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royal forge
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MORE POINTS OF FAILURE

deep sapphire
royal forge
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I legit might try Intel, Hank

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If only they did decent value

deep sapphire
real edge
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am4 is dirt cheap so its the best value rn

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like 80$ motherboard with 60$ ram and 170$ 6 core cpu

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and you have a decent set for 300$

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reminds me of the old days

royal forge
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Ddr 4 or 5

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I see so many speed variants

real edge
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for what platform

dreamy chasm
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Ah, unfortunate

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It's all good, there's a bunch of budget IEMS that probably fit the bill for me out there I think

royal forge
real edge
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well, 12th gen intel boards can use ddr5

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am4 can only use ddr4

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12th gen intel can use ddr4 as well

royal forge
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I wonder if the speed diff are that big

real edge
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the difference is only noticeable on 13th gen intel

royal forge
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Ah

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How big a diff

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Like.. 50% that kind?

real edge
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well, ""noticeable""

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you get more fps on every gen of intel that supports ddr5]

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but

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its like 10

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on good ddr5 kits

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it varies

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per game

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its not anywhere near 50%

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more like

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5%?4%?

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ddr4 is cheap but is at the end of its life

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ddr5 is new, just as fast as ddr4, but more expensive right now with not much gain over ddr4 other than ram size

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but with how cheap ddr4 is, ram size is called into question even

royal forge
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Ye.

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I also see so many diff ram speeds

bitter girder
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but its all to do with the terrafarts

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how many fartsdoes the 4090 have

dull garnet
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69420

umbral moss
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there's been no pressure on the RAM companies to make good/high performance DDR5 because AM4 doesn't support it and intel hasn't been forcing it

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AM5 is the first platform to require DDR5, like four years after the stupid spec was made

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AM5 will likely anchor down DDR6 adoption too, since JDEC finished that spec last year if I recall

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by the time AM6 comes around they'll be on like DDR8

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(I am once again pointing out that having super long lived chipsets is fuckin terrible)

real edge
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I like the confidence that if I buy AM5 I will be able to replace the cpu with a much better one 4 years later

umbral moss
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sure, but it's a LTS chipset so it will necessarily lag feature upgrades you get from more agile chipsets

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this is why intel's HEDT platform sucked

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you were buying xeons that failed power validation and using the shitty xeon platform that has a 9 year lifecycle

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so it took forever for new features to reach HEDT, arguably the opposite of "high end"

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my board is from 2016 and doesn't have any USB C on it

dreamy chasm
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It's going to be a while before ddr5 becomes financially reasonable for anyone building a system

umbral moss
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barely any USB 3

dreamy chasm
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You can get a cheap motherboard and a 5800x3d and get most of the way

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Good ddr4 isn't expensive either

umbral moss
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we're in the new-gen valley where the last-gen stuff is still widely available and cheap as hell

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I member trying to find DDR3 when DDR4 became mainstream and it was like triple the price sad

real edge
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x3d will still last you many years I reckon

umbral moss
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I mean, my computer is from 2016 and it's still "good enough"

real edge
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unless some new cache technology gets implemented that massively dumpsters on the old one

umbral moss
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I honestly considered keeping this tower online to give to my girlfriend so she can get into PC GAMEN without me having to spend money

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she doesn't need the XXXTREME performance I do, so it's absolutely good enough

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Was chatting with hammantech via fb messenger - if you are willing to xfer funds straight into their bank account with no bill of sale or receipt or anything proving why you are giving them money - you can order one now.

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not shady at all lmao

real edge
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AM5 is too expensive right now to consider

real edge
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its essentially 300 vs like 700-900

inland mauve
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this reminds me of Linus' "just trust me bro" argument

real edge
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perfect for an intel cpu

royal forge
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Lmao

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I saw this IRL

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It does indeed look slick

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Local corp

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So i aint touching it

umbral moss
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I skimmed the comments

royal forge
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Lmao heh

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Malaysian brand

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TO BE HONEST, thats how things usually go..

umbral moss
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apparently it's MY only and if you want one internationally they want you to just transfer the money directly into their bank account with no notes

royal forge
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Ye..

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Hehe

umbral moss
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seems legit

royal forge
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Tbh, thats how it works here

royal forge
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Dont u hav a figurine frm SG or smthn

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U can ask em to send it

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To SG?

umbral moss
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the issue is more that they could just take your money and fuck off with it

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and you'd have no proof you paid for a product, only that you donated money to them

royal forge
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Ye. P much

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Its VERY much a reputation thing

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Lemme see..

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Look here?

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I dunoe if they'll ship internationally tho

umbral moss
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I mean, I could just use like, a milk carton or something to put the PC parts in for that matter lmao

royal forge
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Jesus christ

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Saw someone drop 15k MYR on a pc build

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Had a 4090 in it

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Amd 7700

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I think?

odd sand
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Microcenter no longer has a SKU for 13900kf so I decided to just bite the bullet and order from Newegg since they have them in stock atm

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Amazon supposedly had some for 575 a few days ago for a late Nov delivery but they're sold out now so 🤷‍♀️

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So when I get back from my trip here, I'll have all my stuff for the rebuild. Have to get unlazy and do proper cable mgmt this time heh

real edge
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having more ram than hard drive space

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I wonder if it will ever become viable to make drives out of your ram and placing videogames in there

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with ddr5 being huge they are starting to

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but games are becoming bigger

modest moss
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Ram drive concept is ancient

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I never bothered, didn't really have a need

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Like most of your purchases now haha

deep sapphire
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A fuckin 12100F with a 3090

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Forever a classic

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We love you Ice

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True I’ve been on a 90s country kick the last couple days

modest moss
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At least he buys Intel I guess

modest moss
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And bidori appears as I say that

deep sapphire
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I was obsessed with country and western culture as a kid lmao, my dad told me I knew the lyrics to abunch of popular country songs

hard drift
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no but i listen to it/grew up listening to it because parents

deep sapphire
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Based

hard drift
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my mom and dad both listened to a lot of country 🙏

deep sapphire
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90s country was legit amazing

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It flowed well, was very catchy and well written

hard drift
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and then you have the new stuff 😔 pop country

modest moss
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My daughter used to sing grandmaster flash when she was tiny haha

hard drift
deep sapphire
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My favorite classic song is Elvis Presley’s In the ghetto

modest moss
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Don't push me cos i'm cwose to da edge

deep sapphire
modest moss
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Mid December lol

deep sapphire
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You should be an asshole and put it in a giant box to fuck with her

modest moss
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Ouch

deep sapphire
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We talk about tech?

