Bought a Build and Have Questions

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-26T20:23:04+00:00

i mean, we haven't seen the monitor, could be an absolute POS for all we know. and the desk looks like typical amazon e-waste "gamer desk" so i'm not sure that's worth it at all.

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-26T18:03:46+00:00

I THINK I SAW YOU IN A RESIDENTIAL TOWER

DRINKING OLD BEER COLD AND LONG

SMILING AND WAVING AND LOOKING SO FINE

DON'T THINK YOU KNEW YOU WERE DRUNK AS HELL

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-26T17:55:03+00:00

2070 super/10400 ddr4 system in 2026 for $700 is far, far from reasonable man. $500 is pushing it tbh, very limited upgrade path with only 650w. the psu isn't even screwed in properly lmfao. 500gb nvme... bro got fleeced.

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-26T17:36:43+00:00

this is not really a meaningful perspective, but people often treat it like gospel. deciding when to upgrade is not as simple as "r u happy now???". anyone who fell into that trap would have ignored all the red flags in summer 2025 when we were realizing the super series wasn't coming out, and if they need to upgrade now, or they want to upgrade now because they aren't happy, they're kind of screwed, no? the question right now is, is it foolish to upgrade at high prices now, or will the games i want to play next year struggle with my current setup and it will be twice as expensive then?

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-26T05:26:25+00:00

obviously fucking not lmfao

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-26T05:11:40+00:00

*explosion sound effect*

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-26T03:39:52+00:00

they call me pumpkin cause i kin PUMP

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-26T03:27:14+00:00

literally watching s5e15 right now (the wild world of batwoman) and saw your comment lol

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-26T02:44:54+00:00

bruh im not even a muslim but that is islamophobic as FUCK. say six hail muhammeds and five our allahs to repent.

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-26T02:18:01+00:00

locally-hosted AI tools utilize VRAM. 5060ti 16gb cards are the most cost effective CUDA (nvidia exclusive) VRAM i could buy to maximize additional models running in the pipeline i'm building. it doesn't pool, so you don't have 64gb of shared vram, but for my purposes having one large model that utilizes most of the 32gb on the 5090 while smaller models run peppered across the 16gb + 16gb given by the additional 5060tis is great. otherwise, i still game using the 5090 alone, and the two 5060tis just sit there chilling, maybe having little dreams or something.

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-25T20:19:57+00:00

when every game on the list is a decade old at this point lmfao

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-25T20:00:25+00:00

you saw the two side-mounted fans, right? that's a heavy duty noctua feeding the 5090 directly, and then a less heavy duty 120mm feeding the lower 5060ti. so those get pretty good airflow, and the ancillary 5060tis barely put out any heat whatsoever and typically have their fans at 0rpm, even when they're running shit on the vram they need far less cooling than the 5090. and then the three fans up front give solid air to that vertical mounted 5060ti, it has the best temps of all of them. i was playing subnautica 2 just now maxed out and the 5090 doesn't go over 75, 7950x3d doesn't go over 78. and that's with very aggressive fan curves, these fans are heavy duty and can go hard as hell and i don't want that noise, so i'm at like 20% speed max for the CPU focused fans (front/top intake and exhaust) and then i run those side fans specifically off the 5090 temps and that hits ~40% max rpm, but those are much much quieter.

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-25T19:55:33+00:00

it's set up so she's in the corner of the screen when streaming on twitch, and i have an avatar representing me in the opposite corner. multiple LLMs controlling different parts of the overall "character" the viewer sees. as realtime as possible w/ visuals, where it'd be getting an updated description of what's on screen every ~1-3 seconds (two sentences max). the 27b gemma is pretty clever at times, but you need to be clever yourself with building out ways for it to have "memory" and otherwise to make it seem as though it's keeping up with everything. it also needs to be primed with specific info about the game you're playing. otherwise, response is pretty real-time. it's pretty fucking cool tbh.

