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Think for yourself. Do not trust advice given here. Do your own research using the information in the stickies.
>A /pcbg/ for every use case and budget!

>News & Rumors
NEW 5K27 MONITOR REVIEW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tg1aVeKakE
The Steam console will cost more than projected because of RAM prices
Memory situation unlikely to get better until at least 2027
New DLSS presets using DLSS 4.5, M and L (specifically for ultra-performance). Turing & Ampere significant performance hit, issues on ada & low end blackwell
6x and dynamic framegen coming in the spring
G-Sync Pulsar is being reviewed
ARC B390 iGPU has some anons excited
Prices rise for everything. Anons keep bitching about it.

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

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

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

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

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

>Other helpful Links
Mobomaps, 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_PC
German autism : https://www.igorslab.de/en/
Monitor reviews : https://www.rtings.com/

Say No To Bullying ITT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwatnrbwEnQ

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Report all flamewarring, trolling, spamming posts. Long live /pcbg/!

Post your /pcbg/ anyway but know that we have enraged the amdshitposter to the degree that he has vowed to shit up this thread with trash with the goal of killing it.

Remain vigilant, /pcbg/, report in silence, and above all - have fun.

Spotting the shitposters: the shitposters may be working at gunpoint in a bot farm, paid shill/bot farm, lone schizo, etc. the shitposters rarely ever just tags the OP and asks for it to be updated or changed as asked for in the second part of the sticky. they also resort to things like ad hominem, racism, cherry picked benchmarks, false information, etc. and one of my favorite things is the lone post tagging no one but responding to some previous reply to whatever argument it felt it was losing or with a one-liner just to flood the vapid minds of the unwashed masses with <specific vendors products>. the shitposters necropost old tropes to flood the threads and bump post counts e.g. random garbage questions that any /noob/ would just google or disingenuous descriptions of problems that are copypasta with a few words changed in them. Single line, low-quality posts are often the copypasta. Most recently the OP appears to be trying a super stealth approach - creating the OP with only "subtle" alterations like "-Avoid Nvidia Due To Possible Melting Connectors & Driver Problems", griefing /g/ by creating and self deleting the thread after a short while, deleting the OP img, shilling native vs upscaling, etc.

Can we get an anti-AMD OP just for variety?
Recommend people get an Nvidia Spark.

>>108164548
no, we have njeetia shills in every thread posting 100 times, that's enough

Should I return my $60 Phantom Spirit 120 while I still have one day left (I forgot I might still do this) and buy a Dark Rock Pro 5 instead if I wanted better fans from the beginning, or should I put that towards an AIO like the Silent Loop 3 360 for $160?

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>>108164548
>Can we get an anti-AMD OP just for variety?
Not from this OP, who is more of the non-shillling technically oriented market-driven sort of shitposter that only occasionally gets pic related.

>>108164588
Nevermind on that first part, how the fuck does the Dark Rock Pro 5 lose to the Phantom Spirit 120? I guess adding two Silent Wings 4 fans would still be more expensive than just buying it outright used, which would explain the cost to performance ratio.

Still, I'm tempted to try an AIO and have it not suck with pump noise, which is hear is a problem on the LF3 360. Though I think that most of the cost of these products are still going to be the fans...

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HDD GURUS

REC ME A HELIUM CMR DISK DRIVE
I want to buy two before shit hits the fan and use one as a mirror backup for the other drive every month via external dock

Please help
(Panic because of pic related)

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>>108163629
I was starting to get swayed towards WOLED because supposedly the "only" downside to WOLED vs QD OLED was the lower brightness which Tandem WOLED was supposed to have fixed
then further digging and everyone other than Youtube review shills were complaining about the egregious banding issue all WOLEDs have, and only RTNGs agreed they wouldn't recommend WOLED over QD OLED due to the banding issues they've seen
So now I'm back to considering the Asus PG32UCDM3 once it comes out. I've only found a single review which has actually discussed the coating who said that the previous model was like a "soft" layer whilst the new one is noticeably harder now. The tendency to scratch was my main concern, I'm not here to baby my fucking monitor

>>108164756
>I want to buy two before shit hits the fan
ehhh too late

>>108164756
Toshina MG 14TB and up is helium I think

>>108164756
>before shit hits the fan
>he doesn't know
lol

https://youtube.com/shorts/AEAW41pPVDk
I'm thinking about replicating this build, but matching the 6 Silent Wings 4 fans in this case (with another 2 on the CPU cooler) would cost me... 245 dollars inside of a 110-100 dollar case (assuming a new Pure Base 501 or 600, undecided between the two).. with a 60 dollar CPU cooler... what is the point of doing this now?

