Hey!
I’m fairly new to Tarkov first wipe 60 hours in lvl 13.
By far the most rewarding and thrilling fps experience i’ve ever encountered.
I’ve got a fairly good rig : 5800x3d, 32 gb 3733mzh ram, 4090 and running it in 4k LG C2.
I’ve noticed i only get 40-70% gpu utilization on most maps running on 4k. Is that because the game is poorly optimized ? For example i was running Streets the other day and i was hitting 80fps and gpu usage at 30%
Any tips and tricks to help me solve this ?
Thanks in advance

Hi All! I'm new to building hackintoshs. I was wondering if it will be worth the effort getting into the topic with my current setup or will it most probably be way too comlicated from the start?
My Setup:
CPU: Ryzen 7 5800x3D GPU: Nvidia RTX 3080 Mainboard: MPG B550 GAMING EDGE WIFI Ram: 16GB G.Skill Trident Z DDR4-4000 DIMM CL18 Dual Kit

So im very new to the mpc. I just bought a mpc 2500 se. Im comimg from an asr-10 and a yamaha su700. Those 2 samplers have the exact same workflow. Which is very different from akai from what i see so far. Heres my first issue. When i sample a phrase that i dont chop. How can i set the release point for the sample. So that when i hit a pad the sample only plays for specified length or till i let go of pad. Right now it play the whole sample even if i just tap the pad. Any help is appreciated. Oh and im on akai os 1.24

Hey. I'm an atheist. An ex-Hindu fruitcake.
My school still does prayers. There's a law in India prohibiting public schools from conducting prayers, but nowhere in the rulebook is mentioned anything about private schools. My school, is, you guessed it, private! It's run by a Hindu.
Kids of all different religions attend, but we're all meant to stand for the Gayatri Mantra every day. My Biology teacher claims that the Ram-Raksha gives you "peace of mind". Well, not for me!
(Also, please don't shit on my Biology teacher. Although she is religious she's surprisingly liberal and open to new ideas. I agree that she shouldn't claim that it works, but that's the only thing I don't see eye-to-eye with her... yet.)

Hi all, i recently upgraded by desktop's motherboard, CPU, and RAM. I went from a MSI B450 Tomohawk (with a Ryzen 3 3900) to a MSI PRO 650 with a Ryzen 7 7700 and now i am having a buzzing sound problem.
With the new Mobo, when I am in the BIOS (or when i start/restart the computer, but before Windows boots) there is a very loud buzzing coming from the speakers. It is not just the speakers as it happens with another pair of speakers and headphones as well- anything plugged into the 3.5mm AUX on the rear or the 3.5mm AUX on the front of the Mobo. The buzzing, however, stops once windows boots.
What makes this even more confusing is that when i installed the previous motherboard (the B450) in 2020, i got a new buzzing WHEN WINDOWS WAS RUNNING - i solved this by installing a grounding isolation loop (https://www.amazon.com/BESIGN-Ground-Isolator-Stereo-System/dp/B06XQYN77L). Now, when the isolator is installed, there is buzzing in the BIOS/before boot, but it goes away upon boot. But when i remove the isolator, the buzzing is gone in the BIOS, and exists when Windows is loaded. Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks!

Hi all, i recently upgraded by desktop's motherboard, CPU, and RAM. I went from a MSI B450 Tomohawk (with a Ryzen 3 3900) to a MSI PRO 650 with a Ryzen 7 7700 and now i am having a buzzing sound problem.
With the new Mobo, when I am in the BIOS (or when i start/restart the computer, but before Windows boots) there is a very loud buzzing coming from the speakers. It is not just the speakers as it happens with another pair of speakers and headphones as well- anything plugged into the 3.5mm AUX on the rear or the 3.5mm AUX on the front of the Mobo. The buzzing, however, stops once windows boots.
What makes this even more confusing is that when i installed the previous motherboard (the B450) in 2020, i got a new buzzing WHEN WINDOWS WAS RUNNING - i solved this by installing a grounding isolation loop (https://www.amazon.com/BESIGN-Ground-Isolator-Stereo-System/dp/B06XQYN77L). Now, when the isolator is installed, there is buzzing in the BIOS/before boot, but it goes away upon boot. But when i remove the isolator, the buzzing is gone in the BIOS, and exists when Windows is loaded. Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks!

