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>>229113 (OP) 
>anchored
It's called reaching the bumplimit/autosage
>1st pic
I want to bone Anzu
>4th pic
Are you the sped who bought that thing because muh fan noise?

>>229120
>It's called reaching the bumplimit/autosage
I know. I just wasnt quite sure whether to say it reached the bump limit or say anchored. So i chose anchored because of the anchor symbol.
>Are you the sped who bought that thing because muh fan noise?
I havent bought it yet but im planning to. Its just fucking expensive and looks like a chore to build so im just waiting a bit. And yes fan noise is extremely annoying. I've tried the noctuas and the bequiet which "supposedly" has the lowest amount of decibels, which is pretty funny considering how noisy they are. And ive tried fan controlling through the bios and through programs. Doesnt really change much.

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>>229121
>I know. I just wasnt quite sure
It's called bump limited. Around here we say the thread got blipped, newfag.

>>229124
>>229113 (OP) 
>asuka
Objectively shit taste.
I do like the unit01 designs though.

>>229127
I don't like Asuka. Read the filename and look a bit closer on the text.
>>229120
>Are you the sped who bought that thing because muh fan noise?
To be fair, it's a pretty neat product (at least until you see it's 790 € price tag).

>>229128
Those are marketing images.
I don't care what you like, but someone with objectively shit taste is buying that crap.

>>229129
>Those are marketing images.
They did ship the motherboards with the typo on them to their customers.
https://archive.ph/En3I7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzB7XuMw0Ng&t=120s

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>>229121
>noctuas
>noisy
I can't even hear my noctuas at full blast over my HDDs.

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I will just buy an iphone 13 mini, install emulation software, buy one of these and play old games for the rest of my life. I am a software engineer so a cheap used thinkpad is all i need for work. My life is completed, i never have to worry about hardware ever again for the rest of my life.

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>>229139
Get one of these instead.

>>229139
What OS are you installing in it?

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Used tape to cover up annoying ethernet cable flashing led lights

Good, cheap, mechanical keyboards with numpads (not like I can put anything else in my keyboard drawer and there's the occasional old game where it's needed)?

>>229331
Do you have the desktop in your bedroom? I can't imagine why else such a small light would inconvenience you on a daily basis.

>>229333
its very annoying and distracting when im leaning back in my chair while watching a movie and i notice subtle blinking on the wall.

>>229113 (OP) 
>決戦兵器

>>229130
Asus proving Asuka fags have no taste.

>>229130
>that gross fat mutt hand and wristwatch
I wanna puke

>>229331
Preddy gud, make sure to wash your hands after handling electrical tape if you didn't use gloves

>>229331
>ROG mobo
>Noctua extra fan
>white case
Look at this fucking richfag flaunting his riches, fucking Richie Rich aren't we huh? Fucking richfags.

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>>229423
Could be worse, you could be a third worlder.
Get a damned job or learn to save up.

>>229428
>Get a damned job
Very bad idea, unless you want to be dead inside in a few years.

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>>229605
then quit your bitching

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Any bland recommendations for mouses?

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>>229727
Darmoshark M3/M3S Varun, Razer Deathadder V3 Wired, Endgame Gear XM2We, Lamzu Atlantis OG V2, Pulsar X2V2, Pulsar Xlite V3/V3 Es.

I got a new mobo for my ryzen 7 58003dx and its nice but I still feel empty inside.  What do?

>>229731
Climbing the ladder of materialism will never fill that void.

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>>229729
>pulsar
>mfw pic related
Thank God someone fixed the damn wheel from braking.
>100 shekels
Time to save.

>>229742
No I'm sure just a thing or two more and I'll be there.

>>229743
>Pulsar Xlite
I'm fucking mad they've discontinued the Xlite Wired, literally all their alternative is way pricier, way heavier and fucking wireless gayfaggotry.

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PLANNED VOLUNTARY SAFETY RECALL OF CABLEMOD 12VHPWR ANGLED ADAPTERS, V1.0 and V1.1
https://archive.is/SpLCc
I'm glad I didn't buy a nvidia 4000 series.

>>229729
A while ago I would have suggested the Logitech G403 mouse because it has optical switches and the good sensor, but their latest edition of it has software thats windows 10 only.
You can get the old version that has the old driver that works on linux and windows 7 but that mouse does not have optical switches and gets the double clicking issue.
It's my current mouse and every 6 months i have to take it out and re-bend the metal switch plates. or use anti-double click detection software.


I will look into those mice. Except the death adder because that's a piece of shit.

Benq Zowie i've heard is a good mouse.

>>229872
>but their latest edition of it has software thats windows 10 only
Isn't that just a question of waiting for Solaar to update to support it, if it hasn't already?

>>229872
Why do you need software for a mouse? Does it have rainbow puke lights or something?

>>229888
Light control (including disabling the rainbow LEDs), but also DPI settings and the functionality of the extra buttons. Everything is tied to a software that's w10 exclusive and has no offline installs.

>>229889
>disabling the rainbow LEDs
Just get one that doesn't have that shit in the first place.

>>229890
The ones without leds either don't go on sale nearly as often or just don't have decent switches for cheap.

>>229892
There's gotta be some high quality mouse for business use without all that gamer crap.

>>229898
There is, it's just not cheap.

>>229872
>Benq Zowie i've heard is a good mouse.
Good but overpriced

Honestly the least bad choice currently are CoolerMaster stuff, you get the gaymer meme stuff, but without the massive price hike and actually often better build than the super high end stuff, the only issue is the control panel is a pile of trash, not Armoury Crate bad but not good either.

The software in general is the hardest part of choosing a mouse, you get brand with great simple lightweight software but meh hardware or you get decent hardware but utterly rancid garbage software.

>>229888
For Logitech stuff, it also controls what the extra scrollwheels and buttons on the side do, and how clicky the scrollwheel is, so you need it even on the non-RGB shit. I kinda like that latter feature, it switches between free spinning and clicky depending on your scroll speed and you have full control over the setting, though it's also ridiculously overengineered and I suspect it'll fail in a few years.

>>229889
I already mentioned Solaar, it controls all that shit but on linux and open source. There's also LogiOps which is CLI only, but for some wireless ones it only supports bluetooth and not the USB connector.

>>229873
I have windows 7

>>229890
its only the RGB (including turning it off) if you ignore 2/3rds of the lost functionality mentioned. DPI switching and programmable buttons is nice. its also nice to be able to turn off the RGB or set it to a static color. 

>>229901
>>229898
The business one also doesnt have programmable buttons, DPI switching, or optical switches, or the good sensor.

>>229902
G403 is like $30 on sale. sometimes as low as $20. optical switches, good sensor, programmable buttons, comfortable, but its all tied to shit win10 only software.

>>229925
>shit win10 only software.
Couldn't you try an older version? I have a G503, years ago I booted a win7 vm, set up the shit I wanted in their crap software, and never touched it again.

>>229924
>extra scrollwheels and side buttons need an online app
>clicky scrollwheel needs a fucking online app
This is making me appreciate the Corsair M65 I grabbed from a gamestop that was getting liquidated more. No extra scrollwheels if you actually need that shit you should really consider getting a specialized input device instead of bolting it on your mouse but it has dedicated buttons for DPI and the side buttons default to MOUSE4/MOUSE5 so the only thing you really get from the software is turning off the clown puke LEDs, and ckb-next will do that while respecting your freedumbs.

>>229925
>G403 is like $30 on sale. sometimes as low as $20.
Yeah but not a lightweight one.
Cooolermaster has a few models (MM710/720/730) that reach those price as well and are lightweight (though they likely have worse switches), but they retain the software issue.
I also have bad experiences with Logitech, especially the QA

>>229946
Why would you want a lightweight mouse?

>>229947
Less fatigue over long period of use, especially doing low DPI shit.
Yes a heavier mouse is slightly more accurate but not enough to be worth it.

>>229933
The older version of the software does not work with that mouse. the G403 has been around a while, but the newest version of it needs "LGS" which actually disables the old LGHUB software making it very difficult to go back.
I tried to force LGHUB to read the new version of the mouse by editing the inf files and getting it to read as a similar mouse but it's all fucked up and missing functionality.
LGS is a windows-store only application that refuses to run on windows 7. I checked out some info on leddit and apparently even windows 10 users had so many problems with LGS many of them were telling others to just return it and get a razer or something while the official logitech account did damage control.

>>229946
I dont understand the benefit of a very light wired mouse. The G403 wired im talking about isnt heavy, and it has removable weights.
I'll check out the cooler master ones next time i'm in the market for a mouse. for now my old-edition G403 is behaving, the old one also sells for more money (on ebay)

I have chance to get a used 2tb NAS HDD for like 20 bucks. Does anyone have any experience with them? I never used them so I have no idea how they compare to regular HDDs.

>>230103
They could have the "disable drive on pin3 power" stuff (just need a SATA power splitter to fix it, so long as it's not a trash one or a trash PSU it will be fine, or you could use them in enclosures or NAS which do not have that issue) but other than that they're about the same as consumer drives of the same speed and capacity from that brands, which means no fucking flood era seagates as besides the very few rebranded Samsung HD204UI they're hot garbage.

