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  1. DejaWiz

    Ryzen 8950X Zen 5 CPU Benchmark Scores Allegedly Break Cover And They're Really Good

    I'm just happy when every AMD next-gen CPU gets released and it's not another Bulldozer fiasco.
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    Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

    Par for the course: "our customers can EAt shit!"
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    Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th

    Figured it would be a matter of time before Amazon jumped on the Google YouTube model of starting off light with injected ads. Be prepared for a systemic gradual increase in both frequency and duration of ads... I don't mind having a couple/few minutes of "mandatory" ads at the beginning...
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    Looking into cheaper VR headset for my kiddos

    Thanks again, sharknice!
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    Looking into cheaper VR headset for my kiddos

    Thank you. 128GB to save $50, it is. Any recommendations for the head strap... Amazon links with Prime shipping would be a bonus.
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    Looking into cheaper VR headset for my kiddos

    Couple of votes for the Quest 2, so that's probably what we'll go with. 128 or 256 GB version matter much?
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    Looking into cheaper VR headset for my kiddos

    No idea! LOL I really know nothing about VR headsets and gaming. ...they merely expressed interest, so I'm thinking of springing for a headset to get them for Christmas.
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    Looking into cheaper VR headset for my kiddos

    Hello, [H]orde! Wanting to get my boys (15 and 16 YO) a VR headset for PC gaming (maybe XB1 compatible, if that's a thing) if it's even capable, but I know jack-squat about the tech. Not looking to break the bank, so maybe around $300 max. Their PC specs are so-so: Ryzen 5500 GTX 980Ti 16GB...
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    Crucial (Ballistix) DDR4-3600 4x16GB throwing MemTest86 errors - a bit of a caveat

    SSDs *should* be fine ...I did upgrade the firmware on all three right before the fresh reinstall of Windows and checked them with Crucial Storage Executive - no errors and they are all under 20% of their TBW. Is there a better utility that I should try? This is really perplexing: OCCT CPU...
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    Crucial (Ballistix) DDR4-3600 4x16GB throwing MemTest86 errors - a bit of a caveat

    Shit...this install is fresh as of about a few weeks ago, so that sucks if I have to rinse-repeat. Thank you for the further advice.
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    Crucial (Ballistix) DDR4-3600 4x16GB throwing MemTest86 errors - a bit of a caveat

    Ran 4 hours on RAM, 2 hours on CPU, and 2 hours on GPU - no errors detected in OCCD. Fired up Timespy...finished with no issues (I do not have the latest 3Dmark so no benchmark with DX12U with RT) - no issues running it. Then fired up Jedi Survivor - about 5 mins into it, another crash-reboot...
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    Crucial (Ballistix) DDR4-3600 4x16GB throwing MemTest86 errors - a bit of a caveat

    Downloaded and ran OCCT large+extreme for 4 hours...no errors detected. This was with the two modules that didn't show errors with MT86. System is crash-reboots in GPU-intensive games. I'm at a bit of a loss...
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    Crucial (Ballistix) DDR4-3600 4x16GB throwing MemTest86 errors - a bit of a caveat

    You mean third memory slot...a shown in the manual when a single module is populated? If so, then that is what I did for each module's individual test.
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    Crucial (Ballistix) DDR4-3600 4x16GB throwing MemTest86 errors - a bit of a caveat

    weird thing is this computer has been stable for about two years since it was built, and only recently in the past couple months has started exhibiting the crash-reboot behavior when games that are pushing the max settings are fired up.
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    Crucial (Ballistix) DDR4-3600 4x16GB throwing MemTest86 errors - a bit of a caveat

    Nope...all testing done at default 2666, so figured there wasn't a need
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    Crucial (Ballistix) DDR4-3600 4x16GB throwing MemTest86 errors - a bit of a caveat

    Ran MemTest86 (standard 4 pass) on each DIMM indicidually, and only one failed. Pulled that 2x16GB set and reinstalled the other set that showed pass. Fired up some games (Jedi Survivor and Far Cry 6), which both experienced the same crash-reboot as before all the RAM testing was done. Any...
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    MSI X570 Tomahawk review: possibly the best $200 X570

    X670 Tomahawk...but the price tag is about $300.
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    Crucial (Ballistix) DDR4-3600 4x16GB throwing MemTest86 errors - a bit of a caveat