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modest moss
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Only medical tech in the clinic please

hard drift
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and with that i shall leave namazuconcern

deep sapphire
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Much better than ATI Ruby

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God I do not miss when 90 percent of graphics cards had a half naked girl on them

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Like fuck sakes can I just get a normal looking card

modest moss
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I do not need soft porn on my tech

deep sapphire
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My ATI 5970 HD had Ruby’s boobs right front and center

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That card was a beast too bad the drivers sucked major ass

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I only pay monthly because the game is that boring

modest moss
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Yeah I get the basic bitch sub plus 2 retainers

deep sapphire
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That reminds me a buddy of mine from the army randomly hit me up during the ARR days asking if the game was fun and he dead ass bought a 6 month sub and played all of a week

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Never saw him again

modest moss
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Works out to 9.99 gbp

deep sapphire
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Yeah the cheap tier is 12.99 USD and that’s all you need

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Leveling an alt just sounds awful

modest moss
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A few months back I semi levelled an alt, just to redo ARR 2.0

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Was a good time but no way would I fully level one

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Then stop spending dumbass

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What size

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Eh nbd then

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I just have an FC small

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I'll decorate eventually

odd sand
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I know there are still good stuff in both genres, but if it takes me a ton of effort to find stuff I don't mind I just don't bother 🤷‍♀️

umbral moss
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I love boobs, can't get enough of em

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but not to have them all over my PC like some kind of weird porn convention booth

inland mauve
umbral moss
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same, unironically

odd sand
modest moss
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@deep sapphire btw, @modern iris says hey

deep sapphire
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hey

languid sequoia
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Happy RDNA3 Day everybody

modest moss
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I wonder if they'll come with working drivers

dull garnet
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Not while they're being made by amd

real edge
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I very much wanted one of the cheap 6900xts floating around but I did not buy them because of the drivers

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and from rumors, the 40 series will be expensive and shit

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this is all just bad

bitter girder
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im more interested in efficiency this gen

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so we'll see what does better

dull garnet
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Neither

dreamy chasm
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Irresponsible purchasing decisions lets go

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RDNA 2 efficiency was fairly decent last I checked

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I could see them straying from that just to hit better performance targets, though

paper tusk
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"what is the gaming experence we can bring" how about drivers which aren't a meme

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and video transcode/hw encode that can actually be used

dull garnet
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Best we can do is "value"

paper tusk
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24gb vram

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not gddr6x, plain

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"it sounds liek there's a few excited people out there"

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I'm not one of them

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claimed 54% increase per watt

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surprise count: 0

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I knew these 2 would be the only announce

lost python
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the last driver at least took a step into the right direction, finally fixing HVEC and stuff

paper tusk
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also thanks youtube. I up the res to 1080 and it looks te same as 720 screen caps

lost python
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now if only they could fix hardware acceleration...

lost python
dull garnet
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I do like bringing back "XTX" though

dull garnet
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Lol

paper tusk
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they are doubling down on infinity cache (which was the architecture chokepoint in current gen)

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trying to get this rather than the text bullet point and techobabble he's talking about

lost python
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54% more transistors? are they though?

paper tusk
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new process, more transitors per mil. ehh

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maybe better raster but 6800-6900 also had good raster at the expense of hw raytrace

lost python
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i love how everytime the slide changes, the camera focuses on the guy instead

paper tusk
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finally supports DXR. I can't even remember when dxr was first specced

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supports billions of colours; will be used on displays that barely support 70% ntsc

lost python
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ok new media engine but will the drivers crash again when using it though? haha

paper tusk
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bragging about av1 topkek

lost python
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also god damn the audio balancing is ass. sometimes its so hard to hear this guy

bitter girder
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yawwnnn

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hope he farts

lost python
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mumble mumble performance per watt mumble mumble

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raytracing performance will still suck though

bitter girder
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yep

paper tusk
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/me spins in chair

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doh

sharp star
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cringe

lost python
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sup gamers

bitter girder
lost python
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1.6x 40fps is still not impressive though

paper tusk
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how about some numbers (7090xtx)

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ugh candy bag please

bitter girder
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OH THEY'RE USING THOSE NUMBERS

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LOLOLOL

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cmoon amd

lost python
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"just" 355w

paper tusk
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now we're cooking

lost python
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and spikes to 600 again i assume?

bitter girder
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i cannot be arsed to watch this stream

paper tusk
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of course. like the nvidia way

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300w

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probably yeah since slot does 75w max itself

lost python
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firing shots at nvidia lmao

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also the neo g9 sucks ass

paper tusk
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8k gaemer monitor. seems like an appropiate plug because it'll cost 8k usd

lost python
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samsung still cant figure out a way to not give you all sorts of issues in 90% of the monitors

bitter girder
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thats just samsung

lost python
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ok but what settings though?

sharp star
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833FPS in Valorant, 600FPS in Overwatch 2

paper tusk
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inb4 ow2 settings are the low preset

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because that's what people did for ow1 (not for frame rate but to better see opponent players)

lost python
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FSR set to ultra performance probably KEKW

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but then its not crisp 8k

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halo ResidentSleeper

paper tusk
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whoopie fucking do

bitter girder
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god this sucks

lost python
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barely anything visible KEKW

paper tusk
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oh my gerd the grass has a better shadow

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also selling cybertrash being actually playable at 4k?

lost python
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also lol @ the 216 FSR supported games
not really anything to brag about when the majority uses an outdated FSR version that looks just terrible

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is it?

