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  2. 220VoltsallCore
    so does 1080p look bad even in 1440p monitors?
  3. floris-bastiaan
    do some wane no a left side pc
  4. Bryan Lei
    OS: Windows 11 Pro 23H2 SSD: Kingston A400 SATA SSD (a replacement for now) *120gb
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  6. Average Nerd
    There are internal HBA cards, you can also buy them preflashed to IT mode. I'd say the most easy option would be to use something like TrueNAS for the OS, it uses software RAID and it's well documented. TrueNAS does not support RAID cards, only HBAs!
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  8. AngelaHornung
    So effectively it seems that it is agreed upon that consoles are being held to a higher standard in terms of the issue of physical media due to the following reasons that aren't as or present at all on PCs. Closed eco-system DRM I suppose I can see the merit, but personally I think the issue is a lack of choice to have physical media and the DRM.
  9. Vicarian
    Digital only copies of games are becoming more prevalent on consoles as well. For instance, the PS5 has versions that shipped without a disc drive. PlayStation, Microsoft, and Nintendo all operate digital only storefronts. Many retailers are ceasing to stock physical PC media, and big publishers seem to be moving away from that space as well. This could be due to the dominance of Steam and seemingly every publisher under the sun trying to scrape a bit of crumbs from Valve's 30% feasting table. All that said, I'm part of the demographic that those moves make sense for. I prefer digital media. I've had too many discs of games get broken on accident. Most heartbreaking was my copy of Morrowind, my favorite game of all time. I replaced it, but had to purchase another copy. Zenimax was having none of my "I accidentally broke my disc" story. At least with digital copies of games, I don't have to argue with a publisher to grant me the ability to continue to play a game I purchased and ended up losing through no fault of my own. Somewhat tangentially related, just saying that publishers don't always make good decisions: publishers enjoy killing good games that many people enjoy (e.g. Ubisoft and The Crew). I support the "Stop Killing Games" endeavor by Ross Scott, but as I'm in the States, I have little recourse for action since I don't own a copy of The Crew. So, even digital media isn't completely safe in the end. Late stage capitalism, right?
  10. Eigenvektor
    And your operating system and SSD in question are? Maybe provide a bit more info about the system in general and what you're using it for. The writes have to come from somewhere, so it's going to matter whether you're simply playing games or encoding terabytes of video data or something.
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  12. Bryan Lei
    I've replaced my SSD twice now, because the old one with around 200 days open has been rapidly dying (health) and I noticed that the lifetime writes are around 80TB already! So I bought a replacement and did a disk clone from the old drive (only 240GB SSDs) and after 1 day of using I was surprised that it has over 6TB of lifetime writes, and now at day 3 it's over 8TB! Is there a problem with my operating system?
  13. Dylan Staples
    I suspect the issue might be with the Asus aura I got a warning on the event viewer about it when I was able to long on one time. I'm going to try booting from a different SSD that is running windows 10 and then I'll try reinstalling windows 11 as a last resort and see if that solves things, cause I feel the issue is software related.
  14. emosun
    way to read
  15. ProtonicGamerz
    Thanks for the advice man here in India a used 1080 gpu is very hard to find and is almost double the price of the rtx 3050 6gb. Would rtx 3050 6gb be my bet?
  16. Dylan Staples
    Ya the freezing happened when I installed a Windows update and updated some drivers. But I was able to take the drive out of my PC and put it in an older desktop I had and boot from it with no issues. I then from there proceeded to roll back the updates and drivers I had installed. Hardware is only 2-3 years old(specs in my original post) Nothing recently, about a month or so ago I installed firestorm for GPU monitoring but it's been running fine with it.
  17. okkee
    The problem with a higher wattage gpu is that the pc will just crash under load with the regular psu. Had a optiplex 3020 that I put a 570 in and there were constant crashes once the gpu wanted more than 100w. Cause, technically, 200 bucks should get you a decent used 5700xt/1070ti/1080 or if looking at new stuff a 6600. You should look into case swapping or maybe just pulling the parts and putting them on a different mobo.
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  19. YamiYukiSenpai
    huh. Never thought of that TBH. I do have a service in my server that's using contents in an external drive.
  20. frozensun
    So even it started issue (freezing) very soon after launching Unigine Heaven which was not the case before. Now I did messed up something from one website advising what to do in case of this error, I believe I did add some reg value. So one last thing to do is that I did removed latest installed nVidia driver with DDU and installled version from Dell website some older 4xx... version, and I ran Unigine Heaven and will leave it for an hour...wish me luck, so far so good.
  21. 8tg
    Thats the point you dingus. With PC the idea of digital media is less of a concern because you have the control over the media to work around dumb things like game launchers. That’s why nobody really cares about the media being dominantly digital only. As opposed to consoles using digital only content, where these types of workarounds are a lot harder or currently nonexistent.
  22. 8tg
    It is windows 8.1, but it doesn’t matter. The existence of the DRM to begin with is the problem. It’s an example of media longevity where an item of media was constricted in its possible playable states, and the benefit of the PC as a platform in terms of being able to keep user control of the media means it doesn’t matter. It’s not shown to be doable as of yet with digital consoles.
  23. Pitboy64
    Actually thats pretty darn good, better than the OG. ... unfortunately I doubt they will use it ... they dont go for new stuff often.
  24. da na

    Status Update

    da na replied to Lightwreather's status update

    this is someone's fetish
  25. WoodyTheMighty
    I'm wondering if I can hop in a call with someone to explain all of this as there is a lot of issues I'm having Here are the specs: Motherboard - Aorus x570 Elite GPU - RTX 2070 Super Windforce 3x CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 3600, Corsair H100i Platinum RAM - Corsair Vengence 32gb(2x16) PSU - Corsair RM750X Storage - Seagate BarraCuda 2 TB and SSD Samsung 970Evo 1TB Monitor - 2x ASUS VG258QR 25" Full HD 165Hz & 1x MSI MAG272C OS - Windows 11 64BIT Basic Info about issues Issues with booting Random screen flickering (issue with the monitor is that all my monitors flick off for about 2-3 seconds about 3-4 times after I boot and sign in every time) Some games engines randomly crashing Mouse disconnecting all the time randomly Audio glitches Frame drops Latency drops P.S. also reinstalled fresh about 15 times in the space of 2 weeks, same issue happens every time, like it fixes it self for a day or two
  26. Shoonay
    Okay, but do these cables physically exist outside of general spec tables? Any names? Links?
  27. da na
    Because it's a lot easier to remove DRM and online requirements from a PC game than a console game.
  28. da na

    excuse me, Eminem computer WHAT?

    da na replied to da na's status update

    Well I searched it and... We can stop writing songs now. We've reached the peak
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  31. AngelaHornung
    Certainly while not the be all end all, but its like the Amazon of PC gaming, its where most people will go.
  32. Techstorm970

    excuse me, Eminem computer WHAT?

    Techstorm970 replied to da na's status update

    "Bing Search" Explained. Dismissed.
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