Tech Gaming Hardware discussion (& Hardware Sales) thread

[jefferz]

Damn I had an annoying time setting up my PCI hyper card.

1) the screws to keep it in place the SSD were some weird hex pattern that I didn't have the right tools for so I had to buy different screws of amazon. They were still a total bitch to install because they just aren't long enough after putting the SSDs on the thermal paste in the hyper card. And unless you have tiny hands it's really fricking hard.... much harder than it should be.

2) changing the bios to recognize the two SSDs instead of just one was not fun. BIOS is just not user friendly and in plain enough language. Had to hunt down youtube videos and none had my version of the BIOS but by sheer luck found one close enough that got me to the right place.

Must say, good feeling when all done and new drives all formatted. I have 5 internal m.2 SSDs now which is a bit overkill but at least it helps keep things clean and organized and easy to back up when I have to.

What board do you have? And does the hyper card raid the 2 cards together to form 1 storage pool, or can you see each card individually?
Bifurcation is cool, but it can be a bitch.

 

[Unknown Pleasures]

What board do you have? And does the hyper card raid the 2 cards together to form 1 storage pool, or can you see each card individually?
Bifurcation is cool, but it can be a bitch.

I can definitely see each drive separately - like someone using the computer wouldn't be able to tell they SSDs are on a hyper card as opposed to just regular drive slots. I have two different gen 4 4TB SSDs (bolded below). It's pretty cool and clean now so I have the setup:

1TB OS and Applications Drive
4 TB Games Drive
2 TB Video / Video Editing Drive
4TB Photos / Photo Editing Drive (personal photos)
4TB Media Drive (movies, TV shows)

My photos and videos were just getting too big and started annoying me using external drives and worrying about space.

Motherboard is a ASUS Z790 Hero. The hyper card only has 2 slots for the ssd's --- when trying to figure out how to adjust the BIOS there were a bunch of videos showing Hyper Cards that can store 4 SSDs, but that's not the one that came with my computer. But I'm pretty sure I won't need more than what I have now...

 

[JBSchroeds]

I just ebayed myself a Dell OEM Radeon RX 6800 XT to replace my RX 5700 (non XT). The Dell card is more compact than the reference designs and should fit in my new HTPC case without needing a vertical riser. It'll be paired with a Ryzen 5700X3D while the guts of my current Ryzen 5600G will be going to my father to replace his ancient FM2 APU computer (which I'd tried replacing with a miniPC earlier this year but ended up returning).

 

[Slobodan]

I can definitely see each drive separately - like someone using the computer wouldn't be able to tell they SSDs are on a hyper card as opposed to just regular drive slots. I have two different gen 4 4TB SSDs (bolded below). It's pretty cool and clean now so I have the setup:

1TB OS and Applications Drive
4 TB Games Drive
2 TB Video / Video Editing Drive
4TB Photos / Photo Editing Drive (personal photos)
4TB Media Drive (movies, TV shows)

My photos and videos were just getting too big and started annoying me using external drives and worrying about space.

Motherboard is a ASUS Z790 Hero. The hyper card only has 2 slots for the ssd's --- when trying to figure out how to adjust the BIOS there were a bunch of videos showing Hyper Cards that can store 4 SSDs, but that's not the one that came with my computer. But I'm pretty sure I won't need more than what I have now...

That's an impressive SSD list.

Here is mine, I have games and media spread out across all of them.

PCIE Gen 4.0:

2TB WD SN850X (boot drive)
2TB Crucial T500
2TB Kingston KC3000
2TB XPG GAMMAX S70
4TB PNY CS2441

SATA SSD:

1TB WD Green
500GB WD Blue
1TB Samsung 970 EVO

Funny thing I have more SSDs than this, over the last few years I just bought them when the prices kept coming down, I have some of them in enclosures and the rest in a storage case lol. That's not to mention the standalone external drives and NVME USB sticks...

 

[Madmick]

That's an impressive SSD list.

Here is mine, I have games and media spread out across all of them.

PCIE Gen 4.0:

2TB WD SN850X (boot drive)
2TB Crucial T500
2TB Kingston KC3000
2TB XPG GAMMAX S70
4TB PNY CS2441

SATA SSD:

1TB WD Green
500GB WD Blue
1TB Samsung 970 EVO

Funny thing I have more SSDs than this, over the last few years I just bought them when the prices kept coming down, I have some of them in enclosures and the rest in a storage case lol. That's not to mention the standalone external drives and NVME USB sticks...


