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    hollyh88 reacted to QuantumSingularity in Gpu amd driver   
    It won't be UEFI compatible if you formatted it in MBR. When you have it in MBR, you have to have CSM enabled. And when CSM is enabled even if Above 4G is enabled in BIOS, it;s not enabled when Windows loads, so that's why you don't see SAM as active. There are ways to change it from MBR to GPT w/o losing data, but all the software that can do this is paid. And paying for a one time use is just a big no-no for me, so i decided to go the free route of copying my valuable data on an externa drive and do a fresh windows install, with proper table partitioning this time.
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    hollyh88 reacted to emothxughts in Gpu amd driver   
    For drivers, you should get the WHQL drivers. The latest one is here: https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-23-4-2 (Reminder to self to download & install this one for my PC...)
     
    For SAM/ReBAR, it's a bit more complicated. I'm running a R5 3600 CPU and the Asrock Steel Legend B450M mobo, I was able to enable Rebar in the BIOS, with the latest BIOS version of course. When the system is paired with an RX5600XT card that i used to have, I couldn't get the SAM option in the AMD Software to be enabled, however GPU-Z reports that Rebar is enabled and the BAR size that it reports is indeed larger than 256MB.
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    hollyh88 reacted to aDoomGuy in Gpu amd driver   
    This is not true. SAM is actually fully working on Ryzen 3000 and B450 boards. The board needs to have the BIOS update for that but most at least have that to download.
     
    OP: Install the latest driver, yes.
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    hollyh88 reacted to filpo in Gpu amd driver   
    the latest since their latest one has fixed some problems and made the 6800 on par with the 4070 and 3080. Download the latest when you get the card
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    hollyh88 reacted to Middcore in Nvidia is lying to you   
    LMG will continue to use Nvidia GPU's for every single build they do, this helping to ensure that the low-to-moderate-info viewers who treat those videos as a reference and source of inspiration will continue to view Nvidia products as superior and more desirable and Nvidia will continue to do what they're doing.
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    hollyh88 got a reaction from Fat Eric in Is it worth upgrading my 980ti?   
    i would wait. it can probably last you another year if you use the right settings. its just not worth it to get a gpu in these days. as you are always paying more than you should for the perf you get. 
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    hollyh88 got a reaction from hysel in Core i9-12900K "Destroys" Ryzen 9 5950X By 38% In Ashes of the Singularity   
    see stellaris. pretty good rts game. it has become better and better
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    hollyh88 got a reaction from leadeater in Core i9-12900K "Destroys" Ryzen 9 5950X By 38% In Ashes of the Singularity   
    see stellaris. pretty good rts game. it has become better and better
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    hollyh88 got a reaction from thechinchinsong in With a powerful laser blast, scientists near a nuclear fusion milestone   
    memes asside... cool technology though. really going to help with advancing us into a new era of actual clean and efficient energy. 
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    hollyh88 got a reaction from Beskamir in With a powerful laser blast, scientists near a nuclear fusion milestone   
    memes asside... cool technology though. really going to help with advancing us into a new era of actual clean and efficient energy. 
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    hollyh88 got a reaction from Techstorm970 in With a powerful laser blast, scientists near a nuclear fusion milestone   
    memes asside... cool technology though. really going to help with advancing us into a new era of actual clean and efficient energy. 
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    hollyh88 got a reaction from TVwazhere in With a powerful laser blast, scientists near a nuclear fusion milestone   
    memes asside... cool technology though. really going to help with advancing us into a new era of actual clean and efficient energy. 
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    hollyh88 got a reaction from Taf the Ghost in With a powerful laser blast, scientists near a nuclear fusion milestone   
    memes asside... cool technology though. really going to help with advancing us into a new era of actual clean and efficient energy. 
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    hollyh88 got a reaction from CarlBar in With a powerful laser blast, scientists near a nuclear fusion milestone   
    memes asside... cool technology though. really going to help with advancing us into a new era of actual clean and efficient energy. 
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    hollyh88 got a reaction from da na in With a powerful laser blast, scientists near a nuclear fusion milestone   
    memes asside... cool technology though. really going to help with advancing us into a new era of actual clean and efficient energy. 
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    hollyh88 got a reaction from GOTSpectrum in With a powerful laser blast, scientists near a nuclear fusion milestone   
    memes asside... cool technology though. really going to help with advancing us into a new era of actual clean and efficient energy. 
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    hollyh88 reacted to Lightwreather in With a powerful laser blast, scientists near a nuclear fusion milestone   
    Idk if this should be in tech news, but it is somewhat related to tech, so.......
    Summary
    A laser blast in California creates a miniature sun for a tiny fraction of a second and ignites a self-sustaining chain reaction.

