tech-chat-2

[fringe vigil]

[topaz veldt]

how do you point claude to local lm studio? haven't messed with that yet

[hoary hatch]

5070ti also has better software features/support

But with current US pricing 9070xt makes a lot more sense or if you really want Nvidia fuck it get a 5080

[green marsh]

literally linked it 😄 https://lmstudio.ai/blog/claudecode just set env variables and then set the model (it can be configured to not need model on CLI either, but that is extra few variables)

[topaz veldt]

lol doh - didn't click just read

I thought you linked to claude my bad

[smoky orbit]

They are on Linux sooo, not sure about the Nvidia recommendation, they just started having better support for Nvidia

[pure garnet]

the linux driver works fine?

[hoary hatch]

I didn't even read the message Panda replied to tbh

Uhh I mean coopa

[smoky orbit]

It’s ok, but they just started getting better, I would wait a bit to use nvidia on Linux, gotta let it marinate a bit

[pure garnet]

?

nvapi works fine, cuda works fine, vrr works fine, hdr works fine

[steel stream]

linux propaganda, clearly AI generated

[pure garnet]

fr

[topaz veldt]

ok yeah she's not fast....

[round flint]

btw which parts have the least chance of price increase due to ai in next 2 years maybe

[green marsh]

base m4 took 8 minutes for me. 2x1080 Ti does it in 1m10s to start responding

[topaz veldt]

it was like 1 min 15 secs to get to here

[steel stream]

@edgy laurel https://www.reddit.com/r/grilledcheese/comments/1skoxw5/blackberry_and_brie_grilled_cheese_on_sourdough/ idk about this one

[edgy laurel]

on one hand, i'm totally try that (i bet its good)

on the other hand, you people make me sick

[wraith steeple]

[green marsh]

so a little bit faster than my dual 1080 Ti setup. I think it prints some stats to the logs on developer tab

you could see the PP/TG rates there

[topaz veldt]

looking...

I see a lot of timestamps for like each task/subtask

[edgy laurel]

the comments are great. people are trying to figure out if the blackberries were already in the brie, or if blackberry jam is considered a spread 😆

all so they can know if they're allowed to be upset or not LMAO

[topaz veldt]

@green marsh 026-04-14 14:43:57 [INFO] [qwen/qwen3.5-35b-a3b] Prompt processing progress: 100.0% 2026-04-14 14:44:00 [DEBUG] slot print_timing: id 2 | task 0 | prompt eval time = 45885.91 ms / 23352 tokens ( 1.96 ms per token, 508.91 tokens per second) eval time = 2214.77 ms / 96 tokens ( 23.07 ms per token, 43.35 tokens per second) total time = 48100.68 ms / 23448 tokens 2026-04-14 14:44:00 [DEBUG] slot release: id 2 | task 0 | stop processing: n_tokens = 23447, truncated = 0 srv update_slots: all slots are idle 2026-04-14 14:44:00 [DEBUG] LlamaV4: server assigned slot 2 to task 0 2026-04-14 14:44:00 [INFO] [qwen/qwen3.5-35b-a3b] Finished streaming Anthropic response

[steel stream]

I am reading and trying to form an opinion too , my original thought is that it doesn't count

[civic reef]

Just found something dumb about TB3; 10Gbps was permanently locked to DP even if it wasn't used, so the GPU only got a maximum of 22Gbps

[steel stream]

god too funny

[civic reef]

TB4 allegedly doesn't do that so the GPU can get full 32Gb

[civic reef]

Hi Chips

[edgy laurel]

never change, reddit. never change 😂

[cosmic gazelle]

sup dawg

[civic reef]

Hru

[green marsh]

you might need to enable verbose logging near the trash icon in developer logs. (this picture is CPU interference on 9950x)

[steel stream]

found a better one

[cosmic gazelle]

i got the 550 ti to roughly 41% above the average passmark score

[steel stream]

r/grilledcheese and r/flashlights are my two favorite subreddits I think

[topaz veldt]

I see that block just multiple iterations

oh task 0 maybe

[edgy laurel]

To be fair, where would we be if standards were not upheld. Good on the crazy person.

[cosmic gazelle]

i got 16th out of like 1300 submissions on 3dmark night raid with a 550 ti lol

[steel stream]

rules are rules damn it!

[green marsh]

yeah, they are sending one big chunk at start, then smaller updates for partial commands. So 400t/s PP and 43.3t/s TG. If that is Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, then that is on par with my 2x1080Ti setup in PP and 2x better in TG

[steel stream]

that guy is my hero

[civic reef]

Oh? 2400G & 550 Ti has 1300 whole submissions?

[pure garnet]

@steel stream my code is so bad that it generated 206gb of error logs

[topaz veldt]

yeah its on verbose by default, looks like 43 t/s ish

[green marsh]

usually if the prompt eval token length is more than 4k, it will print somewhat realistic numbers. So yeah, 400t/s PP, 40t/s TG. Could be worse, but not great. Initial context Claude Code sends is ~20k tokens, so that takes 20000/400=50 seconds more or less to process. Then it generates output fast-ish (40t/s TG), but that initial context takes forever. Same when you send a bigger file at once (usually it only sends small chunks over time, so you don't notice it) and then when compacting hits, that is going to take some time too, more so if you are compacting 100-200k of context 😄

[steel stream]

give it all to claude trust 🙏

[green marsh]

i mean i can live with slow PP, but i prefer not to if i would spend money on something. Which is why i ruled out Mac as an option for LLM. Only M5 Max is a realistic option, and even that is only comparable to 9070XT in bandwidth. And costs are insanely higher

for a price of a 36GB M5 max laptop you can get a 5090 with 32GB VRAM and have 800 euros left for the rest of system 😄

and 5090 will run circles around the m5 max

[topaz veldt]

Yep - it was like 65 secs to get going - now its fastish.

Have you used LM Studio as a provider in VS Code?

[green marsh]

as in "chat" functionality ?

[topaz veldt]

ya - but lmstudio specifically

looks like you can't use the "chat" pane

you need an extension

[green marsh]

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=johnny-zhao.oai-compatible-copilot
LM Studio has OpenAI & Anthropic compatible API's. See the "Settings example" part, configure it, boom, it will chat with the model in LM Studio

[topaz veldt]

Oh interseting - I saw recommended this "Continue" extension

wow

[noble violet]

did i overclock correctly??

[pure garnet]

sure

[noble violet]

nice

it smells weird tho

[fervent chasm]

Interesting name

[noble violet]

im the real linus

[topaz veldt]

they'll let anyone on the internet

[noble violet]

im the real one

[topaz veldt]

I have a feeling you're about to get banned

[noble violet]

worth it

[topaz veldt]

<@&750150305383186585> he said it not me

[noble violet]

ok bro

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/ben-stiller-zoolander-im-not-your-brah-gif-13489162

[pure garnet]

i may only work part time but im too employed for this

[green marsh]

Well, let me summarize this for you.
Continue - more of a chat interface in my experience.
Cline - similar to Claude code, but tied into the Visual Studio functionality.
then there is the current visual studio agent stuff, where you see the chat and all AI functionality, but they only support certain list of providers out of the box. But extensions from others can tie into that functionality, and the extension i linked is one of those, in this case makes calling any OpenAI backend possible. So you use the standard Visual Studio Code AI functionality, but against your own LLM server with OpenAI compatible API instead of paid options

[topaz veldt]

Got it so I'd really one the OAI compatibility

[pure garnet]

since when does razer make psus

rgb for all your gaming needs

[steel stream]

looks like a weird speaker

[hoary hatch]

They also have (had?) some AIOs

[green marsh]

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/search?term=tag%3Alanguage-models&target=VSCode&category=All categories&sortBy=Relevance This one was the highest one by downloads. The LiteLLM provider is another option, but for that you would have to run a LiteLLM instance to proxy between your LLM and VS Code, which in your case is probably pointless.

