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acoustic palm
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nein nein nein

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just gimme the tsar bomba

hoary zodiac
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Actually

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I don't think they made shells that large

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Nvm

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They did

acoustic palm
main loom
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yk whats the crazy thing

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i once wanted to go for 5060 ti for 2400$

acoustic palm
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and this is somehow not just as bad?

hoary zodiac
tranquil pebble
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mini Gustav gun shell

hoary zodiac
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They used massive guns against the Theodosian walls

main loom
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like a whole build

tranquil pebble
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Gustav was 80cm

hoary zodiac
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But it's not about the size

main loom
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with brands

hoary zodiac
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It's about how much kaboom you can pack into ot

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Or armour penetration if you're trying to get through thick armour

tranquil pebble
hoary zodiac
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So a "modern" 16 inch gun on an Iowa class battleship would outperform a larger gun from say 1453

tranquil pebble
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shape and design is hella important for AP

hoary zodiac
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Would massively outrange it too tbh

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Also one of the reasons why Dreadnought trolled the seas

tranquil pebble
hoary zodiac
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The older designs simply cannot match the range and firepower of Dreadnought

hoary zodiac
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Well

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"hella kaboom" for HE

tranquil pebble
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ancient ship vs modern is a one sided blood bath

hoary zodiac
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And "hella penetration" for AP

hoary zodiac
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The secondary guns would obliterate an entire fleet

acoustic palm
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@hoary zodiac what if i sell my pc before i go to college and get a matx/itx blackout pc

tranquil pebble
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like the ancient one may not even be able to penetrate the hull enough to sink a modern ship

tranquil pebble
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even with a magical sneak attack

hoary zodiac
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Actually

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Actually hmm

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Maybe not a laptop

acoustic palm
hoary zodiac
acoustic palm
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not m series but still really good

tranquil pebble
hoary zodiac
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The gun ranges of even the secondary batteries outclasses it

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Although

tranquil pebble
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ancient ship would be dead before even saw the modern one XD

hoary zodiac
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The problem is resupplying and refueling

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Which

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Good luck getting coal or oil

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Start drilling

acoustic palm
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but like i wanna do an itx build

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i think i can do it

hoary zodiac
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Do compact matx

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More cost effective and more versatile form factor

tranquil pebble
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can only imagine the carnage an HE shell would do to a wooden ship

acoustic palm
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isnt that like itx size but matx price?

hoary zodiac
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It's significantly bigger than the smaller itx cases

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But not that much bigger than larger itx

acoustic palm
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well ill be getting when like 60 series and 10000 series is out so

hoary zodiac
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On a practicality level standpoint compact matx is more practical

tranquil pebble
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Macro-ITX when?

hoary zodiac
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You can account for more

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Like gpu size changes

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Or new hdd

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On average compact matx cases are bigger than the smallest of itx cases

acoustic palm
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cause i wanna do mechanical engineering and doesnt that need a really good computer

hoary zodiac
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But against the average itx case

tranquil pebble
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case I plan to buy can accomadate something like up to 18 HDDs

hoary zodiac
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It's not that much bigger

acoustic palm
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aerospace focus

hoary zodiac
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A lot of unis have remote software

acoustic palm
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also i want to game on it and have it be portable so

hoary zodiac
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Well

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Never hurt to be dual purpose

tranquil pebble
acoustic palm
hoary zodiac
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Just like the dual purpose secondary batteries on USN and RN ships

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Helped a lot in the pacific theater

tranquil pebble
hoary zodiac
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Like

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What exactly are you doing

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It depends on the software, the complexity of the task

acoustic palm
tranquil pebble
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complexity of the projects involved will dictate what you need

hoary zodiac
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And a lot of other factors

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A decent overall rig will be good

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Just get something that's good price/perf

acoustic palm
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do you guys think am6 will be here in 2027

tranquil pebble
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obviously a project with 16,523 parts will be harder to run than one with like 7

hoary zodiac
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Imo I care about the price/$ rather than the platform

tranquil pebble
hoary zodiac
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If it's not accessible it practically doesn't exist for me

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Like the 5090

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I still refuse to acknowledge the 5090 as a real product

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$3000 gpu should reflect $3000 performance

tranquil pebble
hoary zodiac
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Not slightly better 4090

tranquil pebble
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existing only to set records lol

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and be hella expensive

hoary zodiac
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I'm not even talking about the gaming aspect

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Even for productivity it's terrible

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AI bros got even better hardware to play with so

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5090 is even worse in that regard

tranquil pebble
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the real hw is like $10k

hoary zodiac
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Yeah but at that point you're getting a lot more bang for the buck

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You're getting handicapped a lot on consumer hardware

tranquil pebble
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and yet people still pay the insane GeFarce prices

hoary zodiac
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We're really past the point where you can use the Nvenc/Cuda cope

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Unless you're actually doing this for a living

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At which point it makes sense

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Because it's an investment

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Like

tranquil pebble
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CUDA is not even magic. It does not make a card faster enough to justify the cost.

hoary zodiac
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Say for casual video editing

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These days I'd unironically take a 9070XT and cope with the longer render times

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Or hell

tranquil pebble
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so yeah unless you need it for work then yeah

hoary zodiac
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An intel

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Like

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The price gap is so massive

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And on average the performance gain is so crap for the price difference

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It's just not worth it unless those nvidia advantages are the main focus

tranquil pebble
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The whole 50 series is bad value lol

hoary zodiac
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Like if 90% of the time the gpu is going to be used for an application that scales extremely in favour of blackwell

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That is the only scenario that makes sense

hoary zodiac
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40 series exist

tranquil pebble
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4060M isnt bad for what it is, my laptop has one

hoary zodiac
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I have a 3070M

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It's probably slightly slower than the 4060M right?

