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This is actually a common fault with those. It happened to mine, and to one other that I've seen in person. Mine failed in the middle of the night, and since my email server is behind it and I didn't want that to be offline all night, I had to do some emergency soldering. Simply bridging the...

In the past, there were 3rd party chipsets. I don't remember what it was like for Intel, but the ones for AMD's platforms were universally bad compared to the bog-standard AMD reference chipsets. Now we only have 1st party chipsets, which generally work much better. Motherboard companies have...

The description for the first item you linked to says "Use serial port assistant to send 0xAA, the relay keeps opening; Send 0xBB, the relay keeps closing". Interpreting the poor English, it sounds like after you send one of those commandst, it will stay in that state indefinitely. It doesn't...

I don't have a 7950X3D, but since the discussion is now about dual CCDs generally, I thought I might be able to muddy the waters a bit with some actual data. The following chart is a 1 second sample of frame times from the Mount & Blade 2 built-in benchmark running on my 5950X. The different...

Most speakers should be mounted close to ear level. It's usual to sit so your eyes are nearer to the top of the monitor than the bottom, therefore putting the speaker above the monitor will put it closer to ear level, which is good.

Interesting that you got a higher score with a 4060 Ti than GotNoRice did with a 4080. That suggests that it's more influenced by CPU than GPU. Of course the extra cache of an X3D CPU won't help with something so old, so probably Intel CPUs are better here. Maybe someone with a 14900KS would...

It's been a long time since I ran this. I still have a copy lying around. Here's what it does on my PC with the following specs: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 64GB DDR4 3600MHz AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 1TB SSD (PCIe 4) The FPS counter is amusingly stuck at 999 most of the time. It actually goes waaaay...

Steel, titanium and aluminium all have coincidentally almost the same stiffness to weight ratio. However, since titanium is lighter, that means that a case made to be the same weight as a steel case will have thicker panels, and since the thickness is a bigger contributer to stiffness than the...

It would, but we live in a world of £2k GPUs and £1k motherboards. A Ti case doesn't seem so excessive compared to that. I have a bicycle with a brushed Ti frame that is now 10 years old, and still looks pretty nice. A PC case sees a lot less wear than a bike, so I think it would be fine.

Yes, I use the same settings for everything. What you and OpenSource Ghost seem to be missing is that SDR and HDR are treated differently. I have an HDR monitor that goes up to 1200cd/m² and doesn't allow HDR brightness control, and yet when viewing normal desktop apps it emits 120cd/m², exactly...

AAA games are by definition high-budget, so they will always at the very least look better than indie games, but they are also very conservative, targeting established markets and producing very little that is new. Indie games on the other hand span a wide range from Babby's First Gaem with...

Just to expand on this a bit - liquid electrolytic capacitors are problematic because the electrolyte dries out. How fast this happens is strongly related to temperature. The small capacitors on the low-voltage side of a PSU can get very hot because they deal with large currents. The big...

There's Shadow Warrior (the new one, not the one from the 90's), where you can slice enemies into pieces, and the cuts are placed exactly where your sword passed through. It's really satisfying.

Yeah. And it makes sense if you think about it - 4090's specifically have this problem because 4090 buyers are bigger idiots than buyers of other cards, right?

Ha! 4090's failing "in bulk" sounds even worse than merely 18 of them.

If the LEDs are all wired together internally (not individually controllable), then it would probably be pretty easy to open it up and solder +5V straight to them.

Youre far from the only one - the game was described as having "struggled" outside Japan when it was released, and is thus sometimes called a "cult hit", i.e. few but rabid fans. Personally, I think it's one of the best RPGs ever made.

Not only GOG. Itch* and Zoom Platform also provide DRM-free offline installers. And there are some games that can be purchased directly from the dev/publisher, which is even better because there's no middleman adding overhead. * I know theoretically Itch allows games be DRM'd, but I've never...

LCDs are "sample and hold" displays, which means they display an image constantly over the whole refresh period, rather than fading to black like CRTs do. Therefore there is no flickering at any refresh rate.

I don't think a single person here has said that DSC is visible. Seriously, this is supposed to be [H]. and yet this thread is full of people advocating for older, slower tech. Next thing you know, people will start saying that we don't need faster CPUs because 400fps is already good enough.

