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I mean, isn't it a bit condescending to state $3k is not a small fortune.  Some people in my life would consider $3k a small fortune because they don't have the luxury to save up enough money to just drop $3k; so for them making a $3k purchase can seem like a small fortune.
 
Also, it technically is lost money if one has to wait additional time after paying for an express service.  If someone was willing to pay for the express service, then the company delivering essentially has so far responded in a way that will make the whole process a lot longer than normal service then it's lost money in the sense of lost time. [It's actually why if a company offers an express service they should be very quick if there was an error on their end to rectify the situation].  If it's meant for work purposes as well then the delay in getting the system is also lost productivity.
 
Mistakes do happen, but again if the person paid for express and reported that the wrong one was sent actions should be take within a few hours; not over the course of business days.
 
Like honestly, even a smaller company I worked for had a FedEx account where if need be we could just quickly generate a return slip send it to them [it's not something that should take a business day or two to sort out].  I get that they would want to verify they have the computer first, but again if they offer things like express assembly and such then those are the risks you take [in the sense they should be responding within a timely manor]
 
Honestly though, if someone is paying extra for a specific service just plain compensating the fee should never be an acceptable route [especially when their mistake makes the experience overall worse and counter to the service they paid for].
 
As an example for a plane, if you purchased priority 1st class seating and they overbooked and made you sit in economy...I guarantee no airline would ever consider the price difference to fair compensation.
 
As per their site, express [well rush assembly] guarantees 1 day assembly to shipping point vs 10 day normal.  So yea, I'd argue that he would be entitled to a bit more than just the refund of the service paid for...especially given that best case scenario it's going to be another 3 business days.  

This is the biggest troll thread I've seen in quite awhile.
Phones are essential now.
Not just for being able to CONTACT people when you need to contact someone (however, discord, SMS/call, whatever), sometimes you *need* to reach someone quickly.
GPS is also invaluable.  You can look where something is and know where you're going live.  If you have a car, you can have the maps update.  If you're riding a bicycle or on the bus, same thing.  Now you tell me right now you're going to be HOLDING a laptop on your bicycle while trying to ride and find a location and I'll gladly sell you some land in Florida, alligator and mosquito free.
Many places also require you to have a phone# as contact or security.  Not having one can make it difficult if they don't have a system for only email or "landline" voice calls.
I got my first ever phone (on low income support) in 2017.  Once I finally had one, I realized they are extremely valuable because that's how life is these days.  Comparing to how tedious things were in the 1990's for example, I'm very happy I have it.  

Thanks for the concern everyone. We are still in recovery mode over here and working with YouTube to get everything restored. Will hopefully have a video (or at least an update on WAN Show) to share with you all ASAP, but we want to make sure we get the details right since smaller channels may rely on our experience to help harden their own security.

How about: Tomb Raider: Lost in the Amazon...

I got my third "updated" Moderna booster like 5 days ago.
Unlike the second one, it didn't knock me on my ass, but I sure didn't feel that great for a few days, but it was better than either the primary shot or the first two boosters.  Felt like "I got exposed to something" and I definitely didn't feel like myself but I managed.

I got my third "updated" Moderna booster like 5 days ago.
Unlike the second one, it didn't knock me on my ass, but I sure didn't feel that great for a few days, but it was better than either the primary shot or the first two boosters.  Felt like "I got exposed to something" and I definitely didn't feel like myself but I managed.

I got my third "updated" Moderna booster like 5 days ago.
Unlike the second one, it didn't knock me on my ass, but I sure didn't feel that great for a few days, but it was better than either the primary shot or the first two boosters.  Felt like "I got exposed to something" and I definitely didn't feel like myself but I managed.

You can update that BIOS without even having a CPU or memory installed.  Never heard of the BIOS Flashback feature?

I thought this was a thread about Silent Hill ....