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Both 8GB vram?

tranquil pebble
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laptop I got for $180 then put aout $100 into for RAM and SSD

hoary zodiac
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Tf

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$180?

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How?

tranquil pebble
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from a friend who thought it was dead

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but later found it was not but already replaced it

hoary zodiac
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I would've taken that in 2022 when I sold my pc

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Wtf

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My laptop was actually pretty cheap for the time

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It was used

acoustic palm
hoary zodiac
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Don't know how since the laptop model was still really new for the time

hoary zodiac
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I'm applying nvidia bias

tranquil pebble
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so yeah, less than $400 got me a laptop with 48 GB DDR5, i7 13620H, 2.5 TB SSD space, and 4060M.

hoary zodiac
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And the value argument is still crap

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That says a lot when I'm going out of my way to make nvidia look less...

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Obscene

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And it's still garbage value

tranquil pebble
hoary zodiac
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I actually really like Apple for prosumer uses

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I really wanna get an M4 macbook

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To test its compute performance

tranquil pebble
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i hear those are good for battery life

hoary zodiac
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Apple is great prosumer product but terrible consumer product

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The consumer side is just overpriced crap

tranquil pebble
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the base iPad seems ok

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but otherwise yeah

hoary zodiac
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Yeah tbh the iPads are pretty decent

tranquil pebble
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iPhone prices are obscene

hoary zodiac
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Apple pencil is pretty good from what I've heard too

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Great displays as well

hoary zodiac
tranquil pebble
hoary zodiac
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💀

tranquil pebble
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They need their products to be pretty. lol

hoary zodiac
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I'd honestly take an iPad as a drawing tablet

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The displays and apple pencil make a pretty compelling argument

tranquil pebble
hoary zodiac
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As a multipurpose device

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That's actually pretty good

tranquil pebble
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istg Wacom went even harder on selling for the name than Apple did

hoary zodiac
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Apple is marketing for mass appeal

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Wacom has a niche market and kind of a monopoly

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Not really because

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China

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Lord Thermaltake does not allow low tech devices to be overpriced

tranquil pebble
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I put a PA 120SE on an x3d and it is glorious

hoary zodiac
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The power of Chinese manufacturers spells doom for these kind of products

hoary zodiac
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Thermaltake is competing with themselves at this point

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Which is the funniest part

tranquil pebble
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the cooler is rated for way higher TDP than an x3D can do anyways

hoary zodiac
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They've beaten every one of their consumers except for Noctua

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Noctua had an actual niche so

tranquil pebble
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Noctua strikes me as the Apple of PC cooling

hoary zodiac
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They can survive unlike literally everyone else

hoary zodiac
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Sets them apart from consumers

tranquil pebble
hoary zodiac
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Because thermaltake just came in and steamrolled everyone in the market with low cost units

nocturne flicker
hoary zodiac
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Thermalright yeah

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Mb

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12am moment

tranquil pebble
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You got the Thermalwrong lol

nocturne flicker
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Will thermals take Thermalright to more than alright? More at 10

hoary zodiac
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Thermalwong

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(I'm Chinese I'm allowed to make this joke)

tranquil pebble
hoary zodiac
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See

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I'm a RK120SE enjoyer

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Extra ram clearance

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But that's not the main reason

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Literally the cheapest cooler on the market

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Thermalright does it again

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Outcompeted themselves

tranquil pebble
hoary zodiac
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This is actually stupid they're closing the gap with the single towers now

hoary zodiac
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Hmm

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Inflation?

tranquil pebble
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no it was within a year or so

hoary zodiac
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Hmm

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Maybe the price hike is because of model recognition

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RK120 is relatively unknown for now

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Tbh half of thermalrights' coolers are unknown

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Purely because they make so many of them

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And doesn't market them

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The products market themselves tbh

tranquil pebble
hoary zodiac
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Meritocracy

tranquil pebble
hoary zodiac
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Confuciussm at it's finest

hoary zodiac
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While if you look at the macro market

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The more expensive thermalrights still blow the competition out of the water

tranquil pebble
hoary zodiac
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I remember paying the same price for a single tower back in '19

tranquil pebble
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PA120SE is cheaper than the cooler I bought in 2008

hoary zodiac
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Do you remember the Macho Rev B

tranquil pebble
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even without accounting inflation

hoary zodiac
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It was like the original PA120

tranquil pebble
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with inflation accounted, it is a blood bath

hoary zodiac
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$50 cooler

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Actually came pretty close to a NF-D15

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At least... For the time ofc

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Nowadays the PA120 is way better

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Both in performance and price/perf

