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    Macboi reacted to Ithanul in Is SLI support declining?   
    Depends on one's viewpoint.  I have two cards but don't SLI much.  Though, I don't mind tweaking SLI on occasions, as I find it a bit interesting to fool around with it.
     
    Though for when I just want to fire up and play a game for fun.  I just turn it off and let one card do the job while the 2nd card can be busy doing something else.  Usually just boils down to what a person wants to put up with or if they want to tinker.
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    Macboi reacted to GoldenLag in Nvidia: No next gen graphics cards for a long time   
    AMD, our lord and savior, please bestow upon us the blessing of competition
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    Macboi reacted to Loadent in Is SLI support declining?   
    I try not to weigh in on such threads as the usually become heated and very opinionated. And name calling or judging just happens.
     
    From the enthusiast point of view, (mine) we like to tinker and make thinks work. Like SLI. Over 300+ games in my steam, origin, GOG, etc.
    And many support SLI, official or not.
     
    My first crossfire were space heaters (ATI 4870's) and the power draw was so high through the pcie slot, it melted my 24 pin connector to my motherboard.
    I have since, ran CF AMD 280's, SLI GTX 680'x, 970's, 980'x, 1080's and now 1080ti's.
    (btw I also have 2 teenagers that game).
     
    Our house has 5960x, 5930k, 980x, 4790k, Q9550 and a few apple products. 2-PG278Qs 2560x1440p 144hz, 1 Omen X 35 3440x1440 100hz, 1 32" 4K. and a HTC Vive. 3 - 24" Samsung on a racing rig.
     
    A lot of money dumped into hardware over the years just to get the best experience I can. I will have more fun in an evening tinkering and trying to beat my benchmark scores then playing games. Just the way I am. But our family's hobby is ours, and nobody can say it is wrong.
     
    All of my friends and family come to us for suggestions on what hardware of this or that, video cards, hard drives, repairs etc.
     
    AND NONE OF THEM RUN HARDWARE LIKE OURS. They end up buying the i3s, i5s,1050/1050ti/1060. Or even lesser of cards. Because that's all they need.
     
    Will nvidia continue SLI, damn straight. Why? To keep people like us on these forums interested and engaged. They sell more cards through our (me and all of you) recommendations. And none of us recommend SLI to those who don't need it or will have any fun with it.
     
    Last year the 1080 was all that was needed to max out 1080p but as displays are growing and get more pixels. The standard will change, in 5 more years, more and more people will have 4k displays, higher refresh rates. ummmmmm 65" 4K HDR 144HZ. Couch gaming like that is going to be awesome.
     
     The 1080ti can't do it alone. Nor can 2. SLI has always been a small market, always will be. IF a single card works for you great, but for may it does not. As DX12 develops, we all hope they can get multi gpu working, not SLI, but guess what, still means two cards.
     
    Last point, there us a few you tube videos out there to watch which support my point (and experience).
    This does not apply to all games, but a good many that support SLI.
     
    If you SLI 2 cards and run 1080p to try to get 200+fps, you get a damn mess and a ton of micro stutters.
    SLI 2 cards at 4K (or more with DSR) for 60-100+fps, works great, butter smooth and limited stutters or jitters that can happen on single cards.
     
    Marketing alone wont sell more cards. Nvidia doesn't advertise on TV, Radio or even the super bowl. Its the experience that sells.
     
    Just my opinion.
     
    Just wanted to add, I haven't purchased NEW hardware since I built my 2008 Q9550 rig. All has been purchased used and 30-50% new price. (including my monitors and vive)
     So it can be DEFIENTLY worth going SLI. I wouldn't purchase 2 new 1070's for SLI. But used is a very different price to performance ratio.
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    Macboi reacted to Kalm_Traveler in Is SLI support declining?   
    There isn't any real information from Nvidia on this yet, but it is definitely not dead. 
     
    The two newish games i play both support it well, which is why I was trying so hard to hack my pair of Titan V's into working, but it looks like for now if i really want Volta SLI I'll need to save a few more pennies for a pair of Quadro GV100's. 
     
