What is the biggest /g/ purchase regret you've made?>PhysX PCI card in ~2009>WOAH COOL, THE FABRIC ACTUALLY MOVES>AND SOME MORE PARTICLE EFFECTS!>...that's it?16 years later and I'm still mad
>>107003540Pixel 9. Fighting the voice feature between Google Assistant and Gemini was so fucking frustrating I have it away for free.
>>107003540Well now you can get a new Nvidia card and run 32 bit PhysX games. Mirror's Edge, Mafia 2, and Batman Arkham Asylum are some of my favorites with PhysX support.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dUjUNrbHis
>>107003540I paid $800 for a 4k monitor and its only used for shitposting and reading email. Total waste
>>107003540It was the way to get good physics at the time.The CPUs got better, Nvidia bought them out and physics was solved without the need for a separate accelerator.
>>107003540"Upgrading" from Socket 754 to 939, it was a completely pointless waste of money at the time, then C2D completely BTFO'd Athlon 64.
>>107003540Sony cybershot and an iPod around ~2005. My windows phone replaced both shortly after and obviously iPods were trash once phones had storage in them. Around ~$1000 gone 20 years ago which is almost $1700 today. Also a 360 which I bought and sold twice. I don't think I've ever regretted PC stuff directly.
>>107003652>zoomers upset old tech is out of fashionWhy are you guys so retarded about this shit? 32-bit is depreciated nigga, it's time to move on. You retards bitch about shit like this but never cry about things like actual old hardware that cannot even use modern software at all and old software that can't use modern hardware at all. Hell, firewire being almost impossible to use post windows 7 is a bigger issue than fucking physx which you can still use by putting in literally any GPU in a spare slot.
>think Windows 7 is the one true OS and I'm gonna run it forever and use my beloved software with it>by multiples of all the parts in my old ass computer new old stock in the fucking box because it has 7 drivers>Windows 7 support goes to shit, Chrome won't update>try W10>it sucks>upgrade computer, it can't run 7 anyway>way out of my comfort zone>Get Linux>install windows 7 in virtualbox with all my software>it's runs faster than the bare metal I had previously and I can get new hardware>could've taken all the money spent hoarding and bought new hardware years agoDon't be a fucking idiot like me, virtualize your old software
Bought a 6500 xt during the pandemic because I was desperate to game. Honestly, not a bad card but there was nothing else unless I wanted to play the ebay lottery on 1060s. >>107003829lol, same. Then immediately wanted a 940.
>>107003540RTX 4090 (plus the new PSU I needed for it). Don't get me wrong, it's a good card, but I don't really game anymore (and I don't give a flying fuck about AIslop).
>>107003540R9 380IDK if mine was defective but it was never truly "stable"One driver version had a set of issues that would get fixed in another but then you'd have different bugs instead.I was upgrading from a GTX 560 Ti who's biggest issue was some crashing with Minecraft of all things. The R9 380 aside from the graphics issues on mutiple occasions just outright cashed the entire PC.Left an extremely bad taste in my mouth for anything AMD
>>107003870My League of Legends addiction says NO
>>1070035402789 PLN ($750) for a RTX 3060 Ti Ventus 3X in July 2022 instead of waitfagging some more.
>>107003988I could see retro gaming as a reason to keep a bunch of old ass shit around, but I was literally just shitposting and cutting clips together using Sony Vegas, meanwhile hoarding an inventory of parts that would keep my machine alive forever as well as build copies of it. I'm probably the king of baby ducks and should kill myself.
>>107004002Oh yeah, and it started coil whining and artifacting less than 3 years later.
>>107003870>Windows 7 support goes to shit, Chrome won't updatechrome works fine on windows 7, there are also forks of chromium that support windows 7
>>107004045I sometimes regret ditching my based Windows 7 with all the forks out for web browsing, but I'm glad I just sent it, at least I can drag my Windows 7 and software into the future forever, and I can get faster, more efficient computers.
>>107004080do you have a linux/win10 base system that just runs a vm which passthroughs your gpu, or what?do you use it as a more-or-less win7 system (i.e. never leaving the VM) or do you go into the host OS to do stuff
>>107003772>he fell for the 4 monitor memekmao
>>107003595You could have put graphene on it and had a nice clean android experience.
Only recently. Picked up a Zenbook for a spare screen/computer. 8th gen Intel i7 with soldered DDR3 RAM. Kind of sluggish for the specs, I notice after picking up a similar machine but Dell and with socketed DDR4 RAM instead.Good grief. I even replaced the fan and battery on the Zenbook. Hopefully one of the locals will eventually buy it. I do love the screen and build quality, though.
Buying a 1080ti in 2021.
>>107003540my first and only laptopdid I use it to take notes at the uni? no. was it any good for gaming? also no. did I like hauling it around through different cities? no. did I accidentally break the cooler for the graphics "card", having it burn out and be (cpu) integrated only? yeah.next pc was obviously a desktop
>>107003540A 360 to play oblivion
>>107004125I just use it with no GPU passthough and a shared folder for getting video clips in and out, super simple, I should've been doing this years and years ago.
>>107004337I should've added that all daily usage browsing and basic stuff is happening on Linux Mint, the Windows VM is basically just running Sony Vegas Pro 13, Photoshop CS6
>>107003540back when i was 12-13 i regret convincing my parents to buy me an alienware laptop (15 years ago)because i was too scared to try build a proper pc myself although it wasn't that bad, it still works and my grandpa plays on it chess till this very
>>107004334Did you get the Horse Armour DLC?
>>107003874I'm still mad about it, to add insult to injury the ATI chipset for the 939 board was buggy and my 3200+ could barely overclock at all. I used that PC for way longer than it was relevant as a way to punish myself for being that stupid.
>>107003540Kaby Lake Pentium. Getting i3 performance (sans AVX/AVX2) for Pentium money was great, but going with Ryzen 3 instead would have enabled years of great upgrade options.
>>10700354027" 4K 60Hz monitor. What a POS, give me 1440p 144Hz any day.
>>107004018Wish I had a Gigabyte AM3+ board. My Asus is half broken and can't even boot uefi through sata, it can through usb
getting a kobo elipsa 2E, i sold it at a 100$ loss after 2 weeks
nothing because i don't impulse buy like a low testosterone basedjak
>>107003540I have a list from when I dunning kruger'd:>Logitech K750 Solar KeyboardI thought the light from the monitor would be enough to charge the keyboard. Turns out you have to literally be somewhere where you have direct sunlight.>Mad Catz Cyborg R.A.T 7I was surprised at the physical build quality. But even with the weights off, it was still heavier than my Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical 1.1a. Also, you HAD to use software to set the DPI. And the software was so buggy, it would randomly spin my mouse around at times. Worst purchase ever made.>ASUS Xonar Essence STX sound cardIt had this nonstop humming. Drivers came with unnecessary software to add global reverb effects for whatever reason. At some point it would cause a screech to come out of the speakers. I got it replaced and the new one did the same thing. So I ditched them entirely.>Logitech G13 Programmable Gameboard with LCD DisplayI was hype about having a LCD screen to display stats. But turns out there were no keys above where you rest your hands in a WASD position. (i.e. you didn't have access to any keys where 1-9 normally sit. Which made it ultimately useless). Also, I realized you never really have time to be looking down at a LCD screen while gaming. Also, the game support it had for the special LCD screens was very limited. In my usecase at the time, World of Warcraft was the only game I played that had something special. And it was my character stats, which I don't need to look at when I'm not equipping new items. If I'm equipping new items, I'm already looking at stats. Also, software was the only way to program it.For some reason when I bought it, I was expecting it to behave like a flash drive and you could just drag and drop .txt files into each key to make a macro for each key without software (kind of like the Optimus Maximus keyboard.Out of post space, will type a part two below
>>107003540A gigabyte motherboard (B550i Aorus Pro AX) when I was first considering an ASUS alternative. Apparently these B550is have a bluetooth hardware issue and you just randomly lose bluetooth once every few months. Not connection, literally bluetooth disappears from your PCand X230 Thinkpad, not necessarily the thinkpad itself but the idea that upgrading it and 'sticking to what works' with old shit is not worth it. Buy it cheap if you can, don't upgrade it beyond anything of say ~8gb ram and a fresh ssd.
>>107003540A couple sets of headphones that I really hated (fuck M40X), some computer mice that I hated (most notable Razer Lachesis what a fucking awful shape).I also fell for the multi-core meme (at the wrong time) and bought a 1090T. I didn't really regret it THAT much because it was still a massive upgrade from my previous build at the time, but it only took about a year for the relatively shitty single-core performance to start to show. I would have been better off buying a fast 2core instead of that fucking 6core shit. Ever since then I prioritize single core performance over multicore and I've been much happier.
