neurotix

Hello guys! I love doing graphic design, but find myself without work for a long period of time. I thought I could offer to make graphics for members of the community to use as avatars or signature banners. See my portfolio for examples of my art. I can do: - Glitch art of your face or your rig or whatever, with the highlights/colors being any two colors you want - Cool gradients for a background - Circuit style traces with a copper gradient - Threshold filter on your rig or setup, basically a cool black and white version of whatever you send me - I can insert anime, manga, or comic book characters, actors, "hot" women etc. - Text in whatever font you want, check out dafont.com and let me know which one you like, or I could use the "Retro Computer" font (it's the one in my current sig image) - Brushes like clouds, paint splatter, swirls, techy circles or hexagon grids, blood dripping, flowers or plants, etc. These work like stamps and they can be in any color or gradient you want. - Can do a panorama of your rig sorta like my current Ai Crystal signature - A lot more, if you tell me what you want I will try and make it Avatars will be 500x500px and shrunk down by the site when you upload it. Signature banner size is determined by your member status. - Regular members are allowed a 250x90 sig banner - Premium Bronze is allowed 450X110 - Premium Silver is allowed 500x125 - Premium Gold is allowed 500x125 - Premium Platinum is allowed 600x150 Please post here if interested, just be aware that because of my pain issues and other stuff I may not respond immediately or it may take some time and this will be done on a first come, first serve basis. Also, my position and work on Foldathon banners, promotional banners for social media, and merchandise art comes first. When the art is completed I will pm you a zip file with the final .png in it, because the site compresses images when uploaded so you don't want to download it if I posted it in this thread as it will be inferior quality. Hope there's some interest in this. Thanks guys.

So an update on my pain condition. Remembering that it's my neck, my low back (which has gotten quite a bit better generally from the microdiscotomy procedure), and especially, my hips. I first saw a hip doctor who I never even met: just was attended to by his main PA. They took an MRI of my left hip and I have the cam and pincer impingement, as well as mild to moderate arthritis in the joint. I had steroid injections with a 3 inch needle and 40mg Kenalog in both hips. I hurt really bad from them for like two weeks. I went back, doctor said I needed a hip replacement. Referred me to a different doctor in the organization that does that. Anyway, he brought up my MRI and xray on the screen and said my arthritis in my left hip was mild and he thinks I have burcitis, which is basically an issue with the burca, basically something on the outer leg bone (where I don't have pain, my pain is in the joint itself.) He injected the burca with steroid- didn't hurt me, hasn't helped me. I've also been sent to do physical therapy for burcitis 2 times a week for 6 weeks, and I am going back to the same physical therapist I've seen previously for my neck and low back. I am sure she will take measurements of the angle of rotation of my hip joint before and after, and after will be worse. So essentially, I feel I've been misdiagnosed. Maybe if I do the physical therapy and it makes things worse (which is what happened with my back- on the function scale for low back, 40-60% is severely disabled. When I started PT for the low back the score was 50. Afterward, the score was 70, and 60-80% qualifies as crippled.) I might be able to get a hip replacement but I kind of doubt it and I think the doctor knows my insurance likely won't cover a hip replacement, I think there is also some reverse ageism going on because I get told I'm "young" and they don't want to give me a hip replacement because of that (I'm 38). Anyway, there's my update on what's going on with me. I had a good couple of pain days in a row, but am having a really bad time today, especially with sitting and with my left hip with a constant moderate ache. I hope everyone finds the relief they need. -neuro

So yeah, a few days ago I ran my card in Linux at it's normal OC with mem OC so it was folding with core clocks of around 2955-2940MHz or so, and the RAM was 12210. Those 2 days I did 27-28m points. This is folding almost nothing but project 18213. The last 3 days or so I just OCed the core to the same clocks but left the memory at stock, and I've done 30m. It seems like memory overclocks on the 4090 do not help and may actually negatively affect your points. I think @Avacado and @keeph8n are correct. See here: https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=1311203

Dunno if I'll do it or not, but yeah the higher boost speed plus DDR5 might help. EDIT: I don't play games much and yes I care a lot about better bench scores on HWBOT as I am in the top 100 in the US and top 100 in the Enthusiast league. I play Forza Horizon 4 and 5 and I haven't tested/benchmarked 5 on the Extreme preset, but on Ultra I get 162 fps or so in the ingame benchmark and I only have 70% GPU load doing so. All the rest if my games are older, I need to play ROTTR and that would run fine on like a 7970 and an old 4 core i7.

