pc-build-help-and-tech-talk

[viscid prism]

I have the power supply: 1000 Watt Corsair RM1000x Modular 80+ Gold

[placid sentinel]

my corsair 850 went like above, it was years old tho

[viscid prism]

Ye i got fully new pc

I mean it was working the days again. Just randomly today

Rebooted,White light again on vga. Imma reboot again

Bro 😭

Stays at white light

Imma do cmos reset

But like, before i was getting repaired/new ram, it was only one ram stick that caused the issue of not working. The other one was fine... You think it has smth to do with the mhz?

[placid sentinel]

i'd go full safe defaults in the bios after reset, just looked up your manual

cpu red or vga white sounds like something fails to start on poweron

be it frequency or power

[viscid prism]

Ye i need 3 mins for cmos to clear

[placid sentinel]

u can run most ram at way below their spec, 6400.. go as low as u can, also see if the bios has any monitoring thing for voltages, current draw

could beg just unlucky bad psu from the factory, worked for a week then "broke"

[viscid prism]

I dont know, i need help then haha. Not much into that

But i got new ram sticks and it was working again

I dont think its the psu maybe

[placid sentinel]

ages ago i had a motherboard that defaulted to very low volts on memory controller when "auto" .. pc crashed all the time.. upped it significantly and rock-solid-stable

yeh, i hope u find it.. might wanna reseat everything that u can without letting water out

sometimes a spec of dust or hair or whatever flies into a slot and let's play the invalid-data or shorted-power-pin game

[viscid prism]

Im sure it wasnt it

I was making sure there was no hair, no wind or any dust

Before i plugged the cpu in

Plugging cmos back in

Worked

Now in BIOS

[placid sentinel]

6 keyboards 5 mice? .. umm.. 🙂

[subtle flare]

Go to advanced mode

[viscid prism]

Hahah

[placid sentinel]

okay 4800mhz memory looks to be the lowest

[viscid prism]

Bruj

I am

[subtle flare]

Oh

[viscid prism]

Notice: i have only 1 ram stick now plugged in

[subtle flare]

What's under the advanced tab?

[placid sentinel]

https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/BIOS/TUF-GAMING-X670E-PLUS-WIFI-ASUS-1636.zip?model=TUF GAMING X670E-PLUS WIFI

[placid sentinel]

TUF GAMING X670E-PLUS WIFI BIOS 1636 Version 1636 9.16 MB 2023/08/04

i would very much recommend bios update as step #1

[viscid prism]

Is it not updated?

[viscid prism]

So what now

Like, how do i update it

[placid sentinel]

ez flash, see if it can download from internet, if not, go download the file on c:\ or whatever, come back, ez flash from disk

[viscid prism]

Uhmmm.

[placid sentinel]

bios -> ezflash -> select storage -> find file -> update

[viscid prism]

Unsure about that.

Can you give me a link to it?

[placid sentinel]

i did that just last week or so, 0 problems (x470-pro tho)

[viscid prism]

You think it could be the problem)

[placid sentinel]

bios -> advanced -> tools -> ez flash

absolutely

[subtle flare]

There are fixes to chipsets in bios updates

Could fix the issue

[viscid prism]

Just guide me trough that pls xD

[placid sentinel]

and u don't have to do usb sticks or the like anymore, which is oossum

first u need the file, look up i gave u the link to the 1636 download

[subtle flare]

(You can if you want to tho)

There also may be a youtube tutorial on it as well

[placid sentinel]

ez flash may even today let u just go "Look for updates" and it does it all

[subtle flare]

From ASUS themselves

[viscid prism]

So what i should do now?

Just gimme step by step 😉

[placid sentinel]

advanced -> tools -> ez flash

go see if there's option to "download from asus"

[viscid prism]

Imma get into the bios again, second

[placid sentinel]

if not, boot into windows, save the file onto your c:\ or whatevs

[viscid prism]

This one?

[placid sentinel]

then tools -> ezflash -> storage -> find the file u got

ye ez flash 3

[placid sentinel]

dunno if it's fs1 or fs3, ur windows disk

[viscid prism]

Idk either haha

[placid sentinel]

anywhere u can save that file in windows, u can access from this ezflash thing to update bios into q3 2023

[viscid prism]

So boot into windows, Download the file. Gimme a second

[placid sentinel]

ye

[viscid prism]

But why is the bios causing only the one ram stick to work?

Tf

What was the link again?

[placid sentinel]

https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/tuf-gaming/tuf-gaming-x670e-plus-wifi/helpdesk_bios/?model2Name=TUF-GAMING-X670E-PLUS-WIFI

direct: https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/BIOS/TUF-GAMING-X670E-PLUS-WIFI-ASUS-1636.zip?model=TUF GAMING X670E-PLUS WIFI

[viscid prism]

Unzip it?

[placid sentinel]

nope

don't have to, ezflash will

[viscid prism]

Okay, imma get into bios again

I put it on desktop

[placid sentinel]

so it's fs1:/users/yourusername/desktop/

[viscid prism]

Uhm, which one is my username hahahah

[placid sentinel]

🙂 .. shouldnt be too many

[viscid prism]

I have one account tho. Just Go by all users?

[placid sentinel]

nah, go trofl

desktop

[viscid prism]

Empty

Even tho i put it on desktop

No wait

I can't move mouse

Freeze?

I cant do anything. Just freezed

[placid sentinel]

damn 😦

[viscid prism]

Luck aint with me lately hqha

[placid sentinel]

if that freeze happens while it's flashing bios, it could end badly

[viscid prism]

😶

[placid sentinel]

just out of curiosity, do u have a lot of usb connected?

[viscid prism]

Yea

[placid sentinel]

might wanna disconnect everything but a single mouse+keyb at least for this flash

[viscid prism]

Crash pc?

And do again

Or what now

[placid sentinel]

actually, pls go into windows and unzip the file, have the .bin file on the desktop too

reset button or psu off on snip snip, if mouse and keyb are not moving, not much u can do

[viscid prism]

.bin?

[placid sentinel]

the flash thing did nothing yet, it gives a "found file" "new version" "ready to start?" "are you sure?" "warning keep power on" dialog thing

[viscid prism]

How do i put it on desktop

[placid sentinel]

open zip, extract all

[viscid prism]

Got it unzipped

[placid sentinel]

like said i did this on mine last week or so just like this, went smoothly

back to bios ezflash3

[viscid prism]

Whats about bin

[placid sentinel]

its in the directory u extracted

ezflash should see it on one of the users/something/desktop/

[viscid prism]

I removed bin from desktop

Nvm

Kk, bios now

So, ready to click it?

Lets pray it doesnt freeze again 😬

[subtle flare]

Your computer will freeze when it updates

It's normal

[viscid prism]

Huh

Okay. Imma do it now

Read this File?

Its not an uefi BIOS

Thats what it just told me

So it canceled

[placid sentinel]

hmm for that motherboard asus only gives that bios to download

[viscid prism]

What should i do now haha

@subtle flare

What was the other Option again?

[subtle flare]

Download it off into a usb and read the file from that

But you'd still be using ez tool

I only mentioned that and YouTube tutorial video

[viscid prism]

Ohh ok

I need help haha

Cant i put the ram to 6000 MHz and leave bios like that? Haha

Doesnt it usualy updated itself on bootups or shutdowns?

