tech-deals-discussion

[grand orbit]

By that time you need to also motherboard power supply and cooler swap

[high radish]

[light holly]

imo.. if a mobo could look generic.. that proart one def looks generic.

[grand orbit]

It does look kind of clean but there's literally no reason to get it even at the reduced price

[fair moon]

looks fine to me

visual wise

almost all black with some bronze accents

though the audio visualizer graphic over the IO looks a little odd

[azure pond]

omg guys, h510 is on sale for $70

[stoic crest]

[cinder kiln]

They'll give me $70 to take it?

[azure pond]

id pay $30 for it, since i can dremmel it

[cinder kiln]

The nzxt bois: WHOA WHAT!? CUSTOM FLOW EDITION?

[stoic crest]

nzxt has to pay me $70 to use that oven

then i will shill for them

well they better pay me to use their products

then imma be the nzxt fan

[fair moon]

that TUF case with the strap on the front lmao

good value bundle tho

well maybe not that great its a good motherboard not weird oem stuff

if only there was a microcenter close to me

[azure pond]

It's pretty good

Throw a 10400f in that for $120, and a 16gb kit of ram for $50, and you've got a sub $800 3060 ti build

[fair moon]

yeah I was thinking prebuilt quality parts but its a microcenter bundle so better than I thought

[azure pond]

Yeah, psu is good enough, more than fine for a 3060 ti. Case has decent airflow, mobo I'm not sure in but it's easily enough for a 10400-11400 (depending on prices)

[fair moon]

the mobo looks nice

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards-Components/Motherboards/PRIME/PRIME-Z590-A/

[pulsar fable]

There's also the amd version of the barebones package
https://www.microcenter.com/product/646269/asus-bb-amd-value-2-barebones-pc

[azure pond]

That's kinda clean

[azure pond]

I'd actually get this one over the intel one, since you can throw a 5600 in it

Though that is $55 more than a 10400f rn

So eh

Could go either way

[pulsar fable]

Just giving options

Not saying which one is better

[azure pond]

I know, just giving my opinion on the two

[grand orbit]

@lean briar try do links instead of pics please

[fair moon]

good deal tho

[pulsar fable]

If we're talking about the performance of cheap chips to put in that Intel barebones, would the $40 price jump for an 11600k be worth it over the 10400?

[fair moon]

probably

if you plan on playing anything cpu intensive

[pulsar fable]

Wait a second

Why does the 11600k have a $50 price cut with a motherboard but the 11400 and 10400 only have $20?

You know what, not worth questioning

[fair moon]

10400 is similar to r3600 in gaming iirc

and my 3600x was bottlenecking my 3060ti in some games

11600k probably better buy for 3060ti

[high radish]

12400f is

[pulsar fable]

I mean, I would go 11th gen anyway on that barebones build anyway to take advantage of that pcie gen 4 m.2 lane that would otherwise be disabled in 10th gen

[lean briar]

Yeah i got it from ther server

Didnt have a link

[grand orbit]

In stores that have that stock I'd assume I'd assume it's micro center by the UI

[gusty willow]

yeah its microcenter

[steel wren]

then its probably the same deal as the one that bacca posted xD

[steel sapphire]

ive seen custom airflow panels for the h510 elite

like at that point why did you buy an h510 elite lmao

theres a guy that sells them on etsy

to me it just seems like paying $200 for a $100 case but with extra steps

[cinder kiln]

yeah I've seen them lol

[pulsar fable]

Well, took a quick look on Slickdeals and found the deal the photo was talking about
https://slickdeals.net/f/15929674-cpu-mobo-combo-micro-center-asus-z590-p-motherboard-i7-11700k-270-in-store-only?src=catpagev2

[azure pond]

@steel wren

@fair moon

@lean briar

it is an a liquid cooled one though

alr oos nvm

[strange anvil]

Does anyone have recommendations for a good 1440p monitor <$300?

[azure pond]

g27q

[strange anvil]

Funny thing is I've asked on 3 seperate servers, this is always the 1st response

...which should probably mean something to me

[flat junco]

Oof, another one?

I wonder why they're being listed so cheap 🤔

[azure pond]

not sure, but they sell out super quick, im assuming theyre low stock

i wonder if theres anything wrong with them...

if there is, the warranty should cover it, right?

[flat junco]

Yeah it should, I'll find out next week lol.

I checked about an hour ago and didn't see anything

[strange anvil]

The g27q or?

[flat junco]

Mine hasn't been shipped yet, but it has a tracking number

[azure pond]

no

[flat junco]

3080

[azure pond]

there was a 3080 12gb on b stock for $415

it was a hybrid too

[strange anvil]

I only have a 580, but it serves me good enough

[azure pond]

i wouldnt run 2k on a 580

not if youre gaming

[strange anvil]

I'm gaming and I'd like to do 2k

Minecraft in 2k is very nice

[azure pond]

any gpu focused games will suffer

[strange anvil]

The most powerful game I'm playing is borderlands 3 and maybe NMS

...maybe maybe maybe warzone

[azure pond]

warzone will maybe get 55fps at low settings

[strange anvil]

I get 60 on medium

[azure pond]

at 2k?

[strange anvil]

Yes

Then that monitor went on the fritz

[azure pond]

ah

[strange anvil]

Thus why I'm asking for monitor recommendations

[azure pond]

thought you were upgrading monitor

[strange anvil]

I've been told the g27q is a good one

[azure pond]

g27q is pog

[strange anvil]

I'm upgrading from a broken monitor to a functioning one

[loud sandal]

WHAT THE HELL 3080 FOR $415

[strange anvil]

Where?

Also what?

[azure pond]

B stock

[strange anvil]

Huh

[azure pond]

evga B stock

its out of stock though

[loud sandal]

Is this good buy and it's capable of running h
Gta 5 and fornite

[azure pond]

easily

[flat junco]

Card shipped, specs say the card weighs 4.66 pounds. The box weighs 7 pounds

Must be all the JB weld holding it together

[wide onyx]

Damn, 3090s are under $1k again

[fleet marlin]

TUF 12GB 3080 for $750 though.

[light holly]

I'm regretting mine

you don't control the fans by % of rpm

you have to control them by % of power supplied

and it's annoying as heck

[fleet marlin]

Isolated incident for the most part I'd say/hope, but I'll still aim for the strix. Especially if it also hits 750

[light holly]

seems to be common with the card

I did some digging and it's a tuf thing.

it also doesn't like to use fan curves that aren't it's own

I've spent all day getting it figured out. I'm at my wits end

I was going to flash zotac vbios to it, but I'm scared to do it

I believe the pcbs have to be same layout or whatever for the vbios to work, and I can't find the layout of my cards pcb

[steel wren]

return it maybe? 50 bucks more and you can get an strix

[light holly]

I mean, it works. just differently than I feel it should.

I'll use it for a couple more weeks to see if anything happens before I decide.. I got it through Amazon so...

Actually, just going to chat with Amazon and see if they can send me a new one before I return this one.

[light holly]

Looks like the best they can do is refund me after I've sent it back and I'll have to order a different card.