>>107006862List cont'd:>Logitech Extreme 3D Pro JoystickI thought any joystick in the world could do exactly what the Microsoft Sidewinder could do without the force feedback. This was the first time I fucking annoyed that a joystick didn't have the most important function: yaw. I couldn't even comprehend why the fuck sell a joystick if you don't even implement yaw.>USB Hubs (but for My Book)The only reason I would ever run out of USB ports is because of MyBook. I wish someone explained to me sooner that MyBooks needed dedicated USB controllers for each MyBook. I was explained this to by a tech expert way back in the day but I didn't see the reason why (I wasn't using MyBook at the time). But I eventually remembered that conversation and thought maybe I'd give dedicated USB controllers a try. Turns out that solved the problem. Now I have 7 different useless USB hubs with no use case.>Razer productsWorse than I thought it would be. Especially for the price. I bought these headphones that were advertising that they had really nice ear space (which I need with a cochlear implant) and had rabbit fur feeling fluff. Turns out, the sound quality was worse than $20 Sony MDR headphones. The microphone was causing so much feedback that I'd get kicked out of most voice chats. The rabbit fur feeling fluff would catch my ears on fire. I fell for the meme.>Corsair products these daysNot as good as they used to be. When it used to just be the Corsair 800D, that was them at their peak. Everything they made was indestructible and reliable (except for the sandforce SSDs). Nowadays, my shitty Logitech G512 Carbon Brown has already lasted longer than all three of my Corsair K100s.>EVGA SR-2I never realized that by having two processors joined via QPI would cause a lot of games to shit itself or not even run. The only way I could game on the SR-2 was to turn off hyperthreading. I do miss that board though, but fuck HPTX and everything around it needed to support it.
>>107006986>Optimus MaximusBiggest meme NA. Uses Cherry ML switches which feels like really hardened rubber domes. The viewing angle for the keys means you had to look directly down at the keyboard. The spacing was weird. The whole keyboard just blew. It was handy having a profile specifically for FL Studio, but the FL Studio keyboard was easier and better for that.>Motorola Droid 3Coming from blackberry, and into iPhone (1st gen), I really missed my keyboard. So I opted for the Droid 3 being the flagship phone at the time. I could not believe how fucking bad android was. The longer the phone existed, the much worse it became. Then the backlight died. I've never had that issue with any of my phones I've ever owned to this day. What a piece of shit.>Synology RS812+ and RX410Holy shit I don't even want to write a review for this.>DDRdrive X1My thought logic at the time was that RAM is much faster than SSD. But I didn't realize many things about it. 1) external power needed. 2) What volatile storage even means 3) 4GB max 4) Was somehow slower than the SSDs even in 2009.It was neat, but holy shit, what a swing and miss>Sunshine-tipway STW 5.25This was before I even learned about fan controllers having maximum amperages for each fan. I figured if it was hooked up to a PSU, it should be as much as you'd like. Not only was this touchscreen garbage, all of my delta fans burnt out this controller and made lots of smoke. Nowadays, we at least have fan controllers that don't suck nor need cd bays.>G.SKILL FTB-3500C5-D FansBarely held on to the ram. Fans were so shitty they died often. The noise from it rattling was insane. The rattle would make the thing fall off the ram often. Moving the computer around would make it fall off. What a piece of shit.>Thermaltake RAM Heat SpreadersActually ended up increasing RAM thermals. Honestly, thermaltake anything is fucking ass. The Thermaltake Armor A30 Case was so poorly designed that the PSU blocks the exhaust.
MPEG-2 decoder, for watching DVDs on your computer back in 1998~1999.Shit was SO cash... for about two movies. Then 3D accelerators got better and obsoleted this almost instantly.
>>107007386That reminds me of the whole 1997 Mac era where you also had to get a DVD decoder card.
>>107007386>>107007396The 90s were horrible times for computing all things considered. We could barely play multimedia on PCs and everything cost lotsa money and became obsolete in a year.
bought a zte nubia redmagic 9 pro gaymer phone for 800 bongscould've paid half of that or less and i wouldn't have lost anything because all this thing's ever done is run emulatorsmaybe when lord gaben finally ports proton to android i can buy a phone fitting controller and put that snapdragon 8 gen 3 to use
>>107007537I really must know what my dad did when he bought this 90MHz Gateway 2000 that was still able to play Quake 3 Arena, RuneScape 2, and went from DOS all the way to Windows 2000 with no problems.He did say he blew about $31,000 on it at the time. But I still can't help but wonder.
>>107004018>6 (six) motherboards
>>107007567No way he did that without a whole bunch of expensive upgrades along the way.
>>107006909I have the same crappy board. The Bluetooth issue was fixed by a BIOS update. Before the update, it could be brought back to life by unplugging the computer for a few minutes.Then a BIOS update broke suspending on Linux.>>107006961>1090TI overpaid for the 1100T and paired it with a crappy 512MB ATI GPU, games were running so badly that I was getting nauseous.That computer still works, it has an Apple PCIe SSD that the BIOS can't boot from so the bootloader is on the HDD.
>>107007621That's what I was thinking. He must have gotten a 3dfx later down the road or something. I know it had 128 MB of RAM and the jumper pins were configured for 100MHz. But if I had to guess, there were 2 GPU upgrades along the way. The HDD was always the same. If I recall it was 1.8GB or something, which was pretty much infinite storage. Quake 3 was the biggest application on there with 127MB or something.
i fell for the tempered glass computer case meme, now i see reflections of my monitor on my case
>>107007678I updated my BIOS recently and I still experienced it about two weeks ago. I don't think I'll buy another Gigabyte motherboard again.
>>107007710get frosted glass?
>>107003540ati 4650
>>107007710get rid of the glass, keep the frame and glue a fuckhuge dust filter over the sidebig airflow
Audeze Maxwell headset. The microphone is incredibly bad, and enabling noise cancelling makes it sound even worse.The headphone itself is very heavy and uncomfortable, and the phone app is junk.
>>107007573>he isn't stacking AM3+ boards and AM3+ chips
>>107003540fx cpu
>>107007992fx cpu
>>107003540Pixel 3 XL, because not long after I got a free Pixel 4 XL from daddy bezosDell Alienware AW2724DM because HDR was shitty, highlights would clip more if the rest of the screen was also bright, I'd have to play games with HDR with a black wallpaper. In fact HDR didn't even work with most of my HDR supported games.
A genuine copy of windows 7 professional. Everyone was putting windows 7 on their old computers so I did it too. Couldn't get aero to work, ran out of ram often. I eventually used it when my xp laptop died in 2020, I got a year or two of use out of 7 before everything started dropping support for it. >>107003829That's rich. I used my socket a athlon all the way up until 2015.
>>107006986>I never realized that by having two processors joined via QPI would cause a lot of games to shit itself or not even run.This is entirely a Windows 7 problem, fuck you and fuck linus fucking nigger tips for your shitty irrelevant opinions in this modern age. The board works perfectly fine for all games on Windows 8,Windows 8.1,and Windows 10. Yet every mouth breather on the Internet has to go put win7 and some shit ass gpus in it and then showcase all the problems they caused.
>>107003540ATEM Mini. Fucking thing won't stream to youtube or facebook because of some firmware bug that they refuse to fix.
>>107009037It had the same problem on Windows 8, 8.1, and 10. That's why I switched over to the ASUS X99-E WS.
>>107007710Why the fuck would you get a glass case panel?>why yes, I would like to accidentally kick it or drop it and sever an artery
>>107009060>He's a streamer>unironically and unapologeticallyTell your 3 viewers I say hi (including your parents)
>>107003540Logishit mice.Thankfully I wisened upAlso a relatively expensive Philips headphone that had shit sound quality and started falling apart in less than 6 months
I think it's interesting how many devices in this thread are Logitech.
>>107009037my brother has an asus z9pa-d8 Motherboard with this same problem on Windows 10. he also had to disable hyperthreading for games. i wonder what the issue is if it's not a Windows 7 problem.
nothing. I cannot afford buyer's remorse
my Logitech G900 (bought in 2017) has been the opposite of a regret. Works great 8 years later, no issues.Biggest regret was an nvidia Tesla P40, thought I was gonna do super cool AI image generation with it, only to find out all local image models fucking suck donkey dick. $200 on a brick lmao
>>107009338Any "glass" case uses tempered glass. So it's more "yes I'd like a 0.0015% chance every day of it suddenly exploding because a nickel sulphide inclusion grew past an internal stress line".
>>107003540GTX 770Spent something like 1.8 BTC on it back in 2014 (mined with my previous GPU).Nvidia stopped properly supporting that piece of shit after like a year and a half, and it ran like dogshit until I replaced it in 2018.Shadowplay was cool though.
>>107009652>1.8 BTCNo wait I remember, it was 1.1 BTC. I think it was 1.8 BTC including some other parts I picked up at the same time.A close second were a pair of 2TB Seagate HDDs I bought at the same time (for whatever $90 x 2 converted to 2014 BTC was), that both died after 2 years and a month, immediately after the warranty ran out. Fucking Seagate.
>>1070035957a for mebroke the screen and got rid of it horrid phone shit battery life shit screen shit ergo everything is just shit my 13 pro redmi mogs it
>>107003540A hp pavilion dv6 laptop. It was the worst lamest piece of hardware I owned.
