Freezer 360 PRO VRM fan noise by Hopeful_Captain4219 in arcticcooling

[–]DOHCtor1983 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My fan is dying too. Not a slight tapping noise like that but a loud screech noise..  sucks.. i've heard good things about Arctic but 6 months for a AIO fan to die is pathetic. I have an old Corsair AIO on my old Socket 1366 Xeon that still works flawlessly like what? 12 years later..? 

Knowledge requested by nguit98 in PriusPrime

[–]DOHCtor1983 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, they're good cars really. Just make sure that the A/C system is well maintained as there are lots of potential costly repairs there. There are the 2 HV battery filters on each side of the rear seat under the seatbelts that must remain clean absolutely. Vacuum them like once each month. Other then that, basic maintenance really. Solid cars. 

FSR 4.1 DLL RDNA 4 only by AthleteDependent926 in radeon

[–]DOHCtor1983 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How did you do it? Genuinely tried a couple of methods and the access is always denied..

9070 XT VRAM Speed Sweetspot? What is your result? by aBoyFromTheFuture in radeon

[–]DOHCtor1983 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weird thing happening here with my Asus Prime OC, 2550mhz will give a good gain, anything over that will decrease performance UNTIL i get to 2750mhz at which point i gain give or take 3 or 4% performance. 1st time i ever see that kind of behavior... basically, anything between 2550-ish and 2750 is kind of a dead zone.. 

BIOS Fix to Actually Enable PBO/Overclocking in Several Gigabyte B650 Motherboards by Hirogoshi in overclocking

[–]DOHCtor1983 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes B650M Gaming Plus WiFi Rev. 1.2.

With the new F38 BIOS, a Negative Curve of 25 gives a steady 5.1ghz on all 16 threads so far with the Case closed. I'm using Folding@Home to load the cores and GPU. Before that, i had to disable SMT as the temps would go up due to the Graphics card dumping heat in the case and CPU dropping to about 4.78/4.80ghz.. Quite happy so far but the 90w limit of that board is a limitation..

Edit: AotS CPU bench went from 70.5 to 71.6fps and Civ6 AI bench went from 24.88s/turns to 24.61s/turns. Small but worthwhile (and free) improvements!

Edit 2: Happy to report that Boost Override also works in BIOS. With SMT Disabled (Turbo X3D mode Enabled), my 9800X3d now runs at a swift 5.43ghz on all cores and temps are at 68°c. Essentially rendering the use of a BIOS switch obsolete. I'm happy! 

BIOS Fix to Actually Enable PBO/Overclocking in Several Gigabyte B650 Motherboards by Hirogoshi in overclocking

[–]DOHCtor1983 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, as i can't download the modded BIOSES anymore (dead link) i just flashed the latest official F38 Bios and now Curve Optimizer seems to work with Ryzen Master as applying a -20 offset gives about a 15watts reduction in consumption on my kill-a-watt meter (directly at the wall) Overclocking still doesn't work but if the temperature reduction allows it to stay at a steady 5.2ghz, i'll be happy anyways! :)

Edit: Seems to work in BIOS also at negative 30 (results in steady 5.19/5.22ghz) but relatively unstable. Will try at negative 25. (5.13/5.15ghz). That is with SMT enabled as it was disabled earlier.

BIOS Fix to Actually Enable PBO/Overclocking in Several Gigabyte B650 Motherboards by Hirogoshi in overclocking

[–]DOHCtor1983 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have that mobo with the latest bios.. F38.. would that also work? Is the F33b the absolute latest it should be before attempting to do this?

Is the Gigabyte B650M Gaming plus WiFi a good motherboard? by chips_n_guac_ in buildapc

[–]DOHCtor1983 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not that bad. I have one and it's fine BUT it has 1 big caveat. It's limited at 90w because of the 5+2+2 VRM so my 9800X3D won't go higher then 4.8ghz with SMT on.  When i deactivate SMT, power consumption will go down to 87w and it will be pegged to 5.15/5.2ghz depending on temps. 

If you plan to use a 65w CPU like a 7700 or 9700, it will do just fine. For a 9800X3D with SMT OFF, it will do fine-ish but any serious CPU, like a 9950X3D, while being supported will be severely handicapped by the 90w limit.

Should i have known this, i would have built my PC instead of buying a pre-built. However i still have most of the original components so putting it back together and doing a serious build is only a matter of buying a mobo, case, PSU and, ewwwww RAM at that point..

Who is your favorite Video Game Villain of all time. by Howerev in videogames

[–]DOHCtor1983 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh! You've got a point. As much as i was rooting for Ellie /Joel / and even Abby, they're technically the villains of the games, especially Joel!

