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Adorable Cat

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  1. you could technically solder on a 6 pin connector, but it wouldn't do anything. The board might not even have the circuitry to use the power from the 6 pin connector, in that case it would be entirely useless. Not sure what you mean by "shooting down", like you have bad framerate drops? your GPU is most likely not the cause of that, it might be running low on RAM, your processor (or GPU if video is playing with GPU acceleration or something) could be too weak to run a game and netflix or whatever at the same time, or it could be a software thing, but the power connector wouldn't have any bearing on that.
  2. is your college assigning you a project you have to make? are they just telling you to create something using thwe skills you've accumulated so far? your question is exceedingly vague.
  3. if you're looking for something inexpensive you can probably find used Windows Mixed Reality sets used on ebay. I used an HP one for a while and though they're beaten in every way by new or more expensive stuff like the Quest 2, Reverb G2, Index, etc. they're still much better than original Vive/Rift. The only reason I'm upgrading from mine is because I broke it stupidly and I have the money for an index.
  4. alternatively, there's also probably a way to straight up disable the onboard gpu in the BIOS once you have a dedicated card installed so you don't have to bother with nvidia control panel stuff.
  5. if you don't do gaming on it and want to save a buck, 8GB should be plenty for just discord and web browsing and stuff. but if you do any gaming or want to be safe into the future I'd go for 16GB
  6. I don't think you'll have to worry about that, your better power supply should just be compatible with everything else. buuut for educational sake: you'll plug the PCIE power on the 850w psu into the graphics card, and leave everything else to the smaller hp power supply. you'll want to short pin 16 (PS-ON) on the 24 pin connector to any ground pin, which will force the power supply to be on all the time. then that 850w psu is powering the graphics card and the hp psu is just powering the mobo, drives, cpu etc. but that's all pretty irrelevent in this situation
  7. a CPU bottleneck won't damage your GPU, you just won't get anywhere near the performance you could out of it (I think you know this already though). As long as the power supply is compatible with the rest of the system it should work well. even if your 850w PSU won't work because the motherboard has proprietary power connectors on it (though from what I see online it doesn't look like it does) you could still get it to work in less than beautiful ways.
  8. steam finally let me order a Valve Index, I'll finally be able to get back into VR since my WMR headset broke a month or so ago

  9. I'm overclocking an i5 750 on stream come watch if u want

     

  10. Summary Gabe Newell (Valve founder) has partnered with Rocket Lab to include a 5 inch titanium replica of the gnome on the Electron rocket launching from New Zealand on Thursday. "Gnome Chompski" was originally featured in Half Life 2: Episode 2 where players could get an achievement by carrying him through the game and then placing him inside a rocket. In addition, Gabe has pledged to donate 1 dollar for every viewer of the launch to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the New Zealand Starship Children's Hospital. Quotes My thoughts As a huge half life fan I think this is really cool, and I'll probably watch the launch to contribute towards that donation. I'm also glad that gnome's gonna burn up in the atmosphere, I'll take that as payback for having to drag him through the car segment of episode 2. Sources https://www.cnet.com/news/valves-gabe-newell-is-rocketing-a-half-life-2-icon-to-space-thursday/ https://www.pcgamesn.com/gabe-newell-garden-gnome-space-launch
  11. took some super close up pics of a silicon wafer, they turned out pretty sick.IMG_20201016_210100.thumb.jpg.07a7c82ddad875f7ec7d4c8f8fe02c1e.jpg

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  12. can't wait for there to be a Ryzen 5700x, Radeon 5700XT, possibly a Ryzen 5700, a Radeon 5700, probably a Ryzen 5600x and 5600, and Radeon 5600XT and 5600

    1. pythonmegapixel

      pythonmegapixel

      And you bet people are still gonna just write "5700" all the time to refer to any of these...

  13. How did the motherboard get damaged? do you have any pictures of the damage?
  14. 4 pin fan headers are PWM, that's the standard at least (if they weren't PWM they should be 3 pin connectors). You may have to go into the BIOS under the fan control options (on my B450M PRO4 it's in the hardware monitoring section I believe) and change the fan control mode to PWM
  15. I'm currently on Windows 10 1809, and I want to update to 1909 and then 2004 so I can install the Xbox Gamepass stuff and play flight simulator (pretty irrelevant to the problem). When I run the Xbox Installer and begin the windows update with Windows 10 Update Assistant, it'll eventually fail saying "we can't tell if windows has enough space to continue installing windows 10", though it obviously does (my Windows drive still has 468GB free space). Trying to update through Windows Update and not the Update Assistant returns "There were problems installing some updates, but we'll try again later. Feature update to Windows 10, version 1909 - Error 0x800703ee". I've tried just about every solution I see online: Installing through an ISO file, unplugging every drive except my OS drive, and running file checking stuff like SFC to check for corrupted files and none of it has helped. The one problem I did notice is that my OS drive didn't have a System Reserved partition for some reason, so I created one (by using windows built in drive manager, making some unallocated space, then creating a 700MB partition named "System Reserved" and not assigning it a drive letter) but that also didn't help. pl0x fellow tech tippers help thanks
  16. normally VRMs use thermal pads not thermal paste because they're affixed to the VRM with less pressure than like a GPU or CPU cooler, which means the paste isn't spread as much
  17. better quote, missed it because the text is pretty unreadable in dark mode
  18. If you remove the cable extensions and try to turn it on does it work? (ik it's a pain in the ass to unplug and re plug everything)
  19. what CPU are they using? Are the GPU drivers up to date?
  20. move the computer? the 5700xt draws more power than the GTX 970 and makes more heat, you can't really change this because it's the laws of physics. The temperatures being equal doesn't change this, it just means the 5700XT puts more heat into the air. I suppose you could try to undervolt the card.
  21. why do i turn 18 in an hour and a half i never thought id live this long

  22. it'd gonna be really hard to find a half decent GPU under 100 USD, let alone Australian Dollars. Your best bet would probably be to either save some more money, or look on ebay for a cheap used RX570 or 1050/1050ti
  23. Did you forget to fill in the template thing?
  24. I've got the same headset but got it new, the original cable got mutilated on accident. It cost me the same amount to go on ebay and buy the whole set (Headset, 2 Controllers, and Cable) used than it would to just buy a new cable.
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