Maybe https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=NullSetIndustries.lmstudio-byok-chat-provider in your case ? Dunno, didn't try these, i run Claude Code CLI so far 🙂

[hoary hatch]

Remember when they did a monitor and people were like "omg so pretty"

[topaz veldt]

word yeah I just like to understand options

[devout oxide]

psu rbg app will install itself before windows does

[green marsh]

also you might want to use this skills library, this guy explains why https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bfKyZ7hbsU 😄

[topaz veldt]

ugh i don't want to get my algo all aibro'd but I'll try

[green marsh]

skills are you markdown documents, commands for LLM

[civic reef]

Egpu enclosures confuse me

Uses a TB3 controller yet has a TB4 port

[young void]

Its kinda cool where we are getting

[fervent chasm]

I love copilot

fuck coding in powershell ive had enough of doing it manually

[young void]

https://tenor.com/view/will-smith-eating-spaghetti-will-smith-spaghetti-ai-gif-12546117032276153065

Came a long way

[green marsh]

https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills

The basic idea is that insted of going "Hey LLM do this" you go through a proces

[topaz veldt]

lmstudio on my 5090 TUF OC machine set to listen to local network, hit from claude on macos

[fervent chasm]

is this lmstudio

oh i didnt read the first word

[cosmic gazelle]

no 550 ti has 1300, i was like 10% higher than the other 2 submissions for 2400g and 550 ti 😂

[pallid marsh]

Still waiting for snail to get a rtx 6000 blackwell

[civic reef]

Oh lmao
That's hilarious

Two other guys with 2400Gs ❤️

[fervent chasm]

oh llms was part of the reason i also got so much ram

i was able to try the 70b models

[green marsh]

so the basic idea is that you send your prompt to idea refining, where it goes through a back and forth asking questions and refining the idea to final polished initial idea. Then you go though creating a spec, which creates a detailed specification for tasks (in vertical fashion, so you create both FE & BE for a task, then moving to a next task etc), then it builds those tasks, tests them etc. That is the whole idea, instruct the LLM to be more precise about certain steps of the process, to ask questions etc instead of just jumping in and coding

[pallid marsh]

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1895402-REG/nvidia_900_5g144_2200_000_rtx_pro_6000_blackwell.html when are yeee upgrading

[topaz veldt]

nah

[topaz veldt]

Yeah that is cool vs. multiple times iterating through a "Good, but no, do this"

[green marsh]

there are other tricks you can try, for example you can set K cache quant to Q8_0 and V cache quant for example, which decreases KV cache memory usage.
I prefer to use Qwen3.5-27B because it is 'smarter' than 35B-A3B, but of course it is also a lot slower

[topaz veldt]

You are deep in this shit - I do the hardware side lol

[green marsh]

also not sure which model quant you downloaded, that can also decrease the memory usage and increase speed - sometimes at cost of hallucinations, but those usually happened to me only when doing localized text outputs in a language which 5M people use... Sometimes it invents nonexisting words, but oh well. Coding is usually fine qith Q4_0 quant

[fervent chasm]

very sigma ui

[green marsh]

by "not sure" i mean there are download options 🙂

and in case of unsloth versions, many more options

[green marsh]

ok, Q4, so the 'base, typical version'. For macOS, you could also try to use MLX variant of the model, which could be faster on Apple, if you want to stay with apple and not use the 5090 😄

[topaz veldt]

it was more just experimental - I think when I do muck around on the mac silcion i do the mac models

[green marsh]

i mean stuff like https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-4bit (you can find them in LM Studio as mlx-community/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-4bit)

[topaz veldt]

I can rerun and see how it differs in the test from earlier

[green marsh]

let's just say half a year ago i had zero knowledge about this, at best i used some AI chat interface. Now i code software which talks to AI 😄

[topaz veldt]

its cool

I am trying to understand more at that level since I just deal with devs complaining and then spend a half hour explaining how the hardware/fabric actually works

[topaz veldt]

mlx-community logging is ... different

same 1 min 18s on the initial prompt

[brave panther]

stinky stinky chat

[green marsh]

i haven't used MLX stuff yet, so probably a different engine alltogether (the GGUF engine outputs are clearly standard llama.cpp outputs)

[topaz veldt]

yeah this is very not

everything % based

I dunno what I did but this sucks

Doesn't show tokens per second either

[green marsh]

in the end as i said, macs are not really meant to be used for coding agents. If one has to use it, then it is better than nothing, but outside of m5 max it is a painful experience imo due memory bandwidth being so limiting

[topaz veldt]

I love that it put immich and paperless-ngx in there twice

[green marsh]

that happens, it usually fixes the stuff when it gets errors. It is not meant ot be perfect on first try. It is prefereable obviously, but for cost of 'hardware i own can do this' it is not bad. You might want to test out the Qwen3.5-27B instead, as i said, it is slower, but it got so many things right for me on first try... Plus it is less chatty, Qwen3.5-35B was dumping thinking lore in the chat all the time, meanwhile 27B was just doing things and writing some comments once in a while.

Anyway, time for bed, have fun 🙂

[topaz veldt]

Sometimes I like the "thinking" dialogues

its like an insane old person

Later on

[green marsh]

https://github.com/jhlee0409/claude-code-history-viewer gives you a full history of the chats

[topaz veldt]

I sometimes set the inference dialogue to "only respond like dr. seuss"

[turbid locust]

Trying to gaslight this dude into skipping hanging out with his girlfriend this weekend to cover a shift

“Just do it and then buy her something with the extra hours you got she’ll forget”

[lilac crater]

Not sure what this has to do with tech but big brain moves

[turbid locust]

Oh sorry who are you

[lilac crater]

I am zaytin and you are sir?

[turbid locust]

My condolences

[lilac crater]

huh

[turbid locust]

https://tenor.com/view/truth-nuke-truth-true-soyjak-wojak-gif-14828627546768133163

[lilac crater]

I'm so confused

[pure garnet]

computers are evolving and cannot be trusted

[lilac crater]

Do you know the solution to this? @turbid locust

[pure garnet]

yeah mac fix that guys wifi

[steel stream]

worth it

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/were-going-streaking-will-ferrell-old-school-the-tank-frank-ricard-gif-9174142598901078123

[turbid locust]

explodes router with mind

“My fuckin router”

https://youtu.be/IzT5hBS-tdY?si=PzK9966Mu2vg307h for the uncultured

[steel stream]

I can't believe @merry stirrup would do that

not cool man

[arctic bronze]

@steel stream I got a question

[steel stream]

what's up

[arctic bronze]

when was the war of 1812

[copper bone]

1943

[steel stream]

1776

[arctic bronze]

https://tenor.com/view/sad-gone-gif-16720761030809438213

[fervent chasm]

I love autopilot

dont gotta approve everything

[merry stirrup]

boss trying to send out a pc with 5600 ram intentionally instead of 6000 :/

[steel stream]

slime him

[turbid locust]

realistically no difference

[steel stream]

how dare you

[turbid locust]

[topaz veldt]

gents

I went from 4K 125% scaling in Windows to 100%

[steel stream]

can we charge Mac with lying under oath

[topaz veldt]

YES

[steel stream]

i run it on my C4, it's nice

[brave panther]

get him, he has ram

[steel stream]

I run 150% on the laptop though

3456x2160 with 15.6" laptop needs 150%

[topaz veldt]

yah bigger display tho - this is 32" and like 24" away

but macos doesn't do scaling + hdr

so I have been doing 100% and just got used to it

[steel stream]

ah

[merry stirrup]

yes but a paying customer doesn’t care about a difference if they paid more

[turbid locust]

Valid

[merry stirrup]

there was a cost difference. that is what matters

[steel stream]

wait so you can do scaling in SDR, but not HDR in MacOS?

