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29 minutes ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

If you touch it repeatedly (say, 3 times in a row), does it shock you every time or just the first time?

Sounds like something from an ElectroBOOM video

I have been building PCs for 13 years and this has never happened to me.

If you screw the screws correctly everything will be fine.

3 minutes ago, lgcas said:

18-22-22-42 for the c18, 16-19-19-36 for the c16. Both dual rank.

Then i will recommend the 64GB kit.

7 minutes ago, lgcas said:

My main concern is the latency affecting 1% low frame rates

What are the secondary timings?

Are they dual rank or single rank DIMMs?

Skyrim meets Call of Duty:

I am gonna rick roll you, but in Japanese:

1 minute ago, Mark Kaine said:

yeah i usually clone the drive... but you need a completely empty hard-drive for that, so i was considering doing a backup instead. 

You can clone the drive to a VHD file,

Just create a VHD file and mount it, it will be recognized as a normal drive.

It depends on what the backup method you use backs up.

Cloning is the safest option though.

2 hours ago, 8tg said:

I can assure you I have an extremely large amount of experience with this, I’m not just an annoying loser over windows bloat for no reason, it’s because I have daily experience with how horrendously inefficient windows has become by comparatively using less bloated versions of windows on a daily basis 

True, Windows becomes more and more bloated as time goes on.

My Windows 2000 screenshot running Firefox with the forums open while consuming only 700MB of RAM is a proof of that.

1 hour ago, WhitetailAni said:

1GB is way overkill for 2000. I have 2GB on my 2000 machine and I never see it go above 400MB or so no matter what I try

There is no way you will run Firefox on modern websites with only 512MB of RAM

If you look at the screenshot you will see that running Firefox with the LTT forums consumes more than 700MB of RAM

Just now, RONOTHAN## said:

There's your problem. The Ryzen 2000 memory controller struggles with memory speeds above 3200MT/s.

I have a golden sample sitting in my drawer that could do 3733 MT/s

But yeah, the memory controller on those chips is pretty bad.

Just now, DistiIsCoding said:

CPU Its a Intel Xeon E5 1620 v2. As for now i saw different builds with GT1030, GTX970, GTX760

I recommend buying the GPU separately,

A RX 480 8GB is a good entry option.

8GB is enough for most games if your OS is completely debloated.

22 hours ago, Levent said:

Hot take 4gb of ram is enough for those.

22 hours ago, seanondemand said:

I’ve been using it for a couple weeks now for school stuff, dozens of tabs in Brave, MS Office, and cloud gaming on Game Pass, so here’s my take:

Right now i am on my Windows 2000 machine and 1GB of RAM is enough for those tasks (Modern versions of Windows are extremely bloated):

3 hours ago, leadeater said:

If you tell a CNC to cut a line and it cuts the line, every time without error, then the machine is working perfectly. The OS and computer controlling it being old and crappy, not having support, is also still otherwise working perfectly unless not.

 

Functionality and operating aren't the same thing as support. When your laptop goes past the manufacture warranty period it's not considered "not perfectly working", it will however if you break the screen.

 

When a company like Steam drops OS support that means future software versions of Steam itself will not install, that doesn't mean older version will be prevented from working (or not yet).

As matter of fact Steam will autoupdate to the newest version and stop working,

They also have a warning message:

Lucky for me i was prepared for it, patched the steam client to prevent it from happening and removed the EOS message:

On 12/29/2023 at 8:55 PM, Kisai said:

Honestly, "DOS" is pretty much covered by DosBox, and the thing Microsoft should be doing is contributing to DOSBOX all the undocumented DOS features needed to make it run Win95/Win98, then just release a blessed version of Win95/98 that runs off DosBox.

The current version of DOSBOX already runs Win9x just fine.

I used that to install Windows 98 SE on my phone to play Half-Life and Age of Empires II on my phone.