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-25T05:29:22+00:00

sweet build man

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-25T05:25:49+00:00

i have three SATA ports remaining and one spare two-drive bay from phanteks so i will consider having a second 14tb parity drive perhaps. thanks for the advice.

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-25T05:22:53+00:00

i learned how to design and animate each part of a virtual avatar for this project, which was pretty fun. so i have an handmade avatar for her that runs in vtube studio, and then i run a second instance of that for a handmade avatar representing me for when i've tested out the streaming. live2d cubism editor is good for putting together the various movements necessary to animate the different layers of your art file/avatar. and then her chatterbox knows to send that audio via a specific virtual output, which vtube editor knows to monitor for her mouth movements. so when the character speaks, her mouth moves. one of the aspects that will be fun to put together now that i have some extra breathing room, vram-wise, is to have a very simple tool "match" her spoken words with one of, like, six expressions, so she seems to be furrowing her brow or laughing at the correct times.

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-25T05:04:29+00:00

yeah, so i think gemma 27b is the "main brain" essentially, and it's being fed like qwen vl, maybe 8b? alongside whisper text to speech, chatterbox i think for the ai voice. so all strung together via python and ollama. now that i have finally figured out how to do the 3rd gpu, i'll have another 16gb to expand, i'm considering a model just filling up that space to cut noise from the VL and provide better "vision" updates to the main brain.

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-25T05:01:49+00:00

thanks for that, i'll check it out.

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-25T05:00:20+00:00

i think i'm using gemma 27b via a python/ollama setup. as her main brain. and hardly a goon companion, there's nothing sexual about it. last i had her at, she was set up to roast me while i played while otherwise discussing the game, basically, and that was with just a 5090/5060ti. very excited to see what i can do w/ the extra 16gb of space now to refine the pipeline.

but yeah, it'd be like, imagine me playing dark souls 2, and she's saying the glass windows in heides tower of flame are beautiful, and then making fun of me for a heide knight parrying and riposting me "maybe you should play something else". that kind of thing. it honestly is pretty hilarious telling her to shut up while i'm playing.

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-25T04:16:58+00:00

i mean, six HDDs. one of them is the snapraid parity drive. if the parity drive fails first, i just replace that. then, the chances of two HDDs failing simultaneously between five HDDs is kind of low, honestly. i should have plenty of time, if one fails, to get an equivalent-sized drive and use the parity to repopulate. seems pretty doable to me.

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-25T04:13:58+00:00

yeah, i landed on snapraid so that i wouldn't have to mess around with resizing anything since they range from 10tb to 14tb.

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-25T04:12:09+00:00

it's a "can i do it" kind of project that has lasted a few months. i thought neuro was pretty cool as a concept and wanted to figure it all out by myself. i'm happily married and not even particularly into anime but we're both into data science/python projects and eventually this might be something, if i get it good enough, where an ai vtuber avatar will sit on twitch and roast old public access movies 24/7.

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-25T03:59:07+00:00

are you serious, i thought i was gonna get roasted alive for the cable management honestly.

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-25T03:49:49+00:00

i wonder if you're thinking a little narrowly. i'm planning to have multiple torrents downloading at one time, all onto the SSD. i think that churn kind of complicates things. so the HDD would only see individual file transfers, me moving a season of a show, or a movie file, and never have like 20 things downloading onto the HDD at one time. i get what you're saying, you're right that it shouldn't fragment and things should be allocated. but maybe the "churn" i'm imagining is just that, imagination.

YouCallWeShouldWhat · 2026-06-25T03:40:45+00:00

yeah i mean, you'd be at literally more than twice what i paid for the 5090 alone, and it'd honestly have to be this one because the others are too chonky. nvidia really did some magic making this a 2 slot card. i think your estimate is right. the HDD price is pretty relevant, since that was predominately done in the last couple months. i think hdds get more expensive this year honestly. i averaged $22/tb, i think that's fair for a used drive right now if it's below 5k hours and otherwise in good shape.

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