took me a few hours to figure out the tools i need for gif making
#Tech Support
grand seal
near meadow
that was my adobe cs but i got rid of it. i dont remember why. maybe because my disk crashed and i started from scratch
grand seal
near meadow
oh pogs never knew
grand seal
and then i apply flowframes for a smoother gif lol
near meadow
back then i kept using handbrake to cut the video then import in adobe cs as frames
then export as gif
grand seal
thats a lot of steps 
near meadow
there's this too which is the new gfycat but i guess they collect the info to train their ai
grand seal
https://www.adobe.com/express/feature/video/convert/video-to-gif
i tried this and too slow for me
browser apps 
and they dont support webm
too lazy to handbrake it lol
zinc kestrel
they list webm
grand seal
it doesnt work for me 
zinc kestrel
hm yeah I tried putting in webms and nothing happens lol
zinc kestrel
lol yeah if you click file upload it lists supported files and webm is not there. but they say it right on the other page
Whatever the format of your original media — MP4, AVI, MKV, WEBM, FLV, and more — the video to GIF tool will make a GIF out of it in a flash.
near meadow
davinci is free
grand seal
blackmagic camera iphone n android app
grand seal
davinci is free
yeaa but there's some features i would like to try in their paid version
near meadow
oh
near meadow
they do have a ton of stuff on them i never tried. quite popular too and has updates frequently
they dont charge you for unsubscribing i suppose unlike adobe 
that's the discount
grand seal
unsub fee is crazy
near meadow
cancellation fee* just to be accurate
but yea lol
it's not like phone disconnection fee or soemthing
grand seal
ok ffmpeg is pretty goated holy
kinda crazy it literally downloaded all frames tho
researched some more and i settled with this
ffmpeg -i (input.mp4) -r (1-4) output_%04d.png
now it only extracts the amount of frames I want in a second
cause when i tried the previous cmd line on a 4k 3:30 video, it was 20gb and 8min to finish
crude oxide
lol yeah
grand seal
i also found that i don't need handbrake anymore too
ffmpeg -i input.avi output.mp4
can just input this right after using yt-dlp
crude oxide
pretty sure ytdlp has options to automate doing that after the download too
you can make it use hw accel instead of cpu if you want too, but nvenc for example has worse quality than cpu
grand seal
woah holdon there im new to this LOL
crude oxide
just ask chatgpt or something for the arguments for what you want to do 
zinc kestrel
what are you getting avis from with ytdlp 
near meadow
i also found that i don't need handbrake anymore too
ffmpeg -i input.avi output...
for me handbrake is for like modifying the dimensions or cutting a specific part of the video for the 10 seconds you wanna make a gif out of. not sure if it can be done in ffmpeg with just commands i guess yes but i just prefer UI that i can just click and set values
zinc kestrel
youtube should be giving you mp4s unless it's higher than 1080p
even then sometimes they have mp4s
near meadow
i think webm is for when the video is fully processed. on the first few minutes of the upload it's usually mp4
zinc kestrel
you used to be able to do yt-dlp -f mp4 and it would give you the highest mp4 but for some reason it keeps giving me 360p versions. I have a big list of formats in my config for specific ones
grand seal
pretty sure ytdlp has options to automate doing that after the download too
ok now new roadbloack ahead
4k mp4 but no audio lol
grand seal
you used to be able to do yt-dlp -f mp4 and it would give you the highest mp4 bu...
maybe because now its the only format with video and audio combined
crude oxide
you can select different formats for video and audio and it'll merge them afterward
zinc kestrel
yeah even doing mp4+m4a just gets that 360p one still instead of the best of each format
grand seal
yt-dlp -f 251+401 <url>
zinc kestrel
yeah I have a list of those formats in my config. just saying the other way used to work too
zinc kestrel
4k mp4 but no audio lol
ffmpeg does the combining of the video and audio file so if it's downloading both it should merge them
if it can't find ffmpeg it won't merge them
crude oxide
anything i do download i just get in webm anyway so 
grand seal
this shit confusing but fun to learn lol
zinc kestrel
you can just list all those in a config file and calling yt-dlp will use them every time. same goes for all the formats, and it'll just go down the list until it gets to one that exists
grand seal
yt-dlp -f 234+401 --merge-output-format mp4 -o title.%(ext)s <url>
i finally got it to work
4k mp4 with sound
zinc kestrel
-o "F:\kpo\youtube-dl\%(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s"
\ quality
-f "571+140/272+251/625+140/315+251/401+140/313+251/400+140/308+251/271+251/299+m4a/303+251/616+m4a/614+m4a/270+m4a/137+m4a/248+251/136+m4a/135+m4a/bestvideo+bestaudio/best"
\ get subs
--sub-lang en,en-US,en_US,en-GB --embed-subs
\ cookies
--cookies d:\programs\cookies.txt
\ get english title for filename
--extractor-args "youtube:lang=en"```i should redo my bun scripts i had for all this stuff
zinc kestrel
I had to change # to \ cause discord thought I was making headers 
the bottom line gets youtubes english title instead of the korean one if it has one, I find that useful
near meadow
suffering right now at work with my left mouse button doesnt work anymore. any suggestions on bluetooth mouse that supports multiple devices with easy switching ?
i think there are some razer ones but i havent tried anything other than deathadder as a kid
storm shore
this is new. shutting down, but ended up here lol. can still move cursor but literally nothing there
oh ctrl alt delete worked ans was able to press shut down from there
weird
silent cradle
Hey smart people 
So my HDD apparently died/is dying and I'm wondering if there's anything I can do before sending it to service for many $$$ to recover data
Bios recognizes the disk and sees partitions but cannot access files or even tell how much data is inside
Bro at work recommended trying Disk Drill but idk if it's worth?
zinc kestrel
ideally you'd want to try cloning/making an image of the drive if you have another good drive with space
I would try making a bootable usb of some kind, I think Hiren's has some hdd test. if the data on it is super important to you I'd probably just look at professional services first because the more you try to mess with the disk the worse it could get
silent cradle
Yeah professional service is my last resort because they cost *a lot *🥲
it's also just additional storage disk so I can run system no problem
winter ingot
I'd clone it first
If it were up to me I'd gather all the information I can get via diskpart
Is it only stuck in RAW mode? Is the volume even detectable?
near meadow
if the hdd is dead you can't clone it anymore but if it's really like in a state of switching from working and not working and you have window where it's behaving nicely then you definitely have to clone it immediately
ideally you schedule the cloning like weekly. i have macrium doing it for me. overwrites the backups weekly with a new one while it's healthy. that way i can clone it back if it ever breaks
silent cradle
I've never cloned any drive so no idea 
and it's at the state where I can't access anything, just displays my partitions without volume
forgor to check if it shows RAW
winter ingot
Oh so it's detectable
Yeah I'd try my luck with diskpart
it's gonna take time and some reanding tho
silent cradle
yeah without specific instructions I'm scared to not make it worse 
also is chkdsk still any use here?