>>230103
>used hard drive
I hope you don't plan to store anything important on it.

>people are spending $300+ on 2080ti 
Why? I don’t get it. Wouldn’t it be outdated by the time new aaa trash releases by 2025?

>>230121
Beats the 3070 in everything but RT, 3070 still are over 300.

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>>230121
I paid roughly $300 for my 1080 Ti just after the crypto craze calmed down a year or so ago
I know it's too much, but my previous card broke and I needed to render some videos right quick.

>>230124
yeah but why the 2080ti in particular> is there something im missing? the card averages $300-350 on ebay meanwhile:

the 4070 for $450-550 
the 3070ti averages $350-$400

i dont understand the second hand market honestly
>>230126
well think of it this way, it couldve been worse. you couldve been one of those dumb faggots that bought a PS5 for $1500 during the pandemic

>>230129
2080ti has lots of vram, useful for ai still

>>230131
>lots of vram
>11GB
Well, I have 12GB VRAM, and that's still extremely small, I have to use shit like llama.cpp that only offloads parts of the model to the GPU, and that's on a model that's already gimped down to 4bit weights. But on the other hand, all coonsumer GPUs have claustrophobically low amounts of RAM...

>>229902
>CoolerMaster
I bought a CoolerMaster mouse in 2018 and after a couple years one of the rubber side panels started to peel off and the glue underneath it drooled out.  I think the exact model was the CM310 so it's possible that a different one would have good build quality, but I don't trust it.

I've been using a Glorious (yes, as in Glorious PC Master Race) mouse for the last few years, and it's been good despite the holes in the top that collect dust and skin flakes.  The Model O is the symmetrical one with slightly fewer holes, and the Model D is for right-handed users with slightly easier to reach thumb buttons.  The software is good and simple, and you can customize or disable the RGB as well as change the sensitivity easily.  I like being able to have a handful of small changes in sensitivity that can be cycled through with a button next to the scroll wheel.  The mice have changed my mind about the importance of a cloth cord and general mouse weight, and I don't see myself going back to a stock office mouse or a heavyweight mouse ever.

The only problem is that they're quite expensive - north of $80 or $90 USD without a sale.  The Model O seems like the slightly better built one, which I think is something to do with the asymmetrical Model D build, but despite some M1 and M2 button drift on the Model D (holding the button down and moving my finger left and right) it hasn't actually stopped working or misbehaved in any way.

I would really like to have a large, somewhat lightweight mouse with good software that didn't have holes in it, but all of the ones being made these days seem to be wireless and full of way too much gamer kitsch crap.

>>230137
>but I don't trust it
I've had a couple and I've also seen some QC issues (though I buy open box / bstock / returns a lot so there's that), the MM710 I have has 0 rubber pads and is a mouse I've used for a few years as a secondary one and it's pretty great minus the honeycomb shit being a dirt magnet.
A MM720 I got had an unique problem I've not seem many people have, the rubber part of the mouse wheel would slip of the plastic part so mouse wheel input were random, nothing a bit of superglue couldn't fix though
I wanted to see how the MM730 is since it's even lighter but actually a decent size, but i missed a good deal for it and am not willing to pay the current asking price just to see how it is.

>The software is good and simple
Good to know, I've never looked much at glorious after I've dealt with their shit mech keyboard kit (do not fucking buy the cheap one, it's artificially limited to 62.5hz polling internally) and hard mouse pad (wears out too fast and kills feet faster than a skypad)

>I would really like to have a large, somewhat lightweight mouse with good software that didn't have holes in i
Disregarding the software bit there's the MM730, a few Roccat models (Roccat swarm isn't the worst but it's a bit bloated) and the Delux M800 (which also has a very simple software though it's chinkshit so engrish and potential spyware, the pro and ultra models are lighter and wireless) and they all can go for under 50 if you look hard enough.

>>230177
>roccat
I hadn't heard of these guys before but there are a few of their products that might be what I'm looking for: the Burst Pro, the Kone Pro, and the Kone Pure Ultra.  The others either have too many buttons or are too heavy.

>>230208
Was looking again and damn the prices on the Pure ultra have went fucking insane (might be discontinued), that thing is not worth 120, especially not when you could find it for 35-60, lower for refurbs.

>>230137
Did you cum in your mouse's holes?

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Are there any capture devices with a remote that you can just record screenshots or short videos straight to a USB stick? That's all I want but it seems like they are all a hassle meant to hook up to a PC.

>>230271
>Are there any capture devices with a remote that you can just record screenshots or short videos straight to a USB stick?
AverMedia released a few devices like that.

>>230272
This?
https://shop-us.avermedia.com/products/avermedia-ezrecorder-330g

>>230273
Yes. For example, this is the device that I received several years ago: https://www.avermedia.com/us/product-detail/C285

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>>230276
It works... kinda. It says it supports 4K but it won't let me take a screenshot with my scaler outputting anything higher than 1080p so I can't scale the image as big.

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>>230276
Lol, probably a legal requirement but still funny.

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>>230271
>capture devices
>video
>directly to usb
Most of them would use sd/microsd and one could merely get an sd/microsd to usb adapter. :^)

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>>229729
All those mice cost at least fucking 100 yuros, are there no more poorfag friendly alternatives?

>>230385
>yuros
Check Maxgaming.com , you can find some good shit under 50 right now.

>>230385
my mouse is from a keyboard/mouse pack of 30 euros and works perfectly fine. I also have an old mouse, that probably cost like 7 euros and is also very good. If is not a very cheap chinese one, will probably last enough.

>>230392
>Microsoft Pro Intellimouse at 50% discount for 27 yuros
Not bad at all.
>10 yuros in shipping
Maybe I'm just being stingy but it is kinda steep.

>>230385
Darmoshark mice shouldn't be this expensive. They cost around €50 here in center Europe, while the wired Deathadder V3 costs €60.

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>>229113 (OP) 
>get 6600 xt roughly a year ago
>zero issues, doesn't get too hot, at full blast i can't even hear it over my cpu fans
>can't max out settings on some games due to insufficient vram, of all things
>even for a budget card, a lot of people recommend going for one with at least 12gb of vram
Talk me out of selling my card and buying a 6700 xt please, the only things stopping me are my relatively weak cpu (ryzen 5 3600, which i think would bottleneck me) and the fact that i paid nearly $300 for it and i'd be selling it for only $150-$180 while a second hand 6700 xt (i'm a poorfag) would cost me somewhere around $300.

>>230484
Play better games.

>>230486
this is a very compelling argument

>>230484
Just simply stop maxing out the settings in every game.
>even for a budget card, a lot of people recommend going for one with at least 12gb of vram
Budget GPUs (4060, 6600, 7600) and more expensive cards like the 3070 and 4060 Ti don't have 12GB of VRAM. The VRAM is not an issue here (unless you're using a 1440p monitor), but rather lazy optimization and you can't solve that problem with a higher amount of VRAM in your GPU.

>>230508
Existence of a 7600 XT was leaked. I fully expect it to have 12+ GB of vram.

>>230484
Explain why you need to max everything out.
vram is primarily used for textures, so just lower your texture resolution.
>$150-$180
Some have sold for $220 on ebay right now.

>>230525
>7600 XT
MSRP will be ~350$

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>>230484
Max settings in most games are meaningless.  This is a documented fact for a few reasons.
- Hardware in general is just geometrically more powerful than it was in the past.
- Modern game engines such as UE do a lot of memory management for the developers, and out-of-order compilers help to alleviate low-level issues that may have caused problems in previous hardware generations.
- Modern games just genuinely don't have a lot of difference between the medium and ultra graphics settings.  There's usually some option in the middle named High or Medum-High that gets you good visuals with no cost to performance.
- No amount of MAXXED OUT GRAYFIX will cover terrible art direction, which most modern games have.

Here's Guile from SF6 on high settings.  I can see every pore in his skin and the mode looks and animates great with zero performance problems, because the artists took their time and designed the texture and model well.  There are stages with lots of stuff in the background, including water and dynamic cloth physics, that run well and look good artistically no matter how many scattered particle effects are in the foreground.

Here's Titanfall 2, where you have entire maps full of giant robots, players running around, dozens of AI-controlled grunts, and particle effects.  It runs in a heavily modified Source engine, which was outdated more than a decade ago.  It also looks great because the artists took their time and worked around the limitations of the engine.  The grass on Homestead is literally a bunch of criss-crossing textures, but it doesn't matter because I'm zooming past them at mach 7.  In a typical modern game every blade of grass would be photorealistic and have its own thread.  You saw what happened with Cities Skylines 2, right?

And of course most modern games are just slot machines, gachapon systems, or other forms of skinner boxes that try to trick you into enjoying them.  What games are you even trying to play?

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>>230209
After doing a bit of research and going down the Roccat rabbit hole, I wanted to compile my findings since I haven't seen anyone mention these mice in any detail anywhere except Amazon and Reddit reviews.  All three are lightweight at about 66g and have cloth cables, which may not be to the high standards of something like Glorious, but which are good enough to let you move the mouse without fighting your cable.

