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So how do you know if your CPU is actually boosting? I've read Ryzen only boosts one or two cores, but task manager always shows it at 4.18-4.2 when it should go to 4.6.

I also have AI suite 3, and that lets me turn up the CPU clock, otherwise it seems to sit at 4.2. bumping that up to 4.3 my CPU is still sitting at 55c

Hmm. Doing prime95 for a few minutes nothing changed

Would that just be the PBO I have enabled in the last picture?

I took my ram out, it is 3200. I decided to just take some pics of the BIOS settings to make it easier. I don't really see anything that says dram frequency, just voltage. I found precision boost, but it has a lot of other settings.

I don't really know what this means. My ram was pretty cheap, though I honestly don't remember what speed it actually is.

I have a b550 plus TUF that claims to have AI overclocking, though nothing from Asus actually confirms that. The bios itself doesn't have the AI OC info the websites say it should, but the option is clearly there in the bios. Trying to follow along with it, it doesn't seem to do anything. Also tried the AI suite overclocking button, which is also different from the websites example. Currently, doing the stress test in prime 95 has task manager showing 100% CPU load on all cores at 4.18-4.2 ghz, which is the same as idle, and the temps are 40-50c. Just seems like something should be happening and should be getting more than base speed for an OC. I've switched Asus performance enhancement on and OC tuner to... OC tuner, but nothing seems to have changed,

Koreans as a people aren't known for not crunching, whether it's company "mandated" or not. They're right up there with Japan. x.

Good Guy Valve.

I've been to a number of events, and seen a few on TV, I've never seen people doing any of that. It really doesn't. You're asking for something that you already had zero interest in doing. Not once when racing around a track have I worried that spectators aren't throwing rocks when I'm trying to manage brake points, throttle input, steering, and opponents. What? Why would that make you expect it? They've never done it, because there's literally less than zero reason to do so, therefore you expect them to do it? That's the same kind of logic as illegally dumping your garbage in the woods near your house because no one will ever see it. Yes, they do last for 24 hours. And no, that would be fucking stupid. There's no real races that only last for 5 minutes. Even WRX races have multiple heats and lasts a few hours. Meanwhile no buildings are built. Crowds aren't unimportant because "they're not alive," they're unimportant because they literally do not matter. No one playing sports on the field is paying attention to what the crowd is doing. What the fuck? People don't live at race tracks. There's no buses on race tracks. Why would you want to murder a bus full of kids? You're sicker than I thought. Aside from that, why are you playing a racing game by sitting on the sidelines? There's so much wrong with this. What you described was completely unrealistic. At this point you're arguing to argue. I'm not going any further, you don't like racing games.

When was the last time you watched a sporting event where people were walking around selling lemonade and playing hopscotch instead of sitting in the bleachers and watching the sport? I've never bothered to sit around and watch the audience in a racing game, or any game that isn't GTA. I honestly don't understand why you'd expect racing games to do this. Should they also have a full 24 hour scheduled cycle so they wake up, have coffee, go to work, buildings are constructed in real time, they come back, make dinner, etc. like RDR2? Crowds are quite literally the least important part of a racing game, and given that at any point in time you might need hundreds of them on screen filling bleachers they're usually sprites. I can't begin to fathom how seeing a bystander for the 3 seconds you race past them on a longer 30 second animation cycle would make the racing any better. That explicitly sounds like you don't love racing games. "I love GTA, I got bored after half an hour and uninstalled it." ? By definition, no. I don't understand. So completely unrealistic? Let me get this straight, you don't like Horizon, which is exactly what your describing, and you don't like sims because they're too realistic? And you somehow love racing games?

How very vague. They're laser scanned racetracks, it's as accurate as it can be, including the surrounding environments. The rest of what you said would be condensed into crowds, which racing games have had since the 90's. It's not like the only thing visible is your car and the track surface and that's it. Nothing about what you said really makes sense and can just be summed up as you don't like racing games.

Don't think so, they did the sequel before. But I already had the game either way. How would you control scenery?

That's just online functionality. Uhh... yeah, you control the car. Don't know what else you'd expect from a racing sim. I have lots of racing games and hundreds of hours in them. I just remembered it's EGS giveaway day.

