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Think for yourself. Do not trust advice given here. Do your own research using the information in the stickies.

>A /pcbg/ for every use case and budget!

>News & Rumors
Just read TomsHardware -- industry is screwed until RAM/SSD/HDD catches up ;_;

>Price tracking
RAM: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/ram-price-index-2026-lowest-price-on-ddr5-and-ddr4-memory-of-all-capacities
SSD: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/ssd-price-tracking-2026-lowest-price-on-every-m-2-ssd
GPU: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/lowest-gpu-prices-tracking

>GPU hierarchy 2026
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html

>PSU Reviews
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/power-supplies
https://www.lttlabs.com/
https://www.kitguru.net/reviews/?category_name=power-supplies

For tier-list enjoyers:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1akCHL7Vhzk_EhrpIGkz8zTEvYfLDcaSpZRB6Xt6JWkc/

>Storage Reviews
https://www.tweaktown.com/cat/storage/index.html
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/?category=SSD
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/ssds/reviews

>Monitor Hunter
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1illeNLsUfZ4KuJ9cIWKwTDUEXUVpplhUYHAiom-FaDo/

>Other helpful Links
Mobomaps, only lists a few AM5 boards but actively updated: https://mobomaps.com/
A PC build guide: https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Build_a_PC
German autism: https://www.igorslab.de/en/
Monitor reviews: https://www.rtings.com/
Alternate to pcpartpicker: https://pangoly.com/en/pc-builder

>>108285894
prices will unfuck themselves in 2-3 years

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Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT Nitro+
&
PowerColor Radeon RX 9070 XT Red Devil

>>108285904
im no longer 25 year old. I cant wait any longer. especially not 2-3 years to buy a fucking computer.

I will wait another 3-4 months and then I will pull the trigger.

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>>108285983
What if the price gets worse? You never know!

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>>108286002
cant get much worse than this.
my current memory needs are almost 1k
I will need atleast 2-4tb fast ssd. thats another 1k.
only one card card above 16gb and that is the 5090 for around 4k because the nvidia jews kept lying about the super release.

Im not gonna drop 6k on a new pc. I will sooner vote for the austrian painter 2.0 and ride the ww3 wave. (from home because only zoomers will be drafted lmao)

Do you count peripherals costs as part of your "PC build cost"?

>>108286047
prices can definitely get worse. people dont remember the psu price hike during crypto or mobos being perma out of stock except for the most basement tier shit.

>>108286050
If you need new a monitor, kb/m, audio setup. They're all expenditures.

>>108286050
just the computer itself because its already assumed you have a kb+m+display. prebuilts at least give you a kb+m for free and everyone has a hdmi capable tv.

>>108286055
you dont understand. pc parts are necessary. the whole world runs on computers and a single jew fucking every sinlge person over will have its consequences.

datacenter raids and assasinations of high profile niggers will start to pop off if the rich pedo cannibal jews keep boiling the frog.

the crypto boom price hike wasnt that bad. early 2018 I found my 1600w platinum rated psu for 200 and msrp 1080ti without issues. retards panic bought the first search results but if you actually spent some time looking around there were always some discounts and good deals around. its was only mildly inconvenient for like 6 months.

now its impossible to not get jewed

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>>108286050
when I fill out my tax returns I even count my new undies as part of my pc build costs aka business expenses.

>>108286112
Kids are hooked to their mobile devices.
Most people don't need high specs or even moderately specc'd laptops.
Students who need beefy laptops will get some educational discounts, the ones who matter will receive tech grants.
Desktop PC market was shrinking to begin with, this isn't a high priority segment for PC manufacturers.

>>108286162
does seem quaint fitting out some 'beast rig' with... 128gb ram? like thats not even really that much anymore, certainly not enough for any of the really 'serious' LLMs (let alone the trash bandwidth)

another case of either go big or go small. middle is useless (the exact spot desktops occupy)

Bros it took me a month but I just bought my new computer thanks to you. Thank you

>>108285664
>That's a lot of work for silliness. Do you live in a broom closet? I never understood people and wanting a small ass PC.
I set my PC to the left and keep it on the desk. Every PC case is built to be set to the right and many of them seem like they're designed to have their own pedestal.

>>108286241
I remember when inverted ATX cases were a thing. Can't remember what it was called.

I quit gaming before because my PC got so old nothing new could be ran plus losing interest
Shit I couldn't even run modern apps

Maybe freedom is not caring, run a igpu and escape the matrix

No distractions, no copes

>>108286183
Now post specs for everyone to argue over and say you bought the wrong parts. It's the best part of the build.

>>108285983
Why wait? Things may get worse and even if it doesn't, I doubt prices will go down any time soon.

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>>108285851
>That Mac Pro

"Look how they massacred my boy..."

>>108286248
>my PC got so old nothing new could be ran plus losing interest
You just got old unc-anon.

