tech-deals-discussion

[fresh torrent]

i just added $380 3060 to my cart

10 seconds later is's oos

[sick meadow]

Im happy i got my RTX 3090 from BestBuy for $1600

[grave delta]

https://tenor.com/view/lol-laughing-hysterically-laughing-out-loud-funny-steve-carell-gif-22904325

[fleet marlin]

That S70 has the builtin heatink so keep that in mind folks. Better deal than the Blade model & slapping on another heatink like I might do. Edit: yep, non-removable heatsink

[grand orbit]

Believe it's also non removable tho

[jolly inlet]

"Military grade" coming from Asus usually means the capacitors. The thing is, the military spec is literally the same or lower as most gaming cards use...

[grave delta]

I just think "lowest bidder" whenever I read that

[marsh sphinx]

[oak sentinel]

FALSE INFO GIGABYTE PGM IS ONLY MILITARY CERTIFIED PC PART

[jolly inlet]

If by that you mean they're certified to need the EOD unit to take care of the UXO

[oak sentinel]

Yes because i understand all those words

[jolly inlet]

Lol

Explosive Ordinance Disposal

And UneXploded Ordinance

[oak sentinel]

thought u meant end of day and unidentified xtraterrestrial object

urs makes more sense tho

[jolly inlet]

Basically the guys they call to disarm dud shells and bombs that didn't explode

[oak sentinel]

ahhh i see

but i meant military certified as a grenade alternative

[jolly inlet]

Tomato potato

Either way it'll go boom

[oak sentinel]

trueee

[grand orbit]

Military grade explosive kek

[azure pond]

Would a 5500 and an asrock b450 for $180 be considered a deal... basically a 3600 and mobo for 5600 price

And im assuming the b450 comes with proper bios

[grand orbit]

Eh yeah i guess it would be okay for poeople that would be looking at 10100 for a cpu

[oak sentinel]

1080p?

[grave delta]

Even if it is 1080p, sounds like a good deal. Link the model

[lofty moss]

1080p at 32 inches?

sounds awful, unless you sitting like 3 feet away

[grave delta]

@true agate

[true agate]

its a steal

literal best deal

everyuone downvote forks nerd graph

[grave delta]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325161856120

[stoic crest]

cheesus

dem price swing

[grand orbit]

A whole ass pc? Yeah sounds too good

[fair moon]

For esport games or older titles at low settings the 2200g is decent

Do you know if the ram is 2 8gb sticks?

Cause dual channel is a must have with the Ryzen apus

Just know that if the 16gb is one stick you will want to get another

But it's most likely 2x8

[fair moon]

Yo what's up with all these SSD deals?

I feel like this past week has seen a ton of them

[azure pond]

I posted the same p5 and got 7 downvotes :p

For the same price

[high radish]

Lol

[grand orbit]

lol what

[high radish]

For 150$ it's good deal

[grand orbit]

its a great deal

[high radish]

Yup bought 2 of them

[light bay]

That was a p2 wasn't it?

[azure pond]

i dont think so

nvm it was

ignore me

[light bay]

Lol

[slow sluice]

Yeah, P2 sucks

[light bay]

Even worse now too lol

It sucked before they made it a qlc

[pseudo wharf]

Does anyone know of any tv entertainment centers with space for a pc?

[marsh sphinx]

p2 is ass

[fleet marlin]

P5 runs a bit warm. If 970 evo plus was still $160, would be a good pick (gen 3 or not).

[slow sluice]

There are plenty with room for a sff pc. How big are you needing?

[light holly]

$400 for a fricken chair that looks like it cost $50 to make jeezse

[light bay]

@lofty moss @jolly inlet @marsh sphinx damn you guys are watching tech deals like hawks lol

[lofty moss]

just happen to be purusing

[light bay]

that was like 10 seconds

[marsh sphinx]

i just have no life

[light bay]

understandable

[marsh sphinx]

all channels are read LOL

[jolly inlet]

That's why I'm a red name 🙃
Kinda my "job" here

[light bay]

xD

[pseudo wharf]

Big enough for my phanteks p400a 😅

I really dont have a reason to get another case for it so if I HAVE to i can sit it beside the table because we have laminate floors and dust isn't too bad. But i would prefer a hideaway if i can get away with it

[fleet marlin]

P5 price jumped $25+ but instead the 970 evo plus is at $150, lol! Now I don't think I'll return my $84 1TB, so I gotta find a use for the lil 500GB sn550. 5TB of nvme sure will be plenty.

[torpid night]

@high radish TB*
#tech-deals message

[slow sluice]

@light holly why is that the #1 new release in dog hats

[grand orbit]

I mean look how fabulous they are

[slow sluice]

But it's a chicken hat

[azure pond]

a best buy drop might happen any minute

looks like some gpus are in stock at msrp rn, but nothing great

might just be some that arent getting bought, but theres a 3060 ti at $550

not the best deal, but better than the ventus 2x for $580

[fleet marlin]

Eh, I'll wait until 60 ti is $500max or 3070 (ti) is $650 max.

[high radish]

GPUs under msrp

[jolly inlet]

6-8 months

After the new ones launch and blow the current gen out of the water

[high radish]

[fair moon]

New ones will get scalped, 30 series will be msrp

[jolly inlet]

The scalpers seem to have moved on from our market for the most part, except the last few that are trying to break even on their purchase of 300 GPUs. They've moved on to certain electric vehicles it seems.
Have you seen what those Rivian trucks are selling for secondhand? They're like double MSRP.

[marsh sphinx]

Rivian moment

[lofty moss]

all the stockx slaves saw that the average return on gpus is decreasing significantly

all the stinky "bag chasers" only waste their life purchasing things that sell

its like, youre already stealing my paycheck through welfare, do you really have to steal more by making me pay more for the things i need? kinda cringe tbh

[shut lava]

I find it funny that one of the suggested bundles on the ASRock OC Formula Radeon RX 6900 XT page is an 80+ Bronze Rosewill PSU for $39.99.

[high radish]

it's nice to see some gpus for msrp

[grave delta]

Crazy the ocf is down to 1k

[marsh sphinx]

Crazy

[prime heath]

Would you guys trust this sale? I am always a bit skeptical about ebay https://www.ebay.com/itm/294034054360

[jolly inlet]

Considering the facts that the seller is well known (I've bought from them personally even) and that's already one of the cheapest 1440p monitors on the market... probably legit but you get what you pay for

[stoic crest]

that model name tho

trying to bait people looking into the gigabyte one eh?

[jolly inlet]

That's what it looks like yeah. Scummy but common.

[stoic crest]

shame on lenovo

[jolly inlet]

Well they are a Chinese company after all. China encourages imitation brands...

[stoic crest]

lol true

[prime heath]

I pulled the trigger and ordered the Lenovo for 200. The gigabyte g27q was available for 50 more.

