Been thinking about your problem. Windows updates can break stuff. I have had my Peace EQ break twice after a Windows update. I had to uninstall it and then re-install/re-register it to get it to work again. Perhaps some update messed with the driver that runs your audio device? Might be worth checking for and doing a driver update and see if that fixes it.
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Probably because it’s really only an issue for the TOTL cards while also; a) this is something that both AMD and NVIDIA have gone back and forth having that issue for quite a while, and b) if you are buying one of the cards that it’s really an issue on it’s going to be expensive enough that you probably aren’t concerned about the cost of keeping the room cool.
Im not even talking about the cost of cooling the room, but the actual cooling of the room itself, that kind of heat output might work in a large room with the object far from it, but if its sitting a few feet away? unless you have the room climet controled or have the PC sitting pretty far from, you are going to feel that (not to mention if you live somewhere that is hot - I live in Israel, most of the year we are in the high 80F / 25c and up)
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Thanks, a similar thing happened shortly after I bought it and messed up the function of the HP jack. Will have my more knowledgeable friend take a look.
As I said I’m pretty clueless re computers, even pretty basic stuff, lol. Music yes…electronics nope, but still learning everyday. eg. took me a while to figure
out what people mean by caps!
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It’d be really nice if things would just work out of the box. I posted a while back that I’d bought a routing solution from Ubiquiti in preparation for the upgrade to gigabit fiber that was coming to my area. I’d been hoping to get everything set up and running before the fiber got connected, but that didn’t happen. The UDM Pro refused to acknowledge the internet connection it was being fed. Got the fiber hooked up yesterday, and ended up having to use their router to download the latest firmware for the UDM, -scp it onto the the UDM, and then ssh into it and force the firmware update manually just so I could start the set-up.
It all works fine now, but now I also have to ship the ISP’s router back to them so I don’t get charged for having it. On a brighter note though, I’ve gone from 10Mbps/1Mbps DSL to 1000/1000 fiber. And that makes me happy.
God i’d kill for that kind of connection, on a good day i get about 50Mbps/5Mbps (im paying for more but those are the real world speeds i get)
Right now there is fiber deployed less than 500 meter from my house( about a 1/3 of a mile) but none of the ISPs want to expand it to my neighborhood
I cannot imagine having it that close and being unable to get it. It would drive me mad.
For quite a few years i had no less than 3 different fiber “lines” less 500m from my house (although 2 of them would involve quite a bit of digging to get the cable to my house) but the provider would not stretch a fiber in my direction from the closest one (i would say was less than 150m from my house). Quite frustrating. The reason for not offering me fiber connection was that there where too few houses down my road from the closest junction. But suddenly a guy from the provider bought a house a few doors down from me, and like magic they suddenly could provide fiber to me too! 
Went from a theoretical 20/1mbit adsl to 80/80mbit fiber, and now i am on 150/150mbit fiber (could get faster, but i am happy with that speed and it costs less than the faster alternatives).
check out HWC review of the $50 Nocua Killer…aka Thermalright PA120 / 120SE. the SE is 6mm shorter in the hopes that makes it just fit your case. they removed the heat pipe nubs the regular has.
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Finally got my Densium 4 case…this is only my second build but it’s gonna be a weee powerful beast…all second hand parts keeping well under 1k for total build which to me is a steal. All rounder computer - Media, light gaming, some light CAD, general network management, and some VM work.
Board- Z590i Vision
CpU - i7 11700
RAM 16 GB 3200 - will upgrade 32 later but hard finding white to match
SSD- 970 Evo 2Tb
GPU - MSI RTX Aero 3050
PSU - Overtek 7660 w/noctua and custom short loom
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Love the esthetic of the case but i have a hard time with cases without larger GPU support, but looks classy AF
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Yeah, I tilted lean and mean here. Don’t need a lot of heavy lift graphics wise - some Fusion 360 renders maybe and no intense games either so 3050 oughta cover. This is actually my first discrete graphics card puter. Needs to look nice enough that the partner lets me put it out. Also I’m a suck for aesthetics
BTW any particular reason you went 11th gen or is just a transfer from the OG build?
All second hand parts. Motherboard and CPU were ~ 300 together and like new…plus liked the white accents.
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it’s gonna be a lousy GPU, but GTX 1630’s have been spotted and currently on synthetic benchmarks they’re being beaten by the RX 6400, which we know is a horrible GPU. it’s only saving grace is they support H.264 / H.265 while the RX 6400 does not, so they may excel as a HTPC GPU.
Managed to catch this for $799, so I couldn’t pass it up.
Also went ahead and got this since I’m currently running mis-matched monitors. This way I can ditch my 24" 1080p second monitor, and I’ll have two 27" 1440p monitors instead.
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Great price for a 12GB 3080. I own an older generation version of that monitor which is now feeling pretty outdated. I’m hoping samsung’s QD OLED panel comes to something other than Alienware soon
I have the PG278Q as my main monitor, so it’s a direct upgrade of a couple of generations. And I did some looking to see if there were supposed to be any other QD OLEDs launching this year, and I think I only saw the one from Samsung themselves. There were a couple of interesting new OLED monitors coming that looked tempting, but ultimately given my use case it really didn’t make much sense over the 279QM.
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I’m holding off OLED for at least a couple more years, there are some very interesting developments from Samsung and LG trying to one up each other, also the price will probably go down significantly.
Some really interesting info that I’d never heard anywhere else about the “higher-end” ANC headphones.
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