tech-deals-discussion

[thin bolt]

G502 hero

Also, if you want cheap cheap, redragon m602

[quartz surge]

monitor?

[fair moon]

Idk what he's on, the g502 isn't even that good

[quartz surge]

i love my 502 x lol

[fair moon]

Might see some 1440p oleds get a little sale but can't say which until it starts

[quartz surge]

more than likely they will fake lower it anyway

just raise it up and then lower it

[fair moon]

Ok this one is 89g so a nice improvement over the original

[quartz surge]

i like a heavy mouse

too light and it feels like its flying around

[fair moon]

Bro can't grip his mouse /lh

[quartz surge]

nahj

just like a decently weighted mouse

[fair moon]

89g ain't bad

[quartz surge]

i really like the scroll wheel

[fair moon]

But the og 502 hero is 121g plus the optional weights 🤢

[quartz surge]

the side scroll and quick scroll make it worth it

[thin bolt]

Oh, why did I see mouses

I’m out of it

[quartz surge]

lollllll

i was like

🤨

[balmy lake]

502 has side scrolling?

Oh. Its mouse wheel tilt. Not like the master series.

With an actual second scroll wheel

[delicate lake]

I think the g502x is nice

White and white rgb

Plus less weight

Its like 90g, a little over that

[foggy venture]

What are some specs to keep in mind?

[fair moon]

Yeah I didn't realize they had made a lighter one

[foggy venture]

I saw something on tiktok, that was obviously dumb asl, but it was like $60 for a 180hz 1080p monitor

and it looked decent but it prolly had underlying things

[fair moon]

For OLEDs you can really just go for the cheapest one. For VA and IPS you can look at rtings reviews for picture quality etc

[delicate lake]

I overlooked it too until I got it around december I think

It has a nice cable too

But I returned it on the last day and got a pulsar

[earnest storm]

I want to upgrade mine lowk

[delicate lake]

If you want get the g502x

[trim pier]

The 12600kf being $100 is good n all, but i've seen it for $100/110 on amazon before.

Plus if you're able to, amazon would either offer you cash back, discover card discount, 0% pay in 4, or next day shipping

[forest prairie]

nice argument, however I would like to steal jeff bezos lunch money

[delicate lake]

[trim pier]

this is like spare change in the car's cupholder to him

[trim pier]

Oh ya, the 12600kf also has the same resale discount from amazon (20%) so it's even cheaper than woot atm.

just inventory count is the death of it

All of this for $460

1 Left but you can get a used 12600k for about 90$ https://www.amazon.com/Intel-i5-12600K-Desktop-Processor-Unlocked/dp/B09FX4D72T/ref=sr_1_25

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D68VH8DR/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=A2L77EE7U53NWQ&th=1 75$ "B+" 850W psu

PS5Digital I believe in "Acceptable" condition for sub $300 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BCNKKZ91/ref=ox_sc_act_image_1?smid=A2L77EE7U53NWQ&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-Switch-OLED-Model-White-Joy/dp/B098RKWHHZ/ref=sr_1_1?
About $230 OLED switch in acceptable condition.

[trim pier]

https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-SUPERLIGHT-Ultra-Lightweight-Programmable-Compatible/dp/B087LXCTFJ/ref=sr_1_57? about $60 Like new Superlight

[pallid geyser]

Yep as expected most of these “prime day” deals are straight booty butt

[balmy lake]

Not at Microcenter… hold on… just got my email

[fair moon]

Those deals seem to be in store only though

[balmy lake]

Yep. Sorry. It usually says in-store only. These don’t say anything unless you look at delivery options.

Still, Good deals, if you have MC close by.

[pallid geyser]

Wish I did, darn

Closest one to me is 4hr drive one way

[forest prairie]

Microcenter is always at least 17 business days away from 90% of the human population

[balmy lake]

I guess I’m “lucky”. Its 20min from work, 1hr from home (assuming no traffic).

[delicate lake]

Micro center is 10-15 minutes away from me

[quartz surge]

No 9950x3d deal 😔😔

[balmy lake]

There is/was. sorry, I didn’t wanna post my whole email, lol

$599 not sure it’s a great deal though. I haven’t been watching its price like the other two. https://www.microcenter.com/product/691349/amd-ryzen-9-9950x3d-granite-ridge-am5-430ghz-16-core-boxed-processor-heatsink-not-included AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Granite Ridge AM5 4.30GHz 16-Core Boxed Processor - Heatsink Not Included - Micro Center

[quartz surge]

Im in canada sadly

[quartz surge]

I found a used one for 860 cad on amazon

630 usd

Its fulfilled by amazon

So worst case I return it if its bad

[balmy lake]

Yeesh!

Added to the growing list of reasons I’m glad I don’t live up there.

[quartz surge]

Yeah well what can ya do lol

Im moving to ny soon for uni tho

[balmy lake]

Be careful with that. Even though it’s Amazon. They don’t refund as quick when its an expensive item. Ftom whatvi was told anything over $400. They will not refund until its back in their possession and has been inspected. I found this out a few months ago. When i bought a bed cover for my truck from them that was used. It of course dis not fit. Wasn’t even the correct part number per the manufacturer so i sent it back. It was in their warehouse 2 days later but never got inspected for whatever reason. Took a month and a half to finally get my refund and only because i called and complained for the 3rd time after 31 “business” days.

[quartz surge]

Oh crap

Maybe i just sack it then

100 bucks more

[balmy lake]

Sorry to keep dropping bombs on you 💣

[fallen idol]

how much would you guys say a 7800x3d + 9060 xt 16gb build would cost right now?

[pallid geyser]

At least $10

[cursive sage]

like $900

because you have to get the rest of the components too

[fallen idol]

dang really? Lowest I was able to get it too was only $1088 even including a free SSD and a ram stick.

[cursive sage]

alright so 7800x3d and 9060xt 16gig are like $350 each, that makes this $700

You can get an AM5 mobo for roughly $110 and 32gig sticks for $70, make that $880

add the case, storage, PSU and you got like another $120

really this is $1000 not $900

[delicate lake]

Tbh

You dont need a x3d for that

9600x is almost half the price and is a better fit

[quartz surge]

Lol alg

Better than the risk

[earnest storm]

That’s not adding up to 120$ what

psu is 80, case is 50-100, storage is 50-100

[cursive sage]

total cost still like $1000

[earnest storm]

with a 9600x yes

with a 7800x3d youre looking at 1200+

[cursive sage]

we talking base MSRP or discounted right now

[balmy lake]

Don’t forget to carry the 1

[earnest storm]

Currently

[cursive sage]

Can’t believe sales on everything are pretty bad right now

[quartz surge]

Yeah Amazon raised a bunch of prices to "lower" them

[cursive sage]

should really be illegal

[thin bolt]

It’s deceptive market practices

[balmy lake]

Fortunately (depending on how you look at it), price didn’t change on the one item I’m following now. I’m thinking I wanna get that HAVN case J2C was gushing over recently.

[quartz surge]

Fr

4000d was 40 bucks off tho

One positive eventually everyone will know its a sham and they will have to actually do sales

[earnest storm]

meh?

165$ 9600x, 110$ eagle ax, 144$ 7700x, etc

[cursive sage]

even RAM kind of sucks

[stable knoll]

can agree with that it took me 9 days just to return it through UPS

for some reason they only accept UPS pickup, no drop off or other options

will never buy anything over $300

[ivory anchor]

I was told in messages from an Amazon rep that the cutoff is $250

I returned a Radeon RX 6600 during shortages in 2021 or so, and it was close to $300

they had to wait for it to arrive and verify it before issuing the refund, except UPS lost the package so I had to wait 90 days for them to complete an investigation.

It got scanned at my UPS store and promptly never got scanned again.

[balmy lake]

They actually did give me a different option. They picked it up themselves. Wasn’t a standard Amazon truck. It was a plain white leased truck. I guess benefits of living near a large city with several warehouses just on my side of town.

