general-chat

[nocturne flicker]

Now stars

[acoustic palm]

Imagine

I got mine for half that

Literally

[velvet summit]

that is... not great tbh lmao

[acoustic palm]

Meh

Nice car so

[velvet summit]

pickup truck level

or sports car

[acoustic palm]

It’s a luxury car

[velvet summit]

well, not quite gas guzzler but not an economy vehicle either

[acoustic palm]

Yeah

My sister car gets like 50 lmao

[velvet summit]

hybrid moment

[acoustic palm]

Yeah

Lots of issue tho

[velvet summit]

hybrids can get like 50-60 usually due to regen braking
my old ass corolla can do like i believe 40?

maybe on a good day lmao

[acoustic palm]

Damn

I mean it’s fine

I won’t be driving like crazy

[velvet summit]

you work on your own car?

or is it still under warranty

[acoustic palm]

Uh

It’s used but we bought it a month ago

[velvet summit]

oh

honestly would recommend working on the car yourself
saves a fair bit off $$$ and also if you ever need emergency repairs, you'll be able to do it yourself

[acoustic palm]

I don’t even have my license yet 😭

[velvet summit]

also it's just fun

[elfin mural]

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/power-supplies/super-flowers-beastly-2800w-power-supply-lands-at-usd899-enough-juice-to-power-a-couple-of-rtx-5090-gpus

[acoustic palm]

I’ll do routine maintenance myself

[elfin mural]

2800w for 900

[velvet summit]

yeah
just learn to change/rotate the wheels, brake jobs, and fluid changes

those are all you really need

and those also happen to be the easy things

[acoustic palm]

I’ll do oil change and that stuff 100%

Rotate wheels I’ll ask my Opa

My dad doesn’t have allat stuff for this tho

[velvet summit]

rotating wheels is easy

[neat mauve]

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[hoary zodiac]

Großtraktor

[dense locust]

dont let this distract you from the fact this is only $100 more than msi's 1600w psu

[opaque sedge]

This is pretty cool ngl https://youtube.com/shorts/OFJZR2cNhf4?si=-Jn6xJ2InJKcufRo

[acoustic palm]

@hoary zodiac do I say I paid 360 for a 9070xt or -170$ for a 850w psu

[velvet summit]

https://youtu.be/tZzTLWrl5Os

[velvet summit]

this is less gimmicky than the swappable fan blades

[opaque sedge]

Huh i thought the fans themselves were swappable

Its just the blades?

[velvet summit]

well

fan blades and rotors

the stators remain on the gpu

[opaque sedge]

Rotors meaning the motors?

[hoary zodiac]

Yes

[velvet summit]

no

[opaque sedge]

Looks like the motors stay

[acoustic palm]

Ok

[velvet summit]

motors are made up of 3 things
the casing, stator (does not spin) and the rotor (does spin)

[dense locust]

neat idea too bad i dont like the song

[opaque sedge]

So do these special magnetic ones wear out?

[velvet summit]

i mean

[opaque sedge]

I mean ik all motors have magnets but wbt these ones

[velvet summit]

the points of failure for any type of motors is often the bearings first

for brushed motors, sometimes the brushes dont last as long as the bearings

[opaque sedge]

And the bearing in this card is in the shroud?

[velvet summit]

my issue is honestly just that the gpu would likely be long discontinued when the bearings actually fail

and there wouldnt be replacement parts (or not worth the price)

[hoary zodiac]

Why is motor being brushed

Poor guy

[fresh timber]

my 2 year old ish gpu has a squeeky bearing 🙂

[velvet summit]

ignoring premature bearing death

[fresh timber]

but thats a valid concern 😦

[opaque sedge]

Squeaky like yo mama’s hips

[velvet summit]

that is honestly the one time that the swappable blades would be useful

[opaque sedge]

Actually

Change the hips for knees

[velvet summit]

but for most people, even systems with the fans running 24/7 won't have that for the entire working life of the pc

[opaque sedge]

A bit more respectful

[fresh timber]

is my server ok

[velvet summit]

is this modded

[fresh timber]

of course,

u can join fine and stuff idc that much

[velvet summit]

some mod or something is probably causing this 💀

also your log files must be huge

ong

[fresh timber]

its bigger than my mod folder

its funny

i still manage tobe cpu bottlenecked

[hoary zodiac]

Knees nuts

[lone mango]

Man thats pretty bad

[proud jackal]

[lone mango]

Reviewers gotta retract their pro rdna 4 statements

[fresh timber]

gosh 16gb really is rough

reason why im nevr buying 16gb laptop, gets too close to filling

[opaque sedge]

Bruh are they playing at 5 frames or smth

[fresh timber]

lol no games I enjoy are their

[velvet summit]

they're playing at 100p 24fps

[hoary zodiac]

5 seconds per frame

[proud jackal]

how is it already the end of sunday

[opaque sedge]

There are genuinely some good games that run well on the steam deck tho

[opaque sedge]

😭 do the games even downscale that much

[hoary zodiac]

Among Us

[tranquil pebble]

insert Persona and SMT here

[hoary zodiac]

SMT?

Like

Multi threading?

[tranquil pebble]

Shin Megami Tensei, which Persona is a spin off of

[tranquil pebble]

unfortunately most laptops only come with 16, and sometimes 8 GB unless you pay a significant amount more from what I have seen

like bruh, seeing a $1000 laptop with 16 GB RAM is just sad

[fresh timber]

Yeah

Ifs soddered too so u can’t even like upgrade it

[tranquil pebble]

Good rule of thumb is that the 15 inch laptops tend to have sodimm

less than 15 may not

still good to check specific models either way though because you never know these days

[fresh timber]

Asus sells a laptop with 24gb for $1000 rn

[elfin mural]

acer slapped 32gb into a nitro v15 here

with 6800h and 6gb 3050

[lone mango]

https://videocardz.com/newz/gmktech-shows-off-true-mini-pc-with-amd-ryzen-ai-max-395-strix-halo

[proud jackal]

buy new desk or buy 5 figurines

[opaque sedge]

Oh been trying to get into p5royal in my deck and it runs at a locked 60 fps

[acoustic palm]

I had such a good Sunday

[opaque sedge]

Really wish metaphor ran and looked better on the deck

Well even on pc its a struggle with the crappy anti aliasing with all the shimmering edges

[acoustic palm]

I went bowling, I did gambling squared, and I ate lobster

🤤

[opaque sedge]

You gotta render the game at 200% scale to get rid of that

And could only play it at a locked 60 fps in my 4070super

[opaque sedge]

Lucky son of a gun

[acoustic palm]

It’s my birthday party 😄

[opaque sedge]

My birthday’s coming soon too but i doubt mine gonna be anything special

[amber linden]

anyone know VPN that don't slow down my speed ?

