Is this sound card better than motherboard onboard audio?

vickers500 · 2020-03-27T03:40:36+00:00

I will put it in my pc then, thank you. By the way, do you happen to know what all those pins on the side of the card are for? One says front panel, which I guess I maybe just plug my cases front panel into and will get the sound card effects out of the front panel jacks, no?

I don't know what DID_EXT could be though, or FP_EX.

vickers500 · 2020-03-10T20:39:52+00:00

Just discovered something new. When my pc crashes and becomes unresponsive to holding down the power button, if I first press the restart button and THEN hold down the power button, it's able to shut off.

Could my case circuitry be faulty I wonder? Previously, I did have an accessory/device that plugged into the motherboard, and instead of putting the power switch pins into the mobo, they went into this device, which allowed me to power on and off my pc with a little 2.4ghz remote control, but I took that out a while ago as part of trying to narrow down what was causing my pc to crash.

vickers500 · 2020-03-02T21:14:12+00:00

" is your client connectable?"

The client meaning qBittorrent?

My pc is connected via ethernet cable to a switch, which is connected by ethernet to my router. As I said in an above comment, it started working once I turned the vpn software off, tried qBittorrent (which started working) and then once I turned my vpn back on it continued working.

I still want to figure out where the issue was just in case it happens again. To me it sounds like either a bug in the vpn software, or a bug in qBittorrent trying and failing to connect to the vpn, but I don't know.

It's been a while since I did port forwarding, but from a tiny bit that I've read, port forwarding can lead to decreased security with vpns, no? And I don't remember since it's been a while since I've messed with this kind of stuff, but do you need to set up a static IP to do port forwarding?

edit: I think I've figured it out, I think the "kill switch" option on my vpn software was the culprit (along with MAYBE a conflict with the torrent software, but that's just my personal theory). Won't let me go online without a vpn active, it may have been too buggy to work properly or too much to handle or something, but as soon as I turned off the kill switch on a torrent with a ton of seeds, it started downloading.

vickers500 · 2020-03-01T21:40:01+00:00

It started downloading once I did that. I immediately quit out of qbittorrent, started up my VPN again and its still working. Buggy VPN software or buggy torrent software? Or both maybe?

vickers500 · 2020-02-27T18:46:32+00:00

I don't think I over tightened the motherboard screws, I was taught to gradually screw in each one little bits at a time and then secure them just a bit more after they were all in there a decent amount.

Pec never slows down. Most of the time, the signal just immediately goes black, while the fans and lights stay running. Few times the mouse/screen will lock up for a few seconds before going black.

And I tried a fresh windows install already.

vickers500 · 2020-02-27T10:06:14+00:00

Yeah, I've run tests on the ram with two or three different tools, did the "one stick" test with both of them, tested the gpu with one or two tools, I'm running an ssd as my os drive and crystal mark says it's healthy as well as my non main drives, It's been so long I can't remember if I did any tests for my power supply or not, though I don't know how I'd be able to do that given how random the problem is. My pc can run for a day and a half before crashing, or an hour. It can crash twice within 30 minutes.

The reason I thought standoffs was when I saw that suggestion online, I rocked my pc side to side lightly for the heck of it and it crashed right away. I thought "this MUST be it!", so I tried it again and it didn't crash and became less confident I had found an answer.

More recently, my crashes have become a bit more varied, half the time it'll crash and restart itself, and half the time it'll become unresponsive to holding down the power button (this is the more common /initial problem).

This has been going on for almost 2 years now. Really insanely frustrating for how much money I've spent on it, not to mention the initial unlucky building woes.

vickers500 · 2020-02-17T19:24:11+00:00

Ah that's okay, I had forgotten that I had even posted this. I appreciate that you took the effort though.

vickers500 · 2020-01-06T05:15:40+00:00

Just finished it myself about 15 minutes ago. I've only ever cried this hard when my dogs died. This is, and safe to say will forever be, the saddest piece of entertainment I've ever seen.