Lol. Just looked. Still hasn’t updated since April 16th and says its at their warehouse but still waiting to be received.

[fallen idol]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/MMcM74

You get the free SSD with the 7800x3d then a free ram stick with the motherboard.

Not a crazy deal but 7800x3d for less than $1100 is cool

[delicate lake]

You can get a 9600x and a 2 tb mp44l and still save $100

Also they swapped the parts in the toughpower unfortunately

It seemed pretty good to me as well until i found that out

Just so you know

matx board in an atx case will look kinda goofy unless you have a chungus card that takes up a lot of space

Ok wtf

walmart has the 9600x at 156????

https://www.walmart.com/ip/AMD-Ryzen-5-9600X-WOF/8880762821

Walmart goin off fr

Updated list
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/yXRFLc

[earnest storm]

1 that psu is not good

[vague pine]

chat, is this a good deal or is this typically what theyre priced at when on sale?
https://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-HD-599-Open-Headphone/dp/B07RFNZYJZ/

[thin bolt]

Check price fluctuation on pcpp

[zenith lantern]

why that one?

[vague pine]

[vague pine]

$100 🗿

[vague pine]

hmmm, has gone lower plenty of times

[sick spade]

I am also thinking of getting that case! It looks awesome and I loved the attention to detail.

[fallen idol]

why

[pallid geyser]

Oh yeah that case is sleek

is very nice

[trim pier]

the upgrade to am5 is so tempting rn

[delicate lake]

9600x hilariously cheap rn

[quartz surge]

Do it

Worth it

100%

I don't regret it

[trim pier]

But I live near a microcenter @quartz surge

that 250 7600x3d.. 300$ 7800x3d

[quartz surge]

Even better

Do ir

[balmy lake]

What he said

Just stay away from old asus and new asrock MB’s. 😂

Hmm… thought just occurred to me. The companies’ boards with the biggest problems with AM5 over the past couple of years were originally the same company. 🤔

[sick spade]

$300 7800x3D is a solid option. Pair that with 6000cl28 RAM and your in the sweet spot.

[trim pier]

Really tempting to rn, but I gotta sell my 7800xt or 4070ti S, then sell my current build 😭

I might just buy the 9600x too

Idk

[earnest storm]

250$ 7800x3d if you get the bundle

[pallid geyser]

Dang it

[heady jasper]

https://camelcamelcamel.com is good for looking at Amazon price history and getting notifications when they reach your desired price level.

[nocturne temple]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xmMTgn how’s this list budget under 2k

[delicate lake]

X3d isn’t affected by ram that much but I still recommend cl30 anyway as it isn’t that expensive

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/kFM774

And I guess you could save a little more getting the 850w instead

But 1000 for 105 goes hard, so up to you. both are great value

Does micro center still have the 9800x3d sale

Its over

Brotha waited for the sales to end

[earnest storm]

its still cheap

600 for normal board, 650 for goog board

[delicate lake]

I was wrong

9800 is still $400

I jsut didnt see it on the home page on my phone and thought it was gone

[tawdry dragon]

yippeeee just got a tab s9 for a good price!!!

tech deals are awesome

[bold willow]

Love my tab s9

[tawdry dragon]

Tab s9 is good

I need to get a case though, I don't trust myself

[tepid iris]

how long will the 9800x3d be on sale for?

[pallid geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/she-ra-psychic-read-mind-gif-13365844745041706249

[lament ingot]

rolls magic 8 ball

[tepid iris]

💔

[tawdry dragon]

update on case: it sucks, getting a new one

[thin bolt]

I love this

[tawdry dragon]

epic???

[delicate lake]

most likely

[pallid geyser]

The heck

[fallen idol]

How many do you have?

[thin bolt]

Not a bunch

[trim pier]

https://www.woot.com/offers/muscle-mlk-pro-series-50-knockout-chocolate-2lb?ref=w_cnt_wp_0_59

PROTEINNNNN

I think only 11 or 15 servings though, 2 scoops per serving

so either 1 or 2 scoops of chalk if you guys like that

[cursive sage]

I don't know much about protein powder but this looks like a good deal

[delicate lake]

Nutty ingredient list

[fallen idol]

I’d wait for the Dymatize iso100 whey protein 3lb to restock

Although it’s not a terrible deal just higher in calories than Dymatize

[shrewd aspen]

the higher calorie intake could help with a passage to bulk if utilized propely

[stoic crest]

jawa has decent prices damn

the 3090 is a tad high but

can't complain much

[thin bolt]

Told you

[cursive sage]

I wish they had decent prices for RAM too

[rocky forum]

Hello everybody, just about to place an order for my new PC on the site and wondering if anybody knows any good promo codes?

[thin bolt]

There usually might be some for manufacturer specific. But don’t get your hopes up.

[rocky forum]

Ok thanks I’ll see what I can find 🙂

[earnest storm]

whatcha getting?

[stoic crest]

damn, this is nice

[rocky forum]

I'm upgrading my old PC. I have the case, power supply and SSD already, https://newegg.io/53b22ff

[earnest storm]

did you... get that already...

oh you did... rip

uh...

if you can get a refund id do it now

youre obv not video editing so the 12900kf is terrible price for how it preforms

same with literally every other part you picked

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/wFy7b2 this would preform far better while being cheaper

[tepid iris]

Is it js me or is the shell shocker deal page not working

[thin bolt]

Works fine for me

[tepid iris]

I wanna send a pic but it wont let me

It says coming soon and hang tight

Its been like dat for a week

[stoic crest]

are you an international buyer?

[tepid iris]

Am in Canada

[royal talon]

I saw this on Newegg and I was wondering if it was too good to be true. This would be my 2nd laptop purchase and I just need a good one so I can use for engineering and to play atm10. Lmk if it’s a good deal or scam pls. Check this out on @Newegg:Dell Precision 7540 15.6" FHD Laptop Intel i7-9850H 2.6GHz 32GB 512GB W10P https://www.newegg.com/dell-precision-7540-15-6-non-touch-screen-intel-core-i7-9850h-32gb-memory-512-gb-ssd-1tb-hdd-black/p/1TS-000A-0WU05?Item=9SIACBWJMG7444&tpk=1

[fair moon]

Seems legit but the i7-9xxx is quite old at this point tbh

Entry-mid level laptop chips will likely beat it and be much more more power efficient to boot

I would check r/laptopdeals

[royal talon]

would this be good https://www.bestbuy.com/product/lenovo-loq-15-6-gaming-laptop-full-hd-amd-ryzen-5-7235hs-with-12gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3050-6gb-512gb-ssd-luna-grey/6578512/openbox?condition=good ?

[fair moon]

Yeah that seems much better

[royal talon]

So I should buy it or nah?

[fair moon]

I mean do you need it

Oh I see engineering

What's atm10

[delicate lake]

all the mods 10

[fair moon]

Idk if that needs more than 12gb ram

It'll be good for engineering classes though

[shut lava]

I guess due to tariffs and whatever price increases, seeing the MSI X670E GAMING WiFi at its regular price that it was selling for 5 months is now a deal. ☹️

[royal talon]

Grade B
64-bit Windows 10 Professional
Office 365 Home/Student (Trial)
15.6" FHD (1920 x 1080)
1x Intel Core i7-10850H (6-Core, 2.70 GHz)
32 GB (2x 16GB)
512 GB (1x 512 GB SSD)
Nvidia Quadro T2000 (4 GB)
No Optical
Gigabit Ethernet (1000BASE-T)
Wifi Included + Bluetooth
Webcam Included
Backlit Keyboard

Should I buy for $500?

[thin bolt]

That’s something @stoic crest might know

[stoic crest]

big no for 500

[royal talon]

how much would you think it should be?

[stoic crest]

that's like worth 300 or less

since the quadro t2000 is like 1050 level

[royal talon]

so you think 380 would be good or nah btw can you pls mention me when you respond i wanna be able to respond fast

[stoic crest]

you can find a newer and nicer laptop that's still built well

for 500 you could easily find smth with 4050

or nearly the newest gen amd laptop

[royal talon]

But do you think this is worth the 380 then or not??

