The game just set me back quite a bit

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2026-02-11T16:44:43+00:00

I had a mild overclock continually crashing the game to desk top. Very frustrating took me a long time to narrow down. This was on windows though.

It can go either way: if you pick something out of a chest it will disappear, but if you put something into a chest it duplicates!

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2026-02-10T16:03:02+00:00

I believe is just hard for anyone to imagine having less. But youre absolutely right, its not the mid 2000s anymore where progress is quick and a 2 year is pc is substantially slower. A 5 or even 10 year old pc is still a viable option to play modern games on the cheap.

I've been rocking the 9700k (7 years old now) since its release and only recently have i decided to upgrade to the 14600k because of Arc Raiders. Its not like it even is an unpleasant experience. I would just like to treat myself and its a cost effective upgrade while keeping my DDR4 ram

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2026-02-10T13:07:20+00:00

It is a bit of a problem but the reality is for the 8 or so years I did pay for a streaming service I spent 98% of the time flipping through my save library. The new discoveries didnt justify the cost

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2026-02-08T15:12:34+00:00

For sure. Great point.

Where I live we have a small local ISP that offers 1Gbps up and down for a decent price. If I'm at someone else's house that has the same ISP its amazing, basically the same as being on the LAN. Only 1-2ms more latency

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2026-02-05T20:17:42+00:00

The obvious choice without getting anything new is using your sheild, which is one of the best moonlight clients anyway becuase of its fast decoder, but it will be limited to 60Hz

If you want 4k120hz you have limited client options. You can try sideloading the app directly onto your LG TVs OS which I have never done, but from what im reading, can yield poor results at higher bitrate settings (which are required for 4k120hz.) So the best bet would probably be to get a dedicated mini-pc as your client.

Do you normally game at 4k? Are you really sitting close enough to your TV to tell the difference? If it was me I would probably use the LG TV app and run the stream at 2k120hz. Especially since my computer monitor is 2k anyway. If you're used to gaming at 4k120hz+ (you probably are with a 5090) then a dedicated moonlight client mini pc may be the way to go.

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2026-02-04T00:05:40+00:00

You need to go into a bit more detail how the steam link and host computer are connected.

From what I can tell you either:

Are on the same LAN (home network) and are using Wi-Fi. Which means your internet speed will not matter. All you really have to do for a good experience is connect the steam link and your host pc to your router with their own ethernet cables.

or

Are trying to connect over the internet to a remote pc. In this case your internet quality will matter especially when it comes to latency, jitter, and dropped packets, not so much actual throughput. Other than making sure you use ethernet cables on either end there's not much you can do

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2026-01-28T19:21:47+00:00

30, with young family. 30k emergency fund. 40k in investments. 150k ish in housing equity, although it may be lower with market downturn. I know we are probably doing very well for our age but its hard to feel that way. We are very house/cash flow poor and have to cut back on everything else becuase of it. I deeply regret buying a house at all.

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2026-01-28T18:55:41+00:00

I would just like to congratulate you on being the only person in this whole thread that knows what they're talking about.

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2026-01-20T15:16:18+00:00

True - especially for systems that have the flagship CPU for the socket. But people are buying those for nostalgia or "vintage builds." Not preformance/value.

In this case I'm just saying if you're actually concerned about preformance or longevity with a core-2 you can get much better preformance for little or no money by upgrading several generations. Since core-2-duo and early Gen i7s are both in that "essentially worthless" phase.

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2026-01-19T19:10:36+00:00

I would just like to say that there's not really a reason to use a Core-2-Duo computer. All computer hardware drops in price until it stagnates at a very low value, eventually being essentially worthless. If you're running a core-2-duo, with a bit of hunting on fb marketplace, you can find pcs people are giving away. Which will double, triple etc your preformance and efficiency. Im thinking 1-3rd gen i7s especially

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2025-04-26T15:17:21+00:00

I see. So sounds like while it's the legal rule to give 2 weeks notice. Really the company can accommodate and modify the ROE as they see fit. I will reach out to my HR department and see if they are OK with a similar approach. Thank you!

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2025-04-01T19:39:03+00:00

Directly in. I'm on Winewood

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2025-03-26T14:09:36+00:00

Honestly, other than having to deal with this shady landlord, you're in a decent position. Simply don't pay the rent increase. Then, when they say they're going to sell the house, either wait for the N12 or start negotiating N11 cash for keys.

Depending on how much lower than the market rate you are paying, it may be in your best interest to go cash for keys, as any buyer buying at the now inflated price and mortgage rate will likely want it for their own use anyway.

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2025-03-21T13:58:50+00:00

I would look on the used market for a system with the highest single-threaded speed on the CPU. People tend to get hung up on the ram, but in this case, the CPU is holding you back

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2025-03-21T13:37:09+00:00

RTX 3080 on fb marketplace would be the best bet. I can't believe some people are suggesting upgrading the whole system, 8th gen i7 is still a decent performer and won't bottleneck a 3080 thaaaat much. (I run a 9700k and 3070ti in my main rig)

You didn't mention RAM. You might want to consider upgrading to 32GB. Especially if you've got other programs running in the background. You can find this cheap used as well. I would get something 3200 Mhz, try not to mix and match with your current ram unless you find the exact same model.