[opaque sedge]

Its just gonna come and go like any other day

[acoustic palm]

Mines 16th so a pretty big birthday

[lone mango]

https://videocardz.com/newz/xfx-releases-free-3d-print-models-for-radeon-rx-9070-quick-silver-series-magnetic-wings

[hoary zodiac]

Real

That was my 19th

Literally yesterday

[acoustic palm]

Looking at it my 17th birthday is rly big too

[idle nexus]

dayum

[hoary zodiac]

Surprisingly the day before was more memorable

[acoustic palm]

I officially get my full driving license

[hoary zodiac]

Had some booze

[opaque sedge]

Never had booze

[hoary zodiac]

The day before my birthday was more eventful than my actual birthday

[hoary zodiac]

Booze is mid

[idle nexus]

I didn't think 2019 Resident Evil 2 Remake at max settings could get this crazy tbh

[opaque sedge]

Well turn 21 soon prolly gonna try a smoke once smth

[hoary zodiac]

Costs too much for what it is

[acoustic palm]

Damn

[idle nexus]

817w for Resident Evil 2 lol

[acoustic palm]

You shouldn’t try a smoke

That’s how an addiction starts 😭

[opaque sedge]

Ok mom

[acoustic palm]

Js saying

No reason to try

[hoary zodiac]

I have a personal vendetta against tobacco

[acoustic palm]

It’s expensive as crap to be addicted to something

[hoary zodiac]

And nicotine

[opaque sedge]

Hmm tru

Addictions suck especially when ur not in a good financial standing

[acoustic palm]

Yeah

[hoary zodiac]

I'm addicted to caffeine

I don't want more addictions in my life

[acoustic palm]

Well

That’s not rly expensive

[hoary zodiac]

And less damaging

[acoustic palm]

If you make your own coffee it’s so cheap

[hoary zodiac]

For the body

Just

Withdrawals suck

[acoustic palm]

Meh

[hoary zodiac]

You also have to be careful wit caffeine amounts

[acoustic palm]

They can suck

[hoary zodiac]

Instant coffee messes me up

[acoustic palm]

I drink a cup of coffee most days

[hoary zodiac]

But coffee brewed from grounds don't

Idk what's the deal with instant coffee but I get headaches with them

Maybe I added too much

[opaque sedge]

Bruh i used to down 400mg of caffeine a day at a point never got addicted how tf did u

[hoary zodiac]

Here's the thing

It's only instant coffee

That gives me problems

Switched to grounds and the headaches just went away

[acoustic palm]

400!????

I have like

50

[opaque sedge]

Pre workouts

[acoustic palm]

😭

[hoary zodiac]

Mike?

MICHAEL DON'T LEAVE ME HERE

[opaque sedge]

@hoary zodiac do u work while studying in aus?

[hoary zodiac]

Not yet

First year

[opaque sedge]

Oh is your family paying expenses for now

[hoary zodiac]

Always have been

Also I got a scholarship so

That's a bit of pressure off

[proud jackal]

ughhhhhh i need to stop window shopping

[opaque sedge]

Nice

[hoary zodiac]

Keeping the scholarship is pretty much work in a sense too

It's 25% off per sem

Lotta money

[acoustic palm]

I need to go shopping

[opaque sedge]

Thats awesome

[acoustic palm]

I’m annoyed my mc trip is so far away

[hoary zodiac]

Yeah worked my ass off

Went insane for a couple months

But it was worth it

[proud jackal]

[hoary zodiac]

Graphic design is my passion ahh banner

[lavish stag]

@rancid juniper issue fixed

Its stupid

[lone mango]

Feels nice when corpos make you not want to buy anything
https://wccftech.com/asus-increases-its-radeon-rx-9070-series-and-rtx-5090-price/

Thanks corpos

Even if I had a full time job I still wouldnt buy it

Thanks for saving me money corpos

[acoustic palm]

I love how I can stop caring about their prices now

[lone mango]

[acoustic palm]

It’s so nice

Having that clarity

[lavish stag]

I had to go to advanced control and set the max and min frequency to the card's setting. I remember you trying to help me adjust this in % but that didn't work. Had to adjust the MHz

[topaz crown]

Hello @lavish stag! It appears that you're asking for help. Please ask again in the appropriate category so you can get faster help from people specializing in that field. Your question may not be answered here.

[acoustic palm]

Are you… overvolting?

[lone mango]

Yeah just wait longer or not buy it at all

[idle nexus]

what program is this & for what card?

[acoustic palm]

I Alr bought mine

660$ and my parents covered 300$ of that 🔥

[lavish stag]

No i had an issue earlier that i realized my card has been running at 45W for 2 years. 6650xt

[acoustic palm]

Oh

Big rip

[idle nexus]

45w max??

[lavish stag]

Apparently the issue was i had to manually adjust the frequency. I was stuck on 1200mhz at 99% usage

[lone mango]

https://tenor.com/view/g5-gear-5-gear-5-luffy-luffy-one-piece-gif-17561618586234107710

[lavish stag]

For a card that should go up to almost 2700mHz

[acoustic palm]

Getting my whole build the 29th

🙏

[lavish stag]

I didnt know i had a problem cuz i used a crappy laptop that scored 10% on passmark beforrhand

[acoustic palm]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/GMJN2x

[lavish stag]

I kid u not this was my 6650xt earlier

[idle nexus]

that OC thing looks kinda meh. Afterburner or SapphireTrixx should let you adjust the power limit

[acoustic palm]

I will change mobo in the bundle for the white one

I cba to change it rn

[lavish stag]

Talking to me?