U still here? @placid sentinel

[subtle flare]

I have no idea how to work on ASUS TUF

MSI makes it so much easier ngl

[placid sentinel]

go into windows, unzip so that u have the cap file

[viscid prism]

Have it already unzipped

[placid sentinel]

u might also need the biosrenamer

[viscid prism]

So boot bios renamer?

[placid sentinel]

... sec will see what this is about, i didn't do that part for mine and it worked

nah only needed if u bricked and u have a "bios flashback" button, we don't need it

[viscid prism]

Okay

[placid sentinel]

MyASUS should have a bios update utility that fires from windows directly

https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1008276/#A1

[viscid prism]

Notebook/aio

What is AIO?

I can update it in armoury crate

[placid sentinel]

there could be some intermediate version that u must first install

the bios page "show all" shows your bios as the very first one

TUF GAMING X670E-PLUS WIFI BIOS 1408 Version 1408 9.11 MB 2023/04/13

[placid sentinel]

even that could help u with this problem

[viscid prism]

Was this even an bios Update?

[placid sentinel]

it couldve been just motherboard chipset driver set

[viscid prism]

Maybe

[placid sentinel]

i recommend get the 1408 version and unzip it, try ezflash that one

[viscid prism]

Okay, second

Nothing newer?

Just that?

[placid sentinel]

if that works then u can try the newest one too, i think i had this happen to me ~3 years ago, couldnt go directly to newest but burned an intermediate one and made sure it worked

then i could go newest and still can

[viscid prism]

Kk, sec

[placid sentinel]

shouldn't make a difference which of these, just not the orange Beta stuff

[viscid prism]

Kk

Took 08

What should i click

[placid sentinel]

yes

[viscid prism]

Yep, guess its updating now

Done

[placid sentinel]

u can basically install ram and try if u have a good computer

tronicsfix slogan and t-shirt applies, "if it's not broken, i'll fix it until it is" 😄

[viscid prism]

Huh? Wdym

[placid sentinel]

like... rush into updating even newer bios now and u might miss a good stable bios u have already

after hours of troubleshooting good new computer, just slap ram in and start playing games, enjoying life

hopefully the mb won't freeze and burn red cpu or white vga anymore

[viscid prism]

So after this update is done, update it on the newest bios version?

[placid sentinel]

if u want to

my point being

u don't have to

2023/04/something might fix that freezing no-starting bug which sent u to us

2023/08 they've fixed stuff but u might not notice ever

[viscid prism]

Ohh i see

Ye im in bios again

Fully completed

Shutdown, and put ram back in?

And see if it works?

[placid sentinel]

yes, hopefully u have a good stable pc

set your ram to 6400

[viscid prism]

If it works, should i enable docp?

So its 6400mhz

[placid sentinel]

should be 0 problems not overclocking etc

how u tune the bios is up to u, u can use the ai tweaker or u can "only" set the freq

i do: search -> frequency -> change dimm's to 3000mhz both of them (amd r7 2700x, old as the skies above), save changes exit

tried for a day to run 3200mhz (remembered wrong), a few bluescreens later i googled my sticks and oops 😄

but do try not to overclock now, just run it for a while, see if that red cpu light comes back.. ever.

[viscid prism]

Im not using the ai perfomance mode

[placid sentinel]

after that u got options, newer updates, overclocking, whatevs

[viscid prism]

It lets my pc not booting too hahaha

Works

Both rams plugged in

[placid sentinel]

but ye congrats u got a bios-updated pc, hoping u get 2000 hours on it until next crash or no-start

[viscid prism]

Like this?

[placid sentinel]

hit advanced -> search -> find "frequency", should give u the dimm slot speeds

set 6400, save, exit

[viscid prism]

Yayyy, atleast i know its still not current bios. But once that works for now

[placid sentinel]

should be a bangin' machine after

[viscid prism]

The docp does this

Smth like xmp i believe

Idk

So do docp or just manualy to 6400?

[placid sentinel]

up to you, i wouldn't do docp, i don't on my old rig

[viscid prism]

Okay

[placid sentinel]

my mobo defaults to 2200mhz, noticed a beeeg improvement when -> 3000 (which the sticks are built for)

[viscid prism]

Why does it even go higher hahahah

[placid sentinel]

overclock crowd is pleased

[viscid prism]

Its the memory frequency

[placid sentinel]

correctolicious

[viscid prism]

12000☠️☠️

Imma do 6400 dw

[placid sentinel]

"my pc is encased in liquid nitrogen but when i run it, the floor of my room becomes mmmmolten lava!" </jack black>

[viscid prism]

😂bruh

[placid sentinel]

hit games, hit it hard, give the pc some good load

ensure it's stable

like ... gtfo medium settings -> pc about to melt " 😄 "

[viscid prism]

I can run it on highest with 244hz 😉😉

[placid sentinel]

1440p 60hz with some dips here and there.. i need a new pc. damn u.

[viscid prism]

Then i start sweating because it gets hot in my room hahahah

Booted

Working ig

[placid sentinel]

enjoy and let's hope it won't crash n burn again

[viscid prism]

Haha yea

Tyty 🫶🫶

[placid sentinel]

np my pleasure

[bright shard]

Assuming am5, if not stable, back off to 6000. Voltages and timings look fine.

Make sure youre on the latest bios for am5. There was some ram instability on the early ones.

@viscid prism personal recommendations is not install asus armory crate an instead use fancontrol. Way better, nothing really of value in armoury crate except for nuisances

[viscid prism]

Okay, gotcha. Thanks mate ^^

[jade ermine]

made this light bar thingie in my case :D

[wind wigeon]

Gunna post my setup cause I can :p

Thoughts?

[grave moth]

epik

[torn bison]

70 fps in lobby is pain

[wind wigeon]

The photo with the monitor was taken before I installed the new PC

I was using a PC older than me at the time

[formal plume]

who the fuck out here not playing on a RTX 4090

[fleet canopy]

Me

Send me money so I can have one

[jade ermine]

I do play with mine (baldurs gate 3)

[wind wigeon]

I just got one of my hardware friends to throw a PC together lol

[north elk]

me because I fucking hate nvidia

[grave moth]

3 bald gays

[muted cove]

I’m chilling with a 3050

[hard quail]

Maybe a stupid question so forgive my ignorance but should i be worried at all that my PC is a little loud? I cleaned it like a week ago but it still seems to loud to me, even when im not playing games

[placid sentinel]

might be fan bearings letting go or still some caked dust on a fan blade.. do eyeball them with care, flashlight etc

[formal plume]

or thermal paste is drying up

[bright shard]

honestly, i had a 3770k with 9 year old AS5 and it was fine

wasnt even good coverage

[formal plume]

your mom isn't good coverage

[bleak stag]

Does anyone have a bizzarre issue in some games where opening map/inventory spikes the gpu usage to 100%? I've it in GTFO and few others, v-sync nor capping the fps help.

[sweet bone]

Update your video drivers, something's causing shaders to glitch and mess up

as far as I can tell, it's an Unreal Engine bug with how it deals with certain types of DirectX calls

[bleak stag]

Last updated them like a month ago but I'll do it again

Moreover doesn't GTFO use Unity?

