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[Allakazam223]

So I had to go into my local H&R Block (Canadian tax place) and the fucking asshole has the nerve to have at least 5 mining rigs set up right in the front of the office. I saw a 3090 rig, a 6800 xt or 6900 xt rig, and a 3080 rig. Couldn't get close enough to the others to tell what cards he had.

Fucking tempted to phone H&R Block and find out what their policy is regarding paying for cryptomining electricity.

 

[Brain Problems]

So I had to go into my local H&R Block (Canadian tax place) and the fucking asshole has the nerve to have at least 5 mining rigs set up right in the front of the office. I saw a 3090 rig, a 6800 xt or 6900 xt rig, and a 3080 rig. Couldn't get close enough to the others to tell what cards he had.

Fucking tempted to phone H&R Block and find out what their policy is regarding paying for cryptomining electricity.

How dare you assume he's mining internet pogs. He's probably running several servers of various popular online games for the local orphanage and schools as an act of decency and kindness to the community.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Fucking tempted to phone H&R Block and find out what their policy is regarding paying for cryptomining electricity.

Maybe a customer is paying for his tax prep by loaning out his miners to H&R Block for a bit.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

So I had to go into my local H&R Block (Canadian tax place) and the fucking asshole has the nerve to have at least 5 mining rigs set up right in the front of the office. I saw a 3090 rig, a 6800 xt or 6900 xt rig, and a 3080 rig. Couldn't get close enough to the others to tell what cards he had.

Fucking tempted to phone H&R Block and find out what their policy is regarding paying for cryptomining electricity.

Shuffle your feet on the carpet a few times then accidentally stick a fork through the vents.

 

[Long Tongue Silver]

So I had to go into my local H&R Block (Canadian tax place) and the fucking asshole has the nerve to have at least 5 mining rigs set up right in the front of the office. I saw a 3090 rig, a 6800 xt or 6900 xt rig, and a 3080 rig. Couldn't get close enough to the others to tell what cards he had.

Fucking tempted to phone H&R Block and find out what their policy is regarding paying for cryptomining electricity.

Next time, go in with a soft drink or a nice cup of Tim Horton's coffee in hand. Amazing what a sudden sneeze and a bad fumble at just the wrong moment can do for expensive hardware.

 

[An Avenging Bird]

Next time, go in with a soft drink or a nice cup of Tim Horton's coffee in hand. Amazing what a sudden sneeze and a bad fumble at just the wrong moment can do for expensive hardware.

It being up in leaf land, after this he will just have to say, "I'm sore-ry" and the guy whose equipment got fried will answer back, "Oh no, it's my fault I'm sore-ry."

 

[Dick Justice]

It being up in leaf land, after this he will just have to say, "I'm sore-ry" and the guy whose equipment got fried will answer back, "Oh no, it's my fault I'm sore-ry."

Truly a savage people.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

RGB shit have gone to far!

Corsair Sabre RGB Pro Mouse Review: the High CPU Cost of 8,000 Hz​

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Corsair says your system should sport a Intel Core i7 9th Gen or AMD Ryzen 7 2nd Gen CPU or higher to use the Sabre RGB Pro at full clip.
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To investigate this, I first connected the Sabre RGB Pro to my living room rig, which is a bit dated and houses a Ryzen 5 2600X CPU. This is lower than Corsair’s recommendation, but it’s still a CPU that’s plenty capable of running modern games at fairly high settings.

Glancing at the Performance tab of Task Manager with the mouse plugged in and switched to 8,000 Hz mode, CPU utilization jumped from around 6% to about 16-22% and sometimes higher when just moving the mouse quickly at the desktop. When combined with hitting keys quickly on the company’s 4,000 Hz K100 keyboard, as you would during an intense gaming battle, CPU utilization seemed to jump up even more. Keep in mind that I wasn’t running a game, just my typical workflow,

Corsair Sabre RGB Pro Mouse Review: the High CPU Cost of 8,000 Hz

The Sabre RGB can run at an impressive 8,000 Hz but will tax your processor.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[Ginger Piglet]

RGB shit have gone to far!

Corsair Sabre RGB Pro Mouse Review: the High CPU Cost of 8,000 Hz

The Sabre RGB can run at an impressive 8,000 Hz but will tax your processor.

www.tomshardware.com

It's not the RGB but the polling rate of the mouse. This smells awfully like diminishing returns.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

It's not the RGB but the polling rate of the mouse. This smells awfully like diminishing returns.

Yes, but I view the creation of a 8000hz mouse as something that only exists because of RGB culture. Under any other circumstances a mouse that takes up that much resources would be viewed as defective and stupid but with RGB it turns into Monster Energy Xtreme Gamer Gear.

 

[Dick Justice]

Late I'm sure but on the subject of Corsair what the fuck

 

[DeadwastePrime]

due to an issue im having where my monitor black screens and my gpu fans begin to spin at like 100% ive decided to undervolt my gpu for the time being assuming that fixes the issue. so i brought down my voltages to like 800mv with a core clock lock of like 1500mhz. so far, the only benefit ive noticed is my temps are much lower than before which is good. hopefully i can find a way to deal with the issue in a more permanent way than this.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Yes, but I view the creation of a 8000hz mouse as something that only exists because of RGB culture. Under any other circumstances a mouse that takes up that much resources would be viewed as defective and stupid but with RGB it turns into Monster Energy Xtreme Gamer Gear.

While we're at it, all surround sound systems. Sound effects being in 16.2 Dolby Atmos THX Fuckslayer Iridium are totally unnecessary other than to waste space.