Hi all, i recently upgraded by desktop's motherboard, CPU, and RAM. I went from a MSI B450 Tomohawk (with a Ryzen 3 3900) to a MSI PRO 650 with a Ryzen 7 7700 and now i am having a buzzing sound problem.
With the new Mobo, when I am in the BIOS (or when i start/restart the computer, but before Windows boots) there is a very loud buzzing coming from the speakers. It is not just the speakers as it happens with another pair of speakers and headphones as well- anything plugged into the 3.5mm AUX on the rear or the 3.5mm AUX on the front of the Mobo. The buzzing, however, stops once windows boots.
What makes this even more confusing is that when i installed the previous motherboard (the B450) in 2020, i got a new buzzing WHEN WINDOWS WAS RUNNING - i solved this by installing a grounding isolation loop (https://www.amazon.com/BESIGN-Ground-Isolator-Stereo-System/dp/B06XQYN77L). Now, when the isolator is installed, there is buzzing in the BIOS/before boot, but it goes away upon boot. But when i remove the isolator, the buzzing is gone in the BIOS, and exists when Windows is loaded.
Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks!

Hello everyone!
I am planning on building a new pc using my old ATX case. The parts I have selected for now are listed below. I am pretty happy with the CPU, GPU and motherboard choice. But about the RAM and SSD I am not so sure.
For the CPU cooler I would use the one included in the box.
For the PSU I was planning on just buying a minimum 500W one from a reputable brand.
A year or so ago I bought a new M.2 NVMe SSD 970 EVO PLUS 500GB. Can I use this one instead of buying a new one or should I get a newer and better one instead?
I have chosen all my items below from the same website and am planning on buying everything from them. ( www.alternate.be )
I am happy to hear any suggestions about my parts.
Thank you!
• CPU: Intel core i3-13100F @ €114,90 • Motherboard: MSI Pro Z690-P DDR4 @ €159,90 • RAM: G.Skill 32GB DDR4-3600 2 x 16 kit @ €77,90 • GPU: ASUS Dual Radeon RX 6600 V2 8GB @ €219,90 • Storage: Kingston SSD KC3000 512GB @ €57,90

Three companies agree to pay more than $1 billion to settle ‘forever chemical’ claims, was the claim, apropros of which..

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u/AdClemson said 1 day ago,

This essentially means the Government has fined these companies $1 Billion and has also fined the victims (general public) additional $4 Billions to pay for the damages that was incurred on them by those companies.

...and then u/aitorbk had replied, 1 day ago, quite wisely,

To solve only partly the issue.

As the name implies, it is a forever problem.

I then replied, just now, and,in agreement, Succinctly,

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...and it's an everywhere problem, which, I dunno, sure makes even the notion of remunerative damages sound a little cheap, not to mention that it's,
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/23/revealed-scale-of-forever-chemical-pollution-across-uk-and-europe
One Dollar Thirty-Four Cents per each European Tainted,

"and that's just the Europeans!"

Not like they're getting the Dollar-thirty-four anyway, and it's not like,

New Rainwater

Can Purchased, like, at all, and it's not like there was much of Great Tragedy, even, it's like finding out that those cheap window-blinds that come default in rental apartments have poisoned the entire air, Yes, But They'd Been Saleable and Inexpensive, and, in that respect, convenient; like, in all seriousness, non-stick pans.
Non-Stick Pans.
Stain Resistant Carpets.
...were these good-carpets, keepers, and the more I read,

Fire-Retardants

The Less that sounds like an irreplaceable duty, the more it sounds like an absolute worst-use case for,

• "____," doesn't burn to exhaustion, and it can't be the environmental concern, if the compounds have a half-life,
• In Exchange for the Permanent Contamination of, "unknown gallons of,"

To claim that it's saved lives would be to claim that there has been no alternative to extinguish the fires we've, ourselves, engineered, in the sense that we're not talking, you know, Volcanoes, we're talking, engineered structures and systems with no reliable backstop in the fire-extinguisher-realm of consideration, I dunno, asbestos might have been a safer means to put those fires out, prolly,