    The target chamber at the National Ignition Facility.
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    My thoughts
    Okay, so I'm not very sure that this should be in tech news, but it is still somewhat tech related (in more ways than one), but this is huge. This is pretty amazing, were now closer that ever to commercial Nuclear Fusion energy. For the uninitiated, Nuclear Fusion involves the fusion of atoms to create heavier elements, this process releases energy that can then be used. It is a completely clean and safe source of energy, for incase of something like a meltdown, the plasma used to create the energy will cool off, and since this is just Hydrogen being converted to helium, there won't be any Nuclear radiation. If we break even, and subsequently reacha  net positive amount of energy, then we could very well have virtually infinite amounts of clean energy (Tho ofcourse it'll take some time to get there). All-in-all I am very excited about this.
    Sources
    Cnet
    National Ignition Facility
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    hollyh88 reacted to airborne spoon in In the US, life cycle emissions for EVs are 60-68% lower than gasoline.   
    This is wrong on so many levels and you should educate yourself before making such incorrect statements. Also i support the fuck the environment approach, i bought my Tesla 4 years ago because i wanted more power, no fucks about the environment. i had a mustang with 475hp at the wheel and I'd just installed a supercharger and the tesla made that car feel like a slow buggy from the 20's.
    The maths are wrong in that calculation though, well they are right but done in the wrong way. There is no need to replace ALL the petrol stations with EV chargers, since there is a petrol station every 5km or so. You only need a EV charge station every 50km and that is being generous, you could easily only have them every 100km and still be fine.
     
    Also nobody is talking about transitioning to EV's overnight, it is a gradual process and we are currently on track just fine and successfully. Also once we finally go away from gas/diesel all the electricity those refineries used will now be available to the grid and there will be an excess of power.
     
    hahaha seriously i loved the sound of my last car, and when i hear a properly tuned car drive by its great, now those ricers with the folders fart can exhaust, those morons make my ears hurt and i grind my teeth when i hear those annoying things drive by.
    my commute is about 3 miles each way. but the nearest town is 40 miles away and i take 2x 400 mile trips every month. I have to stop and charge 4 times going up the mountains (i could do 2 stops but its faster to stop more often for shorter amounts of charge) and 2 times coming down for obvious reasons. If i didn't have to charge a few times along the trip I'd still stop at least 2 times to stretch my legs and walk the dog and perhaps grab a bite to eat, all of which i do while the car charges.
     
    Ok there was a lot to break down here but i'll stick to the main point gas tax. Yes you are correct since i don't buy gas i don't pay the gas tax that is used for road repairs (what the gas tax is supposed to be used for that is). However, i do pay a fucking fortune in annual car registration so the gov can get their road tax other ways. and EV registration varies greatly from place to place and nobody has figured out the obvious way to solve it and make it fair, (have the road tax based on the miles driven the previous year).
     
    Right now the amount of "gas tax" price hike in the registration across most states is equivalent to a ICE car getting 10 mpg and driving about 30k miles in a year. As we all know the national average is 10k miles driven a year by the average person and the average car gets 25 mpg. so you can see i actually pay more in gas tax that you do. AND I DONT EVEN BUY GAS 🤦‍♂️
    My tesla has oil in the front and rear differentials and it needs to be changed every 75-100k miles, that is maintenance not repair.
    i have a radiator and a fluid tank that i check every 10k miles and if needed top off, although i only had to add fluid once and that was because i removed the rad and didn't fully clamp off the hose going into it.
    i flush my brake lines every year because they almost never get used that is also maintenance not a repair.
    Lubing the brake pistons technically is maintenance but could also be called a repair.
    tires, i get about 25k miles out of a set of tires, could do closer to 40k miles if i bought more expensive ones and didn't drive like a bat out of hell but it equals out and its cheaper this way for now.
     
    Is there maintenance needed for EV's? YES, is it on the same level of stuff needed for a normal ICE car? NO
    Do i take my car to tesla to get maintenance done? hell no i do it myself at home, just like i did with every ICE car I've ever owned.
    Do i take it to Tesla for repairs? sometimes, but that is usually just for a diagnostic to find out or verify what i suspect is the issue, and i buy the parts from them and do the repair at home, unless its an item on the restricted parts list then they have to install it for me.
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    hollyh88 got a reaction from airborne spoon in In the US, life cycle emissions for EVs are 60-68% lower than gasoline.   
    lol no thanks. ill keep driving diesel till i can no longer do so. 
    there is one thing you EV supporters seem to forget. Power usage. Imagine if all of europe all of the sudden went EV. there wouldnt be enough power to supply everything and we would have a dark age. And heck even as the users of EV is rising here in europe countries are already having issues upkeeping the powernet. Heck the EU wants to add chargers every 15km along highways. Thats gonna be fun for the electric net as well. oh and lets not forget the roooooows of people needing to wait to charge their car. 

    sorry but nah. till they fix every little issue with EV ill not buy them. Any diesel can still waay outrange an ev. And be more efficient. and cost me less per km i make. Come back to me when ev cars can make 1200km and cost 30k with enough power and so fast charging that it only takes 1 minute to 2 minutes max. 

