>UPGRADE & BUILD ADVICEPost build list or current specs: https://pcpartpicker.com/Provide specific use casesState BUDGET and COUNTRY or you will NOT be helped>CASEmATX: AP201, Lian Li A3, XT M3, CH260ATX: XT PRO (ULTRA), AIR 903 Base/MAX, Lancool 207, Flux Pro, Meshify 3, 4000D FRAME, X50Dual Chamber: Y60/70, O11 Vision, Antec C8>CPUGaming: 14600K (DDR4), 9/7600X, 7/9800X3D-Budget: 12400, 12600K, 7500FWorkstation: 265K, 285K, 9950X3D*Avoid Asrock motherboards on AM5>COOLERAIO: Thermalright Frozen Edge, Lian Li Galahad II Lite, Corsair Nautilus RS, Cooler Master Atmos, Liquid Freezer 3/Pro (unhandy mounting solution)ITX/>42mm RAM: Mugen 6 Dual Fan, AXP120-X67TIM: MX-7, MX-4, Duronaut, *PTM 7950, Kryosheet*Most listings online are not actually 7950>RAMDDR5: 2x16GB or 2x24GB, 6000CL30 (AM5), 6400CL32 (LGA 1700) Workstation: 2x 32GB (budget.), 2x48GB or 2x64GB (high-end)>SSD (Keep firmware updated)Budget: SN7100, NM790High-end: SN850X, 990 Pro (Windows)Premium: SN8100https://borecraft.com/>GPUBudget: Arc B580, 9060xt -Used: 2080, 2080ti *8gb has become a major constraint even at 1080pMidrange: 5060ti 16GB, 9070, 5070 -Used: 3080, 3080ti, 4070 (~$380)4k : 5070ti, 9070xt -Native/High-end: 5090-Check your 12VHPWR connector due to melting issues (all cards)>PSUBuying guide:https://hwbusters.com/best_picks/best-atxv3-pcie5-ready-psus-picks-hardware-busters/>MONITOR1080p: 24" 165/180hz, KTC H25X71440p: 27" 165/180hz IPS, KTC M27T6 (miniLED), ASUS XG27AQWMG (WOLED, not available in all regions)4K: KTC M27P6 (miniLED)>OSActivate Windows @ >>>/g/fwt>CASE FANSMeta: Case with good stock PWM fansMidrange: Arctic P12 Pro, P14 Pro (5-pack, loud @ higher RPM)High-end: Fractal Momentum, Noctua G2 (140mm or 120mm)
>News & Rumors"Power supplies and CPU coolers may be next for price increases (6-10%)"Memory situation unlikely to get better until at least 2027New DLSS presets using DLSS 4.5, M and L (specifically for ultra-performance preset). Performance hit consistently significant on Turing and Ampere GPUs (FP8), potential for issues on ada and low end blackwell, especially on preset L6x and dynamic framegen coming in the springG-Sync PulsarARC B390>PSU Reviewshttps://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/power-supplieshttps://www.lttlabs.com/https://www.kitguru.net/reviews/?category_name=power-suppliesFor tier-list enjoyers:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1akCHL7Vhzk_EhrpIGkz8zTEvYfLDcaSpZRB6Xt6JWkc/>Storage Reviews https://www.tweaktown.com/cat/storage/index.htmlhttps://www.techpowerup.com/review/?category=SSDhttps://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/ssds/reviews>Monitor Hunter https://docs.google.com/document/d/1illeNLsUfZ4KuJ9cIWKwTDUEXUVpplhUYHAiom-FaDo/ >Other helpful LinksMobomaps, currently only lists a selection of AM5 boards but is being actively updated : https://mobomaps.com/A PC build guide : https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Build_a_PCGerman autism : https://www.igorslab.de/en/Monitor reviews : https://www.rtings.com/Leave any constructive suggestions for edits to the op. Pic:>>107843773>>107840600Previous:>>107840217A /pcb/ for every use case and budget!Say YES To Bullying ITT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwatnrbwEnQ
There any reason to get a high end pc if i won’t game straight away? Like the ability to run your own llm? Could it be an investment given prices?
So, we're getting a 5950X3D right?
>>107844444Why arent they selling 8tb ssds anymore? And when, if at all, will it ever be available again?
