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[Spork3245]

[Spawn_of_Apathy]

2 hours ago, Spork3245 said:

first computer I ever used had MSDOS. But then in school all the computer labs were Macs. Possibly all of my friends their first computer they used was a Mac because their parents didn’t own a PC. 

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Lighting Enhancement Kit came

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[cusideabelincoln]

If Santa's sleigh breaks down I'm sure that case has enough fans to launch itself around the world at supersonic speeds.

[AbsolutSurgen]

I’m convinced that @Spork3245has spent more time in ICue than anything else with his new PC

[Remarkableriots]

I had to pee after watching those videos!

[Spork3245]

7 hours ago, cusideabelincoln said:

If Santa's sleigh breaks down I'm sure that case has enough fans to launch itself around the world at supersonic speeds.

6x 140mm reverse blade fans as intake, 3x 140mm as exhaust on the radiator, 2x 120mm as exhaust, and 2x 200mm as intake on the front. I can actually add 3x more intakes in the front behind the 200mm  

 

6 hours ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

I’m convinced that @Spork3245has spent more time in ICue than anything else with his new PC

Nah, these are all my profiles I imported from my old build.

[Spork3245]

BTW, I was surprised that those fins/pillars with the RGB in the front aren’t plastic: they’re tempered glass.

[Spork3245]

https://www.pcgamesn.com/intel/cyberpunk-2077-arrow-lake-benchmarks

I think this basically confirms scheduling issues with ArrowLake. 

 

[Spork3245]

Intel Arc B580 Review - Excellent Value

WWW.TECHPOWERUP.COM

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The next-generation Intel Arc graphics cards are here! The B580, powered by the Battlemage architecture, is priced at a highly competitive $250. Testing in our review confirms that Intel's new card outperforms both NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4060 and AMD's RX 7600, and it now supports frame generation as well.

 

[AbsolutSurgen]

Interesting option for the low end of GPUs.  I wonder how long they will keep their advantage before the 50 series cards come out.

[Spork3245]

Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards and Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled | Tom's Hardware

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Despite promising to filter personal data out, Recall still captures it.

 

[Remarkableriots]

On 12/8/2024 at 3:49 AM, Spork3245 said:

Check to see if your laptop is under warranty and they might send you a replacement key. Otherwise, Amazon and others sell replacement caps for keyboards (including laptop keyboards) but you’ll need to match the brand and potentially the model. You can also try here: 

Laptop Key Replacements | Buy Laptop Keyboard Keys Online

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Laptop Key Replacements offers a wide selection of laptop keyboard keys for various models. We offer laptop key replacement services for all laptop keyboard keys. Shop now!

 

I don't believe the warranty I have covers that since it talks about not covering user damage. At least I found the key for my laptop, and it isn't too expensive. Thank you for the help!

[Remarkableriots]

@Spork3245 I also need to replace the Silicone Cup under the key, and I read some comments said to use this glue and others said super glue? I'm not sure what to use. Or should I just see how it works without glue?

[Spork3245]

10 hours ago, Remarkableriots said:

@Spork3245 I also need to replace the Silicone Cup under the key, and I read some comments said to use this glue and others said super glue? I'm not sure what to use. Or should I just see how it works without glue?

I have no idea; probably best to just follow the guides.

[Spork3245]

[Remarkableriots]

I like my laptop except for the storage! I have a couple games I play a daily which take up most of the storage space. Unfortunately, I have a data cap so I can't just keep replacing the games regularly. It limits how many games I can try out because I don't have enough storage.

[Spork3245]

5 hours ago, Remarkableriots said:

I like my laptop except for the storage! I have a couple games I play a daily which take up most of the storage space. Unfortunately, I have a data cap so I can't just keep replacing the games regularly. It limits how many games I can try out because I don't have enough storage.

Does it have an expansion slot to add another m2 ?

[Remarkableriots]

10 hours ago, Spork3245 said:

Does it have an expansion slot to add another m2 ?

It only has the one slot, unfortunately. It has a 512GB SSD.