[light holly]

@fleet marlin sadly, the only strix atm is open box for $750.

alright. Got a refund. Have to return this one by August 22nd. Please ping me when a strix 3080 12gb goes on sale please 🙂

[light bay]

@light holly ok

😳

its time to spend $800

[light holly]

oh yeah?

[light bay]

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1684873-REG/asus_rog_strix_rtx3080_o12g_gaming_rog_strix_geforce_rtx.html

b&h has it

[light holly]

bleh

[light holly]

it says checkout is closed for 24 hours

[light bay]

oh for me it says in stock lol

[light holly]

yeah says in stock for me as well

[light bay]

oh that thing

rip

[light holly]

yeah lol

[light bay]

well that explains why its still in stock

[light holly]

I should probably see if I even have another pcie 8pin

[fleet marlin]

Pssh, bet you strix is back at amazon within 4 days. If you did happen to use prime card for the whole cost, there's $40 back also.

[light holly]

pfft. I have tons of pcie

I thought I only had 2 tbh, but I have 3 single 8pins and 3 daisy 8 pins lol

@strange warren #tech-deals is for posting tech deals. Ask your question in #general-chat

[steel wren]

According to newegg backorder system, new strixs will be on stock this sunday

[cinder kiln]

[quasi pasture]

according to my bank account, i will not be able to buy one

https://tenor.com/view/copium-meme-pepe-frog-gif-26117735

[stoic crest]

f

[lean briar]

https://www.newegg.com/asus-rog-strix-z590-a-gaming-wifi/p/N82E16813119371 130$ after mir and code

[fair moon]

3050ti should have been 6gb

Even on a 1080p laptop 4gb is gonna be a problem in lots of modern games going forward

[grand orbit]

Yeah definitely

[torpid night]

they always lowball the XX50

[fair moon]

my 1050 laptop has 4gb

2 generations old

3050ti is powerful enough that 4gb vram limits it in a lot of games

though i guess the normal 1050 only had 2gb

[grand orbit]

1660 laptop has 6gb iirc lol

[prisma cosmos]

You'd have more stable frames though

[fair moon]

and 2060

1650 had 4 though

[stoic crest]

1050 mobile had 3 vram variants

2, 3 and 4 gigs

[grand orbit]

Chaos

[fair moon]

there was a 3gig one 0_o

So desktop had a 1050 2gb and 1050ti 4g
Laptops got 1050 2, 3, or 4gb or 1050ti 4gb

So many variants

Also in my laptop that has a 4g 1050 it's not listed as "mobile" or gtx1050M, dunno if that's a different chip or the naming just wasn't consistent

[shut spoke]

Not bad considering I could add a 5800x and it would still be way better than my current pc for around the same price

Pre-bent pipes helps a lot

[fair moon]

yeah microcenter has had some good "barebones" builds lately

[shut spoke]

The cpu deals have also been pretty good lately. Might be a bit cheaper to just go barebones and get a cpu from there

[stoic crest]

nvidia dropped mobile naming ever since pascal, so yeah

[glacial horizon]

Heyo heyo! First time chatter in here! ^-^

[light holly]

Welcome. #general-chat would be a good spot to get to know people 🙂

[glacial horizon]

Oops! Very true! Thank you! Also, If I had a question about a PC from Newegg I was considering, where would I go for that?

[light holly]

#general-chat would be a good spot to start.

[glacial horizon]

Thank you!

[loud sandal]

they cant do that 3060 is 6GB haha

[fair moon]

Make 3060 8

[loud sandal]

but what about 3070\

hahaha

[fair moon]

Then theres no vram jump to 3070 but decent performance boost

Make 3060 7gb 😈

[light bay]

Absolute menace

[loud sandal]

so its like 3060 has less vram then 3070 but 3070 is better

3080 (sometimes) has more vram then 3070 but same performace LOL

[high radish]

why you say its 813$ ? it shows 799.99 to me

[grand orbit]

13 shipping

[high radish]

oh and + 0.99$ shipping at cart

shipping probably changing

also checkout is disabled for another 4hour

[loud sandal]

lol

[grand orbit]

oh pcpp said 13 shipping cool

[grand orbit]

huh why?

[high radish]

shabbat

[grand orbit]

watt now

[loud sandal]

[high radish]

they disabling checkout at shabbat lol

thats what BH used to do

[fair moon]

It is BH

Or do you mean they used to do it but stopped for a while?

[high radish]

yeah they used to do it all the time\

[loud sandal]

I think this

[high radish]

for years

[grand orbit]

oh

[high radish]

I remember how people were capming on BH for used gpus back in shortage days lol

tons of people were camping for few cards

and it were getting oos right at checkout is enabled

good old days lol

btw is 5900x worth 350$ over 12700k ?

[steel wren]

12700k

[high radish]

[pallid geyser]

Dang, 3080s so affordable now

[light holly]

BHphoto checkout opens in 15 minutes guys

@muted geyser

[azure pond]

It's in multiple channels

Most channels

[light holly]

@high radish @grand orbit BHPhoto is open for checkout now.

[cinder kiln]

Did you get a strix? @light holly

[light holly]

heh

https://www.newegg.com/sapphire-11317-04-20g/p/N82E16814202418

[cinder kiln]

I know I was wondering if you jumped on the strix yet lol

[light holly]

nope. I grabbed the sapphire

[cinder kiln]

Oh I see

Well it should be good. GN liked the cooler on it

[light holly]

aesthetics made me fall in love instantly.

[cinder kiln]

Mainly for the repair factor but still

[light holly]

performance looked good too in the GN vid.

[cinder kiln]

Ye

[light holly]

as well as on the techpower website

[cinder kiln]

Steve likes the fan access a lot tho

[light holly]

yeah that is a big plus

I also grabbed all new fans for my PC

[cinder kiln]

And I agree, you get a good mount on there and the fan fails, you don't wanna take it all apart

Which fans?

Oh wait I remember the pic earlier

[light holly]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09MJDRYM9

[cinder kiln]

P12's

Ye

My b I'm at work lol

[light holly]

all good

I paid for 3 day shipping so.. hopefully it gets here on the day it says it will. (for gpu)

if it doesn't then I'm gonna be calling newegg to get a refund on the shipping cost.

supposed to be here tuesday. and the fans and extensions should be here wednesday

really wish I could get custom heatsinks made for my mobo though

[cinder kiln]

You can on ITX boards. I've seen them before. I've never looked personally

No idea how they fit up but they're pure copper

[jolly inlet]

They make monoblocks for some boards to liquid cool the VRM

[light holly]

I just want white so I don't have to buy a different mobo. I like my mobo

[jolly inlet]

Ah, you can always paint it

There's a few paints that won't change the thermal properties much

[light holly]

hm

I'll look into that.

otherwise, I'd prob grab the strix board.

If I did that though, I'd want to grab a white aio lol

[cinder kiln]

What board?

[light holly]

https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-ROG-D4-Motherboard-Thunderbolt/dp/B09J1RM86X

[cinder kiln]

You're using?

