tech-chat-2

[pure garnet]

akn suffering in comparison

[steel stream]

we ball

the worst part is work tbh

no i lied it's CS classes

[merry stirrup]

my man

[pure garnet]

blush macbook neo owners club

[steel stream]

did you buy one?

[pure garnet]

no

i have an m1 pro 14 and an m1 air, it'd be a downgrade to both

i'll probably get an m6 air when it comes out if it has 120hz

[steel stream]

🙏

[merry stirrup]

thats when i get the pro

[pure garnet]

larry the lowballer

[merry stirrup]

😍

[pure garnet]

it's a nice laptop i dont regret buying it

but it's basically the taxbook like michaels because its too nice to use around the house

if the dog decides to tackle my air it's not a huge deal

[merry stirrup]

fair

[young void]

https://tenor.com/view/dog-love-pounce-excited-jump-gif-4837591

[topaz veldt]

Nice!

[merry stirrup]

snail get me some bga stensils

thanks

[jaunty arch]

Is it worth buying used AirPod pro 2’s or would the batteries be too degraded?

[edgy laurel]

used things someone else had in their ears?

yuck

[jaunty arch]

They can be cleaned

[edgy laurel]

also we can't say what the condition of the battery is in these potential airpods

so buy at your own risk

https://www.ifixit.com/News/66194/apples-new-airpods-are-telling-users-to-replace-the-batteries-already-too-bad-thats-impossible

unless you're getting an unbelievable deal, I sure wouldn't

[jaunty arch]

What would you consider an unbelievable deal? They’re listed for 80$ right now.

[edgy laurel]

replaced the batteries in my Sony earbuds myself in about 30 minutes

like new again

[edgy laurel]

without some sort of demonstration and guarantee of the battery health? I dunno.. free?

because what is the alternative? You could be buying a paperweight

[jaunty arch]

They’re listed on eBay and they come with the original packaging, seems legit to me.

[low sorrel]

Also fake airpods are INCREDIBLY common and hard to tell

[vestal granite]

watching lord of the rings movies with arabic subtitles and pretending its elvish

[merry stirrup]

@civic reef guess who now has an alienware aurora to fix

[devout ridge]

what’s with all of yall acquiring alienware auroras

[low sorrel]

they look cool

[vestal granite]

theyre great for repairs cause youll never know the extent of their problems

[merry stirrup]

didnt pay anything for it im fixing it for a friend

[wraith steeple]

[pure garnet]

floppa does collect shitboxes

[pure garnet]

if it's an r7 get the homie a pin out

[merry stirrup]

r8 but the pinout might be the same?

[low sorrel]

@wise bear @edgy laurel 200 bucks is a bit steep lol

thought it would be closer to 100

[turbid locust]

I think my favorite thing on the planet is when I close an application and it just minimizes to system tray

I think that’s my favorite thing ever of all time

[topaz veldt]

@low sorrel just lost a Hullcracker IV, snaphook, and Kettle IV because I was stuck in a wall, downed by Matriarch, and then knocked out by a raider.

[fringe vigil]

[pure garnet]

this game lowkey never works

[turbid locust]

I haven’t had to do that in forever

sidenote I think my dream car has changed

the Blackwing is just too perfect

[pure garnet]

@merry stirrup it froze again

i hate computers

[turbid locust]

Are you playing

[pure garnet]

i could if you want

[turbid locust]

perchance

[pure garnet]

lemme finish making my bed

i hate computers

[turbid locust]

baller

[pure garnet]

maybe i hop on the ps5

[turbid locust]

[pure garnet]

im on (pc)

[turbid locust]

be on in a sec

my main rig has taken suspiciously long to boot recently

[pure garnet]

@low sorrel im playing attack side in vlaorant and only noticed mid round 2

[brisk jolt]

this game stops working if you dont play for like a day

[livid flame]

I’m sure the player support team will be super helpful

[merry stirrup]

loong nia?

[pure garnet]

yeah

[topaz veldt]

im tired

[indigo walrus]

Alright, well have a nap...

[livid flame]

Go to bed unc

My kids wake me up at 4am. This unc knows the value of bed

[terse maple]

what is the true value of bed 🤔

[merry stirrup]

based on this picture alone, $45?

[merry stirrup]

i see an aio, a gpu, and an EVGA psu

clearly means theres a board and whatnot

I think its a mostly full computer

[turbid locust]

green pcb gpu scares me but it's $45

[merry stirrup]

its blue, its a sapphire card

[turbid locust]

EVGA psu implies standard parts

[merry stirrup]

probably a 7950 or 7970

or like an older like 700 series giga card

[turbid locust]

assuming it's not 5+ years old that PSU is probably worth $45 lmao

[merry stirrup]

yeah that was my thinking

[turbid locust]

but I would try to get more info regardless

or try to meet and literally see what it even is

[merry stirrup]

It's listed as a case, bro doesnt know jack about computers

all i asked was if it came with the hardware inside and im not gonna say much more i dont think

[turbid locust]

lol ok

[pure garnet]

swapped the psu cable as complete cope @turbid locust

[merry stirrup]

idk even if its FX which i suspect it is, if its an 8350 it could be pretty fun

im fairly certain it is an ASrock 970 pro 3 board

entirely based off tat heatsink visible in the middle of the board

[pure garnet]

looking at the old cable one of the pins is definitely bent but i have 0 confidence in this actually solving it

[turbid locust]

[pure garnet]

unless there's some magic to psu switching rails i dont understand

[turbid locust]

@merry stirrup btw are you still interested in my AM4 stuff

[merry stirrup]

honestly more than the intel stuff but th ats besides the point yeah

[pure garnet]

floppa do you know anything about how psus work

[merry stirrup]

wym

[pure garnet]

like they don't have power sates right

my connector looks visibly damged but i don't get how that'd only cause an issue at power off/booting system load

[turbid locust]

AM4, 1700, 1851 bundle deal

[merry stirrup]

shipping boutta fuck you

[turbid locust]

fuck ME?

[merry stirrup]

like where theyd have to swap voltage

[merry stirrup]

i dont pay shipping over 100$

freak you

this is like 1000$+ worth of hardware

[pure garnet]

does it swap voltage?

[merry stirrup]

no

[cosmic gazelle]

if you sit there and tune an 8350 for 12 hours can’t you get it to run games pretty decently still

[merry stirrup]

yes

[brisk jolt]

icl i might try to get my hands on a ddr4 itx system

[cosmic gazelle]

is the 8350 like, 4 core 8 thread technically? or 4 core 4 thread

i can’t remember how that stuff worked

[merry stirrup]

4 modules, 2 cores in each, 1 fpu per module

effectively a hyperthreaded 4 core but not

[cosmic gazelle]

gotcha

so like 4 core 8 thread hood trap remix

[turbid locust]

It doesn’t have to be one package lmao

[merry stirrup]

okay fair

[pure garnet]

maybe i shouldn’t have been trusting the “I-SHENG” psu cable this long

[merry stirrup]

probaly not

[cosmic gazelle]