[turbid locust]

I run 125% on my C4

100% makes me feel blind

[steel stream]

I ran 125% for a while, but I sit close enough where it's ok

If i sat farther I'd want 125

[turbid locust]

Akn we have the same desk right

[steel stream]

i think yours is 6" deeper

[turbid locust]

Well I don’t have mine pushed all the way back

[steel stream]

mine is ~0.5" from the back

[turbid locust]

mines probably like 4-5” lmao

[fervent chasm]

i ❤️ gaming vms

[steel stream]

yeah at that distance I think I would run 125%

[fervent chasm]

i still need to figure out how to patch the stupid drivers because without doing it, some games see the microsoft translation layer driver that allows for the GPU-PV and freak out over it being from 2006

[topaz veldt]

holy shit

MacOS stuff can stream to Sonos

[steel stream]

AirPlay is fantastic

[topaz veldt]

dude wtf

I was like oh well i can't hear youtube vids over patio speakers

[turbid locust]

Yeah AirPlay is lit

[topaz veldt]

fuck now i need an ipad

[steel stream]

I want a Macbook because I could take screenshots on my iPad of drawings or graphs I made, and then just paste those from clipboard on the Macbook

Would be super nice for notes

[steel stream]

You totally need the iPad pro 13" M5

[copper bone]

damn macbooks are expensive

[merry stirrup]

would i be the worst new hire ever if i told the big boss

[steel stream]

woah, you can get the iPad pro with a 9 core CPU

that's funky

[topaz veldt]

actually prob not - so i want to get a projector so kids can watch movies - I need an hdmi port

[pure garnet]

i run 150% because it’s a baby sized panel

[copper bone]

sorry what

a tablet for 2199 USD?

[pure garnet]

i mean yeah that’s usually how apple storage upgrades go

[topaz veldt]

2TB in an ipad is psycho

[steel stream]

I wonder if you could do a projector with an AppleTV box, iOS and I'd assume MacOS just lets me stream audio and video to it

[topaz veldt]

hmm

i am ok with using this mbp

[copper bone]

Wow why can apple products be this expensive

what is even the use case of this

[topaz veldt]

look at the specs dude

[copper bone]

yeah, but i mean why is this even an option on the website

[topaz veldt]

go build a 128GB 8TB big CPU desktop

[civic reef]

M5 Max, 8TB, 128GB RAM

Honestly I am surprised it's not flat out €10,000

[steel stream]

now I am trying to see if projectors support airplay natively lol

[civic reef]

$1K atleast gone already just on the RAM lmao

Wait no that's too low

[topaz veldt]

oh shit

[topaz veldt]

yeah more

ugh need umbrellas to show up

[steel stream]

rtings best outdoor projector does not have it, needs a separate app

[civic reef]

$800 for a Crucial Pro 2x32GB 6400 CL40

There's $735 although 6000 CL40

[topaz veldt]

hm

which projector do they recommend @steel stream

[merry stirrup]

for context the kit is rated for 6000. it doesn’t do expo or xmp. its faulty and needs to be replaced

glad i didn’t sign an nda of sorts

[topaz veldt]

lolol

[smoky orbit]

that's affecting the company rep's so you might wanna tell them, they could "punish" you for knowing and not telling

🤷‍♀️

[pure garnet]

setsuna bin

[steel stream]

Anker Nebula X1

[hoary hatch]

Are you going to dispose of it safely into your back pocket

[topaz veldt]

because handles and portable?

[smoky orbit]

"safely disposing of it" (trust)

[steel stream]

yeah got a handle, but they seem to like it

[pure garnet]

shit redacted beyond belief

[topaz veldt]

i mean i get it

[topaz veldt]

do you have their membership

[steel stream]

I do not

I might buy it when all the new TV reviews launch

michael does have it though

[topaz veldt]

i want to see how far away it can project

where I want to put it is like..... 25' away but screen size would be like 100"

[devout ridge]

anything can project at any distance if you're willing to convince yourself "I CAN SEE IT" hard enough

[steel stream]

so they have a tool on the review, and I would assume on other projectors too

https://www.rtings.com/projector/reviews/anker/nebula-x1

[topaz veldt]

yah its like typical 10 ft

i have a power outlet in my seating wall but its like 20 ft at closest

[steel stream]

hmm

might be worth paying for rtings and using the table can sort by throw ratios

[limpid tapir]

Do you even see bro

[topaz veldt]

what refresh is this mf i wonder

[limpid tapir]

You just gotta see competetively

[steel stream]

i'd assume 120Hz

[topaz veldt]

60

[steel stream]

yuck

[civic reef]

$1,600 down for RAM (2x kits of 2x32GB 6400 CL40, crucial pro)

503+15 x 2 for 4TB NVMes + active Heatsinks (Samsung 9100 Pro & HR10 cooler)

That's $2,636 USD, or €2,234

What CPU & GPU do does the M5 equal?

[topaz veldt]

XGIMI HORIZON 20 Max is 120 hz at 4k

its also a long throw

hmmmm

[brave panther]

https://www.projectorcentral.com/projectors.cfm
i like this more for comparing projectors

[steel stream]

yeah that might be a better tool, thanks!

[brave panther]

it just gives facts not stupid article

[steel stream]

rtings would too if there wasn't a paywall rip

[brave panther]

yea recently i had to compare bunch of projector so i could request an offer from a supplier

[turbid locust]

Just remembered i reinstalled windows last night and have to reconfigure shit tonight when I get home

@topaz veldt do you have a script that nukes the bullshit out of regular 11 Pro

[brave panther]

https://christitus.com/windows-tool/
i just run this and checkbox shit i want to configure/install

[turbid locust]

[civic reef]

Oh also
I have a new stupid idea

GPU Enclosure w/ a 5700 XT for my brother to use with his laptop

I can sell every other part of the PC (excluding storage & PSU ofcourse) and barely be out like $150 with the cash made back from sales

[topaz veldt]

I do but it's highly customized for my environment. It joins my domain. It installs shit that I like etc

[civic reef]

Much cheaper and more feasible than trying to build an ITX PC or such

[turbid locust]

ah ok

[steel stream]

nah join 5nails domain

[hoary hatch]

250K + assrock B860 board + assrock 750w PSU for $299

Interesting Newegg, interesting

[turbid locust]

crazy value btw

ARL-R already has D2D cranked so it’s very valid for B860

[fervent chasm]

god i love AutoUnattend.xml

so much time saved

[steel stream]

I didn't know they got +2 iGPU cores

actually just an A380 in that bitch

[fervent chasm]

I never understood why windows FORCES you to hit a key to boot into the installation menu on Hyper-V its so stupid

They literally have an extra .bin that you have to switch out with the other one to not be forced

Microsoft stupid shit that forces the user to do way more than needed

[brave panther]

install it once, and just import disk into new vm's

[hoary hatch]

It's 4 xe cores
1 slice

[fervent chasm]

No

Then youre stuck with the same username, you can change but some folder names cant

[steel stream]

yeah but 265K just has 2 right

or 1 slice with 2 disabled

[civic reef]

I thought the PSU itself was 299 lmfao

[hoary hatch]

All arrow lake desktop iGPU is a full 4 core Xe1+ slice

Actually

[turbid locust]

250K is the best multicore performance per dollar you can buy rn

[hoary hatch]

Some of the locked lower tier CU5 are 2 xe core

And a 3 xe core sku exists lmao

But certainly 245K and above are 4 xe core

[steel stream]

damn I lied to myself and said it was only 2 cores

[topaz veldt]

Omg three of these showed up....

I had no idea what she spent

[steel stream]

indoor and outdoor

[hoary hatch]

If only I had some spare ddr5 I'd love to build a 250k itx box

@floppa can commit corporate theft for me

[topaz veldt]

Dude.... They're $300 blankets for outside

[steel stream]

all 4 of the blankets in my apartment were free

outdoor blankets should be rags

[topaz veldt]

I'm like... I didn't know you could buy a blanket for $300, let alone an outdoor blanket

[steel stream]

it must have healing properties

[topaz veldt]

Bro, I don't know

[hoary hatch]

Can they also be used for exorcisms or seances

[pure garnet]

when are you building the patio pc

[hoary hatch]

What the fuck did I do

[devout ridge]

No idea bud, but i'm glad it isn't me

[pure garnet]

why your keyboard in minions mode

[hoary hatch]

Oh if you hold the bottom too long it just becomes free floating very cool
How and can I disable that permanently

[hoary hatch]

Material You

Now I put it in Google approved SpongeBob mode

[merry stirrup]

okay

[shell void]

the E26 sockets in my bedroom ceiling fan are only rated for 17W bro this is total malarkey

i can’t put incandescent bulbs in this jawn

[merry stirrup]

L

[hoary hatch]

Time for high pressure sodium bulbs

[shell void]

mustard lights

[pure garnet]

aren’t those really orange

[shell void]

if you mean warm white then yes

yay my full set of Invincble Complete Library books is finally on the way

had to backorder them

[slim pebble]

This season is lit.🔥

[shell void]

i agree it's been surprisingly good

i think it's the second best after the first season

1>4>3>2 in my opinion

[pallid marsh]

Your punishment for not using dark mode

[shell void]

purposefully using light theme is based

[dense granite]

You made the keyboard pop out.

