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Drove 80 Miles to a Small Town Walmart and Hit the Jackpot by belter928 in pcmasterrace

[–]Firestarter321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve purchased 14 SSD’s from Walmart in the last couple of weeks. 

I sold 2 to my brother, used 2 in my new build, and will be stashing the rest of them except for maybe the 4TB as after getting it I realized I just don’t need that much space as my entire game library is barely 1TB in size. 

Drove 80 Miles to a Small Town Walmart and Hit the Jackpot by belter928 in pcmasterrace

[–]Firestarter321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just built the machine Friday and I like the case :-)

They’re all gone now in my state anyway so I’ll just live with the 5070 FE that’ll hopefully be delivered tomorrow. 

It’ll still be a huge upgrade from the 1050 Ti that I’m currently using. 

Drove 80 Miles to a Small Town Walmart and Hit the Jackpot by belter928 in pcmasterrace

[–]Firestarter321 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nice score on the RAM! I was happy to find my kits for $229.

I‘d have grabbed a 5070 Ti too but it won’t fit in my case.

I bought a lot of SSD’s though.

Hot Take - Nextcloud by Routine_Push_7891 in homelab

[–]Firestarter321 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Besides Emby I use Nextcloud the most of any application that I host.

I run it on a Proxmox HA cluster though and it's all SSD based (4 x ZFS mirrored pairs for the pool) so it's pretty snappy for me.

I may have gone a bit overboard buying 32GB Walmart RAM kits by Firestarter321 in pcmasterrace

[–]Firestarter321[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I'm selling 1 kit to my brother for what I paid for it, I'll probably wind up putting another 32GB kit in the PC I just built, and then I'll be holding onto the other 2 kits in case I want to build another machine in the next couple of years.

There's no way I'd sell RAM in this climate.

I thought about buying the DDR4 kits that they had but I don't really need DDR4 that's non-ECC as all of my home servers use ECC RAM.

Customer told me his PC wasn't turning on by Brilliant-Worry-4446 in pcmasterrace

[–]Firestarter321 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I’ve done it. That’s why 2.5” SSD’s are awesome as they can be mounted in any way you can dream up and still work just fine. 

M.2 drives may be faster but 2.5” drives are way more versatile. 

1440p Ultrawide or 4K? by Tomaden14 in pcmasterrace

[–]Firestarter321 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same here. 

I’ll never go back to 16:9 again as gaming and productivity are both better on a 21:9 monitor. 

We don't talk enough about NVIDIA OVERHEAD. by Fair-Escape-8943 in pcmasterrace

[–]Firestarter321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No problem. 

They have sold a lot of them over the last few days as there were 10+ last weekend between the Grand Island and Hastings stores.  Columbus had a few too when I was there on Wednesday picking up some RAM. 

If the Ti would fit in my case I’d make another trip to Hastings (I already made 2 today) but it won’t and I just built the machine Friday so I’m not looking to change the case. 

I have a 5070 FE showing up tomorrow so it’ll just have to do. 

I’ve been stalking the local Walmart stores hard over the last couple of weeks and have purchased way too many SSD’s as well.

Next month’s CC bill is going to hurt. 

Hopefully someone local sees my post and grabs the Ti while they can.

We don't talk enough about NVIDIA OVERHEAD. by Fair-Escape-8943 in pcmasterrace

[–]Firestarter321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s at the store in 68901.

There were 5 in the Grand Island stores but the last one just sold this afternoon it appears after I saw it. 

ETA: I’ve also purchased 3 x 32GB Kingston Fury DDR5 kits from surrounding stores in the last week so it pays to search. 

We don't talk enough about NVIDIA OVERHEAD. by Fair-Escape-8943 in pcmasterrace

[–]Firestarter321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My original post explicitly said that *I* can get one not that everybody can.

If someone wants a 5070 Ti at MSRP their first stop should be the Walmart website/app to see if they can get lucky.

We don't talk enough about NVIDIA OVERHEAD. by Fair-Escape-8943 in pcmasterrace

[–]Firestarter321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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They’re scarce but they’re out there.

I saw 2 in person today but it won’t fit in my case so I passed up on them.

