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VALVe Updates CS:GO - Battle Royale incoming.
captain cactus replied to Princess Luna's topic in Tech News
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October 30th Apple Hardware Event Recap, w/ Vega?
captain cactus replied to DrMacintosh's topic in Tech News
So you got a MacBook Air with no usable ports whatsoever (literally the last reason to buy the old Air was because of the useful ports like USB-A and an SD slot) , an iPad that doesn't have a headphone jack but a Lighting adapter doesn't work because it now needs USB-C, any non-Apple USB-C adapters that probably don't work because USB-C is a massive steaming pile of hot garbage as a "standard" with every company doing their own thing and the last good Mac keyboard is now gone. How are these upgrades again? -
Would like to see a Ryzen Pocket with like a 2500U or something. Yeah 15W TDP is a lot more than 4.5 but that should be coolable right? With true 4/8 cores/threads and a Vega GPU in it.
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Right but it is still flat as a pancake so it won't dissipate any more easily than all the other crap slabs of aluminium slapped onto other boards. Then comes Gigabyte (of all the manufacturers) and puts an actual "old fashioned" heatsink with actual surface area onto their VRMs on that X470 board of theirs which actually proves the entire point of more surface area is more better, yet people still fall for shit like this (and manufactures still advertise it this way). If anything, this is more of a heat insulator than a heatsink.
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Cheap AliExpress Graphics Cards - SCAM???
captain cactus replied to Emily Young's topic in LTT Releases
Tear the cooler off of that 1060, make high-res pictures of them and send them to Buildzoid/Actually Hardcore Overclocking for a PCB VRM analysis I wanna see that PCB. -
Silverstone launches Nightjar NJ450-SXL fan-less SFX power-supply
captain cactus replied to Notional's topic in Tech News
But that means extra expense when the cables shouldn't be crap in the first place. SilverStone's cables are more flexible to begin with saving the extra cost.- 11 replies
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Silverstone launches Nightjar NJ450-SXL fan-less SFX power-supply
captain cactus replied to Notional's topic in Tech News
Don't get the SF600. I have it. It's silent when idle but as soon as you game on it the fan turns on and becomes a loud obnoxious piece of garbage that won't turn off when you return back to idle power, not even after a restart. You have to turn it off, let it cool down and then turn the PC back on again for it to remain silent. Also, the cables are stiff as wood. In cramped ITX cases you want some flex in your cables since you're space constrained in a small case, the SF600 cables don't want to flex at all.- 11 replies
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So, any store in the world or EU that accepts PayPal and ships this product to the EU (or more specifically, the Netherlands)? Amazon doesn't ship this to the EU it seems.
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Nice that we have fast RAM chips, now for some bad-ass memory controllers on the CPU that can officially handle it...
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Facebook announces new dating feature and Match is getting clobbered
captain cactus replied to G3nnaro's topic in Tech News
"The dating feature is likely to be a free service" Yeah right, you mean like they know your every move you do on a minute-by-minute basis? Free my ass. -
Tech Companies move to limit GDPR exposure
captain cactus replied to nua_play_ray's topic in Tech News
If this is the case and FB knows this, aren't they shooting themselves in the foot right now? I'm an EU citizen, so these GDPR rules apply to me, does this mean the EU could theoretically sue FB for not following these rules and force them to do so anyway?- 14 replies
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AMD's official "eff you GPP" response: A Gamer's Choice
captain cactus replied to captain cactus's topic in Tech News
AMD can't open source what isn't theirs. The PSP is an ARM SOC with ARM code so if there's anyone that should be open sourcing stuff it's ARM, not AMD. -
Crashing on heavy load: GPU faulty or PSU giving troubs?
captain cactus replied to captain cactus's topic in Graphics Cards
Ok so I ran Heaven with a static cam on lots of moving things, then ran OCCT on all threads. The entire CPU, so cores and SOC, is pulling around 150W. Put the Vega on a +50 power budget to get it pulling 205W (on powersaving BIOS). FPS was stable at 105, OCCT didn't crash, system stayed responsive the entire time. Then again, I'll try again tomorrow when it could be a completely different story. -
AMD's official "eff you GPP" response: A Gamer's Choice
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Crashing on heavy load: GPU faulty or PSU giving troubs?
captain cactus replied to captain cactus's topic in Graphics Cards
Ok, stop using FurMark, got it. To the uninstall button we go. I'll try running Heaven with a CPU load as well trying to trigger the problem. If it does, I'll update. -
Scenario: stress-testing CPU and GPU causes the AMD driver to crash. When it recovers, the GPU stress test (any, FurMark, Superposition, Valley, etc) stopped entirely but the CPU happily continues crunching numbers. Setup: I have a Ryzen 1600 at 3.8 GHz, 1.25V that's survived a 4 hour pass of LinPack via OCCT aka it's stable at that speed. RAM's at 2933 1.4 V that's also stable, all on an ASRock AB350 Gaming ITX/ac with the latest P4.50 BIOS. My MSI reference Vega 56 though, that's a different story. As soon as that gets thrown into the mix, even at stock profile in Wattman, the system will pull along for a couple of minutes at most, if I'm not moving the mouse that is (but even if I don't it will generally crash within a couple of minutes). As soon as I even look at the mouse, the screen freezes, goes black for a couple of seconds and when it comes back the driver has crapped the bed. But as soon as I keep the CPU at rest and stress the GPU alone the system stays intact, mostly. I say mostly because it really depends on the mood my system's in. Sometimes it crashes as soon as load is put onto the GPU but most of the time it keeps running for hours and hours without a single issue. My PSU is a Corsair SF600. I've been wanting to swap that out for something quieter as the fan doesn't return to zero RPM when there's no more load on the PSU making it quite load in the process, but I only wanna do that if it also means it'll solve my GPU issues. I don't wanna RMA my GPU that much because a: it's an MSI model and I can't find any RMA info on their site other than "contact retailer" but more importantly b: I bought the Vega 56 from LDLC.com, a French site, because it was the only place selling MSRP Vega 56 in the EU (I'm Dutch) at launch. Sending it back would mean risky over-the-border shipments with a we-no-speak-english company with no guarantee they'll even have a replacement unit in stock meaning I'd be stuck with no GPU at all. I also don't have a 2nd GPU at hand that I could test with which also isn't nice. So what do I do here?
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sausy sauce: https://gaming.radeon.com/en/radeon-a-gamers-choice/ Asus is first with the AREZ lineup live: https://www.asus.com/Graphics-Cards/AREZ-Series-Products/ So rather than locking in partners with non-industry standard crap and limiting customer choice AMD's all like "hey, we open sourced this stuff, enjoy it". And now they're doing the same with GPU branding, kinda like GPP, but without forcing manufacturers to join in or face the lack of supplies and marketing and whatnot. It's the official and kind "fuck off GPP" response from AMD. "No anti-gamer / anti-competitive strings attached." sums it up best.
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Get DDU and uninstall all drivers. Then grab the latest from the nVidia site and install those, run Unigine Superposition. FurMark is very taxing on your GPU, you can run it but you'd see temperatures that you won't normally see and it stresses the GPU in a way games usually don't. If there's another insta-crash, it might be good to RMA the GPU. Your PSU isn't of the highest quality but you have a 1050Ti on it. That thing sips on power so it shouldn't stress the PSU at all.
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Large numbers sound great on paper, until you realise No Man's Sky did the same and we know how that turned out. Bigger isn't always better in games. This is one of those times.
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