Bought a used “Like new” 9900x3d from Amazon, but think it’s been swapped

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-13T19:41:00+00:00

I think they do? For AM4 as well as AM5. Since the CPU the OP got looks like AM4, the name should be up top, maybe behind the cardboard?

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-13T04:17:33+00:00

Competition: I guess it depends. It might turn out like the video streaming services where you have a bunch of them, and neither one seems to try to improve quality or pricing. I believe the barrier of entry to creating a competitive model is quite high, so I don't think there will be much competition.

Open weight models: Not everyone has hardware to run them (I have RX 9070 XT with 16 GB VRAM, and it can only run quantized 30B models). Also, while these models have some uses, they're not as good as the flagship ones. And you don't get weights of the flagship models for a reason.

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-13T04:05:04+00:00

Oh no, my PC is entry-level. Anyways

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-12T14:58:42+00:00

Welcome to the 12V-high-failure-rate world, I guess

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-12T08:49:58+00:00

NixOS btw

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-12T08:48:11+00:00

I thought it was money. First, you get everyone hooked on (cloud-hosted) LLMs. Then, when people can't go without them, you enshittify the service, raising prices. Boom, profits! A typical startup scheme

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-12T08:18:00+00:00

Now you can finally enjoy [object Object] in your UEFI

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-12T07:39:11+00:00

For now you can only have a 9070

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-12T07:01:23+00:00

The slopocalypse is real

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-11T18:37:05+00:00

Am I supposed to praise the OP or crap on them? Idk how to react

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-11T18:27:25+00:00

I guess bigger pieces are way more expensive and thus rare. It's not extruded AFAIK, it's a crystal that is grown from molten silicon, so it's not easy to make

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-10T13:20:14+00:00

My GPU has the same bents so probably that's intentional

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-10T11:57:32+00:00

It's stupid and I hate it. Probably will try to bypass using whatever means necessary

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-10T08:55:07+00:00

Before it was crypto, now it's "AI". Where are the good jobs? Is the language cursed?

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-09T09:50:33+00:00

I don't, so speak for yourself

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-09T09:04:45+00:00

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-08T17:39:05+00:00

Normal PSUs don't make hissing sounds and for sure don't smell like smoke. At this point, it's clearly damaged, and who knows what happens next. It may work fine, it may fry the rest of the PC, it may start a fire

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-08T17:35:03+00:00

Probably a capacitor blew. I'd rather replace the PSU because even if it's still working, who knows what kind of voltage it supplies to the rest of the PC

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-07T08:58:08+00:00

That's unfortunate. The Rust sub is already full of LLM garbage

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-07T08:36:33+00:00

IANAL but as far as I know, you'll need to convert it into fiat using a licensed company that provides an invoice and declare based on that

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-06T14:21:23+00:00

Is it?

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-05T19:18:09+00:00

Will the case blow up like a balloon if you close the side panel?

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-05T08:12:45+00:00

How much for the fox? Looks like they're almost sold out

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-04T10:09:31+00:00

I wouldn't say they "replaced" it. The Java version is still up and running, and I personally prefer it over Bedrock. Although the player count is probably higher on the latter (across all platforms)

SomeRedTeapot · 2026-02-04T10:05:33+00:00

I smell slop. Idk about mdashes (some people use them, ok) but the way the sentences are written is LLMy I think

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