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Pretty soon you're going to have to build yourself an NVMe NAS Server:

Amazon.com

 

[Unknown Pleasures]

That's an impressive SSD list.

Here is mine, I have games and media spread out across all of them.

PCIE Gen 4.0:

2TB WD SN850X (boot drive)
2TB Crucial T500
2TB Kingston KC3000
2TB XPG GAMMAX S70
4TB PNY CS2441

SATA SSD:

1TB WD Green
500GB WD Blue
1TB Samsung 970 EVO

Funny thing I have more SSDs than this, over the last few years I just bought them when the prices kept coming down, I have some of them in enclosures and the rest in a storage case lol. That's not to mention the standalone external drives and NVME USB sticks...


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You're my fellow hard drive buddy hahah... why do you spread your games out across the drives? Is it a matter of having so many games or is there a performance reason?

My SSDs are Corsair MP600s (Pro XT for the boot drive, Core for Photos ), a 850X like yours for the gaming, 850 for photo editing, and a TeamForce 44 for movies/TV etc.

Then I have two 8 TB external mechanical SATAs that I mirror and use to backup the rest every 6 months to a year or so depending on how busy my travel calendar is. The only SATA SSDs I use are external and basically for travel (store a few movies etc, then use it to back up my camera pictures in case space becomes an issue or I get worried about my camera SD cards getting corrupted or confiscated if in dubious territory -- though this has never happened).

 

[jefferz]

Pretty soon you're going to have to build yourself an NVMe NAS Server:

Amazon.com

QNAP?

 

[KaNesDeath]

Well its turns out AMD's 9000 series gaming efficiency claims over 7000 series were false:

 

[jefferz]

We had a thunderstorm this morning. I was in bed looking out my window and seeing flashes of lightning and loud thunders right beside my home. I went back to sleep

I woke up and nothing in my livingroom works. Everything fromm TV to my PS5 to Mt new stereo got fried. Those electric outlets I had my electronics plugged into are dead.

I moved my TV and PS5 to another outlet that works and they still don't turn on. They're fried.

I had all my electronics plugged into surge protector too and none of the fuses got flipped

In this storm I lost a 50 inch TV, PS5, air conditioner in window, mini fridge, ceiling fan, 4 electric outlets. The electronics weren't all plugged into a single plug.. I had them spaced out between those 4 outlets

This sucks...

Here's everyone's reminder to check your surge protector to make sure it's still working.
Most have a light that shows that the protection is working.

 

[My Spot]

Well its turns out AMD's 9000 series gaming efficiency claims over 7000 series were false:

Instead of releasing a 9700 non X and wasting money on including their Wraith Prism cooler they can just call it a 9700X and exclude the cooler.

 

[My Spot]

The 7700 non X is only 2.8% slower for gaming, is $80 cheaper, and it actually comes with a good enough cooler.

 

[Slobodan]

You're my fellow hard drive buddy hahah... why do you spread your games out across the drives? Is it a matter of having so many games or is there a performance reason?

My SSDs are Corsair MP600s (Pro XT for the boot drive, Core for Photos ), a 850X like yours for the gaming, 850 for photo editing, and a TeamForce 44 for movies/TV etc.

Then I have two 8 TB external mechanical SATAs that I mirror and use to backup the rest every 6 months to a year or so depending on how busy my travel calendar is. The only SATA SSDs I use are external and basically for travel (store a few movies etc, then use it to back up my camera pictures in case space becomes an issue or I get worried about my camera SD cards getting corrupted or confiscated if in dubious territory -- though this has never happened).

Sort of both I suppose, I think it's served me well as I had one SSD fail a few months ago, if I had all my games on that drive it would've been a pain to re-install them all

 

[KaNesDeath]

The 7700 non X is only 2.8% slower for gaming, is $80 cheaper, and it actually comes with a good enough cooler.

Hardware Unboxed did a acute comparison. Uplift from 3000 series to 5000 series was 20%. Uplift from 5000 series to 7000 series was 20%. Uplift from 7000 series to 9000 series was 3%.

 

[Madmick]

Hardware Unboxed did a acute comparison. Uplift from 3000 series to 5000 series was 20%. Uplift from 5000 series to 7000 series was 20%. Uplift from 7000 series to 9000 series was 3%.