Limit: Voltage does NOT throttle your GPU and it has never throttled your GPU.
It just means that GPU clock frequency is being limited by "reliability voltage".  In other words, it's using the highest point on the V/F curve that's within the stable voltage limit.
vOP is a different limit, which means "Operating Voltage".  That means the voltage has reached the highest allowed point allowed by silicon firmware.
Most users will never see this limit unless they use the Voltage slider in MSI Afterburner, which does NOT increase the voltage.  It just allows one higher tier on the V/F curve to be accessed, which will actually overclock the card by another +15 mhz (Ampere).

50.  And all I do is play chess and want to be liked more.

Not really.
The Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080 MXM (laptop) chip, that was NOT "Max Q", was identical in performance to the desktop version, except for TDP.  Only the reduced TDP made the chip slower.  The MSI version actually had the full TDP (200W), making it almost identical to the desktop version, and there was a hardware mod (required a SPI flasher) you could do to give the full desktop TDP (250W) on it.  In fact, the MSI GTX 1070 MXM (laptop) version had more cuda cores than the desktop version, so if you did a hardware TDP mod on the MSI laptop version (125W to 230W), it was actually faster than the stock desktop cards.
 
Sadly, all the chips past this chip were all basically castrated chips (all of the laptop RTX Turing and Ampere chips are significantly slower than the desktop versions).

Case Update:
After installing 3090 Ti, no blackscreens and i could complete a 20 loop stress test on Port Royal with maximum Power Target. So, it seems that my Asus Rog Strix 3090 OC is deffective.

Most of the kids here are too young for that reference 🤣

Congratulations.  You got shipped a P-P-Powerbook!

Actually not. Its now commonly believed that something must have existed before the big bang. Whether that being something on a higher dimension than us or something that none of us would be able to understand is still a topic of huge debate.
 
Is dark matter just regular matter that existed before the big bang and was somehow bit flipped at the sub atomic level? Is there an opposite to a black hole that spews matter out (sounds pretty much like what we would call the big bang)? When expansion is finished will it contract back in and the entire cycle starts over again (which would mean the same stuff that exists now also existed before the big bang).
 
One argument flat earthers do get correct is that the big bang (as they understand it) would be impossible since something cannot be made from nothing. Luckily for us no one believes something came from nothing, we just don't know what was there before.
 
Perhaps what was there before is beyond our understanding....

The absolute minimum hotspot delta is fused into hardware as a certain amount above core temp.  This depends on SKU, precisely.
On 3080 FE and 3090 FE it's exactly 10C.  On 3080 Ti FE, it's 7C.
On AIB cards, it can be as low as 6C, depending on exact card.
 
Usually you'll see the minimum delta when the card is at full idle, *with* the Nvidia power saving mode set at default (NOT at prefer max performance) and NOT with clocks/voltages locked with MSI Afterburner.
 
At full load, the delta will vary.  It's known that both the GPU Core AND the VRM's (NOT VRAM), report to the hotspot from various sensors, and the hotspot picks up the hottest reported temp among any of them.  On most cards, if the hotspot stays within 5C of the minimum delta for that SKU, then everything is fine.
 
A high hotspot delta (>15C) most often results from insufficient core to heatsink contact pressure or badly pasted parts of the core, especially on cards with thermal pad jobs done on them, where too thick thermal pads were used.  It's rare for a high hotspot delta to be caused by bad or too *thin* VRM pads (pads not making proper contact with the heatsink), but some people with stock cards have seen terrible hotspots, then took apart the card and found a completely ripped or missing thermal pad over the VRM's (mosfets), in which case it was the VRM causing the problem.
 
VRAM (memory) hotspots report to "memory junction temperature", not to "hotspot" temperature.

50.  And all I do is play chess and want to be liked more.

Well that sucks 😞
It was Krakoff who sent me beta firmware for the Deathadder when I was posting about some tracking issues a LONG time ago on the old razer forums, and IIRC, he ended up sending me a razer shirt, and some swag with it.  I still have it too.  Although the shirt is a bit faded.
 
