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You've pretty much solved the issue already, I think. Try optical again but power the DAC with a USB C power adapter instead, to be sure? Both ways of powering the DAC should break the ground loop through the computer's USB power. If this works...

I'll have to look into this more. Thanks for the insight. Yes, I'm on the newest beta. Something like F22b on this board.

I'm certainly no expert on RAM timings, but aren't there settings for refresh (tREFI, maybe others?) that could need to be reduced if the frequency is reduced, to avoid too long period between refreshes? I.e. say the refresh period should be 7 µs...

So depends on the content. Good HDR content tends to have bright highlights, but not actually be a whole lot brighter total than an SDR scene, at least not for long. As an example from some analysis screenshots I took on another thread, there's a...

Unless you have light sensitivity, HDR monitors today don't get anywhere near bright enough to be anywhere close to what you see when you poke your head out of the door on a bright summer day. Your eyes are able to adapt to the brightness in a...

I have, and sometimes it did. Seriously, the OP's question is reasonable. I don't know why some here is acting like he's trying to take their HDR screens away from them. :LOL: As someone who has never used a HDR screen and is usually running my...

100cd/m^2 - 120cd/m^2 is pleasant, but anything above that is overkill for office work... or gaming... or watching films. Or perhaps my eyes just suck at tolerating heavy brightness?

You definitely want coolant with corrosion inhibitors, but you don't want to rely on them too much. They are really just a bandaid. The best way to deal with galvanic corrosion is to eliminate the root cause as much as possible, namely the...

In order to avoid galvanic corrosion, for harsh, wet or salty environments you want to keep the ΔV to 0.15V or lower. Copper is -0.35V, as are some brasses. Most brasses are -0.40V, and some high brassses are -0.45V. All of them - notably...

Huh. Didn't expect to see this in my feed. Ended up buying a glass mat. The wheels were a minor improvement, but not good enough to actually roll the chair while I was sitting in it. Glass mat + wheel review? Slick as snot. It's like going from...

There is the argument that newer hardware is faster/cheaper, but then there's the time factor of setting up a new machine. A lot of times, a memory upgrade and back to work is even worth more than new machine simply because of the opportunity...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyADkmRVe0U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10f4899srvc Edit: Forgot this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLtl_urvHZM

The Samsung 990 is probably not what you want. I don't know what kind of bitrates you are working with, but most high-end Gen4 drives will be able to read at ~7 GB/s. If write speed is your concern, then there is a *lot* more variability. One of...

For my 100 Mbit/s up/down internet connection, I'm running OPNsense on a fanless, 1-core, 1.2 GHz Via C7 board (Jetway J7F5M) :rolleyes:. It's got a single 1 GiB RAM stick and an 80 GB Intel DC SSD (S3500?). I bought the board dec 2007. :D For...

I just grabbed a Sparkle A770 from Amazon for $289 for my HTPC. Will be running it on the test bench every night for the next week before installing it into the HTPC. I'm hoping that the driver and memory cooling issues are mostly ironed out by...

If you really care about the data on the drives, then don't even think about spinning them up! Call the data recovery experts instead! If you're doing this for the learning experience and getting the data back is only a bonus, then a few points...

I've not heard real numbers in a long time, but expect a big number. However, if you really have important data on there, stop messing with it and call the experts. https://www.ontrack.com/en-us/data-recovery/hard-drive These guys have a lot of...