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    Everquest Confessions

    This was a specific situation if you had an old version of the zone file, the original from the CD, and managed to avoid letting the patcher overwrite it. I used the same bug to pull all the velks castle mobs to the Crystal Eyes camp. Good times.
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    Desktop Computers

    There shouldn't be a single AM4 motherboard incapable of running at 5900X at stock, provided it's supported in BIOS. Power delivery configuration is only relevant with overclocking (also excepting PBO, but that is overclocking).
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    The Expanse

    And she owns a bra shop for large breasted women, no joke.
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    Lovecraft Country

    There were literally zero white people in the episode. By the end of it, she realized that killing white people isn't what she wanted - she just felt helpless and that was an obvious target. Hippolyta found herself and found peace within without it being a full on race war... Honestly, the...
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    Desktop Computers

    I don't think you have a lot of options there in that case, since I don't think you can really move your AIO. I'll put in a vote for Lian Li O11 Dynamic - I've got my AIO as an intake on the side, and airflow coming from below with lots of cool air offsets the warmer air coming in through the...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    The Ventus is a rebrand of the Armor line - I remember how god-awful the 2080 Ventus and 1080 Ti Armor were. Might even be better off with the stock cooler (which is nowhere as good as people seem to think - it's novel and fits in 2 slots, but still way worse than a big ass 3-slot heatsink/3 fan...
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    Star Trek: Lower Decks

    So... The Orville brings Family Guy to Star Trek, and now Star Trek decides to bring itself to Family Guy?
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    Desktop Computers

    Arctic has really taken the lead as incredible bang for buck in cooling. I highly recommend the Freezer 34 - a 120mm heat sink is pretty much commody at this point, everyone's are the exact same, but their fans are a huge cut above other 'budget' fan offerings. I actually replaced all my AIO...
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    Desktop Computers

    Ryzen's typically start running into issues above ~100 fps due to the memory latency and single cores running out of gas, where Intel's don't. But below 100 FPS you will pretty much never notice a difference between them, so it has more to do with what monitor you use (as well as GPU to a lesser...
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    Desktop Computers

    nVidia is pretty predictable, they release a new generation at GTC in late May every even-number year, and availability of non-FE cards (or in this case, any availability whatsoever) doesn't begin meaningfully until June. With the mining rush, who knows what this will look like.
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    Toys R Us -- ruining a company is very lucrative

    Never heard of a leveraged buyout? 'Buy' a company on credit, but not your credit, no - the acquired company takes on the debt. So after you've juiced up your short term return on equity from the leverage, you can project out 10,000 years of compounding returns modeled on the good times and sell...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Databases are well known for deleting data because you removed it from the front end!
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    That isn't even remotely true. Eth went from $10 to $300 from Jan through July 2017, while BTC went from $1k to $4k in that time. Then, from July through December, BTC went from $4k to $20k, while Eth held constant oscillating right around $300 that whole time - it didn't start breaking out...
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    Desktop Computers

    Threadsipper?
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    Desktop Computers

    Coffee Lake wasn't supposed to release until H1 18. They rushed the release with nearly zero inventory to cockblock Ryzen and try to gain mindshare back, without actually delivering a product to consumers.
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    Desktop Computers

    The general difference between Ryzen and Intel is pretty overstated because of some initial issues at launch, but it's true that if you're looking to lock at 144 FPS, and don't have interest in the multithreaded capabilities, Intel i5 and i7 K SKU's will give a higher maximum/average framerate...
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    Desktop Computers

    Why would you buy the 1600X + cheap cooler over 1600 w/ the as good or better Wraith cooler, for cheaper, then OC it yourself? It's literally 10 seconds in the bios - I've never run into a Ryzen you can't just flick to 3.75 GHZ stable with no other changes. Why would you pair a Micro ATX...
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    Desktop Computers

    Try reducing your power target in MSI Afterburner. I don't remember exactly how it was with Maxwell cards, but Pascal generally can run at about 80-85% of normal clockspeed at about 65-70% power target (basically, running it like the mobile GPUs). I doubt that indie shit is taxing your card...
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    Desktop Computers