>>107009888Holy shit fuck those things, mine overheated and the keyboard did this, so you end up going external keyboard and mouse like a nerd.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD3uFyvrelU
>>107009907it overheated so badly the traces on the membrane traces reflowed? that is impressive
>>107009982I guess it is impressive if that's what happened, that thing was doing thermal shutdown on the regular and running at 95C if you made it do stuff.
Thinkpad X1E gen1. Awful laptop with loud fans. It ran hot and didn't even perform well. I own a MBP now.
>>107003540>biggest /g/ purchase regret i've madeBuying a 5080 instead of a 5090.
>>107009888>hp pavilion dv6tried to open this fucker to but it had many extra steps to open it, cpu stays at 100c
>>107003540some chink mechanical keyboard that is not hot swappable, is not that its bad, its just that if I want to get new switches I'd have to get yet another keyboard
>>107009363Let me guess, double clicking? I fixed mine with wd-40.
I almost bought one of those g-sync modded korean qhd panels before freesync was everywherethen they went out of business
486SLC CPUIt wasn't really a 486. It was a 386 with some 486 instructions. >The 486SLC can be described as a 386SX with the 486 instruction set and 1K of onboard L1 cache added. Unfortunately it inherited the 386SX's 24-bit address bus (16 MB max. DRAM), and 16-bit datapath which limited its memory bandwidth. Like the 386 and 486SX, it had no on-board x87 math coprocessor, but unlike the 486SX, it could make use of an Intel i287, 387SX or compatible x87 coprocessor. Due to the limitations of the 386SX's bus and its smaller L1 cache, its performance could not compete with the 486SX when the latter was running on a full 32-bit bus.I needed a true 486 to run a multiline BBS. The 486SLC wasn't able to do the required multitasking, so it was wasted money. At the time I was a teen so I wasn't exactly flush with cash for this type of mistake.
>>107006986You're supposed to get rudder pedals, you know like in a real plane
Bought a new psu just to test my dead mobo once. The dimension size is different from my PC case so I can't use it for backup.
>>107007992>fx cpu
I bought a full AMD PC once. FX8350 cpu and 9750 GPU. lasted about 6 weeks before I got shut of it, never again
>>107010020>95cHoly fuckGive it a few more minutes and you can boil water on that bad boy
>>107012067I dont know what its deal was either, AMD K10 CPUs were based and it was a 25w laptop chip with 4 gigs that performed nice when it was at the full 2.3GHZ, they even put in a 7200 rpm WD black drive with on a laptop is nice, I wish I knew about business class laptops at the time because even if I spent hundreds on a core 2 ThinkPad or latitude used on ebay it would've given a longer life, I only used that piece of shit from mid 2011 to late 2013
>>107003540>>107007992>fx cpui raise with fx gpu
>>107010895sounds like some serious false advertisement
>>107009888lol mine had its hinges rip through their sockets and lift the entire palm rest assembly/keyboard up
one of those sideways mice. was very expensive, annoying to use and the button wore out right after the warranty ran out. turns out i just needed a non-ambidextrous mouse.
>>107007992>>107008002I had an FX 6350, unitornically great value for money, the only alternative from intel at the same price was an i3 2100.It was fast and it's still perfectly usable for web browsing, it's powerful enough to decode 4k60 vp9 videos in youtube, handles multitasking well, I gave that PC to mu uncle and he's still using it.I made this webm 11-12 years ago because even then people were acting like the FX CPUs were unusable.Even my R7 7840U laptop with a much faster NVMe SSD isn't this quick, though that's because the software is even more bloated now.
>>107009907>>107009982>>107010321>>107012419Damn I thought that only mine was so shitty. I had overheating problems too. I wish I'd never spent money on that shit. I kind of stopped using laptops for a while after the experience with the hp. Then I met Lenovo.
>>107012459Based 6 cores, FX got shat on for not taking the high end (on benchmarks) but my God if you were on an i3 budget like a lot of people, the FX6300 is probably the greatest $130 CPU ever probably my biggest regret is doing the Q6600 optiplex meme in 2014 instead of just spending not much more on a board and $120 6 core and have more than double the performance on the same 95 watt power usage and have a more modern platform.
>all these ppl who think >>107007992 is talking about the other FX cpuI had an FX-8350 myself. Why would anyone think ppl would post that in a purchase regret thread is beyond me
>>107012727I often suspect the only people who have a problem with the 8350 installed it in a board that couldn't handle it VRMwise, because that 125w mf will throttle to 1.4GHz when the VRM gets hot and the games will stutter, but if you put an FX-6300 on the shit motherboards, it runs perfect, so AMD shouldn't have let people install whatever chip on whatever board, because it made people think the CPU is shit when they're literally putting the highest end parts on the lowest end board, which would never fly in Intel land.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKPyQPdVMBw
>>107003540I bought an Nvidia FX5200 back in the day lol.Also bought an Akai Miniak synthesizer (rebadged Alesis Micron basically), it's not that it's bad per se, but I'd have been much better served by getting a MIDI controller instead.
>>107013328I had a Compaq dc7600 with this that couldn't play Halo 1. After infinite fucking with it I found out the Intel graphics on the motherboard were faster. The system had a pcie slot but I found out it did not have enough power for a graphics card (8400GS) and it's only use was for a funky riser card to use multiple displays. HP also cuntlocked the bios so you couldn't upgrade from the Pentium 4 even though it was made well into the core 2 era
Bought a Thinkbook 14 G7 earlier this year.Overall the laptop is amazing. Divine keyboard (aside from the Copidor button and non-working touchpad toggle in Arch), great specs, lightweight, and aluminium top with GOOD plastic bottom.But.It had a Ryzen APU, 45W, and the cooler just couldn't keep up with it. I literally had to manually throttle it down 700MHz just to keep it from exploding. Holy fuck, this is the first time in a long time that I wished I bought Intel instead (there was a Core Ultra 125U model, it didn't overheat at all). Ended up selling it for 60% of the price in September.
>>107010895I actually paid money for a cyrix processor. It was so bad I bought an intel cpu 6 weeks later.
>>107013500To be fair 775 was an absolute bastard socket.Something like a 915 chipset meant you basically just traded a 478 socket for a 775 with no additional CPU support
>>107003540why the fuck are these things 300 bucks now, did some Jootoober shill them recently or something>>107009888I've got to have the only one left that works. Turion 64x2 and integrated AMD 4200 GPU. It's hilarious I'll put it on my laptop cooler and this shit will get down to 42*C while playing CS Source. I think it has 12gb RAM>>107010321I opened this one up to clean it because it was doing the same shit when I got it, I use it as a W7 test environment, was pretty straightfoward just drop all the screws on the bottom and the shit popped right off. had to drop the keyboard too but no big deal. I used to do laptop repair we had a DV6 come in every week for me to do CPR on so I'm kind of used to it lol
>>107013901>Turion 64x2 and integrated AMD 4200 GPUDamn that's basically mine but mine was a P520 Turion II and an HD4250, in it's defense it wouldn't overheat if I pointed a fan at the left side of the laptop, glad yours is still working, mine was parted out, it's 320GB hard drive was put in an external case and the 4GB of 1333MHz lives in my spare parts drawer.
I've never had a /g/ purchase that I regretted, I got my Threadripper 1950x the day they came out on /g/'s recommendation and loved it. Same with my T430, awesome laptop.
>>107013929That's actually what mine has but it shows up as Turion 64 and 4200 for some reason. Apparently they're the same.What causes them to overheat is using them in any kind of a dusty house. The heatsink fins are very thin and small and will trap just about anything, mine was completely blocked when I opened it and the entrance to the heatsink fins was the only thing with dust on it besides the AMD south bridge.I cleaned it and put it back together and it's nice now. I'm going to probably quad-core Phenom it soon. The highest I've gotten it to get to after cleaning was like 65 but on that laptop cooler it will drop it to room temperature if I put it on the battery and low power mode.
Back in 2004 I bought a gaming laptop for $2,400 with my college loans. After a few years, it couldn't even play Youtube videos without lagging. I could never figure out what was wrong with it.I should have bought a cheap laptop and a gaming desktop.By the time I paid off my loans, it probably cost me $4,000.
>>107013901Mannn I've got the aluminum version of this DV6. Originally came with a Phenom II N850 triple-core, 4250 integrated graphics and 5650 dedicated graphics. Went through two boards, both failed in the same way (northbridge de-soldered itself).Last year I swapped in an Intel board with an i5 480m that doesn't have the northbridge problem since it is on the CPU die, but I dropped my bag with the computer in it at an airport last month and the heatsink pipe broke right where it is welded to the square copper shim that touches the processor.The Pavilion DV6 has definitely been the biggest money pit PC of all the ones I've used.
a sabertooth z97 mark 2 worked great until I decided to get an ssd, it would fry every single ssd I tried plugging into it with the last one also frying my hard drive, last time I ever bought anything from ANUS
>>107014042>Back in 2004 I bought a gaming laptop for $2,400 with my college loans. After a few years, it couldn't even play Youtube videos without lagging.Honestly Anon, that was just how fast technology moved in the 2000s, nowadays we're used to buying a mid range or or high end computer and being able to at least consoom content and shitpost for the next decade easily, but back when you could've bought a high end Pentium 4/Pentium D, or even a high end AMD K8 single or dual core for a lot of money in 2005, and then get your ass smoked for much less money and power consumption by a low end core 2 duo that came out a year later.
