#5900x3080Thermaltake tower 100

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wet yew
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nice setup but also i'm worried about the monitors toppling down

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the bedroom door being so close to the table isn't helping

terse valley
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that case is so fat

wet yew
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itx moment

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seriously though, move the table away from the door and secure those monitors

tropic hazel
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heh, monitors are fine, door is never used

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my sweet $20 yard sale desk tho.....

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case was an ez build, lots of room

terse valley
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ive always fancied that case

tropic hazel
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i built the turquoise one for the Mrs.

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only downside was 120mm rad

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but works well with a push/pull

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on the upside, it holds a full size PSU

wet yew
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look at the monitors

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they're right on the frickin edge

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get a larger desk or a vesa mount

tropic hazel
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heh, i have train tracks close to my place, and a good size train loaded with ore goes by, everything shakes

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srsly tho, i know i need a real desk

wet yew
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please get one soon

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i've personally experienced a brand new monitor getting smashed on the ground cause of a faulty table

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it's painful...

tropic hazel
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that aorus monitor has a hefty stand, the overhang is less sketchy than it looks

wet yew
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yeah I figured

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monitors that can go vertical have sturdy bases

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but the door...

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your family/roommates may knock it over

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or pets

tropic hazel
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stays locked, it does clear the desk if i need to escape ie. fire

wet yew
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my man, it will take you maybe 2 minutes to move the desk a few inches to the left 😭

tropic hazel
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heheh, i'm claiming the whole living room as my office at this point, wife has her own, and our house is pretty small

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i'm now back in college, had to drop my career as a heavy equip. mechanic due to illness

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figured i'd take my computer hobby seriously, go to school for programming

wet yew
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I see, sorry to hear about your illness mate

tropic hazel
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doing some upgrading over the summer, the math prep is necessary, been 20 years since school lol

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ya, shit happens tho. gotta do the best you can with what you have

wet yew
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true, best of luck with college, hope it all works out in the end :)

tropic hazel
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feels like a fresh start. was getting too old to be outside in the winter swinging wrenches

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the wife chose the cases, i just decided to duplicate the builds for simplicity

wet yew
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it's a pretty sweet case

tropic hazel
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its like a popcorn machine / fish tank

wet yew
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true

tropic hazel
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i loaded it with fans, thermals stay good

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figured more fans @ lower rpm = quieter than two fans screaming

wet yew
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yep, but fan noise is unavoidable unless you're splurging on a silenced focus case

tropic hazel
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cant hear it with headphones anyway...

wet yew
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loll

tropic hazel
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you have an ITX ?

wet yew
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nah I have a ATX, define r6

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good sound insulation, very silent

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i don't really care cause headphones :P

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hey can I ask what monitoring software are you using there

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are those rainmeter widgets

tropic hazel
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hwinfo64

wet yew
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with any plugins?

tropic hazel
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nope

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just turned on 3 systray temps

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and threw relevant stuff in graphs

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well, some is irrelevant, just screen filler lol

wet yew
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are the graphs docked?

tropic hazel
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nah

wet yew
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oh I see, I guess it doesn't matter since it's on a separate monitor

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I only have one so, was looking for something like W7's desktop gadgets

tropic hazel
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ya, i use the vert screen for other stuff mostly, so i have cpu/gpu/gpu mem in the systray

wet yew
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I have MSI Afterburner's monitoring panel just floating there on the side

explorer_FfghtuS4bv.jpg
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works I guess, though I'd prefer a proper docked widget sort of thing

tropic hazel
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is what i plan on using for monitoring eventually

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either in the case, vertical in front of the gpu

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or under my monitor

wet yew
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that's really handy

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well your case is on the ground so

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under the monitor would be best I think

tropic hazel
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i do plan on a larger desk

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it is a shame to have it on the ground

wet yew
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true, collects dust easier too

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though I guess that's not much of an issue with modern cases

tropic hazel
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filters filters filters everywhere

wet yew
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exactly lol

tropic hazel
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i do have a few regrets, but nothing serious

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wish the board had better than gigabit ethernet

wet yew
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why so

tropic hazel
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NAS

wet yew
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oh right

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can you get an expansion card for that

tropic hazel
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lol, one slot ITX

wet yew
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oof

tropic hazel
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the board is tiny

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but like, its a minor hangup

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gigabit is not exactly slow

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and i have room for plenty of storage in the case

wet yew
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yep

tropic hazel
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two m.2 on the mobo, two 2.5 sleds, and two 3.5 sleds

wet yew
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more than you'll ever need probably

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terabyte SSDs will eventually get cheaper

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plus there's always external storage

tropic hazel
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i have a firecuda 530 1tb, and a sabrent rocket 3 1tb on the board

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an old 1tb 2.5" laptop spinner

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and a 256gb 2.5" for a linux boot drive (still dont like vm's)

wet yew
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samsung's 2.5in 870 evo 1tb goes for around $100

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not exactly cheap but

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very affordable than they used to be

