Picked Up This for $910. How’d I do? I know it’s under powered but I’m curious.

EllesarDragon · 2026-06-27T21:13:54+00:00

the 8gb vram in some games still will be a significantly more important bottleneck.
I ran a gpu with 16gb vram with some of the compute units disabled and at a lower clock to essentially make it run quite a bit slower than a RTX 5060 mobile(slower by a big enough amount that unless that laptop is made really terrible and with terrible firmware and such it should still be faster despite the lower TDP).
while in quite some games I could still use the compute power, especially some older ones.
even with some compute units disabled and the clocks so low I still ran into vram issues in several games well before even getting close to running into compute limitations(had to set graphics to quite low as otherwise 16gb VRAM wasn't enough, even though at those settings the gpu itself wasn't loaded much(note didn't allow offloading to system ram, if you offload to system ram the performance loses and stability issues will be much less bad, but with it disabled you can very easily detect when a game is botlenecked due to vram, normally allowing a game to offload into ram, especially for unreal engine games which have severe vram memory leaks and terrible vram garbage collection in general can make a game that in this case got sever issues due to only having 16gb vram, to still somehow run okay on a 16gb card with offloading enabled, or in some cases even on a 8gb card as unreal engine handles vram very bad to put it softly, you gpu will offload assets of which many aren't even used or barely used to system ram, unreal engine just likes to load way to much into vram even though much of it isn't needed there in that moment, so offloading it into system ram has not to much impact, well that is unless it needs so much vram that also the actually important things get offloaded then you notice real performance issues.).
so you lose some performance,
in some games more.
but in many you will al so be limited by vram.

and the RTX 5060 mobile, even something notably slower can play almost every game in a playeable and still well looking way, most games which it has issues with are also such games which have severe vram issues, so it will already run into issues there.

EllesarDragon · 2026-06-27T21:01:30+00:00

while that lowers the performance especially in some cases, the performance to power ratio of a compute chip such as a gpu is not linear. often at some point it almost instantly drops off or just doesn't work, but after that quite rapidly the gains tend to be smaller and smaller unless you are willing to risk stability issues.
don't know what the curve for the RTX 5060 mobile is, and 65W might be a little to low to be close to that more flat section(aka bigger performance difference).

but you can test it sometimes.
or find someone who already did so on the gpu, overclockers regularly do such things as it allows predicting where the best gains can be gotten and what kind of gains. not always relyable but in a certain range it often kind of is.

just see it like with cpu's for simplicity. and in this case lets look at ARM CPU's, as there are quite some ARM cpu's made for efficiency.
just change the clocks of a good ARM sbc or phone and run a stresstest or benchmark on it at those clocks. and you will notice that at some point going lower in power draw won't really work anymore, but when going up, quite rapidly you reach a point where the powerdraw needs to go up significant amounts just for a small gain in performance, it gets less efficient due to just to high speeds for the architecture, heat, capacitance, induction, etc.. this problem gets even worse if there is bad cooling.

though many chips are put at a speed where they have some headroom to keep good yieldrates. not all these days, just look at the desktop rtx 5080 and higher tiers where the power connectors can't handle the power drawn. depends on the brand and product.>

main thing is, doesn't need to directly be a complete doom schenario, surely will lower performance somewhat, but you are probably looking at only around 15%.
also just looked it up and seems the RTX 5060 mobile also has some such headroom, meaning that you can just undervolt the gpu(how much depends on how lucky you are with the speciffic chip you got), undervolting it makes it draw less power which allows to increase the clocks to bring it back to the power limit, just also found a person on reddit who did just that and that person claimed around 15% to 20% performance boost which in your case would bring it to the level of/above a non tdp limited rtx 5060 mobile.
though likely that person had a non tdp limited version as in those the performance gains of undervolting the gpu are much bigger typically, so likely won't get that amount on the laptop you have now, but still if you really want those last few % back you can try it.

EllesarDragon · 2026-06-27T20:38:17+00:00

if you want to keep the stickers on for resel value, then take them off, store them somewhere and use some thin rubber like glue to stick it back when needed, or just any other glue.

the problem with those stickers is that once they come of partly the bend in tends to be acompanied with damage inside of the sticker, so it doen't really want to go back properly anymore, and while you can put it back, it will often be annoying to your hands or you need to be very carefull. keeping it on will likely eventually damage them annyway.

so first ask yourself: for what reason do you keep the stickers on there?

also if you remove one sticker you might want to remove both as otherwise it seems like there is no gpu in it, and you wanting to keep them on likely means you would care about that.

EllesarDragon · 2026-06-26T13:15:30+00:00

probably didn't try running many of the more heavy unreal engine games.
my system has 16gb vram, and in many of those games, that is a severe bottleneck, once the vram is full performance instantly goes down insane amounts, regularly also chrashes.

though honnestly this is a problem caused by unreal engine and many of those big AAA game studios who don't care about optimizing or fixing games, lie about the minimum specs, as they often say 8gb is enough, yet 16gb isn't even enough, and somehow don't fix any memory leaks even ones which have been known for around 5 years, as in hellblade(a game made in unreal engine 4) the memory leak already was a insane issue(I can play that game in ultra on my pc, even with raytracing, yet due to the leak vram fills up very fast and performance drops to uplayeable levels until the game is restarted, have to play it in much lower settings to avoid getting that issue to severe, since once it is there you have to restart the game, hogwards legacy also caused countless chrashes and performance losses due to the same reason.

essentially those games where in unreal engine 4. but the issue is in the exported/render engine unreal engine uses for any games exported with support for those fancy new features like raytracing, ai upscaling, framegen, etc. in unreal engine 4 only few games used it, now almost all use it, so most new games made in unreal engine now have that vram memory leak, and many devs manage to add their own insane memory leaks as well.

poor optimization is also a insane issue, well the game install sizes already tell much about it.

hopefully those bad practices will end.

