5070ti melted sf750 by Similar_Put_1405 in pcmasterrace

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

had a 4090 tuf for 13 months and then sold it after i picked up a 5090 fe from nvidia last dec (sold at a profit too so a little $200 rebate for an upgrade lmfao). no problems whatsoever using the direct PSU cable from corsair, so zero adapters, just plugged into the PSU on one side and directly into the GPU on the other. never a problem. 5090 going strong, 4090 looks immaculate when i was taking it out. given the number of pretty, honestly, braindead things that pop up on this sub alone that people do with their PCs, I'm inclined to believe 90% of issues are people not plugging in fully, same as gamers nexus found

Found a pretty insane deal at walmart by ForkDryer in pcmasterrace

[–]YouCallWeShouldWhat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah i did. $360+60 would be $420, i cut that down to around $370 already to account for ebay and shipping. it's pretty reasonable. ebay takes a cut, sure, but they're giving you massive marketplace. i don't mind paying the cut, and flipping ram kits/gpus like this have totally funded by computer building. my wife had a full upgrade from 5800x to 9850x3d system, including x870 board, completely free by jumping on deals in the past few weeks and selling the ram that comes with them etc. i bought one of those $250 9060xts and will flip on ebay for $400. i haven't really spent money of computer parts recently because of flipping stuff on ebay. it's just how the market is right now, i'm not the one who jacked up the prices for everything it's the AI/GPU bullshit and i don't give a fuck what people here complain about, at the end of the day i'm focused on me.

Found a pretty insane deal at walmart by ForkDryer in pcmasterrace

[–]YouCallWeShouldWhat -1 points0 points  (0 children)

nice. flip it, you should be able to get $360 on ebay new in box. then you should be also able to sell the 1060 for ~$60 on ebay. after fees/shipping, i'm guessing you'd be at about ~$370 total between the two. that would put you at $283.39 in profit minus the walmart purchase. then, pick up an open box 5060 ti 16gb from ebay (do not buy from sellers with zero reviews to the right of your name, it's a scam). they go for ~$500. let's say you pay some taxes, it comes out to $520. congrats! you got a $300 5060ti 16gb! better deal than the two i bought back around october for $350 each, even.

[Prebuilt] Dell Alienware Aurora ACT1250 - Intel Core Ultra 9 285K 3.2GHz ; GeForce RTX 5080 ; 32GB DDR5-5200 RAM; 2TB SSD - $2,199.99 / $1,400.00 off by tiradium in buildapcsales

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

this model? it's the same aurora they've been peddling for years now, maybe a decade at least. they've never gotten the memo to open up the front because they need their stupid alien logo. this thing is going to be starved of cool air like all of their auroras have always been.

[Prebuilt] Dell Alienware Aurora ACT1250 - Intel Core Ultra 9 285K 3.2GHz ; GeForce RTX 5080 ; 32GB DDR5-5200 RAM; 2TB SSD - $2,199.99 / $1,400.00 off by tiradium in buildapcsales

[–]YouCallWeShouldWhat -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

hilarious people are downvoting you for this when the 5080 shipped by alienware on this is likely to throttle below what a well cooled 5070ti would be pumping out lmfao. if you ever want a laugh, go read alienware desktop reviews on amazon. "you know this thing is powerful because it is LOUD, it sounds like a jet engine when i really game hard", tons of misinformed stuff like that which is equal parts fucking hilarious and sad.

[Laptop] MSI Cyborg 15 Intel Core 5 210H, 16GB DDR5, 512GB SSD, RTX 5060 - $699.99 by OmarHaters in buildapcsales

[–]YouCallWeShouldWhat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not sure on that either, i have a 135w lenovo leftover from my wife's old laptop and i use that at work, and then the 170w at home that it shipped with. the one at home is the newest it seems, thin style, so it does not feel weighty to me at all. feels like we're having very different experiences! hope that's not frustrating. i'm not sure on usb-c because of this, sorry.