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At the time it was pretty good tho

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Tho Thermalrights was a very unknown brand back then

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I just saw it as the "WTF? $50 NH-D15?$ cooler

tranquil pebble
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my 2008/9 cooler was like

hoary zodiac
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So imagine my surprise

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When several years later

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Thermalrights does the same schtick again but this time they steamroll the entire air cooling market

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I wonder why the Macho wasn't more popular back in the day

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It doesn't hold a candle to the PA120

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But back in the day it was pretty good in price/$

tranquil pebble
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this went so hard late 00s

hoary zodiac
hoary zodiac
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Hyper threaded quad core

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Unironically that overclocked would've lasted a decade

tranquil pebble
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no overvoltage either

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even with locked multiplier

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You can imagine how speedy Vista was on that

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also had 1 TB HDD, and 1 GB GDDR5 Radeon HD 4890

hoary zodiac
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That would've been good even in 2020 tbh

tranquil pebble
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This was at a time where Radeon got the jump on Geforce for memory bandwidth

hoary zodiac
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As a mid ranger

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Pushing it but still

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Ehh

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2018 more reasonable

tranquil pebble
hoary zodiac
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Especially with the single threaded perf

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Wouldn't have to buy a new cpu until coffee lake

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Great investment

tranquil pebble
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it ran XP Pro x64 and Vista dual booted

hoary zodiac
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HD*

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ATI Ruby still a thing?

tranquil pebble
hoary zodiac
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I think I have a 4850

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I have this thing lying around at home

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I have a bunch of old crap in general

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9500 GT

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And I think something else I forgot about

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And then jump to HD 7850

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I wasn't even around in the PC space

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Around most of the prime time of the gpus I own

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Which is funny really

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Although

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I was rocking a Q9400 + HD 7850 rig in 2017

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Funniest thing ever because it's terrible value relative to sandy/ivy bridge

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But I thought it was cheap and I didn't fully realize that perf/$ was a thing back then

hoary zodiac
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Heavily bottlenecked the cpu and DDR2

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Still ran ghost recon wildlands at 25-40fps

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Console experience

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Which is actually pretty good considering that it is a literal pile of crap by today's standard

dusk knot
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Gamers

tranquil pebble
misty sparrow
nocturne flicker
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Engineer gaming

frosty sinew
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alright

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ive narrowed the laptop search down

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its between the lenovo pro 5 or pro 5i

proud jackal
main loom
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guys

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5070 or 5070 ti

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350$ diff

frosty sinew
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350$ seems like a lot

frosty sinew
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its faster single threaded

sinful blade
frosty sinew
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but as long as theyve resolved their "issues" with 13 and 14 gen

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then its fine

sinful blade
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Get a 9070xt

rigid sinew
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good morning everyone

frosty sinew
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morning

obsidian quest
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Is this used PC worth $1100 CAD?

I5 14400f 10 cores 16 threads
RTX 4060ti
32gb corsair ram
1tb nvme ssd
Liquid cooling
z980 motherboard

sinful blade
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Good morning naht

obsidian quest
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$1100*

frosty sinew
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yes

sinful blade
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Didn’t we talk about this last night

obsidian quest
idle nexus
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that motherboard doesn't uh... should be Z690 or Z790 anyway

main loom
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guys stop loving 9070 fr just tell me whats better
5070 or 5070 ti at 350$ diff

frosty sinew
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so battery life on legion pro 5s seem pretty midrange

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3-6 hrs

sinful blade
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5070, but it’s not really a good deal
A 9070xt will be much better at that price range

main loom
idle nexus
main loom
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and it looks nicer

proud jackal
main loom
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so 350$ not worth it ?

sinful blade
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And no

main loom
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also 5070 comes at 12 gb

idle nexus
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well, depending on games you play, et. al., 8gb is probably enough but it's already getting to where it's too little so think about how that'll be in 3-4 years

obsidian quest
idle nexus
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or in plain English: try to avoid 8gb graphics cards

main loom
idle nexus
idle nexus
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paraphrasing hardware unboxed, "an 8gb GPU in 2025 should cost less than $200"

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skip to like 13:16 for, "8gb bad" rant lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEsSUPuvHI4

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atomic current
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They should be 120

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Gib GPU for cheap

sinful blade
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Automod what is going on with you

idle nexus
sinful blade
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@main loom I can’t tell what you said to get muted, so I can’t unmute you yet

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Unmuted, ty for explaining

main loom
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thank you

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anyways i checked the prices again im wrong between 5070 and 5070 ti both are msi gaming trio
are 290$

sinful blade
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I really gotta fix automod’s logs
Being a pain in the ass

main loom
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785$ vs 1075$

idle nexus
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if I'm understanding correctly, even Nintendo Switch 2 has 12gb of VRAM (ya unified memory but effectively the same thing for comparison to PC) & Nintendo usually has the most mediocre hardware of Xbox, PlayStation, & Nintendo

main loom
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12 gb vs 16

sinful blade
main loom
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so you really think guys i can enjoy it with 2k and stuff for 2 years ?

sinful blade
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9070xt’s are like $700

main loom
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im being dumb

sinful blade
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Lay out your argument why

