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G00fySmiley

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  1. I have all 4 channels populated, I could pull 2 sticks from 1 and 3 then 2 and 4 to see. had not run a memtest due to it saying L2 cache, but I will try that too. I also have a bonus usb 3 card in a pci slot, but am going to disconnect that as its not being used currently and to knock out another thing from the loop. As to the controller its just my youngest kid preferring controller to mouse and keyboard on the tv vs a desk. I was just saying that's why i want to keep that pc going vs just letting it die and getting rid of it, or replacing with something more $. its not part of any issue at all, just the use case of the PC. I was just saying that's probably why I did not get notified on a bootup of the motherboard being restored to defaults.
  2. good call on error lights, saw in the manual, none there though, all 4 ram slots show white, the gpu red light indicator for x16 is on, and none of the debug lights are on as to bent pins, I did not see any when I had the CPU out, but its been in that motherboard running fine in the same spot since 2017. I have note even taken it down in like a year to clean. I may let it ride as is, my only concern is something really messing up (though i know unlikely) and taking out my attached drives or other hardware. Also as said this thing is more than powerful enough that another 200 thrown at it and it might stay a good emulating pc for another couple years until windows 10 end of life unless i can get windows 11 to work on it. . Also what one of my kids prefers to game on with a controller so want it to keep going and not sink a ton into it. good call, just tried. Still getting the 11 beeps, but updated to the latest stable bios. there is a beta one from 2021 but generally avoid beta drivers even ones that old https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/Z370-SLI-PLUS/support#bios Add more info. rebooting after bios, it appears XMP is also no longer working on the motherboard and at some point defaulted to off, likely my kids just clicked thru to proceed. so probably motherboard memory issue though odd its calling it an L2 cache error. maybe damaged aged traces ram to CPU? well probably new Mobo then
  3. In my media PC (emulation and light pc gaming) I am Running a z370 SLI plus. motherboard. and a i5 8600k. For about a week I have been getting an error code with 11 beeps when booting up from off or back from sleep, per MSI its a L2 cache error. likely CPU possible motherboard. Bought a used CPU to upgrade, supposedly tested and working, a i7 8700k. seems to run faster now, but I still get an L2 cache error of 11 beeps on startup/wake. I guess its possible to have the same error on a new to me used CPU but seems unlikely Everything runs fine. gaming is slightly better with the new CPU. So the question is... is maybe the motherboard reading the L2 cache wrong, or could the motherboard be the issue? Just debating is a new z370 motherboard is worth grabbing here. I have 3 kids and a wife so passing down the motherboard and PC is certainly going to happen. I am leaning towards unplugging the speaker but don't want to damage my new CPU if the old one is still good. What say you internet, new motherboard (probably leaning here, likely an ASUS z370-H gaming). get another CPU, or unplug the speaker and pretend everything is fine. until it dies. link to mobo in case anybody has better suggestions. sketchy that is out of hong kong and a retailer with a lot of products but only 2 ratings so maybe something else. https://www.newegg.com/asus-rog-strix-z370-h-gaming/p/N82E16813119035?Item=9SIBPUTJZW2334&cm_sp=product-_-from-price-options
  4. will look at the model. enterprise is mostly a not wanting drive failure and really the budget is more self imposed here money really isn't much of an issue i just care more about longevity for data
  5. any suggestions on a model number for synologoy? as to shucking open to it but want enterprise drives so unsure if that would something i would find in external drives. currently running all WD gold drives in my machines for the spinning rust.
