GPUs & CPUs & Enthusiast hardware: Questions, Discussion and fanboy slap-fights - Nvidia & AMD & Intel - Separe but Equal. Intel rides in the back of the bus.

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harbringer883 said:
I use a arc b580, do you think its worth upgrading to a 9060xt? Its only a $100 bucks in price difference.
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Depends on if you could get a good deal for trading the arc in. If you've already spent money and put together a setup, I think the cost-benefit doesn't work out the same because now you have to deal with mailing cards, waiting for a new card, installing it etc.

My point is more that if you're doing a new build now, you should probably not cheap out. In like three months, the 9060 XT will probably be a significantly more expensive card than it is now and if you're starting from a blank slate, it's just better sense to spend the extra $100-$150 now and actually get to enjoy the card as we enter the dark times.
 
4090 Chad said:
I got my hands on a steam deck OLED for Christmas. I am pretty impressed and how capable it is for something so light and portable. Desktop mode works great as well. It's going to be insane what these are capable as the nodes continue to shrink and chips get even more efficient.
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I thought about trying to get a used Steam Deck LCD for $200, but prices seemed to shoot up after they recently announced the discontinuation of LCD models. They have pivoted to premium.

Facebook deploys the Steam Deck's Linux scheduler across its data centers — Valve's low-latency scheduler perfect for managing Meta's workloads at massive data centers
 
Betonhaus said:
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It's not like SO-DIMM-to-DIMM adapters do not exist. They are cheap, too, at around $10 per piece. You can get two-packs for ~$15.

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Curry Teafag said:
It's not like SO-DIMM-to-DIMM adapters do not exist. They are cheap, too, at around $10 per piece. You can get two-packs for ~$15.
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a problem with them is the frequency, some cpu's are heavily sensitive to frequency and most of the adapters will run the sticks at the lowest speed possible.
something that a custom pcb with all of the kajiggers to control voltage, timings and frequency won't have, godspeed to them ruskies.
 
StacticShock said:
a problem with them is the frequency, some cpu's are heavily sensitive to frequency and most of the adapters will run the sticks at the lowest speed possible.
something that a custom pcb with all of the kajiggers to control voltage, timings and frequency won't have, godspeed to them ruskies.
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Fair point. I wish there were some properly specced high-end version of those.
 
Curry Teafag said:
Fair point. I wish there were some properly specced high-end version of those.
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but then you fall in the same line of thinking as the modders my neger, why bother slapping all the thingamabobs that help a RAM be RAM into a adapter when you can just pick the parts and slap in a custom PCB that has a ram slot? thus making a new ram...
i mean unless you lack the soldering skills and don't want to waste money buying a PCB, that is but then this is more geared towards the people that do that shit, similar to the chink modders that make 4080's with 32GB or 2080ti's with 22GB...
it's not really a line of thinking for the regular joe.
 
StacticShock said:
it's not really a line of thinking for the regular joe.
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Not yet. We'll see what happens with the RAM prices being this high. This new situation gives some real economic incentive to become inventive with the shitton of RAM chips out there. Your smart local electronics dude who used to remove SIM locks from mobile phones could now switch to building RAM sticks from scraped modules.
 
Curry Teafag said:
Not yet. We'll see what happens with the RAM prices being this high. This new situation gives some real economic incentive to become inventive with the shitton of RAM chips out there. Your smart local electronics dude who used to remove SIM locks from mobile phones could now switch to building RAM sticks from scraped modules.
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with regular joe i mean people with no soldering skills or time/will to learn it...
i know a dood that does GPU resoldering besides the regular computer maintenance (even has heaters and sencils for solderballing) and there are a few notable youtube monkeys that do it too, it's not really a secret or anything, microsoldering is also something you can do a course on.
for ram's it's a entirely different thing but it's still needs solder and whatnot, i surely hope more developments come from it especially on the voltaging side, also i wonder how this entire oldass ram repurposing thing will work for the electronic recyclers, like the taiwan recycling plants :sighduck:

besides if the ram resoldering goes well i know who to personally bother to resolder ram sticks for me, gotta think ahead :smug:
 
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We'll see. There is now a real economic incentive for people to do something, and some will, just like those Russkies.
 
Fcret said:
Depends on if you could get a good deal for trading the arc in. If you've already spent money and put together a setup, I think the cost-benefit doesn't work out the same because now you have to deal with mailing cards, waiting for a new card, installing it etc.

My point is more that if you're doing a new build now, you should probably not cheap out. In like three months, the 9060 XT will probably be a significantly more expensive card than it is now and if you're starting from a blank slate, it's just better sense to spend the extra $100-$150 now and actually get to enjoy the card as we enter the dark times.
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To play devil's advocate, the PS5 will be the lead platform for game development for at least another 5 years. Anything better than a 6650 XT will be plenty to play virtually any game you want at 1080p or better and 60 fps for a long time.

