

https://tenor.com/view/leclerc-deppression-formula-1-ferrari-gif-8745038956711946768

[edgy laurel]

oh no

[devout ridge]

rip

[steel stream]

sorry for your loss

[pure garnet]

can you try updating the firmware

[topaz veldt]

return it?

[pure garnet]

he tossed the box

[brisk jolt]

i actually have boxes but I need to see if any can do 32”

regardless Im gonna try retailer first

[indigo walrus]

Most retail stores won't accept returns in just any box. Usually needs to be the original. But it doesn't hurt to ask them just in case...

[young void]

Damn sparks, let me know if you notice less stutters and such, id be curious how this pans out

[brisk jolt]

Ill see what goes on tomorrow, I asked them if they have a box I could use to transport it back

I have another option to raise a refund on the platform I purchased

They’re more lenient as to what box you use to return it XD

[low sorrel]

Couldn't you also rma?

[brisk jolt]

me rn

[brisk jolt]

-_-

[steel stream]

huge

[low sorrel]

Wtf asus

[pure garnet]

@merry stirrup dude the 5090 port royale record happened on a z790 mpower

giggling 😭

[young void]

Im to scared to play with the big boy bioses

700-1100w is just aloot

[pure garnet]

i think this was the 2500w setup

[young void]

Still wickeds

[steel stream]

god XOC is so funny

[brisk jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/charles-leclerc-bruh-banana-suit-charles-leclerc-gif-27525709

[pure garnet]

i run a 400w vbios on my card to pretend i have something cool

but the 5090s go crazy with some of the xoc ones

[brisk jolt]

not even double digit hours in btw

literally not even 1 day in here btw

[steel stream]

stock warrior 💪

[pure garnet]

yeah that's just.... rough

[brisk jolt]

i am space constrained if you’re really wondering why the box is already out

[merry stirrup]

late cardboard

lmao the*

[pure garnet]

i think i got a bad dump of my stock vbios bc when i flashed it back my card started doing the 1.1 shit again

so i just flashed back the master vbios and she's been chilling since

[merry stirrup]

so real bro they just be dragging sliders and making it draw power for no reason

[young void]

Feels Sets, this friggin monitor worked 1 day and never turned back on again

[steel stream]

I thought those were plastic shims at first but it's just cardboard

[brisk jolt]

AW2725DF?

[steel stream]

brutal

[pure garnet]

so yeah floppa when you inevitability offer me $30 and a mcchicken for this card, it'll have the master bios on it still

[merry stirrup]

sounds good broski more power always nice for me

i’ll door dash it in advance for my 30$ offer

[steel stream]

my knob is arriving today 🙏

[brisk jolt]

gang I was enjoying this monitor and glazing it so much 😭 now it did a 31st March 2026- 31st March 2026

[pure garnet]

yeah suffering from +100mhz and + 23% extra power limit from stock

[merry stirrup]

oh nooooooo

-300$ resale bro

[brisk jolt]

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

[topaz veldt]

This superstrike is so freaking cool

[steel stream]

have you tried asking nicely?

[young void]

So many comments about a black screen bricking the monitor, is curious

[merry stirrup]

does it vibrate

[young void]

Let's goooo

[brisk jolt]

yes

[edgy laurel]

I just think its a time saving feature tbh

[topaz veldt]

i dunno if it vibrates but the click is a haptic action

[merry stirrup]

interesting

[topaz veldt]

but after like 5 mins of use you forget its not "clicking"

[merry stirrup]

idk i want vibration i fw it on controller

[steel stream]

ah damn

[topaz veldt]

I dunno if it does like force feedback shit

[merry stirrup]

iphone home button

[young void]

Should save in loading screens, or loading a rendered area especially with nanite, if efficient ill certainly use it

[steel stream]

it needs haptic feedback for CS2 so the mouse launches backwards each time I fire a gun

[fringe vigil]

Yo

[topaz veldt]

This is so sick

[steel stream]

hi jorj

[pure garnet]

https://youtube.com/shorts/B08AjXtAGAg

[young void]

Oh mighty snails what is a superstrike?

[wise bear]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6j0sWPs1Jx4

[young void]

[edgy laurel]

played with the settings at all?

[brisk jolt]

my mood for the rest of tomorrow (technically already today for me since its 12:51am) is ruined

FUUUUUUUUUCCKKKKKKK

[topaz veldt]

playing now - its really neat

[steel stream]

I've seen stuff like this before, these are actual insane people

[pure garnet]

poor setsuna man

[brisk jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/formula-one-car-crash-gif-8120045

me try to get good bin challenge

[steel stream]

do you think it'll become your go-to mouse? for gaming at least

[topaz veldt]

I think so

[steel stream]

I've been thinking about one

[topaz veldt]

Its super cool

you forget its not clicking

[steel stream]

if the bestbuy site wasn't so garbage I would buy one

[topaz veldt]

I got this off Amazon

[steel stream]

how much "force" or pressure do you have to put down on it? or is it just like a light flex of your finger

[brisk jolt]

.