That's a feature.

[hoary hatch]

It's certainly a feature for someone

[dense granite]

Idk who though.

Maybe like 5 people use that, including the dev that implemented it.

[hoary hatch]

I think on a tablet it could make sense

[devout ridge]

Cookie Clicker OLED looks great

[shell void]

[turbid locust]

man of culture

[shell void]

4k240 oled is essential to properly enjoy cookie clicker

[turbid locust]

actually dreading going home and reconfiguring windows bro LMAO

[shell void]

my good sir what was the reason for your reinstallation this time?

[pure garnet]

counter strike gsync

[turbid locust]

Gsync would not work in Windowed Fullscreen on CS2 on 11 IOT LTSC for some reason

As soon as I installed 11 Pro it insta worked

[shell void]

interesting

i wonder if you forgot to enable this

[granite dirge]

anyone know which blutooth adapter is fine for a xbox series controller, and the adapter connects using usbc?

[devout ridge]

It is

It's the bare minimum really

[pale beacon]

If your PC has a BT/Wi-Fi , you don't need one. You mean a wireless Xbox adapter I think

[granite dirge]

no i mean a bluetooth adapter, i used to own one that was tp link, and usb a,

[shell void]

dear god

[turbid locust]

I tried everything under the damn sun before I reinstalled bro

[shell void]

welcome back to windows pro life

ive been on 25h2 pro for a while

[turbid locust]

I’m really happy with my 8BitDo adapter, mines USB A but you could check if they have a USB C version

[pure garnet]

i’m gonna hold out on ltsc because it has yet to do anything to me

[turbid locust]

Have you ever actually used Bluetooth on windows? It’s so ass lmao

[pure garnet]

if windows 11 pro let me actually banish phone link id maybe swap but

i’m too lazy to

[turbid locust]

why do you hate phone link

[pure garnet]

because it fucks up my muscle memory of right clicks now that i’m use to not having it

[shell void]

[turbid locust]

huh

[vestal granite]

yeah huh

i dont even know what right click yer talkin about

[turbid locust]

yeah tf

[pure garnet]

when i went to right click on my desktop a file or something it would show send to phone link

[vestal granite]

well thats probably because you set up phone link just dont set it up

[turbid locust]

ultra first world problem lmfao

[vestal granite]

i dont have that on my context menu

[pure garnet]

i also haven’t used win 11 non ltsc since ltsc came out so maybe they axed it by default

[vestal granite]

oh i see hwat u mean

[pure garnet]

ill install pro on my laptop i need to sacrifice for lockdown browser

[pure garnet]

ask copilot is nuts too

[vestal granite]

AI actions is in my context menu and doesnt have anything in it

why have it in the context menu if it has nothing in it

[shell void]

one of 50 total people on earth with legally activated winrar home

[pure garnet]

i’m gonna get the purse when i move out

rarlab made a quality product i’m happy to keep using all these years later

the one time winrar failed me 7z also failed me because i had to get a custom modded version of 7z with support for that archive format

[dense granite]

LMAO

[wraith steeple]

this came in today

[smoky orbit]

Cooolio

[turbid locust]

Yeah maybe I never see this because I always revert to old context menu

It’s 2026 and people still exist that think Gsync and Vsync cause input lag

[steel stream]

cause it does 4head

5head?

[turbid locust]

[steel stream]

https://videocardz.com/newz/sony-announces-inzone-m10s-ii-27-inch-oled-qhd-540-hd-720hz-dual-mode-gaming-monitor-at-1099 still crazy to me to see sony monitors for some reason

[steel stream]

idk what your hairline looks like so we will put it at 4.5

[turbid locust]

Competitive FPS players when I tell them I run a framerate cap with Gsync and reflex enabled

https://tenor.com/view/freak-tweak-tweaker-tweaking-freak-out-gif-16108345590627731463

[brisk jolt]

fr

one of the horsemen

[turbid locust]

I have to remember CS players are still stuck in 2004 as far as settings go

[brisk jolt]

“Yeah, I play at 4K”
“I dont use stretched”
“I use FPS caps”
“Im not on a 24in peasant’s panel”

[steel stream]

and dialect

[steel stream]

this would get you shot if you said this at a tournament

[turbid locust]

I’ve actually been experimenting with 4:3 stretched as of last night lmao

[steel stream]

have you guys looked at #audio-tech recently

[brisk jolt]

everyone would be undoubtedly
very triggerhappy regardless of tournament or not

“yeah so i prefer my crystal clear oled over your shitty looking holy blurry motion smear “

[low sorrel]

@civic reef I love how the flight sim community is like nah those 200 hotas's are shit

ok what do i buy then?

buy 200 dollar stick and a 200 dollar throttle for not that much more

[civic reef]

Not that much more ❤️

[low sorrel]

oh it's 200 US

only 600 canadian

[turbid locust]

I still think it’s mostly cope

[civic reef]

Yeah just pocket change right?

[low sorrel]

yeah

600 is pretty close to 200 right @turbid locust ?

[low sorrel]

it is

[civic reef]

Why pay $200 for HOTAS when $400 just isn't anything more, like $50 and $150

[turbid locust]

I could potentially see how it would possibly help some people, but that’s cause it’s literally just zoomed in

4:3 stretched just lowers your FOV

[low sorrel]

I use it

because i don't like change

change is bad

[turbid locust]

I’m gonna try it out for a bit but probably will go back to native

[steel stream]

native is the way

[devout ridge]

i walked away from the monitor and came back, oh my god i can't get over it

[steel stream]

now just be like me and buy 6 OLEDs in one year

and return ~60% of them

[devout ridge]

i need another OLED so i can replace my IPS secondary monitor

OLED + IPS is brutal, it just reminds me of how bad IPS is every time i look at it

[low sorrel]

no you need a miniled

[devout ridge]

no i need another OLED

[low sorrel]

no you need a microled

[devout ridge]

do i need a miniled or a microled

[low sorrel]

a microled

[brisk jolt]

you need the 49GX850A-B

[pure garnet]

it basically gives you vertical mouse acceleration

because your m_yaw becomes an oval

[shell void]

it's nice when you walk in the room, and the display still looks excellent from a 90 degree angle

[pure garnet]

it’s just a preference thing though

some pros play 16:9 some play 1:1 or whatever

[brisk jolt]

when you walk into the room you see your reflection which should say “you somehow made it here”

[shell void]

i sit down and say "wow that guy is handsome" when i see my reflection before turning on my pc

[turbid locust]

LMAO

Like it definitely feels different idk if it feels better necessarily tho

But like I’m not one to be like “yeah that shits stupid” without trying it yk

I feel like I have blinders on tho

[brisk jolt]

if anyone tells me stretched is superior Im def giving them the “do you know how stupid you look” face

[turbid locust]

people that play 4:3 with black bars are actually braindead

like that shit is actually stupid

[brisk jolt]

dude just aim better and get off the cope

[pure garnet]

when my 3080 died i did a ffxiv raid on the uhd 770 at 1024x768 stretched

[low sorrel]

WHY ARE ALL OF THE DEALS IN MAPLE FUCKING RIDGE

[brisk jolt]

it felt your negative aura

[shell void]

maple WHAT? ridge??

