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

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

>News & Rumors
Just read TomsHardware and consult YouTube for primary sources
No new GPU/CPU models until Q2 2027+

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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AK-47 leave that bitch with no fucking name
Call my main bitch and she stay giving me brain
Put that bitch to shame, violate that brain
Young Based God, dope my bitch like I'm cocaine
Bitches snort my ring, that crackpipe like my chain
Found a dope man, I ride that bitch like Ace of Spades
Hoe, don't play that game
I'm rapping not for the fame
I almost went to jail for like five-hundred days
Bitch don't give no fuck, that's why I fuck her in the face
Fuck you suckers' heads then I ask her what's her name
Based God, man

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Shouldve known better to buy more ram when picrel happened

Corsair 4000D Frame or 5000D Frame?

>>108315545
Just steal from nGreedia by blowing up their trucks

All 140mm fans or 120mm intake fans and 140mm exhaust fan(s)?

>>108315515
>probably $200 in overpriced fans and an air cooler

could've just bought an AIO at that price point

>>108315545
When did this happen? How could I know?

When exactly did NVIDIA start vibe coding their drivers? Which version onward should I avoid? Should I just Amperemaxx forever for stability?

>>108316459
you should linuxmaxx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK6wHFZsaAI

amd poors?

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So I have three 120mm intake fans. Is one 140mm exhaust fan at the rear good enough? Or would I be better with one rear and one top?

>>108315515

>>108316594
amd never made drivers for the z1 cpus. it's on the people who buy them from amd and then sell them.

>>108316459
572.16 is the first vibe coded release
it is the first driver that started causing issues for everyone

>>108316607
>>108315661
Post pics
Bigger always better because it's quieter at same rpm

>>108315864
Redux is 1/3rd the cost of G2 before you spout ignorance

>>108316459
I'm on 591.74 and have no issues. I only update when required. I'm waiting for a version that has a stable RE9 update currently.

>>108316719
that would be 595.76

everyone talks about not updating their drivers but is this an actual thing or is it just placebo

upgraded from a 5700xt to a 9070xt
0 problems with drivers btw

>>108316744
normies use the same driver their computer included since day one. think about billy joe who got a $3000+ gaymen prebuilt from 2023. still using that same 2023 driver.

>>108316769
nah windows updates them from time to time.

>>108316740
I don't trust it yet.

>>108316776
driver updates through windows update is optional except for the first install. the security/feature updates for windows itself are whats automatic.

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>>108316459
Just buy a 9070 XT. You will save 300 dollars over 5070 ti and get to always update to the latest driver with no worries of black screens or the fans on your card getting bricked. Crimson Desert GOTY coming out soon with FSR Redstone feature set too.

>>108316836
No. AMD still manages to be shittier than a half dead NVIDIA.

>>108315526
same. I used to use one set on my mining rig, but i retired that cuz of the absurd power costs (even though i paid a pile of money for solar panels, although they are angled poorly cuz of a dodgy roof and only give me power from 9:30am to 3pmish) so they all just collect dust.

Maybe i should try to sell the gear, i have enough to justify it, 2 complete pcs, in theory. Not much storage tho lol

>>108316744
It's not noticeable per se but definitely measurable. There are autists out there that benchmark different driver versions and found out for example that 576.88 is the newest driver with good performance across a selection of games with every newer driver losing 10-20% performance in many (but not all) games

>>108316744
nobody updates their drivers unless its automatic or when at game launch the game screams reeee update driver now

>>108315466
everyone who needs or wants to build a PC and can't afford DDR5 had to go somewhere

>>108316455
see all the reporters outside? it wasn't exactly a secret. plebs just didn't see the implications.

>>108315515
>12 hours ago and 25 posts
price hiking has truly killed the pc building scene

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OUR JOURNEY TO PAINTING HAS BEGUN

DEATH TO THE CIGARETTE TAR

does anyone have experience building pcs to sell them? i wonder if it would be more profitable to sell parts or completed pcs.

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>>108316846
FSR 4.1 > DLSS 4.5
FSR ML FG > DLSS FG
FSR Ray Regeneration > DLSS Ray Reconstruction
FSR Radiance Caching > RTX Neural Radiance Cache
Crimson Desert > RE9 Requiem
Nvidiot cope below

>>108316888
The site was down all day along with archives for "maintenance"

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I hate these cables I hate these cables I hate these cables

>FSR 4.1 > DLSS 4.5 FSR ML FG > DLSS FG FSR Ray Regeneration > DLSS Ray Reconstruction FSR Radiance Caching > RTX Neural Radiance Cache Crimson Desert > RE9 Requiem
all delusional btw
an anime girl post to cope with the AMD pain (and not playing any games)

>>108316898
Post Poverty Build or accept defeat.

