general-chat

[unreal chasm]

Or maybe 280 idr

[hoary zodiac]

I thought it was one of those builds

But no turns out it's the complete opposite

Based pc

Anyways

It could be a windows issue

How long has it been since you've installed windows?

[unreal chasm]

Before the 2600 i was running an i7 950 OCed to like 4.6 and the gtx970

[hoary zodiac]

Oh damn

That's a massive jump

[unreal chasm]

I built my pc brick by brick

All the way starting from a Dell desktop with a Radeon HD 4500 or sum like that with an overheating issue

Had a box fan on the side of the pc playing games with the gpu cooking at a solid 100 degrees

[hoary zodiac]

That PC's got to be under $700

With current parts

That's insane value tbh

Could even be under $500

[unreal chasm]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Rwyddb

my pc

[hoary zodiac]

You must've saved at least $1000

Throughout the years

[unreal chasm]

yea

I bought everything on sale

[hoary zodiac]

How much was the motherboard may I ask?

That's usually a pricey one

[unreal chasm]

I spend like 220 on it I think

[hoary zodiac]

Oh

[unreal chasm]

I wanted one with wifi and shtuff

so I kinda balled out

[hoary zodiac]

That's fair

You've saved a lot elsewhere so

[unreal chasm]

yea

[hoary zodiac]

Anyways

[unreal chasm]

My windows has been acting weird

I just did a fresh install I forgot why

[hoary zodiac]

Hmm

[unreal chasm]

Probably gonna have to do it again

[hoary zodiac]

I was suspecting that windows broke over time

[unreal chasm]

how do I do a fresh install where it doesnt try to bring over old stuff

[hoary zodiac]

By fresh install you mean fully reinstalling it right?

[unreal chasm]

Like I want a fresh fresh install

[hoary zodiac]

Not just resetting it?

[unreal chasm]

yea

[frigid stag]

Mine also broke, I guess it’s common for windows

[hoary zodiac]

So the reinstall you did was a reset?

[hoary zodiac]

I've never had a post windows 7 install lasting over a year

[unreal chasm]

It was a full install through windows but I want to completely reinstall windows starting with nothing on the drive

clean slate

[hoary zodiac]

I'd move anything valuable off it first

Then I'd just delete all the partitions on the boot drive

And remake the partition table

[unreal chasm]

I just flashed my bios the other day too

Imma be honest I forgot the issue I had that made me even think abt that

[hoary zodiac]

Did it started acting up before or after bios?

[unreal chasm]

before

bios flash had no impact

[hoary zodiac]

Hmm so we can rule that out

[unreal chasm]

I havent been touching my pc recently cause all the issues I been getting seem to be software related which im not the best with

[hoary zodiac]

Are the software issues mostly related to monitors?

[unreal chasm]

yea but like softwares just be freezing and stuff

like super weird stuff be randomly happening

usually I just gotta rest my pc

cause I cant do anything

[hoary zodiac]

Have you overclocked your memory?

[unreal chasm]

no its on xmp profile

nothing is clocked

overclocked

[hoary zodiac]

Hmm

[unreal chasm]

Im thinking maybe something going on with the gpu

[hoary zodiac]

I'm leaning towards windows but I wouldn't rule out memory issues just yet

[wicked oriole]

Do the 5090d's still capable of doing dlss?

[unreal chasm]

im thinking gpu or windows

imma be honest games never really performed how I expected on this pc

[hoary zodiac]

It's a 3060 so

[unreal chasm]

I chocked it up to having a high expectation

[hoary zodiac]

There are better priced gpus

[wicked oriole]

I don't do anything with ai, so I may try to get my hands on a 5090d, but worried it won't work

[hoary zodiac]

4K?

[mortal grail]

I wouldn't buy any rn given that they're melting indiscriminately and starting fires

[hoary zodiac]

5090 really isn't worth it unless you're a 4K gamer

Oh nevermind

[wicked oriole]

I am

[hoary zodiac]

I thought the 12vhpwr thing was a big meme

Is it actually that bad

[unreal chasm]

I still am curious about that red blinking light, for like a year I had this pc in this config and no blinking light

[mortal grail]

It's worse now

[hoary zodiac]

[mortal grail]

They're melting wires not connectors now

[hoary zodiac]

Jesus...

[unreal chasm]

its been blinking for a while tho it only just started bugging

[mortal grail]

Inserted correctly

[unreal trail]

[mortal grail]

Melting

[unreal chasm]

gaww

[hoary zodiac]

We really have molex-sata adapter moment here

[wicked oriole]

Also worried bout that too, but seller is asking 2k... so figured that'd be my only shot at getting one. Guess I'll wait for a decent priced 4090 to pop uo

[mortal grail]

There's a lot of data in that channel

[mortal grail]

4090 at 1.5K sounds really nice rn ngl

[hoary zodiac]

Friendly neighbourhood german

[hoary zodiac]

Imagine spending msrp

[mortal grail]

That's not msrp

[hoary zodiac]

I thought the msrp was $1499

For a 4090

[mortal grail]

1599

[hoary zodiac]

Oh

[mortal grail]

Lol

[hoary zodiac]

💀

[mortal grail]

3090 1499

[hoary zodiac]

Debug led?

[unreal chasm]

no a power warning led

[hoary zodiac]

huh

[unreal chasm]

And I just installed a 2nd hard drive in the process I checked all my connections

[hoary zodiac]

I wonder

Is your software installed on your hdds?

[wicked oriole]

I'm hoping to be in one for no more than 1800 and I'll be happy fr

[unreal chasm]

as in boot drive?

[hoary zodiac]

Hard drives

[mortal grail]

1800 be wild price

[unreal chasm]

only thing on the hard drives is games

[hoary zodiac]

hmm

[mortal grail]

I would not the 1800 tbh

[hoary zodiac]

Barracudas are known to be relatively unreliable

[unreal chasm]

oh rly?