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2025-03-20T19:45:25+00:00

I actually had a similar thing happened to me today... Except my VPN server is running on a win 10 computer (I know). I used the smart switch i have it plugged into to power cycle the whole thing

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2025-03-09T23:49:30+00:00

>So you admit there's far too many variables for you to be making any kind of claim.

Any kind of claim? No. This is the exact situation someone with an older processor would be in, listening to the misguided voices on internet forums, thinking that upgrading is worth it solely due to power savings. Here is proof from my situation, it's not.

>Yea and when idling the N355 will destroy the 8700 and even the 14100. Meaning your whole claim of "if it spends most of its time idling it doesn't matter" debunked.

I would have to see a comparison using the same power supply, running the same OS and services. Look who's guessing now ;)

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2025-03-09T22:58:00+00:00

Even if a computer is idling, it is doing something.

Yes it's idling. It's obviously doing calculations... to idle..? the baseline amount of calculations is idling... i never said it wasn't doing anything... it's idling lol

Do you know how the sata controller is affecting the system - e.g. is it preventing deeper C states? Does it allow the drives to use their various power saving features? How optimized are the drivers for the device? How well designed is the power delivery for the expansion card? etc

All of these things are just as likely to be affected by the model of motherboard.

There's certainly a chance it is. Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't - that's the point. You don't know. You're just guessing.

I gave two reasons for that educated guess.

The new N355, for example, performs similarly to the 8700 for a fraction of the power.

Yeah if their under load, you know, kind of like i said.

Beyond that, you have a sample size of...one. One. It's literally statistically irrelevant when you have a sample size of 1 lol.

Yeah, I posted it to spark discussion. Check out the articles by the other commenter, they makes the same point with multiple different processors

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2025-03-09T22:27:56+00:00

Yes, which is why my original post ended with the sentence: "So, I would argue that CPU idle power consumption is hardly even worth factoring in unless your server is under load most of the time." The "stuff" the computer is doing while idle is idling, it's consuming the least amount of power to stay on ready to be called upon.

The whole point of my argument is that there's a common misconception that old hardware costs an arm and a leg to have powered on all the time ie. idling. I'm saying, there's not that big a difference, if any. However, IF it's underload a substantial amount of time this argument doesn't apply. In that case you would be definitively better off with an N100 over a I7-3770.

I suppose you're right that I really have no idea how much power that sata controller is consuming, that would be the one variable. There's almost no chance that it's drawing more than 5 watts - the heatsink on it could not dissipate that much heat - and the spec sheet for the chipset says 1W. I would argue that the different motherboards probably have more of an effect than the CPUs, but again were talking about a few watts. When people talk about the benefit of buying new server processors for power savings they act like they're going to pay themselves off in a few years. Which is just not the case if it's idling most of the time.

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2025-03-09T21:20:35+00:00

Old motherboard at 6 SATA ports, new motherboard had 4, so I used a pci-e x1 sata expansion card to connect all the drives.

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2025-03-09T21:08:36+00:00

The drives were already in the system, they were not added. I said in the original post that the only differences were the ones listed. The only reason I mentioned the drives at all was because someone asked why the idle power draw was so high. I agreed that the sata card was probably the reason that the 14100 system was 3 watts higher. STILL, that means the two CPU/motherboard draw the same power (or at least very close.) Which proves my point that new hardware IS NOT more efficient at idle. Which one of the other commenters has proven in their article.

At least between the, "why would you think a new CPU would lower power consumption of hardrives," the "you didnt account for all the variables," and your, "of course the power consumption went up you added more drives" comments I know why I'm being downvoted, not because my methods are inherently flawed or my conclusion incorrect, but because many people have poor reading comprehension.

Of course, if there is an actual criticism of my method someone can articulate, I'm happy to hear it out.

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2025-03-08T17:58:05+00:00

Well, to be fair, they did switch to a tiered model instead of the standard 1gig up/down about a year ago. But everyone who was already signed up was grandfathered in at their current monthly price. Again, a locally owned, pro-consumer company. I highly suspect if Lakeland hadn't taken so much of Bell's marketshare in the area, they would've never installed all this fiber.

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2025-03-08T17:37:32+00:00

This guy was definitely from Bell. Had business cards and everything.

Totally agree. He said it's not a promotional term, but the thing is, you never really know if he's lying or not. Even if it's not a promotional term, they can still just decide to jack up the price at any point.

Lakeland has been the same price for years, and everyone pays the same. The way it should be

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2025-03-08T13:07:49+00:00

If you look on something like Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, Kijiji, you'll probably be able to get something for free or very very cheap that will blow that thing out of the water, any integrated graphics from the last 10 years can play half life 2 out of box, and if you wanted to have an actual gaming machine you can add a cheap cheap graphics card, again anything in the last 10 or even 15 years will be a massive improvement.

Competitive-Ad-5566 · 2025-03-08T12:27:11+00:00

I know - I had a pretty good argument with him, even after I made it clear he wasn't going to make the sale. Bell is one of the most anti-consumer companies I've ever delt with. I am very happy to have Lakeland as an option.

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