It's a shame how much of a letdown this has been. Do you guys think I would benefit in gaming from upgrading to a 7900x, G.skill DDR5-6000, and a Crosshair X670-E Hero? I'd also need to replace my Arctic Liquid Freezer II with an H150 to be able to fit the board. But I have the money. I really feel like the 5900x in Ai Crystal is holding back/bottlenecking my RTX 4090. I game at 3440x1440, 144 Hz. I think the resolution is high enough that CPU might not matter, but the framerate thing might need a faster CPU. If you think it'd just be a waste of money and effort for no gain, then let me know. (edit: psst I just really want that mobo in my build lol)

Yes, I really really enjoy doing it, and have been working on GIMP tutorials, collecting more brushes and fonts, as well as a script file that adds back in Layer FX that allows you to easily make glowing text, among other things.

Thank you everyone, I have put a link to everything I've done for the site (and a few other things) in my signature. It will be regularly updated, so perhaps we will see my progression over time, as I really really want to improve and do the best I can in this role.

I really want the Cooler Master keyboard but know I probably won't win it. I may actually pick one up for myself anyway.

It can be done with miniaturization, add more cores per CCD. Don't know how long we'll be waiting for that, or how what fabrication node would allow it, etc.

Yes, I had to planned to do that too. I personally am waiting for like 24c/48t 8950X, and a cut down 20c/40t 8900x, or something like that. I think core counts need to go up, they've been the same since Zen 3.

Gotcha. Here's my Genesis games: If you ever want to borrow any, let me know. You could pm me and I could ship them to you then you send them back when done. Also don't worry about the Thaiphoon report. Not upgrading. Will be returning the memory.

OK, no problem. The cup logo is low res. If you need me to make it bigger, let me know. (It's the one I found on Google) 90s cup logo.png.zip

@UltraMega I found a transparent version of the 90s Styrofoam cup pattern, and also have a better way of outlining text I applied to the logo. Hope this helps. It is fully transparent and should go on a white shirt, imo. 90s cup shirt.png.zip

Hey @Fluxmaven what Sega Genesis model do you have and what games do you have for it?

Thank you, because I have no work to do I am working on tutorials for GIMP. I am also considering starting/offering a signature banner service and avatar service in the general chat section, to design cool stuff for members to use. Not sure on that one yet though.

I was going to get the 7900x3d for benching and gaming, and bought a Crosshair X670E Hero and G.skill Flare X DDR5 6000 cas 36. Found out the Hero board had like over one inch tall heatsinks on the top VRMs that would not fit in my case (midtower with a thick AIO) returned the Hero board, will be waiting a month to get nearly $700 back from Amazon Now that reviews are out, and it's only 6% faster than Intel, but from what I understand the review guidelines from AMD told them to sandbag the Intel and only run 6000MHz memory on it (correct me if I'm wrong), yet users on this site like Bastiaan_NL are running Intel with memory speeds approaching 8000MHz, it means Intel is still faster with more highly clocked memory. I won't be upgrading. I was hoping for a 10% IPC improvement clock for clock, possibly more over my 5900x because it boosts higher, and an additional 25% performance improvement in games and benches. Making it at minimum 35% faster than what I have. But since that is not the case, and you also can't manually or per-CCX overclock it for benching, I'll continue to wait. How much improvement would I get going to a 7900x factoring in it can boost to 5.6GHz vs 5.15GHz on my 5900x? Pics of the beautiful board I had to return. I have also looked at Asus other X670 boards and seen a few B650 boards and they all look like they have too tall VRM heatsinks on the top to be able to clear my rad fans.

Hey also are you going to scrap the build and return your parts, or get one anyway? Or maybe get a 7950X instead?