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Fsr4 exists on the 9070xt so 4k60fps is much easier achieved with frame gen

main loom
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i mean because i really like nvidia more with the stuff and trust it more and i like the msi gaming trio version

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and most of 9070 are expensive localy too

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and witthout some cool looking brands

frigid stag
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5070 ti is faster

main loom
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so im just now stuck in 785$ for 5070 VS 1075$ MSI GAMING TRIO VERSIONS BOTH
AND 12 GB VS 16 GB

sinful blade
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It’s not $290 faster

main loom
sinful blade
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Just stick with the 5070 at that point

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Or a 4080 super

idle nexus
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9070XT is a really good product. FSR4 is--from my understanding--on par with DLSS & AMD is now pretty caught up in raytracing performance. Nvidia's drivers have been plagued with issues since like January... MSRP to MSRP, AMD is the better option but ig that's debatable since 9070XT at MSRP is a unicorn

frigid stag
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I wouldn’t get either of those

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They’re all overpriced bs

main loom
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i heard 5070 ti is the same as 5080 with oc so would 5070 have good oc ?

frigid stag
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The ti is a lot faster than the non ti

sinful blade
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@main loom are you US based

main loom
idle nexus
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if you just have to get nvidia, you'd be wise to wait a few months cuz supposedly the Supers are coming

sinful blade
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Just go 5090 ez

idle nexus
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ehh... also iirc (if rumors are true) the 5070 should be biggest uplift of all Super series cards too. I gotta check that tho but supposedly 5070ti & 5080 Supers should have 24gb VRAM like 4090

sinful blade
main loom
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so maybe yeah waiting untill prices drop

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then sell my 5070

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and get 5080 super

main loom
sinful blade
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Oh if you’re into esports, no reason to get a 16GB atm

frosty sinew
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so to confirm the intel cpu shenanigans arent present on the 275hx?

main loom
sinful blade
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Just go with 5070

main loom
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not planning for any 4k soon

idle nexus
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5070 Super rumored to be 18gb VRAM btw

main loom
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u mean 5080 ?

sinful blade
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18gb vram isn’t something we’ve seen before is it?

idle nexus
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main loom
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oh

frosty sinew
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9 2gb?

main loom
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so i guess yeah 5070 more worth it

frosty sinew
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or 18 1gb

idle nexus
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3gb chips iirc

frosty sinew
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not exactly a nice number

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oh wack

sinful blade
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Thats just weird

frosty sinew
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now time to buy new storage and cpu

idle nexus
sinful blade
frosty sinew
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cant have my laptop being faster than my dsesktop 😭

idle nexus
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you could get an RTX5050 & put it in a garbage can? lol

frosty sinew
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unacceptable

sinful blade
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That 5090DD hurts to see

obsidian quest
idle nexus
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sinful blade
idle nexus
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lol wow

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HOF 5090 XOC BIOS doubled my 4090's

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2kw PL

sinful blade
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@obsidian quest

sinful blade
idle nexus
main loom
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@sinful blade honestly man thank you alot i saw the diff between 5070 and ti its like more 10 fps

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i have saved some money now

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and would do the right thing

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thank you alot

sinful blade
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🫡

idle nexus
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I wish Galax sold in the US more so maybe prices would go down lol

misty sparrow
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since the 5070super is coming out

dusk knot
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Hhmm

idle nexus
misty sparrow
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they kept the 4070 around

idle nexus
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damn I gotta be honest, this is some really nice looking garbage

misty sparrow
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dont really see cards like it

idle nexus
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ig a 5050 does need to have some redeeming quality lol

sinful blade
sinful blade
idle nexus
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this is a cool 4090

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a little too anime for my taste generally but I like the green lol

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I don't remember the master chief one tbh

sinful blade
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It was a MANLI one

main loom
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@sinful blade last question i really love the psu of asus gold aura i like how it looks and the straps they provide for the cables but it priced at 270$ while i can get seasonic for 175$

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what you say ?

idle nexus
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oh not this

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isn't that the something tank?

main loom
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is seasonic a good brand

idle nexus
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yes

main loom
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orr should i even go with asus one

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at 275$

idle nexus
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Asus PSUs seem overpriced

sinful blade
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Why not use Corsair with custom cables?

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Refurb*

main loom
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i dont think that i will find good refurb ones

misty sparrow
main loom
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but i really like the straps and the look of asus aura

sinful blade
misty sparrow
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i thought about the doom dark ages one

main loom
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when actually i will not be able to see it

idle nexus
main loom
sinful blade
idle nexus
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they should do something like this again but exclude Disney somehow... nvm ig that won't work nvm

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I've never owned a Corsair PSU but heard good things

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I usually get Thermaltake or EVGA

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I haven't bought a PSU in awhile

worthy meteor
misty sparrow
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too bad the game sucked

idle nexus
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looks nice

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too bad the game sucked

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lmao

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beat me

misty sparrow
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shared braincells

main loom
misty sparrow
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Then again I did try running the game on a 1060 6GB

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i think that was below minimum spec

idle nexus
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I ran it on 12900K/3080ti & it ran alright

misty sparrow
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but the game was so boring i didn't even want to keep playing

idle nexus
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the crappy engine & poor optimizations were only the icing on the cake of a game that did way too little with way too much