[stoic crest]

bruh

well you're missing out so much on that 50 saved

[slow sluice]

To a certain degree I'd kinda like to see some name standardization in monitors

*27Q is 27" 1440, *24F is 24" 1080, *32U 42" 4k, etc

[brittle lagoon]

G27f is 27" 1080p

[slow sluice]

Ayyy

[brittle lagoon]

M32q is 32" 1440p

[slow sluice]

Now if all brands could adopt that

[brittle lagoon]

M28u is 28" 4k

[brittle lagoon]

Acer xmeifkehakfjekfhj probably thinks their names are concise but they're just annoying

[slow sluice]

Don't forget the Samsung LC32R500FHNXZA-RB

[brittle lagoon]

Gigabyte naming convention is just
M 27 q
Brand/lineup, size, resolution

[brittle lagoon]

Samsung has wayyy too many things all called G5 or G7 and such

LG is pretty bad but at least like 27gn800-b looks a bit neater

[slow sluice]

Either all the letters or none of them lol

[light bay]

mr1 you hear cxf is disappearing soon yet?

[brittle lagoon]

Is it? Dunno

[light bay]

it is

apparently argb psu doesnt sell the best lol

[brittle lagoon]

They gon make another lineup?

[light bay]

was talking with luke about it, he doesnt know what future lineup will look like

[brittle lagoon]

Johnyguru should still work with Corsair on psus rn, you should ask him

[light bay]

"yes, but no
we'll eventually see something similar to it, but it won't feature RGB or anything"

thats what luke said about cxf and a new lineup

he says rm exists which kinda leaves a new non argb cxf in a tough spot

[brittle lagoon]

You should ask jonnyguru if you see them around in pcmr though

[light bay]

havent seen them around ever lol

but i see luke fairly often

[grave delta]

I've always liked dell's naming convention, LG's is ok

[green kite]

Any thoughts about this.
Main purpose gaming.

I user review would be great

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0956JJVXG?tag=thpcgaha-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1

[jolly inlet]

I've heard good things from our users here that have those MSI laptops

The price is a little high for my taste but not bad compared to others

[stoic crest]

gigabyte usually has a 3070 laptop for cheaper

hm, it's not much cheaper than the msi

ooh wait

https://www.newegg.com/stingray-dove-grey-lenovo-legion-5-15ach6h-82ju00n7us-gaming/p/N82E16834646364 @green kite How about this one?

Lenovo got one for only below 1.4k

[green kite]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/304341169694?mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5338849294&customid=GameChanger&toolid=10001&mkevt=1

[stoic crest]

why would you get it from ebay?

[green kite]

Only Amazon
Shipping issue

[stoic crest]

hm

you're not in the us, i'd assume?

[green kite]

Bangladesh

[stoic crest]

ah

well then

[green kite]

And desktop isn't a option

[grand orbit]

Msi is almost there, my monitor is g273qf?

[stoic crest]

lenovo did that

g27q

1440p and 27 inches

copying gigabyte lmao

[light holly]

Do you like that monitor?

[grand orbit]

It's good yeah, was best price in Ireland at the time

[light holly]

I think I would have went with that had you suggested it since it has 165hz for same price as the 144hz g27q

butt, I am happy with the g27q. I like it a lot

[grand orbit]

Oh really? Never new it was decent price in us

[light holly]

well the g27q goes on sale alot

[grand orbit]

Although 144-> 165hz is barely noticeable

[light holly]

true true

[grand orbit]

Woah g27q creeping down to 240* is

Really closing that gap from 1080p screens

[stoic crest]

*not to be confused with lenovo g27q

[loud sandal]

@light holly we cant upvote you post if you blocked us

only one monitor

[undone cedar]

Is that g27q a really good deal or shall i wait

[grand orbit]

It's good yeah

[light holly]

It's what I have and I love it.

It's usually around $280-$300

[marsh sphinx]

they also can’t see the ping if they have us blocked

[loud sandal]

still shows up as 1 blocked message

funny discord

[marsh sphinx]

good deal i think

[grand orbit]

Very

[grand orbit]

@grave delta you completely messed up the pricing on your deal btw

[grave delta]

[grand orbit]

That emoji

[fair moon]

@marsh sphinx for the dell laptop I'm seeing 1x8gb not 16

[marsh sphinx]

oh

i had the config saved to 16gb

i guess the link didn’t carry that over

[grand orbit]

Nope

[fair moon]

I'm guessing it has an open slot but it means you would need to find another 8gb 3200mhz sodimm

I think even then its a decent deal though?

Just not quite as good

[grand orbit]

Yup

[fair moon]

1660ti does have 6gb VRAM vs the 3050ti @ 4gb

Don't get rtx and dlss though

iirc they trade blows depending on the game

[fleet marlin]

Really those shouldn't be the same price. 4GB in 2022 is yikes, but I wouldn't pick a 1660ti either. If evga, a 3050 ti could maybe do the stepup to 3060 ti or 3070 & dodge the hassle of reselling an old gpu

[fair moon]

These would both be in laptops

[loud sandal]

3050 is 8GB desktop version
Laptop is 4GB same with Ti and
3060 is 6GB on laptop

[fleet marlin]

That's different. 3050 ti probably a better pick still, but I only know the plan 3050 & haven't read up on the Ti

[jolly inlet]

RT is still a gimmick and AMD's RSR will work on Nvidia cards as old as 10 series, eventually 900 series

[fair moon]

yeah not trying to debate just pointing it out for anyone trying to decide between laptop options

[azure pond]

@shut lava that motherboard costs more than a 12600k and b660, which will destroy a 10900k on that mobo

and for the price of that mobo and 10900k, you get a 12900k and z690

no point in buying a new 10th/11th gen mobo/cpu, especially a $400 mobo

[shut lava]

I think you are missing the point. Its a competitive overclocking board. You can't submit 12600K results in the 10900K category.

[azure pond]

not worth $400

[shut lava]

It is if you are trying to get a top 10 overclocking score. However if you don't think its worth it, you aren't the board's intended market.

[azure pond]

@grave delta local ocing nerd

opinions

[shut lava]

Its the same motherboard BisoBiso used in several of his world record benchmark scores and was used for the DDR4 PYPrime 2B world record.

[grave delta]

I would just buy one used, it's a great board for 10th/11th though yeah.

Not sure anyone browsing the techdeal channel here will be interested in one.

[shut lava]

Most of the used ones I've seen were around $350 plus shipping.

[marsh sphinx]

basically why i rarely post in tech deals

[fleet marlin]

Yea, also tbh "previously $xxx" doesn't mean much. For instance crossed out list price for 2TB 970 evo plus is $300 at newegg. 🤣

[minor nimbus]

@jolly inlet I don't know about you but its $57 min for shipping for me on the cooler

[grand orbit]

Ooof

[jolly inlet]

Hmm
It didn't say shipping costs when I looked at it, yeah that's pretty rough

Free shipping if you buy a lot more stuff though lol

[jolly inlet]

@high radish This is the first I'm hearing of refurb being sold as new. Where have you seen that?

[light bay]

Personal experience

He got some gigglebyte card off wegg that was sold as new, yet was actually a refurb when he had to rma it

Now gigglebyte is gonna send him a new one tho, and not fix the refurb and send it back

[jolly inlet]

Yikes. Hopefully that's not a common thing. At least they're doing the right thing for the RMA.

