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  • @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:
    i'v been researching and thinking over some hardware upgrades.. it seems that if i am not looking for hardcore gaming power, i should do several things:

    1. remove the weaker gtx 1070 video card from my pc and keep only the 2060 super. it supports 4 monitors, and should be able to do my new setup of 3xQHD via 3 Display Ports and 1x4k TV via HDMI cable. some sources say that having both and spreading 4 displays over 2 cards (2 each) is smart, because it gives the stronger card more leeway when playing games and needing that power, while other sources insist that the mere fact that 1 card is so much weaker than the other makes it quite useless.. especially that i am not gaming on more than 1 screen at a time, although it's possible in windowed mode when you stretch window over multiple screens, or that some games support multiple screens, like flight simulators and sich, i simply don't have/play games of that kind.. i could also get a newer video card, which is not my desire right now..
    2. update my MSI Tomahawk 350 mobo BIOS to accept newer CPUs.
    3. buy newer CPU. the better one would be AMD Ryzen 5 with X3D but those seem to expensive right now, since they are not made anymore. So maybe just 5800 or something under $200.

    and that's it.. i already have 4x16GB 3200Mhz DDR4, and motherboard while super nice in 2018, currently is still good, but almost on the verge of being not that great.. so maybe, just maybe i should also get me a new Tomahawk MAG B550 or something modest under $150.. i did first buy 450 back in 2018, but ended up having to return it for some reason, but 350 was even more expensive, also don't remember why.. so in just under $200 or maybe near $350 i could really see very big gains.. and i could put my older DDR4 2x8GB dimms back into older PC... or use DDR3 16GB RAM and older Gigabyte mobo to rebuild some older PC, dunno.. i always upgraded, so i have lots of parts left.. and towers.

    I've always wanted 1 huge corner desk or a few desks with multiple PCs and not to have to keep my laptop always turned off and stashed to the side, cause there's literally no room for anything in my 10sqm room.. but that will happen when i finally move somewhere.. revive all my old PCs, i just will have to locate them in the basement full of wife's junk... anyway, probably just get new CPU and that'll be enough. and no need for super expensive gaming PC. or less expensive one, like the 1st engagement prize. and in 2-3 years when prices drop again, i can buy something super good for maybe 20% of what i'd pay for today.

    and my TV is apparently now that great anymore.. it doesn't support newest 10bit HDR400 HEVC encoding, too much noise and artifacts.. new QHD screen is great fro 10bit, but PC is not always great.. x265 it does well, but like AV1 10bit cartoons are chock full of artifacts which make watching cartoons on big screen a real chore.. technology strides.. and need to keep up.. i been really enjoying 10bit encoding cause it makes 5-10 times less filesize and yet supports better colors and such..

    anyways, just clarifying my thoughts on the subject by typing them out..

    Have no idea about the GPU thingy. But, since you are already planning to upgrade, maybe keep an eye out for DDR5 RAMs. Some outlets still have the older prices listed from time to time. So, if you are able to grab a lot at good price, then, it will be worth it.
    Just my 2 cents, cause you are already planning to upgrade both mobo and cpu. So, I thought if prices are good or you have a way of getting the non-inflated prices, why not just upgrade to AM5 + DDR5, before everything goes crazy in less than 2-3 weeks. Please feel free to ignore.

    i do have 64GB of DDR4 RAM, i mean... getting DDR5 seems a bit excessive, also will need mobo that supports it.. i think i will probably just do the processor. current living situation and need to save for a move in the near future is not compelling me for a lavish spending on PC components.. even CPU upgrade maybe a bit silly, but I've been noticing recently some stuff is lagging.. dunno.. tried to overclock my CPU and RAM while checking for BIOS settings and such, you know, while actually in BIOS, and after a few hours of rebooting because of the windows freezing, i had to retract overclocking settings, and even ended up at a lower 2933MHz RAM setting, since for some reason 3200MHz (that I had working for me for years) became unstable, maybe back in the day I found some good stable numbers, but this time decided to just give up.. somehow my combo of CPU/RAM/MB is not very easy to overclock.

