technology

[glossy patrol]

Don't get a gaming laptop then

[meager saddle]

It's only for school in the meantime

[meager saddle]

Yep

Changed my mind after finding out

Just want a laptop that can run a few steam games smoothly or even Roblox. Only for the meantime tho

While also using for coding and research

[flint grail]

That's understandable and the point stands, but you should really get what YOU need rather than what you want. I've been in the similar situation as you and every time I tried to cut corners I got cut muself later.

[meager saddle]

Dang. But soon I'll get a full PC build once I'm able to earn enough. I'll even reach out to you guys for tips and advice when getting a first PC

[flint grail]

I want to correct myself, I'm not saying you shouldn't enjoy things the way you want but rather don't make rash decisions.

[meager saddle]

Gotcha

[native portal]

oooh now this i wanna see

is 17" massive? thats how big mine is

$800+ is not cheap

like i said used work station laptop

old lenovo thinkpad or dell precision

Thinkpad P50-53 or P70-73 are good cheap ones

i was gonna buy one untill the dell popped up on marketplace

do your research on the gpus though
see what performs best for the price

[native portal]

neat

[odd juniper]

https://youtu.be/nUpZg-Ua5ao

[flint grail]

I made it 5 min into video and had to stop and take a break.

[odd juniper]

[flint grail]

@native portal Rate this build
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJJ2InKM0W0/?igsh=OTd2Y3NxYmY2dTNx

suboske

Super rare BMW M2 hatchback

Likes

38047

Instagram

[native portal]

good steering wheel and gauge position

the more i watch the more wrong with it i notice

why...

[native portal]

this video is legendary

[meager saddle]

I think the 4060 is suited for performance and price. Is it?

[native portal]

dude

this is not budget

you specifically said budget

[meager saddle]

Oh damn—

Then it's between 3050 and 4050

[native portal]

you said you were going to buy a cheap laptop

and then later save up to buy a full pc build

800-1100 dollars is already mid to high end desktop money

[meager saddle]

Yeah but I'm interested in looking at some laptops with them GPUs in them. I'm not buying ofc but I'm just interested

[native portal]

what is a budget desktop to you then

a $3000-4000 system?

[meager saddle]

Nah

[native portal]

gotta have a 4090 and a 9800x3d

at a minimum

[meager saddle]

But if you were to recommend a laptop @native portal what would it be though?

[native portal]

lets start with this

what games

roblox can run on literally anything

it seems like you just want to spend money for the sake of it

[meager saddle]

Well, besides Roblox I wanna run up WoTB (don't hate me for it), TF2 (again lmao) and uhh, pretty much 2-4 games that doesn't demand top notch performance

[native portal]

so why do you need a 3060 for that

[meager saddle]

My concern is it might be laggy. Sorry for my lack of knowledge I'm just new to learning this type of technology

[native portal]

tf2 doesnt even ask to have a dedicated gpu at all

[meager saddle]

Oh I didn't know that

[native portal]

world of tanks asks for a quarter of a gb of vram

[meager saddle]

Hmm.. well what about cs 2?

[native portal]

unfortunately cs2 isnt very well optimized anymore

[glossy patrol]

CS2 still runs pretty fine on a good iGPU

[meager saddle]

Deng

[glossy patrol]

All of your needs could probably be satisfied by an iGPU in a normal laptop NGL

[native portal]

1gb of vram isnt a very big ask anyways

[glossy patrol]

Kind of impossible to not have 1GB of VRAM nowadays

[meager saddle]

iirc an iGPU is a graphics processing unit built directly into the CPU right?

[glossy patrol]

Yeah, integrated GPU

[meager saddle]

Alr thanks

[glossy patrol]

As opposed to dGPU, dedicated GPU

[native portal]

idk about cs2 but the other games listed can probably run on a chromebook

[meager saddle]

Considering they don't demand too much yeah

[glossy patrol]

Considering I could play all of those on an i7-6700T just fine... Yeah
And CS1 was fine too, enough to where I imagine CS2 would be too if I still had that system

[meager saddle]

Well @native portal what's best suit for me?

[native portal]

literally anything tbh

i would try to find something with a dedicated gpu and even those can be had for less than $200

[meager saddle]

Noice. Is an Acer a good call?

[glossy patrol]

I'd probably stick to a semi recent Ryzen laptop and just use it's iGPU

[native portal]

if youre buying used make SURE it has an SSD

[meager saddle]

Ik

Hell I might even upgrade it to a 1tb SSD card

[native portal]

i have a lenovo ideapad burried somewhere

with a measly 5200 rpm hard drive

i think its like a 256 gig too

[meager saddle]

The ideathinkpad you say?

[native portal]

thinkpads are almost always good laptops

[meager saddle]

Or was it IdeaPad only

[native portal]

ideapad is like a seperate line

its just cheap

[meager saddle]

I think I also had a Lenovo IdeaPad lemme look

[native portal]

future ewaste

i still stand by the thinkpad or dell precision reccomendation

[glossy patrol]

Lenovo V14's, ect = cheap
Lenovo Ideapads's = more consumer
Lenovo ThinkPads = more business
Lenovo X13's, ect = fancy smancy

Try to avoid laptops with soldered RAM if you can

[native portal]

i wonder how cheap i can find a p50 working

[meager saddle]

What's a soldered ram if I may ask?

[native portal]

non removable

[meager saddle]

Ah

So it's basically wielded in there. Not literally but just stuck there

[native portal]

soldering is basically electronic welding

[meager saddle]

Oh

Lmao

Well thanks for the help you two. I'll try to look for a laptop that fits my needs

[odd juniper]

so im good?

[native portal]

someone just had to flex

nice budget system

what are you poor wheres the threadripper

wheres the sli quadro rtx 6000 setup

[odd juniper]

[odd juniper]

Yuck sli

[native portal]

my pc is literally pocket change to you

[odd juniper]

Nah it's good

What was it again

[white obsidian]

Heh I run a headless linux box for steam.

[native portal]

oh no even worse

a linux bro

[odd juniper]

How many games can you run on it

[native portal]

https://tenor.com/view/linux-linux-users-foss-gif-11303075366455022622

[white obsidian]

Everything on my steam library

[odd juniper]

Can you run uhhh battlefield?

Or world of warships

[white obsidian]

Yup

[native portal]

isnt world of warships a mobile game

[odd juniper]

The Blitz version is

But imo looks horrid

[white obsidian]

Not into battlefield but cyberpunk 2077 works, as does flight sim 2020

Or more relevantly ...

[native portal]

https://youtube.com/shorts/SV3eAUqUnjw?si=19JYa2rADLXLYYyp

was just talking about this

i was just looking at my games folder i should start playing senran kagura again

peak fighting game

i need AL to rerun that event asap, or even do a part two like they did for the yumia collab

[white obsidian]

Was thinking about picking up yumia but way too much nickel and diming on the dlc

[native portal]

i tried ryza and didnt like how they did the turn based system

how everythings on like a time limit

graphics looked kinda rough for how new the game was too
like they put all the budget into the character models and then had like a ps2 quality map

[hexed citrus]

who spawned the linux shills?

[odd juniper]

Oh npm packages just got some free malware with it

[native portal]

idl why he showed up

no operating systems were mentioned

[white obsidian]

Eh I'm fairly OS agnostic except for not liking win11 tbh. There's a headless nuc for the stuff that won't take anything else but it mostly sits idle.

Just saying gaming rigs, mine's headless and I just use steam link to get at it.

[native portal]

i cant think of a single reason i would ever use something besides windows

[hexed citrus]

average linux user be like:

[native portal]

https://tenor.com/view/linux-linux-user-open-source-gif-26342988

[white obsidian]

Last straw was the win 11 system requirements - my win10 i7-7700k/gtx1080 box wasn't supported and it's fast enough to run just about anything still.

[native portal]

windows system "requirements" are extremely easy to bypass

i installed windows 11 on the hdd thinkpad because i enjoy torture

oh 720p is a requirement now? why

[hexed citrus]

until linux gets their shit together on the UI side I'm not even gonna remotely consider using it

[native portal]

the support still isnt anywhere close

[hexed citrus]

nor will it ever be

[native portal]

i use my pc for other things than steam

[white obsidian]

Same?

[native portal]

only use case i can think of is if its on some really awful ewaste hardware that needs a lightweight os to even function

[hexed citrus]

because every entitled software maintainer wants to write their piece of software in that specific way and don't like when people try to, god forbid, standardize it

who needs universal graphical APIs anyway

[native portal]

my dell laptop says windows 11 isnt supported but i couldnt tell you why
its well over system requirements maybe its just an obscure cpu

it is a xeon mobile chip

i think its something to do with the dell drivers? idk

[white obsidian]

I don't see the ui argument. Type to search anywhere works, multi finger swipes to go front and back and change virtual desktops works...