[Spork3245]

Looks like the 5090 is going to have 32gb of VRAM while the 5080 and 5070 Ti stick with 16gb (dumb AF, should be 20-24gb IMO) and the 5070 gets 12gb (lololol wtf)

 

ZOTAC confirms GeForce RTX 5090 with 32GB GDDR7 memory, 5080 and 5070 series listed as well - VideoCardz.com

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ZOTAC confirms NVIDIA RTX 50 launch lineup Two years ago, just before NVIDIA announced the GeForce RTX 40 series, a ZOTAC design based on the Ada Lovelace architecture was leaked ahead of the official showcase. Last month, there was a leak from ZOTAC’s GPU factory claiming that the company was test-producing the next-gen GPU series, […]

 

[Spawn_of_Apathy]

Is it going to be even remotely enough uplift from a 4080 to a 5080 to justify an upgrade? The 5090 is the only card that looks like a proper upgrade. 

[AbsolutSurgen]

12 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

Is it going to be even remotely enough uplift from a 4080 to a 5080 to justify an upgrade? The 5090 is the only card that looks like a proper upgrade. 

It's almost never never worth it to upgrade after one gen, unless there is some feature you're chasing. (Rather than just pure performance.)

[Spork3245]

39 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

Is it going to be even remotely enough uplift from a 4080 to a 5080 to justify an upgrade? The 5090 is the only card that looks like a proper upgrade. 

Nobody will know until benchmarks. If it’s the reported ~20% faster than a 4090 you’d be looking at about +35-40% over a 4080. Whether that’s “worth it” or not depends on you and if you’re selling your 4080 and how much you get for it.

[Remarkableriots]

"GDDR7 has a starting speed of 32 gigabits per second (Gbps), which is 60% higher than GDDR6's maximum speed of 20 Gbps. Some manufacturers plan to release GDDR7 with speeds of up to 40 Gbps, which would double the bandwidth of the top GDDR6 solutions. GDDR7 has a system bandwidth of over 1.5 terabytes per second (TBps)"

That seems like a good improvement.

[Spork3245]

Looks like the nVidia app has a bug causing CPU usage issues that could cause a performance hit of 3-10% pending on the game. The bug is apparently linked to filters (which is enabled by default and it doesn’t matter if you actually have a filter on or not), so if you go into the overlay (ctrl + z) you can disable filters and the issue will be gone until an official fix is out. 

[Remarkableriots]

https://www.pcgamesn.com/nvidia/geforce-rtx-5000-laptop-gpu-specs-leak

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Nvidia has, so far, not alluded to the existence of RTX 5000-series mobile chips, making this one of the first major leaks for this hardware. According to the leak, the laptop RTX 5090 will have half the VRAM rumored to be on the desktop RTX 5090, at 16GB. An Acer leak recently appeared to confirm that the desktop version will have 32GB, meaning this is a significant cutback.

However, we’ll have to wait for real-world tests to see the key differences between the laptop versions of the RTX 5090 and 5080, as they both look set to feature 16GB of VRAM and output a total of 175W. The 5090 will presumably be quicker, though, as it’s likely to have more CUDA cores, RTX cores, and Tensor cores.

 

[Remarkableriots]

@Mr.Vic20 Do you use any external storage?

[Mr.Vic20]

9 minutes ago, Remarkableriots said:

@Mr.Vic20 Do you use any external storage?

I don’t actually. I have 9Tb in my system, so I’m more than good.

[Remarkableriots]

2TB Ultra Slim Portable External Hard Drive HDD-USB 3.0 for PC, Mac, Laptop, PS4, Xbox one,Xbox 360 Model A4

Would this be a good deal?

[Remarkableriots]

2 hours ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

I don’t actually. I have 9Tb in my system, so I’m more than good.

I have 449 GB usable on my laptop and only 13.2 GB free.

[Spork3245]

6 hours ago, Remarkableriots said:

2TB Ultra Slim Portable External Hard Drive HDD-USB 3.0 for PC, Mac, Laptop, PS4, Xbox one,Xbox 360 Model A4

Would this be a good deal?

It would not be good for a gaming drive. You’d ideally want a usb-c SSD drive 

[Remarkableriots]

35 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:

It would not be good for a gaming drive. You’d ideally want a usb-c SSD drive 

Thank you but I doubt I'll be able to afford one of those.

[Spork3245]

7 minutes ago, Remarkableriots said:

Thank you but I doubt I'll be able to afford one of those.

With an HDD you could use it to transfer games you’re not actively playing to and from your SSD (m.2) for when you want to play them without needing to redownload. It’s not the best solution but it’s something. I don’t know much about that brand you posted, so I’d recommend researching them a bit.

 

To clarify, you could technically game off an external HDD as long as the game doesn’t require an SSD, however, load times will be extremely slow and long.

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