>>108315515
Am I a retard having bought a prebuilt for the gpu, ram, and ssd and wanting to replace literally everything else

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>>108316925
The only one coping is you. Have fun not being able to play Crimson Desert GOTY later this month without good image quality on your 3K 5090 because it won't have DLSS or ray reconstruction. FSR Redstone only no DLSS or nvidia niggers allowed. Go play RE9 full priced game that's only 10 hours long with pathtracing effects that don't work properly in the later areas of the game LOOOOL

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>>108316459

>>108316958
>it won't have DLSS or ray reconstruction.
So their plan was to lose 80 percent of their revenue. Seems like a sound business decision. I'm sure the rest of the game will be fantastic with that level of intelligence working for them.

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>>108316936
My ram and mobo alone cost more than your one room Mumbai poo shacks rent sanjeet

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>>108316981
Majority of nvidiots are prebuilt owners with 0 pc knowledge. They don't even know what DLSS is and only are using it in a game if it's enabled by default. They will buy the game anyway. Cope

>>108316994
That worked well for Starfield as I remember.

>>108316983
should have not bought one of those 4tb ssds and gotten a 5070ti instead.

>>108316958
well no DLSS is pretty common for mobile games, should port very well when it's eventually transferred to be played on the Samsung Galaxy A series phones. Of course you'll also be able to enjoy it on your (Asus Prime) 9070XT. What was Pearl Abyss's Last major game again? Black Desert Mobile? For Android and iOS was it? Yeah that was it. I'll trust them with making an excellent PC game.

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>>108316983
My GPU cost more than your entire PC.

>>108317016
so it's overpriced then? like most nvidia gpus?

>>108317026
No it's just the best and in fact not poor.

>>108316994
ooh there's the anime girl again! Her expression sure captures your feelings the way nothing else can, certainly not any other kind of image.
aw it's even named too Yuo Sumg.png. This is a healthy person, for sure.

>>108317016
Well I did nail it’s price to performance so…

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>The game will suck because it doesn't have my overpriced PooTX cards features
Critical nvidiot seethe has been reached.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=1cNigJrr2Z7TrWmU&v=EkNQUwNkfe4&feature=youtu.be
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0pxsi7FU9g&pp=iggCQAE%3D
Digital foundry have been sucking this game off nonstop as a technical marvel.

>>108317054
A used 1080ti is therefore best if you want price to performance. It's like saying a honda civic is better than an exotic because it only cost 3k but can still do 120.

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>>108317037
3K+ for a card guaranteed to melt and be useless within 3 years is pretty overpriced

>>108317069
Wow I can be some sword dude in a crappy sword dude world. I can go outside and look at trees in infinite resolution, and the real sun even changes the time of day. Simply amazing.

>>108316983
Radeon is very mumbai

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This is perfect, the sandpaper actually stripped the powder coat from inside the mesh on the 5.25 bay cover. Holy fuck, if this seals the deal I can't wait to get on with finally building in this case even with some bends.

>>108317101
You cried about the 3090 as well and mine is still kicking.>>108317111

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>>108317104
>Cope cope cope

>>108317114
I coping very well with my 3090, 5080, and 5090. I'm so content I don't even need to shit up a basket weaving forum, if you can imagine that.

BR staying in California for a couple weeks.
What site do you Americans use to buy gpus?
Amazon?

>>108317131
>I'm so content
You're the one calling the GOTY shit cuz of your jealous seethe that the best way to play it will be on Radeon cards kek

>>108317151
I only believe in raster performance and vram, that's why I have a 5090. I am untouchable.

An experiences with DC ATX power supplies? On one hand, I can tell it's gonna be more trouble that it's worth, especially with finding something that won't look like it'll burn up in a couple of hours of use, and that's if I can find a AC adapter that will properly deliver the watts I need. But on the other, something like 250-300W is plenty for some of my projects, and the idea of running it off grid doesn't help with the temptation.

>>108317145
bestbuy
microcenter
amazon if you have no other options but you should record yourself opening the box to avoid getting scammed

>>108317101
This is why I bought a 5070.

>>108317145
Microcenter.

>>108317171
Based

dlss in blender is literally fucking incredible

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>m.2 slot already has a thermal pad installed
>manual says put another included optional pad on top of the pre-installed one
How important is this? what is the benefit of stacking thermal pads for SSD

>>108316459
blows my mind that literally the highest valued company in the world is too greedy to pay for white male senior devs

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>the 4TB ssd I bought last june for 230$ is now worth 750$
damn, may as well sell it. I have 3.

i want next gen gpus already.

Do you all know if Acer is coming out with a new 4k IPS panel or if new competitors were announced? They're selling the 32 inch 4k 160hz ips monitor for 399 now. Even cheaper than before, very tempted as I don't want OLED.

Do you update bios right away on a first boot before OS, or can you install OS then double back to update bios. Or does it matter?

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is over...

>>108317426
I'd do it sooner than later. That way when it shits the bed you didn't waste all your time installing and setting up an operating system.

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>>108316994
even the biggest amd shills have admitted that is over anon, its time to let it go

>>108317259
it's probably a contact issue, if it's single sided its not thick enough that it actually touches the heatsink which is why it's telling you to put two
having a thicker thermal pad would've been better but i guess is this designed to be the cheapest/straightforward approach

Are three used Silent Wings 4 120mm fans from a Silent Loop 3 for $35 a good deal?