[young void]

Oh its the mouse

[topaz veldt]

Thats just it - its anything from like "almost nothing" to 1990 mouse

[merry stirrup]

someone apparently made btl work on z790

[steel stream]

hmm

[merry stirrup]

not properly but

[pure garnet]

boots*

[merry stirrup]

progress

[topaz veldt]

Like stock, setting 5, it feels just like my Superlight 2 but not "cha-chick" sound

[merry stirrup]

guy is right who said “posting is the entire battle”

doesn’t seem that faraway now

[steel stream]

funnier when you find out Claude did all the work for it too

[edgy laurel]

you MBP is using the same sorta thing come to think of it

[merry stirrup]

yeah 😭

[steel stream]

yeah, like Floppa said it's similar to the home buttons found on later iPhones too

like iPhone 8 I think

[topaz veldt]

It is?

[merry stirrup]

yes

[steel stream]

Claude, make my Z890 board support NVL

[topaz veldt]

Yeah I mean I guess it is

[shell void]

if someone makes an apex encore bios for the 273pqe then i might have to get one

[merry stirrup]

apple is the best at that typa stuff

[edgy laurel]

yeah, no mechanical button in that either

[merry stirrup]

a lot of people didn’t know until their phone was dead

[pure garnet]

are you really gonna pay $650 for a used apex

[steel stream]

yeah it was quite good

[edgy laurel]

apple haptics are craaazy

[shell void]

no not unless that happens

[edgy laurel]

remember that F1 trailer @steel stream

[steel stream]

yes sir, that was a neat experience

I hope we see more of that in the future

[edgy laurel]

Time to strap them on to our gaming chairs. https://thebuttkicker.com/products/buttkicker-lfe-haptic-transducer

[steel stream]

If I ever get a home theater I'm unironically buying smth like this

[steel stream]

oh jesus christ

[edgy laurel]

yeah thats where I see them most often

[hoary hatch]

5pm delivery is cringe

[steel stream]

are you just gonna spend the day pacing around? (I do the same thing)

[brisk jolt]

having basically 8 hours before it suffered the same fate as michael’s one previously is also diabolical

[hoary hatch]

I am working sooooo

[young void]

Let's gooo cobrass

[steel stream]

Sadly it is impossible to do this with a soundbar setup

[shell void]

mine deadass just died while i was leaned back watching youtube

similar to how you’re describing

[steel stream]

I mean you can still pace, you can just pretend you are an animal at the zoo trapped in the enclosure that is work

[shell void]

no image at all, not even the osd

[brisk jolt]

I came back from work, powered it on and boom DNS

i thought it was the riser cable bcs it was showing srtrail

[shell void]

it could be a loose ribbon cable inside the monitor from bouncing in shipping but it’s a lot easier to just send it back instead of investigating

[brave panther]

Smh yall dont have these

[merry stirrup]

yeah real

[brisk jolt]

im gonna ask the retailer for a box, and on friday i should be able to have a conclusion physically

[topaz veldt]

This mouse wasn't even supposed to be here today

[brisk jolt]

its unfortunate ill be at work on wed and thurs

[steel stream]

where is my knob USPS

[topaz veldt]

Sold and Ship by Amazon, came from Colorado

[shell void]

did you like the monitor enough to reorder a second one, or are you looking at another model now?

[steel stream]

that's an interesting location

[brisk jolt]

yeah I liked it enough

[topaz veldt]

weird right

[shell void]

colorado is goated

[steel stream]

yeah I've never heard of an item being shipped from Colorado, even niche items

[brisk jolt]

im looking to either get a full refund or a replacement

[cosmic gazelle]

damn

[brisk jolt]

but the warranty is fucking buns, having to still pay for the RMA since its fucking on site

like they themselves make enough money to just cover it entirely

[cosmic gazelle]

is the x470 hero like way worse than the 570 hero? they're like super cheap relative to the other higher end boards of the time

[shell void]

yeah probably, but isn’t 400 series your max for the 2400g anyway?

[cosmic gazelle]

yeah i was just looking and noticed they're like 100 dollars

but it still seems like a good board for like a 5950 or something if you were to be building a system like that

x570 hero is around twice the price

[brisk jolt]

i think im gonna read myself to sleep tonight

[pure garnet]

i think it’s mostly the lack of gen 4

not many people want a high end but effectively crippled board

[cosmic gazelle]

hmm

fair enough ig

what's the point where 3.0 becomes a limiter, like a 3070 or something?

[frank zealot]

depends on what you're doing

[merry stirrup]

kyoko

[frank zealot]

for gaming, most of the 40 series doesn't show a lot of degredation

[merry stirrup]

what is the pcie select thing

[merry stirrup]

should it be on auto for the switch

[pure garnet]

yeah

[pure garnet]

else you lock to 4.0 or 3.0

[merry stirrup]

is this the wrong position

[pure garnet]

move it over one more

[shell void]

Intel IBOT is no different than Microsoft optimizing branch prediction in W11 24H2, and it does not invalidate benchmark results

[merry stirrup]

can i change it in runtime

[pure garnet]

that’s 4.0, no clue

[merry stirrup]

i don’t want to fawk the computer it’s bios updating

[frank zealot]

don't poke anything during a bios update

[pure garnet]

pcie isn’t hot plug

so i would advise powering it off

[merry stirrup]

no but is that switch just a fancy bios toggle lol

[shell void]

i think i would go for one of these two if i wanted to mess with AM4 for whatever reason in an alternate universe

[pure garnet]

i have no clue how it’s actually wired but probably

since you can change a setting in the bios to make it do fan curves too

auto = bios controlled, position 1 = forced silent, position 2 = max rpm

[cosmic gazelle]

can a single ccd chip even pull enough power to necessitate an s tier board? or is it just for the featureset

