aww, I miss 3.5’’ disks
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listen to this
gnu hurd immunity
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What hardware monitors do folks like best around here? I want to pay attention to what’s going on with my new comp’s temperature.
on windows I just run hwinfo every so often if I think there’s a problem, I don’t like monitoring it all the time
If you are trying to watch it in real time while gaming and want an overlay, I like the NZXT CAM software but only because it’s the easiest to configure out of the box and takes up the least amount of screen real estate. I like it better than the EVGA and MSI ones, anyways.
HWInfo or Afterburner with RTSS for in-game overlay
HWInfo is the “I want to see every single goddamn measurable value my computer spits out” option, Afterburner is the “overclocking my 300-800 dollar video card is good and safe” option
CoreTemp is the simple “I want to see CPU temp” option since you can just send it to live in the system tray
p sure regardless of what you get, you want RTSS
I have mine set up simply (which is to say I don’t use no fancy fonts)
no, I have to know what every thread is doing, it’s important
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night elf player, disgusting
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druid too
I am maximum disgusting
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Be careful about over-monitoring. If you’re anything like me, it’s very easy to over/mis-diagnose, or start imagining issues via placebo, the moment any temp goes slightly above average, or increases very rapidly. PC temps will vary wildly based on a number of factors, and it’s totally normal for different parts to occasionally get relatively high temps, and/or rapidly spike before plateauing or cooling off.
If you are using stock, un-modified equipment, have not OC’d, and live in an environment where the ambient temp/humidity isn’t gross, then it’s extremely unlikely you will have a problem. If there is a particular factor you are worried about, or something has recently changed in your setup or environment, then you can simply monitor at the relevant times for a bit to make sure everything is ok and get a base-line.
If you just think it’s fun and neat to constantly monitor, then by all means knock yourself out, but don’t let it cause you stress, it’s not worth it.
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I just want historical graphs so I can see if temps are trending up or if a setting has a positive or negative impact. I miss Cacti
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I like setting custom fan curves on my GPUs so actually being able to see the temp and the fan percentage it’s running at during a load scenario is good
me watching the utilization of 16 threads is dumb though (it’s mostly to catch programs loading SMT threads instead of physical cores)
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Those god-damned, pernicious Shin Megami Tensei threads, just popping up whenever you’re not looking
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Whats the deal with spreading paste onto CPUs? The way I was taught, you manually spread it out with a credit card or something to get a thin layer, and then push the heatsink down, but my friend looked up some videos, and it seems most sources tell you to just drop a pea-sized dollop on the center and let the heatsink squeezing down onto the die do the spreading for you?
This seems weird to me. Does any of this matter, and how so?
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I let the heatsink do it
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how you paste doesn’t matter unless you do too little as to not provide adequate coverage and transfer (especially an issue with hueg heatspreaders like on Threadrippers) or do you too much to the point where it’s coming out the sides and going onto the board or into the socket
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I love nvidia
it often feels like they’re the only really cutting edge American hardware company remaining
and they’re both not especially cool and genuinely exciting
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good dork energy
Boo, they turned off Youtube comments, why tho, the people want to make puns
https://www.logicalincrements.com/
Go here, follow the $1300 build but drop the HDD and the CPU cooler since Ryzen comes with a passable stock cooler. Get a 1TB SSD boot drive instead. Get motherboard and CPU at microcenter if possible as they sell nearly at cost.
Consider going to the R9 3900X if you do have a microcenter as it will only be ~$100 more and probably last 2 years longer before needing to upgrade.
Also, prices and supply are kind of bad right now because of the pandemic. I suspect it will be better in 3-6 months, but that’s just a guess.
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my battery backup has no purpose for existing it keeps shutting off, nothing else is losing power and it’s not switching to the battery which it says has a full charge and not just passing through or whatever to the wall, no it has to go down and take everything with it
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