Apparently the optical switches used in both the Kone Pro and the Burst Pro mouse make a very different and lower pitched clicking sound than your typical mouse with mechanical switches, but I am not bothered by it.  Some people are insane and find the mouse unusable.

>Roccat Kone Pure Ultra
A continuation of the normal weight Kone Pure.  The oldest and potentially out of stock, though it is listed on the manufacturer's website.  Right-handed ergonomic form factor.  May have poor build quality and dud/unreliable buttons that stop working intermittently or don't register clicks accurately.
Has a single RGB light at the back, which is apparently extremely bright by default and needs to be dimmed manually.

>Roccat Kone Pro
Seems to be a reinvention of the Kone Pure line to insert RGB into it, though the RGB is only under M1 and M2 which makes it look somewhat tasteful.  May have scroll wheel issues related to part quality ("look at it with a flashlight to see if you got one of the good ones") but I cannot confirm this.  
I have seen some reports of build quality issues, especially related to the scroll wheel, and creaking everywhere that you'd notice in use.  Build quality seems to be poor, with button and scroll wheel problems that can appear within months or over a year after purchase.  

>Roccat Burst Pro
An iteration on the honeycomb hole design popularized by Glorious and other low-weight gaming mice, but with no holes in the buttons and a clear plastic panel over the holes at the back so it reduces weight but doesn't catch sweat and dust and cat hair.  The mouse seems to have a lower profile that makes it more suited for claw grip, which I was initially interested in because I'm a 1-3-1 claw grip weirdo.

I have seen conflicting reports on build quality, but the people who say it has bad quality all seem to be illiterate and purchase wireless mice (subhuman decision), whereas the people who type properly testify the mouse has lasted for one or two years with no problem in build quality.  Maybe some minor creaking on the back, but nothing that would affect daily use.  I am inclined to believe the people who say it is built well based on intuition.  Obviously the wired version will be superior since it has fewer parts competing for space in the mouse itself.
There is no/little plastic coating on the top, which makes it feel "cheap" but doesn't actually affect quality.  The side grips have a nice fish scale texture which makes them easy to grip.  Neither type of plastic attracts fingerprints, though apparently the material used for the plastic doesn't absorb heat as much as typical mouse plastic and I have seen many people say their hands get a bit more sweaty when using the mouse for long periods of time.

HOWEVER,
There is allegedly a known issues with the Burst Pro's cable, where over time it will develop a problem that causes the mouse not to work for a few seconds.  I only saw this mentioned once on r/MouseReviews but there were about seven or eight reports of it in a thread on r/Roccat, which makes me suspicious.  This problem is allegedly unavoidable and has been acknowledged by Roccat, but I have only heard one person claim that so I cannot say for certain.

Conclusion
Kone Pure Ultra is old and its shape would likely not work for my hand.
Kone Pro seems to have serious build issues.  I am not interested in it.
The Kone Burst Pro is tempting enough (and on sale for cheap enough via Amazon) that I am willing to give it a chance.  It seems to be doing something different from the typical gaming mouse, and as much as I enjoy using my Glorious Model O/D, I do not enjoy having to clean out the honeycomb holes simply because they wanted to have epic low gamer weight for a marketing blurb.

I will be getting the Burst Pro as a late Christmas present to myself and I will see how it fares this year.  If it fails I can still go back to a spare Glorious mouse.

>>230484
>>230625
>Has a single RGB light at the back, which is apparently extremely bright by default and needs to be dimmed manually.
Can confirm, also has the bad habit of turning on by itself unprompted.

>>230484
I have a nitro+ 6700xt. Apparently its supposed to be the best version of it. It has a fuckton of coil whine.
>>230625
>Roccat Kone Pro
>May have scroll wheel issues related to part quality
>but I cannot confirm this
I can confirm this because i have the mouse. After some time (i dont remember how long) the scrolling started to get messed up. I dont remember exactly what it was but it was extremely annoying. One day it just stopped but yes my mouse did have some sort of scrolling problem at one point. I still think its a good mouse overall but i would simply recommend you to get any mouse with optical switches due to doubleclicking. Thats why i bought this roccat kone pro. So maybe look for a mouse which doesnt have reported scrolling problems?

>>230623
Well explained. I think developers just need to focus on the art style to make graphics look good.

>>230659
Really?  Strange.  You'd think that would be the one thing the program does correctly.

>>230666 (begone, Satan)
What difference do optical vs mechanical switches make for a mouse?  As I mentioned above, I think I'm spoiled by my Glorious Model D/O since they're basically perfect except for the stupid speed holes.  Even the really shitty mice I've used that my dad got from offices in the early 2000 don't have double click problems, so I don't see how optical switches would meaningfully avoid that problem.

I'm not opposed to the technology; anything that removes reliance on cheap Chinese parts is good.  But what's the point?

>>230675
>Really?  Strange.  You'd think that would be the one thing the program does correctly.
If you cut it manually it's fine but the shutdown when idle function is fucky, 

>anything that removes reliance on cheap Chinese parts is good.
What made you think the optical switches weren't cheap chinese parts as well?

>>230678
>What made you think the optical switches weren't cheap chinese parts as well?
Wishful thinking, I suppose.

>>230675
>What difference do optical vs mechanical switches make for a mouse?
Mechanical switches require less force to actuate them and have a slightly more tactile feedback, but will inevitably produce double clicking with time. Optical switcher last far longer, are quieter and won't double click, but some people tend to really dislike how they feel to use.

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My Roccat Burst Pro arrived today and I'm already leery about trying it out.  The optical/mechanical switch difference is certainly one thing that makes the mouse feel different from other gaming mice I've used, but the other thing is the post-click travel distance.  It's genuinely insane how much more I can depress the button after a click registers.  I did a few eyeball tests and the click seems to register about a third/half the way down.  One of the things that annoyed me about the Glorious Model D was post-click travel distance and wiggle, but even that was nowhere near as bad as this.  It feels like Roccat intentionally made the click register at the top of the total distance for epic gamer lag reduction and nobody thought about how it feels.

I'm kind of astonished none of the reviews I read or watched mentioned this attribute despite reviewers often fixating upon the feel of the optical switches.
>oh noes it goes click with a LOW SOUND :'(((((((
Redditors, the lot of them.  I wouldn't have bothered buying the mouse if I knew it felt like this.
There are also two scroll wheel buttons, one for pressing it down and one for pressing it to the right towards M2.  I do not know why anyone thought this feature was necessary.  I will never use it except by accident.  The whole thing just feels cheap and rickety and hollow, which is not how a gaming mouse should feel.

With all this listed out, I genuinely don't even want to use the Burst Pro because it just wouldn't feel very good.  The Glorious Model O with electrical tape over the back holes which I have been using for the last week seems to be my dream machine.  Sturdy, no bullshit, tasteful RGB, lightweight, good cable, good software.

>>231117
For reference, the Glorious Model O barely has any post-click travel distance.  The forward edge of the M1/M2 buttons don't reach down to the bottom of the main shell that they rest above.

>>231117
Who is the artist of these rat weapon pics I like them.

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>>231121
Gompami on FA and Twitter.  Some of his drawings have Korean writing in them but his style has a strong Slavic energy so I'm not sure exactly where he's from.

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>>231125
Gee, I wonder.

>>231130
Yeah, I saw that as I was uploading it.

>>231117
That sucks, I've had a few Roccat stuff and never really had much of a complaint (though getting stuff 50-90% off usually does help)

It literally feels like a complete downgrade from the Kone Pure Ultra from what you're saying, the clicks on that are probably the ones with the least travel distance  I've seen, it's less than a mm and the click is a bit harder to actuate than average but fast to set itself back so it feels really good to click on, the whole body is about the most "solid" feeling lightweight mouse I've had (I can squish it without even hearing a plastic creak), the only issue I have with it is while the rubberized soft touch coating is one of the good ones that doesn't melt it's a complete grease magnet and with sweaty palms you have to clean it every single day or even multiple times a day, that and the weight being a bit higher than I'd like is why I only use it as a secondary mouse.

>>231117
>often fixating upon the feel
>none of the reviews
>reviewers
They're shills.
You're not going to get objectivity from them unless they aren't a shill.

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>>231138
It was an astonishing disappointment.  Using so few mice over the years has really made me blind to how shitty the engineering and design for many of them have gotten, even luxury gaming products which you'd think pride themselves on being built to last.  Seriously, who the fuck thought the scroll wheel needed to click sideways?

The one thing which I can genuinely say about the mouse is its shape does seem to align well with a claw grip, and I think in that specific category it may outdo the Model O.  But most people are palm/fingertip grippers, so it's a pretty niche thing to prioritize and there are other mice that work well with a claw grip but aren't going to make me feel like my finger is on a fucking trampoline.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/incase-to-re-launch-microsoft-pc-accessory-portfolio-in-2024-302026850.html
Incase is going to take over making and selling Microsoft peripherals that were originally going to be shitcanned. This seems to be like what happened to IBM's keyboard factory but instead of just the factory and patents Microsoft is handing over their entire supply chain. This matters because Microsoft is (somehow) still the brand for when you want something a little better built than logitech but not covered in gaymer pride LEDs and hole technology. Also the wave ergonomic keyboard still has not been topped for a keyboard that's less likely to snap your wrists without going full oddware.

