technology-discussion

[brave oxide]

while 20s 40s had them

[ancient raft]

hopefully.

3090

a 5800x which is probably failing

[brave oxide]

join the 3D cache gang

[wild wyvern]

I thought 30 series had it?

[dull garnet]

i wonder if pcie3 would be a limitation for a 9070 XT

[brave oxide]

if you mean supers, there's no super card for 30 series

they only did refresh of 20 and 40 series, and both launched with... really low performance for the price

[dull garnet]

they tocked 10 and 30 too

just different naming

[brave oxide]

50 is in an odd spot where 5070 Ti and above are fine, but 5070 isn't

[wild wyvern]

@brave oxide is 4060 worth it if I'm upgrading from an rx 580

[dull garnet]

1070 Ti, 1080 Ti / 3070 Ti, 3080 Ti, 3090 Ti

[wild wyvern]

Damn man I think u better upgrade ur cpu then

[brave oxide]

tbh I'd consider the Ti as part of their main line

[dull garnet]

its literally the same thing

there's no rule for "Ti" usage either

[ancient raft]

yeah they need to redo their graphics arch or something

[brave oxide]

I don't see it as the same thing, the super refresh usually comes late, near the end of the generation

while something like, 2080 Ti came out a week after 2080, clearly an intended early launch rather than a refresh

[dull garnet]

the cards i listed came a year later

[hazy frost]

nah 5070ti and 5080 suck as well

[dull garnet]

so...

[hazy frost]

barelyt better than last gens supers and coming with defects

[brave oxide]

fair enough, they can be inconsistent with this

[dull garnet]

yeah its dumb

3060 Ti was 30 series launch

but the 3060 wasn't lol

launch window-ish, a month or so later

[brave oxide]

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/nvidias-rtx-5060-and-5060-ti-rumored-launch-in-ten-days-but-dont-expect-any-stock-until-april

I'd wait and see how this one looks

[hazy frost]

inb4 somehow worse than 4060 and 4060ti

tghats the trend so far

[brave oxide]

maybe worse than 4060 ti but i don't think worse than 4060 is possible

^ I say, but they might just prove me wrong

[dull garnet]

I was thinking earlier

about the video card market when they were just for gaming

[brave oxide]

semi related, but I was looking up earlier if Intel ever said anything about making 3D cache CPUs, and there were some talks from late last year of making some but only for their Xeon server line

[hazy frost]

i mean until late 2022 gaming twas still atl half the revenue for nvidia and they still made crap cards

[dull garnet]

I wonder if there's a lot more units being sold today than 20 years ago too

[sly elk]

similar performance to an rx580

[hazy frost]

But the ray tracing is better

[brave oxide]

realistic sun rays for a crisp 30 fps 1080p gameplay

[hazy frost]

Yeah I don’t get wanting upscaling or ray tracing on low budget cards bc it never works well at low resolutions

[odd sand]

In before still 8gb gddr6 vram and 96bit memory bandwidth

I kid... it will be 128bit bus

[sly elk]

aye, officially ordering a 9070xt when I can get my hands on one LOL

[dire viper]

And if it’s close to MSRP ie within 60 bucks

https://youtu.be/2ligtCGm2lY?si=-hYhesgU4L67gQpW @sly elk what we have all been waiting for

40 minute long video about mini vans

what 😭

I understand now

[sly elk]

the sienna comes in green

[wild wyvern]

Currently I'm seeing an event where u get an free copy of wilds by buying one of ASUS products like GPU etc

[sly elk]

every now and then the xfx 9070xt i like pops into stock for a brief moment on amazon

but I never seem to snag it lol

... dangit when are the yeston sakuras gonna be available

i legit want one LOL

it even looks good from the side

[lost python]

hmm kinda odd that none of the 9070xt models appear to have a usb-c port

[dull garnet]

is it?

[hazy frost]

I want the other model

The original one they made bc the bottom side looks so good

I’d buy the new design if I didn’t buy a vertical mount but I don’t want people seeing an anime girl in my pc

[wild wyvern]

[hazy frost]

I’m a big fan of last gen’s 7900xtx Sakura design as well

[wild wyvern]

But why

[hazy frost]

Wdym

[wild wyvern]

I mean its just a gpu lol

[hazy frost]

Yes

It’s nice to have one that looks good anyway

I’d only pay extra for models that actually look fairly unique which isn’t many

[hot shadow]

you have random people come into your gamer area?

[hazy frost]

Sometimes I play games with irl friends

[hot shadow]

damn this guy has FRIENDS

wouldn't the anime girl be kinda hard to see

I was thinking about getting a led plate to go over the gpu

[wild wyvern]

Backplate is facing up wards

[hot shadow]

or led anti-sag bracket thing

[wild wyvern]

I want my whole inside of my pc to be black tbh

[hazy frost]

Nitro+ is also an interesting model for once

[lost python]

I like that mesh

[wild wyvern]

Why are some gpu so chonky

[hazy frost]

Cooling

And aesthetics

The higher end GPUs are usually going into a pc of someone with money who has a larger mid tower and it looks better if it fills the case out more

And the giant heat sink doesn’t hurt to have

[wild wyvern]

I like the design of an ASUS 4060

[hot shadow]

man I'm gonna need to replace my case with bigger one at this rate

already pushing the mid size

back compartment is like a surgeon's nightmare

[hazy frost]

Mines fine for any gpu still I might get a smaller case bc it looks empty atm

[potent arrow]

mines basically as small as it gets lol

I refuse to open the side panel

[dull garnet]

lol

[hazy frost]

It’s ok it has frame gen

[dire viper]

Cadillac got approved for Formula 1

What a world we live in

[hazy frost]

Audi and Cadillac

Interesting

[dire viper]

Audi’s not so interesting

They were running shit down in diesels in other racing series cause funny

[hazy frost]

It’s interesting they’ve been so confident and going further than they had mentioned initially

[dire viper]

Bring back the R10 TDI

It kinda sucks how tight the regulations are for F1

I mean there is a huge difference between cars still but hybrid V6 😔

Bring back i4 F1 cars making over 1000hp

The BMW era

1600hp inline 4 in qualifying trim

[graceful sparrow]

Well...I bought the PC

Hope I won't regret it

[sly elk]

tbh i love both

[sly elk]

the nitros are always good looking but this one using a 12 pin connector pisses me off

[hazy frost]

I’m not bothered by it it’s not inherently THAT bad

It’s just a combination of a lot of things that’s led to it being so shit

The 12v 2x6 when done properly should be fine on mid tier GPUs

[sly elk]

it should, but there's still a chance the 300w this uses gets funneled down 1 or 2 pins at once the way they hooked it up

not quite as dire as trying to pull 600w down 1 or 2 pins but

it's still on my list of cards i'll consider if i see one in stock >>

the way inventory is showing up on amazon i'll probably end up with an xfx mercury card lol

[hazy frost]

Yeah it would be fine worst case scenario here still

There weren’t any melting 4070ti supers

Not even many if any 4080s that I’ve seen

[sly elk]

^ but sometimes they do still have that problem xd

[hazy frost]

My 4070ti draws about 300w and it still lives

[sly elk]

the 30 series apparently didn't because they did actually use proper load splitting on the few cards that came with that connector