[light bay]

#general-chat message

Here's his words in it

[jolly inlet]

Hmm, and it's apparently not an isolated incident. Double yikes.

[light bay]

Yeah

Time to call Steve at GN?

[high radish]

I heard it from lots of people at another servers that gigabyte products which mostly motherboards selling as new or open box without indicate it's refurbished

To be honest I never took that series and I mostly shopping from newegg . But realizing your Brand New card lebelled as refurbished like 2 weeks before you ordered it is something odds

[stoic crest]

ew

listing refurb as new

that's scummy

[cloud hornet]

Also, it do be $900 after MIR, $950 before MIR

But yeah, makes you wonder if something funky is going on with GB refurb. Based on what GN experienced, NE sent the GB mobo to GB, and then got it shipped back. So maybe GB is hecking up refurb shipments and shipping it as new to NE?

[stoic crest]

Likely

Gigabyte is known for messing up something like this

[cloud hornet]

I havent heard on how well NE has been keeping up with their CS fixing, but it does seem weird that NE wouldnt have this sorted out by now. Combined with the fact seemingly all reported issues are GB, it does feel like NE isnt the only one at fault. Hopefully more info on this is brought up soon and is fixed.

[loud sandal]

Welp time to ask Mike why it no fix

[jolly inlet]

Last time I did a "free" deal like that my order got cancelled lol

[shut lava]

That amazon seller has a bunch of charging cables in their store. I'm not sure if its an error or a promotion.

[light bay]

i placed an order and it went through so far, time shall tell lol

@shut lava i just hate when you need to lift up a tire and only have a charging cord smh

[jolly inlet]

Ships in 3-6 weeks or pay $9 for shipping, I see what they did there

[light bay]

wait really?

i think i chose free shipping lol

[light bay]

yeah i chose free

no harm tho, its thru amazon on a CC

[jolly inlet]

So you might get it some time in June but probably not at all

[light bay]

worst case scenario they cancel it

[marsh sphinx]

wtf does apple mfi even mean

So your cable will magically deliver more power even though the brick could be rated for 5w

[light holly]

I ordered one too. If I don't get it then I'll just demand a refund

[jolly inlet]

MFI is the chip Apple requires for their certified cables, or else it'll throttle the charge speed. Because Apple things. Also a lot of these MFI chips are fake.

[marsh sphinx]

who knew

fake things on amazon?

[loud sandal]

@shut lava idk about the seller

[loud sandal]

Mines free

[marsh sphinx]

LOL

The first part of the name is the city, then the company name, and the last part basically just means “company”

[loud sandal]

oh

[marsh sphinx]

Idk why chinese sellers make their names so long because they seem so sus 🤣

[loud sandal]

LOL

[brittle lagoon]

Prob because it's copy pasted their name, but Amazon doesn't allow for Chinese characters so it just turns into pinyin

[marsh sphinx]

yes

so an already long name looks 3x as long after turn into english

[light bay]

@azure pond not a ti

[azure pond]

ohhh damn

[light bay]

Ye was gonna say if it was a ti, hella steal

[shut lava]

Is that Team AX2 drive a no DRAM cache version? I'm not that familiar with their product lines.

their web page doesn't have muchd etails

[azure pond]

that is the right g27q, right?

[fair moon]

Imo if you are looking for a cheap sata SSD just buy used

[light holly]

@azure pond I posted that yesterday 😛

[azure pond]

ah didnt see that lol

great deal

if it was a month later id be picking it up

[light holly]

I'd be picking another up to

hopefully still going by paytday

[azure pond]

i plan on buying a monitor with mining profits

at like $210 rn

[light holly]

nice

[azure pond]

making like $2 a day :p

[light holly]

damn

that's pretty legit

I'd like to mine

[azure pond]

is the 1650s your main gpu?

[light holly]

that 1650 wouldn't do any good would is?

yeah atm

[azure pond]

itd make like 70 cents a day before electricity, maybe a bit less

[light holly]

ah

well it's supposed to go to me ex

she already gave me the money for it

[azure pond]

ah

waiting to get a better gpu?

[light holly]

yeah, waiting on taxes still

plus her pc iosn't built yet

got her ram and gpu so far lol

[azure pond]

ah right, you building off that list pato made for you?

[light holly]

yeah

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/b6fXyK

well I made modifications

[azure pond]

are looks important to her?

[light holly]

not at all

[azure pond]

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/7fn8TW/cougar-mx330-g-air-atx-mid-tower-case-mx330-g-air back in stock then, if youd like

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/3Hwkcf/corsair-cxf-550-w-80-bronze-certified-fully-modular-atx-power-supply-cp-9020216-na also $45 after rebate

and can use the $20 towards another part

[light holly]

is that segotep not good?>

hold on in a raid in ff14 rq

[azure pond]

just got ugly cables

and the cxf is a little bit better

the cable management will also be easier with the cxf, since its modular

[light holly]

ah gotcha

hm

[light bay]

Lots of known variations too of some models

Just not something that I would reccomend since cxf is priced at what it is

[grand orbit]

its the cheapo crap version

[fleet marlin]

2TB mx500 is sometimes $150ish, just sayin.

[azure pond]

@umbral raptor thats 2tb hdd pricing

[kind rover]

@lime python it is msrp but just get a 3080 12gb for $1000

[umbral raptor]

well aware

[azure pond]

its also 500gb ssd price

[umbral raptor]

was more of a joke

I have no use for them

[marsh sphinx]

most people here cant even use SAS drives

@umbral raptor do you run sas drives in your daily build?

[grave delta]

skill issue

[marsh sphinx]

🤨

[jolly inlet]

Git gud, run all SAS in raid 50

[brittle lagoon]

Raid 50 is just raid 5'ing raid 0'd drives

[slow sluice]

Just use your spare m.2 slot, ez dubs

https://www.newegg.com/asus-model-hyper-kit-expansion-card/p/N82E16813995042?item=9SIADFREDZ6486

[jolly inlet]

5+0, so it's striped raid 5.
2 parity drives for error checking and 4 in raid 0 for speed and capacity.

[vague pine]

Also in somewhat relation to my post

#tech-deals message

supposedly in europe, some online retailers such as amazon is already selling the Razer Viper v2 Pro for anyone interest in the new lightweight viper

[fair moon]

@light bay got a coupon code for that SSD? Shows as $32 for me

[light bay]

Looks like the sales over

That didn't stay up long lol

[fair moon]

Yeah

[jolly inlet]

That EVGA CLC is decent but loud. I recommend putting a couple P14 fans on it to make it even better.

[slow sluice]

@fleet marlin
https://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Power-1TB-XS70-SP01KGBP44XS7005/dp/B09T2WNKNZ?th=1&psc=1

[fleet marlin]

Oh they're very close in most stuff. I'd have no qualms about getting either. Already got myself an S70 blade for $220 though.