>>108317426
update bios first because it will do fuckwucky with secure boot/bitlocker

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>>108317290
how does it blow your mind? they have the lead, so long as they keep cooking up the next gimmick-tech and can sucker in the plebs and corpo's into thinking they need it, they don't have to worry about anything but supply.

Also, do you live under a rock? have you not seen the Boeing scandals in the last 3 years? those crooks are literally killing their whistleblowers for exposing their outsourcing of critical design to street shitters, and ignoring their head engineers concerns.

>>108317345
Acer are a dogshit brand on my blacklist. If you wanna buy cheap slop, go buy a no-name chink monitor. You'll get the same service if there's a dead pixel or problem with the monitor itself.

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AMD sucks.

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-adds-arc-pro-b70-to-official-website-launch-may-be-close

IT'S HAPPENING

>>108317793
That walrus is literally me

Anybody tried those mini-led display?

>>108317726
Who else makes a monitor with the same specs?
>160hz
>4k
>32 inch
>IPS

the case I got has three pre-installed intake fans on the front of the case, but nothing on the back
Do I need to get another fan and install to push air out the back of the case or will my CPU air cooler already do a good enough job of that?

>>108317963
move one to exhaust

>>108317908
They can be on par with OLED assuming you only ever look directly at them, and never at even the slightest tilt of an angle.
The edges of the screen are always going to look someone darker just due to the angle your eyes see it at.

>>108317908
I saw a couple in a store and they all looked colorful and bright but had bad viewing angles and didn't look as good as the QD OLEDs.

How do people go about making their case /fa/ and tidy, easily workable these days? Do people still braid their cables by hand?

>>108317259
>How important is this?

They don't make m.2 heatsinks with actual heat pipes on pci-e 5.0 boards for nothing.

Thermals matter

is spending 80-90% of a grand on a 3090 even worth it if I don't spend a hours a day on diffusing porn

>>108318228
no get a 5070

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>>108318038
>>108318054
By bad angles, are we speaking 3DS with the 3D on or just the classic LCD screen where it's fine on the sides but darker from the bottom and too bright from the top?
>>108318210
>their case /fa/
By not having a window on your case, you then put it under you desk so it looks tidy.

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>>108318054
>>108318038
Like is it worse than this?

>>108317908
I love my tcl 27r94

>>108318247
It's not TN viewing angles bad , it's still decent but when you see it next to QD OLED it looks last gen by comparison. Best way I can describe it is the QD OLED looks like a painting at extreme angles while you can obviously tell it's a LCD at the same angle.

>>108317945
at a good price point? AOC, but VA not IPS, i thought IPS was dogshit though so go wild.

>>108318289
why would you look at your computer monitor from any direction but sitting in front of it?

>>108318247
>By not having a window on your case, you then put it under you desk so it looks tidy.
Not good enough, you need to dampen it with acoustic mats and silicone too.

>>108317427
lmao
This is the same faggot that rigs benchmarks and downplayed RT+DLSS for years to please his jeet amdrone public.
This is the same faggot who recommended 5700xt over 2070S and did a video a few months ago how getting a 5700xt was still the right decision.
AMDrones are unironically subhuman and deserve this kind of treatment.

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>nloldia

>>108318337
>rt off
HAHAHAHAA

>>108318337
>1080p ultra
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLL

LAUGHS

IN

PATH

TRACING

>>108318322
people stand up and move around the room with a controller

>>108318270
this is what the TCL 27R94 looked like straight on and not at an angle. i will never ever trust anyone when they say x new mini led va monitor is good

>>108318337
200fps isn't even playable.

>>108318354
?

>>108318278
Never heard of that brand.
Reviews are mixed for this specific monitor, but I suppose you got a correct unit.
>>108318289
Guess I'll have to judge once I finally choose one and get my hands on it.
>>108318322
>your computer monitor from any direction but sitting in front of it?
A secondary monitor perhaps? Don't you move in front of you desk?

>>108318368
Not everyone sits down 24/7/365 hunched over a keyboard. They move and do things and when they play they use a wireless controller.

Is upgrading a 5600 to another non x3D AM4 cpu worth it?

>>108318343
>>108318237
only the 3090, 4090, and 5090 have enough vram to do path tracing
?

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>nlmaodia

>>108318390
>RT off
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA

QD OLED has a looking through window effect in person

Mini LED doesn't give the same vibe it's still a LCD and LCDs are not only heavier than OLEDs but they still have backlights and those lights shift.

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>>108318370
i dont like funko pops tho? just angle the screen to face you, its not hard, they all got adjustible ones nowadays no?

>>108318313
IPS is better than VA and TN.

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>>108316714
>Bigger always better
look at this mounting bracket and say that again

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Oh fuck...

>>108318442
>RT off
HAHAHAAHAHAAAAAAA HAHAHAHAHAA

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>>108318412
>just angle the screen to face you
If I lay back in my seat or if I have my back straight my 15 years old display looks very different.

