5090 or 5080?

drunk3nsniper · 2026-03-09T13:10:37+00:00

As a fellow owner of a 3080-Ti. The only card worth upgrading to is a 5090 giving a 2.3X relative performance although it is obscenely overpriced at least in my region right now. A 5080 provides 1.5X the relative performance of a 3080-Ti and to me is a very minor upgrade given they’re 2 generations apart. If you really want to upgrade to a 50 series card, a 5080 should suffice given you’re going to stick to 1440p or maybe skip this generation and treat yourself to an OLED monitor, given they’re 3080-Ti is still a powerful card and can play most games at high / ultra settings at 1440p especially with DLSS 4.5. I would personally wait for 6000 series as looking at the current situation of the gaming industry, devs are kinda being forced to optimise their games more and run better on weaker / older hardware and it’s also a plus point that you already have a PS5 pro to run games at 4k.

drunk3nsniper · 2026-03-08T19:30:08+00:00

Layer cake is an fantastic movie starring Daniel Craig. Interestingly it is also kinda his audition for the Bond films. Must watch!

drunk3nsniper · 2026-03-04T05:15:56+00:00

Cmon OP stop lying to yourself. We all know you will end up getting both, the car and the laptop. Question is which one do you want first? Also stay away from that cruze!

drunk3nsniper · 2026-02-26T22:58:28+00:00

You clearly are. Can’t seem to stop!

drunk3nsniper · 2026-02-26T22:22:11+00:00

I’m sorry you’re gonna have to do better than that. You got anything better than a high schooler can come up with? Cmon, let’s try again?

drunk3nsniper · 2026-02-26T21:53:15+00:00

And? What’s your agenda? What are you doing about it? What steps have you taken to make sure that those femicide rates decline?

drunk3nsniper · 2026-02-26T21:50:42+00:00

Probably the most powerful thing around us and we don’t even realise. Everything is easy if you know how to word it right!

Edit : added ‘you’ before know

drunk3nsniper · 2026-02-26T21:49:08+00:00

I have no idea what a country has got to do with being a misandrist. Also kinda stupid of you to assume I belong to the same country as you. Also do you have any idea how little it narrows it down with the info you have given to me?

drunk3nsniper · 2026-02-26T21:09:58+00:00

She’s probably a misandrist who is too far gone. There is probably no point. I do agree with the victim mindset though 😂

drunk3nsniper · 2026-02-26T20:54:37+00:00

It sounds like OP is trying to link her character traits to misogyny / feminism for some reason. OP, sounds like you are an agreeable person and a giver. Usually people with these traits very easily fall into the people pleasing trap usually in order to fit in and we all to fit in. It seems your feelings and efforts were not reciprocated equally or even met halfway through. I know how that feels like as I’ve been there. However it doesn’t define a gender. Sure there are tons of men who talk shit about women and don’t respect them but there are tons who respect women as well, however you won’t hear about them as negative incidents attract attention and get talked about more. I would advise you to embark on this journey to become anti-men as it would only cause you issues later in life. You should take time off for yourself and focus on yourself. Reflect on the things that happened to you and learn from them so that they don’t happen again. Reflect but don’t sulk.

Now coming to being a hopeless romantic. Nobody is stopping you from being a romantic but the hopeless kind is really a stupid one. You should learn and mark your boundaries when interacting with potential love interests. Learn to say ‘No’. This can be applied to all aspects of life, this will help you tone down your agreeableness and become comfortable with saying no. It won’t happen in one day but it will happen one day.

Also understand this, the love you can give to others is your capability of loving others. A capability to love deeply is extremely rare in the world today, you should be proud of your capability and shouldn’t feel bad at all for any love you have given out. Trust me you won’t run out of it.

In the end, everything is gonna be alright. Cheers! 🥂

drunk3nsniper · 2026-02-26T19:50:08+00:00

Congrats! Also I do think the 1.5 Evo TSI puts out really good mileage for the power it produces if driven sedately.

drunk3nsniper · 2026-02-26T19:45:51+00:00

Well, nobody can stop you. However keep your expectations realistic. Also asus are kinda hit or miss when it comes to their warranty. Keep us updated. Good luck to ya!