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  • @PuDLeZ said:

    @bchot said:
    i'v been researching and thinking over some hardware upgrades.. it seems that if i am not looking for hardcore gaming power, i should do several things:

    1. update my MSI Tomahawk 350 mobo BIOS to accept newer CPUs.

    Honestly, you should probably update the bios anyway since there's usually more things & fixes in them.

    i am actually planning that next, before i do anything else, since it's free. i did download new AMD chipset drivers and whatever other 5 different positions that were in the chipset update install, simply because that one is easy and can be done via windows installation. but for BIOS update i need a usb stick, which currently was not able to find in my desk drawers.. i think all of them are at my sister's place which i will go to this sunday and collect. since i usually bring her "stuff" and she never gives me back my usb drives..

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  • RackNerd customer service is of course super awesome. it is also constantly propped up when working with other hosting providers. like this one, i will skip naming them, 3 days ago my VPS went down reporting 160% use of allocated storage.. how that is possible i have no idea. in any case, i couldn't bring it online, so reinstalled it, then once again, because it would not boot anymore, VNC would say "auth failed", and there was no way for me to do anything else. so I put up a ticket asking to reset my VPS or whatever they do from their end... so 2 days later i got reply "we will do, which OS you want?" they could just reset it and i would install OS via panel, or they could see in that panel that i use Ubuntu 24. so i replied and stupidly also asked to change IP on this VPS, since when i bought 2 VPS from them, IPs were simply consecutive, so I asked for a different subnet, if possible. and another 24hrs later got reply "which server/IP you want to change?" which again is quite obvious, the IP was listed in the original post, since original purchase somehow named my both VPS with same name/hostname.. and again been waiting and there's no reply.. so i am assuming this admin was just postponing helping me by asking these questions that were obviously unnecessary.. anyways, just kudos to RackNerd customer service..

  • This thread has been pretty quiet lately

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  • hello to you as well

  • @BasToTheMax said:
    This thread has been pretty quiet lately

    i think you mean it hasn't been overly spammed.. but normal activity level seems like it's quiet.. it's still most active thread on LET..

  • did a few posts, and voila, hello old friend headache.. i cannot place what actually does it? why? is it maybe dark theme? trying with the bright for now.. is it the nuisance of constantly flickering and changing banners on the right? something here does it to my head. i used to get headaches from too much time on the phone, but figured out it was because i'd end up kinda tilting my head forward too much, so eventually by controlling my posture while browsing stuff on the phone i was able to prevent headaches. what to do to avoid them while partaking in LET threads? trial and error.

  • @bchot said:

    hello to you as well

    What's up?

  • @bchot said:

    @BasToTheMax said:
    This thread has been pretty quiet lately

    i think you mean it hasn't been overly spammed.. but normal activity level seems like it's quiet.. it's still most active thread on LET..

    Yeah maybe that's it. It feels relatively quiet here now

  • @BasToTheMax said:
    This thread has been pretty quiet lately

    It had been, if you look at the graph on Trk's page (in my signature), you can see the fall of daily posts

  • @BasToTheMax said:

    @bchot said:

    @BasToTheMax said:
    This thread has been pretty quiet lately

    i think you mean it hasn't been overly spammed.. but normal activity level seems like it's quiet.. it's still most active thread on LET..

    Yeah maybe that's it. It feels relatively quiet here now

    I mean, it's was a mix of spam and convos, spam was definitely more when there's not many folks online to have a convo.

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  • @PuDLeZ said:

    @BasToTheMax said:
    This thread has been pretty quiet lately

    It had been, if you look at the graph on Trk's page (in my signature), you can see the fall of daily posts

    Ey I gotta check that

  • @bchot said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @bchot said:
    i'v been researching and thinking over some hardware upgrades.. it seems that if i am not looking for hardcore gaming power, i should do several things:

    1. update my MSI Tomahawk 350 mobo BIOS to accept newer CPUs.