9590s are still ridiculously expensive

[merry stirrup]

i have a cablemod cable on my high failure rate connector but other than that everything is stock

highly doubt its a 9590 unfortunately

it being a 970 FX board and not 990FX board makes it super unlikely

[pure garnet]

nah i’m talking about the actual plug to wall floppa

[merry stirrup]

oh wha

[turbid locust]

flopper I will throw in my AM3 stuff that I don’t know works for free

[merry stirrup]

even more shipping cost lets GOOO

[cosmic gazelle]

like, a 12400f or bulldozer

[merry stirrup]

https://klipy.com/gifs/jannik-sinner-rodrick-heffley

[pure garnet]

all the pins inside are visibly bent inwards

[brisk jolt]

shipping boutta cost him more than the worth

[pure garnet]

floppa buy my am3 ewaste

[merry stirrup]

do you have cool ddr3 to go with it

[pure garnet]

i have unmarked sticks of unmarked quality

[brisk jolt]

heat it up and send it over

[turbid locust]

I have some DDR2 I think

[pure garnet]

i’ll sign it though

[cosmic gazelle]

what kind of am3 ewaste kyoko lol

[merry stirrup]

although i like legacy hw i dont want d2

[pure garnet]

fx8300 2x8gb ddr3 1dpc board

[merry stirrup]

but we'll have to see if i even get dis job

[turbid locust]

Deadass just sticks lol

[merry stirrup]

are they coo lookin

[turbid locust]

no they’re blue PCB

[merry stirrup]

ah ok

im sitting on google trying to find gpus that match with the one in the case rn

[turbid locust]

But the AM3 stuff is some random Asus board and a Phenom 1090T

[cosmic gazelle]

buy my brand new hynix c die 32gb kit g skill is about to send me

[cosmic gazelle]

has been selling for over $200 which is wild

[merry stirrup]

theres not many blue card vendors bro this shouldnt be that hard

[cosmic gazelle]

what’s the best hd era single die amd gpu anyways

[merry stirrup]

7970/280x/290x if you really stretch it

[cosmic gazelle]

i assume given it’s amd those are all exactly the same die

[merry stirrup]

7970 and 280x are identical

290x is different

[pure garnet]

the 280x is a 7970 ghz edition renamed

literally the same card just a new name

[cosmic gazelle]

hmm those are $40

[pure garnet]

i only say ghz edition not to be annoying but because it actually meant something

[merry stirrup]

it was the first gpu to hit 1ghz

[cosmic gazelle]

i wonder how the 7970 does on modded drivers these days

[pure garnet]

it was also like 15% faster

[merry stirrup]

(all 7970s/most could do 1ghz wont lie tho)

[merry stirrup]

not great but they oc wonderfully and are fun to play with

my 7950 got like a 80% oc lol (perf gain, not clock)

[pure garnet]

okay floppa

[cosmic gazelle]

passmark literally lists the card as “hd 7970/280x” lmao

[pure garnet]

apparently the power cable i was using was from a 2012 samsung smart tv

[turbid locust]

I wouldn’t mind getting into some 3D Benching but

[pure garnet]

becuase that's the only product my family owned that sources from them

[merry stirrup]

i dont think this would be the issue but idk

[pure garnet]

im gonna pray idk what else it could be

[cosmic gazelle]

i’m using a power cable from a 2009 imac and it’s fine

[pure garnet]

the one in the psu box was noticeably thicker

but if there's no idle voltage i got no clue

[merry stirrup]

yeah idk i think youre just cursed to have a slightly unstable pc forever

i cant find any gpu with a blue pcb from an appropriate era with the UL/CE logos there

[pure garnet]

i would sell my shit on fbm but that's effort

failed to boot? not my problem

[brisk jolt]

issue of skill

[pure garnet]

more cpu than gpu power lmfao

[merry stirrup]

ok idk final guess its a 6950

seems close

[pure garnet]

okay shutting the pc off with valorant open triggered a freeze

now i can reproduce it

[merry stirrup]

is it vanguard?

[pure garnet]

idk i’m gonna try pbo off again now

[livid flame]

Radeon 6000 / RTX 400 series?

[merry stirrup]

that is my guess

[livid flame]

Oh sorry just see you think 6000

[merry stirrup]

GTX 400 is impossible the back where the core is isnt right for that

has to be 600 series nvidia or 700 series or some hd card from ~2010-2012

[livid flame]

My guess would be a Radeon from that time tbh

[merry stirrup]

wait maybe its not i cant tell fi thats a rectangle or square

[livid flame]

Cheap af

[merry stirrup]

i assume so considering its surely FX

[pure garnet]

okay pbo off just didn’t even make it to windows

[livid flame]

PBO won’t affect getting to windows

[merry stirrup]

cant be a 6950

[pure garnet]

evidently it did

[livid flame]

Not unless you do something drastically bad with voltage

[merry stirrup]

at least not the one i posted

[livid flame]

And manually

[merry stirrup]

sticker on the right hand side is wrong

i hate that theres literally 2 vendors it could be and that doesnt narrow it down at all

its gigabyte or sapphire but gigabyte made cards for both vendors

[livid flame]

Could it be as far back as a 5970?

[merry stirrup]

nah its def a dual fan design tthose werent dual fan most the time

/at all it seems, just blowers

[pure garnet]

the riot title doesn't seem to enjoy being my testing mouse

[livid flame]

To be fair my 4770 was a blower but that’s even further back

Well I actually had 1 blower and 1 dual fan

[turbid locust]

@pure garnet btw I looked into emulation via dev mode on Xbox Series consoles and I had no idea it was that capable

[livid flame]

It’s more powerful than a ps5

It’s gonna be the bomb

[brisk jolt]

chat do i go for ddr4 lga1700 or am4 x3d

[pure garnet]

job

[turbid locust]

DDR4 LGA1700 would probably be more fun

[livid flame]

DDR4 14900ks

[pure garnet]

alder or raptor on ddr4 though

[turbid locust]

Alder is fine on DDR4

[brisk jolt]

ik am4 x3d is more braindead but lga1700 parts highk harder to find

[pure garnet]

pbo off still freezing @merry stirrup

i am retiring

[merry stirrup]

idk man uninstall vanguard and see if your issues suddently stop

[livid flame]

Who killed their cpu using ryzen master kyoko

[pure garnet]

nah this was just a cold boot

[merry stirrup]

well vanguard is ring 0 and boots the same time your os does

so

[pure garnet]

believe it or not when you open a conversation halfway through you don’t get the context

but you also thought cpu temp correlated to heat output so i’m not surprised

[livid flame]

You done fucked up didn’t ya son

[merry stirrup]

bro i was gonna say maybe a 770 but for saome reason specifically every gigabyte 770 is black

[livid flame]

Thing is I can’t remember fx being paired with Nvidia all that much in that time period

Like people did

[merry stirrup]

well no i assume its some 6000 or 7000 series cards but theres literally nothing that lines up

sticker is either wrong location, ul/ce certs or card is too big

[livid flame]

Or Gainward

[merry stirrup]

or galax ig

or also HIS but nobody bought HIS in america really

gianward cards of that era seem to be black only

damn usually im pretty good at this crap

[pure garnet]

the useless event viewer logs have the issues pre vanguard

[merry stirrup]

hmm ok

try disabling on board devices in the bios ig if you want

sata/bluetooth+wlan, etc

[turbid locust]

Kyoko have a system survive more than 3 months without issues challenge

[merry stirrup]

meanwhile i put 1.8 v into my ram and it lives happily

[pure garnet]

actually i think that's a 6 year running challenge

[merry stirrup]

theres unironically a 6950 model

called "sapphire dirt3"

i know its for the game but cmon

[pure garnet]

windows has dumps for me

[merry stirrup]

ok its 100% a sapphire

[pure garnet]

sob

[merry stirrup]

insane

that white silkscreened section is the "HDCP" logo

[turbid locust]

My main rig is rock solid, quite proud of myself

[merry stirrup]

and sapphire is the only one who puts the CE certs there

[pure garnet]

you won't believe it

[merry stirrup]

😐

[pure garnet]

it's the nvidia driver

[merry stirrup]

oh this is worrying

not really but like

when i knocked a cap off my edges pcie slot (or however it happened)

thats how the issue presented itself, just full system freezes

so uhhh dont ddu and swap what slot that riser is in

[merry stirrup]

and during shut down

[turbid locust]

chat Kyoko is on a riser?

