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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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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.
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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.
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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 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. -
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?
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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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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.
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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
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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?
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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?
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