technology-discussion

[real edge]

yea your chip WILL run, it will just thermal throttle most likely with the fan making noise trying to cool it

[sly elk]

there are a bunch of options

like you don't have to drop $100 on a noctua nh-d15

someone here can probably give ya some ideas lol

[glossy ravine]

Right Right.

[real edge]

the deepcool ak620 is the cheaper dual tower cooler option

its like what

60$

[sly elk]

yea those are solid looking for the price too

[real edge]

50? somewhere around there

[sly elk]

i like the be quiet dark rock pro 4, but I've never used one haha so my opinion doesn't count 😄

[late basalt]

newer cpus will almost always require an aftermarket cooler

[sly elk]

thermalright has a few good cheap options too

[late basalt]

not just because they almost never come WITH one

"oh, you're spending $400 on a new cpu? i'm sure you can spend another $70 on a cooler for it too"

[sly elk]

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/ can keep an eye out here

[late basalt]

i do have one caveat though

MAKE SURE YOUR COOLER PLAYS NICE with your motherboard

[sly elk]

mm also here's another random cheap-ish option

[glossy ravine]

I think the biggest thing for me right now is trying to find the 3060 for my sibling's PC for a decent discount as that's the major hurdle for me.

Trying to get everything by Christmas.

[sly elk]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/354106545275

iffff your case can fit a 280mm radiator

[late basalt]

nothing like having to remove southbridge heatsinks just to clip your cpu heatsink to the motherboard

[late basalt]

1: 3060
2: decent discount
3: christmas

pick two

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[real edge]

personally I am not a big fan of water cooling cause it needs maintenance, while air cooling is an install and forget thing

[sly elk]

that one is an install and.. probably forget for 6 years thing 😄

[late basalt]

eh... not always nhada

you'd want to occasionally crack it open and clear the dust

[glossy ravine]

I'm hoping Cyber Monday has at least a 50 dollar discount

Because this build is 90% coming out of my own pocket.

[sly elk]

AIO units don't require any maintenance of the liquid inside, just cleaning the radiator/fans regularly

[late basalt]

free shipping is probably the best you'd see imo

[sly elk]

and making sure the tubes don't leak (which is super duper rare)

[late basalt]

the tradeoff there kyanche is they're still an expendable

[sly elk]

TRUTH

[glossy ravine]

I don't want to touch water cooling at all

[sly elk]

absolutely 100% true

[late basalt]

and unless they're trying to copy @tame fulcrum

stay

the fuck

away

from WC

[glossy ravine]

Nightmare case you get water on your MB

[sly elk]

that one has a 6 year warranty, maaaaybe you'd push 10 years but I'd say that's pretty unlikely

[glossy ravine]

[sly elk]

the heatsink will last forever

cuz it's a chunk of metal

[late basalt]

it's unnecessary imo for typical end-use

useful? sure, doesnt equate necessary though

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[glossy ravine]

Yeah. My sibs aren't going to be overclocking/pushing 4k on a Ryzen 5 3600

[late basalt]

also, late to the convo in case it was mentioned, are any of them skilled with pc assembly to begin with?

or have started tinkering?

[sly elk]

hehe

[glossy ravine]

The oldest is like. 14.

[late basalt]

yea, no

no watercooling

[glossy ravine]

I've built one computer. My own.

[real edge]

we must be scaring you at this point but dw too much about it tbh ull be fine, check out gamers nexus for some air/water cooler reviews, he does good ones

[sly elk]

yea

[late basalt]

also, if that's the case, why not go with a 20x series gpu?

[glossy ravine]

And I love it very much.

Thought that 3060 was for 1080p?

[late basalt]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[real edge]

the 3060ti is essentially a 1080ti with DLSS slapped on top

sort of

performance wise

[glossy ravine]

I don't think they will be playing many resource intensive games.

If at all.

[late basalt]

a 20 series would probably be fine then

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/sad-crying-forget-toast-on-the-toaster-everything-is-getting-worse-toast-pop-up-gif-16626877

[late basalt]

or a 16 series, dunno tbh

i'm still lurching along on a nearly decade old 1050ti

[glossy ravine]

Asking what games they would be playing regularly

[late basalt]

or old enough it feels like it

[glossy ravine]

I can hardly call Minecraft or Roblox graphically demanding games

[late basalt]

well, given the age category and the games they'd typically play, a 30 series just seems.... overkill

you in the states btw?

[glossy ravine]

Correct

[late basalt]

bestbuy's got them on sale right now

[glossy ravine]

👀

[late basalt]

whether in stock or not is debateable

[glossy ravine]

Thank you for the advice y'all 💖

[late basalt]

anywho, back to watching spiff break reality in another game

again

[glossy ravine]

I'm gonna crash. Work tomorrow

[snow cypress]

So I managed to elbow my pc which made it restart itself and now im getting no signal on my monitor…

[sly elk]

spend lots of beans on your computer

but like

you can post pics of your computer on a fancy build site and stuff

i do that and people are like

... k.... moving on...

yea the funny thing is all your stuff is functional

bling bling but functional

I have several components that serve no functional purpose

[sly walrus]

a taco taco?

[sly elk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evUWersr7pc

[sly walrus]

oh christ a taco taco taco taco

[sly elk]

lol

ice it's just an elite lcd playing gifs on a loop

different gifs

for whatever strange reason

they haven't yet made a waterblock that supports it

sadly it only works with the AIO water coolers

fiiine i'll add that one tooo

[sly walrus]

just make your case another monitor

[sly elk]

i have a blank long wide spot at the bottom of my case

suppose i could stick a screen down there

it does look cool

[jaunty light]

what a weeb

wish the XL got the evo treatment

kinda uggo that its silver on the outside

[jaunty light]

bruh

BRUH with 500x reverb on it

if the O11D XL distro doesnt fit in this imma be madge

[royal forge]

M-MATSURI PC CASE

Matsuri flat as usual

FFS I JUST BOUGHT

[jaunty light]

no

malding

[royal forge]

Lmao

Fomo

[jaunty light]

its all ices fault

[potent arrow]

.....I may have impulse bought a new keyboard

because i broke mine raiding.................