[merry stirrup]

hyte thing

[pure garnet]

yeah i wouldn't be surprised if it broke

lemme read a couple other dumps though

[merry stirrup]

ok yknow what its a 6950 im pretty confident

the factory put the sticker im tweaking about in the wrong spot

[pure garnet]

shocking news ryzen master was not at fault

[turbid locust]

Why do you even have RM installed lol

[pure garnet]

i don't

[turbid locust]

[pure garnet]

the peanut gallery earlier

[turbid locust]

oh lmao

[pure garnet]

yeah this is also video dxgkrnl

[turbid locust]

I haven’t touched gpu drivers in awhile

[pure garnet]

well im on the latest studio

[merry stirrup]

ah fuck you its a 6870

[turbid locust]

Fire

[merry stirrup]

errythang in the right place

esp the box around the sticker on the left in the pc image

[pure garnet]

alright well contrary to anything a floppa said i'm gonna ddu and try latest game ready driver

[merry stirrup]

it is the easiest option so far

but if it doesnt work

[pure garnet]

and then that doesn't blow the system up and it still has issues i'll order the xt pro to ditch the riser

[merry stirrup]

consider slot/riser

[pure garnet]

it's probably the riser before the slot

the slot has only ever contained the riser

[merry stirrup]

cause thats literally the exact issue my sister had thinking about it

[pure garnet]

maybe i actually go into safe mode for the first time in 400 years

[merry stirrup]

perhaps

[pure garnet]

can i install the driver from safe mode

[merry stirrup]

yeah im down to buy this computer for 45$ it seems worth it

[pure garnet]

or do i hve to unplug my ethernet cable

[merry stirrup]

you can have safeboot with gpu drivers

oh i see what you mean

i dont think you can install drivers in safe mode if ur dduing in safe mode

better to do a clean and restart anyways then leave safe mode

disable auto driver installs in the settings of ddu

[pure garnet]

watch it just ignore msconfig

would genuinely be my luck

[merry stirrup]

supports "omg"

[pure garnet]

also can’t do the latter btw

[arctic bronze]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-yowamushi-pedal-holy-shit-oh-my-god-gif-15568513

[pure garnet]

unless i bent the shit out of the cable doing it

[arctic bronze]

what if you bent the piss out of it instead of bending the shit out of it

[pure garnet]

what if i just ordered the xt pro

and threw the y40 in the garbage can

[arctic bronze]

what if you do

[pure garnet]

can't wait for my pc to just explode

because i got the driver with the whoseits and whatsits instead of the stable one or something

[arctic bronze]

try the studio driver

[pure garnet]

brother that's what i was on 😭

[livid flame]

A stable Nvidia driver in 2026

[arctic bronze]

iv had no issues at all for my 4080

[pure garnet]

i mean if it was radeon it would crash in games not just at poweroff

so i'll take that deal

[arctic bronze]

my rx580 has only had issues lmao

[livid flame]

Only time I ever had driver issues with either was my 4770 xfire setup tbh

[arctic bronze]

my rx 580 just nonstop crashes lmao

makes the display go off

[brisk jolt]

ive only had driver issues with early 50 series and with my only AMD card ever being the 9070xt

[arctic bronze]

reset pc and it says drivers crashed

[livid flame]

I remember using 3rd party drivers cause Radeon was so garbage for my 4770

[arctic bronze]

lol

[livid flame]

Then I bought a fancy Nvidia evga

[pure garnet]

i wish riot vanguard was not such a hunk of junk

but this game has been the consistent crasher so i must persist

(only one i tried)

@merry stirrup it didn’t do it this time

reloading my profile then

[turbid locust]

just learned that Twitter degens think 4K at 32” is bad pixel density

https://x.com/palmyrpar/status/2031447237201473653?s=46 read the comments

☀️AliquisNovus☀️ (@PalmyrPar)

240Hz, sub-$1000, what’s the catch here, there’s always a catch

X · Mar 10, 2026, 7:08 PM

[pure garnet]

might be the most useless advice i've seen

[brisk jolt]

not surprising

[pure garnet]

how stupid is running my pc sideways with the gpu unscrewed

[lethal topaz]

TCL doing oled now?

[merry stirrup]

cas latency

[brisk jolt]

it depends how heavy the gpu is

[pure garnet]

it's a trio so fairly large

[turbid locust]

I would love to know what fuckin monitors these guys are using to think 4K 32” is bad PPI

[pure garnet]

8k 19 inch

[brisk jolt]

might be on the level of charles leclerc

[pure garnet]

i don't watch nascar

[brisk jolt]

https://giphy.com/gifs/f1-formula-1-charles-leclerc-3DH5fiDeJAPvOsCq7H

[pure garnet]

might be mac mini time

[brisk jolt]

las vegas sphere at the size of an orange

[turbid locust]

the $500 Mac mini SKU is actually nuts for everything that isn’t gaming

[pure garnet]

i could buy a new case and hope it solves it

or i could just live with it since it's only startup and shutdown

buy a3 and daily mpower like mac says to

[brisk jolt]

5070ti boosting to 3ghz is very essential for google docs

[turbid locust]

can we talk about the MacBook Neo getting 50ish fps on Cyberpunk all low settings

[pure garnet]

what is a fractal epoch

i lowkey vibe with it

[brisk jolt]

thats actually... not that shabby at all

i didnt even know its already out tbh

[leaden dawn]

I'm still hung up on how many safari tabs I can have open

[turbid locust]

The Neo is insane

[brisk jolt]

the neo beats my phone

[turbid locust]

It’s competitive cpu performance wise to an M1 Air

like

it’s fucking nuts for $500

with that being said you can get an Apple refurbished M4 Air for $750

[brisk jolt]

with 16gb ram yeah?

[turbid locust]

Yep and nicer display

[brisk jolt]

whats the display comparison lookin like

[turbid locust]

slightly higher resolution

I thought it was 120hz but it’s not lol

[lethal topaz]

macbook neo does look good

although i just saw the trackpad is a physical button and i think that is quite an L

[leaden dawn]

Why

[turbid locust]

There’s nothing that competes in that price range

[lethal topaz]

the macbook trackpad convinced me that buttons are bad

[turbid locust]

you’re getting a $500 MacBook that makes $1000 windows machines look stupid

[lethal topaz]

to be fair i have an m1 mba so i will not be getting a neo

but i will be recommending it

just unfortunate they didnt keep the same trackpad

[turbid locust]

It’s a no brainer for students

[leaden dawn]

People living on their phones like

[lethal topaz]

i thought it was cheaper to have a capacitive trackpad instead of a physical button anyway

[leaden dawn]

?