>>231125
Thanks

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hypothetically I may or may have €450 cash from getting paid under the table and I don't what to spend it on.

>>231364
Buy  450€ worth of eggs and do a live stream of you frying them in a giant pan and eating them.

>>231364
Buy two 10tb hard drives. or buy a new gpu.

I bought a steam deck and changed the disk inside to a 1tb.

rtx 40xx supers announced 2 days ago

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>>231174
I have decided to overcome my initial disgust reaction and use the Burst Pro for a while to see how it is, since I'm not getting my money back anyway.  Initial plug-in impressions:
>It feels very hollow, as I expected.
>RBG looks nice.  The honeycome effect is probably the best RGB I've seen in any gaming mouse.
>The post-click travel distance isn't AS bad as I thought it would be.
>The shape of the shell seems to be good for claw/fingertip grip.
>The scroll wheel is surprisingly nice; it's a circle on the outside, but each step is defined better than the Model O and it overall requires more force to move. Clicking a scroll wheel to the right is still fucking stupid.

The mouse feet are definitely odd, though. I had heard about them being "scratchy" vertically, and that is true; the vertical resistance is not the same as the horizontal resistance, which doesn't feel right. Apparently this can become better with time as you move the mouse around but I'm not if that's a good thing.

My next mouse adventure is going to be getting grip tape for my Model O to cover the holes, since apparently electrical tape can leave nasty adhesive on the mouse itself and isn't necessarily reliable for sticking to plastic for long periods of time.

>>231364
buy a lockheed martin stock and profit from the kids dying on foreign wars

>>231724
>what the fuck is that wikihow parody
>check it
<it's not parody
WHY

>>231724
>Clicking a scroll wheel to the right is still fucking stupid.
It occurs to me that this feature was included for Roccat's Easy-Shift+™ feature, which lets you assign two button profiles for the mouse, accessing the normal button function as you'd expect and the second when you hold down the Easy-Shift+™ key, which I think is the mouse wheel right click. This makes the decision a little less dumb, but I still don't like it because scroll wheels are notoriously one of the most finicky parts of most mice and the more moving parts, the more likely something is to fail.

After configuring my DPI settings through Roccat Swarm, I think the mouse is mostly usable. Time will tell if any underlying issues emerge.
One thing I dislike is that there is no DPI LED on the bottom of the mouse, which means I can never know for certain which DPI setting I am unless I enable the "audio notification" in Swarm whereupon a hoarse man's voice will whisper "TWO THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED DEE PEE AYE" in my ear very loudly.

>>231727
WikiHow has practically been a parody site for many years.

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>>231435
>all those flavors of umpc made for retro gaming and you choose paypig flavor >>229925
>win7
>current year
But chicago 95...
>>231727
Haven't you seen from the new world? Rats are people too! I blame furfags though if true.

>>231740
WIndows 7 is best windows, as long as you take the telephone from her.
>>231435
I will wait for steam deck 2, since steam deck 3 will never happen.

>>231741
>phone
>implying ethernet
>implying Internet access
>just never connect windows7 to the Internet
That applies to CIA10 and also CIA10 will have more software compatible with it. Also, why not connect win7 to the Internet if you trust the site? Back then you can turn updates off you know. One moar thing: winxp was best windows nevar forgetti (not like win7 has/had a real classic mode).

inb4 voodoo to fix CIA10 when installing linux is easier and less faggy, what when dual booting a thing.  

Back on to absolute chinkware though,  that retro stuff, its cute that they made fake chicago 95 themes for some of the shittier ones. *tries to find image of chicago 95 theme and fails* faggot ass Internet. I'm not doing half an hour of research to find that shit. Other than the obvious x86 one the images are now hidden of the fake chicago 95 thing I'm talking about with silly icons and such that merely remind one of win9x. Cloud in background and such. Ldk landscape had it with lots of pictures yet that won't cross reference so as to show it in a search query. Even a few years ago the search engines were less broken. Do I have to use fucking yandex? More like yawndex, that can't get past the site blocking image searches.
>finally find it
>wrong name
fugg I'm rarted :DDDDD

https://github.com/freddi444444/RetroFW-Windows98

>>231728
> unless I enable the "audio notification" in Swarm
I dunno if they still have that but at some point Roccat had cheevos for your peripherals (number of lifetime clicks, distance, keypresses etc), with sound notification that's very loud and long .

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>>231804
>cheevos for your peripherals
This world was a mistake.

>>231805
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=b6N1RlJ0kSQ

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new g type cpus.

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>>231831
>CPUs now have a 1060 inside of them.
Pretty big.

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>>231862
Should be great for budget builds.

>>231364
Do this >>231366 and a 100 pushups.

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Any resources to find good televisions? I guess it is impossible to find dumb tvs anymore.

>>232264
Visit your local goodwill.

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>>232265
I don't have any local goodwills.

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>>232266
Any decent sized thrift stores at all?

>>232264
Go to Ebay and buy from sellers that dont have reviews that say 0/10 sent me a box of maggots, no HDMI ports

>>232264
>I guess it is impossible to find dumb tvs anymore.
It is. You can either play burn-in roulette with plasma or old LCDs or buy closeout/open-box and never let them connect to the internet. TV picture quality is one of the few pieces of consumer technology that's improved over the last decade so I recommend the latter. If you have a router with hostname-based adblocking (you should) you can actually use the "smart" part with your streaming poison of choice by downloading a filter list that keeps the TV firmware from ratting on you.

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any monitor recommendations that aren't too weighty for your average dual arm monitor stand? trying to look for something better than this barely HD 75hz monitor for gayman a bit more smoothly, trying to see anything far off's a nightmare

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>>232330
I had a pretty lengthy post, but my tab crashed so I'm just going to wrap this up quickly:
>trying to look for something better than this barely HD 75hz monitor for gayman a bit more smoothly
The vast majority of modern displays won't give you a smooth experience, unless you're willing to spend crazy amounts of money for a monitor with a very good BFI (black frame insertion) mode like NVIDIA's ULMB 2. That said, going from 60 Hz to 120 Hz is a huge difference.
>trying to see anything far off's a nightmare
Since you want to see objects positioned far from you better, you need a higher resolution than the standard 1080p. I can recommend KTC H27T22 and KTC M27P20P. However, if you really cannot drive higher resolution monitors, there are some great low budget options (from best to worst): Mobiuz EX240, KTC H24T09P, MSI G2412 and AOC 24G2SP(U).

There's also the much cheaper KTC M27T20 if you don't need 4K for a better experience with playing retro vidya with CRT filters or watching movies.

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>be playing game
>alt tab to watch videos and shit because adhd sperg
>forget game in bg
>someone invites me to other game
>absent mindedly accept and start playing
>after I'm done I realize I had other game still running in the bg and noticed no performance issues
so this is the power of having a good pc

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>>232339
>>be playing game
>>alt tab to watch videos and shit
Stopped reading there.

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>>232341
>complains about me stopping in the middle of something
<stops in the middle of reading my thing

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>>232341
Welcome to /v/ in the year CY+9, anon.
Can't even concentrate to play a videogame if they don't have a podcast in the background and stop every fifteen minutes to watch Youtube and Tiktok videos.

>>232339
Not all LCDs are created equal.  But i wonder how this compares to OLED or the new microleds that are expected to hit the market.

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>>232346
Only games with a GOOD OST are worth my full attention.

>>232367
What are your favorite soundtracks?

>>232339
Feels pretty good, eh?

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>>232354
>But i wonder how this compares to OLED
Mini-LED panels are upgraded LCD panels that are doing their best to match the much superior colors and contrast of OLED panels with their local dimming zones, while offering a lot brighter image than them without the issue of a potential image burn-in, however they need a large amount of these zones in order to match OLEDs, and at the cost of slower response times where OLEDs are more or less instantaneous, but their motion clarity is still inferior when compared to the complete lack of processing delay of CRTs. However with a great BFI method OLEDs get very close to the CRT experience, and combining that with a high refresh rate you probably won't notice that big of a difference in motion clarity between the two.
>or the new microleds that are expected to hit the market.
Micro-LED panels might be the endgame in the future, but for now it's completely unrealistic to be waiting for them, and there's a good chance that before they mature they will be already proven obsolete by advanced LCD and OLED panels. Who knows, maybe they will come up with yet another new display technology to rule them all.

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>>229727
Getting a great gaming mouse requires knowing your hand size and what type of  mouse you like to begin with
every few years I keep changing mice and getting it more locked down to what feels better to me
currently on a viper mini

I plan on switching to a zowie ec2-c because of my budget and  ambi mice are just not as comfortable for me from my experience so far

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>>232390
Not him but Sonic CD is probably the GOAT for me

Any recomendations for sub 100 USD soundbars (preferably with a remote control)? My new monitor won't be mountable in a way that supports speakers.

