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    PG Einstein Challenge: who's in?

    I wish I had more than 6 cores out of 8 on my 5800x I could toss at this. Even if I fired it up on my 2600x I doubt it would finish a work unit before the event ended.
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    The Verge: Westworld showrunners are creating a Fallout show for Amazon

    The Rings of Power was utter shit. If they didn't break the lore they completely ignored it instead. Beyond that for something with such a huge production budget everything looked like cheap shit and the acting wasn't any good. No matter how you look at it it was bad. Despite the fact it's been...
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    Sweet Baby Inc Steam Tracker

    In your first post you deny 100% that ESG/DIE is being forced by edict and now you're admitting not only that it is but that it's been happening for a very long time while giving supporting evidence. You have proven my point for me. It doesn't matter if these edicts were initially based on good...
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    Sweet Baby Inc Steam Tracker

    They'll go out of business but the people behind it will be shuffled around to another similar business doing the same things. However, now that the word is out it will be easier to find these people and the companies which do the exact same thing. It will require due diligence to make sure...
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    Sweet Baby Inc Steam Tracker

    I was avoiding this part since it wasn't necessarily 100% required for the current conversation. Although some assumptions could be made with regards to gaming overall. If they end up owning enough of the IP on the cheap it would be that much easier to gain ownership of many more IPs in the long...
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    Sweet Baby Inc Steam Tracker

    I'm not sure how to categorize this. It's either written by someone who knows exactly what's going on and attempting to defend it or someone who doesn't have the faintest clue of what has been going on for years. Either way, the premises are 100% wrong. The DIE/ESG is being handed down from the...
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    Tour de prime 2024

    It's no mega but at least I finally found a prime. Dear Primefinder, Congratulations! Our records indicate that a computer registered by you has found a unique prime number. This computer is running BOINC, is attached to the PrimeGrid project, and is assigned to the Proth Prime Search...
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    Windows 11 24H2 to enforce HW requirement

    Is it even about age? MS log ago forgot the "don't fix it if it ain't broke" philosophy. Or more likely decided to ignore it because shuffling around settings and UI elements makes it look like something is being done.
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    Two years after launch Windows 11 adoption is still waaaay behind Windows 10

    And if MS actually listened to feedback we wouldn't have had worsening UIs and increased spying since Win8. If you weren't looking through your pro-MS lens you might see that.
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    SSD prices increasing

    I snagged one right before the end of the year and right before the prices really started climbing again. It's currently $45+ more than the price when I ordered mine. Even then the price had already gone up a bit from the lowest point back in mid to late November.
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    Tour de prime 2024

    I think it's because wareyore is stealing all of our primes...
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    Boinc Games Sprint starts tonight

    It looks like GW is the only GPU available project. I had Gamma Ray GPU originally selected and I got the message there's no GPU work for it. I even changed to grab GW GPU work and it says it has no work for my 1050Ti. A pity something changed and BOINC no longer sees my RX570. I suspect it...
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    Anyone have experience with segfaults halting the boot process?

    If the memory was bad and caused errors, it's likely the install, OS and otherwise, is completely hosed. Bad memory causes errors in which those errors are written to disk. It was unlikely the install was going to be saved from the beginning and will need to be wiped and redone.
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    2024 Game Drought?

    About the only game on that list that I'm looking forward to is Horizon: Forbidden West. I'm a Star Wars fan but there's no way I'm getting excited about any Star Wars game before it's released.
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    Annual Folding@Home bigadv EOL 5th Anniversary Challenge

    There are a lot of work units out there with very different PPD numbers on the same hardware. My production is way down from a year ago because of this. A year ago my 6750xt was getting work units putting out 3.3 million PPD. I haven't seen more than a couple of those in the past few months and...
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    Annual Folding@Home bigadv EOL 5th Anniversary Challenge

    It seems my memory was a bit off with the max my 1050Ti does.
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    Kernel confusion

    It's anything but. It is a great way to try out new kernels without having to risk hosing your whole system since if a new kernel doesn't work it's an extremely simple and quick change to revert to the previous kernel and have everything working again. I keep a few kernels installed with...
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    Annual Folding@Home bigadv EOL 5th Anniversary Challenge

    Every once in a great while my 1050Ti will get work units which are about 1.2 million PPD. That's more than 3x it's normal output.
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    Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games

    I don't think anyone has pointed out that the real, long term danger of subscription services for gaming is the ability for the large corporations to crush and eliminate competition. This includes direct competition in the form of games as smaller studios would obviously not have a subscription...
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    Partition vs multiple drives?