[hoary zodiac]

Yeah

[unreal chasm]

didnt know that

[wicked oriole]

Hey man with how everything is rn thats my max lol

[unreal chasm]

well I have them ran in raid as of like a few weeks ago

[hoary zodiac]

I'd run a crystaldiskinfo check on them every couple weeks

[mortal grail]

Aren't you on like a 7900XT rn anyway

[hoary zodiac]

Uh

[mortal grail]

Lol

[hoary zodiac]

💀

[unreal chasm]

what

[mortal grail]

Just wait a few months

[hoary zodiac]

Is it ZFS raid?

[unreal chasm]

is that an issue

[hoary zodiac]

Or a mirror?

[unreal chasm]

its through windows idk what zfs means but its windows equiv to raid 0

[hoary zodiac]

I mean I wouldn't run stripe a bunch of barracudas

[mortal grail]

I striped mine

[hoary zodiac]

Unless ofc the data isn't valuable

[mortal grail]

[unreal chasm]

its just games

[mortal grail]

I have valuable data

[hoary zodiac]

Yeah it's probably not a big problem

[mortal grail]

Also I didn't stripe mine I forgor it's not on the raid list

[unreal chasm]

I did it through windows I think cause I was having trouble getting it to register the drive

like it was there but wasnt letting me create a partion or sum

[frigid stag]

Mine lasted around 2 till it got wonky

[hoary zodiac]

11?

Or 10?

[unreal chasm]

I had to create the striped thing then go back and add the drive to it

[proud jackal]

What's a good d5 pump set up with tube

[mortal grail]

Pump to tube

[hoary zodiac]

But yeah I'd fresh install windows first

[mortal grail]

To pump

To theocoin?

To pump

[proud jackal]

I mean brand

[hoary zodiac]

Backup any valuable data

[mortal grail]

Liang d5

[hoary zodiac]

Then just wipe the boot drive comptely

[proud jackal]

Googling

[mortal grail]

Didn't know googling was a brand

[unreal chasm]

think imma go ahead and do that

[hoary zodiac]

And then you select the empty drive in the windows installation media

You can also wipe the drive theough the installer

Tho I'd be careful not to wipe the other drives too

[mortal grail]

[hoary zodiac]

You can unplug them if you want to be extra safe

[proud jackal]

[unreal chasm]

if Im reseting windows im deleting everything off the drives I dont like the idea of going into a new windows install with bad files already on my pc

[hoary zodiac]

That's why I always install software on a second partition

I can just wipe my boot partition at any time

[peak heart]

which is better
9600x or 7600x

[wicked oriole]

4080s

I just want more vram for rt/pt

[mortal grail]

I'd just wait longer

Also

You mightn't need it soon

Just food for thought

[velvet summit]

hmm.... for 20 bucks more... i think i would still go with the 7600x if those were the only 2 options available, there may be some other option that is better value though but you'll have to ask build chat for that or such

[dusk knot]

Booo

[wicked oriole]

Interesting I'll look into kt

[peak heart]

oke

[frigid stag]

7700x

Or whatever intel they have like 14700kf

[wicked oriole]

Rip no release date, very interesting though

[mortal grail]

It's a 50 series introduced feature, it's imminent

[wicked oriole]

So I should've gotten the 5080 lmao

[mortal grail]

No

[wicked oriole]

I know lol

[mortal grail]

It was tested on 4090

Lol

[wicked oriole]

I saw

Doesn't increase latency?

Didn't see anything about that

[mortal grail]

I don't believe so, just a processing hit

Reflex 2 will compensate anyway

[wicked oriole]

I see. Interesting

[mortal grail]

Give it enough updates and reflex 2, normal frame gen and neural compression will be a pretty sellable QoL change

I would just hold tight until then tbh

Normally when we see stuff like this it tends to appear a few months later to the masses

[frigid stag]

I hope it doesn’t catch on 🗿

Don’t want games running at 30 fps relying on frame gen

[mortal grail]

64gb vram without neural compression

[frigid stag]

SLI might as well come back at this point

[rancid juniper]

thanks steam

[mortal grail]

You acquired asian man

[rancid juniper]

✅

[dense locust]

I have a not useable 5080 so I say wait

[wicked oriole]

I have a 4080s so it's not an upgrade, granted I guess I would've liked more tensor cores...

[dense locust]

I was going from a 1070

But I’m still on a 1070 since the 5080 doesn’t work

[mortal grail]

Kinda sad that half our 50 series population in chat can't use their cards ☠️☠️☠️

[wicked oriole]

Rip it has problems too?

[wicked oriole]

Nvidia needs to be sued for this whole fiasco tbh

But too big to fail, am I right?

[mortal grail]

Lol

[wicked oriole]

I mean seriously, pricing became super false advertising (i know aib needs to make their cut but a 40% markup? Cmon) no stock (not illegal, but still scummy) and the products not working. Gotta be something there.

[mortal grail]

Oh yeah there likely is

It'll be something for a lawyer to figure out tho

[wicked oriole]

Nvidia the kind of company that got a bunch of Saul goodmans as lawyers lmao

[nocturne flicker]

I doubt there is a case. Companies are free to ignore MSRP as long as they are not contractually obligated to follow it and Nvidia themselves aren't advertising the price as only MSRP, their website specifically states it starts at MSRP

And the US is currently not a consumer friendly environment right now, so even then

[craggy shoal]

right now
Never has been*

[nocturne flicker]

The previous admin. was relatively consumer friendly, especially when compared to the current and past admins

[mortal grail]

☠️

https://youtube.com/shorts/0gLASwS5qYA

[surreal comet]

Wife who can eat an entire chicken in one sitting

Chicken wife

[lone mango]

Why do I love installing linux so much

[sage sluice]

Friend went through a break up and is pretty down, made some mini bundt cakes with homemade blackberry/blueberry jam

[lone mango]

I am autistic

[sage sluice]

Same fr fr

[elfin mural]

lsfg 3.0 works pretty decently for what it is

cooking with just a simple program

[hoary zodiac]

Bro is in a distrohopping phase

Wait until you find out about what you can do with base arch linux

Perpetual installation

Installing different distros vs reinstalling the same os with a slightly improved config

[lone mango]

Before vs after restarting with around 5 days of uptime

[hoary zodiac]

How do you have 5 days of uptime

[lone mango]

Counts sleep as up time

So 5 days since I turned it on

[hoary zodiac]