I didn't know capacitance controlled the click, assumed it was like 3D touch

[lethal topaz]

theres a haptic motor that vibrates to simulate a click

[pure garnet]

reinstalled the riser

copious amounts fr

[leaden dawn]

So yeah, like 3d touch was

[lethal topaz]

yee

[turbid locust]

Kyoko remember when I got off Val an hour and a half ago to go to bed

[lethal topaz]

wait a minute

[pure garnet]

tbf we were torturing ourselves

[lethal topaz]

the track pad can measure weight, that means the old iphones with 3d touch could have too

the iphone 8 could have been used as a scale

[leaden dawn]

..lmao

[lethal topaz]

i think that was the last phone with 3d touch

as cool as it was it does make a lot more sense to drop it

[leaden dawn]

No, boo

Bring it back

It was so satisfying the one time I got to try it, not my fault nobody else knew about it

[lethal topaz]

i had an iphone 6s with it, was goated feature

[leaden dawn]

Long pressing in iOS is so slow

[turbid locust]

I wanna see battery life comparisons between a Neo, M1 Air, and M4 Air

[pure garnet]

i will say mac i left the ez release open last time

[turbid locust]

lol

[pure garnet]

so maybe it was just a poor connection

deadass though why is my pc about as reliable as a cheap shitbox from facebook marketplace

[turbid locust]

Just turns out you can’t build one

[pure garnet]

ironically the ones i build for other people work fine

i just can’t do it for myself i guess

if i can shutdown with val open 3 times in a row tonight i'll be happy

then ill wake up with a riot gameban but

one thing at a time

@turbid locust ironically every boot vanguard works now

it did 3 in a row

now it’ll break again in a week and i’ll cry

[turbid locust]

fire

[brisk jolt]

you should be happy it breaks because it doesnt want you to play the game either

[pure garnet]

3am crack theory is when i put my pc back together after i gave up on intel comp that i fucked up installing the riser and it's slowly been popping out or something

[turbid locust]

I didn’t even sub for the gskill comp

I’ve been busy

[pure garnet]

me either because i blew up 2 oses trying to get 9k working

my bench has no working search and my actual os just broke broke

that's why im done with arl-s tuning i think

my chip is so bad and/or frustrating it's not fun anymore

i have a 9800x3d that boots 8400 on auto settings without a care in the world and a 265k that needs care to post the same speed

[brisk jolt]

I have a 9950x3d that DNFs 7800

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/381193840159358976/1429172046046433390/IMG_7512.gif

[terse maple]

When is something like this happening again ever

[brisk jolt]

it just did with aston martin

both alonso and stroll retired and unretired to test the car and give more data

[gloomy vault]

bro

im gonna fucking spend money irresponsibly again

i want it soooooooo bad

[indigo walrus]

Not if I buy it first! 🤣

[arctic bronze]

i agree

[wraith steeple]

||Himmel died for this||

[gloomy vault]

if it comes in frierens suitcase omg

genius marketing from MSI

[arctic bronze]

where do you live, that gpu will disappear before you receive it

[indigo walrus]

Nah, I've a grimoire that protects packages delivered to my front door.

[arctic bronze]

https://tenor.com/view/frieren-crying-frieren-crying-tantrum-gif-2619676989829292397

[civic reef]

WHAT

Which model

[merry stirrup]

its an r12 w/an 11400

[civic reef]

Oh
Pretty cool still :3

[merry stirrup]

has the tron connector youre tweaking about

im looking at it

[civic reef]

Is the front panel connector the same

[merry stirrup]

send a photo

[civic reef]

First image is I/O, second is power switch

[terse maple]

what a photo

[arctic bronze]

Floppa asked and I delivered :D

[terse maple]

😭 like I guess bro

very quality photo I must say

[merry stirrup]

i think the one on "mine" is fatter by quite a few ppins

[civic reef]

Which one

[merry stirrup]

idk

[civic reef]

Just googled it, you kinda have the same power config

4 & 5 for power on

Although 4 & 8 allow both on/off

Odd tbh

[merry stirrup]

4 must be the power one and 5 is probably just ground

[civic reef]

Fair

It seems to be the same config as the R7, atleast for power on

Here's the diagram for that one

Provided by Kyoko, who I am eternally grateful to

[brisk jolt]

yw buy for me

the backplate looks fire

[dull turtle]

can anyone help me suggest what laptop good for light gaming and what gpu recommend for the laptop you suggested

[brisk jolt]

X7 358H laptop

[dull turtle]

ok thanks

[brisk jolt]

bomb has been planted

[low sorrel]

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/s/VgmsLClbCn

[brisk jolt]

anything but stopping that 3060’s suffering

[manic sigil]

We are back to 2020 prices

Also,730 still not out of stock

[civic reef]

Speaking of 2020 pricing

Was DDR5 this expensive when it first came out to the public

[manic sigil]

Isn't it around 600-700 for 32gb already?

[livid flame]

Nah

Government interference masked under AI is why RAM is high

Same as when GPUs went sky high. Government interference masked under crypto

[manic sigil]

That's a good conspiracy theory

[livid flame]

The higher they can create a situation for companies, the more tax dollars they get

[manic sigil]

I can make a religion from it

[livid flame]

Oh that’s not a conspiracy

[manic sigil]

That's highly overexdurated, let's start with that

[livid flame]

Tell me. What happened 4 weeks after AI companies met with government leaders - mainly the US? Higher prices.

Tell me, in the cryptocurrency boom where essentially “free” money was born - who lost out? Then companies raised prices and they got the tax dollars off of it?

If you’re that blind not to see the trends your life must be bliss, ignorant bliss.

[livid flame]

<@&750150305383186585>

[brisk jolt]

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-announces-299-core-ultra-7-270k-and-199-core-ultra-5-250k-cpus

my 265k is now bricked fr

[shell void]

24 cores for $299 is so balling

[vestal granite]

the human eye cant see past 24 cores

[brisk jolt]

time to sell the b860i 265k to a friend and get myself Z890I 270k

holy optimal

[shell void]

that sounds optimal to me

[brisk jolt]

i shall grab it sometime when intel puts out another game bundle

[shell void]

do you mean this Z890i?

this looks stacked for a mini board

[brisk jolt]

the nova

if I were to sell the 265kb860i it means i have to bundle a 32GB kit to the friend buying which puts me in an awkward spot

Unless I run two of my PCs with 1x24gb

[shell void]

haram

[civic reef]

Is that good or bad
I forgot what balling is supposed to mean

[shell void]

it’s a fantastic value

[civic reef]

Oh
Interesting

[shell void]

it’s as if AMD was selling the 9950X for $300

[civic reef]

Oh huh just checked
The 14900 has a $589 MSRP, wtf

Yeah 24 cores for $299 seems great

[civic reef]

MSRP of $649.. Expensive..