winter ingot
chkdsk requires it to be recognized and has a drive letter in the first place so no
silent cradle
displays my partitions
drive letters are visible, at least last time I checked
winter ingot
Somehow save-able
I would go through this, just that like I said
Time and some reading
Read enough and you will understand the risks and steps
grand seal
Does anyone have yt-dlp and davinci resolve both installed and has youtube premium? If so, can you download a vid with "enhanced bitrate" using this command and check if the video is played on the davinci timeline, it shows a brief but constant "media offline"
yt-dlp -f bv+m4a --remux-video mp4
I was only downloading the today's signal from triples and this issue shows up
i've done numerous test and i have pinpointed the problem, just wanted to make sure if it's just my pc fucking up or a problem that anyone could have
bascially my davinci just doesn't like the vp9 codec for video quality, i can just select the next highest video quality wihle avoiding the vp9 codec 
grand seal
joined the yt-dlp discord then i found this lol
iirc davinci resolve doesn't support some newer codecs like av1, opus and vp9
every davinci resolve user i've talked to ends up downloading h264+aac
you can do that by replacing your -S line with simply -t mp4
this will give you max 1080p from youtube though
the only other solution is re-encoding with codecs that your editing software supports, but that could take a very long time
near meadow
don't you just go with yt-dlp [video link] and that's it ?
grand seal
for viewing purposes, that would be perfect,
near meadow
ah you wanna use davinci for editing those
grand seal
i forgot to put my use case 
near meadow
i thought davinci supposed vp9 now
did you check that on the latest version ?
i dont have the latest on mine
grand seal
was using a previous version and updated the version when i came across the problem
haven't read the patch notes
near meadow
me too i was guessing because they're consistently updating their software so i'm sure they'll support it
this is in 2024 version 18.5
yt converts big stuff into vp9 right? i remember there's a format i cant play on vlc
but works on windows media player
8k videos or something
near meadow
try to upgrade if you're not yet in the latest davinci version then try again if it can open and play stuff with those formats
grand seal
already did that and the issue still happens
zinc kestrel
for some reason I almost never see the premium bitrate option on videos even though I have premium
grand seal
Okay after a quick inquiry, it's the editing softwares fault for not supporting the modern codecs like vp9 and av1
grand seal
zinc kestrel
I see it on this yena vid though https://youtu.be/7odcUfnYBXE
grand seal
So for 1080p vids I am using
yt-dlp -t mp4 -o "output.%(ext)s"
for 4k
yt-dlp -f bv+m4a --remux-video mp4 --embed-metadata --embed-thumbnail -o "output.%(ext)s"
zinc kestrel
I just downloaded davinci resolve 19.1.4 and yt-dlp -f 616+140 on both those vids and they seem fine
oh I am seeing random 'media offline' while it's playing now lol
zinc kestrel
it's not always constant but yeah pretty awful
sounds like vp9 and av1 support in davinci is really poor still
i've just been using a cracked adobe premiere for ages
balmy gust
free davinci is fine for my use case so. but i switched to an iphone a month ago and realized that the non-studio version for windows and linux doesn't support heic files, not that big of a deal but its a bummer.
slate basin
Ok, i got an issue with Wi-Fi
pretty much since i moved in with my gf the wifi on my PC has only been partially connected?
my gf is sitting next to me with her laptop and has no issues at all, same for me when i'm on my phone.
How come my PC is getting such shit connection? (When i was at my parents house i also had 0 issues with wifi btw)
zinc kestrel
also a laptop or a desktop?
zinc kestrel
does it have antennas on the back?
zinc kestrel
usually they do
slate basin
i ordered a wifi adapter with antennas which should arrive today and i hope that will fix the issue, but i'm just wondering why on earth i have it now
the wifi at my parents house was... bad? like 100mbs and gf has around 300mbs
so i thought maybe that was the issue idk
i could maybe try opening up my pc later at home to check if there are antennas inside? but i doubt there are
zinc kestrel
back of your board doesn't have little gold posts like these?
slate basin
my work PC (desktop) has these antennas at the lower back and also run on wifi
slate basin
back of your board doesn't have little gold posts like these?
nope there are none there
deep pier
the idea of not having my desktop connected by cable fills me with existential dread
slate basin
MSI MAG Z790 TOMAHAWK WIFI socket 1700 moederbord
Yea at my parents house i always had a cable for internet (which i still prefer)
deep pier
was just gonna say
slate basin
so
zinc kestrel
that's almost the same board I just posted funnily lol
slate basin
i should just buy 2 antennas then to see if that fixes it?
deep pier
you should have gotten them with the mb
slate basin
hmm
zinc kestrel
the posts are for you to plug antennas into
slate basin
if so, then they are still at my parents house in the box of the motherboard if they should be included
yup, they should be in the box then
deep pier
fake ass language
slate basin
ok well
crude oxide
motherboard wifi is usually kinda terrible too
at least mine was, had to buy a pcie card to get over 300mbps
slate basin
yea, i could go to my parents house later today but i dread it since i don't wanna see my dad lol
but okki, i know what to do now, thanksies
near meadow
magnetic base you can move it around instead of being stuck behind the pc in case you're like in a corner of the room with kinda deadspot
slate basin
or these https://www.amazon.com/Pce-AX58BT-Next-Gen-Wireless-Adapter-Bluetooth/d...
i ordered this monday
but just gonna pick up those antennas from my motherboard after work
near meadow
that's probably good enough not sure but i think i replaced mine with an asus pcie wifi card and these antennas
slate basin
if they are in the box
near meadow
it was kinda weird where my modem is right near the door entrance and i need the signal to reach way to the end of the house
near meadow
that is soooo odd
slate basin
and at my parents house i sit above it and had 100% connection
near meadow
but you still have signal even without the antenna
slate basin
currently i do
near meadow
but yea experiment with the antenna and see how it goes
slate basin
problem fixed it was indeed the antennas
near meadow
wish the mobo wifi antennas are as good as laptops and phones
it does still
for example for phones you have those bands exposed and it works great. i wish mobo makers would do it like that so we dont need those special pcie wifi cards with antennas
winter ingot
for example for phones you have those bands exposed and it works great. i wish m...
That might destroy case compatibility
Unless case makers develop specifically for that innovation
near meadow
it can be done. you already have the phone and laptops. so it's possible to not have an obnoxious antenna required.
winter ingot
Dunno the monkeys in my brain is shouting "NOT PRACTICAL"
Like there's a catch I just don't know what it is yet
Cause it seems simple but there's a reason we didn't do it yet despite we have...