    Good luck with that. The RX 480 was supplanted by the 580, and the 580 is going for $250+ at the minimum right now - if you can find one in stock. The supplies are gone, worldwide, being used by ethereum miners. They're selling for almost $400 on eBay. Demand is that high... so yeah, not a...
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    Desktop Computers

    It's not a linear relationship of TDP and frequency potential per core, at least not with Intel's processor families. The more cores they shove on a chip, the lower the all-core frequency potential is at a given voltage/wattage per core. And upping the voltage/wattage has massively diminishing...
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    Desktop Computers

    I think in general you're probably safer with used nVidia cards than AMD. The AMDs have always evidently been the best price/performance choice for mining specifically, for some reason. Probably because they have a much higher output of tflops per $ than nVidia, it just doesn't translate into...
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    Desktop Computers

    Nothing wrong with a used GPU if it's been taken care of. I sold my 1070 for $300 on eBay last month.
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    Desktop Computers

    I'm running a 1700X, which clock-for-clock, in virtually 100% of games, is functionally exactly the same as a 1600. There's just nothing out there that can remotely make use of threads 13 through 16 yet. I run that with a 1080 Ti, playing games at 1440@144hz. I've never once run into a CPU...
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    Desktop Computers

    That sounds like an excellent way to destroy a processor.
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    Desktop Computers

    7700k running at absurdly high temperatures at any overclock is par for the course without delidding. This has been reported for a while now that they're abysmal in that regard - the entire delidding 'industry' popped up out of nowhere primarily because of Kaby Lake's horrible internal heat...
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    Desktop Computers

    Most people have had zero issues getting the G.skill Flare X to run at their advertised timings on Ryzen w/ any recent BIOS. The 2x8 3200 14/14/14/34 kit I got ran flawlessly out of the box. Just enable the profile and reboot twice.
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    Desktop Computers

    The advertised stock/boost clock speeds of a GPU out of the box are rarely relevant if you're willing to spend 10 minutes in MSI Afterburner getting the ideal clock speed. I'm not sure why the fans not turning on until 60C would matter to you - why would they need to be on before that? The only...
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    Desktop Computers

    Having lived with a 1700X with a Noctua NH-D15 for the last month or so, I can safely say that this much cooling power is stupidly unnecessary. Get the 1600 and use the Wraith cooler that comes with it. The voltage requirements/power use goes over a cliff as you start approaching 3.9 ghz/1.35...
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    Desktop Computers

    We'll see, won't we?
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    Desktop Computers

    The X's are a waste of money if you're a home user. The only reason to not get the 1600 vs 1600X is if you have no control of the overclocking. Virtually every single Ryzen chip up and down the range can be pegged at 3.8 GHZ all-core overclock at stock voltages (or significantly below) and left...
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    Desktop Computers

    Fool and their money are soon parted. And I say that as the owner of a shiny new 1080 Ti.
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    Desktop Computers

    No, I didn't know it sucked when I bought it. Please tell me where I said that. My level of sophistication at the time was something along the lines of 'Ooh, 8 cores and only $150! Yes please.'
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    Mass Effect: Andromeda - Autism reaches outer space

    It's also little 5 second moments that happen every 3 hours. The whole SJW element has been massively overblown - I'm 15 hours in and there's been maybe a half dozen momentary inclusions of these little miniscule references. OK, some random guy's backstory is that he's trans and Andromeda was...
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    Desktop Computers

    An RX 480 and 7700k are badly mismatched, the GPU is going to bottleneck the everliving shit out of that CPU. 7600k and 1070 are better matched in general. Based on the above, you're almost certainly talking 1080p/60hz gaming, and if you're planning some non-gaming use cases (simultaneously)...
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    Desktop Computers

    Having an opinion makes you a fanboy in this world today, evidently. AMD can't make a video card worth a damn, I seriously doubt Vega is going to change that, and they haven't made a CPU worth shit in ten years. This one is actually good, in terms of the hardware, but it still has a long way to...
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    Desktop Computers

    Well, considering AMD's position right now is probably pretty similar to Kia/Hyundai in 2011ish... sure, we'll go with that.
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    Desktop Computers

    Isn't that like saying there isn't a compelling reason to upgrade from an RX 480 to a GTX 1060? Trading in your 2017 Toyota Camry for a 2017 Honda Accord?