(Thanks btw)

[sweet bone]

I encountered it in some other games, but it's possible that it's a unity bug instead of a UE bug

I was having similar issues and it went away from multiple games when I updated my drivers (AMD)

could be causality speaking though idk

[abstract kite]

this will be a stupid question
im not good with technology at all
how much temperature can a laptop handle when gaming?
my laptop reaches 75c when playing this game on average

[merry bay]

generally under 80 is considered safe

and parts these days are pretty good at slowing themselves down when close to overheating, or if it gets way too hot shut themselves off

[abstract kite]

alright alright
thanks for answering

[fleet canopy]

Because laptops are laptops, they automatically can handle up to about 99.9c

[formal plume]

^^^

only an issue if you reach 99c easily then you'd need to look into whats causing it

[subtle flare]

(Usually heatsinks on a laptop are connected)

[sour dawn]

The ideal temperature is 69c

[fleet canopy]

Unobtainable with laptops

[sour dawn]

PCMR

Because nice

[formal plume]

technically it is

[north elk]

it isn't

everyone knows laptop temp goes in increment of 2 degrees

[nocturne condor]

Hello

Ive just bought 4 ram sticks for my pc they are all 16gbs ram sticks of ddr4 i have a asus B550 gaming motherboard is there anything i need to know about before i put fresh ram in and taking out the old ones

[grave moth]

my new gpu arrives tmr

ah

[nocturne condor]

Nice

[nocturne condor]

Could you be of help for this question my good sir @grave moth

[grave moth]

yo i got the same motherboard

[nocturne condor]

Nice

Amd socket right

[grave moth]

yeah

[nocturne condor]

Nice nice

Ive bought 4 brand spankin new ram sticks for my pc is there literally anything i need to know on how to install them properly

Because i have never done this and I'm quite terrified

[grave moth]

uhhh

well

when putting in ur ram sticks, place it on one of the holders (my mind is blanking on what the fuck they're called), and before pushing it in, make sure its even on both sides, if so, push in gently with ur thumbs on either side until u hear a click

[nocturne condor]

Okay

[grave moth]

really make sure ur putting it in evenly tho

[nocturne condor]

So the 4 ram sticks i bought wouldn't like press against eachother right?

[nocturne condor]

Yep yep make bloody sure theres a click sound when putting them in

[grave moth]

well if u put it in uneven, it'll break the pins

[nocturne condor]

Alright so id assume theres a certain way ram goes in correct

[merry bay]

some people find this rude, but reading the manual(motherboard) or googling the question often gives better results than waiting for responses

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/how-to-install-ram-pc

[nocturne condor]

Ive got time to wait for a response but thank you i should've probably done all that

[torn bison]

There is nothing to worry about, with 4 sticks you want to put in A2 and B2 first and boot, see if everything works

Dual channel is always guaranteed to work, quad is not. If its fine, shut down and put in the other 2. Maybe start a game in dual, or do a stresstest.

A2 and B2 are the second and fourth slots away from the cpu (look at Mobo manual if that doesnt explain it)

[nocturne condor]

Thank you

[lost harbor]

hey can i ask about laptops too

[grave moth]

while this is true, this channel is called pc build HELP for a reason :3

[lost harbor]

so i'm kinda stuck between these two, Dell is obviously better but more expensive too and im starting my university abroad and money is important, so i wanted to know if the Asus one is also a decent laptop or not, for casual gaming, using unity to build vr stuff and some video/photo editing Dell link: https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/gaming-laptops-pcs-and-accessories/new-g15-gaming-laptop/spd/g-series-15-5530-laptop/cn22218sc ASUS link: https://www.currys.co.uk/products/asus-tuf-gaming-f15-15.6-gaming-laptop-intel-core-i5-rtx-3050-512-gb-ssd-10246637.html

like is it worth it to pay less and get the asus or am i gonna be forced to upgrade soon you know

[grave moth]

I mean

paying less generally means it wouldn't be as good, but from the looks of it, the asus would be suitable for casual gaming still

[lost harbor]

yeah tbh gaming is not the issue, im playing gtfo on my 2015 laptop rn lol

mostly the unity for my university

and i saw that you can rent a virtual workstation if the rendering is heavy and stuff, i'm already doing this with colab for my AI works but didnt know its possible for game engines

just a side note i would be very happy if the asus can run stalker 2 lol lemme check that

hmmm nah stalker 2 is not looking good on the asus rip

[torn bison]

You need to spend considerably more for a good laptop that can game

Laptop is always a compromise

[lost harbor]

yeah i know but i really need that portability 😦

i dont game THAT much these days, well atleast not AAA games

mostly old ones

stalker 2 is like the only new game i wanted to play haha

[torn bison]

Youre gonna have to spend more money than you would on a pc then

No way around it

800 is a lot for a 12500 and a 3050

[solar valley]

I mean that’s like market price

Although I did get a sale on mine and got a 5800H 3050ti for 550

[torn bison]

What do you mean market price? Its a non TI 3050 and a 12500H lmao

[solar valley]

Yeah most of the non terrible (in my experience) entry level laptops are in that range

[torn bison]

Yeah thats what i said, you will get a shit deal with laptops compared to the parts on the market everytime

You dont win with latops really

[lost harbor]

i mean i agree about laptops being overpriced, but i looked at the pc parts and the same cpu and gpu are about 400 totall, adding up with other stuff like cooling, power, 144hz screen and stuff i dont think 800 is THAT overpriced tho

[fleet canopy]

A laptop GPU is nothing compared to the desktop version of the GPU

I'd say it's a safe assumption to say that they're about 70% of the actual card itself?

[bleak stag]

Tried, didnt work

[fleet canopy]

Though I suppose it varies, but always they are not as the desktop version

[lost harbor]

yeah thats true, both power and cooling

[bleak stag]

Ironically DLSS on affected games DOES work to mitigate the issue a bit

sorry for quoting something from 4 days ago

[fleet canopy]

The only thing to care about for laptops is whether you are someone moving around a lot or you aren't able to have a desktop for any reason

[bleak stag]

Nor even fps global limit works

I'm starting to think that as soon as I open a menu/map whatever, the scene behind starts ignoring fps cap or something of the sort

But apparently if that's the case, it ignores nvidia's control panel global fps limit

[torn bison]

Yeah and if you really wanna game you gotta hand over like 4k for a good laptop

[formal plume]

RTX 4090 laptop literally isn't even a fucking RTX 4090

it's RTX 4080 but overclocked

fucking same chipset, same processors, just higher clock and more VRAM

[fleet canopy]

Obviously no way in hell a 4090 would be fine in a laptop

The fucking GPU and board requires a whole ass cooling plant

[subtle flare]

I don't think any 40xx series cards do really well in a laptop, unless you go below 4070

And we all know that the 4070 / 4060 is a joke

Then you have MSI that slaps a 4090 in a laptop and sells it for $5.4k USD

[fleet canopy]

No one is buying that shit

[subtle flare]

No properly minded consumer yea

Lol

$5.4K you drop on a laptop when you can build a tower that performs so much better

XD

I don't know who in the right mind would buy it

[fleet canopy]

If you needed any PC and you weren't gonna move, and you were willing to spend for a top of the line, you can do it about a couple thousand cheaper for the PC and then you got a thousand for a monitor

idk how it'd do with ray tracing now I wonder

Raster would suck ass sure, but I'm not sure what the ray tracing of the laptop versus a 4090 card would be like

[verbal igloo]

is using a controller for this game good ive been using keyboard and mouse but i got a new controller and i wanted to start using that any thing i should know

[formal plume]

you can do everything except use terminals

so you'd need another player on those

[torn bison]

I keep waiting for Seasonic to drop a decent atx 3.0 psu to buy that and a 4090 but they still didnt, not sure if i should just go atx 2.0

everything else is fine now 7800x is already cheaper, ddr5 is dirt cheap and mobos are ok. Just waiting on psu to buy it all lmao

[subtle flare]

1300p gang 😎

Go ATX 3.0

I would not go with an ATX 2.0

[torn bison]

Yeah thats what i wanna do but Seasonic is taking forever to release a good one

I just wanna upgrade to 4090 man 😂

[subtle flare]

Just get MSI

Seasonic makes good PSUs but if you don't wanna wait MSI AI1300p is goated af

I love mine a lot

I heard the 1000p is essentially the same if you're looking for 1000 Watts instead of 1300

[torn bison]

Nah i want at least 1300

I want maximum power efficiency at load

[torn bison]

Who manufactures MSIs psus?