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M.2s are the same price

tropic hazel
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lots of bang for your $ these days

wet yew
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v true

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GPUs tho 💀

tropic hazel
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yaaaaa

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those 3080s were.......

wet yew
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oh boy

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when did you get them

tropic hazel
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april

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wasnt too bad

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$1250 CDN

wet yew
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what's the msrp in CDN

tropic hazel
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about that

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lol

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$1299 - $1199 depending on brand

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they are starting to sell below msrp at this point, but 40* is coming soon

wet yew
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damn, remember when you could build an entire top tier rig for that price

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yeah, i don't expect them to be cheap though

tropic hazel
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my last pc was an athlonXP 1800+

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its been a while....

wet yew
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WHAT

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that's

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ancient

tropic hazel
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heh, i'm 40 lol

wet yew
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yeah, I saw quake 2 on your desktop

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figured

tropic hazel
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had to connect two traces on the top of the cpu with a graphite pencil to unlock the cpu multiplier

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old-skool lol

wet yew
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i don't know what any of that means

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you can guess my age haha

tropic hazel
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couldn't overclock the cpu unless these two little contacts on the top were electrically connected

wet yew
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I see

tropic hazel
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and it was waaaay too small to solder

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so u could draw on it with a pencil

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connect the dots

wet yew
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that is fascinating

tropic hazel
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the graphite from the penicl was conductive

wet yew
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didn't even know people overclocked CPUs back then

tropic hazel
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heh, overclocking was a thing even in the 486 days

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had to set the base freq. and multiplier with hardware jumpers on the motherboard

wet yew
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it's so become so much easier now

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anyone could do it

tropic hazel
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its still fun

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heh

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doing a per-core undervolt on this cpu was neat

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that was a new concept to me

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i'm old, so like, more volts = more better lol

wet yew
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you don't even need to OC modern hardware really

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i mean the performance gain is marginal

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people do it more as a hobby than anything else

tropic hazel
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yeah, the undervolting worked well with the 120 aio tho

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dropped a few degrees, and it keeps boost longer

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i hear ya, totally not necessary, but fun for sure

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changed the thermal pads on the gpu mainly cuz i wanted to see inside lol

wet yew
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are the stock thermal pads not good?

tropic hazel
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not on the MSI cards

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i'd see mem temps in the 90s

wet yew
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oh, that is unlike MSI

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jeez

tropic hazel
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was a quick swap tho

wet yew
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replaced the paste too?

tropic hazel
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ya, had some kryonaut

wet yew
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nice

tropic hazel
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still gotta do the wife's

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i can hear her machine from the other room when she's playing RDR

wet yew
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that loud huh

tropic hazel
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gpu def has the loudest fan potential in the machine

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when those 3 spin up to 100%, wow

wet yew
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yep lol

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again, I don't really mind it but some people are really sensitive to it

tropic hazel
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i'm used to delta server fans, they were the only way to go 20 years ago lol

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heatsinks have certainly come a long way

wet yew
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oh yeah, i remember seeing these

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they have

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what was your last GPU?

tropic hazel
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voodoo3 3000

wet yew
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wow

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you've really made quite the jump haha

tropic hazel
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yup, feels good to be back

wet yew
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good time too, remakes are all the rage nowadays

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a lot of classics have come back with a new coat of paint

tropic hazel
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they're running out of ideas

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heh

wet yew
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lol

tropic hazel
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ya, i had fun with q2 RTX

wet yew
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i mean, there's a big demand for them too

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oh yeah, that ridiculous thing

tropic hazel
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quake/quake 2 were the whole reason to get a 3d gpu back in the day

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quake3 arena, unreal tournament

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i'm a 20 year counter-strike vet

wet yew
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yeah, I was a wee lad back then but I remember my elder brother begging my parents for a voodoo card

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i fucking love q3 :D

wet yew
tropic hazel
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beta 0.7

wet yew
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boy

tropic hazel
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early adopter lol

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when i bought the voodoo3, nvidia was just starting to drop some serious cards tho

wet yew
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shame 3dfx went out of business

tropic hazel
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they got left in the dust by nvidia and ati

wet yew
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yep

tropic hazel
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it was a shame tho, they were like, a standard before nvidia

wet yew
tropic hazel
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still sealed lol

wet yew
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$1800 💀

tropic hazel
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mine was AGP

wet yew
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I'd get it if I money to burn ngl

tropic hazel
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i think i still have it

wet yew
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does it function

tropic hazel
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it did, 20 years ago

wet yew
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the caps might be gone

tropic hazel
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it has some kind of bastardized fan on it

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the passive heatsink was def not enough

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i remember the heat being worrysome

wet yew
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yeah, were case fans a thing then?

tropic hazel
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starting

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fancy PSUs were just coming around

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copper heatsinks were new

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and they went right on the cpu die, no heat spreader

wet yew
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the pentiums didn't have an IHS?