[high radish]

I got S70blade for 225 tho

[slow sluice]

That's not an s70 blade, it's an xs70. Pretty much the exact same drive as the mp600 pro xt or firecuda 530

[fleet marlin]

I know it's not an s70 blade, lol. Read Toms review also. Anything performing like the 530 sure isn't a huge user group. Sure is good pricing on some of these at least

[slow sluice]

Yee, better drive than the 850 for the same price and isn't even on sale

[light holly]

@fleet marlin thank you for that.

[grand orbit]

@azure pond nice find

[azure pond]

Thanks

[grand orbit]

@light bay wtf that deal is insane, that's literally everything but cpu for 800??

[azure pond]

pretty sure theres atleast some parts in there priced below msrp

[azure pond]

also doesnt have ram btw

[fair moon]

So maybe $1050 after ram and cpu

[grand orbit]

Still thoo

[fair moon]

That'sstill good though

[azure pond]

no definitely

[grand orbit]

I'd swear it's a pricing error

[azure pond]

great deal

if it werent microcenter, it would be

[light bay]

still is

[grand orbit]

200$ mobo, 240mm aio, case, 750w b tier psu

[azure pond]

as in, pricing error ^^

[light bay]

for the ppl who can get it

[azure pond]

sorry

[light bay]

strix board is pog too

[azure pond]

i meant to reply to patos message

[light bay]

ye

[azure pond]

if it werent microcenter, it would be a pricing error*

[light bay]

yeah

[grave delta]

Niche deal - but nearly top tier 10th/11th gen oc board with a unique aesthetic $210 MC https://www.microcenter.com/product/638621/asrock-z590-oc-formula-intel-lga-1200-eatx-motherboard

[grave delta]

Insane deal on those psus

[grand orbit]

I want what evga is smoking

[kind rover]

lol they just lowered the 3070ti price on my post

ok its a slighlty differnt model but it doesnt really matter

[fleet marlin]

A new model like Asus tuf is often $700

[kind rover]

590

but bestock

bstock

[fleet marlin]

I take it back XC3 model. The $680 one is just an OC'D xc3 model also I think.

[grave delta]

The black edition is the low end too

[grand orbit]

@fleet marlin oos already lol

[grand orbit]

Hm?

[loud sandal]

@azure pond its out of stock the 3050

i mean theres this do you guys think i should cop

got some TI on here

[fleet marlin]

Trying to get $300 for a 980 Ti?

[jolly inlet]

The 3060 beats the 980 ti by quite a bit, 20%+

[fleet marlin]

Exactly. Of course even 1080 does too and don't think I'd bother to ask for $300ish for mine.

[marsh sphinx]

I need help with something, which text channel is best for that/

[light holly]

Depends on what you need help with.

[marsh sphinx]

So

I want to change the color of my fans and stuff in my pc and I know you download a software depending on your motherboard

Someone already helped me download it but I forgot what its called and I cant find the software

[light holly]

What motherboard do you have?

[marsh sphinx]

I forgot how to check Lol

It's in Task Manager right?

[oak sentinel]

cpuz

[oak sentinel]

msi board

[loud sandal]

Well 300 is around the price for it

[marsh sphinx]

What software do I need to change my fans and stuff?

[light holly]

https://www.msi.com/Landing/mystic-light-rgb-gaming-pc/

or you can try using openrgb

[light holly]

btw.. I literally googled.. "MSI rgb software" and that was the first link

[brittle lagoon]

Msi forces you to get dragon center instead of just mystic light standalone now which is sad

[pallid geyser]

https://www.newegg.com/xpg-16gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/1B4-010T-00145? Hmmmm

[marsh sphinx]

It worked, thanks

[light holly]

NP

[jolly inlet]

They call it "MSI Center" now

[fleet marlin]

#windows-ios next time probably.

[south grove]

hey guiys

guys

https://www.microcenter.com/product/645890/msi-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-ventus-3x-plus-lhr-overclocked-triple-fan-10gb-gddr6x-pcie-40-graphics-card

its 879

for a 3080

good deal???

[brittle lagoon]

it's okay

[fleet marlin]

Not really tbh. Lately a ftw3 or asus tuf is often $850ish. & I'm talking newegg/amazon since obviously I'm not driving 800miles for Miceocenter

[jolly inlet]

Ventus tho

[brittle lagoon]

ventus 3x is meh

[south grove]

i agree

like my personal build

i am looking for a white 3070ti

or the suprim

[jolly inlet]

The 3x is meh on the 3070, on the 3080 it's just bad

[reef elbow]

Its not too great since recently I've seen other 3080s for similar prices, and better models

[jolly inlet]

In stock right now for $870, better cooler than the ventus https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=10G-P5-3897-KL

[fleet marlin]

There's associate codes floating around to get 3% off. 👍

[wraith radish]

If you want a possible deal check your closest microcenter, they're prices are around MSRP online, but you may get lucky in store and they might sell them for MSRP depending on your store

[stoic crest]

microcenter has expensive gpus tho, ususlly

[grave delta]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DSXYNZQ

[fleet marlin]

Ok, lol. Think I'll pass on getting $200+ of nuts*, even if 14 cents per ounce is good.

[azure pond]

ooh theyre kosher

[stoic crest]

that's a lot of nuts

[jolly inlet]

160 pack lol

[marsh sphinx]

hello all

[grand orbit]

@shut lava let's keep the associate codes to a minimum please

[light holly]

In what world would I need to subscribe to a monthly delivery of $600 worth of nuts? Lol

[fleet marlin]

It was $230, and also:

[light holly]

Ah but 1 month is most common

Like who needs that many nuts in a month.

[fleet marlin]

says amazon,. . idk, I already got plenty here.

[light holly]

Thats 5 cans a day

Oh

Sorry

I just realized

My bad.

[jolly inlet]

S'all good, just be careful

[jolly inlet]

People feed squirrels in the park

[light holly]

I forgot people do that.

[grave delta]

gainz

[light holly]

But feeding squirrels 600$ a month in peanuts?

Thats like almost my rent lol

[grand orbit]

In what sad world do you not smh

[jolly inlet]

My neighbor used to sit on her porch and feed squirrels while she smoked 3 packs a day. It's sad but no surprise she died of cancer.

[fleet marlin]

14 cents per ounce was really good btw, and perhaps you missed the "one-time purchase" lower down, lol. Of course I would never spend $200+ at once just on nuts.

[light holly]

Oh I see the one time purchase. I just find it odd that its one of those things that so much in qty that 1 month is a common subscription.

And thats the default option

Most times I get an option for subscription its the secondary option.

[jolly inlet]

Maybe people use the monthly option to get discounts and then cancel the recurring order

[fleet marlin]

doesnt even have review, so sort of a weird listing. Something for a business or party planner to get I'd say. Yeah monthly is usually the most common it seems, although varies by item because I look at oil jugs and it says most common is every 3 months or so obviously

[jolly inlet]

I totally haven't done that before 👀

[fleet marlin]

That reminds me to buy extra oil filters instead of paying $8+ for 1 in town recently. Also check this:

[light holly]

Lol a used like new oil filter?

May as well buy some used like new oil to go with it.