[white obsidian]

tpm2 enabled in bios?

[hexed citrus]

ok? try to get the different DEs and graphical rendering pipelines to play nice with each other

or better yet, try to get audio working properly, not even gonna mention wireless audio

[white obsidian]

Flatpak does all of that and gnome/kde/wayland stuff all works simultaneously.

[hexed citrus]

HDR? what's that? VRR? never heard of it

[white obsidian]

... just works too.

[hexed citrus]

that is turbo cope

[white obsidian]

No? I haven't had a problem with it.

[hexed citrus]

you are not the majority

[native portal]

"i dont have the problem so the problem doesnt exist"

[hexed citrus]

I can also have a hyper niche setup that works flawlessly and have no issues, but the moment you deviate from that you enter headache land

[white obsidian]

Granted the one linux laptop is a reasonably well spec'd framework 13 with direct oem support.

And my desktop is a mac, so ...

[hexed citrus]

mac is not linux

[white obsidian]

My headless box is, though.

[hexed citrus]

and using framework as a reference is like saying steam deck is running Linux great

[white obsidian]

But I'm currently on the framework right now.

[white obsidian]

😛 It likely does.

[hexed citrus]

whatever, talking to walls here

[native portal]

yep

[white obsidian]

Meh. Anyway Win11 hardware req's (on reasonably perfromant hardware) was why I'm done with win, except as something to remote into.

I don't think that's an unreasonable stance.

[native portal]

oh so in the end youre just gonna shill linux anyways

[white obsidian]

Or Mac. 😛

[native portal]

[white obsidian]

And other people might make different choices than me.

And that's cool too. I mean to the parents I shill chromebooks.

[native portal]

mac is the stupid proof os

[hexed citrus]

until you let them into the terminal

[native portal]

you will only do what your lord and savior tim apple approves of

[hexed citrus]

that's iOS

[native portal]

its so funny to me that apple used to use 1984 ads when they are literally that

[odd juniper]

I thought you couldn't install 3rd party apps on macOS either if they weren't verified

[native portal]

generic answer thank you dell

[hexed citrus]

apple grew their ecosystem very well and if u get into it then it's amazing but it works like ass with anything outside of the walled garden

[hexed citrus]

you can

brew install whatever the fuck you want

[white obsidian]

You can? At most there's a checkbox in security settings.

[native portal]

so lets check the requirements

[hexed citrus]

or just download the dmg file and extract it

[odd juniper]

I see well I never owned a Mac

[native portal]

i have a 4 core, 3.1 ghz processor

[white obsidian]

Or yeah brew. Azur lane runs using playcover and the ios app.

[native portal]

64 gb of ram

2tb of ssd storage

[hexed citrus]

just use the windows compatibility checker

[native portal]

i have uefi, i have tpm 2

directx 12

and a 4k display

well over what they ask

[hexed citrus]

I used to have a 2015 mbp mostly because it worked well for a portable development machine

now I gave a 2023 mbp from work

[white obsidian]

Same thing with my i7-7700 ... https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/97128/intel-core-i77700-processor-8m-cache-up-to-4-20-ghz/specifications.html

[hexed citrus]

doe my main machines are a desktop and a surface laptop

[hexed citrus]

well there u go

[native portal]

okay but why isnt it supported

[odd juniper]

ah so that's why you knew

[native portal]

4 core 3.1 ghz

[hexed citrus]

probably missing some specific instruction sets

[white obsidian]

Main machine is the mac studio here.

[hexed citrus]

ah yes the cheese grater

[white obsidian]

No it's the bigger cube, no grates

[native portal]

i mean that sums it up

[white obsidian]

https://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/Precision-7720-Spec-Sheet.pdf

Yup, 7th gen intel problems.

[hexed citrus]

they could go into detail as to why not but would it matter? no, not really

not like you can magically make the CPU handle those instructions

[white obsidian]

The higher end 7th gen does have the instructions iirc

[native portal]

it probably can but windows arbitrarily said it cant

[hexed citrus]

it seems some minor changes between 7th and 8th gen but nothing that would be obv

[native portal]

edit the registry to update to windows 11

restart

windows forces random unrelated update

[slate cape]

Sorry for the late reply, the mobo got fried twice
First time it was full black screen all of a sudden and won't turn on and the second time was the GPU died on first mobo replacement (maybe it's bad luck but it sucked)
The screen is really flimsy, it starts to have weird glitching effects when I try to open it from the sides or abit faster

I know that newer victuses are better in terms of that screen issue now but it's still something to lookout for

I only got it because it was discounted from my school website and it's slightly cheaper, else I probably would've gotten something else

[native portal]

HAH

man that picture is awful i shoulda took that with the razr

oneplus cameras suck, whoever hasselblad is doesnt know what tf theyre doing

[white obsidian]

you mean it's not just some sort of slap a logo on it scheme?

[glossy patrol]

I was quite happy with my OnePlus Nord 1 for it's cost

[flint grail]

https://youtube.com/shorts/h5tIEW0AKBw?si=f7iW1L89cJI-gcgL

[native portal]

https://tenor.com/view/salem-techsperts-gif-2188270028763501949

[flint grail]

https://youtube.com/shorts/zWK77gNCJ6U?si=oO8Lx5hYSb3Bs11w

[flint grail]

https://youtube.com/shorts/PtyLfEo7yJs?si=-teRhC49kOrpaJi6

@glossy patrol This is exactly on point with what you were saying about gaming laptops.

[spare owl]

Chat gpt a bit freaky today

[formal fable]

How poorly would an M134 treat your average WW2 Japanese Carrier Aircraft?

[glossy patrol]

Know it just came out, but Pixel Watch 4 Vs Samsung Watch?
Can't decide

[hexed citrus]

samsung

[glossy patrol]

How come?

[hexed citrus]

they've been pushing Wear OS and doing most of the development for it

so obv their hardware is the most optimized for it

[glossy patrol]

Guess that makes sense
Man does the latest watch look fugly though

[glossy patrol]

I like the look of the 8 Classic but it annoys me it's not as large

[white obsidian]

Heh I like my Withings Scanwatch.

[sullen crystal]

I have an iPhone 13 and the game has been crashing quite a bit lately, especially with the new skins and the 3D dorms. Same thing is happening to my iPad.
Does anyone know if the new iPhone 17 can run the 3D dorms without crashing? I don’t want to play on my computer.
I like to sortie when I’m on my stationary bike or watching tv

[hexed citrus]

let me put it this way, if the dorms can't run smoothly on the latest flagship phone then something is wrong with the game

[sullen crystal]

Lol I agree, I was getting concerned when my iPad started crashing, that’s why I ask

[odd juniper]

Hmm I should check how the dorm runs on intel igpu

[sullen crystal]

I got an iPhone 17 pro, I’ll let you guys know how it goes this weekend

[hexed citrus]

thank you for the purchase

[sullen crystal]

Had all the girls do the slide mini game at the beach and did get a single stutter 🙏🏼

[glossy patrol]

Does anybody have some great NIC suggestions?
My Archer TX50E I just can't ever to get to work right, even through OS reinstalls. It's fairly hit and miss with both WiFi and Bluetooth
My board has WiFi and Bluetooth built in but they're not the best. When my Archer TX50E works properly I can notice the difference

[glossy patrol]

I'm also looking for a really good 120/140mm fan that's really quiet, but also doesn't cost a lot as I'll be buying many. These would be for my NAS

[hexed citrus]

https://blog.cloudflare.com/enterprise-grade-features-for-all/

now that's pog

[ashen zodiac]

Man. I need to buy a SSD and install windows 11. lol

[flint grail]

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[glossy patrol]

Decided I'm going to buy a UniFi UDR7

[hexed citrus]

welcome to the unifi rabbit hole

[glossy patrol]

£250 for a router is insane but I'm hoping it's one of thoese things where I'll then have it for absolutel ages and I won't have to worry about WiFi ever again

I was also wanting a smart doorbell and was thinking going Unifi for that too
But again, expensive...

And then having run a cable to it too

[hexed citrus]

I run their U7 Pro Max

with a couple of their switches

[glossy patrol]

No router, just APs and switches? Or are the switches cloud enabled like the UDR7

[glossy patrol]

I also ordered myself a new NIC
Probably don't have to, but ever since I upgraded my system I've been struggling to get my TP-Link one to cooperate, so it just gave me the excuse I wanted

[hexed citrus]

I have a OPNSense router, that one is way more powerful than a unifi gateway

[glossy patrol]

In what sense?