Turn off your pc 💀

[lone mango]

Maybe

Rn im back on linux

I am updating it

[hoary zodiac]

Why is mesa installed with flatpak

Oh wait is this your nobara install

[lone mango]

Yeah

[hoary zodiac]

Yeah fair

[hoary zodiac]

help I can't stop playing TF2

[icy ore]

https://tenor.com/view/team-fortress-2-heavy-tf2-heavy-the-heavy-the-rock-eyebrow-gif-9577572964300949968

[surreal comet]

Ban this man

Wait

Wrong server

[hoary zodiac]

lmao

[surreal comet]

Just like everyone else the GPU search has gone no where

Maybe if I pretend not to care they'll all show up

[icy ore]

Just sleep for 6 months and then when you wake up you have a 12% chance of finding one you’ll have to settle on

[icy ore]

One of my buddies sent this to us yesterday lol

“In stock: gaming”

[woven turret]

my keyboard is apparently coming tomorrow, amazon said it would be here on the 18th but now it's coming tomorrow

[mortal grail]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/Microcenter/comments/1idz3mt/cant_believe_i_actually_got_one/

[hoary zodiac]

Why is the link rxddit.com

Oh I see it's an embed fix

[opaque sedge]

Man idk if its worth waiting for the steam os version or not now

https://youtu.be/PfQCgt2wa2Q?si=sSRhsrecuSo_ZYJS

[storm narwhal]

Seam

[tranquil pebble]

what is the Seam Deck?

[icy ore]

Temu version

[opaque sedge]

Damn wth i didn’t realize intel was cooking

https://youtu.be/fKRK2YG26Og?si=B3sqt8_u4bG_jHGI

Nearly a grand tho

[tranquil pebble]

handhelds are the new UMPCs

[hoary zodiac]

I don't like the price tag on a lot of these

There's also a point of diminishing returns

Which well

With these new ryzen cpus we're getting a lot more performance in a small package

But also a pretty big price tag

It's a huge improvement to something like the GPD Win

[elfin mural]

intel ultra 200V is better tho in that regard

perf per watt

amd is just more popular because they've built a reputation

[hoary zodiac]

Really?

[elfin mural]

intel just proved only now

yeah

[hoary zodiac]

I'd think ryzen would be more efficient on mobile

[elfin mural]

staggeringly good bettery life and efficiency

[hoary zodiac]

Intel comeback?

👀

[elfin mural]

less powerful igpu but better perf per watt

faster in power limited scenarios

[hoary zodiac]

I mean

Sounds like it'll be better for laptops tbh

[elfin mural]

if you feed both all the power

the amd igp wins

but if we limit the power it's intel who takes the win

[hoary zodiac]

I'd rather have the igpu for a gaming centered device tbh

[elfin mural]

the igpu on intel is better when power limited than amd

it fits handhelds

[hoary zodiac]

Oh so it's actually more efficient

Interesting

[elfin mural]

ya

macbook level of battery life on laptops

[opaque sedge]

Intel chips also have more cpu cores typically right?

[hoary zodiac]

Eh

They're cutting back on the cores

[opaque sedge]

Damn i thought that was their trademark just stuffing in cores

[elfin mural]

still has enough to not be an issue

[hoary zodiac]

It was until this gen

They restrained their engineers

There's actually less cores in core ultra compared to 14th gen

But they're A LOT more efficient

[elfin mural]

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-Vivobook-S-14-OLED-Review-Affordable-quieter-and-long-lasting-thanks-to-Lunar-Lake.939243.0.html

19 hours of video playback

10 hours full brightness web browsing on wifi

[hoary zodiac]

Most people don't need the amount of cores intel's stuffing in

Wait what

huh

Core ultra has the same core count has 14th gen

[elfin mural]

looks like all other laptops with 200V chip also achieves 10 hours web browsing

with zero issues

[hoary zodiac]

Don't know where I got the less cores thing from then

[cedar compass]

But they killed hyperthreading

[hoary zodiac]

OH YEAH

[elfin mural]

the xps 13 with the 200V

holy

[opaque sedge]

Huh this is good news then, if this trend goes on amd will be forced to make more efficient chips as well for the sake of competition

[hoary zodiac]

That's what I misremembered

[elfin mural]

battery life

[hoary zodiac]

It was no HT

[elfin mural]

no ht no problem imo

[hoary zodiac]

Honestly not a big issue tbh

With the amount of cores in those things

Might even see an increase in games like cs

[opaque sedge]

Was hyperthreading their trademark like the copious amt of cache ryzen chips have?

[hoary zodiac]

Iirc CS runs better with SMT off right?

[elfin mural]

yes

[hoary zodiac]

Since Pentium 4

[elfin mural]

times changed

intel suddenly one upped amd lol

[hoary zodiac]

Only mobile tho

[opaque sedge]

Has amd always given more cache than usual? Even during the days they were considered budget options? Cuz if they were how did they afford it cuz even l3 cache is pretty darn expensive right

[hoary zodiac]

Since Ryzen

They've been messing around with cache for a bit now

[opaque sedge]

Icic

[hoary zodiac]

They tried Gamecache with zen 2

That was a nice to have but not really a huge boost

That was back when 8700k still destroyed zen 2

Which had launched a gen prior

I still have a bias towards buying intel tbh

I want an intel igpu

N100 mini pc with QSV

Ultra power efficient server

[mortal grail]

About to order all the parts for the itx pc

[balmy solstice]

why

[hoary zodiac]

Order it to my address

[mortal grail]

Wtf gen 5 risers are $150

[balmy solstice]

tf kinda gen 5 risers are you buying

also why do you need to buy a riser

[hoary zodiac]

ITX case

[balmy solstice]

oh yeah

extra aesthetic

I think that's how it's spelt

[surreal comet]

Back in my day

[mortal grail]

Jfc this is an itx i/o

All 10G and 2 TB4/5(?)

Wtf

And also 5G ethernet

Not 10 but also

ITX???

[storm narwhal]

What the hell

[mortal grail]

Wtf msi

This i/o is insane

[storm narwhal]

Thats crazy

Right there with you

[mortal grail]

Like, my apex is worse than this

It's only 2 years old if at that

[storm narwhal]

Already outdated

Smh

[mortal grail]

Wtf is that i/o man

10 usb

[storm narwhal]

Insanity

[mortal grail]

2 are 40g

[storm narwhal]

How many god damm pcie lanes

[mortal grail]

This is the power of pcie 5 clearly

Just so much splitting of lanes they can just do this now apparently

DUAL THUNDERBOLT

[storm narwhal]

They're just showing off at this point

DUAL

[mortal grail]

DUDE

THE ATX BOARDS ARE THE SAME

[storm narwhal]

WAT

[mortal grail]

THEY JUST COPY PASTED

CARBON ATX

[storm narwhal]

You can copy my homework but don't make it too obvious

[mortal grail]

sliced off 3 usb and 1 ethernet

[storm narwhal]

LIKE THATS NEARLY IDENTICAL

[mortal grail]

WTF

MID RANGE GETS ITX IO

WTFFFFFF

[storm narwhal]

STILL DUAL THUBDERBOLT

[mortal grail]

[dusk knot]

Damn..that's nice

Jk

[devout forum]

@mortal grail what did I miss, did someone announce new mobos?

[surreal comet]

One ....

Wish I checked earlier I could've left an hour before it opens so I could be there asap

Sad

[devout forum]

You could still get it done

[surreal comet]

It's an hour to get there

An hour for someone to buy one card

Plus I'd have to drive into Boston

Oh wait

Am I dumb

I thought 18 minute pickup meant reserved for 18 minutes

Not it can only be picked up for 18 minutes

Nvm apparently it's already gone

[mortal grail]

Damn 900 was a great price for that

[surreal comet]

Once in cart it says 0 in stock

Sent the same screenshot twice

Mfw

But yeah

Sucks

[waxen saddle]

Hello, I plan on upgrading my pc. I want to build an overkill pc with the highest specs. I primarily play Roblox, Minecraft, Fortnite, Microsoft Flight Simulator, and Marvel Spider man 2. My budget is around $3k-$4k

The question is should I build the pc now or wait till the summer until the prices drop

[velvet summit]

I'm gonna do a ralicx from this

[mortal grail]

This is our new quote

We will never explain this

[velvet summit]

Real

[mortal grail]

But we will use it all the time

[velvet summit]

I don't think people would want to know anyways

[mortal grail]

If no one says anything

[velvet summit]

https://tenor.com/view/riddler-paul-dano-new-rockstars-thumbnail-does-he-know-he-doesnt-know-gif-27552850

[surreal comet]

I blame the website because it still says in stock 💔

Yet in my cart it'll say zero in stock

[craggy shoal]

You can slice your budget in half (like $1K-$2K) and still play these games. But definitely wait for RDNA 4 to be announced to make a decision

[waxen saddle]

What is that

[craggy shoal]

Radeon 9000 series

[waxen saddle]

Is that really better than the 40 or 50 series nvidia?

[dusk knot]

Nope

Well maybe the 40 series in raster

[sweet phoenix]

Good luck getting one unless you're fine with used

The 9070xt is supposedly slightly worse than the 5080 and is supposed to cost much less

[craggy shoal]

Just get a used 4080 (Super) if you don't want to wait

[dusk knot]

At $1200

[craggy shoal]

Wait really?

I haven't checked used prices

[surreal comet]

God these bots are fast

[craggy shoal]

$1200 for a 4080 Super is goofy

[surreal comet]

Second I click checkout on Amazon the item is gone and someone else got it

[dusk knot]

Yeah. I've been looking for a used one for about a month now. It hopeless

[waxen saddle]

Then I might aswell wait a year

[craggy shoal]

bruh

[sweet phoenix]

Omg guys

$1410 5080
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/RGG2FT/msi-gaming-trio-oc-geforce-rtx-5080-16-gb-video-card-geforce-rtx-5080-16g-gaming-trio-oc-white

(Don't buy that)

[craggy shoal]

BUT IT'S WHITE

[surreal comet]

The damn white card

[sweet phoenix]

It's less than 10% better than a 4080 super and the 4080 was overpriced at $1000

[craggy shoal]

Lore-accurate white tax

[sweet phoenix]

Or build a pc with a mid tier gpu and just replace the gpu later

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/9XJ92x

[cedar compass]

forget 1000$ 5080 after tariffs anyways

[dusk knot]

The rumors about the high prices were correct before launch. This sucks big time

[sweet phoenix]

This still stands

[surreal comet]

People on eBay be wanting 1500 for a 7900xtx why dont you pay me 1500 just because

[craggy shoal]

lmao fr

[frigid stag]

It’s 20% or higher difference but it’s only worth it at like 1000 to 1200 ish

[surreal comet]

There's like

The best deal I'm seeing for me is like 1150 before tax on Amazon and like

No thanks

[frigid stag]

I should’ve preordered that zotac

March delivery doesn’t seem so bad now

[sweet phoenix]

?

Where are you seeing that

[frigid stag]

Seeing what

[sweet phoenix]

From what i saw it was abt a 9% difference

Without dlss/frame gen

[proud jackal]

https://tenor.com/view/bocchi-hitori-goto-depressed-bocchi-the-rock-gif-27672004

[frigid stag]

Unlock boost clocks

Haven’t seen a single 5080 that won’t do over 3ghz

[surreal comet]

Microcenter asking if I'm still interested i would be if you would let me buy it

[sweet phoenix]

So with overclocking you mean?

[craggy shoal]

(They forgot to increase the clock. You can add like 300-450 MHz to the core and 2000 MHz in the memory and it makes the card worth it)

[frigid stag]

Yea with oc it’s over 20%

[sweet phoenix]

That sounds like poor optimization but thats not exactly a fair comparison when most users will not be doing that lmao

And are you comparing an oced 5080 to a stock 4080, or both oced?