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>>108318341
>>108318394
>>108318445

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>>108318437
So nothing has changed since the days of stamped and hexagonal meshes with 1-3 fan mounting holes
fans bigger than 120mm still get blocked and get backwash

>>108318370
>Guess I'll have to judge once I finally choose one and get my hands on it.
Go to best buy / walmart / target / Costco / etc
Just look at some of the TVs they have their, try different viewing angles, and see what type of monitor you can live with. They all have pros and cons.

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>>108318615
>Go to best buy / walmart / target / Costco / etc
I live in some countryside in Europe.
But I guess I'll do that.

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Solid or mesh PCI slot covers? I'm going for a silent build with a specific airflow scheme.

>>108318632
At least he didn't tell u to go buy off amazon

>>108318388
THIS IS HOW THEY COPE LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

>>108318634
Solid so the air goes where you want it.

>>108318641
Probably what I will end up doing since it's the cheapest place to buy consumer electronic most of the time.
German and Spanish Amazon prices have lower taxes than some other countries so you can get really nice deals.

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>>108318336
We are only months away from a new version of RR that works with DLSS 4.5, that'll probably be too much for them to keep shilling.

My 5070 just crashed again in RE9 so done with this shit

>>108318770
You think that's bad?
My 9070XT and my 9800X3D both set fire at the same time!

as a euro without AC, I gave up on getting a 5090 after seriously thinking about it
4090 is my heat ceiling, and 6090 most likely won't go above it since it's a new node

>>108318808
>>108318770
My 9070 walks over and kicks me in the nuts every time I boot up my pc. It's getting tiresome.

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My 5070 ti won't stop stuttering on Arc Raiders and it's making my gender dysphoria really bad please help, no amount of dilating can fix this pain.

>>108315515
Nice guide but how do I choose a motherboard ?

>>108318581
its different for a radiator with frame that provides some distance, but an 140mm exhaust fan would be questionable.
but then who needs more than 360mm

>>108318634
one thing i learned the expensive way. noise and component ambient air is 80% the case, 19% the fans and 1% the cope memes

>>108318770
>>108318808
>>108318846
my 5090 fucks my wife behind my back. Im too afraid to confront them.

9600x ($213) or 7500x3d ($243.64) for mostly vidya? Don't see much discussion about the 7500x3d. Which would you go for? Or something else in this range?

>>108318907
I would furiously mastrubate instead but thats me.

>>108318895
So you call Jensen a 5090 cuz he is the bull? Are you the 5050 then?

>>108318895
Women really dig vram.

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This place somehow got worse while I was away

Go touch grass you Canadian faggot
holy shit

>>108319055
the mentally ill spammer has been the same for a year
and no one can afford to buy pc parts anymore so thats great

Canadians are hte most based posters

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>>108319079
Have you tried not being poor..or failing that, Sezzle long-term financing?

5070ti or 5080? I'm on 1440p and not getting a new monitor

>>108318889
So you're saying I should grab solid covers and line them with noise dampening foam?

>>108319099
Both would work, 5080 is better but not in proportion with the price.

>>108319105
thats the 1% meme

Klarna™ is the future now, there is no escape.

>>108319110
My microcenter has a healthy supply of both. If I stumble across an extra 500 bucks by then, I'll think about it.

>>108319099
5080 is maybe 15% better but both are overpriced now and 5070 is soon gonna rocket also and nvidia isnt making more high vram gpus until memory situation improves

have nvidia 90 series cards always been this fucking expensive? 4 grand for a gpu seems completely absurd.
>t. very new to pc building

>>108319143
4090 was the first time nvidia made much larger chip than the rest of the lineup as the flagship consumer model and it was close to 2k € msrp

5090 then continued that trend, but now theres memory pricing crunch on top

>>108319142
So...hold fast and pray on a 3070 or just eat the cost?

>>108319188
buy a 5070 before things get worse
it'll last until the ai memory shit goes away

Welcome back nicrotroon. Still working at the hospital frontdesk?

>>108319188
Not him but If you really want max frames and/or care about getting the best for a long time then get a 5080. Otherwise a 5070ti is fine. You can snag 5080s for like $300 if you look in the right place.

>>108319197
Stolen or mined to hell? Don't mind if they're stolen.
>>108319195
Gotta wait till my bonus comes in.

>>108319236
>Gotta wait till my bonus comes in.
the prices may go up in the meanwhile
better buy it on klarna asap

What's it like having a 5090 rig? Knowing that you can run any game you want on max settings 4k with stable 80+ fps?
Must be nice...

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>>108319256
>What's it like having a 5090 rig?

>>108319256
yeah bro them big numbers on the computer is what life is all about

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My 9070xt didn't fix my erectile dysfunction. Fuck amd. Back to Nvidia.

