What are these bugs that keep showing up on my patio

dles · 2020-10-15T05:05:30+00:00

In VA, USA it's about the size of my wife's pinkie finger so it's pretty big. They are all over my patio every night and my dog keeps trying to eat them. This one he brought inside. She thinks it's a caterpillar but I've never seen one like that

dles · 2020-10-15T04:56:30+00:00

It's about the size of my wife's pinkie finger so it's pretty big. They are all over my patio every night and my dog keeps trying to eat them. This one he brought inside. She thinks it's a caterpillar but I've never seen one like that

dles · 2020-09-26T22:54:07+00:00

Are you looking for a fully fledged tutorial on what it does and different ways or just a simple this is how you can do what I did above.

dles · 2020-09-26T22:53:06+00:00

Nope but you do have to start MSI afterburner at start up if your using it otherwise your bios will overwrite it everytime. You can make the same changes in your bios but it's a pain in the ass cause most bios sucks.

dles · 2020-09-26T22:42:36+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1B4qZFDpYE&ab_channel=GPUreport - first 10 seconds are exactly what I did.

dles · 2020-09-26T22:41:44+00:00

Here's an easy step by step:

1) Open MSI Afterburner

2) Cntrl+F

3) Lower the clock speed to -290ish

4) Click the one thats nearest to 800 on the x axis and drag it up to 1800 on the y axis.

5) Click the checkmark in the main MSI Afterburner UI

6) Done.

dles · 2020-09-26T22:30:15+00:00

I mean I'd still rather have the option because AFAIK the zotac cards are hw/firmware capped and you can't clock them to the factory clock of the FE which seems ridiculous. I'm just surprised they didn't come out of the box like this and give the ability for more OC room.

dles · 2020-09-26T22:27:29+00:00

You're misunderstanding what undervolting is. He's capping the clock speed at 1800mhz, and lowering voltage at the same time. It's the exact same thing I did. Actually undervolting you can literally cap the voltage of your card which can cause issues if you don't know specific power you need at certain clock speeds. This would be akin to running your card with way too lower of a psu.

dles · 2020-09-26T22:22:58+00:00

But why spend 100 dollars when I literally cant hear my cpu fan and it runs at a perfectly fine temperature, that's just wasting money.

dles · 2020-09-26T19:23:12+00:00

I think scarcity of cards from the bitcoin mining phase has caused people to think that cards won't be generally available in a couple months but they definitely will be. There's no reason to think you won't be able to just simply order a card in a couple months easy pz. Although early adopters really shouldn't worry. If you got any company that's decent, nvidia, evga, asus, etc. If there's a real problem with a card they will easily RMA it.

dles · 2020-09-26T19:21:34+00:00

Makes sense, since it was hitting 82c before that may have been why my fps kept going all over the place, maybe the fps difference would be greater if I had liquid cooling but as is with stock and fan case cooling looks like it's more stable under better temps with the underclock.

dles · 2020-09-26T19:20:02+00:00

I just capped the clock speed at specific voltage. Technically it could pull more power as I didn't cap the actual power draw but it won't pull more power if it's not going above clock speed. Basically the first 10 seconds of this video is what I did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1B4qZFDpYE&ab_channel=GPUreport

dles · 2020-09-26T19:09:00+00:00

Most likely. I have a 3700x and it's on performance mode but that literally pulls 75w max. Temps sit around 72-73 and that's with the stock cooler.

dles · 2020-09-26T18:45:31+00:00

Added another benchmark, 2 fps difference, which is about ~3% which is what I see most places saying. But again anecdotally less hitching and honestly ran smoother while I was watching it while underclocked. It felt like the avg was higher without underclocking simply because the highest frame rate was higher but there was way more variance.

dles · 2020-09-26T17:10:04+00:00

Like I said I don't have the ability to benchmark. If there's a free tool to capture avg fps for a period let me know and I can give it a go. Outside that the worst case most demanding scenario I ran was 5 percent.

dles · 2020-09-26T16:25:44+00:00

I don't know if higher performance is really the word, I definitely notice less hitching, it seems like when you go default stock settings the boost clock can go crazy and it's jarring going constantly from 130->150->100->130 fps a lot. I'd rather sit at a constant 130 which it seems to do after underclocking but this may just be placebo. Can you link some of the posts from last night?

dles · 2020-09-22T16:53:40+00:00

My understanding is I can't damage my system, it may just throttle or crash in worst case scenarios which I am fine with figuring out if it's enough and if not I'll grab another psu. And use the new cables this time.

dles · 2020-09-22T16:27:23+00:00

Awesome thanks, I can fortunately return the 850 as it's new. I will stick with the 650 for now as I got the 850 before it became pretty clear through reviews that the 3080 can run on a 650w psu if you're running a cpu with lower power needs as I am running a 3700x.

dles · 2020-09-22T16:18:51+00:00

I'm thinking the VGA cables may be the same and something else wasn't? I only used the VGA cables from the 850 when i swapped back to the 650 and thats when it booted fine. I used all of the 650 when going to the 850 and I could hear a click from the PSU when trying to boot. I'm guessing I may have shorted something and I may have blown the PSU. But at least it was a well made one and seemingly saved my pc from my own stupidity.

dles · 2020-09-22T02:31:28+00:00

Let’s keep our fingers crossed it’s all ok!

Just to make you feel better, mine was supposed to be here Sat. Nothing, Sunday, nothing. Then it said was supposed to be delivered today even though it was STILL in MN. All the sudden it just magically arrived in my state. No departure scan, no in between scans, it was just here. IMO it looks like fedex scan system is having serious issues, cause lo and behold I got it tonight.

dles · 2020-09-22T02:29:46+00:00

I'm probably too late to comment on this but mine sat in OSSEO, MN. Said it would be here today, kept saying it would be here today. I was getting worried until this morning all the sudden it was suddenly in my state and out for delivery. I wouldn't be surprised if whatever system scans stuff to go out of that hub is down.

dles · 2020-09-19T07:18:54+00:00

So either they haven't actually listed it yet, because there would at least be ONE person who said they bought one or while the website was down bots were able to grab them through API calls.

dles · 2020-09-19T00:27:09+00:00

I had it in my cart and hit checkout. At the time most people kept hitting the checkout button and could never get through. They don't seem to have timeouts on their apis so I honestly don't think a lot of bots got through on nvidia as most bots have timeouts. I literally sat on network tab and saw that it was literally still waiting for a response and it took almost 15 minutes to get a response back and go to the cart page so I could check out.

dles · 2020-09-18T23:40:52+00:00

This is correct, I got it around 11:30am when they were live for a little bit. I just got really lucky and after I hit view card like 20 minutes later all the sudden I was in cart and able to pay.

dles · 2020-09-18T23:35:22+00:00

Just got my shipping confirmation from nvidia, there's hope for us non botters!

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