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The fact that is preforms a lot worse on pcie gen 3 computers which is most computers, sucks. Maybe it's worth it at 200ish dollars but good luck finding one at that price. If this card wasn't handicapped it in would he a great budget option, but it's worse than the Rx 570 a lot of the time in pcie gen 3 systems! But if I had to choose between a used Rx 570/580 and a new 6500 xt, I would probably choose the 6500 xt despite it's flaws unless the 570/580 was used lightly and I knew the previous owner, for the warranty and not being used by another person.

I would honestly be fine with this card if it didn't run like crap in pcie gen 3 systems. all they had to do was make it work in pcie 3 normally like every other gpu, weird how such a massive rich company with all these scientists can do something so horrifically cringly and destroy the performance of a gpu on pcie gen 3 systems. this card will even preform like crap on powerful newer systems like intel10th gen stuff that is pcie gen 3. im not mad at amd for re-releasing the rx 570 for the 100th time, because during this shortage iis is kinda appropriate to do that, im upset they made it preform like crap on most systems and gimped the pcie lanes and threw performance in the trash.

If they don't have any 1030 gddr5 cards in your area, look for other inexpensive cards. Such as the amd Rx 460 or amd Rx 560, or even a gtx 950/960. I would try and shoot for 4 gigabyte Rx 460 or Rx 560 if your on a low budget and need a gaming gpu, but there's 2 gigabyte versions as well. I would avoid anything older than 9th gen Nvidia or 400 series amd when gpu shopping, and try and get a 4 gigabit card, and only get a 2 gigabyte card if it's a good deal and the price difference is large. The 1030 gddr5 version is barley able to play new games at 720p lowest settings, and the ddr4 version is half the speed, your not going to have a good experience with new games, but it will run older games or indie games just fine if that's your thing. Probably not worth overclocking base clock beacause the vram speed bottleneck on the DDR4 version. Might be worth Trying to overclock the ddr4 memory on the card beacause the memory speed is the bottleneck, or at least one of the bottlenecks in the card.

I have a spare motherboard in storage like this for an older chipset(Skylake 6th gen). I just realized I don't have a socket cover on it. It's in a box and the box is in a bin I don't touch or move around. Just wondering how bad this is, assuming the pins are not bent and these is no physical damage, could this break the mobo? Could tiny particles of dust slowly getting into the socket brick it, even though the mobo is in antistatic bag, in a box, and the box is in a bin.

I do, but I use them to burn blank blue rays for archival, not to watch drm ridden store bought blue rays. To watch blue ray on PC you need to used paid software which may not work anymore or use "hacks" to watch a movie you paid for.

Only worth it if they are extremely cheap and not too old or used. New drives arn't that expensive. There was a sale on Newegg the other day, 4 terbyte drives for under 60 something dollars, I think it was WD red smr drives which are fine for cold storage.

Ok good beacause I replaced all the files I was moving when the power went out beacause I knew they were bad, it was a lot of stuff between all the drives but I remembered what I needed to replace.

But I'm more worried about the unrelated files on the discs, beacause I know with smr drives the drives rewrite existing data to write new data but I was using only cmr drives so I'm less worried, but still a little paranoid, like I said worst case I have backups but I don't want to have to pull my stuff off optical media unless I have to

I have thousands and thousands of files, it would be to time consuming to do that, and my other backups are on blue rays, so I would only pull a backup up if I find something wrong or corupted on my drive.

I had some power outages today while transferring files between my HDDs, obviously the files that were being written are Corrupted/incomplete because they never finished. But what about the files that were being read and the other unrelated files in the drive? Are they most likely ok? The drives in question are some 6 terbyte CMR ironwolf drives being used externally with an adapter through usb connected to my desktop PC, an an internal 8 terbyte CMR WD shuck. So none of the drives are smr which is good I guess. I have backups of everything but I would rather not have to use them and have peice of mind.

If you want a more neutral sound signature look into the Sennheiser HD 560s, an amp will help but you could start without an amp and use onboard, they arnt that hard to drive. A decent amp will cost 100 or more, I use the monolith liquid spark with my hd 560s I got it for under 100 "used very good", there's also the atom amp and the schit magni.

The 1050 ti is a fine card, is will struggle on newer games but still run them fine, and run older games flawlessly.

Yes, don't want to kill it with heat or anything, or wear the fans out having to overcompensate and always run at full speed.

What about the vram, I'm pretty sure that uses thermal pads normally, is is also recommended to repad/paste that?

