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To be fair, buying off eBay is usually safe when dealing with reputable sellers. Sometimes lemons like this can sneak through the cracks but this is luckily a rare case. The seller I purchased this phone from is highly reputable so I have no doubt they'll make sure everything is worked out!

The seller is highly reputable so I'm thinking it'll be fine, just really surprised this passed eBay's refurbished program 🫣

PC and journalism 😭

It's so peaceful for me, and thank you!

It looks very nice!

@@-Lexi_Bexi- Free white PC parts!

Thank you! Means a lot 😎

Thank you for the feedback! The two videos at the beginning were from a while back and I think my later videos definitely show some growth in the areas you mentioned. I think when I make another PC building video where I talk I'll make it a point to go over the parts in more detail and why I chose them. The first video I actually made a second part on where I went over those details but perhaps it'd be better to combine them into one video. Regardless, thank you for the good advice and constructive feedback!

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Everyone calls them GPU because it's easier to say and type out, even if it isn't the most technically accurate 😎 Thanks for the info though

What a nice new phone 🩷

That's awesome 😎

Thank you!

@@BrandanFischer You're welcome man, keep it up!

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@@arsiismaili5529 Thank you 🙏

@@erkam3 There are some good guides on TH-cam already but maybe if I feel like I'd add anything to them I'll make one 😎

I checked the speeds of the stock 580 vBIOS and they seemed to be roughly around what you'd expect!

To be fair, the 1660ti is quite a bit more expensive than the 580 mining models. I got this one for $30. But the 1660ti is still a great budget card 😎

Yeah, I tried that actually. Just kept saying my monitor didn't support it even though I put in all the right clocks 🤣

@@madcatmk213 Clean and repaste is the best first step. Maybe a better cooler but that might not be worth the price. As a last resort I'd try some undervolting

Repaste and clean it

maybe adjust the fan curves

That's pretty cool to know! It makes sense I suppose, they use the same exact board design as their normal cards. And yeah, I think a lot of people overlook these cards because they were used for mining but honestly as long as they were taken care of I don't see the issue, especially at these prices!

In most mining cards like p104/p106 they don't even have the display chipsets, it might work on this one because it already has one for the dvi, but not on those more common ones

@@Große-Katze Nuh uh

@@BrandanFischer okie :p

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🤣 My main reason for disliking that it's not widescreen isn't purely because it's not widescreen, it's because basically everything modern (which I interact with on a daily basis) is designed around being on a widescreen monitor. I think if this monitor were a bit larger and if modern applications and websites were designed around its aspect ratio, I'd have no issues using it!

@@BrandanFischer At the moment, I'm actually using a black, 19" version of that exact same monitor. Dell, 4:3. stand that swivels in all directions, etc. Yes, TH-cam videos get letterboxed when I put them in "fullscreen", but it's not that bad. When I want to watch a movie, I plug my computer into a TV. I've thought about just using the TV as a monitor, but even 30" is too big for daily use. The problem is that my eyesight isn't the greatest, even with glasses, so I can't just sit back and read the entire screen, and when I get closer, I can only see part of it at once. Good for movies, not so good for text. I have a widescreen Samsung monitor/TV that I may eventually switch to, as soon as I can figure out how to attach the fancy HP stand that I have, to it. It has the same range of motion as the Dell stand, including rotating the screen 90 degrees, which comes in handy for emulation of some games, which display sideways. Then again, I want to make sure that whatever widescreen I use will also display 4:3 screen modes correctly, without stretching them, or cutting off the top and bottom edges due to overscan. One of my biggest pet peeves is images not being displayed in the intended aspect ration, and/or not being fully displayed. I have a friend who has his TV set to stretch everything to fill the screen, and it drives me crazy.

@@devil8975 I would say it definitely depends on the seller and how well they took care of them

I'm currently on a rx580 myself, it's not one of these series which doesn't have HDMI ports, but I bought it used and it was actually mined before, been using it for a year and I have to say I'm pleasantly surprised. Exceeded my expectations.

@@darkhistory1313 Yeah, I think people often overplay how damaged these cards are. Of course there are cases of them not being taken care of so of course they'll be a bit iffy, but if the person that mined with them took care of them then it shouldn't be too bad 😎

Tbf the minimg ones are run 24/7 yes but sometimes undervolted and underclocked, and are kept cool. So most of them work fine and run really good. They are showing their years now, but are still a strong choice for budget builds.

I have tried with anti aliasing before (I believe on the first episode in RE4 Remake) and it kinda just looked super smeary unfortunately

That would be WILD lol. In-game frame gen + Lossless scaling frame gen + AFMF2 frame gen would look diabolical 😭

Of course it's not a 1:1 comparison given the differences in tech, but I do recall some older arcade games having that blurry look whether due to the resolution or due to the tech used for the screens

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I was considering using FSR initially, but I found that it forced anti aliasing and looked too good vs this janky method I found 🤣

Me too!