[hazy frost]

Yes

[sly elk]

-pets his evga which used 3x8 instead-

that said 3x8 isn't 'rated' for 600w or whatever

though it COULD carry 600w

afaik the spec only allows 150w instead of the full 288w per connector because of those stupid Y cables

idk why those stupid y cables even exist ><

there was but a brief moment in time where you would have a gpu that used 150w < x < 288w of power and could safely use one of those

[hazy frost]

Technically so can 12v 2x6 lol

If it’s not a shitty implementation anyway

4 8pins would be kind of crazy tbf but 2 12v2x6 cables would be fine

[sly elk]

agreed

i just never had a problem with 3x8 lol

[hazy frost]

Yeah 3x8 was fine

Any more it’s starting to get ridiculous lol

Gonna just have power connectors running the entire length of ur gpu

[sly elk]

I've never done this before but I'm returning a surge protector to amazon because I really don't like the build quality, not for that price lol

13.99, well it's cheap, but the plug sockets look kinda cheap and the cord has this 360 degree swivel thing that gives me zero confidence either

but it feels kinda like those $5 ones from big lots

sadness, APC quit making surge protectors too. That explains why I was having trouble finding them on amazon 😦

[hazy frost]

i forgot how bad frame gen is sometimes lol

turned itself on in mhw earlier for some reason and i thought my game was about to crash

[wide hill]

are you using a 50 series card?

[hazy frost]

nope

[wide hill]

i bet you gonna love multi frame gen

[hazy frost]

lmaoo

i hate all of it

all sucks

never vuying a gpu intending to use that

maybe right if i keep this forever and its basically useless

[wide hill]

what gpu do you have now then?

[wraith agate]

I said it and I'm gonna say it again, I don't intend to replace my 4090 for the next six years

[wide hill]

i still have my 2070 super

i bought it 5 years ago

[wraith agate]

And by the looks of it, if society doesn't end by then, then I'd have to push this thing longer

I want graphics card with real frames

[hazy frost]

4070ti

will replace it in a year or two maybe

depends if amd cooks up more

[wide hill]

eh, you gotta wait 3 or 4 more years, that card is like same performance as the 50 series

unless you the type of person that buys a new gpu to play on ultra high 4k

[hazy frost]

why would that make me wait 3 or 4

new generation will be in 2 and a potential super refresh mighhjt be appealing

or a refresh from amd even

[wide hill]

idk, i guess i am just too patient and poor.
if they manage to up their gain with the raster performance and not relying on frame gen sure

but innovation is getting slower

nvidia's 50 series felt like a rushed gpu launch before they even managed to stock up their production to release it ASAP just for the AI stuff and shareholders

and amd is catching up slowly

[hazy frost]

9070xt is great im hoping for a new amd gpu mostly

would be pleasantly surprised by nvidia offerings but not expected

[brave oxide]

make that 5 and that's me

aint letting this boy rest for a long time

(unless it dies)

[wide hill]

i gotta check performance graph

[brave oxide]

but also im still 1080p so little reason to upgrade for a long time

[wide hill]

yeah, if you were going from 4070ti to a rx 7900xt, that is practically the same performance

[hazy frost]

that is why i am not buying one

[wide hill]

i doubt that one more generation would be going that much higher either

[brave oxide]

9090 XTXT when

[hazy frost]

theres literally no reason to think that

this is amds mid range this generation

[wide hill]

if you were going to aim for the top of the line gpu; maybe

[hazy frost]

that is what i intend to do

given amds mid range 9070xt is 30-40% faster than the 7900gre was and more than that for the 7800xt

even following that trend the comparative gpu next gen would be a good upgrade

not to mention the even bigger RT uplift from them

i would definitely spend $600-700 on a 30-40% uplift

[wide hill]

ofcourse if you are going for an up in tier, i was mostly thinking if one were going from 9700xt to a 10700xt

but yeah, you might be getting double the performance if going for the top tier cards

[hazy frost]

im talking 10070xt or whatevr they call it

by this trend it would still be a 30% increase from what i have

[wide hill]

amd trend*

[hazy frost]

even if it cost more than $600 like 750 id be happy for that given id probably still get 400-500 for mine

[hazy frost]

yes..?

thats what im talking about

[wide hill]

just making fun of nvidia

[hazy frost]

i dont expect nvidia to follow unfortunately

but would be happy if they did

still the option of buying a used 4090 if they come down

[hot shadow]

can always check Facebook market

[wide hill]

im hoping i can earn more money so i can actually buy a gpu

until my current gpu dies, i will hope i won't spend any unnessecary money to upgrade on a haste

[golden stream]

And I KID U NOT
The LLM AI on 50 card isn't that much faster than the 40
So I'd call the 50 a fad

Tho prolly diff if 5090 tho

[hazy frost]

5080 would almost be good if it wasn’t defective and constantly at a $600+ markup

At $900 it’s a reasonable ish upgrade from the 4080 if it wasn’t missing rops, blowing capacitors on that one gpu and costing $2000

[sly elk]

hmm

amazon charging $799 for the tuf 9070xt seems a bit of an ask

i mean the xfx rgb units are going for 819 and 849 iirc which is even more of an ask LOL

[paper tusk]

I would consider that excessive, and I coughed up 750 for mine (because I didn't have a choice in anything else with proper Honeywell thermal compound)

But if it's the difference between getting one and price increase roulette/waiting for stock ...

😐

[dire viper]

they need to attach the honeywell desk fans directly to GPU's

they go crazy

[sly elk]

which one did ya get?

[paper tusk]

powercolor hellhound (xt)

[wild wyvern]

My whole pc is so poop

[odd talon]

Anyone here with a Windows VR headset having issues on Windows 10?

[lost python]

pretty sure there is no proper support for windows MR anymore.
apparently some headsets still work with steamVR though

[odd talon]

I was afraid of that

Headset is pretty much bricked

[hot shadow]

yea wmr died

even Index is getting boomer cause it's just so large but at least it works

big screen beyond is the smaller thinnest one now

[odd talon]

Gonna be a while for me to replace my VR headset then

Fugk

[hot shadow]

you might get a newer quest then since it's not as pricy

if you don't care about fbt anyway

most ppl dont

[lost python]

which one od you have?

[odd talon]

HP reverb

[lost python]

should still work on steam

[hot shadow]

it's too bad, I was rather excited Microsoft wanted to invest in vr

[odd talon]

It does not

[hot shadow]

a lot of wmr stopped working 4 months ago

it's with the push to win11 that finally killed some

last year some already got bricked

funny that rift s still works

[lost python]

hmm according to the internet, if you are still on win10, then it should still work

[hot shadow]

it should ya but for some reason there's been a lot of 'it wont'

[odd talon]

Mhm

I updated windows and that error started popping up

[lost python]

i love microsoft so much...