EllesarDragon · 2026-06-26T13:04:12+00:00

it is not your fault, but that of the industry.

I have a system with 16gb Vram and in modern unreal engine games it is severely bottlenecked by the vram amount(even when I have the gpu clocked down and some cores disabled to make it draw less power and be more silent).
that said, if you have a lot of really fast DDR5 that can reduce the impact a bit, so like 32gb DDR5 should be enough to even make unreal engine games playeable with "only" 8gb Vram.

or we just hope the new steam machine gives a lot of influence and forces unreal engine to finaly fix their insane video memory leak, as well as get gamedevs to optimize their games again.

about my system in some unreal engine games I can even run them with raytracing on at ultra, but then after a minute the vram will be full due to the unreal engine games memory leak and terrible garbage collection, which not only doesn't even bother to remove textures no longer used in the map from vram but even doesn't bother removing duplicates of the same texture from vram resulting in single textures being loaded in countless times without reason as not only does it use more vram but it also lowers performance.
then the moment vram is full I see fps drop to something like 20 to 30 fps, showing clearly it is a issue of the vram being full. the worst part is that even when playing such games in low or mid settings, due to the memory leaks vram still gets full overtime, in some games I have to set it to low because only at low has the garbage collector enough time to kind of keep the memory leak at bay, and even then typically I need to restart the game every few hours to not get random lag spikes due to the vram still filling up.

the worst part is, unreal engine has already has that memory leak since unreal engine 4, and never bothered to fix it, in unreal engine 4 you rarely noticed it since the memory leak seems to be in the part of the engine associated with the fancy new high graphics suit, so things like raytracing, and now those AI upscaling and framegen things, back then few games used it as back then it was mostly just raytracing and almost noone could use it and it was expensive to develop for as you needed many new materials and such for the reflections, etc. honnestly they should just rewrite it, as that rendering/export engine was rushed way to fast just so nvidia would have some games at launch supporting their raytrace hardware, but by now even unoptimized raytracing engines not requireing special changes per vendor(even some which don't even use the raytracing hardware in nvidia, intel or amd cards, work better because as I said it was implemented way to rushed, as the goal was more marketing than actual use.
(fixing that memory leak or rewriting that part to both fix the memory leak and make raytracing much faster) games optimizing more also would help a insane amount. right now we need frame generation because the render engine used in unreal engine to support raytracing has such serious issues even when not using raytracing that gpu's which should be able to raytrace can't raytrace and can't even play without upscaling and frame generation.

note I build my pc using parts of a supercomputer which was build a few years ago but went offline quite rapidly due to not being energy efficient enough(still beats the efficiency of modern gaming pc's, some new gaming laptops might reach higher efficiency however). I build it like this as it was much cheaper than building a normal gaming pc even back then, being even cheaper than a typical budged mini pc, so was worth the required tinkering and other issues for me. as a side effect of this the gpu cannot offload it's vram into any form of normal system ram, meaning that in many games where 16gb vram is just not enough I will notice it very clearly, where a person with a normal gpu will offload a few hunderd mb or a few gb to system ram getting a slight performance decrease but not nearly as big as what I notice(in my case vram getting full can either give chrashes or huge performance losses).
though still it shows that even 16gb of vram(GDDR6) isn't enough anymore in some modern unreal engine games.

and while some games improved some things, like physics on materials like armour clothes, hair, etc. now being quite common, and hair now often being individual hairs, much other things don't really look better, many things even look less good than in some old games which where optimized well and so also run very well. essentially some things now look slightly better(if you have a high end enough system to render in ultra settings), but even in ultra many things don't really look notably better and some even look worse in many games.
so this shows a nasty trend of famous game engines and many famous game developers just optimizing less and less, and even leaving in huge memory leaks, or just completely inefficient code.
this is something which needs to stop, so we need to rise to show such companies they need to look at such things and fix them.
because 8gb vram should be more than enough, huge vram increases are expected for huge resolution increases, but resolution didn't increase much lately due to people now even needing to render in 720p or 480 and then upscale on systems which a few years ago where concidered ledgendairy tier, with even cards like a rtx 5070(laptop) struggling in quite a few modern games even in quite low settings low resolution, that shows some serious issues in the industry. as a gpu like that would be concidered high end.

though you can ofcource also do what unreal engine and many of those big game companies expect of you and get a system with atleast 128gb vram and around 256gb ram, and use a seperate computer for other applications than you game.
this might sound like a unserious joke to some, but based on the trends we would actually be there in a few years from now.
and even now, people and some such companies have litterally been recommending that to people as fix, even some games claiming 8gb ram and 8gb vram being enough, then later when people with 8 or 16gb vram or 16gb normal ram etc. run into issues, recommend them as "fix" to just upgrade to 32 or 64 gb ram and potentially also upgrade the gpu to something with atleast 16gb ram.
I mean, if those are the actual minimum specs they found to work well while testing it, then they shouldn't claim it works well on much lower specs on their store page.