I would kill for a build like that if it is as quiet at it seems, but seems like terrible cost effectiveness. I could have afforded a new CPU + AIO for that much combined, or one full tower.

One thing I've noticed with pairing a ~350w GPU with a ryzen 7000 series CPU (which run hot as fuck already) in a mATX mobo is that the back plate gets super hot and its like an inch below my thermalright phantom spirit which despite being dual tower, still can't keep my CPU below 70C sometimes at like 40% load so it becomes loud. I wonder if I can get a riser to move the GPU to another part of the case or maybe I should just go for water cooling on the CPU. Or both water cooling and upgrading to an RTX 50 series which will run quiet and cooler.

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The HX1500i is 20% off right now. My next build is a 5090 + 9950x3d but I don't know if I should go for 1500w or 1200w when there's only a £25 difference between the two and physically they're the same size

>>108164931
If truly 5090 then go 1500w as it will help with transients and the PSU fan won't be on as much
Downside: less efficient at smaller loads until it ramps up

Also you mentioned 1500i but your pic shows the shift version --- you need to clarify, is it the normal or shift version?

Also check this:
https://hwbusters.com/psus/corsair-hx1500i-shift-atx-v3-1-psu-review/11/

https://hwbusters.com/psus/seasonic-prime-tx-1600-atx-v3-0-psu-review/11/

>>108164905
Which Ryzen 7000 series CPU? That generation can get hot.

>>108165040
7500f

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When more than 32 gibibytes of ddr5 RAM memory will be affordable again?

>>108165106
I bought extra just in case. You missed your chance. Everyone was begging you to buy and now it's too late.

Why is there no black or white version of the regular Phantom Spirit 120 as opposed to the SE?

>>108165106
Another year and a half if we're lucky and the Chinese newcomers actually deliver the goods. Otherwise 2029 the earliest. I'm glad I decided to upgrade at the end of 2024. Although I should've got 64Gb in hindsight.

>>108165143
Also, is it just me or do regular silver towers make me feel insecure nowadays with every case being either glossy black or white as well?

Is now a good time to buy a monitor or should you waitfag?

I'm looking for a 1440p gaming montior on the more affordable side.

Any recommendations? OLED? Fast VA?

>>108165152
the Chinese have no incentive to sell to consumers either

>>108165176
I doubt USA spook datacenters would be itching to put chinese electronics in their setups lol

Also more supply = lower price so I'm rooting for CHYNA

>>108165152
Chinese companies have already announced they want to pivot to HBM

Well, I just bought a couple of drives off amazon, thought it was a good deal, and amazon was the seller, but it's some seller who only has the drives listed. Considering cancelling since it seems shady.

>>108164812
>lower brightness
as I've learned first hand color brightness also plays a part in how this is viewed which after using low color gamut low brightness monitor I vowed to always colormaxx after this fact
white subpixel woled will also have lower color luminance

rtings also don't recommend woled tvs for pc use over qd due to dithering due to fix near black chrominance overshoot and so on

>the coating
I feel they are overplaying the coating a bit too much it's totally cleanable but microscratches and soft being a thing but don't think it's THAT insane of a problem
eye strain more of a problem before that IF you are prone to it or the coating causes that

so everything is shit to various levels choose your least shit

https://youtu.be/ARC7w6FSHFg

>>108165169
>OLED? Fast VA?
fastest panel vs slowest panel
the comparison always is so strange to me
how are they grouped together? just because muh contrast?
best time to buy was the cheaper 240hz qdoled msi on black friday maybe
if you find something for sub 400 dollaridoos maybe good

>>108165106
Never. They want to remove the concept of personal computers by 2030. You vil own nozing und you vil be hhhhhappy (read in israeli accent).

>>108165497
My 5090 will still be kicking ass.

>>108165169
If you use your PC only for gaming and media -> OLED
If you use your PC for entertainment AND work/reading/hobbies with static UIs (that includes anything from excel to blender) -> miniLED IPS

https://www.notebookcheck.net/MSI-s-5-090-RTX-5090-Lightning-Z-cracks-from-thermal-shock-during-2-500W-BIOS-test.1227583.0.html
ayy lmao

>>108165504
Not when Nvidia will not release drivers anymore and when games will not even be released to the public but only available on Amazon/Meta/Palantir/whatever cloud gaming platforms.

>>108165526
Exclusives have been kicking game developers in the ass for 10 years. I'd like to see them try.