[hexed citrus]

wdym in what sense

it can do a lot more things than a unifi gateway

[glossy patrol]

Such as?

[hexed citrus]

traffic shaping
failover connections
deep packet inspection
site 2 site VPN
split horizon DNS
4to6 translation
network wide adblocking

and the list goes on

[glossy patrol]

Seems more like a firewall + router than just a router

From my understanding Ubiquiti's offerings are more just router + AP

In all the searching I did I somehow never came across these OPNSense things

[hexed citrus]

pfsense, OPNSense, VyOS, openWRT, Untangle

[glossy patrol]

Think I'll stick with the Unifi. More my level I think

[glossy patrol]

Got my UDR7 now, with a basic setup

Was tearing my hair out on why it couldn't connect to the ISP, turns out their guide is wrong and you don't actually want to change VLAN tagging to anything

Only issue is that I can't figure out why my 2.4GHz SSID isn't broadcasting properly

PC saw it for a second, failed to connect, then it never reappeared
Phone doesn't see it
Printer sees it just fine

[odd juniper]

did you disable some protocols by any chance?

normally you can setup wifi standards.

[glossy patrol]

Don't believe so. Left it all default, same as the other SSID
Will give it a check though

Damn the og Google Home Mini supports 5Ghz
Didn't expect that

[glossy patrol]

Just checked, the SSIDs really are identical

Just annoying how I'm losing half my download speed (upload is fine) through two thin walls and about 5 meters for some reason

Just changed my NIC, now connected via 6Ghz/Wifi 7 from 5Ghz/WiFi 6. Speeds are still basically identical, and also identical to my old router

[flint grail]

New fear unlocked💀
Not that I ever had a ring but this is scary.

[odd juniper]

what is the speed and what were you expecting? Also what nic you've?

[odd juniper]

you did give the ssid a different name in comparison to your old router?

there is also a option to hide the ssid

there should be something shown like "hidden network" then though

[glossy patrol]

Line Vs speedtest results
Top two results are with new WiFi 7 NIC, connected via 6GHz
Bottom four are old WiFi 6E NIC, connected via 5GHz

[odd juniper]

I mean i wouldn't have expected a difference there to begin with yeah

how fast is your internet subscription supposed to be?

when using lan?

[glossy patrol]

First image

[odd juniper]

ok... uhh

did you try optimizing the bands?

[glossy patrol]

All optimised, and scheduled to optimise themselves automatically every day at 5PM

[odd juniper]

ok and what if you literally are next to the wifi?

is it still that speed?

[glossy patrol]

Not much better, yes
Despite me knowing full well this router is a lot stronger than my old router for output

[odd juniper]

did you use another cable?

[glossy patrol]

I don't use LAN

[odd juniper]

Are you using this solely as a router there's nothing in between?

its connected via wan?

[glossy patrol]

Yeah

ONT -> UDR7 -> device

[odd juniper]

for funzies can you try this speedtest? https://speed.cloudflare.com/

[glossy patrol]

Distance of router to PC/phone (router is no longer on phone)
It surely isn't a range issue as 5GHz had the same variance as 6GHz

And old NIC + old router is getting around the same as new NIC + new router

[odd juniper]

hmm with such a thin wall i wouldnt expect issues indeed..
Do you've the same slow speeds with a speedtest on your phone?

[glossy patrol]

Yeah

[odd juniper]

For 2,4ghz at 20mhz your speed seems around the best it can do. Maybe you get better performance by increasing the power output aka the mhz, but this'll only work if your device supports it

[hexed citrus]

that is not power output

that is bandwidth

power is measured in mW or W

[odd juniper]

That's what I meant bandwidth

Didn't know the word for it so I said that instead

[flint grail]

https://youtube.com/shorts/qQ8TLmQ5krI?si=J6ar01ViMjahZyqe

[flint grail]

Has anyone already seen this?https://youtu.be/f9HwA5IR-sg?si=xdzyOSRH5kc5WIIS

[hexed citrus]

bunch of bullshit

it's not thinking

it doesn't have actual intelligence

[flint grail]

Yeah I know, I don't like the term AI at all. It's just a machine learning program.

[nova abyss]

It's the machine that lies to you

[kindred dagger]

https://x.com/ChibiReviews/status/1974281294004826563

Chibi Reviews (@ChibiReviews)

BREAKING NEWS

After multiple countries have forced Age Verification through ID or Face scanning to "Protect Kids". Discord has been compromised and everyone's Government information has been leaked.

Do you still trust all these sites with your sensitive information?

X · Oct 4, 2025, 1:11 AM

[flint grail]

Glad that group chat didn't get leaked at least😂

[native portal]

i got a hotswap mechanical keyboard for $5

its got blue switches though

i dunno if i wanna keep it and put my leftover linear switches in it or just sell it as is and buy me something else

[native portal]

i could get an alps keyboard with the money

and get PROPER clicks

[ashen zodiac]

if it means keeping kids off the internet

yes

yes i do.

cause i dont have to do this shit.

[mental coyote]

None of this crap is about protecting kids. It's about control and knowing everything yer up to online. I trust these creatures as far as I can throw 'em with my pinkie.

[ashen zodiac]

never said about protecting kids. i said keeping kids off the internet.

Like if you're a dumbass saying you're 12 or some dumb shit and then get banned and they make you send your ID in to get verified. Get fucked.

[mental coyote]

Problem is, this BS doesn't just affect them, it comes for everyone.

In a better world, parents would parent worth a damn. Then, if nothing else, the control freaks wouldn't be able to use children's goofy butts as an excuse.

[ashen zodiac]

Yea but here we are, parents can't parent, YouTube and iPads are the parents, and kids need to be controlled on the internet.

[mental coyote]

The other issue is data breeches. Not a one of these organizations protects what they get from you worth a damn. This bit with Discord is one screwup amongst a multitude.

[ashen zodiac]

Of course not. Everything gets hacked these days. If you got a phone, your information is out there already. You just don't know it.

[mental coyote]

Doesn't mean we should line up for the gov't and corpos and just give 'em what they want. Fuck, but I miss the mid/late 90s 'Net.

Bloody hell, if I gotta live in a dystopia, can I at least get chromed up?

[nova abyss]

No, as that would give the poors more power

[subtle hawk]

Planned obsolescence on you dick won't be funny thing to have...

[mental coyote]

Enough chrome to make Adam Smasher shit himself makes up for a good deal of trouble.

Ain't like I'm using the junk on anyone, as is.

[kindred dagger]

Or hear me out

We don't give kids phones

Or at least not unsupervised

Oh damn you guys already mentioned that

[ashen zodiac]

Ok so, the verification process didn't get hacked, UNLESS you used the Zendesk to get it manually reviewed.

Or if you need to dispute the fact that you lied about your age and had to submit your ID. In that case, get fucked. Lol

[kindred dagger]

Data breach will happen eventually

Or the corpo is the data broker themselves

[native portal]

im really getting tempted by the old keyboards

check this out

[slate cape]

That's like full size ++ damm

[hexed citrus]

that's a trading keyboard

[native portal]

But its COOL

Look at those colors

Extra keys can be remapped

I shoulda saved it i forgot what switches it had

Hopefully some flavor of alps

[native portal]

has a second numpad to go with it

apparently they use MX browns

awful switches, but mx compatible

[ruby yarrow]

It's like a specialized keyboard for stock traders

Especially back in the 80s and 90s I want to say due to it's coloring to it

[ashen zodiac]

https://fixupx.com/AsakyGRN/status/1967510422707376312

𝐀𝐬𝐚𝐤𝐲𝐆𝐑𝐍 (@AsakyGRN)

Phone vendors are now converting iPhone 12 to iPhone 17 pro max.