    Anyway, my advice is always to buy 1 better card rather than SLI two lesser cards for maximum compatibility. 
     
    I have literally never had any issues with SLI on 780, 980, 1080, or Titan Xp cards but some people seem to run into problems for some reason, so keep that it in mind. 
     
    Also, as an example my new mainstream build will just have a single Titan V to keep things simple. Hedt rig is swapping to SLI Titan Xp. 
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    Macboi reacted to Mio85 in Is SLI support declining?   
    It's too early to say that SLI support is declining.
    The 10 series is the first time that a xx60 and below cards stopped supporting SLI.
     
    But SLI has never been a good investment. It's always been an unstable, un-guaranteed, and power hungry solution to playing games.

    The only time SLI is recommended is if you're pairing two of the highest tier'd cards together. So 2 GTX 1080Ti's, or 2 GTX 1080's (before the 1080Ti release.)
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    Macboi reacted to Zeitec in Is SLI support declining?   
    I wouldn't say it's DECLINING per se....
     
     
     
     
    it's dead. Absolutely dead. Do not run an SLI setup. 
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    Macboi reacted to Oshino Shinobu in Is SLI support declining?   
    Nvidia has been pretty clear in their stance of reducing SLI support. They've almost completely removed 3 and 4 way SLI support and have removed 2 way from more of their cards than before. 
     
    Game developers will follow suit really. It ends up being less work for them, or at least gives them more time to work on single-GPU performance. 
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    Macboi reacted to mrcharizard in Best way to go about reinstalling Win10 without loosing programs and games?   
    Steam will perform a "first time setup" when you try to start the game, which installs all the necessary components.
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    Macboi reacted to mrcharizard in Best way to go about reinstalling Win10 without loosing programs and games?   
    I think you should really reinstall all your programs. You can use ninite if you're really lazy to install each by hand.
     
    Here's what I usually do to back up my settings before reinstalling windows:
    If you have part of your steam library on your system drive, migrate it to a different drive(you can just copy steam/steamapps/common to a different drive)
     
    Take a screenshot of all the programs you installed, either your desktop icons or in your control panel.
     
    Check the following folders and backup any folder related to programs/games you use frequently/tweaked extensively/don't want to set up again:
         users\(username)\documents (usually your game save files are here, just in case you have a game with no cloud save)
         users\(username)\appdata\local
         users\(username)\appdata\locallow
         users\(username)\appdata\roaming (for me the most important folder here is my foobar settings)
         Programdata
     
    Some further files you might consider backing up:
        your desktop
        your desktop backgrounds
        users\(username)\downloads(or music or pictures)
        any cloud storage folder you don't want wasting time rescynced
     
    If you're really hardcore you can also screenshot stuff like chrome flags and services.msc....I personally don't see the point in doing so though....
     
    You might also wanna make sure you remember all your login passwords.
     
    Hopefully this helps you not miss some important files
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    Macboi reacted to Cosmic Railgun in How to view USB drive in task manager like any other hard drive?   
    Not sure if it's possible, flash drives are viewed as a different storage medium by windows. It places certain restrictions on them. If you plug in a backup drive however I do believe that would show up, not too sure however
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    Macboi reacted to Cosmic Railgun in How to view USB drive in task manager like any other hard drive?   
    Interesting, yeah as I suspected I checked my PC and my backup drive (G drive) shows up but my USB key (which is rather large too, 128GB) which is my "H drive" doesnt show up 

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    Macboi reacted to Cosmic Railgun in How to view USB drive in task manager like any other hard drive?   
    Idk, maybe. I'd rather microsoft work on improving the user experience and stability of windows 10 than spend time implementing features like this haha. USB keys are still primarily used for just transferring files, which windows explorer's copy system shows you the drive performance anyway so there's no need for task manager to show it too. Most of the time it would be at 0 anyway
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    Macboi reacted to TetraSky in Try and fix handwriting or try to learn with left hand?   
    It's not even in cursive. The letters are well shaped enough that no one should have issues reading it after looking at it for a second.
    Especially when compared to @techswede , but even his is readable when you actually try.
     