    It's mainly up to you but I do both. I have multiple drives and I have drives with partitions. Dual booting Linux/Windows requires this as I have both OSes on one NVME but also have partitions on the HDD as well for each OS. Even then I still have additional partitions on the NVME. Things which...
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    Annual Folding@Home bigadv EOL 5th Anniversary Challenge

    I'm running a 2600x with RX570 and 1050Ti as well as a 5800x and 6750xt. Until recently I was only running the GPUs and still in the top 20 for the team. Trust me, just about anything helps.
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    Annual Folding@Home bigadv EOL 5th Anniversary Challenge

    I don't see any reason why it can't be opened up to multiple teams. As long as everyone is in it for some fun, friendly competition.
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    Where are the next gen MMO's?

    Incorrect. Amazon was going to make a Lord of the Rings MMO and that was cancelled. However, Amazon came back a year or two later and said it was going to work on one again. That said I expect the second attempt to also be cancelled. Even if it wasn't cancelled it would likely be a huge failure...
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    E3 is dead

    E3 has been dead a long time. All this is is dismembering the zombie which was yet lurching about.
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    M.2 mounting options? Heat under GPU? Heatsinks?

    Issues with temps on NVMEs is almost always with the controller and not the flash so having chips on both sides should not be a problem since the controller will be on the side with the heatsink. My experience is limited due to having only PCI-e 3.0 NVMEs but with the motherboard heatsink on my...
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    5800X3D not boosting after drop in upgrade from 5600X

    When doing a drop-in upgrade of a non-3d cache CPU to a 3d cache CPU you have to clear the BIOS. When you updated the BIOS it required a reset which fixed the issue.
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    Mowing over high PPD folders from yesteryear

    I did a quick calculation last night for the hell of it and in the past year I've pushed out a bit over 500 million points. Since the start of this year most of that was done by a 6750xt. That said, I went quite a few years without putting out any points to F@H. Part of it was concentrating on...
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    New Mass Effect Game

    This is almost exactly the same opinion I have on the trilogy. ME1 had tons of flaws but it had a great story and did an amazing job with story building. ME2 improved on combat but did practically nothing to advance the story. Most of the game felt like a side quest because most of the game was...
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    Mowing over high PPD folders from yesteryear

    Earlier today I hit 750,000,000 points. Just a quarter of a billion points away from 1 billion. And it only took me about 20 years to do it.
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    Poll: To Rebuild or Not Rebuild?

    Until and unless there's a problem with airflow and temps I'd leave it alone. The one thing I might do depending on the setup of the fans in the case is see if it's feasible to swap one of the exhaust fans to intake to avoid the negative pressure in the case. I absolutely hate negative pressure...
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    Is this crucial p3 a good deal for 4tb?

    I used the 512GB version of this as an OS drive in my son's media server. Since the hardest thing it does is deal with OS updates it's okay for that very limited use. However, I do not recommend this drive to anyone. The moment you try to do any sort of writes to the drive the speed drops...
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    used 7900 xtx with no warranty question

    If you want a warranty, don't buy used.
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    Curious about Intel's driver updates

    I don't have any of the new Intel cards but it was obvious on release that drivers needed a lot of work. So far Intel has been putting that work into them leading to considerable increases in performance as well as compatibility. As others stated, Intel has come into this brand new so there...
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    Grinding noise coming from my GPU

    I have a 1050Ti that has issues similar to this. The problem with it is the fan shroud on the card. It's a piece of shit which doesn't fit properly and when the fans on it begin to ramp up there will be some grinding noise until the RPMs get higher. It does this in a small and specific RPM range...
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    Best Buy to stop selling DVDs and Blue-rays tech news?

    The last time I went to a Worst Buy my son and I were the only people in there besides the employees. Selection was basically crap unless you wanted to buy a TV. It's no surprise that place closed down a couple of years ago.
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    ryzen 5000 real consumption?

    You had problems with the XMP profile with a 2700x because as many people told you in your previous threads that Zen+ was a crapshoot when trying to run anything above 2933 in most cases and it was even worse if you were trying to run more than 16GB. The memory controllers on them were never the...
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    The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria

    I have to agree. Graphics and level design of the landscape are far from interesting.
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    Nvidia gets mean on upstarts

    Anyone who remembers the days of nVidia's Detonator drivers knows this all too well. Although it was always with competition. As soon as a competitor brought out a new card/architecture/etc, or more specifically right before they came out, nVidia would release new drivers with major performance...
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    Games with great stories.

    The second half of Vol 1 is still the best story in the game. Vol 2 flat out sucked. Vol 3 starts off great and is my second favorite "story" in the game from the epic quest line. The ending part of the Black Book (replacement for the Epic line) is great and the Legacy of Durin quest line is...
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