[odd talon]

[hot shadow]

yea it has to do with your win10 update

it's not officially said but it did that

[odd talon]

Pretty much

[lost python]

thank god i didnt go for the reverb g2 after all

thankyou HP for fucking up customer support once again before i made the decision

[hot shadow]

3s is cheaper btw

[odd talon]

It was a good option at the time

[hot shadow]

if you don't mind lower quality but

it's still better than quest2

which is leagues better than hp reverb

[lost python]

you could probably get a quest 2 for like 200 bucks now though

[hot shadow]

yes

[odd talon]

I could

[hot shadow]

quest 2 is still good

or quest 3s

[lost python]

tracking and feature set yes, but not screen-wise

[odd talon]

But I am a man of quality

[lost python]

then you wanna wait for the new valve headset that may or may not be actually real

[hot shadow]

it's at least not screen door effect like rift s was

[lost python]

rift s was pain

[hot shadow]

ehh

he would need base station for anything valve puts out

[odd talon]

If they make a base station

[lost python]

not if the new headset does inside out tracking

[odd talon]

For the next one

But I also want to try the meta games

[lost python]

meta has some cool stuff

[hot shadow]

valve base station are fine for anything it's all standardized

that's why people have kitbash

[lost python]

if you want to play native meta games though, i would really suggest going for the full quest 3 and not 3s

[hot shadow]

they have valve index base station and then knuckle controllers then big screen beyond hmd

kitbash

sometimes htc vive basestation

just has to work with steamvr

I dont like any of the vive shit, never did, their iterations have been super strange

I think because they were trying to invest in AR and shit

[lost python]

vive had a strong start but they really dropped the ball, as usual

[hot shadow]

yea

[lost python]

im surprised HTC is still alive

[hot shadow]

idk what the fuck apple was doing too wtf

worst reveal of a hmd ever, not even real hmd

furries propping up htc

stg

[odd talon]

And short lived

[lost python]

an HMD for nobody for nothing

[hot shadow]

embarrassing tbh I used to be really excited seeing what tech gadgets were coming out

and now we got all this fuckin garbage

oh well at least apple watches are neat

got slimmer

society hit the point of 'shit idk what to reinvent next'

[odd talon]

now we have smart glasses https://www.meta.com/au/ai-glasses/

[hot shadow]

again?

for the third time?

these finbros can go eat a dick

embarrassed at all the e-waste generated from making garbage

[lost python]

id unironically like to have smart sunglasses that show me the way i have to drive on my bike.
but all these smart glasses dont do anything well and die after a year

[hot shadow]

yea

and honestly people don't wanna wear glasses if they can avoid it

[odd talon]

In hindsight I should have grabbed the Quest 3 when it was on a steep discount a while back

Actually it's been on that dropped price for a while

[odd talon]

But yeah, depending on the next couple months. I'll get a quest 3

[golden stream]

Someone sawed a google lens/hololens/AR glasses to half, made it as a scriptreader and be like Vegeta

Bug ngl atm smartglasses are p dum

Bc ur eyes must adjust in order to see the letters/screen, then at outside, it's hella eyestraining, ain't count the need of US IP bc API shenanigan

Rayban and other ones also did it but iirc just variant of Meta glasses

The issue is, "the technology/screen inside the glass must be wore in a fixed determined distance else stuff will be hella blurry"

Tfw I can only remember that vid content, no recall in the content creator name nor the vid's name

[potent arrow]

Not exactly what you are looking for but the tech is pretty cool,
I think this is the most successful implementation yet
https://www.evenrealities.com/en-CA/g1

Oh

lol

they have what you need

Everything ive seen on them is that they keep it stupid simple, so they actually deliver on what they promise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc5_OKMgfQw

...now I want them lol

...only 100$ more expensive then my glasses

looks like I know what work is getting me

[sharp star]

Had to set up my mom’s iMac

Also didn’t take her a lot of convincing to stop using the Magic Mouse that came with it

I want to find out where Jony Ive lives and throw it at his house

[golden stream]

Do et

I hate the Magic Mouse to the core

[sharp star]

I had to lend her one of my mice temporarily

[golden stream]

Chocobo arse level of ergonomic and even more chocobo arse in charging port placement

[sharp star]

I might go shopping for an ergonomic one since she’s turning 63 this year

[potent arrow]

MX ergo

[sharp star]

That’s what I was thinking

[golden stream]

Yes

[potent arrow]

there isn't another one for casuals that's better

the deft pro exists too if you prefer that

[wild wyvern]

@golden stream U5 245KF?

[golden stream]

Da heck??

[sharp star]

Arrow Lake? Really?

[wild wyvern]

welp

AM5 i cant really get an R7 with the stupid price it has rn

[wild wyvern]

Im not really getting it yet lol

[golden stream]

I mean ngl SEA has better price for intel, AMD price is ridiculus

[wild wyvern]

Yes

honestly viy is correct

So i have to go with whats better even if its abit slow

[golden stream]

Hahhhhh finally

I'd say, get a decent motherboard, the CPU could be a bit lackluster but you can upgrade it anyway

[wild wyvern]

Which?

[golden stream]

Idk, I'm not intel person

[wild wyvern]

Oh the one i said?

XD

[golden stream]

Like, legit, I know AMD stuff but not intel

[wild wyvern]

Well cheapest mobo is an gigabyte

But dang B860 mobo is rare lol

[golden stream]

Lol

[wild wyvern]

I dunno tbh honestly

supposedly got alot i think?

But maybe AM5 is what im gonnna aim for

Im just lost on what to get

[real edge]

we've told you

[wild wyvern]

Sorry

[potent arrow]

@wild wyvern aighty, Imma day this one more time,
You've been given a lot of options , Ive literally checked and you've been asking for advice for over a year now. It's at the point where personally as a mentor of this channel it's become disruptive enough that I have to say this. I am asking you to take it elsewhere, not here.

You have plenty of options and advice to choose from, and we are usually happy to help. But I'm drawing the line here.

This channel is about giving help and advice where we can, and we have. But there is a point where you are just wasting people's time and frankly I find it disrespectful. Please understand, and refrain from making any other queries in this channel.

[wild wyvern]

My bad

Sometimes the stuff you all give to me is too expensive for me

[potent arrow]

drop it, we get it it's expensive. just keep an eye out and buy where you can.

[sharp star]

I get that Southeast Asia is mega-fucked when it comes to components but doesn't mean you get to be indecisive for over a year

[potent arrow]

Going to ask everyone to drop it for now and move on! Thanks for all who contributed!

[golden stream]

Speaking of price, how's the 3090 and 4070ti (super) in you guys's place?

[potent arrow]

in Canada?

[golden stream]

Ye

[potent arrow]

hell

lmfao

[golden stream]

Nani really

[potent arrow]

:)

[golden stream]

HOLY HYDAELYN

Here I thought just SEA price is hell

[potent arrow]

it's only gonna get worse :)

my friend made a 2k profit reselling his 4090 and downgrading to a 9070

let that sink in

[golden stream]

Uhhhhh I kid u not
4070 ti (12gb) < 9070 xt (16gb) = 4070 ti super (12gb) < 3090 (ti)

[potent arrow]

also one sec I'm at church so I shouldn't be on my phone rofl

[real edge]

I wonder if I would profit selling my 4080super lol

[golden stream]

Nahhhh Jesus can spare u lol

[potent arrow]

nah it's his hour of the week

so brb lmao

[potent arrow]

probally yeah

[golden stream]

If you have spare gpu, ye totally can
Streamer, vchuba, nerds doing LLM selfhost

[potent arrow]

I bought mine for 1k mark up essentially

[real edge]

I spent like 1100euro for mine, its a gigabyte aero model

[golden stream]

Assuming you have a spare or can whisk a 9070 xt in as-intended price

[real edge]

sarah recommended it so I bought it over the other AIBs lol

[golden stream]

Dem that's actually a heck of good deal if you sell it

Decent card

[real edge]

its a white model as well which is rare for what its worth

[golden stream]

DOUBLE GOOD DEAL

[real edge]

it has not burned yet

which is enough for me

[golden stream]

Assuming you only game and the heaviest could be MHWild and the monke game
That is a heck of a good deal if you sell it/someone buy it

[dawn cave]

I need to get a new GPU at some point myself

But I can run wilds on near Ultra with my 2060 Super

[golden stream]

I alr need it lol the 1660 can only do so much

Dem, how's temp and noise?

