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Recent content by ashmelev75

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    Creative Audigy Pro new first card since 2021

    For headphones there are plenty of USB DAC choices, although I find it wild that the prices of those reach a "used A/V receiver" range. I guess that's the audiophile tax There are also HDMI -> HDMI + Audio boxes that extract the audio stream and pass through the video signal, but they seem to be...
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    Creative Audigy Pro new first card since 2021

    AMD and Nvidia cards have HDMI audio codec that can send digital uncompressed audio to an A/V receiver. You can probably find a used 5.1 channel HDMI receiver like Yamaha/Denon/Onkyo for about $100. I've been using Yamaha RX-379 for over 10 years with zero issues, driver crashes or any other...
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    Creative Audigy Pro new first card since 2021

    I'm surprised Creative is still alive. "users who want more than standard motherboard audio" should just get a proper A/V receiver with 7.1 or 5.1 setup and use HDMI Audio.
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    Nvidia RTX 4090 power connectors melting?

    Anything but going back to PCIe power connector and actually making it 4 voltage + 4 ground pins and using 3 of them.
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    Is it finally time to break up with my sound card? Xi-Fi titanium fatality pcie

    Well, HDMI audio means a proper A/V receiver with a decent set of speakers. My old Promedia 5.1 was great until the speaker control broke and all those 3.5mm analog cables were a nightmarish mess. Now I'm just using a budget Yamaha receiver.
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    Is it finally time to break up with my sound card? Xi-Fi titanium fatality pcie

    Why not switch to HDMI audio? Works in Windows, works in Linux. If you want 5.1 audio it is the way to go.
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    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 6000 PRO Plagued by the Virtualization Reset Bug

    You can't be serious. What is it, a bounty amount for ants? Bump it to a cost of a new top of the line 5090 or RTX 6000 PRO or maybe a year of unlimited use of it in the cloud at least.
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    what kind of wizardry is this?

    full picture for interested
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    what kind of wizardry is this?

    Okay, using image search I've found the name - "EK-Pro Manifold".
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    what kind of wizardry is this?

    I've never seen anything like this before.
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    Dual monitor sleep issue with 4070

    I have two monitors connected via DP - one Dell S2719DGF, other BenQ XL2420Z. Both monitors were going to sleep properly with my old AMD card, but with Nvidia one of the monitors (BenQ) does not turn off completely and the backlight is still on while the other (Dell) goes to sleep properly...
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    DDR5 blows

    Yeah, not looking forward to replace 7600x just yet. Maybe when 9xxx X3D comes out.
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    DDR5 blows

    Sorry all for not being 100% super clear. I simply tried to replace 2x16Gb sticks with 2x32GB sticks. TheHig What AMD officially lists as supported is more like "any garbage stick with x configuration can will run at y speed". For now I'll live with 32GB which is fine for anything other than my...
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    DDR5 blows

    Had 32GB G.Skill DDR5-6000 CL30 kit for about a year in my 7600x, been playing with AI stuff, realized I could use more memory. Got 64GB G.Skill kit, same DDR5-6000 CL30 (lil worse other timings, but could not get it to run at EXPO-6000 speed. Tried this and that, single stick runs fine at 6000...
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