>no 50 Super news>no X3D2 news>no Arrow Lake refresh news>no B770 newsWas CES26 literally the worst tech trade show in history?
>>107844488Considering my 4TB drive was listed at $499 on sandisks' website 3 weeks ago, I think your answer is money.It's on Amazon right now for $420, but I don't expect them to last long.
>>107844496waitfags lost
>>107844496You don't like even more AI?
>>107844461lol wait more and you won't be able to own one unless you are milli
>>107844496>Nothing to upgrade>Don't gotta spend money during this period of price hikes>Can maybe get a nicer monitor or something. >Maybe spend more money on another hobby. >Or do aesthetic upgrades to get your PC looking coolSeems like far from a bad thing, desu.
>>107844444Nice quad quints
>>107844508ai is worth it thoughverbait
>>107844510Thats why i wonder whether to get one now, even though i dont game a lot
I'm in the market for a new monitor for my RTX5080. Should I get a 1440p one or 4k one?Also should I get something now or wait for this years releases? Do we have an estimate when Asus, Samsung or MSI release their new monitors?
>COOLER>Corsair Nautilus RSI have bought 3 of these and had to return all 3 because they all had faulty pumpsWhich of the other ones listed in the template come with less issues?Both Corsair and NZXT seem to have the most faulty hardware
>>107844503I am not from america
>>107844559>ugly tranny photo
>>107844562>all 3 because they all had faulty pumpsfaulty how?
>>107844562BeQuiet Silent Loop 3 is pretty nice.
Let's say you have 2 monitors.A is 4K, 27".B is 1440p, 27".Both are running a game at 1440p.Is there any difference in image quality?
How do i install win 10 iot ltsc on a new build? Do i need the ISO from massgrave.dev or can i install win 10 home over an usb and then Upgrade to iot ltsc once its running?Im asking because the download from massgrave keeps failing
>>1078445594K if you mostly plan to play games with DLSS support or older games that a 5080 can easily handle at native resolution.1440p if you mostly play FPS.
>>107844587yea cause the 4k monitor will upscale the 1440p and this can look like ass. That's why some recommend quality DLSS as it renders at 1440p and upscales to 4k if you don't mind fake resolutions.
>>107844564Wow so you've never had a burger? Never sharted in a mart? I feel sorry for you brother. You've missed the most important part of life, freedom.
>>107844622Tf is a mart
>>107844503It doesnt make sense how much ai do they need, what use are non m.2 ssds in ai, why are they sold out too
I'm out of the loop with mouses, what is the hot shit these days? I've seen OP1 8K and I appreciate the lack of gay glowing lights but I want to see more alternatives.
Literally nothing wrong with Rgb lighting boomers, they’re cool and it’s the new norm, stop complaining and coonsume already
>>1078445594K 32" OLED
>>107844596Try /fwt/Also the versions are separate so if you want LTSC grab LTSCIf you're having dl issues then just get LTSC from MS/MSDN directly and just use the MAS activation script
>>107844444>>107844520The Asian fear the quints of death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia
Will a i5-13600kf bottleneck a 5080 at 1440p?Was watching some videos which compare the 13600kf to a 7800x3d, and for example at 2160p, where the amount of bottleneck should be even smaller, a 13600kf + 3090 ti was struggling to keep hit 60 fps in cyberpunk, meanwhile a 7800x3d + 3090 ti even hit 90+ fps at a point.Unironically can't tell if this is legit or just the uploaders of these vids trolling.Also, should I get a aorus (32000 mhz) instead of a an asus prime oc (30000 mhz)? The aorus should run 10 celsius cooler at high loads than the asus prime, but it also costs 300 dollars more in my shithole.
This thing can project 100” from 8-10 ft away at a height of 30 something inches. Latency is I think sub 15ms. It’s 550$. Is there anything better or cheaper and comparable? I have a large wall and am thinking this might be pretty great.
>>107844444Can I buy a smaller (e.g. 128GB) M.2 SSD that will last longer than a common 1TB drive? Maybe one made with two-level or single-level cells? Seems like there’s a market for it.But it probably wouldn’t be faster since larger drives can parallelise or whatever.