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FixupX · Sep 15, 2025, 8:46 AM

[native portal]

17 pro max is genuinely one of the ugliest smart phones ive ever seen

[ashen zodiac]

Qualcomm is acquiring Arduino

lol

[glossy patrol]

Anybody know of some good ARGB, high quality "cableless" fans like the Lian Li AL140's?
I really wanted some AL140's but they're out of stock everywhere

[native portal]

unifans are overpriced junk

spend like 200+ on fans just because of a brand name and cable management

https://www.amazon.com/Thermalright-TL-M12Q-Daisy-Chain-Infinity-Lighting/dp/B0F6T6GCV8/147-5056070-0380108?

oh wait you wanted 140

https://www.phanteks.store/products/phanteks-m25-140-gen2-high-performance-cooling-fan-daisy-chain-unified-fan-frame-integrated-d-rgb-lighting-black?\

[glossy patrol]

Who said I cared about brands

[glossy patrol]

I care about both looks and performance and want to spend extra on them is all

Hence ARGB and cable-less design

[native portal]

Go for those phanteks ones then

I always reccomend thermalright for good cooling budget or not but they dont make 140s

You get 3 for the price of one unifan

[glossy patrol]

Not a fan of how they look

But I may have to

I'm currently using the stock fans that came with my Arctic Freezer III and P500A

[ashen zodiac]

oh thats tomorrow. lmfao.

[flint grail]

RIP I got the message couple of days ago saying I can upgrade for free and luckily my system supports 11. Should I do it tho?

[glossy patrol]

Yes

Back up your shit beforehand though

[ashen zodiac]

I can't cause my windows 10 was installed in a different format lol

if i enable secure boot, windows doesnt boot.

[glossy patrol]

You shouldn't need to enable secure boot to upgrade, just the need to have the feature

[ashen zodiac]

i have it, it just wont

or im thinking of tpm

i just know its one of them

[glossy patrol]

Ah, weird

[ashen zodiac]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4349037/windows-does-not-start-after-enabling-secure-boot?forum=windows-all&referrer=answers

Theres a tool but I don't feel like it.

[hexed citrus]

you most likely still use CSM booting off of a MBR table

so you need to convert to GPT table and have a UEFI bootloader

at which point might as well just do reinstall

[ashen zodiac]

yea im just waiting till black friday to get a 1tb gen3 ssd or something

or 2tb

[ashen zodiac]

buy buy buy

[glossy patrol]

Me has the same

Nice drive

[ashen zodiac]

yay $141 (taxes) boot drive

[glossy patrol]

£80 here
Guess after you convert it's not too different

[odd juniper]

isnt that the drive that had a shit of firmware issues and bricked with a windows update?

[ashen zodiac]

Idk is it

I can always move all my games off my Samsung drive onto this

And then install windows on that

[flint grail]

I paid the same for shitty kingston 1tb drive that has firmware issue that prevents it from having windows installed on it. Tried swapping it to another pc and no, it doesn't work.

[flint grail]

https://youtube.com/shorts/d9x5NDrQXuU?si=Dr5LoMIDfs1t0dk8

[glossy patrol]

No?

[odd juniper]

oh it wasn't the 850
https://tweakers.net/nieuws/227850/western-digital-patcht-ssds-die-voor-bsods-zorgen-in-windows-11-24h2.html

[slate cape]

[ashen zodiac]

Just keep the volume off. Nothing to hear.

[odd juniper]

those are some.. interesting bookmarks you've there

[odd juniper]

means the ai has been trained well to deal with faces and the others have not. Wonder if the apple ai fucks up the face everytime

[ashen zodiac]

Everytime I see the Apple AI one get used, it's always goofy af

[fringe pier]

"it's not as good bcs it's done locally" 🗣️
then why bother creating one if it's of no usefulness

wait i thought this is #off-topic

[ashen zodiac]

ugh i need a cheap but fast usb thats at least 16gb lol

[odd juniper]

Fast in read or in write too?

Also what do you see as cheap, USB sticks are cheap in general already. You've budget ones for around 6 bucks and fast ones for around 15-18

[ashen zodiac]

just a usb 3.0 or better so i can install windows

i aint using a 2.0

[odd juniper]

just for a windowsinstall? Lol I'd just use a kingston datatraveler then or something. it's like 6 bucks
There's a datatraveler duo too, which has usb a and c.
For windows you only need a 8gb stick normally. so 32gb is already kinda overkill. But then again for higher storage its not that much more expensive.

[ashen zodiac]

$10 CAD

im literally about to go buy one

lol

also bro the cheapest usb they got is fucking 64gb for $10 CAD

[odd juniper]

have done plenty of windowsinstalls on those lol

[odd juniper]

is that the smallest size theyve too?

[ashen zodiac]

literally sorting b lowest price lol

its $10

Whatever.

[odd juniper]

oh wait thats a exodia. idk if that one is any good lol

also how is the price that inflated

[ashen zodiac]

Canadian dollars idk lol

I like how all the Exodias are the same price lol

You just gotta pick between like

Exodia - Has a cap
S - Spinny shit
M - Slidey shit

im gonna lose the fucking cap guaranteed lol

[odd juniper]

I had the sliding one the uh 100 g3 or something

Kingston DataTraveler 100 G3

is the one i had

but its ancient now

[ashen zodiac]

oh

[odd juniper]

you can just slide it back

[ashen zodiac]

i have that somewhere

the sliding mechanism broke

[odd juniper]

WHAT

[ashen zodiac]

like it doesnt take much to slide it open anymore

[odd juniper]

how

[ashen zodiac]

its in my pocket all the time

[odd juniper]

oh

what do you need it for

to keep it in your pocket lol

I mean that usb is plenty enough already, you could just install windows on that

[ashen zodiac]

college

My old ass school drives lol

If they didn't have shit on them, I'd use them.

actually wtf is on the datatraveler

ok i dont trust prolonged use of that drive. lol

i think its bent

wait i have a blank af micro SD

why the fuck not

[odd juniper]

ayo ive that samsung one too

bought that recently

just install it on the samsung one?

[ashen zodiac]

its got a lot of stuff on it

lol

they all have stuff on it

[odd juniper]

[ashen zodiac]

ok i dont really trust the top 2

[odd juniper]

dont youve backups?

[ashen zodiac]

i know the top one is like

really fucking bent

[odd juniper]

what if for example rime the drive dies

[ashen zodiac]

hence why i got the middle one

[odd juniper]

you're cooked if you dont have a backup

[ashen zodiac]

meh

lol

[odd juniper]

[ashen zodiac]

got a blank SD card.

INSTALLING WINDOWS ON A BLANK MICRO SD CARD

FOR SECURITY CAMERAS

[odd juniper]

i mean you could, if your computer has a sd card slot or if youve a sdcard adapter

[ashen zodiac]

i got an adapter

somewhere

I GOT TWO

usb 2.0

lol

mfw its more expensive to buy from walmart

GOD DAMMIT MEMORY EXPRESS WHY ARE YOU SO FAR AWAY FROM WHERE I LIVE?

[glossy patrol]

I bought some 128GB SandDisk drives
Right after I regretted it because 1. They're metal and can burn you after heavy use, and 2. I could've gotten some that are both USB-C and USB-A

[ashen zodiac]

NYOOOOOOOOOOOM

[flint grail]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DP6nS80APag/?igsh=MWkxdTVscmdsbWdveg==

Instagram

[odd juniper]

mf'ing wasting time to replace the battery. only to find out it has a completely different pinlayout

[glossy patrol]

Is that to a mobile device?

[odd juniper]

yup

said it was a original battery for axon 9 pro

well its not obviously lol

[timid shadow]

who tf does this

[hard oasis]

I'm trying to find out if it's possible to run an SAS drive in a standard PC. Anyone have suggestions, assuming I only need to run one or 2?

I was given a couple of 15TB NVMe PCIE 4.0 drives and want to use them in my home computer

[white obsidian]

SAS PCIe card? Easy peasy as long as you have some free PCI

[hard oasis]

If that's all I need then easy enough. I might have started reading too much and confused myself.

[glossy patrol]

Indeed, PCIe to SAS card
Can be had on eBay for like 20-30

[hexed citrus]

those don't use SAS

they use U.2

[hard oasis]

That would explain a few things. Thanks, I found an add-in card that should work.

[ashen zodiac]

I just realized I should update the firmware on my 980 Pro lol

oh nvm

my firmware is too old to be bricked lmao

[ashen zodiac]

man this computer more stable with win 11

guess the os was the reason why this comp was so ass

[lofty estuary]

Gave my old DDR4 PC away. I want to build a new one but cant decide between a5070ti or a 9070XT. Any advice?

For CPU i prob go for a 7800X3D

[glossy patrol]

9070XT because the 5070Ti is usually a fair bit more

[hexed citrus]

5070ti not worth

[lofty estuary]

Can you guys explain why?
I leaned more to the 5070ti because dlss brings more fps and a better picture to the table than FSR. Also arent AMD drivers terrible compaired to Nvidia? My friends have AMD gpus and they complain all the time how bad it is and so on

[flint grail]

Can't really say bad things about AMD drivers now. I have 7800xt for more than a year now and besides me screwing around with overclocking gpu and getting driver timeout I really didn't have any issues at all.