[frank zealot]

I can only imagine what the dark would cost today

[merry stirrup]

i’ll just wait till it’s done and then put it on autoc

[shell void]

i just like nice boards and prefer 1dpc

[merry stirrup]

B550 unify is the better board

[shell void]

oh interesting i didn’t know there was a B550 UX

[pure garnet]

did am4 get an apex

[shell void]

no

[merry stirrup]

no and the c8dh isn’t really a mem board

[cosmic gazelle]

why would the b550 be better than the x570 of the same model

genuinely asking out of ignorance

[merry stirrup]

x570 is worse cause of the 2 chipsets or something

doesn’t do as good on mem that’s all i know

[shell void]

B series boards come out later and they’re usually more intelligently designed

they shouldn’t be better but it happens

X series boards are practically beta testing

[cosmic gazelle]

i just remember seeing GN report that the b450 tomahawk was better than my x570 gaming edge wifi and that was my first introduction to getting screwed by marketing

[shell void]

it still happened with AM5 too, there are B650 boards that are better than their X670E counterparts

[hoary hatch]

Go home Gmail, you're drunk

[pure garnet]

damn you bought a asus board based

[tawny basin]

is there something bad with asus boards?

[steel stream]

this is why I use comcast for mail

[steel stream]

yeah they will explode

[tawny basin]

oh

[cosmic gazelle]

after tomorrow the only motherboards actively functioning as pcs in my house will be gigabyte and asus

just realized that

[pure garnet]

z890 hero for $350 is a very nice board

[shell void]

i have two msi and one assrocker in use

[steel stream]

One gigabyte one Asrock in use here

[tawny basin]

i got the ASUS ROG STRIX B760-A GAMING WIFI

[steel stream]

no need to drop it's full government name

[tawny basin]

i bought it because it has a cat on its io shield

[steel stream]

it's not in trouble

[tawny basin]

and that is not a joke

[shell void]

i’m seeing so many nolan+debbie+paul memes on tiktok today and i love it

[cosmic gazelle]

My dad has a gigabyte x570 aorus master or whatever because it was cheap at the time
htpc has gigabyte z97x ud5h
main pc has asus tuf b650e-e
new board is asus prime x370-pro

[shell void]

hype for tomorrows episode

[steel stream]

i still haven't watched a single episode

of S4

[shell void]

you must it’s good

[pure garnet]

i bought the x670e-e over the b650e-e purely bc i thought it would be funny to have a 67 motherboard

[tawny basin]

forgot how its called so I just copy pasted it

[shell void]

the BEE is a shit board anyways

[pure garnet]

i was just looking for

• asus
• 3 nvme + gpu + x4 slot

so those 2 boards were the same price

went with the funnier chipset

[cosmic gazelle]

what's so bad about the bee

mine works fine

[shell void]

which bee do you have

[cosmic gazelle]

tuf

[steel stream]

holy react

[shell void]

i’m talking about the B650E-E

it’s buggy

[cosmic gazelle]

yeah i have a tuf b650e-e

[tawny basin]

I remember the good old days where I bought 32gb ddr5 white rgb ram by corsair for 103€

[hoary hatch]

Bro what the fuck

[shell void]

the strix b650e-e

[cosmic gazelle]

if you mean the strix then yeah different board

[steel stream]

I'm 🐐 ed man what can I say

[pure garnet]

the x670e is a nicer board anyway

[steel stream]

what y'all know about the "@comcast.net" email address

[tawny basin]

Is it time to host a email server at home?

[pure garnet]

it’s basically an x670e hero less some odd voltage monitoring and a different pcie config

[cosmic gazelle]

unless for some reason 60 series needs 5.0 to function properly i probably wouldn't upgrade my motherboard before a platform change

[pure garnet]

i made an aol for the bit awhile ago

[cosmic gazelle]

wait does b650e have x16 5

[pure garnet]

yes that’s what the e stands for

[cosmic gazelle]

oh silly

[merry stirrup]

i have moved the switch

[pure garnet]

the e boards mandated 5.0

[cosmic gazelle]

my silly 4.0 capable card running on a 5.0 board

[hoary hatch]

What if you ever switch away from Comcast

[tawny basin]

i mean who couldnt like that

[hoary hatch]

My friends mom uses her ISP for email and she has email issues all the time
Cox sucks

[steel stream]

idk that's a problem for future me I think

[hoary hatch]

The future is now, old man

[pure garnet]

where’s your usb 3

[tawny basin]

flexing you io i see

[steel stream]

I am not able to send emails from my phone anymore, I have to use it on my laptop for some reason

[steel stream]

only one TB4?

[cosmic gazelle]

has anyone ever used the other audio inputs besides line out

[pure garnet]

asus was too busy giving me 5000 usb 3s

[tawny basin]

reminds me of that 1,5k msi motherboard

[cosmic gazelle]

how could you have enough lanes for that many 3.2s

[steel stream]

what if you want to use like 5 keyboards at the same time

[pure garnet]

because i have 2 chipsets

[cosmic gazelle]

nah i meant the one he just posted

[brisk jolt]

the greed mentioned in the bible

[indigo walrus]

What about it? It's an ISP email. Made sense in the 90's before Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo mail. Today, ISP emails should be avoided because they lock you to your provider.

