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  1. Curious Pineapple
    NatGeo own the earth now?
  2. Curious Pineapple
    Damn, now the secret it out, I'll stop getting my wages as a paid shill. Guess I'll have to go shill the vaccines for a while.
  3. Curious Pineapple
    I installed audio, network and chipset drivers last week
  4. Curious Pineapple
    Install the drivers, I had a bunch of audio issues until I did that
  5. Curious Pineapple
    At least Hermes didn't get hold of it
  6. Curious Pineapple
    Bought an RX 5500XT 8GB, old Xeon beast pegging the thing at 100%, 60 FPS with all the settings turned up to 11. Oddly enough with the settings all at minimum my GTX1050 still gives about 60 FPS more. Not reaching 100 FPS now where as the GTX was hitting 150. Probably a combination of several year old card with driver tweaks compared to a 6 month old card on a wildly mis-matched machine. Still on PCIe Gen2 and need a PCIe RAID card just to move into the modern world of SATA3. Still got some CPU upgrade options available, more cores and more speeds! Still, vast improvement and now I can stream/record without a crap load of chequered artifacting
  7. Curious Pineapple
    £8 is what RM charge for sorting out the import taxes.
  8. Curious Pineapple
    If that screwdriver breaks in 10 years time, you get a brand new replacement with no arguments. Good tools are worth the money.
  9. Curious Pineapple
    Aye, it could have been something much better, but nope.
  10. Curious Pineapple
    Yeh, the power switch has worn out. If you know what you're doing: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Switch-Dyson-Cleaner-Equivalent-91097101/dp/B005M4ANGA
  11. Curious Pineapple
    Are they actually meant to be user removable?
  12. Curious Pineapple
    Have you tried turning it off and on again?
  13. Curious Pineapple
    Things get hot, expand, contract, screws fall out. Thats what Loctite is used for.
  14. Curious Pineapple
    Did you uninstall all the nVidia crap with DDU before swapping the card over?
  15. Curious Pineapple
    Easiest way to think of it is if you put 2 sticks in, the CPU can read and write from and to both of them at the same time. Instead of reading one byte at a time, it can now read 2. If you put 2 more sticks in, all you are doing is increasing the capacity.
  16. Curious Pineapple
    Because the memory controller only has 2 channels. It effectively splits data between 2 sticks, putting half on one stick and half on another. Means it can access twice as much data per operation. It can only access one pair at a time though.
  17. Curious Pineapple
    Buy a HDMI to DVI cable. HDMI, DVI and DP all use the same protocol. I used a DVI(computer end) to HDMI(TV end) and even got audio out of it which I didn't know was possible until windows jacked my audio settings around.
  18. Curious Pineapple
    How dare you suggest the holy Apple did not make a perfect device. You shall be stoned to death for this herasy!
  19. Curious Pineapple
    You're trying to point out to a bunch of tech guys that buying a brand new low end GPU is better for business than buying a used offering, trying to find an archaic driver that still offers good support, hoping the card actually works, hoping it doesn't fail when the driver is loaded (happened to me) and most importantly, not frying your mainboard as the used card was thrown in a drawer, had a capacitor bent and provides a nice short circuit on your PCIe slot. I had a used card blow the living arse out of my power supply when it's regulator went dead short after 30 odd mins of gaming.
  20. Curious Pineapple
    To be honest the fans going batshit doesn't bother me too much, there's 9 fans in the machine already, and the PSU fans are 30mm jets so it gets noisy anyway.
  21. Curious Pineapple
    The one I was going to buy is actually a fresh revision from April. Only found one review seemingly moaning about thermals and this revision seems to have a redesigned memory heat plate.
  22. Curious Pineapple
    Lower end Windows laptops are a lot less than 2 grand
  23. Curious Pineapple
    Ah yes, the old "compare a premium brand to the cheapest alternative on the market and parade around over how much better your device at 5X the cost is" Lamborghini have issues with cars combusting due to exhaust heat, but who cares about that when the Ford KA had some rust issues for a few years.
  24. Curious Pineapple
    Thanks for the heads up. My new GPU plans are now royally up the arse
  25. Curious Pineapple
    I literally have the buy now button ready to poke on a 5600XT Thicc II-Pro. What's the issue with them?
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