[dawn cave]

Surprisingly fine, I'm only on 1080p

It'd be worse if I went higher for sure

It actually performs better near Ultra than it did on medium and low

[golden stream]

Ok

NANI TF

It doesn't make any sense

[dawn cave]

I ain't questioning it. My PC is just weird.

I even have DLSS off

[golden stream]

No framegen I guess?

[dawn cave]

Nope

I think the lack of frame gen improved my frames.

Cause it doesn't support frame gen well

[hazy frost]

u dont need an r7 tho

stop looking at them

the 245k is not a 14 core cpu it just has 8 e cores

u get the same p cores on the 7500f and 7600 as the 245k

and the 245k is reaally slow to the point even like the 8400f likely matches it rn

[sharp star]

I turned off frame gen for Wilds

also have REFramework installed

[real edge]

when I go around to getting

mh wilds I should ask around for optimizations

[sharp star]

Surprisingly Denuvo isn’t that big of an impact on performance but rather Enigma Protector

Which is what REFramework mitigates

[real edge]

last I heard enigma drm was some russian shit that tends to clash with denuvo which causes some of the problems

[golden stream]

That sounds ex bad

Idk may try CP2077 with Wild at the same time

[sharp star]

…Enigma is Capcom’s in-house DRM

[golden stream]

But it seems if doing that it'll end up forced origami mode

Ye

That's my idiot brain, applied WuWa launch and how2fix the whole stutter and jank by running genshin at the background

[hazy frost]

it keeps turning itself on for me

its one of the worse implementations ive seen tho

wilds is super inconsistent with how its performing on people's hardware so far lol

and the texture pack dlc on steam thats meant to be higher quality is broken

[sharp star]

incredible

[hazy frost]

im getting by with 75-90 fps

playing online in linkl parties tho cpu usage is crazy

assuming environment link is locally hosted as well when i join my friend with a worse cpu its been kind of stuttery sometimes

otherwise idk what it is

[potent arrow]

lmfao so I am not the only one who can't fucking turn it off

[sharp star]

I'm gonna see if I can turn it off and on with REFramework uninstalled

[lost python]

it isnt, it really is a russian DRM that capcom purchased

[sharp star]

oh

okay

[hazy frost]

i can turn it off but it just is back on every time i open it again

its immediately noticeable bc it feels awful to play with

[lost python]

but its issues also seem to be overblown given that a ton of games from capcoms catalogue have been using it for a while now

[sharp star]

Anyway the only other tweaks besides REFramework I did were:

• Updating DirectStorage to the latest versions
• Updating DLSS

[hazy frost]

updating dlss in wilds causes some potential issues

[sharp star]

Hasn't. Yet.

I left the FG DLL as is

[potent arrow]

I wanna know what the fuck Capcom is using that's causing all of these lobby errors lmao

[inland mauve]

after seeing modders replace Congalala with Gemma, I agree

[hazy frost]

I just need the camera mod bc it doesn’t zoom out enough to see what the later HR monsters are doing lmao

[lost python]

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/power-supplies/nvidia-rtx-5090s-16-pin-power-connector-hits-150c-in-reviewers-thermal-camera-shots

[potent arrow]

gdi

[inland mauve]

my camera keeps getting stuck between monsters and walls and starts clipping like crazy and I don't see what the heck happens

[hazy frost]

yeah ive had issues with the big ones where camera is just in the body and cant see any sort of telegraphs for w hats gonna happen next

especially in s maller areas camera gets jank

[hazy frost]

FSR frame gen looking better than DLSS frame gen is amazing

It’s actually impressive the lack of ghosting though I imagine the input latency still feels pretty bad

[wild wyvern]

@hazy frost i finally thinked it through btw

[dapper nymph]

2060s on low-med, slightly modded with framework, could not stay above 60 fps during the hunt with the weak brute wyvern at the start and with framegen

on 1080p

i didn't try out the directstorage mod

[dire viper]

on the topic of wilds

It looks like however the textures are deployed is scuffed

Cause a lot of the performance issues is from looking around

Like I can have Arkveld or Shia blowing up the entire map but as long as they aren’t moving it’s fine, but when they move and I’m tracking them my frames just tank

[graceful sparrow]

After realizing that the 9070 XT is out of stock, this is how my list ended up

[dire viper]

As long as you got MSRP that’s all that matters

The 9070 base is good

[dire viper]

Or close too

16GB of VRAM will carry super hard

Cause VRAM famine for NVIDIA and most games limitations are purely VRAM

[wild wyvern]

@dire viper im getting an r5 7500f with rtx 4060

for real this time

[sly elk]

the sad thing about the 9070xt is the cool looking cards cost another $200

well, not all of them XD

iirc the asrock steel legend is close to msrp

669 and it's a good looking card

i'd vertically mount this one

the side is average but the backplate is cool

[potent arrow]

Oh neat

That looks kinda nice

@lost python

I was sent a 8gb FF14 mod

Im going to krillsomeone

[lost python]

what the fuck

[potent arrow]

people don't clean up faces probably

[lost python]

is it one of those fucking outfits with 260k polys and 8k textures for whatever the fuck reason?

[potent arrow]

or subdivided a single face into 824838283838 polygons

[lost python]

yeah like the earrings and nose ring mods that for some reason have 15k polys

[graceful sparrow]

It's gonna be better then the 1660 Super I'm running right now

[brave oxide]

time to drop a mare bomb

join a public sync with that

[dire viper]

God fair enough

I need a 9070 cause I’m on a 3070

3070 is doo doo

[sly elk]

hehe i just want one because my monitor and my 3080ti do not get along well

[dire viper]

I will give you a 3.6 for the 3080ti

cause you'll need it eventually ;P

[sly elk]

pft my 300 might need one 😄

i would hope whatever is causing it to misfire enough to not pass the egr/vvt smog monitor isn't that bad

[hazy frost]

9070 still OCs well can probably get 9070xt performance out of it given the relatively small gap stock

[graceful sparrow]

Problem is that every 9070 XT is out of stock

[hazy frost]

Yeah they’re pretty close realistically

If u can’t get an XT it’s still a good gpu

[graceful sparrow]

I was thinking about getting 7900XT

[hazy frost]

If u only care about rasterisation and without upscaling then sure

9070 is more efficient, better at RT and comes with FSR4 which genuinely is very good now

[graceful sparrow]

Then I realize 9070 price was similar

[hazy frost]

It’s definitely worth it still

[graceful sparrow]

Now I am in another awkward situation

I paid when they haven't confirmed the order

[hazy frost]

Rip

[graceful sparrow]

Now I have to talk to the sales team

Because this PC is cheaper...