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>My new monitor won't be mountable in a way that supports speakers.
Make it support speakers.

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Any recommended brands for watercooling? My gpu is hitting 80C everytime I tell her to draw a qt loli.
Right now, I'm looking at ekwb and alphacool shit.
>>232580
At that price, any cheap shit will do.

>>232726
I hear everyone recommends corsair or nzxt if you're talking about AIO closed loops, but I personally never water cooled so, if you're so afraid of getting shit you can always make your own custom loop

I bought a used 3080ti+5800x PC couple of months ago
noticed the fans go really loud so I checked FanControl & it looks like the connections are messed up, 2 out of bottom 3 fans are connected with 1 right side fan & 1 fan on the CPU sink etc
will I have to open the case & reroute shit?
also the gpu (palit pro, lowest grade basically) can only go as low as 30% fan speed (1300rpm) but online posts say that's normal but can I change that without firmware changes? too scared to do that

>>232726
Open loop?
Freezemod is fine for everything but the blocks. Do not go cheap on the blocks.
If you run a mixed metal system, get some dowfrost hd or another additive that contains propylene glycol and corrosion inhibitors.
You should add some in even if you don't run a mixed metal system because tons of parts are either bare copper or nickel plated, which will degrade over time.

>>232726
I have an EKWB custom loop. My 3090 went from topping out at 80-82°C to low 60s. Most of the time it doesn't even reach that and the VRAM/memory junction has active cooling with the block I've got. That's with two 360 radiators. I think Alphacool are recommended as the best performing nowadays but either will make a big difference compared to air cooled GPU. Down to your preferences and prices mostly.

>>232264
>dumb tv's
A monitor is a monitor. It's not like monitors were banned over those odd smart tvs. They literally throw crt tv monitors away due to being obsolete in the USA...
>>232291
<Yes goy you HAVE TO one it's not your choice goy
When did people run out of monitors? Thrift store plus  20 bucks can get you any kind of that shit, vga or composite. Half of the time it works fine.

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>>231117
Told you nigger, get the CM MM730

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>>231745
>winxp was best windows nevar forgetti (not like win7 has/had a real classic mode).
*Ahem*
XP does have one real advantage, which is its retention of true VGA text mode.

>>232336
One other desirable feature for when one isn't gaming or watching video is true flicker-free analog dimming, to reduce eyestrain in low-motion applications.
>a monitor with a very good BFI (black frame insertion) mode like NVIDIA's ULMB 2
You mean backlight strobing, not BFI, for LCD (ULMB 2's main improvement is the ability to sync strobing with vertical scanout, so it doesn't have to wait for scanout to finish between strobes). BFI is reliant on pixel transition speed rather than backlight ignition/decay speed, so it sux on LCD, but rawx on OLED.

>>232451
>obsolete by advanced LCD
Not possible. Even if everything you noted is somehow fixed (VERY unlikely) another problem inherent to LCD you didn't mention is the need for light to go through the filter, which ruins uniformity and viewing angle. As for the other two, the main impediment against µLED is a viable mass manufacturing process (rather than the obviously prototype-only "pick & place" process used to date), whereas OLED's main problem of burnout since subpixel lifespan has already more than long enough for years only needs better wear-leveling algorithms to prevent.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER already spotted below MSRP in Europe
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>>232903
>you should have refunded your order based on MY recommendation
Right, sure. Read >>231724 and >>231728 before you call anyone a nigger.

>>232909
When I posted 'real classic mode' I meant that it actually looked like win9x, the windows and start menu and task bar and such. WIn7's classic mode was obviously meant to slowly get people used to moving on to what we ended up with.

Does anyone have a suggestion for a smaller card (I am limited by 210mm length) that can do 1440p decently? I am tempted to go for an Asus 3060 12GB but I can't find one under $250.
<12gb 3060
Now, if I am being retarded by trying to run ai generated voice/art on that someone tell me and I'll fuck off back to 8GB.

>>233043
>Now, if I am being retarded by trying to run ai generated voice/art on that someone tell me and I'll fuck off back to 8GB.
You're not being retarded. 4060's like the Zotac GAMING 4060 (which is just 163mm long) will be faster at doing AI tasks, but faster at the cost of not being able to run some larger models at all due to it's small amount of VRAM (by today's standards). Thanks to the release of 4070S, 4060's should be a little bit more affordable now, however you'd have to deal with the drawbacks of having just 8 gigs of VRAM in the current year.
If you're not going to utilize AV1 hardware encoding and frame generation, and if you don't really care about the slight performance uplift (overall 10% boost), then just get the 12 GB model of 3060.

I haven't been keeping up with marketing and releases. Is the 7800xt still the best amd card of that price range?

>>233057
Yes.

>>233050
>AV1 and frame gen
Not really needed. Does anyone here think the 5X Nividia gen will be decent or are we stuck with shitty refreshes until AMD intel gets their shit together?

>>232917
Try reading the previous threads, nigger.

>>233324
>Does anyone here think the 5X Nividia gen will be decent or are we stuck with shitty refreshes until AMD intel gets their shit together?
It's hard to say. AMD gave up on this gen which gave NVIDIA complete grasp over the GPU market, and I wouldn't be surprised if they will give up on the next gen as well. NVIDIA's competition is close to non-existent now, so they can make and release another batch of overpriced GPUs and get away it just fine.

>>232726
>Any recommended brands for watercooling? 
If you're not doing a custom job, just don't. Get yourself a good quality air cooler. Better performance, cheaper, and quieter in the sound:performance ratio.

A custom built h20 setup can be superior if you know what you're doing, but does expose your PC to a liquid hazard. AIO coolers are just a stupid meme that cant out perform a good air cooler. The only edge AIO has is they sometimes look nicer if you really care how cool your cooler looks. and they can potentially take up less space if you have a weird shaped case that accomodates a massive AIO cooler but gives very little room on top of the CPU.

>>233324
>>233336
I dont see things improving until they decide to abandon AI generated fake frames completely.

>>233324
With RDNA4 looking the way it is, it won't, not the higher end stuff at-least.
AMD is going back to lower tier monolithic after the clusterfuck that was MCM on RDNA3, rumors indicate 200-250mm² die size with N4 something process, meaning at the very best it's a 8700XT that sorta maybe can strike in the 7900XT performance range for $300-450ish, anything above that and Nvidia will fucking bleed you dry.
The only hope left is RDNA5  launching much earlier than it was supposed to or AMD going with a big monolithic design closer to the 400mm² range which could beat a 7900XTX with a bit of luck (still not great but that does mean people do get a potential chance of 80 class GPUs going under $1k), but probably back to 256bit bus so no 24GB card.

>>232336
How's the Tempest GP27Q?
For a 1440p IPS mini led panel the price seems ok.

>>233336
I'm confused how the GPU market is even still alive, considering there are basically no good games being made anymore. Is it all crypto?

>>233407
KTC is the OEM behind Cooler Master's and their own mini LED monitors. I have no idea how KTC manages to do this at such competitive prices, and if there's a catch, but I can at the very least vouch for the H27T22 that I bought half a year ago which has been performing flawlessly for me so far. In my country the GP27Q costs $250 more than the M27T20, so I definitely wouldn't go for the CM one, even if the KTC has the slower VA mini LED panel.
Make sure to do your homework and check well done reviews of these monitors before buying one. I can recommend this guy's videos:
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>>232909
Thank you for the clarification.
>>233408
>I'm confused how the GPU market is even still alive, considering there are basically no good games being made anymore.
Normalfags are just simply that dumb, anon. Many of them are slowly but surely realizing how bad things actually are, but the vast majority of them are still diehard consumers that won't ever stop before it's too late.
>Is it all crypto?
More like all AI at this point.

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>>233408
>considering there are basically no good games being made
That hasn't stopped not so good games from selling so much faster the industry has set records every year since the mid-'90s

>>233412
KTC's website says they only ship to the US though, but thanks anyway anon, I'll keep and eye out if they sell any in my area.

Are Ryzen CPUs a meme at this point?
I'm seeing a lot of posts about stuttering and memory issues on top of the long training time and bios problems.

>>233415
>KTC's website says they only ship to the US though
Check for resellers. I bought one here in Poland just fine.
>Are Ryzen CPUs a meme at this point?
>I'm seeing a lot of posts about stuttering and memory issues on top of the long training time and bios problems.
I'm running a 5600X coming from a i3 6100 and while I had some strange issues with it at first, they ended up completely resolving themselves in a month or so. Doing usual PC tasks and vidya have never felt smoother.

>>233416
>magically fixes itself
See the problem is that usually never happens to me. Also I'm using linux
Been thinking of waiting for when the 7800x3d or later gen stops shitting itself

>>233413
>overbotched 2 in top 5
lmao

How are Fantech keyboards in terms of build quality?
The shop near me only stocks those and a logitech KB.
I'm looking at the atom model with blue switches for about 40usd

>>233435
It's pretty easy to get a ton of "Unit sales" when your game costs a whopping zero dollars. It's more like they couldn't even outperform the top 3 despite literally giving their garbage away for free.

