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About STRMfrmXMN

  • Birthday April 5

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Portland, Oregon. My rent is too damn high.
  • Interests
    Plaid, Cars and Computers.
  • Member title
    Trying to make peace with the world ✌

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  • CPU
    Intel Core i5 8600K
  • Motherboard
    Gigabyte Z390 UD
  • RAM
    G.Skill Trident Z 3200 MHz B-die
  • GPU
    EVGA GTX 1660 Ti
  • Case
    NZXT S340 Black
  • Storage
    Samsung 850 EVO 250GB (Windows) + 1 TB SK Hynix Gold S31
  • PSU
    EVGA 550GS
  • Display(s)
    Asus VG248QE 144hz + Dell U2515H 1440P IPS 60Hz
  • Cooling
    Noctua D15S + color explosion of Noctua fans
  • Keyboard
    CM Rapid Quickfire TKless w/all blue keycaps and a big ol mouse mat with a Vette on it
  • Mouse
    Logitech G403 + special carpal tunnel mouse for those with weak ass wrist muscles like me
  • Sound
    Mayflower O2/ODAC->JBL LSR305 + Sennheiser HD 600 + Audio Technica SR50BT
  • Operating System
    Windows 10
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  1. In the midst of the adblocker YouTube nonsense, I have found my unique workaround:

     

    I have a Galaxy S22 with ReVanced installed

    I use a Windows PC with Samsung DeX installed. 

     

    Plug phone into PC and run DeX. I now have fullscreen ad-less YouTube with dislikes and no adblocker notifications. I suppose this is just using the Android app with extra steps, but it makes it a lot easier to watch on a desktop as long as you can stand watching videos at around 30 FPS and slightly lower quality.

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    2. emothxughts

      emothxughts

      I just use Firefox with uBlock Orgin on my PC, all filters on. And of course Revanced on the phone. Never seen the anti-adblock thingies myself.

    3. Dabombinable

      Dabombinable

      7 hours ago, emothxughts said:

      I just use Firefox with uBlock Orgin on my PC, all filters on. And of course Revanced on the phone. Never seen the anti-adblock thingies myself.

      My brother's PC has uBlock Origin and he received the message. While I didn't and I'm the one who installed it for him.

    4. emothxughts

      emothxughts

      14 hours ago, Dabombinable said:

      My brother's PC has uBlock Origin and he received the message. While I didn't and I'm the one who installed it for him.

      Has he tried "purge all caches" > "update now" > "apply changes" on the dashboard? I heard the anti-adblock thing will leak unless you did that, so I did just that before watching YT on PC again.

  2. Went ahead and decided (finally) on my CPU upgrade. Found a used 12700K on eBay for $180. Seemed too good to be true, but went forward with it. Simultaneously bought an MSI Z690 Tomahawk DDR4 board. Lo-and-behold, the price was too good to be true and the seller cancelled my order. Now waiting on a CPU from Atlanta, GA, and that hasn't shipped yet and is making me nervous. This one was a more believable $200. 

     

    Excited to not have stutters in Forza anymore. 8600K has served me well but modern games are starting to get tricky on these older hexacores.

    1. SImoHayha

      SImoHayha

      lmao what. 12700k for 180$ damn and they forgot to change the price? That's pretty wack...

  3. Am I crazy or is it way more common to actually need to check the memory QVL of modern motherboards? Back in the Haswell CPU days, I swear you could grab any RAM off the shelf and put it in any system, both AMD or Intel, turn on XMP, and boom, you were speedy. When Ryzen first came out, I ended up getting so frustrated trying different kits of RAM with my 1700X (and none ever getting anywhere close to their advertised speeds, even after checking the QVL on my Asus boards) that I sold it and bought my 8600K. Now it seems like 12th and 13th-gen Intel CPUs as well as Ryzen 7000 CPUs need a lot of double-checking to make sure they work with DDR5 kits. 

     

    Do CPUs or boards have looser memory controller tolerances or something? What changed?

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    2. Dabombinable

      Dabombinable

      2 hours ago, STRMfrmXMN said:

      Am I crazy or is it way more common to actually need to check the memory QVL of modern motherboards? Back in the Haswell CPU days, I swear you could grab any RAM off the shelf and put it in any system, both AMD or Intel, turn on XMP, and boom, you were speedy. When Ryzen first came out, I ended up getting so frustrated trying different kits of RAM with my 1700X (and none ever getting anywhere close to their advertised speeds, even after checking the QVL on my Asus boards) that I sold it and bought my 8600K. Now it seems like 12th and 13th-gen Intel CPUs as well as Ryzen 7000 CPUs need a lot of double-checking to make sure they work with DDR5 kits. 