[hazy frost]

Nitro+ was selling for 700 atl

The best looking card for them that u can actually get in the west rn imo

[sly elk]

until the 2x6 catches fire 🔥

[hazy frost]

It won’t tho..

I’m all for hating the 2x6 but not when it’s actually a non issue in practice

If the 9070xt was drawing 400w+ yes

Given it’s not im not overly concerned by it

There’s a reason there’s a lack of 4070s and 4070ti models catching on fire

And bc it’s the 2x6 it won’t just come loose by user error so it’s only down to design flaws and not human error

[rich jasper]

So guys, i'm looking to upgrade my MB/PSU
I'm currently running an I7-9600K with a ROG STRIX Z390-E but i wanna move away cause i'm running a 4060 TI and i feel like i'm bottle necking with my older parts. Anyone have any recommendations on what I should upgrade to? I think im putting this in the right place

[sharp star]

I think you can make do with a 7600(X) or a 9600(X) CPU-wise

Assuming you're keeping your GPU

[rich jasper]

yeah the gpu is brand new

like a month/2 old

[sly elk]

i like how the rgb looks on the xfx card

it's a shame it costs $820 though ><

a $220 premium... it's not worth it...

also that location for the rgb plug well, it's not the worst in the world if you run the cable back along the left side of the motherboard but wow it's not great LOL

even the stupid sapphire nitro doesn't cost that much

[hazy frost]

Best card..

The power connector placement is just too good

[sly elk]

iirc it's like $779

oh yea that way you can't see it catching on fire /s

[hazy frost]

I saw someone get it for $700

In the UK it’s £690 as well so I imagine it probably is available at 700 if ur lucky

[sly elk]

nice

yea admittedly, i have the nitro on my amazon list

[hazy frost]

Tbf pretty much all of the models have cool designs

And are well built

[sly elk]

my list on amazon includes the nitro, steel legend, xfx mercury, gigabyte aorus elite, and sapphire pure

[hazy frost]

The nitro is probably most unique ignoring the yeston one lol

The power colour hellhound one is also pretty cool tho

[sly elk]

i'd take the yeston one but it will really clash with my build LOL

[hazy frost]

lol

Im gonna buy one as my next upgrade tbh

[sly elk]

tbh I'm not sure I've taken a good picture of my computer since I changed to a 7800x3d

[hazy frost]

It matched well enough given its white mostly

I don’t think it’s worth sidegrading for the design lol

Was tempting given I couldn’t afford their 4070ti

[sly elk]

yea I feel like the yeston card would look better in a white case with white fans and motherboard

to have that nice pastel color build

a light pink or blue case would also work

[hazy frost]

Currently

[sly elk]

your heatsink needs white fans hehe

[hazy frost]

I’m considering buying a 140mm tower in white or the AIO i wanted

[sly elk]

i get that the blades are still going to be black but it'd look less jarring

[hazy frost]

Yeah

[sly elk]

the good news is that's a thermalright tower!

and thermalright fans are cheeeeeaaap

[hazy frost]

lol I’d replace it with smth else if I did anyway

Will probably get a deepcool or Thermalright AIO given the prices rn tho

[sly elk]

i even use them in my other computer xD

[hazy frost]

They’re pretty good for the price but not the quietest either for how they perform

[sly elk]

i should stuff that computer under my desk and have it do what my mac pro is doing

[hazy frost]

My case fans are EK ones bc the lian li ones are even more ridiculousnin price

[sly elk]

but it'd take more space

[potent arrow]

I just use whatever the fuck I have in a bin in my basement

I got these old ass clear ones with molex

[hazy frost]

The Thermalright 360mm AIO is £50 lol

[potent arrow]

they threaten 50 series in a computer fire competition

[hazy frost]

I had NZXT fans for a while from my case and they were not great

I have Arctic ones and the old NZXT ones around still I think

[sly elk]

last time I took a good picture inside my case

i don't think a sakura would really fit in there lol

[hazy frost]

The RGB on that pump is amazing

[sly elk]

I have no regrets xD

fun story on that

[hazy frost]

I think u need more led strips tbh

[sly elk]

at the time corsair was selling only that transparent pump head on their website

so I bought the normal elite xt without the screen and then bought the screen separately :3

when I swapped out the motherboard/cpu/ram with the 7800x3d :3

i am quite proud of my cable management

[potent arrow]

I refuse to open my side panel

[sly elk]

all of those rgb hubs/fan controllers are held on with 3m vhb tape lol

[potent arrow]

even this side sucks

[sly elk]

it still looks great

fortunately for you i'm a hardware nerd

i like seeing it all lol

i like how the am5 ryzens look

[potent arrow]

this side

I uh

[sly elk]

yea check it out

that's a sweet power supply

[potent arrow]

there's a motherboard somewhere there

trusty old 1000w Silverstone L sfx

[sly elk]

yea i don't see anything wrong, I see nice hardware

[potent arrow]

fucking AIO hose

[sly elk]

you could spend an assload of money on braided cables and nice cable ties or whatever

[potent arrow]

lmao I do cable combs and shit for clients

[sly elk]

but it still looks ok to me

[potent arrow]

but my personal rig nah

[potent arrow]

I would if I had the patience leftover

I hate downtime so much

this of took me an hour to throw together and boot

[hazy frost]

That’s good with all u have In there lol

Mine is relatively tidy but not much in my case

[potent arrow]

that's nice

[hazy frost]

I feel like I might actually just get a smaller mid tower but I’d miss the 360mm top rad option

[sly elk]

tbh usually when my brother sees me enjoying myself doing somehing like that he'll throw a tantrum and do everything in his power to disrupt me, so I usually have to do things real fast too ahhhaa

my first build in this machine was christmas 2018 ., oh boy. xD

i'm never ever building on a holiday ever again

[wraith agate]

Have you tried locking your brother in the attic

[sly elk]

i can toss the whole computer together in <30 min for sure, but actually making the wiring neat takes a while lol

if I HAD an attic

[sly walrus]

oh hey i got one of those

[sly elk]

he's a 350lb dude that likes hitting the walls when he's angry and stuff

he'd probably just stomp on the attic floor

[wraith agate]

Ah, just throw him out the window

[sly elk]

when we were teenagers he tried doing that out his 2nd floor bedroom window once

he wasn't trying to off himself but I don't think he realized he'd injure himself pretty good doing that

[wraith agate]

I dunno, I feel like if my sister was like that, I'd have murdered her long ago, I'm very very bitchy about my privacy

[sly elk]

i have a lot of patience but I admit some days I run out

also hard to keep your weight down when you eat your way out of stress xD

[brave oxide]

i just scrolled up and that is an insane amount of rgb up there

[sly elk]

My car is lacking rgb

[dire viper]

https://youtu.be/Ew7WP9qCnBw?si=Oyks3Tfh94cIg7fb

[dire viper]

Two silver Subaru outbacks have been driven through dealerships in the last few months

