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I'll go ahead and make Storm-Chaser do some extra work too, why not? 4.3GHz all core overclock applied, RAM and IF still at 1867 on a 1:1 ratio. Just did manual multiplier and voltage instead of PBO. Seems like I'm getting decent improvements overall here at 4.3GHz.

Just drove by the house tonight. Somebody with deep pockets is looking at it too. I get the feeling it's a flipper. Guess I'm not getting a house like this. My realtor said she'll drive out there tomorrow, but that doesn't help if someone else is already on it. Ugh.

Oh I've already started credit "repair", I just derped and kinda spent too much of it. $450 card and paypal credit (ebay addiction screwed me on that one ). If I pay both of those off, which is easy peasy, I noticed my score boosts immediately up to like 680-700 on my credit karma. Talked to my realtor today, and she's not entirely hopeful about that house, seeing as its in "preforclosure", which apparently just simply means the home owner is 30 days delinquent. I'll be keeping my eyes peeled on it. Realtor said she's going to send them a letter with her business card to see if they're interested in selling it to me, so we'll see. I guess she's going to continue looking for me to see if she can find my dream home. I don't care that much, running water, electricity, and a functional roof is all I really require....and land, I want a few acres.

Yeah I'm going to be calling my realtor here in about 20 minutes. The price absolutely IS too good to be true, and I'm sure its probably a mistake or something. There's no way I could get that lucky lol. However, for $67k, its worth a shot to look at anyway. The land itself is worth approximately the $67k all on its own. My parent's quite literally JUST bought 4 acres a 0.5 mile away for $150k, bare land. This is 3 acres for 67k with a double wide already on the property. I'm not entirely sure yet about the property, but it looks like an old junk collector had the property previously as there's like 20 cars parked on the property on google satellite images. My guess is that the previous owner ran into money problems, they started selling their cars (I saw empty spots on the satellite images), and had problems paying their mortgage so they took it over. That's my guess.....but again, I don't know till I contact my realtor. @BWG, yeah I'll hit you up on discord or steam here in a bit if you're online!

I know its not tech related, but I'm sure at least SOME of you folks are probably home owners. Anybody here happen to know anything about buying HUD pre-foreclosed homes? I found a STEAL of a deal on a 2.5 acre property. 3br house on the lot. Looks to be a farm type property, I see what looks like a horse corral and fencing in the satellite pictures. I'm just curious what all things I need to be asking, and what all steps I should be taking here. I've contacted my realtor, she wants to get me pre-approved first, but I have a feeling I'm likely going to need a co-signer first. Not sure. But guys, its a $67k house, 1440 sq ft, on 2.5 acres........I'm sure I can find a way to get that kind of a loan somewhere. Apparently it last sold for $149k in 2016 and is currently valued at $221k. So really, a loan would be money in the bank to any banks that'd finance it. Shoot, I could pay that off in 5 years time no problem! The only hangup is going to be my credit, its not the greatest. -_- Ex wife problems. Sorry, just excited but also trying not to get my hopes up too high lol.

Outside my budget range big time, but wow. AMD just keeps stepping it up with their CPU's. This would be killer for server usages, assuming you can get enough PCIe lanes.

I'm torn. On one hand, I dislike Nvidia because of their monopolistic tactics they've used. I dislike that they're ALWAYS closed source (Gsync, PhysX, etc). I dislike that they pay game developers to optimize JUST for their equipment at times. Lots of things I dislike about them. So in a way, I almost feel like like this is just absolutely hilarious. But at the same time, this is horrible for their customers, and especially for people naive enough to fall for the malware.

I have writer's block already.

My opinion? Both sides are wrong in this. War is bad. But its equally bad purposely provoking a world power too. What do you think is going to happen if you keep poking a sleeping bear? I think each country needs to keep to themselves, including our own countries respectively. If you can't play nicely, don't play. Russia meant business when they said they didn't want NATO so close to them. That needs to be respected. Ukraine means business when they say they don't want to be a part of Russia. Fine. I'm sure we could've reached a safe middle ground there had things gone differently. Obviously political here, but yeah our own country (the US) is in absolutely NO PLACE to be dictating what another country is doing. That goes with our tech sectors too. We rely too heavily on other countries in current times to have any say in what they do. We shouldn't be telling other countries what to do anyway. I don't get why we can't just all get along like we were just 2 years ago. -_-

No need, but thank you very much for the offer. I'm sure they'll have my fan fixed in no time....... See, the problem is, I live in an upstairs apartment. I get all the heat from my neighbor below me, and from the sun beating down on the roof. It's not exactly hot outside yet; however it's been getting upwards of 90* in my apartment all sealed up. Luckily I don't need heat right now, but man some fresh air circulation would be nice. Can't open my back sliding door, no screen + lots of bugs. Can't open my bedroom window (where my folding rig is), as its right next to the sidewalk leading to my door up here.....meaning somebody could just hop in through my window if they wanted in. And the living room window is broken, doesn't open or shut. -_- Apparently they'll have somebody out here to fix my "attic fan" by 3/8.

