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DDR5 tongue my anus
does it make sense to wait for prime day? Looking for ssd, ddr5 and mini pc sales but probably hopeless
>>109031563>ssd, ddr5For those specifically I wouldn't hold any hope
I've never used an ultrawide monitor but I want to try one.anything I should be aware of when shopping?I care about motion blur first, refresh rate second.
>>109031672either go 4k or 1440p, 4k if you have a high-end rig, 1440p if you don't, 1080poverty monitors, even in ultrawide, are just aids.
reminder AMD can only get away with selling the 5800X3D 10th Anniversary edition for $350 because you morons were buying used ones for $500 on ebay They have you by the balls
>>109031719of all the things to complain about seethe about, you choose this? thats beyond cringe anon, rethink your life choices, because you haven't made any good ones in a LONG time.
>>109031672>UltrawideWhy bother? They are both more expensive and have less resolution than just getting a triple monitor setup?
>>109031719AMD will keep getting away with it, their drones slop it up. Everyone know it should be $249 at the very maximum
>>109031672theres only one real choice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtZMdZtW014
>>109031719the people buying $500 5800x3d are the same people that buy $1000 5070tis
>>109031840whats special about buying a 5070 tisure 5070 is better value but some people need higher vram
>>109031835>OLEDI don't want to replace it within 3-5 years.
>>109031756
>>109031840So why they don't buy AM5 X3D CPUs?
>>109031870just dedicate few hundred euros on a monitor fund you save up annually
>>109031876Because retards complained about DDR5 and mobo prices ever since release.It's sad too because most of them are just FOMOing about CPU performance when all they have is a 4060.
The way I look at it is - problems are only problems if you consider them problems.But I have a technology vice and I guess the solution is to look at all of your technology, ask yourself "What do I DO with all of this stuff?" And then reduce it to what you truly want and use.Which is what I plan to do. Going to get rid of my 2nd laptop. I want to get rid of my Switch 2 that I unnecessarily bought but I may wait for a few kino games to come out so I can play them before I do.But yeah technology is a major vice.I'm also a coffee addict lol.But yeah nothing is THAT serious. There is no you that you HAVE to become. That is just an illusion we have bought into.
>>109031672it seems like these are the entry level options, and people are giving up on IPS because they can sell you OLED more frequently due to burn-in.
>>109031756>>109031929>just do something you don't want to do because it will make me feel better about my decisionsno.
>>109031956do you want to have shit contrast monitor between 2026-2036?
i bought an acer monitor from walmart and this shit unironically has the worst color i've ever seen from any monitor ever. shit was like $80. like you would not BELIEVE how washed out this shit is. but hey it was cheap.
>>109031998I got an overpriced dell office monitor because it was 16:10 for 250$ and the colors are tinted blue as fuck. Can't wait to get rid of this shit next month.
>>109031987TN worked great.then all you faggots moved to IPS which was a downgrade.now all you faggots are moving to OLED which is an even further downgrade.
>>109031998Acer are on my permament tech-blacklist due to dogshit warranty depts and QC. But hey, you boughted it, if you hate yourself and are that poor, you have bigger problems than a washed out shitty 1080poverty monitor.
>>109032029being gifted the option to permanently leave lcds behind is amazing tho
>>109032029at least LCD offered space saving compared to CRT. flat screens are cool.these latest "advancements" are fucking trash though. take me back, before this world was fake and gay.by the way, you can still graduate from 1080 with TN.
>>109031998acer is just shit, I learned my lesson buying of of their monitors, never again
>>109032037Acer is also the only monitor I've ever had a problem with in my life, but it's also the only nu-monitor brand I've purchased. people are talking about ASUS being bad now but my 10+ year old ASUS 1080 TN still works great.
>>109031875>prey
So I just found out the samsung ssd defect(bought mine in October 2025). Samsung magicina tells me that SSD heals id good. Is good the maximum, is there also excellent and i fucked it up?Model Name, Samsung SSD 990 PRO 2TBSerial Number, Drive Type, NVMeResult,Byte End,Byte Start,Description,Raw Data,Status,0,0,Critical Warning,0,OK,2,1,Temperature (K),314,OK,3,3,Available Spare,100,OK,4,4,Available Spare Threshold,10,OK,5,5,Percentage Used,0,OK,47,32,Data Units Read,4430655,OK,63,48,Data Units Written,6851168,OK,79,64,Host Read Commands,52365617,OK,95,80,Host Write Commands,113275547,OK,111,96,Controller Busy Time,183,OK,127,112,Power Cycles,266,OK,143,128,Power On Hours,1825,OK,159,144,Unsafe Shutdowns,25,OK,175,160,Media Errors,0,OK,191,176,Number of Error Information Log Entries,0,OK,195,192,Warning Composite Temperature Time,0,OK,199,196,Critical Composite Temperature Time,0,OK,201,200,Temperature Sensor 1,314,OK,203,202,Temperature Sensor 2,321,OK,205,204,Temperature Sensor 3,0,OK,207,206,Temperature Sensor 4,0,OK,209,208,Temperature Sensor 5,0,OK,211,210,Temperature Sensor 6,0,OK,213,212,Temperature Sensor 7,0,OK,215,214,Temperature Sensor 8,0,OK
>>109031672>>109031951or this if you want to consider entry level OLED.
