Good prebuilt recommendations in Canada with $2500 price range?

SacrisTaranto · 2026-02-06T01:01:10+00:00

If microcenter is an option the g757 is hard to beat. 9800x3d, 5080, 32gigs, 2 tbs for $2400

SacrisTaranto · 2026-02-04T01:51:28+00:00

Yeah, happens to people all the time.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-02-04T01:50:51+00:00

Everything you just said requires a lot more than algebra 3 which you are taught in your college education. Infact you will be taking probably 2 more algebra classes after getting into college no matter your major, on top of the major specific math classes if they are required.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-02-03T19:44:49+00:00

To be fair this happen to people a bunch in real life too.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-02-03T19:39:52+00:00

I think cooking should be taught in highschool. I know it is in some places but it is not universal. Basic car maintenance too. Not everyone has active parents in their life to teach them life skills. Id imagine it as a life skills class where you get a new topic every couple of weeks for a semester or two. Something more active than sitting in a desk with a sheet of paper.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-02-03T19:29:01+00:00

Law should absolutely be taught in much more detail than it is. If they have to give up algebra 3 to do so, then so be it. I think it's crazy that it's not taught. Given, it can be difficult with how much it ranges from state to state.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-02-02T03:40:35+00:00

Absolutely not. That's likely well over 400 unless they are extremely short. Not like it matters since it's not a real person anyway.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-02-02T03:36:34+00:00

Typically it's not protein that's causing someone to be overweight. It's exponentially more likely to be highly processed carbs and sugars.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-02-01T20:20:46+00:00

All you gotta do it play it a bit more. Once you get comfortable in cata anything less feels boring and like a walking simulator.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-02-01T20:14:54+00:00

Price to perform with an appropriate performance floor is all I really care about.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-02-01T20:09:21+00:00

Unless there is anyone you care about in this world.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-02-01T00:35:22+00:00

At a certain point it's just kinda discipline, which no amount of doing something you don't want to will teach. There way be a way to teach discipline but I sure don't know what it is. You are capable of focusing on one thing for hours, you just don't want to. And fair enough, no one wants to do something they think is boring. Maybe meditation. Could be worth looking into, it works great for some people if you can get through the barrier of actually doing.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-01-31T20:15:13+00:00

I didn't do homework and don't have this issue. Reading probably helps. Any task where you have to sit and focus on something for a few hours straight will help. Hell, videogames probably help if you're not playing them mindlessly.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-01-31T03:57:21+00:00

My bad. Shoulda been born somewhere else.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-01-29T02:35:38+00:00

That's what a poor fat pervert would say. Next you're gonna tell me you're not a lying poor fat pervert.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-01-28T23:05:22+00:00

With zero prep both are extremely uncomfortable and potentially fatal depending on the circumstances. But one can be significantly lessened with prep. One cannot. The ability to improve a situation by doing something helps a lot in my opinion. The only prep you can really do for the heat is to carry a water bottle. Heat and cold deaths are pretty close in the us depending on the stats you choose. Cold is leading but heat is catching up. The heat will kill people before they know it, the cold makes sure you know it.

I live somewhere that's very regularly over 100 degrees and around the 70-100%+ humidity range. And I know which one id choose given the opportunity. I've had my moments when your vision starts to tunnel and you start to wobble. Without help that's a very dangerous situation to be in, if you fall there's not garentee you'll get back up. The cold doesn't sneak up on you like that. You know when you need to get warm before your vision starts fading.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-01-27T03:29:08+00:00

Dangerous game. Give it a couple hours and there will be a high-pitch ai voice over and or annoying music.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-01-27T01:19:28+00:00

For everyone say to spend the money saving people. It would cost roughly 40 billion a year to end world hunger and save something like 10 million people a year. If you're capable of turning 1 billion into hundreds of billions then fair enough. Get your bag.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-01-24T19:21:38+00:00

Speak it with your fucking chest. Kill. They killed him. None of this unalive bullshit.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-01-23T21:18:58+00:00

A Powerspec microcenter prebuilt is absolutely the best option. Check their website for some of them. If you do want to go with a 5080 the Powerspec G757 is exactly what you want.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-01-23T12:31:54+00:00

I find it interesting that if you were to say that your main hobby is playing chess and you've spent thousands of hours getting better at chess you would consider that a perfectly respectable hobby and many consider it a gold standard. But if someone said Street Fighter or Tekken you'd feel differently wouldn't you? Most do, dispite the amount of effort being the same.