[brisk jolt]

intel do a game bundle and the next day ill be at the shop “Sir, Z890I and boxed 270k”

[edgy laurel]

board in question

poor guy

[wraith steeple]

Fatal1ty

That's a throwback

[shell void]

barely a motherboard

i think it’ll work with the stock 142W PPT though

[civic reef]

This X470 isn't THAT bad

I'd expect him to be rocking an A320 or something for a 2600X

Atleast it has some sort of VRM/Phase Heatsink lmfao

[edgy laurel]

the chipset isn't what matters

[civic reef]

Which is why I specified "this"

[edgy laurel]

I had the B350 version. just as sad and pathetic

ya know its almost the same damn board lmao

yeah no it looks identical minus the colors hahaa

[shell void]

so primitive

[wraith steeple]

I think I have a X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Sound Card somewhere

[edgy laurel]

red heatsinks and DIMM slots

otherwise identical from what i can see

[green marsh]

at least it is not the B550 board

[brisk jolt]

@shell void is haram acceptable splitting a 2x64gb kit into 2 separate PCs

[green marsh]

that VRM heatsink gives me nightmares

[brisk jolt]

2x64GB CUDIMM for….. 1k sgd

[edgy laurel]

i see they finally dropped the Fatal1ty branding

dudes 6 years older than me at this point

very out of touch for the current generation lol

[civic reef]

Okay honestly
I might bite the bullet and get shit RAM if I want to go DDR5

Either cheapest 2x8gb of 4800 CL40 I can find, or using adapters for SODIMMs

[cosmic gazelle]

i was actually looking at this board- it’s not top of the line by any means but VRM tier list has it able to handle basically all am4 cpus at stock without throttling

[brisk jolt]

I might do smth haram splitting a 2x64 gb cudimm kit into 2 pcs to help a brother out

[green marsh]

i bought the Strix B550-I because of the CPU socket alignment (Gigabyte and MSI had it too high up, so it had a conflict if i wanted a tower cooler in NR200p)

[edgy laurel]

I owned that board from 2020ish till this past weekend.

quite good

[civic reef]

Wdym splitting it
As in.. Removing some of the memory chips??

[brisk jolt]

using 1x64 for both pcs

[civic reef]

Oh

I guess it's not THAT bad
Whilst still worse for performance, DDR5 SR is better than DDR4 SR

Though I'd recommend trying to trade the 2x64 for 4x32

[brisk jolt]

its CUDIMM so cant use with AMD system

[civic reef]

Oh

[brisk jolt]

if I want to help a brother out with his ram the only situation where I consider it viable is splitting

[civic reef]

Unfortunate situation, but fair enough

[brisk jolt]

I also dont want to trade for 4 dimms in total because all my boards are 2 dimm

Unless I sell my 32GB kit to him- But that just means I have excessive ram I cant use with my other systems

[shell void]

that would be acceptable if it’s two single ccd ryzen pcs

since they only have single channel bandwidth anyway

if it’s intel then that’s mega haram

[brisk jolt]

its CUDIMM so only with core ultra

I dont want to but tbh might have to improvise

[shell void]

you can use CUDIMMs on AM5 with the CKD bypass enabled

which just makes them normal dimms

do you already own this 128GB CKD kit? o_o

[brisk jolt]

what speed would they run at though

[brisk jolt]

No- Im considering grabbing this 128 CKD kit since its 1k sgd as compared to 64GB being at that price range

In turn I sell a 32GB kit to someone

[civic reef]

Hummmmmmmmmmm

Would this be worth it - for the ability to go to LGA 1851 / AM5

I'd be stuck at 4800 MT/s at like CL38-40 probably, but still

[brisk jolt]

if you dont have a laptop to use this with after ram prices come back down then no

[civic reef]

They can stay as spares once I buy a Legion / LOQ within the decade

[civic reef]

Also the entire operation is like sub 100 USD - So not that expensive

[brisk jolt]

i honestly wouldnt do it unless ur getting a x3d chip

i dont find the ram speed penalty worth it on a non x3d chip

[civic reef]

If I was getting X3D, I wouldn't be buying SODIMM and adapters now, would I?

Okay that sounded aggressive, sorry

[civic reef]

I am upgrading from 1600 MT/s CL9, I'll probably manage with the speed penalty for the while needed

[shell void]

i don’t need a mITX 270K+ PC.. i don’t need it

[civic reef]

You definitely don't need such high power in a tiny package,,,

[civic reef]

Also what's the difference really
Both have AM5 IMC, why do X3D chips benefit more?

[brisk jolt]

x3d chips dont benefit more its just that they are hardcarried by the l3 cache

[civic reef]

Oh

Okay den, waiting till 7400X3D

[civic reef]

Also tbh
The 32mb L3 on pretty much ALL Ryzen AM5 CPUs seems like enough to properly handle the lackluster ram config

[frank zealot]

Yup, X3D Chips are exceptionally unconcerned with memory speed. L3 Cache FTW

[civic reef]

Ig it might be worth it to shell out the 320 needed for a 7800X3D?

Since just buying "decent" RAM (2x8GB 5600 CL46) will cost $200

And a 7400F is like 122

322 for an "okay" config

[frank zealot]

there's a lot of variables:

Okay, so:
CPU: 120 vs 320 - 7800x3d is 200$ more
RAM: 16GB = ? for cheap vs expensive RAM (Also just buy 1x16gb, DDR5 doesn't suffer from one stick like DDR4 did)

GPU: What's your GPU?

[civic reef]

320+ 20 (adapters) + 50 (RAM)

$390 for CPU & RAM

[civic reef]

My GPU is a 5700 XT LOL

[frank zealot]

With a 5700xt you're gonna be so heavily GPU Capped, I wouldn't worry about the better CPU.

[civic reef]

Local RAM is out of the question for the most part, Amazon, Newegg, and others are the source (third party shipping)

Only thing I can get locally is SODIMM and the occasional "okay" deal (like this 2x8GB UDIMM 5600 deal I saw for 185 on Facebook, brand new)

[civic reef]

GPU is an easy to fix issue

[frank zealot]

unless you're super heavy into 720p / 1080p e-sports titles, an x3d won't really help you

[civic reef]

I can sell it for $100, and use income to get something better

[viral iron]

After one month of returning my 5090 for rma nvidia has finally shipped out a replacement…

Never buying a FE ever again.

[civic reef]

The only reason I am considering an X3D is because of the RAM indifference on it

I also play games that aren't really intensive

1440p 75 FPS (G-Sync) is easily doable on what I play with my current machine

i7 4770, 2x8GB 1600 CL9, 5700 XT, SATA SSD

I could probably get a better card for not too much later on

Although I also need to watch my wattage.. 550W C tier PSU

Probably barely enough IF it's even enough for a 7800X3D + 5700 XT

@frank zealot
Oh wait, I forgot to factor in the motherboard

I was originally planning to get a PRO B650M-P, it's like the cheapest thing I can find lol

Thankfully the VRMs have a Heatsink and aren't completely bare

[frank zealot]

the same board would work for either. The 7800x3d is actually really power-light

[edgy laurel]

I feel like for the past 6 months you've been talking about something

[civic reef]

I don't remember what I was talking about six months ago

[edgy laurel]

laptops for while, then apparently custom build PC's with alienware cases, now am5

[civic reef]

Although whatever I was planning then probably stopped

[civic reef]

The AM5 is part of the Alienware project

AM5 / LGA 1851

I am only discussing it because I am getting news of another income source after the war ends

Laptops has been discussed and finalised

Either a quad core older ThinkPad for budget (or a P50), or a P53 for mixed capability, or higher end like LOQ if I want to game

That topic has been simply settled

[civic reef]

-Speaking of Alienware
That is mostly finalised and is awaiting the execution stage

[civic reef]

Also, you've mentioned this before

Don't ask why I still remember

[edgy laurel]

lol, indeed

[frank zealot]

dude, you should go report the i5 8400 grok thread as a shitpost. I did

dude replied saying it was directly

[civic reef]

It "seemed" a little rude which is half the reason why but meh

Anyway er
I found a better (I think?) board!!!

