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Dr.Retarded

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The pads or the paste(Tube) work either way, the pads are nice cause you don't really have to worry about over applying paste to the surface. You just basically cut the pad to size, and stick it on.
Yeah I was looking at those and ended up ordering a couple, one for the GPU and the other for the CPU. Also have that to the paste coming in but the pads look just super convenient. I just didn't know they even existed because it's been so long since I built a new desktop.
 

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Reason I bought the thing is because the last gaming laptop I wanted for work crapped out on me, and when I bought this one on Black Friday, I called their damn sales department and negotiated 6 years of warranty, on top of more discounts buying it through the refurbished store. It was better than a damn desktop that I had at the time, and I can travel with it.

Dude I haven't had any problems with it. I was able to play pretty much every game I bought in the past 4 years without any issues including cyberpunk, how to do a little tweaking the first time I played through the game but I got the settings nice and smoothed out, and it ran perfectly fine, I'll albeit not set on ultra, but like I said earlier I can't detect the damn difference.

I honestly just think whatever tweaks and stuff they've made to the game via patches or the expansion it's not near as efficient running as it used to be.

I don't know how demanding destiny 2 is on a system but I can run that on guns blazing, and it's ultra responsive. I got the only other game that I've really played in that same vein of cyberpunk is starfield and once they threw out a couple of patches to tweak their stupid engine bugs, that game was running beautifully, and it's newer than cyberpunk.

It's just weird. I just know there's been some talk of people playing it again, specifically I think Tuco Tuco , I just wondered if there were any tweaks or things that I needed to maybe do or if anybody had encountered similar issues. It's just the damn FPS will run smooth as silk at like 70 or 80 and then suddenly it drops to 30 to 40, even if I'm inside a building at times.
the only thing you can do for a laptop, if youre even up for it is to replace the thermal paste w/ something better like mx6, you can try kryonaugt but thats like painting the mona lisa with peanut butter, and other than maxing out your ram, thats your laptop limitation then

the newer ones are really easy to redo, theyre essentially mini itx
 
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the only thing you can do for a laptop, if youre even up for it is to replace the thermal paste w/ something better like mx6, you can try kryonaugt but thats like painting the mona lisa with peanut butter, and other than maxing out your ram, thats your laptop limitation then

the newer ones are really easy to redo, theyre essentially mini itx

Yeah that's what some of the other guys were telling me. Luckily I have one of those area 51 deals that's pretty easy to get into. I was watching a video about it earlier and I shouldn't be an issue whatsoever. Easier than taking apart a damn laser printer I'm driving plenty of years doing that back in school. I should have everything by tomorrow, and I think just pulling it apart and cleaning it is also going to make a big difference.

I ordered that Arctic 6, but then saw the grizzly pads and went ahead and picked up a couple of those as well. Might just save the paste for probably future desktop but I'll maybe build this year. I just been so hesitant on pulling the trigger on the components because stupid video cards are retarded expensive. Gone of the days where you can spend 250 or 300 bucks and get into at least the top tier.
 

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Yeah that's what some of the other guys were telling me. Luckily I have one of those area 51 deals that's pretty easy to get into. I was watching a video about it earlier and I shouldn't be an issue whatsoever. Easier than taking apart a damn laser printer I'm driving plenty of years doing that back in school. I should have everything by tomorrow, and I think just pulling it apart and cleaning it is also going to make a big difference.

I ordered that Arctic 6, but then saw the grizzly pads and went ahead and picked up a couple of those as well. Might just save the paste for probably future desktop but I'll maybe build this year. I just been so hesitant on pulling the trigger on the components because stupid video cards are retarded expensive. Gone of the days where you can spend 250 or 300 bucks and get into at least the top tier.
yea if you bought the pads just use 100% ipa and cut to size
 
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yea if you bought the pads just use 100% ipa and cut to size
That's what I'm planning on doing. Like I said I didn't even know they were a thing, but hey I'm willing to spend a little bit more to make it easier, and from doing a little bit more reading on them it sounds like pretty slick as far as heat BS.
 

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Downside of the pads are the are worse thermally than paste and fragile. They also had an an issue in that they can shift as you're clamping things down, but they solved that with a touch of oil to make them stick long enough. The thermal performance difference may not be all that noticeable and they do have the benefit of no dry out.
 
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I like to pretend all the last posts are talking about ways to help cool your Oroshi optics after using it too much.
 
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I like to pretend all the last posts are talking about ways to help cool your Oroshi optics after using it too much.
Excited Jackie GIF by Cyberpunk 2077
 
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Downside of the pads are the are worse thermally than paste and fragile. They also had an an issue in that they can shift as you're clamping things down, but they solved that with a touch of oil to make them stick long enough. The thermal performance difference may not be all that noticeable and they do have the benefit of no dry out.