Lightspeed innovation on wireless network tech
In the advent of M.2 WiFi cards which existed almost a decade ago there's something holding desktop users back with the obvious upgrade of just upgrade the internal WiFi chip to be antenna-less
zinc kestrel
likely the giant metal cases
winter ingot
Like this is the part in the design discourse where systems designer will say "hmm let's integrate the wifi radio with the case hardware" and the engineers careening out of the room saying "you fucking wish"
Cause like, you and me know it doesn't seem complicated
But so far there are no PC cases that do that as of right now
(as far as I am aware)
near meadow
macbooks are aluminum. denser than your usual pc cases but still has great wifi connectivity
near meadow
maybe design wise it's just ugly that it's at the back so somehow they need to have that mini antenna at the top or front
because antennas are just wires in the end
zinc kestrel
macbook probably has internal antennas in a specific edge of the case so it's not blocked so much
it's not just a card
crude oxide
am i insane or is youtube doing it's throttling of firefox bullshit again
conveniently right as my youtube premium trial runs out
crude oxide
there's like a 5 second delay on starting a video and itll randomly start buffering here and there despite my internet being fine
i bet it magically solves itself as soon as i renew premium
zinc kestrel
I don't have that but it just makes the entire tab laggy
grand seal
i bet it magically solves itself as soon as i renew premium
i have the prem and yt works fine for me
my problem is that i can't watch premiered videos in 4k, probably buffering issue instead of throttling 
balmy gust
am i insane or is youtube doing it's throttling of firefox bullshit again
i'm having the please don't run adblock bs again kek
been 2 days for me i think, haven't check ublock for updates yet
crude oxide
Weirdly enough I’ve never gotten that
I just switched browser to zen a while ago and this week YouTube performance has been absolutely abysmal
I don’t think there’s another chromium browser that does vertical tabs like arc/zen :/
near meadow
previously i encountered that and it was due to the adblock. recently no problems. they just run ads as an actual video now when browsing shorts
barren dove
so true
crude oxide
@rare hatch funny enough renewing premium actually fixed it
crude oxide
as usual
rare hatch
god I wish I could stream vanced to my tv
I had this old chromecast for like 10 years and it was so nice there was no ads on it if I streamed twitch or youtube to it 
I didn't realize until end of 2023 that smart tv's (let alone 4k lmao) were so much cheaper than... well all those years ago that I finally pulled the trigger on one
YouTube is so much nicer but I didn't know how bad the ads had gotten that it's just fucking unbearable
Like bro why am I turning my tv back on from the previous day on a video and getting an ad before I even get into the actual youtube program like what
video ends - ad
winter ingot
god I wish I could stream vanced to my tv
If it's a version of Android TV/Google TV you can sideload a modified copy of the Youtube app
Problem is that it is a modified copy
a.k.a when you hit "Cast" on your phone, if you have not specifically "pair to tv" with this vanced-ish TV app it will default to built-in YT
barren dove
tizentube ftw
winter ingot
Get a box
instant revive
Depending on where you live it's either a Roku/Fire box or a Google TV box
near meadow
goddammit yt rolled out a new thing and now i can't play yt videos embedded in discord
and most likely i can't use yt-dlp too i guess since that's usually anonymous access
proper tendon
@civic violet which phone/browser do you use?
i use android firefox
so when i click fx embeds, it opens a tab in firefox which opens the twt app
but the tab is still there in firefox so i have to manually close it after
civic violet
proper tendon
ic
i'm too ocd with my tabs
so usually i just manually navigate to that post on ig
twt is easier cos it's usually already rt'ed onto my feed/lists so i don't have to click embeds most of the time on mobile
pinging @zinc kestrel if it helps
zinc kestrel
i'm using chrome it definitely doesn't open the app
proper tendon
F
zinc kestrel
must be a firefox thing
zinc kestrel
I was reminded one of the reasons I stopped using Firefox on mobile is that it doesn't support translating Korean pages
grand seal
anyone knows a good ad blocker for edge 
winter ingot
Holy mother of value
near meadow
damn this orochi v2 is such a downgrade from my mx master 3
but also quite an upgrade (probably) with how much clicks and pressure i can do before it breaks
rare hatch
tizentube ftw
wait I just opened this chat again because youtube still being fucking dumb but never heard of this
I was super late to getting a smart tv lmao only got one like a year and a half ago
I was under the impression that they were still pretty expensive and then best buy had a like 50 inch 4k samsung smart tv for like $300 and bought one but
I haven't fucked around with it for stuff like this
barren dove
if you have a compatible samsung model i'd check it out
rare hatch
because I was reading online it's like homebrew or something for those kinds of apps right
like it won't be on the tv's app store or w/e it's called
yeah cause youtube is miserable on it 
barren dove
I only know about this youtube one though, not any other homebrew
rare hatch
man this is kinda fucked trying to do this lmao
only youtube guide is some dude using ai voice over 💀
hooo boy
near meadow
get a roku or a htpc if the tv's OS / apps isnt good enough
i've been thinking about getting HTPC before just because sometimes i wanna watch viu which has great shows but no apps on roku or other sites which has anime titles not in netflix
rare hatch
I'll mess with this later lmao can't get my computer to connect to the tv
github is so confusing to me
crude oxide
pretty sure this is all I had to do
bring back jailbreakme
barren dove
bring back jailbreakme
Was that the iphone website
crude oxide
yeah lol
crude oxide
pwnagetool, redsn0w 🙏
marsh osprey
So I have this problem with my PC...
At first after logging in I was stuck with a black screen and a cursor
I used this method: https://youtu.be/WOWcz7I2lSc?feature=shared
I was almost there but it needed a password
Problem is I usually log in my PC without a password
zinc kestrel
at what point is it asking for a password? recovery environment shouldn't need one
marsh osprey
After clicking "uninstall latest quality update" the password prompt showed up
In the video it's supposed to go back to normal 
zinc kestrel
you might have to make a win10/11 bootable usb and use the recovery on that instead
look up windows media creation tool for whichever version your windows is (10 or 11) and pick the option to make a bootable USB, assuming you have one available and don't mind wiping it
marsh osprey
Wait I clicked back and then clicked "forgot password or dont see your account"
Ok everything's back to normal
zinc kestrel
interesting
crude oxide
got my work laptop in today and i had no idea just how fast m4 macbooks were
i thought my 5700x3d desktop was good but when building my work project, it's getting smoked
barren dove
crude oxide
zoomzoomzoom
left lava
@flint frost
flint frost
hi
hi leroy, i had a question if you've got time, i have been messing around in arch this week, but i just tried to use hyprland with an nvidia gpu, and, well, it needs some extra work
you got any experience with this?
alright, ty, i've just been reading up on the hyprland wiki and elsewhere, https://wiki.hypr.land/Nvidia/ here it gives me three ways to possibly get nvidia working with hyprland, and https://deepwiki.com/hyprwm/hyprland-wiki/4.4-nvidia-configuration here it says 1/3 is for "older cards", but idk what could qualify as older
i have a 1660ti, which is not brandnew, but the wording is very ambiguous
oh alright, great, ill just go with the proprietary drivers way then
ty!
currently doing everything on gnome but the cool hyprland windows are pulling me towards them
oh sick, is there any limitations on hyprland/wayland you've seen? im mainly curious in terms of gaming
cause i (maybe wrongly) assume document and image editing should be pretty doable on it
ohh ok cool
main thing i play is those monthly hype steam roguelikes anyways
libreoffice suite for docs, and if i can MAYBE get affinity working affinity for image, but if not, gimp
it doesn't
left lava
found krita to be easier to use for me 
krita has a different aim though
flint frost
but
i've read some success cases
but i'll see
i can always just go to gimp cause it's not like im wasting my money monthly on affinity since it's a purchase once own forever model (side eyes adobe)
alright, well ty for the advice ill go dive into hyprland the next couple weeks, if i REALLY can't find something, ill take you as my last resort, cause there seems to be so much info about way/hyprland online
every video i tried to look up about arch lately has just been wayland
flint frost
nidu was gaslighting me that wayland was highly experimental territory earlier this week hahahaha
left lava
i recommended X since i read some about your troubles with wayland
left lava
nidu was gaslighting me that wayland was highly experimental territory earlier t...