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Why the FUCK do we still not have a micro center in canada??!?!?!?!?!?!? Where the fuck am I supposed to find good combo deals...

>>108165541
Big tech companies have literally infinite money (since they're propped up by the CIA/Mossad), they will give game devs far more money than they could ever dream of and trap videogames to their Palantir-scanned cloud platforms so the goyim feel compelled to use them.

>>108165599
I think at that point gaming will be dead

multiplayer gaming will definitely feel like shit

>>108165318
the problem with amazon drives is that they might be grey market drives from other regions so you end up with 0 warranty coverage

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This ABL shit is crazy

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>>108165106
https://wccftech.com/cxmt-ymtc-removed-from-pentagon-list-opening-door-for-chinese-dram-adoption/

>ChangXin Memory Technologies, Inc. (CXMT)
>Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. (YMTC)

So just a couple of days ago a document was published, then retracted, that suggested updates to the US Department of Defense/War's list of restricted companies. The two companies listed above were given exemptions to the restricted list, allowing them to do business in the US.

Given how long it will take for any plans to be ironed out, It's probably still a year if not more until cheap RAM. That's assuming companies want to play the "individual Consumer" game, rather than doubling down on the AI market which is seemingly proven profitable to manufacturers so far.

The latter seems more the case to me, as there's been such a big push for the AI Data Centers, Flock System Cameras, and general "Own Nothing and Be Happy"-ness that companies have been building for the past few years. Sure, consumers will see high prices start to round out but a majority of those components won't be in our hands, it'll be in the hands of Zuck, Thiel, Gates, and their cronies.

>>108165608
Not at all. In fact, there will be an absolute gaming explosion. All your favourite franchises will receive a fancy new game with superb quality. Game studios will grow like mushrooms. Game dev salaries will raise exponentially. Graphics will skyrocket, gameplay will magically improve, every new game will have hundreds of hours of content. But! They will all be exclusives for the Palantir Magic Box™. The goyim will happily herd themselves into surveillance hell so they can play the cool new games.

>>108165599
wasn't there already some bitching cause of those subscription like PS or Xbox offer from devs that they don't really earn anything from them? I'd argue people would rather return to retro hardware and more affordable alternatives than renting cloud shit.

>>108165624
>cheap ram
not happening
it's off so apple and the AI companies can buy that ram too

are there any good miniled monitors

>>108165628
>Game dev salaries will raise exponentially
The Matrix broke for me here. Can anyone kindly reinsert me to the simulation.

>>108165638
I got a Xiaomi G Pro 27i last year, it's pretty decent. I mostly use it as a normal IPS panel because miniLED makes text look really bad (in general, not just for this monitor), I turn on local dimming when playing games and especially watching movies and it look great. The firmware on the monitor can't be updated though and older version have a red tint problem, it's easily fixable by just increasing the blue saturation by 2 or 3 points in the monitor menu or Nvidia control panel.

>>108165638
I had a quick look for 32" miniled and the result was that they're all old models

>>108164548
This isn't a /g/ humor thread.

>>108164479
HDD is RIP soon, and there's news about CPU being next. How likely am I getting fucked if I want to wait for Aliexpress' anniversary sale next month?

>>108165653
>I mostly use it as a normal IPS panel because miniLED makes text look really bad (in general, not just for this monitor)
Really? I didn't know that. How bad is it? I was already caught up in the "Mini led is just as good as oled without the downsides" hype

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This is a peripheral but I need a good pair of on ear headphones that are ideally below $100, at most $200. I've had these MDR-V150's for years but they are getting really old and I have never been able to find anything that sounds as good and feels as comfy as these.

As a thank you to any who provide info, I offer a wallpaper that gives me the giggles.

>>108165678
hope CPUs aren't next because I still need to acquire a 9950x3d

>>108165681
Anon should ask in /hpg/ (headphones general) >>>/g/hpg

>>108165678
/waitfagging/ is all the rage these days. Best of luck.

>>108165678
Consumer supply for CPUs seems okay for now, I havent' seen any rumblings from AMD or Intel that they are going to drop consumer production to favour their server chips just yet.

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>>108164588
> Silent Loop 3 360 for $160?
Picrel is the better deal and you can get it just as silent simply by throttling the pump to ~2,100 rpm.
I own and recommend beQuiet's cases and PSUs but not their AIOs, sorry. They always sucked and the refill port doesn't make up for this.

