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  1. Phentos
    True. I thought you meant like everything except front panel usb in one thicc janky cord lmao. Sorry I am getting pretty faded atm.
  2. Phentos
    This, except maybe the front panel audio. Noise and crosstalk could be epic, as if it wasn't already lol.
  3. Phentos
    Very snug connectors, especially smaller ones that connect to the motherboard, such as USB headers, CPU EPS power, etc. When a pair of needlenose pliers weren't available, those could be a real whore to disconnect.
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    Lol.
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    Yes. Even the lowly GT 710 can support up to 4K iirc.
  6. Phentos
    Wait for independent benchmarks and reviews™
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    I do multifactor on pretty much everything I deem important and if it's available. That includes all the email accounts I care about. I use very complex passwords with a lot of randomness in their content. I also don't share passwords whatsoever. Hence why I prefer to use password managers so I don't have to sit and try to remember which one I used when I sign into something. ? Like I said in previous post. My job deals a lot with computer and network security, and if I didn't practice proper security habits and behaviors on my own system and network, I'd better just quit my job lmao.
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    I've been taking that chance for quite a few years now. I have a career revolving around IT security atm, so I am very familiar with how to secure my own system and network effectively. However these days I honestly prefer the convenience of a password manager over having to personally remember all the passwords and the permutations of passwords I use for whatever I do online, in exchange for the security of full control.
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    I don't let anyone use my PC and I ensure its security as best as I can always. What about third party addons?
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    Hello Firefox. Semi-related question: Does Firefox have a better password manager than Lastpass that I would be able to import my info to? I've gotten tired of that app's quirks as of late, and the Android app for it is hot garbage.
  11. Phentos
    No plans here. Might look at the Turing refresh GPUs if they release this summer.
  12. Phentos
    My cousin and my coworker, who is a really good friend, both plan on going with a 3000 series chip. My cousin doesn't have a lot of money so he was probably gonna go for a B450 board and a 3600X. Coworker has my old C6H board and he plans on getting either the 3800X or 3900X, depending on how the support is on the C6H and the gaming performance differences between the two.
  13. Phentos
    Yea, my 1700 could only manage 3.8Ghz with 1.4V going in. It ran very hot even with a decent cooler at the time, so during the hot summer months I'd have to dial back the overclock to 3.6-3.7Ghz, or even just run stock. Hell that 3.8Ghz overclock was only stable in games and rendering in Premiere Pro (10 minute or less video at 1080p). It only passed Cinebench if I didn't look at it wrong and refused to pass Prime95. It just was a lemon in general. At least my old C6H board and B-die RAM helped to make up for that. Now I have a 9700K that easily does 5.1Ghz with only a bit more additional voltage and LLC. I could easily do more but I don't feel like it tbh.
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    Wow my coworker, whom I had sold my old C6H to last year, was gonna update his BIOS tonight. Just texted him this and saved him from a brick. He's on version 1701 3502. Would it be better for him to jump to 6401, then sequentially update from that point to 7002? Or just wait for a hotfix? Edit: coworker was mistaken on version number.
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    I wasn't really interested in the 16 core chip personally. I know it'll be a great chip but it doesn't suit my uses as much as a 12 core with possibly higher clocks would. AMD is better than Intel in their own benchmark runs. Idk what variables they may have introduced deliberately or accidentally but I'd rather wait for independent benchmarks before I agree with that claim. I got burned with the 1st gen Ryzen being hyped up to be like the second coming, only to end up with a bad overclocker which bottlenecked my 1080TI pretty badly in most of my games and took me a solid week to get the RAM optimized for it.
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    After tonight? None. I got suckered into the rumor hypetrain about a 12 core part for ~$400, only to find out it's $500 with lower boost speeds than I hoped for.
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    Unless you are going to put a strong overclock on the card, you don't really need one with great VRMs. Just make sure to not go with a card with a blower cooler, if one exists for the 2080TI lineup. If you want to watercool your card, for compatibility's sake you are better off going with one with a reference design board. You can go with one with a custom board of course, but it could be harder to find water blocks for it, depending on which one you choose.
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    Yea the 9700K is 8c/8t. I was gonna spring for the 9900K but I really couldn't fit that into my budget. If I had gone with that, I'd be much less inclined to switch to Zen 2 tbqh, but oh well. I plan on going up to 32GB of RAM regardless of whether I switch or not, and if I do consider the switch, the memory controller in the Zen 2 chips would have to handle 4 DIMMs at more than 3200Mhz.
  19. Phentos
    I get what you mean, however I don't do serious professional workloads with Hitfilm and Affinity Photo. I have them for my Youtube channel. The increased clock speeds (allegedly) with the 12c/24t 3700X would be of more benefit for me than the four extra cores and 8 threads. I do also have a high refresh rate monitor and I play many games which favor clock speeds and single thread performance more than huge thread counts. And yes I meant hyperthreading with my mention of HT.
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    I'm on the fence about switching again, as I got my Intel system to use for Adobe, but I've since quit using Adobe's junk in favor of Hitfilm and Affinity Photo. Both of which are better optimized. And the lack of HT on the 9700K triggers the hell out of my OCD. If the info and rumors are true, then if I switch I'll be going for the 3700X. I made the mistake of going for a non-X Ryzen CPU with the 1700 because "you can OC to match the X version", only to find out my chip was horrible at overclocking, requiring quite a bit over 1.4V to hit 3.9Ghz. Not again. I might get a faster kit of RAM as well, due to RAM prices being as low as they are atm. I've got a close buddy who really wants my current CPU and mobo if I switch because his current system is old and I want to hook him up since he's a serious R6 Siege and Fortnite gamer and he has a 240hz TN monitor.
  21. Phentos
    I'd go with the 1080TI. The 2070 is honestly not the best deal in the RTX lineup. The 2060 brings 90% of the performance for a much lower price. The 1080TI is a tad slower than the 2080 in terms of average performance iirc.
  22. Phentos
    The Modmic is pretty good but you better get the sticky pad placement right the first time. The sticky pads will last you about 3-6 months depending on how oily your head gets, if you wear your headphones with wet hair, and the humidity in your area. The Modmic sounds pretty good, according to friends and other people I chat with online. A close friend has a Blue Yeti mic and everyone has commented before that I sound better than he does, in terms of audio quality.
  23. Phentos
    So apparently Youtube thinks mass unsubscribe movements are toxic and unbecoming of the community but the rampant copyright system and Content ID abuse aren't? K.
  24. Phentos
    A couple weeks ago my friend bought an RTX 2070 and installed it. Immediately he called me up and complained about the card overheating and throttling. I went through the usual troubleshooting steps to no avail. So I went to his place to have a look at it myself. Turns out the guy forgot to take off the plastic that covered one of the fans, and it had been preventing the fan from spinning. I still troll him about that one.
  25. Phentos
    Check for loose cables. A connection may look snug when it really may not be.
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