>>108286248
>escape the matrix
Anyone who says this shit these days is a normalfag. I'm not sure why you are here. Go back outside and go to Starbucks or some shit.

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WHY NOW?

Any time would be fine but why did it had to happen now. Fuck me.

>>108286400
Default or XMP?

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>>108286400
Imagine getting a PassMark MemTest error.
Unfuck your motherboard settings, you might have to memtest one stick at a time to confirm you have a DUD MEMORY STICK IN THIS MARKET

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>>108286288
>I doubt prices will go down any time soon.
your first rodeo? jews and greedy billionare cannibals not gonna turbo scam me.
if prices dont get better then satan won and the world is ruled by chaos, therefore no rules apply and you are free to apply violence and practice public unrest

>Why wait? Things may get worse
this is the time when it got worse. memory and ssd went on a 500% bs run. these scammers trying real hard to do the same with mobos and cpus. Im not gonna jump on fomo, like all the weak willed cuck IT nerds do right now. only losers, children and IT cucks are getting ripped off by greedy retail.
short term it might get worse but there is no reason to not wait atleast 3-4 months.

If prices continue to spiral out of control then there going to be no reason to not form scavenger hunt parties on discord and just raid computer parts stores/IT offices/loot IT nerds. The boomer nigger financial class already decided your lives worth nothing and you will own nothing.

>>108286400
>tfw also have a 5900x
Uh oh...
Also I assume this is 2 sticks? Time to test each individually and hope at least one of them is fine. 16gb is better than nothing right now..

>>108286406
What does that mean?

>>108286437
>Unfuck your motherboard settings
I'm pretty sure it's all defaults except for boot order. Anything I should look out for?

>you might have to memtest one stick at a time to confirm you have a DUD MEMORY STICK IN THIS MARKET
I will do so. Keep in mind this PC served me well for 6 years. It's just that last days I started getting more and more random core dumps. I assumed it's Nvidia drivers again but ran memtest just to be safe and this is what I got.
The same ram I bought 6 years ago now is exactly twice as expensive. And my laptop is in repair as well. What will I even do with my time now.

>>108286400
dont panic. undervolt if you must.

memory speed is the biggest meme anyway.

>>108286478
Reseat the memory sticks (firmly), they need to be in A2 and B2 slots.
When you test single sticks, it needs to be in the A2 slot.
It could be due to a degrading CPU, a regular visitor used to say the some Zen 3 CPUs can have these issues.
He isn’t a rage baiter or a brand warrior. He owned a 5800X and is a competent memory overclocker.

>>108286467
Will do so. Also can I tell which memory stick it is based on memory address? Is memory spanned or stripped anyway?

>>108286478
>>108286400
take out the memory sticks. blow air on them then lick the connective pins, then blow air into the ram slots, then put them back.

thank me later.

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*sniff*
this panel smells good now

On Facebook marketplace someone in my area is selling a brand new LG 32GX870A-B
Thats a 31.5' 4k oled with 240hz
For $600

Does anyone have any experience with this model or reasons to avoid it?

>get new hardware in
>Woot dumps hardware that makes what I just bought look like shit while I'm cleaning up prepping for the build
I want to return everything I bought and bomb every AI datacenter on Earth.

>>108286504
>Also can I tell which memory stick it is based on memory address?
My limited comp sci knowledge says no, but I may be wrong. You'll just have to test them one by one. Given how long the test in your pic was running, 10 minutes if I'm reading right, it shouldn't take long to find out which is the bad one. Plan to run one stick overnight. Check back within 10 or so minutes. If it's fine, just let it run to make sure. Afterwards, end it. Check the other and repeat. If the first or second suddenly show errors, you can end it immediately. Check on both at least twice just to be sure. Sometimes these memtests can be tricky.

>>108286546
WOLED gray banding, get a laptop and meet up where you can test the monitor.
You will not get the manufacturer warranty service

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>>108286550
I just bought a 9060 XT and I was feeling happy, and then this.

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>>108286546
I slurped some pixels bro. I burnt in some goon porn vids. You are free to buy my discount roastie oled display. (dont look at it under UV light)

>>108286596
The power connector was going to melt in your system.
That’s how you cope.

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>go into december with the intent of buying the highest VRAM GPU possible as long as it is NVIDIA for the least amount to upgrade my 96GB 38TB workstation for the memory shortage
>about to buy refurbished 3090 that looked gud in testing
>get cold feet last second
>think i could get a 5070 ti for a similar price
>lolno retard
>here's a cracked pcb fix 3090 left for 59 more
>hmm idk might be risky
>price go up next day
>kys
>go choose between 5070 or 5060 Ti retail
>buy msrp 5070 from amerika
>gets stuck in shipping for weeks
>oh yeah didnt buy the ssd for 250 when it was still that much for 4tb in ureop
>one of my HDDs goes yellow afterwards
>price go up
>pikachu surprised face
how do I cure myself from chronic waitfaggotry and cheapfaggotry since 2017-2024 when I literally had the money

>>108286536
The power of baking soda. Works wonders.
Remember if that doesn't work, try the isopropyl and 420cleaner mix with a brush since I know it works on my resin.