PFAS chemicals are widely used to coat paper and cardboard wrappers for fast food and bakery goods

Shouldn't be, should Never Have Been, what a dumb reason to poison the earth face-first, wet leaves found in the yard would have been a better option to coat paper and cardboard wrappers for fast food and bakery goods, we serve the bakery-goods in boxes sprayed down with automobile transmission fluid because of it's unique properties that keep the cardboard box clean while you drive home from the bakery, good idea, Much better idea insofar as I, alone, Will Swallow the Poison With The Baked Treats, shall not have to grieve for the rainwaters,
...and I'd be more impressed with our umbrellas we have received in return for this Eschatalogical Mortgage of the Earth Itself, except, we had goddamned umbrellas in the 19th Century; I'll be honest:
Waxed Fabric exists, just like Wax on Fabric Works Fine, and Pans had been fine-enough to figure out how to use the whole time we've had both fire and Metallurgy, even the Roman Routine of Wine Mulled in Lead Pots because it fucks you up and tastes funny, honestly, as with the transmission fluid hypothetical, that's fine, relative, these sorts of bargains; and the Romans knew, their doctors wrote about it, people, are, just like that sometimes.
Not usually, this much, for such dumb reasons, as, and I swear it's this:

• Saleable, we can convince people to throw out all of their perfectly, fine, pots and Pans, due to some new sales pitch made available through the miracle of chemistry, likewise,
• I was just at a bunch of High-End Outdoors stores with my brother, Waxed, I think, cotton, Fabric Coats those will cost you a good $650 not because it's that expensive for the wax and the cotton, it's just, those are nice coats; I'd feel the Drama of this situation a little more clearly, if there were some wonderous coats we all had to envy, gosh I wish I ever could have one, and it is a shame they're drenched in an eternal poison, but, Handsome, though, no, it's the cheap ones, which, H&M'ed there way, into the front hall closets for when it's wet I guess
• ughh, I mean, I hear they're used in all manner of products and industries, what I don't hear, and this to Tl;DR, is I don't hear a single thing, of some real value, they've enabled us to have and it's not stain-resistance in Carpets that Don't Have Gold-Spun Tapestries, carpets worth keeping, from the 1300's still exist, I have wood floors, all the houses everywhere around me have 100 year old wood floors, area rugs are nice I guess but jesus fucking christ, man, if it had to be bare wood floors, and just, woven, kinda, those rough rugs I guess maybe that would have been fine I guess jesus Louisus So Stupid; we talk about,

America Needs Mourning, Americans need to deal with the Losses

So Much man, you know, I read this thing, on, OK Doomer, about, Parentism, Parentification, and I keep thinking about it; I know these things, differently, competent parents, very, sick sibling, I know these things and I know what she means and I do recognize that in the broader culture; I think of Simone de Beauvoir's claim that sometimes one must dehumanize the tyranical and that maybe that this, also, is what she means, from a different angle, insofar as it's an implied discursive, rather than material, difference, to do so, and that the difference would be that it removes the pretext of a care which happens, in fact, backwards, removes the face of the false authority; I think of how, incredibly, gerontocratic not merely, the empowerment structures, I guess, but their figureheads, and I wonder to what degree this is for the same reason as the late soviet union, and, also, identical to what she means in, "Parentification," insofar as there is some real limit to what one could even imagine responding, to, a Joe Biden delivering his practiced lines about abstract jobs numbers, no one's job in particular and if in particular an prepared particular and Responding, Joe, I think that we need to Bring Back Mourning Cults of the Late 19th Century I think that We Need to Wear Black Ribbons for our Dead, Joe, I'd say, this, to you, and I just did; but one can't even fantasize of the conversation with our fathers of society, "they're just not, there, enough, to believe that they'd have some real understanding, of, anything so unexpected in response to their, I don't know, and Imagine the same with Giuliani Drunk and Hair Dye Streaking Down His Face, a child in the hands of his victimized personal assistant, herself, without any, whatsoever, power over even her own life, the fuck would it even mean to say, to Guliani, "I think that we should all be wearing black ribbons for our dead people."
Even some of the most wicked young men who have led this country, I could imagine, talking, with in depth and for a long time about this.