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also does the partnership mean we get a division 3?

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then i go ahead and say 1399

paper tusk
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"we made a demo specially made for new hw isn't this awesome?"

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(spoiler amd. I still don't play benchmarks)

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mandalorian says hi (virtual sets in UE)

lost python
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aaa the cringe

paper tusk
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I think I'll guess 1000 usd for 7900 xt, 1300 for xtx

sharp star
echo citrus
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XTX or 4090?

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Which will win?

lost python
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alright to be fair, the software is solid. i really like it and the features it offers
nvidia should really step up their game and deliver the same level of features, without needing a mandatory account

lost python
echo citrus
paper tusk
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I'm leaning slightly towards 4090 but barely (value wise it's shit. and not going to touch the lowest tier outsourced power adapter)

lost python
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if its 2000 for the xtx then AMD killed itself once again

paper tusk
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hyper r..

real edge
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it kills itself every gen anyway as long as they do not fix their atrocious drivers

echo citrus
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We'll see how cheap it is xD

lost python
paper tusk
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I can't even complete the joke sorry not sorry. setting pre-render setting to 1 isn't new. at all.

lost python
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hypr R sounds like some oneclick button to enable FSR and radeon anti lag

paper tusk
echo citrus
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Earlier did they say developers will be able to make better use of Ray Tracing in future games?

paper tusk
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with DXR yeah (instead of nvidia's version)

lost python
echo citrus
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I really want some awesome Ray Tracing in games

paper tusk
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yeah the hotfix is for textures. I think crash bug is still a thing

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I'm sticking with 522.25 until more bug fixes

lost python
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hmm that video stuff sounds neat if it works

paper tusk
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yeah, if

lost python
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laptops go away. i want to see prices and release dates

echo citrus
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Laptops > Desktops

paper tusk
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I'm focusing on h266/vvc (vtm encoder) so this isn't exactly a strong incentive to spend mony for me

mortal condor
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Oh yeah, new amd gpus are under $1000

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Spoilers I guess-

echo citrus
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That's good

lost python
mortal condor
real edge
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did they compare those to the 4090?

lost python
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999

paper tusk
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yup stream finally caught up

lost python
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im gonna get it lmao

dull garnet
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How much are the working drivers, $699?

paper tusk
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yes

lost python
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ofc after reviews

dull garnet
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Upgrade to am5 too ice

lost python
sharp star
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lost python
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but we already know the 4090 is superior in terms of performance

paper tusk
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I'm still feeling the overpriced 3060 ti from beginning of the year so I might be forced to wait on this. edit: doesn't help I still remember my last amd card having total driver failure/black screen and absolutely nothing i could do to fix it

dull garnet
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I have loved the 2 years with my 3060 ti for MSRP uwucarby

mortal condor
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I for one am very glad to see AMD stepping up like this. Couple this with Intel entering the gpu ring with surprising performance and Nvidia might finallllly start to sweat just a little

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Juuuuuust a little

real edge
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if the drivers function

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:<

lost python
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fucking samsung

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i still think its funny that they are both related

real edge
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when somethings too good to be true, it probably is false

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gotta wait for reviews first, especially on the driver side

sharp star
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Nvidia's screwed on price but we gotta wait until December for performance

paper tusk
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probably cost of components

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I don't get it either

fair parcel
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AMD GPU DansChamp

paper tusk
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MT61K512M32KPA (gddr6. 16 gbit. 8ghz) goes for $26.22 usd a pop in quantity of 2000

dull garnet
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look at the amd simping

paper tusk
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so roughly 300 for vram raw cost

dull garnet
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hank would be disappoint

sharp star
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apparently there's a USB-C port in the back instead of a second HDMI port

dull garnet
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that's to interface with a macbook

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lewd

sly elk
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I've thought that exact phrase a few times when poking at my phone

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and whenever i've used a samsung tv

umbral moss
dull garnet
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that's because samsung phones and tvs are crap

lost python
umbral moss
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nvidia doesn't give a single fuck about its competitors until they're producing comparable products for less

sly elk
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i think samsung phones are very nice sometimes.

bitter girder
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NO

sly elk
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but also crap other times

umbral moss
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AMD would have priced the 7950XTXTXTXTXTXTXTXTXTX at $1500 if they thought it performed equivalent to a 4090, because people are paying $1500 for a 4090 so why would they leave money on the table

dull garnet
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their os is hideous and unforgivable

bitter girder
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overheated listening to music

modest moss
sharp star
bitter girder
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true

sharp star
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but yes Exynos is shit

dull garnet
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i have had a s1, note, s8 and s9. currently have a tab s7 and have done everything i can do de-samsung-ify it

bitter girder
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custom roms

dull garnet
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well, not yet

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maybe when security updates end

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it has a snapdragon luckily

bitter girder
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android lollipop ruined the s5

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well samsungs stuff they did to it was the problem

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you get what i mean tho

dull garnet
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not sure

mortal condor
bitter girder
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but then i found out about cyanogenmod and it was a good phone again

dull garnet
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i used my note 1 until like 2015

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on custom roms

umbral moss
dull garnet
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then i got an iphone 6

sly elk
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i'm on my 3rd week or so with my fold 4

bitter girder
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i miss my iphone 8

umbral moss
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they were like "we're going to lead the way in SSDs" until samsung shit on them in price/GB and then they just quietly ducked out

dull garnet
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iphone 6 unironically my favourite smartphone

sly elk
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and for multiple reasons I'm still dragging my xs aronud lol

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none of them really related to the fold 4 though

umbral moss
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having produced a cutting edge first gen SSD and then rapidly becoming an also-ran with three gen back performance

dull garnet
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what a beaut

sly elk
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it's definitely not a 'does everything perfectly' device

bitter girder
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ahhh man

dull garnet
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that's an s, close enough

sly elk
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one of my beefs with samsungs is they suck at the whole like

bitter girder
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being a good company

dull garnet
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samsung shit cost too much

sly elk
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"I'm holding my phone with one hand, and because my hand is wrapped around the phone, it's not registering touches anywhere on the screen because the edge of the screen is touching my hand" bullshit

bitter girder
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OH DUDE

dull garnet
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if it wasn't for people who have no idea about anything going "ooga booga, £70 a month phone contract"

bitter girder
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THE GALAXY EDGE PHONES

sly elk
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I thought that was only a problem with rounded edge samsungs

bitter girder
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omfg

dull garnet
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they wouldn't be doing so well

sly elk
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but the fold 4 screen has flat edges

dull garnet
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i thought the edge phones were lit af

sly elk
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and I still find myself having to hold the phone in the most ridiculous way

dull garnet
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lol

sly elk
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becaues having my palm overlap the edge the tiniest bit

dull garnet
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then i got an S8 and it was shit

sly elk
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and it ignores touch in the middle of the fucking screen

fair parcel
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iPhone 14 Pro Max users rise up GigaChadGamer

sly elk
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if you own a 14 pro max

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you probably owned a 13 pro max

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because the only people buying those are people who buy a new iphone every year

dull garnet
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based, honestly

fair parcel
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nah I went from 11 pro max to 14 lol

sly elk
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^ idk that's still kinda the same thing 😄

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the 11,12,13,14 are basically the same phone >>

fair parcel
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lol yeah kinda

dull garnet
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that 11 pro still had a better soc than your fold 4

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lololol

sly elk
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yep

fair parcel
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I just won't do it every year

sly elk
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oh a lot of samsung fanboys were angry that the fold4 is basically a fold3

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what I find frustrating generally with android phones is that like

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iphones are sold adn designed to be used a certain way

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android phones can do a thing a dozen different ways

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but if you buy a quirky phone

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then it was only designed to work the way the company who made it intended it to be used

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so you have this temptation of doing it one of the other ways

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and it doesn't work/feel right because it can't

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like using third party keyboards on a fold 4

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also, apple earned a level of trust I can't give google or samsung lmao

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"hey add your credit cards to samsung pay!" .. uh no

dull garnet
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samsung apps are so bad

sly elk
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i like the hardware but i'm not so sure about the software yet haha

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the soc thing, it does at least feel faster than my xs

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my xs running ios 16 is a bit of a dog

dull garnet
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think i have the sd 865+ in my tablet and its pretty snappy, but i only use it for tachiyomi anyway

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seems to play any backward ass anime encode too

sly elk
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i will say, i wanted something new and funky and it was a lot cheaper than a 14 pro would've cost me. but samsung's msrp is outrageous

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1800? are they smoking crack?

dull garnet
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a 14 pro is such a better investment though lol

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but fair

sly elk
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whatever

dull garnet
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is that one of the phones samsung are promising 5 years of os updates on at least

sly elk
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in terms of being able to take good pictures/video? or in terms of lifetime with software updates and stuff?

dull garnet
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i was thinking the latter

sly elk
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i think fucking samsung promises 3 years os and 2 years security updates haha

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I also don't expect the folding screen to last that long

modest moss
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Just be me with an 8 year old phone

dull garnet
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maybe that was it, parity with pixel updates from the 6 onwards

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pretty sure my pixel battery will be toast in 5 years though

sly elk
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on the flip side, my 3 year old xs is worth like $300 at best. so I assume a 3 year old 14 pro would be worth similar

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this cost like $200 less? and if it's worthless in 3 years i don't care

dull garnet
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tends to happen with android phones

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my friend couldn't get a refund on a pixel 7 as he decided he wanted a 7 pro

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barely managed to get half what he paid for a brand new phone

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then said he preferred the 7

modest moss
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What no return policy

#

Did he not buy online or did he take too long

dull garnet
#

i honestly don't know. might have been because he cancelled his monzo plus so they sent him a new card. i'm not sure that would really matter but he ended up making a £200 immediate loss which was funny to me

sly elk
#

lol at least i got a good deal on my fold4 so I can sell it for what i paid for it

modest moss
#

Sounds like a skill issue

sly elk
#

i mean pixels are having similar fat discounts atm

modest moss
#

Hoping for a sweet black Friday 6a deal tbh

dull garnet
#

good to know my year old 6 is worth basically nothing

sly elk
#

they seem to have done that thing where they give $$ for old phones though

#

but not the 6

#

which was messed up

#

fucking samsung at least does give you a decent trade-in value

modest moss
#

6 should still sell

sly elk
#

(which I suspect is why their phones are overpriced to begin with)

dull garnet
#

oh, google do offer a repair service

modest moss
#

Oh is it busted

dull garnet
#

no

sly elk
#

like if you trade in a year old fucking samsung for the new one it'll get you a like 50%+ discount

dull garnet
#

but if i want the full life of the device i'll probably want to replace the battery in a year or so

#

iSmash

sly elk
#

so this is a thing i don't understand about iphones

dull garnet
#

🤢

sly elk
#

people saying that their iphone got a huge performance boost by replacing the battery

#

but when I go in battery health on my xs it says it's not throttling

modest moss
#

If it is in A grade condition cex will give you 312 quid

fair parcel
#

I just got 800 for my 11 pro max

dull garnet
#

i'm not selling it but lol

sly elk
dull garnet
sly elk
#

WHY

#

200 more gets you a new one >>

modest moss
#

Google must have been cached

dull garnet
bitter girder
#

cex

dull garnet
#

ye boi

#

ever sold a phone on ebay? those people are savages

modest moss
bitter girder
#

you were the one who invited me back

dull garnet
#

oooh

#

the truth comes out

modest moss
#

yes, I'm the stupid

sly elk
#

it's LGR but I agree

#

I have a love/hate with hard drives

sly elk
#

the oldschool noises are nostalgic but I don't miss them

#

moreso I don't miss CRT whine

#

or having a 50lb monitor

#

or the way you would get the geometry just perfect at 1280x1024, then open up an 800x600 game and the geometry would be all fucked up

dull garnet
#

well, that's what you get for calibrating for 5:4

sly elk
#

or like, for whatever reason, a certain picture/image would also screw with geometry for no particular reason sometimes

#

or

#

the permanently attached vga cable would start to break down

#

and you'd have to tape it to the back of the monitor at a funky angle to not have blue missing or whatever

dull garnet
#

good displays had a modular cable meol

sly elk
#

yea but very few

#

very very few

#

like nice trinitron displays also had the permanent cable

bitter girder
sly elk
#

ya know the sad thing is at some point, someone gave me a really nice crt that had modular inputs

dull garnet
#

just rude, lowballing

sly elk
#

it was like 20" and weighed a ton and a half

#

but i never was able to get the cable (or afford it) so I ended up giving it away 😦

dull garnet
#

crt are good but not for text

modest moss
bitter girder
#

Oh that shit

dull garnet
#

there was a dude on shmups.system11 with a 980 Ti powering a FW900 with FF14 and it looked sweet

sly elk
#

-looks at his coinbase account-

#

yay coinbase pro makes my monitor spaz

dull garnet
#

i don't think you can use that word anymore

umbral moss
#

buy the dip

dull garnet
#

we'll see

sly elk
#

lol

#

my biggest investment is in aapl >>

#

i wish it'd stop looking like a roller coaster ride

hard drift
#

@tame fulcrum i already said I’m not discussing tech anymore 🙏

sly elk
#

meh

umbral moss
#

you're just enabling the anime if you don't

sly elk
#

i could dump my savings accountinto stonks

dull garnet
#

bidori comes back when amd get a W

#

can you not get a white gpu block thing and a white motherboard?

umbral moss
#

for $1200 pogianger

dull garnet
#

and here i am questioning if $5 rubber fan mounts are worth buying

hard drift
dull garnet
#

that's not white

hard drift
dull garnet
#

the asus promise

#

also not white playdead

#

get a wooper sticker for that black block thing

sly elk
#

that looks fucking great

dull garnet
#

hopefully that 3090 waterblock will fit on the 7950 XTX eh

sly elk
#

ice are you saying the metal covers get in the way of the water block fitting?

#

oh

#

but the board trim is silver

#

and your block is sexy chrome

modern iris
#

i learned a valuable lesson today at work

#

never tell management that you made a homelab if your job has nothing to do with it

sly elk
#

O_o

modern iris
# hard drift Why?

i went from being a humble webdev to devops in a matter of a few words as a higher up passed by me

sly elk
#

oops

modern iris
#

because nobody wants to pay to give us a proper devops team

sly elk
#

yep. that happens.

sly elk
#

i get a good laugh out of that sometimes

modern iris
#

i had to deal with load balancing and ssl passthrough, i learned a lot but my confidence in it is low

sly elk
#

before we had an official devops person, I was the devops person

#

years ago

modern iris
#

i thought i had it right at first but apparently ssl termination is a thing

#

anyway i just want to go back to node

#

😭

sly elk
#

and I could never convince IT to do things so that the automation crap wasn't tied to my personal account's ssh keys/tokens/whatever

hard drift
sly elk
#

then one day I quit

#

and a few days after that they deactivated my account

#

gahahaha apparently they didn't realize just how much stuff I worked on until that happened lol

#

it wasn't like they were screwed, one of my coworkers got IT to fix their shit and then fixed all the devops shit to work independent of someone's account

#

we still got a good laugh about it over dinner a few weeks later

modern iris
#

it's fun, but i want to be paid for it better than the peanuts they give me for webdev work

#

not once did i ever bother to work with load balancing though let alone anything with ssl

#

but for now i got a little nginx reverse proxy setup going to their apache server and the ssl passes through just fine

#

i would of let it terminated and called it a day but they have things i didn't feel right doing that with
it would be better if we had a team 😭 i don't like this kind of responsibility by myself

#

my contract ends next month with the place i'm at now 🤞 but i'm waiting before applying somewhere because my girlfriend's looking at taking a job in another area, and if she gets that then we'll be moving

#

unless it's remote work, i'd sacrifice one of my arms or legs for remote work again 😭

#

160-250k? i'd probably not be qualified for it haha

#

around 5-6!

#

ooo

#

I'ma look

#

just skimming through their stuff, i definitely see a few i can apply to
frontend engineer would be the closet, even though i do more back end work but it's all javascript which seems to be what they want the most

#

i'll save it 💜

#

atm my peanuts is roughly $60k after tax for full stack, even though it's more backend than front end for me

#

so duck duck go / microsoft would be a huge step up 😅

sly elk
#

duck duck gogogo

#

their map system annoys me so much

#

-opens saved search for houses for rent in sunnyvale- -drags map around- -it updates to show listings in new area- -zooms in on new area- -it shows listings from sunnyvale again-

#

but if you're seriously looking for something, their system updates before zillow's does

#

-chuckle- so tell me why the map breaks if you move it 😄

#

-gives a cookie-

#

lol

#

i still get a laugh out of this

#

one of those is not like the others

#

ahhh that's my imposter syndrome feeling 😄

bitter girder
#

sus

#

spotify devs do literally nothing

bitter girder
#

they just record their setups and pretend to type with their shitty £600 mechanical keyboards and post it on instagram

dull garnet
#

Ah, a Reddit user

bitter girder
#

yeeee

sly elk
#

a benq screen light bar thingy above their screen

#

grey felt deskpad

#

natural leather accessories with the stitching and lumberjack closures

bitter girder
#

ahahhaahaa

#

this guy knows

sly elk
#

i love /r/battlestations and /r/macsetups

#

but there are so many cookie cutter setups lol

#

I mean, if you optimize yours will become cookie-cutter-ish-too

#

-points at the alex drawers by his own desk-

dull garnet
#

I judge setups entirely on audio

sly elk
#

well, i don't have studio monitors 😛

dull garnet
#

They should be used exclusively for production

#

They're not for enjoyment

sly elk
#

but i do have my funky looking edifers with the sub that looks like a snail :]

dull garnet
#

🐌

sly elk
#

and it thumps nicely

dull garnet
#

Oh, I wanted those a while back

#

mkbhd had them 🤪

sly elk
#

the wireless nature of the sub can be a little annoying, i wish it had a hardline option

#

idk he has black monitors with white cones

#

didn't bother looking close but that usually means yamaha hs

dull garnet
#

tfw no yamaha ns10

sly elk
#

get some real pc multimedia speakers

dull garnet
sly elk
#

those look nice and functional

#

they have tweeters

bitter girder
#

i like those

dull garnet
#

tweets from speaker

bitter girder
#

i just have a soundbar that says fuck on it

dull garnet
#

I'll never concede to a soundbar

bitter girder
#

i just use it for my tv when im in bed

#

its fine for movies

#

i have my headphones for everything else

dull garnet
#

Mr fancy over here

#

Airpods max?

bitter girder
#

no

dull garnet
#

Cringe

bitter girder
dull garnet
#

Could have bought one good pair instead

sly elk
#

^ that looks like $airpods max

bitter girder
#

ones for my playstation ones bluetooth and the bottom is for my computer

sly elk
#

so many headphones

bitter girder
#

i just like headphones

dull garnet
#

I wear headphones approx 1% of the time

bitter girder
#

i have earphones too

dull garnet
#

I have earpods uwucarby

bitter girder
#

i got linkbuds s

#

they are tiny

dull garnet
#

That's what she said

bitter girder
dull garnet
#

Look at this Sony shill

bitter girder
#

sony is okay

dull garnet
#

So so for audio

dull garnet
#

Trinitron #1

deep sapphire
#

They sound great but they’re uncomfortable and the battery life is pathetic after a year

sly elk
#

but when i see 80s commercials i think of a thing that would haunt hank

bitter girder
deep sapphire
#

Trinitron booba

#

XM4s

bitter girder
#

my xm4s broke

#

the left one just died

deep sapphire
#

My first pair did too lmao

bitter girder
#

the linkbuds s are much more comfortable

sly elk
bitter girder
#

but things like female vocals

deep sapphire
#

The replacements have been fine ish but they don’t work great with iOS

sly elk
#

your place is like the bat cave

bitter girder
#

tend to peak from tie to time

#

pain in the ass

sly elk
#

with labels on everything huh

deep sapphire
#

It had some weird volume bug where if you put it above 70 percent volume the quality drops hard and it isn’t even loud

dull garnet
#

Not really, but labels are fun

sly elk
#

aye I have airpods

#

can't believe those suckers are almost a year old already i think

deep sapphire
#

My OG AirPods still work

dull garnet
#

Battery is why I wouldn't buy wireless buds

sly elk
#

one of the better things i bought for $90 but

#

yea I agree

#

when the battery is done they're trash 😦

dull garnet
#

Just have to consider them consumables I guess

bitter girder
#

i have sennheiser momentum 2 earphones thats lasted a while

#

think i got them in 2018

#

gave em to my mums partner though

#

they are doing well with battery life

dull garnet
#

Sennheiser make pretty good stuff

bitter girder
#

i didnt like the sound of em

dull garnet
#

Like the hd 650

bitter girder
#

even with the high end tuning

#

their wired headphones are better

#

their bluetooth stuff aint as good as i hoped

dull garnet
bitter girder
#

i had their bluetooth headphones the momentum 3s

#

walked back from work

#

was raining

#

killed them

dull garnet
sly elk
#

the momentums always looked too small to me

bitter girder
dull garnet
#

I got rain in my pixel 6's usb port

bitter girder
#

the earphones are huge drums

dull garnet
#

The phone detected it and disabled the port

bitter girder
#

they're not that nice to wear

bitter girder
#

and then it stuck saying water detection for 9 hours

dull garnet
#

I use the port for my earpods so I was annoyed that I couldn't listen to my podcast still

bitter girder
#

pain

dull garnet
#

Activated again after like an hour

bitter girder
#

yeah xm4 headphones are pretty good when it comes to water so im glad i do own them because sometimes i get fucking drenched outside

dull garnet
#

Quick swim

bitter girder
#

pain

deep sapphire
#

BLUETOOTH CONNECTED

#

BATTERY FULLY CHARGED

bitter girder
#

AHHAHAHA

sly elk
#

airpods just make the funky noises

bitter girder
#

Sony PTSD

dull garnet
#

Wow

#

Do Sony use the $5 AliExpress special noises?