Seasonic and Super Flower are goated, the rest are all ripoffs/the same or worse

[subtle flare]

CWT

That's their OEM

For the MEG series

Considering the Ai1300p is the first ATX 3.0 PSU to come out to the consumer market I doubt it's a ripoff

Quality-wise from a consumer standpoint it's very nice

[torn bison]

You sure?

Seasonic release one long ago

[subtle flare]

I waited months for my build to be completed just because they ran out of stock

[subtle flare]

They have?

[torn bison]

Yeah

I just want top of the line

And they didnt release that yet

[subtle flare]

Oh yea

They weren't first lol

MSI was

[torn bison]

Ah ok

I dont know

[subtle flare]

Seasonic was way behind actually

The Ai1300p is pretty top of the line

I'd actually rate it #1 ATX 3.0 from experience

From a lesser opinion standpoint, all the major YT channels used it for test-benching

And only used the MSI Ai1300p for testbenching the 40xx series

[torn bison]

Gotta love it

[torn bison]

I mean, there is not much choice lmao

[subtle flare]

Yea I got the 4090 day before release but missed out on the PSU LOL

[torn bison]

what cpu u running? are you only gaming or productivity too

[subtle flare]

7900X

I have some productivity stuff

I was thinking to upgrade to 7950X

But I like my performance as is

Maybe once I sell my ram I'll upgrade

They still use the Ai1300p if I'm not mistaken

There are actually very few ATX 3.0 PSUs, surprisingly

[torn bison]

Yeah thats what im saying, there isnt much choice with atx 3.0

[subtle flare]

I recommend the Ai1300p

It does not disappoint in any aspect

[torn bison]

Im gonna go 7800x as performance is goated in comparison to 7900 or 7950 for gaming only

Im not gonna get a msi psu tho, i would rather wait

[subtle flare]

Up to personal preference

You might be waiting for a while

Not sure if there's been new PSU news

[torn bison]

I could go 1600W but thats overkill

But i think Super Flower has atx 3.0 at 1600W

nvm they only have internal Gold as well

[subtle flare]

If I'm not mistaken MSI is actually the only holder of a platinum rated ATX 3.0

You can correct me if I'm wrong though

Again, not a lot of news or options with ATX 3.0

[torn bison]

Seems like it

That just tells me that manufacturers dont really believe in the new connector

[subtle flare]

I don't believe so

I think it's moreso adapter cords are just way cheaper to make

Like corsair makes a adapter cable cord for their PSU

Obviously nobody uses the 4 8 pin to 12 vhpwr cable but it's got to be cheaper to manufacture

Also so to speak: pretty sure the new connector myths have been debunked

[torn bison]

Yeah but it still doesnt make much sense

Are they gonna continue using this connector for future cards? Last gen we got a new connector, it was abandoned now we got another one

[torn bison]

More or less, most were user error but manufacturing definitely had to adjust a little

[grave moth]

my gpu comes today!! super excited to put it in
:3

[fleet canopy]

Nice :)

[torn bison]

which one?

[grave moth]

GeForce rtx 3060, upgrading from some shit Chinese brand 580 that runs at a 570 and eveytime it boots up ot flashes an orange glitched screen lmao

[fleet canopy]

Well if it's a weird chinese 580 that doesn't function right

Might as well wipe the drives clean

After getting what you need out of it of course

[grave moth]

yeah true

[sweet bone]

Nice, wish I had the spare coin to get myself an upgrade... running an ASUS ROG RX 580 8gb. It's decent, runs basically everything at 1080p 60fps on medium/low depending on the game

[grave moth]

there it is

and no

there's not enough rbg

[fleet canopy]

Start a fire in it

That's real RGB

[grave moth]

ur real rgb

[fleet canopy]

[grave moth]

let me have my disco rave in piece please and thank you

[jade ermine]

Im blessed with good teammates and better graphics + fps according to this chart, GG

[grave moth]

I like how mine is set up because its pretty colors

[fleet canopy]

White is basically just red

I just have a red and a couple rainbow

[jade ermine]

Pretty much haha

[fleet canopy]

Three rainbow parts really

I also had white rgb ram but that was like 2400MHz so eh

[subtle flare]

Better cooling rn since Wallpaper engine overwrites iCUE

[jade ermine]

#pc-build-help-and-tech-talk message

i love blue

[subtle flare]

Pink actually so true though

My GF wants a pink setup

[fleet canopy]

Guys with pink rgb are femboys

Proven fact

[subtle flare]

[jade ermine]

pink rgb = coding socks

facts

[remote gazelle]

White is nice I guess cause best performance according to this legit RGB guide but also cause it's aesthetically pleasing and doesn't give me a seizure.

[north elk]

+10 Int

Code runs 3x faster

[nova sparrow]

Y'all seem smart.

Anyone able to help as to when I attempt to boot my PC. My screen will display ''Displayport No signal'' and my keyboard won't light up /turn on / respond.
The only way for me to get around this. is that right after I start my PC. I have to keep tapping my keyboards keys in order for the keyboard to light up. And then magically the monitor also turns on and the PC boots as normal.

My best guess is that my PC isn't automatically detecting my Keyboard or Monitor, but needs an input signal during the boot process (cuz i can't tap my keyboard after.. for some reason). And then detects the keyboard and monitor and sends out the signal. But honestly. I've got no clue why this is happening and googling has done nothing

[placid sentinel]

sounds like motherboard trouble, bad grounds maybe? had something like this a long time ago, motherboard wasnt screwed well, took special steps to get it to post, once it did it worked tho

feel the back of chassis with finger, if it feels like static electricity, u may have this..

pc should boot fine without keyboard

[nova sparrow]

The PC is prebuilt. I went over all the components and checked them before starting it, and it seemed to be fine. Though the issue is recent, so it seems to have developed over time. So it could have happened

[placid sentinel]

old pc? .. could be power supply, almost anything tho.. but cmos reset and a bios update maybe..

[nova sparrow]

Well yeah it seems to boot, I'm just not getting any display signal to my monitor. And for some reason the keyboard is unresponsive. As the leds won't light up. Only way to fix it for now is to keep pressing keys during the boot.

[nova sparrow]

Got it at the start of this year.. 4090

[placid sentinel]

maybe try switching usb ports for keyb mouse others? do u have another spare keyb to test?

