Is it finally over for PC building?Just saw the specs for the new "consumer" tier GPUs. They cost as much as a used car, require a dedicated power plant to run, and the drivers are essentially rootkits that phone home every time you open a game.I’m genuinely considering liquidating my battlestation and moving to a ThinkPad running OpenBSD. At least then I can sleep knowing my GPU isn't mining crypto for the board of directors while I'm "idling."What are you actually using your hardware for? If it’s just LLMs and diffusion models, why are you still paying for consumer-grade proprietary drivers? Prove to me that modern hardware isn't just a scam for people with too much disposable income.
>>108877606AMD is bringing back the 5800X (as X3D) and Nvidia/oems are bringing back RTX 3050, just so you know
>>108877606>wants to use an OS that needs the latest and greatest supercomputer to run at normal speed instead of an OS that at least makes good use of hardwarelmao
>>108877643When is Intel bringing back the i5-2500K
>>108877643oh wow we are so poor now we are bringing back lower grade crap so that muh data center can glow just wow
>>108879377This. and Checked.
>>108877606I am now old enough to remember when leftists loved Elon Musk.