[sly elk]

someone posts a pic with like $3000 in keyboards

nobody says anything

someone posts a pic with a $3000 rig

everyone goes crazy

[potent arrow]

it was only 150$...without the mods

Actually my cheapest board yet lol

[sly elk]

yeaaaaa

[potent arrow]

Keychron V2 : D

[sly elk]

my work doesn't pay for jack shit

[jaunty light]

build me a keyboard sarah ill give u 5 dollars

[sly elk]

their written policy even says we're not supposed to plug personal peripherals in.. for security reasons

[jaunty light]

maybe a whole 10 dollars

[potent arrow]

Only if you lend me 700$ for a year

[jaunty light]

wat is u needing 700 dollaz for

[potent arrow]

^

lol

Lmited edition keeb is out but I dont have the money

[jaunty light]

700 bucks, for a keyboard?

[potent arrow]

CAD yeah

Grail keeb

[royal forge]

Ooof. Viral? Or bacterial

[jaunty light]

u say this but that dont tell me shit! what it look like

[potent arrow]

https://novelkeys.com/products/matrix-6xv-3-0-corsa

Hopefull i can get a small loan from my bank tmmrw lol

I only have another day for this

@jaunty light ^

lol

Its very pretty

check the pvd options

[sly elk]

that fancy mirrored bottom

shiny metal ass

https://tenor.com/view/futurama-bender-bite-mad-gif-5319793

[jaunty light]

man this just a reminder how much of a keyboard philistine i am

(stares at drawer full of mice)

[sly elk]

lol

[jaunty light]

but then im like keyboard? i will buy a k95

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/lenovo-lenovo-think-lenovo-thinkpad-lenovo-thinkpad-x-lenovo-thinkpad-x1-gif-24672244

[potent arrow]

I like mice too

but I think ive hit my perfect mice perse

Not gonna get anybetter for a while

[jaunty light]

u gotta buy a zaunkoenig

[sly elk]

to me perfection would be a mouse that charges on qi

so I can just pop it on my phone charger

[jaunty light]

or the xm2w which is just a superlight but better

im sccrewed tho best mouse for me is consistently the KPU and all new mice are just ambi designs

[potent arrow]

is it better?

idk never heard of it but ill look into it

My superlight has been pretty good

[jaunty light]

sorry not the xm2w a uhh what is it

all these companies have the same fucking naming scheme

pulsar x2

[potent arrow]

Software is a big must too

[jaunty light]

just a superlight clone

[potent arrow]

because I use my superlight for ffxiv raiding

[jaunty light]

3395, kailh gm8, 52g

[potent arrow]

Those have more delay latency ;-;

Lol my superlight has modded switches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luUhyRAw18Q

[jaunty light]

ya but after said and done my superlight was like 175usd vs 80 lol

[potent arrow]

Debounce issue

[potent arrow]

yeah fair fair

When it comes to keyboard and mice I dont really cheap out because its something ill be using 18hrs of the day

[jaunty light]

zauns are sold out all the time i wanna try one but also 310usd

[potent arrow]

Idk

[jaunty light]

gonna try the hati s also but it has high latency too

[potent arrow]

those never seemed nice to me

because of how small they are

[jaunty light]

tiny and light das how i want

[potent arrow]

some of my friends swear by the zauns tho

[jaunty light]

if i could get a kpu thats like 40g it would be legit

but MM dont make any custom lightweight shells that i can transplant either

[potent arrow]

Im gonna shave my superlight down to 30g eventually

wait no 45 is the limit rn iric

[jaunty light]

i could probably get some weight off of thje kpu but idk how much

oh no

this was the dudes weight reduction

holy fuck bro i aint doing that

[potent arrow]

LOL

[jaunty light]

id also try a starlight s but everyone knows finalmouse is just a hypebeast company that makes shit mice

same problem with everything bein ambi too

[sly elk]

oh

lemme dig up that hideous facebook mouse i see sometimes

[real edge]

every time I think about a new mouse I freeze on the fact that I need 4-5 side buttons for my MMO games

and most good mice have 2

[sly elk]

here we go

https://www.lunarartefacts.com/collections/pointer-instruments

[real edge]

there is no inbetween mouse where you can get a good sensor with decent input latency and a healthy amount of side buttons

[jaunty light]

wat the fuck is this

[jaunty light]

how do you even use this piece of shit

what

WEIGHT
195 gr

jesus man i could just put buttons and a sensor on a fucking brick

[sly elk]

you can also get it engraved

[real edge]

my current mouse is a logitech g600 but it feels easy to move and is relatively light, is still fine even after 6yrs of continuous use, but its a laser sensor from 6 years ago on an mmo mouse 😛

[sly elk]

more interestingly, there are no side buttons

[jaunty light]

these pointless luxury brands always piss me off

u cant be for real with this shit

[sly elk]

and you've just gotta hve the matching $65 mouse pad

[jaunty light]

mousepad: we killed a cow and cut out a circle, that'l lbe $75

[sly elk]

oh it uses solderless omron switches

woww

wait there's no socket

it's just friction held on the board lmao

https://www.lunarartefacts.com/collections/replacement-parts/products/the-pointer-instrument-omron-switches

[jaunty light]

what do u mean DIY replacement parts bro? i need to have a lunar artefact technician come to my home to repair my mouse

[sly elk]

clearly i just donate it to goodwill when i accidentally scratch it with my fingernail

and then just order a new one

[jaunty light]

in total luxury, rolls up in a all black rolls royce, dressed like a butler, wearing museum grade gloves

my pointer instrument deserves no less

[sly elk]

one thing i find interesting is they offer a british racing green leather shell, but don't sell a mouse with it

cinnamon I only purchase equipment offered with an in-home audition service where the butler delivers it in the rolls royce

also if they specify the price on the website, it's clearly for low brow folk

[potent arrow]

: P I raid with 2!