The holy grail of audio was reached in the 1950s when stereo became feasible. The improvement over mono was yuge. In the 1970s there was the first surround sound in the form of quadraphonic. It failed, because music recorded in quadraphonic didn't sound appreciably better than stereo and required a weird decoder box to extract two extra channels from a stereo vinyl record or tape.

Most films, music, and games are in stereo and for 90% of people stereo, esp. with headphones, will be spot on. I mean, you don't have 16 ears, yet you can determine pretty accurately which direction a sound is coming from in all three dimensions with just two (the only exception being when it's absolutely behind you, when it could be coming from absolutely ahead. Even elevation can be determined in stereo because in reality your ears aren't going to be exactly level.

All you need for a proper sound experience in gaming is a quality pair of headphones (I recommend the AKY Y50 that I've just obtained) or some proper two-way speakers (i.e. separate woofers and tweeters). It is not more "immersive" to have 16 speakers all around your room. It is diminishing returns, but because you're a good little consoomer they saw you coming. It also sounds weird if you aren't in the exact centre spot of all this.

I bet you can get RGB 16.2 surround setups as well, can't you.

 

[Long Tongue Silver]

Late I'm sure but on the subject of Corsair what the fuck
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Having a case with tempered glass sides makes you realize how dull non-RGB shit would look. With that said, it's a good thing there are ways to tone down the RGB lightshow.

 

[Dick Justice]

All you need for a proper sound experience in gaming is a quality pair of headphones (I recommend the AKY Y50 that I've just obtained) or some proper two-way speakers (i.e. separate woofers and tweeters). It is not more "immersive" to have 16 speakers all around your room. It is diminishing returns, but because you're a good little consoomer they saw you coming. It also sounds weird if you aren't in the exact centre spot of all this.

Surround is a maymay for music and film, but in games on a good pair of cans it can really help you figure out exactly where you're getting shot from. Still not worth the overall audio fidelity loss unless you're a goomer.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

While we're at it, all surround sound systems. Sound effects being in 16.2 Dolby Atmos THX Fuckslayer Iridium are totally unnecessary other than to waste space.

The holy grail of audio was reached in the 1950s when stereo became feasible. The improvement over mono was yuge. In the 1970s there was the first surround sound in the form of quadraphonic. It failed, because music recorded in quadraphonic didn't sound appreciably better than stereo and required a weird decoder box to extract two extra channels from a stereo vinyl record or tape.

Most films, music, and games are in stereo and for 90% of people stereo, esp. with headphones, will be spot on. I mean, you don't have 16 ears, yet you can determine pretty accurately which direction a sound is coming from in all three dimensions with just two (the only exception being when it's absolutely behind you, when it could be coming from absolutely ahead. Even elevation can be determined in stereo because in reality your ears aren't going to be exactly level.

All you need for a proper sound experience in gaming is a quality pair of headphones (I recommend the AKY Y50 that I've just obtained) or some proper two-way speakers (i.e. separate woofers and tweeters). It is not more "immersive" to have 16 speakers all around your room. It is diminishing returns, but because you're a good little consoomer they saw you coming. It also sounds weird if you aren't in the exact centre spot of all this.

I bet you can get RGB 16.2 surround setups as well, can't you.

Being able to tell if a sound is right behind you or straight in front of you is possible if the audio model models the ears, the head and their effect on sound. Cherny was talking about them doing that for the PS5 and in the lead up to the RTX 2000 series they talked about the RT tracing cores being able to do wave tracing as it applies to sound.

On the topic of unnecessary things that no one asked for: DVD-A(DVD-Audio, not the double-double). A CD length album could now be recorded in 5.1 because they had to use the space for something. Jean Michel Jarre released a greatest hits album where every other song is Oxygene and that's the only DVD-A record I can remember.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

due to an issue im having where my monitor black screens and my gpu fans begin to spin at like 100% ive decided to undervolt my gpu for the time being assuming that fixes the issue. so i brought down my voltages to like 800mv with a core clock lock of like 1500mhz. so far, the only benefit ive noticed is my temps are much lower than before which is good. hopefully i can find a way to deal with the issue in a more permanent way than this.

update: that did jack shit. i guess its either a gpu issue or a power supply issue, both of which i have no money for fixing. so, in the meantime, im using my 750 ti until i can figure out what the fuck to do

 

[Road Work Ahead]

update: that did jack shit. i guess its either a gpu issue or a power supply issue, both of which i have no money for fixing. so, in the meantime, im using my 750 ti until i can figure out what the fuck to do

What GPU are you having issues with? Have you tried the other outputs, maybe the one you're using is bad. I'd also try uninstalling your GPU drivers using DDU and reinstalling, It may be worth just reseating the gpu in the pcie slot and all the power cables, it probably won't do anything, but it's quick to do.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

What GPU are you having issues with? Have you tried the other outputs, maybe the one you're using is bad. I'd also try uninstalling your GPU drivers using DDU and reinstalling, It may be worth just reseating the gpu in the pcie slot and all the power cables, it probably won't do anything, but it's quick to do.

my 1060. i placed it back in eventually just to see if that does something and if my system crashes after like 6 hours or so something is def wrong

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

my 1060. i placed it back in eventually just to see if that does something and if my system crashes after like 6 hours or so something is def wrong

Sounds like a power issue. What's your CPU and do you run it at stock? PSU/Mobo? It's not a certainty that it's the graphics card, in my experience they also spin up like that if the computer crashes when overclocking the CPU(seems like a panic mode). Faulty RAM isn't the worst case scenario from a price/parts perspective but running extensive memory tests to find which stick is faulty takes fucking forever.

It would be a good idea to run the 750 for a week to see if it continues to happen.