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Looks like we already have a 5600g ran in that category. Won't that run cancel out mine? Mine would still be ddr4, just a lot slower lol.

I'm going to one day pull a $tillLegendaryU2k and run crysis on a pentium 2 (well, a K6) if I can ever get it to run. He said it was possible years ago and we made fun of him for it. Idk, different attitudes today I feel. Maybe we've all matured some.....

Yeah and they also included specific directions on how to do it on the website too, in case people thought the letter itself was sus.

Speaking of igp runs, I totally forgot I have a 2500u laptop that overclocks. I'm on mobile atm, so not easy to check the lists. Do we need a 2500u benched for igp?

Oh yeah it is Thursday isn't it?! Yup I'll be adding that to my pages and pages of free epic games I've scored too!

Thanks guys. Been wanting one of these for a LONG time. Just got done playing SpiderMan Remastered on his rig, 1440p / 60Hz, absolutely maxed out (no RT since Vega). Game played absolutely beautifully on the Powercolor card, 60 FPS pegged (framerate cap on in drivers). He's going to have absolutely zero problems MTFO'ing all of his games (and mine lol). This is super promising because I'll be perfectly content with 1440p on my TV in the bedroom, even 1080p really if I HAD to. Sit far enough back, it looks fine. On my TV, I'm going to be playing simple controller games, racing, RDR2, and emulators anyway. Easy stuff for the Vega I'm sure. The Sapphire either needs a new fan, or needs the fan screwed back in or something. I'll take it apart when I get the chance and fix it. It does work just fine, just the fan rubs the shroud. Either somebody forgot to put screws back in the fan....... Or it got bounced apart during shipping. Either one, its fine. Replacement fans are like $13 and its easy enough to get to. I did test it (very VERY briefly) while holding the fan up in place, and before it burned my finger because I was slowing the fan down with my finger.......it was doing just fine in 3d tests. So the card itself is perfectly fine. Maybe an excuse to look for an aftermarket cooler for a Vega soon ish. Kiddo's getting his rig back tomorrow!

I've got an Athlon X2 7750BE Kuma and a Sapphire HD4850 GDDR3 now. Still waiting on the Phenom II x4 960T to arrive (Saturday est), and my Radeon 7500 to arrive (Monday est), and then I can finish up the AMD sections. I might go ahead and do the HD4850 in the next few days, we'll see. Worst case, I'll have them benching early next week. Pic because why not? I had one of these years ago when they were new....now I have another! Hopefully best $17 shipped ebay find yet. (We've all seen CPU's so not pictured)

So outside of some USPS gore, I have an update. Absolutely HUGE shoutout to @tictoc, whom otherwise this update wouldn't have been possible. I paid for the stuff, just letting everyone know. But seriously, holy wow, extra surprises in the box, and with the USPS gore going on......so very happy he packaged it super super well! I'll spare the gore pics, but here's what arrived today! We have here, two Radeon Vega 64's (64's I think, right tictoc?). I'm so excited I can't even take 5 seconds to look at the model numbers.... One of these is destined for "kiddo's" rig. The other one is likely going to be dumped into my Ryzen 1400 build, or whatever other build I end up putting on my 4k TV in my bedroom. I asked him if I could buy both because, well...just in case. I've always loved the Vegas and always wanted one. Not pictured, was an added bonus kit of DDR4, not sure what they are yet, but was BADLY needed to finish kiddo's build back up after the fiascos it recently suffered. I don't even care what they are really, if they work, then it gets his rig back up and running. The Vega absolutely is the PERFECT GPU to be paired with his rig (for the collection of course). Ryzen 2600x / Vega 64, just like what I always wanted to be a part of the collection. The second one honestly was because, well.....I wanted a spare and he offered to sell both. And since my 5700XT is on the living room TV, this means I can pop one of these in my bedroom TV in whatever rig. Sorry for the rave, I'm just so excited they lived after seeing the mess from USPS. Okay fine, I'll share a little bit of the USPS gore. Not really sure WHAT liquid got spilled all over the box in shipment, but its red, still damp, and smells rancid. -_- I'm so happy for the superb packaging inside. Not a DROP got on any of the parts.

Honestly I feel like they handled the whole thing pretty well considering. The issue is already patched, emails sent out to everyone urging to change passwords simply as a precaution, and letting everyone know that no really bad information was actually leaked. Can't get much better than that I suppose.