This is wild

First Utah now Cali

[dire viper]

https://youtu.be/SPE95_RnL_Q?si=mmRiUO6twsY89kJO

[sly elk]

way too familiar

and that card's a bloody ripoff

[sharp star]

https://www.techpowerup.com/333855/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5050-rtx-5060-and-rtx-5060-ti-specifications-leak
lol
lmao

don't buy

[paper tusk]

but... AI

it's what frames crave

(I feel stupid typing that)

[hazy frost]

Funny that FSR has better frame gen rn anyway

Only problem is how many games support it properly

Tbf the best upscalers aren’t ever the default in game implementations

[dull garnet]

This RM850x occasionally makes what seems like a relay click sound at random intervals, and I can't seem to find anything about why online. Wondering if it is just a dodgy unit. Leaning towards just sending it back to Amazon rn and going back to my old unit :/

[sharp star]

That’s the Corsair quality we know and love

[potent arrow]

RMA it lol, it's a common issue iirc with a protective relay, it triggers randomly or repeatly

it's been enough of a problem that Corsair had to aknowldged it passing by

[sharp star]

I normally don't touch Corsair products that aren't their RAM

[dull garnet]

Yeah I'm not usually a fan either and this hasn't helped my perception...

[potent arrow]

yeah there it is

when relays or contactors go bad they click like crazy or randomly

[hazy frost]

Tbf their psus are good and when u do get the few defects like this they sort u out quickly with a replacement

The only reason I don’t buy from them more is the price of their stuff lol

[real edge]

the PSU that I bought for like 200 or so 7 years ago

the same model now goes for like 228

[hazy frost]

No psu is worth that much anyway unless it’s a 1200 or 1600w one and the good ones of those cost almost double anyway

[real edge]

tbh my PSU has been problem free for as long as I can remember

thats all I expect from it

[hazy frost]

Yeah

[real edge]

I could even put a 16pin gpu on it with the corsair adapter

[hazy frost]

People who are spending $200-300 on psus in this day and age are insane though

[real edge]

with no issue

[hazy frost]

Can get the same quality for half the price now

But people are scared of anything that doesn’t say seasonic or corsair on it

[potent arrow]

idk where corsair pulls them from, but watching green label PSUs explode will never not be funny to me

[potent arrow]

meanwhile my hell

[hazy frost]

CAD?

[potent arrow]

Yeah

MY DOLLAR IS WORTHLESS WHOPPEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[hazy frost]

The UD1000GM is $190 at memory express

NZXT C1000 is $220

[potent arrow]

oh I already bought this lol

[hazy frost]

Ah

SFX is always expensive anyway

[potent arrow]

I had them in stock, im just poitning out how fucking incredillous stupid this is

[hazy frost]

But most people don’t need it

The Corsair SF1000 is pretty cheap tho

The one time Corsair is good value is the SFX ones

[real edge]

https://hwbusters.com/best_picks/best-atxv3-pcie5-ready-psus-picks-hardware-busters/5/

hm

[hazy frost]

NZXT C series doesn’t get recommended enough

Although the 2023? Version is shit so u have to be careful

Tho that is similar to the old vs new Corsair CX ones

[real edge]

the atx 3.1 version

seems to be the one commonly sold here

[potent arrow]

I am never buying corsair SFX psu again, I have on record 6 or 7 of those going bad

I swear corsair is just picking the bad ones for fun now

[hazy frost]

Thankfully I won’t need a new psu for a while unless I get a second pc which would have to be SFX as well lol

[real edge]

my PSU is getting up there in age so I have to consider getting a new one when I next swap my parts

its I think 7 years old

its still fine

but its getting up there

[hazy frost]

It’ll be fine for another 7

[real edge]

I paid a lot for this HXi PSU back then

[hazy frost]

I have a 2023 HXi one

It’ll stay forever

[potent arrow]

Ive said it before, doesnt get better then HXi

especailly the older ones, are bullet proof

[potent arrow]

rn im reasearching new PC cases for SFX, so many copied the formd 1

[hazy frost]

AXi

[hazy frost]

It’s a good case tbf

Cheap copies are nice

[potent arrow]

Im loving the tr100 mini, but is a bit big for my taste

yeah its nice, I have the gen 1 so I paid an arm and leg for it

the terra looks nice

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/148162866208440321/1341985171666243604/IMG_2042.jpg?ex=67cfb795&is=67ce6615&hm=c06c06ff08ace5f8b22f977af67b6c49ba706b08f3fd47722abcb0bf92214e82&=&format=webp&width=1771&height=1328

TR100 next to the formd 1

[hazy frost]

I’d go for the NR200 probably bc I don’t need it smaller I think

[potent arrow]

I would get the tr100 over the NR200 personally

[hazy frost]

Formd t1 is my favourite overall

[potent arrow]

same size and it feels better for me

[hazy frost]

TR100 is like £50 more usually

[potent arrow]

Running pretty cool rn

[hazy frost]

I don’t think it’s enough nicer

[potent arrow]

50 euro is no difference to me when it comes to sfx ngl

[sharp star]

I'm like more-or-less permanently gonna be here so I think I'm fine with going full tower for the rest of my life

Unless some major life-shaking event causes me to move away from home (please don't)

[potent arrow]

I think I rather have no pc then full atx LOL

[sharp star]

I used to be an ITX diehard

[hazy frost]

I mean I won’t switch my main pc to sfx

I’ll probably get MATX at most for that

AP201 is cool

[potent arrow]

I wanted to try that

[hazy frost]

I can’t stand noise so I need as much space for my 140mm fans and cooling solutions as possible

[potent arrow]

but I couldnt get it in

[real edge]

im glad I made the correct decision back when I was younger, I remember doing many days of research cause I knew nothing lol

[sharp star]

I had a Fractal Torrent for like three years

[hazy frost]

I really don’t like that case

[sharp star]

I stopped using it because while I liked the airflow I didn't like the build quality

I swapped over to an Antec Flux Pro last month

[hazy frost]

It’s ugly and has crap build quality for a case that’s over $100

[sharp star]

lmao yeah

[hazy frost]

There’s way better quality in $50 cases than most fractal stuff now lmao

[sharp star]

that case was fuckin wimdy at least

[hazy frost]

That and the lancool 207 are great

I think I might wait until I have a custom loop to change case otherwise I’ll be changing it again in a year probably

[sharp star]

I swapped my tower cooler out for an AIO because Southeast Asia is currently a flaming hellscape with heat indexes of at least 42c

[hazy frost]

lol summer here has been getting too hot tbh

I’m considering buying an AIO just bc the price of a 140mm tower is basically the same now

It was only 36c last summer for a week or so but that was still hot for here and there’s no AC so ambient temp is crazy inside the house

[dull garnet]

Maybe I'll contact them first then

It's perfectly fine besides the relay clicks

[hazy frost]

Yeah I would just do that

They’re usually pretty good for customer service

[dull garnet]

Or just get a replacement from Amazon idk

[potent arrow]

help another 212 showed up in my tech questions

when will this thing go away

[sharp star]

Until you pelt them with 212s

[dire viper]

@potent arrow @sly elk they need to bring back cool Mercedes 😮‍💨

[potent arrow]

LOL

[dire viper]

1990 420SE Guard

Bullet proof for pistol rounds

Used by police

[sly elk]

does it have room for a 5.25 drive? 😮

[sharp star]

Oh I was wondering what the MP5s were for

[potent arrow]

uhhhhh I have no clue

[potent arrow]

SFX doesn't really accommodate for a 3.5 usually

[sly elk]

i was thinking maybe because the screen looks like a 5.25" faceplate

[potent arrow]

if you air cool yeah

theres a fat rad behind mine

[sly elk]

neat!