My hands are too small for mmo mice ;-;

[real edge]

my hand cups the g600 perfectly :x

[jaunty light]

Genetics issue

[real edge]

so if I have to replace this one I would need a big mouse

but I have no idea of any mice that have 5 side buttons(or more), have a good sensor and good input latency

whether wired or wireless

I prefer wired personally

no batteries required

idc about weight

apparently the g600 is considered very heavy

but it feels very light

[potent arrow]

Everything is heavy now that ive used the superlight LMFAO

[jaunty light]

come on roccat where da 50g at just do it

[royal forge]

Constantly checkin delivery status of my stuff

[jaunty light]

🦃

[bitter girder]

🧌

[jaunty light]

https://tenor.com/view/nerds-revenge-of-the-ogre-gif-26020345

[potent arrow]

What did you order Aoi lol

[jaunty light]

Blackjack hookers n blow

[royal forge]

A whole pc

[jaunty light]

A whole pc frfr ong

No cap!

[potent arrow]

[real edge]

I might have to get an amd gpu this gen when you consider the stupid prices....

4080 16gb for 1600+ euro

[potent arrow]

I'm hoping perf is good

Be fun for Nvidia to have competition for once

[real edge]

the 6xxx series perf was great

was just hesitant cause drivers

but ngreedia drives me away with those prices

amd cards might not have insane prices, I hope

I hope performance is good on them

1 month to go or so

not that far away

so we will see

[fair parcel]

I don't think I could ever because of drivers

maybe they are better but idk not sure I would risk it

[real edge]

[royal forge]

LMAO

[real edge]

bye nvidia

[royal forge]

L M A O

[potent arrow]

The whole AMD driver issue is honestly a little over inflated

[royal forge]

THANK FUCK I DIDNT WAIT FOR 4000

Holy fuckin shit

[potent arrow]

It does have issues, but it's not as bad as people make it out too be

[sharp star]

AMD bad
Nvidia good

https://tenor.com/view/nvidia-jensen-huang-safe-to-upgrade-gif-26481071

[glossy ravine]

Update from last night: I saw on PCPartPicker that a AMD Radeon 6600 was not only cheaper but would still work for the build.

Thoughts?

(oh and I can get a game I want from it too: The Calisto Protocol.)

[dull garnet]

🐒

[jaunty light]

took em long enuf...

[dull garnet]

probably because you'd need to be told a kb was 3k to know

[bitter girder]

They are bad

I cannot justify buying an amd product with my hard earned money just for it to have a bunch of issues

I loved my 6800xt it was fast but it was so buggy

[potent arrow]

Idk, from the clients I work with maybe 2, at most three had driver related issues

[bitter girder]

I’m aware the drivers have gotten a lot better than when I had it

[modest moss]

@snow cypress 6600 would be fine for 1080p gaming yeah

@glossy ravine uh that was for you about 6600

[modest moss]

Did you sort this

[umbral moss]

1080/144 is my minimum if I'm taking a resolution hit

1440/144 is the current sweet spot honestly

4k/144 is a meme unless you play like, quake 2

[dull garnet]

or like, overwatch

any game made before 2015

[umbral moss]

nah, overwatch 2 doesn't hit 1440/144 on 10 series hardware

although it would be nice to hit 1440/500

[dull garnet]

ohhh, right

[umbral moss]

I have a 10 series titan and with everything turned up overwatch 2 hits like 90-100 ish

[jaunty light]

just turn those settings to ultralow

[umbral moss]

at least it's better than the beta where it would just completely seize up for 1.5-2 seconds every 30 seconds

[jaunty light]

OW looks fine with ultra tex and AA only, everything else I have off

[umbral moss]

the Epic Gamer mode

[jaunty light]

599 fps gamer

[dull garnet]

599Hz

[bitter girder]

599.89Hz

[deep sapphire]

@modest moss did you tag bidori too

Also NOOOO

[modest moss]

I did not, I should

@hard drift #memes-and-shitposting message

[bitter girder]

Almost collapsed in the post office

God damn it

[deep sapphire]

Ikr all the old people taking forever

[real edge]

you mean CAD?

[deep sapphire]

I love the post office though my friend from the UK is a big hockey fan and I had to mail him some jerseys and UPS wanted 140 dollars to ship them, USPS charged me 12 bucks

[real edge]

so its that bad even without import taxes

what do I even do at this point

damn it

I hope VAT does not skyrocket the price of the card

6800xt is like 600euro here

[hard drift]

What

[real edge]

I am not sure actually, I have never looked into it

last time someone sent me a mouse(my current one 5-6 years ago) they did not tell me anything about import taxes

either they paid it out of pocket and did not tell me or it did not apply

[jaunty light]

Gift, worth 0eur!

[real edge]

I live in greece so it may be different here

[real edge]

amd cards were reasonably priced here nearly always so I hope its the same for the 7900xtx

[hard drift]

ah

[modern iris]

Looks exactly like what I’d envision an intel fanboy to look like

[modest moss]

pretty normal looking dude yeah, looks like he showers and washes his clothes

[modern iris]

Idk bruh dude looks like shaggy just with a beard

Yoinks scoob

[modest moss]

gonna need to check your shoes bro, you seem pretty defensive

[dull garnet]

Nvidia bros...