11 minutes ago, cheddlz said:

I ran 3Dmark

Try Cinebench,

Mine boosts to 4.65 GHz on default settings.

1 hour ago, Finomen4L said:

hi, a fellow gamer to share his experience, for the past 10 years ive gamed on i3-6100 + gtx1050 on 60hz monitor. i would consider myself "competitive" as ive reached among highest ranks/divisions in games likes fornite/apex/overwatch, due to financial situations this is all i had to work with and work i made it do. 

From personal experience, unlimited fps ALWAYS made the game smoother no matter what games i played. and to me the logic is very simple...
if the game is at 180 fps, and monitor can only do 60fps, when the time comes for the monitor to take a frame it has 3 to choose from, so it takes the best fitting one.  now if i have 360fps on 60hz, every time my monitor wants to refresh it has 6 frames to choose from.

in essence the more fps your computer/game is giving out, regardless of Hz the game will feel more responsive as every time the monitor wants to refresh it has more to choose from and chooses the best frame to display. therefore there is less input lag overall

this is just my conclusion from my experience, i dont know what it is like with better gaming setups(im getting one soon) but on gtx1050 and i3-6100, the more fps i could get ingame(lowering all gfx settingsto the max) the more responsive game would feel and the more competitive i could be, because at the end of the day when im trying to compete i really do not care about the visuals, performance really matters, any delays really matters, if my enemy is as good as me but with better pc he will kill me every single time. 

Also the input lag is tied to the FPS so the more FPS you have the lower the input lag caused by the frame rate.

8 hours ago, ReanimationXP said:

If it truly doesn't update on install then that would help with one part of the problem..

Yep, I got that solved.

8 hours ago, ReanimationXP said:

now we'd just be waiting to see if and when logging in with it breaks.

Just like with Windows XP -  patching "packageInfo.vdf" should fix issues like this.

2 minutes ago, jagdtigger said:

What a sad day, despite its age w7 still looks and feels like a modern OS..... (unlike its lesser descendants)

And it doesn't consume 3GB of RAM on idle for no reason.

I am prepared for Doomsday

I modified the steam client to not update and removed the annoying red message that warns you of "End of Support".

I also made an installer with these modifications for use on other Windows 7 installations.

7 hours ago, kirashi said:

Uh, what? Microsoft discontinued Mainstream support for Windows 7 on Jan 13, 2015 - if you want to point the finger at a company for "demonstrating a lack of care" point it at the OS developer first, not third party (to Windows) software developers.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-7

The thing is that you won't be able to play games on the platform they were released for.

This is messed up.

10 hours ago, thevictor390 said:

This actually happens. Eventually your old OS does not support modern browsers, which means it does not support modern encryption standards, which means it cannot access modern websites. Already Windows Chrome is releasing no more versions for Windows 7.

That's not the case with Windows 7, Windows 7 supports modern encryption standards,

And in fact there are forks of chrome that continue to support Windows 7 such as the supermium project.

2 minutes ago, Blou_022 said:

I would like to upgrade my rig to having my current gpu and adding a 1660 super to it. I would also like to run Linux through one and windows through the other. Does any one know how I might be able to pull this off in terms of software because that would be amazing. Thank you in advanced

You could use something like this:

Just now, da na said:

...they still make dual-core CPUs? And put them in $400 laptops? 

Can find ya a dual core machine for... $20

You can have better performing Core 2 Quad systems for less than $100

21 minutes ago, Jeremy12500 said:

Yeah but 20gb or ram LMAO and type C

But the CPU is really slow.

3 hours ago, srcds0706 said:

Their vidoes are hosted on Youtube, LTT Store is hosted by Shopify, etc, etc

And IPS is issuing updates to the forums (Invision Community) - including security updates.

The ad blocker that worked best for me was AdGuard - It circumvented the YouTube Anti-Adblock 99% of the time.

I had less success with Brave's build in adblock - It circumvented the YouTube Anti-Adblock 70% of the time.