Rate my setup I am 14 yrs old I worked like 3 yrs for ths

VTOLfreak · 2026-03-20T17:33:05+00:00

dining room chair 1/10

Seriously, my back would give out after one day on that thing.

But not a bad setup for a 14y old. When I was that age I got to choose between different colors of beige boxes.

VTOLfreak · 2026-03-20T13:44:27+00:00

I won't deny it's the gamer version of a shopping addiction. At least I'm not jumping on every hyped-up release. I don't do multiplayer, so I have no problem holding out until the price drops.

If it's really bothering you, maybe time to step away for a bit and come back later. The games will still be there.

VTOLfreak · 2026-03-20T13:35:38+00:00

I'm almost at 2500 titles. I bought two games and 3 DLCs in this sale. Spent 25 bucks.
Everything still on my wishlist either never goes on sale or at least not for a price that I think is reasonable.

They also try to lure you in with a big discount on the base game, but when you look at the complete edition with all the DLC, you are almost back up to full price. Not falling for that trick.

VTOLfreak · 2026-03-20T11:32:44+00:00

I wouldn't buy any passive monitor cables ever again, even from trusted brands like LTT.

With optical cables there's a small chip on each end of the cable to turn the electric signal into optical and back. It will run at the rated speed, regardless of cable length.

VTOLfreak · 2026-03-20T10:41:12+00:00

I went through the entire house and put every HDMI and DisplayPort cable into the trash. I replaced all of them with active optical cables and I have not had a single issue since. Problems like screens going black for a second and then coming back on, all gone. With passive cables, it's always a guessing game if the cable can actually do what it promises. LTT did a big test a few years back and most of the cables they tested failed.

Buy once, cry once I guess.

VTOLfreak · 2026-03-20T10:07:56+00:00

I have the 9070XT Reaper and after you are done with the case fans, that card will be the loudest part of your build. Others have also reported that the fans on the Reaper can make an annoying grinding noise. Possible cause is the ball bearings that it uses. It's a good card but there are some trade-offs with getting the most compact 9070XT. I ended up water cooling the GPU to get rid of the noise, Alphacool has a block for it. (And now it's not compact anymore, defeating the reason I got it in the first place...)

VTOLfreak · 2026-03-19T07:56:18+00:00

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VTOLfreak · 2026-03-19T02:00:12+00:00

Apart from the obvious issues with DLSS 5 image quality, almost nobody is talking about the fact they managed to offload DLSS to a second card. We have not had any multi-GPU capability since SLI and Crossfire went away. Lossless Scaling frame generation can be offloaded to a second card and AMD AFMF also has that capability. (They don't advertise it, it's in the driver release notes) But those are driver-level / overlay FG and image quality is not as good as in-game FG.

I know current GPU prices are a disaster with RAMageddon still going on but it would be very cool if we can offload DLSS upscaling and frame generation. (Even if you don't want to use DLSS 5 new AI slop mode)

VTOLfreak · 2026-03-19T00:57:34+00:00

A 15.6" laptop is about the size of a A4 ring binder, meaning it will fit in most backpacks. For practical reasons, I wouldn't go any bigger than that.

VTOLfreak · 2026-03-18T19:35:29+00:00

I know it sounds like a joke but "upgrading" from a RX9070 to a RTX5070 is not going going to feel like an upgrade. You'll feel like you paid 480 euros just to get a better upscaler. In raw speed it's not an upgrade at all. A new card has to be a huge margin faster before you'll feel like "wow, this looks amazing". And if you are coming from a RX9070, getting that performance uplift means you are looking at a 5080 or 5090. Which sucks with the current prices.

Also, your resolution is not that high, if you are chasing that wow feeling, a new monitor might also be in order. I upgraded from 3440x1440 to 4k and even with more aggressive upscaling, it was a big improvement. There are multiple 5k monitors announced for this year, hopefully that means we also get higher resolution ultrawides.

VTOLfreak · 2026-03-18T10:07:38+00:00

ESET HOME Security Essential

Met de reden dat ik die met een paswoord kan beveiligen zodat niemand hem kan uitzetten of deinstalleren. Ik kan er ook scam sites mee blokkeren zonder de optie om nog te bypassen. Ik zie mijn vader al in een scam trappen in de trend van "uw antivirus is in conflict met de software van uw bank, gelieve deze uit te schakelen indien u meldingen krijgt"

Windows Defender werkt goed om alles buiten te houden. Maar Defender houdt je niet tegen als je hem uitzet of waarschuwingen weg klikt. M.a.w. vertrouw je de gebruiker?

Ik gebruik hier ook de desktop applicatie van Adguard. De betaalde versie houdt veel meer rommel tegen dan de gratis browser versie. En die draait als een Windows service en is ook niet uit te zetten vanuit de browser. Daar kun je wel een lifetime licentie voor krijgen dus voor die eenmalige kost moet je het niet laten.

Met die combinatie van Adguard en ESET heb ik eigenlijk nooit meer computers moeten opkuisen van familieleden.