[modest moss]

are you sure it's not related to your addiction to buying old jank laptops

[dull garnet]

It's my mum's laptop. No way I'd buy a laptop with a dedicated gpu

[modest moss]

it's old and jank anyway, laptop with a bd player

[dull garnet]

i5 sandy cpu

ssd

all she needs

[bitter girder]

I love ducks

Discs

[dull garnet]

unless you care about old video games i don't see a reason to use one. even then i replaced my disc drives with optical disc emulators in my ps1 and saturn

[bitter girder]

Richard

[dull garnet]

https://tenor.com/view/richard-nixon-nixon-president-smile-happy-gif-17083965

[modern iris]

I have a i9 10850k, I wish I would’ve gone with AMD though

[dull garnet]

Why

[hard drift]

[dull garnet]

Gotta go fast

It's the 4th slowest chip in the techpowerup database

[bitter girder]

I know

Cinnamon buns is the new trend

[dreamy chasm]

I found ur mouse

im surprised it took people long to make something like this

ngl

[glossy ravine]

Sweet. 6600 it is.

Quick, kinda dumb question:

What is the difference between a graphics card having and not having the TI or RX at the end of the name?

[dreamy chasm]

@potent arrow The viper ultimate is on sale rn

is it worth

[real edge]

what is the name?

[dreamy chasm]

Aerox 9

iirc

It's a bit overpriced, but I guess you can't find anything like this elsewhere atm

https://www.amazon.com/SteelSeries-Aerox-Wireless-Ultra-Lightweight-Programmable/dp/B09VNPB6Q1/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1FZDFWB69T5YJ&keywords=aerox+9&qid=1668445908&sprefix=aerox+%2Caps%2C293&sr=8-1

180h batt life without rgb

[modest moss]

dunno about the RX bit, some amd nerd like bidori can answer that, but the TI is a 'newer better version' like a +1

[dreamy chasm]

truemove air is pretty good

RX is the prefix to every amd card

XT is what signifies the better sku/model

RX6600 XT > RX6600

[hard drift]

the XT/XTX moniker for amd just means it's better than the non XT version by a decent bit, the TI model it depends but usually it's quite better than non TI models

[dreamy chasm]

As always, check benchmarks

[dull garnet]

imagine all the breadcrumbs that would fall in that

[jaunty light]

Higher end parts. Ti short for Titan (iirc), Xt for AMD is a llay on "eXTreme"

[dreamy chasm]

its dust proof at least, ig

I can get a viper ultimate for 50 bucks

[dull garnet]

pog

[dreamy chasm]

but i already bougnt a mouse

[dull garnet]

unpog

[dreamy chasm]

[jaunty light]

[dull garnet]

[bitter girder]

Right

Good sound this hoover

Good I love guitars

Can’t wait till I have time to practise again

[modest moss]

stop watching anime

there you go, an extra 70 hours a week free

[jaunty light]

Youd run out of good anime to watch after a week if thats how much you be watchin

[modest moss]

weebs like lewis and speedy don't care about good

[glossy ravine]

The thing that made me pull the trigger really was the free game being tossed in

The Calisto Protocol is something I'm really looking forward to.

[dreamy chasm]

I mean, if it was a card you were wanting to buy anyway

Seems like a decent deal

[glossy ravine]

nods

Plus I'm getting a partial refund as I'm splitting the cost with mom afaik.

Worst case scenario I pay a little bit of interest on my CC.

[bitter girder]

FUCKKK OFFD

[umbral moss]

oh, based, it's garbage pin positioning

https://tenor.com/view/you-love-to-see-it-howard-gayle-saturday-night-live-you-like-seeing-it-thats-what-you-want-to-see-gif-19311773

[mortal condor]

https://www.ign.com/articles/best-amazon-black-friday-deals-2022?_cache=pass&utm_source=twitter

[mortal condor]

For all the tech geeks in here

[umbral moss]

bold of you to assume there are any people talking about tech in here

instead of catgirls

[sly elk]

professional SSD

https://tenor.com/view/mila-silarus-ffxiv-miqote-gif-26456371

yea there's already some decent deals

we should definitely see better deals this year than the last few years

[umbral moss]

I think pricing is still less elastic than it was in 2019

and 2019 had pretty piss deals despite having no excuses for pricing

[kindred brook]

What should I do with my 6700k

And mobo and psu

Nas?

[glossy ravine]

So basically it just a fancy moniker for plus.

"AMD Radeon 6600 +"

[real edge]

it says that I can also connect it with a USB cable if I want, is that true?

[modest moss]

included in the box is USB Type-C to USB Type-A Super Mesh Data/Charging Cable

so I'd assume yes

[real edge]

huh, cool

[modest moss]

if it does data, it should work fine

expensive mouse, £140 in UK

[sly elk]

-looks at corsair black friday sale-

derp? 😄

[real edge]

130euro here so indeed very expensive

[umbral moss]

🤔

[modest moss]

ah only 90 on amazon uk

[umbral moss]

was anyone really looking for more weird ugly LED triangles

[modest moss]

depending on exchange rates you could save a little ordering from amazon uk maybe

that's to Greece

[real edge]

its cheaper since the euro is weak

by like 10 euro

[umbral moss]

the euro being at parity with the dollar is pretty poggin, honestly

I was going to get my girlfriend a set of knives from a dutch company and it's nice not getting deep fucked on the euro exchange rate

[real edge]

ill bookmark the mouse

for when the g600 breaks

since its fine 6 years later with daily use Idk when it will break

[umbral moss]

I always shill the g900 and its derivatives

but it's not an MMO mouse, just an ambi with really good wireless performance

[sly elk]

wtf wifi 7

g900 requires big hands

[umbral moss]

just wait for wifi 8

[umbral moss]

does it?