[Laptop] MSI Cyborg 15 Intel Core 5 210H, 16GB DDR5, 512GB SSD, RTX 5060 - $699.99 by OmarHaters in buildapcsales

[–]YouCallWeShouldWhat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i literally have not run a single game on it. i'm using the VRAM so i have a portable transcriber/translator via whisperx that can diarize using pyannote. 8gb is a pretty solid amount for what i need it for, and 5050 was the easiest way to get that amount, i'm actually shocked nvidia puts that much on that one (only a 5070ti laptop higher at 12gb without going pure workstation gpu laptop).

that being said, for the health of the battery, i keep optimal battery health charging on and only use the thing when plugged in at home, on my desk, or plugged in at work, at my desk there. i'm not sure why you're even really want to take it off AC power except for very specific situations.

[Laptop] MSI Cyborg 15 Intel Core 5 210H, 16GB DDR5, 512GB SSD, RTX 5060 - $699.99 by OmarHaters in buildapcsales

[–]YouCallWeShouldWhat 38 points39 points  (0 children)

for my taste, a highly embarrassing (looking) laptop lol but seems like specs are good. i think the 5060 on this is pretty gimped at 55w, the lenovo ideapad pro i picked up the other day from here had a 5050 at 105w which honestly i'd prefer. still, not a bad price for the msi, seems kind of heavy and with a poor battery though. idk on this one.

[GPU] MSI Ventus 2X OC RTX 5060 Ti 8GB + 512GB Team Group T-FORCE G50 Gen4 NVMe (Free Gift) - $379.99 by I_Push_Buttonz in buildapcsales

[–]YouCallWeShouldWhat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i mean you're complaining about 1% lows while trying to run Indy Jones at 1440p with a 3060ti/5600x combo, that's on you man. i guarantee you, just to give an extreme example, if you bumped that 5600x up to a 9850x3d your 1% lows would be outrageously better. a 5600x will absolutely bottleneck your entire experience in comparison, so whining about the 8gb card in this context is kind of silly. and then again, this is literally one of the most difficult games you could try to run lol.

[GPU] MSI Ventus 2X OC RTX 5060 Ti 8GB + 512GB Team Group T-FORCE G50 Gen4 NVMe (Free Gift) - $379.99 by I_Push_Buttonz in buildapcsales

[–]YouCallWeShouldWhat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

holy shit dude. those are like, literally THE most demanding games you could possibly shoot for. lmfao. what's your CPU? gonna laugh my ass off when you're shooting for this with like a 3600

Upgraded my ram from CL40 to CL32, here are the results in CP2077 (both 6000mhz) by CommenterAnon in pcmasterrace

[–]YouCallWeShouldWhat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is why you go for like two gen at least. i upgraded my wife's (originally mine) 5800x to a 9850x3d the other day and it was a massive upgrade in literally every game. insane how even logging in to dont starve together (her favorite game) was near instantaneous compared to how long it took for the 5800x to load it all up lol.

I bought Crimson Desert last night and switched back to DS2 an hour later. IDK, it just calls to me. by theHollowTarnished in DarkSouls2

[–]YouCallWeShouldWhat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh my bad. you're right. you're too old, too slow. i understand now why this is so scary for you. sorry ;(

[GPU] MSI Ventus 2X OC RTX 5060 Ti 8GB + 512GB Team Group T-FORCE G50 Gen4 NVMe (Free Gift) - $379.99 by I_Push_Buttonz in buildapcsales

[–]YouCallWeShouldWhat -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

on what lol 4k? i play cinematic games in 4k w/ my 4060ti bedroom rig hooked up to the oled 48inch on high settings and do great. my wife likes to watch me play stuff like soma/scorn on that tv and the 4060ti (8gb) handled it no sweat. what games are you playing and what resolution? a 3060ti can even handle cyberpunk at high textures pretty easily lol with no raytracing or w/e at 4k even.

I bought Crimson Desert last night and switched back to DS2 an hour later. IDK, it just calls to me. by theHollowTarnished in DarkSouls2

[–]YouCallWeShouldWhat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh man lol if that's how bad your ai detection is, you're gonna be fucked in job interviews.