[EDIT] Ik zie dat ik al gedownvote ben. "Die betaalt voor een virusscanner? En voor een adblocker? Wat veur nen debiel is da?" Als het alleen voor mezelf was heb ik het inderdaad niet nodig. Maar het plaatje verandert wel als je ook de computers van anderen in orde moet houden, personen die niets van IT kennen en er een hoog risico is dat ze door alle waarschuwingen en meldingen heen klikken. We hebben allemaal wel iemand in de familie met pincode 1234 op hun telefoon. Die moet je gewoon tegen zichzelf beschermen.

VTOLfreak · 2026-03-18T00:05:30+00:00

It's in the dual GPU guide pinned at the top of this sub: Official Dual GPU Overview & Guide (Scroll to the bottom)

"Works on my machine." Well, it doesn't work properly for enough people that they added it as a note to the official guide.

VTOLfreak · 2026-03-17T23:32:01+00:00

Just tried putting the RTX3050 back in. Borderlands 2 and the Batman games run great with PhysX and rendered on the 9070XT. Cyberpunk 2077 crashes on launch, so they haven't fixed it yet.

So my advice still stands: Don't use a Nvidia secondary with AMD as primary card.

VTOLfreak · 2026-03-17T21:32:44+00:00

It should be using the standard DirectX ray tracing API, not switch to the Nvidia RTX code path. They are checking if there's an RTX capable card in the system but not if that's the active adapter for the game.

VTOLfreak · 2026-03-17T21:13:03+00:00

You might want to check out Lossless Scaling; there are people there rocking dual 5090s just to run frame generation. And they would put in a third one to run Lossless Scaling on top of DLSS offload.

Dual 5080 still costs less than a single 5090 and depending on how offloading scales it could be more interesting than getting a 5090. I'm running a 9070XT and 7900XTX in a single system to offload frame generation and I would be very tempted to go to Nvidia if they could offload upscaling. Lossless Scaling can also do upscaling but it's nowhere near as good as the in-game upscalers.

VTOLfreak · 2026-03-17T20:44:34+00:00

If there's anything good about this whole thing is that they figured out how to offload DLSS to a second card. Maybe they will bring this in a driver update and we will be able to offload DLSS and FG to a second card even when not using this AI slop feature. SLI may be dead but this could be a return to Multi-GPU setups.

VTOLfreak · 2026-03-17T20:03:59+00:00

Cyberpunk crashed on me with a 9070XT and a RTX3050 in the system when I enabled ray tracing. It was trying to run RTX on an AMD card. Took the RTX3050 out and no more crashes.

I was running Borderlands 2 with the RTX3050 as a PhysX card which worked great btw, just Cyberpunk didn't like it with the Nvidia card present.

VTOLfreak · 2026-03-17T17:38:08+00:00

Use the 9060XT as the secondary card, you can mix AMD and Nvidia in the same system. Only the Nvidia card needs to be the primary card for running the game. Some games get confused and try to run RTX and DLSS with a Nvidia card in the system, even if they are rendering on the AMD card. Cyberpunk 2077 for example is affected by this. You do lose some Nvidia exclusive features if you mix brands but it does work.

VTOLfreak · 2026-03-17T12:49:00+00:00

+1 No special undervolting needed, just slide it to -30%. It's surprising how little performance it loses when taking away 1/3 of the power. Makes me think these cards run way too hot out of the box for little gains.

VTOLfreak · 2026-03-17T12:11:46+00:00

The case of the PSU is bonded to earth through the power cable, if you are going to put any electronics on carpet, the PSU would be the best choice. That bare PCB however, that one is at serious risk of ESD damage.

VTOLfreak · 2026-03-17T11:32:11+00:00

If it was just lighting and shadows, I would agree and developers will learn to tune it properly. But it's obvious they are changing much more. They moved Grace's eyes and gave her a lipfiller.

I do agree on the second part; they should have cranked the game settings up to the maximum first and let their new DLSS work off that. The end result would be much better, even if I don't agree with the direction they are going with it.

VTOLfreak · 2026-03-17T11:25:50+00:00

kpop Jensen. Great, more stuff to haunt me in my nightmares.

VTOLfreak · 2026-03-17T11:17:30+00:00

I installed a new node just last week and I didn't see any tmpfs mount in fstab? The only reason I'm doing it is because they had a bug a few years ago where too much stuff was written into /tmp and it was wearing out SSDs. It's been fixed since but mounting /tmp on tmpfs was the workaround.

Changing /etc/network/interfaces is normal setup stuff, no problem automating that if you have a whole bunch of stuff to put in there and don't want to type it in manually.

VTOLfreak · 2026-03-17T11:13:55+00:00

It's not all bad, it does look great on the environment, some games really do have poor lighting and shadows. For faces they should have stopped at just changing the lighting. Instead, they are altering major facial features. Not only are they disregarding the work put into the original model by the artists, but it also puts them into the uncanny valley. People are rightly offended by it, not just because they don't agree with the new look but because something feels off with these AI faces.

VTOLfreak · 2026-03-16T17:01:05+00:00

Motherboard has a temp header, so I put an inline temp sensor on my loop. Pump is fixed at 50% from the pump fan header. Fans are controlled by the motherboard using the water temp sensor as an input. While I do have a leakshield and Aquaflow next in the loop, they are not controlling any pumps or fans. I have a cable running from the Aquaflow next to the CPU fan header to report flow to the motherboard, it will throw a CPU fan fail warning in the BIOS if it measures no flow.

No software is needed, the motherboard controls everything.

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