Even cheaping out on the CPU and GPU, PCPartPicker still has me over $1200 for the build. 💀💀💀
 
Pages back I mentioned due to RAM prices just upgrading processors on the AM4 since I had 64GB of 3600 CL16 DDR4, so I went to a 5900XT from a 5700 (which was an upgrade from a 2800X), and it's great. I have a Noctua NH-U12 cooling it so far and it seems good, not being held back, but I still want to upgrade with a NH-D15 or similar cooler with 2 fins. It really does blast through Adobe and Handbrake in half the time and I don't even have to think about upgrading for years. I can't feel a difference in heat output either, which was my biggest concern.

Now I just want to consolidate all the hard drives before the SSD prices get too busted, maybe go with a big booty 8TB 2.5 or even NVME if possible, then just move it all to a nicer case. Those Fractal North's look good without going full autistic.
 
The Ugly One said:
Even cheaping out on the CPU and GPU, PCPartPicker still has me over $1200 for the build. 💀💀💀
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/XWHGv4
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Everything sucks!

Intel 7 265KF + CORSAIR 32GB + ASRock Z890 Pro RS + Liquid Cooler + 2 Free Games $600 + Free Shipping

Bundle deals can improve the situation slightly. Your 245KF + RAM + motherboard + cooler = $696. This is a better CPU and I assume motherboard (although not Mini-ITX) and cooler for $100 less.

ASRock Motherboard Combos: B850I Mini ITX + 32GB V-COLOR 6000MHz RAM + Cooler Master Hyper 212 Spectrum V3 $369.99 - Warning: AssCrack known for motherboards that fry CPUs.

Micro Center: ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT Challenger Overclocked 16GB Graphics Card $350 + Free Store Pickup
 
mandatorylurk said:
I have a Noctua NH-U12 cooling it so far and it seems good, not being held back, but I still want to upgrade with a NH-D15 or similar cooler with 2 fins. It really does blast through Adobe and Handbrake in half the time and I don't even have to think about upgrading for years. I can't feel a difference in heat output either, which was my biggest concern.
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The nhd15 is a dual tower 150mm cooler with two 150mm fans. It's the best because of those reasons and why they charge $140 for it. If you aren't even close to hitting limits and aren't overclocking then it's probably not worth the money, it was only a marginal improvement for my intel housefire computer compared to a dual tower 120mm with 3 fans. If you want to upgrade just buy a cheap dual tower cooler for $30 and put the noctua fan from the nhu12 into it
 
Bros what do I do I need an Nvidia card for AI. My cope idea at the moment is dual 5060 ti 16gb I can at least break those up later to put into different machines if the Super happens, which is now rumored to be delayed to Q3 2026 or not at all.

Locally the 5060ti /16gb is disappearing, also rumored to be first affected SKU if Nvidia scales back GPU production on account of RAM shortages and causes a GPU shortage.
 
YautjaWeeb said:
Bros what do I do I need an Nvidia card for AI. My cope idea at the moment is dual 5060 ti 16gb I can at least break those up later to put into different machines if the Super happens, which is now rumored to be delayed to Q3 2026 or not at all.

Locally the 5060ti /16gb is disappearing, also rumored to be first affected SKU if Nvidia scales back GPU production on account of RAM shortages and causes a GPU shortage.
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Get gud, be this furry:

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YautjaWeeb said:
Bros what do I do I need an Nvidia card for AI. My cope idea at the moment is dual 5060 ti 16gb I can at least break those up later to put into different machines if the Super happens, which is now rumored to be delayed to Q3 2026 or not at all.

Locally the 5060ti /16gb is disappearing, also rumored to be first affected SKU if Nvidia scales back GPU production on account of RAM shortages and causes a GPU shortage.
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CHINA SUPERPOWA, GET RTX3070 16GB, RTX 4090 48GB or MI50 32GB (cheap bastard), CHOOSE IT WELL WHITE PIG DEMON, NO LEFUNDS (or flee shipping).

btw shouldn't a pro b50/60 do the job well? b50 has 16GB and while the b60 has 24GB it's kinda rare to find although it's intel arc, not nvidia, b50's are plentiful for some reason.
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
Everything sucks!

Intel 7 265KF + CORSAIR 32GB + ASRock Z890 Pro RS + Liquid Cooler + 2 Free Games $600 + Free Shipping

Bundle deals can improve the situation slightly. Your 245KF + RAM + motherboard + cooler = $696. This is a better CPU and I assume motherboard (although not Mini-ITX) and cooler for $100 less.

ASRock Motherboard Combos: B850I Mini ITX + 32GB V-COLOR 6000MHz RAM + Cooler Master Hyper 212 Spectrum V3 $369.99 - Warning: AssCrack known for motherboards that fry CPUs.

Micro Center: ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT Challenger Overclocked 16GB Graphics Card $350 + Free Store Pickup
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I'm guessing the winning play is to get a cast-off Dell Optiplex off Ebay and stick a GPU in it.
 
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