[light holly]

oh no. That's the one I want though

[light holly]

https://www.amazon.com/MSI-MAG-Z690-DDR4-Motherboard/dp/B09GLD72QH

This is what I have.

I suppose maybe I could buy the strix and then sell this board

[cinder kiln]

Wouldn't call that worth it lol

Taking the tomahawk heatsinks off and painting them (with the right paint choice cos z690 vrms get hot) would give you a black and white compromise without sidegrading imo

[light holly]

yeah, not saying I would at this point in time, but if I did buy the strix, I'd sell the tomahawk so it really wouldn't cost me to much.. at least not compared to what I spend on everything else.

[light holly]

As far as worth it though.. For the looks.. I feel like it is.

[cinder kiln]

Tomahawk would oc better tho iirc

Actually depends, I've seen strix d4 do well, but also I've been told a lot that it's mid

Idk, to me it's a lot of white tax for Z690 D4

But I wouldn't consider the gigabyte ones rn either

Would only consider strix or paint in that sense lol

WAIT, steel legend

Inb4 assrock but it's also white mid-tier with no crazy white tax like strix

[light holly]

it's an A tier board that's put into b tier because the white tax.

the strix has both S tier for longevity and VRM, whereas the tomahawk has S tier for longevity, but A tier for VRM

[brittle lagoon]

uh what

[light holly]

hm?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14-CZ8-a4-UBMN5-0x_QYOrvLk4EfI4Kn2jmIG70CAss/edit#gid=666643422

[cinder kiln]

Oh ok I was about to ask about the tiers lol

It's still twice the price of a steel legend

[brittle lagoon]

bruh what

[brittle lagoon]

they're going to have a different tier for VRMs when they're within 1c?

smh

[light holly]

uhm.. that's a TUF board.

not strix

[cinder kiln]

The MSI will likely OC better though, they've had the edge on z690

[light holly]

The TUF board is a D tier board

because price to performance ratio

It's literally recomended to get the tomahawk over the TUF because they perform basically the same, but tomahawk much cheaper

[brittle lagoon]

@light holly take a listen to bz's thoughts on the strix
https://youtu.be/fEoNInG7cZQ?t=809

[light holly]

basically all he is saying is price isn't worth it, but it's basically the same as what I already have.

but for the aesthetic, it would be worth to me.

[brittle lagoon]

I just really dislike that tier list

[light holly]

especially since I'd be selling my current board to make up some of the cost.

most* of the cost

[brittle lagoon]

I don't care for spending on aesthetics, that's your money, but I really don't like what they did to the tiers there

[cinder kiln]

If you're just going for aesthetics steel legend is literally nearly half price

[light holly]

got a link?

[cinder kiln]

https://pcpartpicker.com/mr/newegg/RPYmP6

[light holly]

steel legend has a low end audio codec though

[brittle lagoon]

bruh

I suggest not using the tier list

and onboard audio basically sucks compared to anything

[cinder kiln]

You could buy a dac+amp with the difference on that codec

Lol

[brittle lagoon]

an apple dongle will outperform "high end" audio chips

[light holly]

I see.

ok, if I don't use that tier list.. then how does that steel legend compare to my tomahawk?

[cinder kiln]

Probably not quite as good but I mean it's an aesthetics discussion at this point lol

[light holly]

well yes/no

[cinder kiln]

Again, painting tomahawk is also an option

[light holly]

I'm not gonna sacrtifice performance for aesthetics..

[cinder kiln]

You kinda have to for white tax tho

[light holly]

I'd rather pay more to keep the performance AND have the aesthetics

I know my "reasoning" is wierd to yall, but I have no other thing that interests me other than making my PC look as good as I want it to look.

like.. that's the only thing that is making me happy in life atm

[cinder kiln]

Alright, well if you really want to, I'm not saying it's a bad board physically anyway

[light holly]

I mean, I spent 1200 on a gpu when I could have gotten something with close to same performance for cheaper, but aesthetics..

I won't be happy if I look at my pc and think it's ugly.

[swift forge]

strix has the fancy lights n stuff tho

tottally increases value

[light holly]

If I had known what I know now when I first started building this then I would have built it way differently from the get go

[swift forge]

same

[light holly]

don't forget it improves performance too

[swift forge]

what the heck is a wegg police lol

just saw it

[light holly]

not sure, but I wanna be a wegg police

[swift forge]

yea i have overspent on my mobo/cpu/psu

but it was fun overclocking it so ig it was worth it

[light holly]

I wish I had gotten the 12700k instead of the 12600k, but oh well. 13th gen is arounnd the corner

[swift forge]

wish i had gotten a 3900x or 10850k over my 10700k

and not a 180buck rog psu

thats white

so increased value

[light holly]

can't see my psu so

most my parts I got on "super sale" anyways so

[swift forge]

came with magnets and braided cables tho

kinda added value ig

[brittle lagoon]

Steel legend has a slightly worse vrm than the tomahawk

[light holly]

and ugly lol

[swift forge]

sometimes i wonder who buys biostar or asrock

they aint bad but so many other better options

[grand orbit]

Biostar, yes, asrock mmmm it depends

Sometimes significantly cheaper or e.g. went with b560 hdv for my bros 11400 build because it was 40€ cheaper than any other b560 out at the time, b560s had just start to release

[stoic crest]

how can someone downvote that 6800xt deal smh

it's gud

3080 perf

[azure pond]

its always randoms that downvote good deals

[stoic crest]

they're probably mindlessly voting

or are an nvidia shill

[azure pond]

someone downvoted a $420 3080 12gb lmfao

[stoic crest]

ye

i don't know why someone would downvote a deal that good

[cinder kiln]

Finally 5800 ecks dee lmao is cheaper than the list price

[azure pond]

yeah, imo still not worth it unless alr have an am4 board though

[cinder kiln]

Ofc

Well, gunning for bleeding edge performance also makes it an option too

Better than a 12900ks

[stoic crest]

soon to be outdated :p

[azure pond]

meh, 12700f is $310. 5800x3d not attractive at 400 to me

[stoic crest]

^

but as we all know

everyone shills for amd

[cinder kiln]

In games the X3D should be a fair bit faster though on average

Again, bleeding edge

[stoic crest]

tru

[fair moon]

isn't x3d better for gaming though

[cinder kiln]

Yes

[stoic crest]

yep, best gaming cpu rn

Only worth when you already have mobo

[azure pond]

considering 12100f isnt terrible to pair with a 3080, meh

in gpu focused games it wont make a big diff

[cinder kiln]

Like if someone came to me and said "I wanna 3090 ti and I have no budget i don't care", I'd maybe think about an X3D for that list after trying to talk them down

[fair moon]

*12700f ?