not highly experimental 
but yes i was too conservative
not going with the times
flint frost
can confirm everything on gnome (almost) was just plug and play
it werks
no, i used gnome on Xorg
could always try the wayland version
damn
flint frost
time to jump on the hyprtrain then
left lava
nidu was gaslighting me that wayland was highly experimental territory earlier t...
i was definitely wrong
then a lot happened in the last two years concerning wayland
sorry mhai
flint frost
https://tenor.com/view/linus-torvalds-linus-nvidia-fuck-you-gif-19475186
-Hyprland wiki
left lava
only used it once while trying out ubuntu
flint frost
in some way it reminds me of the simplicity of chromebooks/macos
but just, way more customizable
left lava
KDE was my main before switching too tiling wms
flint frost
(yes, default background)
gnome forge is pretty good at tiling but it is limited
some apps have hard limits on their sizes and then it sometimes goes offscreen
same here
i know absolute 0 about nixos
i see a lot of hype around it tho
left lava
i see a lot of hype around it tho
the rabbit hole is even deeper than arch
you are already going very fast starting with arch and wanting a tiling wm
flint frost
the rabbit hole is even deeper than arch
ok maybe too deep for now
flint frost
you are already going very fast starting with arch and wanting a tiling wm <:oli...
pretty rectangles go vroom
left lava
can be doesnt make it easier
flint frost
i was thinking whethere i should go with mint or arch (I literally didnt know anything else)
and then i realised i have 3 months of summer vacation to learn stuff
left lava
having summer vacation for so long is 
left lava
github is also technically microsoft
flint frost
no honestly i just have a shopping list of things i wanna achieve and then i'll probably keep it like that
flint frost
github is also technically microsoft
i worked around this too
i retain my hate for microsoft from my minecraft marketplace days
left lava
no honestly i just have a shopping list of things i wanna achieve and then i'll ...
be careful of what you are saying
its a slippery slope
flint frost
ive got codeberg
you know i had this same issue with credit cards
wanting to buy a non-US one
and it just doesn't exist at all
flint frost
<:chuukek:488340089676759045> be careful of what you are saying
i swear it will only change depending on my career
for now it's just pdf/docs/sheets/database viewing, analysing and editing, communication on discord/whatsapp(signal), language learning, image editing, browsing, light gaming and a self-hosted server to connect with my laptop
left lava
more than i use it for
flint frost
"just"
I see the issue now
the only thing im afraid of not working is the Affinity apps, other than that everything should be a-ok
crude oxide
terminal emulator: foot
i tried out ghostty and quite like it
not sure if its stable on linux, mostly a macos thing
fair, just anything is better than the default
i probably need to optimize my omz config since it can be a bit slow
yeah i've been meaning to look into other shells but its been fine
i only have git, asdf and docker plugins so i could probably slim down using something like antidote
last time i tried making a dotfiles config i ended up deviating from it pretty quickly with how some tooling likes to fuck with your shell to add completions
also a pain when you're across different OS' with different package managers
homebrew is the goto on macos, ubuntu in WSL different
thankfully only takes an hour or so to get set back up, took longer to get nodejs corepack to play nicely
flint frost
@valid mauve it's going incredible so far, ran out of space on my EFI partition because i had to install linux-zen afterwards for hyprland/nvidia compatibility and then managed to corrupt my drives beyond restoration so it's back to square 1 with arch
did i waste a week's worth of arch setup? yes. did i learn to be careful with partitioning? maybe
flint frost
hahahaha
Well I got hyprland working now
at 1 am
so I'm continuing tomorrow, but honestly I learned alot
the arch wiki is so insanely neat though
everything is up to date and works if you just read and understand the jargon
silent cradle
Hey smart people <:soulpeek:1008283971781664848>
So my HDD apparently died/is d...
update!!
I sent my disk to local service and they managed to recover data for less than ~$200 
thankfully damage was not serious enough to physically open the entire thing, but was more serious than simple logic errors
winter ingot
What's the checklist of buying ex-mining GPUs?
Other than "don't"
Cause they be popping out on the marketplace the price was too good to just pass
winter ingot
Define "won't last as long"
3 years is ok I think
RTX2060 isn't........ dropping in price at all even used, from where I live
Meanwhile I can get this for half the price of used RTX2060
near meadow
whats that equivalent to in team green ?
near meadow
3060?
winter ingot
Yes
zinc kestrel
Define "won't last as long"
I mean that depends on how much it was used and how much they abused it, no actual way of knowing
if it's especially cheap go for it
near meadow
maybe try to check at least for damages physically since you cant check the insides until you test or pry open
winter ingot
Fair
I am just listing stuff because am hoping to get this + Thunderbolt GPU enclosure so I can at least play BF6 1080p on low
next year
The... minimum specification requirement of that games makes me want to grimace myself
near meadow
i think people still buy mining gpus it shouldnt be that bad
winter ingot
Fair
Just that in no way (financially) I can consider NVIDIA when the prices are THIS stark
I am talking used btw
Yep, ofc NVIDIA has resale value
but that's the point
For the equivalent performance passing up a 40% price difference seems....
whatchumacallit
Egoistic?
For about decades I am into computing I've been using Team Green hardware (albeit only laptops) and the only reason it was like that is because somehow that's the only discrete GPU provider for laptops that's widely available in my country
Be it consumer, prosumer or professional
And as such, I'll admit I have a limited amount of reason why I would to stay Team Green or switch to Team Red
Or why a person would strongly advocate to "BUY AMD" instead of NVIDIA or... god forbid Iris
Thought I knew the reason why people that used AMD stay with AMD, and vice versa but turns out I don't
(Objectively)
near meadow
i think nvidia mining gpu prices also dropped but not following it closely. currently my gpu problem got solved after cleaning so i'll keep using this for a longer while maybe after 2 years i'll upgrade
winter ingot
So if I am going into Team Red, what are the stuff that I need to know to ...... I guess be in Team Red ?
I know that sounds stupid but brand loyalty is a thing for a reason, and I want to know what that is on the AMD side
near meadow
nah i think it's just the same, you plug it in it works there's just some features that might not be available that your monitor can take advantage
like maybe your monitor supports gsync or something
winter ingot
I am a 60fps guy does that change anything?
near meadow
nah it's all the same. i'm thinking of switching to amd too because of the performance for the price is alot more decent i heard
winter ingot
Cause most of my gaming I'll be doing is through this monitor
(selling like hotcakes on secondhand office market rn for some reason, kinda understand why)
near meadow
dunno the specs but it looks like an office monitor you shouldnt have any issues
winter ingot
DELL office equipment is cheatcode for quality secondhand PC peripheral on the cheap
(yea I like dumpster diving)
winter ingot
That reminds me I want to dumpster dive for speakers next month
near meadow
i got presonus ones it's kinda cheap
winter ingot
bro if I can get a pair of reference anything under 40 dollars im packing them up stat
that's if my local facility had someone insane enough to turn in reference speakers on an e-waste facility
I am probably gonna aim for old Altec Lansing speakers
near meadow
arent altec speakers expensive?
i remember my dad bought some before but he had to go away again for work, he made sure to bring it with him lol i didnt even get to use it
mine is the Eris non bluetooth 3.5 chatgpt says it's Rp 3,367,000 for the bluetooth i got mine for way way less because it's on sale
winter ingot
arent altec speakers expensive?
