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F76 on Gamepass is a buggy mess, I originally had it there and played but because of the bugs I bought it again on steam and also lost a month of 1st because you cannot transfer it to steam. On of the stupid bugs is related to the installation folder. If you install it in a new location, partition and not the default gamepass one when a new update comes it will not find the path and also it will just delete the whole game, you will need to install it again and again..it will just delete the whole game folder 🤣🤣. And there were more bugs. Stay away from it. Microsoft/Bethesda knows about it but they don't care..

From 8:28 - Intel don't know how to make good products anymore.

Corsair was having a black friday sale so I bought 2x 480mm radiators pump/res combo fittings hardline tubing EK waterblock should be all coming tomorrow

My M17xR3 is always on PEG mode because I have the 120hz display. I haven't tested PEG using this method in R2 but yes if you don't care for the NVMe adapter this also works. It is a bit more work initially though since you need to configure windows with which gpu is high performance and power savings. Also both GPUs should be still supported in the drivers. For example, when I had 880M, RTX 5000 was a pain to install, I had to use older geforce drivers and install as a rtx 2080. But now with M2000M in primary, which is still supported, I can install one driver. I think for R2/AW18 SG is probably still better.

I just noticed Fallout 76 is now on Xbox Gamepass. I signed up for a year on Steam for $100 = ~8.50/mo but you can transfer over your character and items to Gamepass now from Steam (not achievements). If they add World of Warcraft (they already have Diablo IV now), I'd switch in a heartbeat and save ~$6/mo AND have access to the rest of their library.

Stalker 2 is lots of fun so far. Playing on the hardest difficulty for realism and title longevity. 😃 It runs butter on a 4090, 4K@120HZ is perfect for it. Seriously surprised by that. Thank goodness for DLSS+FG. And thank goodness for a nice AAA title that incorporates those features on day 1. Some games do not lol. “Cough” “Cough” Starfield. “Cough” Cough” Ark Ascended.

I game so little that paying $15/month would be a waste of money. The $1 then cancel strategy would work for a lot of folks, but there would be more than a 50% chance that I wouldn't play any games during the introductory $1 month because I would be too busy doing other things. I also have to be in a certain mood for it. I typically play games on less than 30 days in an entire year. When I do it, I binge hard on it, then stop and don't play anything again for 60-90 days.

Something like that lol. Worth a try. Game pass as a TON of games though. So, it may be worth keeping it and paying the $15 per month or how much it cost. I cancelled mine and could not live without it, so I got it again a few months ago lol! So many games that are $60 dollar hits on Steam, are totally free on Xbox Game Pass. This game Stalker 2 runs GREAT! My minimum FPS has been 99fps, running 4K maxed out, DLSS Quality+FG getting 99-117 fps cap. My RTX4090 GPU is NOT overclocked at all. Anything outside of the red arrows is minimizing the game and going back to desktop. Pretty good for a Day 1 release on a demanding title.

Until the end of the $1 first month, or past that?

Grab a Xbox gamepass subscription for $1 dollar, then cancel it. You’ll be able to play if you have Gamepass.

Update on Windows 11 24H2 issues: - On a clean install, 24H2 always makes the discrete GPU "GPU 0," no matter installing drivers in the correct order. This can cause problems for some laptops. - No major issues on my Precision 7540. Clean 24H2 installation is snappier than old 23H2 installation, and Optimus works fine. - On my Precision 7520 with not-officially-supported Kaby Lake processor, lots of problems with discrete graphics. 1) New "Unsupported PCIe device" error, preventing discrete GPU from entering low power states. 2) On battery power, discrete GPU often fails to activate, causing "Driver Power State Failure" BSOD - 24H2 monthly update downloaded (but did not install) files for Edge and OneDrive - so I had to delete them, stop the edge update service, and remove OneDrive links from the file explorer and personal folders. GRRR

It's on my list of games to buy when the price falls to $25 or less. Looks like a good one. The original titles in the STALKER franchise were great as well. Like a pre-runner to the more modern Metro games.

yeah, me too 😄 already 3hours in. Superb game.

Already playing it 🤣 it’s the best! My Xeon 3175X+4090 is doing great. I was seeing really good performance.