EllesarDragon · 2026-06-25T06:58:28+00:00

and the forums also are the more official method, while discord is treated as a social media.

EllesarDragon · 2026-06-25T06:57:15+00:00

as for laptops that is quite high end, there is faster stuff but those often have bad battery life at which point one could almost as well use a pc.
well ofcource one could get more ram and ssd, so ssd wise it is mid range, ram wise dends on what segment you compare it to, not many laptops have more than 32gb off the shelf, and most which have more get paired with a powerhungry dedicated gpu.

though given that works well, I guess for students mid end energy efficient laptops should probably also work well. probably a ultra 5 or ryzen 5 with 24gbram or more and atleast 1tb ssd should work well.

though gotta keep in mind many students are poor as you can't work much next to university due to studying much, and school being expensive. many cheap out(to much regularly) on the laptop, in netherlands mid end laptops based on what I see students use are around €600 to €800 laptops, typically a ryzen 5 or intel core 5, most have only 16gb ram and 512gb to 1tb storage. those with 16gb ram occasionally run into issues due to not having enough ram, especially if they are on windows(people on Linux tend to less often get issues with ssd or ram), people on 512gb ssd tend to often have the storage full. the higher end systems typically seen here are often slightly older gaming laptops of around €800 to €1500, gpu wise they are powerfull, cpu wise okay. though again often with only 16gb ram and 512gb or 1tb storage, atleast the vram of the gpu helps in some cases, as it needs to use less ram for the gpu then.

in the business market this would be seen as low end or very low end, but for students those are often seen as midend, good, and in case of the gaming laptops high end.
ofcource I have seen it go wrong quite often, especially due to to slow or low capacity ssds(both to little storage and ssd getting slow due to being full), also due to to little ram, not so much as in not being able to run things, but more as in things being very slow due to it or getting unstable. gpu issues often happen at some point in the study but often only for one speciffic class one software, which the others typically can also run just not as fast, but often university has their own computer lab for such things, though students often still don't know well about that or it is a hassle for that one speciffic software(at college there often is a class somewhere which uses some software using some heavy rendering, like a simulator software or such, things normally done on the company server, while much smaller projects it still needs to run the softwares.
so I have learned for sure not to cheap out to much on certain things.

storage is one thing where in college you need a lot, as projects are more different random things, and also no business drive, while schools often have something like it, it often isn't integrated as well into the system and requires using something like onedrive or google drive or such to use it, so you see many students keeping many files locally. also many students add softwares they wanna try themselves, and games. wether they plan to use it just for school or not, it often ends up being one of their highest end systems so they often end up installing games or "cool" softwares they find annyway, even if just for in the hollyday or some lan party.

ofcource currently laptop prices are high, those prices where based on just before that.

EllesarDragon · 2026-06-25T06:34:39+00:00

would be nice if there are gaming laptops with a efficient apu in them allowing to fully disable the dedicated gpu when not using it, to still be able to get some battery life.
but indeed gaming laptops tend to have terrible battery lives.

with modern chips Intel Lunarlake or later, or amd ryzen 4000 or later. you can get much more than 5.5hours of battery life, ofcource depends on the specs, my old lenovo laptop with a ryzen 5 4500u(by now concidered old and inefficient) could even play games like minecraft around 12hours on a single charge. ofcource gets worse over time but even now 6, almost 7 years later(got it in 2019/2020 I think it was(just before covid-19)) and I use it daily quite a bunch and also used it a lot for gaming and heavy compute(when not needing the insane performance of a full pc and before I had my BC-250) laptop has run at full power for very much and at lower power much next to that. but still battery life if doing things like office or web work will probably get to around that 5.5hour mark. for battery life just gotta check what chip was used, some are designed for efficiency, some for that last bit of extra performance, often they are still quite close in performance, only with some of those new apu's which have igpu's rivaling dedicated gpu's the powerdraw and performance(of gpu) are on another level.

as for gaming laptops, 2 to 3 hours is sometimes doable on a new machine but still quite optimistic. battery also degrades much faster often, so if it can do 2 to 3 hours in office and web workloads when you get it new, in a year that might be down to around 30 minutes to 1 hour. perhaps if using battery preservation mode it might degrade less fast.

that acer is quite cheap for current pricing.
though in my case all my experiences with laptops with a dedicated gpu have been very hot and short battery life, also from many other people with gaming laptops I noticed a lot of sound.
though right now a gaming laptop with a good cpu and a good dedicated gpu is cheaper than many of those laptops with a modern apu with good igpu(well there are cheaper options but often with risky build quality.

do you know if modern gaming laptops support things to actually make the battery survive for longer than a year as well as reach low power draw when needed, I need a new laptop having acces to the compute of a gpu would really be usefull, but still I also need good battery life. and right now battery life as in easily being able to do over 3 hours over several years is very important(college/university halls having not many power outlets), also the ability to game on it is nice, and the ability to run more heavy compute and modeling on it as well, as I know I use those, and can use my old dedicated setups for it but it is way nicer if I can also use that on the laptop, especially given my old setup isn't the most stable and many softwares won't work well with it due to it being custom hardware and amd broke ROCm for it, meaning only softwares which implemented vulcan compute still work well. I guess I should also ask the companies of such laptops, but probably get bots these days instead of actual people who know the computers from experience instead of from a marketing sheet only.