[analog scroll]

I know of maple ridge

but not whatever you are talkin about

[turbid locust]

You guys ever think half the mfs here are bots

[brisk jolt]

@trim agate AW2726DM is 500 sgd

[merry stirrup]

fr

[brisk jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/leon-leon-kennedy-backflip-useless-backflip-unnecessary-backflip-gif-7713278107720559726

[slim pebble]

Bots that encourage people to spend more money on PC hardware. Funded by Jensen. 😅

[brisk jolt]

but the more we buy the more we save

[fringe vigil]

why 0 dollars

[devout ridge]

snail might just be an LLM that the real snail local hosts on one of his servers

[brisk jolt]

because I bought more and saved more

[trim agate]

Is this the 360hz one

[storm hatch]

so confident in my building I put the case together before I turned it on

it didn't work lol I was too confident

[brisk jolt]

240

its a new model using old shit

the 360 is the aw2725df

[trim agate]

Why buy this when I can spend $90 more on 360

[brisk jolt]

because you’re a gonk

[devout ridge]

pull on the rad is so weird

intake at the bottom, exhaust out the top, like a normal, sane person

having that big ass case for that tiny gpu is so funny

[storm hatch]

yea I been looking for a bigger one id even downgrade lol I dont game

[brisk jolt]

whomst has awakened the ancient one

[storm hatch]

the rad is the exhuast

[trim agate]

I’m no gonk

Is it $500 after student discount

[brisk jolt]

no

its just flat 500 before anything and its after taxes

[devout ridge]

are those reverse blade fans?

[storm hatch]

man now I feel big

[trim agate]

Dell gives 10% off to students hehe

[brisk jolt]

how do u get the student discount

[storm hatch]

shhh its been a long day 😭🤣 hey the i9 14900k stays cool still somehow

[trim agate]

Google it, you need to make an account and verify via student email

[brisk jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/dr-manhattan-gif-18899941

[devout ridge]

Oh so you just had them misconfigured, and they are actually intakes

[storm hatch]

yeaaa lmao

there we go I would have never noticed

[devout ridge]

now flip the bottom fans

[turbid berry]

Say hi to microwave

[turbid locust]

YouTube wtf

[brisk jolt]

all roads lead to you contributing to the LLM

[steel stream]

Is it?

[turbid locust]

no

[steel stream]

Ok I’ll blow up YT with my mind

I’m thinking about buying another pair of Sennheisers when I go back to full time employment

[dapper finch]

hello, my steam link stopped powering on. what steps should i do to figure out issue? theres no information online from what i can find

[devout ridge]

maybe buy a streaming device that isn't 11 years old

[brisk jolt]

now if only we can drill it into jerry’s thick skull

[steel stream]

What

[brisk jolt]

y’know the 3060 and 4K

[steel stream]

@low sorrel wake up they’re lobotomizing your ass

[snow holly]

Good tip. Now upgrade your personality

[turbid berry]

When did Rome have Ai?

[devout ridge]

What's with the ad hominem

[brisk jolt]

the 3060 slander needs to go on

[devout ridge]

spending more on your monitor than your GPU is wild

[steel stream]

It’s about even for me

I got my monitor open box though

[devout ridge]

you know Rome still exists right?

[snow holly]

Can’t call it ad hominem when your point was just recycled smugness

: )

[turbid berry]

Only a millennia away😍

[brisk jolt]

supernova vs dying ant

[devout ridge]

<@&750150305383186585> Actively Harassing me (check filtered messages)

[snow holly]

Wow

[turbid berry]

Still waiting for the Ai gladiator fights

[devout ridge]

You can generate it right now if you so wish

[snow holly]

Iroh can’t sleep with people upset with him

[brisk jolt]

flashback to the “highend pc 1050ti” and a 4K240hz oled

[steel stream]

Please get this Radeon out of my sight

[brisk jolt]

basic display adapter dontcha mean

[devout ridge]

9070xt is basically just a pcie card version of those USB HDMI dongles

[steel stream]

Real

[devout ridge]

As awful as i had imagined

[steel stream]

Is that Tony stank

[devout ridge]

that's insulting to stan lee

[turbid berry]

And his clone

[brisk jolt]

that looks like iron man mk1 terminator and darth vader combined

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/tony-stark-stan-lee-jokes-tony-stank-gif-12657135

He said it himself

[brisk jolt]

hell even put a stormtrooper in that

[devout ridge]

my complaint was of comparing stan lee's verbal creation to that of the abomination that is AI generated imagery

[steel stream]

That’s why I called it Stank and not Stark

[devout ridge]

verbal creation
referencing tony stank, not tony stark

[steel stream]

🤷

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-may-bring-12-xe3p-graphics-to-desktop-with-new-nova-lake-soc-sku

Another NVL sku has hit the building

[topaz veldt]

its kinda sick

[steel stream]

I like the idea of having some beefed up iGPU sku, but there’s already what feels like 15 skus

[topaz veldt]

only 22 to go

[steel stream]

Yes they should make like 50 skus

Would making buying a CPU like throwing darts blindfolded

[turbid locust]

my beloved

[steel stream]

Where copilot

[thick frost]

The trash picked 3080 has returned to my position as it's now completely dead

[brisk jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/this-peak-is-this-peak-so-peak-peak-it's-just-so-peak-gif-1360442599844596686

[steel stream]

Real

[turbid locust]

Nuked into oblivion

[steel stream]

Amen I hate that fucking AI

[turbid locust]

anyone know how to make the start menu not stupid

get those boxes out of here

[steel stream]

Might be a widget or smth? No idea

[turbid locust]

i have literally everything disabled in start menu settings and it didnt change a damn thing

[indigo walrus]

Click the View: Category option to change it to something else... like List or Grid.

[turbid locust]

why does it insist on being 1/6th of my screen

look at that dead space

for what microsoft

[brisk jolt]

If mac gets a headache just list it as “Microslop”

[turbid locust]

wtaf

[indigo walrus]

It's part of the re-design. You can either learn to use it, or switch to another OS.

[brisk jolt]

that…. looks like absolute shit

[turbid locust]

use what? the giant grey blank space of nothingness?

[brisk jolt]

how many 13900KF/14900KF is this guy gonna kill

[indigo walrus]

Does the Start Menu still let you launch applications? If yes, it's fulfilling its purpose. To be clear, I don't disagree that it sure would be nice to have some level of customization, but that's not something users have any control over. 🤷

[pallid marsh]

has he not updated his mobo bios xD

[turbid locust]

windows try not to be the bane of my existance challenge level impossible

[viral iron]

i never use start menu, i just use search bar.

but half the time search bar doesn't search correctly.

So i give up.

[brisk jolt]

facts….

[viral iron]

fk my chud life.

[brisk jolt]

when I search hwinfo on the search bar its very eager to lead me to the download site

same with afterburner

[turbid locust]

I usually hit the windows key and just start typing but it would be cool to not have it take up 1/6th of my screen but fk me ig

[viral iron]

ye i hate that mostly, going to an browser download link and not the actual app.

[turbid locust]

oh nuke bing search results immediately

[brisk jolt]

i gave up and just pinned it to my taskbar

[turbid locust]

almost the first thing I do to a new windows install is explode any form of online search results in the start menu

[turbid locust]

in fact this is the main way i navigate my computer because I hate desktop icons

valve wtf

[hoary hatch]

Air gapped windows 7 time

I just got discord momented fr

[thick frost]

I dabble in cpus

The cpus with pins are set in little squishy foam bits

[trim agate]

This doesn’t look that bad though

I mean sure there’s a lot of dead space and it could be a lot more compact

But there isn’t any added slop or AI bs in there

[low sorrel]

what?

https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/mercedes-red-bull-f1-engine-trick-banned-fia/

@brisk jolt Red Bull had a qualifying trick?

Did they forget to tell the team?

[dapper junco]

the car is so overweight

[low sorrel]

just like your mother

[brisk jolt]

both the RB and mercedes have the similar compression trick just that RB’s rest of the car sucks

[low sorrel]

ferrari p1 p2 next race trust

[brisk jolt]

its some compression ratio thing where during actual use the compression is like 18:1 while the standard is 16:1

it cant be detected while idling apparently

[green marsh]

this has nothing to do with that. Compression rate at racing conditions will be checked from june i think

[wise bear]

im angy

[low sorrel]

inb4 it's like the 2021 flexiwing where merc gets faster

[low sorrel]

aren't you always

i mean aren't we all

[wise bear]

you'd be angy like me too if you were working on this problem

[ivory folio]

What do you think it is? I run realistic engine on android

[vestal granite]

scooby doo?