[fair moon]

We are writing to let you know that shipment of the following order has not been confirmed by the seller within the expected timeframe:

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Item(s) to ship:
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Yeah the charger didn't go through

Wasn't exactly expecting it to

[jolly inlet]

Yup I just got the same email

[vague pine]

shame

no free cable

[light holly]

A little bummed

Not that I have an iPhone anyways

[vague pine]

my other items do be coming soon though

[vague pine]

free is free

[light holly]

I was thinking of giving them to my work since we have an iPad that we use for reports that people keep losing the charger to.

How they lose it idk.. the plug is always there.. the cord however disappears.

[shut lava]

Someone mentioned that that associates codes can be use for another 3-10% discount, so I provided one to save someone 3-10% since I didn't see one posted in any of the links. I didn't know that saving someone $20+ on their PSU purchase is frowned upon.

[jolly inlet]

The issue is that the person who owns the code benefits directly from people using it

[fleet marlin]

Idk if it's too bad, but yea they get "evga bucks" or something I figure. 3% isn't crazy when Amazon prime card does 5% for instance also.

[shut lava]

I couldn't find any EVGA codes that directly benefit any nonprofit/charity organizations. Would we rather have people pay 3%-10% extra for items or save them money with someone receiving a much smaller reward for providing the discount?

[azure ravine]

Deal

[jolly inlet]

It's easy enough to Google an associate code but we can't be seen as financially supporting anyone in any way, since this is still a corporate discord.

[fair moon]

Where'd you find that?

[azure ravine]

Wal-Mart

[fair moon]

nice

[light holly]

my walmart has a crap ton of razer stuff on clearance as well

[marsh sphinx]

i should be getting my new server cpu tomorrow

[azure pond]

3070 ti alr went oos

sat with it in my cart for a minute lmao

[grand orbit]

No wonder tbh

[marsh sphinx]

lol was just looking for it

[grand orbit]

Price of a new cheapest 3060 ti lol

[sly basin]

hay

[slow sluice]

Hei

[pallid geyser]

wonder how good that $50 aio is

[slow sluice]

It's decent

It'll cool

[jolly inlet]

Probably at least as good as the Arctic 240, and still cheaper. Probably louder, though.

[light bay]

Hey @jolly inlet

You think a 3080 ventus 12gb for $810 is worthy of tech deal posting?

[jolly inlet]

3x?

[light bay]

3x plus

https://www.newegg.com/msi-geforce-rtx-3080-rtx-3080-ventus-3x-plus-12g-oc-lhr/p/N82E16814137712?

This thing

[jolly inlet]

Probably worth the price, that's almost MSRP for the 3080

[light bay]

True

I just remembered hearing you say something about the ventus 3080 being a bad cooler

Iirc

[jolly inlet]

It is. Not sure about the Plus.

[light bay]

Hmm maybe yeah, guess I'll still post. Thx for the second opinion on it

[jolly inlet]

Make sure to include that it's $810 after $30 MIR

[light bay]

Ye

Done

[azure pond]

It's fine enough for gaming

[jolly inlet]

Yeah

[deep spruce]

40 series will possibly let the 30 series go down to like retail price again so aka 3060 $360 but ye rn not too bad of a deal tho

[light bay]

Yeah but how's the supply on those gonna be?

[deep spruce]

dang $45

[deep spruce]

Ye ik those deals will make them go back up to the old prices again so

I hope that they just dont do that tho cause I'd rather stick with our current prices rn tho tbh instead of possibly losing them

[daring depot]

HOLY #### THATS AN EXPENSIVE MOUSE

[vague pine]

not really considering the space and niche its in

they could charge even more for it if they wanted to

[daring depot]

yeah

imma stick to being dirt cheap

wait a minuite, i bought a logitech mouse

[grave delta]

How do those honeycomb mice stay clean

[vague pine]

depends on how dusty your room gets and stuff but for the most part, just canned air and youre done

[fleet marlin]

Plus the pro tip of not eating (certain stuff) around the mouse and/or washing hands often enough. @deep spruce Yea gonna be nice when even a ftw3 3080 is $800 or less, and not just $850 like the 10GB model is sometimes.

[deep spruce]

Fr

[azure pond]

p360a is $80 right now

p400a digital is 100

d.f 750 is also $90, which isnt exactly a deal but with current psu prices is a good option for builds that shouldnt have a b tier psu

[grand orbit]

Yeah bitfenix formula and antec earthwatts pro 750w have been ~90 for a while tho

[azure pond]

isnt d.f a big higher quality than the earthwatts? and formual is non mod

unsure on if earthwatts is modular or not

[stoic crest]

https://www.neowin.net/news/western-digital-pricing-error-had-hard-drives-selling-for-just-1-3-5-10-and-more/

aw

an error

[grand orbit]

Earthwatts is A tier, and semi mod

[azure pond]

ah same thing then

[grand orbit]

Did the refund the orders?

[azure pond]

earthwatts price in canada is nice tho

[stoic crest]

idk

gonna have to read

[azure pond]

$84 cad

[grand orbit]

Reading is fat effort

[stoic crest]

wut wd gold was listed for 3

[azure pond]

for the 750

[stoic crest]

[grand orbit]

Also wtf amd queue has been paused for 10 mins straight

Wtf is going on

[azure pond]

its 38 min early

only 9:22 rn

[grand orbit]

Nope

It started an hour early this time

[stoic crest]

hm

seems the orders get refunded i dunno

[azure pond]

oh damn

[stoic crest]

it's vague

[azure pond]

was gonna get in it for the memes again

its paused for US too

[grand orbit]

It asked me to put in name/captcha etc then waiting, event starting in 5 mins etc

[oak sentinel]

the official summary is amd done goofed with add to cart button
so they fixing

[grand orbit]

Then over 1 hour, dropped to 22 mims

[azure pond]

doing same thing for the US

[grand orbit]

Lol big f, wonder if that's why i jumped from over an hour to 20 mins, because ppl couldn't add to cart?

[oak sentinel]

yeah

[grand orbit]

Also yeah amd seem to be doing drops on Tuesdays and Thursdays now

[azure pond]

yeah i forgot about that

they started like two weeks ago

[grand orbit]

Also idk why they started an hour early

[azure pond]

yeah its weird

[grand orbit]

Maybe because they never adjusted for daylight savings time ?

[azure pond]

that wasnt recently though

[grand orbit]

Just guessing

[azure pond]

mm

idk

i wonder if queue positions will remain the same

@grand orbit its fixed

i have 7 minutes lmfao

[marsh sphinx]

what card are you after?

[azure pond]

nothing

i tried a 6800xt

didnt work out well

went back to my 3060 ti

down to 3 min, just in for the memes

1 min

@grand orbit line paused again lol

[marsh sphinx]

lmao

Watch it start at 7 mins again

[azure pond]

apparently its just 6750xts and 6950xts

and the prices suck

$600 and $1300

[grand orbit]

Yeah ikr idk if they actually boutta sell out this time or not fixed

[azure pond]

im talking in the drop server

its only the 6750xt and 6950xt

[grand orbit]

Yeye but i mean why it's paused again like

[azure pond]

yeah idk

6750xt for $600 though lmao

$50 less than 6800xt

if it loses to 3080 10gb ima laugh

[grand orbit]

Wait what

6800 non xt no?