[turbid locust]

womp

[civic reef]

B650M PG Lighting - I think only ASRock X boards have issues?

I'll answer that gimme a few minutes

[turbid locust]

Asrock bios’ are just bad

[edgy laurel]

Fine for 99.9% of people, only bad for some picky hyper enthusiasts.

[green marsh]

damn, time flies... Define 7 came out 6 years ago ?

[turbid locust]

https://tenor.com/view/how-dare-you-james-franco-gif-7829182

[turbid locust]

7 6 !!1!!1!11

[civic reef]

Wdym bad for picky hyper enthusiasts

Oh wait I misunderstood

Yeah sounds about right

I hope this isn't like Intel's microcode issue but on an ASRock bios level

[turbid locust]

I mean their boards also pretty consistently explode X3D chips but what do I know

I’ve only owned more AM5 boards than 99.99% of the human population

[civic reef]

Probably undervolting / UCing could help if it's not extra voltage

[civic reef]

I hope they fix the issues somewhat soon

They have really nice cheap boards 💔

[turbid locust]

It was never a voltage issue

[edgy laurel]

if looking at B650 / ryzen 7000, its not really a concern

[hoary hatch]

@shell void I like the prices

6+12 for $199, not bad

8+16 for $299, not bad

[civic reef]

Well, some sources (and the forced Google AI overview unfortunately) did say that it's only B650E/B850/X870 boards that are affected

[hoary hatch]

And that's the highest they should ever be

[civic reef]

Also why 7000 specifically? Does that include 7000X3D or just normal L3 cache chips

[hoary hatch]

How the fuck did they come up with +15% average performance

[shell void]

270K for $300 is crazy good value

it’s a better CPU than the 9950X and costs almost half as much

[hoary hatch]

Intel binary optimization tool enabled....huh

[shell void]

270KF will be even less, perhaps actually half of the 9950X

[civic reef]

Imagine
$249

[hoary hatch]

270k plus for $250 in 4 months

[devout ridge]

what resolution and settings tho?

i hate graphs like that because they’re so ambiguous

[hoary hatch]

They say 1080p high on the chart bruh

Look for the low contrast hidden print

[devout ridge]

i blame their shitty low contrast print

[hoary hatch]

I blame tea

[devout ridge]

fuck you

[hoary hatch]

Yuck fou

[brisk jolt]

aeiou

[hoary hatch]

So Alaska airlines offered me to change my flight home from 6am to 1pm for a $120 credit
Yes please

[devout ridge]

bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz

[frank zealot]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Awesome!

Alibaba's internal AI decided on its own to start mining Crypto as part of it's normal duties.

That's HILARIOUS

[devout ridge]

“mining AI”?

lol wtf

crypto mining isn’t even profitable, why would the AI decide that

[devout ridge]

also why was the AI given the autonomy to do that

[brisk jolt]

cant wait to run these at gen 5 for 3 seconds and they come crashing nose down

[frank zealot]

how often do you see AI actually being intelligent?

[civic reef]

I can probably avoid the entire issue by using some of the money I save from my daily school allowance, and simply buying an MSI PRO B850M-P for $180 (I can't find ANYTHING from any other company except a lackluster looking Gigabyte B650 and MSI Pro B650M-P)

[devout ridge]

if you put a full 360mm aio per m.2, it might sustain it for 15 seconds

[civic reef]

That's LIVID

[devout ridge]

it’s rarely intelligent, but usually logical

[brisk jolt]

too generous

[frank zealot]

I have an m.2 waterblock here, there are ZERO fins inside the block lol

[devout ridge]

lol

cause it didn’t used to be necessary

[brisk jolt]

I could consider copping and running them at gen 4 but thats seemingly wasteful

[devout ridge]

give em to me

i need some more metadata cache

[civic reef]

So their AI just got up and decided to secretly start mining crypto?
Did they atleast get some money back from the 2020-esque endeavours that the AI participated in?

[brisk jolt]

no my poorass only have total 8tb of storage

[devout ridge]

cope

[brisk jolt]

technically 9 tb

[devout ridge]

i only have 4tb in my desktop

(we’re gonna ignore the 26tb in 2 NAS’s)

[frank zealot]

People really do weird things

[brisk jolt]

i only have 4tb in my main, 2+1 in my ITX, 1 tb in my aunt’s and another in the laptop

[civic reef]

What's-
What's even the purpose of this?

[frank zealot]

.... 14TB in my main? (all NVME)

[devout ridge]

i have 4tb in my desktop, 1.5tb in my parents desktop, 8tb in my OG nas, 18tb in my new NAS

NAS measurements are usable storage, so not including parity

[hoary hatch]

I have uhhhh

[devout ridge]

12tb and 24tb raw respectively

[hoary hatch]

Ballpark 22tb usable on the nas

[brisk jolt]

💀

[hoary hatch]

Oh maybe 26th usable

[brisk jolt]

so Im the one who should get that 2tb 9100 pro

[devout ridge]

i’m gonna rob you

[brisk jolt]

its 350 singapore dollas

[devout ridge]

nuh uh, i have less desktop storage

[hoary hatch]

6th nvme in my desktop

[frank zealot]

you can't have my star wars drives 😛

[devout ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/congrats-nice-happy-for-you-congrats-nice-happy-for-you-gif-1927193140186872022

[devout ridge]

that same gif as above

[hoary hatch]

Don't be too upset
2tb is 660p

[shell void]

it’s so god damn pretty

[hoary hatch]

I don't understand

[devout ridge]

apple does have procreation appeal

[hoary hatch]

You're just looking at the big black part

[shell void]

i do love some big black glass

[frank zealot]

and yes it's vertical:

[hoary hatch]

Who cares what the monitor looks like

[brisk jolt]

i dont have a NAS so Im more justified

[devout ridge]

the other plebs in the office can see the back

[hoary hatch]

Thin bezel and good panel

Plus use a nice vesa arm

[hoary hatch]

Cubicles

[shell void]

i prefer a normal sized uniform bezel

[brisk jolt]

nice i replied to the wrong person jn

[shell void]

thin non uniform bezels are so silly

[devout ridge]

nah man, open floor plan is all the rage nowadays, no distinct cubicles

[hoary hatch]

We have cubicles

I think made by steelcase

[frank zealot]

I have an attic office lol

[devout ridge]

steelcase makes cubicles?