>>1078448817800x3d is superior but more $That’s also a good intel chipI don’t see how cyberpunk bottlenecks one and not the other that game is gpu heavy and 1440p will make it work even more, 1080p you should see intel struggle on cpu games
>>107844881x3d/big cache gives you superb 0.1% lows plus higher and consistent fps on the lower endlizard lake are good cpus fror goybench/(((work)))/screenshots but at the end of the day if you mainly just gayme theres a reason they are sold out everywheretldr no its not a bottleneck, around that resolution and higher youre gpu limited unless its some dogshit game like cybergoy or ue5 shit
>>1078445871440p doesn't have integer scaling with 2160p like 1080p to 2160p does.You'd never render 1440p on a 4K monitor ideally, you'd use DLSS instead.
>>107844881Cyberpunk 2077 while driving is extremely CPU demanding (though well optimized). Unless you're keeping your old monitor, you should be going 4K IMO
Framegen x2 actually works
GUYSLISTEN TO MEi finally solved this mystery, it took me a while, but I DID IT.I couldn't figure out why the fuck people are still buying radeon gpus. Like, it doesn't make absolutely any fucking sense, right? No matter how you look on it, it's a completely moronic and useless purchase. I just couldn't figure it out.WHY? Why would someone do it. Nvidia is superior in every way.And then it came to me.Eureka moment.Buying a radeon is actually a real 5d chess move. When the feds will go door to door to seize your gpus and draft you for the war with Iran/China/Russia you can just show them your rdna card and you'll get an immediate draft exemption. If you willingly bought a radeon you clearly are so mentally retarded that you'll just be a huge liability for the military, even as a meat shield. You wont even need to fake it, to scream or shit your pants or anything like that. They literally won't even bother with medical examination, just the fact that you have ayymd gpu in your pc will be compeltely sufficient.And since radeons aren't really graphic cards, but expensive and inefficient space heaters, they wouldn't want to take it from you. If you have a geforce you're fucked ofc, but If you will offer them a 9070xt or 7900xtx, they will most likely think you mistook them for garbage collectors. Feds will leave you alone and won't bother you ever again. It's fucking brilliant. Ayymd cards can't compete with nvidia, but they can save your life.Think about it.
>>107844916Everyone uses TLC/QLCSo no you missed the boat a few years agoEither pony up second hand for SSD SATA or NVME that is MLC or suffer now with lots of stock getting depleted due to holidays and panic buying with the NAND situation You should have done this 6 months ago
>Be me like 3 or 4 years ago>I kinda wanna upgrade my 3080>I'll just wait until after the 50 series comes out because it will decrease demand>I'll be able to get a cheap 4090 then
>>107844968>Cyberpunk 2077 while driving is extremely CPU demandingWell that's something I absolutely did not even think of.>Unless you're keeping your old monitor, you should be going 4K IMOI plan on keeping the 1440p until 4k tandem oleds release. GPUs are kinda cheap rn compared to how they were and how they are probably about to be, so it's the perfect time to buy. Already missed my opportunity to get one brand new for only 2/3 of the regular price as they sold out in virtually no time, but they should be back in stock soon so I'll get one if the price stays the same.
>>107844996Yeah, last time I used DLSS FG was in the Pragmata demo, went from about 60 FPS to 90 FPS which was an improvement
>>107845047>I'll be able to get a cheap 4090 thenThat was never going to be the case
>>107844488Best you can do is find "good" deals on 4TB drives.Some <$400 4tb NVMEs I've seen areAddlink A93fanxiang S880ADATA LEGEND 960 MAXAddlink A95ADATA XPG GAMMIX S70 Blade
Pulsar monitors confirmed DOAit's over
>build pc with 5700x and 2x16gb SODIMM and aliexpress adapters>it just werks at 3200MT/s>O shidd im a genious...And today it doesn't boot anymore, turns out one of the sticks does't work anymore (when it was fine for 2 years in a laptop). So I both scammed myself and got stuck on an old platform, and will buy overpriced RAM anyway. Fuck I'm so retarded
>>107845272>he doesn't have a custom loop for his monitorngmi>>107845274
>>107844587whatever copes you try to talk yourself into, nothing will be worth the hypothetical scenario of it looking better on 1440p native than the 4k onein 99% of all realistic scenarios the 4k is superior in all regards for various reasons in generalonly upside is if you want 540hz or something that is it
I cant afford a full gaming PC because of fucking RAM prices.Heres my new PC guys.Going to have to reuse my PSU, GPU and NVME.This would be $800 if it weren't for RAM and I could buy it right now.Thanks Trump. And even this is too expensive for me but I dont want an inferior gaming experience I want 200fps+ at 1440p.