       

      Do CPUs or boards have looser memory controller tolerances or something? What changed?

      You clearly haven't worked with any of Gigabyte's LGA1155 and 1150 motherboards - they are extremely picky with miss-matched sticks. To the point with my friends PC that I had to install them in a particular order, making sure to boot into the BIOS after adding each stick. And they were the same model sticks, just separated by a few years.

      Getting 20GB of RAM installed in my brother's LGA1155 PC was as bad, with added instability.

    3. SImoHayha

      SImoHayha

      IDK homie, I usually never had issues. Obviously BIOS updates help stabilize some RAM products and what not. Usually by the time I upgrade most of that RAM iffyness goes away .

    4. STRMfrmXMN

      STRMfrmXMN

      On 9/10/2023 at 1:57 AM, Dabombinable said:

      You clearly haven't worked with any of Gigabyte's LGA1155 and 1150 motherboards - they are extremely picky with miss-matched sticks. To the point with my friends PC that I had to install them in a particular order, making sure to boot into the BIOS after adding each stick. And they were the same model sticks, just separated by a few years.

      Getting 20GB of RAM installed in my brother's LGA1155 PC was as bad, with added instability.

      Lol, I've had like 7 motherboards on LGA1150 and legitimately every single one of them was a Gigabyte board. I've never had anything but Gigabyte boards with the exception of my Ryzen system which had a couple different Asus boards due to them having wildly superior VRMs at the time. Every one of those boards had no issues with RAM compatibility on LGA1150 (ignoring that one with the bent memory controller pins... whoops).

       

      I'm surprised more people haven't had memory issues with how much I'm reading about them. Guess I have PTSD over first-gen Ryzen...

       

      I just bought an i7 12700KF and my used MSI Z690 Tomahawk DDR4 board arrived today. I'm excited for the upgrade. Of course, being out of the loop as I am, I didn't realize the 12th gen CPU socket bending was a thing until after I had ordered the board. Oh well. Guessing that might be a smidge overblown?

  4. Why yes, of course I brought popcorn to the LTT forums this week. 

    1. connorpiper

      connorpiper

      I logged back on for the first time in a couple years for this. Not surprised how poorly LTT has responded.

  5. I think the plan makes sense to go 12900K, but it seems like a heat brick. Will I have issues cooling it at stock clocks with a Noctua D15S?
  6. I do have a D15S and it takes a seriously crazy amount of voltage for my 8600K to get to 100C, but I don't doubt a 9900K would trouble it a bit. It's a shame my 8600K requires 1.405V to run steady at 5 GHz, hence I run 4.9 @ 1.37.
  7. Thanks all. It's insane how expensive the 9900K is on the used market. This would very much be a different discussion if that CPU weren't so expensive when i7s on the same platform can be had for around $100. Anyhoo. I think I'll be grabbing a 12900K here shortly!
  8. Hey all, hope you're well. I've been out of date with PC hardware for a bit, but my 8600K is starting to show its age and I need something a bit better. I run into performance issues in Forza when playing it at 144 Hz and running a Youtube video or the like in the background with CPU usage hitting 100% even while the CPU is overclocked. I have a Gigabyte Z390 UD ATX board and 3200 MHz Samsung B-die RAM. I'd ideally pop a 9900K in this system to keep it going but they're stupid expensive for how old they are and much better IPC comes with newer stuff while still allowing me to keep my DDR4. I'm eyeing a used 12900K for $250 and finding a used Z690/Z790 board with Wi-Fi 6/6E to pair it with as a potential replacement. It would probably cost $120 bucks more or so, but will absolutely eat power and is currently overkill for me, plus I'd need to get a new adapter plate for my Noctua cooler. A 9900K would be an easy drop-in but is nowhere worth it's price in performance. It still would do everything I'd need of it without issue (I'm rocking a 1660 Ti... so there are some other more serious bottlenecks to be found poking around in my system).
  9. My 8600k is starting to not cut it anymore, even at 4.9 GHz (mine is a dud overclocker). Do I spend $~250 for a used 9900K or do I buy a new/used platform? Currently eyeing a used 12900K for $250 and finding a used DDR4 LGA1700 board for it and keeping my Samsung B-die DDR4. What do y'all think? I'm just running into performance issues in Forza Horizon while running like a live stream or YouTube video in the background. 

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    2. Dabombinable

      Dabombinable

      5 hours ago, STRMfrmXMN said:

      It's a huge multithread upgrade but the CPU is so old, so power hungry, so expensive, and I'd only upgrade to it because of the convenience. I don't really want a new board/platform but it may just make the most sense.