[sly elk]

and make sure it's the one that has the improved battery life

the regular g900 is awful

what was that, the g900 hero that fixed it?

i hav a g900 laying aronud because it got like 2 days per charge

[umbral moss]

I get like three days on a charge and it's pretty old 🤔

[sly elk]

and ye i have small hands lol

[umbral moss]

I hold my mouse like a madman so I never noticed

[sly elk]

my fingertips often wanted to land on the bottom edge of the buttons

because i defautl to claw grip

[umbral moss]

this is how I hold my g900

[jaunty light]

Weirdo

[umbral moss]

I play with an insanely high edpi so I need a more specific finger grip

[jaunty light]

Nerd

[umbral moss]

https://tenor.com/view/kenshiro-hokuto-no-ken-badass-fist-of-the-north-star-omae-wa-mou-shindeiru-gif-15312651

[dull garnet]

https://tenor.com/view/mrw-reaction-old-gamer-nerd-moms-basement-gif-4994401

[sly elk]

^ lol the glasses

[dull garnet]

He used a gastric band so no

Still a piece of shit

For the best

[dreamy chasm]

pink looks kinda cute

nvm, shipping isn't free

I guess I'm getting the back one

I can get the cyberpunk one with the dock, but I think it looks ugly

[dull garnet]

i thought you bought a mouse

[dreamy chasm]

I can't pass up a good deal on a viper ulti

[dull garnet]

[dreamy chasm]

it's 50 bucks

[dull garnet]

[dreamy chasm]

[bitter girder]

I have a mouse

[dreamy chasm]

I'll just sell what I have right now

[dull garnet]

is it 8000Hz tho

[bitter girder]

You can have this

[dreamy chasm]

maybe i should get a dac instead

[bitter girder]

Get both

[dreamy chasm]

send me 50 bucks and i will

[dull garnet]

get a $500 dac

[bitter girder]

Nah too cheap

[dreamy chasm]

i wish

[bitter girder]

Get the sennheiser one that cost like 59k

And comes with a free pair of headphones

[dreamy chasm]

anyways

[dull garnet]

mmm yes i can really hear the bytes

[bitter girder]

Audio so good I can hear the children working at foxxcon

[dull garnet]

the one who slipped and died installing your keyboard

[bitter girder]

Abahahahahahahhhahahaha

Yeah I did take a good sniff of my MacBook when I first got it

Few tears on the lid

[dreamy chasm]

[dull garnet]

[bitter girder]

Good

Used the touch bar and got bored of it in like 6 seconds

Went to curry’s and saw it and ran away when 500 emojis just showed up

Dude

Bad thing about it is

What ever you last left your volume at on your MacBook

The chime will be that volume

I’ve actually fucking jumped out of my skin a few times cos of it

It’s beautiful though

I love the mouse giggle thing where the cursor goes high

Imagine if 3d was actually good and it was in the new MacBooks

Mfs dodging cursors

[dull garnet]

alright steve calm down

[bitter girder]

Speaking of cats

Look at my cat being an old man

Trying to do the ultra wide camera thing

[dull garnet]

what os does he use

[bitter girder]

Q

[dull garnet]

https://tenor.com/view/star-trek-gif-21434460

[bitter girder]

Day 5 of not watching azumanga

[dull garnet]

they still have it? damnnn

[bitter girder]

I want die

[jaunty light]

Mofos with the fluffy tails

[dreamy chasm]

insert picture of catgirl here

[dull garnet]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-girl-anime-oof-gif-22087678

[sly elk]

so mean

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/hayase-nagatoro-nagatoro-cat-girl-neko-girl-cat-ears-gif-22062464

[real edge]

nagatoro

[bitter girder]

I’d bully her so fucking hard

[modest moss]

unkind

[dull garnet]

bro she's a child

bro...

[sharp star]

https://tenor.com/view/sweating-spongebob-worried-oh-neptune-mrs-pops-gif-5619861

[umbral moss]

nobody is exempt from bullying

[dull garnet]

[bitter girder]

[dull garnet]

🛌

[bitter girder]

That’s gonna be me in an hour

Then be up all night anxious about my laptop

[real edge]

paisen

[dull garnet]

enjoying the laptop saga

[jaunty light]

Only AK12

[bitter girder]

THERES ALWAYS SOMETHING HAPPENING TO ME

[dull garnet]

poor lewis

[modest moss]

what's wrong with your laptop

[dull garnet]

broken key

[modest moss]

oh that

just replace the kb

[dull garnet]

shue hasn't opened a laptop in 15 years

[modest moss]

eh I don't associate apple with the term laptop

apple users ALWAYS specify 'my macbook pro'

[dull garnet]

or the term user replaceable

or the term available oem parts

[modest moss]

they have to make sure you know it's apple though

they don't just say phone, they say 'my iphone'

[dull garnet]

yeah but you use yours for work, not just for facebook

massively better soc tho :p

relatively

[bitter girder]

@deep sapphire your chariot awaits

Something wrong with that screenshot

Lemme fix it

Better

[dull garnet]

looong

[glossy ravine]

Looking into the DeepCool Ak620 for the CPU thing to put on my Christmas wishlist.

It looks kinda... Weird?

[dull garnet]

looks like any dual tower cooler to me

[glossy ravine]

I've never seen a dual tower cooler before so I'm kinda confused is all

[dull garnet]

its like a single tower twice

[bitter girder]

Abahahahahahaha

[dull garnet]

a piece of resizable bar

[royal forge]

Ice

Go message all the fu kers who jebaited me

With no stock

The fuckers STILL have their 3090tis up for chrap

Cheap*

It must be a tactic right

[bitter girder]

AT LEAST YOU HAVE A STATUS

[royal forge]

Just open a branch here ffs

[bitter girder]

wanna see my status on my MacBook?

[royal forge]

Tbh. Just open one in SG

[dull garnet]

bateman would just buy a new one

[royal forge]

Tell them to have less cringe slogans

Fuckin GAMER line

[bitter girder]

Sent it in Wednesday

I had to do this bullshit

I always thought the store I went to did repairs

[dull garnet]

macbook owners in charge of looking after their macbooks

[sharp star]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/the-long-solder-heavy-way-to-get-root-access-to-a-starlink-terminal/ good morning

[dull garnet]

damn that's like 2 minutes of soldering

[bitter girder]

So glad I got a “new” phone because without my MacBook I literally have nothing to do

Apart from game but im adhd as fuck

[dull garnet]

no azumanga, no life

[bitter girder]

Might get azumanga

See if I can source it legally on here

🙄🙄

Cringe

[dull garnet]

looks like a case you'd buy ice

[bitter girder]

Does she come with it

[dull garnet]

she's an extra $5

[deep sapphire]

Sharter lmao

[deep sapphire]

https://youtu.be/S-PYa8aBM4Q

OPEN DECK COOLING IS A MEME

[modest moss]

teen wants a new bag for school

ingrate refused this

apparently sick anime girls isn't cool

[deep sapphire]

Oh no

[modest moss]

many patients

not cat girls, but still, duty of care and all that

[deep sapphire]

LMAO

[hard drift]

#technology-discussion is devolving 😭

[paper tusk]

time to help fix in the only way I know of

cat pics

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/133110726066700288/1041793391123517470/20220914_073422.jpg

[hard drift]

🙏 cute cat

[paper tusk]

not sure this counts as help

[hard drift]

it's better than the other stuff 😭

[mortal condor]

More technology, Less random off topic shenanigans

#not-ffxiv-discussion exists for that

[sly elk]

i kinda want it

https://tenor.com/view/bonne-nuit-bonne-nuit-anime-bonne-nuit-naruto-good-night-naruto-naruto-gif-25497997

[deep sapphire]

Glorious

[bitter girder]

Me in 10 years

[jaunty light]

So far I learned doing anything myself = 5mins later "oh THATS why they did it that way", undo everything and start over

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/you-made-your-choice-ju-ju-chan-zan-hui-wu-assassins-you-decided-gif-18627348

[bitter girder]

What hentai game we playing first?

[royal forge]

https://tenor.com/view/pogchamp-pog-pogey-poggers-twitch-gif-14340727

[sly elk]

Yay!

[royal forge]

Ngl

A bit of a twinge that i shud buy the 4080

[bitter girder]

Here we go again 🙄

[royal forge]

Hahaha

Its that feelin of "maybe i shud wait"

But my mobo and cpu and psu are here

And they've kindly updated the bios

[bitter girder]

Feel nauseous as fuck

Left my bedroom door open whilst family decided to cook onions and shit and it’s just stayed in my room

NO

God damn it man

[jaunty light]

Fun fact, push in adapters are NOT easier

Hrm i might be screwed

Cpu and gpu flow are tied

Cant skip distro channel it needs a tube bypass

No gpu inlet and outlet need to be connected

Im doing air gpu

Not gonna spend the 300 on a 3090 plate if im gonna get a 4090

[deep sapphire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjWFK-5v7iQ @bitter girder

[jaunty light]

Yea just gonna get a 12/16 and fittings to do this

Or I can be crazy and bend a hard tube right now

[jaunty light]

my heat gun will have a second purpose finally, the first was to get red loctite off my m1014

everything is technically done at least. once I bypass the inlet/outlet and connect the CPU loop's done

[jaunty light]

Ye, ill have many 90s

8?

Doing just 2 slims, should be fine. Worst case i just get better fans or a p360 for top. But i doubt the liquid will be hot enough to matter

[dreamy chasm]

Isn't hard tubing awful for ease of maintenance

[royal forge]

Ok

I have a mobo, PSU, CPU

Is there a way to test to make sure it's all gucchi?

I assume i need RAM at least

HDD i can source

[odd sand]

Correct. You need ram, and if the CPU doesnt have an igpu you need a gpu as well I think as well

[royal forge]

13600k

[odd sand]

I could be wrong tho, the bios might provide rudimentary video support

[royal forge]

Shud b ok

RAM is otw

[odd sand]

Get the ram and then you should be able to POST and get into the bios and take a look

[real edge]

do you have the cooler for the cpu

[odd sand]

Good point, don't want to run it without a cooler of some kind And I don't think they ship with one anymore

[dreamy chasm]

you should be able to test that w/o a gpu

[dreamy chasm]

pov: ur cpu cooler fan just broke

[umbral moss]

I went to check my reservoirs because they've been making noise for a few months

both tanks down about 35%

[sly elk]

where's your kitegawa figure

ooo i should add a kitegawa gif to my aio

[umbral moss]

took about 1L to fill the tank up

my loop has a lot of thermal mass

it's leaking from the fitting on the bottom of one of th tanks

very slow leak, takes about three months to drop enough to make noise

taking it apart will be a huge bitch

[sly elk]

i was thinking i know of way more provocative anime characters

but the characters she cosplays are

yeeeaaaa

lol i was reminded earlier today

of that scene where kitegawa is posing in bed on top of gojou

and it ends with heavy breathing XD

the VAs must've had fun with that one lol

https://tenor.com/view/darkelfcarla-kono-healer-mendokusai-carla-clapping-slow-clap-gif-25692772

[umbral moss]

nah, the problem is that it's literally the 90 degree rotary at the bottom of the reservoir that leads back to the pump

so if I remove it it will automatically drain the loop and it's a huge bitch to re-prime it

compared to just feeding it water every few months

[sly elk]

that's good

I believed till i was in kindergarten and some jackass kid spoiled it

https://tenor.com/view/ousama-ranking-hiling-healing-anime-gif-24926110

hehe she was great

[dreamy chasm]

I'll never go custom loop

[sly elk]

ooo

such a good dad!

[royal forge]

Need ram tho

[sly elk]

-looks over at computer- -zero two is dancing-

XD

ya could always get the alphacool ones

oh wow

these are expensive

US amazon though

https://www.amazon.com/Alphacool-17359-Quick-Release-Connector/dp/B01HQ8KUHQ

$12 for a set

plastic fantastic!

[sly elk]

yea that's too mcuh $$

way too mcuh $$

https://tenor.com/view/anime-money-dizzy-k-on-azusa-nakano-gif-15974472

[royal forge]

Boo

AH SHITE

My fuckiiiin

Vendor took 5 days to tell me theres no Deepcool AK620 black

Only white

FFS

Anyone recommend a decent quiet cooler? I'll pop over to a local store and pick it up

[real edge]

just get the white one

unless its far more expensive

[royal forge]

Same price

But my entire set is black

Uggo

[real edge]

you can get the dark rock pro 4 which is black but its more expensive for the same performance, so ud be paying more for a color swap

another cooler to consider is the scythe fuma 2

[royal forge]

Alright

[real edge]

if its less expensive over there

its a budget cooler

but still dual tower

the pro part is important for the dark rock btw

the dark rock 4 is far worse performance wise than the pro

[royal forge]

Alright

Bah

My SSD is out of stock so they're not shipping the case or wifi adapter first

Why show it available if their clown ass dont have stock

[dull garnet]

so they can secure the bag

[royal forge]

Ye. I suppose

Its like

Since u paid us, u might as well stick with us

[dull garnet]

underhanded but they've kinda got you. not good

[royal forge]

What can I do i guess

[real edge]

demand a refund for the out of stock stuff

[royal forge]

I am

I asked a refund on the ak620

I am pinging one or two more stores

Everyone else seems to be out of it too

The SSD i'll wait a bit i guess

Since they say it SHOULD restock by tomorrow

[real edge]

I want a deepcool ak620 as well but its 70euro which is too pricey

I want it to drop some more

I am in no rush to swap out my cpu so

my 5800x3d is still sitting inside its bag

[royal forge]

I am

I wonder if i should go for liquid

Closed loop

[real edge]

liquid is not bad but

its more performance than the air coolers but

it has the potential for more points of failure

there are pumps and liquid and stuff you know

but air is just

air

that is why I do not favor liquid cooling

even tho it might be great

I just do not want to worry about the extra headaches

even if the chance of failure is only 0.1%

I do not want that 0.1%

[royal forge]

I found another seller

Just went and bought it

I hope its available

[umbral moss]

water cooling fails if you can't use a screwdriver

if you can't use a screwdriver you're in for a bad time with the rest of your PC build

[real edge]

so far I always had another person build it for me

[umbral moss]

PC is just a big lego

[real edge]

but I am considering trying it myself this time with their help

[umbral moss]

the hardware is designed to be put together by unskilled slave labor happy employees in some far-flung corner of the world

it's really not complicated to assemble a PC

[real edge]

my case is the corsair carbide 600c inverse which does complicate things a tad but

its huge

so I do not have to worry about stuff fitting in here

it can even fit a 4090 very easily

but its inverted :x

I bought this 7 years ago for a hefty premium

I thought I was investing into the future, I specifically bought it to fit whatever I wanted inside

I am not sure tho how good the airflow is by todays standards

if anyone has any idea I'd love to know

[dreamy chasm]

no

i need something low maintenance

my mental health dips a lot and i cant be fucked to do basic things sometimes

much less maintain a wc loop

[real edge]

the only downside of the case

is that its VERY heavy

it weighs like 20 kilos

I specifically had a track roller custom-made for it from wood

to carry it around easier

cause it tears my arms off when I try to do it myself

[dull garnet]

That 600C doesn't look very big

Big enough, but a pretty standard mid tower

[real edge]

ohh its a mid tower?

ahh

if it can fit a 4090 tho I guess the case will be fine

I do wonder about the airflow though, I wonder how it holds up to 2022

[dreamy chasm]

Front panel on it doesn't look amazing

But it's not the worst closed panel i've seen

[dull garnet]

Airflow should be fine for your chip

[royal forge]

FUCKS SAKE

Another seller bait and switched me

Ah fuck it

White it is

[real edge]

other alternatives are: scythe fuma 2(should be cheaper), dark rock pro 4(more expensive), noctua NH D15S(more expensive)

the fuma 2 is like

90% the performance? sort of

in terms of like

dual tower big air coolers

[royal forge]

Nah its ok

I can change my ram to white

LED

[potent arrow]

I love waking up to my computer absolutely soaked in water

[snow perch]

huh??

[potent arrow]

Nothing new

[bitter girder]

No way that’s actually happened

[potent arrow]

This is nothing new

lmfao

Ive been refilling it mid prog on some days

[royal forge]

My intel is made in MY

#buy local

[bitter girder]

Let’s gooooo

[dull garnet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASw173h1yB4 my mans found the mugen to be as good as the fuma while being cheaper

still pretty expensive tho

maybe i'm just really cheap

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/sheep-gif-4520105

[deep sapphire]

[modest moss]

[sharp star]

https://youtu.be/i2_xTUshy94

[umbral moss]

[deep sapphire]

god that 4090 lead over the 4080

[umbral moss]

for a 40% price premium it better be faster

[royal forge]

No im not looking at it

Not while my 3090 is otw

[umbral moss]

although it's pretty obvious that nvidia only intended people to buy the 4090 and the lesser 40 series cards are broken 4090s

they want people to buy the 30 series overstock to clear out their crypto mistake

[royal forge]

Apparently 3090 still about 300 USD cheaper v 4080

[dull garnet]

best not to think about it

[deep sapphire]

and 300 percent slower

[royal forge]

I know if i went 4080, i'd need to get one of the newer cpus etc

To fully utilize the card

I cant afford that leap

[dull garnet]

[royal forge]

Hank wont pay for it. The poopy head

[bitter girder]

[hard drift]

amd has a chance

holy shit, the gap

they're going to need to refresh it ASAP probably to deal with amd

[real edge]

this is AMDs best chance to just take home the W tbh

lets hope they do not fuck it up

999$ flagship

if it can get close enough to the 4090 it will be good for competition

nobody expects the 4090 to be overtaken

if the 7900xtx performance is good enough yes

[hard drift]

they didn't fuck up last time people were just scared because of how bad navi 1 was, with the value of the current generation vs 30 series unless going 4090, people might actually swap

[real edge]

7900xtx has a new chiplet design as well, so its kinda new territory

[hard drift]

yeah 🙏 i have a feeling the real generation to swap with them going chiplets will be 8000 series when they have everything fully fleshed out

[real edge]

if the performance good enough, it might actually knock some sense into ngreedia

1900euro for this shit?

[hard drift]

not to mention, some 4080 models at 4090 value and not even close to the performance

people would have to be the dumbest thing alive to go for those cards

and the worst part is, people still will

[real edge]

yes, people with more money than brain cells sadly, and those people are what move the market the most

[hard drift]

yeah 😔 don't support the 4080 dumb people 😭 support the 4090 only

[real edge]

the 4090 is an enthusiast best of the best so I will not knock people for buying it

[hard drift]

yeah, not to mention the uplift is justified vs a 3090

the 4080 just sucks

[real edge]

price in the EU is crazy but

in the US not as much

2200euro is outrageous no matter what performance benefit you bring

but if we consider the american market where its 1500$ then its edges close to OK for the american market where people on average have higher salaries

[hard drift]

eh, if you are eyeing a 2200 euro card you have money to spend (unless you are care free)

[hard drift]

not true, the average salary is ass

[real edge]

the average salary in my country is 700 euro/month

I get 300

[hard drift]

unless you live in the midwest you're not getting much for that much

[real edge]

in germany its like

1500-2000 per month

[hard drift]

[real edge]

so average salaries are lower here, much lower

that is why the EU prices for the nvidia cards are nuts

[hard drift]

i mean you also have VAT

🤢

[real edge]

VAT is sales tax

[hard drift]

but much worse

[real edge]

imagine trying to build a pc with 300 a month

[hard drift]

i mean, in this day and age you can barely feed yourself with that much

hell, fast food is cheaper than home cooked meals because of how bad meat prices are and such

[real edge]

I manage but every purchase I make is like, so crucial that I have to triplethink everything

CoL for me is very low

[hard drift]

must be nice

[real edge]

it fits what I earn

[hard drift]

this area i'm in sucks ass

the rent is like 2k before utilities

atleast my mom dad and i all work and contribute though

[real edge]

if I pull together all of the groceries I get and all utilities, I pay 90euro for utilities per month and like, 60-80 euro per month for groceries

so I get to take home about 150euro give or take per month

if you scale this 20 times then you imagine how an american would live and then you consider that 1500$ is far better for them than the EU

scale that 20 times with rent I mean added on top

[hard drift]

plus insurance and such added into it

not to mention food being so damn expensive

[real edge]

prices here rose as well

[hard drift]

5-8 dollars per pound of meat

[real edge]

from 0.80euro per milk carton to 1.12

bananas went from 1euro per kilo to 1.40

[hard drift]

i'm glad bananas are still cheap... .25 per banana

and you have to deal with a shitty bag

damn bagged milk

[real edge]

I bought 13 bananas for 4.20euro

I am considering switching fruit tbh

to something far cheaper

[hard drift]

when i was in canada like 2-3 years ago it came in bags???

[real edge]

like mantarines or oranges

would save like 2-3euro per week

[hard drift]

i was in ottawa

idk wtf that place is lol

[real edge]

when I buy my next gpu I expect it to last as long as my 1070 did

I pray they do

I also pray that transients on the amd cards are not bad

[hard drift]

likely won't be but lets see how these chiplet cards do 🙏

[real edge]

750w corsair HXi

its...5 years old

[hard drift]

it's likely fine

[real edge]

I paid an arm and a leg for it back then so I hope so

amd cards will still have 8 pin connectors

so no issues there

4090 transients are nothing so I can run it underclocked

the 5800x3d has 100w in power at full load so its also nothing so there will be headroom

3090 is risky for my PSU because the 3090s transients are horrible

spikes to more than double the wattage

yes

if the 3090 draws 300w in power

[hard drift]

with a 750w psu it is risky

[real edge]

then it can spike to 600

which leaves 150 for everything else

that is little headroom

[hard drift]

on a good psu sure, but given it's older and only 750w, it might be a bit hard if they do something that's more intensive with the cpu and that headroom is eaten up

[real edge]

the HXi was the best of the best top of the line back then, it was one of the more expensive ones

the caps might have degraded on it due to age

but its not like I have done anything to it that has strained it at all