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Elarion

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  1. Yeah, that's fair. I'm playing at 1440p mainly. Do I have to go current gen with my CPU? I was hoping to avoid the expensive CPU and motherboard upgrades. I don't like having a crappy motherboard, and I use a lot of I/O, so they're usually very expensive.
  2. Is there a way to configure RTSS to show that? I'm not seeing it at the moment. I updated my initial post to display them.
  3. I'm using RTSS to see my hardware usage. My system currently has a i7-8700k and a 4070Ti in it. 32GB of DDR4, EVGA G5 1000W, Fractal Torrent case, Samsung 970 M.2 SSD, DH-15 cooler. I play on a 165hz monitor with G-Sync. I configured everything using this Blur Busters guide that I've seen thrown around on here, reddit, and elsewhere. My issue right now is, no matter what game I'm playing, my 1% lows and 99% average are not stable. I limit my FPS to somewhere around 160 for all games, per the guide above, and the current FPS number fluctuates around, but mostly sits at a solid 160. The 99% average displays around 130, and the 1% lows is constantly down at around 20. This happens on Halo Infinite, Minecraft, Returnal, Witcher 3, pretty much any game I play. And I feel it when I'm playing too. It's like the feeling when something snags your clothes as you're walking. Very irritating, and it doesn't feel good. My GPU usage never goes above 30% though. And it sits at around 40 degrees. CPU usage never goes above 60%, and it sits at around 60 degrees. What exactly gives here? If the usage isn't maxed out, why am I not blasting perfect frames out to my monitor?
  4. That's a good idea. I hadn't considered that, I'll probably end up doing that. Thanks! Not an issue. They are not playing multiplayer games.
  5. The Switch, PS5, Xbox, and modern gaming PC are all clearly aimed at adults...tons of advertising no matter where you look, gambling mechanics, and just a consistent communication that no matter what you already have, you need to have more. I very much prefer the older style of consoles, like the N64, SNES, Gamecube, original Xbox and Playstation. The only advertising that I was exposed to was whatever happened to be on TV or in a magazine. I didn't really have either of those. A single Mario game with garbage graphics was able to entertain my sister and I for months on end. We even had these little "VG Pocket" handhelds that were complete trash as well, but we thought they were the greatest thing ever as kids. As we start to have kids, I don't want the big constant pop-ups all over their screens for the games, battlepasses, lootboxes, and subscriptions that they don't have. These are present on every modern console, no matter what you change the settings to. I can prevent them from buying them willy-nilly, but not from wanting/obsessing over them. Is the only option to seek out used ancient consoles? They get expensive fast, and aren't super reliable at this point. Unless there's other options, we might just become a board game family. It's a shame, because gaming was very impactful for me, but I don't think it can be healthy for kids now that it's so heavily aimed at the psychological manipulation of adults.
  6. Fully delete your social media accounts. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Twitter, etc. Get rid of pretty much all of them. Uninstall the apps, block the sites on your home router. Make your phone grayscale. Set the refresh rate to 60hz. Hide all apps except for the essential ones on your home screen. This will be far easier to do now that you don't have social media accounts. Turn off all notifications except for your phone app. At two VERY SPECIFIC times each day, check your texts and your emails. Phones are designed to be addicting, bright, colorful, and feel good to use. These steps help remove quite a bit of that. Also, read the book Digital Minimalism and the book Essentialism. Not audiobooks, but book books. Use that to rebuild the habit of living life at a normal pace instead of the modern multitasking hellscape our society has placed themselves into.
  7. Well...except for the part where they don't. Most of my extended family still has a Pixel, the Pixel 8 and 8 pro for a lot of them specifically, and the animation stutter is horrendous. It's nowhere near as smooth as Samsung's.
  8. This is taken from the Google Fi store. The same thing happened with the S23 series, where you could purchase an S23 for the EXACT same price as a Pixel 7a. I'm curious, what is the point of them just utterly kneecapping themselves here? Aside from the photo quality, Pixel phones don't offer any huge advantage over Galaxy phones, unless you prefer the operating system and are willing to sacrifice performance, battery life, customization options, operating system smoothness, and much more just to have a few AI features and a vertical app drawer. The S24 has a zoom lens, the same amount of software support, a better screen, most likely a better battery, and so much more for $100 less than Pixel's own flagship here. The S23 Ultra and the Pixel 8 Pro are the EXACT same price, which is laughable. What on earth is the gameplan here?
  9. The search and sync functionality for my entire family's photo libraries is just too good to give up. I don't trust Google to properly store them, but on my PC, we can't easily search them from anywhere at any time.
  10. I'm finding that as my photo library grows over the years (especially as I take photos of temporary things like items, serial numbers, etc.), it's hard for me to manage both my Google Photos library and the physical files that I back up to my PC. Does anybody have suggestions on software or something that mirrors it so that when you delete it in one place, it lines them up?
  11. She's currently using a very terrible Asus Vivobook. The HDMI port is loose and flickers monitors, and the performance is terrible. The current specs: CPU: i3-1005G1 8GB of RAM 118 GB of usable storage Based on this, 256GB of storage would be fine, as she doesn't even fill up the existing 118. New minimum requirements: CPU: Something faster 16 OR 32 GB of RAM 256GB of storage 15" screen or larger Usually plugged in, so battery life isn't the MOST important Professional look (no gaming laptops, it's for a business) USB A ports and HDMI Under $1,200 Must be available for purchase on US Amazon
  12. It has been feeling lately as if Mozilla is trying to make their browser less functional. Even though it syncs the best out of the "big three" browsers, I've been having issues with it. As time goes on too, more and more sites are not working with non-Chromium browsers, which has been irritating. I decided to give Brave a shot, since everybody talks about it all the time. I know that they've had a few scandals in the past, but so has Mozilla, so...who knows. But I didn't know about all the "rewards" garbage and cryptocurrency crap. Is there truly no way to turn it off, especially on mobile? There's just always this big Brave rewards icon up there that never goes away. I just wanted to get the opinion of the more technical crowd here, compared to some of the other places on the internet. Which do you think is better, Firefox or Brave?
  13. I have several friends and coworkers who really like the Gabb watch.
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