I have a 2019 Ram Promaster 2500 with the driver side low beam out. I tried to replace it with two new bulbs still didn’t work.
Any ideas? Thank you.

Hi, I just recently bought a new CPU, GPU, and PSU to power those. Specs:

• CPU: Ryzen 5800x
• MoBo: Asrock b450m Steel Legend *not new
• GPU: EVGA 3080 FTW
• PSU: EVGA Supernova G3 750W
• RAM: 32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB *not new
• Hard drives and SSDs etc.

While the system works fine usually, it sometimes randomly crashes and then reboots. This could be on idle, but I have been able to reproduce it pretty reliably through playing Overwatch 2 (usually quits and reboots at the 10 min mark). I’ve also stress tested it pretty heavily, and it never crashes during those (using OCCT’s suite). After checking Event Viewer, I see the error is marked as

A fatal hardware error has occurred.
Reported by component: Processor Core Error Source: Machine Check Exception Error Type: Bus/Interconnect Error Processor APIC ID: 14*

Although APIC IDs do vary between errors, so I don’t believe it’s simply one core. Also the processor is running at stock as well as the ram (no oc or under volt applied).
I took a look at some of the minidumps as well, and it displays that the crash is caused by driver PSHED.dll and address PSHED.dll+15b0. Also, is there a preferred way to share these dmp files?
I’ve tried multiple things like flashing new bios, updating chipset, disabling xmp, having everything run at default settings. One thing that I just tried was swapping out the gpu for my old one (a 2070), and I’ve played probably about an hour now uninterrupted. Could this error be caused by my gpu or maybe my psu not being sufficient enough to power my gpu? I’m still going to keep testing, but I also don’t know if I need a new PSU or GPU lol.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

I know this has been a conversation repeated over and over but I can’t decide if I should go this route.
I have. 2013 JCW. I would like some more power, I also would like it to sound cool (lol).
I currently have a JB+ as well as a resonator deleted in the exhaust system.
The ram air systems seem pretty cool but is it worth the price?
Cold (hot) air intakes make noise but lose low end power
New K&N filter may add a few HP but no added noise.
Please let me know your experiences/ dynos / opinions.
Thank you in advance for your input.

Hello everyone,
I'm selling 2 old rigs of mine :
#1

• CPU : Intel I7 2600K (4,29GHz mbd auto overclock)
• MBd : Asus P8p67
• Ram 32GB no-name DDR3 1600MHz
• Storage :2 SSD 2.5" 120GB
• Case : Coolermaster Cosmos II
• PSU : Be Quiet! Dark Power PRO 750W 80+ Gold
• OS : Win 10 pro

This one is fairly dated (around 2011-12) but it still works well as an entry-level PC for everyday use and internet browsing. Integrated Graphics only.
The case has some marks and a bump on the left-side panel.

• Price Thinking about €200,- O.B.O

#2

• CPU : Intel I7 8700K
• MBd : Asus Z370-F Gaming
• Ram 32GB Corsair DDR4-4000 MHz
• GPU : eVGA 1080 ti 11Gb SC (SuperClocked)
• Storage :1Tb nvme M.2 Samsung SSD 970 pro
• Storage 2 : 3 TB Seagate Barracuda
• Case : Fractal Design Refine R5 (no rgb)
• PSU : eVGA Supernova 750w 80+ Platinum
• Cooler : - CPU cooler : Noctua nh-D14
• Accessories : DVD/CD burnereader
• OS : Win 10 pro

This one is better shape, until a few month ago, this was my daily. Still able to make most games run at 1080p/1440p with good FPS

• Price : I'm selling it for €800,- O.B.O

The screen :
IIYama ProLite B2712HDS
Specs can be found here : https://iiyama.com/gl_en/products/prolite-b2712hds-1/

• Price : 50 euros (firm)

The screen still works well, no dead pixel to my knowledge to mention that the ON/OFF button is a bit deaf at times...
Additional info :
- Both PCs have had a full cleanup, dusted and new thermal paste has been applied (Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme), both are working and have been stress-tested prior to my putting them up for sale. I've been building PCs for 25 years and 10 as a pro so I know how to take care of them.
- All items can be tested at my place if needed (Charleroi region)
- The GPU in PC #2 was never used in a mining rig, I'm the first owner.
- No postal service delivery due to the weight and size of the items and their respective fragilities. But possible in-person delivery upon request (depending on the distance).
Don't not hesitate to PM me if interested or have more questions.
Have a nice day !