      The 12900K consumes more power - so that's really a moot point. Also, DDR4 kind of kneecaps the 12000 series.

    3. STRMfrmXMN

      STRMfrmXMN

      I think for the applications I use (mostly video games) my B-die is still faster than most DDR5 up until like 6000 MHz+ and it's kind of a draw at times.

    4. TVwazhere

      TVwazhere

      As someone who's still on their 4790K, I couldnt imagine upgrading to the next gen (6700, pretending that's a compatible swap for a second) when I can get the same CPU price on a much newer gen for way more performance. 

       

      If the 9900K was $75-100 it'd be much more considerable. And completely understanding that you'd have to buy a new board, isn't the build process half of the fun of PC's? It sure is for me 😉 

  10. Ever since I upgraded my GTX 970 to a 1660 Ti I get tons of stutters in Overwatch. Even after reinstalling Windows the problem still occurs, so I'm certain it's not a driver issue. Low GPU utilization (around 10%) and CPU utilization around 75-80%. What the heck is going on? My 970 performed better much of the time... It's a used card, so can't RMA, but the card behaves fine otherwise. Maybe a Furmark stress test is in order?

    1. TVwazhere

      TVwazhere

      13 hours ago, STRMfrmXMN said:

      Ever since I upgraded my GTX 970 to a 1660 Ti I get tons of stutters in Overwatch. Even after reinstalling Windows the problem still occurs, so I'm certain it's not a driver issue. Low GPU utilization (around 10%) and CPU utilization around 75-80%. What the heck is going on? My 970 performed better much of the time... It's a used card, so can't RMA, but the card behaves fine otherwise. Maybe a Furmark stress test is in order?

      Might be a dumb question, but are you sure the game is using the GPU, and not the iGPU in the i5-8600K?

    2. STRMfrmXMN

      STRMfrmXMN

      I thought about that, but my BIOS disabled the iGPU automatically. But that was a possibility I looked into.

    3. STRMfrmXMN

      STRMfrmXMN

      Alrighty, been a few days but it turns out that the power saving stuff was kicking in on my GPU because of how little Overwatch uses it. Went into the Nvidia Control Panel and set the power setting to maximum performance and no longer have shutters.

