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Americans are stupid and selfish, and Republicans are better at setting the narrative that appeals to these two traits especially with the copius amounts of lying they do. "Illegals are taking your freedoms!" "Biden is making you pay for the wokes' educations!" Hunter's laptop!
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They need to steal your personal information and habits to feed their A.I. of course.
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Dude was grifting the grifter's publicity.
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I do not remember paying for IGN access back in December 2000 when I first registered.
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4 hours ago, Brick said:
Was really cloudy all day, but it cleared up a little bit during the peak. Some kid at work bought a pair of glasses, so I was able to look at it. Pretty cool as all I saw was a red sliver at about 99% totality where I was. It didn't really get as dark as I was thinking based on what people were saying. Just looked like a storm was coming in and getting dark from that if I didn't know any better. I wonder if that small percentage makes a difference, and places with 100% total coverage were darker.
That 1% is a huge difference. Without total blockage you don't get see the bright glowing ring in the sky which is just surreal to witness in person even though Twinion's pictures are sublime. It's also darker than a moonlit night, but the horizon in every direction is slightly lit up.
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Just now, b_m_b_m_b_m said:
Southern Indiana was southern Indiana-ing. Some assholes set off fireworks during totality.
Neighbors blasted rap music throughout the whole thing, fireworks were set off, and pretty sure someone shot a pistol a few times.
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Windows fully updated and logged into a Microsoft account?
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15 minutes ago, Jason said:
Apparently the epicenter was at Trump's NJ golf course.
HE HAS RISEN?
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A timely comparison for your situation
Depending on the game and resolution, Ryzen 5000 can hold back a 4080 GPU to perform more like a 4070 GPU. The trend seems to be these console port games, but it's likely this list of badly optimized games will grow going forward anyway.
4k still needs a lot of horsepower, but there were situations where the 5600 couldn't break 60 fps.
So if you were doing an upgrade, and trying to decide between a 4070 and a 4090 for 1440p gaming, you would be better doing something in between. Get a 4070 Super/TI or 4080, and also upgrade your CPU to the 5800X3D. It should be a drop in upgrade that gives you 25% more performance for those bad ports. That would give you more performance than just a GPU upgrade. I can personally vouch that the 5800X3D+2080 Ti is a much smoother experience in a game like Jedi: Survivor than a 5900X+3090.
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1 minute ago, Jason said:
This one is just an aftermarket clamp that can possibly lower temperatures a little bit since it presses down on the CPU more evenly than the stock lever does, meaning the heatsink makes better contact. It's not necessary.
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The lever mechanism should stay on. I haven't personally done an AM5 build, but as long as you lined the CPU correctly into the socket you should be good to go. The CPU does need that tension to create good contact with the pins in the motherboard.
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Yeah it's the same
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The 5700 is a good enough CPU for all but the incompetent ports (fuck you Star Wars Jedi:
SurvivorStutterer), where the newest CPUs can brute force into smooth gameplay.- 1
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6 minutes ago, Jason said:
What about this other one by the same company, Fractal Design Pop Air Mid-Tower Case, which is similar to the first one, first one has no RGB lighting in the fans and this one does but I can turn the lights off right?
That cooling should be sufficient for the build you have. The "standard" RGB fan has two cables per fan, one for power and one for lights. Either don't plug them in, or configure the RGB to be turned off in software or BIOS. They probably also sell a SKU that has non-RGB fans if you can find it. Lots of these cases do have options where all they change is either the color, side panel, and/or fan configuration with all other things being equal.
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The 980 Pro heatsink looks more than adequate, so I'd leave the mobo heatsink off.
I'd also leave the PCIe 5.0 slot open for future use.
Most new cases do have glass panels, but there are a few standard ones. There are a lot of options that are easy to build in and at various sizes. Even a lot of compact cases are pretty easy to build in, but you would need a mini-ITX board. I'd be concerned about cooling with the Fractal Design Silent option though, looks like it only has 1 exhaust fan.
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You don't have to use that heatsink if your SSD comes with one. Although you could take the SSD heatsink off and replace it if its significantly smaller than the motherboard-provided one to get better cooling. I do believe under heavy read/writes the WD Black SSD will throttle because it gets too hot with the stock simple heatsink.
And those look like SSD standoffs. The case should provide motherboard standoffs, which are probably pre-installed.
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3 hours ago, Spork3245 said:
I guess where I’m confused is that AM4/AM5 has those big plastic hook-things that coolers attached to, and most of the motherboards lack any type of hole to install a back-bracket. Are there coolers that require you to remove those plastic hook mounts? I thought they were universal.Ah, no they aren't universal. They can be, but a lot of coolers require you to take it off. Then they have you screw new brackets into the backplate, and those new motherboard brackets attach to the adapter brackets on the heatsink. I guess bracket isn't a very precise term here, but some require this method:
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16 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:
AM5 is essentially the same as AM4 for cooler brackets, isn’t it? The change should be on the cooler itself to the AMD hook-things, shouldn’t need to apply anything to the back of the motherboard itself unless I’m missing something…?It's the same, so rear-side access makes it easier keep the stock backplate in place as he swaps from the stock cooler brackets to the aftermarket brackets. It's perfectly doable when the motherboard is inside the case, but obviously easier otherwise.
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If your case has a cutout so that you can access the back of the motherboard, you can install the cooler later albeit a bit more difficult. You have to change some brackets on the motherboard, and it's definitely easier to do this outside of the case.
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Chuds have already created the ironic "Build Back Better" meme with depictions of the bridge collapse
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Signed up for the alpha, hopefully it'll give me a nice change of pace from Overwatch.
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On 3/25/2024 at 11:19 AM, Commissar SFLUFAN said:
You should start playing to coincide with its 20th anniversary this year!
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A 4070 would be worthwhile. The 3060 wasn't even that good when it released.
4090 would only be worth it if you're using a 4k monitor. Even then, there are several generations of Ryzen and the older ones wouldn't be great for future games.
EKWB Scandal
in PC/Mac Technical and PCCB
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Intriguing investigation into what must be your not-so-uncommon corporate practices of upper management gaming the system for their own personal benefit. EK being the most prolific and reputable brand for custom water cooling parts seems to have been simply throwing their giant status around to bully employees, vendors, and customers instead of actually running a respectable business.
I found the highlight of the video to be the flow chart @ 28:05. "Competency" means nothing; connections mean everything.
Here was part 1: