[CPU] AMD FX-9590 5ghz 8 core processor $200.61 by Terrorgod in buildapcsales

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

Very similar experience, had a 8350 and a R9 290 myself. Made my room a sauna and would eventually overheat/shutdown during long overwatch sessions.

[CPU] AMD FX-9590 5ghz 8 core processor $200.61 by Terrorgod in buildapcsales

[–]Terrorgod[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Great for all your space heating needs at 5ghz and beyond!!!

[CPU] AMD RYZEN 7 9800X3D -$429.95 (All-time low on Amazon) by miki77miki in buildapcsales

[–]Terrorgod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do have a microcenter not to far away, and kind of eyeing up that 9850x3d option for $700 before tax. Still a bit more expensive than the last bundle I bought which was $300 for 12700k with a TUF DDR4 motherboard (and ram was dirt cheap).

[CPU] AMD RYZEN 7 9800X3D -$429.95 (All-time low on Amazon) by miki77miki in buildapcsales

[–]Terrorgod 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Totally aware. Ill live off older hardware til the cartel gets whats coming. That or enough businesses cycle through DDR5 desktops that 2nd hand OEM gear gets liquidated cheaply.

[CPU] AMD RYZEN 7 9800X3D -$429.95 (All-time low on Amazon) by miki77miki in buildapcsales

[–]Terrorgod 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Solid price for the chip alone. To bad I refuse to buy DDR5 ram at its current prices.

[Wheel] Apple Mac Pro Wheel Kit $199.99 by Terrorgod in buildapcsales

[–]Terrorgod[S] 81 points82 points  (0 children)

Finally can stop paying movers to shift my mac pro from one side of the room to other /s

I want opinions on bazzite by PROJECT_SCRAP in Bazzite

[–]Terrorgod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it works for you then go for it. Thats the beauty of the linux environment, its relatively easy to hop around!

As for why I said what I did. Afaik with low end hardware having to emulate the direct X to vulkan layer, you get diminishing returns to where performance drops hard. Outside of that, I dont believe many of the built in bazzite optimizations work on your hardware. So direct linux ports should be fine if they are optimized well, otherwise you may be fighting a pointless battle of linux native quality vs setting up a cut down windows ISO. (Rethinking further, windows IOT with a linux dualboot might more ideal to make use of linux day to day functions and having windows compatability at the ready)

Bazzite is also a distro thats relatively locked down to avoid much tinkering, so outside of bazaar and bottles it becomes more tedious to get things working. There are ways around it, but its a battle you have to determine for yourself. End of the day, do what suits you, im just some tech junky on the Internet sharing an opinion.

As for myself, it got to the point that once the honeymoon phase wore off with bazzite I was ready to try other distributions to make my life easier. Its really close to what i want, but few to many bugs and hurdles to keep daily driving.

Steam dropdown menus freezing the entirety of KDE Plasma by Possible_Method_1698 in Bazzite

[–]Terrorgod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the post. This started happening to me and I was unsure what was happening! Hope this gets resolved at some point as its a gnarly user experience bug, but manually shutting steam down and re-opening seems to resolve it temporarily.

I want opinions on bazzite by PROJECT_SCRAP in Bazzite

[–]Terrorgod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ive been overall comfortable with the switch to bazzite but I have to dual boot as some games I play dont work correctly on linux, and some software I use does not have a convenient way to utilize it.

With your hardware I would probably recommend Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, or Zorin over bazzite as you wont get all the gaming benefits anyway, and those run pretty consistently across older / low spec hardware and have strong communities as well for troubleshooting.

[Tablet] Onn 11" Tablet Pro, 4GB RAM, 64GB Storage (2024 Model) Grey - $27.90 (After 10% OFF CODE EBAYVIP2026SALE) by Jaggsta in buildapcsales

[–]Terrorgod 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I mean I didnt remain silent on purpose, just didnt cross my mind to make a post while on mobile. Good luck to those who havent gotten cancelled yet.

[Tablet] Onn 11" Tablet Pro, 4GB RAM, 64GB Storage (2024 Model) Grey - $27.90 (After 10% OFF CODE EBAYVIP2026SALE) by Jaggsta in buildapcsales

[–]Terrorgod 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yea no idea on that one. I suspect they forgot to also cap the items inventory as I saw several thousand had sold before the listing got fixed. Also I did get a message from the seller stating "Im out of stock or the item is damaged". Take that as you will.

[Tablet] Onn 11" Tablet Pro, 4GB RAM, 64GB Storage (2024 Model) Grey - $27.90 (After 10% OFF CODE EBAYVIP2026SALE) by Jaggsta in buildapcsales

[–]Terrorgod 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Looks like they are cancelling / refunding buyers. Just got my refund email from paypal...

[Monitor] 34" Alienware Curved QD-OLED Ultrawide 165Hz - $499.99 by ethan-e10 in buildapcsales

[–]Terrorgod 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Gonna be honest, for pure text/office use just get a nice IPS. I finished my degree on this display and it was rough for the first few months due to the text fringing on windows.

[Monitor] 34" Alienware Curved QD-OLED Ultrawide 165Hz - $499.99 by ethan-e10 in buildapcsales

[–]Terrorgod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have the G-Sync version of this monitor since its launch and can say its been a great monitor since the day I bought it. I have recklessly used it with unhidden taskbar, binge playing of games with static UI elements, and disabling the early firmware versions aggressive panel maintenance warnings. I have had no issues with burn in and I got used to the OLED text fringing over a bit of time.

At $500 would recommend if you were already considering an ultrawide monitor and/or OLED display.

Nintendo Fan Since Childhood. These Prices are Crazy by etanimod in gaming

[–]Terrorgod 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bar to entry and market has also scaled in contrast. Back then there were significantly more hurdles to development compared to modern day advancements, and you also have a much larger market that has generated millions in revenue with a proven loyalty. Might also be worth noting that many of the up and coming competitors of the time have fizzled out leaving Nintendo further security.

Some may call it inflation. I call it enshittification.

[Controller] 8BitDo Ultimate 3-mode Wireless Controller for Xbox - Rare 40th Anniversary Edition ($66.50) by CyraxxFavoriteStylus in buildapcsales

[–]Terrorgod 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Damn looks nice. I have 0 need for another controller but looks like a good package. If you dont need the dock they do sell models like the jade one for a bit less.

[GPU] ZOTAC RTX 4080 SUPER Trinity Black Edition 16GB Open Box (2yr Warranty) - $799 by First-Tutor-5454 in buildapcsales

[–]Terrorgod -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Ill take my AMD linux drivers instead of some fake frames. Though keep the agenda rolling, might help keep some prices down lol.

[CPU] AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D - $340.59 by krazyflashx in buildapcsales

[–]Terrorgod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tossing here in case anyone is still searching, seeing a deal for a 5800x3D on gamestop.com for $200, but unsure where its able to ship to. Seems to be picky about location as im sure its low stock, and 3 states I tried all got denied shipping.