    Honestly, you should probably update the bios anyway since there's usually more things & fixes in them.

    i am actually planning that next, before i do anything else, since it's free. i did download new AMD chipset drivers and whatever other 5 different positions that were in the chipset update install, simply because that one is easy and can be done via windows installation. but for BIOS update i need a usb stick, which currently was not able to find in my desk drawers.. i think all of them are at my sister's place which i will go to this sunday and collect. since i usually bring her "stuff" and she never gives me back my usb drives..

    Yeah, I'm not saying you need to apply every bios update unless you're having some issues but it's usually good to apply them every now and then as there are fixes in them besides adding new hardware support.

    Does your bios allow for "internet" upgrade where you just have to use the motherboard ethernet jack? There also might even be a windows program or lvfs (linux) support so you don't even need a flash drive. Though in my experience with lvfs, not too many vendors publish updates for linux folks, it's usually just windows.

  • @PuDLeZ said:
    Don't forget about your daily gleam bonus! If you're like me, it is a little bit a waste of time but you never know, you could be lucky win something!

    Oh, I think I only did it on the first day

  • @PuDLeZ said:

    @BasToTheMax said:

    @bchot said:

    @BasToTheMax said:
    This thread has been pretty quiet lately

    i think you mean it hasn't been overly spammed.. but normal activity level seems like it's quiet.. it's still most active thread on LET..

    Yeah maybe that's it. It feels relatively quiet here now

    I mean, it's was a mix of spam and convos, spam was definitely more when there's not many folks online to have a convo.

    Yeah a lot of spam happened there

  • @BasToTheMax said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @BasToTheMax said:
    This thread has been pretty quiet lately

    It had been, if you look at the graph on Trk's page (in my signature), you can see the fall of daily posts

    Ey I gotta check that

    Screen clip but yeah, the site will let you check out the exact numbers and date

    Thanked by 1BasToTheMax
  • @BasToTheMax said:

    @PuDLeZ said:
    Don't forget about your daily gleam bonus! If you're like me, it is a little bit a waste of time but you never know, you could be lucky win something!

    Oh, I think I only did it on the first day

    99% of my gleam entries are that way. Just do it the first day and forget about it, maybe get another daily bonus when there's a LEB post about a bonus code. It's basically only BF/NY that I get more daily bonuses since I'm on LET more and I will put the LEB racknerd gleam link in my signature during this time.

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

    @ralf said:

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @ralf said:

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @ralf said:

    THIS ONE. WOOOOOOOOTTT!

    You were there first !

    Yeah, I was counting down the posts and then some double requests came in and I was worried I might miss it!

    But you didn't. Wonder where we'll end up eventually.

    That probably mostly depends on yangyang at this point!

    You think? Lol

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

    @ralf said:
    Although the BF megathread has now been closed, so maybe more people will come here instead.

    Ahw, closed... Getting ready for the Christmas thread!

  • @PuDLeZ said:

    @BasToTheMax said:

    @PuDLeZ said:
    Don't forget about your daily gleam bonus! If you're like me, it is a little bit a waste of time but you never know, you could be lucky win something!

    Oh, I think I only did it on the first day

    99% of my gleam entries are that way. Just do it the first day and forget about it, maybe get another daily bonus when there's a LEB post about a bonus code. It's basically only BF/NY that I get more daily bonuses since I'm on LET more and I will put the LEB racknerd gleam link in my signature during this time.

    in a way, I kind of want to remove the extra parts in my signature now but I don't want to use a bookmark/etc. for those links so I would lose them if they weren't there :lol:

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad
  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

    @BasToTheMax said:
    This thread has been pretty quiet lately

    Very quiet indeed.

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

    @ralf ! You made it! Enjoy your holiday and good luck with everything!

  • @Saragoldfarb said:

    @ralf said:
    Although the BF megathread has now been closed, so maybe more people will come here instead.

    Ahw, closed... Getting ready for the Christmas thread!

    oh yeah, there is a Christmas and a separate New Year megathreads. Totally forgot those aren't combined!

  • Hi

    Whenever I see just "hi" posts, I always feel the urge to reply with just hi as well :lol:

  • @PuDLeZ said:

    Hi

    Whenever I see just "hi" posts, I always feel the urge to reply with just hi as well :lol:

    Yep same. Even if I just said hi already

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