The literal reason I want to hunt Altec Lansing on dumpsters
Good, no-nonsense desktop speakers
fluid heron
anyone have any recommendations for tools to create an .iso image of an SSD?
need to wipe a laptop but need a copy of the drive that i can upload to azure first
nvm found a better method
my boss was asking for an iso but going to to do a VHD with Disk2VHD
zinc kestrel
for future reference, clonezilla/rescuezilla or easeUS backup free ver all prob work. I used to recommend macrium but I think they got rid of their free version (i paid for it)
near meadow
i still have the free version of macrium. no updates tho
zinc kestrel
guess you can still find it if you look hard enough
near meadow
i think a site like majorgeeks would still have the free version 8.0.7783
storm shore
its time
storm shore
oh that went very fast and smoothly
fluid heron
guys
it happened
we got a new printer for the office, i plugged it in, I connected it to the network, and it works
the printer is printing!!!
this has never happened before in the history of setting up printers
deep pier
the one time per year I need to print something (personal) at work I always have to go look at the online guide
and 50% of time I have to walk to the printer on the other side of the building instead the one right next to our office because I chose the wrong one/they switched them and didn't update the guide
fluid heron
winter ingot
this has never happened before in the history of setting up printers
Modern printers is fine enough today
Like everything has an app anyway so like I can send a print from miles away from home at office
slate basin
Ok might be a dumb question but, my Phone can have 120Hz which is kinda pog, but i have it set to 60Hz cause it claims my battery life will get extended.
Is it actually worth it to run the 60Hz or just go yolo 120Hz (it is a world of difference tho with smoothness)
i now last about 3 days without needing to charge (and then i'm around 15-30%)
crude oxide
i can't go back to 60hz personally but its all personal preference
zinc kestrel
120hz absolutely hurts your battery life
slate basin
ok then i keep it at 60Hz
my gf like charges her phone 2x a day or so and leaves it on 24/7
idk how that thing survives
crude oxide
my 16 pro max lasts 2ish days with 120hz and always on screen
maybe i just don't use it as much as others
crude oxide
always on drops your refresh rate to 1hz when idle so while it'll sip more power compared to screen off, it's not like it's sitting there burning battery at 120hz
on ios anyway
slate basin
i'm at 180Hz aswell i think
storm shore
i must be blind not recognizing 60hz on my 2nd monitor
grand seal
big frams
slate basin
actively using it?
or just on
yea i could
i never use phone during the day, only to just check notifs from IG and such and when i'm in bed before sleeping
i think i do about 15-20% a day? something
near meadow
Ok might be a dumb question but, my Phone can have 120Hz which is kinda pog, but...
i think depending on the phone as well it could drop to 1fps if not being used samsung has something like that
winter ingot
Ok might be a dumb question but, my Phone can have 120Hz which is kinda pog, but...
iPhone? yea
Android? Wild goose chase
slate basin
Android? Wild goose chase
.
winter ingot
Samsung I think follows the laws of battery dynamics
While Xiaomi rips it off the floor with them
I have consistently getting worse battery life if I leave it to forced 60Hz instead of dynamic
Of which in normal operation keeps it at 120Hz except it turns down to 90Hz or 60Hz on the Youtube app
I think Xiaomi may have been cheating with the refresh rate by making it to 15Hz when I do not actively looking at it
which is a feature if you look at it the other way
I think the way they implemented this is like.....
Normal operations 120Hz but wait you want locked 60Hz?
runs super unnecessart APK in the background that encodes whatever running on screen to be locked to 60 frames per second, sipping battery and CPU time
This screen is a lie
slate basin
ok i might need help with firefox
i did a CC cleaner thing since my PC was acting weird, now my shortcuts are all gone and i can't get them back, not even add new ones
so something broke clearly, already did a firefox refresh but nothing worked
zinc kestrel
were you signed in to a firefox account?
slate basin
yes
zinc kestrel
that saves all your stuff if you sign in
slate basin
yea i'm signed in still
zinc kestrel
there are sync settings under your account it should sync
slate basin
it is synced
i can see the shortcuts on my phone
but not on PC
it broke something that it's not displaying them
zinc kestrel
is the bookmarks toolbar on?
zinc kestrel
go into settngs and click on Home to change what a new tab looks like
there's a shortcuts option in there
slate basin
already on and everything
there used to be 2 rows
now it's just blank and not showing up
while they are there
zinc kestrel
I'm not sure how they get added, seems like it's just your browsing history or something so if you cleaned your history there'd be nothing there
slate basin
yea but normally once you browse and such it adds it to shortcuts regardless
i can see the shortcuts on my phone (also firefox browser) but not on my PC after i ran CC cleaner
so either it deleted a "shortcut" folder or something that now firefox can't display it on my pc or something
zinc kestrel
ones on my phone are different I don't think those are synced
zinc kestrel
it says if you don't have any icons there should be a blank one you can click to add one
zinc kestrel
maybe if you use it for a while it'll add something eventually
slate basin
nope
cc cleaner fr broke something
i uninstalled and installed it again and still not showing up
ok i fixed it
fucking hell
zinc kestrel
I cleared my history and the buttons all went away for me too, I think it just takes time before it adds any
slate basin
nah it's not that
as i said
it broke something
now i have them back
i just deleted my %appdata%
zinc kestrel
aight well deleting my browser history, which is something ccleaner does, did the same thing to mine where it's empty so idk
zinc kestrel
maybe it does sync and yours just wasn't syncing then
slate basin
no idea
zinc kestrel
deleting appdata coulda fixed that
slate basin
Yea just logged in everywhere again and my shotcuts are back
near meadow
random but anyone having issues with google payments? i wonder if it's related to cloudflare issue
grand seal
might be cloudflare, couldn't pay any stuffs yesterday but its fixed
near meadow
weirdly it's all my payment methods failing for fromm. but not sure if it's cloudflare because only had to pay that one today and nothing else. i'll try and test my payments tomorrow
near meadow
some researching and emailing and it turns out dumb fromm is the issue
everyone and their moms are having payment failure in the app but not the web purchases
curiosity satisfied
storm shore
are there any w11 settings related to alt+tab i can look into? got na issue where pressing alt tabs brings background apps forward withotu them being targetted
winter ingot
Hmm
Don't think so
But there's a chance I don't understand your question
By default Alt+Tab makes your next release of the keystroke your last active window
Switching (Tab) goes to your second last active window
Unless this isn't the intended behaviour that Windows has set (and you are experiencing a different one) I don't think there's an internal setting to change that
crude oxide
just the guy i was after
just ordered a fiio k11 dac and moondrop aria 2 iems, how'd i do
winter ingot
yo what
hhhhhhhh
K11 for an IEM is ....quite overkill
but then I've seen worse for the name of RICHNESS OF SOUND
crude oxide
yeah figured it would be but it has a toslink input
so i don't need to fuck around with much to get my ps5 in
winter ingot
yeah figured it would be but it has a toslink input
.....on what occasion does you need a TOSL-
oh
Bro said "ever heard of headroom?"
crude oxide
future proofing!!!