I currently have a 2016 Ram 1500 with high mileage and am looking to switch over to a car with low mileage and a V8. I live in KY and winters here are hit and miss though I do have a backup vehicle for snow (94 S10 Blazer). I have been looking at the Camaro, Charger, Challenger, and the Mustang. Though I do not know many people that have owned these cars. However I do like the sound of the mustang but that’s about it on fords side. GM I like their new infotainment system and the 6.2 engine. As for dodge I do like the 5.7 but would like something different. I can drive a manual so I am not sure how that would effect the value since the average buyer these days doesn’t know how to drive a stick. I’d be grateful for you guys to help me out, I appreciate it!

I’m looking for an FEA workstation for my new job and I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/hp-workstation-z8-g4-tower-p-643w4ut-aba-1
$4900 for 16 GB memory, 512 GB storage, Xeon processor half as fast as 13600, and a gpu less powerful than 3080? Am I missing something about the professional workstation market?
Any suggestions for a 12-20 core system with 128 gb ram that doesn’t cost 10 grand?

I’m looking for an FEA workstation for my new job and I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/hp-workstation-z8-g4-tower-p-643w4ut-aba-1
$4900 for 16 GB memory, 512 GB storage, Xeon processor half as fast as 13600, and a gpu less powerful as 3080? Am I missing something about the professional workstation market?
Any suggestions for a 12-20 core system with 128 gb ram that doesn’t cost 10 grand?

Hello. I want to upgrade my pc with new RAM. I think about 16gb (2x8gb) but i don't know how many MHz /CL is best choice for gaming. Currently my ram is 4x8gb 2133MHz ddr4.

In the market for a new laptop. Is it dumb to buy the base M2 MacBook Pro for light use if I don’t truly need the processing speed or storage? Will be using for web, media consumption, recreational photo editing, electronic medical records (Epic). Was thinking about the 15” MBA but much prefer the additional ports, better screen, and have dual monitors set up at home so would like to be able to use them. Don’t need to maximize portability. Ordered last night but was then reading about the 512gb SSD speeds and wondering I should instead get 1TB instead? Or if for practical purposes and my use it won’t actually matter. I have 100gb free on my 512gb computer now but could transfer a lot of that to external, and I won’t be transferring large amounts of data regularly, but also wondering if with 16gb RAM I’ll be missing the faster SSD speeds, even for generally light use?

I've had an issue with the new 2023 XPS 15 where upon connecting it to our office standard U4021QW monitors via thunderbolt, the system works as expected up to a minute and then just black-screens and cannot be rebooted before disconnecting the thunderbolt cable. Same thing happens in Windows, Ubuntu or just sitting in the BIOS. After having support send technicians thrice to swap out motherboards, ram, daughterboards and having the same issue persist they gave up and replaced my system entirely. The same issue appeared with the replacement and I opened another support ticket. After answering the support rep's questions they told me as the system is supplied with a 130W charger, and the monitor only supplies 90W over thunderbolt, our office setup of just connecting the single cable to connect to monitors and charge is not supported.
I have colleagues with 2022 XPS 15s supplied with 130W chargers that connect and charge just fine.
Is it actually the case that a 2023 high-end laptop cannot connect to a monitor? If no, what could be possible causes? Thanks

I'm not big into tech so I'm just not sure what are old or new pieces of hardware (and therefore, what's a good or bad deal). It will be used for emails, website maintenance and some light gaming (nothing crazy graphics or frame rate wise).
Doesn't have to be cheap but if anyone can guide me around what kind of RAM I'd need, processor recommendations or any other specs I'd be really grateful!