    If anyone has trouble reading it, they are obviously not even trying to use their brain at all.
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    Macboi reacted to WereCat in Try and fix handwriting or try to learn with left hand?   
    My handwriting is very similar to yours but I found out that when I use my drawing tablet with pen, I write a LOT nicer for some reason... also faster.
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    Macboi reacted to Shreyas1 in Try and fix handwriting or try to learn with left hand?   
    one thing that works for me is using a sharper pencil provided that i am not already using a mechanical one
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    Macboi reacted to Canada EH in Try and fix handwriting or try to learn with left hand?   
    Practice makes perfect, just practice everyday and try to correct the issue at hand.
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    Macboi got a reaction from Enderman in Best way to go about reinstalling Win10 without loosing programs and games?   
    No problem, I was just curious if you did. 
     
    Thank you for your assistance.
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    Macboi reacted to Enderman in Best way to go about reinstalling Win10 without loosing programs and games?   
    No.
    A clean install means programs need to be reinstalled.
    Depending on the game, sometimes there is an entire game folder that can be copied to a new system without losing anything.
    For example with steam you can just have games on a separate drive and if you reinstall windows you just need to tell steam where to find your games.
    For some games there are files in other places on your drive that you need to look for and save.
    Just look up "how to move X game to another system" or something like that.
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    Macboi reacted to m0k in Best way to go about reinstalling Win10 without loosing programs and games?   
    so the games are easy to save - ex on steam / origin etc.
    In the past, in order to avoid having to re-download and install all my games i just copy paste the game's installation folder to another drive
    and then you reinstall windows - and just paste the old game folder back into its general install location - upon loading up steam, it will find the games files and start up with no issues
    In my case i had it even easier. My OS is on a SSD, and all my game files and folders were on a separate HDD
    So when i had to reinstall windows 10 i woulc just disconnect my HDD to avoid losing my content.
     
    As for the programs and apps - unfortunately i would PERSONALLY  recommend letting those go - and just re-install after the fresh OS installation. (just to save time later in case your issues are not resolived)
    Its good practice to start from scratch because there could be conflicting programs / reg entries / drivers / runtimes  that might be causing your BSOD and OS issues
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    Macboi reacted to Canada EH in TROUBLE WITH 2 PSUS PLS HELP!   
    lots of online websites will tell you how it can be done
    even youtube
     
    try search terms like
    oem psu hack
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    Macboi reacted to divito in Try and fix handwriting or try to learn with left hand?   
    Mine is actually similar to techswede's sample, if even a little worse, as far as readability goes. This will also depend on whether I'm writing quickly for notes or actually trying to write well.

    I don't think yours is all that bad; while it has a childlike quality, it's perfectly readable. If you want to improve on it, simply take your time when you write. I think in situations where you're writing fast, there's not a lot of hope in changing your habits for the style; but in situations where you have time, it's certainly possible to slowly train yourself for better quality.

    For me, I've given up long ago on fixing my chicken scratch. But then again I'm old.
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    Macboi reacted to techswede in Try and fix handwriting or try to learn with left hand?   
    That's easily readable. My handwriting is worse from a readability standpoint

     
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    Macboi reacted to LogicalDrm in How to highlight outliers??   
    I tried with some example data. But the way Googles functions in this matter works is bit odd. This was some guide https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20545961/google-spreadsheet-conditional-formatting-based-on-another-cell-value
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    Macboi reacted to nsinnott in Ethernet network not using correct SSID - Preventing Homegroup sharing.   
    Have you tried setting up a share rather than doing it through HomeGroup? How about trying a remote connection from the laptop to the HomeGroup desktop? Have you tried pinging the machines from each other?
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    Macboi reacted to nsinnott in Ethernet network not using correct SSID - Preventing Homegroup sharing.   
    Qualcomm Atheros is a line of Wireless adapters. Sure you're looking at the right adapter here?
     
     
    EDIT: whoops, I'm an idiot
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