>>107013863The 7600 had the 945 chipset, ball was in HPs court for support, never happened. All of this shit was like $650 too
>>107003838https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xngBF-sWsLg
>>107003874https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xngBF-sWsLg
>>107009907>>107009888>>107010321>>107012522Maybe I was just lucky, but I have an HP Pavilion dv6150 laptop from 2006 or 2007, which is the oldest piece of technology I still own that works. Only the battery has died long ago, but other than that everything works, and never presented any problems. Still back in early 2010s I upgraded it to 4GB DDR2 and a 500GB HDD, and it has served me for a long time. I owned many other laptops purchased later that have already died a long time ago.>>107013328Damn, I forgot about my Nvidia FX 5200. It really was a terrible purchase that I regretted. Could have gone for a Radeon 9200 instead for the same price.>>107010837>Let me guess, double clicking?Often in less than 3 months of use. Cleaning and WD40 never fixed it for me, only opening the microswitches and messing with the leaf springs (but it's a temporary fix, the double clicking would come back a few weeks or months later) or replacing the switches.But not only that, aside from the double clicking issues, 2 of my Logitech mice just died in less than 1 year.After enduring this bullshit on 3 or 4 different Logishit mice, I just switched to other brands and never had any mouse problems ever again. Currently own 1 Razer and 2 Redragon mice, the oldest going strong and still working like new for nearly 5 years already.
>>107007992FX 8120 here. It was alright.>>107012392at least its not MX
>>107003857>firewire being almost impossible to use post windows 7Just just have to manually install the legacy driver.
>>107013742>Cyrax processor
>>107007567I had a gateway p5 120 for many yearswell that was what it said on the box, we actually spend several grand upgrading it over the years. it was like the pc of Theseus
>>107003540a blue ray drive
3080 instead of 3090Macbook air for wife instead of proMeta quest 3 pro or whatever its called, sold itFold z4
>>107003540RTX 5080. worse than 7900xtx now (Except for AI/RT but who cares with that gimped 16gb)
>>107003595Pixel 3 for me. Battery expanded and tore the phone apart. Just a couple weeks after the 1 year warranty expired.
>>107014505I like having had a PS3 since it was relatively new for its blu ray drive, but I feel bad for the blu-ray drive bros on PC, you buy this nice fancy technology and than optical drives fall off the edge of a cliff when it comes to being relevant shortly after you get it.
>>107014576Macbook air is probably better for wife duties because it's such a low power ultrabook it would be cooler and have better battery life, it was kinda funny seeing my sister bring her Macbook air to school for computer business and get the same work done as autists who brought giant gaming laptops into class for no reason when the task at hand was so basic relative to the capabilities of the machineI fucking hate Apple but ultrabooks are king when it comes to laptops now, CPUs are good enough that a 15w chip is a beast at anything you would use a laptop for.
>>107003857We’ve actually never had a major feature get deprecated like this before, the closest thing was hardware table fog back in the 90’s. Sure, using your old gtx 970 as a dedicated physX card works for now, but how will we play those games in the future when all of the supported hardware is broken? Hopefully, someone takes advantage of Nvidia making it open source and translates it to modern hardware, but hopefully you see the point.
>>1070145854080 mogs the xtx tho
>>107015110It has about 100 Gbps less memory bandwidth than the XTX due to that anemic 256 bit bus. Makes you wonder why Nvidia bothered to spend so much on better memory.
>>107015110not with todays drivers.
>>107015155Is 7900XTX the modern HD7970? I remember that thing competing with 680, and then drivers updooted and the thing was smoking to the point where it wasn't much slower than a GTX 780 for less money, getting a used HD7970 one generation old for my FX-8350 build is probably my proudest purchase ever back in 2014, big boig 3 gig 384 bit card was just so worth it.
AMD’s Bulldozer CPUs for sure. I had a nice Phenom II x4 940 and got conned into buying the new “6-core” bulldozer. I’m pretty sure that shit was even slower than the old CPU. At least I didn’t need a new motherboard…
>>107015176i think amd modern version of 1080ti. powerhouse at traditional things, obsolete by the new tech (raytracing/ai/fsr/dlss)
>>107015203Makes sense that the 10 year old GTX 1080ti doesn’t support modern features but what’s the 7900XTX’s excuse?
>>107015155re4? that seems cherry picked. surely you have the summary geomean graph?
>>107003540I don't have any major tech purchase regrets. Back in like late 2007, when I was building my first high-end PC I chose an eVGA motherboard with a 680i (NVIDIA) chipset. It was kind of a piece of shit, overclocking was weird with things like frequency and FSB gaps (like it would work at lower clock and higher clock, but not in the middle) and in general it performed worse than the Intel chipsets of the time. It had like a 2 year warranty and then very soon out of warranty, the SATA controller on the board died. I upgraded to a 1st-gen i5 when that happened. This was the shittiest mobo I've ever had by far and it was supposed to be a high quality / high end product too.NVIDIA soon after went out of the mobo chipset business and I can fucking see why. All the Intel and AMD mobos I've had since then were all FAR better and more reliable.
>>1070152137900xtx supports fsr4 now on linux (proton) and windows (through optiscaler). it can do ai with its lots of vram. it can even do okay raytracing on par with 3090. its just artificially kicked in the balls by coming out too early. remember 7900xtx is still using gddr6 is all things when nvidia already moved to gddr6x and gddr7.
>>107015223when it comes to raster amd is on par or better. when you turn on rt it flips to nvidia being better.then there are ofc the games that obviously favor nvidia (ue5).
>>107015193Based AMD not getting people to buy new boards to go from 45nm to 32nm if the board had the extra pin for it, Intel are such fucking jews, they were making people buy new boards just so run Coffee Lake 6 cores, when it's not even a new technology, it just has 6 cores on it because ryzen had eight of them and they were looking goofy with only 4 last gen.
>>107015243>linuxSo it basically doesn’t have ML upscaler support then, we need an official int8 fsr4, shit like optiscaler doesn’t cut it when it can get you banned and doesn’t always work.I don’t know why AMD can’t just give their products the support they deserve, they’d actually be able to compete at the high end if they did.
>>107015261>shit like optiscaler doesn’t cut it when it can get you banned and doesn’t always work.nobody has ever been banned for using optiscaler. you have zero proof. why are you talking about of your ass bro? weird post you made. sounds like a jit.
>>107015261>So it basically doesn’t have ML upscaler support thenIt literally works on Linux and Windows in any game that supports motion vectors. Thats how people got DLSS/FSR working in Skyrim.
>>107015259I would have so much preferred to have had an intel cpu at the time if I could have afforded it. Bulldozer sucked compared to 3rd gen intel core or whatever it was at the time.
>>107007992Wtf you talking about? I still use my fx 8350 11 years later.
>>107009652>Shadowplay was cool though.Sure was, but nvidia breaks it when they release new cards. Happened with both my 760 and 1080, what a scam.
>>107015274>>107015266No one gives a shit until it has official support that’s (hopefully) enabled by default in the driver. 99% of people aren’t jumping through the hoops to hack in a solution that doesn’t even work all of the time. Optiscaler has a supported games page and not everything is on it, you know. I bought AMD too but you’re delusional if you think RDNA3 hasn’t had the ball utterly dropped for it in terms of support.
>>107015193I had a phenom 965 and my fx 8350 I upgraded to smoked it. Not even close.
>>107015280You afforded the FX 6 core and it did the job, it's a based processor.
>>107015305Probably because the CPU you upgraded to actually had as many or more cores as your old one unlike the lie I was sold.
>>107015296you can literally drag and drop the dll into the game folder and 90% of the time it will work. just like dlss dll swapping.
>>107015318Amazing that AMD can’t do that for their customers
>>107015296You sound like a jit. Weird post you made. Seek help.
>>107015296>>107015324Anon nobody can take you seriously because you A. lied out your ass, B. started acting like you're god, and C. you look like a fool right now.
Shuttle XPC barebones, something similar to picrel, P35 chipset IIRC. It shit itself very quickly and the warranty was worthless. I ended up transplanting the salvageable parts out and throwing it away.
>>107015336What?
>>107015313Your FX-6300 was a beast, Anon... the thing is like twice as powerful as an Intel Q6600 over all, and the FX-6300 typically runs at 3.6GHz on all cores turbo, and 4GHz in fewer threaded tasks, so it's faster than an X4 Phenom unless the thing was massively overclocked
>>107015308I should have just kept the old one and got better performance. Could have upgraded to a hd7970 instead of a 7870.