[idle nexus]

yes lol

[lavish stag]

Lol

[idle nexus]

is that AMD's OC thing?

[lavish stag]

Yea

[idle nexus]

like in Adrenalin or something

[lavish stag]

Yes

But im not actually oc over manufacturer's setting

[idle nexus]

I mean I dunno how useful I am at this cuz the most advanced AMD GPU I've ever OCed was an HD7970 lol

[acoustic palm]

I’m gonna uv and oc my 9070xt

[idle nexus]

do you have GPU-Z installed? It should tell you your power limit & what not

[lavish stag]

Im not trying to OC, im just trying to run it at the speeds the manufacturer said

[lone mango]

Nice you got it before the hike

[acoustic palm]

Yeah

[idle nexus]

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

[lavish stag]

Is 2689 oc max?

[idle nexus]

what the heck is 45w tho? Is there some sort of eco mode?

isn't there a power setting in Adrenalin?

[lavish stag]

I dont even know

I just adjusted adrenalin after struggling for 3hrs and it workef

[idle nexus]

like "prefer maximum performance" v. like "AMD Optimized" or something

[lavish stag]

Nope

I literally clicked gpu tuning

turned the first thing on and then adjusted the sliders

[proud jackal]

whats a good dual monitor arm brand

[acoustic palm]

Uh

I have ergotron

It’s rly good

But I’m pretty sure it’s insanely expensive

[proud jackal]

[acoustic palm]

Yeah

I mean I didn’t pay for it

So

[idle nexus]

that's nuts. I was just running like... 18x more wattage lol

[acoustic palm]

Hm

I wonder what my 9070xt will draw when undervolted

[lavish stag]

what's this

[acoustic palm]

How many volts your gpu can draw iirc

Don’t have it that high

[lavish stag]

okay

what should i do

[acoustic palm]

That’s not a good idea

[acoustic palm]

Idk

Tbh

[lavish stag]

i just want it to perform normally

[dense locust]

gamers shunt mod it and put it to 200% power

[acoustic palm]

But that high cannot be good

[lavish stag]

It was automatically that high oddly enough

[dense locust]

what card

[lavish stag]

6650xt

[dense locust]

what aib

actually what card is it exactly

nvm i dont need it

reddit says thats the stock voltage

you're fine

[lavish stag]

Alright great thx

Im so happy i fixed my gpu issue

Had no idea i was running my gpu on 25% of its max power usage

I wonder if msi overburner and adrenaline made it weird

[dense locust]

now to undervolt/j

[acoustic palm]

I’m gonna undervolt my 9070xt

[lavish stag]

why should you undervolt?

[storm narwhal]

Can bring it up to a 5080

Why not?

[acoustic palm]

Where is that video

I lost it

[storm narwhal]

Word of mouth, I'd have to google for the video lmao

[acoustic palm]

I couldn’t find anything

Was it an undervolt of 175 or 170

[dense locust]

can every card undervolt the same?

[acoustic palm]

Idts

[dense locust]

so its just the silicon lottery again

[tranquil pebble]

silicon lottery affects undervolting potential yes

[dense locust]

ive seen people act like every card can overclock and underclock the same so i thought something changed recently

[lavish stag]

is 85C too hot for hotspot tempreature?

[dense locust]

is it under load?

[lavish stag]

yes

[dense locust]

should be fine

i mean how old is the card?

[lavish stag]

2 years

[dense locust]

should be fine still

could be the thermal paste just getting older

dunno if that card uses thermal paste or pads for the die

[opaque sedge]

I think i’ve lost it i’m playing games on my steam deck despite having my pc right in front of me…

[tight agate]

Hm, it my birthday I guess... on saint-patricks day.

[hoary zodiac]

Yoo @elfin mural we got a birthday boy

[hoary zodiac]

Happy birthday

[lone mango]

My birthday was about 2 months ago

I can now legally own a pistol

And I switched to linux around that time too

About a week before

Man

Gained quite some knowledge since then

Switching has increased my iq

[lavish stag]

how much performance can u usually squeeze out of a graphics card from OC? and does OC vram make a noticeable improvement compared to OC the core clock?

[pseudo raven]

it depends very heavily on the card

[lavish stag]

ah really?

gotcha

[hoary zodiac]

Linux users with a gun 💀

[lavish stag]

what are the benefits of linux over windows?

[lone mango]

Iq increase

[lone mango]

[hoary zodiac]

Not having to use windows

[opaque sedge]

Being able brag abt how ur a linux user first and foremost

Also some games genuinely seem to run better on linux with some software stuff to translate into it

[lavish stag]

ah

[hoary zodiac]

We live in a world where games running through a layer runs better than native

[hoary zodiac]

Curse you Alfred

I'm stuck playing catch-up to course content

[mortal grail]

Dammit Alfred

[lone mango]

Damn is he really still sitting at your doorstep

[hoary zodiac]

His spirit is

Even in death he still causes me pain

[open knoll]

First pc built 😭

[hoary zodiac]

interesting color composition

[open knoll]

Just booted up first time

[acoustic palm]

Niceeeee

What components

@fresh timber it’s flooding by me 🙂

[open knoll]

9800x3d n 5080

[acoustic palm]

Nice

[open knoll]

Thx

[acoustic palm]

I’m getting my 9070xt soon

[open knoll]

Nice 🙏

[devout forum]

Do you need to actually disassemble a GPU to deshroud it?

Like take the backplate and cooler off and all that

[mortal grail]

Most of the time yes

Some brands have the decency to help you just take the shroud off, very few and rare

[hoary zodiac]

Felix

You will never guess what one of my math questions is

The curse of Alfred

[storm narwhal]

Alfred will never stop bothering you bro

Get used to it he's family now

[hoary zodiac]

💀 💀 💀

[storm narwhal]

He's like that annoying cousin who no one really likes but is just there for some reason

Also breaks your stuff whether it's on purpose or an accident

[hoary zodiac]

Oh yeah he broke stuff alright

[storm narwhal]

Threw a real tantrum there

[mortal grail]

LMAO

[tight agate]

Thanks

[hoary zodiac]

Ayy bro got the bday role

Wait

Is it march 16 where you are?