>>107845272
>>107845272Look at what they need to match a fraction of the CRT's motion clarity.
>>107845295>Thanks Trumpshould have bought the trump dip desu
>>107845272kinda funny cause the PG27AQN has a fan you can hear in a quiet environment or when the PC is off as long as the monitor is turned on.
>>107845295>9800X3D>$80 ASSRock boardoof
>>107845320the gsync module required active cooling before thoughI don't see how this one would need cooling for anything it has no active cooling also
>>107845302If they're gonna force AI on on us, we may as well use it to shitpost.
>>107845315Im going to have to use a 6700XT with my 9800X3D. It will bottleneck it but I have no choice I literally cannot afford a $700 GPU on top of it even $1100 is WAY over budget but I'm going to have to spend it, It's all my money I have.
>>107845330I looked it up now and others report they don't have this issue. Might be a defective unite idk.
>>107845326The 6-phase VRM will shit itself before frying the CPU, total 4D chess.
>>107844496>>no 50 Super newsthe thing that has been confirmed not happening for the past 4 months? yeah no shit
>>107844587>Both are running a game at 1440p.absolutely no reason anyone would do this in 2026.
>>107844668panic buying>>107844682the "hot shit" is insanely light, tiny mice with half an hour of battery and 8000Hz polling rate that even the best fps player on earth couldn't notice
>>107844916used enterprise drives.
>>107845391Lol when I was picking up my 5090 at best buy last week the kid at checkout was all: >I'm saving for the super series :)All I could do was say man buy whatever you can today, the future is grim af
>>107845342maybe don't buy new pc parts anon
>>107845458he works at best buy, he cant buy shit
>>107845176I've used 3x in cyberpunk maxed 4k. It's absolutely witchcraft
>>107845470Well you cant really buy a used case at any good value and it costs too much to shipped used for most people, more than what they paid for it, $15-20 in shipping because they are heavy.Mobo I wouldnt trust buying usedDDR5 too many scams going around rather buy it new, yes its $200 more expensive but what can you do.Monitors you cant really buy used either too much shipping and not worth the risk of it being damaged while shipping.CPU is too expensive and basically the exact same price usedYou cant save money anywhere
>>107845481I dunno man maybe he can steal it
I can't believe the best thing about CES 2026 was a $600 1440p monitoris AI bagchasing stifling actual product development and innovation? Ironically for all thei AI AI AI talk Pulsar isn't even AI. Just people using smart thinking to solve a real problem, a problem they thought it was impossible to solve. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MnI1x35H1Q
DELL WONNEW HDR MODE THAT ISNT DIMMER THAN TB 400HOLY FUUUUUUUUUUUUCKhttps://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=kgk3c&oscode=w2021&productcode=aw3225qf-monitor
how much should I pay for 2nd hand ddr3 memory? I got an old HP Pro with a first generation i3 that I'm looking to use for productivity and then turn into a home server. So far the only issues I've ran is that the memory it (3.8gb usable through 3 modules) came with is very limiting so I want to upgrade that.
>>107845272>monitor overheatingnow this is getting ridiculous
How safe is the 12V-2x6 and the port on 5000 series nvidia cards? I want to buy Cooler Master X Silent Edge Platinum (ATX 3.1 with 12V-2x6) + 5070ti but I'm a bit afraid of the cable.
>>107845295>next time Ill vote democrat
why is there two fps numbers? which one is the regular game fps?
>>107845784If I had to guess the left number is your average and the right one the 1% lows.
>>107844488Funny you should ask that: Amazon had 8TB western digital m.2 SSDs for $630 last week. Ordered one (used-Like New) and got a 250GB SSD with the 8TB western digital label/serial number on it.
>>107845272NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>107844448Where the information comes from that at least 2027?
