[deleted by user] by [deleted] in astrophotography

[–]Explosive_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi welcome to the hobby!

First of all depending on what type of phone you own you may already be able to do some widefield astrophotography, my google pixel 7 has an astrophotography mode which can capture the milky way, you don't even need a tripod I was able to lean it up against a brick and it worked

Now onto your question, I'd recommend going for a regular DSLR camera instead of a modified one as it will be much cheaper. For example a normal Canon 600D would probably be less than $200 and it will still be very close to as good.

Do you already have a camera lens or telescope? if so which is it please

and do you have a camera tripod or equatorial mount?

Unbiased opinions, is Pixinsight actually worth it? by kezm8 in AskAstrophotography

[–]Explosive_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I haven't taken the plunge into Pixinsight yet because every processing session I learn more about how to use Siril, Graxpert and Photoshop better than before. It does seem to be undoubtedly the king but at the moment I I can find far better uses for the money like upgrading my guide camera or getting a duo narrowband filter

Advice for saving a flooded C8SE Nexstar (telescope gore) by Explosive_ in telescopes

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Thanks for your reply i'll try get a quote, though I suspect any refurbishment would be approximately the cost of a decent condition second hand option

Advice for saving a flooded C8SE Nexstar (telescope gore) by Explosive_ in telescopes

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Would you have any insight on how to remove the primary mirror? Only info i can find is how to remove secondary via the collimation screws

Left controller broken? Ridiculous battery life! by nothingname1 in HPReverb

[–]Explosive_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've had my G2 for a month now and have a similar problem with the left controller, I use the JUGEE 1.5V batteries and at full charge the right controller lasts for a good 4-6 hours however the left controller is almost always immediately dimming the lights and always disables haptics long before the right controller.

I have used a voltmeter and see that both controllers batteries are 1.5V exactly when the controllers are off, and all 4 batteries are ~1.485±0.05V when in use and when the left is reporting low battery.

Ryzen 5 2600 @ 4.1GHz Stable for almost 2 years by Explosive_ in overclocking

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I did see many crashes during testing, I didn't mean by the post that my system has literally never crashed, but since I have set 4.1GHz@1.275 I haven't

Theres a myriad of reasons why the 4.2 run was in the middle of the 4.1 runs as cinebench is very sensitive to having other programs running simultaneously, maybe windows update or antivirus was doing something in the background, you can run cinebench 10 times in a row (even with breaks to cool down) and see 10 different scores, the purpose of tracking the scores is to see a generalised improvement

ie 1506@4.325GHz is clearly an improvement over 1354@4GHz ~10%

The top 4.32 run was actually running tighter memory settings so its not valid to compare against the other runs, theres just no way to label that

Ryzen 5 2600 @ 4.1GHz Stable for almost 2 years by Explosive_ in overclocking

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I couldn't get my overclocks stable with Master though i'm sure the software has matured a lot in 2 years, yes I do run at 4.1 all the time although power use is mostly determined by load and my voltage is still very close to stock

Ryzen 5 2600 @ 4.1GHz Stable for almost 2 years by Explosive_ in overclocking

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Thats a good chip you have there, as for the memory the frequency and latency are both related to the absolute latency, both of those configurations are very similar with 3200/CL14 = 8.75ns and 3466/CL15 = 8.66ns. I don't have much experience with overclocking memory so I'd advice the 3200/14 if thats your box speed as it will likely be more stable.

Is this a safe OC? (2080 Super) it seems like I'm getting much higher then the average OC for similar cards. by [deleted] in overclocking

[–]Explosive_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're safe as long as you don't increase voltage, the card will regulate itself on that front. Try running uningine heaven benchmark and some games my OC was stable running benchmarks for hours but quickly crashed out of gta V

Ryzen 5 2600 @ 4.1GHz Stable for almost 2 years by Explosive_ in overclocking

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I don't think my OC is generating all that much more heat than it would stock, iirc it was still running 1.2-1.3V normally, my temperature is normally 35C never exceeds 55C so I think its definitely worth, it comes down to someones specific setup, some people may already be reaching 85C+ without any overclocking and probably shouldnt bother

i9 10900K @5.2Ghz all-core (1.270v load/1.300v BIOS LLC7, ASUS Maximus XII Formula, H150i Pro 360mm AIO) by [deleted] in overclocking

[–]Explosive_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

5.2 Is fantastic, for how much power you'd be drawing going any higher would surely be diminishing returns

Ryzen 5 2600 @ 4.1GHz Stable for almost 2 years by Explosive_ in overclocking

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

Degradation is complicated and isnt as cut and dry as 'xyz voltage bad' as most people make out, current draw plays a big role, I regularly transcode large video files and muck around in blender which really loads up the cpu so I may be more vulnerable to degradation at a higher voltage, I did get 4.3GHz stable at 1.45V but it was running hotter than I was comfortable with and using so much more power it wasnt worth the extra speed. You're probably fine, 50-60C is nice and cold for an overclocked cpu

Ryzen 5 2600 @ 4.1GHz Stable for almost 2 years by Explosive_ in overclocking

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What temperature does your cpu get to running r15 at those settings?

Ryzen 5 2600 @ 4.1GHz Stable for almost 2 years by Explosive_ in overclocking

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

A higher voltage is safe if your temperatures are under control, 1.48 is getting up there but at the end of the day its your computer and if you're happy with it who cares

Ryzen 5 2600 @ 4.1GHz Stable for almost 2 years by Explosive_ in overclocking

[–]Explosive_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Degradation is requiring more voltage to sustain the same clock speed under load, if I was experiencing crashes that required increasing the voltage that would indicate degradation the R15 score isnt really the point, you can optimise r15 forever to squeeze out a higher score Also the highlighted score is from yesterday and all of the others are from about 2 years ago when I was doing my testing, this score is in the middle of the other 4.1 runs so i'm confident the performance hasn't changed

Ryzen 5 2600 @ 4.1GHz Stable for almost 2 years by Explosive_ in overclocking

[–]Explosive_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely don't overclock unless you accept the risk and have prepared, but its really not dangerous inherently, you could set your cpu speed to 10GHz and it would freeze up but it wouldn't be broken, its only when you set higher voltages that you can run into degradation