[craggy shoal]

I'm kind of on team "It's worth it if you OC 200-400 MHz"

[frigid stag]

I wonder what stock numbers look like if techtubers weren’t using bloated rotting stock windows 11 and CPU’s with slow ram, especially when hardware unboxed and tech yes city showed the fps difference between win 10 and 11

That 35 % claim was hilarious

[cedar compass]

even pny increased prices

[craggy shoal]

Wow an AIB that's close to MSRP (still $99.99 above)

[frigid stag]

I wouldn’t be shocked tho. I’ve tried windows 11. Search bar takes like 1 second to open lol

Ultra bloated

[sweet phoenix]

Tarrifs.

[frigid stag]

That might be the retailer ngl

[cedar compass]

isn't pny US company ?

[sweet phoenix]

The gpu itself isn't made in the US

[frigid stag]

My friend made a joke about bh photo pricing but it’s not appropriate 💀

[cedar compass]

yeah but they can assembly it anywhere other than china and avoit tarrifs easily

[sweet phoenix]

And even if a company is US based and makes everything in the US, they're still sourcing products from other countries

[sweet phoenix]

My guy

Taiwan

Where is TSMC located

[frigid stag]

They’ve done it with older gens too. For 30 series they were selling 1200$ 3070s like the rest of them like newegg, Best Buy etc

Zotac were the only msrp cards 🙏

[cedar compass]

https://tenor.com/view/zotac-3080-gif-18549684

[surreal comet]

Used like new 7900xtx on Amazon for 1097

Saddening

[cedar compass]

thought we have tolerance to taiwan for a sec

[surreal comet]

Can we just throw rocks at the sellers

It's a sapphire nitro card

Ugly as hell

[sweet phoenix]

Sigh...

[sweet phoenix]

Thats arguably the best xtx lol

[cedar compass]

7900xtx were just for 830$ just weeks ago

[surreal comet]

I love when a website like Amazon says in stock then when you click add to card it immediately goes "uhhh it's not in stock"

Like make up your mind

[cedar compass]

how we ended up with gpu shortage again lmao . market were full with gpus just weeks ago

[sweet phoenix]

Because nvidia is no one's friend and amd delayed their launch

[surreal comet]

I blame that 7900xtx seller for flaking on me

Was at 800 bucks and they just ghosted me I have your name pal I'll write a nasty review

[cedar compass]

I just waiting for better stocks to get white 5090

[surreal comet]

"Are you still interested?"

I would be if you let me buy it yeah

[cedar compass]

microcenter sux lol

[surreal comet]

Huge ass company can't even make online stock work right

[cedar compass]

msi store have 5080 in stock for scalped prices

[surreal comet]

"solve this puzzle to protect your account"

Okay Amazon

Stupid 3 magic trials

[cedar compass]

https://us-store.msi.com/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-GPU/GeForce-RTX-50-Series/GeForce-RTX-5080-16G-GAMING-TRIO-OC-POWERPACK?limit=48

[surreal comet]

I'll enter it exact and it'll deny me smh

[cedar compass]

here 1600$ 5080

and they giving you 1000w psu

[surreal comet]

People buy stock on Amazon and Immediately relist it can we throw rocks at them

I should just low-ball people on eBay surely someone will accidentally click accept anyways

[cedar compass]

that's what I do lol

just got new 4tb 990 evo for 180$ that way

[surreal comet]

Gonna offer him 900 hold on

🙏

I was shot

[craggy turret]

WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED VRO

[velvet summit]

People on social media be like "guys it's joever I'm bleeding to death"

[craggy turret]

hope you recover well in the hospital

[craggy turret]

as they should, if ima go, i shall first announce it on my instagram stories

[velvet summit]

💀

[surreal comet]

I lowballed on Facebook

[craggy turret]

and they shot you for it?>!?!

this is why i dont trust facebook marketplace

[surreal comet]

Harsh economy

[craggy turret]

they have the audacity to make me drive 30 minutes to them because they want an item for free including the gas money

yes its free, yes you pick it up yourself

[craggy turret]

i mean $1400 for a mythical 4080 super??? not bad

newegg has em at $1700+tax

[surreal comet]

That's just nasty

[surreal comet]

Can you drive it to me and give me 300 off a PC that's 600 dollars

[craggy turret]

at that point im robbing you when i get there 🤣

bring in my homies

[surreal comet]

"yeah a PC with a 6700xt and a 5800x3d you can hBe it for 300 bucks"

[craggy turret]

"i dont event want the money anymore, its about sending a message"

as me and my friends jump you

https://tenor.com/view/the-dark-knight-heath-ledger-joker-explode-explosion-gif-5295133

[surreal comet]

Bought one of those air popcorn poppers at savers

Still sealed

5 bucks

[wicked oriole]

Heck yeah best buy had 5090's in stock for less than a minute.

[surreal comet]

We love bots

[dusk knot]

Amen

Let us never see a new GPU again

[surreal comet]

Must low-ball people on eBay

[dusk knot]

We must bully them back to MSRP on new GPUs

Flood them with messages

[surreal comet]

True

Gonna lowball every 7900xtx seller until I get one for 1k or less

🙏

[craggy turret]

the bots: Look What They Need to Mimic a Fraction of Our Power

[craggy turret]

may the lowball gods be in your favor

[dusk knot]

We fight bots with bots

[surreal comet]

Sellers can immediately deny offers below a certain amount damn

[craggy turret]

the age of buying a gpu is no longer viable when a entire prebuilt with the card can be cheaper then just buying card by itself

cough 4090 cough

[dusk knot]

Lol

[surreal comet]

Gonna offer 975

🙏

[rancid juniper]

just give up, bro wants too much

[surreal comet]

Bro wants me to pay 25 less on something 300 over MSRP

[dusk knot]

Disgusting

[surreal comet]

I'm just doing it for the vine ATP

[proud jackal]

The more you buy the more you save

[dusk knot]

The more you don't buy, the more you save

[surreal comet]

Runs dead

Gonna offer a grand and call it a day

(They will decline)

[surreal comet]

Time to harass someone else

I will prevail

Someone will click accept by accident

[dusk knot]

Yes

[frigid stag]

1k for a used xtx

[surreal comet]

You know all of these are just new in box rotting there

[frigid stag]

Still a rip off tbh

[surreal comet]

True ...

