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El Fideo posted:Lotteries for the opportunity to buy computer hardware? Very cyberpunk. Agreed. Although the alternative, me not being able to find one at all and either continue going without or paying some insane scalper price, is even worse. So I'm grateful enough, Which I guess is even more cyberpunk
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Play posted:Agreed. Although the alternative, me not being able to find one at all and either continue going without or paying some insane scalper price, is even worse. So I'm grateful enough, Which I guess is even more cyberpunk i'm misappropriating company property to play games. i touch spreadsheets for a living, they wouldn't have given me an rtx machine and local admin rights if they didn't want me to play games on it.
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Oct 11, 2021 20:04
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El Fideo posted:Lotteries for the opportunity to buy computer hardware? Very cyberpunk. Most of the time it sucks, anyway: you won the lottery! Now you have the opportunity to buy this GPU at MSRP... and it comes bundled with a 400 dollar add-on that nobody wants which Newegg is having trouble moving stock of! Now it's like you're paying scalper prices anyway, but you get some garbage with your card!
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Oct 12, 2021 02:53
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aniviron posted:Most of the time it sucks, anyway: you won the lottery! Now you have the opportunity to buy this GPU at MSRP... and it comes bundled with a 400 dollar add-on that nobody wants which Newegg is having trouble moving stock of! Now it's like you're paying scalper prices anyway, but you get some garbage with your card! Bonus points if it's an exploding Gigabyte PSU
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Oct 12, 2021 03:36
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I lucked out getting my 3070 for only like a 20% markup back in February. I had finally got my unemployment check after months of fighting with them. The only reason I bought it too is that I had to buy a new GPU for work because my 1060's fans both ate poo poo when the card thermally expanded a lil too much and the blades of the fans clipped into the back of my wifi card's exposed pins. That's what I get for trying to build an ITX computer and not buying a mobo with built in wifi.
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Oct 12, 2021 05:08
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You monsters made me realize that my CPU is now six years old and, even though it's getting by fine for my purposes at the moment, I'd be tempted to splurge if/when things settle down.
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Oct 12, 2021 05:12
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*nods in GTX 970*
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Oct 12, 2021 10:23
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Cost price 2070 baybeeeee
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Oct 12, 2021 10:35
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Cugel the Clever posted:You monsters made me realize that my CPU is now six years old and, even though it's getting by fine for my purposes at the moment, I'd be tempted to splurge if/when things settle down. For the last four years, every time I started looking up prices for a new desktop, some disaster struck. The ten year old i5-2500K still keeps me going, thankfully. I won't be playing "masterpiece" triple-A's any time soon, but as it turns out there's a large amount of even better titles that don't require all that power.
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Oct 12, 2021 11:08
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tokin opposition posted:*nods in GTX 970* Got one myself and have no complaints. There's very little I can't play as long as I'm not playing in 4k at max detail.
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Oct 12, 2021 11:45
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1070Ti half off!! Bought mine just as the 20xx series came out and a shop was clearing stock
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Oct 12, 2021 11:56
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Quill posted:For the last four years, every time I started looking up prices for a new desktop, some disaster struck. The ten year old i5-2500K still keeps me going, thankfully. I won't be playing "masterpiece" triple-A's any time soon, but as it turns out there's a large amount of even better titles that don't require all that power. I finally upgraded from the 2500k last year. Ten year old thing was the GOAT. Gave it and some other old parts away to a goon building a PC for their niece.  I hope it is still going strong.
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Oct 12, 2021 12:13
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Cugel the Clever posted:You monsters made me realize that my CPU is now six years old and, even though it's getting by fine for my purposes at the moment, I'd be tempted to splurge if/when things settle down. It's better to hold out a bit longer if you can anyway, with the move to DDR5 happening in the near future It will be expensive at first but things should start setting down later into next year
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Oct 12, 2021 12:17
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This is all a conspiracy to make us buy Steam Deck.
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Oct 12, 2021 12:47
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repiv posted:It's better to hold out a bit longer if you can anyway, with the move to DDR5 happening in the near future prices will fall that quickly?
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Oct 12, 2021 13:06
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Rinkles posted:prices will fall that quickly? It seems really, really optimistic to assume that prices will fall on any brand new electronic equipment any time soon, yeah.
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Oct 12, 2021 13:15
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DDR5 is launching in a matter of weeks for Intel's new platform so I'm thinking on the order of a year from now things will be settling down, but there's no way to say for sure AMDs new platform will only support DDR5 so I certainly hope the RAM is somewhat affordable (Intel is supporting both DDR4 and DDR5 for a while) Kanos posted:It seems really, really optimistic to assume that prices will fall on any brand new electronic equipment any time soon, yeah. The silicon shortages haven't affected memory prices all that much 
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Oct 12, 2021 13:18
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That assumes the supply chains get unfucked in that timeframe which lol lmao it's never getting better
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Oct 12, 2021 13:25
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repiv posted:DDR5 is launching in a matter of weeks for Intel's new platform so I'm thinking on the order of a year from now things will be settling down, but there's no way to say for sure i was thinking of putting a new pc together, but i can wait a year if ddr5 prices should be reasonable in that time frame. though isn't the first batch of a new generation of memory usually also not actually much of an improvement over the last gen of DDR?
