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Just scored a Dell E248WFP (1920x1200 / 60Hz / TN Panel) for $16. Also scored a set of 2.1 Altec Lansing VS4121 speakers for $19. Only had to open the subwoofer up and dig out all the rat poop and toys stuffed into the subwoofer....seriously had no clue it was THAT gross inside. Whatever, its cleaned out now. Looks fine on the outside. They WORK fine. Yay. Do not recommend these speakers, but they will go nicely with one of my vintage builds, so that's why I bought them. They're not HORRIBLE bad, but they're far from good too. On that note, there was another deal I couldn't pass up at the thrift store. There was a "chinsey" set of speakers sitting on the shelf, still brand new in the box. I absolutely had to try them. AVol AS200's. I can't seem to find anything about them online, but found a few auctions that sold them years ago for under $5. I paid $28 for them. Definitely steep, but....they're so amazingly crap, they were worth the money just because of that fact. They're literally a $9.99 brand new pair of 2000 era speakers from Ali-Express or something. They sound exactly as you'd expect, and because of that.....they're quite lovely. Yes, they suck....but you expect that.

Never seen a PSU like that one before, I too would be skeptical with side connectors like that. Glad its not as daunting as it seems in the pictures, and sounds like its a fantastic unit regardless! Glad it held up to the abuse.

Drivers wise, I've heard you can install the Pro drivers, but I've never given it a try. I just put up with the garbage tbh, figure with enough GPU horsepower I can just power through the malware. Now, I HAVE gone through, unpacked the driver package, and just installed the inf through device manager. That does work. On Windows 10/11 though, I cannot verify if Adrenaline Software would get installed automatically later by Windows Update or not, that's another problem entirely. I'll be honest, I run my 6900XT at stock or underclocked 99% of the time. I run 2.60GHz on it for benchmarks as its known to be stable on my card, but my hotspot temp is just too hot. I don't trust 110*C loads, no matter if its "safe" or not.

Here we go, Intel stealing our nanometers again..... I am curious of course, at what the future will hold in store for silicone like this though. Considering Moore's Law, its a very interesting time for computer chips indeed.

This is about the only good use I can see out of this tech....... I don't mind pixelated......you know, things. I grew up on dial up. Inb4: "Back in my day, we had to walk FIFTEEN MILES to get our porn......THROUGH THE SNOW, UP HILL BOTH WAYS.".

I have the MSI Gaming 6900XT. I'm pretty sure it'd flash just fine. Ubuntu + Complex = I'm not going to try though and risk bricking my card. Honestly, I doubt its going to perform much better than it does as is. I'm at right around 2600MHz on the core under load, stock memory, and my hotspot temp hits 110*C already. Core temp is fine, stays under 65C.

Ehhh, green or red, they both pump out frames lol. I think you'll have fun with it. Looking back on it NOW, yeah I should've waited for the 6950XT, but whatever. Both cards are fantastic, especially now that prices are dropping on them.

No I have not. That might actually give me that little extra 5-10% performance I need at my res, but my card's hotspot gets stupid hot as is and makes me nervous.

I'm missing the options you are, but it gave me a validation window. Main Rig - 5800x with PBO / DDR4-3800 @ 16-17-16 / RX 6900XT @ 2.6GHz https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/compute/153027

I wonder what it'd take to get this put into Sven Coop, the coop mod for the HL series. If its just a map thing, that might be pretty easy to get the above mod, and any future HL2 mod for RT, and plug them into Sven maybe. Or maybe Sven needs to be completely reworked? Idk...... Either way, I love me some classic games with revamped graphics regardless.

You got it, and thank you for understanding.

Might want to be careful. You have stuff in your portfolio that's under NDA...... Or at least was.

@Bastiaan_NL when did you let Jan take a video of you in your speedo? Happy Birthday Bastiaan!!

The investor thing isn't really THAT iffy if you think about it. It'd be like Microsoft being an investor in a pro America video game and people boycotting American made video games because of a war or something. The investor isn't necessarily involved with the game other than finances. Yes, its a valid concern, but I doubt they had much to do with the game itself. And yes, the game is very pro Russia from the sounds of it. But again, is that REALLY that big of a deal? It's fiction for starters, and secondly who wouldn't want to be pro their own country? If Italians made a new game that was painting Italy in a positive light and was "pro Italy" would THAT be that big of a deal? It's a touchy subject simply because of politics and the war, it has nothing to do with the people themselves in said country (in my opinion). And yes, the second point you made there is very curious indeed. If there's already a boycott why DID this game get through? Hard to say for sure. THAT, is a very valid question and probably deserves some answers. I'm not saying that I'm going to install this game or not. Probably not to be honest, I'm just not much of a gamer. I just don't see the problem here if you take things at face value. It's a video game. If people outside of Russia bought it, the developers should get paid for their efforts, regardless of their country or nationality. See, I don't care about some war between one group of rich people and another group of rich people. I care about the people themselves of these places. And its pretty rough on my heart hearing people hating on Russians or Ukrainians. Those people themselves have nothing to do with this nonsense, they just want to live their lives, same as the rest of us.

Right, I understand that point. The problem with that logic is that basically cuts off ALL people in Russia. Same as it would if an American company was being boycotted for political reasons. I drive on the roads, I pay a gasoline tax and license fees. Those taxes and fees go to the state, which also help fund the federal government. So as such, I'm indirectly funding the federal government myself. Same situation here. Russian developers make a game. They get paid for said game. They pay their taxes. Oh no, they're funding the invasion!!!! Except they're really not, they're just paying their taxes as Russian citizens. That's all I was getting at. It's not the developer's fault that their nation is in a war right now.

Regardless of who made what, its a stupid video game. If Atomic Heart is a good game, those Russian developers deserve to be paid by the people that play the game. Period. It's no different than tying an American to Joe Biden or Donald Trump and saying that American can't get paid because you disagree with their politics. These Russian citizens are not Vladimir Putin, as such, they should be free enough to get paid for the work they've done. Ukraine can go kick rocks.

In I guess? I'm using my ETF GPU though, since @damric finally helped me get that going. Stupid 290x being unstable, swapped to the 6900xt.

E's probably sitting at his desk grumbling....... "so difficult to please everyone these days....."

Correction, its really REALLY close to being fixed on my end.

Fixed on my end!

I see it as well. Regardless, this is a welcome feature. Other than the above, works great on my end!

Hey, thanks for the reminder. I almost forgot to put up this month's OCN quote on mine.

That first image....... That's definitely either a 9800 or X800 / X850. Can tell by the VRAM locations on the top of the PCB and the PCB itself. It APPEARS that its got a molex plug plugged in, but in the image its hard to say. If so, that limits it to a 9800 or X850 being as that would make it an AGP card for sure. So yeah, almost certainly a 9800. Just had mine die the other day.