I think I remember seeing him at E3 when they were unveiling the original Diamondback mouse.

Someone spending $2,000 on a GPU probably doesn't care about an extra few hundred dollars a year in energy costs. This is such a stupid argument when it comes to flagship cards. 

50.  And all I do is play chess and want to be liked more.

That isn't necessarily true at all.
That just shows that there isn't a short or a fault on the line.  It does NOT mean that the card is 'getting the power it needs'.  Far from it.  And we're not talking about power actually.  We're talking about voltage.  Not watts.
 
Run HWinfo64, go to sensors only, *EXPAND* all of the GPU sensor "collapsed" threads/fields and then post a screenshot of the voltage rails.
I'm going to bet more than one of them will be below 11.9v.
 
Basically, you can try:
1.  Use a single dedicated 8 pin PCIE cable (going to one 8 pin connector on the PSU) for each 8 pin on the video card.  Meaning do NOT use a daisy-chained 2x8 pin cable into two ports on the video card, going to 1 8 pin on the PSU end.  So on a 3x8 pin card you would need three separate 8 pin cables.  For FE cards, the adapter itself is usually enough, or a OEM official supplied micro-fit 3.0 cable (Seasonic makes one for seasonic OEM branded PSU's, I believe there is at least one other manufacturer who makes them, but Corsair does NOT make their own PSU's in-house at their own factory, and their cables are supplied by the OEM).
 


Can you explain the black screen please?
Is it just a 'black screen then the system powers off and reboots'?
Or is it a 'black screen followed by GPU fans running at 100% speed and a hard lockup?'

I feel like you misunderstood what happened, or are wilfully trying to mislead people.
Elon and one of his partners founded the company X.com. X.com merged with a company called Confinity. Those two companies together later changed name to PayPal.
The company Elon founded merged with another company and those two companies together formed PayPal. It would be very easy to read your post and get the impression that PayPal just bought the company Elon has founded, which was not the case. They merged, and created PayPal.
 
My guess is that Elon is not listed as "founder" on the Wikipedia page because Confinity was founded slightly before X.com, and only the people who founded confinity are listed as founders. 
 
Not sure why you are calling x.com a "small competitor" to Confinity either. First of all, it was not a competitor. The two companies were doing different things. One was an online bank, and the other one was online money transfers.
Secondly, I can't find any estimates of how big the companies were at the time of the merger, but generally when two companies merge, it is because they are roughly the same size. Otherwise it's not a merged, it's an acquisition. Confinity did not acquire X.com, nor did X.com acquire Confinity.
 
Edit: Confinity had a program for the Palm Pilot which was called PayPal. A while after X.com and Confinity had merged, they decided to call the entire company "PayPal", because people assumed X.com was something to do with porn.
A lot of the "PayPal" features we now know today originated from X.com however. For example using an email address to send money to someone else. The original "PayPal" program for the Palm does not at all resemble the "PayPal" we know today. 
I guess you could say that Confinity invented "PayPal", but they mostly invented the name, and the functions we today associate with PayPal were mostly invented to X.Com, which was founded by Elon.
 
 
 
  
He is pretty highly educated though. He got two bachelors degrees. One in physics and one in economics. He is a very smart person.
But if people think that he is personally developing space rockets and cars then yeah, those people are wrong. But I mean, no single person are inventing those things. Elon is part of the management for those people.
Same as with for example Lisa Su. 

I remember a story of someone I know who had a family member that bought the house. there was a Ancient washing machine there from over 100 years ago. [it was made around 1920-1930]. it had a Issue so they called a mechanic. and that mechanic said that they should NEVER get rid of it, as all that was broken was a small rubber seal, that barely cost 1 euro.
 
Newer machines are really prone to failure due the motherboard of the machine breaking down after a loong time of use. While older machines are build to last.
 
Not forgetting the mandatory planned obsolescence that happened around the great depression
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/London_(1932)_Ending_the_depression_through_planned_obsolescence.pdf

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