>>108165737
No they're just saying "lmao fuck poor people"

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-ceo-downplays-pc-memory-crunch-saying-our-focus-areas-are-enterprise-company-wants-to-focus-on-growing-higher-end-of-the-market

>>108165680
It's not bad in the sense it's unreadable, it's just that when you are reading a white text with black and especially grey background, the text will be dimmed out and will be ugly and slightly unclear/blurry. Still, if you're reading a lot on your PC then OLED is already off the charts due to burn in, so miniLED is your only option if you want OLED-tier good colors for games/movies.

>>108165737
Server CPU's are having "severe" supply issues right now in China, so the next logical step is for them to redirect production away from consumer grade ones.

>>108164644
> I'm tempted to try an AIO and have it not suck with pump noise, which is hear is a problem on the LF3 360.
Again: this isn't a problem at all. Just throttle the pump via PWM control in your BIOS or motherboard app from 100% ~2,800rpm to 75% ~2,100rpm and it will be inaudible next to your case fans. There is no need to have the pump run at 100% all the time, it doesn't improve the cooling in any noticeable way, it only wears it out faster than necessary. I cool a PBOCed 9950X3D like this and it never even scratches 80°C. ALF3 Pro is the best performing AIO currently on the market, also the best value. The only reason not to get one is a limitation in radiator thickness due to bad choice of case/motherboard.

>>108165894
>The only reason not to get one is a limitation in radiator thickness
Yep, the LF IIi Pro line are fat boys, but they work really well. I have mine using the 3 individual control cables for pump/VRM/radiator. Cool and quiet.

Ran the numbers on a "silence at any cost" build... not looking pretty value-wise, such is the cost of a luxury premium trap.

>Pure Base 501 or Pure Base 600 is about 350-400 PLN
>Refitting a Phantom Spirit 120 with new fans can cost either 100 for PW3, or 200 for SW4 on top of it already costing 210 PLN
>If I decide to ditch my P14 Pro and go all be quiet! on my case, I would have to end up buying 4, 6, or 8 fans in total. 130ish for a 3-pack of PW3's (2 for the cooler, 1 for exhoost), then 4 or 5 for the rest of the case depending on if it's a PB600 or 500/501 would be 200-250ish. If it's the Silent Wings 4 though? Double that to 450.

All in all, depending on what I could do here that winds up being a CPU upgrade (any AM4 CPU, or up to a 7800X3D if I was on AM5), or a GPU upgrade (could have spent more on a 5070 Ti even at current prices) in extra cost for possibly marginal gains. What a lovely way to burn your money with these brands.

>>108165947
the quietest build would be to watercool the entire thing, not that I recommend it after doing it once

>>108165793
That's only a $40 difference here between the PS120 and the LF3 360... maybe I should return this thing after all and give the Liquid Freezer a shot after all. Might help my case thermals for all I know.

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>Finally get everything set up and working.
>Feel like I've finally jumped over all the hurdles.
>Notice my new monitor has a dead pixel.
Dagnabbit

>>108165106
When you got more money, simple as.

>>108165169
> a 1440p gaming montior on the more affordable side
In this case waiting makes no sense. Get an IPS for 200 bucks and be happy.

>>108165962
I don't know, a Pure Base 500 loaded up with 6x 140mm Silent Wings 4 fans and 2x 120mm Silent Wings 4 fans on the CPU cooler could be the most baller sounding desktop computer you can build without liquids, acoustically speaking.

>installed build into lian li 217
>decide to give default fans a chance
>low rpm coil whine, mid rpm resonance, high rpm coil whine
as allways, you get what you pay for. at least it doesnt hurt trashing them on a 100$ case.

>>108165512
OLED displays are not "on the more affordable side".

>>108165732
Aliexpress' last big sale was November 11/11, I only hopped on the panic PC building on the week of Christmas. 30% cash back is fucking huge in these desperate times.

Thinking of downgrading from my 64GB CL30 DDR5 ram to a spare 32GB CL30 DDR5 kit I have. These $900 used prices are looking juicy.