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29308490280 planets

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& like 95% are copy & paste

misty sparrow
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I don't know why Bethesda is still messing around with the Creation Engine

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to be fair, for the planet thing it's a given there will be some planets that will have nothing in them

but for the ones that had people in them, they recycled the same dungeons or something

idle nexus
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HOF without white PCB just isn't the same

idle nexus
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just delete those planets

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don't waste my time lol

misty sparrow
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all they had to do was copy mass effect and no mans sky

idle nexus
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I had fun with that game with modding for shipbuilding

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M-Class ships ftw

misty sparrow
#

Your wife stole some of your clothes

idle nexus
#

lol wym blue is a color

sinful blade
#

I only own blue, gray, and black lmao

#

I don’t own a single thing of shorts

#

There were unmentionables in that picture

misty sparrow
#

good thing i didnt see the unmentionables

#

but anyway, if you know yourself you only own blue, gray, and black maybe she's on to something, unless for the blues they aren't really dark blues

sinful blade
#

It’s just blue, dark blue, gray, and black

misty sparrow
#

no light blues?

main loom
#

@sinful blade whats the deal with 5060 ti

#

16 gb

misty sparrow
#

sometimes blue can be so dark it looks like black, and its a bit hard to tell the difference between navy and black

main loom
#

its again 10 frames diff

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between it and 5070

idle nexus
sinful blade
#

If it’s cheaper for you, go ahead
Entirely up to you

idle nexus
main loom
#

i choose r7 9800x3d and msi x870e carbon wifi

#

thats alone is 1000$

misty sparrow
#

oh i didnt even get to the part where you could build ships

#

crazy huge

idle nexus
#

that was the best part tbh

misty sparrow
#

yeah the whole space exploration thing was lost on me because you could just fast travel to planets with no exploration needed

#

not like NMS where you can warp drive there

idle nexus
#

ya but occasionally you'd find other ships & stuff flying around

#

I mean the whole game felt incomplete

#

remember when it was cool to build your own keyboard? jthat always seemed so unecessarily expensive to me I dunno

misty sparrow
#

i always just bought premade keyboards because the base was always so pricey

idle nexus
#

ya it was nuts

#

cool thing to do but some keycaps & stuff were like hundreds of dollars

misty sparrow
#

especially those specialty keycaps

#

i thought about that nvidia keycap that looked like a 3080

#

had a fan you could spin

idle nexus
#

lol necessary

#

I got these caps

misty sparrow
#

looks good

idle nexus
#

and these

#

not really sure what I'll do with them lol

frosty sinew
#

do i just send it with the 4tb

sinful blade
#

But idk if I can remove my keys

frigid stag
#

Probably not

#

Cause it’s not mechanical

idle nexus
#

you might be able to

#

no idea if it'll go back on tho lol

frosty sinew
#

ok ive decided on the 4tb

idle nexus
#

ya it's worth it imo

#

I always regret not getting like more than 2tb at a time for whatever reason lol

frosty sinew
#

esp with only the 2 slots

#

ive got 1 card

#

so i can do 3

frosty sinew
#

e f and g are hard drives

lofty jolt
# frosty sinew

I have the same thing except all of my partitions are actual drives and they're all SSD's (990 pro m.2 SSD drives and 870 QVO 2.5 inch SATA 6 SSD drives)

frosty sinew
#

all induvidual drives

lofty jolt
#

Nice

#

The prices for these 870 QVO's are insane rn tbh

frosty sinew
#

maybe i go all solid state lol

lofty jolt
worn wave
frosty sinew
worn wave
#

Sata with shitty QLC and no dram

lofty jolt
lofty jolt
worn wave
#

QVO? Or Evo?

#

EVO drives are great

frosty sinew
#

it literally costs more than the nvme 4tb lol

#

300 for tb vs 269

worn wave
lofty jolt
worn wave
lofty jolt
#

Thats like comparing a non m.2 ssd to a HDD and saying a HDD is bad bc of the price lol

lofty jolt
worn wave
#

Bro cannot accept that the qvo is a bad drive

lofty jolt
#

so

frosty sinew
#

im saying the fact that the smaller and faster drive is cheaper than the big and slow one is dumb

lofty jolt
#

So are SATA 6 drives compared to M.2's with the same storage amount..

frosty sinew
worn wave
#

You can literally get an sn850x 8tb for $600 LMAO

lofty jolt
sullen breach
#

Hello all.

frosty sinew
sullen breach
#

Is anyone available to assist me with HP Omen gaming laptop issue I am having?

worn wave
#

I hope you aren't giving your PC build customers QVOs

boreal copperBOT
sullen breach
#

Thank you Steviejoe

#

All right. I have a 2021 HP Omen 15z-en100 gaming laptop. A few months ago the left side USB-A port failed. The Flex I/O connecter board #1 (I believe that this the designation for the board) has two ports: one is the USB-A SuperSpeed 3.2 Gen 1, 5Gpbs port, and the other is an HDMI port.