[nova sparrow]

No other keyboards sadly. And I've tried swapping ports, doesn't change anything.

[placid sentinel]

... never heard that keyb would stop an nvidia 4090 from starting 🙂

[nova sparrow]

Me neither.

But i've no idea what's causing the issue, or what the issue exactly even is.

[placid sentinel]

power socket is grounded? no old funky extension divider stuff?

[nova sparrow]

Just.
Press start on PC. It seems to boot. But keyboard stays unresponsive, doesn't light up. And monitor gets no display signal
Only way to fix it is by tapping the keyboard during the boot, and it'll light up, and the monitor gets signal
I don't know what's happening.

[placid sentinel]

sometimes a power extender gets cuffed and the y/g ground thing breaks, all works but u got no ground..

[nova sparrow]

It's grounded yeah. I've not really checked the socket much myself. It's a 4 socket box right in the wall, no extension, where both my monitors and power supply goes into.

[placid sentinel]

ok, should be good.. sounds like a motherboard issue, might want to clear cmos once and then check for bios updates

sounds like the bios needs a trigger (keyb) to post normally

[nova sparrow]

I've never heard of bios needing a trigger-

[placid sentinel]

power on, press and hold insert while doing it

[nova sparrow]

Huh

[placid sentinel]

if not that, there should be a jumper on mb to cmos clear

[nova sparrow]

What's the cmos?

[placid sentinel]

bios memory

[nova sparrow]

Ah. Gotcha

[placid sentinel]

settings, timedate.. might need to tune dram speeds, possible overclocking stuff etc after

[nova sparrow]

I did check for bios updates and stuff and it said it was up to date.

[placid sentinel]

u could try a full power off, disconnect, press power, let sit for a few minutes (clears capacitors)

[grave moth]

eat ur pc, solves all problems :3

[nova sparrow]

That I can try.
I'm pretty sure there's no grounding errors. Just checked now and everything seems to be fitting fine. And I didn't feel any static.

At worst I can get my multimeter and start measuring grounding and voltage..-

[placid sentinel]

a failing psu is miserable, but if its <12mo, should be fine still

[nova sparrow]

Yeah I kinda doubt it's any of the hardware failing since it's all new.

It's possible, but still-

[placid sentinel]

fun stuff having 3060 shut down mid-game, no picture even on vnc after.. psu fan failed. heat selfprotect partial cutoff.

[nova sparrow]

That's an oof.

[placid sentinel]

sounds iffy, one solution is "dont power off" (if able)

i keep my rig up 24h, gamestream to it if needed offsite.. nice to always be able to play own pc anywhere

[nova sparrow]

I was sweating when i turned my pc on for the 1st time
CPU as sitting at 70 in idle. The case fans wouldn't spin at all. Windows didn't recognise the fans being there. Though I just updated the driver and it worked

[placid sentinel]

yeah mb chipset drivers nowadays a must, especially if amd-

[nova sparrow]

It's ASUS iirc

[placid sentinel]

yup same.. gpu and one psu later a 2018 vintage still strong today

[nova sparrow]

I could do that. Though I don't like having my PC sleep 24/7 and never shut down.

Also just, walking around the problem and leaving it there is also oof 👴

[placid sentinel]

ye, bit worrying, but the problem could be just a spec of hair/dust in exactly the wrong slot or an invisible trace of wire in mb layer 6 with slighrly increased resistance.. iffy. if it goes worse, maybe a new mb?

[nova sparrow]

Strangest thing about it is that the issue developed overtime. It started becoming an issue like 1-2 months ago.

[nova sparrow]

I've dusted the PC 4 times this past month pls

Even took off all the components and very carefully dusted the connections

[placid sentinel]

mb defects sometimes show only after some use or -time.. but it could be anything, even the keyboard, a spec of dirt or moisture.. .. guesswork best work 😄

[nova sparrow]

[placid sentinel]

but power on intermittent no display goes heavily to bios/motherboard pipeline imho

[nova sparrow]

Suppose I could check the bios again
or do as you say and wipe the cmos

Won't hurt to try- I just gotta remember all my settings (:

[placid sentinel]

mother inlaw has an hp laptop where usbc dies on her after some use, leads to fun stuff like display cutoff or external ssd disappearing. sadge.

everything works fine 30min-8h and suddenly poof </kevin spacey>

[nova sparrow]

Well~
I'll try some things out. Thanks for the help

[nova sparrow]

Another note:

Playing No Man's Sky while waiting for Starfield..
I have the graphics on ultra, and set the fps to 144.
I only get roughly 100-110 fps. Yet the GPU sits at 5% utilization and CPU at 20%

Why won't the game just crank the utilization higher to get the frames to 144?
Temps are 50c on GPU and 70 on CPU, so it shouldn't throttle itself for temps

[bright shard]

Vsync or lack of prerendered frames probably

Some games are optimized like dogshit or run on one core

[bright shard]

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/92j15j/psa_pc_players_highly_recommended_change_to_boost/

I would try this

Smells like default config stupidity

[nova sparrow]

Vsync is off and it's running through DLSS
My next assumption was that it's just utilizing one core, but I hope not-
I'll check it out tho, thx

Wish I knew what High and Low threads were

telling me to set the High threads to the number of logical processors on my cpu

[fleet canopy]

Logical processors I believe being the amount of threads

usually it's the amount of cores multiplied by two

[nova sparrow]

What's the difference between a ''HighThread'' and ''LowThread''

[fleet canopy]

I don't really know

[nova sparrow]

I'm gonna assume I can't set like.. High Thread to 32 and Low thread be 1 or above, since that'd be more than the threads I have (32)

[fleet canopy]

idk high threads are one less than the low threads

It's probably weird as shit, I'd just wait for clay

[nova sparrow]

''As far as I can tell, "low threads" are low priority threads. Setting this >0 allows the game to queue work onto these.

"High threads" would be high priority threads then. So you want to keep the sum, numlow + numhigh, lower than or equal to your logical core count.

What if you set both to 0? Well the wording implies there are is least one "normal" priority thread as well... so I guess if both are 0 all work goes on to the "main game thread".''
-Reddit user

Someone else just reccommends setting it to Half/Half

so I'll do that.

Well it worked.
Now it's going from 130 to 144

[nova sparrow]

Whew.
Display port no signal despite PC and keyboard being on and operational

It's like my PC just doesn't detect my monitor

Or well. Both.
I've got 1 main display port monitor
And 1 secondary hdmi
Neither has signal

Fuck
Red light on MB for CPU

Restarting
Red light on cpu led
Quickly hit my keyboard
Goes to yellow on vga
Then green on boot and everything's okay

HMM

[placid sentinel]

latest bios?

aug 21 trofline_black had ~identical issues btw, asus mb, failed to start with leds

[nova sparrow]

Yeah I have the latest bios.
Wiped my entire bios setup things, and re-did it all
no bueno
I managed to get an older bios from a usb
no bueno

I'm sending my PC in for service. It's free luckily. Just gonna have to manage without a PC for 5 to 10 days
(:

I swear if they're ''unable to replicate fault'' I'm going to fucking flip-

[placid sentinel]

hope it's just a defective mb, shame tho

ah well, geforcenow is good even with a potato laptop / old machine, all it needs is hardware video decode and everything has that nowadays

[nova sparrow]