[glossy patrol]

DLSS Vs FSR is game dependant
Second is absolutely not true

This whole year it's actually been NVidia that's been slammed for shit drivers

Bad AMD drivers is a thing from the 5700XT that people can't let go of

https://youtu.be/yP0axVHdP-U?si=NHu4xOL3bUXG1no7

[flint grail]

Though indiana jones can't be played without dlss at all that is only thing I can think of that adds point to ngreedia.

[fringe pier]

[glossy patrol]

Womp

[odd juniper]

Why you limit it to that then

[fringe pier]

i can't even limit it to 5

same warning

[odd juniper]

whats connected to the ethernet

[flint grail]

You can only accept your fate and say okay🤣 . Srsly can someone explain why you have such agonizingly low connection limit?

[flint grail]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPjFVs5k1MM/?igsh=MWxvZ2szeWdmcjNpag==

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[fringe pier]

nah
the context is i want to limit the "connection to 2.4ghz wifi" only allowed for 2 devices (my mom's and my pc(yes the pcie card is only 2.4))

but turns out, even i input 5 not just 2, the same warning will still appear

maybe bcs more than 5 devices had already connected to the router, BUT i can't even see the "already connected" devices lol (3rd pic)

[flint grail]

yeah that makes sense that if software doesn't support option for more than two devices it wouldn't show them also but that part with more than two devices connected is kinda stupid. why it didn't limit maxximum connections instead of showing that message.

[fringe pier]

guess what

at this point they just wont let me limit my connection

even 25 got the same message

[flint grail]

Yeah I see that it's cursed. But could you disable router to disconnect all devices from it, will it then allow for different configuration if there are less than 2 connected devices. Idk if I'm speaking nonsense but all kind of stupid things happen lately

[flint grail]

gotta add more zeroes maybe it will work🤣

[hexed citrus]

idk why would you limit the amount of clients on a specific band

it's not like it'll magically improve the speed of the connection

[fringe pier]

to prevent some thief

[hexed citrus]

what thief

[glossy patrol]

Lol

[odd juniper]

It's me I'm his neighbour

[flint grail]

https://tenor.com/view/they-had-us-in-the-first-half-not-gonna-lie-gif-13620240

Is it possible for wifi to drop the speed significantly for wired connections. Let's say my pc is connected by the cable and there are 10 intelectuals that are always concerned about internet speed(sometimes their reel won't load up in 0.5 sec). which takes the priority, cable or is there a limit that that will divide data sacking the wired connection. It prob depends on the router type and bandwith speed but just curios. Ik that wifi speed certainly goes to shitter the more people are connected.

[glossy patrol]

No it won't prioritise your cable device

Or "steal" internet from the others

[fringe pier]

this damn nokia modem has no mac filter

[hexed citrus]

again, why do you need to add mac filtering or any of this stupid limiting?

if I want to get into your network that won't stop me

[unkempt furnace]

Hey tech nerds

Should I install the Window 25H2 update?

Well

Not like I can install it anyway

Huh heh

[glossy patrol]

What

[flint grail]

Win XP SP3 SUPREMACY

https://tenor.com/view/windows-windows95-vintage-computer-loop-gif-16902187

[fringe pier]

my office is still using XP

[flint grail]

https://tenor.com/view/stone-cold-steve-austin-wwe-pumped-hell-yeah-gif-12325054

[odd juniper]

you can with setup.exe /product server command.

depends if your pc will brick

[mossy sierra]

[flint grail]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQe586ajZAl/?igsh=MWYzdzUxdDhjMzY4Mw==

ufd_tech

How does this keep happening? Microsoft mades Windows 11 EVEN worse. AGAIN.

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[shadow rock]

https://www.kkinstagram.com/reel/DQe586ajZAl/?igsh=MWYzdzUxdDhjMzY4Mw==

[slim sphinx]

Just gathering thoughts

My laptop broke, it can't be charged but still turned on. Do you think it's because the charging port or the charger or even the internal cable that connects the port and battery is burnt?

[hexed citrus]

charging port of course

[slim sphinx]

Back story is, while i was playing my house just black out for a sec and back on again

[hexed citrus]

okay? could be some safety mechanism inside the charger got triggered

keeping it unplugged completely for a bit may restore it

[slim sphinx]

Ok, thanks for the advice. Even though it won't fix it, i still appreciate. And will continue trying to fix it ^^

[hexed citrus]

you'll need a multimeter to check if the adaptor does supply voltage

and subsequently check the board if it gets power

[slim sphinx]

Ahh.. That sounds like too much work and money

[hexed citrus]

a multimeter is dirt cheap wdym

[glossy patrol]

The only way to identify what has been damaged is a multi-meter or buying parts to swap out/test with

[flint grail]

https://youtube.com/shorts/A0xCWw0iA7A?si=mPwWlKpzNRtIvm7o

[vagrant holly]

I'm starting to see MB manufacturers including "braces" for the front panel connectors

Which is nice

Idk what their name actually is

but you basically hook them all into this little piece of plastic that keeps them lined up and effectively turns them into 1 connector

[flint grail]

Just as my old man said "I don't have a magic wand to fix your engine knocking" you gotta get them hands dirty (not that laptops can have oil stains and dirt on them😂) but seriously you can't mess it up more than it is now. I mean it doesn't work it's probably a protection or weak spot designed to fail in this situation you have.

[slim sphinx]

I mean it is already old as hel

[flint grail]

That so thoughtfull of them. I wouldn't need 20 zipties to hold my cables then.

[slim sphinx]

Is it? Well.. I don't know anything about that

[flint grail]

Cheap ones go for like 15$ here

[slim sphinx]

Hmmm, yea indeed quite cheap

https://tenor.com/view/azur-lane-laffey-clapping-gif-19290942

[flint grail]

I have some old laptops that I use for old diagnostics that don't work on newer systems. If nothing I would try to find out what's wrong with them just for the sake of finding out😙

https://tenor.com/view/prinz-eugen-wink-gif-13680678195779749421

[hexed citrus]

never race a dude with a laptop on the passenger seat

[flint grail]

My friend started carying laptop and he drives bmw 535d should I be worried about him🤔

[hexed citrus]

maybe

[ashen zodiac]

lol the back of my computer looks like a rats nest

but that's what the solid panel is for

[flint grail]

Same👍 🤣

Literally a "perfect fit" for cables back there.

[white obsidian]

Heh I have some diag stuff that only works on XP. It's annoying.

[flint grail]

I have atris technic and have to run that on virtual machine that runs win xp used it for a short while until I got haynes pro with new diag.

[slate cape]

Maybe this is the perfect excuse to buy more storage

[hexed citrus]

https://image.fogyamato.dev/tzfw7.png

there's a couple more partitions but they all look like that

[glossy patrol]

Me when people can't manage their storage smh

[slate cape]

That's the main boot disk

Don't really want to touch that for bulk storage

[hexed citrus]

neither do I

the config is basically part of the partition that handles docker volumes

the rest is from the disk array

[white obsidian]

Idk if big enough.

[white obsidian]

Thank goodness for usb to 9pin serial passthrough.

[hexed citrus]

35GB partition? not that big

[white obsidian]

tb

[hexed citrus]

right, I forgot a multiplier

[white obsidian]

6x 12 raid z2

[hexed citrus]

still small

if that's the whole array, if it's just a partition then it's alright

[white obsidian]

Yeah I gotta refresh some of the drive to get it up to 24s

[glossy patrol]

Very, very close to buying the hardware for my NAS

Still undecided on 90% of it 😔

[white obsidian]

Synology burned a ton of goodwill... https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/nas/synology-walks-back-controversial-compatibility-policy-for-2025-nas-units-third-party-hdd-and-ssd-support-returns-with-diskstation-manager-7-3-update

[glossy patrol]

I'm not going Synology

[flint grail]

https://youtu.be/VLyvpWg6nI0?si=9TJD7CFLdRAsT-pk
Another slop or real deal?

[slate cape]

Oh nice, you guys homelab as well?