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I hope this becomes standard.

>>108286596
how in the actual fuck will anyone on planet earth snipe this
>>108286633
no it won't. 9070 XT won't draw more than 600W even on spikes. use the cable that comes with your PSU.

>>108286596
that discount was probably a typo by an underpaid intern and that item was never sold for 499.

desu you should have bought a 9070xt in the first place (or a discounted non xt 9070 and update it with 9070xt bios)

>>108286646
You guys are either lazy or arrogant.
I was posting good DDR5 memory kit deals between 2023-‘25.
Some retard said they weren’t good deals because the prices are costlier than DDR4 kits.
I got no sympathy for people who refused to upgrade parts or build new PCs between 2023-‘25

>>108286536
Are you still trying to get rid of that cigarette and sex smell? Should have just thrown it in a room with an ozone generator.

>>108286608
Its brand new in the box. Did you do it in the factory?

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Are these PCIe slot fan things for your GPU worth it at all?

I have a Meshify 3 already. Not sure if this would help at all.

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>>108286684
>Its brand new in the box.
ofc it is. she is a virgin! untouched by unclean eyes and content! buy it now! .... FOOL! I watched the same Demon Mika Pmv like 500 times the last month alone. I spend around 4-8hours a day gooning. The fine prints and shadows of my favourite whores are going to be burnt in to your 'new in the box' virgin display hahaha. Enjoy my sloppy seconds, cuck!

>>108286680
>I got no sympathy for people who refused to upgrade parts or build new PCs between 2023-‘25
Blackwell was looking like a skip generation, people already had 64-128GB of DDR4, why upgrade? There's always going to be something better next year has been the conventional wisdom for most people since forever. If your current system is working fine for the moment and you have other priorities in life, why waste money? Buying every discount you see whether you need it or not is mindless consumerism and wasteful spending. How could anyone have anticipated that one day out of the blue some guy most people never heard of before would create a shortage?

You're blaming people for not having a crystal ball into the future.

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>>108286675
Want to see another one?

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>>108286769
People aren't forced to buy a video card when they're upgrading or building a new PC.
DRAM and SSDs were at historical low prices between 2023 & 2024, memory chip & SSD manufacturers were saying these prices were unsustainable.

> people already had 64-128GB of DDR4, why upgrade?
Then shut the fuck up and live with the (in)decisions you made.

>>108286830
im not going to be baited into awe by these ram offers.

that shit was 50 bucks like a couple months ago. memory was worthless. the koreans are fucking over everybody.

>>108286711
these are for like crypto operations not a single gpu

>>108286886
>that shit was 50 bucks like a couple months ago
That kit was never sold at $50, that's DDR4 price levels.

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>>108286596
>>108286830
I saw both of these too, and at first it seems upsetting. If you look on the sales page the amount of them bought on both was a whole one(1). So basically they had one(1) Sapphire Nitro+ 9070xt for $500, and one(1) set of g skill ddr5 ram for $93. So it's not like they had a bunch and we all missed out. Only one lucky dog was gonna get them.

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>>108286907
anyway my neetbux are flowing again, couple months and I will save up like 1k. prices better be good by then or I will start posting mean shit about kikes and koreans.

>>108286930
That means that 100% of people who bought 1 bought 1. And if you look at the sales by state map, it would appear someone botted them based out of Louisiana.

>>108286952
Really, that map sort of doxes the people running the scalper bots.

>>108286952
>it would appear someone botted them based out of Louisiana.
fuckin hillbillies

>>108286839
>historical low prices between 2023 & 2024
Seriously? And how many people could have possible known that if one random article was the source?
>memory chip & SSD manufacturers were saying these prices were unsustainable
Again, unless you were actively following the industry or that one website odds are most people could have not known that. It's too niche.

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>>108286673
>no it won't. 9070 XT won't draw more than 600W even on spikes.
The connectors can melt on cards that draw less than 600W of power (including transients).
Sapphire is either shipping faulty power adapters and/or some end users are fucking up the power connections.

>>108286769
I feel you anon
In a perfect world you shouldn't need to he concerned with the way the wind is blowing. You should be able to just build a system when it's needed.
Unfortunately DIY PCs have moved on from being just a means to build a PC to being speculative and hype driven like fucking pokemon.
Everybody is looking for ways to squeeze consumers, you sometimes have to find the gaps in the hype and FOMO cycle just to FEEL like your not being extracted.

