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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 it means the noise is injected onto the computer's...

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 (46200 cycles at 6600 MHz) then maybe that value...

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 SDR monitors at like 10 % brightness, I've...

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 the WAN side it's got a 100BASE-TX 3Com PCI (not...

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: These non-helium drives are not hermetically...

I'm pretty new to this forum and before signing up here I did the same kind of scouting as Maximilian seems to have done: looked for an About page, did some online searches about the site, et cetera. Didn't find that much, but came to the conclusion the forum is somewhat of the leftovers from an...

Mine does the same thing - about once a month or so, it seems to want to re-train the RAM. Not often enough to really matter, but still annoying when it happens. How often does it happen for you? AMD Ryzen "5" 7600 ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2 (UEFI version 1.28, 2023-08-01) Kingston Fury Beast...

I am seriously impressed at your ability to focus that close. :D You must be extremely near-sighted? I need like -6 diopter glasses and I still need to sit back at least 4"! ;)

What, from the Christmas Fairy? :) (We get our presents during the day today, from Santa Claus.) I very recently got a new monitor (upgraded from 24" IPS 1920x1200@60 Hz to 32" IPS 3840x2160@144 Hz VRR). I was uncertain about what format to go for as well (ultrawide or not etc), so I drew...

If it has gotten noisy it is likely that the bearing is worn. Adding oil might help for a while, or it might make things worse. And to add oil you need to take the fan apart, which might damage it even more. These things are not made to be oiled in use. You'd have to remove the fan from the...

I'm sorry to hear about your condition. I have ME/CFS myself, which includes fibromyalgia-like symptoms, has unknown root cause and no diagnostic tests. So I know very well what it's like to get that blank look from doctors who typically get very uncomfortable when they cannot lean on what they...

Also, if you want to experiment with LED light bulbs, look for high-CRI ones (CRI = Color Rendering Index). Make sure they are at least CRI 90. CRI 100 would be perfect, meaning they have the same spectral distribution as a blackbody radiator (within the visible spectrum), but such LEDs don't...

Most/many modern screens (both phones and monitors) use flicker-free backlight dimming as far as I know. Same thing with any modern fluorescent lighting fixture (using high frequency drivers). So given your description I think the problem is not flickering (although you could certainly be...

dgrdsv: yeah, but does any of them fix the issues with OLED that makes one choose IPS instead? That is, burn-in and text clarity?

On the contrary, these large-scale models will contain all the biases and double standards that were present in the training data. Isn't that obvious? Edit: So the OP is obviously correct in that the LLM has been limited in what it's allowed to output. In this case not getting the expected...

And what a perfect illustration of what LLMs do best: produce something that sounds good, but contains factual errors (the bugs the developers call "hallucinations" since it relieves them of responsibility) that shows that the LLM really has no intelligence at all; it's very good at producing...

Nice and helpful post - thanks! It seems to have given me an irresistible urge to be super-nitpicky though, so here goes (sorry): Power (watts) is an instantaneous quantity. It's not spent per hour or minute or anything like that; the bulb draws 60 W of power regardless of the number of hours...

I test my boards in a similar way, open on the desk. I just place a ~120 mm fan next to it hooked up to one of the chassis fan headers, and I also place the motherboard on a couple of strips of wood so there's airflow below it as well. (Wood is supposed to be ESD-okay-ish, and everything sits on...

I've been using PassMark's closed-source memtest86 for my latest computers (I didn't know the open source version had been revived!). Anyway, memtest86 seems to be using all cores in parallel and zipped through four passes of 32 GiB of mem in just a few hours (on a Ryzen PRO 4650G system with...

I have active monitors too. I attached a power strip with a breaker to the underside of my desk, easily within reaching distance, and have my monitors powered through that. So it's very easy to turn them on and off both at the same time without getting out of my chair. :)

(Sorry, I kind of lost sight of the point I wanted to make in my previous post, which was: don't expect to want to use the same lenses if you dive deeper into the hobby later.)

My G.Skill sticks had a manufacturing defect where the heat spreaders didn't even touch a couple of the memory chips but instead acted as a kind of blanket: https://hardforum.com/threads/deformed-g-skill-heat-spreader-not-in-contact-with-chips.2031348/ Seems like something that could cause...