>>108166026
all i can say is look for used fans
sw3 are not worse than 4, nf p12 are not worse than sw3.
They are no airflo beasts but both will run miles around any new chink pwm crap. I never had a noctua or be quiet fan with motor noise

>>108166031
Hint: put resistors on every other fan to help with the beat pulse / resonance

Thank me later

>thousands of hours on my OLED monitor(TV)
>check for burn in
>nothing
I've owned this TV for 4 years now. 50 pixel brightness for SDR, and max brightness HDR for gaming/movies. Even on my older CX I didn't get ANY burn-in, it just died from pixel failure due to factory issues (got a full refund after 5 years lmao)

>>108165598
>Where the fuck am I supposed to find good combo deals...
You didnt buy the course
do what J***s does and use a us shipping service and import to canada tax free

>>108165616
>brighter full screen
>brighter peaks
if you want brightness buy a 55" oled tv

>>108165638
no

>>108165681
apple wired earbuds (not a joke)
you don't need more

>>108165978
the buy and return journey begins

>>108166061
no one is buying that, that's the joke
only retards trying to bait and nobody is buying

>>108166091
how many hours? tvs feel more resistant than monitors for sure

>>108166097
>the buy and return journey begins
I've bought and returned so many things to Amazon in the past week. The people at the UPS store are going to start recognizing me at this rate.

>>108165497
> They want to remove the concept of personal computers by 2030.
They can't. Individuals and companies will always need and want PCs for work, for content creation, streaming etc.
If there is a demand there will be a market. It may get more expensive, sure, but what doesn't?

>>108166075
They get trashed and replaced by not shit 140mm fans.
but thanks, i will try out a low noise adpter just to see

What the fuck is the meta for storing data now? Is it cost effective to start hoarding blank BDs to burn?

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>>108166067
I started reading into SW3 vs SW4 and PW3 since the latter seem to be almost as new as the SW4 and the former 9 years old and found myself in a rabbit hole.

>>108166132
Can't want a PC for work if there are no PCs available anymore. Companies will switch to Palantir platforms instantly and the goyim will follow.

>>108166154
It was building your own NAS

>>108165176
China doesn't play solely for profit, they play for control. Controlling the entire consumer market gives them massive cultural power and give western companies nowhere to retreat to when China starts making better enterprise products also.

>>108166031
IDK how case manufacturers manage to find such garbage fans.
Used to think it was because I used to buy off-brand cases but I guess not.
You can't even buy such bad fans. The cheapest thermalright will outlast them by a mile.

Only 2 fans I ever considered "quality" out of a case was 2 corsair fans and the 230mm fans from an Azza case. All the rest died as in stopped moving or are unbearable. Never had a fan I actually bought die like that.

>use rdna2 card with a 1440p@165hz monitor
>works perfectly fine
>switch to a rdna4 card
>suddenly I get black screens unless I set the refresh rate to 144hz, perfectly functional besides this issue
What the fuck is this witchcraft?

>>108166132
>need and want PCs for work, for content creation, streaming etc.
the data centers will do this you will simply access their compute power from a mini pc
it's real and it's happening

>>108166177
> if there are no PCs available anymore
This is not going to happen in my lifetime.

>>108165497
>da jewz!
It’s almost like you don’t want us to talk about Microsoft and nvidia who are the ones doing this to us

>>108166067
Can you really trust people selling used Silent Wings fans if they're supposed to last a lifetime or otherwise? I mean why would they be getting rid of them? They think it doesn't have enough airflow? Those Silent Wing 3's ought to be 9 years old at the eldest, I mean when were they retired? Same goes for people selling SW4, those are only 2 years old...

>>108166252
Did you clean up the old drivers etc.. etc..?

>>108166272
It's happening in the next 4 years.
>>108166279
All big tech companies are owned by Israel. They want to push everyone into AI-scanned cloud platforms for surveillance, and also possibly so they can stage a society-destroying AI collapse (that wouldn't work if people have personal devices they can rely on) and then summon the Antichrist by making a chosen jew sorcerer into the "scientist who saved the world" by attributing the victory against rogue AI to him, a new Solomon who binds demons, a new temple-builder. And don't hit me with "da jooz", it's not even been a month since the Epstein files came out and proved "conspiracy theories" right.

>>108166305
I completely wiped my current drive and installed a new OS and also tried windows just in case. It persisted between the changes. I'm almost 99% sure it's an hardware issue but I don't get why the fuck it's doing that.

System specs are 10700k, 32gb of ddr4 ram and a 4070ti at 4k. I've been hitting the 32gb limit with some modded games and I also have to close all my browsers and stuff before playing certain ones. Latest game I'm playing is Endfield and it mostly runs fine at near max but it stutters sometimes when I load in and it has fps drops during battle.
I assume this is a cpu issue and I do want more ram too so I've been thinking about buying another 32gb of dd4 ram and upgrading to the 14400. Is this my best course of action?

>>108166316
Try a newer/better cable maybe? IDK, anon, I hate problems like this, very hard to track down the root cause.