Shit sucks

is it okay for my 12vhpwr to be pushing against the glass slightly? it's an rtx 4070 ti super

>>108286994
as long as the pc turns on it should be fine

>>108286994
yes dude, flawless connector made by a flawless company

>>108286952
Aight, that makes a little more sense with the map now. Which also means the ram was botted out of Oklahoma of all places.

>>108286979
You didn't need to be a genius to understand these memory & storage chip manufactuerers were dealing with oversupply issues after the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions were lifted.
It was a historically high supply glut, where people were able to buy a 2TB 990 Pro for less than $100.

All you had to do was to check prices during major discount seasons like back to school summer sales & Black Friday during 2023 & 2024.
If people are not willing to take advantage of those historically low prices to upgrade their PCs, it's on them to deal with whatever happens afterward.

Not everyone has 64+ GB of system memory as you claim, people had time to buy 40~50 32GB DDR4 kits to upgrade.
All those AM4 PC owners had plenty of time to buy a 5800X3D or 5700X3D at all time low prices to completely skip DDR5 upgrade cycles.

These were predictable sales events, they weren't niche.
They were in fact so predictable, we had a few retards hoping for 2025 Black Friday DRAM & SSD discounts.

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>>108286985
I tell you niggas something: when next gen foil 6090 waifu edition gpus hit the market I will be there to buy one or two on release then I will scalp the shit out of them. Izi 1-1,5k gain.

same goes for ddr6 memory and shiiiiet.

Im gonna be like a nerdy thug pcpart dealer, riding fast cars and hot bitches and even hotter gpus fuck yeah.

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>>108286994
>is it okay for my 12vhpwr to be pushing against the glass slightly?

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>>108287002
ok thanks that's what i want to believe so i'll believe it. FUCK cable management
>>108287011
>>108287025
well if it happens i'll update everyone and we'll know for sure just how good this connector really is

>>108287037
the hulabaloo about the connector is about 600w 5090's having small safety margins
your gpu uses <300w

>>108286650
I think I'm pretty much done here, even though I depleted my small bag of E500 on these two panels smell globally seems negligible by this point but I can confirm that with spot application of Ipa/acetone.

Only questions now is whether to sand down the powder coat or prime already, and whether more crucically I can fix the bend on the mobo tray and whether I needed to remove those standoffs or not.

>>108286839
In 2023, I was on vacations around Europe not worrying about the state of the memory market which nobody was talking about.
>>108287023
>manufactuerers were dealing with oversupply issues after the COVID-19
This is the first time I am ever hearing about this.

>>108287023
NAND and RAM prices have aways fluctuated
However it's very disingenuous to say the current hikes where expected when retail RAM kits jumped 300-400%.

I would even go to say the casual builder shouldn't be expected to know the goings on if the industry.

>>108287039
Im no expert but werent the last 3 xx90 card release the exact same shit: burning cables and computers the first couple months then manufacturers catch up

This nigga really thinks everyone just stalks prices like the autist he is and expects because he knew then everyone else should have known.

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Is that average likely to be something players are running stably in real game scenarios or more of a benchmark high score thing that won't be stable in long game sessions?

Highguard didn't even last 3 GPU driver updates.

>>108287023
>like back to school summer sales & Black Friday
This exists outside of the USA, and applies to computer parts? I guess that would explain the 2025 low being September aftet the Christmas sale.

>>108287059
they had transient spikes problem where the psus couldnt cope

>>108287062
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T FUCKING DO THIS TO ME

>>108287055
If you can't be bothered to check major predictable, annually scheduled discount periods, you can't feel sorry for yourself.
You were fine with what you have, now you get to deal with it.

>>108287056
Then those people shouldn't be panic buying parts if they were content with their existing set-up going into this period.

>>108287060
Shit I was an enthusiast and nobody in circles I saw was like "YO DUDES BUY ALL UR SSD RAM AND GPUS NOW GO FAST MEN )))" at the time
Even the nerds seemed oblivious

>>108287071
Those people wouldn't be content with their setups if they knew they wouldn't be able to buy anything ever again? People usually upgrade in 5-10 year cycles.

>>108287071
Ahh yes the annual and predictable 400% RAM price increase

>>108287066
Good job nitpicking one irregular year when OpenAI decided to buy up a significant portion of the available memory capacity.

>This exists outside of the USA, and applies to computer parts?
Practically every country has their own major annually scheduled sales events.
If you live in a shithole where you can't find good PC components deals, that's your problem.

It really wasn't that hard to find good PC component deals between 2023-2025.
Even mainstream news & tech outlets have sales guides for Prime Day, Back to School & Black Friday (& whatever your shithole equivalent).

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>>108287071
DUDE I WILL KICK YOUR ASS

>>108287082
>if they knew they wouldn't be able to buy anything ever again?
Quit the dramatic bullshit, this general is still alive and people are paying the inflated prices if they absolutely want or need that new PC hardware.

>>108287086
>400% RAM price increase
It wasn't a suddent 400% spike either. People had time to buy a 32GB DDR5 kit when prices increased to $120~150.

