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  1. Morgan MLGman
    Morgan MLGman

    LTT Forum users in an electronics store:
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    2. IkeaGnome

      IkeaGnome

      12 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

      Lucky people. Best I have nearby is Beat Buy. 🤮 Don't get me started on their employees or Geek Squad.

      I have a strong dislike for BB, but I also have to use it. 

      We picked up the CPU for my wife's computer, 13700k and the 12500 for my "server". The guy in the computer parts "department" started kind of talking to us and trying to guide my wife towards a headset (she mentioned she was also looking for one) that she flat out said multiple times that she tried on and was uncomfortable. 

      Then he asked about the CPUs. I mentioned the i7 was for hers, and the i5 was for my "server". 

      He started asking about our computers and what not. I just mentioned that I have a "good computer" for myself and didn't want to get into details about it. 

      She knew just enough to mention 4090 when he got pushy about my parts.

       

      The amount of parts and head sets and microphones he tried to instantly sell us was just gross. 

    3. Windows7ge

      Windows7ge

      @YoungBlade @IkeaGnome And this is why I just go strait to the Internet to buy stuff. I'm in no-mans land.

       

      Or score some free s*** off my employer. xD SSD's, 50U server rack, I'm gonna try and get three Dell monitors I kinda like...

    4. jetnoodles

      jetnoodles

      3 hours ago, Windows7ge said:

      @YoungBlade @IkeaGnome And this is why I just go strait to the Internet to buy stuff. I'm in no-mans land.

       

      Or score some free s*** off my employer. xD SSD's, 50U server rack, I'm gonna try and get three Dell monitors I kinda like...

      Ah yes. The pleasure of being head of IT. My boss has no idea what's what. She's basically given me permission to take what I want home.

  2. Morgan MLGman

    Am I crazy or is it way more common to actually…

    Morgan MLGman replied to STRMfrmXMN's status update

    I don't think so - Ryzen 3000 and 5000 series were just plug & play and the "Ryzen optimized" RAM did pretty much nothing because of the addition of a separate I/O die. With Ryzen 7000 the only thing you cannot do is use DDR5 that is clocked too high, AFAIK most top out at around 6000-6200 for the time being so people mostly have issues when they buy DDR5 that is "too fast". Latest Intel chips can use RAM clocked significantly higher but for that you just need to buy a good RAM kit from my understanding.
  3. Morgan MLGman
    I don't think you need any. It's a USB microphone, so it probably has one built-in - I use a regular QuadCast myself and it's just a plug & play microphone with pretty good quality.
  4. Morgan MLGman
    Perhaps, but Linus also mentioned that Premium subscribers give a lot to the content creators for their views. So for me the monthly subscription fee is both for convenience features and also to be able to support the channels that I watch daily without being forced to watch ads all the time. It's not that much money anyway so I personally don't mind.
  5. Morgan MLGman
    If I recall correctly Ryzen 7000 series tops out at around 6200MHz for DDR5 memory, so the fact that DOCP tries to run 6400MHz may be the culprit. I would try manually running at 6200MHz. This is a part of the silicon lottery, some integrated memory controllers can run 6400, some cannot. Anything beyond 4800MHz is overclocking in theory, so that's about it - there's no guarantee the RAM will work at the rated speed.
  6. Morgan MLGman

