Curious Pineapple

NatGeo own the earth now?

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.

4 hours ago, Arika S said:

...what?

 

the only driver you need to install manually is GPU drivers in 99% of cases. the other 1% is super niche and obscure hardware or specialized tools

 

i can't remember the last time i needed to download a network, audio, chipset or any kind of input device driver

I installed audio, network and chipset drivers last week

Install the drivers, I had a bunch of audio issues until I did that

1 hour ago, demonix00 said:

The £8 charge is what royal fail considers is how much it costs to present the item to customs, so you have to pay it regardless otherwise your order is sent back to where it came from.

 

At least it wasn't handed to parcel farce or any of the other companies who charge a lot more for that.

At least Hermes didn't get hold of it

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

£8 is what RM charge for sorting out the import taxes.

If that screwdriver breaks in 10 years time, you get a brand new replacement with no arguments.

Good tools are worth the money.

2 minutes ago, jagdtigger said:

It should be called failcoin IMO, aside from speculators no-one uses it. Its the world biggest legalized pyramid game.

Aye, it could have been something much better, but nope.

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

2 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Yes but you don't use red in this case.

 

RMA the board over and over until you get one that doesn't have red. It will cost them each time and they'll eventually look into why. 

Are they actually meant to be user removable?

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Things get hot, expand, contract, screws fall out. Thats what Loctite is used for.

Did you uninstall all the nVidia crap with DDU before swapping the card over?

1 minute ago, Johnnny167 said:

so wait, what if you have a motherboard with 4 dimms and you put 4 sticks on that board but the CPU/APU only supports duel channel does that mean it does the same thing but just in pairs of 2?

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.

1 minute ago, Johnnny167 said:

what, how though?

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.

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.

How dare you suggest the holy Apple did not make a perfect device. You shall be stoned to death for this herasy!

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.

1 minute ago, Fasauceome said:

I thought there was a Hardwareunboxed review of the revised version, which showed still poor results. You should definitely check and see if you can find some definitive benchmark data in regards to the performance, but I don't recall any improvements being noted.

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.

41 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

The cooler is mostly just a plastic shroud with very little heat sink underneath. The contact with the ram and GPU die is pretty bad, leading to about the worse thermal performance of any of the RX cards. Other cards that had pretty terrible issues, like the strix, were fixed while others have just gone out of stock. The Thicc II and the ASRock challenger seem to be the bad thermal holdouts on the market (and sometimes the Asus TUF, but it was replaced by the TUF Evo so you will often find that listed instead.)

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.

1 minute ago, Bombastinator said:

Comparing a $500,000 Lamborghini vs a 15,000 Ka to a $2500 mac vs a $2000 pc isn’t any more fair though. I’m not saying your totally wrong but it is an exaggeration. Apple has a market they know how to serve.  That market is not most people here.

Lower end Windows laptops are a lot less than 2 grand

On 5/27/2020 at 4:33 PM, Commodus said:

Not seemingly... and while Apple definitely isn't perfect, saying its hardware is no better than "the rest of the industry" just isn't true.  Many lower-end Windows laptops are made of flimsier materials and take shortcuts in other areas, like the battery.  Strictly anecdotally, I know of more than a few horror stories of laptops from Dell, HP and the like that failed repeatedly where those stories are considerably rarer in the Mac crowd.  I'd chalk that up at least partly to Apple focusing on the premium space to start with, but that still leaves Apple being more reliable overall.

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.

2 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

The cooler is mostly just a plastic shroud with very little heat sink underneath. The contact with the ram and GPU die is pretty bad, leading to about the worse thermal performance of any of the RX cards. Other cards that had pretty terrible issues, like the strix, were fixed while others have just gone out of stock. 

Thanks for the heads up. My new GPU plans are now royally up the arse

2 hours ago, Fasauceome said:

If you do find a used 5600 XT in your budget you should probably go for it, but avoid the XFX thicc if you can help it.

I literally have the buy now button ready to poke on a 5600XT Thicc II-Pro.

What's the issue with them?