>>108287071
This retard really thinks the problem is a part is $20 more when off sales periods and not the current ssd/ram prices

>>108287096
>Even mainstream news & tech outlets have sales guides for Prime Day, Back to School & Black Friday
Man, who follows those exactly? Most people don't watch television or reas "the news" or look at advertisements on billboards or wherever. People have learned to automatically tune out advertising in their life.

>>108287074
Even for the people that did know how low the prices were didn't think the prices were going to skyrocket within just a few months. Hell I remember last summer hearing how low prices for ddr5 RAM were. I didn't think "oh yeah they're just going to just get 1000x the price by the fall so I better buy now". I just assumed they were going to stay stable that way and I shouldn't buy what I didn't need right at the moment. But fuck me for not having a crystal ball apparently.
Right when I was thinking of getting a 4tb nvme too.

Would putting polyvinyl noise reduction strips on the inside of your PC case help with the noise profile at all, or just make it hotter inside the case?

>>108287108
>not the current ssd/ram prices
This isn't a problem if you upgraded your PC or built a new one during the historically low 2023~ mid 2025 period.
If people decided their systems were fine to pass on those deals, they get to deal with the realities of today.

>>108287115
People are free to do their own due diligence and base their purchasing decisions around that.
The world doesn't give a fuck about your PC upgrading cycles.

>>108286467
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>>108286522
>>108286561
Thanks anons. It seems only one stick is fucked. I will run the tests on the other for the night or something, but I guess I will have to love with 16GB for now.

>>108287124
a lot of the noise comes out of the fan areas where air moves most readily + the entire case vibrating from the fans

>>108287139
>The world doesn't give a fuck about your PC upgrading cycles.
The world doesn't give a fuck about your word salad esoteric nerd shit, the world isn't centered around keeping track of computer part prices and industry trends.

>>108287148
You just have to check prices for PC components that you'd like to upgrade once or twice a year.
If that's too "enthusiast" for your spoon-fed needs, you don't belong in /pcbg/ to begin with.

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>>108287107
>People had time to buy
DUDE SHUT UP!
I havent worked a day since the covid virus! Covid 19 ruined my life! Covid 19 ruined the world! Its very hard to save money while you are fighting tooth and nails to get a lil bit of welfare so you should shut your whore mouth! Its very hard out here! I only got a couple grands now! I wanna buy a shiny new PC now! You greedy cunt! Fuuuuck man. You insensitive jerks make me mad. But seriously its very hard to buy stuff when you are unemployed you should be more understanding.

>>108287159
You're the only one in the world or in the thread who thinks like this.

>>108287127
I bought in 2023 but the arrogance to assume everyone should keep a diligent eye on industry trends is something else.
It would be one thing to have a modicum of understanding that is not what everyone does but you keep digging the hole it's everyone else's fault.

He's just trying to claim izzat, ignore him.

>>108287161
Poor people like you aren't entitled to decent PC components.

>>108287164
Why are you even in /pcbg/ to begin with?
This is a place where most people come to check whether they're getting value for money for their new PC builds or upgrades.

>>108287166
>diligent eye on industry trends
If you can't be bothered to check prices for the PC components you'd like to upgrade during annually scheduled discount events, you deserve everything that happens afterward.
This isn't some esoteric shit like "muh timing the market".

>>108287172
he is a brahmin high lord with a stable ddr3 system. when an indian says prices are right then the prices are rightful and deserved. thats it good sars.

India superpoower 2026.

>Nothing is being taken out beforehand. So if you've left anything inside, then it's your own fault.

Some mouth breathing normies & niggers who stumbled upon Back to School or Black Friday 2023 & 2024 deals have better PCs going into this supply constrained market than a bunch of you "victims".
That's how low-effort it was to find affordable PC components.

>>108287184
>This isn't some esoteric shit like "muh timing the market".
So all that tall about muh 2023-2025 isn't about timing the market?

>the dalit thinks I'm not referring to him
lol
lmao even

>>108287217
Checking annually scheduled sales events during 2023-2025 isn't timing the market.
Literal normies did that and found great PC component deals.
If that's too much effort for the likes of you, you're below average.

>>108287212
There's more to the world than computers, and it's not the responsibility of normal people to be on a treadmill for them.

>>108287230
Normal people do holiday or go discount shopping in general.
Normal people who care about PC components check prices of discounted PC components during their holiday shopping
Stop making excuses.

>>108287222
>annually scheduled sales events
Who does this exactly? Most people don't even celebrate name days or birthdays anymore, let alone other holidays, why would they keep track of anything outside of Hallow's eve and Christmas or New Year? They got some hot line to inform them of flash sales?

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>>108287184
I am not poor I am financially disabled. I am rich in minutes.

I am a high caste white übermensch european superlord. I worth like a million brahmin pajeet lives and I only deserve the best.