[azure pond]

nah, thats 12900ks

[azure pond]

no, 12400f is enough for literally any gpu that currently exists

12100f is fine with a 3080 at 1440p

[stoic crest]

12100f can handle 3080, if you make it run 1440p

or higher

[fair moon]

At 4k maybe

[azure pond]

whos using a 3080 at 1080p anyways

[azure pond]

ok

[cinder kiln]

You can get a 12900KS gaming experience with an X3D though and save money that was my entire point lol

[fair moon]

Fair

[stoic crest]

it's just worst case demonstration

someone with 3080 build should have at least 12400f

optimally

[azure pond]

12900ks has other benefits

[fair moon]

I would agree with this for 4k, but not 1440p

[azure pond]

have you actually seen performance with a 12100f and 12400f paired with a 3080?

because it does not sound like it

a 3600/10400 is fine with a 3080 at 1440p

theyre both fine with a 3070 at 1080p

12100f beats a 10400 in single core

[fair moon]

I have, but it might have been 1080p now that i think about it

[cinder kiln]

Yeah and you pay double for those benefits and ddr5 if that's what you want but I have said since the start a bleeding edge gaming experience for cheaper

[azure pond]

and someone without a budget doesnt care about that

[cinder kiln]

.

I'd still talk them out of overspending lol

[steel wren]

games usually use 4 cores at most, any more cores will make almost no performance gain on game applications... thats why a 12100 is enough to run a 3080, and the 12400f is more than enough for gaming+streaming... more cores are just for workload/productive things

imagine a no budget limit... 3.5 grand pc should give you the very best for gaming

yummy

[azure pond]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/7zM2W4 a literal no budget pc

aside from ridiculous amount of ssds

[fair moon]

$15 off w/ promo code SSBU2423, limited offer

Now go post in #tech-deals

[steel wren]

6000c30

holly molly

imagine if somehow you win that pc on a raffle bacca, what should you do? sell it or enjoy the eff out of that?

[stoic crest]

i would go cha-ching

[azure pond]

Sell it and build a 12700f 3080 build, pocket the extra lol

[grand orbit]

Smh amd gooder

[grand orbit]

Ok but hear me out... Performance worse than 5800x non 3d in csgo => bad

[cinder kiln]

[grand orbit]

Ehh want to put an asterisk on that tbh also a lot of newer games will utilize 6 corss

[grand orbit]

That ram probably would run at 5000mhz with 4 sticks lol ddr5 on 4 sticks is yikes

[azure pond]

Forgot about that lol

[azure pond]

Anyone buying a 3080 should easily be able to buy a 12400f, but was just making a point

[grand orbit]

Yes but also just think 12400f absolute minimum

[steel wren]

indeed, 12100 is a bit on the extreme...

[severe jolt]

I've been looking at 12th gen Intel vs Ryzen rn in terms of value to price
Damn Ryzen seems like better value even if it's slower cuz Z690 boards are priced for their weight in gold

[light bay]

z690 why tho, b660 and h670 exist and are typically much better value

[severe jolt]

Higher end boards have the features and power delivery

Usually

[grand orbit]

Msi b660 a pro is 130$ and good enough for a 12700

[severe jolt]

Ew MSI mobo

Personally gonna avoid

Bad memories of magic smoke and cursing

[light bay]

model > brand tbf

would you not buy from gigabyte because they had a psu that blew up in testing?

then asus had a z690 that could catch fire

ofc these things were fixed but every company can have bad products

[steel wren]

tell that to the mortar and the tomahawk

[severe jolt]

Honestly I'm kinda averse to 12th gen Intel as a whole

I dunno why

It just feels like a bad deal in the long term

That gut instinct thing

Can't logically explain it or anything
But I feel that way

[fleet marlin]

Enjoy your old school AM4 that still has pins on the cpu like a Pentium 4. - definition of emotion over logic

[grand orbit]

Literally a 600$ asus board thanks to backwards cap

[high radish]

With current deals , amd looks more attractive lol

Like 5800x for 260$ and 5900x for 330$

https://www.ebay.com/itm/293882212178?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=VbCS6q0NQ6a&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=QikrwtJhTda&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[fair moon]

less of an upgrade path at this point though, right?

[high radish]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/124628149567?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=VbCS6q0NQ6a&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=QikrwtJhTda&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Yeah I hate am4 socket system

it sux

I'm glad they finally going to use LGA locking mechanism

Another thing I hate is that small cooler on chipset at x570 mobos

it looks like early 2000s

[grand orbit]

12600kf would still be better bet tbh

[high radish]

I just realized 12600kf almost catching 5800x

I bought 12600k for 230$ so I still got better deal

[raw inlet]

Ryzen 7 processors almost the same as the rival intel i5

[high radish]

intel did good job with 12th gen . lets see what amd 7000series will do

[raw inlet]

Some time ago it was a bit more balanced
Like R3= i3, R5= i5, R7 = i7...

[swift forge]

hopefully they switch to lga

pins suck

[raw inlet]

I hope they're good AND FRESH because of those 5.5ghz clock we've seen on 7000 announcements

[high radish]

yes they will lol . I will miss days when Cpu popping out with cooler lmao

[raw inlet]

They're going to

[swift forge]

https://tenor.com/view/cpu-scrape-removing-pins-gif-20017589

[raw inlet]

But think about it: pins on motherboard = less probability to get them bent during shippings
(Compared to a CPU with pins)

[raw inlet]

Oh god delete that

[gusty willow]

wasnt there a picture of someone ripping out the entire socket

[high radish]

I popped cpu out with cooler a lot lol

luckily they all worked fine lmao

[raw inlet]

I remember a gif of a person drilling the AMD socket @swift forge do you have it?
I want to suffer

[swift forge]

https://tenor.com/view/cpu-cpu-kill-gif-22236310

[gusty willow]

gotta twist and pull like an oreo

[raw inlet]

Reasonable

https://tenor.com/view/lisa-su-amd-ryzen-cpu-gif-18741811

Not very true but cool

[grand orbit]

Beats it in single core lol

[high radish]

Intel have good single core performance which mostly needed

[grand orbit]

12600k is a special exception having a different core count than rest of i5s tbf

[grand orbit]

Am5 is lga

[high radish]

i5 12400 = r5 5600x so it catching balance but 12600k is beast

[raw inlet]

Yes, but intal made that i5 almost an i7 for core count and performance

Intal lol

e

[grand orbit]

What

[raw inlet]

Sorry

Aaah

[grand orbit]

Oh

[high radish]

[raw inlet]

Xd I can't write

My brain is lagging

Bottleneck

Throttle

[high radish]

if anyone seen great monitor deal as prime day deals let me know

looking for few budget monitors

[raw inlet]

Check Amazon warehouse

https://tenor.com/view/it-gif-18579644

[high radish]

there was acer 27inch 165hz curver dor 109$ and msi 27 144hz for 119$ at walmart

looking for deal like that lol

or 2k 144hz under 200$ lol

[raw inlet]

https://tenor.com/view/cpu-smoke-amd-toms-hardware-overheat-gif-21739686

R7000 ^

Jk

[high radish]

https://tenor.com/view/heat-computer-cooking-with-style-wtf-computer-chip-gif-17012327

[raw inlet]

Yum

[swift forge]

Is it well done?