worn wave
#

kekw crazy how people can amass this much of a following with so little brain

sullen breach
#

Since the HDMI port is still functioning, I believe it may be just the USB-A port itself and not the board or ribbon

lofty jolt
sullen breach
#

Would it be feasible to just replace the port without purchasing a new board or ribbon?

worn wave
worn wave
worn wave
frosty sinew
#

What is happening rn lmao

worn wave
sullen breach
#

You're right Steviejoe. They are soldered to the board. I have been having difficulty finding the board and ribbon for my laptop, so I think the port would be the best option to save money. However, I have never worked on a laptop in that degree before. Just general maintenance, such as cleaning, replacing a battery or installing storage.

frosty sinew
#

i just asked abt ssd 😭

frosty sinew
#

anyone with decent soldering skills could bang that out

sullen breach
#

Here's the problem.

worn wave
sullen breach
#

I moved away from the States back in 2016. I wouldn't trust the techs here to do a good job.

#

Where I live curently, in Ecuador, South America.

frosty sinew
#

ohhhh

#

i mean

#

buy an iron

#

and try?

#

can i get a photo

sullen breach
#

I can't take the risk of destroying my laptop because of my inexperience. This rig cost over $2k.

fresh timber
#

should have bought a better laptop then

#

user error

sullen breach
#

It's just a port.

#

This laptop has been a workhorse

frosty sinew
worn wave
sullen breach
#

The port failed. However, the HDMI port is still functioning.

sullen breach
#

I believe the HDMI port and the USB-A port are on the same board.

#

So, more than likely it's just the port itself.

frosty sinew
#

take a look inside the usb port

#

pins prob damaged

sullen breach
#

Possibly. I may have done it unknowingly.

fresh timber
#

Just go to a repair shop

#

Ez

sullen breach
#

Vex, I moved away from the States back in 2016 to Ecuador, South America. I wouldn't trust the techs here with this type of laptop.

fresh timber
#

Why not

#

Find a reputable place

#

Google reviews

sullen breach
#

Thta's the problem. Not many are.

#

Even though they say they are, they hare not.

#

are*

frosty sinew
#

well idk what to tell you thne

#

either mail it to a tech in the us or deal with it 🤷‍♂️

sullen breach
#

The easiest thing to do would be to replace the entire board and ribbon. It's just detaching the original ribbon and removing the screw for the board. Then, attach the new ribbon and screw in the new board.

frosty sinew
#

then find one ig?

sullen breach
#

I'm having diffuclty finding the parts and I was wondering if any of you have any suggestions of a good website to find the parts. That's if they are even available anymore.

#

I usually go to Newegg, but they don't have them.

#

I tried a few other sites and no luck.

frosty sinew
#

wait which board

#

this what it looks like?

sullen breach
#

The Flex I/O connecter board #1

#

Yes, that's it

frosty sinew
#

circle it on the ss please

#

top left?

sullen breach
#

top right

frosty sinew
sullen breach
#

Yes

frosty sinew
#

that aint a breakout board

#

thats the main pcb

#

also that took me about 3 seconds

sullen breach
#

That is two USB-A ports. I need one with one usb-A port and one HDMI port. Hold on, I'll circle the location of the USB-A port.

frosty sinew
#

i know

#

but that area is the main board

#

only way to fix that is a new mainboard or just swap the port

lone mango
sullen breach
#

I can't post pictures.

main loom
#

Corsair RM1000e - 1000w 80 Gold Fully Modular PCie 5 or seasonic 1000 watts

sullen breach
#

It's the port closest to the Ethernet cable port.

frosty sinew
#

thats the main board

#

not a breakout board

sullen breach
#

Oh..hell.

#

You're right.

sinful blade
frosty sinew
#

jk

#

50% of the time im 80% correct

sullen breach
#

Well, then it's just the port itself I have to replace.

frosty sinew
#

yep

#

so either just leave it or learn a new skill

sullen breach
#

Which involves soldering.

#

Okay. You're right. However, could you please recommend a good website to get that port? It's going to be a SuperSpeed 3.2 Gen-1, 5Gbps port.

#

Someone needs to create a snap on and snap off port. That would make it much easier.

frosty sinew
#

cough cough framework

#

lol

sullen breach
#

lol

#

Awesome, do you know of a good website to purchase that port?

frosty sinew
#

aliexpress tbh

sullen breach
frosty sinew
#

oh digikey works great

#

didnt knwo they shipped there

sullen breach
#

They don't. I'll need to send it to a courier and the courier will bring it to me. Another good friend. So, I will not be charged for shipping.

#

So, that part will work fine. Correct?

frosty sinew
#

doesnt look like it

#

if you look at the pic

sullen breach
#

?

frosty sinew
#

its a middle mount

sullen breach
#

And I need which mount?

#

Sorry guys. As you can tell, I'm pretty green.

frosty sinew
sullen breach
#

Okay, what would I need to input into the search bar for the mount?