>>1070153577970 would've been a massive bottleneck, my old FX-8350 really got to working when you crank GTAV to low settings at the lowest res with how much a 7970 would pull frames the old Phenom II CPUs aren't as quick compared to FX as people think, people obsess over ipc and clock for clock, well that's great, but it's not the real world, in the real world FX CPUs run at 4.1GHz in single thread when they turbo at stock, and that's not even once you get to OCing.
>>107003540i think i can say i really regretted buying a i5-3570 and asrock motherboard in retrospect the board died after only 6 years too
>>107014576Why is the Macbook air for wife instead of a pro a bad thing?I only got an iPad Air 5th gen when I traded my wife in, consider yourself lucky
>>107015441Kek
Tablets, various kinds, windows and android. Just not very useful. At least they were cheap. Those $100 atom tablets were insanely good compared to ARM alternatives at the time, just tablets in general are useless. And a keyboard for tablets I bought with hundreds of thousands of dogecoins (Back when they were first listed on exchange)Cheap earbuds, especially bluetooth, only xiaomi ones were good while cheapo "local" brands were the worst.Asus AM5 mobos (and to some extent GPUs), shit software, shit ram support, shit vrms, no support, lack of fan ports. MSI is much better.DJI mini 1 when 2 came out not that much later with 4k and usb c."Silent" PC case, the low airflow insulated kind. This is a shit idea but again it was cheap and I just cut air holes in it and put filters.Over all I don't have a lot of regrets, all pretty minor.
>>107015569Oh I forgot. SAMSUNG SSDs. They are shit quality, despite being the number one brand. Their "lifetime warranty" is actually "no warranty".
>>107003870God I love high end AM3+ motherboards. THEY JUST look good.
>>107007992I literally want to rebuild my old FX again. It has ALL of instructions mostly that you need, also, the last non PSP AMD processor. Thinking about a FX-8370 with Sabertooth 990FX,
I got a high end (at the time) gaming laptop for mega cheap because the GPU is faulty. Figured I'd just disable it since I don't game anyway, and I'd have a cheap laptop with high ram, a fast CPU, and a nice 240hz screen.But the keyboard is fucking awful and I hate using it.
>>107015657Me too Anon, I even bought one for parts not working on eBay for $20 just so I can look at it>>107015680Now is the time to start picking the boards and CPUs up used for a great price Anon, I massively overpaid for them new in box when I was buying them from 2018-2019, but it turns out you really don't need to do that because they're such good boards, AMD FX chips themselves can take dumb amounts of vcore without dying either, and they've lost so much value that it's a ton of fun doing extreme overclocking for cheap.
GT 1030. My old GPU (Radeon HD 5570) died at an inopportune time, during the first GPU shortage. I wanted to upgrade to a GTX 1050 but cards that were supposed to be $110 jumped up to north of $150 and I didn't have an iGPU so I said fuck it and went for it. It was still an upgrade after all but just too anemic to do much modern gaming. However, it still works and I keep it around in case my current GPU dies and I need something. The fan on it was dying though so I plucked it off and it doesn't even throttle unless the ambient temp is north of like 85F. Throwing a small case fan under it alleviates all throttling concerns.
>>107015784That's a sad one anon. xx30 GPUs are total fraud, mostly anything under $200 (probably more like $250 now) is.The iGPU tier (Heck at this point, worse than iGPU) performance is such a scam. They really should be ashamed, tripling the performance would cost the $5 more in cost but they just refuse to.
>>107015313>muh cores Nigger please. That was completely overhyped. I knew my 8350 was four cores and eight threads when I bought it, then jews caused outrage so they could start a class action lawsuit. I got my 35 bucks from that too, and I didn't feel lied to. I just understood that amd had to pay out a set amount regardless and anyone who didn't get their money was going to have it go into the hands of the jews instead.
>>107015997>tfw 35 dollars for each of the 3 8350s I bought new from etailers8350 chads can't stop winning, they get great price to performance, and then free fucking money in the mail
I think it would be my RTX 3060 Ti. I didn't really need it and it turns out that this thing is riduclously power hungry, actually. The fans also suck arse. Way too loud.Should have bought some Sapphire Nitro+ card instead.
>>107016033AMD didn't even intend to lie. They were treading new water. To have one core split into more than one thread was a novel idea at the time. Again, I understood what I was buying. I STILL use the same 8350, clocked to 4.3ghz. Best cpu ever. Also doubles as a space heater.
>>107016069>I STILL use the same 8350That's dangerously based Anon, I should've never upgraded to the i7-8700 when attempting to try and daily Windows 10, ended up on Linux anyway, I mean it's a pretty power efficient system, but I could've just thrown two more 8GB sticks in the old 8350 rig and been just about as capable, cause I had mine OC'd to 4.4GHz on air no problem, small fft prime 95 didn't even make it break a sweat, literally the greatest computer I've ever owned and favorite platform of all time.
Sapphire pulse 5700xt, damn thing crashes if a game gets too demanding. The one function that it's supposed to excel at and it fucking dies if the settings are not configured correctly. It's like a hormonal bitch on the rag 24/7.
>>107016069>>107015997>>107015313It is a open question if it counts as 1 or 2 cores, but the facts are it performs better than hyperthreading and it was competing with 6 (3) and 8 (4) cores against 2 cores with hyperthreading for the same price, and that's in a environment where incelaviv CPUs with more than 4 cores were 3-4x the price for 4 cores.For pretty much anything other than unoptimized games that was single core, they were GREAT. Speaking as a 2500k stutterfest owner.
>>107016122>For pretty much anything other than unoptimized games that was single core, they were GREATThat was basically every damn game
>>107003540For me it's picrel
>>107015729Im thinking about it. Now I have an 5600X&RX6800 for gaming, and a i7-870&rx580 for w7 and arch. Im just thinking to rebuild it, my problem that in my country (Hungary) it became insanely compared to 1366-1155-1156 bcuz It is hard to find good motherboard. Like one, with USB3.0, normal Overclocking features. My best FX were a 2015 8350. 1.248V (Basically the normal vCore without boost..?)could take 4.5Ghz. I didnt even need LLC. I sold it and bought a R5 2600X. I should have never sell it. I have 2x8GB 1866 RAMs, so I only need to sell this intel platform (the i7 pretty good for its age) and buy a good mobo.
>>107016122Indeed. The AMD's implemented CMT were superior compared to the Intel's HyperThreading. The Intel had its own card, the single core games, which were pretty much made the Intel better. But thats all. FXes made a really good run in 2014-2018, where multicore games became popular.
>>107016272They did fine even on shit single thread games due to the 4.0GHz+ turbo speed that basically all the FX processors had, even if an intel chip might be getting more frames in a low res benchmark where we're getting hundreds of fps, you were getting 60fps, even on the original Crysis, which is probably the worst video game of all time for being shit optimization, the thing literally uses one core, but it's totally playable maxxed out at the resolution you would be playing it, 50 fps at the worst to about the 80+fps range depending on what's going on, and that's about the worst case scenario possible, FX was fucking great at playing video games.>>107016343Damn Anon you must've got the good chip, I that my CPU was so good because it took 1.4V with LLC to make it do 4.5GHz stable, but mine was just average>>107016361If AMD kept spamming the shit out of the cores, which the main benefit of the CMT was cheap to replicate cores, I would've been so happy to buy it if they made like a 6 module, 12 threaded FX CPU that used like 140-165w and cost as much as an i7-3770, but it would need a really expensive board just to run that, and it's hard enough to find a motherboard good enough to run a 125w CPU stock, you need at least 6 phases and most AM3+ boards are only good for an FX-6300, and AMD wasn't about to make an HEDT socket that people weren't going to buy.
>>107014946I bought a Blu-ray drive some 8 years ago, used it a few times (<20) and now it doesn't recognize DVDs anymore because the laser lens has degraded naturally.Never used it with BD discs yet, but I have some blanks to write backups to Any Day Now™.
>>107016290>barebone NAS>$500 in 2016H-how much did you pay?
>>107016439>Damn Anon you must've got the good chip, I that my CPU was so good because it took 1.4V with LLC to make it do 4.5GHz stable, but mine was just averageIt was indeed. Nowadays I am thinking to buy a FX9590 or 9370, not for hitting 5Ghz, but underclocking it around 4.2-4.5. My idea is that I could run it on lower vCore bcuz these FX 9xxx are good bined 8350 chips? Idk
>>107003540Valve Index when I'm not a VRChat playerI'm probably at best 100 hours used over a few years so 10 bucks an hour
>>107016752Yeah the FX-8370/FX-9000 are basically the "good ones" of the eight cores, back when FX-8350 was the top dog, it was possible to get a chip that clocked well, or could be undervolted a shit ton if you got a very good sample, but if you got an FX-8350 after the FX-8370, FX8370E and the FX-9000 chips, you just got an average chip, which isn't too bad, I think an average FX-8350 is a lovely chip to begin with, 4GHz at a 1.35v vcore (which undervolts to 1.30v if you use LLC) is pretty nice, and if you can supply a steady 1.38c using LLC on your board, you can get a stable 10% overclock while not being any harder to cool than stock.