[raw inlet]

||no, it's just fricking burnt on the side||

[high radish]

[raw inlet]

||iT cOulD hAVe SavED a MiLLiOn LiveS wItH thAt StEak||

https://tenor.com/view/computer-thermal-paste-cpu-socket-gamersnexus-gif-13535307

𝑙𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑞𝑒 𝑠𝑢 𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑡

https://tenor.com/view/pc-cleaning-washing-broken-gif-26248926

[swift forge]

La creamy pasta su le soc kryonaut

[stoic crest]

1440p actually isn't 2k, it's 2.5k

[light bay]

fax

[cloud hornet]

Actually:
1080p is 1.9k
1440p is 2.6k (round it mate)
2160p is 3.8k
2880p is 5.1k (5k mac or smth cant remember now)
4320p is 7.7k

[stoic crest]

dammit

these numbers makes my brain go round

[light bay]

lmao im waiting for someone to call 1440p ---> 1.44k

[quasi pasture]

1.44k

[stoic crest]

lolol

By that logic 1080p is 1.08k

[cloud hornet]

I remember seeing some random company mess that up more or less. UHD was 2k or smth

[light bay]

actually 1080p is 1.92k smh

i cant believe youd round it

[fleet marlin]

UHD is 4k, qhd is 1440p.

[cloud hornet]

Cant wait for 8640p, where they cant round up anymore and have to say 15k

unless they ceil it

but might get in court for that idk

[light bay]

hey, you can sell a 2x4 that isnt a 2x4 legally, so i bet theyd be fine

xD

[fleet marlin]

It's legal partly because it was a 2x4 (before processing). To me it's sort of like how I feel when I cook a 1/4 hamburger that ends up weighing much less for obvious reasons.

[light bay]

yeah but the fact its just gotten smaller over the years and they can just say its due to planing kinda meh

and you can also even get 2x dimensional lumber that is more than just 1/2" short on both sides

1/16, 1/8" under 1.5"x3.5" isnt totally unheard of

[fleet marlin]

Been a thing longer than I've been alive. Just a part of building for sure. Anytime I work on an old building & snag some legit 2x4" boards it feels like gold. Obviously common studs nowadays are junk wood also, comparatively.

[light bay]

yeah roughcut

[light bay]

@azure pond knew youd be the first to see that, you simp for that thing lol

[azure pond]

is pog

[light bay]

cant argue with that

[azure pond]

also im just at my pc playin val with this disc open on my second monitor

[light bay]

nice

[azure pond]

so i saw it insta lol

[light bay]

xD

[quasi pasture]

evga clc 💪

[light holly]

Is this worth it for the VPN and internet security stuff?? Idc about anti-virus part if there is one.

https://www.newegg.com/avg-ultimate-2020-1-pc-2-years-download/p/N82E16832620258?

[grand orbit]

Avg is similar to McAfee, it is the virus

[light holly]

Gotcha.

Man, I used to have AVG on my pc 15 years ago lol. It was standard that we installed on all PCs that came into the shop

[fair moon]

avg is only marginally better less terrible

all an average user needs is Windows defender

maybe free malwarebytes manual scans every once in a while

for VPN I would recommend ProtonVPN

can't speak for the paid plan but I use the free one occasionally and it's good

[grand orbit]

private internet access was good last i checked anyway

[flat junco]

I use mullvad, the nice thing is that you sign in with a 16 digit code instead of a username and password. So it's not linked to any email. And it's about $5 a month.

[grand orbit]

Fancy

[light holly]

Yeah, I was mainly wanting it for the VPN and internet safety thingy that malwarebytes provides in their free trial for like 10 days or so.

in the end it only costs $5 after the promo and free $5 dominoes gift card.

I can just disable the antivirus and use the other features right?

[fair moon]

its all avg though

avg antivirus avg security avg vpn

all borderline virus

[light holly]

alright. I'll not get it then.

I just remember AVG being like really good and free

but then again that was a looong time ago

[fair moon]

yeah they might've used to be good but would steer clear now

[light holly]

Also, why the downvote on the $5000 sweepstakes?

[light holly]

Will do Cap'n

[fair moon]

rather not have raffle style giveaways promoted in tech deals idk

[light holly]

I mean, it's a NewEgg thing though, so I figured it'd be fitting in the NewEgg server lol

[fair moon]

yeah i guess it's sponsored

[light holly]

NewEgg is the one who sent me the email confirming my submission, as well as it was in my NewEgg notifications today

I do get not wanting raffle stuff in tech deals though. I wouldn't have posted any other company in there.

[fair moon]

I kinda want to get the monitor

but then I would want to upgrade my gpu as well

slippery slope of spending money

[light holly]

Yeah.. entering the world of building my own PC was definitely a steep slope indeed.

[daring depot]

OH MY #### that monitor deal was 30 dollars less than mine X(

[pulsar fable]

It's gone tho

So at least you got a monitor right?

[light holly]

it's gone?

[grand orbit]

It's not gone tho

It's for another 12hrs

[light holly]

It is VA curved though

[grand orbit]

It's also 200$ so can't complain

Also ips curved monitors are like 800$ @light holly

[pulsar fable]

Oh strange it says out of stock on my end

[high radish]

it's oos

[light holly]

I'm not complaining. I spent almost 300 on a curved VA lol

although I used a $50 gift card on it

If I didn't already have 3 monitors, then I'd probably have picked it up

[fleet marlin]

Pretty good buy, would've matched my VG259QR so well lol. X27Q still working nice also, and dual ips monitors probably isn't a bad idea.

[mortal blaze]

monitor budge? 144hz brand new less 179

somebody?

[cinder kiln]

G241?

[azure pond]

g241

[mortal blaze]

link, pls

nvm

[daring depot]

Dude what the heck are those pc deals on microcenter

thats ridiculous!!!!!! what's the catch?

[stoic crest]

well

getting to them lol

some people lives too far away to go to the nearest microcenter

without spending so much on gas and stuff

[slow sluice]

Also you still need a CPU, SSD, ram, and monitor. Guess what MC is going to try and sell you when you show up?

[stoic crest]

lol yeah

[slow sluice]

It's something akin to a loss leader, though I'm sure they're still making at least a small profit off of it

[pulsar fable]

Ok, the upgrade to a 3070ti, the aio, and the motherboard upgrade. That's definitely worth $200 *over the other Intel bb kit listed

Too bad it's not even available at my local micro center ;-;

[slow sluice]

Just request a different local microcenter

[light bay]

better case too

[pulsar fable]

And what? Take a road trip across the country to another micro center?

...dang that would actually make a nice stupid movie

[daring depot]

dude its a literal state away from me

i wanna go but YEESH

[pulsar fable]

"1 state away". How big is this state? Like we talking the size of Tennessee or the size of Texas?

[daring depot]

think the vertical size of California

then consider San Fransisco to San Diego

thats about the size of a state

[pulsar fable]

Oh

[fleet marlin]

next time just says hours/miles away, lol. although if it's 400+ miles then might as well be 9000 for most of us.

[jolly inlet]

It's a 9 hour drive to the nearest one to me. All the big local stores closed down these past few years for various reasons. All I have left is Bad Buy. Their selection is garbage and they don't have things I need like capacitors. But I'm not bitter 😭

[light bay]

...yes they do

Just buy a PSU there or something and harvest the caps lmao

(sidenote, make sure they don't have any charge left)

[jolly inlet]

I needed very specific sized ones. There's no guarantee the caps are the same as the inside shots of PSUs too.