[ashen zodiac]

Damn. I'm running low on memory. slaps new storage into computer

[hexed citrus]

homelabbing would be a severe understatement

[slate cape]

[flint grail]

This is some crazy shit.https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPCh63yiBoD/?igsh=MW1wMTllaHNoOTR2dQ==

davidbombal

22.2 Tbps DDoS Attack Blocked 😱

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[glossy patrol]

RedMagic 11 Pro looks so good. I'd buy it if it got better software support :c

[odd juniper]

I've a zte nubia 60 ultra (which is basically a red magic) which gets a update every couple of months, Nubia technology is the parent company of Red Magic so they prob get around the same amount of updates

[glossy patrol]

The RedMagic 10 Pro was said to get 1 major Android version update. That's not acceptable

[odd juniper]

all of zte devices do

[glossy patrol]

Yeah, it's awful

[glossy nebula]

is that an 8tb seagate or are they independent drives?

[ashen zodiac]

HDD

[stone river]

does anyone know what the current system requirements are for AL or where to look them up ? playing on a tablet but with island planner, private dorms and project identity need to go for a upgrade. Would appreciate any help...

[glossy patrol]

Don't buy a POS and you'll be fine

[hexed citrus]

what if I want to play AL on it

[glossy patrol]

Lmao

[lofty estuary]

will the ram price increase hit gpus too?

[hexed citrus]

obv

[lofty estuary]

i kinda hoped to get a good price on black friday

sadge

[unkempt furnace]

wat is dis

[vagrant holly]

It instantly prints your receipts whenever you whale

[ashen zodiac]

charge it first

ngl it looks like a OnePlus One in a printer

[hexed citrus]

I mean ye it's basically a android phone, thermal printer and card reader in one device

[glossy patrol]

LMAO

[swift pike]

Does anyone have any idea what this feature is called; any audio behind my view is muted

(sorry for the quality)

[flint grail]

Could it be the speakers mode like stereo, mono, 5.1 home cinema, headphones. maybe if it's set to 5.1 or 7.1 it behaves like that but idk. Most of the games have that settings, but not sure if that's your problem.

Could be worth a try if it has that sett in audio

[swift pike]

I'll check that

I can change that in systems settings right?

[flint grail]

Yeah there are also in system settings

[swift pike]

i cant find it

ive gone through tutorials

[flint grail]

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/11/1636418037457331397/ https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/i-cant-hear-audio-behind-me-in-video-games.18865444/ Could this help you if you didn't already try?

[swift pike]

nope

[ashen zodiac]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLS5Cg_yNdM

[flint grail]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQpcxunDFLp/?igsh=OWp5eDhneTVsbWFu

maybeblasta

mozrbord

#memes #fyp #shitpost #tgpu #repost

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[ashen zodiac]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/n20pRks-qP4

i need it

[white obsidian]

Steam machine and steam frame.. mmmm

[ashen zodiac]

Fuck no on the controller.

Steam Machine, yea I got my phone for that

[hexed citrus]

ur phone doesn't run a desktop OS

[white obsidian]

Steam Frame is kidna cool. Can run games onboard as well as connected to computer.

[glossy patrol]

Why it looks fucking great lol

[hexed citrus]

it looks terrible tbh

doe I'll reserve final judgement to when I'll hold it

[white obsidian]

Tested's review. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7q2CS8HDHU

[hexed citrus]

my best guess is the frame will be either 600 or 800$

[flint grail]

Can anyone guess the fps I got when took this pic😙 it might not show thumbnail in discord so don't be afraid to open it😉

And I see the quality got wrecked again by discord as usual.

It's suposed to be 14mb not 4mb😓

[ashen zodiac]

No, it can run steam link.

[white obsidian]

Heh New Glenn landing was kinda cool. Not as efficient as the F9 hoverslam though.

[glossy patrol]

Anybody here knowledgeable on smart extention plugs for the UK?

[odd juniper]

using thinkpad as a weapon

[white obsidian]

X230 ... nice. Have one on my desk.

[flint grail]

They will think twice now before coming over now

[ashen zodiac]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4rrcw_oRVs

[ashen zodiac]

You can airdrop using Pixel phones lmao

[flint grail]

I wish I had wood working tools like he, and free time. I always wanted to build something like like that using arduino or pi. Does anyone know place where you can learn coding for pi or arduino. Ik it's C++. I had some basic knowledge of it but forgot long ago.

[ashen zodiac]

Arduino has libraries of codes you can dissect and learn off of.

You could always find a project, copy the code, then reverse engineer it.

[flint grail]

I was thinking the same thing, I wanted to make something that will have to use stepper motors and proximity sensors so there are already examples of that.

[glossy patrol]

Any ideas on a good SFX PSU? 1000W, preferably fanless
Also looking for the quietest air cooler but can't decide

[glossy patrol]

Dw, ended up going with the Corsair SL1000 and Peerless Assassin 140

Now the real question is HDDs

[glossy patrol]

I'm thinking 12TB WD Red Plus (as apparently they're quieter than Red Pros) but unsure what a good price for them is

[flint grail]

https://youtube.com/shorts/bFMAFwwU7qo?si=-MdvhzMuh_RfEPuk
Probablly not that quiet but cool.

[odd juniper]

What are you gonna put on 12tb hdd?

[glossy patrol]

It's a NAS/server

[odd juniper]

So you gonna buy two of them for redundancy I assume?
If sound doesn't matter to you, the Toshiba mg08s are nice and cheap. But I see they've a new version called mg09. It comes with 5 years warranty.

[glossy patrol]

Unfortunately sound is a big concern for me as this'll be living in our front room

I wanted to get at a minimum 2 drives, preferably 4

[odd juniper]

Most large storage HDDs aren't very quiet. So you might wanna consider moving it to the electrical closet or something
Or you need to get lower storage drives like 8tb or lower those are often quieter too.

[glossy patrol]

Well I was thinking WD Red Plus because they're 5400RPM and I believe in the 10TB+ they're helium filled. It'd also means I need fewer drives for more total storage

[odd juniper]

The mg08 were helium filled too, doesn't mean quieter necessarily same with the Lower rpm, I would just check reviews of people with the drive first, if it's actually quiet

[glossy patrol]

I'm also just unsure how much I should spend on a given capacity

[hexed citrus]

you'll be spending a lot rn

there's a global storage shortage

[glossy patrol]

10-14TB is looking to set me back about £220 minimum

Per drive

That's a crazy amount of money

[hexed citrus]

sounds about right

20TB drives are 400$ a pop

[glossy patrol]

Oof...

[odd juniper]

The real question is do you need that much

[glossy patrol]

I would like about 30TB usable

But I also want good drives meant to run 24/7. Most 1-4TB aren't

[ashen zodiac]

https://www.londoncentric.media/p/london-phone-thieves-prefer-android-iphone-l

Damn. When does Apple get this feature?

[hexed citrus]

never lmao

[ashen zodiac]

Should use that as marketing tbh lol

"Thieves will give you back your phone."

[mental coyote]

When you spend years positioning yerself as a lifestyle brand... shit happens.

[lofty estuary]

I had a Asus a320m -k as my mainboard. i have a ryzen 7 5700x3d and a 9070XT. i ordered the MSI B550 Tomahawk max wifi. My friend says that i didnt gain anything in terms of perfomance by buying it. is that true or is he yapping? from what ive heard it makes a small diff like 5-10% and overall less stutters

[odd juniper]

Doubt it really matters much, only thing you should check if nothing it overheating on the a320 like vrms for example since they might have a smaller heatsink or none at all.. B550 is more an upgrade in terms of extra ports and lanes. Maybe the better vrms give you better performance but is it really worth it spending that instead of saving for a next build.

[glossy patrol]

He is right

Any ideas?
Won't boot
Ultra 7 265K
Z890 Aorus Elite

I've tried all RAM slots individually with RAM that works just fine in my desktop, I've tried a BIOS QF with the latest BIOS version, I've reseated CPU and CPU cooler

Flicks between DRAM LED and CPU LED

[hexed citrus]

have you tried swapping the sticks?

see if maybe one is bad?

[glossy patrol]

That'd be so random as both work flawlessly in my desktop, but I guess I could

I only just noticed it always stops on code 55 before swapping to the CPU LED, which is apparently memory

[hexed citrus]

check just in case, it could be a bad RAM slot best case, dead CPU worst case

[glossy patrol]

Same issue with the other stick from my desktop

I'd be so pissed if it's the CPU man. The one time I ever go used and I get fucked over

[hexed citrus]

so the stick works in ur main pc but doesn't work in any slot on this one?

[glossy patrol]

Yeah

[hexed citrus]

most likely then CPU

[glossy patrol]

So annoyed. Can't trust shit nowadays

[hexed citrus]

there's a chance it's mobo but it's not big

[glossy patrol]

Ordered new CPU right now
Should have just bought new anyways. Saving £70 wasn't worth

[hexed citrus]

that's why you always check it before you buy

or buy online with protection so u can refund it

[glossy patrol]

I am fairly sure I can get a refund via eBay's protection, but still sucks

They seemingly checked all the right boxes, which is a hard thing to do for me

[flint grail]

My old motherboard died in a similar way.