#

4 prong?

frosty sinew
#
#

like 75% sure its one of these

#

but youd have to open it up and check

sullen breach
#

Thank you Awesome. Let me check those links.

fresh timber
#

heyyyyyy

sullen breach
frosty sinew
#

@worn wave is sata storage without nand even worth buying?

worn wave
#

Sata ssds can be ok at the right price point

tranquil pebble
frosty sinew
#

no ssds

#

i wanna replace some of my hdds with ssds

worn wave
#

I think nand is literally what a ssd is

tranquil pebble
#

What do you mean without nand then?

worn wave
#

Nand flash chips are the storage medium

frosty sinew
#

but like its 25$ more than cashc

sullen breach
#

I have 5 ssds

frosty sinew
#

sorry the cache

worn wave
#

Dram

frosty sinew
#

yeah

#

my bad lol

worn wave
#

For sata ssds you ideally want dram

tranquil pebble
#

Even HDDs have cache too btw

sullen breach
#

Brb Awesome

worn wave
#

Nvme ssds don't need dram as badly

tranquil pebble
#

My NVMe has about 4 GB DRAM IIRC

#

and a 5 core controller

frosty sinew
#

its a pretty substantial difference

worn wave
#

If you have m.2 slots on your mobo I would get an nvme drive

tranquil pebble
#

it will come down to if you value $ per GB or performance more

worn wave
#

Prices have fallen a lot the past few years

frosty sinew
#

yeah i am but i wanna replace some of my sata hdds with sata ssds

tranquil pebble
frosty sinew
tranquil pebble
#

There are other factors to look at for SSDs too though

#

Reliability of the controller in particular

frigid stag
#

I should try put an nvme in my z87

tranquil pebble
#

but that should be a non-issue on the good brands for the most part

frosty sinew
#

yeah i dont buy anything other than wd samsung crucial or seagate

tranquil pebble
frigid stag
#

Well ye those are the main ones

worn wave
frosty sinew
#

that actually seems good

tranquil pebble
#

but do not buy some random noname SSD

frigid stag
#

Dramless sata yikes

worn wave
frosty sinew
frigid stag
#

What happened to mx500

frosty sinew
#

73 usd

worn wave
#

Ok

#

Still not amazing when you can get nvme ssds for like $50/tb

frosty sinew
#

crucial bx500 is 2tb for 163 tho compared to 200

tranquil pebble
frosty sinew
#

trusting second hand storage?

tranquil pebble
#

drive brutally killed load times lol

frosty sinew
#

wait what the hell why are nvmes cheaper than sata

proud jackal
worn wave
tranquil pebble
proud jackal
#

Less materials

frosty sinew
#

40$ less materials?

proud jackal
#

Idk

tranquil pebble
#

enterprise is what you want for mission critical servers tbh

frosty sinew
#

they arent rlly cheaper

tranquil pebble
#

for gaming, its overkill as hell

#

I am likely going to get a 20 TB enterprise HDD tbh for archival of things

tranquil pebble
#

I might separate OS install and other stuff across two SSDs since my laptop allows for that

#

You can have one unpowered for 10 years and come back to good data still being there. Do that with an SSD, and good luck lol

tranquil pebble
#

yeah dont leave those unpowered for too many months

#

might still be fine but you are overdue to refresh them

#

3 to 5 years is the limit according to google so solid chance this reminder saved some data

honest birch
#

Doing another build

dusk knot
#

Specs?

obsidian quest
#

Is this used pc a good deal for $1,050 CAD?

I5 14400 F 10 cores 16 threads
RTX 4060 ti 16gb
32gb corsair ddr4 ram
1tb nvme ssd
liquid cooling
motherboard z790 wifi

frosty sinew
#

Decent

fresh timber
#

@dusk knot want my pc

#

its too big

fresh timber
#

hey

#

cloud

lone mango
#

Get it

fresh timber
#

get it?

obsidian quest
fresh timber
#

okay

#

i want

lone mango
fresh timber
#

i want a new motherboard kek

lone mango
fresh timber
#

i want a motherboard that will let me run dual gpu

#

lolll

#

linus son is as tall as linus

#

lmfao

lone mango
fresh timber
#

wait he might be taller

#

whos taller

#

i returned this

#

legion go is ass

lone mango
#

Linus is a little bit taller

fresh timber
#

trash performance

fresh timber
lone mango
#

Smth like that idk

fresh timber
#

yeah

#

hes a younger gent

lone mango
#

Dont really watch ltt like that

fresh timber
#

same

#

his family life is pretty private

lone mango
fresh timber
#

yeah, other youtubers.. you know everything

lone mango
#

Good on him for doing that

fresh timber
#

he shouldnt get the legion go

fresh timber
#

legion go is loud, heavy, display is too good for the gpu

#

legion go has a 1440p 8 inch display and can balrey run that

lone mango
#

Jay keeps things private too unless its something big with his health

#

Yall remember tech of tomorrow?