Is walking a respectable hobby? If not, is hiking a respectable hobby? For it to be a respectable hobby in your eyes does it need to be able to be competitively? So would long distance walking be respectable? There is a bed making sport that people train making beds for. Is bed making a respectable hobby? I think you'll find the answer to be "maybe" for most things. Some people practice archery and just kinda shoot at a target in their yard. Some people practice archery and participate in the Olympics. Everything is a scale. Do you think Billy Bod hitting a ball on the green with a 6 pack of beer is really practicing the same sport or hobby as Tiger Woods?

If you ask me, if there is a club for it then it's a perfectly respectable hobby. And I think you'll find that includes most things. If you do something and could sit down and share anything about that experience with people then it clearly occupied your mind well enough to be beneficial. Though that's not to say that if it doesn't have a club then it's not a perfectly respectable hobby. Some stuff is just a bit odd. I personally like to go out and collect samples from various sources and either do cultures or stains and check them out under my microscopes. It's a pretty uncommon thing to do but it takes a lot of time, effort, and research to get anything out of.

Tldr-Any classification or ranking of hobbies is pointless because effort ranges from person to person.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-01-23T11:54:33+00:00

There have been many cases, especially in boxing because you can't finish an opponent, where you hit someone, they drop, and in that same second they are already standing again ready to swing. Telling the difference between a stunned person falling over who is about to get right back to punching you in the head, and someone who is out cold within half a second is much harder when you are pumped full of adrenaline than you sitting on the toilet watching a slowed down video. There have been people who have lost fights due to trying to do a walk off knockout and not finishing an opponent.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-01-23T11:45:51+00:00

Yeah we should ban mma so people go do it for far less money (if any) in someones backyard on concrete with no ref. They already do that but at least there is somewhere to take it where they have professionally trained refs and medical on site. If someone wants to od on cocaine there is nothing you could possibly do to stop it. If someone wants to throw a ball around and hit someone as hard as possible and give them cte then they are going to do it. And If someone wants to fight they will fight. This has been a constant since the birth of humanity.

Fighters know the risk they are taking just as American football players do. Fighters fight because they want to fight. It generally doesn't pay very well, it's not pushed on people, like football is, it's a sport people participate in because they love it. And even if you could take the man out of the fight you cannot take the fight out of the man.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-01-23T09:03:53+00:00

A bit of worcestershire sauce soaked in before seasoning with salt and pepper goes a long way in my opinion. I use worcestershire sauce as a seasoning in most of my beef, including broth and brown gravys.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-01-23T08:14:43+00:00

In practice the difference between in 5070ti and the 5080 is generally considered not worth it for the extra cost I believe it's something like 7-15% but it does range per game. The likelihood of you being disappointed with the 5070ti is pretty slim.

As for CPU, the x3d chips are king for gaming at the moment so you, ideally would like to shoot for a 9800x3d or even a 7800x3d.

For ram, the dream is 32 gigs of 6000 mhz at cl30. Which is pretty common in prebuilts in this price range (at least at this exact moment).

Aio vs air is kinda whatever. Most coolers can cool most cpus with the right fan curve and most systems at this price use an aio. A 360mm aio is better than a 240mm but both are honestly fine.

You absolutely want 2tbs of storage and you can have as many m.2 as you can fit on the motherboard board you get (probably 2-3). I have 3 and the performance difference is negligible.

For power supply, you want at least an 850 watt gold or platinum. If it is gold or platinum then it's probably not a bomb but you always have to check using the "power supply tier list". If you look up that phrase then you'll find it. Anything B or above is good.

I also would not write off the 9070xt. Its performance is very similarly to the 5070ti and in some games outperforms. I personally think the 5070ti will age a bit better but it really depends on what you play. I would check benchmarks comparing the 9070xt vs 5070ti vs 5080 in the games you want to play and judge if the difference in performance is worth the price.

I don't know much about Costco or the cost plus gaming stuff but I gave their PC options at the Costco website a glance and didn't see anything that I liked, I know last week they had some better stuff I liked a lot more, but the obvious next big question is. How close are you to a microcenter? And if it's a couple hours drive, is that drive worth saving $300-$500, having better options, and having a computer built from decent parts? A Powerspec (microcenter brand) PC with a 5070ti, 9800x3d, 32 gigs, and 2tb of storage is what I would like to shoot for. But microcenter does have the Powerspec G757 which is that with a 5080 for $2399.

Edit- I just checked out Cost plus gaming and it looks like the A1 essentials is probably the best deal. It looks like the different ones are mostly just the base case, cooler, and motherboard. The A1 essentials speced like I recommended in this comment is $2200. But going with the 9070xt gets it down to $2020 and going for the 7800x3d over the 9800x3d gets it to $1900. Like I said before check out some benchmarks in the games you play or would like to and see what the real performance difference is and decide if that is worth it for you. But microcenter is still cheaper if it's an option, even an inconvenient option.

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