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Define "just works" because from my experience there is no distro where things "just work". I always have to fix some stupid stuff and almost give up in the process. The irony being that the things you think are easy to fix take hours / days to find solution to and the things you think may be impossible just sometimes take one command line Obviously over time you learn to deal with these things but if you're new you often don't even know WHAT to search for to find the solution. I feel like people get hyped into Linux with and then get frustrated and leave. Instead of going in expecting a big learning curve at the start... unless you literally just need a web browser and text editor. (even then you can run into issues). And people who already know how to tread the waters a bit will also probably know what distro suits them better at this point so I don't really see much point in posts like this. I agree that ARmoury Crate is bad. I always disable it in the BIOS immediately.. same for the GIGABYTE and MSI alternatives.

I have recently moved my setup from an openbench to inside a case. The new case is Lian Li O11D mini, not the airflow one. After the transition, I notice my game started to having stutters, random frame pauses. Checking with the RiverTune software, it is confirmed that my frametiming is spiking. This issue did not exist, or at least not noticeable, when it is on the openbench. The game in question is F1 23, as it is the one I had time playing since the transition. I will update the post when I had time to test other games. What may have caused this issue to rise up now? Some background to the setups: 1) I have been running in an openbench setup for almost an year now. The decision to move it back into a case was because the machine needs to be on 24/7. Leaving it on an openbench will require cleaning more frequently, which for most of the time I am not home near the machine. 2) My specs are: NH-D15 cooling a Ryzen 9 7900X with offset bracket, RTX 3080 FTW3, 64GB DDR5 6000Mhz RAM, 4TB + 1TB NVME gen 4 SSD. Case configuration for the fans are 3 bottom intake, 2 side intake, 3 top exhaust. Fan profile for the fans are 2 side intake stay at a constant speed, only top and bottom row change base on temperature of GPU. 3) Temperatures during gaming Openbench - CPU: mid 70s Celsius; GPU: mid 60s Celsius; GPU Mem: low 80s Celsius (+15-20Celsius of GPU Core); Storage: 50 Celsius In case - CPU: low 80s Celsius; GPU: low 70s Celsius; GPU Mem: low 90s Celsius (+15-20Celsius of GPU Core); Storage: 54 Celsius My thoughts are the increase in temperature may have caused the increase in stuttering, but they are all within acceptable ranges.

So I had Manjaro Mate (sounds like a Linux issue, but it isn't) anyway I decided to try KDE Plasma. So first I installed it so I could boot to that or Mate. Manjaoes site says issues could happen, but I was going to get KDE how I wanted, then ininstaall Mate, but it ended up wjere I would boot to it, to a frozen DE. So went to USB that fifn't even get into KDE, started loading it up, but just a blank green/blue screen (a bit color blind, not sure). Same with DVD, they both worked fine on anther older sys in the house. I figured take the drive out, install KDE on the other sys, it worked, not on this sys. So I thought to try the aomi (sp) backup rescue vootup USB. I think it is Windows PE for restoring windows backups no go.

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Is my water cooler Lian Li GALAHAD AIO 360 SL RGB V2 dying? Its been acting and jump to 80C and down to 50c at normal usage allo the time. No gaming. Or have i accidently changed something is hsould changed? I have windows 10 and fans set tp pwn. OR im im just stupid? Setup: Lian Li GALAHAD AIO 360 SL RGB V2 AMD Ryzen 9 5900X CPU - 12 kerner ASUS ROG STRIX B550-A GAMING Bundkort - AMD B550 - AMD AM4 Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB DDR4-3600 Lian li unifans

Thank you everyone. I was pretty sure he'd be fine with what he has but I wanted to double check.

THAT will be a big problem then. I'll NEVER find them all again...

9 years is a LONG time, and I've basically been using this thing every day nonstop. Between the 200+ Skyrim mods, custom launchers for beta games like Clone Hero, and little tiny programs like "redirect Cortana to Google" and stuff, there's been thousands of little things. I'll never get them all. I just hope that even if I can't clone the drive perfectly, I can at least ACCESS the things on the old drive. I won't wipe it. I'll keep it as an E drive if I ever need to look for something that didn't transfer.

SSD is overpriced PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor (€389.90 @ Megekko) CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III A-RGB 48.82 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (€70.06 @ Amazon Netherlands) Motherboard: MSI B650 GAMING PLUS WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard (€175.05 @ Amazon Netherlands) Memory: G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory (€134.90 @ Amazon Netherlands) Storage: Lexar NM710 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (€108.85 @ Azerty) Video Card: Inno3D Twin X2 GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 12 GB Video Card (€619.00 @ Azerty) Case: Montech AIR 903 MAX ATX Mid Tower Case (€88.85 @ Megekko) Power Supply: Cooler Master MWE Gold V2 ATX3.0 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (€96.15 @ Amazon Netherlands) Total: €1682.76 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-04-19 15:21 CEST+0200

Hey, I made a little video for you to hear the Notte. I was running Prime 95 with small FFTs torture test with both the top and front glass panels off, no front dust filter, and the AIO was mounted on the top with fans intaking, sandwiched between the case and radiator. Then, I added the front dust filter. Finally, I added the glass panels. You should notice a definite drop in sound. I hope that helps. Moderator: If this somehow violates the rules, even given that I made this video JUST BECAUSE OF THE OP's concern about noise, please let me know and I will edit it out and send the link privately.