[brisk jolt]

kung fu panda 5

[low sorrel]

what the problem

[wise bear]

Not a SINGLE modern gpu exposes the hdmi CEC pin to any sort of system bus

so I had to buy this fuckass $50 adapter thats usb>CEC

[low sorrel]

really

[wise bear]

and before that I tried doing an ADB over wifi WOL system to wake the tv

[low sorrel]

and it doesn't work because every tv has a slightly different implementation of cec?

[wise bear]

but in sleep mode the tv shuts down the whole network stack

[wise bear]

no I had to pay $40 in shipping for it

[low sorrel]

ok im mad for you now

[wise bear]

and then I just had to build a whjole fucking binary from this company's source code

which I had to remove instances of certain URLs to prevent malware

and my THEMEING STILL DOESNT WORK

[low sorrel]

https://tenor.com/view/seinfeld-goodluck-gif-6158777

in other news did you see that nuclear option got a new update and ksp hit a new all time high

[wise bear]

like COME ON

[low sorrel]

@spiral quarry have you done f1 league races i've been thinking of trying my hand at it

[spiral quarry]

Not really just been on random multiplayer lobbies

[low sorrel]

@brisk jolt So i tried my hand a league in ACC

guess how many points i'm from a raceban

[spiral quarry]

👀

[low sorrel]

after the first race

[low sorrel]

I did not have my bbal too far at the rear locking up the rear wheels while getting blue flagged and taking out the top 3

no no no

[brisk jolt]

more than 1

[spiral quarry]

Last I got was a penalty for violating a yellow flag

Surprise nope, I am notorious for not giving a damn to those if I can get away with it.

[low sorrel]

i had such a terrible race

i forgot the race was today

so i missed quali and practice on a track i've never driven

spun on the last corner at kyalmi getting front and rear damage

got absoultely sent by someone i overtook

[brisk jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/kimi-antonelli-george-russell-mercedes-f1-kevvyinho-gif-5743567642411239244

[low sorrel]

am i the only one who keeps crashing when overtaking because you forget the part where your faster

[low sorrel]

anyways i got 8 of the the 12 points needed for a race ban

[spiral quarry]

Lol rookie mistake currently relearning the monza track when it is really easy.

[brisk jolt]

you’re an unsafe driver bruh

[low sorrel]

oh it was all from that one crash

[brisk jolt]

💀

ive never raced ACC

[low sorrel]

i caused a multi car pile up

[spiral quarry]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/375454662909886464/1484310656353304748/Jake_is_amused.gif

[low sorrel]

oh i also selected the wrong setup

[brisk jolt]

ive heard enough 5 second penalty for ocon

[low sorrel]

setsuna your supposed to sit on the racing line right

when getting blueflagged

[spiral quarry]

I just move out of the way to let the other pass if I can, otherwise I don't defend my spot.

On or not on race line

[low sorrel]

I just keep pace and let them work around me

am i not supposed to be doing that

[low sorrel]

also in my defense i was not expecting bro to send it down in the inside of the hairpin and force me wide

[brisk jolt]

no, afaik you’re supposed to get outta the way

but it should typically be on the straight

[low sorrel]

i may or may not have been 10 seconds off the pace

[brisk jolt]

minimum verstappen

[cosmic mica]

Is 83-84 gpu temp okay?

[brisk jolt]

yes

[low sorrel]

WAIT WAIT WAIT

[wise bear]

hahahaha

[low sorrel]

I have reviewed the replay

[wise bear]

WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN

[low sorrel]

I self admitted the fault was my crash

I don't think it actually was

he hit my rear

and spun me

I thought i just locked up the rears and spun

because i did have alot of rear damage

[brisk jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/sunna-zzz-zenless-zone-zero-random-kid-random-gif-3794911060374690695

[civic reef]

@merry stirrup
Found your solution to tarkov

https://youtu.be/z9ITvXI1-oU?si=19IXQN-ktbL7j1dZ

[low sorrel]

THERE IS NO FUCKING WAY @wise bear

Ain't no way wikipedia has a 6-7 joke

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_II#Naming_system

[livid flame]

https://tenor.com/view/south-park-67-67-south-park-67-south-park-6-7-gif-13284396363591354590

[wise bear]

<@&750150305383186585> advertisement + potential scam

[nova patrol]

krispy my beloved

[civic reef]

What?

[nova patrol]

krispy

kryzzp if that makes it easier

[civic reef]

I don't who that is,,,,

Unless that's the guy in the video, I never watched him before

[nova patrol]

yea him

[civic reef]

Oh

[nova patrol]

the goat

[green marsh]

@topaz veldt should get my GPUs on friday (could have got it tomorrow, but i am far, far away on work trip). Hopefully the performance will be blazing fast (compared to 1080 Ti setup)

[topaz veldt]

what'd you end up with

[green marsh]

2x https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N507TGAMING-OC-16GD

[topaz veldt]

Oh nice that'll be sick

[green marsh]

then going to spend whole weekend trying to get vllm work. or hopefully not

[topaz veldt]

that's what our dudes run at work

[green marsh]

Tensor Parallelism (TP) Support: vLLM is optimized for tensor parallelism, which splits individual matrix multiplications across multiple GPUs. This drastically reduces latency and Time to First Token (TTFT) compared to llama.cpp's sequential layer-splitting (pipeline parallelism).

[topaz veldt]

yah we run it on like 8x H200 or Blackwells

in one box

[devout ridge]

how does it feel to be living my dream?

[green marsh]

i mean for 122B model i will probably still have to do it via llama.cpp, but for 27B i will try to get vllm working

[devout ridge]

3200w in GPU alone is insane

[topaz veldt]

that is a small one iroh

[devout ridge]

what?

[topaz veldt]

thats 4x h200 lab box i have

[green marsh]

there was no option for vllm on current setup, because vllm works only from 7.5 level cards (2000 series), my Pascal (6.1 level) is not supported

[green marsh]

you haven't seen the IBM deployments yet

[devout ridge]

I have not

[green marsh]

stuff like this https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-hopper-based-100kw-cluster-deploys-with-144-h200-gpus-exacluster-features-192-96-core-cpus-36tb-ddr5-ram-and-270tb-of-nvme-storage

The cluster provides 144 H200 GPUs with 20TB of HBM3E memory (141GB of HBM3E per GPU), delivering a combined compute performance of 569,958 TOPS (around 570 PetaTOPS).

i seen something similar they are doing for govt, the specs weren't this crazy, but still crazy

[topaz veldt]

those pics are because they are limited to like 30kw per rack

[devout ridge]

lol that just looks pitiful

[topaz veldt]

the power density has gone through the roof

[green marsh]

even setups with like 8TB of RAM, 600 CPU cores, 8-16 H200 GPUs are crazy setups

[devout ridge]

power density too high for IBM

[topaz veldt]

yeah I have an order arriving end of next week like 108TB of RAM

10 racks with 4x 60A PDUs per

doing 60kw per rack which is still not super high

[green marsh]

just think about 8x H200 alone is lot of compute. that is 8x140=1120GB of VRAM. You can run an unquantized Kimi K2.5 or 2.6 on that

[devout ridge]

I have the impressive power density of 1KW per rack

[topaz veldt]

yup

[green marsh]

1092 euros per card, expensive, but oh well, probably second best option for home; 5090 would have been nicer, but then we jump from 2.2k euros to 3.6k 😄

[topaz veldt]

Annoyed - I have these 32 DIMMs I am trying to sell and this person I use hit me up with an offer, they were like "let me know what you think!" I countered a few bucks back, no reply. Fuck it, just sent an invoice we'll see if they pay it

[topaz veldt]

Will be interested to see how it does vs. 5090

[green marsh]

cheapest 5090 at caseking in stock

[topaz veldt]

Obviously without nvlink its going to need something like vllm to utilize

[green marsh]

so yeah, i could push in another 5070 Ti in there, and have spare

[topaz veldt]

I will have 4-5 5090s for sale 🙂

[brisk jolt]

some are dying of thirst while others drown

[green marsh]

does this count as drowing or dying of thirst ? (the 1080Ti's are being replaced by 5070 Ti's)

[brisk jolt]

total i have x2 ur gddr7 while 5nail has x2 mine

[topaz veldt]