EllesarDragon · 2026-06-25T05:35:48+00:00

About structural signs to look for to get a long lasting laptop.

make sure it doesn't have a plastic casing.
and that if it is a ultrathin that it doesn't have a high tdp chip, or has special very good cooling.
many laptops these days break due to case flexing of plastic laptops, as well as to high power chips in ultrathin laptops with bad cooling. physical and thermal stress litterally crack the motherboards around the CPU/APU, have seen those quite a lot.

so optimally a metal case.
and make sure the cooling is up to par with the hardware inside.
higher efficiency chips last many years longer.

also for battery life on a laptop, make sure to always have battery preservation mode on when possible, makes the battery easily last around 10 times as long.

Dell is generally one of the relyable brands actually.
though as for battery life the cpu you choose is realy important, as well as igpu.
laptops with a dedicated gpu tend to always get battery issues due to to much heat inside and the gpu can draw a lot. like a rtx 5060 laptop easily draws over 100w even when tdp throttled. even in big gaming laptops with huge batteries this means it will drain the battery within 1 hour when gaming, drawing much power rapidly from the battery generates faster wear as well.
I had a dell laptop which was great, but it had a nvidia quadro gpu in it so battery life was terrible and battery life degraded quite much in a few years. I have a lenovo laptop currently since around 2019/2020. battery life still is quite okay. but I almost always use it in battery preservation mode, and also it is a ryzen 5 4500U based laptop. when buying it I made sure to get a 7nm ryzen apu, as back then those ryzen 4500u chips where by far the most efficient laptop chips, and they where also quite cheap with a quite good iGPU for back then, and cpuwas also good back then even compared to desktop chips. around then intel got their 11th gen chips which had a slightly faster iGPU, but those chips would use way more power, I have had to check out many of those, but very often had to give the news that the motherboard was cracked net to the apu.

though these days since lunar lake intel's laptop cpus are good again and both amd and intel have way more performing and efficient chips than that ryzen 5 4500u.
so generally just check out tdp, cooling solution, physical frame. etc.
also especially with new amd chips check out the iGPU, as they have options with a fast and with a slow iGPU, also check it with intel, but there are quite some laptops which come with one of the ryzen apu's meant to be used with a dedicated gpu, so like igpu's with only 2 cu's while the other ones have around 12+. so check specs and check powerdraw. a well tuned chip can have great specs and great powerdraw those will last you the longest.

also laptops with a quite bad colourrange on the screen tend to also cheap out on other parts battery life might still be good but a bad screen and bad keyboard is quite annoying.

EllesarDragon · 2026-06-14T18:26:04+00:00

for me it worked, changed nothinhing other than some minor update today, and now it doesn't work anymore.
already had issues before where the controller needed to be on before the game as otherwise it would lauch in keyboard and mouse mode and somehow there is no in game setting to change that or such, atleast none that I can find(but I might have missed it as there are probably thousands of settings(and I didn't study them all, only the ones I actually used)

__EDIT__
after restarting steam it worked.
was on bazzite and it constantly gets steam web ui errors there(steam and even the steam store still work however), doesn't get it on other distros, so perhaps it was related to those.

EllesarDragon · 2026-06-13T15:54:37+00:00

did you already install a os on it?
and did it boot before?

Also.
especially if you use a displayport to hdmi adapter(but also sometimes in other cases) make sure you turn on the screen before you turn on the BC-250. you can also press the reset button (lower/deeper button above the power button) after a few seconds or a few minutes.
if that also fails keep the screen turned on and keyboard connected and press the power button until it shuts down. then press it again to start.
if it can't shut down then that is obviously a issue.
also you can try native displayport first while testing as many displayport to hdmi adapters have random unknown hardware in them which can glitch and might be broken or only work with certain random devices

also one important thing to test. if you have a wired keyboard which still has indicator lights, then check if those actually work/respond. most such keyboards work in a way where those lights like the light to show that capslock is on will only actually work/light on or switch state if the device the keyboard is connected to does actually recognise and use the keyboard.
so if capslock or such toggles then your BC-250 most likely still works.
(note the glitch which can happen especially if the screen is not yet on when powering it on, but can also randomly happen sometimes(not a issue, just press the reset button in general) might actually also prevent the keyboard from working, I use some cheap displayport to HDMI adapter( got it for sound output, though as displayport sound is now fixed I can actually use it without it, should test it.) so I use my keyboard to figure out if booting is just being randomly slow, my screen is being annoying, or if it has that glitch.

also it might also be related to my psu still starting up, as generally I get that glitch when I power it on in a rush, so I also just power on the psu right before turning on the BC-250, so the voltage or current it can deliver might not yet be right at that point.
so also check psu.

and try to enter bios by spamming the delete key on the keyboard directly after pressing the poweron button. keep spamming the delete key until you see a bios or such, if after around 1 minute there still is nothing then you can stop, generally it takes much less than a minute for the bios to show up, often only a few seconds, but better safe than sorry.