[steel stream]

yeah pretty much

[tawny basin]

what do you mean you dont know what the "smart" button does?

[cosmic gazelle]

my motherboard has a shart button

[pure garnet]

i use 3 of them btw

[mortal isle]

i am so bored there is a cool free game? i tested one but i am still bored as hell and i am broke, i wanted to try Where Winds Meet but i am not even at minimum specs sadly

[tawny basin]

also love how all the labeling is sideways

[hoary hatch]

Which makes it more amusing that akn has one

[brisk jolt]

im gonna cry and read manhwa to sleep

[hoary hatch]

Like bro was born well into the Gmail era

[brisk jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/桐生戦兎-仮面ライダービルド-kamen-rider-build-kiryu-sento-sento-kiryu-gif-11157174352445916018

[steel stream]

technically I'm as old as gmail

[tawny basin]

Do you guys remember the times where there were @googlemail.com emails?

[steel stream]

please don't doxx me.

[tawny basin]

sorry

[indigo walrus]

I do not, but that's because I see it was mostly used in certain EU countries due to trademark issues.

[tawny basin]

My dad got one of these (germany)

[cosmic gazelle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1T3HASBnwU

[tawny basin]

Are you also one of these people who activate their rgb only on special occasions, like if im just casually using it i always have it off but when I e.g. show off my setup I turn it on, of if im in the modd for it, because sometimes, the lighting reflects in my monitor

[steel stream]

this is just what a day in my life looks like

[steel stream]

I have any RGB I do have set to a solid white, but my PC is also underneath my desk so I don't worry about reflections

[devout ridge]

i have any rgb i do have set to off

[tawny basin]

nice, I thought about buying a vertical mount but didnt do it

noo

[devout ridge]

Already pinged mods

[tawny basin]

sorry thanks

[devout ridge]

If mods have already pinged, don't ping again dude

[tawny basin]

wasnt on purpose

sorry

[edgy laurel]

in my mind, just one its "ehh, can't be that bad". A few all at once "oh shit, something is going down!"

[devout ridge]

Had this exact convo with momo, he said it's just kind of annoying

[edgy laurel]

lol, fair enough

[brisk jolt]

he didnt notice it xd

[devout ridge]

like six of the regulars were all in a VC the other day, momo included

and at some point the elon musk crypto scams came up

even kirashi joined at one point

[steel stream]

you blue people

[young void]

XD

[devout ridge]

not my fault that ltt steals my money every month

oh wait

funniest part is momo can't use the text channels in the FP VCs

[indigo walrus]

What do you mean "you blue people"...?

[devout ridge]

cause he let his FP subscription lapse

[steel stream]

idk I hate Avatar

[brisk jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/the-smurfs-cheering-fans-crowd-goes-wild-yay-we-did-it-gif-19649555

[steel stream]

kirashi can I get a custom role that just says "akn876" and makes me red

please and thank you

[fringe vigil]

Best souls 2

[devout ridge]

Kirashi can i get a custom role that just says "akn876, get fucked"

[steel stream]

back off blue boy

[devout ridge]

Back off greenie

[young void]

XD

[indigo walrus]

https://tenor.com/view/ban-anime-magic-frieren-gif-10087614971063315466

[steel stream]

go touch some green grass

[steel stream]

I suppose that'll work

[devout ridge]

i was just touching grass, me and my dogs were playing catch

[steel stream]

AI generated, not real

[devout ridge]

what

[steel stream]

fake

[devout ridge]

internet goons try not to claim everything is AI challenge [IMPOSSIBLE]

[steel stream]

anything that doesn't confirm my biases or thoughts is immediately AI generated or wrong

[devout ridge]

understandable

[brisk jolt]

and anything that you dislike is ragebait

[merry stirrup]

a nice one today

[steel stream]

Setsuna gets it

my knob is here

[shell void]

the rear fan grill on that case is so large

[steel stream]

I do not have anything small enough for this snap ring

[cosmic gazelle]

@merry stirrup same pcb layout, same chips, different color

weird

[steel stream]

means they just used a different material for the PCB

you can see one is china and one is phillipines

[cosmic gazelle]

ohh

hope that doesn’t matter too much

[steel stream]

afaik it really shouldn't

they're still both made from decent enough material where it really shouldn't hurt

[cosmic gazelle]

i mean these sticks are as close as i could possibly get them coming from two different sources so it’s probably fine

[green marsh]

or maybe he means https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ugkg9RePc

(now i am going to play '90s songs for myself because now i switched to nostalgia mood)

[edgy laurel]

wait, show where it has to go when the knob is installed

[steel stream]

current one is held in place by another snap ring

i bought a snap ring plier set off of amazon but they were too big, will go to a hardware store sometime this week probably

[edgy laurel]

naturally, lol. Might be able to pry it off.. it'll go flying

[steel stream]

yeah I don't think I have any tools adequat enough for this tbh lol

[edgy laurel]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tools/comments/rtwaei/hunting_for_the_right_tool_to_remove_very_small/

comments are funny

tiny flathead would also by my go-to for removal at least

[shrewd parrot]

i found my old laptop and this it has a rare varient apparently i googled it up

im getting 60 and sometimes more in gta5 at high settings at fullscreen

[steel stream]

i mean i got it off, now for the tricky bit i guess

[edgy laurel]

https://klipy.com/gifs/the-office-steve-carell-26

[steel stream]

where's 5nails workshop when you need it

[frank zealot]

.... you didn't bring this up because LTT literally just talked about this in a video, right?