Why do you want a better camera? Better in what respect? What does "step up" mean here? The lenses are the expensive part of photography, is my experience. At the $400 budget you'll likely start with a camera with a kit lens (limited zoom, small aperture ratio), and if you get hooked you'll...

When your computer is not playing sounds, it's also not sending noise to your speakers just to spite you. ;) That is, apps that reduce noise from microphones will do nothing for you, since there is no noise for them to remove. The noise you hear is the analog self-noise of your monitors and 2.1...

I don't know much about UnRaid, but both Proxmox and TrueNAS are "software raid" solutions. Both support the ZFS equivalent of RAID5 (called RAID-Z1 under ZFS; "1" for one drive of parity data). And both will work fine with your SSDs connected as described. (The only thing they don't support is...

You cannot, as far as I know, create PCIe lanes from a SATA port. So there should be no such thing as a SATA-to-NVMe adapter. What probably exists is a SATA-to-M.2 adapter, but the M.2 slot in the adapter will then only support M.2 SATA drives, not NVMe ones. (The confusion here stems from the...

The PEX chips are PCIe switches; they don't do bifurcation. Bifurcation means e.g. splitting PCIe x16 into 4x PCIe x4 - the total number of lanes does not change, and lanes assigned to one x4 device cannot be used by any other device. In contrast the PCIe switch cards are able to change the...

To sum things up: I've decided to keep this monitor. I *love* the size and resolution, and the dead pixel seems to have self-healed somehow! (I didn't know that was possible; perhaps it needed a few warmup-cooldown cycles after being trasported in 0 °C conditions?) I'm not thrilled about IPS...

(Except it's worse today since every device/messaging platform/whetever uses its own dialect.)

So I'm looking at the lagom.nl gamma test using my new monitor above, and the results are just completely out there no matter what I do. I obviously tried the monitor's own gamma controls, as well as played with contrast, brightness, color temperatures etc. I also tried software gamma...

Not even that. You can buy larger SSDs than that today, if you have deep pockets. E.g. Solidigm D5-P5316 30.72 TB for €2608, VAT included.

This hard drive is literally 121739 times bigger than the first hard drive I bought. (Which was a whopping 230 MB if I remember correctly. Oh how many 3.5" disks it could hold! Edit: 3.5" floppy disks, that is. High Density ones, even. ;) )

Yes. Case in point: my daily-use mouse is a Microsoft Comfort Optical Mouse 1000. I've had it for a very long time and I'm at my computer 10-12 hours a day, 7 days a week, including working from home as a developer for ~10 years. It has the number 0839 printed on its bottom label and I wouldn't...

I'm in the process of upgrading my home server as well. In my old server I used mirrored disks (zfs) for redundancy. In my new server I want - at least for some data - the speed of ssds. But I sure don't want to pay for mirrored ssd storage! Realising that I want data redundancy but not...

So I got myself one of those Lenovo Y32p-30 monitors. I've had it for less than 24 hours, but here are my initial impressions: Negatives: One dead (dark) pixel in the upper left corner. On a 96 dpi panel (e.g. 24" 1080p) this would be super annoying and an instant return, but at this panel's...

For what it's worth, I got one of those (Crucial P3 4TB) back when they were still really expensive 6+ months ago. :rolleyes: (Still a lot cheaper than the alternatives though.) I got it for a NAS where I know I won't need any kind of high performance (1 GbE, not a lot of IO), where it will be...

pendragon1: I may be weak, but the chips are weaker! :D But seriously, if you had the sticks in your hands and squeezed them a bit you'd immediately realise that there's just no chance of squeezing them into shape. The formed dome-like shape actually makes them surprisingly rigid! Carlyle2020...

Is it possible to see individual RAM chip temps with DDR5? I imagine that looking at the temperature of the entire stick would be rather pointless: its power dissipation is the same with or without the manufacturing issue so its "average" temperature should be the same too. Just that the five...

I'm shopping for the same type of monitor. Perhaps also look at the Lenovo Legion Y32p-30 (my top candidate at the moment) and the Gigabyte M32U. A short comparison of 32GR93-U, Y32p-30, and M32U by Monitors Unboxed.

I bought these G.Skill Ripjaws S5 (F5-5600J2834F16GX2-RS5K) for my new AM5 system. Looking at them before installation I realised that the heat spreaders were deformed (bent/bulging) where all the small holes have been punched, enough to not even touch several of the RAM chips: Here's another...