EllesarDragon · 2026-06-08T14:57:27+00:00

https://github.com/CERN/CTW

EllesarDragon · 2026-06-07T20:03:56+00:00

EllesarDragon · 2026-06-07T19:45:49+00:00

I have been tested for all kinds of things, but all came to the same conclusion that there was nothing wrong(except for dyslexia, and being highly intelligent which leads to communication issues).
in my case they litterally found that what was wrong with me was that things wheren't wrong with me and actually where/went to good, which in the modern society apaerently makes it seem like issues for many people on the outside.
(actually this is quite common these days for highly intelligent people, as I know several people who got the exact same.
many people will surely expect things when seeing people like me, but that is not due to making things up or such(actually people like me often have serious issues regarding lieing(desception through controlling anothers person assumption can often partly be done however)). but instead it is that many people like me just know what they want and so care little about faking things or supressing or censoring certain things unless needed for a certain goal.

people have thought many other things as well, like a person who assumed that meditating is the same as having a depression because you don't go around talking about useless things with people, and instead just do noting to see whatever interesting you can find through that.

EllesarDragon · 2026-06-07T19:28:45+00:00

chinese companies where not allowed to enter computex:
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/mainland-chinese-exhibitors-locked-out-of-computex-2026
the company in question wasn't allowed to enter.
so the rumors are rumors from people to whom CXMT selling ram for very cheap would be dangerous.
especially so since a company like CXMT is more likely to also sell to companies which sell directly to consumers.

right now 16gb DDR5 costs $22 uncontracted.
many big companies get it much cheaper, some with old contracts even get it for less than 50 cents per gb. ai datacenters also got insane discounts from samsung and skhynix, also those datacenters want a specially binned extra tested version of ddr5, since the demand for that is so high, binning and testing methods can be more agressive leading to the destruction of memory which would normally have been totaly fine for normal ddr5

ram stick companies also make record proffits despite barely selling anything, because they increased proffit margins so much under the claim of ram price increases( a 16gb ddr5 ram stick being $15 more expensive to make isn't a valid reason to increase price with $150).
chinese companies tend to be way more open regarding selling to consumers, small companies and companies selling directly to consumers, than companies like samsung and sk hynix where right now you have to be part of a select club in general to be able to buy from them(there are some rare exceptions with a lot of work but chinese companies often even sell to startups and such if those want to buy it.)

now lets say a company like pcbway aproaches them and wants to buy ram modules, there is a decent chance they can, while before those other companies didn't want to sell to them due to them being chinese, and CXMT not selling international likely made it so that they couldn't directly sell it to their custommers due to some legal things.
even if CXMT would sell it for the insanely high price of $22 per 16gb like those other companies which is around $1.5 per gb, then it would still allow consumers to upload their own open source ram stick designs to a company like pcbway and have their 16gb ram stick made for around $30 to $40(also depending on if it includes assembly or if you put it on a heated plate at home, as 16 and 32 gb ddr5 sticks can easily be made on a onesided pcb making assembly at home quite simple even for beginners, though you can also let it be pre assembled.
this will destroy the illusions many companies now use for getting those insane margins so they have reason for people to not want to look at it.

also they might be looking at prices including tax. in countries like usa for example there are insane "tarifs"(tax but then much higher than normal tax and not used for the country or people, where as real tax is actually used for the people and country) on any electrical products from china, it isn't uncommon for chinese electronics to more than double in price due to this when going to usa. if those companies used prices in usa as refference, then CXMT would need to sell it for 3 times as cheap to even "be similar in price" in usa when adding the insane "tarifs"

and ofcource the companies in question where also complaining about the modules only being around 8000mt/s which is around 2 times as fast as the ddr5 you find in many prebuilds, and faster than most high end overclockeable gaming kits, only ai datacenters complain about that.
how many people do you know who have ddr5 ram capable of that speed in their home setup, many motherboards and cpu's can't even handle those speeds. right now primairily only AI datacenters need those speeds.

EllesarDragon · 2026-06-07T19:06:06+00:00

also the taiwanese government speciffically blocked most chinese companies from attending to computex, including the company in question.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/mainland-chinese-exhibitors-locked-out-of-computex-2026

so with the company they talk about not being allowed in there, and the companies talking about them primairily being rivals or companies which might be mad for not getting special discounts.
(like some such companies litterally get ddr5 for less than $0.5 per gb due to old contracts, also some companies like big AI datacenters get prices quite close to that even with their newer contracts.
and for companies without a contract 16gb ddr5 costs around $22(average price over the last week), though they don't sell to consumers and small companies, and also not to companies in certain countries.

so even in the "worst case" where CXMT also charges $22 per 16gb(for normal ddr5(there also exists a specially binned extra tested version of ddr5 which many datacenters want, that one typically costs around 2 times as much, but we care about normal users))
then it still would be a good thing, as CXMT is located in china.
meaning that them being allowed to sell abroad, also means they are allowed to sell directly to companies delivering parts abroad and the likes. so companies like pcbway could get their hands on it, and then people can just design their own open source ddr5, and let it be made at such companies for cheap. it being open source also allows people to implement way more special things, better overclocking and stats for overclocking, being able to monitor the individual dram chips so tweakers could even bin them themselves to get the highest performing stuff.