[cosmic gazelle]

i have a remarkable possibility for you

that perhaps i don’t watch a ton of ltt videos

[tawny basin]

yeah in the dank pods vid with fixing his pc

[frank zealot]

looks at server name
looks back
squints

https://youtu.be/WCKCGqkKiII?t=719

[cosmic gazelle]

i joined this server a long time ago

stopped watching ltt when it became more clickbaity and entertainment focused

[wraith steeple]

[tawny basin]

[turbid locust]

I enjoy this server more than LTT videos I’m ngl

[wraith steeple]

I honestly haven't been keeping up with their videos much

[shrewd parrot]

??

[tawny basin]

nothing

[shrewd parrot]

oh

[pure garnet]

i watch the ones i find interesting which is not all of them

[steel stream]

same

[young void]

https://youtu.be/X8yRlA7jqEQ?si=rOZzS5WpAaJxxMRl

This is kinda neat

[fringe vigil]

Best souls 2?

[steel stream]

@edgy laurel i got it, idk how but I did it

i just used the old clip, it was slightly bent, used the screw driver to fit it back over and it seemed fine 🤷

[edgy laurel]

hell yeah

[steel stream]

arc reactor installed 💪

[pure garnet]

oooh you need a 270k+

[steel stream]

it lets me "play" Dolby Atmos over the element interestingly

it sounds like garbage

[merry stirrup]

intel build in today

and it’s a custom with a note that says clock ram to 6K C30

ram in it is 6400 c32 and guaranteed to work

but since customer specified 6000 c30 idk what to do

[steel stream]

clock it to 8000 and say you're welcome bro

[steel stream]

idk why they would do that? I can only assume they read something about AMD wanting 6000 c30 and want it for their intel build?

[smoky orbit]

someone brought in their pc just to ask you to do that?

[next ginkgo]

just use hynix A die stock timings then

[steel stream]

nah he's a SI so he builds and validates systems

[smoky orbit]

ohhh okiii

[next ginkgo]

6000 CL30 36 36 76

as for the secondary timings I have no clue what the stock ones are

[cosmic gazelle]

if a client specifies something like this are you as an employee expected to just do it and not ask any questions

or can you email them and be like soooo

[pure garnet]

auto

[steel stream]

hit them with the "use your brain use your brain"

[fringe vigil]

Chips dark souls 1 or 2

probably one of the hardest questions to ask a soulsborne player

[merry stirrup]

this is not my issue who do you think i am

my issue is that i’m giving someone slower ram on purpose

[next ginkgo]

I don't think it matters either tbh. just set the primary timings and the customer sees CL30 and they're happy

[young void]

Never hurts to give them options, if thats a thing. If its just do it like Nike then ofc

[next ginkgo]

The customer is always right in matters of taste

[smoky orbit]

n o

[next ginkgo]

if they want 6000 CL30, you can offer to set higher but don't argue

[merry stirrup]

it’s not taste and you literally can do math lol

[smoky orbit]

customers are very often dumb af

[next ginkgo]

This is coming from someone who used to do custom builds for clients

[next ginkgo]

doesn't matter

they're paying you for your skills to do what they wish

you can say "in my professional opinion, ..." but you cannot outright say they're wrong for wanting something

[steel stream]

what happens when they update bios eventually and just lose the tune

[merry stirrup]

that’s what i’m saying

the xmp profile is faster than what they want

and it’s guaranteed to work

[steel stream]

yuh

[next ginkgo]

see there's a reason I used the full quote instead of the misquoted "the customer is always right" because they aren't always right. They can be really stupid. But the full quote goes "the customer is always right in matters of taste" which merely indicates taste is subjective

[merry stirrup]

on ryzen i understand clocking a 6400 kit down for the customer but on intel its useless

[smoky orbit]

yeah, but no, from someone that had to deal with end users, the best you can do is take for granted that they don't understand a single thing and do your thing as if they weren't there

[next ginkgo]

wait are the profiles 4800, 5600, and 6400?

[next ginkgo]

everyone has had to deal with "end users," but I'm talking to you as someone who's been at this for nearly a decade.

[frank zealot]

what is microsoft doing:
If you're got stuck jobs in a print queue, restarting the Print Spooler no longer nukes them >.<

[merry stirrup]

there’s a 6K C42 profile for some reason lol

[young void]

Running at xmp/expo is always recommended for long term stability.
But i see floppas dilemma

[smoky orbit]

yeah, but isn't this a good thing?

[cosmic gazelle]

i don't play souls games they are hard and i don't find them to be very fun

[next ginkgo]

if they tell you "do what you think is best" then by all means. If they request something specific, tell them that you'll do it but also offer advice.

[frank zealot]

fuck no, it's a REALLY BAD thing

[smoky orbit]

oh oki

[cosmic gazelle]

cl50 or bust

[frank zealot]

I've been trying to delete this fuckin' stuck print job for 10 goddamned minutes and it won't fucking go away

[smoky orbit]

ohhhh, can't you like kill the process via task manager?

[next ginkgo]

lmao

I will say, just do what they ask

[frank zealot]

kill what process

[smoky orbit]

the process trying to print?

