Honestly respect for doing all that work on a spinning disk, you deserve this one
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Hahaha, yeah, that was definitely the most unfortunate budgeting decision I made when I was building this PC back in 2017. It was my first build, and I didnāt really understand what SSDs were, lol.
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like, do you even need to ask in that headline, when you know already the answer.
And the company is pushing more into advertising as well, placing ads on new tabs that are opened in the Firefox browser.
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re: nvme ssds, are heatsinks actually worth using? read mixed things
iāve been running a pcie4 980 pro without one (though i think airflow is pretty good, i have two noctua 140mm intakes directly opposite)
buuuut iām also running a regular 980 in my second slot which isā¦ directly underneath my gpu, though i doubt thereās even enough clearance for a heatsink to be an option
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thereās very little reason not to use a passive heatsink if it fits and you have one, but otoh youād have to sort of fuck up airflow to even need it
If this is strictly for video, as someone who edits and renders hours and hours of stuff regularly with a newer amd card at home or an older nvidia card (plus a slightly more recent Intel processor that Premiere actually still supports) at work, Iād definitely go with an Intel processor and an nvidia card. Good hardware acceleration makes such a wild difference.
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hey whatāre the odds on one of those generic HDMI audio extractors from aliexpress or ebay or what have you having a serviceable DAC
not like great mind you, but decent enough that i wonāt get audible EM interference like one seems to always get on LG monitor 3.5mm jacks
or rather likeā¦ what do people do for audio when they have a few HDMI sources and one monitor? i got an HDMI switch for like $8 (i.e. not too much of a sunk cost) thatās working a treat so far, but for audio iām still just plugging into each the headphone jack on each device or its controller, which is more fuss and fiddle than iād like. iām a little concerned about daisy-chaining a bunch of stuff and introducing tangle and latency so if thereās like, a decent all-in-one solution thatād be great news
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I got a monitor with lineout/speakers. any switcher with a TOSLINK usually also has lineout
I was hoping someone who does more art might have better suggestions but anyway:
I donāt have any special knowledge of Windows tablets but I think Surface devices are still your best bet for touch, and only underwhelming vs Macs/iPads which are a uniquely bad value if youāre replacing a Surface Book.
The Surface Bookās successor was underwhelming and overpriced but the latest Surface Pro 8 is good and has a variable refresh screen. I donāt own one but Iāve had hands on related to work. I also like the build of the Surface Laptop but the lack of convertibility would be a problem for drawing.
You can also find Surface Book 3s on clearance at the moment, but theyāre still over $1,000
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and your monitorās line-out isnāt rubbish? interesting ā¦ iāve used two LG monitors, one from the last few years and one from like 2014 or smth, and both just have terrible interference
So today I finally figured out that the fact my Win10 desktop always shows āSystemā as using 30% of my CPU is related to my LAN adapter being on. I canāt figure out why, and everything Iāve found where someone mentions this online has no good solution to it. I do have a WAN USB Iām using instead, but Iād really like to get back to my wired connection. The differEnce jn game performance is significant. Has anyone ever seen or encountered this or anything like it? Iāve updated the bios and got the latest LAN drivers from the MBās manufacturer.
I have:
B365M DS3H (rev. 1.0)
i3-9100F
Any insight appreciated
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It sounds like the driver might be buggy, and they never fixed the bug in the newest version. Might be hard to do anything to fix it if so. The bug might trigger only in certain conditions, but itās a bit unfathomable to me what those might be.
I gather youāre saying it doesnāt happen when youāre using a wifi USB adapter, but then you have trouble with the wifi latency jitter. They sell USB3 wired Ethernet adapters for $15. That should solve both problems.
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yeah, my desktopās wifi (the only 3x3 ITX socketed Wifi 5 chipset that was ever in widespread use, the same one from the 2013 MBP iirc, which was only compatible with pre-m.2 mini-PCIe boards) was semi-unstable for years using the newest driver that was marked stable in the official Win10 repositories, and I eventually realized I could replace it with an .ini-edited version of a newer Win7 driver (which I had to replace every time Windows did a major update and re-installed the āknown goodā one), until a couple years ago they finally actually superseded it with a fixed driver. it happens.
grab the hardware ID from device manager, search in Microsoft Update Catalog, you might find something that works better
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In 2001 I had a performance problem on my Thinkpad that it would freeze up for 5 seconds, on 5 minute intervals exactly. I figured out it was the nipple driver that spammed the system log with thousands of meaningless warning messages, and the system froze while clearing up the backlog on regular intervals.
I fixed it by going into the mouse driver DLL with a hex editor, finding the text string for the log system call, and deliberately introducing a typo
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I remember trying to run the Windows port of Final Fantasy VIII with both a window mode patch and a No-CD crack and that, for some reason, caused it to crash with an opcode when doing the framebuffer effects during the world map ā battle transitions, so I opened the binary in a hex editor, Ctrl+Fād the opcode, just deleted the line, and then it worked perfectly
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wait no i tried it again on the old one today and itās fine lol. maybe i just never plugged it all the way in? the jack is very stiff and i was fumbling from the other side of the screen this time so i didnāt get any distressing visual feedback like the case flexing or anything
Oh man, this is such a simple elegant solution that had not occurred to me. Thanks. Iām going to stop fighting my drivers and just get a USB ethernet adapter.
I meant that having the ethernet adapater enabled made games like Dark Souls 2 run noticeably worse than when I have it disabled. My computer is also a lot quieter now. Turns out my CPU just churning senselessly was a bad thing! (Iāve been living with it like this for the year and a half since I built my machine.)
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yeah itās fine (Iām no audiophile). itās a stupid gamer monitor Asus MG because I couldnāt afford the Dell ultrawide that work supplied me with
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$350 for a router is like, well, $350 for ram, but this is still probably the least bad Wifi 6E product Iāve seen so far
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Meanwhile Iām here thinking about how much ethernet cable Iām going to gleefully run once Iāve got my own house
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