>>107845272can they fix it for the 2nd generation pulsar monitors that will cost $400? i dont even want 240 hz even 144 hz would be enough for me
>>107845272that pulsar shill is probably on suicide watch right now
>>107845351i hope so, i really want a 240hz IPS pulsar as long as is $400 or less
>>107845897I'm eyeing the ASUS one but here it's 750€. I think newegg has it for $650.
>update aw3225qf>it's a true black 500 monitor nowdell won
>>107845915hope its just launch prices being retarded, the monitor anon told me that around november they should be $499 or $399 if there are more buget models which i hope is true
>>107845939ALIENWARE/DELLWON
After autistic testing i found that 4k custom preset L to render 38% of the resolution gave me the best results in terms of performance to image quality, and in 1440p it was roughly the same ratio with a custom resolution of 54%
>>107845784it says 59 FPS, 16.8 ms
>>107844682>>107845417I finally bought a Razer DeathAdder v3. It had a reasonable price considering all the other options were at least 70 bucks.
would OC’ing a 9060 even matter for gayming?
>>107844916>Can I buy a smaller (e.g. 128GB) M.2 SSD that will last longer than a common 1TB drive?its called optane
>>107844708>they’re cool and it’s the new normwrong.
Can I use 2 8-pin PCIe cables to power 5070ti via 3x female 12VHPWR adapter? Meaning one 8 pin would be empty. I only need to turn on PC to see if all the ROPs are there. I'm only doing it since my PSU wouldn't arrive anytime soon and my GPU return window would close.
>>107846201YesAs long as those 2x8-pins aren't fed by the same cable.
>>107845335Wtf is that?
>>107845941not him but if a budget monitor did exist, it's going to have fewer zones (a pulsar display is basically a mini-led display but with horizontal stripes and no HDR).I dunno what affects that would have (would it affect low fps or high fps or both?)I don't think we are going to have a pulsar mini-led any time soon until they showcase it.And the prices make sense when compared to the zowie dyac2 and the nvidia tax.
>>107845784>GPU: 655%FUG
I have a SATA SSD lying around, should I store my games there (500 MB/s)? I also have an old nvme with around 2 TB/s speed.
>>107846107>Razer DeathAdder v3.good luck with your scroll wheel.they fixed it in the v4 pro.
>>107845827Bro...
>>107844444imagine the AI slops finally goes to hell. Suddenly ridiculous amount of wafers nobody knows what to do with them anymore.Top graphics card is now back to $500 per unit
>>107845827why arent you paying attention to what you're buying, and from who?
>>107844444>quads checked
>>107846102lmao im blind thanks
>>107846208Different cable yes. I'll report back when the GPU arrives.
>>107846283retard take, we are not going back to traditional compute, this is like saying that if AI slop does not exist government, millitary and sciene would no longer need hardware to do math calculation in real time, at some point is time to let it go and stop believeing techtubers farming drama and realize market decoupling is only a few year away as silicon photonics will replace copper cables in data centers and electronic companies separate the nodes so top grade sillicon will only be avaliable to datacenter costumers, nvidia already announced that consumer Feynman will stay on the same NP3 node as vera rubin rather than push A16 to costumers
>>107845757sfinestop being a spussy
>>107846283it would mean nothing because there is only 1 chip fabrication company, tsmc (and samsung and intel and smic, but for GPU's that matter, it's tsmc).do you really think that they would just reduce the prices?If they sell less chips, they will produce less chips, fire people and maybe close some plants, and they will have some lower expenses, and maybe they will sell one of the few EUV fabs for a discount or something and then they could get the next gen EUV fab.And I believe the deals between tsmc and designers like nvidia last a long time (lead time), so once AI does flop, you better hope this isn't another housing market / covid crisis where it turns out that this is the perfect time to buy the dip and make a lot of money.And if Nvidia and AMD canceled orders expecting the worse, we then have a chip shortage because the chip orders were canceled and TSMC sold the capacity to someone else or something.
>>107845272DF John's worked fine throughout a month's worth of testing.This either needs a firmware update or a newer revision.
>>107845295If $300 worth of RAM stopped you from upgrading the rest of those components, you weren't going to make it to begin with.
