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Nothing wrong with being "that" guy. That's a pretty neat find. Not sure I'd say valuable, but definitely a neat score. You don't see a 5770 every day anymore. Those 80GB HDD's could prove to be useful if someone was wanting to build an old rig too, since older OS's had a lower HDD limit. I think 98 only works on upwards of 128GB HDD's or smaller I believe it was? Assuming the drives work of course. I have to admit, even though I most definitely don't want a 5770.....the artwork they used to put on GPU's back in those days was phenomenal and I really miss our cute gamer girls and epic warriors printed on our GPU's.

Mining =/= Folding mate. I've got a few cards going on each. Got my 290x going on folding@home since it makes decent PPD. I think i'm currently top AMD card on the team right now with that 290x. Have a few 580's and my old 5700XT going on mining, and I dump a few bucks here and there into my wallets.

I'll be busy stacking and buying more while its cheap cheap. I don't care if I "lost" $10 or $10k right now, I treat it like an investment. If it tanks then it tanks, whatever. But I'm holding out for crypto to buy me a house. Had the market not collapsed, it would have.....seriously. I had enough a few weeks ago to fully pay my down and closing costs. Now, not so much. Anybody reading my comments, please make note I am NOT a financial advisor. Please speak with yours before making any stupid decisions.

Buy buy buy!!!!!! Seriously though, I really doubt that its going to disappear or anything. This has happened so many times before already. I'm not falling for it again. It'll be back up on the next bull market.

With a full f@h load on it right now, I'm doing 206w, 58*C, and 2900-3k RPM. On my 6900XT MSI card. Using AIDA64 to monitor. Stock everything in drivers except a custom fan profile (and game stuff but that doesn't affect stability).

FSR works amazingly well on my 6900XT with Cyberpunk at 5120x1440. I look forward to this. RSR works surprisingly well too, and that works with every title. Seems both sides of the camp are actually helping gamers out lately with these new features.

Somebody much smarter than I will have to answer that one. Modern tech is definitely different than what I'm used to, and probably you as well to be honest. I noticed on my 5800x, instability wasn't crashing. Nope, not once. But it does result in lower bench scores, and lower framerates in games. I think there's active error correction going on these days to prevent crashing entirely. But I could be wrong.

When the AMD Driver hangs / crashes, you end up with low speed fans and throttling high temps. I've seen this happen on my RX 580's, on my 5700XT, and on my 6900XT. If your driver is crashing, there's something wrong. You're either unstable where you're at, or the card is borked in some way and needs to be RMA'd. It's also possible that its just simply boosting too high to be stable while folding too. You might need to turn it down to say ~90% of its "stock" boost clocks instead of letting it go full ham. Don't forget, Nvidia and AMD both do actively try to stop people from distributing computing projects (hence the hashrate limiter on 3000 series Nvidia). AMD does it their own way, by making certain loads unstable but yet gaming you're perfectly fine. Take my 6900XT as an example. I can game on it all night overclocked. I turn on F@H or mining on it, and I absolutely HAVE to turn it down a notch otherwise my drivers crash just like yours.

I use the "manual" fan control in the AMD driver suite. It ONLY fails to work on me if my card has crashed for whatever reason (usually the driver that crashes actually). A reboot and resetting the fan controls fixes it for me. During mining or folding, I haven't had any problems using the fan controls. If yours KEEPS resetting on you, you've got an unstable card and its time to RMA it would be my opinion. AMD drivers have come a long, long, LONG way since the 7950.

I JUST bought my 6900XT.

No I still have everything left at defaults. Also, I lost my fast internet recently and now only have 10 down / 0.5 up. So not hosting ANYTHING these days.

Don't mind me, just bumping the thread. Don't forget to fold everybody, our team numbers are coming down. I know its getting warmer outside......but points!