So far I don't have the K6 running, its a K7 T-Bird, Athlon-XP, and a Socket 754 that all exhibit the same problems across a Radeon 9800XT, X800 Pro, and X1950 Pro AGP cards. They all freeze up on 3d load, sometimes artifacting. I'm about 99% sure the cards just have crusty grease on them and need to be properly fixed up. I originally thought PSU, but I've since resolved that, the current one has 30a on the 5v rail, which should be plenty for a T-Bird (only AGP rig I have 100% so far). I'm hoping taking them apart, cleaning, and re-greasing fixes the issues. They do play Quake though, so DOS games seem to be fine. It's DX titles that cause issues it seems. My GeForce MX-420 does similar, except it doesn't freeze the system it just artifacts. All of the cards idle really hot too, so that's why I'm assuming its a heat issue.

Oh all of the puns we could make here......Nicholas Cage was more of a National Treasure threat though. Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Gene Hackman, ummmm that one buff dude that's always coked up because he doesn't want to die, maybe Denzel. So many names we could pick on.

Plex tells users to reset their passwords after potential data breach | Engadget WWW.ENGADGET.COM A third-party entity was able to access users' emails, usernames and encrypted passwords.. Just grabbed the first link I could find, I actually found out about this due to an email I got at like 1:30am. Just as a friendly heads up, it was a major pain to update everything. If you're a plex user, check your email. There should be a legit email from them explaining everything in halfway decent detail (well, as best they can). Looks like the letter is also shared on a twitter link in the article too.

Such a bummer these mods can't be used online. I don't think cheating mods should be allowed (but cheaters do it anyway). But visual mods IMHO should be allowed by Rockstar.

Small is the correct setting. The crossover only works when set to small (usually). And you do want the crossover as it blocks frequencies from your main speakers that they cannot reproduce anyway. It's possible you just need to mess with the crossover frequency settings.

Dude that sucks. -_- The pictures in the listing, it looked like it was half decent.

That would be a no then. It says right there: "The integrated video decoder supports all popular codecs such as MPEG2, H.264, VC1, VP8 and MVC and is suitable for resolutions up to 4K up to 100 Mbit/s. The user can connect up to two displays via HDMI 1.4 (max. 1920 x 1080) or DisplayPort 1.2 (max. 2560 x 1600). Another new feature is the support for Wireless Display and Quick Sync, Intel's fast and power efficient H-264 hardware encoder." The fact that they're touting the H-264 hardware encoder means that was the best it really could do (in my opinion anyway). HEVC is H-265. There's no mention of H-265 or HEVC anywhere in the specifications. So no, it doesn't support it, only H-264. Of course, the CPU itself might be capable of it, but the IGPU, no its not.

We've got a little bit of everyone around here. Neat setup! Older than my stuff so far. Welcome to ehw! That setup would actually be a pretty good fit for Win95. 98 if you really wanted to go "newer" with it. I've got a 98SE box running right now, but its P3 era Athlon, don't have my K6 running yet. All I have to say is good luck with 3d, I've had absolutely zero luck in that department so far. -_-

They're good for under 30hz, "subsonic" frequencies. So let me give a general idea of frequencies here so it makes more sense. These are general, and can be different depending on the setup. Terminology, one "octave" is a doubling of frequency. So 20-40hz is one octave. 60-120 is one octave. Etc. 01-20/30hz = subsonic. You can feel these but not hear them. Most people can hear down to AROUND 20hz. Bass shakers or transducers are a wonderful addition for these frequencies. 20-60/80hz - subwoofer bass. Non directional, so you can't tell where it's coming from in the room (or car). Subwoofers CAN get down into subsonic, and a good home theater sub will. In general, a subwoofer works BEST if kept within about 1/2 octave below tuning and about 1 octave above tuning. But this rule can be bent, but it's a general rule because of enclosure tuning. It all depends on the enclosure type though. 60/80-250hz - mid bass. Your front speakers woofers should be capable of this full range. This is why I recommend bigger than logitechs. This keeps the directional bass from going to the sub (bass where you can hear WHERE in the room it's coming from). 250-2.5/5khz - midrange. This can come from a dedicated midrange driver in your speakers in a 3 way set, or from the woofer in a 2 way set. If there's a dedicated midrange driver it'll typically go up to 5khz ish. If it's a 2 way set, it'll be down lower around 2.5. This is mostly your vocals, and well MOST of your frequency you hear. It's a huge range. 2.5/5khz - 20khz+ - treble. This is your hissing sounds, high hats, and other extremely high frequency driven by your tweeter. Having a GOOD tweeter will save your ears. These are the most dangerous frequencies. You'll find different tweeters absolutely sound different. Air drivers and soft domes are generally the easiest on your ears, horns and metal domes (super tweeters) can get EXTREMELY loud and are quite harsh. You find these types at concerts or dB drag cars. Kind of a preference thing there. So transducers are effective, assuming you need or want the extreme subsonic frequencies and your subwoofer isn't capable. You won't HEAR any difference. But you'll feel it. You will need an amplifier for them, and you'll want to tune them to where your sub drops off at.