bitter girder
#

close

hard drift
dull garnet
sly elk
#

lol like how every other dashcam uses a chipset that makes the same metallic sound that sony digital cameras make

deep sapphire
#

Lmao wtf I’m chilling in my truck outside my apartment and some dude is screaming at what I’m assuming is his brother about not getting an oil change on time

jaunty light
potent arrow
#

Christ thanks for reminding me

#

I need to change my oil

#

Only at 30k over despair

jaunty light
#

I have amsoil i dont need to change til 2025

bitter girder
#

Cinnamon bun

potent arrow
#

(full disclosure this is my track car, I do not plan on servicing it ever)

#

It will run till it explodes Cars 2 style

jaunty light
#

Hell in my bike i have like 6 year old rotella t6

jaunty light
bitter girder
#

:)

jaunty light
bitter girder
#

True

potent arrow
#

Battery 1 is not having a good day lol

sly elk
#

this design isn't good for people with OCD

#

and it won't charge if I put it so the camera is hanging off the edge

jaunty light
#

Thats what u get for buying a sammy

sly elk
#

yea that's why i said

#

you gotta call em fucking samsung

#

XD

#

apple would have a team of bald dudes with british accents to make sure that the charging ring was in just the right place that picking up the phone felt the most comfortable according to a focus group

sly elk
#

it's the noise that dell poweredge switches make when you turn them on

#

it's like a dentist drill but 10x louder

#

I’m not clicking it

#

The comments in the 7900 launch thread are great

#

hemorrhoids sounds like a better deal than the RTX 4080.

#

Lmao some dude has a license plate with like BB88B8B on it

#
sly elk
#

the one where you can get a steam deck for 399

sly walrus
#

some shitbox laptop that this guy is hyping up way too much

sly elk
#

shoot, with the drop in pc prices, and probably soon a surplus in used mid-range business PCs

#

you'll be able to do it lol

modest moss
#

you mean pirated games?

#

apparently you can play a lot of pirated games on it

sly elk
#

yea at this rate, a used 3060 and an old optiflex will probably suffice

sly elk
#

ice's build is running cooler than mine with his gpu pegged to 100% and cpu at 2%

#

my gpu is at 0% and my cpu is at like 14%

#

and I have higher temps >>

late basalt
#

pcb not warping? temps fine

#

solder not melting? you're fine

#

not smelling burnt plastic? you're fine

late basalt
#

wouldnt it make more sense to test fan profiles with... you know... actual usage conditions?

sly elk
#

^ I agree 100%

#

that's the best thing about having a fan controller you can control on the fly

late basalt
#

i mean, obviously set hard limits of "if you approach this temp, MAXIMUM SPEED ENGAGED"

sly elk
#

zippydy doo dah

late basalt
#

but other than that? actually use it and go from there

sly elk
#

i miss that style of advertising

royal forge
#

So

#

Amd

#

@tame fulcrum new build with AMD hmmm?

sly elk
#

camera prolly takes better pictures than his eyes

real edge
#

if their drivers do not suck I may consider it

#

but I prefer nvidia for stability

#

but with ngreedias ridiculous prices...

dreamy chasm
#

Amd has been better about their drivers as of recently

royal forge
#

I know its a bad idea

#

But

#

Im so tempted to buy everything but the GPU

eager sandal
#

recently did a driver update and it fucked up my game performance really badly on every single game i played

#

had to do a rollback

dull garnet
#

how old are we talking

kindred brook
#

You guys remember

#

Tiger direct

#

That old

dull garnet
#

you must be old enough to remember omega drivers to post here

#

because ATI drivers were so bad you had to go third party

kindred brook
#

Oh shiet

#

There was something better

#

Than ATI drivers???

#

I had a 9800 pro all in wonder

#

That was my first gpu

#

Was so cool had a fuckin remote

odd sand
dull garnet
#

i'll never forget an ati driver that made my friend's x1950 pro bluescreen when it viewed high resolution images

bitter girder
#

lets gooo

royal forge
#

I would like to be a tech mentor

#

I have daily BSODs and have not went crazy

#

I will be the perfect candidate

#

Ice.. i might just build

#

A 3090

#

Like.. fuck it all

bitter girder
#

computer

sharp star
#

you’re gonna build a 3090?

royal forge
#

Yes

royal forge
modest moss
umbral moss
#

that's how

bitter girder
#

you ever find yourself accidentally trying to capitalise a number?

#

i do it sometimes and laugh

royal forge
#

3090 with a 7600 for top keks

sharp star
#

capitalize an exclamation point for extra emphasis

royal forge
#

..

umbral moss
royal forge
#

Ok, do you guys think an aftermarket closed loop will be a good idea

umbral moss
#

it'll be OK

royal forge
#

Or just a chonker air cooler

umbral moss
#

but not as good as a proper custom

royal forge
#

Im not doin a custom loop

umbral moss
#

those tiny tubes don't hold or move a lot of water

umbral moss
modest moss
#

Do it, so I get to mock all your next fuck ups

royal forge
umbral moss
#

um?

royal forge
#

And theres a high chance i have to move

#

So

umbral moss
#

hose cutter is like $15 lmao

#

use soft tubing, don't listen to icehunter and use hard tubing when you know you're going to have to break it down

royal forge
#

And the fittings are ex here

modest moss
#

I'll donate my belly laughs

#

No computer NEEDS water cooling

#

It's only when you intend extreme usage

#

So aoi can just not bother

#

They're not a hsrdcore gamer and 3d modelling isn't going to be that insane

#

Yeah their ambient temps will be a bit higher but even so keeping the stock gpu cooler dust free and a fat noctua on a cpu with a good airflow case and it'll be a good time