[frank zealot]

it's a windows printer test page, not an app

[smoky orbit]

ohhhhh okii

[frank zealot]

but killing an app won't get rid of a print job anyways

[next ginkgo]

just set your primary timings to 30 36 36 76 and leave it at that. offer a note that this is non-standard and will be lost if the bios is wiped or updated. Also mention that 6400 CL32 is safe and stable on that pc if they desire to enable it themselves.

but I guess if they come back to you after a bios update, free money

[merry stirrup]

it’s just a pickle lol

[frank zealot]

you also can't delete the printer until the stuck job is gone

[smoky orbit]

https://www.ionos.ca/digitalguide/server/configuration/how-to-clear-the-print-queue/

[frank zealot]

so if you can't get rid of a print job, you literally can't do shit

[merry stirrup]

i understand ram timings, again that isn’t really the issue, i just set 6K C30 through the xmp profile

[next ginkgo]

wait

[smoky orbit]

(wrong screenshot)

[frank zealot]

facepalm

[smoky orbit]

wrong screenshot, sorry

[next ginkgo]

you're telling me, they offer a 6000MT/s CL30 profile alongside a 6000 CL42?

[next ginkgo]

brother this is TKitch...

[merry stirrup]

no dawg

[next ginkgo]

if he's pissed off about smth it's probably justifiably so.

[merry stirrup]

i set the xmp profile then changed the freq and timing

[next ginkgo]

that'll do.

[frank zealot]

he also just told me to do exactly what I said isn't working anymore when I started my rant

[merry stirrup]

😭I KNOWWW

[smoky orbit]

have you tried deleting the temp files?

[steel stream]

it's unstable /s

[next ginkgo]

it's funny...

[smoky orbit]

not a dude, and as said, I didn't send the right thing

[next ginkgo]

hilarious, actually

[merry stirrup]

the modifying ram timings is not the issue i just don’t see why it wasn’t a free upgrade instead of lying about what parts are in the computer

[next ginkgo]

oh crap there's a she in the chat first time for everything ig

[merry stirrup]

6400 c32 is better than 6KC30 in every way

[frank zealot]

my b. She or They or ?

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/sheldon-cooper-spray-big-bang-theory-lysol-sanitizer-gif-16476407

[smoky orbit]

she

[smoky orbit]

X3

[next ginkgo]

seriously forgive our tendancy to address everyone here as he. it's ltt and majority of people here are guys

[next ginkgo]

it's not the worst I've seen

[fringe vigil]

Skill issue

[merry stirrup]

this is da dilemma not that i don’t have skills

[steel stream]

like jorj said skill issue

[hoary hatch]

Ah, an axe body spray application tutorial

[pure garnet]

floppa be swapping my pronoun with the suns rotation

[merry stirrup]

yeah i just use what i feel

[brisk jolt]

its 3;30 am and Im still pissed about my monitor

[next ginkgo]

lmao

[merry stirrup]

whatever sounds cleanest in the sentence is what kyoko gets

[next ginkgo]

everyones having a bad day today ig

[steel stream]

for Axe you're meant to stab it with a knife in a very tight enclosed space

[hoary hatch]

I can buy 64gb of Corsair dominator titanium for $1800 through work

[brisk jolt]

the retailer better fucking watch out in 8 hours they wont know what fuckin hitem

[merry stirrup]

kyoko my sugar plum gumdrop fr

[smoky orbit]

nah, use it as a flame thrower

[steel stream]

that's a waste of perfectly fantastic smelling axe

[next ginkgo]

brake clean when the shop pays for it:

[smoky orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/disgust-gross-ew-yucks-gif-3532414

[pure garnet]

when mine ran out (not axe) i hit it with a screwdriver and

it no longer ran out :\

[steel stream]

Axe bombs, good memories

one of the worst smells I've ever experienced was Axe, sunscreen, and bug spray in a small room

[smoky orbit]

axe is the worse smelling "doedorant" ever made

trust me

[steel stream]

i mean it's nothing special, but it smells better than BO so it's ok

[smoky orbit]

bo?, I'm sorry but you clearly never been on the other side (someone who doesn't uses axe), it stinks

[steel stream]

body odor

[smoky orbit]

ohh oki

[smoky orbit]

(not trying to be mean, sorry if it feels like it)

[steel stream]

it's also rare to find people who use axe above the age of like 16 so just let the middle schoolers use it and figure it out

[smoky orbit]

trust me, it's not as rare as I wish it would be

[devout ridge]

please for the love of god just use a lightly scented deodorant with aluminum in it

[smoky orbit]

yesssss

[devout ridge]

Yes i said with aluminum in it, aluminum is the only shit that actually works

[pure garnet]

but im not a robot

[devout ridge]

If you shower regularly, you don’t need super heavily scented deodorants

[steel stream]

I love aluminum in my deoderant

[devout ridge]

if you don’t shower regularly, fix that

[steel stream]

shit is so great

[smoky orbit]

please, as a women, we do not like axe or very intense deodorent (nor when people use parfume as deo)

[pure garnet]

showering makes you weak iroh

[steel stream]

if i shower before my super smash tournament I will surely lose

[smoky orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/thelapisshow-the-lapis-show-lapis-faraokawa-vtuber-wtf-gif-9841195024951025771