winter ingot
jesuschrist
crude oxide
i assume that's big overkill
crude oxide
winter ingot
Sir your Arias are at 122dB (one HUNDRED db is nearing hearing damage) per Vrms
at 33ohms
110dB is "eardrum torture threshold"
even at unbalanced the K11 does 520mW
Aria 2 only needs 30mW to basically go siren mode at your ears at 122dB
So a wrong turn on the knob = ears go byebye
Or the Aria giving out , whichever first
crude oxide
good thing it'll be tucked away where that can't happen then
winter ingot
(but before the Aria blows, pretty sure your ears already gone)
so you're hiding the knob then?
winter ingot
yeah figured it would be but it has a toslink input
You could've settle for a cheaper one
But then I do strive everyday for cheap but good audio
Like I use this one right now
12 o clock on the knob is more than enough for me and I use headphones
AIYIMA DAC-A2
Yes, has TOSLINK
crude oxide
i mostly just picked the fiio cause it also gets sold here
so it must be a decent one
winter ingot
Well yeah
FiiO is well known
heck I have a Fiio IEM
but then (sometimes) in the (cheap) audio world, reading specs do net me better results
Case in point : my boss (who's also a seasoned percussionist) needed an IEM
I gave him a link for a 20 dollar one
Hasn't complained ever since
crude oxide
yeah the low prices of ones being recommended kinda threw me off
i'm 100% down with spending $100-200 on good stuff and that's generally what i'd expect to pay, so seeing people say $35 sets are good is weird
winter ingot
Fair
But that's what I am striving for
Good audio is accessible
People (except musicians) around me are not prepared to spend norths of 30 dollars for a piece of personal listening gear because they used to spend less than 5 dollars for a pair of earphones
crude oxide
rip free apple earphones
winter ingot
And for them, those 5 dollars lasted them a few years
So hearing "an earphone that cost 30 dollars" being recommended to them is hard thing to swallow
crude oxide
yeah fair
winter ingot
Well actually even musicians near me is also VERY open to cheap good audio
because for musicians the signal flow is much less complicated
From mixer board, to aux out, to IEM
if flat FR is the aim, a 30 dollar IEM already achieved that today
if a cheap tool achieves the task with great excellence, it gets the check
Brand loyalty is (personally) wack
except for public address stuff
Nah
I am driving expensive EV gear because I trust EV gear (and its support channel) that's why I pay the premium
EV here means "ElectroVoice"
grand seal
moondrop lan broke on me so i got a crinacle 7hz zero2, equally good but still different
winter ingot
I am throwing sound over 250 pax of listeners that enough justifies the 700 dollars per box I am spending for you
winter ingot
@crude oxide lmao brother I just calculated the projected SPL with your current pairing
You better have volume adjustment at your PS5
because you're NOT gonna be sending 100% volume through this DAC or it gets dangerous
crude oxide
uh i think it does
winter ingot
and use Low Gain mode
yeah do 50% kek
wait
PS5 have a TOSLINK?
hold on
Is this the classic "ai Google is wrong" and there is INDEED a TOSLINK port on the PS5?
crude oxide
no there isnt but i have an adapter that splits it off the hdmi signal
crude oxide
i have astro a50s right now. usb into PC and ps5 inputs through toslink, both signals get mixed in
crude oxide
i dont think my monitor does eARC
winter ingot
no but your splitter does
As such
it recognizes as an external sound device capable of decoding digital protocol that TOSLINK/Coaxial uses
Therefore
PS5 sees your splitter as an AVR
Which effectively means UNLESS your splitter has volume control
You'll be sending LINE LEVEL audio (aka 100% volume to your DAC)
Which goes back to my earlier math
1% is 94dB
Or if in Low Gain mode, 84dB
You have about 1-15% of volume you can use, higher than that is just
My further readings tell me that PS5 can do audio over USB
please use that
crude oxide
that means switching what its plugged into every time i wanna use it
winter ingot
Fair but
There's...... little to no granularity on volume adjustment
An accidental knee/elbow knock to the knob is uh
Not great
crude oxide
there doesnt seem to be a system level volume setting lol gg
crude oxide
oh well worst case i keep my headset plugged in
zinc kestrel
I send multiple inputs to a mini mixer and send that output to my pre-amp for my speakers. you'd need like a digital mixer or a separate dac though which kinda ruins the point of your new dac lol
for my consoles I do hdmi into my monitor which has an audio out, plug that into the mixer
grand seal
til that you can set the same ssid for your 2.4ghz and 5ghz wlan
and the same as well for your access points
crude oxide
just make sure to setup any wifi cards properly
if i don't force my PC's wifi card to 5ghz then itll use 2.4 and i don't get full speeds
near meadow
i prefer naming the ssids separately so i know which band it uses
grand seal
if i don't force my PC's wifi card to 5ghz then itll use 2.4 and i don't get ful...
yea all the pcs here are connected via cable except mine due to some house projects here
so i quickly bought a usb wireless adapter and i didn't check what wifi what it was
it was wifi 4 
crude oxide
oof
my motherboard only has wifi 5 so i had to buy a wifi 6 pcie card
kind of annoying how wifi is unstable for games so i have to swap to powerline adapter when playing, but that doesnt give me full speed, so a lot of swapping back and forth
grand seal
oh this adapter i bought is only 2.4ghz 
it costed me like 10 dollars
rugged venture
Running Zorin OS in Acer Nitro 5 gaming laptop. i5-10300 have a dedicared graphics card of GTX1650 Ti. Having a tough time trying to make the dedicated card primary,especially for gaming,already did software updates. using x . Org x servers
Playing Metro Exodus and it lags like crazy.
zinc kestrel
Running Zorin OS in Acer Nitro 5 gaming laptop. i5-10300 have a dedicared graphi...
seems like the best resource https://help.zorin.com/docs/hardware/activate-nvidia-drivers/
rugged venture
seems like the best resource https://help.zorin.com/docs/hardware/activate-nvidi...
Ty im embarrassed to say I didn’t think about the site🤦♂️ oh well, a learning experience. Ty tho,I greatly appreciate it
zinc kestrel
np
crude oxide
dac arrived and even with just apple earbuds it's a huge upgrade over plugging directly into my monitor
iems hopefully arrive tomorrow
winter ingot
You got a solution to your soon-be-deafening volumes?
crude oxide
dac has volume control so it seems fine so far?
windows at 100% dac at 40% is comfortable
crude oxide
both systems at 100% with dac output at 40% are gonna have the same result
storm shore
how do i stop it from going into efficiency mode each time
nvm got it done
should i leave this on or off btw?
near meadow
yea why not. i think the gpu to render stuff if needed
near meadow
this is so stupid for half a year i didnt play any games because of the pc freezing randomly when like viewing 4k 8k videos or playing games
opened the case and made sure stuff are seated properly and it looks like i dont have any issues anymore
rugged venture
Thinkpad t430 so far I cleaned out the ram ports and used each stick one by one but same thing.
I checked the BIOS and went from the dedicated to integrated and it went from 2.7gb to 3.3gb
8gb ram stick new bought it yesterday
I’m gonna be installing Mint but I just want to get the issue over with first
I tried what I could only thing that I saw it could be is the motherboard
zinc kestrel
it says 12GB so you have an 8GB and a 4GB stick? it's seeing them but the 8GB seems to not be working
rugged venture
it says 12GB so you have an 8GB and a 4GB stick? it's seeing them but the 8GB se...
