Fakes good enough to pass as bricked CPUs, they were good enough to fool Amazon returns for example. People beleive they are buying a real CPU, swap it to the fake, and return the fake for a refund.
edit: Also just being sold directly on Amazon marketplace.
Also the scam started with people rebadging celerons as 14900ks and passing Amazon checks. Seems they graduated to just making fakes.
Its only when they are delided that you can see the modules are fake.
They are copying the serial numbers on the repo boxes and heatsinks of actual cpus. People only even noticed they might be fake as the PCB color is the same as the new 9000 series, not the 7000 series. Also does not have the additional sealant that is on the caps on the 7000 series but not on 9000 series.
edit: Okay, now I understand why James Cameron has to use AI for the 4k releases of some of his films. He shot many of his early films using Super 35mm, which included additional height so you could have your theatrical release and also great TV / VHS 4:3 releases. The cost is you lose 33% theoretical max resolution and have larger grain sizes, so a standard transfer is capped at DVD or blu-ray resolution. Without using more advanced techniques there is not a big resolution jump to 4k like with movies shot with standard 35mm and an anamorphic lens.
Most of these movies we loved because they were on TV so often and looked great. This allowed for great VHS / DVD releases that were higher quality than some other transfers but once you go to blu-ray and UHD 4k then you can see the doubled film grain compared to panavision so the perceived resolution is no better than DVD.
This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Sep 3 2024, 01:15
EK watercooling wiped their leadership multiple times then they got overly ambitious due to the post covid boom. They spent way too much and made the classic competition of adopting a structure that makes all departments compete against each other.
They went from a successful 100 employee company to a complex multinational with thousands of employees but still no ownership of manufacturing and a reliance of external contractors.
Now they are in a loan death loop of borrowing to pay off previous debt.
This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Sep 7 2024, 13:47
SSD prices seem to be dipping, though not to the extent they were during late 2023. I might grab a 2.5" 4TB
is there any brand thats allround okay to buy without chance of failure? I used to go samsung but the recent firmware fuckups have made me unsure if anything trustable remains in new market. might just buy the older models secondhand if I ever need more ssds at this rate.
is there any brand thats allround okay to buy without chance of failure? I used to go samsung but the recent firmware fuckups have made me unsure if anything trustable remains in new market. might just buy the older models secondhand if I ever need more ssds at this rate.
Samsung EVOs were still alright, it was just the higher tier product with new NAND/controllers/firmware. Its a bit tricky, I'd still buy Samsung if its 2-3 months after a product has launched.
The problem with SSDs of all brands is different product lines may use chips from different sources. Intel used to be great but they stuffed up and have almost exited the consumer space.
If you are getting an M2 NVME SSD the key seems to be the heatsink or how good your mobo's heat sink is.
It is kind of interesting that people are jumping onto Crucial SSDs now.
Edit: Trying to work out if its worth upgrading my TV sound system now that its operation. Its great but could it be more great? I feel like this is the audio trap I feel into back in the past lol.
This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Sep 11 2024, 02:43
is there any brand thats allround okay to buy without chance of failure? I used to go samsung but the recent firmware fuckups have made me unsure if anything trustable remains in new market. might just buy the older models secondhand if I ever need more ssds at this rate.
Tbh I don't think it matters unless you are buying hundreds, at which point the law of big numbers starts to kick in. Just get the cheapest with the speed and capacity you want, maybe after watching a few reviews. I have 4 m.2 sticks from 4 different brands (adata, corsair, samsung, kioxia). The corsair one burnt through its reported lifespan in half a year and I got a replacement, which has been working fine so far. The other 3 have shown no problems so far.
I heard adata did some sussy fucky wucky shit with their recent SSDs so maybe stay away from them?
This post has been edited by Ass Spanker: Sep 11 2024, 15:11
Samsung EVOs were still alright, it was just the higher tier product with new NAND/controllers/firmware. Its a bit tricky, I'd still buy Samsung if its 2-3 months after a product has launched.
The problem with SSDs of all brands is different product lines may use chips from different sources. Intel used to be great but they stuffed up and have almost exited the consumer space.
If you are getting an M2 NVME SSD the key seems to be the heatsink or how good your mobo's heat sink is.
It is kind of interesting that people are jumping onto Crucial SSDs now.
good to know samsung isnt lost cause entirely, guess I'll keep an eye out for what series had/have issues still and keep going with them.
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Tbh I don't think it matters unless you are buying hundreds, at which point the law of big numbers starts to kick in. Just get the cheapest with the speed and capacity you want, maybe after watching a few reviews. I have 4 m.2 sticks from 4 different brands (adata, corsair, samsung, kioxia). The corsair one burnt through its reported lifespan in half a year and I got a replacement, which has been working fine so far. The other 3 have shown no problems so far.
I heard adata did some sussy fucky wucky shit with their recent SSDs so maybe stay away from them?
for adata, at least when I once go them many years ago the flash was just trash and they read only locked within a year, also my main reason I normally steered away form the less big name brands. but then the recent firmware issues with even the 'good' brands started showing up. but once again guess I'll just feel the water out and go with some samsung or whatevers available when I need anything current times.
in some thoughts after the desktop upgrade; can now comfortably compile a kernel in a couple minutes, theres a lot non compilation related single core steps like when you have to checkout one of the huge repos, or config, or linking. but overall very doable. was able to rapidly test some patches and different kernel sources on the umpc. probably the most notable quality of life improvement by more resources I've noticed so far. firefox runs equally garbage regardless of how much resources, it just sucks internally and the modern web is hopeless. everything else I'm pretty sure is limited by sata ssd speeds at this point. was it worth leaving the consumer grade 2012ware for enterprise 2016ware for a couple hundred bux, I'm telling myself yes
good to know samsung isnt lost cause entirely, guess I'll keep an eye out for what series had/have issues still and keep going with them.