Hear my word I will build a 5090 ai pc and my ai pc is going to make me money and my ai pc is going to milk me dry with a modern penis stimulating apparatus. Yes, I desreve and I will own a 5090 PC while I am an unemployed welfare gymnast. Deal with it.

>>108287222
The problem isn't thay something is $30 more because it isn't on sale
Why even bring up sales periods?
The whole problem is current prices and according to you absolutely everyone should have seen it coming

>tfw if the job market didn't fuck up when I graduated I would have already had a good job and would have built the pc of my dreams already and wouldn't have to worry about these prices
But alas. Life is a farce to me.

>>108287239
>Normal people do holiday or go discount shopping in general.
Normal people buy stuff only when they absolutely need to or if its convenient. Not too long ago we didn't even have gadgets like computers or smartphones. Maybe try to remember how life was under marshall law or after the war?

>>108287241
Checking good deals during sales event is one of the most normie activities in the world.
There's even Ramadan holiday sales.
https://crimtan.com/the-16-biggest-online-shopping-events-across-the-world-every-retailer-needs-to-know-about/

>>108287241
People who actually understand the concept of time and pay attention to the world around them.

>>108287263
>Normal people buy stuff only when they absolutely need to or if its convenient
So according to your little logic, these normal people today decided their current PCs are fine whatever happens in the future.
You don't have to speak up for them.

>>108287243
>Why even bring up sales periods?
It's to prove a point there were predictable events where everyone, including normies, could decide whether they should upgrade their PCs or live with what they have.
>The whole problem is current prices
Current PC components prices doesn't magically degrade people's current PC.
The PCs they've decided to keep is fine, they deal with whatever happens in the future.

>>108287266
>is one of the most normie activities in the world
Where do you live that this is the case? Maybe someone vapid with no responsibility or maturity does this. They would not survive feeding on rations, having no electronics, or surviving the winter after the Germans burn down the place you were sleeping under hay in.
>ramadan
Who cares? That's on the other side of the planet.

>>108287146
So no?

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>>108287291
There are economic figures that support my claim. You can continue to act retarded.

>>108287184
You have requirements that are too high and unrealistic, bordering on obsessive perfectionism.

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>>108287314
>'Bro! What do you mean check out some Black Friday deals!'
Lmao, no wonder you can't function in society.

Only on 4chan will you find someone acting smug about buying things at the right time by chance and try to pretend he predicted the future.

i just buy parts parts on whim most of the time. it works out some it goes bad some.

>>108287325
>predicted the future.
Yes, I can predict that Black Friday and Back to School sales will happen this year.
Dipshit.

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Past decade has been nothing but garbage someone pushes on others.
Crypto was created as a theoretical thinking exercise of what a currency could be, and people use that to speculate in a bigger loser game and to do drug transations, and in the meanwhile ruin gpu market for several years.
China creates a virus and global pandemic
Russias jewish dictator decided half a million white people have to die now by invading ukraine for no reason
Whatever israel does with its existence.
Entire internet is censored by 2 american (jewish) cc companies.
Palantir jews decide to lobby global governments to add age verification to Operating systems.
Elon musk ruins twitter and uses it to help elect Trump who decides to add tariffs for fun to make everyone poorer.
Elon musk ruins internet by founding openai with a jew in charge who decade later spam reddit with AI answers and gross imagery and also create global ram shortage.
4chan are busy blaming indians for everything wrong with their lives for some reason.

Earth could provide an abundance of good things to everyone, but people continuously choose otherwise.

>>108287335
You still going on about sales and not the 400% RAM

>>108287324
>society
Who cares about "society" who even teaches you this? Worry about yourself and whether you function for 60 years at least before you claim to know how the world works.

>>108287307
>source: some random literalwho article by some nobody no one will ever see

@108287335
Wow! You mean the thing that's happened for decades that everyone is quite aware of? No shit, Sherlock. But you know what doesn't usually happen right after these events? Said items spiking in price by 500% because that pretty much happened until now. Everyone has been aware how sales events work, and have also known they've been lackluster for the past decade. What no one was aware of is getting fucked in the ass right afterwards.
No (You) for you, nigger. Kill yourself at my earliest convenience which is now.

>>108287341
>not the 400% RAM
Because the 400% RAM isn't a problem to people who upgraded their AM4/LGA1700 rigs or built a new DDR5 PCs during the cheapest ever years.
The 400% RAM prices doesn't degrade the PC performance of normies and everyone else who decided not to take advantage of those historically low prices.

The 400% RAM prices didn't happen overnight either.
The OpenAI deal was announced in early October, and people here were telling others not to wait for Black Friday sales because they won't happen in 2025.

What are the best budget SSD options in Brazil? I don't know which ones tend be cheaper in our market. I'm looking for a 2TB one.