Genuinely curious because we might have the same birthday*

Asterisk because time zone shenanigans

My birthday was on March 16, which was yesterday from my perspective

[mortal grail]

It's ur birthday again

You gotta ride it out for a bit longer cos american dates

Ok it 12 now

Ur free again

[hoary zodiac]

Nah

Still 11 in QLD

[mortal grail]

Ohp ok puttin it back

[hoary zodiac]

Lmao

Double birthday

[mortal grail]

Just as well we have plans for these things

Imagine if we were disorganised

WHEW

[hoary zodiac]

Only in Australia

[fresh timber]

It’s a whole new day

Bro got birthday role for 2 days

[mortal grail]

https://tenor.com/view/heman-he-man-twerk-mype-gif-19932758

[fresh timber]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4xtwjLqdaj0

[hoary zodiac]

Anyways gonna sleep now

Got like

8 hours of lectures tomorrow

Good night... Or should I say morning to the yankees

[mortal grail]

Ok taking the role off

God we're so organised and in sync

[hoary zodiac]

Lmao

[mortal grail]

Absolutely killing it

[hoary zodiac]

The hell

I like how discord decided to bug out as you said that

[mortal grail]

Sorry I felt like I needed a good look before you left

[hoary zodiac]

Look at your profile pics

[fresh timber]

Can’t breath

[hoary zodiac]

Oh

I get the joke now

[fresh timber]

help

Gelo ball is here

[mortal grail]

Lol

[hoary zodiac]

Ok this is definitely a sign that I should go to bed

gn

[mortal grail]

Ok

Lmk if you come back you'll get the role in 2 shakes

[fresh timber]

https://tenor.com/view/conquest-invincible-bald-gauntlet-comics-gif-6370990461093599888

[hoary zodiac]

omw to Perth

[mortal grail]

Ok puttin role back

Gotta give ya the 3 hours

[hoary zodiac]

Booking a flight to the UK

[mortal grail]

Birthday will be over before ur off the plane mate

[hoary zodiac]

Nuh uh

[fresh timber]

https://tenor.com/view/powerplex-invincible-power-gif-15918233184865427474

[hoary zodiac]

They're pulling out the Concorde

[fresh timber]

Birthday been over

@mortal grail what time was you born

[mortal grail]

ABOUTS NINETEEN OUGHT FIVE

[hoary zodiac]

Wait if we're counting American time

[mortal grail]

I thought you were a boeing bro

[hoary zodiac]

Technically it's not over until California hits 12:00AM on March 17

[mortal grail]

Nah nah nah

The real meta

Fly to the tip of alaska

When it's ya birthday, cross the channel to russia

At 11:59pm go back

Another 24 hours

[hoary zodiac]

Wouldn't you technically go forward

[mortal grail]

2 day birthday meta mate

Nah cos alaska is before the date line m8

Innit?

[hoary zodiac]

Yeah but if you go into Russia

It becomes March 18

Or rather

[mortal grail]

Nah nah you go there march 17th

Then at 11:59pm march 17th go back

[hoary zodiac]

March 17 11:59 in Russia from March 16 11:59 in Alaska

[mortal grail]

Exactly

[hoary zodiac]

Wait

[mortal grail]

Two day birthday meta

[hoary zodiac]

It's going a day forward

I'm confused

[mortal grail]

No you're going back a day

[hoary zodiac]

What do you think my birth date was

[mortal grail]

LOL

Idk

IT DUN MATTER

[hoary zodiac]

Wait but

[mortal grail]

It just needs to be ur birthday in russia first

You spend one birthday in russia, then at 11:59, cross over the line and spend the second birthday in alaska

[hoary zodiac]

Oh

From Russia TO Alaska

[mortal grail]

Lmfao you need sleep man

[hoary zodiac]

Ok that makes more sense now

[hoary zodiac]

The cyclone question killed half my brain cells

[mortal grail]

Ye but you live in alaska cos better quality of life

[hoary zodiac]

Curse of Alfred is real

Gonna sleep before Alfred steals something else from me

[mortal grail]

Ok birthday role off

[hoary zodiac]

Gn for real this time

[mortal grail]

I have swiped my screen over the mod buttons every time there

Dangerous stuff

Could accidentally swing the hammer doing these lightning fast role changes

But I'm a pro dw

Ain't no one as dialled in as me when it comes to assigning that birthday role

[acoustic palm]

Can I have birthday role

[mortal grail]

Is it ur birthday

[acoustic palm]

Yes

It literally is

😭

[mortal grail]

Nyoom

[acoustic palm]

Yayyy

[wind quail]

https://tenor.com/view/shaggy-scooby-motorcycle-fast-run-fast-gif-17006267

[fresh timber]

https://tenor.com/view/i-am-music-music-playboi-carti-blue-music-i-am-music-blue-gif-11011669986600690492

[proud jackal]

https://tenor.com/view/bocchi-hitori-goto-depressed-bocchi-the-rock-gif-27672004

[dusk knot]

Oof

[sinful blade]

I swear to the traveler
I’m gonna

[dusk knot]

Gonna what

Btw, what's the latest story for Destiny 2? @sinful blade

[frigid stag]

More paid dlc’s probably

[dusk knot]

Not what I asked for

😅

[mortal grail]

Old hero revived, traveller big ball

But big ball fall apart

Hero fight enemies

Then triangles appear

Evil triangles change big ball

[dusk knot]

I'm up to speed with that 🤔

[mortal grail]

Voice actor dies

But story keep going about big ball

Then more triangles

[dusk knot]

Big ball, yes

[mortal grail]

Big ball changes from triangles

And hero perplexed

Now hero got new powers

And secret return of old friends

Titan planet also now frozen

-I

-I think

Oh also some random queen appeared that had fairy tale powers

Wicked witch of the queen

[dusk knot]

Hm

[mortal grail]

What you're not satisfied?