You know how I roll mate. By all means, fix it. It'd be fun and a learning opportunity. I'm just saying, that's not going to fix the source of the problem here, and that's the high distortion levels and lower (relative) power levels. I measured I think it was around 180w RMS to my 6.5" subwoofer, which only actually takes about 50w. Tuned down to 50w, its clean as can be and I can crank it as loud as I want till the sub itself starts popping because I have 180w available on tap for it. The same thing holds true for bigger / louder setups too. If you have a 500w subwoofer, it's better to have 1000w on tap for it and run your amp cleaner at 500w, than it would be to push a 500w amp to its max all day. Think of amplifiers like a computer PSU. Quality AND overhead > big numbers. Wattage is wattage, so yes, think of an amp like a PC PSU. You're currently running a Raidmax PSU to your sub, in that sense.

It was a 6.5" Tang Band in there originally, so that's what I'd go with. You smoked it from the THD at 10% with those Logitech amps. I'll say it again, I would NOT recommend fixing it as its just not worth it. If you really really want to though, Tang Band makes some killer 6.5" subs, go check out Parts Express. If you're wanting loud, and bass, and not to kill equipment you'll need a few things. You'll need more power available than the speakers can handle. You'll need less distortion, seriously the less the better (which is why overpowering is a good thing, it keeps it cleaner). And bass specifically, you need moving mass. The more air you can move either from cabinet folds, bigger driver, or just simply more power to the driver, the more bass you'll have.

Oh I can agree with both of your posts there. As I said originally, that article was as of Sept. 2020, so of course things have changed a little bit since then. Youtube is Google, Netflix is owned by Blackrock if I searched that correctly. It's not good news for actual creative people though, nor is it good news for consumers of media either. But, sadly, its been a problem for many many MANY years now. One of those things where, yeah its a problem, but what can we really even do about it kind of thing.

As of September of 2020, there were 6. 6 corporations that own ALL media in the US. There's a lot less "major" corporations involved than you think. Because things like CBS, NBC, Nickelodeon, etc, they're all owned by somebody else already anyway. Note, I didn't bother reading this article, nor am I linking it for the article itself. The graphics are enough, you can connect the dots from there through your own research if the article isn't sufficient. If you follow who actually owns your favorite media company, chances are its one of these 6. These 6 corporations control 90% of the media outlets in America. The illusion of choice and objectivity | Tech News | Startups News TECHSTARTUPS.COM

I'll admit I didn't read your post entirely, but yes.....I've been complaining of big businesses since ehhhhhhhh 2007 or so?

Like, this is so exciting finding this stuff lol. This means I have ALL of the software here to make a Win98 or 95, or even a DOS rig, and have it fully functional. Including Winamp for music (which I still use mp3's today). And tons of games that'll work.

You can bet on it once I get my K6 rig running properly, I'm going to try..... I actually WANT to create a dial up network system between a buddy of mine and me to play old games over dial up LAN.

I'm curious if my "People PC Online" disc would still work though. I have a home phone line. People PC Online is just old version of "Earthlink" which is still active today.

Did you save your 20 year old coasters? Because I didn't! C'mon, we all knew AOL was trash even back then in the 1990's. I'm surprised I didn't have a Netzero CD in there though. Probably one of the few missing discs, I noticed there was blank areas that probably weren't blank originally.

Updated OP with the listing. Here it is here too, in case anyone doesn't feel like scrolling because its a big list......

I'll have to test that soon, I found Midtown Madness Chicago. I'll have to write a list of all of these down tomorrow lol.

You guys will NEVER guess what I found tonight helping an old friend. I'll give you a hint, I'll be uploading them all to the internet archives hopefully in the next few weeks. I now have a flat out NEED to build a retro rig that can read CD's because a low speed drive is going to be imperative, like seriously I'll want to try to locate like a 1x or 2x CD reader if I can from the early 90's, just so I can rip all of these gently. I FOUND MY OLD ABSOLUTELY FULL CD WALLET OF OLD CD SOFTWARE!!!! Yes, some of them are copies, but 99.9% of it was all legitimately bought software of mine from back in Windows 98 till early EARLY first edition Windows XP. I just thought it was absolutely awesome and had to share. Software and Games list in this wallet: