My setup was near that. I had an 8k HDMI cable, but, plugging into the back of the computer, it wasn't seated properly. This created intermitent black screens, even though I could hear the computer working on the speakers.If you want high refresh to work, you need to make sure everything in the signal chain supports it. It's a real dummy moment when you find someone with a $1000 Samsung G9 and an RTX 4080 who can't be megafancy because they're using a 10 year old HDMI cable.
Freesync is an AMD technology that was released as an open spec. You can use it on GTX 10x0 hardware and newer on nVidia, at LEAST Radeon 300-series and I know that it works with Arc cards as well.
Just ordered a 2.1 cable, Snowkids?If you want high refresh to work, you need to make sure everything in the signal chain supports it. It's a real dummy moment when you find someone with a $1000 Samsung G9 and an RTX 4080 who can't be megafancy because they're using a 10 year old HDMI cable.
Freesync is an AMD technology that was released as an open spec. You can use it on GTX 10x0 hardware and newer on nVidia, at LEAST Radeon 300-series and I know that it works with Arc cards as well.
I have a bunch of Chinese POS 8k cables. Out of three of them, none would plug into the card.I just have a box of cables. For a while, every time I bought a specific model of Lenovo Ideapad, it would come with a brand new HDMI cable and also a generic 32GB USB 3 thumb drive. I wound up buying dozens of that one model of Ideapad, so for the time being I just have dozens of new HDMI cables.
Somebody posted a comparison between current Intel Iris Xe and current AMD Radeon 760/780 iGPUs on MakeUseOf. TLDR is that AMD is still faster but Intel is not as pathetic as it used to be; the better Iris XE setup is more or less on par with the lesser AMD one for gamer-y purposes. I think I said something about that a week or two ago, but there somebody has handy charts in that link if anyone wants to go look at them.
They should wait forever. Tariffs just hurt the common person. Lots of these products subject to tariffs are mostly made in China and won't be made in the US in the foreseeable future. The tariffs on EVs especially irk me. I want BYD to flood the US market with sub-$10K EVs to light a fire under the automakers. Protectionism didn't work pre-WWI, and it's not going to work now.The USA was about to impose a 25% tariff on certain high tech parts, most notably GPUs, starting in a couple weeks. They decided to wait a year.
It cuts a tremendous amount of mouse options out.What difference does it make to computing if you are left or right handed?
Have you had the A/C serviced recently to ensure best performance and efficiency?
Thinking of moving to Florida.It's... it's a reference to the Princess Bride. That movie is 11 years older than I am. I figured you would have seen it. Here it is.
I rent. It's the landlady's responsibility to have the AC serviced, but it only sees service when something's gone horribly wrong. The guy said he'd look at recharging it but mysteriously never came back. My bet is she refuses to pay for it. It does nominally work but it is horrifically inefficient and massively upticks my electric bill with every second it remains on. No exaggeration -- my bill this time last year with my use of my main desktop was double what it was last month because I'd swapped to using the laptop primarily.
Would it be feasible to contact the serviceman directly and see if he'd "cut you a deal" on recharging the AC?I rent. It's the landlady's responsibility to have the AC serviced, but it only sees service when something's gone horribly wrong. The guy said he'd look at recharging it but mysteriously never came back. My bet is she refuses to pay for it. It does nominally work but it is horrifically inefficient and massively upticks my electric bill with every second it remains on. No exaggeration -- my bill this time last year with my use of my main desktop was double what it was last month because I'd swapped to using the laptop primarily.
Just watched the movie! Fantastic! Thank you!!It's... it's a reference to the Princess Bride. That movie is 11 years older than I am. I figured you would have seen it. Here it is.
I rent. It's the landlady's responsibility to have the AC serviced, but it only sees service when something's gone horribly wrong. The guy said he'd look at recharging it but mysteriously never came back. My bet is she refuses to pay for it. It does nominally work but it is horrifically inefficient and massively upticks my electric bill with every second it remains on. No exaggeration -- my bill this time last year with my use of my main desktop was double what it was last month because I'd swapped to using the laptop primarily.
I've pulled and prepped the A770 for sale as well as taken pictures, but I'm not listing it until I confirm the 3060 is working.
The A770 has been a great bargain IMO, but I got one cheap as well. I think you have to have at least some interest in it outside gaming needs to see it as worthwhile hardware. $200something is a crazy good deal for one.
Thinking of moving to Florida.
Where are you?
Would it be feasible to contact the serviceman directly and see if he'd "cut you a deal" on recharging the AC?
Tell the repairman about RS-24. It's a drop-in replacement for R-12, which is getting ever harder to find, and more expensive, as they haven't made it in many years.Likely, but this is a 30+ year old unit that never got converted. The R12 would be astronomically expensive and that's if he actually had any left. If I had to guess, that's probably why my landlady has dragged her feet on getting anything done to it. In the meantime, I have to form what I do at home around it, not the other way around.
Anyone using Matrox cards?
Anyone using Matrox cards?