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orangecat

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About orangecat

  • Birthday Sep 02, 1995

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Windsor, Ontario
  • Interests
    Computers and such.
  • Biography
    Computer guy #1763820
  • Member title
    Hopeful Baller

System

  • CPU
    AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
  • Motherboard
    MSI X570-A Pro
  • RAM
    Corsair Vengeance 3600Mhz CL18 32GB Low Profile (X4) @ 3600Mhz 18-22-22-42
  • GPU
    RTX 4080 TUF 16GB @ 3000Mhz
  • Case
    Corsair 750D Air Flow Edition
  • Storage
    4TB nvme gen 4 + 2x 500GB nvme gen 3
  • PSU
    CoolerMaster V750
  • Display(s)
    ASUS PG258Q
  • Cooling
    Noctua NH-D15
  • Keyboard
    Corsair K70 LUX Cherry MX Brown
  • Mouse
    Logitech Gaming Mouse
  • Sound
    ODAC + MiniDSP 4X2 HD + O2 Headphone Amp + Audiosource Amp100 + Fluance SX6 + BIC America F-12 Sub + Sennheiser HD 518
  • Operating System
    Windows 10/11 Pro 64-Bit
  • Laptop
    Apple MacBook Air 6,2 512GB Apple SSD 8GB Ram + SD Card
  • Phone
    iPhone 12 + Galaxy S9 + Galaxy S7 Lineage OS