Link.

 

[KaNesDeath]

Link.

91 second timestamp:

 

[JBSchroeds]

My Dell OEM Radeon RX 6800 XT just came in. I haven't had a chance to test it yet, but I wanted to alert the sherbros of a potential deal to be had:

Pardon Our Interruption...

This card is listed as used, but I'm pretty damn sure it's actually new-old stock from some company that bought a bunch of them in bulk and then had to liquidate. The card shipped in a sealed anti-static bag, inside form-fitted foam, and has all of its peels still intact (front, back, bracket, and the three fan hubs). It's listed for $370 and they accepted my offer of $350 within minutes so they might go even lower, and shipping was really quick. The form factor of this card is really compact and fit inside my HTPC case with room to spare (the rear bracket, meant for servers or workstations, screws right off). If anybody is looking for an upper-mid range card for a SFF build, this might be the card for you.

EDIT: Got it into my computer to test and boy does it kick the shit out of my RX5700
RX 5700
Furmark 1440p: 3848
Heaven Extreme: 121.5/3060
Superposition 1080p Extreme: 31.76/4245
vs
RX6800XT
Furmark 1440p: 9628
Heaven Extreme: 267/6725
Superposition 1080p Extreme: 72.29/9665

A bit more than double across the board. I would have liked to do a before/after for 3DMark, but their benchmarks don't work on linux.

 

[560ti]

Hardware Unboxed did a acute comparison. Uplift from 3000 series to 5000 series was 20%. Uplift from 5000 series to 7000 series was 20%. Uplift from 7000 series to 9000 series was 3%.

Those numbers/percentages are exactly in line with techpowerups (3700x 121fps, 5700x 147fps, 7700x 176fps, 9700x 180fps).

 

[jefferz]

My Dell OEM Radeon RX 6800 XT just came in. I haven't had a chance to test it yet, but I wanted to alert the sherbros of a potential deal to be had:

Pardon Our Interruption...

This card is listed as used, but I'm pretty damn sure it's actually new-old stock from some company that bought a bunch of them in bulk and then had to liquidate. The card shipped in a sealed anti-static bag, inside form-fitted foam, and has all of its peels still intact (front, back, bracket, and the three fan hubs). It's listed for $370 and they accepted my offer of $350 within minutes so they might go even lower, and shipping was really quick. The form factor of this card is really compact and fit inside my HTPC case with room to spare (the rear bracket, meant for servers or workstations, screws right off). If anybody is looking for an upper-mid range card for a SFF build, this might be the card for you.

EDIT: Got it into my computer to test and boy does it kick the shit out of my RX5700
RX 5700
Furmark 1440p: 3848
Heaven Extreme: 121.5/3060
Superposition 1080p Extreme: 31.76/4245
vs
RX6800XT
Furmark 1440p: 9628
Heaven Extreme: 267/6725
Superposition 1080p Extreme: 72.29/9665

A bit more than double across the board. I would have liked to do a before/after for 3DMark, but their benchmarks don't work on linux.

Nice find.

How loud are the fans? I have a Dell RX460 that sounds like a spaceship,

 

[JBSchroeds]

Nice find.

How loud are the fans? I have a Dell RX460 that sounds like a spaceship,

I just did a 10min FurMark test. Temps settled at around 80-81C and the fans never went over 50%, could barely hear them.

 

[KaNesDeath]

I hope they all get banned.

Its begun : )

Counter-Strike 2 - Side-stepping Skill - Steam News

Counter-Strike is constantly evolving. From art, to maps, to inventive plays, and even player input, the CS community shapes the game. <br /> <br /> Scripting and automating player commands has always been contentious, but over the years some forms of scripting (e.g., jump-throws) have gained...

store.steampowered.com

Patch notes:
[ INPUT ]

• Certain types of movement/shooting input automation such as hardware-assisted counter strafing will now be detected on Valve official servers, resulting in a kick from the match
• Input binds that include more than one of the following commands will now be ignored by default. Support can be re-enabled using the cheat-protected convar `cl_allow_multi_input_binds 1`
  • sprint, reload, attack, attack2, turnleft, turnright, turnup, turndown, forward, back, left, right, moveup, movedown, klook, use, jump, duck, strafe, zoom, yaw, pitch, forwardback, rightleft
• The jump-throw confirmation grunt sound can now be heard by other players nearby