for adata, at least when I once go them many years ago the flash was just trash and they read only locked within a year, also my main reason I normally steered away form the less big name brands. but then the recent firmware issues with even the 'good' brands started showing up. but once again guess I'll just feel the water out and go with some samsung or whatevers available when I need anything current times.
in some thoughts after the desktop upgrade; can now comfortably compile a kernel in a couple minutes, theres a lot non compilation related single core steps like when you have to checkout one of the huge repos, or config, or linking. but overall very doable. was able to rapidly test some patches and different kernel sources on the umpc. probably the most notable quality of life improvement by more resources I've noticed so far. firefox runs equally garbage regardless of how much resources, it just sucks internally and the modern web is hopeless. everything else I'm pretty sure is limited by sata ssd speeds at this point. was it worth leaving the consumer grade 2012ware for enterprise 2016ware for a couple hundred bux, I'm telling myself yes
my TLC evo drives are both amnesiac, so if you ask me they aren't out of the mud yet just get a hdd and stomach the startup time
This post has been edited by Moonlight Rambler: Sep 17 2024, 09:15
fuck accidentally bought some 4ks that I already had when I got all of them together
Braveheart accidentally bought it again on sale so not really a saving... newer release has fixed HDR.
Matrix 1 though the trilogy box set was on sale, so it was cheaper than buying the other two matrix movies.
LOTR: I found that I already had the first UHD 4K release. I bought the new release because they did a re-encode and figured I should get LOTR as it was on sale.
The problem is I am not completely sure if I have the new fixed box set. The box is a bit different and the back is different. The only information that maybe it is the new encode is that the duration of the films are different.
The original 4k release was approx 70gigs per disk and the new release is 90-100 gigs per disk. The difference is they lowered the DNR that pissed everyone off and they fixed the color grading on one of the films.
I have no clue if the second box set even is the newer encode, as it was $60 vs $200 for the standard vs the UBER special edition. I can see why they released the special edition again, people were paying $600-700 to get it on ebay.. damn.
my TLC evo drives are both amnesiac, so if you ask me they aren't out of the mud yet just get a hdd and stomach the startup time
for all storage and media I have hdds all the way down. its just for os disks on personal machines to enjoy the speed since its the main limiting factor for most of my hardware. for the most part a bit of data corruption isnt the end of the world for me either as long as they dont outright die or go readonly. and thats just sata, from what I hear the new fangled protocols are even worse with reliability and firmware bugs
This post has been edited by cate_chan: Sep 17 2024, 21:14
for all storage and media I have hdds all the way down. its just for os disks on personal machines to enjoy the speed since its the main limiting factor for most of my hardware. for the most part a bit of data corruption isnt the end of the world for me either as long as they dont outright die or go readonly. and thats just sata, from what I hear the new fangled protocols are even worse with reliability and firmware bugs
Yeah my backup drives are all WD Blacks. I'm tempted to go to SSD NAS but it costs a lot and not necessarily better reliability.
My old SLC drives still work just they are slow and tiny.
Yeah my backup drives are all WD Blacks. I'm tempted to go to SSD NAS but it costs a lot and not necessarily better reliability. My old SLC drives still work just they are slow and tiny.
Aren't SLC supposed to be the fastest of the bunch? Tiny though. Tiny and fast, just like my peepee.
Aren't SLC supposed to be the fastest of the bunch? Tiny though. Tiny and fast, just like my peepee.
Depends on the controller and number of nand chips, ram etc.
1st gen Intels on SLC were relying purely on the speed of the nand. Now with better controllers, more memory and more chips you get more throughput and IOPS. X25-E I think.
Yeah my backup drives are all WD Blacks. I'm tempted to go to SSD NAS but it costs a lot and not necessarily better reliability. My old SLC drives still work just they are slow and tiny.
as I dont see myself going past gigabit network hardware it doesnt make a great deal of sense to me at the time, such network speed is entirely saturated with regular hdd speeds. that said I have seen talk about the 2.5G network hardware coming down in price steep lately, if you have a fairly simple and upgradable network, might make sense if you're already there.
if anything I'm waiting for my hdds to fail at this point. I got a pile of free and nearly free 'untested' 1tb 2.5" drives ages ago and threw a bunch of them in a raid 5, so far I think only 1 died. and I just took that one out as soon as the controller marked it as failed on a minor smart error. with ssds I cant see such sourcing going as smoothly any time soon with the amount of junk on the market currently
This post has been edited by cate_chan: Sep 18 2024, 19:51
Bought the upgrades to go from 5.14 sound system to 7.1.4. The 5.1.4 has been pretty awesome once I actually got it working. Hopefully with the upgrade it will be even better? I fear it may be the exponentially declining value curve of audio again.
I watched the Blade Runner Final Cut UHD 4k. It was so impressive and the audio was also amazing. The problem is the extreme variability of content on 4k.
There are quite a few landmines where studios cut corners, eg Sony.
-UK studios and publishers seem to focus on getting video and audio as close to the cinema release as possible.
-German studios are really good at audio engineering, but do not always release content on 4k, and just do enhanced bluray releases.
-US varies super wildly by studio. Disney and Sony have done a shit job of a ton of their standard release. Sony limited editions have a higher bit rate but not always a good job.
-Japan is doing the whole only for Japan thing again.
Seems the issue is that the cost of 4k is 3-4x greater than a blu-ray release so this pushes publishers to do limited run expensive special editions and scare people with FOMO. I guess now I understand one deceased relative that collected loads of laser discs.
I feel like I am being farmed, damn FOMO.
This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Sep 25 2024, 15:07
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