[azure pond]

6800 is 3070 lvl

well, slightly better

no way 6750xt would be 600 and lose to the 6800

@grand orbit look at tech deals, that is hot

gigabyte gaming oc one is also in stock for same price, but no reason to suggest it till oc formula goes oos

[grand orbit]

Yeah it's good for ppl who wanna oc but with 3080 12gb's being like ~850 6900xt's aren't a good choice anymore

[azure pond]

true

6950xt supposed to beat 3090 ti though

better alternative to 3090/3090 ti, and in stock for normal 6900xt price/similar price

[oak sentinel]

https://tenor.com/view/your-mother-great-argument-however-megamind-your-mom-yo-mama-gif-22994712

[grand orbit]

Ohh unpaused

[azure pond]

[oak sentinel]

what u on?

[azure pond]

less than a minute

[oak sentinel]

me 24 mins

[azure pond]

lets see whats in there

[grand orbit]

9

[azure pond]

6950xt is supposedly $1300 on amd queue

[oak sentinel]

confirmed news

[azure pond]

gross

[oak sentinel]

i have confirmed it

[oak sentinel]

me 17 now

[azure pond]

6750xt is $550

6950xt is 1100

5950x is $800, great deal ofc

[oak sentinel]

damn canada has more spensive lmfao

[oak sentinel]

13 actually

[azure pond]

not like im buying anything anyways

[oak sentinel]

nerd

[azure pond]

ill buy a 6950xt and ship it to you if you pay for shipping, only like $900 extra

ez

6750xt for 550 isnt... terrible

as long as it beats 6800

[oak sentinel]

ill pay you 10$ and a wet smooch

[azure pond]

[grand orbit]

@azure pond i ordered card but it threw me back in queue haven't gotten email/money out yet, did that happen to you?

[azure pond]

no it didn't, it took a few min for email though

[grand orbit]

Hmm

What about the money?

[azure pond]

wdym?

[grand orbit]

Nvm i am now a 6750xt owner

[grand orbit]

Meant like from the bank

Obviously ppl don't like 6750xt price lol

[azure pond]

Pog

Nice

[grand orbit]

@brittle lagoon that's actually cl18 ram :(

[brittle lagoon]

Aw rip misread I'll edit

[shut lava]

I wonder how overpriced or how high profit power supplies are in general. I bought an 80+ Gold 1300 watt PSU(EVGA SuperNOVA 1300 G2) from EVGA a few years ago on sale for $99.99 with free shipping. The same power supply right now is on sale at a heavily discounted price of $229.99.

[brittle lagoon]

It seems like no one actually invests into PSU manufacturing so I wouldn't be surprised if higher demand means higher cost to produce per unit nowadays

[slow sluice]

Server PSUs are comparatively cheap, there's a decent profit margin here

[light bay]

jonny invests literally all his time smh

[brittle lagoon]

Jonny told me no one is investing into infrastructure for psu manufacturing lol

we get all the sparkling new fabs for cpus&gpus

nothing for psus

[light bay]

smh but jonny himself is carrying the weight of a thousand men

[brittle lagoon]

but a thousand men can only do so much

[light bay]

exactly, jonny can do more

[stoic crest]

better psu manufacturing when

[jolly inlet]

As soon as we figure out what the next supercapacitors will be. Then they'll put everything into making those cheaper and faster to make.

[light bay]

"we"

its all gonna be jonny, nobody else

[jolly inlet]

"We" collectively, as in the human race.
Engineers like him are important but a team of scientists has to work out the theory first.

[light bay]

he and gn need to fully design a psu by themselves

or at least together heavily modify an oem

itd be a neat psu

[broken ridge]

I was mentioned. Hehehhehehe

[jolly inlet]

Jonnyguru, with no H lol

[light bay]

Funny story

One time Jonny was in a server talking

And this guy goes "no way johnny, I love what you do" 💀

Fake fan immediately

[jolly inlet]

3090 is kinda not a good deal right now with the 6950XT being cheaper and better, but that 3080 ti isn't bad at below msrp

[oak sentinel]

Very soon amd will be much more capable of render workloads too

Some types of them at least

[azure pond]

@high radish depends honestly, for the price it's good, and a decent b550 is cheaper than a decent b660, but am4 is also a dead platform

But def a good price on the 5600

Good upgrade from like a 3300x or 2000 series

[high radish]

Yup . it's good for upgrade but I still would go for 12th gen

[azure pond]

if you don't have a 5000 series supported mobo, i agree

[azure pond]

@light bay your favorite psu is back down $20 without a rebate

apparently only the 550

[azure pond]

Lol ryan

[light bay]

You had me at “your favorite psu” lol

[grand orbit]

It's because it has rgb

[marsh sphinx]

Rbg

[light bay]

do you like the cxf?

[grand orbit]

Nothing wrong with the cxf but rebates are ehh

If it was ~50 without rebate I'd be all over it

[light bay]

Heres a question then

what efficiency is it?

[grand orbit]

Bronze why lol

[light bay]

this is a trick question

its actually a bronze, silver, and gold

corsair rated it as bronze to make sure theyd have headroom when 80+ tested it

[grand orbit]

Oh yeah

[light bay]

80+ tested it at silver by default since argb is on by default

but it also tests at gold with argb off

Your daily dose of cxf fun facts

[grand orbit]

Didn't know gold with rgb off, knew the silver tho

Can you turn off the rgb? Assumed it was stuck on lol

[light bay]

yea you can turn it off

some corsair ppl above jonny were hella adamant it was on by default tho, for easier user expirience

[grand orbit]

Lol

[light bay]

i dont know of any other psu that is called a bronze, silver, and gold tho tbh

[grand orbit]

It's very impressive

I mean technically all gold psus are bronze silver and gold

[light bay]

kinda

ig if you look at it right lol

[grand orbit]

Because it's just above x%

[light bay]

mhmm

formula gold is another funny example

it actually tests as plat now

[grand orbit]

Pog

[azure pond]

Oh earlier when I checked the cxf was $45 without rebate

Or maybe I just didn't see it because mobile stupid

[plain glade]

you guys have any ideas for a gaming laptop under 1000, I prefer performance over quality

[azure pond]

where are you using the laptop?

[plain glade]

home/school

[azure pond]

as someone who bought a gaming laptop to use partially for school, i would not recommend it

battery is not good enough at all

[plain glade]

yeah, but its worth to have something that I can move around, i also already have a desktop so its a thing i need

[azure pond]

then id recc and mx550 or smthn like that

strong enough for some low end gaming, but good enough to work for school

or maybe an amd cpu

[plain glade]

cool thanks man

[fair moon]

If you already have a desktop I would buy a less expensive, non-gaming laptop for school and then use the extra $ on upgrading the desktop components

Carrying around a bulky, heavy, and loud laptop with less battery life won't be ideal

There are "thin and light" gaming laptops but they often sacrifice performance so you're paying a high premium for what you get

Today's CPUs often have good integrated graphics so you could still play csgo or older titles at low settings if you were away from the desktop

[marsh sphinx]

legitimately barely used a laptop for college, there were a couple classes that needed it for exams or whatever, but was able to borrow a laptop(from the school library) everyday if need be.