>>107016439>If AMD kept spamming the shit out of the cores, which the main benefit of the CMT was cheap to replicate cores, I would've been so happy to buy it if they made like a 6 module, 12 threaded FX CPU that used like 140-165w and cost as much as an i7-3770, but it would need a really expensive board just to run that, and it's hard enough to find a motherboard good enough to run a 125w CPU stock, you need at least 6 phases and most AM3+ boards are only good for an FX-6300, and AMD wasn't about to make an HEDT socket that people weren't going to buy.May the lower fabrication technology (GloFo 14nm) could have helped the the 5-6 modules, but idk. I THINK that AMD SHOULD HAVE kept the FX series as a HEDT, only for serious Multithreading works. Ryzen is good, but it does NOT have a superior multithreading record against the Intel. Like, the 9950X is good, but Intel is still have a 2-15% advantage in different programs. Still, depends on, but a 8 modules FX only for multithreading would be brutally good. The Ryzen has seriously good boost algorithm, PBO, the 3D-Cache itself is good tho, and the Zen6 will probably beats ass against the Nova Lake (still, nova lake will be stronger than zen5), but I think FX could have been there between the Threadrippers and Epycs.
>>107016820I see you Anon you were a great OG back in the time. I kinda like FXes bcuz it was SERIOUSLY easier to cooldown on 4.5Ghz of 1.4-1.42V than a Haswell i5 4670k cpu. WITH AIR COOLER. Okay well, the IHS were shit under the Haswell (just like on the Ivys) but still, FX was a heater room. Still It was easier to cooldown the FXes. I remember when my stupid roommate bought an ASRock 990FX Extreme3. 'OMG but its 990FX' yea sure, with 4+1 vrms without any additional cooling. "Great overclocker board" they said... It was literally jagged to throttle on Base clock.
>>107003540asus n100 board for home server instead of asrock IMB-1231 (didn't know it exists until way after I got n100)it's fine most of my proxmox stuff but for my Minecraft server I would like something beefier desu
>>107016856>I THINK that AMD SHOULD HAVE kept the FX series as a HEDT,It really was an amazing budget-y HEDT platform, at least the way I used it, a $195 CPU that costs as much as a locked, non overclockable i5 with multicore performance comparable to a locked i7-3770, but it has an unlocked multiplier is still probably the greatest thing I've ever seen.>>107016884Yeah the large, soldered IHS of the FX chips made them easier to cool then people would think, it sorta mimics that of a large Intel HEDT CPU, but it was a budget CPU at the same time, it's a pretty unusual thing to behold, but it worked.
>>107015226Oh fuck, I actually remembered my biggest regret. This thing is such a piece of shit I guess I almost blanked it out of my mind entirely.It's this thing. The Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 audio interface. HOLY FUCK it's so bad. You'd think it's just some USB device and as such it can't be too terrible, but no. It needs its own proprietary driver or you get no sound at all. The driver is complete crap. It breaks sleep functionality on your PC and causes BSODs on wake up. While using the audio interface, you get random loud screeching and glitches. Sometimes the sound glitches out (everything sounds crackly) and can only be fixed by hard resetting the interface. Sometimes it just doesn't produce sound at all until reset. Occasionally when the bad driver causes a BSOD, this also breaks the driver itself and requires a reinstall or else sound is completely broken.I tried everything to fix it, messed with every USB and power saving setting, tried all the buffer size settings, tried different USB ports, tried entirely different USB controllers, tried 3 completely different PCs (both AMD and Intel based), tried reflashing the firmware, no fucking luck.It's annoying in terms of usability too, like you cannot mute an input from the device itself, you have to click through and navigate menus in the computer application. Even if you set 2 inputs as a stereo pair in the software, you still need to manually match the gain from the physical gain knobs. If you're using it standalone just bare essential controls are missing. Tedious.I seriously don't think I've had a worse experience with any computer-related device than with this thing. I've bought $5 chink shit that I've been happier with, this is a complete waste of money. I don't know if mine is broken or what, but by the time I finished trying to fix it it was beyond the return window and it breaks too intermittently for warranty to work.
>>107015729>>107003870I had this exact board. It was fantastic. Sucks they don't make just good solid boards without all the stupid gimmicks these days.
>>107003595I fucking hate my Pixel 8 Pro. If I wasn't required to have a Pixel or iPhone to be able to access work resources I would never have bought this pile of shit.
I spent way too much money on a Proxmox host.>R9 3900X>64GB DDR4 3600>980 Pro 1TB>2x 14TB IronWolf Pro>10G NIC (switch has 2x 10G SFP+ ports, one is uplink to WAN router>only things running on it are nginx reverse proxy, smtp relay, Plex (not used often, never more than one user at a time), DNS, and sometimes a game server
>>107016922>Locked i7-3770, but it has an unlocked multiplier is still probably the greatest thing I've ever seen.Indeed. Well, It was power hungry but I loved it. And later, it scaled really well.
>>107016922>Yeah the large, soldered IHS of the FX chips made them easier to cool then people would think, it sorta mimics that of a large Intel HEDT CPU, but it was a budget CPU at the same time, it's a pretty unusual thing to behold, but it worked.I was pretty shocked when I could cool down to 60c my 4.5 8350 FX. It did well. To be well honest, I wonder how these kind of motherboards survived. THEY INDEED had a rough time.
>>107017579I'm also using an 8 pro, but with graphenewhat do you hate about it?
>>107003540A gayming PCspecifically the GPU, having high end CPU is always useful at least
>>107017767I've had all kinds of antenna issues with it. When I first got it, about once a month it would stop working with mobile data and I'd have to reboot it to get it to work. And I had lots of issues with Bluetooth until I figured out it had Bluetooth LE turned on by default in the device settings.I also hate the default launcher because Google takes away about 20% of the screen for their own bullshit that you can't remove. I installed Nova but it's got some issues because it's basically abandonware at this point.
Kinda regret buying a system76 laptopIt's not awful, just kinda overpriced and kinda chunky
>>107003874Don't feel bad. I got memed into a GT 1030.
>>107003540Bought a case of Matrox m3D cards thinking they would give me 3dfx-tier graphics in all my PCs and my kids could have fun LAN parties. Those cards were not good. At all. I ended up not even breaking the shrink wrap about 2/3 of them, and finally threw them away a couple years ago when I put my household goods in storage to move in with my girlfriend.
>>107017848Never had any of those issues, the only thing was one app that drained battery like crazy because of some background services bullshit.I know what you are saying about google shit, I booted my old phone a few days ago and the amount of shit installed by default was insane.
>>107017579Same. Screen flickering on low brightness, Bluetooth devices not connecting most of the time, extreme jerkiness when scrolling in any app (fixed after a year), mediocre battery, and the cherry on the cake is the G logo on the back not being centered in the wireless charging ring.
>>107003874>>107017923Nothing beats getting memed into buying a Nvidia FX 5200 around 2003 / 2004.
i have a double whammy. i bought a gaming laptop in college, before i knew better. fuckin thing fell apart literally a day after the warranty expired. took it to geek squad and asked them to fix the hinges and screen, and for some reason they took a magnet to the hard drive without telling me. gave it back without fixing anything and just shrugged and kept my money
I don't regret buying, but I regret having to return a rog g53 I got from a pawn shop for $250 back in 2014. i needed a new laptop and it was a sick deal, but my budget was $250 and it needed a hard drive badly. I would not have a gaming computer until 2019
>>107018426fuck reminds me of>laptop stops working>I knew it was a bad gpu connection due to heating and using it on the bed blocking the air intake like an idiot>no skill or knowledge at the time to repair it myself>told the guy who worked at the computer repair shop what the issue was, he assured me he'd fix it>go to pick it up a week later>"sorry anon, there's no fix for this, you'll need a new one">get back the laptop, now with broken hinges>they still charge me for the "repair"never again
>>107018644>>107018426The guys who work for geek squad or whatever are usually retarded, but also I'd never want to fucking work in PC repair again. It was bad enough doing it for businesses where they're typically not storing their personal shit on their business computers (although that does happen sometimes) or installing all kinds of random personal shit, and the hardware is pretty much the same everywhere. Doing it for random people would be absolute hell, even if we ignore the fact that half the time the issue has nothing to do with hardware, and even when it does troubleshooting memory issues is a pain in the ass.
>>107018426>>107018644I never had the money to take my computer to a repair shop. When my drive failed I used a Ubuntu live boot CD for like 2 years. Always been a bit pissy no one has ever made a windows live environment
>>107017691>I wonder how these kind of motherboards survived. THEY INDEED had a rough time.They really weren't that delicateAs someone who was around 2011-2012, it seriously makes me wonder where all the obsessive hand wringing about VRMs today come from.Old boards where pushing the same watts with half the phases, now every tard is asking if their 16 phase baord with 90a SPS's can handle their midrange crap.
