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Im pretty sure windows has basic drivers for everything

So someone in the LTT discord provided a link to an eyecatching listing of a 1080ti that is supposedly "refurbished" for about $110 here. I've already seen tons of scam GPUs on Ebay that show a GPU with some sketchy Chinese shroud and a VGA connector when there's clearly not supposed to be one, and just a lot of red flags in general. However, what's different from this is that they seem to be showing pictures of what seems to be an actual 1080ti, instead of just showing their actual scam product like those Chinese ones did. I'm assuming that the seller just took pictures of his own personal 1080ti, then made a listing acting like he's selling the card, but in reality he's going to ship either nothing or a scam GPU. I know that this isn't some clueless seller that doesn't know how much this is worth as he sells these as "refurbished" cards. What do you guys think on this different approach for a GPU scam?

G2A is just a shit and sketchy site overall, I highly encourage not using G2A

G2A is just a shit and sketchy site overall, I highly encourage not using G2A

People still use Facebook?

Yep willingly...the NSA would be proud...

1. Ask lots of questions like this.
2. Tag @Energycore every time you think you've said something witty or intelligent (or both!)
3. Shitpost all the threads.
4. Be a long-standing member with a history of being knowledgeable and friendly.
5. Send a check for $1,000 American (not Canadian pesos) made out to Linus Media Group.

Sometimes they take applications when they need a few, sometimes they approach outstanding members.
 
Sometimes a lady in a lake gives them a sword.
 
Depends on the day.

Shit I would love that! GO AND ROAST 'EM!!!

I would like to suggest that LMG , maybe the Channel Super Fun, do a video of a call to a tech support scam company. I know that there are others out there doing this, but I would really like to see your group do it because I think that you have the experience to really troll the scammers. I think that a video of your group playing tech support scammer bingo would also be funny as hell. Just an idea I thought that I would throw out there. I also think that it wouldn't hurt for you to use said video to help put one of these scam companies on the run, or out of business.

