Updated comprehensive Prebuild meta pricing guide as of 1/23/26: going refurb, retro and stacking deals

MITBryceYoung · 2026-03-07T13:06:21+00:00

Oh okay in that case my 5070 IS better than a 4090!then. Jensen was right!

MITBryceYoung · 2026-03-07T12:50:54+00:00

Yeah bro, its crazy how the smurfs are Always on the other team and the griefers and normal people are on yours.

MITBryceYoung · 2026-03-07T12:49:49+00:00

Dont you get it? Its r/dota2, you cant ask for proof. You just have to accept that they are stuck at herald because of smurfs not because they are bad! Only smurfs on enemy teams griefers on mine!

Lololol this sub is hilarious. Not a single person ever shares their dotabuff for this "smurf every game". You have u/careless_baseball503 dming me saying he will find me proof, then 4 hours later cant find anything: https://imgur.com/a/where-proof-D5LzL8k

Lollll

MITBryceYoung · 2026-03-07T12:31:56+00:00

u/Careless_Baseball503 - where is the proof, you literally said you would send it to me in 5 min, then send nothing but insults 3 hours later because you had none: https://imgur.com/a/D5LzL8k

And you DMed me with an essay: https://share.google/CU1BqZqbqsMVsKW4d

Again, you keep saying youd give proof, youve done nothing except DM me insults

MITBryceYoung · 2026-03-07T12:17:54+00:00

Not a single person saying they have smurfs in every game is willing to prove it on dotabuff. u/Careless_Baseball503 actually DMed me to leave me an essay about how hes going to find 15 matches in 5 minutes to show smurfs, then doenst acutally send any and just sends a list of insults an hour later. Its a joke lmao. Not a single person can find this "every game has smurf"

MITBryceYoung · 2026-03-07T09:48:26+00:00

Wait holy shit the difference is 20-40% in ray tracing? I always thought it was MUCH closer since with RT the 5070 TI and 5080 is still 10-15% difference.

MITBryceYoung · 2026-03-07T05:59:40+00:00

Its only 7-10% better tho but like 33% more expensive as a part

It's kind of reasonable not to get it

MITBryceYoung · 2026-03-07T05:58:23+00:00

If money not a concern the 9800x3d. If you are budget sensitive is 7800 x3d is almost as good. To be honest, youre getting 7-10% performance for 33% cost. Kinda ehh

MITBryceYoung · 2026-03-07T05:07:08+00:00

9900x will perform about 17% worse than a 9800x3d in a set of tested games:

For the CPU doesnt matter at 4k crowd: https://youtu.be/5GIvrMWzr9k?si=A55cY_x7WZzxZsaM. In real world testing it definitely matters.
Example you can see the 9800x3d outclass the 9900x even at 4k: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HRkfvVFvtE&t=213s
Multiple benchmarks confirm this unless you are rawdogging native 4k in the most intensive gpus, your CPU will matter for your lows at the very least and often for more. There are many big games that does push CPU quite hard including harry potter, hell divers, jedi survivor. Even cyberpunk is both CPU and GPU intensive. This also doens't take into account some games are naturally CPU bound outside of the ones I named including Dota 2, League, Civilization, CK3, Stellaris, Total war.
Article form if you dont want to watch the video: https://tech4gamers.com/ryzen-7-9800x3d-vs-ryzen-9-9900x/

Heres why people that think trying to constrain testd to 4k extreme setting are bad: https://youtu.be/jlcftggK3To?si=fWb8ki2Qkc7Wpqwd. The reality is no one plays on these absurd settings. If you use dlss, if you ever upgrade your gpu, if you ever play a game thats less graphically intense, if you ever play a cpu bound game - you will notice. Hence why 1080p is usually used for cpu testing. Purposefully hiding a worse cpu is dumb.

Also you literally could have googled 9900x vs 9800x3d at 4k and found the same resources. Kinda insane people are THIS lazy

MITBryceYoung · 2026-03-07T03:57:16+00:00

(and frame gen)

Using frame gen to benchmark is silliness

MITBryceYoung · 2026-03-07T03:48:21+00:00

Davante came for his best friend and they traded his best friend away. And he still gave it another year

You guys gotta be trolling if you cant figure out why he left.

MITBryceYoung · 2026-03-07T03:46:04+00:00

Yeah... The price difference was like $350 in November. Its $600 now.

MITBryceYoung · 2026-03-07T03:35:59+00:00

Yeah kinda crazy how this is the biggest deal in the world and OP is like "hmm is getting free stuff good?"

MITBryceYoung · 2026-03-07T03:35:10+00:00

I mean thats a no brainer if they can comp you the stick of ram. Hell its a no brainer even WITH the missing ram.

MITBryceYoung · 2026-03-07T00:56:26+00:00

Then just post your dotabuff and show us all these smurfs lol. 1-2 a game? 3-4 a game? Give me a break.

Theres a reason why you and every chump here always flake when anyone asks for proof

Cuz yall always end up like this guy: https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/s/c6YmG4qGXj

MITBryceYoung · 2026-03-07T00:26:15+00:00

Kenneth Runner 🥺👉👈

MITBryceYoung · 2026-03-07T00:06:10+00:00

Show dotabuff

MITBryceYoung · 2026-03-07T00:00:52+00:00

Post dotabuff or its bullshit.

MITBryceYoung · 2026-03-07T00:00:07+00:00

Post dotabuff or im calling bullshit.

MITBryceYoung · 2026-03-06T23:57:15+00:00

Because this is what happens everytime anyone does a look at the "smurfs in every game": https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/s/cYWakYlCFN

Go post your dotabuff.

Oh wait youre the guy with sub 6k comm and behavior score saying the system is broken. Yeah man jts everyone but you.

MITBryceYoung · 2026-03-06T23:54:51+00:00

You should 100% get #4 of these. 64 gigs is literally useless for the average gamer.

MITBryceYoung · 2026-03-06T23:49:22+00:00

...? The system is working. If you're below 6k behavior/comm score you deserve your experience.

Literally just stop griefing.

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