[fair moon]

Probably also depends on major

[marsh sphinx]

maybe, I was engineering/math so idk lol

[jolly inlet]

I had to install windows 8 on my laptop for my computer classes. 8 was brand new at the time. I hated every second I used it.

[marsh sphinx]

heard 8 was really bad, I only ever tried out the 8.1 which wasn't all that bad actually lol

[azure pond]

my old laptop was 8

was unbearable

[jolly inlet]

8 was made for tablets and ported to desktop.
8.1 fixed most things.

[marsh sphinx]

yeah, still switched to 10 immediately when it came out - will probably try out 11 if I ever decide to upgrade my cpu

[jolly inlet]

11 hasn't been too bad so far, except the usual bugs at launch.

[light holly]

I enjoy 11

[light bay]

Dark mode task manager

[light holly]

How do you do that?

My windows 11 task manager doesn't look like the one that is "supposed" to be with win11

I'm not sure why..

[light bay]

Gotta wait for 22H2

Or windows insider if you really want it. I'm pretty sure there's a GitHub way to get dark mode too

[light holly]

yeah I found that

idk how safe it is to use though

[light bay]

Idk, I'm just chilling on insider

It's got some neat stuff tbh

But iirc if you ever wanna get off of insider and you have a insider update installed, you gotta clean install windows again

Which would kinda suck

[jolly inlet]

I'd just wait for main branch to release it, it's pretty minor

[light holly]

yeah I'll wait

[stoic crest]

jesus hecking christ

850 bucks 6900xt?

a high end gpu at discount?

i can't believe my own eyes

[high radish]

Rip gpu market

[pulsar fable]

And somehow its not gone yet?

[fleet marlin]

Well technically $900 while we hope the card arrives, and it's specifically for gigabyte. - Great price though, and there's something about a game bundle.

[stoic crest]

but still

it's below msrp

which is nuts in this day and age

[fleet marlin]

Bout time. Stay strong folks. Just saw a reddit comment about a year ago someone sold the 12GB msi gaming 3080 for $ 2K or something. jeez.

[jolly inlet]

Yep. I sold a 3060 for more than that 6900XT costs now.
It was an auction, they bid the price up themselves. You can put the pitchforks down.

[marsh sphinx]

sigh

i remember when 1650s went for like $350 on ebay

[stoic crest]

pog

[high radish]

I Bought white strix 3090 for 2.4k from retail last year

[grand orbit]

Why did you buy a 3090

[high radish]

Actually I was looking for 3080 but it was impossible to get lol 3080ti prices also were like 2k

[shut lava]

I bought four 3090s last year at MSRP. No regrets!

[loud sandal]

@high radish just found that GPU lol

[high radish]

It's not gou it's ewaste

[azure pond]

evga might be doing a drop rn

[marsh sphinx]

I'm surprised nobody cared about the 90 dollar dual socket board

[jolly inlet]

Are you really so surprised though? It's pretty niche

[marsh sphinx]

but its cool

even if most people wouldnt use it

cool & good deal

[azure pond]

@olive lance https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Ntc34s and the psu is overkill too

[olive lance]

I deadass said idk why anyone would buy this but here it is

[azure pond]

ssd went in twice

fixed it

[azure pond]

but its not even a deal

[olive lance]

Fair

[cloud hornet]

Kinda funni. Technically a deal, but actually not

[grave delta]

No, that goes in the #bad-tech-deals channel

[marsh sphinx]

alienfart

[fair moon]

Idk why anyone would buy this

Then don't post it?

[cloud hornet]

Hey man, need to support the loving and caring fanbois of Alienware.

[dim bay]

Random question but anyone here ever use coupons on AMD direct or have done it before? When I try to put codes in it says "code redeemed successfully", but there's no discount or change to the total price of the item(s) in my checkout.

[azure pond]

why buy 3060 when you can buy 3600

[marsh sphinx]

[jolly inlet]

That means the G6900 is the best of them all right?

[light bay]

You really wanna know?

Cause I just recently picked up a $720 3070ti off EVGA lol

And now I see this

$140 for like what, 5-10% perf increase?

It's whatever tho, I'll still make money off the system when it sells ez

Lmao

Yea

Nice number

[jolly inlet]

Look on the bright side, the 70 ti mines better and no more LHR

[light bay]

I'll include that in the desc of the PC lmao

[jolly inlet]

Yeah nbminer and nicehash cracked it

[light bay]

Yea

Its nice

Y'know what's better than lhr?

Radeon

Don't come back and @ me when rdna3 has it

Lmfao yeah

[jolly inlet]

Only 3080 12gb and 3050 are still LHR

Because LHR 3.0

[light bay]

You seen the MCM and stuff in rdna3?

Meybe

[jolly inlet]

Big/little should be very interesting

[fair moon]

are the 6000 series integrated graphics rdna3?

[azure pond]

3.0 is like 90% now i think

[azure pond]

rdna2

[fair moon]

ok

[light bay]

I'm really hoping for the best for ada, but it isn't looking as promising as rdna 3 yet

Have you seen fsr2.0 tho?

It's lookin really nice

[jolly inlet]

FSR already wins in my book because so much more supported GPUs

[fair moon]

NVidia is gonna have to pull something big out of their sleeve

[light bay]

Something other than power draw 💀

[fair moon]

i meant for DLSS

[light bay]

Yeah

Competition is nice

Yeah

[jolly inlet]

They can brute force RT pretty easily with the MCM. Put a ton of RT cores on the smaller chip.

[light bay]

Rommy you do know I'm not like someone who only buys amd right? Being a shill is just for the funny

Ye

You got an Intel cpu

Lmao

Like how I shoulda sold my 5700xt for $750 at the peak

Mhmm

Rsr cool too

[jolly inlet]

DSR is the opposite function though

It scales down an image rendered natively at a higher resolution to fit your monitor

I think you meant FSR lol

[light bay]

Rsr is like fsr supported in basically any title from what I know about it

[jolly inlet]

Yeah any game that supports DX11 and up I think it was will do RSR

RSR is a driver level deal, it takes a couple extra steps but works the same as FSR 1.0

The advantage of driver level support is games don't need to explicitly support it

100%

I plan to keep this for at least 3-4 more years

It's pretty toasty yeah

[light bay]

what aib is it?

[jolly inlet]

FE

[light bay]

evga?

ah

how hot is that gddr6x?

like 105/110?