Good day everyone, today I would like to share my proven way of overclocking a FX series CPU. So let's get right to it shall we?
First of all there are some things you will need in order to overclock your CPU stably and consistently:
Motherboard: You need a mobo with a 990FX chipset, I'm personally using Asrock's fatal1ty 990FX Pro
CPU: You are going to need an FX series CPU and please just get a piledriver, bulldozer is just not the right core for any cpu. I use the FX-8350
Memory: Get at least 1600MHz on dual chanel
CPU cooler: To overclock an octa core you will naturally need to use an aftermarket cooler. Keeping in mind that AMD uses lower quality CPU's you should not dare to go above 65c at any point in time. Keeping this in mind your options for air cooling are limited. I recommend using a CoolerMaster v8 or v10. When using watercooling you've got a lot more so choose from, basically any watercooling will work but when going for some higher clocks you should look for an H100i.
PSU: The reason your CPU runs hotter when overclocking is because of the increasing powerconsumption. Keep this in mind. Depending on your GPU you should be able to getaway with 600+ I was able to reuse an old 500 watt suply as I'm using a mid end GPU which never runs fully
Patience Overclocking is easy but it takes a long time as every chip is different, you need to perfectly balance your system in order to get the best clocks.
Ways to overclock
1. Multiplier overclocking: All you need to do for this is to increase the multiplier, use a black edition CPU for this. It is highly recommended that you use both CPU and FSB multipliers when using this method.
2. FSB increase: The FSB is the basic host clock that is multiplied by every multiplier there is (CPU FSB CPUNB DRAM), basically it effects everything.
3. Increasing the voltage: This is not an actual way to overclock but more a tool you can use. We'll talk about this more later on.
4. Secondary multiplier: The primary multiplier is ofcourse the CPU, but there are others. The CPU-NB, FSB and DRAM are the secondary multipliers and though they do not directly increase CPU performance they Will higher the overall performance.
Voltages
As promised we'll go more in depth in voltages but before we begin, I can not stress this enough: Too much voltage WILL hurt your performance, if you brute force it you are going to damage your CPU and you will NOT get great performance.
Now, there are several voltages to keep in mind all of these voltages have a different effect on the system but once again VOLTAGES WILL HURT YOUR SYSTEM WHEN YOU GET TOO HIGH.
Also keep in mind that things like Core Boost will eat voltage; before fine tuning any voltages you should disable any extra's you don't really need and reboot.
1. CPU VCore: On air you should keep this voltage under 1.45v or 50C at standard use. This is to avoid electron migration and heat or voltage degration.
2. CPU NB VID: This will be safe up to around 1.35v. (having never used intel I can't say for sure) but from what I've read this is something Intel does not have. The AMD platform used 2 different NB's one is the 990FXA which is the standard Northbride but AMD have also got a NB in the CPU, it doesn't handle the CPU core but has a great impact on the FSB, CPU NB and can help memory overclocking.
3. NB voltage(: Speaking for itself this voltage can be taken up to around 1.2v safely, which can help to higher your FSB frequency.
4. DRAM: The voltage of your RAM, it should be at or preferaly just under what your memory is rated for.
Voltage control and PLL are unimportant.
LLC is a setting that counters voltage drops and lowers the temperature; if you do not have it available you should find out what the voltage drop is under 100% load and higher your base voltage so that the voltage is always where you want it to be.
OC settings
1. CPU multiplier, I think we all know what this is so I will skip it.
2. CPU host clock, this is simply the FSB. When you start to fiddle with this setting you are expected to have a hang on the ropes. This is the frequency all multipliers are multiplied by. When fiddling with this clock you can achieve higher clocks with less multiplier, you will need a bit more voltage on your CPU though.
Now that you know what we're doing, let's OC!
We're going to break this part down in steps so that you can easily follow it.
1. First we are going to increase our voltage(VCore) to 1.4 or 1.45 and increase our multiplier to something not too special, let's say 4.5GHz. (you WILL need good cooling) Should you have LLC, feel free to set it to the highest.
Now restart and boot up. If you didn't change anything else you should be able to boot up without any problems.
2. Ok so great, we've got a nice clock but our voltage is still way too high so we are going to decrease it all the way to where we can't post anymore(are unable to get in to the bios). Till you hit under 1.3v you can just take it in 2-4 steps as it's unlikely you'll fail to post. Keep remembering your clocks or write them down because when you fail to post you are going to perform a clear CMOS. So once you fail to post set your clocks back to what they were and higher the voltage about .05v
NOTE: This step is going to be a pain in the butt, when fine tuning my voltages and clocks I spent nearly an hour resetting my system to find the best voltage and clock.
3. Now it's getting fun. We are going to boot in to windows. Should you fail to get past the Windows loading screen you should higher the voltage with 2 steps and try again. Once you're in windows run a 30 minute stress test at full load. If you pass move to step 4, if you don't, higher the voltage by 1 step.
4. Yay for you, you've just made your system run kinda stable! We're not going to stop here though, the next thing to do is to increase the FSB clock, increasing about 10% should be fine to start with. The CPU-NB, DRAM and HT multiplier will have to be changed, just higher them a bit and keep in mind that the CPU-NB should NOT get over 2.7GHz
5. Now you are probably going to increase the voltage of your CPU-NB a bit, don't go too high hough, it will hurt performance. 1.25v should be plenty. You can also increase the FSB voltage a bit if you want to get high FSB clocks.
6. Boot again, should you fail while using the same frequency that's probably because of changing the FSB. Just higher the voltage on VCore a but and you should be fine.
7. Time to run some stability tests. Try running prime 95 for at least 3 hours. If it works it's great, else higher the voltage a bit or change frequencies or multipliers. Keep a track on your temperatures. Keep them as low as possible, anything higher then 70 will probably damage your CPU.
8. Now this step is going to be the most time demanding of them all. It could take a week or more to perfectly fine tune your CPU but here's how:
When you are in windows, run some benchmarks and write the result down. After doing that go to the BIOS and change some timings, multipliers, frequencies etc. Mix them up, higher them, lower them, fiddle around with the voltage (keeping in mind that this stage is only for small changes and NOT for big ones) and boot again. Run the same benchmarks and see if there's improvement, if there is you're doing great and are on the right track, if there is a decrease in performance you're on the wrong track and should try something different. Depending on your cooling and how lucky you are with your chip I've seen overclocks of 5.2GHz stable.
9. Run more stability tests until YOU are satisfied it'll be stable. Some say it's stable after 2 hours of stress testing, others want to run it for at least 24 hours. For me I like 6-12 hours.
To all of you current and future OCers GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN!
I hope you enjoyed my little tutorial, I know I haven't been perfectly clear on every single part of my tutorial but I don't need to be, once you start working on it you'll get a feel for it. Keep in mind that every chip is different and only very few can reach huge speeds. Make sure you have enough cooling and keep in mind that voltage/temperature are deadly things for your system.
Greetings,
Rataridicta
Terminology:
CPU - Processor
PSU - Power Supply Unit
Multiplier - This one is very complicated but simplified it works like this: Your FSB gives your CPU a base clock, this clock is usually nowadays around 200 MHz. Now your CPU takes that clock and multiplies it by the desired amount. It does this by assigning cycles to the clock. Let's say you've got a clock of 200 MHz and you're using the multiplier 20 (meaning you'll have 20*200=4000MHz of clock speed) the CPU will allow 20 CPU cycles to run. I honestly can't make it much simpler then that, for more information I direct you to wikipedia
FSB - This stands for the Front Side Bus which is the collection of busses (gateways) that connects the CPU to everything else on the mobo.
CPU VCore - Simply the voltage provided to the CPU by the PSU
CPU NB VID - The power supplied to the north bridge on the CPU
NB - Stands for the North Bridge which basically controlls all the fast data processes like RAM and PCIe
Clear CMOS - Resetting your Bios to it's default settings