Asus x570 tuf

Swapped cpu-s, nothing. Tried swapping literally everything, battery too, no luck. After that I gave my friend the cpu that was inside when I got new one and after 2 months it died in another system. It was ryzen 5 5600x.

[ashen zodiac]

how are you murdering motherboards?

[flint grail]

You see I got unique set of skills that I aquired over time...

[flint grail]

https://tenor.com/view/kira-yoshiakge-gif-26522267

[ashen zodiac]

are you using cables from an old build with a new PSU?

unless its ram training

[flint grail]

If you are asking me no I got new fully modular psu with new wiring but this was a year ago. I just happened to have similar issue. At first I was getting amber dram light but it switched to red cpu shortly after.

[odd juniper]

do youve the default bracket installed on the cpu? maybe tis not getting proper contact

[night crest]

i am not really sure where to ask or what to search to get the answers i desire
but has anybody had success with using one monitor plugged to iGPU (motherboard HDMI) and one monitor plugged to dGPU and have video output on both..... on Arch linux specificially.
I have spent a large chunk of my day looking and i have gotten as far as knowing that neither X11 nor Wayland can do this. (at first i thought it was a wlroots limitation but then i tried on XFCE, and got the same issue). The monitor plugged to the GPU only gives video output.
is multi-monitor setup just not possible like the way i described?
(Intel igpu and Nvidia dgpu)

I'm at a point of, I don't need sleep I need answers 😭 😭

[hexed citrus]

to put it simply, you can't

it's either or

you can enable both GPUs for utilization but not have video pass through

[night crest]

Ah. now I can at least sleep peacefully. I also was starting to think it's just not possible

Thanks

[glossy patrol]

What do you mean by bracket?

[odd juniper]

The thing holding the cpu in place

Some people user a thermal grizzly one that's connected with screws

[glossy patrol]

Well yeah I'm using the one that came with the board

[odd juniper]

what you could try is reseat the cpu you never know

[glossy patrol]

I've already reseated twice

I've had to order an absolutely outrageous £350 kit of RAM

In context, the kit of RAM I bought of a better spec but same capacity (and was overpriced at the time) was £120

[ashen zodiac]

haha ram prices go brrrrrrrrr

[glossy patrol]

Could RAM intended for EXPO cause issues when popped into an Intel system?Surely not

[flint grail]

Did the same research about it for mine system and I put xmp labeled sticks into amd board and it works well. Don't know it will work the opposite tho since I stumbled on some threads saying that there could be some stability issues if expo were to be put on intel mobo but those were old discussions from 8 years ago or so.

This my work pc and it runs only one data program, nothing serious. I can hear the fans kicking at full speed and it boots just fine. I believe its most likely full dusty gouch since it hasn't been dusted or cleaned for 10 years. What do you think guys, can this be the problem of clogged cooling and disintegrated paste or could something be actually wrong with fan?

[glossy patrol]

That could just be it's not quitye 100% connected properly (physically, or it's dirty) or the connector/header is broken. I'm fairly sure that kind of error is just "Is CPU fan connected, yes/no"

[flint grail]

Strange it happened after someone turned it on while it had it's cover on(it's just a piece of cloth that keeps safe from dust overnight). After that it started popping this up. Maybe it overheated once since the top cooling vents were closed at the time.

It's a dell workstation, kinda like laptop pc monitor all in one.

[flint grail]

https://youtube.com/shorts/ZlAzvbucH40?si=ElMM6OciTJNCJIZx

[glossy patrol]

That's what I thought too, that it didn't matter, but I've bought that stupid expensive kit just incase

Seller is sure it's all good and tested with Intel Diagnostics

[flint grail]

Best to be sure. And there's a certain thrill about finding out will something work that no one has tried, kinda like gambling rush 😂
I wanted "better" motherboard and didn't know Asus can be a can of worms so in the end I threw away almost 200$ for a cool wall decoration. Now I rock Aourus elite b550 and it's great.

[glossy patrol]

You'll find mixed reviews for basically every motherboard. There's so much that can go wrong with them, and a lot of people also don't troubleshoot them

[flint grail]

Yeah it'll be like that for everything basically. a lot of times when I first encounter some problem I search on net to actually find out it's common but in reality that's just small percentage of people that actually had problems and other majority "ride the train" .

[ashen zodiac]

Sure thing CloudFlare.

[glossy patrol]

The issue was RAM

WTF

Completely unrelated, could anybody help me find a service manual for my Aorus X7 Pro V3? I need to get some new screws for it but can't find the screws I need anywhere

[ashen zodiac]

https://download.gigabyte.com/FileList/Manual/nb-x7pro-manual-en-v3.pdf

oh

wait

wtf

lol

[glossy patrol]

"Not found" 😔

[ashen zodiac]

https://download1.gigabyte.com/Files/Manual/nb-x7pro-manual-en-v3.pdf?v=d456a20350063a42c68716c6a1ebdf39

[glossy patrol]

That's sadly just the quick start manual which isn't useful

[flint grail]

Do you have even one old screw?

[glossy patrol]

Sadly not. None

[flint grail]

Damn I know how you can measure them to find out thread step and radius but do you have micrometer or any kind of measuring tool?

@glossy patrol

[glossy patrol]

I don't

[flint grail]

At this point maybe the best solution is buying universal screw kit that have many different sizes and thread patterns. Some must fit and you will have spare left if needed. There are cheap kits on aliexpress and tbh that's the only screws I would dare to buy from aliexpress since they do not need to hold anything heavy.

[lofty estuary]

should i use combo strike on a ryzen 7 5700x3d? heard mixed opinions about this

[glossy patrol]

Use what now

[ashen zodiac]

A last gen CPU?

[ashen zodiac]

https://youtube.com/shorts/UbNCKBxhT20

$1001.

[fringe pier]

well

[ashen zodiac]

Yea. They wont even give their phone division ram lol

[odd juniper]

It's joever

[hexed citrus]

DRAM industry price fixing and conspiring among themselves, nothing new

[tranquil edge]

Monopolistic business practices to maximize profits for shareholders, nothing new

[glossy patrol]

Perhaps one of the worst cases for consumers in recent years however

[tranquil edge]

Not as bad as the Cybertruck

[glossy patrol]

Nom

[odd juniper]

https://youtube.com/shorts/bphSS0aMUBI?si=EnQA22WcmHm1yuWr

[glossy patrol]

It lives

[glossy patrol]

I've decided I am probabaly going to self-host Nextcloud

[grand stag]

[ashen zodiac]

https://www.newsweek.com/google-ai-accidentally-deletes-hard-drive-data-antigravity-11169711

[flint grail]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSHZ5bnjSOK/?igsh=MWE4a3FsbnBhdTg2bw==
Next level

d7cris

Komputer 11/10 #komputer #pc #gaming

Likes

14203

Instagram

[hollow glade]

guys, should i buy 256gb of ram for gaming?

[mental coyote]

Not at current prices. Hell, the same 64gb kit I put in my Framework back in June went from $138 to $522.

[glossy patrol]

No, dumb question

[hollow glade]

U know that this is literally a joke right?

[glossy patrol]

Nothing indicates it to be a joke. Most people do genuinely ask such questions

[ashen zodiac]

Didn't realize the device was 1 screen or all 3. Not like the Mate where you can use 1, 2, or 3.

[glossy patrol]

Gonna be real, that looks so shit

[ashen zodiac]

Oh. Gotta take this call.
unfolds into tablet

[flint grail]

https://tenor.com/view/phone-call-gif-20592794

[tough nymph]

Anyone here uses an Android emulator on Linux? What distro are you on and what emulator do you use?