  11. The issues you describe, to me, sound like issues that any machine could have whether EV or not. Problems coming up so often that solving them becomes routine. How many EA888 water pumps have our techs done in a quarter of book time? Also, were these forklifts that were on the cheaper end (I don't know the market at all, sorry. I've heard of Hyster!) and thus particularly hard to keep running? I'm assuming the electric ones were more expensive. It wouldn't surprise me if that were the case. Most EVs are more expensive than most other ICE cars because the technology is still expensive and will take awhile to become cheaper. From what I can tell from every EV car I've had to help with or seen come in, they are much more reliable than competing ICE cars. Problems they encountered were due to poor engineering. The Bolt EV having battery fires comes to mind, a'la Ford Pinto. Our RS E-tron GTs have 6 or 7 ghost codes that we have to hide from the ECU when the cars come in because the fix is a software update that Audi says will be released next year. These things could still happen with ICE cars. On Audis, it sounds like the EVs are better interconnected to the ECUs in the car and thus give more prevalent data for diagnostics. Whereas an ICE car could have a P0420 for a vacuum leak, a bad catalytic converter, a bad O2 sensor, etc. Also, to be fair, most people with EVs do not drive them anywhere near as much as the average ICE car owner. Time will tell. I'm pretty ready for most cars to be electric. The power grid issues and technological hurdles are what's getting in my way I got lots of pics, some not as up-to-date (none of these pics show the Mach V wing), but I got a few!
  12. I remember a friend of mine with an identical Legacy GT wagon to mine telling me "yeah the oil light doesn't come on on our cars until they're two quarts low on oil" and I was like "Yo that's the pressure light dude! Don't let it get that low!" It was a miracle that car survived his ownership before he sold it... Also had a lady that came in with a bit over 12K on the oil in her Q5 a couple weeks ago. She hadn't done an oil change in over a year. She comes in saying her car is saying the oil is a quart low which can't be possible because she had it topped off last time she was in... in December the year prior. I tried to explain to her that oil does burn a little faster as it goes through more wear and tear and that she is a couple thousand miles over her oil change due date, so not only is it causing a lot of premature wear on her engine which will cause it to burn faster, but that oil is also not in great shape anymore and will burn a smidge faster. The light wouldn't be on if she would have done an oil change two thousand miles ago! She wouldn't have it and insisted something was wrong with her car... which I guess isn't wrong because I don't believe newer cars should burn oil ever, but I digress. I need the generally car-idiot populace to adopt EVs already. I can deal with the occasional TPMS light and stuck sunroof.
  13. I feel like you went down a weirdly political rant.... This has nothing to do with religion either. This is a car thread. Fossil fuel/energy independence is a tricky subject and has very little to do with who is president and largely due to global economic forces and the "trusty" hand of OPEC. The best thing to do to become less energy-dependent on other countries would be to become less dependent on almighty oil. Oil industry lobbying has been powerful no matter who the president is. Moving to EVs is a start, although moving to more widely-adopted public transit is a far more thorough one. This also gets us into the really tricky subject of globalization and how good or bad being dependent and having interconnected commerce between nations is or isn't. My point was the US military is as expansive worldwide as it is because of our dependence on fossil fuels from other countries. It doesn't matter how "energy independent" we are as we are wholly too dependent on a resource that we consume obscene amounts of. Moving to EVs is both a short- and long-term solution to removing ourselves from fossil fuel dependence. Like all new technologies it takes time to adopt. We may find more moral ways of extracting cobalt and lithium later on. We may find ways of engineering solar panels to charge cars reasonably quickly while they sit outside. We may find that solid state batteries become so potent that the current huge battery capacity of a Model S would be enough to power a dump truck for thousands of miles 10, 20, 30 years from now. Who knows - we might undo the massive lobbying effects of General Motors in the 1950s having created the level of car-dependence we know today and affix public transportation systems that would massively reduce all forms of emissions. Trains!
  14. Oh god, 18K OCis would drive me crazy. You can audibly hear that the EA888 is not happy when oil is run that ragged. I can't even believe that Audi recommends 10K oil changes on their cars given how much they burn oil... Call me old-fashioned but I still change my oil every 3K. I use synthetic on a modified turbo car. I'm sure the oil could go longer but it's cheap insurance. On a modern DI car I wouldn't stretch things beyond maybe 7K. There's a lot of fuel in there after awhile...
  15. I think you're intentionally being daft if you don't think our lack of adoption is mostly fueled by the incredibly potent forces of fossil fuel industry lobbying. Electricity as a mainstay to the level we have it now is only a relatively recent phenomenon. If you think lithium mining is morally concerning then wait till ya hear about how many wars we've been in over fossil fuel and why we have such an expansive and expensive military in the states... Oh, need I remind you about fracking incidents like what happened with Deepwater Horizon in 2010 with BP. It should also be noted you cannot refuel an ICE car with solar panels, which is what I meant by "renewably." Thanks! Atlantic blue pearl! This was taken through Lightroom which kinda dulls the color a lot. The color is a lot brighter in real life. Thanks! Yes, the Brembo brakes are from a 2004 STi. The fronts bolt right up without issue and the rears need some adapting and trimming of the dust shield to fit the parking brake assembly and all that. Way, way expensive considering I don't track the car but the pedal feel is so much better and they look way cooler! If you were that strongly involved in the industry I think you'd understand that I'm referring to the MPG equivalent as kWh/100 km. Range is such a variable thing, hence we shouldn't be using it, hence I say that EVs are in their infancy - the public adoption of it is still extremely low and people can only think in range anxiety measures of EV efficiency even though longer range doesn't indicate more efficiency. Your example of range being an indicator of when the car is going to be "empty" is a perfect example, although despite the thousands of electric cars I've driven, I've never been stranded by one. The E-Tron we use as a shuttle still goes a bit after it hits "0 miles" as did all the Bolts at the Chevy dealer. My assumption is that you were working on vehicles that underwent far harsher conditions than cars typically do. I would probably agree that I'd rather have a crane with an ICE backup, for example. I work for an Audi dealer and, although they don't break much (and don't worry, Audi still found a way to make electric cars break!) the only maintenance that they recommend are tire rotations every 10K miles and coolant changes every 100K or something along those lines. The Bolts I worked with at Chevy were every 140K for the cooling system. Obviously stuff like window regulators and door lock actuators can still break on these cars, but they don't have all the oily bits that break. ICE cars need transmission fluid changes, they need way, way more frequent coolant changes, differential fluid changes, new clutches, new air intake filters, new brake components far more often, etc. It's deliberately obtuse to say that they need just as much regular maintenance. They simply do not. I have an instagram for the car if you'd like more pictures! It has a lot done. Just hit 238K miles yesterday! It has too much to list off the top of my head here, but you can see the suspension is lowered, the Mach V wing, etc.
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