>>109031393>AVOID non QDOLED OLEDWhy?
I got this message from Microcenter"Your motherboard has failed and would need to be replaced. Unfortunately the part is unavailable for purchase from ASUS or any third party vendors. I'm sorry but we are unable to provide a repair solution for you at this time."The laptop is a Asus 15.6' ROG Strix G15 Laptop, 15.6' FHD 144Hz, - GeForce RTX 3060- AMD Ryzen 7 4800H," Am I fucked or they're like specialty shops that will help with this?Sorry if there's another thread I should be using
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>>109032223I hope you are not implying right looks better lol
>>109032210send it to this guyhttps://www.youtube.com/@northwestrepair
>>109032210You weren't actually supposed to shop at Microcenter. They are a Reddit company.
>>109032223Oh I see. The right looks brighter, more forceful, like Trump. I'm sold.
>>109032229depending on who you ask orange man is accurate while white man is inaccurate and viceversa
>>109031396hehe, debugging
Anons can you help me "Clean house?" I'm not baiting I promise. I'm trying to get rid of tech. I guess the question is, do I actually NEED to? The answer is probably yes. I have an asus rog zephyrus g16 laptop that literally microstutters playing cyberpunk. Just can't run the game. I even got a cooling pad. Doesn't change a thing. I also have an m3 macbook pro. It's a meme device and I hate apple. Fuck apple. Enough said. Considering selling it.I also have a switch 2 that I bought on a whim. It's a meme device and I'm considering selling it at a profit on marketplace. I also have a stupid gayming redmagic 9 pro. I'm honestly at the point that I question why I even have a phone. I literally don't use it but I GUESS I could keep it.So my question is this. Should I just get rid of all the above bullshit and get a gayming pc? Do I wait for the meme rtx spark?
>>109032307you're not going to enjoy the pc either, u're just a sour person at this point
>>109032141samsung simply updated the drives before they got into consumers hands
>>109032307Yikes
>>109032307now is particularly expensive time to build a pc, but re-selling might be a good time because of itId keep the laptop as backup incase you need it.Sell switch 2, it has shit screen anyway. Sell macbook obviously
5800x3d + 32gb ram + 9070xt gaming pcwildcat lake laptop60TB nasthat's the enlightened man's computers stack
>>109032232Thank you
>>109032121you dumb nigger, thats a literal psuedo-ultrawide monitor right there, its even fucking curved, dickhead.
>>109032307what do you use your computer for? you sound like my ex who says shopping makes her happy and her house is 10 years before an episode of hoarders will be filmed in it.basically, you'll never be happy because you don't know what you want or who you are.
>>109032210>ASUSanother company on my permanent tech-blacklist, lmao. ASUS should have their own repair centres that cover that. Google it.But at the same time, Microcenter should either be offering a replacement or refund if they can't organise a repair, and its still under warranty.
>>109031393Do you guys still enjoy games/tech? I just doomscroll.>>109032233Who do you buy from then?
>>109032316i mean ur not wrong. plus games suck most of the time imo.>>109032346id rather keep the macbook honestly cause the gaming laptop is dogshit >>109032409media consumption. runescape.
>>109031951I'm very tempted to pick up that 1080 monitor or that 40" 1440 monitor.talk me out of it anons.
>>109032425do basic maintenance on the laptopopen it up, clean it, remove thermal paste, replace the paste with ptm padsreinstall windows
>>109032423>Do you guys still enjoy gamesyes. Deadlock is as fun as Dota was in the WC3 days.
>>1090324232026 game releases have been unusually good for mekcd2, pragmata, zero parades, 007
>>109032423I'm waiting for Silent Hill Townfall (Alternate title : Silent Hill N)
>>109032423AAA goyming hasn't produced anything worthwhile in a decade. Certainly nothing worth building a pc for.I mess with some AI slop though.
>>109032504What have you been slopping? Share if you don't mind.