>>233416
>>233412

>>233407 here,

For KTC I couldn't find any resellers but I noticed the H27T22 isn't a mini led panel.
I did find some alternatives like LG 27GR75Q-B available for around 250 USD, and the LG 27GR83Q for 500USD, but no miniled and at 240hz instead.
Do you have any experience with Minileds? is the HDR contrast actually worth the price differences?

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>>233517
>they couldn't even outperform the top 3
True, though the top ranked earners are no less dumb.

>>233588
>starfield number 3
fucking how

>>233588
Eh, except for Starfield it's about what I expected.

>>233517
>>233588
Oh, and remember the original question was "what are the sheeple buying new GPUs using them to play?".

>>233589
Judging by the discrepancy between its position on the two rankings, DLC whales I guess. LOL @ Cities: Skylines creeping into the top 10 with exactly that.

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>>233589
What do you mean "fucking how" you retard? It's a triple gay game with a triple gay price tag made by a huge company with a large marketing campaign. Of course it's going to generate revenue, no matter how lazy it is. The real question is how did BG3, a game 5 years in EA, sell that much and how much did it sell.
>>233593
This chart measures how much money people paid for these games. The previous one was how many units did they sell during the year. There are games in that chart that are priced at $20, and others at $80 DLC aside. Of course there's going to be some discrepancy between both charts.

>>233588
>EA SPORTS FC
WHO is buying the exact same fucking sports game every single fucking year and why?

>>233603
You have no idea how popular niggerball is anon.
You have to live Europe to understand just how fucking bad this shit is, it's bigger than a religion nowadays.

>>233604
>niggerball
Remember when Argentina won the World Cup final against the Fr*nch and their pet monkeys with a team that was majority white?

>>229113 (OP) 
>Second pic
Is that Acid's PC?

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How do you apply heatsinks to memories on a graphics card?

>>233750
I guess if you apply them on with a 4 ram slot system that might work? I just can't see how you'll move heat without a fan on those pointed at the ram.

>>233614
No because it isn't stained with nigger semen.

>>233551
Anyone?
Or are monitors a meme in general and I should just dive into VR?

>>233614
>>233803
I just wish that revolting cuck and the obese,retarded kike would die already.
Talk about a waste of oxygen.

>>234032
MiniLED is a jewish trick. The advertised contrast comes at the cost of heinous bloom. My work laptop has one and I turned it off because it looks like shit for productivity and games. If youre a richfag get OLED. If youre broke, strobed TN or whatever CRT the retro trannies haven't snatched up already.

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>>233551
>>234032
>Do you have any experience with Minileds?
Sorry, for the late response. No, I don't.
>is the HDR contrast actually worth the price differences?
Only if you play a lot of retro games through RetroArch with the most realistic CRT shaders (4K is a requirement for those) and modern games like Doom Eternal (the only game that I know of that utilizes HDR well) or if you just simply liked to watch a few movies from time to time.
Keep in mind of what >>234036 said. Some people despise the blooming that low amount of local dimming zones produce. The second video of the two that I've linked in 233412 explain the drawbacks of having a miniLED display really well.
>Or are monitors a meme in general
Pretty much. If you don't do any productive tasks on your monitor, then buy an OLED display. If you do, then get a normal LCD panel with a really good strobing mode that won't make the image unusably dark while it's turned on (unfortunately, most of these monitors are very expensive and have 1080p displays). You could also get a relatively decent consumer CRT monitor from someone, but to use one you need larges amounts of empty desk space along with either a used pre-Pascal or pre-Polaris GPU or a good DP to VGA adapter (the much cheaper option). It's possible to reach resolutions surpassing even 1920x1440 with quite a few of them.
>and I should just dive into VR?
You want to dive into an even bigger meme?

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>>234036
>MiniLED is a jewish trick
>My work laptop has one
Work laptops almost always have shit displays. It's not a fair judge of mini-LED backlighting as a whole.
>strobed TN
>not the zillions of fast IPS panels with contrast on par with a cheap TN and better viewing angles
And just like that your opinion is invalid.

>>234036
What's wrong with IPS?
>>234067
>>234079
How do you judge a good strobed IPS panel?

Thanks for the replies guys

>>234067
>ur moms asshole POV.png

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>>234080
https://rtings.com/ is the only site I've found which tests monitors with any kind of rigor. They take lots of high-res photos so you can get an idea of backlight bleed, bleed uniformity etc. for yourself. Just remember any IPS panel is going to have "low native contrast" as a con because it's not OLED or VA. Also diminishing returns kick in very quickly past 120FPS so don't think you need a super high refresh rate display. Overall motion blur and input lag is more important.

>>234079
It's not a business laptop. It's marketed to gamercattle. Everywhere I see retards praising the shitty local dimming I had to turn off because they've never seen an OLED or CRT.
>wow it's got DARKEST GORILLA NIGGER blacks
>nevermind the 2cm wide halo around the mouse cursor
I stand corrected on the state of IPS after looking into it. I haven't considered an LCD monitor in years and that was the state when I last bought one.

>>233413
>normalfags keep paying
>companies start firing their devs
>record profits for shit games
Normalfags deserve that and more.

>>234080
>How do you judge a good strobed IPS panel?
You judge by how much motion blur it removes and how little image overshoot it leaves, as well as by it's maximum brightness when it's being strobed.

>>234036
>>234067
>>234085
Sorry, this still doesn't make sense. How could FALD with more & smaller zones ("mini LED") be bloomier than FALD with less & bigger zones? I can see a legitimate complaint against FALD in general, insofar as without it (or with it disabled on a monitor that has it) brightness I guess technically "more uniform" because your entire screen glows, but not against "mini LED" FALD specifically.

>>234082
>don't think you need a super high refresh rate
>Overall motion blur and input lag is more important
Higher refresh cuts latency & decreases the amount of strobing you need to prevent motion blur tho. IMHO that's really the only reason to bother with high FPS on LCD, since even the "fastest" TN panels have GtG too slow to avoid ghosting at 60FPS, let alone hundreds.

>>234095
>Sorry, this still doesn't make sense. How could FALD with more & smaller zones ("mini LED") be bloomier than FALD with less & bigger zones? I can see a legitimate complaint against FALD in general, insofar as without it (or with it disabled on a monitor that has it) brightness I guess technically "more uniform" because your entire screen glows, but not against "mini LED" FALD specifically.
Exactly my complaint is with local dimming in general. The "small" dimming zones are still about 1" diameter on a 16" screen so there's significant bloom with any local dimming. Treat it all as one zone and it looks nicer and more uniform than traditional backlights but you lose out on the HDR contrast ratings that they advertise to zoomer normalfags who have never seen an emmissive display technology other than maybe shitty ntsc tvs when they were kids.

>>234097
Sure, but for a lot of gaming, TV, or photos, it's still a major improvement until OLED falls to... Oh, I dunno, less than the price of an entire midrange PC?

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>>234082
Damn anon, nice find, looks like something that should be in the OP.
>>234087
Thats why I mostly play autistic indie porn games anon.
>>234090
>>234095
Wait so higher fps needs less strobing? And this leads to better HDR?
>>234098
The problem with oled is its basically like a super car with an expiry date.
Doesnt even run at supercare specs, just looks prettier.

>>234098
It's a sidegrade at best. The bloom sucks it's optimized exclusively for jewish HDR ratings not actual use.

>>234133
Yes, remember the purpose of flicker such as strobing/BFI is to decrease the FPS needed for "persistence of vision" to trick your eyes/brain into seeing image sequences (at a given perceptual brightness and FoV) as motion, so contrariwise a higher FPS means the "flicker fusion threshold" can be raised, and less flicker is needed, until the ever distant future of ~1kHz content/displays which would fully eliminate the need for flicker. Since less and shorter flicker means less actual brightness during frame illumination is needed to maintain perceived brightness, that also means better HDR.
>OLED
Deeply ironic that the major selling point for OLED from the start, back in the '90s when it was called LEP, wasn't performance but price, as it can be manufactured with inkjets on scuzzy plastic or paper substrate, instead of the fussy cleanroom vapor deposition glass substrate process other flat panel technologies need. To this day, inkjet OLEDs have failed to enter mass market production, and OLED factories share the same process as LCD.

>>234158
yesterday PC kept going off just from me slamming the desk (case is ontop of the desk)
wanted to plug out the pwr pins just under the pwr button (lian li o11 air mini) but it doesnt come off
then the case kept turning on by itself but no gpu output, stayed like that until it just came back to normal & no longer going off by slamming the desk (will try after posting this)

also this logitech prodigy 213 keeps going off on me recently, dunno if its a USB power problem or the keyboard's fault

>>234483
didnt mean to quote

i bought a 250 dollar "ergonomic chair" from ikea. Its supposed to be super good. Yet its less comfortable than my 10 dollar chair that i bought from facebook marketplace several years ago. My 10 dollar chair the screws have flown out because im fat and the chair is old and its basically almost broken. Yet its 50x more comfortable than this ikea piece of shit.