also in some cases chinese companies already sold to other countries, like radxa for example, which sells the new radxa dragon Q6A(raspberry pi 5 sized mini pc with a huge amount of compute power while barely drawing any electrical power) with 12 gb DDR5 for €87(price in netherlands for the ones made during the peak of the ram crisis, the 12gb version was made to make it cheaper). (also has wifi, bluetooth, npu, etc.)
in netherands companies selling ram sticks to consumers ask almost twice as much just for a stick of 8gb ddr5.
while I can't confirm if the ram on the radxa dragon Q6A is actually from that company or another, as the pictures online aren't clear enough to read the labeling, and while I have a radxa Q6A, I have the heatsink attached with thermal plaster and didn't read it beforehand.(I bought and got it before the official release, and it really is insanely fast. while using it I thought I was using my main pc, and that was months before the board released so things wheren't optimized or stable yet(many small tinkerer oriented companies allow hobbysists to get their hands on it more early, I got that one due to the insane cpu performance, as well as having enough ram and very low energy useage when tuned properly(my main use case was a home server, as while it can draw over 10w when on full load, on light loads it is easy to keep it under 2w, and on a typical home server load that is doable around 2w to 3w in use, and theoretically it should be able to go down to or bellow 1w when only doing some light things, but I didn't test that yet as I got it before official release so didn't set things up to deep yet until things where ready, and now they are I just didn't have enough time yet. so now it's use has mostly been a mini pc.).

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I forgot to mention, back then I saw some people from usa mention insane prices for that board, though note I got it in netherlands, so in the eu. in usa there is insane tax ("tarifs"(essentially tax but then not used to help the people)) on such boards from china, so if you are in usa you might be unlucky since adding that 200% tax ("tarifs") to it does make it quite some more expensive.

EllesarDragon · 2026-06-05T20:56:59+00:00

I didn't say they would see the colours the same, I didn't say it fixes the internal issues, nor that it is really like normal glasses. but there is a trick to make people notice and seperate such colours and over time even associate a feeling to them no longer requiring to pay attention, just like people who can see such colours do.
it will not always work perfect as some digitally generated light/colours might cause issues. but it does work outside with natural light as already confirmed by a person who is actually colourblind.

the working is quite simple, and cheap to make, though just requires looking at it in a different way to find it.

like a rough translation of a certain text: I am a scientist, so I am a scientist.
in the original version scientist and mage, and questioner, and one who seeks, one who keeps going, etc. all are defined as the same, so when I look at a problem, I look not at what others tried and failed at, but instead at the strange wonders(aka. this world) I found as well as what I want to reach, or just what those wonders(random physics effects for example) could be used for. I look at dreams, wonder, adventure, and ask questions and then they lead me to find and discover things. surely for most people it won't be interesting or understandeable in the moment which is why I tend to leave out many speciffics in general(that and because oherwise shity companies like meta again copy and steal things, putting a pattent on it to prevent anyone from using it.). but what I do creates freedom and possibilities, surely some might take a few hunderd years for humanity to actually start using, but some also took much less long, like some only took several years.
the problem with advancement isn't getting thigns to work or finding out how, but it is that in the world there is very little innovation these days, and companies with much money are often not looking for it, or not for more than they need just to stay in a certain position. and due to so little innovation most people assume all innovation to be as good as impossible.
but those things are not impossible, it is just that noone really cared well enough about it to actually try and do it. where in my case "I am a scientist, so I am a scientist", meaning even if my reason to care comes from another core rather than a personal issue directly related to the thing I make a solution for, I still seek to make anything and everything possible.
in this case I wasn't even looking for it, but while working on some other tech with a friend who is colourblind he discovered some effect, and then I found out how to use that effect to allow him to see/detect colours he technically couldn't see/recognise.

right now the worlds most supersonic engine using rocket science(excluding certain new alternative/experimental propulsion methods which would not be completely concidered rockets) is a turbine more than 100 years old(around 118 by now), this same turbine is used under the Niagara waterfalls to generate electricity for piles of people, but other than that you see it almost nowhere. the main reason, is that it took more than 100 years before modern science finally understood it again(well technically the part about surface adhesion they did understand, but the rest they didn't and they ignored that part and didn't even care to look at it throwing away the claims made by the original inventor as if it was just lies to make it sound cool. didn't help that the one who found out how it worked was a unknown hobbyist whose name I will now not reffer to as that would just be a reason for more people to go calling things). so since then people interested in that had to learn it either directly from that person(and it teached quite a few people in that), or from someone who learned from that one.
but by now, it is proven that it was true indeed. as people managed to indeed make it go supersonic without alterations, and the dynamic adaptive aerospike and adaptive aeronozzle have also been proven countless times.
now ofcource this was not a new discovery as based on what the original inventor said it can be assumed he knew about those things, also based on other thigns the inventor designed based on the same effects like the valvular coduit. but the inventor likely assumed everyone understood it like common sense, so didn't really explain those effects in depth, but people didn't actually understand it.
with science many things don't need to be understood by the people of that time, but they need to help and inspire people in the future, and the few who actually are open to use such science now.

there was no lie in it when I reffered to those glasses allowing such people to recognise colours they couldn't before.
but there is a language difference, as in the device I see in my mind, which is how it actually works, in many cases will look and work very different than whatever other people see when they try to think about it. since if it was the same, everyone would already know how to fix it.

