GPUs & CPUs & Enthusiast hardware: Questions, Discussion and fanboy slap-fights - Nvidia & AMD & Intel - Separe but Equal. Intel rides in the back of the bus.

DavidS877 said:
I can't even remember, I think I've had one fail. Not counting the 1980s vintage one that let out the smoke a couple years ago.

Obviously I've had RAM, CPU, Disk, Motherboard, SSD, cards of all flavors, and fans, so many fans. But PSU have been rare except needing to replace the fan. I don't think I've had any NVME M.2 fail yet, and no cases failing, but they're just boxes made of metal if you exclude the drive backplane, which of course fail plenty.
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Even in my case I probably just got unlucky, psu failure is rare and probably one of the few parts that really dont fail for the life of the system. I've had a soft failure of 1 nvme drive, ram failures, disk failures, and even motherboard failures. But cpu and psus rarely fail and I would even say that it takes a lot to cause them to fail.
Upgrading just to upgrade is dumb, even in older systems just put more ram or get an ssd and you're fine.
 
Agent Abe Caprine said:
Isn't there an LTSC version of Windows 11?
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There is but it's not really the same as Win10 LTSC as many of the things that people find objectionable about Windows 11 are core system things like the laggy file explorer or react native in the start and context menus. So the LTSC doesn't really fix the underlying issues. It does generally come with less pre-installed junk so that's one benefit, but you can also get the same results in the Pro SKU if you know how to configure it.

WelperHelper99 said:
Windows 11 is great and you're missing out. You will repeat this sentence in 5-8 years when Win 11 hits end of life.
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Windows has not been good since 7 and even then it was arguably already on a steep decline. Windows 10 was not good and the problems people are currently having with Windows 11 are a consequence of Microsoft realizing during the Windows 10 era that Windows users are niggercattle who'll slurp up anything even if they're getting fucked in the ass in the process.

Hell, the people who write Windows nowadays don't even use it. Go to any event with Windows developers and most of the UI/UX devs are using macbooks and the core OS people are using macbooks and/or linux systems. The people developing Windows are not fellow users who understand your problems - you exist as something they can extract value from and they design the software to facilitate that.
 
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Microsoft is allergic to making an os that isn't full of shit no one cares about. Windows 10 was at least usable and a step in the right direction after 8 (except for the ads), but they had to fuck it up with 11. Why cant they just make an os that lets you browse the web, play games, and use 3rd party software without bloating it with enterprise security features, smartphone bullshit, and telemetry.
 
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Fcret said:
Windows has not been good since 7 and even then it was arguably already on a steep decline. Windows 10 was not good and the problems people are currently having with Windows 11 are a consequence of Microsoft realizing during the Windows 10 era that Windows users are niggercattle who'll slurp up anything even if they're getting fucked in the ass in the process.
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Please be patient with him. He is too young to remember Windows 7.
 
i miss the widgets of 7 but those were a security exploit waiting to happen and kinda just got killed as a result. theres a lot of applications now that can kinda replicate what it could do back then now
 
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There was only one good version of Windows.
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The first thing I always did on Windows since 7 was setting the icons to small and setting the title hiding to "only when the taskbar is full" to keep it in-line with how it was back in the day. Obviously 11 fucked up the former but still, icon only taskbar is retarded. Besides, once I have my hands on the keyboard I just Alt+Tab and if not for the tray icons I could get away with completely disabling it. Right now I've switched to RetroBar on 10 with a skin that removes the start button, it's nice that it has the option to hide the taskbar edge when it's set to autohide to give all the real estate to my windows.

In other words, once you embrace keyboard launchers like Flow and keyboard oriented navigation in general, you'll find little to no value in the taskbar.
 
WelperHelper99 said:
Dude that's the best feature once you daily drive and get used to it. It's there just waiting for you. Very ergonomic.
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nah i just change it back. its windows not macos.
And why do the keep changing the start menu every release. 7 was the best, 10 was different but ok , and 11/8 is just ass. I dont even use it anymore and leave what I need on the desktop. other than the search function id never open the start menu.
 
TechSpot: AMD defends 8GB VRAM on GPUs... by admitting they are primarily for esports (archive)
8GB is not problem in any game... Assuming your not playing games at a max settings. In most cases, it is fixed by just lower few setting (mainly textures)

Most reviews test games on max settings and then claim 8GB is not enough (even when fps is also poor on 16GB card too)... Even in most demanding games, 1440p DLSS + high setting or mix of medium/high is all you need to fix the issue on 8GB cards.. People need to stop exaggerating
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I repeat it again and again... beside a handful of games at Ultra setting, 8GB is enough even at 1440p.

There is a difference of mere percent with Max and Low 1% from a 8GB and 16 GB GPU at 1440p.
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The commenters on this article are more sympathetic to the 8 GB GPU.

Like I said, this should be the last rodeo for (overpriced) 8 GB cards since everyone will have access to 4x3GB GDDR7 next generation.
 
The Ugly One said:
The additional time it takes to compute and draw an extrapolated frame is about 10 ms, or 1/20 the time it takes a signal to travel from your retina to your brain and down to your fingers, depending on how old you are. Since you already experience the world with about 200ms latency
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Reflexes also depends on age.
The Ugly One said:
, depending on how old you are (I'm on the high side *sigh*) , your brain's evolved to be very good at syncing up information and fooling you into thinking you're engaging with the world in real time. An extra 10ms is no big deal for it.
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Shit, I did not see that one coming! Fucking piece of crap 60fps forum.
 
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Lady Adjani said:
is there a specific test I could throw at it to pinpoint the cause?
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I would suggest running memtest86+ overnight to see whether it can pick up a failing DIMM. Have you looked at the crash dumps themselves? NirSoft has a good tool for analyzing their contents. https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html

If there is a memory dump, it can try to identify the responsible driver. For BSODs related to hardware failure, it's usually a fairly nonsensical BSOD pointing to a critical driver within NT itself, at which point you can largely rule out lousy drivers from AV vendors, for instance.
WelperHelper99 said:
He's saying when both the core and ram throttle up, he crashes. It sounds like he needs more breathing room for newer games.
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You're a fucking idiot.
 
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