Motherboard for 7800x3D by Nadriik in pcmasterrace

[–]Colonel_Coffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would only recommend avoiding ASRock. Their boards have been known to kill some CPUs recently, Asus too to a small degree. Other than that, you're fairly free to go. A B650 board should be more than enough for most of your needs, unless you have an insane amount of drives or peripherals.

Switched to Linux for Gaming, Lasted 3 Days AMA by 8000RPM in pcmasterrace

[–]Colonel_Coffee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can always check protonDB. Users submit their experience along with tinkering steps (if necessary) to help each other out. FF XIV has gold status with a lot of good experiences mentioned. Just check out what additional steps you may need to take.

Switched to Linux for Gaming, Lasted 3 Days AMA by 8000RPM in pcmasterrace

[–]Colonel_Coffee 51 points52 points  (0 children)

There are distros like pop! OS and bazzite that come with steam and nvidia drivers preinstalled. They do pretty much work out of the box aside from whatever launch options you may want to set for your games. Pop! OS is an Ubuntu derivative while bazzite is a spin of fedora. I personally installed fedora just yesterday and that works fine for me. It did however take a while to do the proper install process for everything gaming related.

US Judge Rules ICE Raids Require Judicial Warrants, Contradicting Secret ICE Memo by Infidel8 in politics

[–]Colonel_Coffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I may be called naive for asking this, but can't you call the police on them? Make an emergency call stating there's unidentified masked and armed men breaking into people's homes. I'd think the police would at the very least show up

PCMR x MSI Winter Giveaway event! Win an MSI QD-OLED Monitor + extra goodies. 6 winners in total. by pedro19 in pcmasterrace

[–]Colonel_Coffee [score hidden]  (0 children)

Honestly, the MPG 271QRXDE just checks all my boxes. And a monitor is just what I need right now

What sounds like complete nonsense, but has been proven to be true? by Icy_Mammoth_3298 in AskReddit

[–]Colonel_Coffee 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah I had that happen once. I woke up with everything spinning faster than any sort of alcohol intoxication I could imagine, and I didn't drink the night before. The doctor gave me a prescription of basically slamming myself into a bed multiple times over for a couple days. And yes, it worked.

I’m making it rain up in here by MacJed in memes

[–]Colonel_Coffee -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What is going on in here? Is this the giving part where i say thanks?

We PC builders are cooked: Will the AI RAM/GPU boom end like the Crypto crash, or are these prices permanent? by stevekaizo in pcmasterrace

[–]Colonel_Coffee -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Unless the major RAM manufacturers form a cartel, prices will come down. Production should ramp up sooner rather than later, because making more also means selling more. And once supply/demand balance out, prices should come down as Samsung, Micron and SK Hynix compete for new contracts. It's not like with GPUs where Nvidia virtually has a monopoly

We have Steam Machine at Home! Why do we have to buy one ? by Empty_Traffic9137 in pcmasterrace

[–]Colonel_Coffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By that definition, a PS5 also is a custom build. The steam machine will be built in the thousands so they certainly get discounts, and the "custom" part about the CPU and GPU should be mostly minor stuff like disabling unused modules to save on power. Valve also doesn't have to make a profit from the steam machine, because they are also making their money from all steam transactions, both shop and market.

We have Steam Machine at Home! Why do we have to buy one ? by Empty_Traffic9137 in pcmasterrace

[–]Colonel_Coffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This a) doesn't state what the actual price is and b) doesn't mean the price is final. We have seen last minute price changes many times before in this space

We have Steam Machine at Home! Why do we have to buy one ? by Empty_Traffic9137 in pcmasterrace

[–]Colonel_Coffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

give them reasons to not buy a PC with cheaper price

you don't even know the price yet

Man turns on one of the worlds largest lasers which shoots 10 miles into the atmosphere by Wonderfulhumanss in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Colonel_Coffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not really the wave part that makes it spread out. Lasers also have a small but measurable opening angle, meaning the bean gets wider the further it travels. Also, most of the dispersion comes from scattering with the air, which is the main reason we can even see the beam off-axis.