Ok here's some more

The heroes find a person called the witness

They saw a murder happen

And the witness is on a journey to seek the final shape

Which is in fact the square hole

Perfect in it's size

But the witness wants the square hole

And the heroes think he is bad man

So they fight

But the witness doesn't have plot armour so he cannot beat the heroes

[dusk knot]

I aware of the final shape story 🤔

Talking about what happens after

[mortal grail]

You didn't sound like you were

You sounded like someone who hasn't seen the square hole and what it fits

[dusk knot]

I'm just a bunch of text on a screen

I've seen the hole

[mortal grail]

Man that's a really crazy out of context quote

[mortal grail]

The story is now stuck in jojo ending

https://tenor.com/view/to-be-continued-meme-anime-laugh-solz-gif-25203141

[dusk knot]

💀💀💀

[rancid juniper]

lmfao, glad it works now.

https://youtu.be/IUK__yGXmds?si=2VbkUmKGHZbUoNgM

[tight agate]

17th, Saint patrickss day

[rigid sinew]

happy pattys day everyone!

[rigid sinew]

happy birthday !!

also just a FYI - pls dont send me friend requests, i dont accept them, you can still message me though and i will still respond if you need some sort of help

[tight agate]

Ok... Well thank you, I wasn't going to dm you but alright.

[fresh timber]

We have quite a lengthy mutual friends list

[coarse idol]

so I noticed when playing a game on my main monitor my youtube videos on my second monitor is laggy. Could that be my CPU?

Im tying to run 3 monitors but even with 2 i get choppyness

I have a ryzen 7 3700x, 3060ti, and 32GB of ram

[craggy shoal]

Man I’m tired of work

IT gets too annoying I should've just became a lawyer or something easy like that

[limber crane]

can relate, working in IT has made me hate tech

[craggy shoal]

IT: the boring side of tech work (that is, if they have you doing mostly customer support)

[limber crane]

i hate all of it now, spending all day solving problems makes me not want to deal with tech problems in my free time

i doubt i will get it but i interviewed for an audit position last week, id love to no longer be described as 'the IT guy'

[rancid juniper]

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-finally-launches-xess-2-sdk-unity-and-unreal-engine-4-5-plugins-also-available

yay

[craggy shoal]

I want a cybersecurity job so bad

[limber crane]

not me, that seems like endless stress and risk

[craggy shoal]

Less working with a lack of intelligence (customers and some coworkers) and more cool stuff. Not to mention higher pay, like at least double the average IT salary

I hate that a lot of companies are hiring from overseas. Like brother I’m trying to survive and I have a degree in this field. Give me a job

Man I wanna leave halfway through my shift so bad lol

[fresh timber]

@acoustic palm

[craggy shoal]

Thankfully there's nothing to do rn so it's not that bad lol

[craggy shoal]

@acoustic palm

[coarse idol]

I did a lot of repair work for various companies to hopefully get enough experience to get into an engineering spot without college. its taken me about 7 years but I just had an interview for one at the place I work at so im hoping to get it

if not I have 2 team lead spots that im up for which are very good for getting into engineering

[craggy shoal]

Get some certs to back up your experience

[coarse idol]

I hated dealing with my own tech problems after my last job and started slcaking and doing a bad job cause of how much I hated it

[coarse idol]

yeah i need to see if my job covers them cause they cover full college rides

but only online school which I dont do well with when im surrounded by distractions lol

[craggy shoal]

Man that would be sick if they could basically give you free college

[coarse idol]

i mean they do if you keep a certain gpa throughout

they remburse you 100%

[craggy shoal]

Who cares? You have the experience and knowledge already. Just get a degree and you'll be good

[limber crane]

my company will cover the cost of the first cert test, all subsequent attempts are out of pocket

[coarse idol]

the biggest issue is I work 12s at night so my energy levels are low even on my off days

if I get this team lead spot itll put me to mornings which will def help

[craggy shoal]

"12s" like at midnight, or twelve-hour shifts?

[coarse idol]

6pm-6am

[limber crane]

as someone who did night shifts for 20 years, get off that kind of shift as soon as you can, it has long lasting effects

[craggy shoal]

Man they’re torturing you

[coarse idol]

ope

[craggy shoal]

lol

[coarse idol]

its rough tho

Im trying to get off nights

[limber crane]

ive been off them for two years and i still cant sleep well

the effects are near permanent

[coarse idol]

the team lead spot will make me more than what i make with the night shift bonus

[craggy shoal]

I need a new job

@fresh timber Walter

[storm narwhal]

White

[rough zinc]

It's time to cook

[craggy shoal]

This mf just pings me and says nothing

Bot activities fr

School Wi-Fi is dog dookie today wtf

School = work

Wi-Fi = ass

[rancid juniper]

i can't imagine being an IT guy at a school setting

☠️

[pliant berry]

deal with broken chromebooks all day

[rancid juniper]

torture

[rigid sinew]

does anyone have a green build ?

[fresh timber]

I can make my rgb green

If I was home

[rigid sinew]

check dm

[craggy shoal]

Goose

Honk

[rancid juniper]

pinecone

[craggy shoal]

:0

[rancid juniper]

😲

[elfin mural]

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/akira-ransomware-cracked-with-rtx-4090-new-exploit-to-brute-force-encryption-attack

ah yes

fight back malware with 4090s

[mortal grail]

@rancid juniper https://youtu.be/eex3MKp5NNo

[rancid juniper]

bro why is that car throwing it back in the beginning?

[mortal grail]

Dude the camaro is so excited

[elfin mural]

negative rubberband

[mortal grail]

"I'm just happy to be here!!"

[Starts sliding backwards]

[rancid juniper]

"The real driving simulator"

now only if this negative rubberband would be applied to cursed games like NFS underground

[mortal grail]

Dude I only am now seeing the test track one

I'm crying

Oh god the -1000% LMFAO

[rancid juniper]

BEYBLADE BEYBLADE LET IT RIP

[mortal grail]

They look like a soda bottle is going off underneath them at the starting line

[rancid juniper]

accurate

[tranquil pebble]

valve is based for giving points even on the sales tax money spent

ngl

[acoustic palm]

Hi

[craggy shoal]

Yeah sorry for the ping. Other guy replied to me with you being pinged as the only message

Don't know why lol

[acoustic palm]

It’s alg

[safe cape]

https://tenor.com/view/car-jumpingrope-gif-4928954

[sinful blade]

This season?

[wise wigeon]

@mortal grail this look about right to you?

