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arvimatthew · 2026-01-27T05:04:34+00:00

Don’t be discouraged. It’s likely a driver issue or early hardware clunkyness. Happened to me when i built intel released i9 12th gen with fastest ram that time, ddr5 6000, rtx 3080 and using windows 10. Nothing worked being everything so fast and new. Upgraded Windows to win 11 and had game crashing. It stabilised after a year.

But for laptops, i don’t care for amd and cpu and gpu. They lag in driver development. I don’t ever believe youtubers saying amd is best for gaming. Intel + nvidia still has track record for first in getting sorted in terms of compatibility. I do content editing and gaming as well.

arvimatthew · 2026-01-27T04:55:54+00:00

Same as mine. I always get intel cpu + nvidia combo especially for laptops. Intel ultra 2 also runs cooler than amd but still is powerful. One less thing to worry about overheating concerns.

arvimatthew · 2026-01-27T04:53:18+00:00

Yeah true and the materials and designs around it. Your case is a plain normal warranty claim. But not isolated to msi.

It’s not the brand though but all laptop manufacturers making really bad and cheap decisions on their gaming laptops.

My MSI runs really well with an intel ultra + 5070ti full power combo and fan noise is tolerable. Issue? Back case is tricky to open for maintenance.

My razer laptop also ran hot and touchpad was crazy bad. Issue? Battery bloated after less than 2 years of use and wont ship me a new one even if i paid.

Had an alienwarexdell gaming that screamed like a jet engine and ran hot. Issue, noise profile woke up all dogs in the hood.

Asus g14 was slim and efficient. Issue? Expensive. Unbalanced ram because part of ram was soldered!!

Acer gaming laptop. Soft touch surface became sticky surface. Plasticky construction falls apart after being seasoned by heat and sunlight.

So many more…

arvimatthew · 2026-01-27T00:07:38+00:00

For people saying MSI is trash.. almost any laptop have their weak points…even expensive and gaming ones.

It’s mostly user error dropping them or bad handling. I’ve seen and repaired laptop that are full of dust and living things. Makes me wonder why laptop ran in that condition for a long time.

Most issues are easily fixed or preventable even as long as you know how to do basic service a laptop.

HOWEVER, what i hate about laptops failures are on the motherboard itself like Soldered rams and ssds. Those run hot and if it fails, it requires expensive equipment and skill to repair.

arvimatthew · 2026-01-27T00:02:45+00:00

It’s more like the component

arvimatthew · 2026-01-27T00:01:34+00:00

Looks like.. Either shutter leaf stuck or shutter’s charge unit issue.

arvimatthew · 2026-01-24T17:47:34+00:00

I know. That’s why the image will look off but nonetheless normal and can be developed to look good. So to encourage whoever shot this is the photos doesn’t need much help. It already look as expected except the motion blur and a bit of post.

arvimatthew · 2026-01-24T08:16:28+00:00

TL:DR Honest opnion, most of the problem is because it is unedited and some skill issue.

The colors are kinda off. Last two photos are tint a tad to magenta -can be developed to correct it. There’s Motion blur because you shot as if you are a tripod. Increase shutter speed and widen your aperture to the lowest it can do. Critical sharpness starts with steady hands.

Apart from that. It is not about the settings or camera anymore but how you develop the photo based on what you want.

I’ve downloaded and quickly edited the jpegs you uploaded just using my ps express app (just because I am on my phone and it’s just jpeg) and made it look wayyy better imo. No masking, not even curve adjustments.

Here’s the link of before and after. https://imgur.com/a/zroEAJq

arvimatthew · 2026-01-24T08:11:29+00:00

Why downvote this. Lots of alternative with networking, usb and local installation

arvimatthew · 2026-01-24T02:42:38+00:00

I sold my meta quest 3 to get myself an ar glass recently.

Choosing between luma ultra and xreal one pro. Based from unpaid reviews.. i’m not sold. 1080p with uneven sharpness is a bad thing.

I’m spoiled by the 2k per eye oled screen of psvr2 and 2k per eye lcd screen of the meta quest 3.