I've never repasted a gpu before and I don't think I need to in the immediate future, but beacause shortages I may start holding onto stuff longer and upgrade less. How important is repasting your gpu after a couple years of intense load? And if you never repaste will the lifespan be significantly shorter beacause heat?, and could you just underclock the card and cool it better to make up for never repasting it, or is repasting mandatory to get 7-10+ years out of a card? And could you just take the paste off and use thermal pads in a pinch? I might do a dry run with an old 560 ti I have beacause I don't care if I break it, and I assume you need to make sure to put everything back exactly the way it was(and not screw up the thermal pads on the vram).

if they force mods to be taken down, they will just move to torent sites, its a big waste of time for everyone, plus if anything aggressive legal action will give the mod more attention.

IMO get the senhizer HD 560s, it has a netural sound signature so it makes your music sound like its supposed to and dosnt have any "color". if you want a warmer headphone then get something else tho, but you can always use eq to adjust the sound if you need to. I prefer the neutrality but everyone likes a different sound. Get a usb c apple dongle as the dac(get a usb a to usb c adapter if your pc only has usb type a), and a JDS labs atom amp or monoprice liquid spark amp or maybe one of the budget schit amps . the apple dongle only gives one volt of signal instead of 2 to the amp, but the 560s arnt super hard to drive so it will still work. Ive heard mixed things about newer sound blaster stuff, idk about that. dont get some cheap garbage dac amp combo that you can never reuse for future upgrades, the apple dongle is fine as a dac until you have more money and escapes mobo interference and a good amp makes your setup future proof for more demanding headphones. and the apple dongle measures exceedingly well for its price according to multiple sources, its great for 10 dollars and your on a budget, and the real money should go into the headphones and amp imo. if you get an amp that only has rca unputs you will need a little adpter cable to adapt 3.5 mm to rca. and make sure not to get a knockoff or non apple branded apple dac/dongle, buy from a reputable source.

Well I don't think amd has this problem, could always go team red, kinda dumb how drivers get tied to your Ms account and windows store, very uneccerry. But most people won't notice or care so they know they will be able to get away with it and only loose virtually zero market share, doing their little deals with MS and tieing driver features and control panels to online accounts.

I use the audiotechnica ad 500xs for music and gaming, but i only play single player games so I don't care about hearing footsteps. I like them, definitely more comfortable than my m50s. is there anything open back in the 200ish diollar range that sounds significantly better than the ad 500xs for music? i use a fosi audio dam/amp and listen to mostly mp3s that are 256-320 kbs. Im not going to upgrade if i will have a hard time telling in a blind test or if i can just eq my pair to sound the same as a more expensive pair, i need to hear a big difference, and i don't care for bass much so an upgrade in bass isnt a priority, just mids/highs. also, i do have a dac/amp but i still want all my headphones to be usable with onboard/motherboard audio just in case, so i dont want something that requires a dac/amp to work properly.

the 10th gen i3 is a good value its only like 100 dollars, but if your budget allows it i would go for 6 or 8 cores with hyperthreading for the future. but if you wanted an uber cheap upgrade, you can get a refurb board that works with 10th gen sold by newegg for 60 dollars, and a 10th gen i3 for 100. https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813145333?Item=N82E16813145333&Description=comet lake i5&cm_re=comet_lake i5-_-13-145-333-_-Product&quicklink=true https://www.amazon.com/Intel-BX8070110100F-i3-10100F-3-6GHz-LGA1200/dp/B08LKJPR5X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=10th+gen+i3&qid=1634154709&refinements=p_89%3AIntel%2Cp_76%3A1249137011&rnid=1249135011&rps=1&s=electronics&sr=1-1 an i5 is like 70-115 dollars more depdning on the model, so 160 vs 230-250ish, but the i5 will last longer and you wont have to upgrade again in the immediate future

How rare are errors that ecc corrects? I did some large archival projects with normal ddr4, and I can't get ecc even if I wanted to without buying new PCs which I won't do. I'm just curious, and a bit paranoid that I had all my data going through normal ram.

How low is the chance tho? Like 0.1 percent I experienced ram related silent corruption that ecc would have prevented? How rare is it exactly? I don't want to buy new computers so it's too late for that, I'm stuck with what I got at this point.

Does faster ram/Tigger timings increase the chance of corruption/problems? I use slower ram, the fastest stuff I have is this gskill stuff that xmps up to 3000 not sure about the timings.

So the chance of errors is low, and the chance the error will cause data corruption is even lower? That's good news I guess, but a company with 100s of servers and decades of operation I guess you are bound to have an error at some point. Even one but could hurt important data or make something unusable tho.

I had multiple PCs running for long periods of time during my archival project, it was pretty massive in scale I had 3 PCs set up for different tasks and was burning blue rays and doing uncompression tasks and encoding vidioe with handbrake too, it was a bit of a mess as I was newer to all this stuff when I started the project.