>>107846391if anything, they will increase the prices of GPU's to offset the losses they made from AI GPU's.Since AI GPU's are making like a 70% margin or something (or maybe that's the total margin of nvidia, maybe AI gpu's are at 300% and the rest is spent on R&D or something), while gaming GPU's make 10-20% or something (sometimes negative depending on the quarter).
>>107845690"HDR Peak 1000 Bright" =/= DisplayHDR True Black 1000 certified mode.It's just another workaround with aggressive ABL like MSI and everyone else's.
>>107845941NVIDIA and their partners didn't release these Pulsar monitors for value-seeking consumers.These techs are developed to make more profits, that's why the prices are high.
>>107846283retards will go all in on bitcoin mining and subsequent rug pull scams, I mean schemes, I mean jewish tricks, I mean illegal practices.
>>107846425make it where?
>>107846323Shipped and sold by Amazon Warehouse. Looks exactly like every other WD SSD I've ordered: a proper serial number, Made in Malaysia, all the warranty papers, etc, except this was the version with the heatsink, so the actual drive itself was hidden. Was immediately suspicious when I threw it into an external reader to check and it was immediately recognized as Local Disk. Then ran CrystalDiskInfo and saw that I had been bamboozled. Someone tossed a WD 250GB datacenter drive into it with 15TB already written and 10% of the "life" gone.
>>107846508now you get to return it and hope scamazon doesn't fuck you on the return
>>107846508>Shipped and sold by Amazon Warehouseyou are grossly misinformed about what amazon isit was also pretty bad when they were first starting out
>shipped and sold by amazon warehouse>warehouseyeah… idk anon I think that’s all on you…you didn’t get scammed lol
>buy from store>store gives you the wrong thing intentionally>umm it's your faultwe don't need you faggots playing defense for trillion dollar corporations
>>107845272Kek is that why pulsar got announced 3 years ago and only just hit the market
>>107846508>Shipped and sold by Amazon Warehouse.You already know by now but Amazon Warehouse is like 100x worse to buy than from random accounts on ebay. I used to avoid buying GPUs from Amazon but HDDs, SSDs and RAM are even becoming too sketchy to buy from there now.
>>107845939>>107846012Stop being a schizo - does your monitor blacks display as purple? Why is it good?
>>107845272don't matterhe'll just buy another one
>>107845302>>107845335I can water cool it!
>>107841790thats like 80 bucks over here
>>107846608>>107846575>>107846530qrd on Amazon Warehouse? More chances to get scammed there because they sell returned and refurbished items or something else (worse)?
>>107846530>you are grossly misinformed about what amazon isDo tell.>>107846528>hope scamazon doesn't fuck you on the returnFirst time dealing with an actual I'm looking forward to it. Last high-value return I did with them it took 2-3 months to get my money back. Ordered a second 8TB just for funsies, so expect another post kvetching about altered-SSDs in the near future.>>107846608>You already know by now but Amazon Warehouse is like 100x worse to buy than from random accounts on ebayYeah it's always a gamble, but it's the first time happening with an SSD (for me). Had 3 4TB and 1 8TB show up as described from the Warehouse, so this'll be the first but maybe not the last. I wish I had been more in-touch with eBay buying before prices exploded because there were some solid deals.>>107846683Amazon Warehouse/Amazon Resale is just how Amazon re-lists returned items at lower prices. They label stuff as Used-Like New/Good/Acceptable etc with descriptions for each. During Prime Days, they'll randomly discount stuff sold via Warehouse by up to 30% the already discounted price. Main issue is that their descriptions are often not accurate to the condition the item is actually in. Sometimes you get a Like New that's very clearly Heavily Used, and sometimes you get an Acceptable that looks like it hasn't even been opened. It's a more fun/slightly less risky form of gambling, basically.
>>107846508The sn850x 8tb I ordered from regular Amazon for $650 a year ago was a returned item but was brand new and legitimate
>>107846711>First time dealing with an actual [counterfeit]*>>107846718Yeah, the one other 8TB I ordered (from Amazon) was an SN850X and, as far as I could tell, it was legit. Crystal Disk Info had some issues with it, i.e. it recognized it was 8TB but was throwing an "Unknown" in the description, which was a little odd. I'll probably need to double check to make sure it's not a more elaborate fake now, but since Disk Management showed it with 8TB(ish) of space and CDI recognized it, it should probably be fine.