And desoldering is a PITA

[light bay]

Just return the PSU after it's disassembled if it's not right for what you want

[jolly inlet]

... You're the reason I got a broken external hard drive from them aren't you

[light bay]

👀

[jolly inlet]

https://tenor.com/view/favorite-person-evil-eye-dirty-look-mad-gif-14680527

[slow sluice]

Most of the good ones have some sort of bleed circuit now

[jolly inlet]

Yeah I saw the GN interview with the Corsair guy and he was talking about that. Newer designs shouldn't kill you at least lol.

[light bay]

Luckily, you'll never have to worry about the "what if" it doesnt have them, not like you'll really be there to regret it afterward

[slow sluice]

Oh, you'll definitely regret it

[light bay]

How so?

Hard to regret things when you're six feet under

[slow sluice]

110-120v caps are at the horrible sweet spot where they'll hurt like the merry dickens and give you some nice burns but probably won't kill

[light bay]

Okay prove it
/s

[jolly inlet]

Wipe it with a damp cloth

[slow sluice]

Trust me, I speak from experience here. Those little things hurt

[light bay]

💀 you touched one?

[slow sluice]

Yup, malfunctioning camera flask

[light bay]

Damn

And I'm drawing the conclusion you didn't die?

[jolly inlet]

You got lucky. Those things are meant to discharge a lot of power very quickly. Often enough to stop your heart.

[slow sluice]

Single hand, it just went in and out though my finger

[slow sluice]

I don't think I did

[light bay]

Ah good it didn't go through your arm/chest

[jolly inlet]

Ah you had a ground point. Again, lucky

Be like Zuko and redirect it

[light bay]

I wonder if you're more likely to survive a shock statistically from finger thru feet to earth by touching it with right hand vs left

Since heart is on left side

[oak sentinel]

can you prove it tho?

[slow sluice]

I think I remember something like that for lightning safety

[jolly inlet]

Are any of us alive though? I could be a highly advanced chat bot for all you know. But then what defines "alive" anyway?

[oak sentinel]

https://tenor.com/view/hmmm-thinking-batman-gif-14744673

its way to early for this

[jolly inlet]

It's never too early for a metaphysical debate

And an existential crisis if there's time

[oak sentinel]

Or is it

[light holly]

That would explain the blowing kisses earlier. A malfunction in your programming.

[oak sentinel]

that itself is grounds for another debate

[slow sluice]

That's Tomie, it hints at that in the wiki

[oak sentinel]

C++ actually pretty nice ngl

I like it much more to C

[jolly inlet]

C# is where it's at

[slow sluice]

carbon

[oak sentinel]

#c on twitter?

is it trending?

[slow sluice]

https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang
I'm not sure how I feel about it yet

Initial thought is it's just another toy language like Julia

[oak sentinel]

isnt this googles new lang?

[slow sluice]

Yeah

[keen marsh]

Wow they really wanna get rid of the 3000 GPU's so much they're throwing in everything but Ram, storage and a CPU

[jolly inlet]

Yeah that's why they're throwing in 2 games that no one is likely to buy otherwise

[keen marsh]

hm?

[jolly inlet]

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/campaigns/pc-bundle-doom-eternal-ghostwire-tokyo/

They're doing shady things calling it 4 games when it's really 2 games and 2 dlc

[fleet marlin]

They don't need the base game installed, is partly how they can get away with it.

[light holly]

I got them with the tuf 3080 and then returned the 3080 because defect, so win win for me.

Now I got the amd bundle

[quasi pasture]

x99 💪

[grand orbit]

What was the defect?

[light holly]

Stock fan curve didn't want to kick in until 70c. Custom fan curve was wonky. At 80% it was running 1200rpm on 3000rpm fans

[grand orbit]

Oof

[light holly]

Anything below 50% the fans wouldn't run

[pulsar fable]

My Rx 560 had a similar problem. I just used mai afterburner on windows startup to give it a different fan curve

[grand orbit]

You could so this in the amd drivers btw

[jolly inlet]

Multiple attempts at troubleshooting the fans were made, aided by several people including techies

RIP GPU

[light holly]

In the end I purchased something I think I am going to be far happier with.

[quasi pasture]

I bought a couple chips off hwswap and the guy sent me the wrong cpu

[grand orbit]

Rip

[quasi pasture]

Redditors 🤡

[pulsar fable]

Well that's sad, the Asus performance barebones is t available at my local micro center, just the value

And yet there are plenty available in New York

[cloud hornet]

On purpose?

[quasi pasture]

probably not

[azure pond]

12400f back down to $150

On newegg

I dont feel like posting it

[grand orbit]

Stonks

[mortal blaze]

5 5600g is better on price

and graphics

jajaja

plus, boards for LGA1700 is expensive and suck

[azure pond]

No...

5600g is much worse performance

It's similar to the 12100f, 12400f destroys it

And the $130 b660 mag bazooka is perfectly fine for a 12900

[grand orbit]

5600g is similar to a 3600 i performance where as 12400(f) is similar to 5600x and b660 prices are fine

Bout the same as b550 actually

[fleet marlin]

White-name living under a rock for 5 months. MP33 is $68/TB. Not too bad if someone needs a lower priced m.2 right now

[grand orbit]

It was 64? for ages if anything that's normal price lol

[slow sluice]

12400**f**, if you're buying it you don't care about integrated graphics

[light bay]

How do they suck?

Unless you're using a blanket statement after seeing the hdv lga1700 boards, it's not really accurate

[jolly inlet]

Maybe they mean the ddr5 boards?

[light bay]

Idk man

They said the whole socket

[flat junco]

Just got the $420 3080 ftw3 ultra, everything looks immaculate except one of the heatsink fins on the end is loose. A couple have really small indents, but just barely

[light bay]

wait bstock?

[flat junco]

Yeah

[molten halo]

420?? 👀

[grand orbit]

Who cares tho you got it for lower than 3060 ti price

[molten halo]

It's also the funny number which makes it even better

[grand orbit]

*calls evga; "can you charge me 69c delivery fee" *

[flat junco]

Lol

Powering on, nothing weird about it so far

All fans turning on

Anything I should look out for? lol

[grand orbit]

Uh run a timespy if you wanna make sure all is working?

I'd look out for bad hotspot delta from core tbh

[flat junco]

Okay, I'll run it and post hwinfo too

[high radish]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/780512032109494313/943686956393574420/beantip.gif

[flat junco]

https://www.3dmark.com/spy/29649460

Runs waaaaaaay hotter than the 3070 though lol

Time to undervolt

[grand orbit]

All looks fine just make sure you're using 3 seperate 8 pins from the psu if possible

[flat junco]

I have two cables, one has a piggy back. I ordered two extra cables though, which should be here tomorrow

[grand orbit]

I mean should be fine

Also might wanna change stock fan curve usually they suck

[grave delta]

Nice, you beat my 9900k/2080 ti air scores

[flat junco]

Lol

[mortal blaze]

Is everything sold and shipped by NewEgg safe?

cause I want to buy a B550M that I saw at 89, but it has no reviews, but it says that it is sold and shipped by NewEgg

and whenever I buy, I do it from products with reviews

[light holly]

if it's sold and shipped by newegg then it's safe. It may not be a popular board so there are no reviews.

