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So as an update, they found an open box one of these on Amazon for ~$115, and they're gonna just hope and pray that it's functional. As for mine, probably will be sold for parts on Ebay, I'm gonna guess somewhere around $50-80, hopefully they can get 70 off of it since everything works, the...

I agree with what you're saying, at least in the present. However, I think we've all seen these companies play a very long game these days. And so for now I think you're right: they probably just need that language to provide some services for you. However, in the long run? It's a door. And it...

I think that's one of those one-off unicorn deals, kind of like I got my open box X670E Mag Carbon for 200$. They're pretty rare. If anything, the open box GPUs at both of the MCs near me are ironically overpriced.

That's pretty appealing. 10TB is too low for me to jump on despite the price, but 14TB would be a nice slot in. That's kind of what I'd be worried about with these as well. That said, normally you would get something like WD Purple drives for recording I think. I'm not sure if these enterprise...

Oh, I think it's even worse these days. I'm sure everyone is noticing that ever since Covid (and hell, quite a bit before then) there is a serious lack of trust both from employees to employers and then employers to employees. A lot of young people jump ship (because they have to) to get raises...

Yeah, my work laptop is actually Ryzen. They're out there, but Ryzen is more rare to begin with. Here's the Microcenter Laptops page: And then if I narrow it down to Nvidia GPUs: And a 4090 for high end laptops: For the record here's a comparison of the lowest price 4090 laptops and the...

Soooooooo it's just a laptop with MEOW written all over it? The desktop is at least kind of fun. Interestingly, I've been looking at laptops lately, and AMD actually has some pretty nice GPUs in the laptop market. The 7900 laptop edition especially is pretty powerful according to Techpowerup...

They said they felt like they actually didn't push in all that hard. But yeah the socket looked symmetrical to them, despite me repeatedly telling them that it was slightly off (by design). But I don't know how they did this, though. Part of me worries I somehow packed it too firmly and it...

And I just can't help but realize how short-sighted I was while helping them. There are just so many things that I take for granted due to my experience with building. They had poor lighting which probably lead to this. I have headlamps that I've been using for a long time. I would have sent...

I wanted to thank everyone for helping out. Unfortunately things didn't go too great. I mean my packing job was pretty good, but some issues cropped up when they were building it. First the minor stuff, I'll put it in spoiler because this isn't what I need help with: So you know, all good. I...

I said "in my experience." As in, I was just relating what I've seen personally. The aim wasn't ever to "convince you". Frankly I don't remember the sites and I'm not going to use that much time to dig them up just to give you proof. You can stay as skeptical as you want. It doesn't really...

I meant the base browser. I have had plenty of ads slip past the base browser. Some sites get very creative with it. No, I'm not going to sit here for an hour digging through my history to find them for you. You either take my word that there are sites you don't go to, that trivially slip past...

In my experience, Brave isn't all that great. It's okay for basic stuff, but Firefox is literally unbeatable in this arena. I've had a lot of stuff slip past Brave. Even on Android, Firefox now supports a majority of the extensions I care about, so I stopped using Brave even on my phone...

Tbh I haven't had a gaming experience I would consider "smooth" since a cheap CRT. Even this currently 120Hz LG C3 has noticeable blur to me. It's better than LED, and I'm keeping it around for the blacks, but it's still at the end of the day not perfect for motion clarity. The 240Hz 3440x1440p...

Yeah, I made that point a long time ago. If you lined up the 40 series prices on release, the 4090 was actually the only one that kind of made sense. It was top tier flagship price for top tier flagship performance, and at the 4080's release price it was actually priced better than the...

I wonder if we're going to eventually have a bunch of "account squatters" in Steam. I'm sure many of these accounts will eventually get hacked and leaked. Person would just try to find ones that stopped being used for a long time. Normally it wouldn't be effective since the owner would...

Going to just reuse the topic: the 6650XT is also about $220 at the moment: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09ZLRDMXX Good for an even lower budget. Edit:went up by 10$ now though.

Wait, your wife actually paid 200$ for an activation key? Wtf that is so much money wasted. That's literally a GPU tier's worth, I think. Brand new Windows Pro from a retailer is less than that. Microsoft's per motherboard clauses are bullshit. I have an education license from college, which is...

Probably. Right now AAA games are extremely cost prohibitive to make. If you can have AI fill in a lot of the effort, we might see indie level studios able to output actual AAA level titles, which would hopefully usher in a new age of creativity in the gaming industry, as the intermediate steps...

Yeah, and this is the issue with Linux. There's no "the Linux". Or even "the Linux for <insert purpose here>". Distros can become abandonware after years of slow progress, or even fast progress. This can be considered a strength as you have the ability to choose between a lot of usually free...