  6. I am looking to finally have an active backup. currently abotu once a quarter I backup my machines the old fashioned way. hook up a hard drive via usb3 and clone my main drives for machines. along with folders from hard drives liek photo backups. I am thinking about getting a little NAS to backup machines in the event of a loss of a machine or drive. I know very little on the NAS front, more of just an individual machine builder so I am not to big to admit when I am out of my depth. current plan is an ASUSTOR AS1004T and throw 2 6TB drives in for now and maybe a few more if needed later (liking the idea of later making it a raid 5 setup but for now this seems like a good use. I am trying to keep the solution below $1k and am currently well below that but I am prioritizing ease of setup and me not having to intervene over other features. I will be backing up 3 machines to it and maybe interested in cloud access to some storage when away from the house but that is about it. Any advice on if this is a good solution or a better solution would be appreciated. I am unsure if it helps or matters but my networks is all through an ASUS AC66U Router 2 computers hard lined, 1 wifi
  7. Been out of the HDD game for a while so not sure on latest brands/tech beyond "look at speed cache and drive size" Looking to create a 4-8 Tb hard drive "bench" to transfer steam games not in use to and then put them back on my 2Tb SSD if I want to revisit or resume them to save on time of downloading it again. currently leaning towards a 8tb WD gold at $267 but am open to suggestions/reasoning to buy a different one and/or avoid the wd gold or get another drive. I can probably still pull this off at 4tb so if its significantly cheaper I might be open there IE 4tb bench and maybe throw in another 2tb ssd as a kind of middle ground to the 2 tb nvme main drive for games i sometimes play but not often or park them there before deciding to archive them in the spinning rust. I also liek the idea of the 4tb toshiba x300 for $109 for the idea of that plus a 2tb ssd... but i know nothing about toshiba drives.
  8. If available look for prep pads, they are usually available in most drug stores. they are just a small piece of gauze with the ISP already on them used to clean a spot before a needle, i find them convenient for cpu cleaning as you just open the package and clean the cpu thermal compound off and throw it all away. that said in a bind i would say a bit of alcohol like said above, high proof vodka or grain alcohol on a napkin would work.
  9. I doubt Nvidia makes a 2080 ti super unless AMD comes up with a compelling competitor for it. If they do I would expect a slightly cut down RTX Titan, though I bet they are loathe to do that as it would partially invalidate the RTX titan.
  10. you seem to keep ignoring that the razer phone was only $600 compared to other flagships it was a good deal. You can say all you want that the ram and specs are wasted but if its giving me a better lag free experience i really don't care if its all being utilized. when i do game on my phone or watch content I only care that the screen looks good and there is no appreciable lag. what matters is user experience and of all the phones i tried a the time this one felt best and i have the income where honestly saving a few hundred for a worse experience is not a worthwhile tradeoff. If i were a student or making a lower wage that priority might change but as somebody 10 years into a good career... yea no reason to compromise at the price delta... now when I look at the Note 10 max and such that is when things change... this is $1.1k now we are getting closer to the is this twice as good as some of its competitors money. I used to be a note user up to the Note 7 thing but then as prices went up I decided the performance (at the time) vs a one plus was not worth it)
  11. I play apex legends too, on my 2070 I have all the settings cranked and am usually at the 120+fps. only in heavy action points will it dip and even then i rarely see the fps counter dip into the 90's usually in normal combat i will drop to 110ish admittedly I have better cooling and a pretty significant overclock. I chose the MSI duke because ti came with the binned 400-A chips which overclock much better.
  12. I have a RTX 2070 MSI Duke overclocked and it runs everything i have thrown at it for 1440p ~144hz rarely see dips below 100 fps. Only exception is games with RTX like battlefield V when running RTX it drops into the 60-80 fps range
  13. given those MSI X470 GAMING PLUS https://www.anandtech.com/show/12990/the-msi-x470-gaming-plus-review/8
  14. how is it double the price? compared to comparable flagship phones it was a pretty good deal. and while i do only use the gaming feature sometimes I am watching media on it constantly at work so yea the nice big screen was totally worth the price. $600 for a phone I will use for probably 2 years seemed reasonable and given how many hours I spend on my device its very justifiable for me to spend that on a good device. (admittedly cross shopped with the Galaxy note but that one was harder to justify on cost.