[stoic crest]

380

i guess, maybe

[civic sun]

Depends how patient you are I guess. Sounds like a school provided laptop they are trying to get rid of I don’t think it will sell fast. Gpu is a bit underpowered especially for games

[stoic crest]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/376431918579

assuming you have more budget to spend

this also looks good

[royal talon]

Nah it’s a refurbished I wanna buy from dell refurbished the 381 is including the taxes and all that

[royal talon]

Oo actually I might my budget increased from the yesterday

[royal talon]

Also you think it would be a decent laptop for engineering?

[stoic crest]

yeah, the 2060 is a good bit faster than the quadro

[royal talon]

So you would say it’s the best bang for my buck?

[stoic crest]

yep, but do know that these older laptops do require you to stay plugged in

same for the refurb dell really

high performance intel laptop cpus back then weren't really efficient at all

[royal talon]

I see well thanks for all the help man

[stoic crest]

yw

[torpid night]

I've never heard of CCCEI lmao

I personally wouldn't trust that surge protector to protect my electronics

But idk, maybe I've just never heard of them

[cedar lintel]

How bad is open box on newegg? I've just ordered an open box motherboard and I've read online people having major issues with open box but it says in the description all items have been tested to work before shipping

[brittle lagoon]

Expect cosmetic damage and or missing accessories, anything functionally broken should be eligible for return

[cedar lintel]

Hopefully its not broken its got the no refund tag so Im hoping

[rustic hearth]

can i use my student discount on https://www.newegg.com/acer-america-aspire-15-6-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3050-laptop-gpu-full-hd-16gb-memory-512-gb-ssd/p/2WC-000K-03CT1?Item=9SIAA0SKEH7563

[earnest storm]

ew

thats such a bad deal

[rustic hearth]

is there a better one that you know of?

[earnest storm]

theres

so many better ones

[rustic hearth]

like?

[brittle lagoon]

You can go up to a 4060 at the same price at minimum
https://www.staples.com/asus-tuf-a15-15-6-fhd-144hz-gaming-laptop-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4060-amd-ryzen-5-7535hs-16gb-ram-512gb-ssd-windows-11/product_24632447

Not a great deal on the 4060 laptop but it's still better

You might be able to get a 4070 laptop around $800 if you're fine with open box or refurb

[rustic hearth]

yeah i found this one a few minutes after my original one. my friend was looking for a laptop so i was just helping them. ty for the help 👍

[earnest storm]

@high radish why are ppl downvoting that lmao

[sick spade]

Corsair Vengeance memory which iirc is locked.

Meaning you don't have full control over the ram.

[earnest storm]

meh

not really an issue

that price though is quite good

person im helping may get it

[high radish]

People hates Corsair lol

For this price I'd still buy it if it was Noname brand too

Ordered bunch of them already tho

[earnest storm]

for lower end tiers it sucks since bad ic

but its not bad, just usually not this cheap

[high radish]

Yeah still better than getting 5200mhz for same price

[earnest storm]

well 5200mhz on corsair probably isnt hynix so 💀

[high radish]

I mean for 170$ there's only g.skill 5200mhz getting 6000mhz for tht price is good no matter what brand it is lol

[earnest storm]

mhm

[high radish]

they delivered already

[earnest storm]

ggs

[cursive sage]

Is Corsair ram just mediocre/unreliable or something?

I've only bought a budget keyboard/mouse/headset combo from them

[shrewd aspen]

Older gen’s had mixing of dies on memory sticks which was bad for OC and they were just overpriced unless it didn’t have rgb

[high radish]

their ddr4 kits were trash . their ddr5 kits are alright actually. not the first choise but still good if you find deal like that

[cursive sage]

I don't think the deal is really working for me anyway because it shows $199, not $170

[high radish]

It's dead now

[cursive sage]

I don't know what I would've done with 96GB of RAM anyway

I only have 16

[shrewd aspen]

I want my 128gb back

[swift forge]

I remember I got some Corsair c die up to like 3900mhz at cl19 back then at 1.33v somehow when I used to oc

[pallid geyser]

In case anyone is wondering on the H7 Flow in tech deals:

Max Video Card Length
15.75 in. (400.00 mm)

[bold willow]

Only 400mm 😔

I need room for at least 3 gpus

[fallen idol]

will bestbuy actually price match? Or is there like some hidden rules to it.

[fair moon]

Has to be an identical item sold by a first party seller

And it has to be available, no out of stock or backorder

Not sure if they will price match microcenter in-store only

[fallen idol]

For sure thanks

[hybrid stone]

Many have reported luck with a price match just swap agents if the first say no. YMMV. I will finish a H7 build today, it was great.

[balmy lake]

In my experience, they generally just glance at whatever ad you show them but just be forewarned of their usual loophole, even if it’s technically the exact same, the SKU might be 1 to a few digits off. Just because of this. They will ship the same item to multiple retailers but each retailer gets a slightly different SKU OR model number. Like they might ship a model G45U99-A to MC, and ship a G45C99-A to BB. Same thing! But, not officially. Depends on how much of a stickler the person is.

[fair moon]

The origin of this policy is likely because (at least in the past) Black Friday sales would feature models that were named and looked the same but had lower specs/cheaper components

Nowadays I think they just don’t price match at all during Black Friday/ cyber Monday

[fallen idol]

Works

Very cool

Now I have to think if I want to use it or keep my other case 😫

[balmy lake]

I bought the Havn HS 420. I read the measurements but still didn’t realize how big it actually was until it showed up. Having to figure out how to rearrange my desk/room before I build it.

[cursive sage]

I thought NZXT was one of those brands you should avoid? or was that only for the prebuilt side of things

[forest prairie]

[pallid geyser]

^

They’ve got some real dookie butt stuff and some that isn’t so bad

[cursive sage]

but the case isn't that bad?

they also have a second case at microcenter that's $30 too but forgot what its called

[stoic crest]

some of its cases are actually decent

just overpriced

[swift forge]

Depends on the bestbuy I think, I tried price matching a cpu in 2020 and said they couldn’t do mc

And only Amazon and also denied bh, honestly depends bc I’m pretty sure mine just made up random policies

At the same time I didn’t call them out on their store policy, so maybe worth a shot

[fallen idol]

oh damn maybe they updated it. Cause I was able to price match the case.

[hybrid stone]

I just built in the H5 flow and H7 flow over the last 2 weeks. Both were solid with fantastic build quality and cable management. H7 was a bit nicer and I like it more overall but it’s significantly bigger.

They are obvious buys at 30-70$ all day long if you like the look and the white

[delicate lake]

I like the h3

[thin bolt]

Nzxt bad

[lament ingot]

Why are they bad now

[thin bolt]

https://youtu.be/0pomC1CfpC0?feature=shared

[stoic crest]

tbh their rental program is the only one to avoid

and certain products

[lament ivy]

What’s the deal with the $2500 from Mr. Beast in tech deals?

[torpid night]

It's just some scammer. He spams this in every channel

[lament ivy]

Appears was just removed yeah sorry

[torpid night]

Not just #tech-deals

Yeah

[ashen rune]

Went in today to try and get a best buy H7, no luck. they pulled some BS about how it was out of stock at the nearest Microcenter, and they only will price match regionally. lmk if you guys have any tips

[lilac crater]

What state are you in? Im in California and failing to let Microcenter’s Price for the H7 Flow go through. smth about it being too far below cost to allow the $30 price through.

[lament ingot]

Or better yet dont buy nzxt

[ashen rune]

I'll buy whatever brand is offering a case with that feature set for $30. Please don't ping me with this kind of virtue signaling, I'm just here for the parts.

[pallid geyser]

Ooo damn get em

[lament ingot]

Bruh

Just tryna steer people away from buying from scammers... sorry if that offends u...