>>108166291
NTA but I got rid of most of my fans well before you'd consider them bad.
Decent fans can last a really long time if spun down for idle

>>108166269
It's like talking about terraforming Mars. I can't take it seriously.

>>108166337
Yeah I guess I'll do this, but I don't get how the cable could be fine for an older card and faulty for a newer one? How would this make sense?

>>108166362
IDK but I like to try the simple fixes first. Maybe the new card is more sensitive to cable spec.

>>108166306
Nothing will ever happen. The banks already stopped giving any more money for this nonsense. The bubble is bursting. You can't build enough NPPs in just 4 years to power all those fancy data centers. "AI" hit the wall.

>>108165106
Really depends on things slowing down or not. Supposedly the datacenter side is slowing down, though that could be more roadblocks rather than interest diminishing.
The main reason everything is being bought up is because all the AI companies are trying to deny each other hardware, they don't care if it's actually used, it's stopping their competition getting it.

>>108166385
>AI companies are trying to deny each other hardware, they don't care if it's actually used, it's stopping their competition getting it.
So does that mean those filthy kikes are getting all the shit they can and not even using it to out jew the other?

>>108166406
Yes, all that hardware is sitting in a leaky shed and will never be used or resold.

>>108163074
Nobody even needs a new console. PS5 can already run everything you may ever want to run including cutting edge ultra realistic budget bloat graphics that look boring as fuck. Releasing what would essentially be a physical version update for it would just result in the same exact games but allow devs to half-ass even more.

>>108166340
I'll humor you. Do you have any idea as to how the Light Wings fans, such as their high speed variants, might perform relative to the Silent Wings 3 or Pure Wings 3? I'm definitely one of those people who prefers case fans and CPU fans to not exceed 1200 RPM. I heard the 140mm Pure Wings 3 might be a bit rumbly, for example.

>>108166441
Can you pirate all games on a PS5, though?

If you pirate twenty 70$ games you basically just got $1400 of value from your PC.

>>108166406
Who knows, but it's basically corporate panic buying.

>>108166441
The funniest part about the idea of a PS6 is that the PS5 only recently started getting actual exclusives that weren't also on the PS4. What a flop of a generation.

>>108166521
>hey man i want an AIO cooler for my GPU bro, instead of a regular water block
>i also want a screen on it because.....i'm retarded i guess?

>>108166521
Why not just go open loop. It's cheaper and better.

>/g/ constantly complains about computers being too accessible to normies
>This happens
>/g/ constantly whines
Save up your money, you can build something entry level for under a grand, and $1500-2k for something with a GPU.
Surely you can afford 2 grand right?

The future is looking bright for PC chads.

>>108166521
How do others get past the fact this doesn't have $3k extra worth of hardware compared to any other 5090?
Or is this exclusively for the completely irrational?

If MSI sent a cute gook to hand deliver it and swap it out when it went bad, I can almost see it. There is enough margin for it lmao

>>108166521
I'll never understand this modern trend of having tiny screens inside of your computer.

>>108166593
I have a screen on the front of my PC. It's just temps because I'm water cooled.

>>108166536
>>108166593
I keep my PC in a closet. I put a hole through the wall so I didn't have to keep the PC in my room or ever hear the fans.
I couldn't imagine wasting money on something I'd never see.

>>108166573
Its for XOCers like HOF editions. its not for us. Its the only 5090 that can do 1200w without blowing up because its overbuilt as fuck.

>>108166593
Lian Li and glass cases have had a terrible effect on the PC building aesthetics

>>108166598
That at least makes sense since it's on the front and is acutally useful. I've seen so many builds where the CPU cooler or some other random part just has some animated gif on it. Seems so unnecessary for something you'll probably never look at.

>>108166573
These things are binned from the factory. Only 2000 are made worlwide.

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>$104.94 down from 104.99
Wow. Thanks, Newegg.

>>108166025
My max budget is 400 maybe 500

>>108166630
It's just like gauges in your car. I've caught my fan profiles fucking up before thanks to it.

>>108166615
>>108166632
Seems kinda dumb if it's all packaged like a consumer product with XOCers doing LN2 anyway.
I guess it would instill the feeling that you got the best or could maybe and maybe that's worth 5k to some.

The high level leaderboards is going to be a dirty game anyway. Who is actually going to give their actual best cards away to randoms?

>looking up the light wings lx and high speed fans
>wow, this seems like incredible value, what's the catch
>it loses to every single fucking fan in noise-normalized benches because the high speed variants are LOUD AS BALLS even at lower decibels according to STS numbers
>even the Arctic P12 is quieter
For fuck's sake. So this is why you can't trust RGB fans. How do you fail at being quiet this much?