gaunt lodge
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i have an IHS

wet yew
tropic hazel
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^

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pentium 2s looked like an snes cart

wet yew
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lol it does

wet yew
tropic hazel
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my k6-2 had a heat spreader, but the athlonxp didnt

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still used paste, just a lil dab

wet yew
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have a sudden urge to build an 95 era PC :P

tropic hazel
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me too, memberberries

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no love lost for win98 tho

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or 95

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xp was great

wet yew
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you preferred ME? :P

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oh yeah

tropic hazel
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me was gross

wet yew
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XP rocks

tropic hazel
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linux was a major pain in the ass

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took me almost a year just to get it installed in '93

wet yew
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why did you need it?

tropic hazel
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was curious

wet yew
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fair

tropic hazel
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wanted to be a leet hax0r

wet yew
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xD

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have you seen what CS has turned into

tropic hazel
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cs:go ?

wet yew
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mhm

tropic hazel
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gambling for weapon skins seems dumb

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but i still like the gameplay

wet yew
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a very lucrative affair

tropic hazel
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ya, i dont understand it

wet yew
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same as real world gambling I guess

tropic hazel
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i want to spend as little as possible on a game

wet yew
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well, DLCs are the norm now

tropic hazel
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makes me rage...

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heh

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releasing broken games too

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cough cyberpunk

wet yew
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I mean, it's not as bad as when DLCs were starting to become a thing

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oh yeah, releasing games in an unfinished state has become a norm too

tropic hazel
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ya, like, was looking at tarkov

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game will forever be in beta

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and they still want money

wet yew
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possibly, but people are fine with that if the game is good

tropic hazel
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ya, but it feels like just accepting whatever garbage they can throw at us

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like, the entire COD franchise

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what a shitshow

wet yew
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there's a market for it

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it's what the people demand

tropic hazel
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true that

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thats why it keeps selling

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they can release any hot garbage with the cod name, and it will sell millions

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not that they're terrible

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i'm just bitter with the whole idea of DLC

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even the way steam works seems crooked

wet yew
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in what way?

tropic hazel
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you dont really own the game anymore

wet yew
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when did you ever though

tropic hazel
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when i bought a physical copy

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or a cart

wet yew
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even with discs you were always purchasing a licence to play the game

tropic hazel
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it started to go to shit when you had to register the cd key online

wet yew
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it couldn't have been avoided

tropic hazel
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that took away your ability to sell the game

wet yew
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they had to implement anti piracy measures

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i mean, it sucks but I also can't see what else they could've done

tropic hazel
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some software used to come with a hardware dongle

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was annoying, but effective

wet yew
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oh, a hardware decryption key?

tropic hazel
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could have had some sort of unique identifier in each disc

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ya

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like, they didnt want you to pirate $2000 worth of autocad, you got a hardware key

wet yew
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that is fascinating, never heard of those

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i see

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well to be fair, even with steam you can technically download all your games and switch to offline mode indefinitely

tropic hazel
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yeah, was reading about lending games from your steam library

wet yew
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there's some odd single player games that require online authentication

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but they're rare

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most can be played offline without issue

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you can even archive the game files and transfer to a storage server for later use

tropic hazel
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that sounds handy

wet yew
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it is, I have most of mine backed up that way

tropic hazel
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i've gotten back into cs:go a bit, and been playing some BF V

wet yew
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and if steam does fuck you over in some there's always game cracks so

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oh cool

tropic hazel
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had battlefield 1942 back in the day and loved it

wet yew
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i'm not into shooters much, don't have the reflexes for it

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oh fuck yeah

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I've played 1942 a lot

tropic hazel
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i have cyberpunk, but havnt put much time into it yet

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def eye candy tho

wet yew
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true

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try the newer deus ex games

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i'm sure you've played the original

tropic hazel
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yeeeeah

wet yew
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human revolution does it justice

tropic hazel
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they're still making those

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sweet

wet yew
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there's just been two

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human revolution and mankind divided

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there's invisible war which is the second game but everyone pretends it doesn't exist

tropic hazel
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heh

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i'm looking at minkind divided now, $35 cdn isnt bad

wet yew
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get it on sale if you're not keen on playing it right away

tropic hazel
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dlc is cheap too

wet yew
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yeah, it's an old game so

tropic hazel
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no bugs.

wet yew
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most publishers greatly slash prices a year or two after release

tropic hazel
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except for EA

wet yew
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except for EA yes lmao

tropic hazel
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30 years of gaming, 30 years of EA hate

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lol

wet yew
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and activision, and every japanese publisher for whatever reason

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I liked EA tbh

tropic hazel
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i liked their console sports games

wet yew
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they had one of the best gaming libraries for a time

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that too

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FIFA was all the rage among my friends

tropic hazel
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was great chattin, but i have to bail. the wife expects dinner, and by the look i'm getting its safe to assume its my turn

wet yew
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hahaha

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all good mate, have fun cooking

tropic hazel
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cya

wet yew
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see ya around :)

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