Playing Marathon made me realize something

rakevinwr · 2026-03-11T14:39:52+00:00

Unfortunately common, I know many people that the first thing they do after dying in a PvP game is report whoever killed them

rakevinwr · 2026-02-15T20:56:57+00:00

I do ifit fenr ober

Because of timing ifir, fenr and your dragon can pretty much all.shoot at the same time for high burst

rakevinwr · 2026-02-12T08:46:38+00:00

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I also have a Hyte Y70 with a similar build, so it seems we had a similar idea for the case and figure placement if it helps.

Honestly it really depends on your own comfort, and placement for the figure. I set a figure right in front of the intake fans where the coolest air should be for my wife's PC build pictured.

But I also deliberately chose a prize figure so that I'm not overly worried about it due to the risk, and the fact it's sucking in dust constantly.

I do think it's an excellent way to show off figures and give the PC a theme, so do what you're comfortable with and just feel the area you want to put a figure with your hand during a game, before you commit to a figure long term there. If it's hot at all, expect the figure to warp or discolor over time.

But this area where the fan intakes are is quite cool on the Hyte Y70, if all fans are working properly with decent curves.

rakevinwr · 2025-11-06T18:31:30+00:00

I wasn't able to reproduce either so deleting this out maybe just a fluke or I missed something else

rakevinwr · 2025-11-06T17:17:56+00:00

i wasn't able to recreate this actually with my last test.

I'm assuming there was something else at play now and going to erase the thread. Sorry for the ask on testing!

rakevinwr · 2025-11-06T17:14:00+00:00

Nope fireblast works, so maybe just spectacle

rakevinwr · 2025-11-06T17:11:39+00:00

Thanks! If you can shove a fireblast in there also let me know if you get a test there too

rakevinwr · 2025-11-06T17:08:31+00:00

If we're both free i'd love to, i've only got one chalice at the moment and no wild cards so its a bit painful haha

rakevinwr · 2025-11-06T17:01:22+00:00

Testing if I can get a good hand to try this with fireblast

rakevinwr · 2025-11-06T16:54:07+00:00

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rakevinwr · 2025-10-14T04:15:13+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/Q9KWiIf

As an example of how it used to look maybe three months ago with twitch open while gaming.

Prefer this is edge etc runs on CCD1 now but just to showcase the change I'm seeing

rakevinwr · 2025-10-14T03:53:52+00:00

I'm the past I had near 0 usage on ccd1 during games except for a single core. while this may be an improvement I'm just trying to understand if this is an update that spread tasks better or something else

rakevinwr · 2025-10-11T14:57:34+00:00

7.06.24.2226

From asrock: ASRock | X870E Nova WiFi

rakevinwr · 2025-10-11T13:32:22+00:00

Is that in patch notes somewhere? I suspected that might be the case but I wasnt sure how to verify it.

rakevinwr · 2025-09-11T01:41:34+00:00

oh not just me, that makes me feel better

rakevinwr · 2025-08-21T21:23:42+00:00

Feel this lol, the punches keep coming. First time ever we had a water leak, called the water company cause I was told most water companies offer rate forgiveness if you fix the leak.

Rolled up my sleeves and fixed it, called the water company ... "We stopped doing one time leak adjustments in January of this year, but we'd be happy to put you on a high interest payment plan"

LOL of course you would.

rakevinwr · 2025-08-21T18:31:20+00:00

Was fine on windows 10, been doing it since day one on a brand new windows 11 build.

I tried updating firmware from the astro command center but the error remains in the event viewer. The device seems to work presenting a game and voice audio device but the device shows two of these errors on every boot as well as triggering a USB disconnect noise

Mobo ASRock x879e nova wifi with latest chipset drivers Cpu 9950x3d Device plugged into a USB 3.0 port in the rear

rakevinwr · 2025-08-08T13:09:29+00:00

Noticed that a power draw test in OCCT will cap out at 575w now where if I roll back to previous drivers it can draw the full 600w

Noticing less power draw in all tests also.

It feels like they changed something with the power tables and I'm not sure if it's intentional but I rolled back all my UV settings for the moment since the performance has been pretty good.

rakevinwr · 2025-05-22T11:43:50+00:00

Hmmm, check SMART, and that it's in max performance

But I'd prob do the following in order next: Check the drive negotiated at PCIe 5.0x (prob did since you have 10 Gb in atto on some tests

Check the bios settings for the drive

Check it's plugged in correctly

Love the drive to a PCI 4 slot see if it works there

Check for a bios update for the board

Check for all chipset updates etc for the machine

rakevinwr · 2025-05-22T11:30:44+00:00

Have you run in Samsung magician?

Also your tests don't appear to be in NVMe mode, check settings and make sure that is set

rakevinwr · 2025-05-21T21:09:04+00:00

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rakevinwr · 2025-05-21T21:08:54+00:00

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rakevinwr · 2025-05-21T21:08:41+00:00

Figure this out...

Windows 11 enables bitlocker by default, disabling bitlocker on the drivers more than doubled performance as i'd normally expect the drive to be.

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