[odd juniper]

https://tweakers.net/nieuws/242848/windows-server-2025-krijgt-native-ondersteuning-voor-nvme-ssds.html

[ashen zodiac]

lol

[vagrant holly]

All the UX bullshit they pulled with windows 11 is genuinely make me consider Linux

Windows 11 is creating IT jobs just by having UI so obtuse there is a learning curve on where to find stuff

[hexed citrus]

what, do u think the UX on Linux is actually better?

remember that the UI part of it is made by engineers not designers

[tough nymph]

My question still being ignored at time of writing 🥀

[hexed citrus]

there's none that are worth using outside of setting up a VM yourself

[tough nymph]

RIP okay 😔

[hexed citrus]

since most of the windows ones rely on using virtualbox for it

[tough nymph]

No Azur Lane gaming on Linux smh /j

[hexed citrus]

you can give waydroid a shot but idk what state it's in rn

last time I checked nvidia cards didn't work and you needed to use wayland

[tough nymph]

I have heard of waydroid and genymotion too

[hexed citrus]

genymotion is a scam

also keep in mind that it will not pass safetynet check so some apps may simply not work at all

[tough nymph]

RIP okay

Linux Mint doesn't support Wayland though

I researched that the workaround is Weston but I could not get that to work the last time I tried

[hexed citrus]

there is no workaround, you either use wayland or you don't

[tough nymph]

[ashen zodiac]

Use Linux they said.

It will be fine they said.

[vagrant holly]

It can't be worse, I hate how simple things are now buried under 3 different menus, like the sound mixer or the network page

[hexed citrus]

oh my sweet summer child

[vagrant holly]

It's worse? Aw

[ashen zodiac]

i mean i just right click and open volume mixer.

this being an extra click is a little annoying

or i can just right click and open it but like... then its a window i gotta close

or i can learn the combination... lol

trying to get into network connections is annoying though. i was trying to disable my local and wifi cause internet was being fucky but they kept taking priority over my tethered connection

[glossy patrol]

Windows 11 definitely worse than Windows 10 for a lot of interface bits and location of options, but a lot of the obscure options are just as obscure as they were in Windows 10

[odd juniper]

You go to network connections via the w7 controlpanel

I ignore 90% of the w11 one because it's made to be easy but it's harder instead

And still necessary settings are in the w7 control panel lol

Like setting DNS and dhcp is way easier via the old ui

Now you've to scroll... And click extra shit buttons

[quartz atlas]

why cant you just turn it off here?

[hexed citrus]

it only disables wifi

[ashen zodiac]

No, I need to like, disable the port entirely because it takes priority over my tethered connection.

[ashen zodiac]

I just hit the windows logo key and type in whatever I need now

so much easier... sometimes.

[vagrant holly]

You don't get it

It was perfect

Now you have to open a whole ass new window

Why?

It was so much more elegant

[glossy patrol]

Not to be that guy, but that is also a whole new window, it's just smaller

[vagrant holly]

I know but it's more elegant, now it's it's own separate thing within the options menu

You might say "You can just resize it and make it as small as it used to be on the side" the issue is that by displaying the bars horizontally rather than vertically they have considerably increased the space that's taken by each bar

Also back in the dayeach one of these was a separate clickable element

You want network settings? Click on the network icon
Audio? Click on the Audio icon
Check battery status? You guessed it
It's intuitive and quick

Now it's this unified abomination

[hexed citrus]

it's honestly not that bad

[ashen zodiac]

idk i found that easy to get to and oh, i can change my output from here too

[vagrant holly]

I'm exagerating sure, but it is unnecessarily worse

[hexed citrus]

I prefer to have less toolbar icons not more

[hexed citrus]

https://image.fogyamato.dev/p6ena.png

[vagrant holly]

Also why

[ashen zodiac]

wtf is nightlight

OH GOD

ITS THE PISS FILTER

[hexed citrus]

ye the piss filter

[vagrant holly]

Sometimes it deactivates

And my brain remembers what blue looks like

[ashen zodiac]

i dont need any of these tbh

[flint grail]

It is interesting to see how any change be it good or bad is always noticed and sometimes exagerated bit in all honesty the core system functions should not need aestethical let alone functional changes like these in win 11. I'm still on win 10 and I remember how much people were talking shit about it back in the days when 7 was mainstream. Still if there were no change or minimal changes in win11 over win10 people would still complain I'm sure but I just want to say if it's not broken why try to fix it? Why complicate things that are suposed to be straightforward? Could be just to make people fell the change and make them adapt to new habits but when they have more or less monopoly over operating system market they can get away with some bad designs anyway.

[odd juniper]

this is literally the only shit i need.

[ashen zodiac]

https://x.com/Pirat_Nation/status/2004250791062995081

Pirat_Nation 🔴 (@Pirat_Nation)

ASUS rumored to enter DRAM market next year to tackle memory shortages.

Via wccftech

X · Dec 25, 2025, 6:00 PM

Oh boy. I can't wait to pay 32 GB prices for 16 GB of ram because it will have ASUS tax, ROG tax, STRIX tax, and RGB tax slapped on top of it.

[flint grail]

And they will call it bargain

[lofty estuary]

I think Asus already announced that they arent gonna enter the ram market

[ashen zodiac]

oh thank god

asus is like the last company i want entering any market

[hexed citrus]

you cannot spell asus without SUS

[odd juniper]

Aldi ram when

[ashen zodiac]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1pw0xij/5090_12v6x2_shenanigans/
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1pw0xij/comment/nw368pa/?context=3

[lofty estuary]

my biggest regret is buying a 9070xt pulse

shouldve went for the 5070ti ngl

[glossy patrol]

Why

[hexed citrus]

why

[ashen zodiac]

trying to burn down your house?

[flint grail]

Ragebait

[lofty estuary]

Nah its not ragebait AMD eco is trash its bugged af and works maybe 40% of the time

[flint grail]

Not sure about 9 series but I got 7800xt for 2 years now and only driver issue I had is me trying to overclock the shit out the card and nothing else.

[lofty estuary]

I wanted to try AI picture gen with stable diff on ubuntu with rocm guess what it doesnt work

Wasted half a day for that

[flint grail]

When it comes to that you are right and it's because Ngreedia holds most of the market on AI field so it's natural that their gpus are optimized for AI workloads. Same wth some games.

Aside from that the only real advantage amd has now is gaming and that's it

[flint grail]

How much did you get 9070xt for if it's not a secret?

[lofty estuary]

600€

Pulse

[flint grail]

Not much damn I paid for 7800xt asrock 500€ 2 years ago.

Wish I could find it here for that price. They go 1000€ and up😭

5070ti even more💀

[lofty estuary]

Rip

[hexed citrus]

if you want to do AI then the 5070ti is gonna be a jokingly slow and you won't be able to run big models

[flint grail]

Is raw power most important for AI then since 50 series barely has any advantage in raw power over 40 series.

[hexed citrus]

who lied to you

people look at FPS numbers and think that is the be all and end all of GPUs

the 50 series has newer and more NP cores than 40 series

[flint grail]

Ofc not fps means nothing if it's not stable and gpu is on fire.

[hexed citrus]

generally for AI you want 2 things: NPUs and RAM
one for performance of the model and training and one for being able to store bigger models and datasets

[hexed citrus]

the quadro or Tesla cards I have would run like ass in most games, beaten by the 50 card of their generation

[flint grail]

I was being delusional there I admit that. All that yt shorts are mostly disinformation and twisting the narative.

[hexed citrus]

for your own mental health, don't watch short form content

[flint grail]

I miss the person I was 5 years ago. Feels like every new year is worse than before.

[ashen zodiac]

https://fixupx.com/Pirat_Nation/status/2006381420772499934

Pirat_Nation 🔴 (@Pirat_Nation)

Newsis: Nvidia and AMD to significantly increase GPU prices starting next month. Describes RTX 5090 increasing from $2000 to $5000
︀︀
︀︀"Both companies are reportedly planning to continue raising GPU prices every month going forward. It's highly likely that the price increases will extend across their entire product lineup, encompassing not only consumer GPUs but also GPUs for AI data centers and servers."

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FixupX · Dec 31, 2025, 3:06 PM

IM STUCK ON 3060 UNTIL 9000 SERIES LETS GOOOO

[odd juniper]

It's ok rime you don't need more anyways

[mental coyote]

Pick yer overpriced part: RAM, storage, GPU. I hope everyone has good overall hardware, this AI Bubble has us all takin' it up the exhaust without lube.

[odd juniper]

My 218 euro ram is now 1394

[mental coyote]

I grabbed 64GB for my Framework back in June. That shit went from $138 to $522, last I checked. My only fuckup was not snagging a 4TB drive around the same time, because they're rising in price, too.

[glossy patrol]

I got super lucky earlier this month and got 64GB of 6000 CL30 for the price of 32GB 5600 CL32-40. It was still £350, over double of my fancy 32GB Trident Z Neo I bought a year ago

[ashen zodiac]

See, now this is believable Asus news.

[flint grail]

https://tenor.com/view/remember-when-gif-14612637151641490440

Asus coming for the kill

[ruby yarrow]

Yes, let's make PCs and Consoles unaffordable again!