[craggy shoal]

Idk the context but I guess you're just undervolting? Looks fine to me

[wise wigeon]

Yeah

For the temp windows install I was using Ryzen master because it was just convenient but with the definitive install I was swapping over to bios uv

Never really had to uv an AMD cpu before so it’s still a lil fresh for me

hmmm looks like 5080 and 90 stock is getting better, i keep getting hella notifications of "omg i got one"

[mental yoke]

is that a moose?

[craggy shoal]

Yeah I kinda like undervolting it this way. It's a little more customizable lol

[craggy shoal]

Goose

[devout forum]

6900 XT paired with a 7700(X) for 1440p?

[mental yoke]

[craggy shoal]

Yes

[devout forum]

It's balanced enough right?

[wise wigeon]

Pretty decent

Was your psu up to the challenge?

[craggy shoal]

Yeah probably still slightly GPU-bound (if I’m wrong, then probably more GPU-bound. But still good for 1440p)

[devout forum]

Could go X3D but that's gonna blow the budget out

[wise wigeon]

Don’t you have a 750w

[devout forum]

SFX-L 850 Corsair (I'm planning my next rig)

I know 750 wouldn't cut it with a 6900XT

[wise wigeon]

Not without major tweaks

[devout forum]

Current is ATX and 650

[wise wigeon]

Oh my

[devout forum]

I mean TECHNICALLY the total power draw would be like 400-450 watts under full load

Buuuuuuuuut 6900 XT transients are rough

[craggy shoal]

I wonder what kind of power my system asks for at full load. The RGB alone takes up ~30W

[devout forum]

Oh yeah I'd also need to figure out if you can stuff an RGB strip into a Ridge

(I'll be keeping the Ridge and PSU for a future 4090 upgrade more than likely)

[craggy shoal]

Ridge? What brand makes those?

[devout forum]

Fractal

[craggy shoal]

Gotcha

[devout forum]

The PC5

[wise wigeon]

It’s the router looking case

[tender veldt]

You should always give a little more wiggle room for PSUs

[devout forum]

I prefer PS5-looking headass

TBF

@craggy shoal @wise wigeon what's the difference between 450 and 600 watts for a specific 4090/5090 model?

[wise wigeon]

i mean it def looks more like a router than it does a ps5

[devout forum]

Like SPECIFICALLY for the same model

[wise wigeon]

wdym

like the perf diff?

something like 30%

[craggy shoal]

150W. Wym?

[devout forum]

Like if your 4090 is capable of running 600 watts
Are you gonna notice if you PL to 450?

Or it's effectively the same performance but better efficiency

[craggy shoal]

Oh uhhhh

[wise wigeon]

i mean 4090 shouldnt be running to far over that 450

[craggy shoal]

That’s one of the few things I’m still learning about computers lol

Better flexibility for OC'ing iirc

[wise wigeon]

and a uv drops power big

[craggy shoal]

(I think. Idk)

[wise wigeon]

if you mean the 4090 has a 600w pl out the box

then it yeah just gives you more room for OC

[rough zinc]

Is there any card other than the HOF that has a PL of 600+?

Every other 4090 stock vbios is around 450w isn't it?

[wise wigeon]

pretty sure its close to 450w ywah

[rough zinc]

not talking about that one 1kW ASUS vBIOS

[devout forum]

IIRC only the HOF does that

[wise wigeon]

and 40 series usually ran under that

[devout forum]

Either way

My point is that running 450 watts should be plenty

So I can get away with an 850 even for a 4090/5090 (if I was to ever get one)

[wise wigeon]

i mean a quick uv drops the power by a lot with minimal if any loss

[wise wigeon]

not the 5090

i would not count on that

[devout forum]

Oh?

5090 actually needs a kilowatt of PSU???

[craggy shoal]

Nooo definitely not with a 5090 lol

Yeah lmao

[devout forum]

Jesus Christ

[craggy shoal]

Bare minimum is a 1KW imo lmao

[wise wigeon]

5090 is a 600w card for the FE not even the OC cards bud

[devout forum]

That's actually insane

[dense locust]

850w? we gambling with this one

[craggy shoal]

If you think about it, a 5090 is practically half of a 1.2KW PSU

[devout forum]

Remember when a kilowatt of PSU was considered overkill for quad SLI?

[wise wigeon]

was it?

[devout forum]

9800X3D tho
That doesn't eat up another 600 watts like a 1400KS would

[craggy shoal]

I even put in a 1KW PSU in a PC when I tried have a dual-GPU AI server lol

[wise wigeon]

depends on the cards

[devout forum]

980s

Iirc they were 200 watts or so each

The point remains tho

[wise wigeon]

165w

[craggy shoal]

Yeah still lol. Power spikes and other PC components

[wise wigeon]

feel like cpus chugged hella power back then

[rancid juniper]

hmmmm, something is strange...

[devout forum]

How did the world go so wrong that what was considered a waste of money for any sane computer is now actually necessary if you want the top performer

[wise wigeon]

well bulldozer definitely did

[lone mango]

Yeah gpus have gotten very powerful over the years

[dense locust]

600 + 120 = 720
Leaving 130 for the rest of the components

[craggy shoal]

Bulldozer is light work to run now lmaooo that's wild

[devout forum]

At least now I have a perfect reason why I won't get a 5090 even if they become available

Other than money kek

[coarse idol]

Ok has anybody else had issues with the new Nvidia overlay update? The last two times that I’ve tried using it. It just runs really slow and I just tried using it again during monster Hunter and it completely crashed my entire computer.