[pure garnet]

@shell void i went crazy staying up till 3am last night and my riser is broken

every failed shutdown is an nvidia driver timeout

[hoary hatch]

Steelcase truck showed up on Monday O⁠_⁠o

[devout ridge]

oh i was thinking of steel series, not steelcase

[turbid locust]

https://tenor.com/view/freak-tweak-tweaker-tweaking-freak-out-gif-16108345590627731463

[hoary hatch]

Maybe
I think they make all of our office furniture

[pure garnet]

fr

debating between a3 and fractal epoch atm

[turbid locust]

Shout out to Hyte

[turbid locust]

A3 vouch ofc

[shell void]

gah that sounds so annoying, but i’m not at all surprised because risers are inherently terrible

[hoary hatch]

https://youtu.be/G7IIvIT6RIE
Jay looking different

[pure garnet]

i had to dig through our transaction history to see when i got the 5070ti but it worked perfectly in the b650e-f so has to be the riser

[frank zealot]

Phil does some videos there, this is far from his first

[arctic bronze]

I haven't watched jay in forever /s

[brisk jolt]

i too have a defective riser that isnt fucking covered by warranty

[arctic bronze]

Yeah /s

[brisk jolt]

theres no warranty for that fucking riser smh

ok yea no im not getting my hands on the CUDIMM

[arctic bronze]

Is it defective or does it only work for older generations /s

[brisk jolt]

defective

[arctic bronze]

Damn /s

[brisk jolt]

gen 4 riser having same issue even on gen 3

[arctic bronze]

That sucks /s

[pure garnet]

i mean hyte probably has a warranty but i’m not shipping the cable on my dime and hoping the next one they send doesn’t break

[brisk jolt]

i hope my havn one doesnt have a stroke because that’ll be one long process

same with my T1

If it happens to my T1 ill ask them to throw in a USBC PD in

[turbid locust]

https://x.com/stalman/status/2031507292454269171?s=46 wahhhhhh 8GB ram in 2026!!!!!1!1!1! Wahhhhhhh!!1!1!

Tyler Stalman (@stalman)

The moment I realized I was going need to find a tougher test for the MacBook Neo😳

▶ Play video

X · Mar 10, 2026, 11:07 PM

[arctic bronze]

We love 8gb of ram in 2026

[pure garnet]

i saw some dude on reddit mad that the macbook neo is only ~1500mb/s nvme

[arctic bronze]

Id take that drive /s

[edgy laurel]

the horror

[pure garnet]

like brochacho that ain’t an issue 😭

is the 207 the case you can rip the top off of @turbid locust

[frank zealot]

..... I... I have questions about what counts as "Low Profile" on a Pi....

[hoary hatch]

How am I supposed to chrome and safari and Firefox and edge and brave and Vivaldi at the same time with only 8gb ram and 1500mb/s ssd

[cosmic mica]

what yall think about 9060xt 16 gigs

[hoary hatch]

Yes

[frank zealot]

What's the price diff between the XT 16GB and the 9070 non-XT?

[shell void]

5060Ti or 5070 >>>>

[frank zealot]

This looks low profile. A downdraft tower cooler ain't that.

[cosmic mica]

it's a lot

almost double the price

[frank zealot]

that seems sus

MSRP difference between the two is around 100 USD...

[cosmic mica]

getting 9060xt for 30k and 9070 for 60k inr

[frank zealot]

well, at that price diff, it ain't worth it

what about 5060 TI 16GB?

[cosmic mica]

51k

that's the 8 gig one mb the 16 gig one is 76k

[frank zealot]

jesus christ

[shell void]

in your region it sounds like the 9060XT 16GB is the best deal if it’s $30K

[frank zealot]

yeah

[cosmic mica]

am I gonna regret buying the 9060xt man im like getting it way cheap

[frank zealot]

a 5060 TI ain't worth double that

nope, that 9060 is a good card

[shell void]

well just make sure it isn’t a scam xD

[civic reef]

I have 1/2 TB combined NVMe storage >:3

[cosmic mica]

na lmao my homie hooked me up w this one guy

in general 9060xt goes around 35-38 but he somehow got me a 30k deal

[shell void]

that’s about $325USD equivalent which is a pretty great price

[frank zealot]

make sure it ain't a scam

[civic reef]

16GB??

[cosmic mica]

yea

[frank zealot]

"my homie knows a guy" ain't as reassuring as you might think it is

[civic reef]

Wtf that's super good

Are you perhaps going to get lead into an alley and gutted?

[cosmic mica]

na lmao he my brother lowk

ight then finna buy that 9060xt 16 gigs

[frank zealot]

if it's legit, jump on it

that's 100 bucks under MSRP

[cosmic mica]

does like the brand makes sum difference too? it's asrock

[frank zealot]

brand basically doesn't matter

[civic reef]

The difference resides in your tastes

Otherwise, nothing beyond insignificant numbers

[cosmic mica]

the gigabyte one is 40k for some absurd reason

it got three fans tho maybe cause of that

was thinking of pairing this with a 7600x? getting it for 17k ish

@frank zealot bro sent me this

so yea well about finna pay the
original price

[civic reef]

Irrelevant mostly

[edgy laurel]

You sit down and this machine is is all yours. What are you doing with it?

I know what i'm doing.

fucking selling it

CPU: dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8488C
GPU: H100 x 10
RAM: 32 x 64GB DDR5 4800 = 2048GB
SSD: 7.68TB NVMe
HD: 4 x 16TB

[shell void]

sell it and dump all of the money into $INTC

[frank zealot]

AI Adult Content lol

[edgy laurel]

hey now

[frank zealot]

jiggle physx and size sliders

[fringe vigil]

Yo

[frank zealot]

I'd probably sell 8 or 9. Keep 1 or 2 for a local AI

[edgy laurel]

and sell the rest of the system

[frank zealot]

absolutely

ebay value for 10x H100's is > 150K?

I'm absolutely cashing in

[livid flame]

What’s sexier than free DDR5?

[slim pebble]

I was going to answer “Discord” or “YouTube” but yours works better.

[frank zealot]

full kit that's probably a 200K USD (or more) box on ebay

[topaz veldt]

Hehe the same thing I do with this

[edgy laurel]

the money someone gives you for it

[slim pebble]

You ordering the new Core Ultra Plus or nah?

[topaz veldt]

we'll see

[brisk jolt]

you underestimate 5nail, he’ll be knocking on their door at 6am

[edgy laurel]

is that all? i expected more

[slim pebble]

Jay’s channel has a pair of them pictured.

[green marsh]

the sad part about me as a home user is that doing home AI outside of HW one already owns makes zero financial sense in current market. $10-$40/copilot or $20/claude makes any even minor purchase too expensive, in terms of value return for coding AI

[edgy laurel]

I see this suggested all over the place. Really seems like the more sensible solution for most people

[slim pebble]

900mhz boost to the D2D frequency? Nice

[brisk jolt]

every tc2 270k owner shall be doing 9k with ease

[green marsh]

i mean let's say i get two 5060 Ti 16GB cards for $600 a piece - that is $1200. That is 10 years of copilot basic sub, 10 years of claude cheap sub or 2.5 years of the highest tier copilot sub. Only when comparing to the $200/claude would make local HW sense, and even then only if one really wants to self host due privacy (with AI Max 395+ 128GB systems for some mid-sized coding models, not with GPUs)

[topaz veldt]

Yeah its a shitty spot for sure

And my buddy is dev'ing a CRM tool and got a wild build not realizing how much his tokens went up

[green marsh]

something like Qwen 3.5 35B A3B requires around 27-30GB RAM for the 65-128k context. Which could be doable with two 5060 Ti 16GB's, or even 7900XTX + something small, but the price...