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  1. Obviously air and pc. The MBP is faster but only really in GPU and multi core. outside of that for daily use the air is enough. Plus you have a PC you can use and upgrade on the cheap for tougher tasks the air cant handle.
  2. Anyone know if it's possible to get Windows booting from nvme on Intel Z77 platform? Once Windows is booted it can access the nvme disk fine but it won't boot from it. I tried putting the bootloader on a SATA SSD and had windows partition on the nvme but Windows crashes/bsod. Motherboard is ASUS Z77M-Pro with latest UEFI
  3. My little cousin dropped off his keyboard to me because the USB C connector broke. It's a Ducky keyboard and I would hate to return it to him still broken. I can solder just fine but I'm not sure if there is missing pads on the PCB as I'm not completely familiar with what pins are used and not used on this keyboard. The USB connector is cleanly broken right off the board. I don't think a repair was attempted and it almost looks like it wasn't soldered correctly from the factory. If the pads/traces are damaged I was thinking I could bodge some wires on but I don't feel like spending hours tracing where all the connections go. Maybe someone has some info on this? I was also thinking of just adding a USb cable to the PCB and just not having the connector. Here's a picture of the damage
  4. Can you guys do a video about iPhone port cleaning tools? My iPhone 12 has a bunch of dust and lint in both the speaker grills and the lightning port. There's tons of tools on Amazon but what one should I pick? What ones are good and what ones are a scam?
  5. Arch stopped booting after I upgraded from a GTX 970 to a 4080. Gets stuck during boot at Graphical user interface then suppresses a bunch of spam. I can open a terminal and login as root but I cant get to desktop. Is this because 4080 may not be supported yet in nvidia driver?
  6. Turns out having a m.2 drive in disables some of the SATA ports. I had no idea this was the issue because I didn't try all the ports nor did I read the manual to see what ports get disabled.
  7. By the way you were right. Some of the SATA ports were disabled. I had the drives plugged into 5/6 and they are disabled. However I also used 3/4 and it didn't work but 1/2 do. I'm guessing it has something to do with having that pci-e wifi card in as well. Maybe it disables other SATA ports. I was 100% sure I used 4/5 and checked the BIOS and saw nothing. Maybe I need my eyes checked or maybe they don't work. Either way I'm not going to waste my time checking at this point since I know 1/2 are working. Also maybe I should have known better also. I've always built myself higher end systems and never had this be an issue however my grandmas PC was built on a budget and I picked up a b450 board on the cheap not thinking that some SATA ports may be disabled when some pcie devices are used. I never had this happen to me in the past so it didn't even cross my mind. Thanks.
  8. Hmmmm. I tried using 5 and 6 however I'm 99.9% sure I also tried other ports. I will double check.
  9. It had a SATA optical drive since it was built. I don't know if it was ever used. Most likely worked at some point. Currently the system has 1 nvme drive, 1 SATA SSD, 1 SATA optical drive, 1 pci-e Wi-Fi card and other than some ram and a APU nothing else.
  10. To make a long story short my grandmas PC had it's nvme disk fail after only having a total of 5.5TB of data ever written to it. She had it about 3 years and only even used it to store Windows and a few basic programs. Anyways I since replaced the drive with a better one and because there was some data loss I figured I'd grab her a 1TB SATA SSD and use it to make regulars backups of her data so that if in the event that her boot disk ever dies again there will be a copy of it on another disk. However after replacing the main boot drive for some reason her computer won't detect any SATA devices at all. Now I'm generally pretty good with computers and am rarely ever stumped however i can't figure out why this is happening. At first I thought maybe it was a bad connection. I double checked all the power and data connections and I'm convinced they are fine. If I plug in the power cable for example I can hear her optical drive power up and seek. I can also open the disc trap no problem. So I ruled out the power cable. Next I checked the SATA data connections. I used an old SATA cable from her previous computer because I was lazy but I thought maybe the cable had failed so i replaced it with some brand new cables and nothing. Both the optical drive and SATA SSD won't show up. I tried different SATA ports too and nothing. I also updated the BIOS and nothing. I loaded optimized defaults and nothing. In the BIOS it says the SATA controller is enabled and in AHCI mode but nothing shows up under the SATA ports (ie: no connected devices). I was under the impression that when the drives didn't show up in Windows that it may have been related to not having installed the SATA drivers however I've never seen this on a modern PC as almost all onboard SATA controllers are supported out of the box. I also connected the SATA SSD in question to my main PC and it showed up and formatted just fine so I know the disk works. Also 2 SATA controllers show up in Windows so it makes me think that the SATA controllers are working just fine unless they aren't but they're still reported to the system. I'm kind of out of things to try at this point so i figured I'd ask here and see if anyone has any ideas. I'm probably just gonna go out and buy her a SATA HBA card and slap it in because I don't know what else to try. Also the motherboard is a ASUS Prime B450M-A rev 1.01 for anyone who is curious. Also my grandma doesn't know much about computers so I really doubt she did anything to it that would damage it. I'm pretty sure it just sat in the same place since the day I set it up for her. theres also like no dust in it since it's just a basic APU based system running a 3200G. Anyone know of any good SATA 6gbps HBA cards on the cheap?
  11. So to make a long story short I've been doing per core curve optimization overclocking and I'm using Prime95 as my main stability test. WHat I've been doing is setting Prime95 to run the equivalent of a blend test with in place FFT on a single core with hyp[erthreading/SMT enabled and using task manager to manually specify what core the workload runs on. o far it's been working out fine until I got all my cores roughly dialed in and wanted to test all core. The issue I'm having is that randomly task manager will report low CPU utilization on some cores and both frequency and power reporting fluctuate. It doesn't seem to be caused by thermals or power limits as both are under control. Anyone have any ideas? Also I'm well aware how boosting works on modern CPUs and that Prime95 is a very heavy load that will make clocks drop under load. With -30 curve set to all core I can do 4.6Ghz all core but randomly the clocks, power and utilization drop and I don't know why. I think it's related to Prime95 but I can't say for sure.
  12. My point was more that if Linus the person is personally going to or is interested in switching to Linux then he may as well get used to using arguably one of the best power user distros out there as I know Linus would love to have his ultimate setup that Windows could never make possible but if all he does is use Linux like Windows by just always accepting how the next version will be then I think he would miss out on what he otherwise might have really gotten into.
  13. I've got an old Ivy bridge system laying around and it's got 6 SATA ports on it. It's got 16gb of RAM and I figured I'd turn it into a giant networked storage server running some kind of Linux. Anyone here experienced in this know if a 3570K would be fine for a 10 gigabit NAS? I plan on using 4 NAS drives in raid plus some kind of SSD cache for the hard drives. I don't expect maximum possible performance but I would like to be able to have it be faster than a local disk via SATA interface.
  14. Not sure if this is the right place to post this but here goes... So I watched the latest WAN Show and during the show Linus and Luke did a poll to see what distro they should use. I just wanted to say I personally think they should use Arch Linux. I know someone will call me a fanboy or whatever but I seriously think it's what's best suited for both of them if they actually do plan on daily driving Linux. The main reason I think they should use arch is because both of them tend to be what I would consider power users. Arch is a very power user friendly distro and if the point of the challenge is to learn linux and see if you can daily drive it then what better distro to use than the one that you setup yourself. You can pick your own desktop environment and all the accoupling packages. Plus the arch wiki is by far one of the most useful linux documents out there and it all directly applies to arch (and other distros). You guys could have the first challenge being getting through the arch installer and getting to a working desktop. it's really not that hard and I'm sure Anthony could give you guys some tips like how to use and setup sudo on your user accounts. it also offers the most vanilla experience out of all the distros imo and I think that will make it easy to start with something basic and over the course of the challenge try and make your arch install your own. I'm almost certain Linus will want to use KDE or maybe GNOME and most other distros come skinned pretty ugly out of the box and I think that might be a bit of a turn off for Linux and Luke. maybe not but I know a lot of people don't like how Linux looks as it's not always flashy. I also think it would be a good reason for them both to dive deeper into Linux and learn how it works. Maybe they can both come out of this more experienced linux users than they were before. Arch is great and if they need any pointers I'm sure the arch community will help them out.
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