Bump, c'mon guys and gals. I can't be the only one here dumb brave enough to volunteer!

Closest MC to me is quite literally 3 states away. -_- Best I've got is Walmart, but they suck now since they don't even price match themselves. Worst Buy is still here, but they don't carry parts just TV's and Beats tm garbage.....I was denied a job there once as a drop out from high school because I was over qualified. -_- Oh yeah, Office Depot is still here too, but they never had stock in the store even before all the craziness hit. Newegg was my savior for PC parts. Now.....now I have ebay.

Alright guys, I have to cut off my team folding rig for the time being. I cut power to it early this morning. We lost our HVAC system fan yesterday and with everything running, it got up to 95*F in my apartment last night with the one window open that does open. Apparently maintenance can't get the thing replaced until the 24th, which I thought they had 24 hours to fix your only source of heat, but whatever. It's not heat I'm worried about anyway since I can fold to make heat. Just grrrr. -_- If anybody can toss another card in to cover me, that'd be wonderful. I'll get mine back up and online as soon as I have air circulation in here again.

What do you mean the view looks too dark / sharp? To address sharpness, one thing you could do is lower your resolution. If you have a 1920x1080 monitor, you can try something like 1366x768 or 1280x720. To address darkness, besides the brightness control, there's also contrast. I might suggest playing around in your graphics driver settings for color correction and / or contrast / brightness. That'd work on the laptop. On your desktop monitor, you CAN also mess with the settings on the screen itself, or in the driver settings.

Fixed. Reminder, we've had the ability to flash / mod OUR OWN dang cards since GeForce 6 series I believe it was (6600GT era) and Radeon 9000 series back in the 90's / early 2000's. This is a function they've removed in recent times. Not asking for much, just restoring functions we've always had available to us. EDIT: And I think its quite dumb that we have to beg "hackers" to restore functions simply because the manufacturers have deemed those functions not allowed. Not allowed, on hardware we've bought and paid for and own. If I want to light my GPU on fire, I should be allowed to. If I want to chuck it out a window of a moving vehicle and watch it get run over, I should be allowed to. If I want to flash it to hopefully unlock some hidden features that were disabled for one reason or another........I should be able to.

My face when the hackers are actually threatening to do good......

Yeah, they're playing their hit single, "What is a Microchip?".

Well, where can I start writing up rough drafts for ya then? EDIT: I'd be interested in covering memory, motherboards, and / or GPU's if it helps any. I see a maximum of 2 per person, but those are the 3 areas I feel I'd know the most about to be useful. I think I'd write waaaaaaay too much on the topic of GPU's though. So depending on other's choices, those are the areas I'd like but I'm not too terribly picky. EDIT2: While we're at it, I'll toss in a basic write up for audio as well as a free bonus!

Not really. There's a lot of considerations put into buying cards for mining. If these have a higher hashrate than current gen, which they will, and that hashrate is equal to or greater than older cards at the same power consumption, you can bet on it miners will buy them. It's all about the hash to power ratio that miners look for. 600w during gaming doesn't mean 600w during mining either, as miners generally tune their cards down to like -40 to -50% power too. Just saying, don't count your chickens before they hatch. Besides, miners aren't THE reason cards are hard to get ahold of anyway. It's supply and demand. There's a demand for cards, and the manufacturers just aren't making enough cards. Why? I couldn't tell you. I'm just asking to not blame a customer for the actions of the companies. I could say I'm a miner today and complain that gamers are buying all of my mining cards too, the gripe can go both ways. GPU's are multi-use, and sometimes we tend to forget that they're not JUST for gaming. Mining, gaming, rendering, CAD work, there's a LOT of uses for GPU's, those are just a few that I personally know about. Source: Used to mine heavily with RX 580's back when GPU's were a plenty. EDIT: Also, its very interesting how this trend is going. We used to try so hard to get a GPU into a certain power form factor, and now its like the gloves came off at Nvidia and they just don't care about power consumption anymore. By all means, I'm for it. I just find it odd given that these GPU's are soft "banned" in certain states due to their power requirements.