If this is going to be a new trend, I won't be surprised when someone hacks into the national emergency alert system.

Sigh... The poor average consumer just installs their tech with the default settings and calls it a day.. nothing to do with the company or their products. I make sure that anyone that wants to buy products that connects to a network or to the internet they must see if you can change the default password and username. If a product doesn't allow you to change passwords then DO NOT BUY IT.
 
 

After hacking printers and GTA 5 worldwide, PewDiePie fans strike again.
 
Misconfigured Networks Vulnerable to PewDiePie Prank
 
They are pretty creative..

1337 Single Core and 9001 Multicore, you heard it here first.

Everyone's saying "oh it's going to be 12 cores, 5 GHz out of the box", etc. and frankly, I just want to see how accurate these rumors hold up. I'll be floored if even the 12 cores part comes true, but I'm really just predicting this next generation of Zen to have mostly the same core counts as the current generation chips.

You could ask nicely if they would unblock it? I personally use DuckDuckGo as well, since I want to hold Google off from becoming the overlords for just a little while longer.
 
Explain to your IT admins what DDG is and why you use it, you may get lucky

Nvidia released a hotfix driver just yesterday for 417.01 to fix 3 issues, including Edge not working. You can download it here:
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4745?linkId=100000004192262

Nvidia released a hotfix driver just yesterday for 417.01 to fix 3 issues, including Edge not working. You can download it here:
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4745?linkId=100000004192262

That was not a recommendation on what to do. That was the specs of my build and it's capabilities, to use as a gauge of what can be done with that generation of hardware. 

I've never had a problem with SLI and I've never wished I didn't have it. If you run into problems, you can turn SLI off for that game, or try the "force alternate frame rendering 1 (or 2)", an option for which I've only run into problems on 2 games with. Both were Tom Clancy games made by Ubisoft. But you are correct in that not many games are optimized for SLI, and it is not worth the money if you can afford a nicer GPU. However, in the days when I built my system, two gtx 760s were a viable and useful option, and, for the money and all new components, the best bang for the buck that I could find at the time.

So im currently building a computer. Not done with it because i buy the parts when its sale or when i have the money. But i have a addiction to RBG keyboards and everything with RGB in it. So thats why im on my way to buy a keyboard with RGB when i could save more money without it. Also RGB is weird like RED GREEN BLUE. But no yellow what a mistake since yellow is in it

Gee talk about a weirdly unbalanced awful price to performance build.
 
Should have looked for advises in here before purchasing parts.

I agree...

you only use earpods because you have nothing else and because it came with your phone.