Test

>>108319256
I'm quite happy unlike these two. >>108319266
>>108319269

>buy a WD black sn850x off marketplace
>seller brings out a ziplock bag full of SSDs
>none of them have any serial numbers
>crystaldisk shows 100% health
>speed is good too
>fuck it, pay in cash
so how long do i have until this maybe fake ssd fails on me

>>108319329
> sn850x
You risked getting shot and it wasn't even for a WB_Black SN8100?

>>108319304
Have you tried calling MSI?

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>>108319329
did you buy some shit like pic? apparently there's even fake SSDs now
wouldn't be surprised if you try to write to it and it's only like 50gb of shitty storage

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>>108319341
He's just our residential fag going on a tantrum. At least he found some new pics.

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>>108319304
The new driver "updates" are rolled out to intentionally kill off or drastically shorten the lifespan of GPUs so that you will either have to buy another one at overinflated prices or give up and accept that you will own nothing/be happy/rent from the cloud/eat ze bugs/etc

>>108319348
50gb? No one needs 40gb of storage. 30gb is enough.

>>108319348
yeah basically, except when i compared it to an image of a more legit ssd on google every soldered on item seemed to match in position. for now i'm 50/50 on this guy being a legit reseller with some chinese connections. he seems to have good reviews on marketplace.

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Thoughts? It's reasonably cheap for an OLED in HUEzil (~915 USD).

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>>108319362
I just remember those fake chinese flash drive claiming 512gb capacity or whatever
>>108319370
that picture is a fake, apparently the nvme connector is a giveaway?

>>108319379
yeah that picture def seems like a fake and does not look like mine. the one that i bought is basically identical to a legit ssd drive i find online, but much cheaper. i'll report here if it ever blows up or fbi breaks through my windows.

>>108319378
these days you prob want qd oled instead of anything lg
or buy miniled

>>108315515
My pc runs windows11
The screen has started flashing
Off & on. Resizing window. Impossible to use a mouse. Maybe it's a virus.. will using safe mode to find a solution a góod idea. How to get into safe mode

>>108319399
Hold shift and restart. Then using the menu go troubleshoot, advanced, startup settings, and select safe mode.

>>108319399
try ddu the nvidia drivers

>>108319399
>https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-system-file-checker-in-windows-365e0031-36b1-6031-f804-8fd86e0ef4ca
You can also try the file checker.

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>>108319391

Will check out MiniLEDs, those pop-ups every 4 hours OLEDs get seem annoying

>>108319470
not him but does windows 11 actually allow you to go into safe mode manually? i remember it was pain to do so on windows 10

>>108319550
Get a TV. They never bother you.

>>108319550
modern oleds tend to have timers long enough that they'll do panel refresh only after you go to sleep each day so you mostly never see them

>>108319553
I don't know on windows 11 actually, but 10 isn't too bad once you know what to do. It's not intuitive if that's what you mean.

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I returned my OLED monitor because it hurt my eyes. Went back to good old IPS. My eyes are comfy now.

>>108319580
how would oled hurt someones eyes

Are all forms of storage eating shit for price right now?
I just have a 2TB nvme. Its enough for now but I'm sure in the next couple years I'll want more storage and idk what prices will look like then.

>>108319601
maybe check out something like 2tb sata ssds and it'll be usable enough for random media files or games
or the shittier nvmes

>>108319601
You will have to take out a mortgage.

>>108319601
you can deal with shadier figures like me >>108319329

>>108319470
>>108319553
You can boot into safe mode easily on Windows 8 and up using msconfig in startmenu or pressing the physical reset button multiple times during the bios loading screen

do u like 7900 XTX where it's at right now

>>108319601
im sweating looking at my 5x 18tb nas... please dont die any of you...

>>108319143
They used to hand out 90 GPUs with half vram for $700 under the 80ti brand but stopped last gen when AMD couldn't make a compelling highend GPU

>>108319642
It's a hotter 9070xt

>>108319673
24GB tho

The AI bubble cannot pop soon enough.

>>108319689
it's not popping, you're gonna have to wait a few years for china fabs to get there. luckily it wont be the 10-20 years westoids think they have over china, more like 3-5

>>108319681
If you don't use all of it then its not adding speed and only adding heat and the 7900XTX is thermal limited more than anything it wants and can do 600w but the air coolers max out at 360-450w.

>>108319720
i am using it more for poverty workstation

>>108319730
Most Windows workstation stuff favor Nvidia in the first place. AMD only shines on Linux and gaymen.

>>108319703
it can and will pop, the bubble popping doesn't mean ai will go away, it just means the rampant speculation and pricing in absurd amounts of growth will correct. The railroad bubble popped, we still have trains. Dot com popped, still got internet. But right now the amount of investment and p/e ratios are all retarded. People think AI is going to turn water into gold, and it just isn't.

retard here pls help with first boot
I hear there is some ram training that happens that can take a while and idk what to expect with that
How do I know if my boot is successful and posting and just taking a while for ram shit, or if I fucked something up building and its just not starting up right

>>108319748
many companies will fall but demand for token quantity and model complexity will continue to rise

>>108319755
It takes 2-5 mins max. It depends on how much ram you have. Some mobos have status leds or blink your power button.