I agree, I am also glad to hear this. I'm not even sure what all this NFT stuff is all about, but from my understanding of it you're just paying for digital art basically in so many words. It's bad enough that our games are no longer physical in any sense of the word. It's bad enough that there's day one DLC's and stuff of that nature. We don't need to be adding even more "nothing" that we're paying for. If people want to buy NFT's, that's fine. But please, powers that be, don't start putting these ridiculous things into places they don't belong. As far as their quote on crypto though, I do think they're a little mislead. And I quote, "Like, why did I spend $497 one day to buy a game, and the next day I spent 47 cents, what's going on here? Volatility is a bad thing in a medium of exchange,". That right there tells me they weren't accepting crypto as a payment, but instead as an alternative payment for the USD. If I spend 0.01 BTC on something, I've spent 0.01 BTC. The price of the dollar has nothing to do with the amount of crypto you've spent other than if you want to exchange that crypto for another currency form. It's like complaining about exchange rates of the Canadian dollar, or the Euro. Another example would be holding crypto too though. If I'm holding say 1 BTC, I'm not holding $40,000. I'm holding 1 BTC. The value of that 1 BTC doesn't matter until I try to exchange it for a different currency. Stocks are the same way. If you have 100 shares in Microsoft, you have 100 shares of Microsoft. You don't have $29,700. You have 100 shares. If you sell half of your shares for roughly $15k today and tomorrow the price sky rockets, you still have 50 shares left. You didn't magically lose money.

Just a few months ago that "tool" was praised by all the tech sites. They helped spread it. -_- And the comments.....ugh. Let's get this clear, yes there are people that use GPU's strictly for profit. Yes, they buy a lot of GPU's. Is that a problem for gamers? No. The problem is that supply isn't keeping up with demand. You can't blame people for taking an opportunity with their money or with their hardware that they paid for. As a gamer, why not mine a little yourself and recoup some of the cost of your hardware? Personally I think all the rage at miners is kind of silly. We're just pointing fingers at each other in the enthusiast communities without actually holding the people accountable that are responsible for the shortages. Mining is profitable. It makes perfect sense to utilize it if you can. Gaming is fun, so of course that ALSO makes sense as a utilization of the hardware. Both are "correct" uses. The finger pointing needs to stop. GPU's have NEVER been solely for gaming. We all enjoy hardware for one use or another, why can't we just agree that hardware is cool and its multi-use? Stop pointing fingers at end users, and start pointing them at the manufacturers, suppliers, and silly arbitrary rules that stop a functioning free market.

I could probably write a few of those if you needed. Problem is, I don't really consider myself an "expert" in any of those areas though. More of a tinkerer that occasionally catches things on fire. I'm also not entirely sure how in depth you are wanting these either, I really only know the basics and how to put things in laymen terms.

It's good news yes. However I'm still in agreeance that we need alternative "stores" to buy our games at outside of Steam. Totally okay with Steam existing, but seriously......enough of the installing 3 different launcher clients just to get a game running on Steam. -_- I'm looking at ALL of these idiot developers. If your game is on Origin, great, good for you EA. If you decide to put it on Steam too, DO NOT force Origin on there with it too. Same goes for Bethesda and all the others. Quit using their marketplaces as DRM options, then I'll decide to start buying their games again. Steam.....you guys too. Competition is a good thing, which I know, I know.....this isn't exactly competition as Steam "won" in this instance. I don't feel its so much the fact that there were other alternative stores, its the fact that they were being installed whether you wanted them or not just so you could play the game you payed for on a different store. Maybe we can someday soon have the enjoyment of buying our games on different online stores, and NOT having 3 different forms of "stores" being installed as DRM. Maybe.

I've been on a 90's kick again lately so this is what I'm listening to right now..... Was the first song I ever chose myself as a kid to like, after branching out from my parent's listening choices. Ironically I still like the stuff they liked too though, weird.

I'll just leave this forbes article here from 2015, where Microsoft stated that 10 was "the last version of Windows", and that the future of Windows might be open source they claimed. Gee, almost as if they lied....... Why Microsoft Announced Windows 10 Is 'The Last Version Of Windows' WWW.FORBES.COM Is this really the end for Windows? Like we know it, yes...