I hope so to

But I cannot be arsed to buy a new MP and swap it out. Especially not when I got 1 free service where they'll rectify the fault if possible.
They'll even be able to swap out faulty parts for new if needed.
Glad I spent another 50 bucks on that 5 year guarantee

[placid sentinel]

hopefully they replicate it and slap a new mb in there, fixed

[nova sparrow]

Yeah

Another ''uh-oh'' popped up yesterday
Whenever my PC is turned off (but power connected still). There's a red backlight behind the Motherboard. No idea what it is, I've not been able to look at it and I'm not messing with it anymore. Throw it to service and let em figure it out 😂

[nova sparrow]

and well issue with that is that I dont have another PC.. Sold the old one-
No consoles or anything either
Fun
c:

I'll just work overtime a bunch as to not bore myself

[placid sentinel]

even a semi-decent cellphone can do gamestream/geforcenow but hooking it to mouse+keyboard is the thing

[nova sparrow]

Suppose it's an option
No idea how to hook my phone up to a mouse and keyboard tho

[torn bison]

Cursed setup

[placid sentinel]

heh, that "new" replacement psu just made some scary gurgling death-rattling sounds, let's get a new one then

[nova sparrow]

Went against my better judgement and got Starfield.
Game is running at 60 fps
CPU is 20% used
GPU is 3% used
Ram is snug at 50%

Why ain't it using more % utilization to get higher frames? (FPS is not capped)
Also, Task Manager states that the GPU engine being used is ''GPU 0 - Copy'' ?

I assume this is just the game having dog-shit optimization

also yes my temps are fine, cpu at 70, gpu at 60

[bright shard]

task manager is unreliable microsdoft horseshit

you need either msi afterburner or amd adrenalin

[nova sparrow]

Yeah I realized and downloaded gpu-z and it shows 100% usage

or well 97% load

[formal plume]

Todd Howard says to wait for 50 series or get a RTX 4090

like unironically

"Most systems probably can't run the game optionally"

[dry hollow]

The game for whatever reason runs better on amd cards

[nova sparrow]

Funny thing is

I literally have a 4090

With alot of tweaking and 5 optimiation mods..
60 frames in the large areas
120 frames in small enclosed areas
Temps are 82c on CPU, 70c on GPU
Now i've gone into nvidia control panel to cap the frames to 90. So the temps are down to 78 and 60

[subtle flare]

Why starfield

Could've been a different game

[torpid elbow]

sounds normal to me, motherboards do that

[torpid elbow]

7900xtx actually does better than 4090 on starfield I believe

I’m gonna download it today

see how well my 6950xt does with fsr2

I’m guessing about 50 fps

[nova sparrow]

I've never had a motherboard do that on me before.
Usually it's either a very small white led or nothing
This one is glowing red as if it's summoning a demon. To the point I disconnect the power so it won't be annoying at night. It wasn't having the light previously. Just suddenly rn.

[nova sparrow]

Yeah I've heard amd cards perform better. I think it was the same case for fo4 and 76 if I'm not mistaken.
Also no Nvidia dlss support (without mods)

[torpid elbow]

it’s usually just cosmetic. Odds are you can disable it in BIOS

[nova sparrow]

Why would it randomly decide to start lighting up now. 8 months after I got the pc-
And after other problems

[torpid elbow]

ohhh RIGHT

[nova sparrow]

[torpid elbow]

you updated your bios man

[nova sparrow]

Oh bruh

[torpid elbow]

reset the lighting setting

as in

that’s what you probably ended up doing

[nova sparrow]

Yeah probably- :x

[torpid elbow]

so you’ll have to find the setting and turn it off again

what motherboard is it?

usually with ASUS it will be called some kind of aura led

[nova sparrow]

It's an asus but don't remember the model rn

[nova sparrow]

I feel dumb that I didn't think of that

[torpid elbow]

yeah I mean it’s not that straight forward for an update to reset literally everything for most pieces of software, but for BIOSes yeah

[nova sparrow]

I don't remember seeing any Aura led or anything like it in the settings
Might've just been blind

[pine void]

Mine has 4 lights that it uses to tell problems, red is a problem with the cpu for me

[torpid elbow]

nah he says it’s glowing demonic which is probably some lighting effect on the mobo

[leaden robin]

any1 ever figure out how to fix the game crashing on startup?

[torpid elbow]

as a start check windows logs

also verify your installation on steam

[leaden robin]

done that already

how do i check windows logs tho

[torpid elbow]

event viewer

[placid sentinel]

right now there's a network connection thing going on but if u can't even get into main menu rundown screen, try removing %appdata% locallow 10 chambers gtfo (at least generatedicons if not everything) ..

[leaden robin]

ive done that already

still cant get past the main menu

[torn bison]

@subtle flare Found out seasonic actually has Titanium and Platinum rated atx 3.0 PSUs

[subtle flare]

Finally?

It must be more recent then

[torn bison]

Not at all

Simply no advertisement at all

They simply dont have a native 12v cable. An adapter made by seasonic, using 2 8pins into the 12v cable. Its fully atx 3.0 pcie 5.0 compatible

Actually, nevermind it has a native 12vhpwr connector. I can finally plan my upgrade😂

https://geizhals.de/seasonic-prime-tx-1300-1300w-atx-3-0-atx3-prime-tx-1300-a2986563.html

[subtle flare]

No, that is more recent

I didn’t mean it came out just now

It is just more recent comparatively

[tough zealot]

NEW RAM LETS GO

[formal plume]

RAM me daddy-o

[torn bison]

At least i can finally upgrade and burn 3k in the process😂

[grave moth]

my pc got a sticker upgrade

[twilit crow]

Bad can of compressed air totaled my board.
Anyone know what this component is for?
It's a Gigabyte Aorus B450M

The blue lines is dust from the UV light incase anyone is wondering

[subtle flare]

Ouch…

[twilit crow]

Symptoms: Will post, loads into Bios, temps soar from 40C up until shutoff despite more than sufficient cooling.

[bright shard]

Board probably needs cleaning with 96% and toothbrush where you sprayed

Unless there is actual physical damage, then you're boned

Moral of the story is buy a handheld electric duster

[north elk]

What

What the fuck was in that can of 'air'

[opaque tree]

Air

[formal plume]

erm achually

it's supposed to be refrigerant
it has a very low boiling point
so once you press the trigger, the refrigerant is allowed to boil from atmosphere equalization
which is why the can gets cold when in use
it is toxic to breathe in, but. because it is very light the gas immediately travels as high as it can go and is difficult to breath in unless you sucked on the nozzle

[bright shard]

really only toxic if you burn it

[grave moth]

I'm gonna eat it

[bright shard]

cfc are very stable

[lunar vector]

reason why i dont use compressed air anymore

[lunar vector]

you could probably look up the motherboard see if they have schematics of it and see what that chip is for id you can do sodering thatd be the only way to repair that

[bright shard]

Probably impossible for a beginner or hobbyist to solder anything on a mobo

[twilit crow]

MBO is dead unfortunately, would defo look at having a bit of fun with it and maybe doing leak tests in my liquid cooler with it(seen as it's dead anyways)
If I can fix it I'd be very happy to have a spare MBO.

[fleet canopy]

Eh, it's not like it functions as it would be without it

So you may as well take the risk assuming it isn't under warranty if any

[bright shard]

I mean, the heat soaking ability of a mobo swamps out most irons.