Welp, already found some fatalities and problems with the stuff I was wanting to bench. My 2900XT is actually the coveted GDDR4 version, NOT the standard GDDR3 version. So can't run that. Submitted an offer for a HD4850 on ebay, so we'll see. My Radeon 8500 is also dead on arrival (as of a year+ ago). The gold contacts on the AGP slot pins are completely flaked off on a couple of them, and the card has zero video output. It worked for a few minutes, I pulled it and inspected it, touched the pins, it flaked off.....and yeah, its dead now. So put in an offer on a Radeon 7500. Hwbot is expensive. -_- However I DID find in my collection a HD4670 GDDR2 card. That was a happy find. Much better than the HD4450 I have coming in the mail that I no longer need. -_- I'd return it, but that'd just be a pretty bad move really considering its ebay and not a major e-tailer. So far, I've got two submissions in though. Stage 1 and 3 on AMD GPU's. I could do Stage 5 on my main rig, but honestly that's just going to suck as I know I'm going to score low in that category. 2900+MHz 6900XT's? Yeah, I don't stand a chance lol. I'll run it, just not yet.

I have nearly the same panel, Samsung 5120x1440 @ 120Hz panel in a Viotek monitor. It works really well for up close racing sims, absolutely! If you end up putting the monitors further back though, you might want something like 3 way 32" or upwards of 55" screens (depending on where they sit). But up close, the 49" Ultrawide is absolutely fantastic! Consider me jelly of your seat. I'm still using a rolling office chair, with the wheel just clamped to the desk for now. The GTX 1070 would be a pretty decent upgrade from the 7970's. 6900XT would be overkill at 3840x1080, but it actually is just about PERFECT for 5120x1440. Just as an FYI.

Are you going to do a full on cockpit eventually? I want to SOOOO badly, but my measely Momo wheel just isn't worth spending the time or effort into building one just yet. Nor do I have the space in my apartment right now. 7970 Crossfire "should" still be plenty for a good cockpit really. That'll still play Beamng.drive and Forza, and any of the other newer racing titles. Maybe at lowered settings, like medium ish, but the 7970's still do a fine job.

Just received a box in from another forum member off site. Some of you probably know the guy if you've ever been to hwbot. Mr.Scott, I know you're not here, but THANK YOU! I won't go into too much detail as to what was in the box, but its a ton of good stuff that's going to help out on these last 3 old builds. For now, I'm going to focus on getting these AGP GPU's to work correctly, and that's going to require taking them apart and re-greasing and re-padding them. As I cannot do it, I'm going to be outsourcing those deeds to a good buddy of mine from OCN, been good buddies since 2006. I'll be shipping the AGP cards (and maybe my 2900XT and 3870) off to him on payday, and see what kind of luck he has taking them all apart. I know my Radeon 9800XT has completely rounded out bolts, and I just am NOT comfortable trying to fix that myself after my GTX 470 fiasco (search it on OCN). I've never been good at getting stripped bolts out, and he's got the stuff on hand to do so. Once I have the AGP cards back in hand again, and NOT sitting here overheating at idle, I should be ready to build the last 2, maybe even all 3 of the last rigs for the collection. I'm still not 100% decided on doing a K5 / Win95 build yet since I have literally nothing on hand for that yet, and I started with 98. Also, huge shout out to @tictoc. He knows why. Something special is coming in next week for my son's build from him.

Anybody want to hop in the discord channel tonight around 9:30 maybe 10pm pst and give me a hand? I'll be getting my camera going so I can show what I'm benching. I've never done hwbot before other than a single cpuz submission years ago. Just thought a Friday night would be a good time. If not, it's cool. I'm a big boy, I can read the rules myself. Rules are meant to be bent, right?

I've done encoding with handbrake on my v3 Xeons. Takes about 30-45 minutes or so to encode 90 minutes ish with 32 threads dedicated to it. I think Handbrake has thread limitations though, and I've never used the software you're talking about. If the software you're using can utilize all 56 threads, the thread count alone will probably be sufficient. But as @Fluxmaven pointed out, wouldn't hurt to give the GPU a try if you already have one. Or, also as mentioned, any modern GTX or RTX card will also do the job just fine too, I want to say GTX 900 series or newer should be supported? Might be a cheaper route to go for an encoding GPU. Quadro cards are generally pretty expensive for what you're getting even on the used markets.

+1. I've been watching the freebies on Epic every week. This week's a GOOD one! Was just playing it at 5120x1440 @ 120Hz, and it plays just fine at Ultrawide resolutions. Controls seem fine enough. Graphics are certainly better than they were back in the day, not quite as good a remake as the recent Quake upgrade, but still a great addition for a "free" game.