>>108287382
Memory prices affect everything whether you are a computerist or not, when will you learn

>4chan are busy blaming indians for everything wrong with their lives for some reason.
I was with you until this. There's a good reason for this if you aren't trying to claim izzat.

>>108287061
the score in speedway is your fps. 9364 score average means 93.64 fps which is only 2.68fps higher than your score, its within silicon lottery margin. the best is definitely not game stable.

>>108287398
indians is literally a jewish psyop

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>>108287368
>But you know what doesn't usually happen right after these events? Said items spiking in price by 500% because that pretty much happened until now.
The OpenAI memory supply deal was announced in October 1, 2025, memory prices didn't spike up "500%" overnight.
People had time to make their decisions.

>>108287406
Man what isn't these days? I just wanna build.

>>108287395
People had time to upgrade their smartphones, laptops, etc.
System builders and laptop manufacturers were ethically selling their devices at the fair procurement & service charge at the end of last year.
And they don't need to make these upgrades so often.

People shouldn't be awarded for ignorance, that's how you get taken advantage of.

>>108287433
>people had time to...
This again. Why do you assume people make this assumption? Most people use stuff until it breaks.

>put am5 CPU in socket lined up correclty
>wiggle it gently to make sure it feels in
>close hatch and pull the lever
>plastic cover pops out
>everything looks good
That's it right? Everything looks and feels as though it went according to the numerous videos I watched beforehand.
The only slight differences were
a) when I was pushing the lever down the plastic cover popped out maybe 1/3 to 1/2 of of the way down. Where in videos it seems to pop out closer to when the lever is fullyh down
b) looking at the installed CPU from above the metal frame/cage doesn't seem perfectly evenly squared with the CPU, there is maybe 1mm more space on the left side than the right
These 2 things are most likely just slight variations in motherboards though?

I don't have all my parts yet but I did have CPU and motherboard and wanted this done asap because it was the part I felt most likely to fuck up

>>108287301
its a bit stupid solution when you can lower fan rpm to achieve lower noise, or using aio

Theres more comprehensive solutions like having the pc be in behind a wall and you run cables from it to a different room where you are

>hey man here's this article I never read when it happened but now I have 20/20 hindsight so I totally knew >:)
Fuck on out of here, faggot. You're a 4chan cuck, not some Fortune500 trader.

>>108287409
Why would this deal cause memory prices to spike? Oh wow, some company announces deal with another company, potato potato, business as usual times a hundred.

>>108287462
Then let those people continue to use their stuff until it breaks. Muh 400% RAM is nothing but FUD for those people.

>>108285851
>mesh front panel in 2006
apple was ahead of its time

>>108287471
Like I said, you don't have to perfectly time the market.
I paid about $30 more for a 4TB NVMe drive vs. its all time-low price.
That SSD costs over $600 now. Just don't be ignorant.

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Why does this give me less FPS than just throwing +425 into Afterburner? This is technically +800

>>108287489
Antec and IBM did it first.

>>108287505
Because you're setting unsustainable OC that's causing the chip to clock-stretch.
You need to be looking at the effective clock speed report.

>>108286994
Buy a 90 degree cable.

>3 months is a LONG window per anon before having 100-500% price increases
How about having a life, family, work and maybe dealing with being injured/doctor appt and feeling like shit?

These type of price increases are unprecedented.

Also, the only thing I regret is that I bought 4 NVME last year and returned 1 because I thought I was fine and things would settle again
How wrong I was that I was nowhere near the peak, should've kept it on credit

>>108287494
Lmao I took this guy's izzat by buying ssd atl, timing the market perfectly. It sux to sukk

>>108287124
Stop using screws for case fans (not rads) and use what I put in OP
>>108285851
>Consider Noctua/Akasa silicone pins instead of screws for case use

>tfw got a sn850x 2tb for $190
>tfw previously paid $140 for it in 2023
At least I was able to get it this low...

>>108287526
>How about having a life, family, work and maybe dealing with being injured/doctor appt and feeling like shit?
No one cares about your sob story. Tell that story to a BestBuy and Microcenter employee, and see if they'll give you a discount.

>>108287565
I beg to no one I'm like a ruling class high t neet noble. Next time I'm in da microcenter and a fag tryna tell me I gotta pay 600 for a bit of ram I will simply punch trough his stupid goy wagecattle chest, mortal kombat style. I'm like shao khan, shouting slurs and profanities all day while I pump iron and play vydia.

This is a warning to israel: don't mess with my computer parts or you get the horns.

>>108287526
It's 4chan. He's some loner who doesn't even have internet friends. This is the one time he gets to feel smug about something. Just let him have it.

>>108287324
Over advertised, you believe advertiseme ts? Every day there is a new and better shiny thing someone has. Does not mean you need to buy it. This cant be explained to you it seems.

>>108287505
more mhz doesn't always mean better

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I'm planning my first build. Spending money on a case seems gross. Will I run into problems making it in a cardboard box or something?