[leaden robin]

is there still no real fix to the crashing on startup bug??

the weird 10 chambers folder thing doesnt work for me

[bleak stag]

did you try temporarily disabling your firewall/AV?

[leaden robin]

yeah

still not working

been a long ass time now havent touched the game in forever

love not being able to play

very fun

[leaden robin]

well uh

GTFO is working now lol

i dont really understand why but it is working now

[pearl cargo]

my pad is not recognised by the game properly - the trackpad on it "works" but the other buttons don't... what's the matter?

thanks for the help in advance c:

[sand totem]

Anybody have fix for the fps drops? Ever since R6 Alt dropped the game has been running like a turd

[placid sentinel]

full uninstall + install might do a shader recompile thing but no guarantees

[formal plume]

make sure GPU drivers are updated too

[abstract dock]

Ah, the good ol' "full uninstall + install" trick, a true classic in the world of tech mysteries! Reminds me of the time I tried to fix my toaster by uninstalling and reinstalling it, but instead of toast, I got a stack overflow error.

[placid sentinel]

mmmm .. instead of toasty crispy "bread", u got some crunchy keynotfound nullrefs, lucky sob 🙂

there's been some cases where gtfo (and gtfo alone) gets garbage performance all of a sudden while all other games 200+fps .. a good uninstall + install restored it, something to do with shaders (dunno)

[abstract dock]

Oh, you know it! Instead of a crispy toast, I got a heaping plate of nullrefs and keynotfound exceptions. It was like dining in the fine restaurant of Errorville, where every bite was a surprise. Who needs bread when you can feast on code conundrums, right?

[placid sentinel]

🙂

[north elk]

s/surprise/undefined behaviour/g

[grave moth]

u sound like u know a lot of things

[vivid sandal]

first time PC builder question

im looking to do a new build, i was reading about the difference between the ryzen 7 and I9 being about the same price but I9 is all around better
is this true

im more looking to do a new gaming pc and switch my current model to an office pc or secondary pc and i dont know what to look for

[placid sentinel]

my humble opinion: intel stuff is rock solid and 100% delivers what it can, amd ryzens are very nice tho but not as predictable. personally i've been a happy ryzenhead for years already, can recommend.

don't even have to go absolutely cutting edge top of the line cpu, for gaming, invest in a decent Gpu and have lots of ram (32 or 64), you'll be gud.

[subtle flare]

If you do other things than gaming then edge/top of the line CPU may be worth and both AMD/Intel have their respective pros/cons

Also find deals with cpus, they exist and are very good most of the time

[lunar vector]

both are good rn from the 5000 and 7000 series compared to the 12th and 13th gen intels the ywere very close in terms of specs

the new 7000 and 13th gen get super fucking hot lmao so if you gohigh end on those sides make sure you have decent cooling with it

depending on what kind of gaming youdo 1080p/1440p/4k

the gpu ranges are diff there

and 16 gb is minimum imo now so 32 is that better and speeds at ddr5 are more than adequate

[vivid sandal]

im looking at a ryzen 7700 as the mother board supports the 7000 series only ddr5

[lunar vector]

yeah ryzen 7000 only ddr5 rn

[vivid sandal]

i have a list

https://newegg.io/a82102e4

[lunar vector]

do you want the corsair veng ram?

you can get other stuff for way cheaper lol

and you could prob go with some of the 7000 series radeon cards instead

oh wait thats 2

you want 128 gb of ram?

:O

64*

so i'd highly recommend only getting 2 sticks imo

4 sticks ddr5 is just a bad time

lmao

could work first shot but most of the time it always has issues booting or long boots/ have to down clock to even get it to boot

you should look into the x3d chips too just in case

i havent done my own research on how they are cause i already built my own

7000 series chips and cards

[subtle flare]

Only run 4 sticks of DDR5 if you know your mobo can support EXPO at 4 dimms

Usually they don't, so only use 2 stick configurations

Learned that the hard way after some new mobo updates and had to drop an additional $200 for new ram

[formal plume]

"or 64GB of RAM"

only cities skylines heavily modded ever reaches above 32GB of RAM

16GB is good enough, if you want to 'future proof' or make sure you can run more applications then go for 32GB

oh wait nvm this is one of those unlimited budget builds

[lunar vector]

nah yeah 32 is the new upgrade 16 is the new minimum

8 is discrete now :P

welll off his list his budget is 2400

but he can cut soem stuff

[formal plume]

making me feel old now

I have no clue what new games require for spec

[subtle flare]

16 gb is the new minimum standard

Unfortunately

Stuff just demands more nowadays

[lunar vector]

well the prices on 16gb is not bad

so im ok with that

2 8s sound better than 2 4's lol

or 1 8

[lunar vector]

i mean you dont need that high end of a system

to enjoy mid to high gaming

on 1080p at least

when you're jumping to 4k thats where things get iffy

prices prob range about 3k ish for good 4kgaming

4080 3080 4090 4080 and the cpu to back it up

but i think the 7800x3d is a better buy than the 7700 @vivid sandal

you should look at comparisons

[vivid sandal]

would that even work for this motherboard

[lunar vector]

yeah that mobo works with all 7000 series ryzen

same socket

what are you gonna use the pc for?

[formal plume]

I don't think they even mentioned a monitor yet

so thats a good question

having a 4K monitor or 1080p monitor would change things

would hope that they have a QHD monitor at least with these specs

or even dual monitor

[lunar vector]

all that matters is that resolution

and i guess refresh rate

you go 4k you need a beefier card

1080+1440p 30603070 and 7700 7800 xt cards prob all you need

or 4060 4070

i think 4060 dog tho if you want 4060 you're better off spending the price for 3070ti lol

price to performance 4060 dog* its still a good card

just value dog

i wish i knew more about the radeon cards

also a750s intels arc cards

not a bad choice compared to those

way cheaper and about the same performance

[subtle flare]

If you are thinking of geting a 40 series card, either get the 80/90, nothing else

Otherwise go 70xx series cards from AMD

Only applies to latest gen cards

If not latest gen 30 series should suffice

[lunar vector]

yeah 80 or 90 is best i mean..

the new dlss aint bad to have either but

price to performance you're better off buying a 30 series card as well since they've dropped in price

or you could buy used

[fleet canopy]

newegg is selling the 7800X3d for only 30$ more if you haven't already picked that yet

Absolute steal compared to the 7700X if it's only for gaming

[abstract kite]

Don't upgrade.

[formal plume]

yeah wait for the RTX 5090 release /j

[subtle flare]

It’s either you upgrade now or you wait till new gen and it becomes even more expensive

Costs are never coming down again

Current gen, at least, but you don’t have to go current gen

[formal plume]

fourth times the charm

[fleet canopy]

I guess I'll wait for the 5090

And then the 6090

And then on

[subtle flare]

Man

They really have to screw prices up

Manufacturing costs for 50xx series increasing too

And they are just corporate greedy pigs

Price gauging the shit outta consumers

Sucks ass

[lunar vector]

you mean the 69420

[lunar vector]

@vivid sandal dis

[lunar vector]

and yeah so true

like new gen looks disgusting lol but its good to wait for new gen and maybe buy the previous gen aswell

[vivid sandal]

oh not bad

thank you all

for my display i have an Acer - XF270H 27" and an hp 25e

[lunar vector]

that dont say much what resolution lol or refresh rate

[forest heart]

what settings should I run for a GTX 1660 and I5-9400F?

on high I get around 70-80 fps

90 if lucky

60 in fog

[bleak stag]

xf270 is 1080p 144hz

dont know about hp 25e but I think it's 1080p, response time is 7ms lel

[lunar vector]

yeahso 1080p gaming to 70s or 60s should be good

idk what the equiv for radeon that is but i imagine 60 and 70 as well lol

40 or 30 series up to you

and 6000 or 7000 up to you too

[formal plume]

unless the monitor is far away that pretty pixelated

[subtle flare]

Only thing that should be high/very high is shadow resolution

Everything else should be medium

[forest heart]

what about advanced graphics? @subtle flare

I don't understand those, leave it on default?