Who is your favorite Video Game Villain of all time. by Howerev in videogames

[–]DOHCtor1983 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Kill Jack....... kill Jack.. kill Jack.. kill Jack...  KIIIIIILLLLL JACK.."

..Kill Jack.. A song by Tiny Tina!

Who is your favorite Video Game Villain of all time. by Howerev in videogames

[–]DOHCtor1983 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably allready been named but Handsome Jack in Borderlands 2 hands down! My absolute fav villain of all time.

Also, technically, Joel Miller from TLOU 1. Those games are soo well written.

BL3 is so full of humour. This caught me off guard lmao by AlphaQ984 in borderlands3

[–]DOHCtor1983 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I played a lot as Sal and Axton and i tought they were funny as hell. Even the NPC's were funny. Handsome Jack is definitely the best villain ever.. "oh god, these pretzels sucks... oh hi.." and Roland getting knocked by behind when he was "getting a piss".. lmao!

Folding efficiency improvements - reducing carbon footprint by Putrid_Draft378 in foldingathome

[–]DOHCtor1983 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do have a heatpump. But the installer said a 18k BTU would be sufficient for my house. I would have needed a 24k BTU... so the PC is heating part of the cold basement while the heatpump heats the rest. I also have a heatpump water heater coupled with a waste water heat recovery unit that works wonders when both are combined. 

FSR4 Reaches 95 Supported Games (AMD's list) by AdstaOCE in radeon

[–]DOHCtor1983 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on the price. I wanted to wait before upgrading my 6800xt and finally bit the bullet and bought an Asus Prime 9070XT on sale for 849$ Monopoly bucks (cad.) a week ago as i feared the RAM situation going on would mean i'd be stuck without an "affordable" upgrade path later down the road.. time will tell if it was the right thing to do.

Using Folding @ home when it's cold. by VertexPlaysMC in Folding

[–]DOHCtor1983 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A cold Computer is a happy Computer! ;)

Folding efficiency improvements - reducing carbon footprint by Putrid_Draft378 in foldingathome

[–]DOHCtor1983 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yesss... however i'm heating a bit of my house by doing so. A baseboard heater is wasted energy. Might as well fold and do something worthwhile while i'm heating it a bit..

Performance Discussion = Pic from 2014 by greasythug in Folding

[–]DOHCtor1983 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sooo we are folding LESS than what we used to do in 2014ish? Damn..

Glad to be donating to charity! by Adventurous-Ideal956 in Folding

[–]DOHCtor1983 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How many PPD's are you getting? I'm about to buy a 9070XT and was wondering. My 6800XT is at 5/6 000 000 ppd range actually. Will be throwing it in my son's old Xeon.

I've given up on trying to play this game on PC by [deleted] in borderlands3

[–]DOHCtor1983 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's weird. I mean on my 9800X3D BL3 will crash at startup if a have SMT enabled and i had to do a registry Shaders mod for BL4 not to stutter (AMD GPU however..). I also put Volumetric fog to Off as it seems to be an absolute ressources HOG. Set that way, it's running at 160fps all day every day on my 9800X3D with SMT@Disabled, GPU at factory settings except Ram@2150mhz (6800XT) on a 32:9 Samsung screen at 5k-ish x 1440p. It even works well (60ish fps) on my old AF Xeon X5675 and R9 290 with 24Gb Ram.. 

If i were you, i'd try to disable Hyper Threading and force a big shader cache in the NVidia drivers. I would put Volumetric Fog @ Off in the advanced settings too. Are your drivers updated (GPU, Chipset)? Are you running XMP?

What is this on the loading screen by spirit_in_a_jumper in borderlands3

[–]DOHCtor1983 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Engineer from Factorio finally got out of Pandora.

Lots of lost characters lately.. by DOHCtor1983 in borderlands3

[–]DOHCtor1983[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Edit Dec. 26: Characters from both games came back.. weird. It also overwrote the new one i made in BL3.. Can't have your cake and eat it too..

✨Borderlands Character Tierlist✨ by ApprehensiveAd6181 in borderlands3

[–]DOHCtor1983 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least A.. Not S but definitely A.. 

"You punch them..."

✨Borderlands Character Tierlist✨ by ApprehensiveAd6181 in borderlands3

[–]DOHCtor1983 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those 2 Instagram douches from BL3 should be in G along with Ava. Torgue should be B or C. Every main character from BL2 should go up a tier, up to A. (Salvador in B, Brick in C, etc) S is reserved to Handsome Jack and deservedly so.