    Hey Ceph, you're a little less balanced than I'…

    Morgan MLGman replied to leadeater's status update

    Seems pretty good considering no SSDs present, although I'm still on the vSAN hype train
  7. Morgan MLGman
    Yes, kinda true (unless we're considering that older diesel-powered car exist also and are extremely efficient if you do longer routes), but you also forget that newer cars require maintenance as well and this is only done in authorized service centers which costs a small fortune each time and it's designed to be that way. With an older one you can buy used or non-original replacement parts for a fraction of a price. And you even could do most of the maintenance at your friend's workshop for next to nothing in terms of cost. Besides, modern engines especially those in Europe due to ridiculous climate-related policies are now all tiny and turbocharged, which directly translates into low durability. A good older engine that's larger would do three times the total mileage of a new, small one. There's also the fact, that no government would be able to remotely disable your car It's a nice peace of mind to have imo too.
  8. Morgan MLGman
    I think it means that (assuming there is something present in the primary x16) once the second slot is occupied with anything, the first slot defaults to x8 and the second slot is another x8 which may be further divided into x4/x4 for those dual M.2 cards like the ASUS Hyper M.2 or MSI M.2 Xpander Although this seems to say that three SSDs are possible, provided you use the primary PCIe slot? Not really sure what "3/1" or "0/2" mean exactly:
  9. Morgan MLGman
    Without PCIe bifurcation support there's no way for such card to work then, for instance my MSI X570 Prestige Creation comes with an MSI Xpander card which adds two M.2 PCIe 4.0 x 4 slots and it requires setting the slot into a x4/x4 mode instead of x8 to use it. The card you linked would require a full X16 bandwidth split into x4/x4/x4/x4. This feature as I mentioned was usually available on HEDT motherboards, not mainstream ones like yours. The only way for it to work would be to use both M.2 slots on your motherboard and a dual M.2 add-on card put in the second slot and setting that slot into x4/x4 mode, provided your motherboard supports that.
  10. Morgan MLGman
    It is possible to use one slot to drive all of those drives, however as long as you have a GPU in the primary slot, there is going to be a bandwidth limitation as inserting this card into the second slot will probably drive the speed of both slots to x8/x8. This already reduces the available bandwidth for your GPU as well as for this card, as what would be possible would only be 4 x M.2 PCIe 3.0 x2. Still, even that would require a motherboard that supports PCIe bifurcation. There is a certain limit of bandwidth that both the CPU and the Chipset provide to the motherboard ports, it is not advised to shoot too close to that limit and it's definitely not the case that all of the ports can run at their maximum bandwidth at once. Another thing is that if you use such a "cheap" card, it doesn't have a hardware RAID controller of any kind, so all RAID is purely software in this case. This has both upsides and downsides. You could run two drives from the onboard M.2 slots and the other two from the add-on 2 x m.2 card, although you'd need to check your motherboard manual if anything gets disabled if the secondary onboard M.2 slot is populated, as well as what kind of bandwidth that slot supports. Mixing all of that into a RAID is not an optimal solution, although a software RAID should still work. For such configurations people usually turned to HEDT platforms due to those having a lot more available PCIe lanes for devices like M.2's and were better suited for RAID. I guess you'd need to specify your needs better and evaluate from there what solution you actually require. Maybe a better solution would be to buy a dedicated NAS like a small Synology or QNAP?
  11. Morgan MLGman
    Morgan MLGman

    Finally decided to upgrade all of the fans in the O11 Dynamic! Decided on Lian Li SL120 INF fans so there's a lot less cables necessary, I would highly recommend their UniFan design 10/10.

    What do you think?
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    The "Infinity Mirror" design on the fans is pretty cool too:
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    1. Spotty

      Spotty

      Looks good. Don't normally see fan makers pay attention to the backside of the fan, but makes sense for LianLi to do it.