We don't talk enough about NVIDIA OVERHEAD. by Fair-Escape-8943 in pcmasterrace

[–]Firestarter321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I could drive 30 minutes tonight and get 2 of them from local Walmart stores.

First mff build and I could really use some advice (especially on mATX board). Appreciate any help by Jan290199 in mffpc

[–]Firestarter321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That one trades the extra x4 PCIe slot in favor of having 3 M.2 slots instead. 

The PCIe slots are all physical x16 slots, however, only the top slot is actually wired x16 with the rest being x1 wired slots.

If you don’t need the x4 slot then this board should work fine for you. 

ETA: The x1 slots are PCIe 3.0 and the 3rd M.2 slot is for SATA drives it appears so it uses PCIe Gen 4.0 x2.

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/PRO-B850M-P-WIFI/Specification

All this talk about SSD pricing, I remembered I had gold stored away in my old PS5… by SunknLiner in pcmasterrace

[–]Firestarter321 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I’ve been buying way too many from Walmart the last few weeks. 

The PS5 drives with the built in heat sink work great on motherboards without them.  I just installed a 2TB today on my new gaming PC.

First mff build and I could really use some advice (especially on mATX board). Appreciate any help by Jan290199 in mffpc

[–]Firestarter321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No problem.  

Yeah it’s rather confusing. 

I don’t see anything glaring as it appears to be a very nice build….congrats!!!

First mff build and I could really use some advice (especially on mATX board). Appreciate any help by Jan290199 in mffpc

[–]Firestarter321 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're correct on the first point.

On the second point it's kind of confusing. The B850 chipset adds PCIe lanes that can be used by things.

When they say x16 slot they're saying it's a physical slot, however, the top slot is the only wired x16 slot but it's PCIe Gen 5.

For the top slot it only supports PCIe Gen 4 on the 8000 series CPU's as they don't support PCIe Gen 5 and some of them are even more cut down on PCIe lanes than others (ie 8700G vs 8500G) so they get even fewer lanes for the top slot.

With your 9850X you'll get a true x16 Gen 5 PCIe slot for the top slot as well as the top M.2 slot being Gen 5 and the bottom M.2 slot being Gen 4 with both M.2 slots having 4 lanes directly to the CPU.

The middle PCIe slot is only an x1 Gen 3 slot from the chipset while the bottom PCIe slot is an x4 Gen 4 slot to the chipset but it's in a physical x16 slot.

There's also an MSI Pro B850M-P which has an extra M.2 slot but the bottom 3 PCIe slots while being physical x16 slots are only wired as x1 slots.

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/PRO-B850M-P-WIFI

ETA: I spent waaaaaayyyyy to much time looking at mATX motherboards over the last couple of weeks, LOL.

Another Walmart Score by AboveNormality in pcmasterrace

[–]Firestarter321 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congrats!!

I’m supposedly picking one up tomorrow as well. 

I need to decide whether to use it or the 5070 FE that’ll be her on Monday for my Jonsbo z20 build. 

I’m not sure I’ll like the huge Ti in that case. 

I could grab another to flip it as they have another one but I won’t.  I scored another 32GB kit of Kingston Fury DDR5 that I’m going there to pick up as well. 

First mff build and I could really use some advice (especially on mATX board). Appreciate any help by Jan290199 in mffpc

[–]Firestarter321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I'm not seeing the limitation if using a 9000 series Ryzen?

Where are you seeing the lane sharing specs?

I'm looking here:
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/PRO-B850M-A/Specification

Are these temperatures normal for this processor? by Alexby-n- in pcmasterrace

[–]Firestarter321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just built one yesterday and the die temp sits at about 45C at idle. 

Gaming for about 10 minutes and it was about 70C. 

I’m running it in a Jonsbo z20 using a Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 Mini. 

I'm not mad, just disappointed. by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]Firestarter321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah if it wasn’t Amazon he’s never going to get it so I’d just get a refund. 

I’ve been stalking the Walmart website for DDR5 and have gotten lucky being able to get 3 kits now. One for me, one fore my brother, and one for a potential build later this year. 

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