[wise wigeon]

oh wow ventus 5070 ti on amazon

like 20 in stock

[coarse idol]

I'm actually livid

[rancid juniper]

can't imagine running a 1000w GPU daily

[craggy shoal]

120W for a CPU with eight (four*) cores and could only run at 4GHz, OC'able to 5GHz lol

[wise wigeon]

sitting in my cart rn

[rancid juniper]

literal microwave inside your pc case

[craggy shoal]

https://tenor.com/view/the-future-is-now-old-man-gif-10300670

[rancid juniper]

The future is ass, old man*

[lone mango]

Tailscale goes so hard

[dense locust]

But you run it for way longer

[craggy shoal]

Did you figure it out? I got a little busy last night lol

[lone mango]

Yeah it was under my nose the whole time bruh

[rancid juniper]

Power companies: 😏

[craggy shoal]

Lolll

[lone mango]

Felt kinda goofy when findijg out

[craggy shoal]

Bruh imma start blaming PC component manufacturers and not Tesla for power outages due to overload

[wise wigeon]

It’s just chillin

[devout forum]

P sure something like a 7700X runs about the same power

But it's actually fast

[lone mango]

You have to hover over the 3 dots and then the share option comes out of hiding

But its even simpler than hamachi ngl

[dense locust]

[lone mango]

And wont randomly disconnect

[wise wigeon]

People might actually be able to nab that

[dense locust]

I guess gpu hype is now dead

[wise wigeon]

I was able to get it in cart but I mean I don’t need one

[craggy shoal]

I’m referring to an FX 8350 (if the specs I listed are correct). A 7700X could easily beat that old Bulldozer lol

[devout forum]

I'm aware lel

I was trying to make the point that silicon advanced a lot
And that AMD can actually make good CPUs

How long ago was Bulldozer?

Cuz I remember reading about them in magazines when it came out

[craggy shoal]

105W TDP on the 700X class (particularly 7700X)? I remember my 3700X having a 65W TDP

CPUs are getting HOT

[devout forum]

And how "AMD now cannot avoid bankruptcy and being bought up by Qualcomm"

And voila

In what, 6 or 7 years

Intel that was dominating so hard they basically became a monopoly is basically irrelevant now
And the AMD that couldn't avoid bankruptcy is the dominant CPU maker

At least I think Bulldozer was about 6 years ago

[lone mango]

I think even zen+ was popping off

[dense locust]

Isn’t intel still dominant technically
Just amd stole the enthusiast space

[craggy shoal]

Lol and then Zen 2 released and holy crap that was a big performance boost

[craggy shoal]

Intel is still dominant in businesses iirc

That’s probably where their biggest income is at rn lol

[tender veldt]

Because AMD messed up that badly with Raytracing

[devout forum]

Nope!

[lone mango]

Hell yeah my coworker ray tracing at the job

[rancid juniper]

raytracing is not the only reason why

[devout forum]

Servers are all going Epyc now

[tender veldt]

Steam hardware says otherwise

[devout forum]

Like Intel is basically irrelevant

[rancid juniper]

not everything revolved around steam hardware survey

damn

[devout forum]

Steam is

Well

How do I say this nicely

[tender veldt]

No but it is a good representation of what games use

[devout forum]

A VERY small slice of all computer hardware

For every CPU in the Steam hardware survey

There are hundreds that run the servers the internet lives on

[craggy shoal]

I hope Intel comes back though. I don't want an AMD-only market. That'll just drive up prices

[devout forum]

Basically Steam users are an irrelevantly small slice of all CPUs

[nocturne flicker]

The large share of new servers are switching to Epyc. The current ones running old hardware would still be mostly Intel

[devout forum]

Epyc is just

It's a knife in the gut for Intel

Intel's very much on ghe struggle bus

Things are rough in blue rn

[lone mango]

Yeah their share is going way up there. I think what motor meant though was smaller businesses, like at my brothers job for example its all intel business laptops

[nocturne flicker]

Optiplex

[devout forum]

Even in laptops

AMD is faster and more efficient

[nocturne flicker]

Intel cheap box go brrr

[devout forum]

Y'know who's the biggest competitor of AMD in laptops rn?

[dense locust]

To be fair it isn’t amd making the efficiency

[craggy shoal]

I see nothing but Intel CPUs in pretty much all spaces where I've worked

[devout forum]

That's right

Apple.

[dense locust]

It’s just tsmc

[devout forum]

Not Intel

Apple

Apple silicon is bloody impressive

Intel's being squeezed

[wise wigeon]

its just kinda weird because amazon drops are usually a single card at a time, which is why it wipes so fast

[devout forum]

Hard

[nocturne flicker]

Dell has a very long reach in business PCs and their business PCs are overwhelmingly Intel

[dense locust]

Apple also uses tsmc

[lone mango]

Tsmc is completely booked up its kinda wild

[devout forum]

Cuz it takes time to filter old hardware out

[wise wigeon]

everyone uses tsmc

[devout forum]

Like the hospitals I visit regularly all have like

[lone mango]

They increased their quotation rates again or whatever it was called

[dense locust]

Intel didn’t until they did

[wise wigeon]

apple has the smaller nodes on lock

[devout forum]

Legit 15 year old office PCs

[wise wigeon]

they're going to use it for something iirc

[lone mango]

Yeah it looks like they are going back to their own nodes

[devout forum]

Cuz their proprietary bullcrap software needs some stupid feature on those old Intel CPUs allegedly

[lone mango]

Next core ultra mobile will be made with 18A

[dense locust]

Fingers crossed

[devout forum]

So they CAN'T upgrade even if they wanted to

[craggy shoal]

I could see AMD being more dominant in businesses if they made ~35W TDP CPUs like Intel's T SKUs

[rancid juniper]

AMD could make a cracked out 50w APU and still be faster than most rigs with dedicated cards

[lone mango]

Its just rhat its taking so long. Would think that the next node they make would take less time though

[nocturne flicker]

And bribed their way into business OEMs like Intel did

[devout forum]

Yeah that's a thing Intel did

[lone mango]

There is a strix halo mini pc thats gonna be like 100w or something

[devout forum]

And nGreedAI too

[lone mango]

105w maybe

[rancid juniper]

dayum

[lone mango]

I forgot who is making it

[rancid juniper]

with an undervolt it may be better

[lone mango]

But that thing is gonna go crazy

[devout forum]

Strix Halo is great

But sooooo expensive

[rancid juniper]

so true

[wise wigeon]

i mean people talk about market share for cpus but intel is still chillin on market share

[devout forum]

That's the problem with highly advanced silicon

[wise wigeon]

amd is gaining a lot fast though

[devout forum]

Intel's market share is actively shrinking where it matters the most

[rancid juniper]

when you're in your own top class

[wise wigeon]

hmmm

[devout forum]

And they don't really look like they have the weapon to punch back

[wise wigeon]

kinda thinking about a new phone

because my current one is like 70% battery health and a 64gb iphone in 2025 kinda blows

[rancid juniper]

ngl if im going to get a handheld i need some super strong + strong batt life

[devout forum]

13/14th gen with e-cores was innovation
But it REALLY backfired with the scandals, high prices and the arguable gaslighting response

[rancid juniper]

SoC is the way

but no native support for windows stuff

[devout forum]

Like even with Windows being hyper-optimized for Intel CPUs

It flopped

[rancid juniper]

intel after losing to AMD

"quick add more cores/clockspeed, that'll show em"

[devout forum]

(Anyone else remembers how Microsoft basically didn't optimize for AMD hardware like 2 years ago?)

