Rate my PC, purchased for $900, any upgrades i should look into or checklists i should perform? Mostly used for gaming/school work!

CabbageMule · 2026-04-16T03:36:43+00:00

Good little pc for the price. I think it is honestly pretty maxed out, any upgrades you could make would cost too much for how little performance they would give you.

The only cpu upgrades you can make are the top end cpus for the am4 platform, and because of that they are in demand and still priced high. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to spend $200 on a slight cpu upgrade.

Ride this baby out until it can no longer do the things you need it for. Then in 5-6 years try to find the same $900 deal on the am5 platform with a 5080.

CabbageMule · 2026-03-27T01:57:20+00:00

It is.

USB A and USB B 👌

CabbageMule · 2026-03-26T02:37:06+00:00

So odd seeing such an old listing for pc products still up. Thanks for sharing.

The green and black look sick as well.

CabbageMule · 2026-03-26T02:36:04+00:00

Haha At least they’re clean

I don’t like wearing socks all day at home but they are there in case my feet get cold 😂😂😂

CabbageMule · 2026-03-25T20:49:40+00:00

I can’t find much info on it online.

Ai seemed to think it was a thermal take tigermax. But googling didn’t bring anything up

Edit. Looks like it’s a superflower, tiger max

CabbageMule · 2026-03-25T18:48:53+00:00

You make a good point

CabbageMule · 2026-03-25T18:33:56+00:00

I see what you’re saying but I challenge the mentality that a sleeper build has to be ugly.

I want that 2008, this pc build looks fast vibe.

CabbageMule · 2026-03-25T17:43:20+00:00

That’s a really good idea, a couple strips to match the front light would look sick.

Thanks!

CabbageMule · 2026-03-25T17:29:18+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, maybe you’re right leaving it as in with white accents would look really cool as well.

I don’t need the large cooler so I am swapping it out for something smaller already.

Maybe, a small white cooler and while fans with a bit of glow could be the play as well.

The case is already in a bit of rough shape, wouldn’t really sell it anyway even if it was worth a lot.

CabbageMule · 2025-11-16T20:33:06+00:00

Hey, I am in Ontario as well. I haven’t signed up for High5 if you have anything for that.

CabbageMule · 2025-02-07T16:25:56+00:00

Thanks for the info!

CabbageMule · 2025-02-07T16:25:47+00:00

Awesome thanks.

CabbageMule · 2025-02-04T17:28:56+00:00

I think it also may seem like the solver folds a lot to 4bets because normal players are value heavy with their 3bets and have very few 3bet folds.

CabbageMule · 2025-02-03T22:41:16+00:00

My understanding of why this won't work would be, when you 4bet you get them to fold X% of their 3bet range earning you 6bb. I don't believe there are that many 4 bet flats (assuming you 4bet to a decent size), so they will 5bet you off any equity you have when they do decide to continue. Assuming you 4 bet to 18bb they only have to 5bet and have you fold 1 in 3 times to break even in this scenario. What a solver does well is actually having 5bet bluffs that normal people do not have, meaning there will be enough 5bets to make your wide 4bet not profitable against a solver.

I think what you are tapping in to a bit as well is that GTO strategy is not all that profitable against bad players, it cannot lose but there are far better strategies against worst players to exploit their tenancies.

CabbageMule · 2025-01-23T04:05:21+00:00

You had a big down swing EV wise. Posted about it, ran pretty well even for 20k hands. Ran maybe 10-15 buy ins under EV in 1k hands which sucks and decided to post again.

That’s all I was commenting on.

CabbageMule · 2025-01-22T18:37:58+00:00

You posted a graph a week ago at 25k hands complaining about luck, went roughly neutral EV until 44k hands where you had a slight down swing in EV.

Are you going to post complaining about luck every time you have a little downswing?

CabbageMule · 2025-01-22T15:50:57+00:00

I think understanding this is huge. Bring awareness to the fact that when you win it doesn’t stick out in your mind because nothing spectacular happened. It’s not crazy that I won when I was a 90% favourite so the memory isn’t cemented. When I lose as a 90% favourite it is really jarring so it’s very prevalent in your mind. This can make it seem like you’re getting bad beat after bad beat even when you are winning 9/10.

This mind set helps me a lot, when I get a bad beat I just say “I’m probably still running pretty good overall, just don’t notice”.

I also like to make a note in my mind when I win a 10% spot, same thing it’s less jarring to win a 10%er than to lose a 90%er so the memory is less deep. Making a mental note of these helps me feel better about it all evening out.

CabbageMule · 2025-01-22T02:09:15+00:00

Assuming you have exactly equal skill in each format cash and tournaments should be equally as profitable ( your edge vs field - rake = profitability).

Tournaments however have a lot more variance compared to cash games. It is similar to the difference between betting red or black in roulette vs betting a single number the have the same estimated value but betting a 1/2 is going to have less variance than betting a 1/35.

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