>>108319748
>People think AI is going to turn water into gold
Actual legitimate AI probably would.
This LLM stop-gap shit sure as hell won't, which is why I don't get why they're investing so heavily in it instead of developing a real functioning AI.

>>108319773
von-neumann architecture is not going to give us AGI, obviously. We need a fundamentally different architecture that eliminates memory bandwidth limits by eliminating the abstraction between processing and memory... kind of like a brain does.

>>108319759
i don't think so, the writing is on the walls for companies that replaced people with ai. They're feeling the pain because it does nothing of value.

>tell older programmer guy im setting up a retro PC
>he tells me about how much of a nightmare jumpers were on drives
>look it up
>its actually simple
are programmers retarded?
ive seen him unplugging the power cable from a hard drive with the computer on, like three times

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>>108319788
in my experience, software guys are actual retards when it comes to hardware. In 2018 I had to help a friend who was making something like $180k a yr working for Serverless build his pc...

>>108319788
Yeah because you looked it up today. Back then you couldn't.

>>108319689
the moment it pops, WW3 will start, the weapons industry will buy up all chips while factories will shut down and stop producing.
there's no end in sight for this wild ride

>>108319788
>ive seen him unplugging the power cable from a hard drive with the computer on, like three times
some fancy dell pcs have sata hotplugging implemented

>>108319807
The jumper settings were usually printed on the disk's label.

>>108319642
The drivers were a nightmare for years but now they're finally good.

>>108319681
>24GB tho
For what though? It to shit for AI work and not powerful enough to need it for games.

>>108318394
The fact you care so much about Gaytracing shows how much of a cocksucker you are for njudea products shill more for israel you gigantic faggot i bet you have a cirmumsied cock as well literally kys

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>>108319642

>>108319846
All inference care about is vram capacity it couldn't care less about CUDA. AI training is a different matter and should be not done on a 24gb GPU.

>>108319860
Then buy Intel. They are the cheapest high vram cards available.

>>108319877
Arc Pro B60 costs more than a 7900XTX and is worse.

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>>108319852
you're just mad that you can't use it!

Having to listen to people who pretend native non rt gaming is relevant in 2026 is getting tiresome

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>>108319938
90% of people are playing 10+ year or older games. It's over. Almost nobody is playing irrelevant rt slop.

>>108319950
good, graphics and performance has had a lost decade from these wasteful diversions

>>108319755
>retard here pls help with first boot
It can sometimes take a really long time, we had an anon some weeks ago that was really freaked out because the system seemed not to want to POST the first time he powered up, finally he left it alone for half an hour or so and when he came back to it it had booted.

where can i get a 5090 fe for msrp?

>>108320000
Enter Nvidia lottery and get picked

>>108320014
>gambling
fuck...

>>108319601
I bought a bunch of external SSDs the prices aren't fucked yet like they are for internals

Can these fags just leave my pc-gaming hobby alone? Let me have this one good thing in this shitty life ffs

>>108320043
PC gaming is for millionaires these companies only care about you if you are a streamer

even the games and marketing all live on die on if streamers like them or not

>>108319938
Why would I give a shit about ray tracing? I play paradox map games, balatro, and vampire survivors.

>>108320053
you could play other games too if you just had the hardware for it

>>108320053
I have a 9900x3d and 9070xt. Pretty sure I can run other games.

>>108320065
>>108320058
I am too stupid to click on the right post though, I'll freely admit that.

>>108320027
Anytime you buy a GPU is a gamble from coil whine to silicon lottery to even what ram what you get.

>>108319817
i can assure you it wasnt a fancy dell pc
just regular hard drives
Makes me wonder if he even really is a programmer
>>108319807
fair, but you could probably find it explained in the manual when you bought a CD drive and then just remember it forever idk

>>108320053
but paradox map games run like shit

>>108320053
Id honestly rather play DXVK stuff than DX12 or VKD3D crap.

>>108319788
programmers do not give a shit about computer hardware
honestly I've seen very technical people that could fix pcbs but still couldn't tell you how to build a pc and set it up
this is just a weird space where only gaming nerds and pc hardware autists give a shit about it at all

its so sad that you guys can't enjoy path tracing because some advertiser advertised to you. Now you have to post to cope with that purchase.

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>>108320053
i feel that
ive mostly been playing picrel lately with my 96gb of ram, 5080, and 14900k, and it's a lot of fun.
it's all a scam.

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>>108320114
there's been a lot of coping and seething since RE9 dropped
They can't even cry muh UE5 like they always do

>>108320121
>intel aviv cpu
lmao

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>>108320131

>>108320125
ERM BUT HOW MANY FPS CAN YOU GET OUT OF THE UGLIEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN?????

what the fuck is the hype for Raytracing? I got a 5070 now and I seriously can't tell the difference in Cyberpunk, like the lights are a bit shiner and the reflections are clearer but I don't understand how every example I look at online of people saying "LOOK HOW COOL THIS TECHNOLOGY IS" is stopping to stare at a puddle in the ground. Why the fuck are you launching a video game to stare at a puddle on the ground. I tried Alan Wake 2 for a bit and the I can notice a difference between RT off and on but I can't tell any difference past the medium RT setting.