>>234836
ikea garbage is never worth any money besides their desks you can adjust

>>234836
Ergonomic chairs aren't really supposed to be comfortable, they're supposed to be ergonomic. Ironically everyone I know that uses ergonomic things tend to get pains everywhere, I always thought it was a meme. Don't know why you wouldn't just get a Marcus for like 100 bucks and just abuse it for decade or so.

>>234844
I got the Markus.

>>234840
>their desks you can adjust
Which ones anon?

>>234846
>ancient chair suddenly marketed as ergonomic
>price more than doubled
Top lel you got scammed. It's no armchair but It is a good chair.

>>234847
Lagkapten / Olov
any table with Olov legs you can adjust and it's better than any budget option you can get
I would buy one again but there's no ikea in my state so I had to spend 150$ on a electric standing desk

>>234850
I always get scammed

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Pink thermal conductive grease with strawberry scent
https://archive.is/yA8Bl
>This thermal conductive grease, following the "Apple Edition," is classified as a "torque type," engineered for gradual thermal transitions. It features a distinctive pale pink color, consistent with its strawberry theme. The production process, which involves ultrasonic vibration and fluid dynamics, yields exceptionally fine thermally conductive particles.
>The grease has an initial thermal conductivity of 12.8W/m·K, which remains efficient at 8.8W/m·K after five years, indicating sustained heat transfer performance. Composed of aluminum oxide and zinc oxide, with added carbon and natural fragrances, the Extreme 4G Strawberry grease (Model number: CWTP-EG4GST) is designed for durability, with a thermal resistance range from -50 to 220℃. It has a net weight of 4g and is recommended for use up to four years, offering a reliable solution in the thermal management sector.
>Scheduled for release on February 9, 2024, the product is priced at approximately $7.38 USD (980 yen with tax included).

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>>234836
>i bought a 250 dollar "ergonomic chair" from ikea. Its supposed to be super good. Yet its less comfortable than my 10 dollar chair
Next time, go to staples and sit on the chairs so you can find a comfy one.

>>235103
>hyper sonic polish compound
>polish compound
no anon wtf

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>>235112
What? You don't want your girl to smell of strawberry?

I FUCKING LOVE THE PINK SAUCE

>>235122
Anon why are you stuffing abrasives in her

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>>235137
is this image bait?

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>>231724
Okay, I've been using the Roccat Burst Pro for about a month and a half now and I think I can confidently give a good summary of its quirks and qualities. Most of the comparisons will be drawn against the Glorious Model O/Model D since it's what I have used for a while, and I know that Glorious makes good mice despite being responsible for the honeycomb hole cancer that defines every lightweight mouse made in the last three years.

>Cable and Feet
The cable isn't as flexible as the cloth cables you'd find on a Glorious mouse but it's light enough you won't notice it when you move the mouse around. It doesn't pull the mouse away from me or interfere with my aim, which is good enough.
The feet initially had some vertical "scratchiness" but that has worn off and now the entire mouse feels consistent. I had thought the presence of something that required a certain amount of wear would mean the feet themselves would begin to wear down very quickly, but it seems the horizontal lines were only on the very surface of the plastic - not quite a sprue, but some tiny little filaments that don't separate from the mold cleanly. I believe the feet will be find in the long run.

>Buttons
I was very harsh on the feeling of M1 and M2 when I first touched the Burst Pro, but I can say now that they are not bad, merely different from the usual mouse. The post-travel distance feels longer than it actually is, and although it is definitely longer than the Model O it does not result in a feeling of squishiness or lack of precision. I think this is due to the mouse buttons being narrow, with only enough space for one finger on each. If you are like me and enjoy sometimes moving both your index and middle fingers to M1 in order to click rapidly then you will find that awkward or impossible on the Burst Pro, but this is a small issue that won't come up for most games.
Overall the M1 and M2 optical switches feel responsive and tactile, with most of the "sturdiness" that a traditional mechanical switch gives.

The scroll wheel remains as good as I described it, and the ability to click to the right remains as useless as I described it. I personally really like the high degree of force needed to make it turn by one increment, but since the absolute measurements of force are so small I struggled to quantify why. The best analogy I can make is this: the Model O feels like a racing bike with mountain bike tires, whereas the Burst Pro feels like a mountain bike with racing bike tires. The feeling of moving your fingertip around the wheel is very even, and "handling" it to move is very sturdy.
The side buttons are exquisite. They protrude from the main shell a fair amount (or at least it feels that way), have virtually no travel distance, have no creak, and have absolutely no post-travel distance. The Model O side buttons feel amateurish by comparison: too much pre- and post-travel, creaky, and too shallow against the side of the shell.

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>Shape and Shell
Very sturdy. No creaking, no bullshit wings hanging off the sides. Nothing except what is necessary. It's very, VERY comfortable for a claw grip, and the symmetrical shape makes it suited to my 1-3-1 weirdo grip. My hands are also quite large for what it's worth (about 7.5 inches from fingertip to the base of my palm) so if your hands are smaller then you may find the mouse to be usable with a palm grip. I think this is pretty unlikely, though - it seems like it's meant to be manipulated with the fingertips and wrist rather than dragged around with the arm and palm.

The shell has practically no coating on the plastic, meaning no matte finish. This does make the mouse feel "cheap" at first touch, but it also means there isn't anything to wipe off from prolonged exposure to body heat. My Model O's matte coating took perhaps two or three months to wear away and now it looks cheaper than anything because it's mismatched.
The sides of the Burst Pro have a "fishscale" texture to them, which seems to be part of the plastic mold and do not wear down. This is aesthetically pleasing but more importantly it helps give my thumb and pinky finger purchase. A small detail, but one which I would definitely feel if it weren't present.

I had heard testimony that the type of plastic used for the shell doesn't absorb/deflect body heat the same way as most mice, leading to sweat buildup on the hands, but I have not noticed this even in my tiny room with the hot air vent blasting throughout January and February.

>Roccat Swarm Software and RGB
One of the more aesthetically pleasing gamer RGB mice I've ever laid eyes on. You aren't bombaded with light from all angles, and the translucent shell atop the honeycomb pattern helps to make it look a little muted and mysterious - especially on low light settings. This is very different from the typical gamer mice which try to blind you if you make the mistake of casting eyes on them.
I should mention that M1 and M2 are an identical pair of black rectangles with some transparency that lets you see the honeycomb light coming from the mouse's center if you have the LED on high. I dimmed it so it wouldn't annoy me late at night, which means the only sources of light are the scrool wheel and the back shell. The mouse doesn't look lopsided or anything, and I imagine you could turn off the RGB entirely and still have something that looked distinctive.

As for the Roccat Swarm software, it's fine. There are stupid anti-features that actually make things worse - like achievements for the number of clicks, or loud announcer voice clips when you change DPI settings - but the important stuff like configuring those DPI settings or adjusting the RGB lighting is there and easily accessible. I found it disappointing to have only 5 DPI settings since there really isn't any physical limit and the Glorious software supports 6 or 7, but I barely ever change DPI so it doesn't affect me.

The biggest issue regarding the mouse's construction is the lack of a DPI LED, meaning there is no visual indication of what DPI setting you are actually on. You must simply know which one you are one, or be able to recognize the difference when you roll around from the highest setting to the lowest. Again, this doesn't affect me since I can obviously tell when the lowest DPI setting comes around and I know I am on the middle slot by default, but if you wanted to adjust between very precise DPI amounts frequently then that would be a pain.

>Summary
I wanted to despise this mouse when I first touched it, but after the initial period of getting used to it I can safely say it is a good mouse. It may not be the ideal gamer mouse you dreamed of, but this is what peak performance looks like it's definitely worth the price (I got mine for around 40-50 USD if memory serves), though I would be hesitant to pay higher retail prices.

The experience of using this mouse has reminded me that trusting your gut can help you a lot, but there are times when a sober second look is required; nothing beats seeing for yourself if a product is all it's cracked up to be, and there is no substitute for personal experience.

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>>235177
>>235178
>pics
>THIS IS MY CAVE IT WAS MADE FOR ME
>gets stuck and dies after months of agony

Tell me why I shouldn't but another 8tb hdd.

>>235182
Not a bad deal, TBH. Though the price/TB for larger drives is the same or a smidge less, so if you can afford it there's no reason not to get drives as big as 20TB.

>>235187
>incorrect captcha
>only when reporting this shit.
now I know where seagull stands

>>235182
You'll be paying more for less.

>>235185
I've found the best deals currently are 8-12TB.
Not to mention other consideration like helium filled disks / wanting to avoid SMR / high platter counts

>>235194
Really? Sweet spot was pretty firmly stuck at 3-4TB for the better part of a decade, but IMHO that finally seems to have let up a year or so ago and pretty much anything above a few TB is pretty close in price, looking at both PCPP & eBay.

I need help finding a chair to buy. All the padding off my chair has gone flat and i bought a ikea markus which isnt comfortable at all. All i want is something comfy

>>235195
> Sweet spot was pretty firmly stuck at 3-4TB for the better part of a decade
Well I'm in yurop so prices get worse but for example the best new 4TB i could find was 105, the best new 12TB I could find was 185 and the best non Seagate non enterprise one was 265 which is still a better deal.