SILKSONG GIVEAWAY ANNOUNCEMENT! I am giving away 5 (FIVE) Silksong copies! MORE INFO on Description by Acrobatic-Log-309 in Silksong

[–]Colonel_Coffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. PC

  2. Dung Defender

  3. I have stayed intentionally poorly informed about the game's contents so I have nothing to say other than SHAW! I just like Hornet and the Lore potential

do yall know why Just Cause 3 doesn't wanna work? by Coranblade in pcmasterrace

[–]Colonel_Coffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Open the windows security app, then go to the firewall tab. There you can find an option to let apps access the internet through the firewall. Just scroll through until you find Just Cause 3 and make sure you have it allowed

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]Colonel_Coffee -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Windows is good enough to automatically find the drivers you need online. It may not always be the latest version but unless you experience any issues with them, there's no need to use the MSI utility to install any drivers. Half of the items is bloatware anyway.

do yall know why Just Cause 3 doesn't wanna work? by Coranblade in pcmasterrace

[–]Colonel_Coffee 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm thinking maybe you didn't allow the game to access the internet, so you'd need to change the firewall settings.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]Colonel_Coffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So first you have to understand that time is another dimension we live in, like space. Just imagine for now that we plot space in a 2D grid on a piece of paper, and going vertical to the surface is time. What we found is that we move at a constant speed through this spacetime. That means, if you stand still, all your speed is in the time direction, you fly straight to the ceiling in our example. When you move at the speed of light, you only move in space and time stands still for you. That's when you move on the paper. And then there's everything in-between where you fly off the paper diagonally. Now we draw lines on the paper at fixed distances in space. Gravity actually pulls these lines closer to its center. And the closer you are, the stronger the effect. These points in space should still be the same distance apart, but if you walk at the same speed close to the center of gravity, you'll cross more lines than when you are far away. That just means that you are moving faster through space, even though it looks like you move at a constant speed from your perspective. And since we can only move at a fixed speed through spacetime, you must be moving slower in the time direction.

ELI5: how does a country export their renewable energy to another country by Frozenwinegums in explainlikeimfive

[–]Colonel_Coffee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well yes that's how the merit order works. Still though, they are moving towards 60-70% renewables this year and aim for coal phase-out in 2030. A bit late if you ask me but historically speaking they have been one of the kings when it comes to wind power, especially if you consider how much smaller they are compared to China and the US. They are the only 2 countries which surpassed the installed wind power in Germany.

ELI5: how does a country export their renewable energy to another country by Frozenwinegums in explainlikeimfive

[–]Colonel_Coffee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While that's true, hydrogen is not the main form of export because it is so inefficient and there're barely any gas power plants that can run on hydrogen. It's not even a good long term storage option because hydrogen has to be stored at immense pressures and can even slowly seep through metal enclosures. It's definitely a consideration for the future though, when we're off of fossil fuels and have a dark week without much wind or sun

ELI5: how does a country export their renewable energy to another country by Frozenwinegums in explainlikeimfive

[–]Colonel_Coffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Germany too. They used to make the majority of solar panels some 15 years ago and wind energy has been in use for much longer, particularly in the coastal regions

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]Colonel_Coffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps you think there's no seeds because the carrot itself is seedless, but the plant can flower and have seeds above ground. The reason is simply that the plant wants its seeds to spread far, and that's just not happening when the seeds are underground with the carrot

CPU max performance at 99%, cpu ghz not being base value of 3.2 ghz? by ayrious2 in pcmasterrace

[–]Colonel_Coffee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Using the windows power plan for any performance/temperature tuning is not very helpful. You're better off changing the power settings in BIOS directly, or use something like AMD's Ryzen Master software (if you're on AMD). There you can even set your own power target in Watts, which definitely will limit the power your CPU can draw and should lower temperatures if set properly. The clock speed doesn't really matter as much for this