Noodleface
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Don't worry dude. I setup my monitors on boxes 3 years ago and I'll get that mount any day now
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Lanx
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did you order em yet? NB North Bayou Monitor Desk Mount Stand Full Motion Swivel Monitor Arm Gas Spring for 17''-27'' Computer Monitor from 4.4lbs to 14.3lbs
these are amazing for 27bucks, better than my $100+ ergotrons.
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Fucker
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His boxes have flex appeal. They draw in the ladies like nothing else! What vape unit is that? I tried one for the first time the other day, and it burned my tonsils out.
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Denamian
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Argarth
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Revisiting this, in case someone is interested.
Seems I may have been far too generous in my appraisal of the Synapse software, heh. I've lost count of the number of updates they've pushed since that last post, but it hasn't ended up in a good place. I've been prepared to tolerate some of the "always on-line portal" nonsense, as long as the thing stayed quiet in the background and just did it's job.
Unfortunately, they seem to be just bolting on more "stuff" as per their "vision", and the CPU footprint has now increased to a point that it can't be ignored.
You get the 3 services that all have to be active together, and the 6 running processes in task manager. After some investigation, aside from the frequent network chat, FIVE of these are constantly hitting the system with thread creation/exit activity, even when idle at the desktop. The entirety of Windows is fast asleep by comparison.
So much going on that my CPU could no longer down-clock when not using Ryzen Master. (minimal installation, just Synapse and no other modules)
Fuck that noise! Un-installed and went looking for another solution. I love the hardware; been using these keypads for 15 years or so now.
Found Interception Driver & AutoHotInterception. Relatively straightforward to set up, and now I have the key-mapping power back without the bloat. Wish I'd looked into it earlier.
AH, that's better =D
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Okay, looking to upgrade from my GTX 950 to something that will allow me to play Warframe at max settings @ 1080p (monitor is actually a 16:10, 1200p I suppose). Anyway, seems like the GTX 1660 TI is the way to go. Anyone disagree before I order this bad boy?
Eye-balling this one:
ZOTAC Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 Ti AMP 6GB
P.S. I have an i7-8700K.
Eye-balling this one:
ZOTAC Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 Ti AMP 6GB
P.S. I have an i7-8700K.
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sorry, meant rx580 for ~$189 instead of 289 for the 1660ti. newegg should have sapphire rx 580s in that ballpark.
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(*) See Intel Desktop Client Roadmap Leak
Intel fooked up hard. they're lucky they had such a significant IPC lead architecture wise. Their situation is hilariously bad and only getting worse. Seems they really screwed the pooch with overzealous density targets for their 10nm fabrication process: it smells like a dumpster fire of epic proportions. Their yields (number of defect free chips) must be so terribly bad they can only make tiny little dies which is why you only see small number of cores for slow, low clocking mobility parts instead of desktop parts.... 14 nm until 2022 (*) ? lol. Their next node will probably be close to ready by then and 10 nm+ will only see token products for investors' sakes. In the meantime AMD will be eating a LOT of their Server market-share cementing solid investments to be in a much more competitive position in Desktop, Server, Mobile and GPU.
Should be a big 2 years for AMD unless Rome hits a snafu.
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Noodleface
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A friend is insisting I buy a used Radeon RX 580. And, sure, there are plenty of 8GB models on eBay hovering around $130. But, man, I am skeptical of buying a used video card. Also, the majority of them are MSI and XFX which, from the handful of reviews I've read, are claiming they can be noisy cards. Which, I don't care how cheap it is, this is a non-starter. I must have a card that is quiet at full load.
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You have one of the best chips made (8700k) and youre putting a leaf blower engine in a bugatti. Save or just spend the bucks on a nice card. I have a 2070 rtx with that chip and its very fucking pretty.
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Yeah dude, dont go cheap. Buy some good shit that will not only work better but last you longer. If you go with a 2070, that shit will be good to go for years, especially at 1080p and even if you decide to upgrade to 1440p somewhere down the line it will handle it.
I used to be a proponent of the cheap card back in the era of the AMD cards when they didnt suck, but these AMD cards today suck. Both my kids I got the 560 or 570? whatever because they were cheap and supposed to work well with 1080p and man, they sucked. Many games had graphical glitches, shit framerates. They both upgraded to 1070 since and I have not heard a single thing from them (which is a good thing).
I got a 9600K and a 1070 and could not be happier for 1080p. 100+FPS in basically everything I play.
I used to be a proponent of the cheap card back in the era of the AMD cards when they didnt suck, but these AMD cards today suck. Both my kids I got the 560 or 570? whatever because they were cheap and supposed to work well with 1080p and man, they sucked. Many games had graphical glitches, shit framerates. They both upgraded to 1070 since and I have not heard a single thing from them (which is a good thing).
I got a 9600K and a 1070 and could not be happier for 1080p. 100+FPS in basically everything I play.