[cursive sage]

I mean like, $30 case is $30 and it's apparently good just overpriced

[ashen rune]

i actually agree with you, I just don't think it should interfere with people getting the best parts for the best price. hell if anything microcenter and BB are losing money each one of these they sell

[lament ingot]

Hm

True

[fallen idol]

There is no microcenter near me I just used the one in cali

tustin

I trhink

think

[earnest storm]

[fair moon]

This doesn't apply for shady business practices; those should cast a shadow over the whole company

[earnest storm]

its still a good and cheap product

[fair moon]

I do think at that price you probably aren't supporting nzxt much tbh

[earnest storm]

theyre probably losing monery

[cursive sage]

I hate that it's in-store only though, along with a lot of other good microcenter deals

they don't really have a wide availability of locations

[soft sleet]

u cld use best buy's price match...they now match microcenter

[fair moon]

With some asterisks though

[fair moon]

Yeah it's a deal to get you in the door and hopefully buy other stuff from them as well

[zenith lantern]

AM6 socket rumors showing up in my feed

guess we're saving for next best x3d

[delicate lake]

12 core x3d

i wonder how the silicon bridges will affect dual ccd skus from thereon

Maybe the latency will be low enough to not have core parking anymore

[torpid night]

Reason for leaving Bulldozer for Ryzen: It was old, at roughly 5-6 years old

Ryzen's age: 8 years

[mild plaza]

Are there any good deals on prebuilt pcs on new egg

[cursive sage]

It would be cool if the nearest MicroCenters weren't hours away though

[earnest storm]

theres ok deals, but obv building your own pc will be a far better deal

[lament ingot]

Almost always

[lament ingot]

If ur in dfw I'll take u

Im going tmr

[earnest storm]

always except if its a used prebuilt

[lament ingot]

Hmmm

[mild plaza]

This a good prebuilt

iBUYPOWER Y60 Gaming Desktop - Intel Core i9 13900KF, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12GB, 32GB DDR5 RGB RAM, 1TB NVMe SSD _Y60BI9N4703

Listed for 1599 $ on new egg

[torpid night]

iBuyProblems

[lament ingot]

The Greatest Technician That's Ever Lived reference spotted

[torpid night]

He isn't wrong though

[lament ingot]

Lol

[hybrid stone]

I’m bias but think the prebuilts I have up right now are pretty solid value for money- and I do custom builds as well. https://www.jawa.gg/sp/365224/nebacanezzar-builds?sortBy=date you can PM me here and prices can be reduced off Jawa

[thin bolt]

#links-and-selfpromotion

[lament ingot]

Make me a pc with a ThreadRipper 9995WX and a rtx 6000 pro blackwell

[hybrid stone]

Okay- thank you

[sick spade]

Sure, just need you to put in your credit card information right here please.

[lament ingot]

All I got is my meme stealing license

[tawdry dragon]

https://www.msi.com/Laptop/GF75-Thin-10SX-GTX/Specification I could get this for $80, y'all think it would make a good photo server?

Specifically the GF75 Thin 10SCSXR with an i5

[earnest storm]

yeah

[tawdry dragon]

Ok, I'll try negotiating down to $50 bc the screen is broken.

[earnest storm]

Oh.

[torpid night]

Oh.

[opal flume]

Oh.

[lament ingot]

Did you buy it?

[zenith lantern]

i bought it when it was full price months ago

[lament ingot]

Oh

[wind tinsel]

Can anyone help me find a good gaming laptop for Roblox and Fortnite for my little brother for around 500-700

[earnest storm]

"good gaming laptop" and that price dont go together

you can get an ok or meh laptop

https://www.newegg.com/msi-gf-series-15-6-geforce-rtx-3050-laptop-gpu-intel-core-i5-11400h-fhd-8gb-memory-512-gb-pcie-ssd/p/N82E16834156308?Item=9SIAKZ3JYA5023 this is probably the best without going used

itll work

[stoic crest]

you can get 4050 laptops for that much actually

welp they're not in the server anymore, too late for me to give them a link

[earnest storm]

Someone else found a good used one

[thin bolt]

@fallen idol funko pops have been like
Shamed out of the public eye for a little while

Overproduction and forced value really messed them up

[fallen idol]

To each their own, 50% off is crazy. If there happens to be a collector here then thats for them.

[thin bolt]

Most of them are already discounted

[fallen idol]

The captain america deluxe one sells for like $20 on ebay last I checked.

[fallen idol]

Yeah they are, most expensive one is $16 but hey another 50% doesnt hurt.

[bold willow]

$1 funkos is a god deal

[torpid night]

Overrated merch tbh

[bold willow]

nvm its not even giving me 50% off

[lament ingot]

Motor
Motor what did you do to yourself
Do you need medical attention

[torpid night]

It's just overrated

I ordered a GPU from Amazon once and it got swapped for somebody's stupid Deadpool funko pop

Top 10 worst moments of my life tbh

I already didn’t get a good vibe from Funko Pops prior to that moment. Everybody had a Deadpool Funko Pop at the time. Of course there's one that gets swapped into my package to haunt me

[lament ingot]

War crime

[torpid night]

I ended up throwing it away and claiming a refund

Didn’t even return the item. I straight up told Amazon that I didn’t get my package lol

[bold willow]

I get funkos when they're not msrp

either they're limited edition (instore exclusive / convention) or those jumbo ones.

i would never spend $10 on a regular funko which is msrp

[fallen idol]

Go all the way to checkout

[cursive sage]

at least they are better than labubu dolls or whatever they are

[torpid night]

Both are annoying to look at. One is just more popular than the other atm

[balmy lake]

I have a few. But only because they were gifted to me. I have only actually bought ones of a specific character because she’s my absolute favorite and i buy pretty much anything related to her that i can afford, lol.

[fair moon]

At least funko pops aren't gambling like labubus

[bold willow]

@cursive sage are these steam keys? https://www.humblebundle.com/games/wb-play-legends

nvm it is

[pallid geyser]

Long ass link

[cursive sage]

@bold willow try deleting everything after the question mark in your link if you wanna trim it down a bit

it's out of stock

[bold willow]

no that’s how I steal their personal info when they click the link

[delicate lake]

Did it work

[torpid night]

Yes. I got my refund lol

[delicate lake]

[fringe olive]

If I bought that 7800 MHZ kit, can I just manually tune to lower timings and a lower speed like 6400 to actually work on 7700x or should I just buy a kit that has XMP closer to 6400?

[delicate lake]

Unlikely to even run 6400

Very unlikely

Maybe you’ll be able to do 6200

Maybe you could get that kit to 8000 and run that at 1/2 memclock

[delicate lake]

I got the teamgroup tcreate 6400 kit because it was the same price as 6000

I couldn’t run that so I went to 6000 and dialed in cl28 and buildzoid timings

[fringe olive]

Thanks for the input

[earnest storm]

just get a 6000/cl30 or 6400/cl32

[shut lava]

or 6000 CL26.

[bold willow]

Does ninja creamie worth it?

[trim pier]

I have it and it’s really worth it if you buy the things for it

You have to prep ahead of time though which sucks

But “flash freezing” (what I call it) your containers kinda cut the time down from a full 24 hours to 12-16 hours

I just wrap wet paper towels and throw it in the freezer

I recommend going on TikTok and look for recipes, some of the best looking and tasting for sure

[delicate lake]

i havent been looking

[pallid geyser]

stuff just ain’t poppin right now

[shut lava]

My guess is we will see Labor day sales in the US.

[torpid night]

Yeah everything is probably like 110% the normal price. So on Labor Day sales, they have a "HUGE MARKDOWN" with a whopping "10% OFF" and it'll basically be normal price

[high radish]

Marketing sux

[shut lava]

With Newegg, they will raise the price 2 days before the sale, then lower the price to the same price the items were for the two weeks before the sale.

[torpid night]

Yeah everybody does that

[fair moon]

bro called out Newegg specifically like Amazon, best buy, and every other store doesn't do it as well

[delicate lake]

[pallid geyser]

I’d even wager Amazon is worse lol

[bold willow]

The third parties on Amazon are the worst

[pallid geyser]

Should be illegal

In fact I think it technically is cos like belk or kohls or something was sued way back in the day for doing that

[bold willow]

Price gouging right?

