EvilWiffles

I really love my OnePlus 12R. Battery life is solid, specs are good, screen looks great. The fast charging is the best feature with 80w fast charging. The midrange phones are very solid these days, I basically ignore all the major flagship phones as the hardware specs are kind of mediocre these days with minimal benefits. I don't really care about camera quality, they all are great to me and if I needed a good quality camera, I'd just buy a dedicated camera. Lived with shitty cameras on early smartphones and was perfectly fine with that, so making the camera a priority is questionable. But that's just me. I've mostly stuck to Samsung, from Galaxy S3 up to the Galaxy S21. I'd look at the midrange more if your demands aren't super high is my TL:DR.

I just swap or add when I've got the extra funds and I'm feeling like I need an upgrade. Upgraded from an RTX 2080 Super to an RTX 4080 Super because I was planning to upgrade from a 55" Vizio 3DTV from 2012 to an LG C4 65" and the 2080 Super just wasn't going to cut it. LG C4 is clearly a huge upgrade and I treat it like my main display. Eventually I'll upgrade from my 3900x but I'm not looking forward to that. It's been pretty solid so far, don't think I'll need to upgrade for at least another two years I'm hoping. I did upgrade my case, from a Corsair Air 540 to a Lian-Li o11 Dynamic when I did the GPU upgrade. Was a needed upgrade sadly. Really liked the Air 540.

Last "major" purchase. Think I'm just gonna upgrade my hot air station soon to something from a more reputable brand. Thinking of ST-862D. Also a part picker with dedicated pump.

I'm trying to get Intel decoding for Steams in-home streaming, I'm just having issues trying to get it setup. When streaming my desktop to my T530, I can see it's using the CPU for decoding rather than using the HD 4000 on the client even though I specified to use it in Steam settings. I'm not super familiar with Linux, and Elementary OS is basically just a simplified distro with limited repositories and pre-installed software. I think this might also solve my other issue of video playback being laggy on certain browsers as well. Well, I'm pretty sure I have Intel decoding but it doesn't seem to work for Steam. 1.7.1-0intel1 is installed, I heard I need an older version, granted, they are older posts I've seen. No idea what I'd need to do to get the older version installed to test if it'll work.

If you can't find a solution to the issue, you can try delidding and replacing the TIM with Gelid or CLU/CLP. That or if you still have warranty, replace it.

I get lots of headroom in lots of newer titles because of my resolution. Just playing 1080p on the HDTV, I can already see it getting capped because of the res. Playing 1360 just allows me to truly max games with a good refresh rate. I wouldn't like running low resolution on a native 1080p display either, it'd look terrible.

Because it's a good resolution. No huge performance hit and it'll last me quite a long time. Should be able to upgrade if I get a GTX 1070.

I usually play 1360x768 but this HDTV looks really nice but at a good distance. Kind of a shame, really. Guess you can't have everything for couch gaming.

Neither have I. At least, not since the PS2 days and that was mostly played on a small CRT.

That would appear to be the easiest solution. Yet doesn't resolve my actual question of how people can be so use to it when gaming on console. I game on a monitor but I also would like to not be at my desk when doing so.

I've got a 3D 1080p HDTV I got hooked up to my gaming rig and noticed how hard it is to see players off in a distance in games like Battlefield or MGS5. Having to move very close to the TV to even see where I'm being shot at is rough. Even a casual game like MGS, I still can't seem to enjoy it on a big screen at all since my vision is so impaired in comparison of having a monitor with more dense pixels to see what the hell is happening. Is there a solution or do people just deal with it? Can't seem to understand why console players enjoy bigger screens.

Okay, from stroke of luck and a lot of help, I managed to get vfio to claim my GPU when returning dmesg | grep vfio in terminal.

I'm running Antergos and trying to setup GPU passthrough with various guides. The issue I believe is VFIO not loading on boot but I'm not entirely sure. Running dmesg | grep vfio gives off [ 0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=46775c61-628c-47f3-b2f3-a39298a4364a rw i915.enable_hd_vgaarb=1 rd.modules-load=vfio-pci intel_iommu=on pcie_acs_override=downstream pci-stub.ids=10de:13c2,10de:0fbb [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=46775c61-628c-47f3-b2f3-a39298a4364a rw i915.enable_hd_vgaarb=1 rd.modules-load=vfio-pci intel_iommu=on pcie_acs_override=downstream pci-stub.ids=10de:13c2,10de:0fbb This isn't exactly what output I would've expected. What I assume it's suppose to output [ 0.484086] VFIO - User Level meta-driver version: 0.3 [ 0.497805] vfio_pci: add [1002:67b1[ffff:ffff]] class 0x000000/00000000 [ 0.511123] vfio_pci: add [1002:aac8[ffff:ffff]] class 0x000000/00000000 [ 3985.682858] vfio-pci 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003) [ 3985.683003] vfio_ecap_init: 0000:01:00.0 hiding ecap 0x19@0x270 [ 3985.683010] vfio_ecap_init: 0000:01:00.0 hiding ecap 0x1b@0x2d0 This is my grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="i915.enable_hd_vgaarb=1 rd.modules-load=vfio-pci intel_iommu=on pcie_acs_override=downstream pci-stub.ids=10de:13c2,10de:0fbb" mkinitcpio.conf MODULES="vfio vfio_iommu_type1 vfio_pci vfio_virqfd pci-stub" And set options vfio-pci ids=10de:13c2,10de:0fbb in vfio.conf. If anyone with experience can help me, I'd be very grateful. My specs are in my sig. Using iGPU as host and GTX 970 for guest.

I haven't played with LLC's much. Can you briefly explain VRIN to me and why I should set 1.9v? It'd be helpful lol.

Ello, I've overclocked my 4790k, delidded it, messed with it a few times here and there and just left it for a year at the overclock I had before. However, my temps rarely ever scratch 60c in max load so I was wondering what I can do to tweak as much MHz as I can while being a bit voltage limited. I haven't really drove too far into overclocking myself, just simple voltage and multiplier crap. So, my current OC is 4.7GHz @ 1.23v and I heard you can toy with BLCK strap to get a bit higher. I'm willing to increase my voltage a bit more for the hell of it but I haven't got a clue if increasing it is necessary with BLCK or not. I also want to know if it'd help overcome this voltage limitation just overclocking one or two cores and leaving the other cores at 4.7. Haven't put much thought into it, as you could probably tell, just wondering what else I can tweak.