[fair moon]

it's probably open box or refurb

[grand orbit]

Yes but i wouldn't be buying b550 these days anyway

[fair moon]

10 cent hdmi cables

do I really need them? no. Will I eventually use them or give them to someone? probably.

[grand orbit]

They sound to cheap

[fair moon]

🤷‍♂️

as long as they can do 1080p60 i'll find a use at some point

[stoic crest]

I had a cheap vga to hdmi converter

It kept flickering lmao

Dad threw it into the trash

[light holly]

The netstrand ones.. I ordered 3 of them last time this was posted. I got 3 different brands. They all felt good quality. I'm using 1 for my monitor right now. The other 2 are sitting around here somewhere.

The netstrand one is the middle link.

[grand orbit]

Fair enough

[solemn forge]

@simple marsh you really going to trust a ten cent hdmi cable?

[simple marsh]

friend linked it to me idk

[fair moon]

10 cents

i mean it's not gonna hurt anything

[solemn forge]

He's farming affiliate links

[fair moon]

not like it's a psu lol

[fair moon]

I'm sure he's making a ton of kickback from the $0.10 cables lol

[solemn forge]

Yea he's not going to be making much ofc but still seems like it's the only reason he's doing this to begin with

[jolly inlet]

Cheap cables are fine for cheap uses like 1080p at 120 Hz or lower

[solemn forge]

Idk man you get what you pay for

There has to be some serious corners cut on these

[jolly inlet]

Yeah but they should still do 1080p. There's not a lot that can go wrong at low bandwidth like that.

[solemn forge]

They'll do 1080p but for how long?

[fair moon]

if they're just sitting there plugged in? years.

[jolly inlet]

Idk about you but I'm not in the habit of yanking on my cables every day

[solemn forge]

Fair

[grand orbit]

No he's not because those are Amazon shortened links, when Amazon links have affiliate links they look like this with the ?tag and linkcode
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09WVWC1WZ?tag=pcp0f-21&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1

Or like ref= or something like that

[solemn forge]

You can shorten referral links

Click those links you'll see that link code shows up

[fair moon]

yall realize people post referral links here fairly often right?

i see a lot of associates codes

or maybe less now, aren't thtey ending the program?

[grand orbit]

Fair enough but also who cares, referrals are like 2% lol

[solemn forge]

Yea it just seems as though that's the only reason for posting in the first place

[fair moon]

the reason is to share the deal with others who might want to take advantage of it

[solemn forge]

But like you said they aren't making much

[grand orbit]

Except for it being dirt cheap cables

[cinder kiln]

[tiny heron]

[azure pond]

Are you in the US?

https://www.newegg.com/abs-ali640/p/N82E16883360305?Item=N82E16883360305&Source=socialshare&cm_mmc=snc-social-_-sr-_-83-360-305-_-07272022

Could do a good bit better if you're fine with building yourself, but if you're uncomfortable doing so then that's probably the best you'll find atm

[gusty willow]

you could also give build redux a try

[light bay]

super expensive tho

great quality, but spendy spendy

[gusty willow]

yeah friend got one seems pretty solid

[light bay]

same specs with redux would cost probs ~30% ish more

[gusty willow]

do they not offer the no os option anymore

[lean briar]

https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-radeon-rx-6900-xt-gv-r69xtgaming-oc-16gd/p/N82E16814932414?Item=N82E16814932414

700 if using mir

[swift forge]

There’s a 2080 ti hybrid going for 500 on bstock

[sweet cloud]

anyone here have time to help me with a hardware issue?

[fleet marlin]

Stop spamming the same vagueass question in multiple channels.

[lean briar]

nice scam

[molten halo]

Double scam 👀

[quasi pasture]

can you help me with my hardware issue

[quasi pasture]

yea

get an x79 board

and buy one of my xeons

problem fixed 💯

https://tenor.com/view/chappelles-show-dave-chappelle-crack-drugs-high-gif-4256947

[fleet marlin]

die* addict. Got any of them 🐝 🎲

[dim dagger]

Sadge stupid mee bot

Imma put it down here first before tech deal channel (Canadian prices due to a Memory Express Anniversary sale)

https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX00120676

AORUS 15P XD-73US224SO w/ Core™ i7-11800H, 16GB, 1TB SSD, 15.6in Full HD 240Hz, GeForce RTX 3070, Wi-Fi 6, BT, Windows 11 Home
$1399.99

https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX00118007
Zephyrus G14 GA401QE-DB71-CA w/ Ryzen™ 7 5800HS, 16GB, 512GB SSD, 14in WQHD 120Hz, GeForce RTX 3050 Ti, Wi-Fi 6, BT, Win 10 Home
$1,299.99

https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX00119642
Lian Li O11 Air Mini Computer Case w/ Tempered Glass- Black
$99.99

https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX00119493
ROG Strix G15 G513QY-DH99-CA w/ Ryzen™ 9-5900HX, 16GB, 512GB SSD, 15.6in FHD 300Hz, Radeon RX 6800M, Wi-Fi 6, BT, Win 11 Home
$1,499.99

[pulsar fable]

Oh it's Canadian

[dim dagger]

Yeye

[pulsar fable]

My stupid American brain thought "that all seems a bit expensive"

[dim dagger]

https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX00119585
GP66 Vector 12UGS-028CA w/ Core™ i7-12700H, 16GB, 512GB NVMe SSD, 15.6in FHD 240Hz, GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, Wi-Fi 6, BT, Win 11
$1,999.99

[pulsar fable]

Nah but converted from Canadian it makes sense

[dim dagger]

My friend bought this for 1500 a few months ago

pretty solid besides the ass cooling for the 11800H

[grand orbit]

limits to 3 links at a time

[dim dagger]

Ah ok

should I just send one link

and edit it?

this one row lol

That 3090 FTW3 oop

[grand orbit]

or just 2 separate posts

[dim dagger]

Isnt it time limited?

https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX00114155
GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 ULTRA 24GB PCI-E w/ Triple DP, HDMI
$1699.99

Thoughts @grand orbit

Remember this is in CAD

another wack one

lol

I mean only Canadians can really buy from here

good or bad

idk nowadays

not too bad either

[raw inlet]

Looks like a nice deal

[grand orbit]

like 10 mins

[grand orbit]

nah

[grand orbit]

also nah

[dim dagger]

Yeah thats what I thought as well

[grand orbit]

meh imo

[dim dagger]

smh should of dropped it more

sigh

theres alot of 5900x bundles though

[grand orbit]

Ehh

[dim dagger]

ADL still superior with these prices imo

[steel wren]

cooler master aio hmmm, heard a lot of bad things with those

[pulsar fable]

maybe just get the combo and flip the aio on to the second hand market for profit?