Idk the term

[pallid geyser]

Oh they’ve gotten sued twice now lol

[cursive sage]

Other stores do it so don’t know why those stores haven’t gotten sued

[balmy lake]

They have. But probably settle quick with little press, or nda’s as part of the settlement or something. And they still make more money doing it than any losses from lawsuits and/or government fines.

Kinda like, when I worked for a tank inspection company in the oil and gas industry. The companies would call us and schedule inspections that were overdue. Because, what’s the point of worrying about a $250k/day fine, if emptying the tank for an inspection is going to cost you $50million/day in lost profits?

[bold willow]

Target has some of the best clearance if ur a deal hunter tho

Friday / Saturday is when the empty the clearance so that’s when it’ll be the lowest.

Otherwise, everything else is kinda expensive.

[torpid night]

Everybody is aware of this lol

[shut lava]

Newegg does it to an extent far above everyone else with PC parts when I was tracking prices before and during sales.

You can look at the PC Part picker price history for comparison.

You could predict what PC parts Newegg was going to put on "sale" because their prices would jump up two days before a typical sale period.

B&H and Amazon didn't show the same price behavior on PC Part Picker.

[balmy lake]

one of several reasons i quit NE was because they kept putting things on ‘shell shocker’ deals that were more expensive than literally the day before it went on “sale”

So i’d say they are far and above the worst.

And generally, i kept finding things cheaper elsewhere, regardless of deal status. even at Bestbuy.

[brittle lagoon]

Newegg just does it differently, Newegg raises prices back up, Amazon and Best buy like to keep things on "sale" but move the original MSRP back up on their website

For example, I remember 970 evo 1tb, MSRP showed as $200 or smth like that, Newegg would've had it at $100 before, raise actual price to $200, and then list sale to $100, Amazon would list it normally at $100, then raise listing price to $200 without changing the actual price of $100 and call it a sale to $100 again

[forest prairie]

documented cases of prime membership costing more for whatever reason

[cursive sage]

it good for woot though

[pallid geyser]

Tru

[cursive sage]

Wait Best Buy can price match the case?

[fair moon]

maybe

If it's available to ship to you BB might price match

But at that point just buy it from MC

[cursive sage]

The closest MC is hours away and it’s in-store only

oh wait

This one can ship?

[fair moon]

"CAN SHIP"

[cursive sage]

didn’t see that part

It’s not $30 like it was a few weeks ago but at least it can ship

[opal flume]

Can Ship

Slap a propeller on it and it'll sail the high seas

[cursive sage]

I got free shipping instead, false marketing

[opal flume]

Sad

[earnest storm]

@bold willow oos + 90 day warranty is BAD

[bold willow]

ok

[balmy lake]

[lament ingot]

Scambot

[cursive sage]

For the H5 Flow?

[bold willow]

$80 revival sf1000 corsair psu

[earnest storm]

A psu

😭

[cursive sage]

Oh thank god it’s not the case

Don’t see the PSU link though

[ember lake]

NANI?!?

Cost less than to build it urself

[lament ingot]

buying prebuilts will almost always cost more than building urself, but if you select the wrong parts it will cost more

[ember lake]

No it’s literally cheaper than building it mysef

Cheapest 9070xt is 950$ here

[lament ingot]

oh wait its on sale

[fringe olive]

Does it still price out to be more to build? I can't access pcpartpicker.

Not exactly sure what your regional pricing is, but a 7700x is like $300.

650$ for the rest I would think gets you decent parts for the rest. The prebuilt probably uses some barebones stuff.

[ember lake]

I mean idk what parts it’s using

But 950$ for card

600 is possible for mobo ram and cpu

200 for psu and case

70 for storage

30 for fans and others

[delicate lake]

Cooler is kinda doodoo and there are gonna be some inconveniences when you upgrade something

Well that’s gonna depend on the si

But psu and fans might be a hassle in the future

[fringe olive]

600 for mobo and cpu? 7700x must be pricy in your region.

Maybe just pc parts are pricy in your region.

[uncut plume]

It's Canadian dollars.

[high radish]

deal ?

[cursive sage]

why is that 32gig ram kit $150

[high radish]

because it's cl28

[cursive sage]

oh god even the SSD is overpriced as hell

[high radish]

I mean total 190$ is good price anyways. think like 90$ ram and 100$ ssd

[ember lake]

110 for cl30 32ram, 200 for mobo and 290$ for 7700x

[tawdry dragon]

CAD

[delicate lake]

On its own yeah but he got a combo

190 for ram fan and ssd

Thats good

[bold willow]

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/logitech-pro-lightweight-wireless-optical-ambidextrous-gaming-mouse-with-rgb-lighting-wireless-black/J7H7ZY2KYS/sku/6265132?sb_share_source=PDP

Link didn’t send in the forwarded message

[bold willow]

@torpid night I didn’t know it wouldn’t send the link 😔

[torpid night]

lol

[bold willow]

any good school laptop under $300 usd?

he just needs something light, basic, and not insanely slow.

[tawdry dragon]

I need to find a Chromebook for school :(((

I wanna try installing chromeos onto a windows laptop

[tawdry dragon]

nvm that won't work

[bold willow]

like cheap as possible or just a decent chromebook?

i got a chromebook for $15 once and it ran youtube

[tawdry dragon]

decent

gotta use it for the next 3 years

[bold willow]

why chromebook specifically?

the OS?

[pallid geyser]

Dang, the mouse is actually really temping

Think that might be best all time price?

[opal flume]

No longer on sale

[balmy lake]

I think that was the Canadian ‘Dolar.’ It’s always bit less than the US Dollar.

[torpid night]

TIL

Didn't even know Jawi was a language tbh

[hybrid stone]

I would aim for a used MacBook Air M1. Can be had for 250-450$

[tawdry dragon]

The os, the school requires chromeos and won't allow windows

[cursive sage]

I purposefully misspelled “dollar”, didnt know “dolar” was an actual currency lmao

[bold willow]

Anything windows?

[hybrid stone]

Not off the top of my head.

[balmy lake]

Wont work as in, it wont fulfill requirements? Or can’t be done? Because I’ve done it before but, it was quite a while ago and I don’t know if done something to make it so that you can’t.

[tawdry dragon]

It can't run android apps

[balmy lake]

Hmm. Now you got me curious…

Gonna have to dust it off and see if it’ll boot up and check that. Got it still laying around here somewhere

Maybe tomorrow

Cant wait for all the “new device signing into your account” notifications. Lol

[forest prairie]

where tf is alan wake 2 in steam smh my head

[opal flume]

AW2 is an Epic published game. Epic exclusive

[cursive sage]

There’s also Alan Wake Remastered which is also an Epic exclusive

[forest prairie]

I'm going to eat epic games

[bold willow]

Nintendo switch, Nintendo switch oled, or Nintendo switch 2 in terms of price to performance?

Wanna get a switch to play some of the sports games with the fam and maybe try Pokemon on my own.

I don't think $500 is feasible for the switch 2

I think I should get it certified refurbished with at least a 1 year warranty

Is there any specific versions of the switch one to look for?

This is a deal discussion - I am looking for a deal

[cursive sage]

Okay, so

If you really do not care about Switch 2 and games in the future, just get a basic Switch (oled isn't worth the price now)

[tawdry dragon]

I see oleds for $100 almost constantly

$100-150

[cursive sage]

oh yeah, if you see it for that price with everything included snatch it up

same with normal switch

[bold willow]

Where bruh

I see them around $250

Does this look good? https://ebay.us/m/kquLhM

[earnest storm]

no its nintendo

[bold willow]

I just wanna play the sports games with the fam

Golf and whatnot

[shrewd aspen]

A good ole Wii at the local thrift store calls

[earnest storm]

wii sports

[forest prairie]

true

[bold willow]

Wanna play some other modern stuff too ☠️

[earnest storm]

switch really cant do that

also like

steamdeck

[high radish]

if anyone have Amazon Business account , there's Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite for 120$ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DFQG1KYC?ref=fed_asin_title

[balmy lake]

Yep. No go on chromium on laptop. I can’t even get it to update past a 2018 build date.

