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    Are electric cars more common in Canada?

    in General Discussion

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    5 hours ago, AbydosOne said:

    I initially figured all of Alex's EV ShortCircuits were just because "LTT does tech" and "EVs are tech" (aside: I really enjoy Alex talking about cars and would watch a channel about it *hinthint*). But I've spent the last couple days outside Montreal and I've seen more EVs than I really ever see in the US (and I live in Chicago, so not a small town), to the point where the field office I'm based out of has an EV charger on the wall, while the HQ building I normally work at in the US doesn't have any.

     

    So that got me thinking: Are EVs more common in Canada? Are there greater incentives to buy one? Is it because electricity is cheaper in Canada? (the guy I'm with mentioned Quebec produces a lot of electricity.) Or do I just not have a big enough sample set?

    BC and Quebec have elevated EV market penetration. I believe BC leads the country. We're still talking just a tenth of sales, but you know.

    Both aforementioned provinces have decent rebate regimes and perks like HOV access in BC's case.

    Corsair vengeance LPX not performing as advertised?

    in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory

    Posted

    XMP profiles, much like auto overclocks are very hit or miss. Try setting the XMP specs yourself and see if the PC behaves the same.

    My kit worked on a mobo but didn't work on another, it wasn't representative of the RAM kit not meeting spec. Not to say it's impossible that you have a RAM not meeting spec. It's an approved kit, right?

     

    Asus' BIOS for the Ryzen 3000 series has apparently not been that good either. Have you updated by any chance? You're running on X470 rather than 570 so I'd want to think so but it's worth making sure.

    2080 TI SLI x 9900K Power Usage [No OC]

    in Power Supplies

    Posted

    7 minutes ago, jasonvp said:

    I think I've written this elsewhere on LTT, but if not ... my system is a bit different than what you're thinking about:

    1 OC'd 7900X

    2 x OC'd FE 2080Ti cards

    OC'd DDR4 (4GHz)

    Some storage, etc.

     

    With that all said, I have a 900W UPS.  Annnnnnd ... nope.  Under load, the 900W UPS says, "Nope.  Nuh uh.  No sir.  Not happening.  I can't cover this for you...." *click* and it shuts off.  Which, as you can imagine, is a bit annoying.

     

    So, I doubt your 850 will be enough even without OC'ing your hardware.

    just SLI your UPS

    Main monitor pixellated after wake up?

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    8 minutes ago, DrThots said:

    Right, well Im currently in a live chat with a nvidia supporter or whatever theyre called, they basically got me to uninstall geforce exp, and install latest version. Lets see if its fixed. If its not then i'll download the version u recommended me


    It really isn't fixed but go right ahead.

    Main monitor pixellated after wake up?

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    Yes so long as you want to resolve your issue. Being on the cutting edge of updates is really not always better and can cause more headaches (namely, the ones you're experiencing) at times.

    Just keep on the lookout for future updates addressing this bug. Nvidia releases patch notes and they've already fixed some of the multi-display problems in the newest patch, just not all of them.

    Main monitor pixellated after wake up?

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    Just now, DrThots said:

    ah, so its not just my pc then, so the problem is occuring to others with dual monitor display?

    Yes. A lot of us have run into those issues here and at home. My workaround since Adobe requires those drivers be updated so far is to either not run the 2019 updates or to... Run Quadros with enterprise drivers that haven't been affected (the regular update stream is), lol.

    Have you ever owned an Apple device?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Original Core 2 Extreme (another variant was later added) iMac 2007 24

    Macbook Pro 15 2007

    Various editions of the iPod Nano

    iPhone 6s+

    Macbook Pro 15 Retina, 3 revisions. Best was the 750 based one. I haven't bought a laptop since having sold my last one.

     

    The iMac's screen eventually yellowed but was sold nonetheless 4 years into its ownership period.

     

    The Macbook Pro had a GPU issue not covered by their program so I parted it out.

     

    All the iPods were sold.

     

    The 6s+ was sold.


    The first Retina had image retention issues. The second one was great but I switched out to an AMD model thinking Apple would have it in order; it had worse D2D battery life than the outgoing model and would heat up like mad. I bought my mom a Macbook Pro 13 and it developed a screen delamination problem (fixed under repair program) followed by a logic board issue, but worth noting the techs did a bad QC job because her half her keyboard lights wouldn't light up when we got it back. Apple offered to repair this issue but we never got around to it. We could probably get it repaired in full now.

     

    Worst experience was definitely having to buy new Macbook Power bricks all the time because my cat learned that he could wake me up/get my attention by chewing on cables. We sort of braided the most exposed ones over time but holy replacing the units over all these years cost me a ton.


    I can't remember the last time I've had a component fail in a PC I've built. I've had weird software issues beyond my control or degradation but otherwise they're all still operational. Some were sold to community members so I wouldn't know what the long-term on them is but most are still within my family so yeah.

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