All my stuff came in today, and sometimes this afternoon I'm going to go ahead and break my laptop down. What's funny is I don't know what settings I tweaked at some point, but it's night and day different than what I was experiencing, and I haven't cleaned out the system or repasted yet.

I honestly think there's just something Goofy with the game, having had the damn thing for 5 years and not done significantly maintenance, I can't imagine it's not going to help.

Now you have me wondering whether or not I just need to stick with the thermal paste or use the two pads that I ordered.

My apologies for deviating off topic a bit. I'm just trying to get this damn game to run the way it used to, I figured this might be appropriate because folks were playing it, I might have some advice.
 
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All my stuff came in today, and sometimes this afternoon I'm going to go ahead and break my laptop down. What's funny is I don't know what settings I tweaked at some point, but it's night and day different than what I was experiencing, and I haven't cleaned out the system or repasted yet.

I honestly think there's just something Goofy with the game, having had the damn thing for 5 years and not done significantly maintenance, I can't imagine it's not going to help.

Now you have me wondering whether or not I just need to stick with the thermal paste or use the two pads that I ordered.

My apologies for deviating off topic a bit. I'm just trying to get this damn game to run the way it used to, I figured this might be appropriate because folks were playing it, I might have some advice.
Good luck! Just remember to hand Tuco Tuco negs if none of it helps.
 
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Dr.Retarded

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Good luck! Just remember to hand Tuco Tuco negs if none of it helps.
He didn't help me with anything the rest of you at least did, it's not like I'm going to build a heat sink out of wood...😉

I stole just find a bizarre that I tweaked something with the settings and I'm getting much better performance and I haven't done any of the maintenance. If I'm going to problem solve the issue, it's got to be something software related, but doesn't mean that doing a nice cleaning isn't going to help. I just know running other games I don't have any issues, other than when I had updated driver's recently and didn't clean out all of the registries and what have you.

Now I'm debating on whether or not I need to jump up to the most current drivers, because I don't remember the version I'm running but it's a few back, but hey they're working. I just know when I jump to 566.33 or something around that area is when I started having problems.
 
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So I started with an pretty vanilla assault / smg build. It works fine but bullets are full of cotton candy in this game.

Then I switched to a throwing knife build, which is super absurd. 4k damage headshots right after the other, lol.

Today I went to a body + blunt build. LMGs are trash. Shotguns are OK, they are so bad at med+ range because it's a video game. It's not as fun to play because precision doesn't really matter. Guts and Order are fun.

But the blunt weapon was pretty lame until I got this mod. Mjolnir

I looked for a vid shwocasing it, and I can't beleive how much effort someone put into this vid showing it off. This guy is using the cheat version of the weapon though, the is a balanced version which feels good but not OP. I think overall it's less OP than throwing knives. I'm not sure if throwing knife perks help mjolnir...

 
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I have had the opposite experience coming back to the game after 3-4 years. It runs fine - better than I remember. Still on a 2080. I have since upgraded from 16 to 32gb RAM, and upgraded my CPU from a 2700x to a 5700X3D. Wouldn't think that would make a big difference but maybe? Also got an ultrawide monitor which definitely drops my fps some.

I'm averaging around 70fps on benchmarks. Running DLSS on Quality I think? With some settings turned down. This settings/optimization chart I found on reddit was really useful.

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I'm about done with the game and switched to a netrunner build. Shit is so OP compared to everything else. I'm amazed Overclock exists.
 
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I'm about done with the game and switched to a netrunner build. Shit is so OP compared to everything else. I'm amazed Overclock exists.
Now realize that Netrunner has been nerfed into the ground half a dozen times since the game first released. Even after they completely gutted it in 2.0 they left in a way to have essentially infinite RAM and it had to be nerfed again after PL's launch. And in spite of all that it's still ridiculous. It's just clunkier to use now, and you're much more likely to be detected before you can kill everyone--not that that actually matters, especially if you pair Netrunning with the obvious combo of smart SMGs.

Not to mention that using a berserk or sandevistan instead of a deck locks you out of the largest source of eddies in the game, and that too is after some massive nerfs (mainly to the sell value of hacks).
 
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Tuco

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Now realize that Netrunner has been nerfed into the ground half a dozen times since the game first released. Even after they completely gutted it in 2.0 they left in a way to have essentially infinite RAM and it had to be nerfed again after PL's launch. And in spite of all that it's still ridiculous. It's just clunkier to use now, and you're much more likely to be detected before you can kill everyone--not that that actually matters, especially if you pair Netrunning with the obvious combo of smart SMGs.

Not to mention that using a berserk or sandevistan instead of a deck locks you out of the largest source of eddies in the game, and that too is after some massive nerfs (mainly to the sell value of hacks).
What is the source of eddies you're talking about? I've been doing the hacking minigame with berserk / sandevistan, but haven't sold any of that crap.