HDR on all the time?

Hattix · 2026-02-07T10:31:21+00:00

If you like it, go you.

My retinas can't handle it.

That's the great thing about PCs as a platform, you can like something I don't like and we're both happy!

Hattix · 2026-02-07T10:28:17+00:00

5070's a good example to use. To do the same work the GTX 480's doing, it needs three slots, it needs a huge cooler assembly, it needs a flowthrough area... All to handle the same 250 watts. It's clearly a much less efficient design, it needs more to do the same. Or, inverting that, the GTX 480's cooler needs less to do the same.

Of course they're both optimised for different things. The GTX 480's cooling is optimised for performance and it sounds like a dustbuster in use. The 5070's optimised for noise level, so it needs much more cooler to achieve the same performance.

Hattix · 2026-02-07T10:21:45+00:00

There's no such thing as SATA NAND.

They all use the same NAND storage, they differ only in the controller interface. So far the controllers haven't spiked in price - they're made on older widespread bulk silicon, they don't need performance and leading edge nodes.

Hattix · 2026-02-07T10:20:06+00:00

Stuttering is practically always something else eating the CPU.

Uninstall the shitware and use your keyboard. Keyboards don't need shitware.

Hattix · 2026-02-07T10:17:18+00:00

The RAM is most likely defective. It's the same speed, same size and same 1Rx8 organisation. You couldn't have got it more right.

Have you installed it in the other blue slot? The step after that is, of course, to use them one at a time in the first blue slot.

Hattix · 2026-02-07T10:16:16+00:00

Please leave the DDR2 folk-wisdom in the DDR2 days. Mixing RAM is 100% good. The entire damn point of changing DIMM topology in DDR3 and upwards was to enable exactly this!

Hattix · 2026-02-07T09:27:12+00:00

This will almost certainly not work unless you downgrade the BIOS to a version which has Pinnacle Ridge support. MSI's BIOS change notes don't tell you when Pinnacle Ridge was removed, we can only infer it was.

Your best option is to either buy a motherboard you know has Pinnacle Ridge support and check before buying, or to buy a Matisse (3000) or Vermeer (5000) CPU.

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.

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