I have looked into those, but you can get a native 4k projector these days for around 5k, rather than bothering with a short throw one at 1080 for 3k. At the sizes these projector displays get to, 4k actually does help, too. That said I've just opted to have a 42" LG OLED on my desk and...

I recommend trying Nobara out, if your aim is gaming especially. Comes with all drivers preinstalled and mostly ready to go. The only thing is you have to choose the right option at login time but that can be changed. I've been running stable diffusion on my Nobara box for a while now, too, and...

8 logical cores is basically 4 cores+multithreading. 16 GB of RAM is fairly standard in most newer laptops I would think, although that's the steepest part of the requirement. Well no, sorry, the 256GB dedicated just to Copilot (if that's what the requirement means) is in itself very steep, as...

If spending above a 6800/XT, and especially within 7900XT/XTX territory, I would at least start looking at Nvidia instead. DLSS and other software features at that point start mattering. Especially if looking to play in the 1440p space, where DLSS does really well for longevity. 4070 Super/ Ti...

These days IME the IO shield is usually attached to the board, so you don't have to worry about that as much. It's mostly just checking the pins (and looking for any obvious scrapes near the standoffs), which you can just pull out the box at the store and then open it up and look yourself. I've...

That's because it works exactly like a bundle would. You need to have it all in your cart. It can't be purchased separately. Likewise when you checkout at the store, it all needs to be in one bundle. Here is a deal with an open box motherboard I found at your store: This is just noteworthy...

Some quick examples of the above by the way: You'll be fine with what you picked, just wanted to give you some other options in case you wanted to entertain them.

They didn't say 6800XT, they said 6800. I was a little skeptical, so I looked up 6800XT's on PCPartpicker and it's highly unlikely that they got one of those for $370. OP, you overpaid a very tiny bit for the 6800, if that's a non-XT...

I will say that it's odd to me that B&H would do this. I don't buy from them often and I don't live near them, but my impression was that most of their money was made from high end cinema and photography stuff, not PC part sales. That stuff is probably all much higher price than a motherboard...

Oh, I know. Sorry if it looked like I was picking on you specifically. I only quoted you because you gave some numbers on how many systems you have built and talked about statistics. It's just I've seen this, "Well I've been building systems for so and so years I've never seen this scenario...

If we look at stats, motherboard shipments per year are in the 30m++ unit range. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/motherboard-shipments-drop-ten-million-units-in-2022-report So all of the, "Well I've never seen this so it doesn't exist" on this forum when it comes to this general topic just...

I mean, you can't just do it immediately. Personnel and company culture changes take a while in a company the size of ASUS.

Wait what? You consider paying 990$ to keep an old machine around that long to be a good deal? As opposed to just investing it into a new one if it breaks (or more likely--or just hopefully--doesn't)? In 2-3 years tops, that thing is going to probably be outdated compared to the contemporary...

For context, my friend was able to get through a grad level Computer Science class via relying on ChatGPT. Someday the only programmers will be the ones being fed into the LLMs comprising these tools, and then the people who improve the tools themselves. I know that sounds scary, but after...

Pretty sure they were saying that the reason why it is faster for gaming is not "weird" if you understand why, not that it isn't faster.

This is why I never stick to any brand. I look at everything on a product-by-product basis, and I evaluate their current warranty reputation and whatnot in the mix, too. ASUS has this ridiculous fan following that always baffles my mind, however. Despite any negatives or any drawbacks, you just...

I would actually give it a try myself, but I'm sitting here with a Be Quiet Straight Power 12, 1200W, EVGA P2 Platinum 1200W, Seasonic Focus FX 850W, Corsair 850HX (that's more than a bit old but still working plenty fine), Corsair 750RMx, etc. Too many good, reliable power supplies, so there is...

From the Cultist spreadsheet, there are some: Sama Armor Gold HTX B7 https://www.mygarage.ro/teste-si-review-uri/383426-review-sursa-inter-tech-sama-armor-550w-80plus-gold.html https://www.expreview.com/56643.html https://www.xfastest.com/thread-182244-1-1.html...

I simply view a subscription as a value proposition like everything else. The impermanence of the games within, and the limited catalogue, are simply factors to determine whether the subscription is worth it for me or not. Personally for 10$ a month, Gamepass has been a value proposition that...

According to GPU-Z, you're not really pulling any obscene amounts of wattage. You're actually using less than my MSI Liquid is when I'm playing Cyberpunk (~480). If you were, your hotspot temp would probably climb even higher. I reckon this is just a slightly defective GPU. Maybe the cooler is...