[devout ridge]

kyoko, i will forcibly drown you in a shower

[steel stream]

I just use a lightly scented deoderant and shower every day, it's that easy

[pure garnet]

dude my local card game store needs to implement a shower policy

just walking in there makes you feel unclean

[devout ridge]

lightly scented deodorant, single spray of a long lasting cologne, and we’re good for the day

[steel stream]

I have a cologne, I've just never used it lol

[smoky orbit]

don't use it to replace deo, please I beg you

[steel stream]

I use deoderant everyday it's not something I'll stop out of the blue

[devout ridge]

Cologne is for a pleasant scent, deodorant and antiperspirant is so you don’t stink to begin with

cologne + smelling like shit, still smells like shit

[steel stream]

I just go to the gym right after waking up so using cologne seems useless to me tbh

[hoary hatch]

Usps some fucking bullshit POS garbage company

[devout ridge]

then don’t, cologne is very much optional, i just like the scent

deodorant and an antiperspirant are not optional

[pure garnet]

the only thing i don't get is my rec center makes us shower before we go in the pool, but not after

which seems counter productive?

[hoary hatch]

Sent me a letter to go to a url to enroll and the URL doesn't fuckin work who the fuck tests this shit

[steel stream]

yeah I'm just saving it for nicer occasions atp

[hoary hatch]

https://tenor.com/view/me-when-i-see-my-class-gif-15768348532634343334

[steel stream]

it's to get all the sweat and grime off of your body before entering the pool so it stays cleaner, they don't give a fuck what you do after you leave because you're not affecting the pool anymore

[steel stream]

USPS played pinball with my package, went back and forth across the state

like 3 times

got delivered but what are you doing

Detroit -> Lansing -> Back to Detroit -> Detroit again? -> Lansing

[hoary hatch]

While I'm ranting, my UPS my choice stuff is broken
I just cannot sign up at my new address. So annoying

[steel stream]

yours is def worse, will have you have to go in person to fix or something?

[hoary hatch]

Idk man I give up

USPS informed delivery -> filled out the online form again so I guess I'm waiting another week for a letter

UPS my choice -> not sure. I'll try from a desktop and if that doesn't work I'll try in person

Fedex whatever it's called -> haven't looked into it yet, I never get FedEx packages tbh so meh

[steel stream]

brutal

[brave panther]

damn, this is just worth 1.6k in ram alone

[steel stream]

I still want one of those just to mod as a case

RIP Mac Pro

[turbid locust]

I’m still a professional

[brave panther]

get ready for apple lawsuit

[turbid locust]

Apples can’t file lawsuits duhhh

[turbid locust]

happy for you Mike

[steel stream]

are you sure?

[steel stream]

you can be a professional, but you'll never be a quad amputee professional cornhole player

[turbid locust]

Yeah but I can still shoot a b*tch

[shell void]

this book is wide color gamut

[steel stream]

I mean he did too

[turbid locust]

that’s the joke ffs

[steel stream]

rec 2020 or P3-D65

[shell void]

the red on the cover art could not be reproduced by a display that’s clamped to BT.709 color

[steel stream]

shit

my b Mac

[shell void]

it’s P3 red for sure

looks nice

[steel stream]

dope dope dope

[pure garnet]

microstar international

[steel stream]

lemme know when they remaster it for rec 2020 or 2100 and I'll pick one up

[shell void]

[steel stream]

reel

oh shit @turbid locust the quad amputee was extradited from Virginia to Maryland

[turbid locust]

fire

[steel stream]

free my boy he ain't do nothing wrong

(he most defintely did it)

[civic reef]

I got to use an E16 Gen 2 today

Absolutely loved the experience and handling of it

Might try to make due with ARC 140T graphics if it means I get to use a machine like that again

[turbid locust]

I never thought in a million years that in the year 2026 I would be at work wishing I was home so I could play Counter Strike

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/robin-williams-gif-6037089

[turbid locust]

[steel stream]

Mac we should run some CS together

(I suck dogshit at the game)

[turbid locust]

That’s fine I play for vibes lowk

Been a very good change of pace from Valorant lmao

I just be swinging shit in CS

like I still try to win obviously but like I don’t care that much

silver/gold Elo CS is peak lmao

I’ve even been queuing Valve servers and surprisingly haven’t ran into a cheater so far

at least not a blatant one

There was one guy I was sus of but we won so yolo

[steel stream]

cheating is bad till it helps me out fr fr

[turbid locust]

Nah he was on the other team

[steel stream]

ah

see that just means you're better than a cheater so it's ok

[turbid locust]

It’s just the way he swung me a few times like he knew where I was despite not having any info

I played a match this morning and had a teammate abandon the match like 5 rounds in, we still won.

[haughty monolith]

Probably got lucky

The cheaters im up against are full rage hacking usually

But he could've been slick idk

[turbid locust]

If it happened once I probably would’ve dismissed it but between him doing it like 3-4 times, having a private profile, and it was his first match ever on CS2 I was like 80% sure.

But, again, he either was just REALLY lucky or was being lowkey about cheating

[haughty monolith]

A little third eye goes a long way

[turbid locust]

Yeah I should go back and watch the demo

[haughty monolith]

Wish i could play at my full potential ngl

But the humble packet loss won't let me

[turbid locust]

I just started playing again. Hadn’t played since season 0

I didn’t like CS2 compared to CSGO

I still don’t, but it seems manageable now

I still have several “how did that not hit him” moments every match but not nearly as bad.