    and yes. the environment can get my middlefinger. especially since countries expect my tiny country of the netherlands to be leading the pack in climate neutrality. f that. 
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    hollyh88 got a reaction from GDRRiley in In the US, life cycle emissions for EVs are 60-68% lower than gasoline.   
    lol no thanks. ill keep driving diesel till i can no longer do so. 
    there is one thing you EV supporters seem to forget. Power usage. Imagine if all of europe all of the sudden went EV. there wouldnt be enough power to supply everything and we would have a dark age. And heck even as the users of EV is rising here in europe countries are already having issues upkeeping the powernet. Heck the EU wants to add chargers every 15km along highways. Thats gonna be fun for the electric net as well. oh and lets not forget the roooooows of people needing to wait to charge their car. 

    sorry but nah. till they fix every little issue with EV ill not buy them. Any diesel can still waay outrange an ev. And be more efficient. and cost me less per km i make. Come back to me when ev cars can make 1200km and cost 30k with enough power and so fast charging that it only takes 1 minute to 2 minutes max. 

    and yes. the environment can get my middlefinger. especially since countries expect my tiny country of the netherlands to be leading the pack in climate neutrality. f that. 
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    hollyh88 got a reaction from Master Delta Chief in In the US, life cycle emissions for EVs are 60-68% lower than gasoline.   
    lol netherlands underwater? one of if not the best country when it comes to working with water and managing to control/keep it back? i doubt it. 😉 we have learned from the past. adapted and overcome these water issues that would cause a flooding from the ocean.
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    hollyh88 got a reaction from Master Delta Chief in In the US, life cycle emissions for EVs are 60-68% lower than gasoline.   
    lol no thanks. ill keep driving diesel till i can no longer do so. 
    there is one thing you EV supporters seem to forget. Power usage. Imagine if all of europe all of the sudden went EV. there wouldnt be enough power to supply everything and we would have a dark age. And heck even as the users of EV is rising here in europe countries are already having issues upkeeping the powernet. Heck the EU wants to add chargers every 15km along highways. Thats gonna be fun for the electric net as well. oh and lets not forget the roooooows of people needing to wait to charge their car. 

    sorry but nah. till they fix every little issue with EV ill not buy them. Any diesel can still waay outrange an ev. And be more efficient. and cost me less per km i make. Come back to me when ev cars can make 1200km and cost 30k with enough power and so fast charging that it only takes 1 minute to 2 minutes max. 

    and yes. the environment can get my middlefinger. especially since countries expect my tiny country of the netherlands to be leading the pack in climate neutrality. f that. 
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    hollyh88 got a reaction from staticpage in In the US, life cycle emissions for EVs are 60-68% lower than gasoline.   
    lol no thanks. ill keep driving diesel till i can no longer do so. 
    there is one thing you EV supporters seem to forget. Power usage. Imagine if all of europe all of the sudden went EV. there wouldnt be enough power to supply everything and we would have a dark age. And heck even as the users of EV is rising here in europe countries are already having issues upkeeping the powernet. Heck the EU wants to add chargers every 15km along highways. Thats gonna be fun for the electric net as well. oh and lets not forget the roooooows of people needing to wait to charge their car. 

    sorry but nah. till they fix every little issue with EV ill not buy them. Any diesel can still waay outrange an ev. And be more efficient. and cost me less per km i make. Come back to me when ev cars can make 1200km and cost 30k with enough power and so fast charging that it only takes 1 minute to 2 minutes max. 

    and yes. the environment can get my middlefinger. especially since countries expect my tiny country of the netherlands to be leading the pack in climate neutrality. f that. 
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    hollyh88 got a reaction from panzersharkcat in Should I Take NVIDIA Back?   
    i disagree i dont think it looks pretty good. 
    seeing how a xx80ti class card these days apparently is well over 1000 bucks. heck even a 1000 bucks would be too much. i thought the same with the 2080ti. the 1080ti was very good value at its MSRP. you cant tell me inflation + pricing of parts (without a pandemic) are the cause of such a price hike. 

    and its even more funny seeing how the next generation aka the 4000 series will no doubt have a 4070ti/super as well that no doubt keeps up or even beats the current now 3080ti and that for around 550 making this (3080ti) card even more of a joke. Just like the 2080ti now with the 3070. 
     
    the prices should really go back to normal. 
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    hollyh88 got a reaction from SADS in Should I Take NVIDIA Back?   
    i disagree i dont think it looks pretty good. 
    seeing how a xx80ti class card these days apparently is well over 1000 bucks. heck even a 1000 bucks would be too much. i thought the same with the 2080ti. the 1080ti was very good value at its MSRP. you cant tell me inflation + pricing of parts (without a pandemic) are the cause of such a price hike. 

    and its even more funny seeing how the next generation aka the 4000 series will no doubt have a 4070ti/super as well that no doubt keeps up or even beats the current now 3080ti and that for around 550 making this (3080ti) card even more of a joke. Just like the 2080ti now with the 3070. 
     
    the prices should really go back to normal. 
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