>>108287651
You know, the sad part is, I'm not a caustic retard like that guy. I get people are busy and sometimes miss stuff.
But I'm still a loner with no friends. :(

>>108287659
>Does not mean you need to buy it
Then those people are fine with what they have right now.

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>>108287541
I really want these humble brag fags to post their 401k or brokerage accounts.

Here, I'll go first with my "whatever I want to risk this money on brokerage account" (not even my Roth 401k or my employer 401 accounts) --- but I bought in December so I was already late to the party, so I will claim I had no ability to predict this bullshit

>>108287565
just shut up fag no one likes people who do smug brags and then say exactly what you say.
Like I said to talk down to others when this shit ain't even COVID where it affected all aspects of life, how the fuck would others know besides cross-board spam on 4chan and maybe already past the peak news articles (i.e. they still got to the game late?)

>>108287673
>how the fuck would others know besides cross-board spam on 4chan and maybe already past the peak news articles (i.e. they still got to the game late?)
It means this PC hardware stuff didn't matter to those people enough to keep up with it, they'll be fine.

>>108287665
You can make a friend still, anon. I believe in you.

>>108287551
>Stop using screws for case fans (not rads) and use what I put in OP
I'm pretty sure my AIO fan is the only that's even sort of making noise in my.
Even under 100% load my GPU is only getting to 52C. So its fans aren't even going loud.

The noise really comes from whenever the CPU spikes in heat and the fans rev up.

>>108287673
>401k or brokerage accounts.
I'm not American, what is this?

>>108287666
Not all of them, some are because they don't know.

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Building this later tonight, lads. Wish me luck.
Also the Deepcool is actually Sudokoo SK700.

>>108287751
401k is retirement fund

>>108287665
I, too, believe in you, anon!

>>108287711
>Like computers
>Try to make friends in the Computers space
>Ermmmmmm you bought a Novidja GPU??? Don't you know they're like literally musk
>We don't want people who aren't using Linux in our group, it's all Ick your on windows.

Nah. Maybe being alone is better.

>>108287757
Ignorant people get left behind all the time, not just in PC building.
They don't value this hobby enough to care for it, and that's fine. You don't have to speak up for those people.

>>108287775
You just gotta look in the right places! Don't ask where those are at however.

>>108287766
Retirement fund? Do people in America not have pensions in old age?

>>108287766
That's not really what it is. But close enough.
You can take your money out of a 401k whenever you want.

>>108287795
>pensions
Some jobs do. Older people in AMERICA get social security.
Longer you pay into the system the more money you get monthly when you retire.

>>108287795
401k is part of your pension, it's related to IRS taxes and state/employer agreements.

>>108287775
I need new enforcers in my nerd gang. It's a new criminal organization focusing on IT related stuff and you are ceremonially invited. I will be your charismatic gang boss and yes, there will be boobs on every Thursday (boob quality might wary)

Why isn't 401K worth 401K?
Is it inflation?

>>108287833
its called 401k because its IRS tax code

>>108287844
401k is boomer stuff. You fucks will own nothing.

>>108286596
they'll get in trouble for that that's definitely below AMD's UMRP.

>>108287505
lololol

>>108287870
Most likely a pricing error, that card was listed at $599 for most people.

>>108287905
Both the Pulse and the Nitro were in the Woot deal. the Nitro was $499 and the Pulse was $599. And yes, that seems backwards. But that's what it was.

mmm i buyded an evga supernova p2 1200w for $239.99 in 2014. feels good to be good. im so good at this *yawn* :skull:

>Set curve in Afterburner so MHz is flat beyond 915mv
>Afterburner still reports voltage going above that to 930-950 while game is playing
>AND reports the clock not reaching the max MHz set anyway
>If I just set a flat positive offset on the scroll bar (equal to the offset used at 915mv on the voltage curve), GPU gets steady around 910-915mv while exceeding that max MHz I had set in the curve profile
I cannot wrap my head around why this works like this.

>>108287954
You should have bought a 650, 750, 850, 1000, and 1200w in that order. That's how /pcbg/ saves money. You cant simply buy a PSU to grow into.

>>108287991
Raise the GPU core offset slider to +200MHz if you have an RTX 50 GPU to start with.
Drag the right side of the voltage limit point, like 950mV for example.
Hit the apply button, save profile if you wish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPpW9yXHvOU

>>108287991
It's also better to change the V/F curve when the GPU is under rendering load, like having Ungine Heaven or Valley running in Windowed mode.

>>108287997
at the time it powered 3 r9 290s to mine ethereum. then i sold 2 290s so it's sat mostly idle for a decade. now im a little worried its going to fail closed and fry my fancy new gpu but really i would be more worried about a new psu given the shit quality of everything nowadays.

>previous thread still not archieved

>>108288049
4chan is kill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A83bja5vxiM