[frigid stag]

That’s like more expensive than 2 years ago

[surreal comet]

I'm just gonna spam offers for 900 dollars

It'll work out 🙏

[velvet summit]

https://youtu.be/yaj0RPgbbnQ

[chrome mirage]

Used 25% of my power bank battery to compile the shaders for the monster hunter benchmark on my steam deck

[wicked oriole]

Rip i was so close

But tbh I want to boycott nvidia so bad rn like I'm filled with hatred

[surreal comet]

Filled with rage

[wicked oriole]

I just wanna game decent in 4k man 😦

[wicked oriole]

This is crazy work fr

[surreal comet]

Sealed in box gonna offer 1k

🙏

900*

[wicked oriole]

How many sales do they have?

[surreal comet]

At least 10

They have 10 5 star reviews

[wicked oriole]

Fair

[surreal comet]

Sealed in box at 1k would still be kinda doodoo but at least it's almost MSRP

Almost

Accidentally sent the offer for full price it's over

[chrome mirage]

Bought mine a while ago

[surreal comet]

He denied 1k now to say thanks and never contact him again

I offer 1k
He asks where I am
I say I'm far but id drive there
He denied it

If you are gonna deny it why ask where I am

Dweeb

[wicked oriole]

Scam

[surreal comet]

"if you want to offer more we can haggle" that's not how this works pal I low-ball you

[wicked oriole]

I was gonna get a 4090 on fb, kind of lowballed (offered 1400 I think) he accepted, I said cool send me a timestamp pic, and he said no lmao

[wicked oriole]

Like brother I have cash in hand

[chrome mirage]

Big GPU

[surreal comet]

You're not getting me to pay over 1k pal

Sorry 💅

[wicked oriole]

Buddy didn't even pay 1k for if

Wasn't it like 850? 900?

[surreal comet]

Yeah

New they're supposed to be like 850-900 depending on model

I know the sapphires are supposed to be on the higher end

[wicked oriole]

It's just so weird going through all of that to make 100+ dollars

Like max maybe 250

[surreal comet]

But I ain't paying more on a card you're already scalping

Bro bought it to immediately flip it on Facebook

[wicked oriole]

Stupid

[surreal comet]

And denies a cash in hand offer that's at the very least 100 bucks profit

Smartest scalper

[wicked oriole]

I wanted to lowkey build my little brother a pc, and upgrade mine at the same time, but wtf gpu am I suppose to get him

[surreal comet]

I'm kinda a baller I'm just saying I got that green

[surreal comet]

Clearly

A 6400

[wicked oriole]

Seriously lmao like WHAT

He has a 1660 ti 😭

[surreal comet]

Buy my 4070 it has a weird gsync issue

Where I have to unplug it and plug it back in to have it work properly

[wicked oriole]

Lmaooooo

I got a g sync monitor to only find out it's not real g sync, I found that out when I got my 2nd monitor lol

[surreal comet]

Scalpers deny easiest profit ever because of greed 💔

[wicked oriole]

As someone who threw away making a decent amount of $ on stocks cause of greed and "feeling right" take the $ and run while you can. Never know when it's gonna crash

[surreal comet]

I mean I'm usually not too negotiable

But I'm always the cheapest on the market

Had a pretty much brand new steam deck oled at 450 and you'll get mf throwing 250 dollar offers at you

And you know they only wanna resell it

Found a 7900xtx new on amazing for 1030

Same sapphire funny enough

Lemme see if I can check out clueless

Gone!!!!

[wicked oriole]

5090's are coming up on BB rn...

[surreal comet]

Where 5080...

[dusk knot]

No one here can afford a 5090 hahahaha

[surreal comet]

I can in my heart

[dusk knot]

In my dreams

[surreal comet]

What we can't afford is when the power connectors eventually light on fire

[dusk knot]

3rd party power connectors

[frigid stag]

I can “afford” one technically but there’s 0 way I’m paying 2k to play games

That would probably be in my top 10 dumbest mistakes

[dusk knot]

I could buy one too....but that would take a good chunk out of my bank account lol

[frigid stag]

Ye same

It would be a big fraction of my money if I bought one

[surreal comet]

What in God's name is grooves land

And why is it an ad on neweggc

[dusk knot]

Sigh.....

5080

Why did you have to be soo weak

[frigid stag]

Just overclock it and it’s 20% faster by default

It’s not a good buy if u have a 4080 but anything less it’s good

[dusk knot]

It's not a 4090

[surreal comet]

Guys it's okay Alibaba has 7900xts at 300 dollars

[frigid stag]

It’s like within 5% when it’s overclocked

[surreal comet]

[dusk knot]

I've seen it...it's pretty good

After that the Vram

Bad

You'll see a 17gb game in a year or two that everyone wants to play

[frigid stag]

eh i doubt it

[dusk knot]

Now if NgreedAi relax 2 dramatically cuts down latency in MFG...

[frigid stag]

4090-5090 owners are extremely small market

[dusk knot]

5080 is for the normal people

[surreal comet]

Normal people

[dusk knot]

Reasonable people

[surreal comet]

So you have the receipt

[dusk knot]

2600 for a card in this economy?

[surreal comet]

Showing you paid less than what you want for it

Ok lol

[dusk knot]

What a bad person

[surreal comet]

Yeah gimme 1300 when I paid 900

Least scummy scalper

[cedar compass]

People getting dumber and dumber

[surreal comet]

🙏

100% chance he declines i just wanna be annoying

[dense locust]

Buying a scalped amd card is wild

[surreal comet]

Please show the people where you can get them non scalped

I just like harassing people

[forest owl]

Bb just dropped hella cards any on newegg soon?

