UGHHHHHHHH
https://www.newegg.com/p/0RN-012W-00024?Item=9SIBW2BK9J5469
if anyone is feeling insane this brand was cheaper than I expected (reminds me of when my 3570K machine had this no-name DDR3 called āKomputerBayā that was similarly cheap and worked great)
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This exists now:
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You can always count on Shenzhen
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I finally heard my PSU fan turn on for the first time after building this a year and a half ago and it freaked me outā¦ I was like hey, new noise.
I actually think it was due to the addition of an NVMe 5 drive too is the funny thingā¦ because it was basically transferring heat to the aluminum case
if I ever build another computer after this one I think I should finally make it a bit larger
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Finally
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partner got me an appletv for xmas and have to say infuse rules
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This is kind of a very specific problem to have, but after hours of compulsive research I finally found the one 4-port charger guaranteed to supply at least 18W to any port, no matter what else is currently charging.
Why 18W? Itās the requirement for my Samsung fast wireless charging pad, if it gets even 15W it doesnāt work at all.
Never again will I wake up in the morning at a hotel with my phone at 10% battery because I didnāt memorize which two ports have a shared max output
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This new computer is fast I guess but it has so many weird-ass USB problems?? The DAC for my speakers just likeā¦ uninitializes itself at random if itās plugged into one of the USB 3 ports on the back. After a week of trying all kinds of shit I plugged it into the only 2.0 port and it seemed to get better but today it justā¦ wouldnāt output anything until I unplugged it and plugged it back in. Windows thought it was sending audio to it, it just didnāt actually convert any of them digital signals to analog. But if it switched input to optical it worked fine. Simultaneously my headphone dac completely uninstalled itself and I had to manually re-add the (completely generic USB audio) driver again
Maybe this is related, maybe itās not, but if I plug the wireless dongles for my keyboard and mouse into the USB ports on my new monitor eventually they start acting weird as fuck. My keyboard will stop responding for a while then dump all the buffered keystrokes at once. The mouse will do something similar, stopping for a while then suddenly freaking out. This happens even if only one of them is plugged in. At first I thought it was because of low batteries on the both of them but it happened again after fully charging them. Maybe interference from the monitor? Or maybe it happened after I put in an inline volume knob for my speakers? Which would be weird because itās completely analog and happens even when thereās no signal going to themā¦ I just gave up and use wires for both the keyboard and mouse now.
I havenāt dared try to reconnect the HDMI to my TV after getting the new monitor, Iām sure it will still freak out because why wouldnāt it, nvidia doesnāt fucking care
Spent an hour yesterday trying to get helldivers 2 working after it suddenly started crashing immediately on launch. Was it the new BIOS? Was it just from rebooting? Who the fuck knows!!
I should probably do a clean install of windows but thereās some cad software or something my wife stole from work years and years and years ago that she insists she really wants (but has never used as far as I can tell) and obviously thatās gone if I wipe it. Ugh.
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Personality keeps draining out of computers. I mean not that āXPSā was super cool but at least it was distinct to Dell
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5000 series has basically no new shader features as expected, itās exclusively hardware-level AI stuff, though apparently frame generation is like 2x as powerful now on games that are built for it. hard to be super enthusiastic about
the 5090 reference model is somehow 2 slots and 550w but in a way that basically does not work in sandwiches cases at all because it relies on there being no obstruction behind the card so a weird choice imo
pricing and memory is basically the same as the 4000 supers except the 5090 is more like a 5090Ti now and thereās a huge gap between that and the 5080
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prices are lower than I expected, guess I gambled and lost buying a 4070ti super a month and a half ago
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my read is that these are mostly ājustā drop-in replacements for the 4070/ti/4080 super still except with better frame generation on AAA stuff
has frame generation been worthwhile at all? My only time using it was when I accidentally turned it on in Stalker 2 and suddenly understood why everyone kept complaining about unresponsive controls, felt like 50-100 ms added lag for the trade off of no perceptible stutters.
itās extremely game-by-game. there are definitely some games where it doesnāt add input latency, but itās at the level where even if you only play AAA stuff itās useful at most half the time
iirc itās also paradoxically less usable as you go down the lineup, like frame generation to go from 30 to 60 FPS feels much worse than using it to go from 50 to 100
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I think itās pretty good for single player AAA games, since those tend to be guided experiences that want to pretend the player doesnāt exist as much as possible anyway. I used it for hellblade 2 ā which is that to the extreme ā and Iām using it for cyberpunk to go full path tracing. dunno that Iād want to use it on games that feel better in the hands, like Iāll have it off in monster hunter wilds if I can help it.
Oh, Iām on a 60hz monitor so it is literally useless to me
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yeah thatās part of why Iām not sure how much they can really improve itā¦ going from the 40-60ish range up to the 100-120ish range is kind of its sweet spot to begin with, which the 4000 series cards could already do. at the end of the day itās just a fancier kind of motion interpolation, and 30->90 has input latency issues (youād be better off turning down the settings), and 80->240 isnāt really necessary for anyone, so Iām not sure how theyāll position these.
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fwiw, what you can always try is making a VM out of your windows disk and see if you can het that to boot on a live system (or second PC w/ bootable USB stick), that way you prevent wiping your main drive to find out that nnnope, didnāt work (and face some tough interrogation afterwards)
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people say kvm switches on monitors are nothing but trouble. which is too bad cause they sound convenient.
my speakers channels would get switched randomly playing call of duty and messing with audio settings in the menu would switch it back and an external drive carrier I have would randomly lose a drive, especially if I was using my controller and it lost connection, til I switched it to one of the c ports.