Monitors have a massive amount of surface area available at the back. Covering that with a finned aluminium heatsink instead of insulating plastic would keep it cool passively. Of course large sheets of aluminium cost money, so no one is going to make one as long as we continue to buy whirring...

This is particularly interesting because "it also has a full-size DisplayPort 2.1 output, which gives it support to daisy chain multiple monitors". If it really supports 80Gbps, then that's enough to daisy-chain another high-refresh-rate monitor, albeit falling back to DSC again. That would...

Others have already pointed out that you misread the chart, but didn't explain how: It sounds like you read the chart as if it was a line chart, where the absolute height of the line above the axis represents the value. It's actually a stacked area chart though, where it's the relative height of...

If we assume you have been playing since it was released on 2004-11-23 (6985 days ago), then you have averaged 10564 / 6985 = 1.5 hours per day.

I have a monitor that needs DSC, so I know what it looks like, despite what you think is likely. Sure, the compression isn't visible except in pathological conditions, but it's still striclty inferior to an uncompressed connection. It's just another example of how infuriatingly slow the monitor...

That looks almost exactly what I would want from an OLED monitor. Disappointing that it's only DP 1.4 though, when DP 2 has been around for a few years already. The only real problem is that I wouldn't want to keep it turned on all the time, to avoid burn-in, which means it would have to be a...

Try Toy Box. I mamaged to fix every bug I experienced with it by changing quest states or triggering events (though I didn't have the one you described), no reloading from hours back needed.

I turned the difficulty up notch (from "Normal" to "Daring") once I realised that there was no longer a risk of losing any fight. That felt like the real normal difficulty, since it puts you and the AI on equal footing, without handicaps to either. Still not very hard, but some fights were...

This is a fantastic game. It perfectly captures how horrific it is for normal people in the 41st millenium; if you're not a member of the aristocracy then you're just meat for the grinder (literally in some cases). Of course your character is firmly placed at the top, able to command others to...

With most of the PC fans I've attempted this on, it's just a matter of peeling the label off the back, then prising off a small cover over the spindle. Usually it doesn't cause much or any damage - not that it would matter, since the fan is toast otherwise anyway.

You just answered your own question. I watched the L1T video, and he mentioned that it included 3D-printed parts. That's significantly more expensive than mass-produced injection-moulded parts. Low demand means no economy of scale, which leads to high cost. I certainly wouldn't buy one of these...

I've used photography bits and pieces for that sort of thing before. You can get articulated arms with ¼" thread on each end, and clamps that have ¼" threaded holes on them. Cheap ones tend to be poor quality, but good enough for holding light things like fans.

This may be technically true, but other parts of the monitor will wear out long before the transistors in the panel do, so effectively it's going to have no effect on monitor lifespan. There are so many factors that affect how long a monitor lasts that there's no way you can say that a faster...

Can you see how long the spikes are? I would guess that it's just measuring noise (which power supplies can produce a lot of).

For comparison, the Asus XG-C100C uses the same AQC107 chip, but has a heatsink that looks to me at least 4x bigger.

None of the games I play have usage tracked, but the list will surely look something like this: Unreal Tournament (1, 2003/4, 3) Diablo 2 X4 Skyrim There are lots of other games that I probably have >100 hours in, either because they simply take that long to finish, or because I've played them...

Depending on how big the monitor is, and how far away you sit from it, you might find that the edges are affected slightly by IPS glow. I've not used a monitor with an ATW polarizer so I can't say how much difference they make to this, but there is definitely room for improvement.

Zeno Clash: I don't know who you are, or what's going on, but I'm going to punch you in the face. At least I think that's your face. The Path: I dont even

After a bit of searching, it looks like there simply isn't any such standard. The ones you've seen were probably custom made for whatever reason. What do you need it for? According to Wikipedia, it's really close in size to a 10280 lithium-ion battery. If you have enough room and can do some...

I happen to have a copy of the PCI Express Card Electromechanical Specification, which says: So it can be 75W for any slot, but 1x slots might be only 25W. Cards are supposed to query the slot for how much power they are allowed to draw.