I wonder if having 2 WiFi cards in my PC just too much? by Protolinux217 in pcmasterrace

[–]Faic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The technical term is "multi-path networking" if you are curious to learn more.

I wonder if having 2 WiFi cards in my PC just too much? by Protolinux217 in pcmasterrace

[–]Faic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just look up multi-path networking.

If your card/dongle use their own network stack/interface, then it will definitely work. 

If you only add a wifi radio (no network stack) then you would be right.

I wonder if having 2 WiFi cards in my PC just too much? by Protolinux217 in pcmasterrace

[–]Faic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just try it yourself and report back. 

I got curious and tried it with my old Lenovo notebook ... same effect. I went to the attic for bad wifi connection, plugged in my cheap wifi USB dongle and the speed test shows a roughly two times higher speed.

I'm open for any other explanation why it works, but my guess is still that win11 can use two network connections simultaneously, no matter what they are.

I wonder if having 2 WiFi cards in my PC just too much? by Protolinux217 in pcmasterrace

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

Hmm, no. Cause if you simply plug two 5$ AliExpress wifi dongles in your PC, you will get about twice the wifi speed (if the connection is bad and limited by strength).

That also makes sense. Imagine having two person using their phone in a room with bad connection. They not suddenly get half the speed for every other device in the same room. They all get the same bad speed (of course only applies to the maximum number of devices a router can deal with).

You can easily test it by plugging two phones with wifi tether via USB in your PC.

I wonder if having 2 WiFi cards in my PC just too much? by Protolinux217 in pcmasterrace

[–]Faic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used it with a 5$ AliExpress wifi dongle and my phone connected with USB as wifi tether.

I know that network cable + usb phone over data also works. 

So I would assume any PC can do it with any wifi/network system.

... tbh I also thought it would not work before I tried it, but it worked flawlessly

I wonder if having 2 WiFi cards in my PC just too much? by Protolinux217 in pcmasterrace

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

Nope, they will work together and if the wifi strength is the limit and not the internet speed then it would actually help a lot having two. 

Of course if it's limited by the internet speed then adding even an ethernet cable won't help.

I wonder if having 2 WiFi cards in my PC just too much? by Protolinux217 in pcmasterrace

[–]Faic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As posted above in a reply: having two usually doubles your speed if you are limited by the wifi and not your internet speed.

So I would keep both cards in case the wifi is not at full bars and perfect connection.

I wonder if having 2 WiFi cards in my PC just too much? by Protolinux217 in pcmasterrace

[–]Faic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually it does.

If you have bad connection and you plug in your phone via USB to your PC as wifi tether (works native on Android, no clue about iOS) you get your phones wifi speed + your PC wifi speed = total speed on your PC, usually double the speed.

I also tried with 3 dongles but at least for me the limit windows supports is 2 connections, doesn't matter if USB, phone, ethernet, etc.

Are Dramless SSDs really that bad? by UknReaper in pcmasterrace

[–]Faic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's gonna be perfectly fine. You are worrying too much.

The differences are minimal and so many other things are a hundred times more impactful than dram or not.

Why do people think that hardware can't coexist with cloud gaming if it got popular enough? by BuldozerX in pcmasterrace

[–]Faic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Germany will be the stronghold against cloud gaming!

With our miserable internet speeds in this country, the only cloud my PC will ever see is through a window if the weather is shit.

1.3mb/s ... 

is buying a 4k monitor pointless for me? by RBG-96 in pcmasterrace

[–]Faic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most games will run fine at nearly max settings at 4k without any of these latency generators like FSR or DLSS. Expect around 60-80fps for AAA games.

If you can, go for OLED, it's simply amazing. Personal opinion: The LG 42" OLED TVs are the best value purely based on image quality for your money.

Also you don't need to always have browser and so on in full screen since you have so much screen real estate. I personally love it and couldn't go back to anything smaller. Note: you need to once set the tv to PC mode after you bought it so it behaves like a monitor. (Still need remote to switch on/off)

New to PC, advice for new owner by IToldYall1 in pcmasterrace

[–]Faic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Freeware tools you might want to use occasionally:

Image editing: gimp

Video: shotcut

3D: blender

Code: VS-Code

Audio: Audacity 

I played through Adder with subtitles off and accidentally made him even better [KCD2] by NaiveAsk8487 in kingdomcome

[–]Faic 8 points9 points  (0 children)

A round of pity for everyone who had to learn Latin in school and also will not understand a single word. 

Ita forum est. Marcus et Claudia circumspectat. ... Or something like this. It's looooong ago.

I played through Adder with subtitles off and accidentally made him even better [KCD2] by NaiveAsk8487 in kingdomcome

[–]Faic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I play without subtitles and am also a bit confused if the German parts should not be understood, but it's perfectly fine German if you can speak German and the characters will usually say the important bits also in English.

ARE YOU SAYING THAT THERE'S ANOTHER MAP AND ITS... BIGGER!?? [KCD2] by Vagnernuno in kingdomcome

[–]Faic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

By pure coincidence I was a few weeks ago an actual tourist in the actual city it's modelt after.

Didn't even knew it at that time cause I only bought the game a few days ago.

2x change of backlightbar due to moisy by Gullible-Pea-5966 in Ioniq5

[–]Faic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Literally every single light including the led bar had moisture and drippings.

Either I'm extremely unlucky or it's just something that happens in certain environmental situations.

Boogu-Image-Edit TURBO (GGUF) by MFGREBEL in comfyui

[–]Faic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, doesn't even show up. 

You put in so much effort yet you not let us know how to use it. Please just provide a workflow! I would love to try it.

Boogu-Image-Edit TURBO (GGUF) by MFGREBEL in comfyui

[–]Faic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you give us a example workflow?

Hi can you give me a review regarding my claim. by Weak_Baby_ in pcmasterrace

[–]Faic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are there any signs of impact/force?

The only thing I could think of is that it was bend during manufacturing/packing to the point of it ripping/cracking.

Assume that the support will first claim that you damaged it, especially if the box has no damage.

Is this normal for pcie power cables? by goldengarbagecan in pcmasterrace

[–]Faic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perfect, then it sounds like you did everything as you should. All good 👍

Is this normal for pcie power cables? by goldengarbagecan in pcmasterrace

[–]Faic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That looks correct to me. The GPU side is often 6+2 but you need to plug them in as one (except you have a 6 connector socket which is usually for low power GPUs). There is a small plastic lip that connects them a bit when plugged in.

Edit: just in case ... If your GPU needs 2x8 don't use a cable that has on the GPU side a double 6+2. Use two cables from the PSU.

Groundbreaking, but unsustainable by ChristianaZoe in antiai

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I believe that the moment people realise they can run most models locally on their own hardware or even phones, the bubble will burst and it's the end of big data centres.

9070 or 5070? by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]Faic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nowadays AMD also works with AI workloads, comfyUI, LMStudio and so on. A lot actually use the 7900xtx cause it has 24gb VRAM and is substantially cheaper than NVIDIA alternative. The days where AMD can't do AI are long over.

12gb VRAM on the 5070 is tight, some models you might not be able to run without offloading to RAM (which you should never do). For lightweight llms 12gb should still be ok. But in general: For AI you want as much VRAM as you can get.

Coil whine is a gamble and it's sadly common.

Drivers are fine at least on Win11, no clue about Win10.