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Oct 12, 2021 13:43
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Rinkles posted:though isn't the first batch of a new generation of memory usually also not actually much of an improvement over the last gen of DDR? Maybe, when Intel launches Alder Lake in November we'll see how early DDR5 performs in practice compared to mature DDR4 It's a DDR4/DDR5 hybrid platform so we should get apples-to-apples comparisons on the same CPU just with different memory repiv fucked around with this message at 13:51 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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Oct 12, 2021 13:47
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I'm a filthy rear end in a top hat that good a 3080 FE at launch for cost. It's me, I'm the worst.
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Oct 12, 2021 14:01
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repiv posted:The silicon shortages haven't affected memory prices all that much Supply chains are still massively hosed and look to be hosed at least well into next year even if we don't have an outbreak of some sort of Omega Covid variant emerging and ruining everything again. We have a lot of current gen memory available already floating around in stock, so prices haven't spiked as badly as other computer hardware, but for a totally brand new product that needs to be produced from the ground up to build up supply I'm not optimistic at all.
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Oct 12, 2021 14:11
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Fuzz posted:I'm a filthy rear end in a top hat that good a 3080 FE at launch for cost. You'd have been indeed had you sold it back for 2x-3x times the cost. That would have been a  move, young scalper. Not the case, though.
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Oct 12, 2021 14:47
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Ram prices were already lovely, so I guess they couldn't get worse.
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Oct 12, 2021 15:33
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I had this modest gaming rig made for me back in the spring of '17 with a 1070 in it. Some months ago I noticed that my card was getting a little long in the tooth and I wanted to upgrade it... I had absolutely nooooooooo idea what COVID, buttcoiners and scalpers had done to modest individual users like me who wanted to make a simple upgrade. To put it another way, anti-vaxxers should be infected with mange, buttcoiners should be imprisoned at the bottom of a public lavatory and scalpers should be scalped about two inches above the collarbone.
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Oct 12, 2021 16:13
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If we're bragging about lovely computers, I've got a 10 year old i3, with a GTX 660 
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Oct 12, 2021 16:42
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The General posted:If we're bragging about lovely computers, I've got a 10 year old i3, with a GTX 660  8 year old i5 with a 660ti. Fan shroud rattles a bit, hold together little buddy.
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Oct 12, 2021 17:25
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I have a 1050TI. No idea if where that falls, but I'm able to play whatever games I want*, so it's good enough for me. *FF15 seems to be the exception, but as I understand it, that game is a poorly optimized resource hog that can make even the best systems have issues. I'll stick to playing it on my PS4. Doubly so, since I've yet to find a mod that lets you start as Older Noctis.
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Oct 12, 2021 17:45
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 I still think my 260 Gainward was a neat looking card. It was the first I had with those modern plastic shells. 
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Oct 12, 2021 17:59
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Quill posted:For the last four years, every time I started looking up prices for a new desktop, some disaster struck. The ten year old i5-2500K still keeps me going, thankfully. I won't be playing "masterpiece" triple-A's any time soon, but as it turns out there's a large amount of even better titles that don't require all that power. That's the funny part. 95% of the games I actually spend time playing could run on just about anything. Is it really worth it just to cover that other 5%? Well, apparently the answer is yes but it does make me feel like a bit of an idiot
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Oct 12, 2021 18:09
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The General posted:If we're bragging about lovely computers, I've got a 10 year old i3, with a GTX 660 i5-750 still plays everything I've thrown at it and it's 12 years old now Of course I did get a 1050 some years ago when the old gpu died.
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Oct 12, 2021 18:11
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Oct 12, 2021 19:01
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Rynoto posted:i5-750 still plays everything I've thrown at it and it's 12 years old now The i3 decidedly does not play lots of things I throw at it 
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Oct 12, 2021 22:28
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My almost 10 year old laptop : i3-4010U Prozessor, 1,7 GHz, Intel HD Graphics, 4 GB ram Runs factorio tolerably and Mindustry quite well. I gave it to my father while he is in the hospital and it runs Shadow Empire and Xenonauts just fine for him.
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Oct 12, 2021 22:34
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 ^ you might think that's the coolest video card I own but you'd be wrong because I also own this one 
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Oct 13, 2021 01:30
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psssh this is where it's at
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Oct 13, 2021 02:19
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Those things benchmarked well, for their era. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmCEXbspWuI
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Oct 13, 2021 03:01
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ilitarist posted:This is all a conspiracy to make us buy Steam Deck. Play posted:That's the funny part. 95% of the games I actually spend time playing could run on just about anything. Is it really worth it just to cover that other 5%? Well, apparently the answer is yes but it does make me feel like a bit of an idiot Exactly this. If I have to spend $700 on a GPU anyways why not get a whole computer? Most of the stuff I end up playing wouldn't push a GPU anyways
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pseudorandom name posted:Those things benchmarked well, for their era.  (actually I think the camera should have panned down and shown confetti on the keyboard)
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