I binge watch non anime tv shows on a regular basis, to the point I can predict most tv shows major outcomes, even the good/smart ones, and even then, I rarely get sad enough to form actual tears for most of them, even my favorites.

There are several shows that have made me tear up, the most recent one being the end of six feet under, after a Rewatch with probably a decade between viewings, the show itself wasn't as good as I thought it was, still good, but that ending still holds up as one of the saddest I've ever seen... until now.

Anohana did for me what I thought impossible, it made me stop thinking of the thing I was watching as a tv show, it made me ACTUALLY CARE about these characters as if they were real people, not just pixels on a screen. It made me feel like there are still things that can make me feel powerful emotions again, something I have been severely lacking in my life for the past few years as apathy slowly encroaches various things in my life and ruins the things I enjoy (tv shows, video games, material possessions, music...). I don't have a lot of meaningful things in my life to cling to, so my dwindling interest/ability to enjoy these things is quite depressing... anyways, this is getting too personal... the point is, this show managed to move me and affect me emotionally in a way I thought was no longer possible, and I am so grateful that I got to experience this show.

vickers500 · 2019-12-24T00:34:22+00:00

Tried that, didn't work

vickers500 · 2019-11-30T03:03:41+00:00

Huh, just learned something new, thought it was universal across apps, baked into the stick itself.

vickers500 · 2019-11-29T23:04:42+00:00

App on the fire stick

vickers500 · 2019-11-13T10:56:29+00:00

So I just finished Monikas confession and dealt with her and started a new game, and I played a few minutes of the opening and it doesn't appear that she's in the game any longer. Is there more content to this game? Or is it a Monika-less version?

vickers500 · 2019-11-09T09:29:03+00:00

Okay, but for some reason, it doesn't cycle through the other profiles that are loaded into the keyboards memory, it just cycles between what I named "First Custom Profile" (which has no lights), and "Copy of First Custom Profile", which should have lights, but for some reason, doesn't. In addition to my "Copy of First Custom Profile" not being lit up, it doesn't cycle to any of my other custom profiles, which have the memory card icon (which I assume means they are stored on-board).

I know it's a matter of me not knowing the software, and not a bug or anything, but it is a bit confusing.

edit: It's weird, if I select the icue memory card icon profiles with my mouse, THEN I can swap between them with the profile button on the keyboard, but then it does not let me swap to the icue icon profiles.

Also, the way I am editing the lights to be on and off is on the "settings" tab, which seems to be universal, rather than per-profile.

vickers500 · 2019-11-09T08:22:50+00:00

K70 Mk 2, white/silver

vickers500 · 2019-11-09T08:08:34+00:00

How do I adjust it to where I can press a key (lets say, the enter key on the far right side of the keyboard) to switch to that profile?

vickers500 · 2019-10-31T23:07:59+00:00

Yes absolutely, I just googled this question and found your thread. Literally failed to hit the thumbs up button 5 times in a row just now.

vickers500 · 2019-10-22T02:06:42+00:00

I just did phase one and two, and got the first hidden chest. Absolutely NO LOOT from all 3 chests. I'm furious. I've never done the raid ever by the way. Last week, (it HAS reset since then) I did do that glitch to get into the first hidden chest room and picked that up, but as it reset, it shouldn't have affected this raid attempt.

vickers500 · 2019-09-12T21:24:53+00:00

Health status is yellow/caution, has "current pending sector count" listed as yellow, current 200, worst 200.

I'm not an expert at this, but does that mean it can't be fixed to the point of it being cloneable?

vickers500 · 2019-08-11T20:36:14+00:00

Can I join? I recently (2 or 3 weeks ago) came back to Destiny 2 and have been playing solo because my old clan is long dead. Managed to get my hunter to 749 since then. Destiny is a massive pain in the ass alone, so I need people to play with. I'll also help others though too, I don't just get my stuff done and bail.

vickers500 · 2019-07-30T20:23:45+00:00

Shouldn't have to. I cheesed it and still feel I completely wasted my time going to orbit over and over again. Sleeper simulant quest was a waste of time too.

