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You will support someone who coded a bot in both scenarios, except when you buy from a scalper you pay for an actual product, that might be bought with the help of a bot. When you pay for a bot, you pay for an "increased" chance of buying a product. There wont be a guarantee your bot will get you a card and probably the guy who coded the bot sold the better/faster version to scalpers for 1000$, who run it on faster machines than you will. Most likely there is a bot war going on already. I dont think joining late with bought software and a lack of knowledge is winning you any battles though.

@HumanMatt Try a different USB port, some use better controllers than others. Make sure the receiver is not surrounded by cables to avoid interference. Run it wired if possible, just to check if it gets better. Make sure those are not framerate issues.

Since Windows 10 Build 17093 you can set the GPU per application. Settings > System > Display > Graphics settings > Browse to your Starcraft2.exe and select it. You should have the option to choose which GPU it uses, just select your iGPU.

Pretty sure you are looking at the 'Team Tygr' which is a bundle of the Tygr 300 R headphones and the Fox usb-microphone. Do yourself a favor and double check. Tygr's are great headphones and I can only suggest to wait until they are back in stock at beyerdynamic.

I got really lucky on my card. Waited for the Aorus Rtx 3080 Waterforce and it never even got a listing at any shop. Checked some more on friday 11th, one shop had it "about to be in stock" and an hour later I checked again it was in stock. I cant remember that I ever tossed that much money at anyone for anything so quickly. It got shipped 4 days later and arrived thursday 17th. @TheJedi I understand your dissapointment mixed with excitement, but you shouldnt be surpised if delivery takes longer than expected too. Please realize that on top of the annual Christmas increase in parcels, followed by the holiday broken business days, there are several lockdowns that "force" people to order online and the UK had 10000 trucks parked at Dover just before Christmas. It is a logistics chain and from my own experinces at work, I can say it is under max tension.

I assume your 2.1 system has only one 3.5mm jack and you use the green Line-out on your backpanel? If so, please make sure you have your output set to stereo in Windows/Realtek. You could try something else with 3.5mm jack, like a headphone, to make sure the female connector is working. I would advise against spraying contact cleaner into any part of your MB or computer in general.

Don't know if other EUR countries have higher prices, but beyerdynamic.de usually lists the Tygr's for 135,50€ (new) and 122€ (B-stock). Availabilty is the only issue I see, but they are worth the wait.

It really depends on your placement and posture, but it will most likely move if you dont fixate it. Unlike other sticks the base plate doesnt allow much tilting/lifting. It does sligthly lift on the sides when I do fast moves on the roll axis, since the base is slightly narrower on the sides, but most of the time you may end up sliding the stick over your desk instead, due to its strong spring. I dont see a big issue with Flightsim 2020 but space combat can require a lot of fast inputs that will make you push the stick over your desk. Also, keep in mind that the Warthog is ~28cm tall and having it on your desk may be fatiguing for your arm/shoulder. Just for reference, a T.16000m is ~24cm tall and allows your arm to be way more level. There are many ways to keep it in place, like velcro pads, tape and screws ofcourse but i'd recommend some mounts that go lower than your desk. Even if it might seem tedeous to reattach it every time, its weight is already to high to just casually move it to the corners of your desk.

Different listening environments, different sources, different audience and to re-release for extra money/legal reasons. If you plan to play the song on the radio you can expect it to be running in a car or maybe at work, alongside some machines or higher ambient noise, while the radio frequency limits the bandwidth and the radio usually isnt the best quality output device. So you can degrade quality or enhance certain features to compensate for that. If you you plan to release your song for streaming you look at the target audience and what they are listening with. If you see the majority will be using mobile phones with "cheap" headphones, you tune the sound to be pleasant on these devices. You may also want to compensate for the streaming services restrictions, equalizing or sound profile, etc. If you go for the hi-fi audio guy to be your listener, you want to offer highest quality for perfect listening environments, like a seperate, acousticly treated room, proper sources and a good signal path with quality speakers at its end. Sometimes a re-master is done to accomodate new technology, Dolby Atmos, 360° audio or just better quality devices. It didnt matter what it sounded like in the 70's because vinyl was everything, but they were a lot of improvements over time. Also legal reasons can be important. Usually a song has mulitple owners over different elements, like lyrics or music and that is true in production and mastering/mixing. Sometimes tracks have to be re-recorded for artists to gain control over "their" music. They will re-master them at the same time. Taylor Swift was not allowed to play her own tracks on stage, since her old label has the copyright ownership of the recordings for her first six albums. It is complex, so you may look it up yourself.

One thing I can think of causing this could be EIST (Enhanced Intel Speedstep Technology), just go to your Bios, disable EIST and check if the error persists.

Easy solution: One season of "Aircraft Carrier Crash-Derby"

Not necessarily. Thermal compound can solidify or dry but that does not have to weaken its performance. The liquid matrix' job is to keep the thermaly conductive particles in place (and sometimes electricly insulate the conductive ones) while keep them able to spread during application. If that liquid dries/curdles/evaporates the particles should mostly stay in place and as the liquid is not relevant as a thermal conductor, performance should not degrade from that alone. Over time the expansion and retraction from components heating up and cooling can push thermal compound out of their contact surfaces, which can be an issue when the cooler isnt mounted with a lot of pressure. That used to be an problem on older cpu's and thicker layers of thermal compound. Appears to be the opposite: High pressure mount with high viscosity compound can cause it to push out. See Steve from GN and der8auer talk about thermal compounds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCqxE-5Ct3w It will come down to the composition of the thermal compound, mounting pressure, application, the components itself, etc. so a lot of variables to make a general statement.

Lets not forget that we are talking about their stock price. While I agree on Apple knowing how to please their costumers, their stock value is about pleasing investors. Right now they will probably benefit from stay-at-home people, like other tech companies do, but their value might benefit from investors not knowing where else to invest. Covid is putting companies into difficulties and that uncertainty drives money into safe investments, like an already big tech company which should be "to big to fail". Apple might become a parking lot for excess money aswell as a security/backup for investors who still want to invest risky (start-ups or even struggling companies, in a hope they survive and go big) and split the investment to protect against a complete loss. Apple's stock might have gotten so big that it is gaining more value because of its already high value.

Do the troubleshoot LEDs in the top right corner lightup? Maybe try booting with one stick of RAM and if that doesnt work try with only the other stick. Eventually one got damaged.

From what I can see @fred82 is right. Audio-In PC and Audio-In CD are for different sources, you only have to connect one source (so 1x red 1x white) to your laptop to get stereo sound. Just take the 3.5 to RCA splitter, connect it to "Audio-In PC" and to your laptop and that should work. If it doesnt work something is broken or something else is setup wrong. Maybe the speaker wires arent properly connected, your laptop audio output isnt properly configured or the splitter cables are junk. But you shouldnt need to, and actually be able to use 2 sources at the same time. Have you tried to run it from your smartphone instead of your laptop?