[sage sluice]

Harassing people is peak

[surreal comet]

Harass scalpers

[sage sluice]

(Dont quote me on that)

[surreal comet]

It's funny

[sage sluice]

Scalpers and scam callers

Are my favourite people to mess with

[surreal comet]

They're doing nothing good anyways waste their time

[sage sluice]

You want me to send 1000 dollars in steam giftcards for my supposed missing irs payment? Ill make you work for it

Theres AI grandmas now that are designed to waste scammers time

Most peak use of ai

[dense locust]

Pretty easy
Just gotta get in your Time Machine
You got one right?
Everyone has one

[surreal comet]

So true

[surreal comet]

We all know these are fake because the irs would never be this transparent

[sage sluice]

unless you go through the oh so convenient system TurboTax© (they pay the government to be more obscure about it)

[surreal comet]

That's what I did

I'm lazy

[sage sluice]

fr

thats what theyre hoping on rip

i get too many scam messages tbh

theyre easy to pick through tho because i have a florida phone number and live in tennessee lmao

[surreal comet]

HE SAID 1200 LMAOOO

[sage sluice]

oh i hit a toll for SunPass? oopsies, i literally dont live there

[icy ore]

[surreal comet]

Lemme see the 850 you paid

Coward

[sage sluice]

I get a lot of these

im curious if my number was given out or what

because i REALLY try avoiding giving my number to websites

[surreal comet]

Data leaks once

And you'll never recover

Amazon showing me listings from random ass resellers I've never heard of with 2 star reviews

[surreal comet]

He didn't send it

Coward

[dusk knot]

I'm going to see if I can get a 4080s for $900

The bullying method is my final option

[frigid stag]

No luck with fe drops?

For 5080

[dusk knot]

that's not going to happen unless you use a bot

[devout forum]

New SSD installed

[surreal comet]

Chat I bought a 7900xtx brand new from Amazon no reseller no nothing from XFX officially for 980

Ships and sold by Amazon thank jod

[frigid stag]

I’ve used falcodrin for stock notifications but no restocks recently

[surreal comet]

My looking is over

Thank God

[devout forum]

now I just need a new monitor to play all the games I will install

[surreal comet]

Ugly model but do not care

I've never had issues with XFX models in the past tbh

[dense locust]

I see a 7900xt for for $700

Good enough

[safe cape]

no problem using this case without a rear fan ?

[nocturne flicker]

The Merc models are big bois fyi

[surreal comet]

I'm aware

My friend has a spare 4000d airflow sitting around

[devout forum]

it should be fine

[surreal comet]

Just gonna steal that he owes me

[nocturne flicker]

I thought it was prudent to mention. It barely fits in my Lancool 2 Mesh

[safe cape]

okey

[nocturne flicker]

But that is because I have a LF2 in push pull config in the front

[surreal comet]

I'm used to these cards being overly large

Appreciate it though

Just glad I could actually get the damn thing at retail

The card is the hard part the case is the easy part

[forest owl]

Newegg for the love of god do a massive drop

[pliant berry]

What massive drop, you couldn’t do a massive drop with all the stock in the us combined

[surreal comet]

3 cards

And I just bought one of them have fun

[sage sluice]

massive drop!!!!!! (a ticket to have the chance to buy a card)

[surreal comet]

Gambling????

YEAAAA

I get that's more "fair" but it's funny you got a gamble for the chance of getting a card

[pliant berry]

Everything in life is gacha

[sage sluice]

it is a Gacha Life after all (i hate everything)

[surreal comet]

Gacha being born

I can rest easy knowing I won

💪

[dusk knot]

I hope it's not a scam...

[surreal comet]

Sold by Amazon shipped by Amazon

[dense locust]

Either way Amazon would refund you

[surreal comet]

Yeah

I double checked

It's directly from Amazon, no reseller

[dense locust]

I’m going to try my 5080 again but this time turn off hdr

[dusk knot]

Good.

[surreal comet]

It uses prime so it'll be here in a few days

[dusk knot]

HDR on a LCD isn't worth it anyways

[surreal comet]

Made 100% sure it was official

[dense locust]

I have an oled

[surreal comet]

Tbf I'm just blind but HDR in most games doesn't seem to do much

[dusk knot]

Yeah .because you don't have an OLED

I would leave it off

[dense locust]

I heard hdr had issues on the 5080 dunno if it’s windows default hdr or something else but it’s worth a try

[dusk knot]

Should be Windows

[dense locust]

Have my 1070 to fall back on anyways

[surreal comet]

I do have an OLED

[dusk knot]

Which model?

🤔

[dense locust]

“This $200 oled I got from aliexpress”
-user 2025

[dusk knot]

💀

[fresh timber]

I personally

[sage sluice]

have you calibrated hdr at all or is it something else?

[proud jackal]

Wish I had a good oled

[sage sluice]

Wish I had (fill in the blank)

id be really happy with a mini led right about now

[surreal comet]

An Lg27 OLED

Forget the exact scramble

[dusk knot]

The 240hz gaming monitor. Ah..I have the same one.

[surreal comet]

Yeah that one

[dusk knot]

The brightness, that's the problem with that monitor

The contrast isn't super high either

[surreal comet]

I play in a darker room so it works out for me

[sage sluice]

ill buy it off you for a handsome 20 buckaroos

[dusk knot]

I do the same

I love it

[surreal comet]

Not a low-ball I know what you have

[surreal comet]

Great for content when I'm in bed too tbh

[sage sluice]

pft youd be lucky to sell it for 12 buckaroos!

im actually losing money!

[dusk knot]

Bed? Lol

How exactly do you do that?

[sage sluice]

use the monitor as a blanket

simple

[surreal comet]

Long monitor arm and I have a tiny room

Works out

[sage sluice]

damn

im jelly

[dusk knot]

Oh cool.

[sage sluice]

thats actually a pretty good idea tho

give a monitor a big ol swivel

[surreal comet]

My room is like 9 foot by 8 foot it's not that roomy

[dusk knot]

I have my iPad for my bed content consumption

It has a better screen

[sage sluice]

i have my itty bitty phone for bedtime consumption

for watching stuff i just use my laptop

[dusk knot]

F

[sage sluice]

doesnt taste very good imo

but to each their own

[dusk knot]

Never. You only deserve the best

[surreal comet]

I have my slightly smaller than flagship phone

[sage sluice]

i honestly want to get a new laptop, that oled snapdragon one going for 500 not too long ago wouldve been awesome

my current one doesnt even have a screen attached LMAO

[dense locust]

You need to calibrate hdr?