[bold willow]

Pokemon really

[bold willow]

I specifically want the deattachable controllers for family games (and using dock) and I want to play some Nintendo games

[teal adder]

whats a good budgetish (below 1k usd) laptop thats not meant for gaming but can be used for gaming, gonna prob be using it mostly for school

[odd radish]

Is rtx 5070 460$ good deals?

[thin bolt]

Yeah
Check the seller for a scam though

[odd radish]

From newegg

[bold willow]

Sold and shipped by newegg?

[odd radish]

Yes

[bold willow]

They have third parties on there

[odd radish]

The shuffle

[stoic crest]

okay

that's good

newegg shuffle is decent

[tawdry dragon]

just stumbled onto a gold mine of high specced chromebooks
https://www.ebay.com/itm/336058099656
https://www.ebay.com/itm/297524046014
https://www.ebay.com/itm/297101707185

all for under $200 is crazy

[zenith lantern]

4tb sn850x for $200??

[lament ingot]

I'm entering for it

If i do get it I'll use it as a game drive

[high radish]

https://tenor.com/view/newegg-shuffle-rejection-gif-20909735

[zenith lantern]

[high radish]

Those "you weren't selected" emails reminds me gpu hunting times

[cursive sage]

https://computers.woot.com/offers/asus-prime-b650-plus-amd-am5-atx-motherboard-4

^ How's this motherboard? I'm not really knowledgeable on motherboards

They have a bunch of other motherboards on sale too but I've never seen one go for below $100

[cursive sage]

oh nevermind, it's sold out

wow that was fast

[pallid geyser]

Oh boy the TikTok deals

[cursive sage]

send them our way

[lament ingot]

arrow lake supremacy fr

[forest prairie]

I guess I have keys for lego hobbit and lego ninjago that I can't use now lol

[high radish]

Newegg shuffle reminds me gpu hunting times

My daily "you weren't selected" emails

[forest prairie]

insert gif

[high radish]

https://tenor.com/view/newegg-shuffle-rejection-gif-20909735

[tawdry dragon]

If anybody finds a good mobo/ddr5 ram combo for lga 1700 please ping me :)

[hybrid stone]

My 6 year old will be so stoked

[fair moon]

No offense @earnest storm but that cooler is a brand I’ve never heard of and has 4 reviews lol

[delicate lake]

These lowballers are pissing me off

I actually might trade in my 6600 to newegg and get that 9070

They will give me $108 for it

[cunning flame]

not bad tbh

market rate isn't much higher iirc is it?

[delicate lake]

Nah they still go for a lot surprisingly

150+ but the ebay tax takes from that

150 would be like 127 in your pocket

160 would be almost 140

[cunning flame]

mhm thats what i mean

[cunning flame]

ah so a little bit of a loss i suppose

[delicate lake]

Idk out of spite I might just trade it in

These lowballs are even lower than facebook bruh

That’s why I am irritated

[cunning flame]

what platform are you on?

[delicate lake]

How do you go lower than fbm droids

[delicate lake]

Ebay

[cunning flame]

yikes

[delicate lake]

Maybe just unlucky

I lowered to 150 which is what those shitty msi mechs go for and got another $100 offer

So yeah I’m probably just gonna trade this in

[hybrid stone]

Try Jawa?

[forest prairie]

You could remove the best offer

[daring depot]

https://a.co/d/hsH8R28
Is this a good deal?

theres a more expensive version of this but they basically have the same speed

[brittle lagoon]

It's equivalent to this
https://www.newegg.com/kingspec-2tb-xg-7000-series/p/0D9-000D-00172

[brittle lagoon]

If you're talking about sn850x, that has dram, sn7100 doesn't

[daring depot]

well im not desparate for an ssd rnb

was also looking at the previous gen sk hynix

https://a.co/d/8oC0IqO

[balmy lake]

If you’re using windows, pick one that doesn’t use a phison controller. At least till MS fixes their issue.

[torpid night]

Man that’s such an annoying issue. I want a new SSD but nah MS wanted to push an update that's this stupid

[high radish]

I have Phison SSD in all my 3 PCs and it works fine

[torpid night]

Just don't download anything more than 50GB I guess lol

[balmy lake]

I have one in mine also. But i have updates paused. Mine’s not even on the list. But i don’t wanna be the one that finds out otherwise. Also, its not limited to the 50GB file transfer. J2C posted an update last week, it happened to him while doing benchmarking.

[high radish]

I transfered over 400gb already lol . it's very rare issue I guess

[brittle lagoon]

Current most recent theory is a pre-production controller driver that's causing the issue, and that's why the same hardware can both be unaffected and run into the issue at the same time, and why both Microsoft and Phison testing were inconclusive

[delicate lake]

Not true

You’ll get crashes while gaming

Or really anything

A game of chance really

[high radish]

I mean I see people having issues on internet but didn't hear anything from anyone I know and neither from my customers . weird thing tho

[delicate lake]

Just depends on the ssd controller

My friend would get blue screens occasionally while my brother is completely unaffected

There are phison controllers that are not on the original report that are also affected

Even some samsungs too

And different drives react differently as well

This is just a nasty update

[high radish]

[delicate lake]

Jayztwocents made a video about his ssd crashing and when it crashes the controller freaks out

The board can’t detect the drive unless you turn off the power supply

[uncut plume]

He had a completely different issue, did no verification of it and blamed it on the ms update. Phison also said the originally reported message from them was fake and neither they nor ms nor anyone else I've seen have managed to successfully replicate.

[fair moon]

…JZ2C continues to be sensationalist, who saw that coming?

[thin bolt]

https://tenor.com/view/shocker-community-troy-barnes-donald-glover-wow-shocker-gif-7971578701249082474

[balmy lake]

Sensational…

I see videos both ways. But the majority is reporting on the issue.

[delicate lake]

We love ai code

Well

“AI”

Rather, we love h-1b code

[high radish]

Honestly , I never heard that problem despite intenet

[pallid geyser]

[high radish]

Alright I tested all SSDs in my and Wifes PC for fun . 4x ssd in my main build , 3x ssd on my gaming and 3x ssd in my wifes pc . Transferred 140GB folder all around and literally nothing happened . I guess it's just a rare issue

SSDs I checked is SN850X , P41 , Acer gm7000 , 990 evo and teamgroup g50 . All running with latest update

[daring depot]

yaaay

[bold willow]

I need help finding a laptop for around $500 or less. Prioritize battery life and processing power. It should be black either like the apple midnight or black - not silver.

Willing to do excellent or certified refurbished. 2020 or newer hardware.

USA

Opinions on a M1 Macbook Air Excellent Refurbished for $380?

[cursive sage]

Okay, the M1 macbook air is great

You just need to get adjusted to MacOS

[bold willow]

Not me, my little brother.

[cursive sage]

Okay, then your brother needs to get adjusted to MacOS

[bold willow]

I would never touch apple.

[cursive sage]

It is a laptop with good battery life though

[bold willow]

It is.

Only reason I'm recommending it.

Can't beat the price for that battery life and power.

M1 is strong.

[cursive sage]

You answered your own question then

[bold willow]

Wish that snapdragon x elite laptop for $500 would reappear

The oled one

[cursive sage]

Not too familiar with those

the Mac probably beats it in battery life though

[bold willow]

idk how reputable this is but https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/qualcomm-snapdragon-x-elite-vs-apple-m1

I'm pretty sure the Snap X Elite almost on par with m3

[hybrid stone]

Other people already hit this but yeah any M series laptop will make you very happy. I would stick with the airs to keep cost down but for 500$ you should be able to get a 16gb/512 M1 or M2 air.

There is nothing on windows that even comes close to the total package the M series macs can offer.