[dull garnet]

just feels like for reasonably priced power supplies in the UK you don't have a lot of options

[odd sand]

PSU prices have inflated a ton since covid

[dull garnet]

I mean like, even close to Corsair's RMx range

[odd sand]

used to be a basic PSU was $40-50 USD and a quality one was $75-100. Now it's like that cost for a basic one and $150-200 for a quality one.

[dull garnet]

I think I paid about £110 for my EVGA 650 P2 9 years ago, this RM850x was only a bit more (£136)

Plat rated vs Gold though

[sly walrus]

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/nvidia-says-it-really-has-sorted-rtx-50-series-black-screen-issues-this-time-around-as-yet-another-driver-fix-finds-its-way-to-release/

https://tenor.com/view/kingdom-hearts-ok-i-believe-you-gif-13519426

[sharp star]

lmao no

that's about as believable as a Mew under the truck

[sly walrus]

next they'll say that jensen snuck into everyone's houses and put the missing rops back

[dire viper]

Thousands of people never recovered from this

[dull garnet]

I spent hours trying to move that damn truck

[sharp star]

Legends say you can still hear the incessant screaming of people still mad that Mew hasn't been available shiny since Emerald

[dire viper]

Lmao

[hazy frost]

There’s basic ones for $50..

The msi A-BN or seasonic b12 are $40-60 for 650-750w ones

I only paid £100 ish for the HX1000i

[dull garnet]

new? nice

popped the old PSU back in, RM850x is going back to Amazon

[hazy frost]

Yeah was a good sale

Usually u can only get good 850s for that much and 1000s are like 120ish

[dull garnet]

i can't go too long in my case cus its a fractal compact and i use the hdd cage

[odd sand]

I wonder how basic is basic bc at the same time you could get that one thermaltake 450-500w for like $25 was it? lol

[dull garnet]

80 plus white

[hazy frost]

basic as in not a bomb functions pretty well no fancy features

u can go cheaper for 450 and 550w ones but its questionable

[buoyant wasp]

https://bsky.app/profile/paultassi.bsky.social/post/3ljzq2hr7sk2j

Paul Tassi (@paultassi.bsky.social)

The entirety of Facebook is just a meme now. I cannot believe this place still exists. It's AI posts (now very much encouraged by Meta) engaging purely bots. Dead internet as a platform

Likes

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Bluesky · Mar 10, 2025, 2:08 PM

[dire viper]

The only platform that is true dead internet

[odd sand]

I don't know where they get $15B a year to set on fire for VR shit still

[rich jasper]

i swear to god, trying to get spectrum ISP at my house

has been such a pain

[odd sand]

I assume you don't have fiber available in your area?

[sharp star]

What, you don't like AI-generated Jesus?

[odd sand]

Usually the easiest way is to get a self-install package and just do it yourself

[rich jasper]

House was just deemed servicable last year

But anytime i've had them come out it's been a

"Well we have no lines from your skybox"

"im just a tech not a construction team"

so now i'm just like "bring me the survey team and show me what in the fuck i need to do"

[dire viper]

Uh oh

Tesla is probably gonna get in trouble in Canada

Like genuine open fraud stuff

They somehow sold 8600 cars in just a few days which was a third of their total sales last year

Right before the end of the rebates for EV’s in Canada

https://www.jalopnik.com/1807796/tesla-last-minute-canadian-incentives-eligibility-request/

Jalopnik going straight for the throat as usual

@potent arrow

According to the Canadian Auto Dealers Association, the last-minute Tesla application bomb left some 2,300 cars with unreimbursed rebates. The dealers gave their customers the $5,000 rebate from the point of sale, but the program had run out of money and ended over the course of the weekend when government offices were closed, sticking the dealership collective with about $10 million in broken promises. CADA spox Huw Williams complained, "These dealers in good faith gave customers the money for a program that is always refunded. They shouldn't be left making a payment on behalf of the Government of Canada. Tesla gamed the system.”

[buoyant wasp]

You love to see it

[dire viper]

Consider that the top tier Toyota dealers only sell about 500 cars a month

Like

Top top tier

[buoyant wasp]

Tesla sales down in most countries as well. Definitely fishy

[dire viper]

And Toyota/Lexus have the highest sales out of anybody

[dire viper]

Yup

Some dealerships will buy their own inventory for this reason but Tesla doesn’t operate as regular dealers

But dealers purchasing their own stock would not be applicable for rebates etc

If Canada structure the rebates similar to the US

[odd sand]

I prefer caramel corn, myself...

[dire viper]

Why the fuck do switches have dispensary names

[odd sand]

Because there are 100s of types of switches now, so they try to differentiate themselves with silly names, much like craft beers or small batch wines

[dull garnet]

glad my shitty epomaker died immediately and i came to my senses about getting into that hobby in any meaningful way

[sly elk]

"creamy purple pro"

LOL I like that they used "pro"

[spring raven]

🎶 HOLY PANDA,
You've been down too long in the midnight sea
Oh, what's becoming of me?! 🎵

[dull garnet]

are SilverStone gud?

Cybenetics Platinum suggests yes

[hazy frost]

Yes it’s good but how much does it cost

[dull garnet]

oddly only about £14 more than the RM850x (or £24 for the newer version)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D91SHP2S

[hazy frost]

On the other hand u can get the NZXT C1000 for less money

Or the rm1000x for £10 more

Don’t just look on Amazon

[dull garnet]

I'm not

[hazy frost]

For 850w ones the A850GL is £100

Otherwise I’d get one of the 1000w ones if ur spending that much already

[dull garnet]

But... Platinum

That PSU is £202 on the sellers on own site lol

[hazy frost]

Doesn’t do all that much

[hot shadow]

f-forbidden saltwater taffy

yumyumyum

[dire viper]

ITS SO SEXY UGNHGNNG

I need 40,000 dollars

[odd sand]

Yeah, there really isn't a need to go for any psu efficiency over gold, because the price diff between that and plat or titanium is usually more than the energy savings you'll see within the life of the psu

[spring raven]

You're in luck, I just inherited US $ 22 million and I just need your bank account info to process the wire transfer for you

[hot shadow]

it is actually awe-inspiring how I could unironically say this and then somebody wouldn't know how to actually find their bank info

like they dunno how to wire anything

or even attach it to paypal

like ok I guess they're not getting their free car

[dire viper]

Lmao

RAB I WANT MY FREE CAR

1965 PORSCHE 911

They may or may not be over 150k now

[hot shadow]

damn maybe in another life i would have bought that one then live out of it, going to uni as a homeless student, eating the beans cans from the library lol

the lil donation food box they set out for the homeless catboys

[dire viper]

If you went to Uni in the late 90’s early 2000’s yea that would’ve been feasible

Lots of these cars that are now 100k+ were sub 10k in the early 2000’s

[dull garnet]

I member

[dull garnet]

You're probably right. And as nice as that rating is SilverStone seems to provide a 5 year warranty max. Maybe an NZXT PSU isn't the worst idea, and that C1000 seems very well rated.