  12. Morgan MLGman
    I guess so, although comparing yourself to an even worse offender rarely makes you look much better Nvidia's current prices are ridiculous, so RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 cards look great in terms of value. The 7900 XTX was supposed to be decent value but is stupidly expensive in this case, because it should retail for around $999. The 7900 XT's value was always questionable, so IMO it's either the top-end one or the 6950 XT which is priced very well considering its rasterization performance is on par with a 3090 Ti. Normally I'd agree, however in this case it may not be that bad for the 4090. We're in an age of AI, ML and LLMs (Large language models) and owing to that, the 4090 may retain a lot of its value for longer than usual. This is obviously pure speculation on my part but I think it makes sense.
  13. Morgan MLGman
    Honestly the 6950 XT is priced very well there - the 7900 XT's price is "meh" and the 7900 XTX is stupidly expensive. If the 6950 XT's performance is enough for your needs, I wouldn't look any further as the recently released RTX 4070 is quite a bit slower for a similar price.
  14. Morgan MLGman
    The 7900 XTX hands down, not even a contest in this case.
  15. Morgan MLGman
    Honestly the IPC uplift from the Zen+ architecture was like 2% at best, so considering the 1800X has 100MHz higher boost clock it's probably about the same. 1800X all the way for the same price, although for gaming even lower-end but newer Ryzen chips will be better than an 1800X or the 2600.
  16. Morgan MLGman
    Obvious question, but are you sure that the ESXi server also has the same time zone set? Here's a knowledge base article on how to change it if necessary: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1436
  17. Morgan MLGman
    I wouldn't say so. I had an issue with my Zephyrus G14 (2021). Turned out the issue was caused by a faulty Nvidia RTX 3060 graphics card - they replaced the motherboard and returned the laptop to me in less than a week with no cost. Admittedly they did fail to properly connect the keyboard backlighting, but it wasn't a problem for me to open the laptop and plug it in. Would be a much bigger issue for someone with no tech knowledge. It may be that your regional ASUS department is incompetent, maybe try doing the RMA via the retailer that you bought the laptop at? That should also be an option.
  18. Morgan MLGman

    Purely theoretical question: What GPU would y'a…

    Morgan MLGman replied to Crunchy Dragon's status update

    I wouldn't say it can handle more than a 290X... I had an Athlon X4 750K @4.5GHz paired with a GTX 970 which is of similar performance as a 290X and there were instances of heavy CPU bottlenecks - Novigrad in The Witcher 3 was really bad I remember. That Athlon was probably very very similar to the A10 that you have in performance. Maybe you could try a 6GB 1060 or an RX 580?
  19. Morgan MLGman
    Don't trust these calculators, they are not reliable. An R5 5500 is not a bad CPU, so a 3070 should be able to do its job in most graphically demanding games. With that in mind I don't think you can upgrade your GPU any further though without also upgrading the CPU to something like a 5800X3D, to be able to take advantage of a much faster card.
  20. Morgan MLGman
    I have a 6900 XT as well. The latest is 22.11.2 - a newer one should soon be available.
  21. Morgan MLGman
    Morgan MLGman

    Look at what arrived today!
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  22. Morgan MLGman
    Memory is an obvious upgrade and in some games you'll probably be forced to lower texture quality on the 3070, but overall the 6800 is actually faster than even a 3070 Ti so if they're similarly priced I'd say it's a no-brainer. Other features are very comparable so there's not a significant difference there I'd say.
  23. Morgan MLGman
    VRMs are designed to withstand temperatures up to about 120C for a very long period of time - temps when the GPU is idle or is around 60C are nothing for the VRMs. You've got nothing to worry about. They only get hot when there's a lot of power coming through them - in those instances the GPU is hot as well, so the fans spin up.
  24. Morgan MLGman
    Strictly for gaming, the 7600X is a faster CPU on average. You can take a look at this 54-game benchmark from Hardware Unboxed: As for the platform longevity, you can be sure that AM5 is going to have a longer lifespan than Intel's socket. The 3D V-Cache CPUs will also bring a lot more gaming performance to the table in terms of upgrading the 7600X in the future. The only downside is the price of the 7600X, as it's not the best value apparently especially considering the older 5800X3D which works in much cheaper motherboards and with much cheaper DDR4 memory.
  25. Morgan MLGman
    He probably means issues with hardware acceleration in browsers, discord etc combined with a multi-monitor setup that has two different resolutions and/or refresh rates. Nvidia also had this problem (not sure if it's related to Windows 11 only), but they fixed it. AMD also fixed most, if not all of the issues in their latest 22.11.2 driver. It's weird because I pretty much didn't have any issues on my 6900 XT, but my friend with a 6800 XT had frequent driver timeouts in some situations. My friend's fix for his problems was reverting to an older driver for the time being. EDIT: Apparently this was the fix for the issue: However I have not tried it since I couldn't replicate the problem in the first place, so I can't confirm whether that's the root cause and whether the suggested solution actually works.
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