[haughty monolith]

I don't remember much of csgo
I played one round when i was like 8

My pc couldn't run it

[turbid locust]

I had like 400 hours or so in CSGO between 2020-2023

[haughty monolith]

Damn

[turbid locust]

I have probably 800 hours in Valorant nowadays, going back to CS I think I’m up to like 447 now

[haughty monolith]

I constantly have those
Its mostly me dumping half of my mag into someone when im right im their face, doing 12 damage and dying because my bullets didn't register

[turbid locust]

I swear I literally watched a guys body flop over dead for a couple frames and then stand back up and kill me

[haughty monolith]

Turn off the predictions

[turbid locust]

CS2 has some sort of damage prediction thing that does that

[turbid locust]

Yea I gotta look up how

[haughty monolith]

Its under game settings iirc

[turbid locust]

Add it to my autoexec

[turbid locust]

Oh word?

[haughty monolith]

Settings > game > smth

[haughty monolith]

Or just look it up in the search bar

[turbid locust]

Ah ok then. Yeah I need to get my config file back right. I had it dialed with all my settings and changes in CSGO

[cosmic gazelle]

i have learned a bit from watching bz sit there and talk about peoples zentimings screenshots for two hours

[haughty monolith]

Been trying to configure mine so my lag and stuff is to a minimum but nothing i do helps so im guessing its an issue on my end and not cs's
You got any ideas i can add to my list of fixes to try?

[cosmic gazelle]

essentially that cad bus 24 flat and procodt of like 40 is fine if gdm is on and gdm off is like not really worth the effort on ddr4

[turbid locust]

Like internet lag? Not really much you can do about that

[haughty monolith]

Ig? I have more packet loss than lag/ping issues tbh

[turbid locust]

packet loss is internet

[haughty monolith]

I guess it is yeah

[turbid locust]

Not much you can do about that if you’re on Ethernet

if you’re on WiFi, get on Ethernet lol

[haughty monolith]

Damn xd

[sharp heart]

tcpoptimizer helped me, have you tried adjusting some stuff there

[cosmic gazelle]

you can reduce packet loss by just having a better wifi card as well lol

a usb wifi adapter for example will packet loss all the time

[haughty monolith]

Idk my ethernet cable is really long and runs trough a hub, i guess the first thing i can try is getting a direct line to the router

[turbid locust]

Yeah maybe

[haughty monolith]

I don't think i have a wifi card? Not a dedicated one atleast

[steel stream]

just play on oceania servers

[haughty monolith]

Im on chinese ones from europe is that close enough?

[steel stream]

no you need oceania

[haughty monolith]

Ah

[cosmic gazelle]

what icon shows up on your internet thing on the bottom right

[wise bear]

meow

[haughty monolith]

Computer with ethernet cable

[cosmic gazelle]

ok nvm

probably the hub thing then

[haughty monolith]

Hi Peyton

[wise bear]

meowdy

[haughty monolith]

Should have plenty of cable lying around somewhere

[wraith steeple]

[civic reef]

After using my brain I've decided not to choose style over performance

[haughty monolith]

Feels like a good choice

[civic reef]

Rare moment of me using my noggin for once

[cosmic gazelle]

what are you buying now

[civic reef]

Same thing
Legion 5

I got a chance to try out an E16 Gen 2 today and it got me on the fence between the two laptops

[haughty monolith]

Alr im gona hop off, thanks everyone

[civic reef]

Goodnight Brownie

[cosmic gazelle]

laptop

performance focused

mfw

[civic reef]

Upgrading my PC isn't a viable option anymore

It's been almost a month since the war has started and it's still at home

[cosmic gazelle]

why are you spending your money on gaming hardware in the first place if you’re worried about getting bombed brah

[civic reef]

Even if it survives this war - unlike the last one, where overpressure damage killed half the components - what guarantee is there that it'll survive the next?

[civic reef]

What am I supposed to do? Immigrate with a whole 500 USD? As a minor?

And I am really just trying to minimise hardware liability for when the next war breaks out

Because this definitely isn't the last, not at all

[shell void]

@steel stream @edgy laurel they definitely did not fix the crosshair artifacting, and doing 40-240FPS with 6x is really bad

this 6x factor is definitely for 480Hz bare minimum, ideally 600Hz+

[edgy laurel]

was that in 6x mode?

[brave panther]

yikes

why is it doing frame gen on HUD anyway

[shell void]

yeh that clip was me flying around with 40-240 6x

[civic reef]

4.5?

[civic reef]

Also it's actually surprisingly performant

The 5060 mobile is quite the graphics processor at 115W

[shell void]

yes i was using the new "Preset B" framegen

i cant really tell the difference to be honest

the biggest problems are the same between A and B

oh apparently youll only see the benefits of Preset B in these games

im surprised cyberpunk isnt included

[civic reef]

Isn't Preset B supposed to improve UI/HUD generation?

[shell void]

that's what they say yes

supposedly it only works in that game list that i just posted which could explain why i don't see any difference in cyberpunk

[civic reef]

They include F1 2024 but not the game that showed off RTX 30's improvements in DLSS & RT

Yeah okay NVidia

[turbid locust]

I will try it in Borderlands 4 as framegen is a necessity

[shell void]