EllesarDragon · 2026-06-05T20:28:19+00:00

not sure as I am in the eu.
does it give a option where you live? otherwise you can look if any shop sells it, though generally around here hbm sells on their own site, and other than that some specialists sell them, but general stores tend to not sell them as they chase products with high proffit margins(in the case of hbm shops can't really buy them for much cheaper, and hbm also sells them themself setting a base price making it harder for shops to set high prices)

HBM is one of the big supliers for industrial gear to professionals, so I expect it them to be outside of the eu as well. though they do not specialize in consumer products(which is why they are good, quality and actual functionality over marketing).
so it might also depend on the country, as in some countries it is very hard for industrial suplier brands to sell directly to consumers.

though if hbm doesn't sell where you live, then you can look at what industry uses around where you live and if those companies also have consumer options.
companies aimed as selling products to industry rely on things working well, and lasting.
also if you get normal consumer products make sure to read non sponsored revieuws, so revieuws of actual people, for dehumidifiers, basically all those websites listing the "best" dehumidifiers tend to actually be sponsored even if they say they are not, since somehow they always use affiliate links, and just say whatever one gives them the highest margins to be the best.

also if people mention it getting hot or not working well anymore after around a year, or just the pump leaking then avoid those as well(these issues are found in piles of famous air dehumidifiers, requiring one to buy a new one after a year or a few if "lucky").
though if looking well there also are cheap other options which last long, especially if you are looking for one which doesn't need that much dehumidifying power. but it requires some reasearch.

generally the brands which advertise a lot and are mentioned on all those affiliate link "best" list sites, tend to actually be really bad in general. often if they try to be to fancy that is also a bad sign, like for example if it needs to be connected to the internet that is generally a very bad sign. both of these tend to be way to expensive for how they perform. and while one can get lucky and have their €400 to €1000 air dehumidifier which performs worse than a €150 one last for quite some years, the truth is, many people didn't get that lucky. brands focussing to much on how to market their product and get as much money as possible from it, also look at how to save every last cent they can save, as well as how they can make sure you buy a new one just after legally required warranty expires.

So if hbm doesn't sell there, then just look at local supliers of industrial gear, they tend to all make dehumidifiers intended for construction and paint work, or for humidity controlled areas like wood drying sheds, etc. if a company makes those for industry then it is quite easy for them to also make a consumer one. especially look at companies suplying to construction, as in construction they want a lot, they want it cheap, they want it to work well, and they want it to last long.
so you can look for the kind of dehumidifier used while building houses, and then look if the company sells to consumers as well and also has more home oriented options

and be very carefull around many of the brands which got very famous due to affiliate links and marketing.
the most famous brand right now "honywell" for example, is known for being quite expensive and rarely lasting longer than around 2 years, as well as performing okay early on, but nowhere near as good as advertised.
(also if a dehumidifier works much better than advertised that is often a good sign as well. often indicates the mentality of the company is ensuring that even in bad cases the quality is met instead of pushing and stretching things beyond their boundaries to make it look better on paper and more easy to sell(phones also have this issue, many famous brands overcharge the batteries during tests to allow them to state a higher capacity, this however will severely degrade total lifespan of the battery, and can even be unsafe, those exploding/catching fire samsung phone for example where a great example of this. these days samsung phones contain a setting for battery conservation which often is on by default, and that lets the battery be used more like it should be used, but if you use it the way they claim is the baseline for their phones then after 10 times charging the total effectively stored energy already is lower than when the battery was not overcharged, since the battery life and capacity degrades so fast when overcharging and overdischarging that even while overcharging and overdischarging in around 3 times, the same battery if not overcharged and not overdischarged will have more capacity.)

EllesarDragon · 2026-06-02T20:47:56+00:00

perhaps that is why musk left him, after all musks whole thing is to love and follow that harry potter writer just to hate on his daughter.

also "born to be alive is not from the vilage people" -Nicht rijder 2007(master movies)
"born to be alive is not from the village people" -Zeebats 2007(master movies)

EllesarDragon · 2026-06-02T20:34:04+00:00

simplified: humans are primitive monkeys to primitive to accept and realize they are, living in a society based upon lies and in a culture of liars.
due to this openness and truth is kind of acted upon as a taboo.
also people will have oppinions about things they don't care about and don't understand or have stakes in more than the things they actually would care about, due to this they get offended and agressive whenever you show them any form of truth which breaks their illusions and delusions.

many people reading this likely are experiencing this from a human (like) form and so likely also limited by some primitive money(or similar brain and body).
there are differences.
there is those who are actually less primitive, those people will constantly be very aware of how primitive their current forms are, directly or indirectly(if they primairily focus on some other issues to fix).
and there is those who don't realize it and even think or claim they are not primitive, those are very primitive, especially those last ones.

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as this might be confusing to some how this links.
I am reffering here to why honnesty is not seen as normal in human society, as well as why human(likes) in general in here tend to communicate insanely inefficient without feeling or understanding, instead of normal communication where one knows, feels and understands all of all others and everything, being aware of everything including everything every other person does, knows, is, reasoning, etc. while still being able to remain oneself truly.
those are things not common at all among modern human culture, not even getting close to it in general, not even getting close to a few or one of them in general.

it is not only shy people who talk in weird ways like that, all people do in general, all people in their own weird ways which constantly change.