Guys STALKER 2 launched, superb game! Looks awesome, some bugs here and there but its fine. I am getting around 80 to 100 FPS on EPIC with dlss3, native only the 4090 struggles around 50-60 🤣

I’m thinking about getting this motherboard. Only $250.00. 1 of 999# made. Very unique! It’s an Aqua Z490 board. I really like it.

Funny story... The center fan on my 3090 Ti FTW3 came apart. The plastic retainer molded into the fan blade on the inside that snaps the fan blade onto the spindle shaft broke and the blade fell off. I put it back with SuperGlue yesterday. It is still holding and the fan is very quiet now. It had an odd click sound that was faint and I think it was the breaking plastic allowing the blade to not fit perfectly on the spindle and go slightly out of balance. I found a new center fan assembly for it this morning and ordered it from China. If it continues to work and the blade doesn't come off while I am waiting for the shipment from China I will be pretty amazed. I don't expect it to be a permanent fix.

I think the 2080 Super could boot in a KM board although some of the video outputs may not work correctly. It would also need a modded driver to get past the subsystem ID mismatch and GSync would likely not work either. The other disadvantages to the KM board is that you would not be able to use the fourth M.2 slot as it requires an 11th Gen chip with PCIe 4 lanes. The Prema bios also only works with the SM so it may be less performance from the same chip. I would say try contacting XMG and see if they still can order the X170SM board as a spare part without all of the extra import tariffs. They recently helped someone purchase an audio sub-board for it in their discord so I think some parts may still be available dispite the age. Sager still has parts as well in the USA as I picked up a stock heatsink compatible with the 3080 mobile earlier this year.

Isn't there an unlocked BIOS for it? 17 R1 also does not support PEG, but bios unlocked does.

But m17xR3 don't support PEG anyway.

I tried but just couldnt get into RDR2 or Cyberpunk.....might try again, timing is EVERYTHING

I am super excited about how much fun you're going to get from these awesome parts.

That's a serious haul of hardware! Keanu Approved!

As the title says, humble bundle currently has a deal for a big collection of Sid Meier games. This bundle contains the past 5 Civilization games + DLCs for Civilization 6, and some other Sid Meier games I'm less familiar with. You only have to pay $18 to obtain the entire collection, so some get it while it's hot! The deal lasts for another week as of the date of this post. Enjoy! https://www.humblebundle.com/games/2k-presents-sid-meier-collection?hmb_source=&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_1_layout_index_1_layout_type_threes_tile_index_2_c_2kpresentssidmeiercollection_bundle&_gl=1*1xmxnzv*_up*MQ..*_ga*NzcxNjUwNTUzLjE3MzE0ODE2NDU.*_ga_BBZCZLHBF6*MTczMTQ4MTY0NS4xLjAuMTczMTQ4MTY1Mi4wLjAuMA..&gclid=Cj0KCQiAlsy5BhDeARIsABRc6ZucfeiADFbBRCh22Int8tkA_caIeK7Kb3vtXXRRJo29B__usIKX2b8aAgMLEALw_wcB

Christmas came early for me this year! Lol, yep, you get more done and you get your money's worth when buying from bro @Mr. Fox. A super duper mega ultra deluxe hardware bundle being placed right into my hands. You betcha awesome is here! Lots of goodies! I haven't gotten anything set up due to work being very busy this week, but I'm definitely looking forward to assembling and tuning 2 systems! One will be for me and the other will be for a buddy building his first desktop after graduating college and years of using laptops and being dissatisfied with the diminishing options for upgrade paths. Full hardware bundle contents: - Super bin i9 14900KF - i9 14900K - Asus Maximus Z790 Apex motherboard - Asrock Z690 PG Velocita motherboard - Super bin G.SKILL 32 GB 8000 MHz DDR5 memory kit (pre tuned to 8400 MHz CL 36 just for me!) - Crucial 16 GB 6000 MHz DDR5 memory kit - Gigabyte Aorus Xtreme Waterforce RTX 2080 TI (bro Fox even included an air cooler for it!) - Iceman direct die waterblock - Iceman direct touch RAM waterblock - Bykski RAM heatsinks for the super bin G.SKILL memory kit