>>107846654TELL ME WHAT THIS ISI CANT CONTAIN MY NOCTUA BONER
>>107846283AI is going to get worse before it gets betterfirst they came for the GPUs, then they came for the SSDs, now they got the ram, next they go for the CPUs.
>>107846777trips of truth
>>107846711>Sometimes you get a Like New that's very clearly Heavily Used, and sometimes you get an Acceptable that looks like it hasn't even been opened. It's a more fun/slightly less risky form of gambling, basically.Can't you just return the item, if it's in bad shape or doesn't match the description? Amazon does have pretty good return policy in general (i used it myself once, they reimbursed the cost of the item + shipping costs) to the point that people actually abuse it. In my case was amazon.de though, maybe it's different in the US/elsewhere.The only way how you probably get scammed by them is if they refuse to reimburse you (in case you decide to return your item) or subtract some amount of money from the reimbursement, because they will decide it's no longer "like new".
>>107846777Nothing will be spared
>>107846844>Can't you just return the item, if it's in bad shape or doesn't match the description?Yeah, you can. That's why it's a less risky form of gambling. That said, as someone from the US, I've had Amazon "issue" a refund but I don't actually get the money back until well over a month later. For low value items they'll typically offer an advance refund, i.e. they'll immediately credit your payment method as soon as you drop off the to-be-returned item, but for high value stuff it usually takes quite a while which is annoying.
Fuck it I bought it. I might even go triple fan and buy another NF-A14x25r.My 9800X3D deserves to be cooled... and no thanks I don't want to mess with AIO.Only thing that kind of scares me is how much it weighs, but I imagine Noctua wouldn't make a cooler that broke motherboards...Also, WTF is going on with AM5 mobo prices? Y'all say RAM, GPU etc going up but my X870E motherboard just went up $150, are mobo makers preparing a refresh or is it just market adjustment due to the RAM/GPU due to lower sales?
>>107841602scrounge up an extra $20 at least
>>107846777>more scamsthey dont use the same cpu's consumer home pc users do
>>107846898I wish I bought it
>>107846893>>107846844Whole Foods drop off really expedited my back to credit card returns.Just returned an NVME myself.Takes about 3 weeks.
>>107846909no, but they do use the same fabs dummy, those fabs could be used to make much more expensive AI components
>>107846898PC component manufacturers will be raising prices in an attempt to offset the overall reduction in sales volume.Raw material costs are also rising.
>>107846898>are mobo makers preparing a refresh or is it just market adjustmentIt's a bit of both. We're coming off end of year sales, so prices are returning to pre-holiday "normal" and on top of that, to offset additional expenses they're going to accrue from increasing memory prices several manufacturers have explicitly mentioned they intend to raise prices on their other products. Also, I know for sure GIGABYTE and MSI are in the midst of releasing a motherboard refresh line (the "X3D and "MAX/EVO" lines respectively), so they're probably trying to make their new stuff more appealing by raising the price on the old stuff, i.e. "Why pay $300 for that icky X870E Tomahawk when you could pay just $20 more for this shiny newe X870E Tomahawk MAX and guarantee your motherboard is Zen 6 compatible?"
>>107846912Save up. Looks sexy. Huge contact bottom. I got standard in case I want to reuse it in 10 years with either Intel or AMD's new sockets.Doesn't seem wise to get an LBC model for my AM5 when a) doesn't come in black 2) marginal increase over standard 3) will be worse than an old D15/S if I end up going back to Intel in the futurehttps://www.noctua.at/en/expertise/tech/nh-d15-g2-versions-heatsink-contact-quality-optimisation-explained
>>107846951Makes sense. Hopefully my MSI MPG X870E is future proofed. Currently using 2 NVME slots but will fill the third in the future. If SSD ever returns to normal I'll get a fourth and debate dropping my PCIE 5 x16 to x8 as it will marginally drop my 5070 Ti's potential.
>>107845272pulsarfags were shilling in overdrive for this shit lmaoIPS will NEVER be relevant again
>>107845827damn i was jealous when you posted too
>>107846988The overheating issue is limited to a few defective batches.This is why you always wait 2~3 months until you purchase a brand new product.Plenty OLED monitors had janky VRR, panel protect, and HDR EOTF tracking issues.