[steel wren]

the prices are kinda nice tho

[dim dagger]

Yea potentially

[desert wraith]

Any discounts or coupons for a purchase of $1,000 on newegg?

[cinder kiln]

What're you trying to buy?

Usually on the page itself they will say something like "20% off if you use code [Hi I'm Felix's example]" just below the price or something if there's a public one*

[jolly inlet]

We don't have any insider codes, just what's publicly available

[grand orbit]

most codes on newegg are product specific but try honey?

[steel wren]

your code doesnt work

[cinder kiln]

Time to write to head of wegg

[high radish]

[light holly]

@near igloo Tech Deals channel is for posting tech deals. Not weird faces for unknown reasons.

[near igloo]

👌

[slow sluice]

I am a bit curious what the reason was though

[rustic portal]

Does anyone have a case recommendation that lets me mount my 240mm rad on top without changing my ram

[light holly]

4000D would be my choice. There might be another case a little cheaper, but I don't really keep up with what cases are good.

[grand orbit]

G360a, p360a, 4000d airflow, lian li 215, they're all under 100$ ish

[quasi pasture]

shoe box is free

infinite value

🧠

[grand orbit]

No rad mounting in shoe box tho

[quasi pasture]

yes you can

[brittle lagoon]

with enough duct tape anything is possible

[grand orbit]

Well not a good one lol

[molten halo]

Just use the motherboard box 🤷‍♂️

[cinder kiln]

Hang out the window so you don't need fans in winter what are you doing

[oak sentinel]

Just install windows instead

[cinder kiln]

More like Gaming O-stonks

The heck with that 3080-like price

[light holly]

you gonna pick one up? 😛

[cinder kiln]

Nah I'm good

I'm having fun with the 6600 atm

[real horizon]

any good monitor deals or ram deals?

or ssd

[grand orbit]

Country?

[cinder kiln]

https://www.wireless1.com.au/asus-tuf-gaming-a15-fa507rm-hn008w-15-6in-144hz-r7-6800h-rtx3060-16g-512g-gaming-laptop

Found it for $1919 instead of $2200

wondering if I should share this it works out to be like 1350 USD

[real horizon]

us

[light bay]

@cinder kiln if the seller is legit thats crazy

think its a scam

[cinder kiln]

I can't test it, if anyone's game to tho

[cinder kiln]

ok nvm then

[light bay]

its just so sus they just launched

lmao i was boutta buy it but then i saw that hella sus seller

[fleet marlin]

Ya I've recently heard it really is a scam, on another server. Some people had their amazon account hacked or something.

[light bay]

figured

nice find tho

[cinder kiln]

ok noted

I grabbed it from elsewhere so I'll let them know

OH NO

it's on pcpp

[jolly inlet]

What they'll do is use your personal info from the shipping information to make fake accounts to farm 5 star reviews from "verified purchases"

[azure pond]

AHJBHAHAHAH

@zenith lantern

@jolly inlet

[swift forge]

https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-radeon-rx-6900-xt-gv-r69xtgaming-oc-16gd/p/N82E16814932414?Item=N82E16814932414&quicklink=true

Goddamm

[paper plinth]

best gpu under 325?? us

[swift forge]

Makes me feel like my gpu was a ripoff

[swift forge]

Prob a 6600 xt

Could always go second hand and look for deals

[azure pond]

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/DgFbt6/asrock-radeon-rx-6600-xt-8-gb-challenger-d-oc-video-card-rx6600xt-cld-8go

[swift forge]

Oh I didn’t read that

[steel wren]

and wait for the big crash when the new gpus will be officially announced

[azure pond]

https://www.newegg.com/sapphire-radeon-rx-6700-11321-02-20g/p/N82E16814202424? this is interesting

[swift forge]

I think I saw that on TikTok a while ago

[light holly]

disregard that. I was looking at the wrong thing

[swift forge]

I feel scammed again

Paid 1500 with tax on a 3090 fe : (

[paper plinth]

any good white gpu under 325 us? sorry shouldve specified

[swift forge]

At least I got my miles on it

[swift forge]

Prob none

Not sure tho

[steel wren]

the white tax makes very difficult to find something worthy at that price

[near igloo]

The price will drop a lot.

[azure pond]

no

[swift forge]

U could scroll through eBay n stuff for a gpu

And a black and white build isn’t bad

[jolly inlet]

Don't look at it that way. There's value in the time you've had it.

[swift forge]

Wanting all white is just a pc building phase

[swift forge]

True, the card was fun overclocking and changing out the thermal pads

And being a 1st card gaming on was fun

[fair moon]

Used 2070 2060 maybe
After checking ebay I'm gonna say no, there are no good white GPUs under 325

People pay extra for white GPU and then jack it up when selling it used I guess

[stoic crest]

white at that price is

nah, not gonna happen

[stoic crest]

msi a pro is cheap again, wew

z690 too

[cinder kiln]

Ddr5 tho

[stoic crest]

tru

but still

[azure pond]

I'm debating getting z690 a ddr4 when it goes on sale again

Wouldn't mind being able to oc with a 13600k

[lean briar]

https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-Classified-121-AL-E698-KR-WiFi6E-Motherboard/dp/B09ZD4HMRR

[stoic crest]

that's not a deal

at least imo

[fleet marlin]

No, but a decent price tbh for what it is. $100ish more than I'd ever spend on a mobo. The right angle 24pin is awesome though.

[stoic crest]

ye

it even has a backplate

[grand orbit]

Gigabyte g27q, no ram deals but you can get silicon power 32gb 3200 c16 for 80$ now, uh not really any ssd deals but team mp33 for 70$ 1tb or 140$ 2tb is good, s70 blade is 200$ for 2tb which is ntb

[loud sandal]

what's wrong with lappy i posted

most 3080ti laptops go for like $3000

[fringe olive]

Do people often buy 3080ti laptops?

[cinder kiln]

If you want to spend like, 50% more for maybe 20% more performance and a laptop that'll thermal throttle itself for it's whole life, that's what you're getting into

People buy them as desktop replacements. There are niche cases for it but it's still not practical

Think of it like buying a 3090 gpu but *even less sensible than that lol

[light bay]

i think alot of people thing "wow look, i could spend $1k on a 3080ti for desktop but this laptop is crazy value since itd be cheaper than building a pc, same performance, and portable"

[cinder kiln]

There's people like that too yeah

Then they complain like, "Hey, why is my $3000 laptop throttling at only 30% usage IMA RETURN IT NEVER BUY AGAIN" etc etc

[slow sluice]

Two fans that from what I can tell are mediocre at best, thin chassis, and three heat pipes, two of which are shared between the CPU and GPU

https://tenor.com/view/no-bueno-gordon-ramsay-gordon-ramsay-eats-worms-from-a-cactus-gordon-ramsay-uncharted-no-gif-23344943

[high radish]

idk if it's deal or not but sharing here just in case lol https://www.gamestop.com/pc-gaming/pc-components/cooling/products/msi-mag-coreliquid-240r-v2-dual-fans-120-mm/325957.html