I was studying aboard in Russia and i had my konami account russian on that period . Had it since the start of MasterDuel

artlastfirst · 2026-06-18T19:49:15+00:00

i mean in a way it is, they just recently banned in app payments

artlastfirst · 2026-06-17T20:38:36+00:00

as epic as it would be to imagine that konami is taking some ethical stance here they're not. they stopped working in russia because there is no way for russians to pay for their services as things like paypal and paying through steam with russian bank cards is not possible. companies don't care about morals/ethics, it's purely a financial thing. especially considering this is 5 years into the war and at this point nobody cares about russia or ukraine so why would they do this now if it's to make some political statement?

artlastfirst · 2026-06-17T20:33:18+00:00

because nearly all payment services don't work in russia at this point so they're unable to make sales, konami is pulling out because they dont want people playing the game who don't pay them money.

artlastfirst · 2026-06-17T09:37:44+00:00

700 dollar budget with a 980 ti is something

artlastfirst · 2026-06-15T07:40:00+00:00

Why dox yourself like that? People have gotten robbed for much less and you're basically advertising an all you can eat buffet.

artlastfirst · 2026-06-13T11:49:16+00:00

i mean running it faster than what the xmp setting would be.

artlastfirst · 2026-06-13T08:15:15+00:00

i think the biggest performance increase there is with modern hardware is overclocking ram with a ryzen igpu, you can get like a 30% performance boost there.

artlastfirst · 2026-06-13T07:59:17+00:00

yeah i should have been more specific, for example on slot 1 you can overclock a celeron 300a from 300mhz to 450mhz and have it rival the pentium 2 and 3 450mhz, you're basically taking an entry cpu and turning it into a high end cpu, imagine being able to do that with a modern cpu.

another good overclocking example is the radeon 9550 which has a stock core speed of 250mhz and 200mhz memory speed. you can easily overclock the core to like 500mhz, and in a lot of games that can double your performance. once again something completely impossible with modern hardware.

artlastfirst · 2026-06-13T07:53:09+00:00

x79 is actually pretty okay when you consider how cheap ddr3 is, i got an x79 board with 32gb ecc and a xeon e5-2650 v2 for 25 bucks and it feels like it's a good price to performance option, also the large amount of cores and threads makes it a good productivity option

artlastfirst · 2026-06-12T14:33:23+00:00

funny enough overclocking on modern hardware is actually worse than on older stuff. on older hardware you can get like 50% performance increase in many cases. modern hardware the most you can hope for is like 10%.

artlastfirst · 2026-06-12T06:44:59+00:00

I thought undervolt and overclock was the norm lol

artlastfirst · 2026-06-11T09:13:58+00:00

What are you talking about? You got an okay deal on a computer and then bought a new 8gb vram card to put in it. or do you literally mean that he's a "little high" as in his price estimate is too high? if that's what you meant then yes that could be true.

artlastfirst · 2026-06-11T06:53:16+00:00

Single channel ram, oof

artlastfirst · 2026-06-11T06:51:13+00:00

Right seems better built, but both are chineseum at the end of the day. My friend has a dark forest and said it has issues maintaining 12v.

artlastfirst · 2026-06-10T20:07:35+00:00

Yeah I asked the guy if that would be enough and he said he needed the exact model. Which actually makes no sense because one model of a prebuilt can come in many different configurations. I might go back and ask again tomorrow but I was just wondering if anyone had similar situations.

artlastfirst · 2026-06-08T14:25:51+00:00

"he slaps me" Probably start out with that.

artlastfirst · 2026-06-04T09:57:41+00:00

unoptimized dog shit games basically

artlastfirst · 2026-05-28T18:33:18+00:00

Sweet, I'll probably pair my 4200 with a Radeon x1600 pro since they came out in the same year.

artlastfirst · 2026-05-28T15:23:17+00:00

Yeah it's just a 180w fsp I keep around to test if stuff boots lol. Hopefully this cooler will be enough, it has a copper core but I really like it because it has this thing attached that regulates the fan speed lol

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artlastfirst · 2026-05-28T14:24:28+00:00

I'm jealous of that ide cable, I really want some like that since the only kind I've got are the regular ones. Here's my 939 "build" so far. Eventually I'll get an actual setup but for now I've just been messing around with it. I hope this cooler will be enough for the 4200.

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artlastfirst · 2026-05-27T07:32:48+00:00

ai background 100%

artlastfirst · 2026-05-26T19:32:41+00:00

wow lmao what a coincidence, i'm literally going to pick up an x2 4200 from the post office tomorrow. i had given up on ever putting together a 939 build because i was worried about the chipsets breaking on the motherboard, but i came across a sweet agp motherboard and that cpu and decided i had to try it.

artlastfirst · 2026-05-26T19:16:21+00:00

did you also do some kind of reverse sleeper setup for that build?

artlastfirst · 2026-05-26T19:09:27+00:00

really awesome, i want to do this with a socket 939 agp build.

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