I know CPU culling hands some of the work to the cpu

[subtle flare]

CPU ain't that great, GPU is pushing it but you either want it small/medium

Try either one and look at your frames

[forest heart]

so high/medium or medium/low?

GPU is guaranteed to get to 99%

I think cpu gets to 60 something %

[subtle flare]

If you have CPU culling set to medium GPU does not hit 99%

If it is small it will

[forest heart]

hmm, so set culling to high?

[subtle flare]

Why would you do that?

High would basically neglect GPU utilization

[forest heart]

I see

so leave Advanced on default

wait

default settings set everything to medium in graphics but shadow resolution

is that modeled after my pc?

like automatic

[subtle flare]

Possibly might be default or optimization via GeForce Experience

[forest heart]

spec detection feature

[subtle flare]

I'd set resolution size to quarter as well

[forest heart]

GeForce experience gives me an error

you mean texture size?

[subtle flare]

Ye

[forest heart]

I want to actually see good textures

[subtle flare]

With your GPU? You're really pushing it there

[forest heart]

quarter might gut it

[subtle flare]

You rather have frames

[forest heart]

let me see if geforce works

[subtle flare]

Quarter usually doesn't bother a lot of people

Most noticible is really just security doors

[forest heart]

@subtle flare

GeForce optimised it for me

it looks optimistic

[subtle flare]

Lol not even close

AA should not be set to TAA

Either use FXAA or no AA

[forest heart]

why?

[subtle flare]

AA in GTFO is broken, and TAA is experiemental

[forest heart]

so how is FXAA different?

[subtle flare]

Less resource usage

You're running a 1660, not a 20/30 series card

More frames >>>

[forest heart]

looks okay? @subtle flare

[subtle flare]

Set shadow resolution to very high -> should help with shadow enemies

That's the only thing that should be maxed out regardless of card to improve base gameplay

[forest heart]

enable player shadows or keep it off?

[subtle flare]

Off

No point

[subtle flare]

Under display turn off dithering as well

[forest heart]

left advanced on default

display

change anything else?

[subtle flare]

You're good then

[forest heart]

quarter textures makes the outfit look bad

let me check fps

I get 245 fps in the lobby @subtle flare

[subtle flare]

In game you don't even see your own outfit

[subtle flare]

Lobby doesn't really matter

Most important in level

[forest heart]

I can spend some on the outfit

let me check in the level

[bleak stag]

Unrelated but I wonder where NVidia took that screenshot from, afaik that small warden door only appears in ||R2E1||?

[subtle flare]

Probably alpha screenshots

[final sinew]

banana

[crystal stag]

Maximized window?

[formal plume]

que?

[main crane]

hey guys, im kinda desperate rn, my pc hasnt been able to boot up for ~12hrs and i just want to know if i should bring it to a shop to get it checked

specs are:
gigabyte b360m d2v
rtx 2060
8gb ram dual channel, slight frequency difference
i7 8700 stock heatsink
unknown 650v psu, looks high end

i opened the case to do some cleanup blowing off some dust and to change the position of an hdd and after that the pc just refused to boot, just a flash from the motherboards led and nothing else

[placid sentinel]

maybe u blew off the cmos reset pin?

has to be position x or no start no post..

[bright shard]

Sounds like a short

[bright shard]

Unplug the hdd and see if it posts

[main crane]

huh

after leaving the pc to rest for about 8 hours or something it booted

bios got cleared tho

[placid sentinel]

good to hear. maybe u zapped something while touching motherboard and needed an all-capacitors-clear to restore function..

[torn bison]

Or PSU is fucked

[sinful jolt]

So I recently got a new PC and I'm in the process of setting it up.

It already runs just fine, however I'm getting one issue that I don't know how to fix. Half of my screen is flickering for some odd reason and I can't figure it out. My drivers are updated so that can't be the issue so I'm kinda stuck. Any help is appreciated, I'm fairly new to PC gaming.

[bright shard]

try different display cable

[ebon crag]

if the problem persists try using an hdmi if it supports it

idk

[buoyant radish]

Sounds to me like a graphics card issue, have tried to use integrated graphics?

[formal plume]

have you tried throwing out your graphics card

[grave moth]

have you tried eating ur graphics card

[ebon crag]

have you tried letting your graphics card eat you?

[ionic needle]

Friv

[dry hollow]

Graphics card vore?

[bright shard]

Absorb it's power

[north elk]

Guys I've tried plugging my graphics card into my flesh ports and now I can finally do parallel floating point operations

[fleet canopy]

Crazy

[north elk]

Crazy? I was crazy once

[bright shard]

they put me in a room

[severe parcel]

please no

[somber matrix]

A rubber room

[bright shard]

With rubber mats

[somber matrix]

And rubber mats make me crazy

Crazy?

[grave moth]

I was crazy once

[severe parcel]

NOOOOOOOO

[livid jasper]

what is this weird artifact and how fix?

[formal plume]

EXPLOSIVE TRIP MIN

[north elk]

EXPLOSIVE TRIP MIN

[silent bobcat]

Shoot it

[queen plinth]

Whats with this drop shadow weird double hud?

[fleet canopy]

Like this you mean?

[abstract kite]

you can disable it in the settings

what are these

[subtle flare]

Steam badges

[abstract kite]

what are those

did we get achievements

[subtle flare]

Not the same as achievements

[abstract kite]

so how do i get the other 2

i have 3 and no more drops

[ebon crag]

wait gtfo has cards

[abstract kite]

what i need to buy the cards

that sucks

[ebon crag]

lame

[subtle flare]

A lot of games have cards, just like a lot of games have achievements

[abstract kite]

would be cool if things looked that nice in game

these card images look incredible

amazingly disgusting

[ebon crag]

well i mean gtfo doesnt have achievements right?

[subtle flare]

And? Cards don't have anything to do with achievements, it's a standalone

That sentence was merely a comparison, not a correlation

[ebon crag]

yea i know i just assumed cause it didnt have achievements it didnt have cards

mbmb

[ebon crag]

interesting

[subtle flare]

No achievements + cards

It's a steam integration

[ebon crag]

i just assumed 🖌️

[abstract kite]

"highly advanced equipment"

progression tree leak

[ebon crag]

real

[bright shard]

Almost every game on steam has cards

[abstract kite]

this looks like one of those edgy skeletons

with the guns

[bright shard]

Rattle em boys

[ebon crag]

rattle me bones

[iron vapor]

Does GTFO get better frames in Dedicated Fullscreen or Fullscreen Window?

[ebon crag]

Well I'd assume dedicated but

[placid sentinel]

dedi.. also dont vsync but set target framerate, on my rig the most consistent fps