Oh okay, thank you

That AIO is poop, get the arctic

Exactly. There's only three appropriate solutions: 1. If a game is withdrawn from sale. It must become de-facto public domain. 2. If a game remains for sale but it's only the online component is withdrawn, they must open source the "server" component of the game, and patch the game so that the servers it communicates can be defined by the user. 3. If a game is a MMO, and a subscription, or microtransactions are used to secure "property" within the MMO, then a shutdown of the MMO must result in a refund of ALL property transactions back to the customer. For example, Final Fantasy XIV, you can only secure your property (house) in the game if you remain subscribed. If Square Enix one day decides to shut the whole thing down, and you've been subscribed to it for 10 years, you should be given a refund of $1800 for the destruction of your property. Games like Fortnite, if it's ever shutdown, should have every single Vbucks refunded. Gacha-driven games like Genshin Impact, likewise. The company only gets to keep subscription or microtransaction money if there is no attachment to property in the game. So if you bought a mount? You should get a refund. If you bought a skin? You should get a refund. If you bought anything that persists as an item, you should get a refund. Square Enix, has shut down numerous microtransaction heavy games, and they're not the only ones. They run a game for 6 months or 2 years and then shut it down. For what? A tax write off?

Thanks everyone for the advice, i did some combining and thought... eh at this price point might as well not skimp on anything and did some combining and came out to this for now: https://nl.pcpartpicker.com/list/XpfV9c.

Hello! It's my first post on this forum, so I'd like to say 'good day' to you all:) I'm writing with info that might interest most of you, albeit those of you, who are familiar with and used mods in the past, I think, will be most glad about this: CDPR released an official mod kit for Witcher 3. What does that mean? That means, in the future, Witcher 3 has much bigger modding possibilities: new quests, new DLCs, small and big, I'd go as far as to say: new territories (similar to the DLC: Blood and Wine). And I'm pretty hyped up about it! Just think Skyrim possibilities in Witcher 3. Because of the fact Witcher 3 and CP2077 are made from the same or similar engines (not sure), I'd say it is maybe not probable, because there is nothing official for Cyberpunk 2077 as of right now, but something to think about...? EDIT:

yeah there's tons of shops with free shipping, why is op looking for cheap shipping, free is better than cheap pretty sure they do ship to eu yes

I was mainly asking for opinion, id need people to sign consent forms and take part in a short participation form for me to actually use any of it. Thought it would be an interesting point of discussion regardless Also if anyone knows any examples of times that this has become a serious discussion in the past, please let me know. Would be heavily appreciated.

i got to give that old psu to my friend now, so i really need a new psu, please suggest.

that's two countries... also tough luck, mindfactory has free shipping if you order overnight and to Germany (hence tough luck) otherwise Amazon (prime)

Hey guys, glad this got some interest. You don't need to, but if anyones willing to give any opinion whilst taking part in the research for my dissertation, could you sign this consent form and ill be able to email you the actual participation document Should take 10-15 minutes maximum. 5 if you're really mad about the issue figured a bigger opinion pool would be really helpful. All data gathered will be completely anonymous when utilised in the paper. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfBU1PXR5R1v5Gnx31togg7LadYhkoBeSpSBSOfljiG_DAPyw/viewform?usp=sf_link

I am now on my second 14900ks and it seems that it is unstable even at Intel recommended settings. The issue seems to be that the p-cores fail when both hyperthreads on the same p-core are pushed to high clock speeds. This seems to happen with integer workloads particularly when compiling code, or sometimes when uncompressing files. With a multi-core load the power limits prevent the p-cores boosting high enough to experience the problem, for example testing with Cinebench on single core does not trigger the problem (because you need two threads on the same p-core) and multi-core does not trigger the problem because of the power limits. Also it is not clear that Cinebench creates the right kind of load on the CPU. It seems that just setting the power limits to 253W as Intel recommend is not enough to fix this CPU. What I want to know is does this problem affect all 14900ks (maybe even 14900k etc...)? The test I am using, is under Gentoo Linux, compling gcc with the command: MAKEOPTS="-j3" taskset -c 8-9 emerge -1 gcc where the vCPU selected in the taskset are both on the same 'preferred' p-core, that is one that can boost to 6.2GHz. So far this test reliably fails within a few seconds on both of the 14900ks I have tested. It is harder to recreate this test under windows because Thread Director tries to load only one hyper-thread onto each p-core before using the second hyper-thread, by which time time package power limits will be limiting the max boost of the p-cores. You may be able to trigger the fault under Windows by setting off a large compile or decompression with CPU affinity set to both hyper-threads in the same preferred p-core. I would appreciate if anyone with a 14900ks (or k) could try and replicate this result. I would also be interested in whether this affects other 14th gen CPUs.