jaybee83

welcome back my dude, grab a cookie and start posting computer hardware goodies! although we are of a dying breed here with customizable laptop hardware, there are still tons of ppl around taking good care of the golden generation DTRs 😁 as for the rest of us, we jumped onto desktops and are now going crazy with all the new possibilities hahaha

this popped up completely randomly in my youtube feed this morning, been listening to it almost on a LOOP (pun intended 😂) at work. that dude is a madlad, taking everyday sounds and remixing them into crazy vibe songs. hope he does more house style stuff like this:

10c lower on idle, thats insane. just goes to show how crappified "stock" windows is...

ah yes, Dr. Ian Cutress, definitely known for his insane deepdives, be it silicon related or otherwise haha. word! oh for this one ill be VERY curious about the argumentation. in general i would say that GN did the right thing, you should ALWAYS name and shame if someone does BS and causes harm to consumers. be it a company, youtuber, whatever...

duuuuude, way to introduce yoursefl with a BANG! awesome numbers on both the RAM and the CPU, NOICE! hoping to get such numbers once im done tweaking 😛 im still working my way up with the RAM, just takes so damn long to optimize and test for stability haha. but still fun!

whats your setup again? subtoptimal gpu util points towards a bottleneck somewhere, either hardware based on cpu or RAM or potentially also game engine based. its been a few years since crysis 3 released, after all...u might wanna check online on the engine. as for hardware, whats your setup again? might wanna look into this nifty lil tool Intel just recently released, supposedly its great for identifying gpu/cpu bottlenecks:

sooooo bro Fox what would be next on your list of potential hobbies, should PC hardware just get too crappy to bother with? open for input 🙂 Huh! MSI Kingpin cards....you got my attention! In the end, almost doesnt matter where Vince lands, as long as he keeps up the good work 🙂 only sometimes? 😛 as for the "muscling their way around", EVGA had a pretty good approach, where they would keep most of their findings close to the chest and throw smoke bombs so that Nvidia wouldnt be able and figure out how they did what they did. seemed to work quite nicely. plus, with kingpin cards so ultra highend, i think Nvidia doesnt care about that super duper small subpart of the already tiny enthusiast community that this would affect. dayum, thats seems like quite the card...wonder if that hybrid approach hinders an "air only" cooling setup, although it wouldnt be intended for that... welp, problem is if china really goes down the drain theyll suck the rest of the world down with them. similar to when the US housing market crashed, we all felt the consequences 😞 lets hope it wont be like that again...

golden times ahead for 40 series owners, yehaw! at least until Nvidia starts locking EVERYTHING down, including crossflashing official signed vbios versions 😅☠️

interesting thread, ill chime right in: my current build is actually the very first time i ever did some research with regard to keyboards. before that i just went by looks alone (i knooooow, i was a kb noob haha). i definitely wanted fullsize with numpad, wanted DBT caps for longer lifetime and after trying some switches i went the MX Brown route (Reds too linear / floppy for my taste and Blues too loud/clicky). in the end i chose Ducky, seen tons of great user reviews on them. when the time came to order my components, just so happened that the One 3 was released, so thats what i went with: from what ive seen, Ducky is basically one of the last stations u go before going full custom / self build keyboards 😄 i dont think ill ever get into it, kb are more like tools for me, no actual passion behind it. but for my first desktop build in 15 years i figured id spoil myself. the typing experience is grand, work and play are both tons of fun using this keyboard. its quite hefty in weight, feels premium, but at the same time minimialistic (i.e. no bloatware software that comes with it, everything is done via macros). switched are replaceable and i thought the color scheme is refreshingly different from the usual black / white / red stuff 🙂 my lady still thinks its WAY TOO LOUD, but then again shes not really used to mechanical kb, she prefers quieter membrane keys 😄 when we had guests over recently, she was trying to explain to them what kinda kb i had, and was like: its something old-school clicky LOUD like the keyboards they used to make in the olden days. my reaction to that: i still love her though! 😄

had to chuckle at that 😄 oh boy, welcome to the endlessly deep rabbit hole of windows decrapping / tuning my friend.... 😄 at some point ull have to probably go a step back cuz u realize u just removed some part that u need for a specific application haha. unless you only use that OS for benching 🙂 Bitsum Park Control is nice, ive been using it for quite a while now.