    First test finished... tomorrow evening I will start the individual module testing.
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    Crucial (Ballistix) DDR4-3600 4x16GB throwing MemTest86 errors - a bit of a caveat

    Just about at the 6.5 hour mark and now up to 45 errors. Sigh
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    Crucial (Ballistix) DDR4-3600 4x16GB throwing MemTest86 errors - a bit of a caveat

    System specs in my signature...all firmwares and drivers up to date, getting random game crashes that wind up fully rebooting my system. Dug into Event Viewer and the only entries that point to anything were from memory bugs. Fresh install of Win11 Pro this morning, random crash-reboots still...
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    4060 Ti 16GB due to launch next week (July 18th)

    I agree...4060/Ti feels like a stopgap filler between last gen and next gen. "It's there if you really need it and we're happy to take your money, but wait if you can."
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    4060 Ti 16GB due to launch next week (July 18th)

    No, but the problem is the 128bit bus and 16GB of VRAM - there's no real reason that such a neutered GPU would need 16GB since it doesn't have the horsepower to push anything that would eat up that much frame buffer.
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    4060 Ti 16GB due to launch next week (July 18th)

    Might as well call it the RTX4 Ti 4200-8X... This should be no more than a $300-350 price point, in my opinion.
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    Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

    Crash, crash, crash! Anyone else still experiencing random game crashes/lockups that outright reboot their whole system? Ran a couple mem test programs that returned zero errors with all four of my DIMMs, set factory defaults in BIOS (even scaled back RAM to DDR4-2666 (down from 3600), and tried...
  25. DejaWiz

    Yellow wire in antique telephone?

    Wow...every day is a school day! Thanks for the cool lesson! Welcome to the [H]orde!
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    MSI X570 Tomahawk review: possibly the best $200 X570

    I haven't installed it yet. Maybe later this weekend. Just updated to Win11 a week ago and no problems with a previous BIOS revision.
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    MSI X570 Tomahawk review: possibly the best $200 X570

    Anyone give the latest BIOS revision a whirl yet? 7C84.1B0
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    Digitaltrends Top 6 Nvidia Cards of All Time List. Agree or disagree?

    TnT2 256 8800 GTX 980/Ti 1080/Ti 3080/Ti The way I see it, the TnT2 was the first real threat to the Voodoo lineup, the 256 was the nail in the coffin since they were on shelves months before 3Dfx had anything to answer with and, by that time, the GeForce2 was a big middle finger to the Voodoo...
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    Intel rumored to announce Arc A750, A380 desktop cards in late May/early June for 350/150 USD respectively

    That's the historical norm of corporatism. There is a difference. nVidia had the ever-deepening pockets along the way to start buying up various IP and eventually entire companies...not one peep from the taxpayer funded government administrations that are supposed to be watchdogging and...
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    NVIDIA fined USD $5.5 million for hiding how many gaming GPUs were sold to crypto miners

    I'm pretty sure *most* people are using their own vehicles instead of stealing them when speeding, driving recklessly, or DUI, which vastly outnumbers the amount of vehicles stolen to be used in other crimes.
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    NVIDIA fined USD $5.5 million for hiding how many gaming GPUs were sold to crypto miners

    This is frivolous and ridiculous on the SEC's part. It's like blaming the auto makers for not saying how many of their cars were sold to people that used them to commit crimes: speeding, reckless driving, DUI, getaway vehicle, etc. That info doesn't exist in their databases! Does the SEC expect...
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    Dear MSI, thank you for leaving the solder pads for the 2nd m.2 location on my laptop...... PS, you're cheap, and F warranties!

    This is great - as an EE that focused on electronics and computer theory/repair doing all sorts of solder work in the classroom and as a hobbyist at home, this warms my [H]eart.
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    Should I upgrade? 3700X/X470 > 5950X/X570

    Eh, you're current setup is likely not bottlenecked at all. The differences between the 3700X and 5950X with the 6800XT being put under proper load will be negligible...
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    ASUS RTX 3080 TUF 10GB LHR - unpleasant RMA experience.

    Have you tried underclocking the core and vram around 5-10% to see if it makes a meaningful difference or not in regards to the load temps? If you're going to sell it anyway, then just sell it since it'll be the next owner's potential concern. You have proof from ASUS that they tested it and...
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    Cyberpunk 2077 (Playstation/Xbox) is $5 at Best Buy - Today Only

    SPARTAN VI are you able to update the thread title to reflect that this deal is for console only?
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