Long time and still windows user by my M4 Air I locked in for 750$ has to be one of if not my best tech purchase ever

[fair moon]

The newer snapdragon chips do

[hybrid stone]

I think they do a lot well but I think when it comes to the entire package (screen speakers battery performance support reliability ease of use) M series is just hard to beat IMO

[fair moon]

Battery and performance wise the snapdragon chips can meet or beat the m chips

Idk about speakers but you can get OLED models of the snapdragon lappys

not saying they 100% beat MacBooks but MacBooks aren’t the undisputed king anymore

[bold willow]

And u get more freedom with the ecosystem

MacOS is annoying

[fair moon]

Yeah the windows arm chips are slightly limited but less so than macOS

[tawdry dragon]

I honestly hate Mac keyboards and compatibility, if they fixed those I'd switch

[hybrid stone]

https://computers.woot.com/offers/apple-13-3-macbook-pro-m1-myda2ll-a-2020z

[bold willow]

Worth it for $60 more?

[hybrid stone]

I think it being the pro and 512 it’s well worth the price- just when you get it it obvs needs to be unlocked and checked battery cycles and unit condition. I’ve purchased about 3 so far and only one showed up bad and locked

[bold willow]

Is it like excellent refurbished or could we see some scratches on it?

If I am getting him refurbished it should look practically new

[hybrid stone]

Won’t know until you get it and it’s kind of luck of the draw since Woot doesn’t specify the refurb quality on that listing. This listing though lets you choose the difference quality of “refurb” and is the air but with 16GB’s of ram. https://a.co/d/e9zn5xe I’ve purchased from this listing before and was happy with 2/3 devices, simply returned the third.

[bold willow]

Is 8gb enough for non intensive tasks?

Isn’t Apple better at optimizing ram use

He is in highschool and focuses primary on business related stuff - so no crazy rendering, programming, or art.

If we do order any, that Amazon listing works great thank you! Tons of options at the same price as eBay. We also get 5% cash back.

[brittle lagoon]

Just their marketing, they optimize some of their own software, but the same program is going to have similar memory usage between operating systems.

[hybrid stone]

IMO I think 8GB is fine for 90% of use as long as they are not trying to do heavy production, editing, gaming, or 20+ chrome tabs.

One of those 3 I purchased was for a high school student in the family who’s windows laptop was causing too many problems, mainly battery life

If you can afford it the extra 50$ or so for 16gb is worth it. 512 is a nice to have but even on my M4 air I stuck with 256 just because I knew I had no intentions of any storage on that device

[bold willow]

no gaming 100%

no editing

[hybrid stone]

My MacBook Air crushes some classic wow for me.

[bold willow]

To be fair its purely gonna be a school and business (spreadsheets, communication, and paper trading)

so i think 8gb is enough

[high radish]

8 gig ram which shared with gpu as vram what year is it ? 2010 or something

[forest prairie]

Perfect, for lightweight Linux distro

[delicate lake]

cachyos my beloved

[dull flame]

My shell, is shocked.

I don't know how to read. Nvm

[forest prairie]

Such sale

Very wow

So discount

[dull flame]

I thought it was only a 3$ discount.

[tawdry dragon]

should I get a 7900xt for $500?

[fair moon]

to my knowledge macOS itself uses a fair amount less than Windows so 8gb on macbooks isn't nearly as bad as on a windows laptop

[fair moon]

my dads 2012 macbook Air had 4gb and for his usecase lasted him 12 years

[brittle lagoon]

The OS takes a little less, and any apple apps takes less, but the same program is going to still use similar amounts, and apple also has to share that memory between CPU and GPU

8gb is enough for anything not intensive, it's just like a modern phone, it does all the basic tasks you usually need to do

[fair moon]

honestly pretty nice that the newer ones just start at 16gb though

[cunning flame]

i would spend $50 more for 9070 personally, buy 7900 xt is also very good

alternatively if this is not something that you need to purchase immediately, i have a 7900 xt in the mail, and just recently sold my 9070, so i can give a direct comparison of my experience in a few days lol

[delicate lake]

No more 9070

[cunning flame]

i benched it and then stopped playing games

just don't need it anymore

[delicate lake]

it is a good thing I did not get the 9070 because I don't need it either

I think this 9060 xt is like 30% faster than my 6700 xt because of the overclok

[cunning flame]

understandable. tbh most games that actually require a lot of performance don't interest me

i will probably get battlefield 6 and that's really it

and my b580 can run that (or so i heard)

[cunning flame]

moar vram and usable upscaling too

have you checked out optiscaler at all?

[delicate lake]

I think it might be even faster

Like 1/3 faster lmao

[cunning flame]

good stuff haha

[delicate lake]

Not yet because the games I play are light

They don't need it

[cunning flame]

i think it ended up being like a $100 upgrade after you sold the 6700 xt right?

[delicate lake]

Although I might do it for rdr2

[cunning flame]

yeah same 😭 heaviest game i play rn is minecraft with vibrant visuals lol

[delicate lake]

Dude I get like 200 fps at 1440p with complimentary and trees in my field of view

Shit is crazy

[cunning flame]

i like complimentary on java, very good

i use it with the barebones pack, it looks much like the minecraft update trailer style which i appreciate a lot

i need to get better animations too

but i have not yet

[delicate lake]

More tbh but thats ok because av1 more vram at the same power draw

[cunning flame]

yeah seems like a solid deal either way

[delicate lake]

Also that 6700 xt ran hot. It is an older 2 slot card that could draw 220w

Hotspot hit 100

Gpu coolers now are much better than even just 4 years ago

Like look at the sapphire cards, they are small

[hybrid stone]

I was selected and plan to purchase. What other deals exist that I can bundle with this? Thinking a MOBO?

[pallid geyser]

Well you’ll certainly need a mobo

[mortal blaze]

some headsets good for cheap

?

wireless

[mortal blaze]

thats price its so good for that proccesor

processor

[hybrid stone]

Basically 400$ all new CL36 ram for a lesser board or 370$ better board and I use 50-60$ second hand ram

Alright grabbed the Aorus

[delicate lake]

Yeah my 9600x was that price

Still good relative to what was out at the time though

But that is crazy

[hybrid stone]

It’s only because I was randomly selected as a shuffle. Good deal for sure but I still loved the 7700X 140$ refurb I got a while back on Amazon lol

[delicate lake]

[thin bolt]

I’ve never gotten selected by a shuffle

[shut lava]

I got selected for the Newegg Shuffle when the XBOX Series X was new. It was delivered to the wrong hous. Newegg made me file a police report for a stolen delivery/porch pirated item to get a refund. The issue was that UPS wasn't even on my street when it was marked as delivered and a box was never dropped off at my house.

[high radish]

https://tenor.com/view/newegg-shuffle-rejection-gif-20909735

[balmy lake]

The thing is, i can see someone or even multiple people sitting in their cubicles at doing this. 😂

[forest prairie]

I've never selected newegg shuffle

[heady jasper]

I only did it during the RTX 30 series GPU shortage. The only one I really "won" was a Ryzen 9 5900X CPU. Now that CPU runs my media server.

[cunning flame]

i won a 3070 ti + b550 combo in 2021

it was one of the weaker combos, but it worked out to basically being 'normal' in stock price for 3070 ti and a free board, so i snagged it

[heady jasper]

I avoided the combos

[cunning flame]

combos were the only ones that had actual volume

[heady jasper]

By design. Good way for them to clear unpopular stock.

[cunning flame]

yea

for the most part they were passing along the combos that AIBs were selling to them

there is a reason you coulf get 1500w psus for like $50 lol, aibs were selling GPU bundled with boards and aios and psus etc to retailers

[fair moon]

Well also to make them slightly less attractive to gpu scalpers

[cursive sage]

To whoever said they needed a cheap iPhone a while back

can't remember who said it though

[lament ingot]

@tawdry dragon was that u?I feel like I remember u asking abt that.

[tawdry dragon]

Nah

Btw I copped that 7900xt for $400

[lament ingot]

W card

Founders edition or no?