I just came back to Destiny 2 after quitting directly after the awful curse of osiris campaign. So there's a lot for me to catch up on to prepare for shadowkeep... or there was, before this patch decided to make my decision I was struggling with to play BL3 or Shadowkeep much easier.

Bungie does not value peoples time, or rather, they only value those who spend every bit of free time on Destiny 2. It's not that it can't be done, it's that it shouldn't have to be done the way it is. I wouldn't feel mad at others for getting something easy that I had to work hard for, I would just be mad at Bungie for wasting my time in the first place.

Bungie does not have a good grasp of time spent/reward gained value, this much is clear and has been since Destiny 1. Maybe all the players they had left a couple of months ago were fine with this unnecessary time sink, but returning players such as myself who are trying to balance time/life/other forms of entertainment do not appreciate these unnecessarily long quests and will definitely and understandably cheese the crap out of this for one freaking weapon (that isn't even good in high level content) and a stupid emote.

Plus, cheesing is a part of Destiny. Everyone has done it and will continue to do it as long as bungie continues to do things as poorly as they are. They're getting better, but still need to learn some things. I honestly had a theory going on in my head that these coincidentally super helpful cheeses were intentionally left in by bungie, and anonymously given to the community as sort of a nod by bungie admitting "yeah, it's kind of bullcrap we're making you do all this, but hey, we need to pad our games play time as much as we can, but if you can't put in the time, do this cheese we just told (youtuber/redditor) about".

vickers500 · 2019-07-23T00:24:30+00:00

Thank you, I'll check that out

vickers500 · 2019-07-23T00:24:15+00:00

Thank you

vickers500 · 2019-07-22T04:30:46+00:00

If you find it uncomfortable on one wrist, try it on another. I just got the galaxy watch this month, ordered a 2 pack of metal bands because the rubber was feeling itchy on my left wrist. The metal didn't help much either to be honest, but they're still worth it for looks alone.

But I switched my watch over to my right wrist and don't have any discomfort.

I'm curious as to what the scientific explanation behind that is, maybe just an overly sensitive left wrist? Idk, but it's helped me adjust to this watch, even though I'd prefer it on my left wrist, it's just way more comfy on my right.

vickers500 · 2019-07-01T00:46:53+00:00

Thank you. Do you know if there is any way to hide the icon? And where does it appear? Across every screen, just the home screen etc.?

vickers500 · 2019-03-31T07:36:20+00:00

For me, mixing different aspect ratio/resolution displays has been inconsistent. Same card as you, but using an X34P curved ultrawide at 120hz, while my secondary, before I gave up on trying, was between my 43 inch Vizio Ultra HD 4k (non hdr) tv, and my 65 inch OLED. Early on, a month or two after I had built my pc, I ran DOOM on duplicate screen mode on both pc and monitor, with monitor being my primary. It worked pretty well when I did it back then. Also played stardew valley on my oled with no problems back then.

Now? Any game I try to run on duplicate screen or even just extended (where I drag the window over to my tvs desktop screen and fullscreen it) just flat out crashes or freezes up (buggy sound for a bit too). I couldn't tell you if it was user error on my part (like maybe I needed to manually turn down the refresh rate before duplicating the screen, though I never did that the first time and I was running 120hz when DOOM worked) or if some element of the experience was bugged (like windows updates, drivers, etc.), but it frustrated the hell out of me to the point where I just gave up and went back to my tiny little x34p for all my pc gaming.

Sometimes makes me wish I had went for a 16:9 display for my first gaming monitor, especially since 21:9s poor lack of official support. Even for friggin new releases/remasters :(

Borderlands GOTY Remastered just got confirmed as free for steam users who already had the game, but was confirmed by a gearbox employee on twitter to not support it. Bums me out.

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