fresh timber
#

who

lone mango
#

He had major health issues

fresh timber
#

ufd tech family has worst ngl

lone mango
#

And his channel kept declining

fresh timber
#

if i had to get a handheld today id prob get the xbox ally x

lone mango
#

I don’t think he uploads anymore

fresh timber
#

give me a ally x and a battery bank

#

when i get my laptop its going to be my main portable gaming machine

rancid juniper
remote geode
#

is this cp2077

main loom
#

Is there a better motherboard than this

#

Look how much ports it have

remote geode
#

I don't think this is a card

dusk knot
main loom
#

Mb

main loom
remote geode
#

looks pretty good tho

rancid juniper
remote geode
rancid juniper
rancid juniper
remote geode
#

i hate pl !!! raaah

main loom
remote geode
#

i really don't like the move that they did when they did the level scaling

main loom
#

This mb is at 500$

royal crow
#

Thx to @worn wave for the reco

rancid juniper
#

thinking its an update i just said post

#

lol

worn wave
remote geode
royal crow
remote geode
wary fjord
#

Sleep

worn wave
#

Well lemme know how it is. I haven't used one personally cause I have an apple watch but I've heard for $70 the cmf watch is pretty great

remote geode
#

back in the day some areas had weak enemies and strong enemies

rancid juniper
remote geode
rancid juniper
#

🤔

acoustic palm
remote geode
#

power limits are evil !!

rancid juniper
#

college basketball?

dusk knot
#

Another

#

Basketball game

upper rain
#

@lone mango @fresh timber

frigid stag
#

My hood lifts up the other way 🗿

rancid juniper
upper rain
#

i know a great doctor for that kind of thing

fresh timber
#

how to convice my grandpa i need $300 to make the home wifi good

frigid stag
#

It’s actually a feature not a bug

upper rain
frigid stag
#

It’s so the window doesn’t get smashed

#

Just in case

upper rain
upper rain
fresh timber
#

im prob just going to buy xfinity wifi pods

upper rain
fresh timber
#

yeah

#

$15 a month, not my money

dusk knot
#

Hm

fresh timber
#

we need it in this house

#

and by we i mean not me cause idc

#

pc ethernet, me happy

#

why am i overthinking this

upper rain
#

you overthink, i don't think at all

#

we are not the same

fresh timber
#

theirs only a few place the router can go, and as long as i get ethernet i couldnt give two smacks

rancid juniper
#

worst thing: Overthinking on tests

fresh timber
#

i just wanna get gigabit to my pc kek

rancid juniper
#

nah, mods limit his speed to 300mbps

fresh timber
#

ill make technitian figure that out

#

as long as pc get internet im happy

misty sparrow
upper rain
tranquil pebble
# rancid juniper

Beam tubers can be pretty annoying with monetization of their content ngl. I saw one that straight up just added super fast rivers to grid map and wanted patreon sub to download it lol.

#

Like nah I am not paying for a copy paste job in the map editor

rancid juniper
tranquil pebble
#

In less than 10 mins

rancid juniper
#

buys beamng mod

the mod:

tranquil pebble
#

I would not recommend paying for mods that are not well known. Very few are worth the risk.

rancid juniper
#

+potential added virus

tranquil pebble
#

And some are straight up stolen content

rancid juniper
#

a shame really because i thought the modding scene for beamng would be pretty good

#

there are some but people wanna get them $$$

tranquil pebble
#

Yeah but unfortunately there are scammers among them

rancid juniper
#

real

tranquil pebble
#

Hmm.. Wonder if any good USB 10gig NICs exist

tranquil pebble
tall pine
#

I am debating waterblocking my CPU & RAM vs a GPU upgrade. I am having a lot of fun and mental torture doing all this overclocking.

@idle nexus

upper rain
#

homie atp just buy new sticks to fiddle with instead

#

probably cheaper that way too lol

tall pine
#

$350 kit

#

The RAM I am looking at

upper rain
#

$350 ram and ur on a 3070

tall pine
#

I don't game much.

upper rain
#

do you use the cpu and ram for stuff or is that just to have too?

tall pine
#

I definitely want to upgrade it eventually though.

tall pine
misty sparrow
#

how much ram is it

tall pine
#

Like I would love to have a better GPU but I haven't had this much fun doing something in a very long time.

tall pine
misty sparrow
#

yes

tall pine
#

2x32GB 6000cl26-36-36-96 1.45v

#

I am trying to get a highly binned kit for my next set of RAM.

frosty sinew
#

is an ethernet surge adapter a good idea for a dorm

tall pine
#

I want to keep my temps on both the CPU and RAM well under control to sustain high frequencies.

misty sparrow
#

wow i had no idea 64GB kits were that pricey

tall pine
#

Best bin that isn't EOL.

#

6000cl28 at 1.45v is $260ish

#

If I use soft tubing would that allow me to basically make my own aio allowing me to take my waterblocks on and off a the components without draining it like an AIO?

misty sparrow
#

if i knew, i'd give you a good answer

#

i don't mess with AIOs

dusk knot
#

Hm

frosty sinew
#

ok bad idea

#

upgrade from 2x16 to 4x16 on my 5700x

#

its all 3600 cl16

#

yay or nay

fresh timber
fresh timber
lone mango
#

Should I just not plug in the front panel audio

dusk knot
#

Huh?

#

Remove the gpu

#

Or use USB audio

misty sparrow
#

hey guys guess what

fresh timber
#

Chicken bite

#

@rigid sinew hi

lone mango
#

Buyer may want to use front panel audio

tall pine
#

Hmm seems to loop the CPU (Direct Die) and RAM will cost just under $800

nocturne flicker
#

Ban for spam

fresh timber
nocturne flicker
fresh timber
#

Oh