>>109032307I own a computer and an electric kettle
>>109032516Coom, shitposts, weird shit, just nice looking images.I tinkertroon with different parts of the generation process, make bunch of weird experiments sometimes when I have the motivation.Occasionally train adapters and shit.It's kinda fun sometimes.Pic related is the last image I genned two days ago.
>>109032444Too many visual effects for my liking. I feel this way whenever I try MK8DX. But the artstyle/characters are sick.
>>109032795yeah I hope they can improve visual clarity as they develop the game more because it can get chaotic in big fights.
>>109033003not 10% as fun as dota is
>>109033037only turbo autists can enjoy mobas beyond the first few hours of "new thing interesting"
>>109033056>Games with infinite skill expression are for autistic people.
>>109032307Usecase?
>$880 ram
>>109033037>playing ASSFAGs>2026lol, lmao even.
>>109033056>>109033120Isn't deadlock a moba?
>skill expression
>want to make a cobbled together SFF pc build out of refurb / secondhand parts where every component costs $20 - 25 for the hell of it>Ryzen 3 1200 + cooler - $12>8GB 2666MHz RAM - $18>some bullshit case with a proprietary 300w PSU - $35>literally no one makes half-slot GPU's anymore so if you do want one it's $200 for a 4GB card or nothingthis some bullllllshit.i was doing so well to.
>>109033166I think 4060 had some flat version
>unironically playing flopping tranny deadcock
>>109033166What is up with the price of low profile GPUs?Even if I wanted to buy one from chinks, they are expensive as fuck.
>>109032413Now I bought It off of Amazon. I'm gonna just try to get the motherboard repaired.Because that's what it sounds like the problem is
>>109033056>>109033120you're so right xister we should be playing visual novels instead.
>>109033221itx tax>>109033166find a secondhand bit of bullshit on craigslist or facebook marketplace ig. Or go up to 200 for a 6g lpsff card
>>109033174it does but it defeats the purpose of wanting to build a garbage small form pc.i didn't want to spend more than $200 on something i'm essentially building for fun. >>109033221they were already a niche subset of GPU's but i suppose APU's are becoming so developed nowadays people find it hard to justify their existence anymore. it makes sense in a way, even the 8000 series ryzen's give 4GB lp cards a run for their money in performance
>>109033243>itx taxMore like dell optiplex tax, because those cards often don't require PCI-E 8-pin.
>>109033270Nah, it's actually mini pc tax. The half-height single slot cards are a nice drop in for the tiny pcs that have a pcie slot in them
5600x bottlenecks a 4060 in the new ce remake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOQv-htsgLghttps://www.displayninja.com/best-oled-monitor/First to market with a 27" 4K RGB OLED (be it LG, Samsung, or TCL CSOT) wins IMO.,
https://www.techradar.com/pro/why-95-percent-of-enterprise-gpus-sit-idle-while-ai-startups-cant-get-computeProbably one of those FUD articles with no truth to them, but interesting claim
>>109033548liberal luddite lies trying to kill the biggest IPO in history
The "end goal" of computational power is theorized to be simulating the entire universe. If a civilization achieves this, the simulation would be so perfect that we would inevitably discover we are characters within it, creating a profound existential "self-simulation" loop.
>>109033357why do you want 27" monitor over 32"?
https://wccftech.com/amds-marketing-chief-boasts-15-out-of-15-on-amazons-best-seller-cpu-chart-leaving-intel-without-a-single-top-spot/Rest in poo JeetTel bankrupt in 5 years. Imagine not buying the best gaming and top 15 Amazon seller cpus and instead being a retard that listens to the dogshit OP of thus thread shilling craptel junk and being stuck on cope ultra dead end socket for the next 10 years.
>$300 Intel processor beats $1000 AMD processorWTF is AMD's problem, how is this sustainable?!?
>>109032141>Samsung SSD 990 PROlol just saw rossman Video of him seething about one of these fucking kekekekwait shitoh wait a minute what ssd do i have in my computer>Samsung 990 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD, 2 TBoh GODDAMMIT
>>10903360127" 4K is just better than 32" 4Kwords can't describe it videos can't either you have to see it for yourself
>>109033665that's bullshiteven if they put them all online the retard fees they want to charge for usage now would mean nobody could afford them they are just hoarding GPUs they don't intend to use them it's just to stop others buying them they used to do the same with employees until they decided employees are worth less than GPUs
>>109033245Quick google gives me colorful gtx 1660 and galax 1070
apparently 9070 xt shows up on steam hardware survey now from unknown to 1.3% because amd is incompetent with hardware ID's and steam has to do extra work to figure out who has them