[slim pebble]

Or one 5090

[brisk jolt]

optimal

[green marsh]

at my work, we got azure hosted anthropic models, but we have a 'budget' of ~150 euros a person per month. No idea yet how much that ends up being, since this got announced i didn't do any work which could have been AI-ified 😄

[green marsh]

yeah, totally makes sense to buy a 3k euro GPU instead of two 600 euro ones for same total VRAM, when not trying to reach the peak 128GB VRAM capacity per system

[frank zealot]

the cards are 15-18K each
and I don't know what's in the rest of the box, so... 30-50Kish?

[edgy laurel]

2TB of DDR5 RDIMM's seems very valuable but i've not looked into it at all

[frank zealot]

today that's worth a small fortune lol

[slim pebble]

I thought the best AI setup was a couple of cheap 3090’s. Before this mess last year you could get 24GB for $6-700

[edgy laurel]

Yeah my company is paying for Claude for a lot of things, it doesn't make sense for us with what we do to invest in hardware and someone to maintain it.

[green marsh]

not happening anymore, 3090's are gone. So now the best choice is 7900XTX (if you don't mind Vulkan) or any of the 16GB GPUs

[frank zealot]

A "Better" option before things went batshit were the china-hacked 4090's w 48GB

at one point the 48GB 4090's were ~3K-4K

[green marsh]

as i said, the model i would run would fit in the 27-30GB range, so i could just slap a second GPU in my system. But not sure NVIDIA cards even run on x4 slot anymore 😄

[slim pebble]

The biggest problem is that a lot of motherboards don’t do x8/x8 PCIE lanes

[edgy laurel]

A lot do, as well.

[green marsh]

i got a X570 system with 3x 4.0 x8 electrical (one goes through a bottleneck of x4 4.0 chipset connection tho), but meh

[edgy laurel]

honestly I didn't think x8/x8 was that rare looking through the AM5 master spreadsheet but its been a while

[green marsh]

much less common than before tho

in older ages, you would have hard time finxing an AM4 or LGA1200 or older Z/X series board which did not had the x8/x8 split as feature

[frank zealot]

it's annoyingly uncommon now

[slim pebble]

I think my hero does x16 and the second slot is x4 through the chipset. You need something like a ProArt or a Taichi

[green marsh]

3090 prices in euros here: 790 (Suprim), 690 (Foudners), 850 (ROG), 950 (Gainward 3090 Ti), 680 (Palit), 900 (TUF)

[green marsh]

yes, x16 via CPU + x16@x4 is common, but that is not that great for dual GPUs

[frank zealot]

Hey Guilty, I just saw this over on Boomerbook:

[edgy laurel]

I guess they weren't really trying to go for a whole theme

the white board is kinda..

[frank zealot]

lol

[topaz veldt]

That's pretty cool

[edgy laurel]

and what is the deal with those cable wraps lmao

oh god are they UV reactive

[frank zealot]

I think it's for UV?

[green marsh]

what is even worse is usually where the second slot is. For example my B650E-F

[frank zealot]

my question is:
You spend that much money, time, and effort on an all-copper tubed loop....

and your GPU runs on a single 8 pin?

[edgy laurel]

that too

[frank zealot]

I would 1000% skip the custom loop, get a good AIO, and then upgrade the GPU by 2 tiers

maybe 3

[edgy laurel]

3 if you get cheaper fans

i dunno what those are but they don't look cheap

[vestal granite]

i hear this is where they make gourmet reeses pieces (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGNwG_MjslI)

[frank zealot]

based on the case i'm assuming Lian Li

It's the Lambo O11

[turbid locust]

Corporate drip day 2

we ball

[steel stream]

flip flops and shorts?

[turbid locust]

yes lmao

I need another sport coat or two, I hate ties

[shell void]

[turbid locust]

kek

[shell void]

(lower is better)

[turbid locust]

Figured

wtf is an Ian alert

Googled it

[turbid locust]

rolled

mogged, even

[steel stream]

I'd like to thank my 265K for providing me with this opportunity

[young void]

I hope ||you guys have a good day||

[pure garnet]

i ordered the white fractal epoch

[steel stream]

you too worm, you too

just to make sure

[young void]

Myte have to play with mine at some point, idk why the blank text file with your name cracked me up, im not alive yet

[shell void]

i hope you explode

[pure garnet]

michael the xl doesn’t fit on my table it’s so over

[shell void]

it’s never been more over

[pure garnet]

i have to do 360 up front so sad

[fringe vigil]

[frank zealot]

On a... 6/7 year old TN Monitor

Scratch that, the Asus PB277 is TN

And RTings reviewed the screen in 2017 lol... so 9 year old TN

[shell void]

i think you’re supposed to run the test on a monitor calibrated to sRGB so decade old monitors will do just fine

[arctic bronze]

:(

[pure garnet]

will my score be off because i’m colorblind or because my monitor is bad

[shell void]

both

but your monitor can easily do srgb so blame your eyes

[pure garnet]

i run my asus letter vomit in cinema mode

which i believe is closest to srgb or p3? idk

[turbid locust]

ugh why

I need a fellow A3 enjoyer

[brisk jolt]

[edgy laurel]

the "i want a North but no wood" case

[pure garnet]

won’t lie i saw the epoch yesterday and it looked perfect to me

i don’t want the wood yeah 😭 looks like those old basements

[edgy laurel]

which I thought was the Meshify

[brisk jolt]

cant wait to see ur epoch kyoko

[pure garnet]

it arrives friday

amazon didn’t have the black but ordering from b&h irrationally annoys me because they’re closed 90% of the time i want to order

[brisk jolt]

Ill be waiting for Saturday to see it then

I love how me and my group of friends are all baiting each other to see who buys/gets RE requiem first so we can all play via steam family

[edgy laurel]

why doesn't everyone just pitch in

[pure garnet]

my friend bough re requiem then lost interest in playing it

so i beat the game instead in their honor

[brisk jolt]

i hope intel has a game bundle soon with like, 007 first light or smth

[brisk jolt]

I’d honestly buy it myself but I have like 3 predators waiting to pounce on it… And as we know only 1 person can be playing it at once so Im also baiting them

[shell void]

imagine 270KF comes out at like $260 with two free games

[pure garnet]

can't wait

[shell void]

literally double the multicore of equivalent priced ryzen cpus

[brisk jolt]

Im getting a 270K at the very least this year tbh

the z890i is optional

[slim pebble]

270K is supposedly compatible with 7200mt/s memory? What did they change?

[shell void]

nothing

it’s just a pretuned 285K for a much lower price

[sharp heart]

official?

[pure garnet]

it's just an uprating to jedec 7200 cudimm

[pure garnet]

yah

[brisk jolt]

optimally I get it with a game bundle that I actually want xd

[pure garnet]

270k plus for $300 lowkey way better value than a 9700x if you're not upgrading for awhile

[shell void]

i assume 285K production for boxed retail units will mostly stop, and the 290K was scrapped so you might get lucky when buying a 270K and have a bit of OC headroom

[slim pebble]

You’re probably right. The 270K has the extra 4 e-cores, why would they need the 285K SKU?

[pure garnet]

im just wondering how the d2d and ngu clock out the box

the 40% in tombraider imply to me 32/32

[shell void]

they’ll have to keep making some 285Ks for OEM contract obligations and warranty claims, but i would think that they’ll throttle production of boxed units to sell at newegg and shit

[shell void]

they said +900MHz on D2D but idk about NGU

🗣️

[pure garnet]

i believe that's 30?

yeah default is 21 so 30