M-Audio Oxygen Pro 61. Pitch and mod wheel emitting random signals after about a year, had to open up the keyboard and unplug the connector to make it playable again. The pitch wheel was very sluggish to start with. LED burn-in made the screen unreadable. Support wanted me to ship the whole keyboard just to repair the pitch wheel.>>107017161Oh I forgot about this interface lol. Had similar issues with mine. BSODs, buffer underruns all the time, sometimes sound completely cuts out. Switched to a MOTU interface and had a much smoother experience. The plugins Focusrite gives you are nice though so it's not a complete loss.
>>107018266Radeon MAXX and Voodoo 5 owners would like a word with you
>>107018742Newer chips have less droop tolerance because mass multi channel buck controllers are cheaper so they can count on having fuckoff huge power supply that won't move. There's also some moar cores logic applied to gamer boards.
>>107018700Windows-to-Go
>>107017568Speaking of which, I also loved how amd gave you lanes and slots for days. 990fx was 42 lanes and generally had 2 full x16s or 4 x16@x8 for sli/cfx which is great for expansion, now even x*70/z*90 are only 20+16 with more than 2 x16s being an expensive rarity (and the 2nd being full x16 even more so).
>>107019432Exactly. I'd even pay a premium just for a solid board with good VRMs, good memory support, a good BIOS, and a decent number of PCIe lanes, without all the gimmick shit.
>>107003540Anything with SATA Express. I will never stop being mad that they got away with using up your PCIe lanes for bullshit garbage that could never be used because nothing was ever made to use it.
Seagate came out with a brand new type of HDD.I forget the specifics, probably something about the capacity, but this was still way back during IDE era.Years later, it's the only HDD to actually die on me while I was copying files to a safe location, after retiring it due to torrents thrashing it. Maybe it was the external I was using but I'm not certain my old IDE MB still works or what commands to send to get it to stop pogo sticking the head.But that's the past. More recently: Shokz Open Air 2Set it to a comfortable volume in a quiet environment, then have to crank it up anyway when entering a loud environment. Like direct injection of hearing damage. Right earbud doesn't sit properly so it always sounds distant. I only use it when I'm doing benign chores around the house if I remember I have them.I can't stand in-ear buds but I should've got the bone conductors instead since I don't care about bass in headphones.
>>107019688This shit literally appeared for a whopping TWO CHIPSETS kek
>>107017923If it's GDDR5 its not terrible...
>>107018644>>I knew it was a bad gpu connection due to heating and using it on the bed blocking the air intake like an idiotThis was DEBOONKED actuallySearch "nvidia bumpgate"The only fix is replacing with a non defective compatible chip if it exists
>>107018742>As someone who was around 2011-2012, it seriously makes me wonder where all the obsessive hand wringing about VRMs today come from.>Old boards where pushing the same watts with half the phases, now every tard is asking if their 16 phase baord with 90a SPS's can handle their midrange crap.anon...
>>107017161probably not a good chance you will see this, anon, but you can pick up behringer x32 for cheap as shit now if you still need a mixer
>>107019815>hello pcbg I'm building my first system can this 24-phase motherboard handle this tiny 8 core cpu
>>107019815>buy 9800x3d>buy mb with fuckload of phases>instantly hit 95.4ci dont know what i expected
>>107003540Buying my dad's anal virginity.He would have given it away for free but I believe in fair business transactions.Just like sandpaper I would describe the inside of his asshole as grit 4 or 5 on my shaft.
>>107020181You didn't set your pump speed correctly in bios
>>107020200no, it will still hit that temp with a 360 aio set to 100% as these chips will literally not stop until they hit target temp
>>107020206Very well
>>107020214im just being silly by overreacting to high temps, despite the new design being literally fine hitting those temps. shit, even designed to hit those temps.
>>107020224The temp limit can be adjusted in pbo settings
THE FUCKING RAZER LYCOSAThe capacitive media control buttons activated when the sunlight hit them and fucking windows media player opened randomly kicking me out of team fortress 2
>>107012459god windows used to be so fast, and freeware used to be so high quality
>>107020355I'm glad I made that recording in 2013-2014 because otherwise I'd think I was deceiving myself. My computer now is several times faster, but everything takes longer to open, even Google maps chugs a bit before fully loading. We're not doing anything different from 10 years ago, but everything's a lot more bloated and slow.
>>107020461>even Google maps chugs a bit before fully loading.>We're not doing anything different from 10 years ago, but everything's a lot more bloated and slow.yes, that is your data being sent off to literally 30 000 vendors and in some cases even waited for a reply before continuing.
>>107003540I remember a friend of mine being hyped for those things.I immediately saw that it was a dumb idea.Feels good to have been proven right.
>>107020461It's pretty insane how fast Windows used to be, I was using a fucking Q6600 with HDD in 2014 and it was fast, nowadays you can have a god damn 12 thread CPU with an SSD with 32 gigs of ram and have lag, it's ridiculous, Linux solves a lot of the cancer on the OS side, but we've still got insane web bloat like >>107020905 said.
>>107003540fx5200 64bit
>>107020181Well, your phases has nothing to do with you cpu temp. The Ryzens IHS are large, its hard to cool them, spec the X3D series where 3D-Cache gives you a boost in performance and heat :D.Actually, the 9800X3D's TDP is 120W bcuz it needs a cooler like a AIO 240 to cool it down, not bcuz it uses any power of that.
>>107007965>time capsuled FX-8350s in newegg boxesmadman
Amd fx 8350. I tried upgrading to it in 2012 from my 2007 core2duo. It was so shit that i rma'd everything and went back to my core2duo until it broke in 2019
>>107021509should have gotten a better motherboarddon't put 8 cores on 4 phase shitters
>>107021551Is the motherboard responsible for the processor's single thread performance? That's what really pissed me off. I thought it would at least match my core2duo. It was slower in a lot of stuff and ran hotter and louder
>>107021597An FX 8350 core running at base clock performs like a 65nm Conroe chip running at over 3.7GHz Anon, that's fast as hell considering that most Conroe chips operated at like 2.66GHz at most.
>>107021491oooo, would i benefit from a Noctua NH-D15 G2? instead of the one i have nowi have to admit i hate AiO's because they always grow clogged in a year. where as air cooling i can just leave it for 6 years, and maybe vacuum it every year.
>>107021630i should add, i only really drop in clocks if i run cpu stress tests, playing bf6 and stuff im at a pretty happy 80c something (unless compiling shaders)
>>107020312>when the sunlight hit them and fucking windows media player opened randomly kicking me out of team fortress 2The funniest one in the thread.A cheap Philips 32" 1440p curved monitor. The price seemed great at the time and I thought "It's Philips, I used to have their TV and it was great, so the monitor should be great too". It's incredibly bright, even on the dimmest setting it feels like I'm staring into the sun. The viewing angles are bad, if I'm not sitting directly in front of it, all the colors look washed out, it's 60Hz refresh rate is simply outdated. And I don't want to just buy a new monitor since this one works, I thought I'll get a proper, expensive monitor once this one gives up but it's been seven years and it's not showing any signs of slowing down, everything about it looks and feels the same as it did on the first day.
>>107003772>used for shitposting and reading email.That's actually the only reason to use 4k monitors. 4k in gaming is barely making any difference and you can't play modern games at reasonable frame-rate without upscaling. Meanwhile while shitposting and reading e-mail you benefit from higher PPI and improved font rendering
>>107020312>RAZERI'd wager that anything from that brand is a reason for regret. I've only ever once had a keyboard double and tripple press keys and it was a Razer, I don't even know how it's possible considering it's a mechanical switch, unless the debouncing was completely broken.
>>107021662this anon doesnt know new monitors are literally 7000 nits, while the sun is 1000 nits.zoomers are so brainrotted they needed someone brighter than the sun to stare into, i swear new monitors are almost unusable to me because they literally flashbang me (i have no problems driving at night...)
>>107021630>gee Bill, TWO CPU fans?
>>107021597Yes. When your cpu is throttled to 1.4 GHz it has bad single core performance.
>>107021690>anything from that brand is a reason for regret. I won one of their $60 mice for $15 bnib on ebay because I was the only one to bid on it, it's a perfectly fine mouse so I would say I found the one unregretted razer purchase, except it requires their bloatware to make the fucking middle mouse click work (literally every other button works) so I just live without it which is annoying but better than installing synapse.
>>107022005And just as a disclaimer, I only put in the initial bid because fuck it why not, i wasn't actually gunning for it and going to get into a bidding war over a fucking razer anything let alone a mouse.
