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I used 4x of those 3k RPM fans under the floor in my car to keep my amps cool. I've also used them in an ice bucket before to make a make-shift swamp cooler too. Of course zip ties for various spot coolers in rigs too, but I've never built a personal use fan out of them before lol.

I've up-cycled plenty, I have not zip tied a bunch of spare case fans together to make a personal desk fan though. That's a new one.

Welcome! I don't recognize you personally, but there were thousands of people over at that "other place" so whatever.

I have zero problems using experimental medicine in patients that agree to it, especially for something as deadly as cancer. Honestly I think it should become more common practice, let doctors actually be doctors and treat their patients how they want to without all the red tape. I'll bet public health would benefit greatly.

Honestly, does anyone here even use that horrid website? It's been trash for years anyway.

I'll be buying an order here really soon. I have my eye on the mug and the coasters for sure.

Man, that would've been such a better week than the one I had! Thanks to all of you guys for taking so many photos. Wish I could've been on the livestream watching all the shenanigans.

Certainly down to about 40 cents now guys, I joined up too......

Is it just me, or are those more the specs you'd expect from like a GT4040 or whatever they'd call it?

What did you DO? o.0

I'm sure there will be some advancement in gaming tech that'll make it so we do need new GPU's. Maybe GPU's won't even be GPU's anymore, who knows. Fun stuff to think about though.

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Give me a freaking break. Microsoft's going full ham on Russia, Russia, Russia again? How do we even know its Russia? Maybe its China, North Korea, Iran or Iraq, Turkey, Libya.......there's a LOT of countries that would absolutely love to cause chaos in the US. Maybe its our own government? Does Microsoft not know what a VPN is? What happened to common sense. Oh yeah, "It's on the internet so it MUST be true.....". /sarcasm - EDIT I'm sorry, I know there's...........you know, "the situation" right now with Russia. I just honestly don't believe even half of the propaganda about it. I think there's good people across the entire world, so I'm not going to sit here and judge an entire country's worth of people because Microsoft tells me to. Agreed with every other point made so far in the thread too.

Never tried VR myself, so take my opinion as just that, my opinion. From what I've personally seen though, seems VR is absolutely fantastic for things like simulator games. Racing, flying, farming, walking, whatever . For the more action themed games like Battlefield, Cowadooty, or in this instance, Haf Life Alyx, yeah the space and everything involved is just too much for a simple pick up and play kind of game as you'd be moving around a lot. Something where you're just using the VR as your eyes while sitting using either a wheel or HOTAS, a lot less space is actually required. Of course the gear still is though, but sim players tend to spend a LOT on their equipment anyway.

Oh absolutely. The only reason why I said Nvidia tax was because its $600, and there's many cheaper cards that outperform it. Not to mention the die being a traditionally lower tier die size, and any other reasons why this card really shouldn't be considered $600 worth. You're not wrong though. Personally, I'd still rather have native resolution. That might just be me though. I'm willing to accept things like FSR / DLSS though in exchange for MASSIVE purdies that make me drool at my screen. Otherwise, not really. Like Cyberpunk, I'm happy to use FSR in that in exchange for RT (right now, on a first gen RT card). As far as the AI aspect of it, also correct, very interesting times indeed. It could get very interesting for video games. Where I don't like seeing this technology at is with cameras and video recording devices (which are already doing it). If AI is generating frames or photos in cameras, what's going to stop the AI from producing fake "photographs". It already does this in certain phones. Might not be producing "fake" images just yet, but what's going to stop that from happening if the AI is generating the images in your camera? Gaming wise, I think this tool could be very useful though. I'd like to see buttery smooth framerates, high resolution (native if possible), and lots of pretties. This is what I pay big money for a GPU for. If AI is involved in that, so be it.

There are, but they're old enough they can't modern web browse either.......

Socket 939 won't, and neither will early AM2. But yet Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quads work fine. They lack CMPXCHG16b instruction set, which is a requirement for Windows 8.1 x64 and newer. I can run Windows 8.0 x64 on it or older, or I can run 32bit Windows 8.1 or 10 (11 maybe if I mess with the installer). But it'd have to be 32bit. We're talking early dual cores and quad cores with up to 16, to even 32GB of RAM and more on the dual and quad socket boards. Granted those systems won't play MODERN games, but there's still a ton of games even on Steam itself that have Windows XP or even 98 as the minimum requirement. Or even Windows 7, thousands probably for 7. By knocking out support completely, its almost forcing users into TPM and upgrading, just to play games that they paid for. That's my complaint. And yes, the Chrome underbelly of Steam is absolutely the problem here, agreed completely. My original point was, they COULD release a library ONLY version of the client to allow vintage systems to still access games that were once played on them (including Windows 7 systems now). No social part, no store, no community pages, just a download and play option (or even just a downloader with a steam login to access the games). They COULD. I'm not saying they will, clearly that's a pipe dream and will never happen. Here's an article from when 8.1 was released that goes over it. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2058683/new-windows-8-1-requirements-strand-some-users-on-windows-8.html

Nvidia tax.....

Nice! It was a struggle to get my 4000 rated 32GB kit to run at 3800 on my setup. 3600 honestly wasn't too bad, but I'd figure a boost in SoC voltage would probably resolve that if it was harder with 64GB.

What native resolution were you attempting? Now you've got me curious if my 6900XT can handle it with FSR. I was able to play with RT on prior using FSR. Hmmmm.....

Looks like @ENTERPRISEalready updated it? I recall Dark Mode being located elsewhere under settings....... https://extremehw.net/settings/theme-settings/

Tempting enough?

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