Correct
zinc kestrel
could be the slot, could be the ram
rugged venture
Just bought the 8gb yesterday and installed it last night
I inserted the 8gb in each slot
And same reaction
rugged venture
Alright,I’ll try that,sorry if I’m sounding too arrogant
I’ll try to update the bios
zinc kestrel
you could also install linux and see if it works there in case it's a windows issue for some reason
rugged venture
Yeah I have Linux flashed ready to go but since I don’t know how to do stuff as much so I want to do it on windows since it’s more easy for me to navigate without having to use the terminal if that makes sense
Managed to get the bios version from command prompt,gonna installed the latest patch for it.
rugged venture
Update: BIOS Has been updated to latest version. 2.7-2.84
rugged venture
Ended up taking it to a repair shop,he mentioned it could be Windows but he’s gonna see
near meadow
so.... is it worth upgrading or building a new pc today? gpu prices went down a bit but not alot. but ddr5 ram are like half the gpu price. ddr4 still nice and cheap tho
zinc kestrel
no, all RAM prices are cooked I wouldn't even consider it
crude oxide
yeah no point since DDR4 platforms are a dead end
grand seal
nah its really a bad time to start any action on upgrading or building
near meadow
prediction is like 2years of shortage tho.. i guess i'll just need to pray that my stuff doesnt break for 2 years
rugged venture
how is that even possible?
Just the way the 32 bit does things,I looked it up but don’t have enough knowledge to understand well.
crude oxide
32 bit means windows can't use more than 4gb ram
he probably means how did you even manage to get 32 bit windows, since everything has moved onto 64 bit since forever
rugged venture
Ohhh okay
That’s how I got it,I bought the thinkpad from the second hand market and that’s what it had.
She said she loved tinkering so maybe she had a 32 bit laying around and installed it with that,intentional or by accident
near meadow
this is so stupid for half a year i didnt play any games because of the pc freez...
after a long long time of experiencing the crashes over and over i finally found the culprit. it seems like gpu cant handle 100% power limit so i need to undervolt it with afterburner. in the end i do need to upgrade to a new gpu
another issue is the cpu temps i didnt notice it gets to 90c on games and i repasted it a year a go with no improvement on temps so i guess aio needs to go in as well
crude oxide
battlefield crashes similarly for me on a brand new gpu, might just be the games you play as well
near meadow
could be. mine is on poe2 but previously there are times it just crashes when playing 4k videos. i dont think 3060 had like 2 8 pin connectors but i might be wrong
whats your gpu? rtx 9070?
crude oxide
5080
i had a problem a few months ago where every game would crash due to a driver issue with my 4070ti, so i upgraded anyway and now its only battlefield, which seems to just be a battlefield problem from looking around
near meadow
lol i mixed up nvidia and amd i was looking at 9070s for replacement but quite expensive
i did the ddu so i guess it's not a driver problem but just the gpu giving up now
i'll probably juat get 5060ti and that should last me a few years
crude oxide
buying now rather than later might not be a terrible idea
near meadow
yea i feel like the ram shortage will last for a while and it'll affect gpus too
cant make use of the fast speeds because of my am4 mobo but it'll still work
grand seal
after a long long time of experiencing the crashes over and over i finally found...
isnt that more like a power delivery thing?
near meadow
isnt that more like a power delivery thing?
not sure. maybe it is. i need to check the power supply i have too but i'm sure 3060 wasnt a power hungry gpu
but this never happened before like 4k videos play fine and then like after playing poe2 for a while not sure if it's like a stupid code in the game but it all started there
or maybe it was just timing that it started failing because it was quite a while since i had this
crude oxide
@near meadow https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/1q0cq28/newsis_nvidia_and_amd_to_significantly_increase/
near meadow
ok jsut in time i'll just go with 16gb 5060 ti
crude oxide
now im really considering doing the 9800x3d upgrade sooner rather than later
near meadow
yea if you can afford it i think it's better to get now
prediction is 2 years of memory shortage
crude oxide
i can afford it, its just that i don't need it
near meadow
samsung company that makes the chips reportedly isnt even selling to their company that makes phones
crude oxide
$1800 just for the sake of pre-empting ram increases is just lame
deep pier
i did pick the right time to upgrade
the only way it could went better was if i went 64GB
near meadow
xfx 9060 xt low profile card into the 16x pcie 4.0 slot doesnt matter much right? gaming wise 4.0 and 8 lanes should be good? or should i spend a bit more for bigger card?
near meadow
succumbed to price fears and bought the card and an aio lmao. i just did a quick check and i think it'll perform just fine on high settings for 4k even if there are alot of aoe effects on screen
storm shore
woke up to this. only happens on windows 2nd monitor. how i fix?
near meadow
switch slots of 2 monitors and see if it happens consistently
storm shore
different input still same
near meadow
so after switching the 2nd one got the same symptoms as the first one?
storm shore
no only same monitornsame problem. other momitornstill fine
near meadow
ah then it's a monitor problem
what did you do to it lol. did you leave it open or when it started up it's like that already?
near meadow
now the signal is not detected ?
storm shore
took cable out
deep pier
try punching it
storm shore
main monitor no issues
near meadow
is it like that from the time you started the monitor or it goes back to normal after some time ?
storm shore
is it like that from the time you started the monitor or it goes back to normal ...
no clue. i just turn on pc and it like this
was fine last night
near meadow
how long is it on right now?
storm shore
took cable out so not on atm
all that flickering prob just gonna dmg it so took it out
near meadow
i mean it's still powered on and i was thinking maybe it's temp related so i asked how long it was on
how about cable change
storm shore
guess it is still on rn. only took dp cable out not power one
storm shore
how about cable change
lemme plugin other monitor one in iguess
near meadow
if it's not cable related then i guess time to replace it
storm shore
okay def not the cable
near meadow
try punching it
try this but gentler i guess lol
storm shore
ok literally hit it but sad
near meadow
really dead monitor?
storm shore
time to look into 4k lcds
deep pier
should have specified to hit it from the back
near meadow
on my old monitor i did a 45 degree handchop at the corner but thats not possible anymore since it's so slim now
near meadow
???
storm shore
near meadow
so you just let it on for a while?
deep pier
and they say that violence is not the answer
storm shore
i uhh. pushed the bottom left corner back with my finger and saw it somehow improve then it got fixed
near meadow
thats so weird but yay?
storm shore
doing the same not changing anything now so uhh... thanks 
wonder if i should open it and see, but never heard of ppl opening monitors so prob shouldn't
near meadow
nah i feel like it's the led connection i think there's a ribbon part there similar to what you see in a laptop maybe thats what's failing
storm shore
i assume oled still not the play for pcs.
esp for a 2nd monitor which often has unchanging screens on it like discord
crude oxide
definitely wouldnt get an oled for that use case
but they seem basically fine for main monitor usage now
storm shore
like ofc often do got videos running on it etc, but ussualy my main monitor ends up as the secondcuz osrs just looks better on smaller sizes screens instead of the 27 inch one
deep pier
I've been using oled as a primary one for like two months now
crude oxide
does yours have an oled usage info thing in the osd?