[hazy frost]

They’re made by seasonic

Or were

Idk if the new one is but it’s still reviewed well afaik

[dull garnet]

Kitguru suggests CWT, which I think is the same as the RMx line

Ya

[dire viper]

one of my old customers when I worked at a porsche restoration shop kept all the newspaper listing clippings of cars he wanted to buy and some cars that go to auction for 500k+ were sub 40k back then...

[dire viper]

@potent arrow was looking at some D1 Lights cars

holy fucking shit

[sharp star]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/firmware-update-bricks-hp-printers-makes-them-unable-to-use-hp-cartridges/ hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[wild wyvern]

WTF

[dull garnet]

literally no reason to update a printer ever

[wild wyvern]

My house has an HP printer that shits itself sometimes xD

[inland mauve]

you should update it if it's connected to the internet, but also I wouldn't connect it to the internet

[sharp star]

I think you should take a bat to it

[inland mauve]

and HP not helping the case for keeping hardware updated

twats

[hot shadow]

i miss my brother printer because it was good but then it stopped fucking working too

[odd sand]

Closing the final loophole /s

[hot shadow]

then i had a Canon one and it also shit the bed

and now i really like this epson one and it's still working except the printer head is perma-misaligned. wtf is happening bro

everything printed is like subtly fuzzy

[lost python]

My current canon is weirdly just fine.
I had 3 HP ones before that though and all of them constantly came up with new issues

Notebooks, printers, monitors, customer service, hp is such a shit company

[sly elk]

my canon is almost 15 years old lol

i have a brother as well, the brother gets a lot more use because it's alwaysplugged in

the canon i only plug in when I need to scan something or fax something

[hot shadow]

i was able to fool the Brother printer into thinking i had full color ink so that i could just keep an empty one in there while using only the black ink

because the software doesnt let me print anything if i just remove it or if i had empty color

you put duct tape over the 'window' on the cartridge

what an easy fix

[dull garnet]

All updates do is lock out non HP cartridges lol

[sly elk]

On my Canon when it complains about being our of color I can hold the OK button

[hot shadow]

you can fool the HP printer by taking off the nonhp cartridge chip

replace with your HP cartridge chip

it's just one lil piece so don't fuk it up tho

the rest is useless plastic

[solid panther]

Ive become someone who plays with picture settings on my TV to get it just right

😔

To be fair to me, I bought an OLED so Im gonna use every glorious pixel to its fullest

[sharp star]

https://youtu.be/QhGsQvDaEPo

tl;dw the 9950X3D matches the 9800X3D in gaming and the 9950X in production

best of both worlds basically

My recommendation is still the same as the last gen X3D parts; if your use case is strictly gaming, get the 9800X3D. If your use case is both gaming and productivity, get the 9950X3D. If your use case is strictly productivity then the 9950X is for you.

There is no place for the 9900X3D lol

[real edge]

5800x3d still being a near top cpu is really funny

[sharp star]

I would not recommend getting the 9950X3D if you only meet one of those criteria though

It has to be both imo

[real edge]

im glad they fixed the problems the 7950x3d had

with the CCD stuff and u had to park some of your cores and such for games

[sharp star]

https://tenor.com/view/intel-pat-gelsinger-papa-computer-chip-gif-4422124117738847315

[pine thistle]

I wonder if MS uses it internally

[sharp star]

Probably mandated

[potent arrow]

I haaate teams

[lost python]

My team lead is visiting our office this week and he is sitting facing me and I am struggling so hard to not fall asleep

[potent arrow]

https://tenor.com/view/sleep-gif-12944899486400191725

[golden stream]

SOMEHOW lol

Though in general, the x3D are all decent for both

[wraith agate]

Bro is conked out

[odd sand]

Food coma

[sly elk]

le gasp cox is selling fiber internet in our neighborhood in vegas now

that's newwwww

it's still a ripoff, $70 for 250mbps and $110 for 1gbps but that's a big improvement over their cable internet prices

LOL even the 1tb plan has a 1.2tb/mo data limit

man that's so atrocious

All Cox Internet plans include 1.25 TB (1280 GB) per month of data usage. Additional Data Plans can be added for an additional monthly charge. Excess usage is $10 per additional 50 GB block

[odd sand]

I feel like that means it's fake fiber in that it's just fiber for last mile and it still connects to their same network.

Because otherwise there's no excuse for fiber to be that limited/expensive

[sly elk]

it is symmetrical, I think the problem here is the lack of competition

it's not like fiber suddenly gives them a reason to be cheaper

they're probably gonna milk that market as much as they can until google fiber launches

also guh newegg has the asrock steel legend 9070xt for 824 ... bundled with an asrock 1000w gold psu that almost certainly wouldn't sell for more than $100 on ebay.. certainly.....

yet that's about the same price as the xfx gpu alone LOL

[odd sand]

I've just never heard of any fiber offering from a company that also offers cable, nor any fiber that wasn't significantly cheaper than the cable offerings

eg: ATT Fiber for me is $65 for 500/500 and 80 for 1000/1000

No contracts either, and no data cap I'm aware of but I'm sure that's within reason

[dire viper]

Usually u have line layer

And then u have ISP

at least here in salt lake

The line layer has 15 isp’s that go through them that you ring up and see what the pricing and service is like

[sly elk]

yea I remember comcast advertising their internet as 'fiber' lol

in this case their faq page specifically talks about installing new cabling and possibly trenching in the yard

so it's at least fiber on the end link, but perhaps not upgrading the infrastructure between the neighborhood hubs and their central network? no idea

[sharp star]

honestly I think AMD should just cut the x900X3D CPUs out of their lineup and replace them with x600X3Ds and not make them exclusive to one store and/or region

[hazy frost]

They should do that but they won’t do that

More cores sells more cpu

Intel proved that

People don’t actually know what they’re getting bc they don’t do research and 12 looks a lot better than 6

[sharp star]

bigger number better!!!!!!!!!

[hazy frost]

Yeah unfortunately

The general market being lazy and uneducated on hardware means companies can/have to sell products like that because they somehow still make more money than a better value one would

All would be fixed with dual CCD cache anyway

And maybe a X700x3d for am5 eventually

[odd sand]

While I think 6 is okay for a budget system, I really feel like 8 is the sweet spot.

[dire viper]

It was just dumb that the 5600X3D existed

And was only at Micro Center

The really shitty 5800X3D chips had to be put to use ig

It’s kinda like why does the 5700X3D actually exist

I get the whole using up down binned chips but it was just odd

[real edge]

cheaper and uses less power generally speaking

[dire viper]

Yea

But it’s cheaper cause it was designed that way and was being produced after the 5800X3D stopped production

Cause presumably it was down binned chips

Why not just make more chips that you are already making and keep producing the 5800X3D. It is one of the best CPU’s to have been sold for gaming period.

The price was not an issue for the people using it especially for the performance advantage