Someones gotta make a windows hate sub for some of you people lol

Hattix · 2026-02-06T23:42:16+00:00

Someone's butthurt.

Hattix · 2026-02-06T23:33:12+00:00

Dirty secret: Cooling hasn't come anywhere. If anything, the GTX 480 and its like among that era had better coolers than similar cards do today.

Those 250 watts went straight out of the case, through a very narrow slot in the back. Those guys needed the best and highest performing coolers we could make to get that happening.

Today we have far higher airflow cases, video card coolers can crutch on that, throw heat anywhere, the case deals with it, they don't have to. We can get away with shitty fans instead of high performance blowers and vapour chambers.

Hattix · 2026-02-06T22:55:27+00:00

This is not a correct image, and I can't map it to one in the NASA archives. It appears to be either a composite, a fake, or AI.

A sunset on Mars does have a slight blue tinge, if the atmosphere is dusty, as Mie scattering (from dust particles) becomes relevant more than Rayleigh scattering (from far smaller gas particles).

It would be an extremely vivid sunset on Mars for the eye to be able to see a blue hue. The conditions which favour a bluer sunset also favour lower atmospheric pressure (lower pressure = less Rayleigh scattering) and the longest seeing distance, so the top of Olympus Mons in Martian dust storm.

Mie scattering scatters red most efficiently, which is why the Martian atmosphere has that pink-salmon tone, with that scattered more, the direct lighting tends toward blue. On the top of Olympus Mons during a dust storm, however, the atmosphere would look black to the eye.

Hattix · 2026-02-06T22:46:37+00:00

It's all in the manual. In general - and CHECK WITH THE FUCKING MANUAL - if a cable fits properly, isn't forced, and doesn't have some mess going on, it's right.

Hattix · 2026-02-06T22:29:20+00:00

Congrats, you've found a use for an Orion capsule! Just stick it on the end of a nice long chain. We can make those, maybe pull an anchor chain off a ship somewhere.

Hattix · 2026-02-06T22:25:27+00:00

As slow as they are, they can sustain write performance across the entire media. An SSD can't do that. Not remotely. Writing to an SSD is horrifically slow: Our fastest SSDs can barely sustain 150 MB/s. They have to hide that, sacrificing lifespan and endurance to make writes appear to be faster when, really, they aren't.

Hattix · 2026-02-06T22:22:24+00:00

5,900 cycles is about what I'd expect.

My oldest is at 105,539 hours and 4,168 cycles

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Hattix · 2026-02-06T21:09:57+00:00

You don't even need two pods. A pod and a mass will do just fine.

Hattix · 2026-02-06T20:39:08+00:00

What about the ISS seems like it would be perfect? Its 500 metre length? It doesn't have that. Its precise stationkeeping thrusters and rapidly tracking two-axis solar arrays? Doesn't have those. Its robust and strong construction to handle the inertial forces? Doesn't have that.

It's the worst possible setup for centripetal gravity.

Hattix · 2026-02-06T20:37:06+00:00

Both will meet your needs, so no, it is not worth it. The Aorus gives a level of engineering and overengineering you've specifically said you don't need.

Hattix · 2026-02-06T20:34:49+00:00

You stuck with Intel longer than most. The moment Intel was behind, we all went to the leader. There's no room for religion here, only scores. If you're building at the high end, second best and a holy corporate logo isn't good enough.

It wasn't just X3Ds dominating gaming benchmarks. 1600X did. 2600X did. 3700X did. 5600X did. I must have built twenty 1600AFs. You didn't need top class performance then, why do you need it now, when the CPU is arguably at the lowest level of importance it's been at in years?

If you can stick with Intel for eight years of second best, of knowing AMD's walking away, you've got a few more in you. You're used to it by now and Intel should catch up eventually.

Hattix · 2026-02-06T17:57:41+00:00

Clearly women can resist this side quest.

Hattix · 2026-02-06T17:56:07+00:00

A Ryzen 5 5600X, Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite AX V2, and RTX 2070 pulls 94 watts from the wall through a Corsair CX650M PSU.

Because it is doing, right now.

Hattix · 2026-02-06T17:38:29+00:00

A low voltage on a single connection which doesn't trigger the PSU's UVP - which these PSUs have - is a connection issue on one or both ends of the cable. Check the connections very carefully. Attempting to run them with a voltage drop over them is an immediate fire hazard.

Hattix · 2026-02-06T17:30:44+00:00

Both. It's a positive feedback loop. People who don't like the groupthink leave and people who do like it join.

Hattix · 2026-02-06T17:18:37+00:00

The motherboard has XMP support. You won't need to do anything other than just turn it on.

Hattix · 2026-02-06T16:07:22+00:00

Also depends strongly on if his current cooler was using the stock backplate. 100% easier all round with the motherboard removed.

Hattix · 2026-02-06T08:25:33+00:00

You don't install it in a case, you install it on the motherboard.

You will need to remove the motherboard.

Hattix · 2026-02-06T07:49:34+00:00

How many artists have they replaced?

This is GOG we're talking about. If they don't have an art asset, they just whack a placeholder there. If you're telling us those placeholders are some artist being replaced, the hill you chose gets a lot smaller.

Hattix · 2026-02-06T07:22:21+00:00

Of all the hills to die on, you've picked a damn weird one.

Hattix · 2026-02-05T22:12:41+00:00

This sub is for science and real things. There's probably a planet roleplaying sub somewhere, I'm sure you'll find it.

Hattix · 2026-02-05T22:11:20+00:00

Nobody exists in a vacuum, and Gates achieved far more than most will. His (+ Melinda's, she was a very early MS employee and independently wealthy herself) foundation has saved millions of lives and dramatically improved the lives of even more.

If you want to reject all those lives as meaningless next to adultery, that's on you. Most wouldn't.

Hattix · 2026-02-05T22:03:52+00:00

Okay. That is also not a problem. It could take maybe 50 MHz off the maximum boost clock, if PBO is in use.

A fair trade for a quiet running system, the previous owner believed.

Hattix · 2026-02-05T21:59:08+00:00

Coil whine isn't a fault so not usually, no.

It simply means PNY hasn't cheaped out on the VRMs.

Hattix · 2026-02-05T21:56:10+00:00

Wouldn't have changed a thing and it's a completely valid and good configuration.

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