I have an Apple fan buddy who pretty regularly watches To Catch a Predator. Would he be flagged?

They're still on Gamepass. I suppose the logic is that the licensing prevents them from selling the game, where gamepass technically doesn't do that.

Horizon 4 is the only title still for sale, once FM7 gets pulled. What's more annoying beyond the ruination of game preservation is that most companies give these types of games away for free before pulling them from sale. Not M$, still gotta make that dollar. I'm assuming FH4 will also be pulled shortly. I have no legal means of playing Horizon 3. Even then, I'm not sure I could. Forza 6 on PC was more of a demo anyways.

Forza 7 is being pulled from store along with all DLC, if you don't buy it now, you won't be able to.

Huh. If that's the case it would be nicer if they trimmed out all the old stuff from 98. It won't be though. Wonder what that means for certain programs and older games n such that are still 32 bit. Dosbox I guess? How is the other stuff supposed to increase security, and why is it seemingly not an issue now?

A class action lawsuit. I mean, that's after the fact though. So what exactly is the requirement and for what purpose? It's not like they're phasing out 32 bit support or doing something completely new.

AZ's renewable energy comes in the form of inefficient solar and some biofuel plants, for far more people than Alaska. River and dam turbines make the most sense as it's a fairly constant supply of free energy. I don't really know why you're bringing up isolated communities that would otherwise function the same without electricity as they have for the past couple hundred years. Alaska also has a miniscule population, and as you mentioned a lot of it isn't really hooked up so the "demand" currently is low. I have no problem with personal people cutting trees for winter, but using government subsidies to shut down more efficient and less pollutive power plants in favor of "renewable" biofuel plants where they raze forests is stupid. See, personally I think garbage is a much bigger issue than co2 emissions, but no one really wants to talk about that, or the fact that the US realistically doesn't really recycle anything. We keep trying to sell it to everyone else and no one's buying it so we're literally stockpiling garbage. So even if companies did start making their products recyclable or bio-degradable, we still wouldn't be capable of actually doing it.

I live in AZ, in the desert, so the batteries are more prone to overheating. The only other option in Alaska is biofuels, which are fucking stupid, or wind farms, which are also kind of dumb. Not sure how well they'll hold up to blizzards and the occasional hurricanes either.

This is why they can afford nice things and you can't. It's like that argument about "My poor friends always pay the bill for dinner, my rich friends only pay for themselves." My brother did that for years and only recently realized how much money he was spending because he's a dipshit. Now he only pays for himself, is out of debt, and doesn't stress out every time he goes out to eat because he can afford it. It's a 5 second ad. If they started paying for every subscription service they'd be paying a couple hundred dollars every year to save a few minutes of time. YouTube, Pandora/Spotify, Netflix, Hulu, HBO, etc. That alone is ~$450/year. Actually, I banked on YT being $50/year at $5/month, if you go for your suggested $18/month for 5 accounts, YT alone would be $216/year, on top of the other $400 of subscriptions, providing they have a $100/year option. That's $616/year.

That's actually kind of a problem, extreme changes in temperature can vastly reduce the lifespan of a battery. That's definitely the biggest issue no one wants to actually acknowledge. Whether it's plugged in overnight or there's fast chargers, it's still going to be using a shitload of electricity when places like Cali with it's "green" power is already frequently suffering from blackouts. The UK has to ramp up production for tea time. Solar power keeps being proven to be unsustainable for large companies, kills the surrounding environment, then falls into disuse or disarray. Homeowners panels only pay for themselves by the time they're worn out and need replacement. Then a bunch of places are switching over to biofuel plants instead of gas/coal/nuclear, which is fucking stupid. Instead of burning something cleanly and efficiently, we'll just go out and raze forests to burn that's significantly less of either. And when we run out of forests, we'll turn to animals, and then to just any other garbage like tire chips. This whole CO2 emissions thing is a scam, none of this actually reduces anything, it just shuffles it around. Not to mention the ridiculously harmful chemicals the batteries are made from that have to be mined, poisoning the environment and the people forced into labor. There needs to be a massive restructuring of public transport so it's actually usable instead of having to drive 15 miles to work.

It's pretty slick. Really fast paced and will run on anything, has online co-op.