haha yep basically thats whats keeping me from playing that game...saw the IGN review on it and the reviewer played BG3 nonstop for 3 weeks and beat the game after 130 hours playtime...aint no well in hell i have that kinda freetime anymore! lulz

weeell good thing is now ure able to crossflash that 4090 FE 😉 downloaded and saved for future use, as well!

the thing that lets hardware degrade and die off quickly is voltage and heat. so just do some testing, if theres not much additional heat and u dont overvolt theres no real worries 🙂

ah shoot, you ninja'd me to it... also which paste did you use before? @KING19

Do it.

agreed on all points there. oh geez those FC thumbnails....lulz

damn, sux to be you my friend....time for an external storage upgrade! go gettem Papu! https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-makes-1000-profit-on-h100-gpus-report btw, 1000% profit margins, anyone? so yeah, why would they give a crap about us gamers / benchers.... 😄 were only at a MEASLY 50-100% margin or so hahaha

welp, the subscribers are definitely pulling out of floatplane.... https://floatplane.wtf/ other sources also floating around, i.e. reddit / ltt forum, etc. peak was somewhere around 41000 so basically lost 12% of their subs inside 2 days. nice?!

oh ure definitely the cool uncle now... you gotta reputation to uphold moving forward, no pressure! 😄

nice sum up of events thus far. here some links as to the LTT employee and her experiences: https://www.dexerto.com/tech/ex-linus-tech-tips-employee-alleges-mistreatment-and-poor-conditions-2251613/ https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/news-i-told-i-chunky-fat-ugly-stupid-youtuber-madison-suop-opens-reveals-left-linus-media-group-amid-recent-controversy

haha yep sounds about right! sadly thats also why ill likely not play it anytime soon 😄 i have about one to two hours of personal freetime (best case) a day that i usually spend watching TV shows or tuning / benching my setup 😛 still lots to finetune! AND OMG ARE YOU KIDDING MEEEE 😮 there goes my little freeetime.... 😄 edit: just watched the trailer and i had instant goosebumps! btw its hilarious that they even tried to mimick a greek accent while narrating hahaha. in the beginning they did it well but slacked off a bit at the end. still, kudos! 🙂

Some more interesting stuff coming to light in the wake of the GN video: https://www.dexerto.com/tech/ex-linus-tech-tips-employee-alleges-mistreatment-and-poor-conditions-2251613/ https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/news-i-told-i-chunky-fat-ugly-stupid-youtuber-madison-suop-opens-reveals-left-linus-media-group-amid-recent-controversy phew this sounds terrible... but sadly this somehow fits the overall LTT working environment were now getting deeper insights into...

its hilarious to see my lady all of a sudden following the tech tuber drama like shes part of the tech community. drama at its finest drawing in the masses! 😄

sup mah dudes! i just got myself my very first display colorimeter, very curious to try it out: funny enough, i had its predecessor in my wishlist for ages now, the Calibrite Colorchecker Display Plus. Now that i finally came around to making a purchase i realized its successor was just released like a month ago, perfect timing! apparently the new models have a higher capability to properly calibrate HDR monitors, which is of course nice to have in my case with the up to 2000 nits Neo G8 🙂 have to admit im a total noob when it comes to display calibration, but i figured id give it a shot, especially since the Neo G8 was among the top 3 most expensive parts of my build (after the MSI 4090 and the Asus X670EE).

ive heard / seen good things about Baldurs Gate 3, supposedly breaking all records on metacritic and concurrent player numbers. anyone tried it yet?