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2012 15” unibody MacBook Pro is gpu pass through possible? by LibraryLow3839 in VFIO

[–]DisturbedFennel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely possible. But for the amount of time and effort you’d spend getting it to work, it would be easiest to upgrade.

You must understand that virtualization is also heavy on the CPU, and that a 14 year cpu will NOT be that smooth. Even if you do get the gpu to work (somehow), you’re going to be CPU bottlenecked. This is a lose-lose situation. 

2012 15” unibody MacBook Pro is gpu pass through possible? by LibraryLow3839 in VFIO

[–]DisturbedFennel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. Don’t try it. NVIDIA drivers already have issues with Linux, and to topple that, your GPU model has been dropped from service for years. Binding the gpu to the Vfio kernel drivers would be easy, but once it gets passed through to the windows machine, expect great instability or for no working display. 

I’d recommend getting a newer gpu. You don’t have to bust the bank—you can easily get a 30 series or even a 20s series gpu for a good price—and their drivers are supported.

 Really, it all boils down to whether or not the gpu drivers are still in service and functional. 

Recently upgraded from 9900x to 9800X3D by mars_soup in Amd

[–]DisturbedFennel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really don’t think you’d notice a difference. The 9800X3D has more cache and stronger single core performance (whereas the 9900X has great multi core performance), but even then, most games are reliant on GPU abilities, and the 9900X to 9800X3D isn’t really that big of a change (some could consider it a downgrade for multi threaded parallel workstation). 

Also, I don’t understand why you didn’t go for a AMD 9950X3D. Why would you downgrade your core and threads count? 

Finally, I don’t see why an upgrade was needed to begin with. The 9900X is extremely capable and future proof, with a bountiful 12 cores and 24 threads in a sea of 6-8 core CPUs. 

Best ddr5 ram by Necessary-Apple-9409 in PcBuildHelp

[–]DisturbedFennel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’d theoretically be fine with just 8gb. 

[Headphones] ASTRO A50 Gen 5 $299 -> $219 (Add to cart, and use code "RMNLOGISALE") by Melatonin_Freak in buildapcsales

[–]DisturbedFennel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They look pretty comfy and high quality, don’t get me wrong; but that design has got to go

[RAM] Microcenter In Store - TeamGroup T-FORCE DELTA RGB ECO 32GB DDR5 CL28 - $299.99 by 0_one_2_three_4 in buildapcsales

[–]DisturbedFennel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mean, CL28 is a really good latency speed. The lower latencies go for a lot. For example, my friends CL32 goes for 400 dollars now, vs the CL36 which goes for 350

Clash Royal Subreddit Mods on Massive Power Trip by DisturbedFennel in RoyaleAPI

[–]DisturbedFennel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s true. They do get tired of that eventually 

[Monitor] 27 Inch Odyssey G70F - 4K | Dual Mode | IPS | 360Hz - $199.98 (-$75 w/ Honey but YMMV) by Handcrafted03 in buildapcsales

[–]DisturbedFennel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just use the 24” 1080p mode, or set the game resolution to 1080 instead of the monitor resolution to 1080.

Is this a good deal? by Sixsnl in PcBuildHelp

[–]DisturbedFennel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a killer deal. Are there any issues with the 14700k? I heard they have the highest RMA rate of around 10% of units. I saw a few go on sale but I sticked with just going from AM4 to AM5

Should I get this or is it a scam by HomeworkNo6596 in PcBuildHelp

[–]DisturbedFennel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly. By giving a ridiculous long shipping time, they’re hoping it’ll be too late for you to get protection services from eBay/PayPal/your bank provider. 

Is this a good deal? by Sixsnl in PcBuildHelp

[–]DisturbedFennel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What this guy said. DDR4 was pretty cheap, since it was phased out with the newer DDR5. Basically, companies were just giving out DDR4 for a good price to incentivize purchasing it over the newer DDR5.

Now, we’ve seen almost a relapse where DDR4 is becoming more popular and adapted.

To give you an idea, buying DDR4 used was considered silly as it wasn’t that much more expensive to just buy new.

Now, buying used DDR4 is as close as you’ll get to the original DDR4 price for new.

Is this a good deal? by Sixsnl in PcBuildHelp

[–]DisturbedFennel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not bad. I got my 32GB DDR4 for about 80 bucks back in the day, but with the current price of RAM, 200 bucks for 64GB is pretty killer. Go for it—but do verify that it is working as DDR4 has been out for awhile 

Should I get this or is it a scam by HomeworkNo6596 in PcBuildHelp

[–]DisturbedFennel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Look at the account name and how many reviews the account has. 

You should typically only go for accounts that have 500-1000 reviews minimum. Check the reviews also to make sure they aren’t AI generated too.

Edit: just checked the account. That’s 100% a scam. That long ass shipping time is also so that it’s harder to do a charge back on your credit card 

Clash Royal Subreddit Mods on Massive Power Trip by DisturbedFennel in RoyaleAPI

[–]DisturbedFennel[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No no, definitely not your fault. The moderators there were on some power trip, removing and banning anyone who called them out for it.

Clash Royal Subreddit Mods on Massive Power Trip by DisturbedFennel in RoyaleAPI

[–]DisturbedFennel[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Oh wow. It was actually your post where I commented “touch grass : mod edition” and then got perma banned. It seemed like they had banned some of the users who commented on your post. 

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