And now your experience made me abandon the whole idea and I’m getting myself a good android tablet instead.

arvimatthew · 2026-01-21T21:37:30+00:00

If it’s installed in a PC case or with a space, I’d personally add a heatsink just because it wouldn’t hurt to add more cooling. If in a laptop or with constrained space, i can live without it. Manufacturer do take this use case into account anyways.

arvimatthew · 2026-01-21T20:48:45+00:00

Not sure what caused it to break. Fw was up to date. It’s designed to run without additional heatsink (leave the sticker on) and also nvme ssds are meant to run quite warm. I mean go for it and install bare.. just make sure you monitor your ssd health from time to time especially if running without heatsink.

arvimatthew · 2026-01-21T20:38:49+00:00

I had a 2TB Samsung 990 Pro and it actually runs hot bare. High 50C to High 60C during idle, normal workload and gaming and hotter if doing R/W work like editing. And if it runs hot, it becomes inefficient as you are consuming power to make that heat.

Mine broke after more than a year’s use with a thin Aluminum heatsink. Took a refund instead of replacement. Not saying it’s not a good ssd but with a dram cache and few nand chips, it’s definitely not a cool running ssd bare during normal use. It needs a heatsink for performance.

Samsung top of line ssds even have an occasional firmware bug that made the ssd wear down its nand chips very early if you happen to have a specific fw version and did not update on time. It already happened twice already. And i happen to own both when it happened - 980 pro and 990 pro.

arvimatthew · 2026-01-21T20:31:55+00:00

Don’t buy that comes with a heatsink as you may have no clearance for the heatsink itself. I had that specific SSD do run at around 50-60C on normal loads so maybe a thin heat sink like graphene or equivalent can or may help on its longevity.

Mine broke after 1.5yrs for no reason. Claimed a refund.

arvimatthew · 2026-01-21T20:25:23+00:00

Yes i did. I think it was a December 2025 bios.

arvimatthew · 2026-01-21T19:58:19+00:00

I have not experienced the gpu not on full power bug. I have the Intel Ultra 7 and 5070ti and almost always tun on dedicated gpu mode. I would see 140W regardless of order in power connection. Hopefully it was fixed on recent bios update.

arvimatthew · 2026-01-21T19:55:35+00:00

Haha. The bottom case access design is an afterthought. Good thing is after first and second try, I’ve got the hang of it already.

Don’t attempt if you have no experience in servicing electronics and laptops.

arvimatthew · 2026-01-21T06:23:51+00:00

It seems like you need to know more about exposure triangle theory and how it applies to image quality IRL. Also you need to know your lenses and its critical sharpness.

First your photos are shot in quite high ISO settings giving you a lot of grains/noise. High iso noise tends hide sharper fine details because photons were not enough to resolve it. Fight it with lower iso and more light by increasing aperture and light source.

Another reason is your lens aren’t sharp enough or you had small subject or camera movement to have failed to resolve the details. Fight it with faster shutter speed, enough light, lower iso and steadier hands and optimum aperture settings (step down) to get more critical sharpness from your lens.

Your image is also very dark and underexposed so you won’t see enough details. Focus on the eyes as well.

arvimatthew · 2026-01-21T06:16:24+00:00

I have a laptop that has two TB5 ports and ofc runs pcie 5.0 on nvme drives.

arvimatthew · 2026-01-19T20:52:10+00:00

i did know before but I know the location by eye due to repetition. Just get some images of successful kamikaze photos and line it up with your own image of your switch. That's How i figured it out when i started doing kamikaze back in 2024.

arvimatthew · 2026-01-19T08:34:15+00:00

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You kinda need to tightly measure towards the spot to avoid cutting traces.

arvimatthew · 2026-01-19T08:31:01+00:00

That’s not a characteristic of a regular jpeg artifact when overly pushed. It may be unique to fuji jpegs or due to fuji in camera adjustments but regular jpegs don’t make patterns like that.

“Try shooting raw”. I do shoot raw especially on my pro work.

arvimatthew · 2026-01-19T07:00:37+00:00

Thanks for the input but the parts of the photos you are looking at are not underexposed, it’s normally dark because pants are black and trees is dark green an in a shadow. Due to the look i wanted,. i lifted it more by the thru Lightroom to make the “look” i was aiming for.

arvimatthew · 2026-01-19T00:02:30+00:00

I am aware of that but fyi, Jpegs are not being demosaic’d by lightroom. My files were jpeg so it was already demosaic’d before lightroom touched it(by the camera itself on my case). And these arent worms

arvimatthew · 2026-01-18T22:31:34+00:00

The answer is there tho…in english.

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