>>235178
>>235179
Isn't that the Killer Rabbit cave from Monty Pythons' movie?

>>235182
You shouldn't buy another 8TB HDD, you should buy multiple 8TB HDDs and add them to your ZFS pool.

>>229139
I bought the iPhone 12 Pro, but iOS doesn’t allow emulation. Get android instead, I made a mistake.

>>235202
But only if you have at least 100GB RAM, otherwise ZFS will consume all your RAM.

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>>235196
made the markus alot better by removing the lumbar support. Still a bit uncomfortable

>>235209
That's just another level of https://www.linuxatemyram.com/ and the 1GB/TB rule you used to see in FreeNAS manuals only applies if you have block deduplication enabled. 16GB is plenty for any pool you would want to run from home, or even 8GB if you're not planning to run recent games on the same machine.

>>235209
It doesn't need that much and actually you really don't want totally unused RAM anyway, the kernel will use it as a page cache anyway and will give it back once something actually needs it.

>>235219
>16GB is plenty for any pool you would want to run from home
Maybe if you don't run anything besides ZFS on that machine. 16GB is barely enough to open a few chromium tabs with some normal fs like ext4 and a minimalistic DE.
And besides, if you don't need online deduplication, why bother with ZFS at all? btrfs can do it all.

>>235223
>why bother with ZFS at all? btrfs can do it all.
I don't trust btrfs at all since it had multiple write holes in its past and from one install I did on it, the utilities were horrible. Meanwhile ZFS is well documented and I never really had issues with it.
I don't even know if btrfs actually has ARC and L2ARC

>>235223
>16GB is barely enough to open a few chromium tabs with some normal fs like ext4 and a minimalistic DE.
try using websites other than discord and pornhub lmoa
>>235228
I use btrfs for my root partition and snapshots have saved my ass a few times but I wouldn't use a multi-device filesystem for anything I couldn't replace with a couple hours of work.

>>235223
>16GB is barely enough to open a few chromium tabs
What kind of fucking websites are you going on

>>235223
>16GB is barely enough to open a few chromium tabs
I have 8 GB of RAM and setting up the memory saving feature in Brave to make it freeze every single tab after 5 minutes of inactivity lets me open tens of them. However, I'm not entirely sure whether vanilla Chromium also has this feature or not. Try searching for flags related to it in chrome://flags.

>>235232
I find that for some reason disabling the stupid rainbow gifs on this site lowers the memory around triplefold

>>235229
>other than discord and pornhub lmoa
I don't use them. Only been a few times to the latter, and left in about 5 seconds each time. How can people look at, yet alone fap to those landwhales is beyond me.
>>235230
Mostly whatever doesn't load in pale moon.
>>235235
It doesn't do that for me, but it sure makes one cpu core spinning at 100% in chrome based browsers. Remove it from inspector, and cpu usage drops to a few percent.

>>235219
Yeah, I was under the impression ZFS likes moar memery, but that barring extremely low-end configs (e.g.: RPi w/ 2GB RAM and 4 tiny cores) it shouldn't perform significantly worse than a conventional FS when RAM pressure is high in contention with actual apps.

>>235243
I mean it does always appreaciate more RAM but the ARC, which is actually what the in-memory system is, has a percentage wise high water mark it will try to keep and which you can actually regulate if you want to run setups with less RAM.

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Gigabyte updates PCB design for the RTX 4080/4090 Gaming GPUs
https://archive.ph/IiHmq
>The 1.1 revision for RTX 4080/4090 PCBs and new RTX 40 SUPER cards has stronger PCB.
>As mentioned before, some Gigabyte GeForce RTX 30 and 40 graphics card PCBs are susceptible to cracking. This could damage the signal paths and make the GPU unusable. While the problem is not beyond repair, addressing it requires the expertise of professional repair centers, particularly those who brought attention to this issue last year. In other words, such repairs are not cheap.
>The PCB of some RTX 40 cards is susceptible to small cracks, often developing near the PCIe connector when users remove the card from the system or over time in GPUs lacking weight support. Users, whose cards are known for cracking, need to be careful and pay closer attention to prevent this issue.
>It is important to note that this issue was not limited to Gigabyte, as other vendors also faced similar issues. But because of a design choice, Gigabyte cards were among the first to be found to have cracking issues. Moreover, the pictures above are from post-RMA returns where companies have refused to fix the cards, citing user error.
>As per the information provided by a Redditor, the latest revision 1.1 of the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 Gaming series features a different PCB design around the connector. In contrast to an empty space, Gigabyte has opted to add more substrate in this area, aiming to reduce the likelihood of cracking.

RX6600s have raised in price by $50 in less than 6 months.
RX6700s (non-XT) are rare on the secondary market.

What the hell is going on with the AMD gpu market?

>>235292
graphics card market in general is fucked
I just keep waiting for things to cool down and prices barely change it was nowhere near as bad it was a couple of years ago but they are still way too expensive for what they are

>>235308
>graphics card market in general is fucked
It doesn't make any sort of sense.
For decades the pattern was:
>New series card is released
>Old cards were dumped
And this is AMD, so the ML bullshit doesn't even really matter.

>>235243
>it shouldn't perform significantly worse than a conventional FS when RAM pressure is high in contention with actual apps.
It can cause a system lockup if you spawn a bunch of high memory processes faster than the ARC can be cleared out.
16GB of RAM is more than enough for a 64TB pool unless there's TB of random access.

>>235223
>Maybe if you don't run anything besides ZFS
Just lock your ARC to 1-2GB max.

>>235292
Christmas sales were used to clear out stock of last gen. The good 6700 XTs are totally gone and 7600 XT wasn't what the GPU market needed. What makes it look awful is the (natural and fair) comparison to the 6700 XT where the launch drivers and launch price have to compete with mature drivers and sale prices of the older card.

>>235313
>And this is AMD, so the ML bullshit doesn't even really matter.
If all nvidia shit is hoovered up for government and corporate users then everyone else is left fighting over amds which will cause a shortage there too.

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https://nitter.moomoo.me/iequalshane/status/1755800994942783683
https://github.com/psakhis/Groovy_MiSTer
Streaming pixels to a $400 FPGA over Ethernet to play PC games with worst-case one frame of display lag. What a time to be alive.

>>235331
>government and corporate users
Those aren't the same SKUs as gaymurshit, plus for at least the last couple gens I'm pretty sure they use different dice from different fabs.

>>235356
Nope, everything's run in TSMC's newest node, unless it's a rebrand of a previous gen or Apple bought all the wafer supply for the newest node again. 90% of the generational uplift of new models comes from newer or more mature process nodes so enterprise will always end up competing with consumer/gamer cards for fab space.

>>235343
I think its your laptop screen that's lagging.
>>235223
>>235228
Fuck btrfs. file recovery is impossible.
I'm going back to ext next build

>>235362
Not my video. That's the dev running his screengrab code on the laptop, which is hooked up to a MiSTer running GroovyMiSTer, which pushes composite A/V to the CRT through a DAC board.
>file recovery is impossible
Maybe don't use raid5 next time.

>>235343
>running his screengrab code on the laptop, which is hooked up to a MiSTer running GroovyMiSTer, which pushes composite A/V to the CRT through a DAC board
That's the most retarded thing I have ever heard.

>>235364
>Maybe don't use raid5 next time.
no need when btrfs is a enough of a hot mess

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>>235366
If it's stupid and it works, it isn't stupid. This is probably one of the better ways to get pixels from a current year computer onto a CRT, the problem of course being you need a $400 devboard that can play games by itself in order to do it.

>>235343
I've been aware of HDMI-over-twisted-pair boxes since forever, and so far as I'm aware they aren't laggy.

>>235359
Sure, they're competing for fab space, but they aren't directly competing with us for finished boards or chips. Unless they're chinks/ruskies trying to evade sanctions I guess. Unless there are a TON of normalfags ravenously buying them, or rumors of GPU ponzicoin's death are exaggerated, it's just naked pricegouging.

>>235388
nvidia side it's pretty clear it's just pricegoughing
they're charging mid range prices for low end cards honestly if it wasn't for the fact that my card is old as shit I would just not buy one at all
I'm left with no option but to find the least shit but decently priced card  by next year

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>>235390
Related question: Regarding AI, has the software stabilized enough where FPGA softcores/real ASICs are already taking over for institutional markets, or is the greater flexibility of GPGPU still vital in the foreseeable future?

>>235396
No idea but nvidia would charge the same price regardless until their income actually drops
it makes no real logical sense to buy nvidia if you have a budget now because all their meme features are exclusively for high end cards

>>235396
Nobody is saying exactly what FAGMAN is doing behind the scenes so GPGPU is going to be the norm for a while.

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Are you ready for the next level, anons? Couldn't find those fucking videos for some strange reason.

>>235668
i hate "Gamer" hardware so fucking much, i hate tempered glass cases, I hate LEDs, I want out.

Im suffering badly in my ikea markus even though i modified it and removed the lumbar support. Its such a shitty and uncomy chair.