>>108320195
yeah it doesn't matter if you're still playing on some 1440p VA screen from 2018

>>108320195
It does some neat stuff sometimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZKT3533yYA

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>>108320195
you actually PLAY videogames? the technology isn't meant for you, chud. Go play dorf fortress or whatever.

>>108320195
CP looks good with path tracing on
RT is made for super weak hardware and is very limited

>>108320195
>what the fuck is the hype for Raytracing?
it lets nvidia sell infinitely more generations of cards by incrementally gimping existing cards from bumping up the number of ray samples per pixel by 1 each time they get too close to 120hz

Okay, so I have a Asus Prime 5070Ti and a AMD 9850X3D.

I can run Cyberpunk 2077 in Quality DLSS with Raytracing at around 120 FPS.
Or, do I run Quality DLSS with Path tracing at ~70 FPS?

Which do you think is the better experience?

>>108320225
damn alan wake 2 looks like shit

>>108320259
path tracing

>>108320269
Is it really worth dropping nearly 60 FPS?

>>108320259
Pt and lower the base res to like perf mode and enable frame gen

>>108316744
Since I'm high IQ (80) I assume everyone acts like me, I only update if it's needed for a game/program/plugin I use. Updooters are a plague and tarded as well.

>>108320283
you could just reduce dlss to balanced and it'd still look better than hybrid RT

>>108320294
dude its dlss 4.5
perf mode will look amazing using the latest dlss preset

>>108320283
Yes
You think this is counterstrike
also buy a qd-oled

14900ks + ddr mobo for 500€ worth it?

>>108320313
only if the 14900ks isn't degraded and its a ddr5 z790 board

>>108320294
>>108320310
Okay, try some testing with balance mode DLSS.

My 1% lows are 35 FPS (on Quality and Pathtracing), which doesn't seem great.

It's annoying, though. My game settings keep resetting every time I open and close the game. Not sure how to fix that.

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>>108320259

>>108320360
is it some read only folder setting
try install on non-system drive and verify files

>>108320360
PT is pretty heavy even on my 5090 at 1440p. I think its a little bit out of reach for your 5070ti if you're playing at or above 1440p

>>108320259
Path tracing and frame gen.

>>108320337
Ah sorry, its DDR4

>>108320218
I'm playing 1440p on a 180hz OLED, I didn't even realise that people were already arguing about RTing this thread

>>108320225
>>108320246
What annoys me is the Cyberpunk demo is the god rays still are 2d shit looking so it just looks like the ground is reflecting stuff clearer and a reshade preset is put on top

>>108320232
Tbh I was curious about trying community shaders/modded raytracing implementation in Skyrim, but I don't think I'm gonna add it at the moment to my Lorerim fork.

>>108320393
ddr4 bottlenecks the 13th/14th gen i9 quite a lot so that's not ideal

>>108320374
I think it's more likely that Nvidia Gforce is resetting them.

>>108320377
Really? I seems playable-ish at 70 FPS (at 4k)
I have my CPU and GPU both under volted and over clocked.

I have:
Cascaded Shadows Resolution at Medium.
Screen Space Reflections at High.
Volumetric Fog Resolution at Medium.
These are the ones that hit performance the hardest, for very little gains.

>>108320383
I have 2x frame gen on, not going higher than that.

>>108320402
>I think it's more likely that Nvidia Gforce is resetting them.
right, I had that happen with cs2

>>108320402
You should try DLSS 4.5 performance and frame gen. Or even ultra performance. It looks really good.

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Anyone have a guide to repairing GPUs? Trying to get this one to work again, but I have no idea where to begin.

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>>108319391

OK, think this one should do the needful. Thanks for the suggestion!

>>108320426
start with removing dust and shit
if you want to resolder it you can put it in the oven for a while without the heatsink

if you want to replace capacitors you need quite a bit of equipment for it to be viable

>>108320426
Try putting it in a bucket of rice.

man that antec 900 case was a disappointment

I'm sure wendell could go crazy for it and other ai server sloppers but antec were wrong to use the Nine Hundred name for that ugly boring box

>>108320036
>external ssds
>500mb/s transfer
yeah, no wonder

>>108320458
>quite a bit of equipment
magnifying glasses, soldering iron, multi-meter, flux, and a wick

>>108320563
and a steady ass hand

>>108320563
solder sucker
thing that holds equipment in place
work area with air ventilation, table cover
you cant use the shittiest iron unless you like failure and pain
pincers
replacement components that might be cheap but require postage fees each time

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At the recommendation of an anon from the RAM OC thread from earlier this week, I upgraded my case so I could get a 360mm AIO to hopefully keep most of the heat from my CPU away from my RAM since I was getting instability above ~65C. That on its own wasn't enough (I think most of the heat is from my GPU at full load), so I added a side fan pointed directly at my RAM (just zip tied a 140mm fan to the side of the Hyte X50 Air's panel, had to add some rubber standoffs to prevent a really annoying high pitch noise from drawing fast air through the little holes) and setup a curve in fan control for the hottest DIMM so at 60C it's at full speed. This seems to keep my RAM from going above ~57C when I run furmark+TM5, but this is still higher than I would like, and higher than what many people report their RAM maxes out at. Are the Corsair Vengeance heatsinks really this shit? I'm tempted to deshroud them and do something like pic related to try to keep them under 50C.