I have 128GB of gddr7

and 24gb of gddr6x

[brisk jolt]

which is infact double mine

[green marsh]

so you are drowing too, i am sorry to say

[topaz veldt]

so thirsty

[green marsh]

had a good laugh today tho explaining to our CTO that no, you can't have really good local AI on macbook unless you spend on a M5 Max model with 64GB RAM... and then you look at numbers north of 5k euros, for an 'avereage' local LLM expperience (M5 Max has 614GB/s memory bandwidth)

[topaz veldt]

yeah its been a tough convo for many - our AI group bought like 5 HPE workstations with RTX 6000s... we have a datacenter full of H200s its like what are you even doing

[devout ridge]

apparently dell uses proprietary cooler mounting for their servers, which is kind of annoying

I wanted to steal the cooler from my R730XD that doesn't work to use in my transplanted supermicro build but it doesn't line up

[devout ridge]

i also need to figure out why my UPS switches off anytime the power is off

[green marsh]

dead battery

[devout ridge]

It's nearly brand new

I'm guessing that for whatever reason i'm exceeding the rated power of it, so it's tripping it's safety limit

[green marsh]

dear god some people are dumb as hell. You see this cable and what do you think ?

some people are complaining "the other end is CPU connector, not PCIe" 😄

dude, those connectors are neither. They are PSU side connectors

it never crossed their mind it goes in the PSU 8-pins 😄

[late atlas]

That's like £15k worth of graphics cards

[young void]

You got an astral for 3500 lol?

Been hunting on ebay i got a few at 3600 but im a cheap beazy

I was so hard up I almost got the zotac lightning that keeps refreshing for 3400 xD

[lunar sedge]

again...
what do u think about an NTBC/NTC Texture Compression PCIE Card like a Voodoo 3DFX in the Past?
For playing Hogwartslegacy with an RX580 4GB on Ultra Settings with V-Sync 60FPS without Raytracing!

[young void]

Butt theres also a dude selling his msi oc for 2000 local that I probs should just wait and test and save a ton for nova, mehhh

[smoky orbit]

for their defence if they aren't used to modula psus, that end of the cable is an 8 pin eps connector 🤷‍♀️

[green marsh]

but you don't post a review about your own stupidity. You either return the cable within a 14 day period or ask before, that is why they got support hotlines

[shell void]

that’s the safest method of powering a 12v-2x6 GPU

[smoky orbit]

indead

[green marsh]

still need to figure out what fans to use on my NH-U14 TR4-SP3 tho. the 14cm ones which cam ebundled are too tall for the AP303 when i have all RAM slots occupied

[green marsh]

i need to buy one because RM1000x comes with just one 12v2x6 cable and i will have two GPUs

[topaz veldt]

well there is square and rectangle ILM

[reef lance]

Alright, real talk. Does anyone here actually use frame gen?

Like, I love DLSS, but I have yet to like frame gen. Maybe I will feel differently by the time I upgrade away from the 30 series (likely next gen), but so far I am not a fan (FSR or unofficial 30 series DLSS frame gen)

[shell void]

yes i do use the standard 2x framegen in games where i can only get 100-120fps either due to an engine limit or performance reasons

i also use nvidia smooth motion which is the driver level 2x framegen in 60fps locked games such as dragon ball sparking zero

[brisk jolt]

ironically fg helped me with stuttering issues

[lunar sedge]

Ok in 2027 i will release a pcie 3.0 x4 Pathtracing+NTC Featurecard for 50$ and put it in my pcie slot under my RX580 4GB have nice day 🖖

[smoky orbit]

start working on that card rn if you want to pull that of

[lunar sedge]

yes resources on earth will be enough for u

[frank zealot]

https://tenor.com/view/dreamworks-mr-peabody-and-sherman-mr-peabody-and-slerman-wii-u-animation-gif-1659502276481145314

[smoky orbit]

(same)

[brisk jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/longer-nocap-gif-23102427

[frank zealot]

Who gonna print your chip for you?

Taiwan's sold out for ages, so, you can't use their shizz

[brisk jolt]

he’ll use the power of magic and friendship-

[charred lava]

Intel

[tribal frost]

@smoky orbit
Is this better?

RAM – 2x4GB DDR4 (70 GEL)
https://www.mymarket.ge/pr/28618745/teqnika/kompiuteruli-teqnika/kompiuteris-nawilebi/mexsierebis-moduli/4GB-RAM-DDR4-1x4-1x4gb/?OfferType=Basic

Case – ALLX AX-B1735 RGB (55 GEL)
https://www.mymarket.ge/pr/31880330/teqnika/kompiuteruli-teqnika/kompiuteris-nawilebi/qeisi/qeisi-ALLX-AX-B1735-Computer-Case-Micro-ATX-ITX-USBx2-A/?OfferType=Basic

SSD – SanDisk X400 128GB M.2 (40 GEL)
https://www.mymarket.ge/pr/31476103/teqnika/kompiuteruli-teqnika/kompiuteris-nawilebi/vinchesterebi/SSD/SSD-SanDisk-X400---128GB-SSD-M2-2280/?OfferType=Basic

PSU – Deepcool PF500X 500W (105 GEL)
https://ultra.ge/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=36593&search=Deepcool+PF500X

CPU + Motherboard Combo (Taobao)
Amd Ryzen R5 3600X Processor + Asus Tuf B450M-Rpo Gaming Motherboard Set or
CPU
https://www.mymarket.ge/pr/35232773/teqnika/kompiuteruli-teqnika/kompiuteris-nawilebi/procesori/procesori-AMD-Ryzen-5-2600-quleriT/?OfferType=Basic
mobo
https://www.mymarket.ge/pr/35353587/teqnika/kompiuteruli-teqnika/kompiuteris-nawilebi/dedabaraTi/MSI-A520M-A-Pro-DDR4-AMD-Ryzen-AM4-dedabaraTi/?OfferType=Basic

Monitor (30 GEL)
https://www.mymarket.ge/pr/34364286/teqnika/kompiuteruli-teqnika/monitori/monitori-20-da22-inch-iani/?OfferType=Basic

GPU – Sapphire RX 580 8GB (140 GEL)
https://www.mymarket.ge/pr/35172863/teqnika/kompiuteruli-teqnika/kompiuteris-nawilebi/videobaraTi/Sapphire-RX-580-8GB/?OfferType=Basic

[smoky orbit]

(they'll make it by hand (trust))

[smoky orbit]

yes, much better, not perfect but a lot better

[green marsh]

which model you want to test then ? Qwen3.5-35B-A3B@what quant from what source (unsloth? lmstudio-community?). I could first use it with LM Studio to have comparable result, then vLLM to see what difference it makes. Also going to be on Linux, which can influence results (AFAIK windows numbers are lower than Linux for LM Studio)

[tribal frost]

Yay

[frank zealot]

They technically have a running fab?

[smoky orbit]

is that msi board ddr3 or ddr4?

[tribal frost]

The msi board it ddr4

[smoky orbit]

ok, cause there's ddr3 and ddr4 printed on it

[tribal frost]

It probably supports both

[frank zealot]

a b450 will be only DDR4

[smoky orbit]

never heard of that, gonna check online, also, if you can get the cpu mobo combo for a good price, go for that, it's a better cpu and mobo

ohhh wait, it's writen "core boost"

my eyes fugly

[tribal frost]

Ok

[frank zealot]

DDR3 stopped with FX chips. All Ryzen series were DDR4 only

(Intel 6th and 7th gen were DDR3/4 cutover. There were boards for both, much like 12th gen had D4 and D5 boards.)

[shell void]

@slim pebble @steel stream PEAKKKK

[tribal frost]

Idk tho it's still risky

[smoky orbit]

why is it risky?

[tribal frost]

It seems too good to be true

[smoky orbit]

how much is it? and doesn't taobao offer buyer protection?

[charred lava]

I mean hey, that's Elon's grand tErAfAb plan so they better

[tribal frost]

It's 74.50 US

[smoky orbit]

it's a good deal but not weirdly cheap

[tribal frost]

Oh ok

[frank zealot]

When have any of Elons plans not come to fruition?

(full self driving? hyperloop?)

[frank zealot]

Wait, Elon?

Isn't that Grimes' ex?