#

Keep it simple

drowsy badge
#

I got a small technological question if someone can answer it

#

More of a curious question but my old Wi-Fi modem combo was on the fritz so I went to get a new one put it in in my username for the Wi-Fi connection and the password for the Wi-Fi where the same is this normal I thought all that stuff was kept on the modem in itself?

dreamy chasm
#

Water cooling is excessive unless you have the time and patience for it

potent arrow
#

Because sff cooling is a fucking meme

bitter girder
#

based

#

the cage

modest moss
#

that's great

bitter girder
#

milk create gaming pc

#

when

#

crate

#

i forgot how to spell crate

#

its crate right

modest moss
#

crate

bitter girder
#

@modest moss how cold is it where you are rn

#

im literally vibrating in my kitchen right now its cold

modest moss
#

I'm considering putting on a hoodie

#

but I just turned on my pc so that'll warm me up

bitter girder
#

ahhahahaha

modest moss
#

10c outside apparently

bitter girder
#

its 12 here but feels like 9

#

oh

#

the fucking windows open

modest moss
#

lol you dingbat

bitter girder
#

in winter i just really wanna play a cosy fantasy rpg

#

that isnt final fantasy

#

i wish skyrim was better

potent arrow
bitter girder
#

show

odd sand
#

Oh Teams, why are you so shitty.

#

There is no way to locally mute a participant

bitter girder
#

wtf

odd sand
#

So my coworker is talking in the meeting and I get echo bc all muting is global

#

So I can't actually mute him bc im in the same room like you could in discord

#

They finally added a push to talk with the awkward keystroke of Ctrl+Spacebar ... but it still only works if the window is in focus

modest moss
#

ice you worked on teams, didn't you?

potent arrow
bitter girder
modest moss
#

ah well, you're the designated MS scapegoat anyway

#

so shame on you

modest moss
#

exactly

#

So a man walks into a bar, and sits down. He starts a conversation with an old guy next to him. The old guy has obviously had a few. He says to the man:

"You see that dock out there? Built it myself, hand crafted each piece, and it's the best dock in town! But do they call me "McGregor the dock builder"? No! And you see that bridge over there? I built that, took me two months, through rain, sleet and scoarching weather, but do they call me "McGregor the bridge builder"? No! And you see that pier over there, I built that, best pier in the county! But do they call me "McGregor the pier builder"? No!"

The old guy looks around, and makes sure that nobody is listening, and leans to the man, and he says:

"but you fuck one sheep..."

bitter girder
#

black friday with argos is shit

royal forge
#

A welsh problem in particular

potent arrow
#

"why is my computer so slow whenever I turn on anything graphicallly intensive???"

#

Also: 1050 😐

modest moss
#

that might be the gpu my wife has

potent arrow
#

So dusty the fans don't even spin

modest moss
#

maybe a 1050ti

potent arrow
#

Nah it's a 1050

modest moss
#

hers isn't bad, runs fortnite at 1080p60 on maxed settings, same with XIV iirc

royal forge
#

Regardin my Q previously. I was just lookin at prices of coolers for amd and saw aircoolers had similar pricing to aftermarket closed loops

modest moss
#

Aoi do you trust your luck?

royal forge
#

Well.. some of em

#

I dunoe. Im paranoid the aircooler will give me grief

potent arrow
#

Jsyk AMD stock coolers are good

modest moss
#

for you I'd say just bang in a chonky noctua and be happy

#

why would an air cooler give you grief

potent arrow
#

I mostly forgo buying coolers for most AMD processors

potent arrow
dull garnet
royal forge
potent arrow
royal forge
#

I was eyein zen 4 or last gen intel

modest moss
#

paranoia is making you want to use something more complicated with extra points of failure

#

that is

#

ok

royal forge
#

And sorta rabbitholed into coolers

potent arrow
#

Like COMPACTED solid dust

royal forge
#

I think ddr 4 is a "good enough" deal ye?

#

Ddr 5 is for latest and greatest am5 or newest intel?

dull garnet
#

ddr4 is obsolete

royal forge
#

Ffs. Really?

modest moss
#

yes this ddr4 I just bought no longer works

dull garnet
#

no

royal forge
potent arrow
#

Aoi

#

Really.

royal forge
#

Sorry. Im worried i'll mess up

modest moss
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Man can perform fucking eye surgery but can't figure out ram

royal forge
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Worried i'll buy a ddr 4 and then OH OOPS DDR5 IS SOOO much better

potent arrow
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That's just tech

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Get used to it

dull garnet
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you'll process that ddr4 is fine some day

potent arrow
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Or you won't get anywhere

modest moss
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buy some things that match, use the things, be happy

royal forge
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There are also diff speeds?

potent arrow
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If you want fool proof, just go for zen 4, ddr4 16/32, dual nvme, 3060ti-3080

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Don't replace it for 4-5 years

dreamy chasm
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DDR5 will be better once they're not the price of a kidney

potent arrow
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Call it a day

royal forge
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Like ddr 4 2k+, or 3k+?

potent arrow
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2k MHz still exists??

modest moss
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I bought ddr4 3600

dreamy chasm
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look for 3800 cl16

royal forge
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Lemme bring up me spreadsheet

potent arrow
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3600 CL16 is waht you need for ryzen

dreamy chasm
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2400mhz is still found in value ram, sarah

potent arrow
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That's disgusting

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Now that's unusable lol

dreamy chasm
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sometimes people just want chrome go faster

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on their 5 year old laptop

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and they have like

royal forge
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They have a ddr 4 2400Mhz

modest moss
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why am I even remotely considering going down another Aoi rabbit hole

dreamy chasm
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4 gigs of ram soldered on or w/e

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anyways

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are you like

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in asia or something

royal forge
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Yes

dreamy chasm
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and