>>108166644
>>$104.94
$104.95 actually

Just read a corsair blog post about how white pc builds offer better "heat reflection".

Give me a fucking break.

>>108166751
I want to do a white build at some point if only so I don't need 1500 lumen bulbs and flashlights to see inside my case when I have no sunlight.

>>108166521
Just get RTX PRO 6000 at this point. It has at least actually better specs, more cache, triple the VRAM and several features not found on normal 5090.

>>108166763
My next build is a mostly white build just because I've realised black furniture and devices show dust more easily
My GPU is black though because I'm not paying +30% just to get a white one

>>108163458
what prevents people from just climbing through his window and snatching his entire setup at night?

>>108166819
Homogenous society

>>108166819
You are aware that people get their shit stolen from in the US, where they have guns to shoot invaders, right?

>>108166710
Okay so I did some more digging, apparently it's the 140mm high speed variant and the 120mm lx variant that are crappy in particular.

>>108166817
>show dust more easily
This may be an advantage depending on how you feel about PC cleaning. But it can be less depressing to go all white.

Huffing copium and telling myself this is a blip for a year or two

>>108166819
It's impossible not to make a crap ton of noise just moving the chair and things.

>>108166817
white shows grime and dirt easier though

also the possibility it will discolor after a long while

>>108166896
It's a PC tower, if it's getting covered in grime and dirt there's bigger issues

>>108166895
idk man it looks like you can literally reach in from the outside and just yoink all of it

>>108166912
Easier said than done. You need a ladder, enough food & water in your third world belly to be strong enough to carry everything, and all while making no noise.

>>108164756
you need a COPIUM disk drive

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>Buy 5070 new about a month ago
>Plays Total warhammer 3, FF7 remake, cyberpunk, MH wilds just fine for like 6-8 hours no issues
>Driver will crash once a week or so when browsing the web
I don't know what's going on. Did I get a shitty GPU or is this an issue happening to anyone else? I'm on the latest driver and all that.

>>108166692
There are like 2 or 3 variants of the Lightning.
https://videocardz.com/newz/msi-geforce-rtx-5090-lightning-has-three-variants-lightning-x-model-also-revealed
The most extreme variant is without any cooler and not for sale supposedly.
>I guess it would instill the feeling that you got the best
But the best is the RTX PRO 6000, and not some meme card.
>Who is actually going to give their actual best cards away to randoms?
They are not, there are 1300 copies worldwide, at least 1/3 if not more were given away to various MSI "friends" and shills, jewtubers, tech sites redactions etc. plenty are given in giveaways to get attention, and some are sold for huge prices, in some countries with additional lotteries to draw the chance to purchase it.
In my country one shop sells it without lottery, they want around 5350 EUR for it. RTX Pro can be purchased for around 9000, and once I have seen an open box for 8000. If I had 5350 for GPU only I would as well save some more and get the PRO instead.

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>>108166910
>if it's getting covered in grime and dirt there's bigger issues
Anons I have been /pcbg/ for a long time, have serviced many systems. Most are just ordinary dust but some just make me want to hurl.

>wear gloves

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>>108166949
That's just the normal njeetia experience. Should have bought 9070 xt when it was at msrp a few months ago in the fall last year. Now you're stuck with an unstable slow gpu with insufficient vram for 1440p gaming

>>108166910
just touching it can leave handprints

>>108166949
Your RAM could just be unstable. Chrome will show instability fast if your RAM isn't good. It's not the high utilization but the rapid context switching from tabs.

>>108166999
I'm using firefox and prior to my 5070 my priot GPU was having 0 issues and this wasn't happening before.
Looking it up though it seems this is something of a known problem so hopefully its not just me.

>>108167009
idk what your old gpu is but you most likely have Rebar/SAM enabled and that requires 100% stable ram or it all falls apart.

>>108166956
I mean, this is kind of the whole upmarket sector. People with too much money paying more because they can, even if there's zero benefit. I wouldn't care before but now every single fucking industry is focusing on upmarket.

>>108167019
It was a 2060.
How can I disable Rebar/SAM? I'm just not sure what the issue is because I'm not having any issues in game, its just when I'm browsing the web.

>>108164756
Don't use helium drives, when the helium leaks (and it will do so) you are fucked. Common HDs have potentially longer lifespans.

>>108167009
>firefox
Turn off HW acceleration in FF as a test?

>>108167019
>you most likely have Rebar/SAM enabled and that requires 100% stable ram
Also requires 100% stable PCIe, if using a riser cable try forcing lower PCIe speed for testing.

