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TheBahrbarian

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    AMD Ryzen 3600x
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    ASUS B450-F Strix Gaming
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    2x8gb G.Skill TridentZ - 3200
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    PowerColor Red Devil 5700xt
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    Fractal Design Meshify C
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    1x 1TB Inland Professional M.2 SSD 1x 2TB Seagate Firecuda HDD
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    HP Probook
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  1. I'm in North America so Snapdragon. And yeah, you're probably right about midrange. I was considering the A series from Samsung. I also briefly looked at the new Nothing (2), though i dont know if that's really midrange, but it at least had good battery life in reviews.
  2. I have had my S22 for a little over 12 months now and basically the battery life is awful. Definitely the worst of any phone I have owned to date. On a full charge I can barely manage 3 hours of Google Maps. And while I understand I do use my phone quite a bit, I can't even make it through a workday on a full charge. I basically get about 8 hours with regular use. I normally keep my phones at least 3 years, however this battery isn't going to get any better and it's frankly not livable. I've read the S23 series apparently made some decent battery life improvements, and I was looking at the S23+. Does anyone have any opinion on how much of an improvement this would be? I don't wanna drop money on a new phone only to be stuck with the same issue. I'm open to other phones but I've pretty much always owned Google or Samsung, and unfortunately the Pixel 7 doesn't seem to be known for stellar battery life itself. Other than battery life pretty much the only thing I care about is having a camera with equivalent features/quality to my S22. I've stuck with Google/Samsung until this point mostly because I like their software the best.
  3. This has had me stumped for a while. Haven't used my desktop PC in a few months, recently came back to using it. Noticed I was having pretty terrible internet load times, even basics like my email were taking forever to load. It is impossible to watch a YouTube video at almost any quality without constant buffering (quality will auto adjust to 144p). And on top of that, I have almost no upload capability, I literally cannot even attach a file to an email, or even upload a simple photo to discord, they both fail. My email/google drive will often gray out and suddenly say offline. In general, I have had super weird behavior; simply trying to download new drivers from AMD's website the file downloaded the first 60% very fast (as is normal) than froze, and would eventually simply fail. All of these symptoms have been repeatable over the course of over a week now and across multiple browsers and apps. So far I've tried: Checking for new network drivers (none found) Complete a full windows defender scan (no issues found) Connected to my router via a new ethernet port on the router with a new ethernet cable (same symptoms) Reset network adapter via Windows settings (again, no changes) "Troubleshoot" network adapter issues (no issues found) All of this while still able to consistently return 120mbps down, but legitimately 0.00mbps upload on Speedtest. For reference, using the Speedtest app on my phone on wifi I get 110mbps download and 110 upload (what it should be). Also of note is that not a single other device in my household is having any issues, in fact I've resorted to watching videos and downloading files using my phone via wifi since it's way faster. I tried one of those super cheap USB wifi adapters I had lying around and it seemed to fix the issue, so the problem clearly lies somewhere in my network adapter. I just am at a loss what else to try. Any help is much appreciated.
  4. Yeah, removing CMOS didn't do anything so I will try refreshing windows
  5. I recently updated my GPU drivers after a long time to 21.4.1 (whatever the latest is). I was having some instability issues and decided to just revert back to an older version I had and worry about updating later. I ran DDU (choosing the clean and restart option) and let it do its thing. After it finished, my PC restarted, and upon attempting to boot back into windows it blue screened stating boot device inaccessible. I've tried restarting several times but I am not getting anything and my best guess is that somehow DDU corrupted something that's not allowing me to boot into windows? What's my best course of action here? I was just going to start with refreshing windows using the option that saves personal files, but idk if this is an issue anyone else has run into before and there might be an easier fix. Currently I cannot get into windows as it always freezes on the windows logo and goes into automatic system repair. Edit: I do know DDU usually creates a system restore point of some kind? I am not sure if this would be the easiest way to recover windows. Edit 2: I've tried using the system restore feature from both points available and both failed. Specs: 3600x 5700xt 16gb 3200 ram 1tb nvme (boot) 2tb HDD asus b450
  6. B450 should support Zen 3, it will likely require a bios update. Looking at ASUS' website shows that Ryzen 5000 cpus are supported with BIOS version 4007 and up so I think you should be fine. But yes, Zen 3 is supposed to be the last generation on AM4. As to if it's worth it to upgrade I guess that is up to you. Personally, if I were having CPU limitations I would always attempt to upgrade using my same mobo/chipset to save some money, one of the benefits of such a widely supported socket like AM4.
  7. Actually i's funny that you mention that. I had a friend once who was trying to build a PC out of free parts he could scrap together to play rocket league. He had some old GT card (i don't remember the model, but it was probably the oldest GPU i've ever personally held). It just had a single probably 40mm fan or something, but it didn't have output and was totally broken. So I put it in the oven for like half an hour to try and reflow the solder (I had heard about this but never believed it would actually work). And after realizing I had no thermal paste just used some trusty Crest toothpaste. To my knowledge that card is still running RL 2 years later.
  8. I do believe he said both AMD (so that would imply Radeon cards) and MSI wanted to work with him as well. So probably in one of the next drops yes.
  9. Oh yeah I totally understand. I actually think the system they have in place is probably about as good as it's gonna get, I am just gonna have to get super lucky that I am not in class when they do another drop (and that I have the time to watch the video at the time). It's still probably my best bet (considering how well the Newegg Shuffles and Best Buy drops have gone for me haha)
  10. It kinda does I guess haha. It's just unfortunate because I had pretty much relegated this as my last chance to get a GPU but doesn't look like I will be able to. I guess I could get lucky on their follow up programs (idk how soon those will be). I'll try to be good about opening the videos when I can but as someone with an actual schedule and responsibilities during the day it's going to come down to sheer luck haha
  11. OF COURSE the video dropped during my one class today. Holy crap that is unfortunate luck. I saw the notification pop up in class and quickly scanned the video and description for links while I could but it didn't look like the announcement. I literally opened the video 28 seconds after it was posted and only realized an hour later that it was the video announcing VAG..... damn that is quite depressing.
  12. Damn dude, you sound really mad they're going through all this trouble to try and get some MSRP cards out to gamers. Considering LTT is actually not a GPU retailer, I can only imagine the headaches they're going through just to sell what's basically a handful of GPUs to help some people out in some frustrating times. Frankly, I hope they milk it as much as they can to make it worth the trouble they're probably going through.
  13. Yeah I mean you can just go on ebay and see for yourself. Plenty of auctions with bids at that price.
  14. Hm, prices are more inconsistent for the 4gb (they're not great for mining, even if you can mine with them idk). But a quick ebay search sems to show you should be able to get at least 200-300 for it. I definitely wouldn't sell it for $130, seems pretty low. But I would sell now.
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