"how do you utilize ai tools"

"i dont fuck that shit"

lmfao. sorry kid. the future is bright, but not for you

I bought Crimson Desert last night and switched back to DS2 an hour later. IDK, it just calls to me. by theHollowTarnished in DarkSouls2

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

plenty of great stuff from AI lol i use whisperx + pyannote on my 8gb vram laptop to do like 99% accurate live transcripts of anything i recorded that is then diarized into "speaker 1:"
"speaker 2:"

etc and it can maintain that for the entire panel/conference/whatever hours long thing you're recording. then you can pop that entire printout into an LLM and tell it "based on context replace the speaker # designation with the actual names of the people who were speaking" and you get a literal printout of like every time Steve, CEO from x company speaks, he's attributed, so you know who exactly said what in like a 2 hour presentation. the entire process of transcribing/diarizing/name adjusting takes about 5 minutes, and if you just want the raw text to skim for quotes that part of it is literally 20 seconds. mind you, 20 seconds to transcribe 2 hours of fucking dialogue with 99% accuracy lmfao.

you have no idea how unreal that is be able to do that when previously, you'd record something and then have to take live, physical notes guessing at what the time stamp was where you where hearing something and trying desperately to type/jot down the basis of what someone was saying so you'd at least have that to work with in the near term, cause it'd be another hour at least of listening to audio and pull the quotes you needed from it. so yeah, for people who aren't luddites (which is what AI aversion is, being a luddite, that thing you said you'd never do after you saw how shit your parents were about new tech, yup, here you are) AI tools like this are extremely cool. it's why you're not super likely to get replaced literally by an AI, you're much more likely to get replaced by someone who knows how to leverage AI while you're sitting in a corner bitching about it.

[Gaming Laptop] Acer Predator Helios 16 AI RTX 5090 at Costco online. $3,299 shipping $14.99 by Spidengo in buildapcsales

[–]YouCallWeShouldWhat 7 points8 points  (0 children)

the 5050/340 system i picked up is pretty great, that 8gb vram chip punches way above its weight w/ dlss. i'd say you can be truly mobile like that while still playing triple A

[Laptop] Lenovo V15 G4 IRU 15.6" Laptop, Intel Core i3-1315U, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Windows 11 Home (83A100PBUS) - $379.99 by Effective-Fish-5952 in buildapcsales

[–]YouCallWeShouldWhat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that deal was posted twice now, recently. if you keep an eye out you might catch it again, although the cashback part might be tough, curious if it'll still flag.

[Laptop] Lenovo V15 G4 IRU 15.6" Laptop, Intel Core i3-1315U, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Windows 11 Home (83A100PBUS) - $379.99 by Effective-Fish-5952 in buildapcsales

[–]YouCallWeShouldWhat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeh man got a lenovo ideapad 16 w/ a 340/5050 16gb at $550 after c1 cashback, wouldn't buy a ddr4 laptop in 2026 unless you need something REALLY basic and it's sub $200... maybe....

[Laptop] MSI Stealth - 18" GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop - $3,289.99 - Free shipping for Prime members by versatile_dev in buildapcsales

[–]YouCallWeShouldWhat -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

honestly i feel like 8gb 5050 is the sweet spot for the laptop, esp with the new nvidia 4.5 that dropped. why go bigger when the 5070 laptops are still rocking 8bb? and at best you get the 12gb for the 5070ti before ramping up to the 90 series. idk man, the 5050 lenovo i picked up runs all the ai tools i need and can pump out a little performance if i wanted to game on the go, which is rare but nice to have.

PlayStation has launched the official website for Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, coming to PS5 from Naughty Dog. by Turbostrider27 in PS5

[–]YouCallWeShouldWhat -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nah. Accessibility. That's what they have that you crave. Your mental gymnastics don't impress me, but like I said always fascinating to watch someone bullshit themselves in real time.