Cost too much. Locked into my old build

>>108167028
in the bios. disable above 4g decoding and rebar and see if it resolves.

>>108164812
>I'm not here to baby my fucking monitor
impossible with an oled especially qd-oled
I don't feel like believing the youtuber I saw (Display Guy) who said it won't scratch easily

>>108165106
You will buy somewhat decent computers as servers from Dell, go register your LLC.

>>108167046
OK, I'll try that for a bit.

>spending more than the cost of a 360mm aio on meme case fans
ishygddt

>>108167029
>when the helium leaks (and it will do so)
Post links to reputable expert testimony of this or you are a larping armchair engineer.

>>108167040
>Cost too much. Locked into my old build
>>108164483
>Prices rise for everything. Anons keep bitching about it.

>>108167053
>>I'm not here to baby my fucking monitor
>impossible with an oled especially qd-oled
I so very wanted OLED for this current build. Use case pointed to burn in.

>dammit

>>108167029
>Don't use helium drives, when the helium leaks (and it will do so) you are fucked
oh SHIT I still have some old drives lying around in my room, am I gonna fucking DIE??

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Welp, I boughted. Not really any reviews out on it, but I can just return it if I hate it. Doubt it as my current monitor is a 1440p aoc miniled with like 1/8 the dimming zones. I'll let you all know how it is.

>>108167053
I don't 100% believe any of the faggots shill OLEDs for a living, but the next batch of OLEDs having a new coating is at least a fact. I'm buying one with the expectation that I'd replace it after a couple years with whatever the next iterative step of OLEDs are, which will probably be even better coating + RGB subpixel layout
Or Pulsar reaches a point where it's viable in a 32 inch format

>>108167076
It should be pretty gud for SDR. HDR is a different story.

>>108167078
>I don't 100% believe any
thing you read on 4chan.

>buying one with the expectation that I'd replace it after
/consoom/erism. I get it though, at least you have a realistic expectation for it's lifecycle.

>>108166489
I'm not talking about PS5 vs PC but about the diminishing returns we're deep into.

>>108167087
>HDR is a different story.
Huh, is it that bad? I have zero HDR experience and just don't use it on my Q27G3XMN because it looked bad.

Is a 3-pack of Light Wings 120mm and 140mm fans for a total of 6 PWM fans worth it for $85?

>>108166489
>games on a PS5

>>108167104
It gets brighter than OLED but the colors dont pop as much and you have far worse contrast. Its not a bad HDR experience if the game is bright but if its dark like Resident Evil 9 then the contrast issues will be noticeable.

>>108167009
DDU?

>>108167130
I'll keep that in mind, thanks! I would love to go with an oled but I'm a bit of an mmo fiend so static ui elements on screen for 10+ hours at a time is the norm.

>>108167145
I fully uninstalled my old drivers in safemode with DDU so I dunno if that would be the case but I can try uninstalling and reinstalling drivers.

>>108167153
You have any windows updates lately. W11 has been a constant shit show. I cant tell how many time windows has fucked shit up.

>>108167166
I elected for extended security updates to windows 10 and haven't moved to 11 just yet, because I heard its garbage.

>>108167172
You can try reinstalling drivers. I had an issue about six months ago where Photoshop kept crashing and some how it was a driver issue. Once reinstalled it cleared up. Very odd.

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Have people actually had issues with Windows 11 or does everyone just believe the articles?
Been on 11 since beta, the one bug I've experienced is also in 10 and is kinda of an edge case

>>108167179
It it happens again now that I've done the bios stuff I'll try reinstalling drivers.

>>108167188
There are definetitly issues but it all depends on what Windows build version youre running. No two Windows 11 copies are the same. One has gradual fixes/features rolled out while the other doesnt. The prime example is some people have the old start menu while others have the new one.

>>108167188
I have had zero issues with w11 iot ltsc, outside of some stuff to make it feel better. xbox controller prompt, the right click menu, etc.

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>>108167172
>haven't moved to 11 just yet, because I heard its
garbage

Certified /winfaggot/ here. You heard right, but 10 will slowly lose vendor support (new toy? fuck you, updoot windows!) and the IoT versions (both 10 and 11) are also pozzed now in a different way, pic related.

>>108167188
>Have people actually had issues with Windows 11
Yep. Just Google it. Or ask in /fwt/ if you have issues. Good luck.

>inb4 I was testing dell peripheral manager, it's shitty bloatware. Avoid if possible.