>>107016472I have a 20 year old blu eray drive that reads dvd just fine, try cleaning it
nvidia 9800 gx2I thought it was super cool how it was literally two GPUs stuck together into one unholy abomination but it ran super hot and fried itself, I shit you not, within a month of being out of warranty and I had a pretty rough period in my life at the time and couldn't afford a replacement for a few years other than that like a year or two ago I bought an expensive telephoto lens for my camera that I used maybe 3 times total, but that's more of a /p/ thing
>overheats and doesn't hold chargeThis fucking turd.Always thought the idea of linux phones was cool, plamsa mobile and phosh was fun when i played around with it. The drawback of never being able to unplug the device made it a literal brick. Right now i wish i had just gotten an older pixel when they were available or a fairphone like i should've. Falling for the meme of "first party linux hardware support" never works. pine64 were lazy screws and never fixed anything the only developers that actually made it somewhat usable were postmarketos devs and i half suspect they were majority running on sunken cost fallacy like everyone else who bought this trash fire phone was.
>>107003857>Why are you guys so retarded about this shit?You wouldn't be angry that some games run better on an iGPU than on your $2000 dGPU?
>>107006986shit I remember that board.
>>107020181>>107021491The 9000 x3d series has the 3d cache at the bottom, it doesn't affect cooling.The reason it hits 95C instantly is because Intel marketing kept pushing the idea that they can do more gigahurtz (the first Ryzens topped at something like 3GHz at best). So after Zen 2 and onwards, they mad the chips internally overclock to 1.5V 5GHz whenever you move the fucking mouse cursor. It's not a heat spreader issue either (although the heat spread with AM5 is indeed very thick, but even if you go liquid metal direct die it only saves like 10C). It's Precision Boost that pushes the chips way too high. AMD does this crap on all their hardware to make it run 10% faster, you have to undervolt their GPUs all the time too.Turn off PBO on your ryzen and it'll max out at 60-70C at most and idle at 30-40C even with air cooling. This has been a known problem with Ryzens going as far back as the 3000 series (that first used chiplets).
>>107022987I think there's another factor adding to Ryzen CPUs spiking instantly.The chiplets are simply too small, there's not enough surface area (interface between the chip and IHS) to transfer heat quickly.
>>107022097Trust me, I have. It's (almost) dead. What worked was to increase the red laser power to maximum, now it recognises a DVD 20% of the time.All optical drive lenses degrade over time, although at different rates depending on quality. People who drool over optical media for backups are idiots.
>>107021630I have the same NH-U12A, it's a monstrously powerful cooler, the D15 G2 won't give you any difference unless you go direct die cooling with the offset plates. What you need to do is tweak the voltages to undervolt the chip or even better, just disable PBO completely.You can disable PBO with Windows power plans, go to control panel, power options, click on the "change plan settings", advanceed settings, then under processor power management set the maximum value to 99%. This effectively disables automatic overclocking, and you can reverse it without rebooting by just editing the power plan back.>>107023002That's just the tech news sites coping hard and trying to come up with explanations on why they toys are breaking down.The problem is that the chip internally overclocks far far far too high. You won't get good cooling even if the chip had huge surface area to cool, if you push the voltages that far up. This has been true for fucking forever, even my old Core 2 Duo started baking itself once I bumped up the voltage, even though it could run at 50% higher clocks. The same is happening in Ryzens, it just became a built-in feature instead of something only overclockers would experiment with.
>>107016472I have the same issue with a BD player. Fucking sucks because I have a large DVD collection.Makes me want to invest on one of those high end Marantz or Denon reference DVD players. They are like $400 but you can go as far as fine tuning the mpeg2 decoder settings.
>>107023063>That's just the tech news sites coping hard and trying to come up with explanations on why they toys are breaking down.It's still physics, I've got a first gen R5 1600 it's the same, a friend of mine has a Ryzen 5 3600 that's been running overclocked on all cores 24/7 for the last 5 years, for what it's worth I've never personally seen an AM4 Ryzen die.
>>107023118>It's still physics,Of course it is. But a fucking pentium 1 90MHz will behave the same if you overvolt it too much as well. This is nothing new.Modern chips are just running Prescott levels of hot so they can squeeze 10% more performance out of them. That's all there is to it.
>>107003540Pentium D cpu and mobo inside a regular cheap case was my worst purchase. Had to buy pic related to keep it cool, couldn't close the case because it was too big. It was also loud as fuck. I didn't mind at the time, but yeah, Pentium D was a pile of shit.
>>107023281>Pentium DMy condolences. A friend of mine absolutely refused to listen to me when I warned him not to get a Pentium D, he worked a part time job the whole summer break just to buy that PC and was so happy I didn't have the heart to tell him he got like 50% of what he could have for the money.
>>107010895FINALLY SOMEONE AROUND MY AGE!
>>107022987>>107023063hmm, well it shouldnt be a mounting issue right? when i dont have furmark cpu burner running im idling at like 55c.
>>107023081It pisses me off that they put all this fancy laser technology in optical drives, only to save $0.10 on a glass lens and use a plastic one instead.
>>107003595>Buying a pixel for any purpose outside of installing gOSLmaoGoogle is the god emperor of bloatware Even Samsung phones don't manage to be as shitty as pixels in terms of bundled software
bought a second hand rx470 for 200€ or so second hand during the crypto rush. it was a reference card with a cooler that was louder than a chopper and it suttered every second. couple weeks later the RX580 released for the same price.
>>107014084Whew thanks for saving me the headache I was thinking about swapping in the upgraded graphics version into this one, honestly the 4250 is fine it does everything I want it to and this is really only used as a test environment.DV6's were bastards when I was doing repair, I remember at one time having 4 different DV6's on my bench all with different problems and two ended up getting motherboards. I have figured that whatever caused all those desoldering problems any that still work today in 2025 don't have that problem. BTW, typed this post on my DV6 lol
>>107013328FX5200 wasn't horrible as long as you weren't playing (at the time) AAA games. I had its competitor the Radeon 9000 and that damn thing played everything under the sun even Unreal Tournament 2004 with the settings turned low, it got moved to my dedicated server when I stepped up to a 9700 Pro which was a HUGE upgrade. And that Radeon 9000 was an upgrade from a fucking Rage Pro Turbo 8mb and the first couple of weeks it was in an AMD K6-2 before I realized I needed to upgrade my CPU to get games to play better lmao. Funny you mention the 5200, I have a retro build I'm doing right now that has the upgraded 5200 Ultra and that is actually a decent card.
way too much>every single non-business laptops>everything audiophile >every single mechanical keyboards (only 2, thank god)>everything photography related>early 4K adoption >early OLED adoption >RTX 3080 for cyberpunk 2077 in 2020and the biggest one in the last 5 years>SFFfuck the people who convinced me ITX is a good idea. every single temperature stress test is a lie, my fucking hotbox actually increases my room temp by 3c
>>107025095Don't tell me you fell for the mirrorless meme>mfw slam-dunking on mirrorless plebs at Bonneville with my D4
>>107025139i didm43, full frame, mirrorless, macro, thankfully i quit before they started pushing medium format on enthusiasts.all i needed was a gr2 and books on how to improve composition. those cameras did nothing but made me the de facto free wedding photographer, fuck me why was i so dumb
>>107003918Had nitro same card but ITX, on stock it was stable but hot, had zero headroom for overclock. Died 3 years and 3 months, my shortest lived card. >>107003540Bought non overclocking i5 mobo and ram less than two months before first gen ryzen because my mobo shat the bed and there was no point in investing in new board for q6600... looking back I goofed. I must have gotten second hand board and waited an year for cheap 1600. But it gets worse. I had creative s750 and the mobo I got had shitty sound I count use my old agility se because of bad pci slot placement so I got usb asus xonar u7, that was made by asus to die just a month or two after the warranty. There were so good at that you will not find a single one first gen of this sound card second hand. 95% of the died on their 3rd year, 100% died on their 4th. And it sounded worse than the agility.
Spent $3,000 on a 17" gaming laptop in 2006 for coolege. 3 years later the NVidia graphics card melted, killing the output to the screen of all things. Heat gun temporarily fixed. Not covered by relevant NVidia class action lawsuit. Vowed never to buy NVidia again. Still holding strong. Fuck em.
>>107006862>K750I melted that keyboard putting it on top of a lamp for a quick charge one night. I mean, I melted one keycap before I smelled it. F8. It only charged from incandescent lights. The new one charges from LED I believe.
>>107025177Greetings from /p/GR2 is honestly more than enough camera for most people. If I had to have a fixed-lens camera for travel that had to fit in my pocket it would be that one.
>>107025311its not that im those cameras were bad, im more disappointed that at 25 years old i was too dumb to realize i had become the carpenter who blamed his tools. not to mention i got into photography because i wanted to do street stuffs and having spend all that money on dslrs i was turned into a gear faggot wedding photographer who's not even charging people for my work.agree with you man, most people, even creatives dont need much unless they worked advertising or sports. pixel peeping is a blight on photography, that and "positive" online spaces
>>107023730It's not a mounting issue. Look at your voltages. Minimum voltage is 1.2V, that's why your idle temps are fucked. That should be something like 0.7V or lower. It's like all your cores are blazing at turbo all the time.Disable PBO, enable ASPM, enable core parking (C6 states), and lower your voltages as much as possible. Then you'll stop hitting the thermal caps.
>>107025095>SFFWhy do people do this. The only reasons to SFF are because you have too much money and care about form over function.