  15. are there programs that will claim to do so? yes. but i don't know a better way to put this than "you cannot push a button an add 2x the pixels to the area" its a hardware thing based on physical pixels preset. the software solutions really will just downscale the image and decide what to show and what not to show on said pixels and things will still look ~the same except distorted
  16. I have a Razer phone 2. the 120hz screen is great. several titles do actually use it, heck the razer site has a list of all the 120hz compatible games to sue... that said vs 60 fps on mobile its hard to see a huge difference. I do not hold it near my face but rather at a conformable arms length distance. It does get hot but takes about 20-30 min to get uncomfortable and even then I rarely hit that time as gaming usually only happens on it for a few min at a time when waiting for things like a dentist appointment or dr appointment (i have 3 kids so need to wait on lots of things like that)
  17. competition is good for the consumer. I am currently using EGS mostly as a means to encourage competition. I am still watching steam sales and activating humble bundles but for anything on EGS if the same price I will buy it there. Ideally i would love a world where we might have some reason to choose one store for a title over the other like... rather than valve takign 30% off the top they say "ok you make your $42 you woudl make from selling a 59.95 game and instead sell ti for $50 on our platform" then EGS says " sell it for $49 on out platform and you get $45 of that etc. will studios are making more $ and consumers are paying less $
  18. not on the laptop. it just doesn't have enough pixels to display 1080p put another way your 1366x768 monitor has 1,046,088 pixels a 1920 x 1080 monitor has 2,073,600 pizels there is no way to force ~2x the pixels into your screen
  19. x570 seems a bad buy to me unless you really want pcie -4 and even then I would take a long hard look at why I think i need it (spoiler currently you really don't) its hard to say on black friday sales what would be on sale but yea a 3600 bundled with a B450 will likely be a easy to find option. When i researched it for my latest build the MSI B450 tomohawk seemed the best option, but really unless you are plannign to overclock any B450 from a reputable manufacturer should do. I have never had anybody unsatisfied with an ASUS TUF board personally and have built several systems with them (i usually just go with what is on sale in a good combo deal with a processor i want)
  20. sadly a lot of laptops cheap out on panels you may be able to get a secondary monitor assuming there is a hdmi vga dvi or display port out and run that at 1080p though. There are a lot of great 75-120hz 1080p monitors to choose from that are very reasonably priced. I got my son a nice on sale 75 hz 1080p 24" monitor for ~$100 added bonus to a external monitor for gaming at home would be you can have a bigger screen and maybe some better dedicated gaming input devices for use there btu retain your on the go ability of the laptop if you need it. I have a nice desktop but take one of my 1440p 144hz monitors with me on trips for this very reason.
  21. ddu is https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html it basically wipes all gpu drivers so you can perform a clean install. you would be surprised how often issues come up with cards under performing and its just that they did not uninstall everything properly from the old card. Personally I upgrade drivers every month or so and run DDU probably twice a year for a clean install as regular pc maintinance as for "not being needed" its apex legends on a RTX 2060 needing to run at low settings, I would call that a pretty significant issue.
  22. XMP for sure you need to enable asap that is a significant boost right there . as for performance as said above it really is a case of do you feel it. I am running an 8700k (at the time the best chip for the $ in my budget, i got it on release) and ran with a 1070. I then picked up a RTX 2070 as again for the price it was about the best I would need for 1440p 144 hz wit Gsync. I am surprised your 8500 with a 2060 is needing low settings in apex legends, my 1070 and 8700k were keeping 144 fps at max settings and 1440p in it before i got my 2070 and there is no difference in that title now vs then. I suggest troubleshooting that, run DDU and reinstall drivers for the 2060 would be the best place to start i think (other than turning on xmp if off)
  23. I would agree that today a 8500 would be a terrible choice of a chip. If the OP had bought the system when the 8 series Intel chips were new though they were certainly good buys. Now if it wwere purchased post Ryzen 3 series chips coming oand laying the smack down on intel... well yea that would be a bad buy
  24. tomshardware and anandtech that is thier "best for the $ 9400f is ot on there because it does not deserve to be on either list. but if you really want to compare them just type 9400f in the search ba and they yield large results. or since the 3600 is newer the 3600 where the review includes it https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-5-3600-review,6287.html as for why userbenchmark is terrible. it basically just does not serve as an example of rela world computing let alone what actual gaming results will be. Recently as intel was overtaken in most independant reviews by AMD in performance. Userbenchmark instead decided it was a good idea to literally change the quite to the few things remaining where Intel was actually beating AMD. for a while there due to their playing around the i3 per themselves was the best CPU money could buy (you see where the issue is in there right?) also as a synthetic benchmark it is not reflective of real world performance of anything beyond thier synthetic load. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/userbenchmark-benchmark-change-criticism-amd-intel,40032.html
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