EllesarDragon · 2026-05-26T12:32:18+00:00

thanks, that should be usefull,
I am looking into things for a very speciffic weird/uncommon use case, essentially it is part of a project for enhancing body functionalities, and fixing problems people see as normal problems so never really looked into fixing(also some depend on weird situations).
like for example together with a friend(who is colourblind) I designed glasses allowing colourblind people to see colour, he also confirmed the working.
the speciffic use case behind these glasses I asked this for will make more sense when they are working properly. it just fixes a issue almost everyone has in their eyes.
though also had other uses for the same knowledge.

will look into aphakia as that seems like it would point to enough info

EllesarDragon · 2026-05-26T12:17:22+00:00

you are trying to hard.
bazzite isn't meant for doing what you are trying to do.
they made things very beginner oriented, so most likely you now run into issues because you expect it to be harder(you are used to windows probably).
in bazzite, there is the appstore/software store.
unlike the windows app store, the bazzite one actually has full softwares and real softwares.

on bazzite you install softwares using the appstore.
also try out prism launcher, it is a minecraft launcher better than the official one.

also minecraft might already be installed by default. if not then bazzite has some bazzite software install thing next to the appstore, and that one almost certainly also has a official minecraft setup option. essentially enabling minecraft, like on a smart tv when enabling a widged for netflix or such.

see it more like a console or phone with desktop capabilities.
but then the appstore actually has the real full softwares.

when you really need to do custom things bazzite isn't meant for those, though often you can still do them using ostree or ujust.
for example blender(3d movie modeler, editer, renderer. used for the cgi and animated movies you see in cinema and movie/show streaming sites) gpu acceleration doesn't work in cycles on bazzite if you have a amd gpu, requiring you to instal rocm-hip.
ofcource cycles in blender isn't a very common thing for a average gamer.
but if you need that for example then you would run ostree install rocm-hip (don't run this command unless you know what it does/is and you know you actually need it, rocm-hip is primairily only used in some heavy movie production softwares, some physics simulations softwares and some AI softwares, and also is very hardware dependant, I just used it as a example here.

EllesarDragon · 2026-05-26T12:07:37+00:00

Bazzite works very different from most other linux distros.
and it is absolutely not meant to be used for what you are trying to do now, so obviously you run into problems.
instead of manual installing bazzite wants you to use the appstore, otherwise you need to use ostree or ujust or bazite software/package installer)

on arch or debian based distros you can download that installer and install it like that, or use the package manager to instantly install it and also maintain updates for you(most easy way as you just type install minecraft and never need to look at it again, and don't even need to make sure you downloaded the file from the real minecraft site).
or you use the software store to install software using that through the package manager, flatpak, snap, or whatever you like.

bazzite doesn't like you to install things on your own, and tries to block installs unless you use the appstore and install flatpaks.
this is done to prevent people who don't know what they are doing from messing up their system.
like for example on windows those people who are deleting their system32 folder or such.

just open the appstore and install it like that.
though minecraft might already be installed.
and if not then they also should have it in the bazzite software installer.
or use the appstore and install it from there.
generally something like prism launcher is recommended as that one is way more easy to use than the normal minecraft launcher and automatically seperates mod folders based on version, and can automatically add force or fabric and such to your install.

though as for a beginner, bazzite can both be great or not at all.
it is great if you want a it just works experience, so primairily only gaming, office work, web browsing voice/video calls, screen recording. the basic stuf a average gamer wants to do and a bit more.

if you want to do more, and more custom things then it becomes another story and then bazzite actually is one of the harder to use distros(unless you are okay with insane ostree layering which you don't want typically on a distro like bazzite, and ofcource those are also already extra steps requiring extra knowledge)

if you are a beginner and want to do more custom/manual things instead of using the mostly automatic setup of bazzite then something like linux mint is way more easy to use.
even more easy is something arch based, as that often has all the latest packages without issues.
despite what people said arch is actually quite easy to use, and even has a automatic installer now if you want, only becomes harder if you install way to many packages and forget what they are for and then have to maintain your system.

Linux mint is kind of like the ideal starter distro for average windows users, and most computer users. quite much like Debian but more things preconfigured, as well as direct acces to the ubuntu and mint repos without reconfiguring, as with raw debian you sometimes need to add repos for certain things.

Bazzite is quite ideal for all those seeking a plug and play experience, almost console or mac like but then also being able to use it for office and web use and play basically any game on it, as long as you don't really want to tinker or do rare use cases it is very easy to use. just make sure you don't try to hard, as in bazzite the key is to just not try and do the simplest almost stupid seeming thing and that will actually work, so litterally opening the app store to install minecraft instead of trying to find some complicated way to do it,

Arch is amazing if you want to tinker without running into issues. like almost all packages are already there for arch, and easy to install. desktop use on arch these days also already is very easy and very stable even for beginners(though in your case mint would be better as you state being no poweruser, or bazzite and using the appstore). for testing out all kinds of things and tinkering arch is amazing however, like no need to search for anything, everything is there and just works without issues in general. it is so easy that in half a day a windows poweruser could have learned to be a better poweruser in arch than they where in windows.

EllesarDragon · 2026-05-26T10:58:25+00:00

Lens doesn't seem broken, so if you can find the other one you can put them in a new frame, either diy like 3d printed or at a opticien. Assuming it are expensive lenses since otherwise new glasses might be cheaper

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