>>108320636
you likely have to deshroud them. the fan should work better then.

Just upgrade to a 1440p 144hz monitor from a 1080p 60hz. This is life changing.

>>108320636
Hynix A-die is good up to 60c, M-die is 75c. Unless you're running aggressive TREFI,TRFC,Primaries.

>>108320709
and then you go 4k 240hz qd and its even more lifechanging

>>108320745
and finally you upgrade to a pulsar monitor to win cs2 matches

>>108315515
How hard would it be just to have a little cutout in the front side of this PC case so that you can run the gpu power cables down into the near side of the case into the basement rather than crossing the fan of the GPU seriously have PC case designers not learned anything they talk about innovation and design on literally every PC case that they release but there's simple shit like this that they just get completely wrong

>>108320762
you trade it in for a zowie once you hear the fan

>>108320426
Just google your symptoms. Maybe watch some repair videos.
Maybe you can be lucky and there is a short that you can measure on a multimeter (if you had a power station, you could put a bit of power to heat the PCB, and you can feel the hot spot), and all you have to do is replace a resistor or remove the capacitor (most of the SMD capacitors on a GPU could be removed and it can still work).
A good soldering iron for SMD chips will cost more than that GPU itself, like sure, you COULD get a $15 soldering iron / station (with a gigantic tip), but for repairing these kinds of small PCB's a $200 real hot air station + Kapton tape or thermal putty to protect plastics and electrolytic capacitors is a lot more useful than a soldering iron, since you can use a hot air station for replacing (or upgrading) vram chips and maybe even fix the solder under the GPU chip, but just heating the solder isn't enough usually and you need to buy the whole reballing kit + microscope, but that's only if you you know 100% that the only issue is the solder broke, and the PCB pads are not ripped or if the GPU chip itself isn't fried or broken or anything).
I am pretty sure that a $350 refurb steamdeck is stronger than a gtx 950 (but I will assume that you probably just got it for free from a electronic store's garbage bin). And a decent used GPU would be a 1660 TI / super for like $80 or less, which would give you almost 3x the performance.

>>108320790
*Oh, and if you watch gpu repair videos related to vram, you would know that they just run a program that checks the chips, but faulty ram chips will not prevent your PC from posting (you can attempt to boot into an OS), but a power short would not post (no boot menu).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHGmk4QChD4

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>>108320709
I went from 1280x1024 60hz lcd to 1440p 144hz ips back in 2020.

Yep. I was on 4x3 until covid.

>>108320928
>kotana still flat even when pregnant
kek

>>108320865
>fell for the oled meme
NOOOOOOOOOOO

can someone tell me how to split a PSU CPU cable 8 pin into the 2x4? I can't find the way it seems like it should just slide apart but no videos cover this either

>>108320957
There's a clip that allows them to join or split

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>>108320636
didn't read. those are the parts that get hot on ddr5. the heatspreaders connecting them to the dram are the real problem. they heat up everything else. you have most of the time only one temp sensor and it is not in the dram.

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>>108320977
Do I need pliers or some shit?
Where to I push/pull/twist/bend to make this thing come apart?

>>108321005
show the pins from the front

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>>108321005
How is THIS the part of building a PC that filters me? And how do they not just include a fucking instruction manual or diagram with a $100+ PSU

>300 posts of underages arguing about muh path tracing
imagine playing games instead of gooning 24/7 to AI generated slop and LLMs
imagine not owning a 6000 pro
imagine being this poor

>>108321057
bro how are you getting filtered by this lmao just slide them off while pressing the thing
fucking retard post hands

>>108321057
christ man what did you do? its really hard to tell because its so damaged but the first picture looks like a pcie 8 pin due to having 3 rounded pins on the bottom. the second pic looks like different wires and even more damage.
post hands next.

Will my 5900x bottleneck the 5070ti?

>>108321120
>>108321120

baked one for the night

>>108321200
why?

>>108320998
>the heatspreaders connecting them to the dram are the real problem
nigga what
smd components are mainly thermally coupled through the pcb. Its astonishing how many believe the resin cap conducts more heat than solder direcltly alloyed to the die

>>108320762
pulsar have lower refreshrates and slower pixeltransitions though
it's like trying to overcome the inherent hard coded limits that can't be broken
you can't solve va smear or ips pixel transitions
it's just too slow
pulsar does not seem like an upgrade even at the same refresh
idk, people seem to rebelling, the tech isnt selling
it might flop

>>108321196
yes