[steel stream]

will be watching today, gotta find out when my roommates are free

[frank zealot]

(If you ever need to piss off a tech bro, referring to Elon only as Grimes' Ex will frequently do WONDERS to make them mad lol)

[steel stream]

how dare you say that about the greatest scientific mind to ever live

@ mdo

[frank zealot]

I also fully just had to remind my GF: "FILE YOUR FOOKIN TAXES TODAY"

[livid flame]

Who?

[frank zealot]

Who is who?

[livid flame]

Dunno who. You?

[frank zealot]

I don't know's on third

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/hi-there-hi-whats-up-head-roll-lets-dance-gif-438022142684575365

[frank zealot]

he's on first

[shell void]

all the thragg doubters will be immediately switching up

[livid flame]

Thragg?

Oh guys did you know pirate software worked at blizzard?

[steel stream]

there was no doubt in my mind they would do Thragg dirty

[frank zealot]

god damnit, I'd almost forgotten he exists

[livid flame]

His dad still works there yknow

I heard he was first second generation blizzard

A bit like how some ddr5 is first second generation ddr5

[arctic bronze]

https://tenor.com/view/piratesoftware-pirate-software-i-used-to-work-at-i-used-to-work-at-blizzard-gif-18195862432693732087

[brisk jolt]

i hate how RE9 has film grain on by default unless you install mods

[steel stream]

it's for the ambiance

[keen wigeon]

"film grain"

where all the public hairs in the film?

I wanna see dust and old timey nose hairs in the frame

[steel stream]

nose hair is exactly the realism I want

[brisk jolt]

the face is so grainy like goddamn

[steel stream]

do you have pictures? I actually haven't looked into RE9 that much

[brisk jolt]

this is with the removed film grain mod but her face (as well as everyone else's) was super grainy

Im using DLSS performance and FG im getting like 110FPS with 300-330w on the GPU, 875mv profile

[fringe vigil]

She looks shit there

[brisk jolt]

in game grace looks weird

she pretty much only looks good in cutscene

[steel stream]

I quite like the rain in the first part of the game

[pure garnet]

is this with pt

[brisk jolt]

yep

[pure garnet]

because that’s what i got without frame gen with rt on

[steel stream]

how does RT and PT compare in this game

[pure garnet]

the denoiser for pt looked awful to me so i never tried it beyond the first section

[steel stream]

I wonder if that's the film grain setsuna is talking about

[pure garnet]

i took this with pt on

[pure garnet]

nah the game actually does force film grain but i just didn’t mod it out

[wheat shore]

this dlss?

[pure garnet]

nope

[steel stream]

I really like the visual style of this game

[pure garnet]

it’s a good looking game

it also happens to be a good game too

[steel stream]

I can't play RE games because I am a coward and don't like horror games

I've played about 30 minutes of Dead Space

[pure garnet]

the grace sections are horror but leon s kennedy is just a zombie blasting machine

[steel stream]

@jorj what do you want

damn

all credibility lost

[fringe vigil]

I bought AirPods today using them rn omg best earbuds I’ve ever purchased

[steel stream]

nice

yeah I really loved my pair when I had it

[fringe vigil]

Massive upgrade

It was about time

[brisk jolt]

grace is not helping me because im also scared 💀

[steel stream]

i believe in you

[brisk jolt]

im streaming this to someone who’s already watched another guy play xddd

[young void]

You did your best its ok lol

Some peeps just arent into it and thats ok

I have been slowly working through the series though I enjoy them

[steel stream]

it's just a really good looking game so I will play it eventually

but I want to finish Death Stranding first

[young void]

That looks wicked, I myte have to give it a try

[steel stream]

And Saros comes out on the 30th for the PS5 which I am very interested in

[young void]

adds to list

[steel stream]

check out Returnal, it's a very similar game made by the same studio and I thought it was a blast

if you're into sci-fi and roguelikes it's an awesome game

[slim pebble]

You get the graphic novels? Don’t go and spoil ||what Anissa does to Mark||

[steel stream]

you can also get Returnal for PC, which should be a nice fidelity upgrade

[young void]

I dig adventure games, exploring the unknown

[steel stream]

there is a lot of unknown in returnal

[young void]

The sun just attacked through my glass porch door uhggg

https://tenor.com/view/good-morning-sunshine-curtains-curtain-wake-up-gif-17431546

[brisk jolt]

god fuck this is scary to me

wheres the devil may cry leon part

[reef lance]

https://tenor.com/view/shrug-snape-harrypotter-alan-rickman-idk-gif-4982423

[steel stream]

just lock in, don't let your cortisol spike

[shell void]

my books arrive on friday and saturday if emperor argall sees fit

i was referring to today’s episode when i said peak

[young void]

Have you tried imagining them all in underpants

Or does that make it worse xD?

[pure garnet]

where are you rn? ||hospital||?

[steel stream]

l'hopital

[frank zealot]

Yall need to cry some:

[steel stream]

are you sure

[keen wigeon]

all exhaust for magnificent negative pressure

[frank zealot]

oh no, you're wrong. look closer

[keen wigeon]

get an absolute vacuum so the GPU doesn't leak heat into the CPU cooler

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

[pure garnet]

am i crazy or does that airflow path make sense

[shell void]

it is correct

[edgy laurel]

bruh

[frank zealot]

what he wrote makes sense.
What he has installed... look closer

[shell void]

you could argue for inverting the rightmost top fan to feed the cpu cooler more air, but that could also create annoying turbulent noise

[edgy laurel]

one of those side fans is not like the others

[steel stream]

middle on the right is wrong

[pure garnet]

is that cigarette tar all over the pc

[edgy laurel]

yes

[pure garnet]

gross

[keen wigeon]

those are all... exhaust

[frank zealot]

same for bottom and top

[steel stream]

and I think bottom right?

[frank zealot]

they're not

[keen wigeon]

thermaltake weirdfans?

[edgy laurel]

guys got his normal/reverse fans all jumbled up

[steel stream]

stroke PC

[keen wigeon]

I don't like these newfangled technology

[frank zealot]

3 of the fans are reverse blade and backwards

[keen wigeon]

go back to steel blade fans

[frank zealot]

on Deltas

[keen wigeon]

https://klipy.com/gifs/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-just-a-flesh-wound

[pure garnet]

my glass skates arrive today

[brisk jolt]

holy darked porsche

[steel stream]

you made it to a leon part at least

[brisk jolt]

erm shit im back as grace uh oh

[hoary hatch]

I love how Google services in Microsoft edge continuously prompt me to download chrome

[brisk jolt]

@pure garnet oh great im now in the hospital and theres 2 completely dark rooms

[pure garnet]

https://fixvx.com/brparadox/status/2044178437024190636?s=46 guess 5nail opted for a prebuilt patio pc

Paradox Customs (@Brparadox)

We just sold this MONSTER PC...

vxTwitter / fixvx · Apr 14, 2026, 10:18 PM

[pure garnet]

you’re in the longest section of the game now

[hoary hatch]

Lightning ⚡

Tesla AI5 taped out

Okay Elon is stupid fab happening or not and is Intel actually gonna build you some chips 🙄

[brisk jolt]

i dont think i can go into the special room only the bedroom

maybe it too dark and that area is fuckass

[pure garnet]

you gotta explore

it’s a puzzle game

grace sections are horror/puzzle and leon’s sections are more action/puzzle

[brisk jolt]

yeah im gonna continue this tmr

[green marsh]

$5500 ? tell me that is AUD

[brisk jolt]

but holy shit this is pretty much my first horror game icl

[devout oxide]

porche in RE9 is so random bruh

[pure garnet]

no that’s just the lighting msrp

[hoary hatch]

Lightning z actually just costs that much

[green marsh]

that is dumb. Even the base 5090 priced at $3.8k euros is dumb, but $5.5k is super dumb

[hoary hatch]

I mean

People can always pick a different 5090 for less

[pure garnet]

it’s a limited product 1000w halo toy for rich people

[brisk jolt]

you’re not the target audience

[hoary hatch]

Yeah I don't have bad feelings about a highly limited sku being expensive

[pure garnet]

there’s like 1300 total or something

yeah 1300 worldwide