[rancid juniper]

yuh

[wise wigeon]

huh?

[devout forum]

When it somehow doesn't:

[rancid juniper]

iirc windows 24H2 improved AMD's perf

[devout forum]

Like massively

[wise wigeon]

think it was 10%

[devout forum]

15-20% uplift in many cases

Some outliers as much as 35%

[lone mango]

Nah it was even higher

[wise wigeon]

damn thats crazy

[devout forum]

The problem for Intel

AMD was already faster even without that 15-20%

[lone mango]

But then I saw some videos about making amd performance wirse or something

Core isolation? Idk I forgot

I think core isolation works in a good way tho

[devout forum]

It wasn't intentionally handicapping AMD so much as just continuing to exclusively optimize for Intel like Microsoft did for YEARS prior at that point

Remember

[lone mango]

Must have been something else

[rancid juniper]

you guys remember Intel APO?

[lone mango]

Oh so thats what ut was

[devout forum]

Microsoft had no reason to optimize for AMD back in the Bulldozer days because nobody used AMD then

[lone mango]

It was more like they weren’t optimizing for them until recently

[rancid juniper]

that one software that promises to improve performance by correcting E-core/P-Core usage

[devout forum]

But now that AMD is faster, someone was like "Crap, we actually need to make optimizations for AMD too, people actually buy their stuff now!"

[lone mango]

Ahh

[devout forum]

Oh it flopped HARD

[sinful blade]

I got chilis today

[rancid juniper]

i dont think it did much tbh

[devout forum]

Often it made Intel chips SLOWER

[rancid juniper]

i have it installed for a while and it hasn't updated

[acoustic palm]

I bought their stuff 😄

[rancid juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/man-staring-wow-stare-staring-staring-meme-gif-939637136413014667

[lone mango]

Oh I mever showed you the nr200 on the desk i forgot

[devout forum]

If you had a Bulldozer chip that's be both impressive and kind of stupid

But by Ryzen 3000, they were established

[devout forum]

Yes plz

[acoustic palm]

Yeah

I got a 9070xt on the way

And I’ll be getting a 9700x at mc

[sinful blade]

I want another 3600 type cpu

Like it’s cheap, efficient, and doesn’t bottleneck for a while

[acoustic palm]

Mine bottlenecks 😦

[lone mango]

Two 24” monitors

[sinful blade]

You’re also running a 3060ti

[acoustic palm]

That looks sm like my setup

[craggy shoal]

Bro going for an AWS cert

[acoustic palm]

This is mine

[lone mango]

Will get azure too

But aws first since thats what i started

[craggy shoal]

Azure should be easy

[devout forum]

How wide is the desk?

[sinful blade]

Which the 3600 came out the same year as the 2080ti

[lone mango]

I mean they are kinda the same really

They follow amazon

[acoustic palm]

Good point

[devout forum]

Mine is 150cm

[lone mango]

55” wide

[devout forum]

And it's CRAMPED with the same monitor setup you run

That's uhh...

I think the same width?

Wait no

42 inches is 100cm or so

[lone mango]

48

So it would be more cramped for you

[devout forum]

Okay so I do have a wee bit less desk area than you

But it'd likely still be better than my situation

[lone mango]

Basically the case would be touching the monitor

[devout forum]

Hm

[devout forum]

It already does with the ATX case

Montech Air X

[craggy shoal]

I need another 27" 1440p monitor so I can have two horizontal monitors again. I can't stand have two different-sized monitors but both in the same orientation

[devout forum]

The one with two 200mm ARGB fans in the front

[acoustic palm]

I’m gonna get 3 monitors soon

Once my current pc sells

[devout forum]

P sure the meta is 27 horizontal and 24 vertical

[icy ore]

Ayyye happy birthday!

[devout forum]

Or just go full on TIE fighter

[lone mango]

Oh so I guess it still would free up a lot of space

[craggy shoal]

Lolll

[icy ore]

We got hibachi last night and no joke there were like 6 birthday celebrations just in the time we were there

[acoustic palm]

Thanks

[lone mango]

Im surprised you fit the atx on there

[craggy shoal]

I want three horizontals for Assetto Corsa lol

[devout forum]

It a TIGHT fit

Like

Edge to edge

I should have an image one sec

[craggy shoal]

The actual solution for all of my future tech plans: move out of my parents' house

[acoustic palm]

I will never be able to do that

😦

[lone mango]

https://tenor.com/view/morgan-freeman-true-true-what-a-nice-true-true-pizza-morgan-freeman-gif-9911910826150230625

[acoustic palm]

Unless I actually get a job at Lockheed

[craggy shoal]

Hmmm I wonder if I can find a decent(ish) priced townhouse near my gf

That way I don't have to live in an apartment

Have my own garage hmmmm

[lone mango]

What’s probably gonna happen for me is I move out with my brother and we split the place we at

[acoustic palm]

What’s your dream car

[devout forum]

The two sides and then a total of the whole desk for reference

I have a bunch of crap on my desk I should put away lol

[acoustic palm]

Damn that’s cramped

[craggy shoal]

M4 CS for now

[devout forum]

It's uncomfortable too

[acoustic palm]

No way

[lone mango]

[acoustic palm]

That’s mine too

😭

[lone mango]

Thats nuts

[devout forum]

It's a necessity setup

[craggy shoal]

In Emerald Green?

[devout forum]

I run it because it's what I have
Not because it's good

[acoustic palm]

Eh

[craggy shoal]

I like that green lol

[acoustic palm]

Matte blue and light leather seats

[devout forum]

I do have a hot take