[jolly inlet]

Got it in person at BB

Drivers have been limiting it to 100 lately, unless I use an older Linux driver that doesn't read mem temp

[light bay]

hm yea

[jolly inlet]

But yeah the highest I saw it get was 106, touched 108 at one point with higher ambient

Sheee

Yeah I don't even know how hot it's been getting lately since no temp sensor in Linux 470 driver lol

Sticks head in sand and hopes it's fine

[light bay]

isnt 120 out of spec for 6x?

or is it right at spec?

sounds about right

[jolly inlet]

110 according to Micron

[azure pond]

thought it was 110?

yea

[light bay]

xD

[jolly inlet]

☠️

You're gonna soften the solder on those lol

I use PX1 also but because it's the only way to control RGB on the FE

Nope

[cloud hornet]

Did you change AB settings?

[jolly inlet]

Not signalrgb or MSI Center either

The FE uses a really weird protocol to control RGB so they need to snoop the packets and reverse engineer the commands

[cloud hornet]

Did you look at OpenRGB plugins or SignalRGB beta stuff?

[cloud hornet]

Also literally 99.99% of any RGB thing lol

[jolly inlet]

Yes, it's listed on openrgb as a fix in progress thing. They have the packets, just now the reverse engineering is in progress

Probably next major update

[cloud hornet]

That's the official OpenRGB thing. Im too lazy, but did you look for anyone who had plugins or PRs with FE compatibility?

[jolly inlet]

Not that I could find. Only bug reports and feature suggestions on the github.

Recent too, from March was the last I saw

[cloud hornet]

Ye, well hopefully they got RGB compatibility soon cuz I've always heard lots of bad things about PX1 lol

[jolly inlet]

Only issues I've had are the stupid "power calculator" telling you to get way overkill PSUs and conflicts with other software

[cloud hornet]

Actually, just remembered that I know someone who has decompiled PX1, so that's possible. Wonder how easy it is to find the FE stuff lol

[jolly inlet]

You could compare the version right before they added it to the one that added it and see what files are new in the exe

[cloud hornet]

That could get you the libraries, but still could be a library that cant easily be read. Just wondering what is easier tbh.

But yeah, that dude who decompiled it just loved hating on PX1. They have apparently done so many things wrong lol

[normal tiger]

sheesh, wondering if I should get the 3070. Is that the best deal atm?

[jolly inlet]

At $580? That's a great deal tbh, below msrp

For that model*

[normal tiger]

oof shipping :/

[jolly inlet]

Do you own any EVGA products? They have free shipping for Elite members and all you need to qualify is a serial number from another EVGA product

[azure pond]

what

they made me pay for shipping on my 1650s

and im an elite member

[normal tiger]

nah I don't, I never bought from them before ):

[jolly inlet]

It's a current promotion, might not have been going then

[azure pond]

ahh

[normal tiger]

Well I have a 960 from a friend, idk if that would count

[jolly inlet]

It would actually

[normal tiger]

o.o how to do that?

[jolly inlet]

Yeah as long as they didn't register it you can claim it

[normal tiger]

okay I'll try

[jolly inlet]

https://www.evga.com/support/register.asp

That'll tell you if it was, no need to contact your friend

You'll want to create an account of course, to link it and claim Elite status

Personally I used an old power supply to register Elite

Keyboards and mice even count

Ooh actually I just double checked and GPUs need to be 10 series or newer

[normal tiger]

hmm yeah idk, I can't find the serial number on the card haha

[normal tiger]

ohh gotcha makes sense

Is there really a big difference between a 3060ti and a 3070? Wondering if I should just save ~$100 that way cuz I only do 1440p anyways

[azure pond]

10% about

[normal tiger]

ahh gotcha

[azure pond]

wait

wrong gpu

[azure pond]

there https://pcpartpicker.com/product/R4jBD3/asus-geforce-rtx-3070-lhr-8-gb-tuf-gaming-oc-v2-video-card-tuf-rtx3070-o8g-v2-gaming

[normal tiger]

Sorry I'm actually not knowledgable on understanding the differences between different models of the same kind of card, is this supposed to be better than the EVGA one?

[azure pond]

No, just a good pricr

Well, good price for the market anyways

[normal tiger]

alright for sure

[grand orbit]

Rombert 3070 still in stock 👀

[jolly inlet]

ikr, very surprising

[distant badger]

yo could i post good deals on here that arent on newegg? or only newegg

[jolly inlet]

Any good deals, preferably tech related stuff

But you'll need to be level 3 to post links, your name will turn green

Or it'll just work, huh

@distant badger You can shorten links by removing ref= or ?, like this https://www.amazon.com/XFX-Speedster-Radeon-Graphics-RX-66XL8LFDQ/dp/B09HHLX543

[distant badger]

u r smart man

[high radish]

Rip gpu shortage

[loud sandal]

Lol

[undone bronze]

just grabbed a ducky one 2 mini for 80 cad

best deal oml

[fleet marlin]

Probably should delete the StockX link. Often super long delivery time, & at least similar price to an AIB card.

[grand orbit]

I think the emotes do the talking themselves

[jolly inlet]

In the US at least

[fleet marlin]

Ryan, heatsink isn't preinstalled. take my word on it since that's the exact one I bought. Gets cheaper exactly 32 days after I bought mine, but at least it's only $10.

[jolly inlet]

Yep, the blade is the model you want if you have a heatsink on your mobo already

The included one works but... eh

[fleet marlin]

Exactly. the non-blade is the 1 w/ the "big" preinstalled heatsink. Darn good price in any case.

[jolly inlet]

The non-removeable big heatsink, it's important to note

[light bay]

Got it, thx

Fixed posting

Adata ngl needs to show that it's separate, cause from pics it looks preinstalled

[marsh sphinx]

I need an opinion on sky tech

[azure pond]

Flat out no

Never buy sky tech

Ever

[marsh sphinx]

Perfect

My speciation was right lol

[azure pond]

Like, avoid it at all costs. I'd rather an acer nitro 5 laptop over a sky tech pc again

Look at ABS builds on newegg

[marsh sphinx]

I got a buddy needing something for vid editing under 1k, you know anything?

Mostly every has 1660s or worse

[azure pond]

1k is a bit tight, any way they could build it themselves?

[marsh sphinx]

That’s what I’m saying but noooo

[azure pond]

Alr I'll take a look

[marsh sphinx]

Alrigh

[azure pond]

Opinions on open box?

[marsh sphinx]

I think it might be fine

[jolly inlet]

Could get an ABS open box 3060 for $1000

[marsh sphinx]

Fr? Haven’t seen one on Newegg

[azure pond]

https://www.newegg.com/abs-ali564-master/p/N82E16883360194R?Item=N82E16883360194R&Source=socialshare&cm_mmc=snc-social-_-sr-_-83-360-194R-_-05152022

$900 3060 open box

[marsh sphinx]

Crazy how I haven’t seen this steal before

[azure pond]

Yeye

Open box abs pcs tend to be well priced

[marsh sphinx]

Game saver there, thanks mate

[azure pond]

And a lot of abs builds as a whole

Happy to help, np

[jolly inlet]

10600K + 3060 is $978

[azure pond]

Is it on a z490/590?

Otherwise not really worth it imo, unless there's something else better in it

[jolly inlet]

Yeah, Prime Z490-P wifi