[bold willow]

i remember my iphone x

such simple days

didnt have a home button tho

[pallid geyser]

Back when the phones actually changed at least a bit lol

[forest prairie]

they go from chamfered to filleted and back again

[fair moon]

Yeah the aluminum is filleted but steel and titanium get chamfers

I guess for the Pro models at least, the base just follows whatever the pro design is

[cunning flame]

damn, how did you get that?

[tawdry dragon]

Facebook marketplace :))

[cunning flame]

incredible find. it works?

[tawdry dragon]

Works so far, haven't gotten to test it much

[tawdry dragon]

Nah, it's a xfx swift card

[lament ingot]

Still w

Altho mercury chonkier

[tawdry dragon]

Indeed

Nice upgrade from a 3070

[lament ingot]

Fr

[bold willow]

Well like if you wait a few generations it makes a small difference

But like even going from an iPhone 13 to an iPhone 17 doesn’t seem to be diffeeent

[stoic crest]

the only difference the iphone 17 gives is 120hz

better cameras and screen

[balmy lake]

Ram.
My 13 pro max only has 6GB

17 pro/max has 12GB

And mine stays pretty close to max all the time.

[fair moon]

"oh no my ram is close to max"

There's no reason to not allocate it all

[cursive sage]

How do you even check system performance on iPhones anyway

[fair moon]

Idk how (or why, ffs) he's tracking ram usage but there's a 3dmark app for cpu/gpu benchmark

[stoic crest]

iphones with 6gb are fine

and will be for a while

4gb is showing limitations

[cunning flame]

yah i have an 11 and it needs replacing soon-ish haha. gets a bit sluggish quite often these days

[high radish]

https://www.neweggbusiness.com/product/product.aspx?item=9b-14-131-876 why is shuffle item staying here

[balmy lake]

I wasn’t complaining.

Just stating an upgrade.

Ive been fine with my 13 pro max for 4~ish years now? I am upgrading. But not because I’m having issues with my 13. And yes, there is an app called Device Monitor2.

[balmy lake]

Oh, and i was just curious, ffs.

I also have this cool little app call phyphox

[bold willow]

Just downloaded this and now making random in the middle of the night

Playin with the frequency spectrum

[balmy lake]

If you have pets, careful on the high end, lol

[lament ingot]

oh man phyphox, love that

tryna figure out a way to make it destroy stuff with the tone generator

[high radish]

Shuffle item is in stock at newegg busindss again https://www.neweggbusiness.com/product/product.aspx?item=9b-14-126-805

[high radish]

My orders shipped btw while you waiting for shuffle results I got my order shipped

[frail socket]

Just picked up that HP Omen slim a week or two ago. good laptop - 32gb of ram included but it's not soldered (5600MT aint bad anyways) , there's 2 M.2 slots but one is occupied by the wifi chip sadly

[thin bolt]

Can you run Ethernet to it?

Is it as a semi-server

[bold willow]

Server? On a laptop?

[frail socket]

It has an ethernet port so if you’re not as worried about portability I guess

AFAIK it’s 10/100/1000 gigabit

[thin bolt]

I dunno

[torpid night]

I mean people do it

It's not impossible tbh

Technically, until you get a proper non-laptop device (proper server or just a desktop), you have a built-in UPS lmao

[high radish]

You can order shuffle items through neweggbusines easily

Ram is cheaper than shuffle tho

[delicate lake]

There is an open box 9060 xt 8 gig for 240 at my micro center

I love open box

open box white 16 gig for 356

[high radish]

But microcenter sux

[delicate lake]

L

[cursive sage]

huh, I guess I'll look at the business site sometimes

need a good RAM deal

[cunning flame]

ddr4 or 5?

[torpid night]

?whar?

[delicate lake]

Fr

[cursive sage]

DDR5

[cunning flame]

how much do you need

and what sort of speed

[cursive sage]

I'd really want 32GB

no idea what speed though

maybe at least like 5600MHz

[cunning flame]

you can get 32GB 6000 cl30 Hynix M die for <$75 or A die <$90

[cursive sage]

how bad is CL30

[cunning flame]

funnily enough the cheapest A die is still the waifu kit, and it is also the fastest at XMP. waifu DDR5 6800 for $82

[cunning flame]

it's fine

nothing special nothing awful

[cursive sage]

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/comments/1nl8xf0/ram_2x_memory_kit_patriot_viper_elite_5_ddr5_6000/

I saw this sale but didn't want to do it because it was CL30

because of the top comment

[cunning flame]

commentor has the IQ of a grape and makes comments about things it doesn't understand for attention online. feel free to disregard that poster

either that or it's just adding context

either way disregard

[delicate lake]

Nothing wrong with that

30 is perfectly fine

30 is good actually

[cursive sage]

I mean it is $70

[delicate lake]

Nice

[cursive sage]

I wish 32gigs of DDR5 could go below that sometimes

never seen it really go below that

[delicate lake]

Yeah thats pretty cheap

My kit was $100

And that was the typical price earlier this year

Like 90

A few days ago I saw my kit a little under 90

Something like 82 or wtv

[cursive sage]

What if I bought just one stick of 32GB and not two sticks of 16GB

[shut lava]

With both DDR4 and DDR5 in most cases you will have lower performance. It likely will be noticeable in games and any memory intensive tasks.

[fair moon]

It's not as bad with ddr5 iirc

[cunning flame]

ypu will have a little over half of the bandwidth as with two modules. in other words you'd have terrible DDR4 level memory performance. not even good DDR4 memory performance

[cunning flame]

slight improvement to performance in single channel over DRR4 because of interleaving between the two 34 bit internal channels, but theoretical bandwidth remains halved. practically it can be thought of as still halving memory performance, but in most cases it will be slightly above 50%

[tawdry dragon]

That seems like a darn good deal, is it a good investment to upgrade from ddr4 to ddr5? (Running a 14700k so I can do both)

[cunning flame]

no because it also requires a new board

with the added cost of a new board you might as well just sell the whole platform and go AM5

would cost roughly the same

[tawdry dragon]

That's a fair point, but there's also the multi core performance to consider

[high radish]

for 14700k performance you need 7900x/9900x which is stoupidly expensive cpus . you can get ultra 7 265kf and and cheapo z890 mobo from ebay

[tawdry dragon]

If I sell the 14700k for $300 and the mobo/ram for $150 (being veeery optimistic here) I could get a 7700x bundle from microcenter at best

[high radish]

my fav chip for now is 265kf so far

[tawdry dragon]

I've never once heard that said before

[high radish]

if you're near to MC yeah you got good chance to grab good combo

[tawdry dragon]

That is a downgrade imo, even if I get ddr5

[high radish]

yeah idk why people suggesting amd as price/performance while intel mostly cheaper ?

i mean core ultra 7 build comes much cheaper than its compatitor 9900x

265kf is much cheaper than 9900x . and cheap z890 boards offer more io than am5 boards

only downside on intel build is limited upgrade path

[tawdry dragon]

upgrade path is tempting

I really don't like the 14700k because of it's absurd power consumption

[lament ingot]

It'll get better when they release arrow lake refresh hopefully

[tawdry dragon]

I think I'll stick with my current setup until I see a good deal on fbmp

[high radish]

Yeah but probably next year we'll see new socket

intel usually changing socket sfter 2 years (except 12-13-14th gen)

[opal flume]

Lip-Bu Tan on his way to cancel Arrow Lake refresh:

https://tenor.com/view/ben-stiller-acting-tough-tough-strut-gif-7551880

[tawdry dragon]

that was really useful for me honestly (12400, 13500, 14700k)

[high radish]

I mean Intel didn't even ordered new 2nm chips neither from tsmc or Samsung

[lament ingot]

Don't want

Too many sockets, intel needs to deal with it if they don't have enough pins

Fr tho

[lament ingot]

^

[high radish]

Yeah it's usual intel

[cursive sage]

Well, it was a good idea while it lasted