deep pier
it has usage time
crude oxide
yeah basically that
mines been bugged for a while now
70k hours usage time apparently
deep pier
811 Hours
crude oxide
pixel clean interval is at 13 hours too, when i only got up and woke it from sleep 5 hours ago
storm shore
guess ill look into a regular 4k lcd if proble reoccurs frequently
near meadow
wtf i swear i bought a 2 fan gpu but it's quite big i didnt even expect it
crude oxide
just have to make sure you got the right slot width so it doesn’t overlap another slot
near meadow
luckily nothing installed on the next slot
near meadow
fps looking nice and the cpu is finally below 80% on peak game effects but the fans sound like laptop fans now lol
near meadow
i only changed gpu + swapped to aio from air cooling
i feel like i messed up on the installation of the air coolers even in max speed i dont hear it and there's barely any cooling happening
at least now with aio is really way better
i also wanted to get a 5700x3d but at the time i build the pc i didnt have that in mind
crude oxide
usually you hear the pump more than the fan on an aio
near meadow
it is but they all spin quietly and slower i dont think it's even 1200 rpm
yea for the aio it works great
but for the air cooler that i replaced that one it's just not cooling enough
crude oxide
which did you have?
near meadow
be quiet blackrock
crude oxide
weird, those are good
deep pier
too aggressive fan curve?
crude oxide
i have a noctua nh-u12s and im pretty sure my cpu doesnt go over 70c
near meadow
i dunno what i did lol
fans are all in the right fan headers. at least now aio it's all good
deep pier
the classic one is not peeling away the plastic on the cooler
crude oxide
lmao
near meadow
no way i wont forget to do that
fluid heron
what checks do you guys typically do if you feel your PC is underperforming? With my specs I do feel like my PC is just a bit slow and not what it should be
I know my BIOS version is old but idk if this warrants a BIOS update, or if it'd even help
storm shore
woke up to this. only happens on windows 2nd monitor. how i fix?
problem reoccurs when waking up monitors from idling, then fixes itself few seconds later 
near meadow
problem reoccurs when waking up monitors from idling, then fixes itself few seco...
maybe it's like temp related after all like when it warms up it gets back to normal. are you in a winter place or something?
near meadow
what checks do you guys typically do if you feel your PC is underperforming? Wit...
what kind of slowness and when do you notice it?
is it like lag or just slow when opening applications
if it's like when opening apps then maybe you're still using a spinning disk instead of ssd ?
storm shore
maybe it's like temp related after all like when it warms up it gets back to nor...
no still 3c at night here
near meadow
i think it's temp related yea the other monitor feels resistant to it but you can experiment by shutting off the faulty monitor for like 10 mins to let it get really cool and then power it up again. i think youd get the same results. and then if you do the same experiment again but only for 5 mins it should get back to working normally in a faster timing
grand seal
i only changed gpu + swapped to aio from air cooling
oh might be time to repaste the old gpu if power delivery from psu is not the issue
near meadow
the old one not sure but undervolting it works but then undervolting would get worse framerates. i think there's no win there anymore so i just changed it to a newer card
fluid heron
if it's like when opening apps then maybe you're still using a spinning disk ins...
i run most things other than a few games off an SSD
but my discord freezes up all the time and i have to wait 10 seconds for it to work again
if i switch tabs fast or anything, but ive never experienced that on other devices
when i tab between games itll freeze and i cant get back in straight away, which i never used to have the issue with even on my older GPU
my temps are always fine and task manager never seems to show anything working near capacity
arc raiders has been crashing a bit completely but thats the only application that completely crashes so that might be an arc raiders thing
crude oxide
when i tab between games itll freeze and i cant get back in straight away, which...
thats a windows exclusive fullscreen thing iirc
fluid heron
i see i see
near meadow
if you have your game borderless window you can alt tab easily if the resources allows
crude oxide
downside is that some games don't do mouse trapping properly
fluid heron
if you have your game borderless window you can alt tab easily if the resources ...
i always do borderless windowed but stil have the freeze/unable to tab back in issue
fluid heron
downside is that some games don't do mouse trapping properly
i play on one giant monitor thankfully
near meadow
that i'm not sure. maybe it's memory related since it's just alt tabbing from one app to another
low pike
vague question: how do i know what components to buy to upgrade my pc 
crude oxide
depends what you have, what games you play, what performance you're getting
balmy gust
in that order too preferably
grand seal
vague question: how do i know what components to buy to upgrade my pc <:sad:8752...
saw the graphic designer in your profile, so i guess your concern comes from a place of getting a good machine to run the softwares not in increasing your fps
most common one is the ram but
low pike
saw the graphic designer in your profile, so i guess your concern comes from a p...
pretty much
ive had my pc for almost 8 years now and its served me well through my design degree but its become slower lately ofc LOL
games to be fair ive not played a lot but mostly older stuff. id probably play newer games too if my pc could handle
crude oxide
you've picked probably the worst time since covid to be buying PC parts
good luck soldier
low pike
but say i send a screenshot of what i have … would anyone be able to tell what id need? cause idk shit about shit
near meadow
we might be able to suggest but for sure you're not going am5 anytime soon if you havent upgraded to that yet
winter ingot
We are at the point in time where old stock prebuilt is cheaper than buying parts on your own
Never thought I saw this day but here we are
crude oxide
figured out my gpu crashing issue i think
disabling the nvidia audio "devices" in device manager somehow works
or at least i havent had a crash since i did that
storm shore
great, starting up hades 2 and boom, bsod. pc restart cuz of memory management then restarts againg as soon as windows starts up.
running windows diagnostics now.
test far from done, but saying hardware problems rip
near meadow
run your usual furmark and memory tests. if nothing fails then maybe it's a setting with the game
storm shore
idk played 20hr and had no issues. there has been no updates either
btw what is furmark
deep pier
stress test
near meadow
maybe it's a random bsod. is it possible to constantly replicate it when playing?
storm shore
idk it happend on game startup then pc restarted, but it happe d againg moment i got into windows itself
after 2nd restart it didnt instantly happen so am doing the windows diagnostic
deep pier
there should be something in the event log
near meadow
did you change a setting in the game? it sounds the same as my old gpu issue
storm shore
probably, but diagnosis not done yet
near meadow
on my old gpu i was forcing 90fps in game
storm shore
tldr: says hardware issue
storm shore
yeah
near meadow
run furmark just to be sure
grand seal
idk it happend on game startup then pc restarted, but it happe d againg moment i...
this exactly what happened with me in apex back in 2020
i got a rx 570 at that time
near meadow
when it fails it's gpu
grand seal
had to replace the gpu with my now gtx 1660 super in 2021
storm shore
no way im getting new hardware with current prices
my current ram went from 80 to 300$
grand seal
yea pretty scary prices
crude oxide
tldr: says hardware issue
that’s windows’ memory test isn’t it?
grand seal
good thing i bought my ram before the prices went up lol
near meadow
depending where you are there's still hope for gpu prices
storm shore
deep pier
F
near meadow
F
storm shore
that’s windows’ memory test isn’t it?
yes
do i want any specific settings for furmark?
just running it in default now at 1080 on a 1440 monitor