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[JEMC]

Wow, you've been busy!

mZuzek said:

JEMC said:

You worry me, guys. It's obvious you haven't played enough "find X differences between this two pics" games, otherwise you would pay more attention to details like that one.

It's always been Carzy to me.

*High-five's mZuzek*

Good. Paying attention is crucial.

TallSilhouette said:

Just finished a big boy repair to my rig. One of my 2070's fans was failing and making really annoying noises. Took the gpu out and grabbed the screwdriver. Removing the shroud and disconnecting the fan and led cables was surprisingly difficult and I ended up just cutting one of the plastic fasteners rather than have to disassemble the heatsink to get to it (thanks, Gigabyte...). Once that was finally off I wasn't sure which method was the proper one to oil these fans. Peeling stickers didn't reveal anything and trying to pop the problem fan off just ended up damaging it beyond repair (apparently I should have used the thumbtack method). So I was SOL for a month while some replacement fans shipped from overseas. I was running the card shroudless in the meantime but at least the noise was gone! The new fans arrived the other day so I went to work swapping them out and reversing the process. Getting the cables plugged back in was super cramped and tricky but I eventually got everything back how it was more or less supposed to be, remounted my gpu, and crossed my fingers. Fortunately the repair seems to be a success and my rig is once again cool and quiet (crazy what a difference some air flow can make to temps). Hopefully this hassle will prolong the life of my gpu until I presumably upgrade to a 4000 series card and this can go in a secondary rig.

I'm impressed, I wouldn't even dare to do that. Congratulations for your success.

Captain_Yuri said:

Until we have a good solution to Covid, the shortages won't stop. Every time a new covid variant comes out and starts spreading, it's basically a "Reset the clock" moment as countries start locking things down. Once we have a proper solution to covid, however many years that may take, things will start normalizing. But till then, it will be very supply constraint as the logistics get fucked.

It's not that simple. The problems that led to this situation were water shortages in Taiwan which (which I don't know if it's been resolved or not) affected TSMC's output, a lot of companies and workers getting new servers/computers to work remotely, crypto mining and smartphones/IoT devices.

Of those, the renewal of server/computers to work remotely has already been done and isn't much of a problem nowadays, something that can be seen given that CPU prices have fallen down to MSRP or lower. The water problems in Taiwan are still a thing, and that affects production. How long will they last? Unknown. Miners are still a plague and smartphones/IoT won't go anywhere.

So, how long will the shortages last? Sadly, no one really knows.

hinch said:

*snip*

Also whats the deal with MC VA change? I digress, think its time to bury the hatchet again for the franchise again. At least until MS gives the reins to someone who can do the franchise justice. Actually.. I think I'm done, the fight was already finished at H3.

That's a common problem with some franchises. They were originally designed to last two or three games but, because of its success or brand appeal, the publishers decided to make more of them, and that's when we run into problems with the plot/story.

Other known examples are Assassin's Creed or Mass Effect.