My life is a lie

[sage sluice]

lmao yeah, its a default application on windows i believe

type hdr in the search bar

should pop up

it calibrates the contrast of your monitor

[dense locust]

Dunno if that would fix 5080 black screen tho

[frigid stag]

Yall have hdr?

[sage sluice]

uhhhh not sure lol

[dense locust]

I’ll just disable it for the 5080 and see if it boots

[sage sluice]

i do, ips panel. the upper range is great, maybe too good, but obv lacks in the dark end

[frigid stag]

I guess it’s in higher end monitors only

[sage sluice]

my room during the monster hunter wilds test

[surreal comet]

Nope gotta download it from the store

[sage sluice]

in a pitch black room

[sage sluice]

rip

[surreal comet]

3.2 stars

Amazon has my debit card and hasn't taken the payment yet I am a tiny bit worried

[sage sluice]

well i mean even in hdr10 monitors some arent actually hdr

mine is fortunately but

[sage sluice]

its a rough calibration, but its good to set up a usable contrast, not really meant for fine tuning

[tranquil pebble]

complete with burn-in right out of the box

[dense locust]

Time to buy a $100 calibration tool to calibrate monitor

[sage sluice]

insane waste of money lmao

[tranquil pebble]

Raytracing in Perfect Dark would go hard

[frigid stag]

Ye the “real hdr” is on the higher end monitors

[dense locust]

You’re right if it isn’t $500 it’s not real calibration

[sage sluice]

yee, mine actually is hdr10 and i made sure of it when i got it

its got really damn good colorspace

[frigid stag]

Hdr10?

[dense locust]

Wdym hdr400 is the best one

[frigid stag]

I only know hdr400

[tranquil pebble]

if you want HDR, get a OLED IMO

[sage sluice]

hdr10 is 10 bit color

compared to typical 8bit

[frigid stag]

isnt hdr 10 the low end

[sage sluice]

hdr10 is actually considered higher end than hdr400

[dense locust]

Is this just hdr400?

[tranquil pebble]

hdr10 is the standardized hdr format

[surreal comet]

HDR on to me on my PC just looks weird

Idk why

Even after I calibrate it

[sage sluice]

hdr400 means its a minimum peak brightness of 400 nits

[frigid stag]

Ye looks like a lot of budget monitors have it

[tranquil pebble]

HDR10 is merely the format, it tells nothing for quality of the end picture

[sage sluice]

yup

[frigid stag]

Tbf you’re not getting a good hdr monitor for below like 400 ish

[sage sluice]

my panel is hdr10, but because its not a miniled panel ips its contrast is hella rip

[frigid stag]

How bad is it on dark colors?

[tranquil pebble]

mine is oled panel

contrast is insanity

[frigid stag]

Must be nice

[sage sluice]

i disagree here substancially, good ranges for the individual. you can get GREAT for sub 400 easy, but perfect or near perfect is exceptionally difficult

you can pay STUPID amounts for diminishing returns

[tranquil pebble]

it is, especially for $600

[frigid stag]

Eh most sub 400$ monitors don’t really do good hdr, it’s usually budget 4k 144hz

[frigid stag]

Unless it’s a previous gen higher end 4k that’s discounted

[sage sluice]

why are you limiting to 4k?

thats not how hdr works lmao

[frigid stag]

I’m not?

I’m just saying it’s usually 4k monitors in that price range

Budget 4k or 1440p 240 maybe a few 360s

[sage sluice]

1440p for sure

1080p is more difficult to get perfect colorspace

or near perfect

[frigid stag]

https://preview.redd.it/oled-vs-ips-comparison-v0-h1kkfx85fpld1.jpg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9780bb6d115a089b16e0650dce751c76981f1e53
Oled vs ips

[sage sluice]

me when im on a va panel rn

lmao

using ma chromebook ong

[frigid stag]

Oof

[dense locust]

Is that a high end ips?

[sage sluice]

i have an oled phone, i friggen love the contrast but

[frigid stag]

Eh it’s more mid range imo

[sage sluice]

im more than happy with my ips panel monitor lol

[dense locust]

Weird how you don’t see the backlight glow

Ah I see it

I raised my brightness to max

[sage sluice]

depends on what your panel is and the quality of the photo and yeah brightness

[surreal comet]

Almost asked a TF2 question wrong server

It's reddit are you surprised

[frigid stag]

Fair

[rancid juniper]

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-ai-max-395-strix-halo-with-radeon-8060s-graphics-tested-in-3dmark-outperforms-rx-7600m-xt

VERY NICE

[frigid stag]

They’re the perfect demographic for companies to make them spend more money

[surreal comet]

No dude that's just normal

I swear

[frigid stag]

“You need 600$ + monitor or it’ll look like this”

[sage sluice]

redditors are the epitome of "i know better (not even slightly)"

[surreal comet]

No bro you just have a dookie screen

[sage sluice]

my preowned i bought has a little bit of panel lift on the edges

[frigid stag]

Like don’t get me wrong oleds are a lot better in colors and contrast but ips isn’t as bad as that second picture

[sage sluice]

isnt noticable in 99% of scenarios tho

my ips is GREAT lol

very lovely and vivid colors

[nocturne flicker]

My knowledge is very deep and my ego very justified. Now here is why you should put all your money on GME

[surreal comet]

Lord forbid we do fine minutes of reseau when we buy anything

Ammirite gamers

[sage sluice]

literal only issue is contrast in dark scenes, in brighter scenes the blending makes the lack of true black unnoticable lol

[surreal comet]

If your settings are bad enough your monitor won't matter

Money saving tips with Keitherette

[sage sluice]

buys oled monitor only to put it on warm settings permanantly

[nocturne flicker]

I say this but I've taken an interest in the Bogleheads subreddit

So am I allowed to joke anymore?

[sage sluice]

im gonna buy a 3 cent nft and put it on my linked-in and brag about my business savvy personality and then take a screenshot and make fun of me on reddit for that sweet sweet karma

[surreal comet]

Yeah guys I'm just an investor

[lone mango]

Had to look back and forth a few times

[surreal comet]

No need to crowd me

[sage sluice]

only because Ive extensively compared the differences between panels in the past but i immediately could tell which one was oled

but for the average joe i dont think anyone would care