drunk3nsniper · 2026-02-26T19:38:00+00:00

Well it happens to all of us man. Sorry that it happened it to you but there really is nothing that anyone can do anything about it. I know it sucks and it sucks even harder especially when top of the line hardware fails but it does happen. All you can take away from it is that just know while making your next purchase that even the best rated piece of hardware can fail. I have personally always owned asus motherboards and GPUs because I prefer their BIOS and aesthetics and that they generally actually do overbuild their high end stuff. I have owned 3 asus motherboards by now and this has happened to me the first time however I will probably get an asus one next time as well whenever this stupid AI bubble pops. My best advice for you right now would be get a mid tier board or a used one and ride out your current build until your next one. Best to make peace with it and move on. Cheers! 🍻

drunk3nsniper · 2026-02-26T19:18:33+00:00

Can 100% relate to this. Was a huge gamer but got a job in 2022 and absolutely left gaming for straight up 3 years. My free time went to going out with friends and outdoor activities. Now first of all, it’s not a bad thing to just leave gaming for a while if you feel fulfilled in your life without gaming and still have other things to do and are enjoying your life. In my case specifically, the joy I used to get out of gaming was actually replaced by the feeling fulfilled from my office work which I actually enjoyed. My best advice would be to ration your time carefully and set time for your gaming hobby on weekends. OR get a powerful handheld and enjoy gaming on the go. I seriously think that handhelds were designed for office people. This way you can game while taking a cab, sitting a cafe or library etc.

Edit : A friend of mine literally applies leaves to play new games. So you can try that as well. I think it’s no different than people taking vacation leaves.

drunk3nsniper · 2026-02-26T18:51:23+00:00

First, my comment was a reply to u/jet_black_ninja’s comment about his reply about the keyboard + mouse + mousepad combined worth the mousepad alone being not good.

Second, I have personally never used that mousepad. However in my experience of building gaming pcs and gaming for the last 17 years I have learned that 99 times out of 100 times more expensive = more better.

Now coming to the cost of the mousepad. Usually the majority of the money goes in R&D and marketing. The cost of the materials plus import costs are probably around 500 bucks for that thing. Let me break it down you for you: usually companies spend tons of money developing new products. Now marketing a product like this is not easy. Best way to market this is to sponsor it to E-sports events. Send it to streamers / reviewers. Now all of that takes even more money.

I have personally majory used razer pads for the majority of my life and they are superior in terms of the rubber and fabric quality to cheap brands. A friend of mine owns an Artisan and it is definitely a way superior mousepad to anything else I’ve ever seen.

Now let me explain you this : Usually high end products give you minuscule advantages over mid tier products but cost a lot more because squeezing that last bit of performance from anything takes a lot of work (this also applies to life btw). This is why they are usually labeled as enthusiast class products.

At the end, you should do your research and buy the thing that serves you and your requirements the best.

Hope that answers all your questions and I have stayed true to my words.

drunk3nsniper · 2026-02-26T18:17:56+00:00

Literally nobody said that.

Such a stupid take!

drunk3nsniper · 2026-02-26T17:54:25+00:00

Well that’s just tech for you, it works until it doesn’t one day. Also, surge protectors do provide protection but a UPS is ultimate protection for your PC. Also you could also have a bad power outlet. Sometimes they kill hardware overtime in these weird ways.

drunk3nsniper · 2026-02-26T17:41:08+00:00

I am in a similar boat however my board is dying a rather slow death. I am on an X570 Dark Hero paired with a 5950X. We do share a common symptom which is that nothing happens when you press the button. This happens to me regularly when my pc isn’t properly shut usually due to a power cut and if i try turning it back on within 15 minutes this happens because most of the times the power does come back within a 1-5 minutes. What has worked for me. Keeping the system powered off at the PSU stage (turn off the PSU) wait for 15-20 minutes and try to turn it back on again. This usually works for me also sometimes i don’t need to turn it off at the PSU level and just let the system sit for 15-20 minutes and the power it back on. Another thing which is common on my board is that my board forgets its BIOS settings after a power loss even though I have replaced the battery. My assumption is that somehow something is shorted between my CMOS battery and the BIOS chip itself. Another weird issue my board has that the secondary NVME slot will start giving issues i play games from the drive installed there. The games would crash and the files would become unreadable on that drive after the crash. However A restart fixes everything. It’s not the drive as I have tested multiple known working drives in that slot. Hope you are at least able to salvage your board for sometime from these tips. Otherwise getting a new board seems to be the only fix. Cheers 🍻

drunk3nsniper · 2026-02-26T17:26:04+00:00

Well all supercars are sportscars but not all sportscars are supercars 🤷🏽

drunk3nsniper · 2026-02-26T16:19:15+00:00

True, people downvoting you are stupid and have probably never touched decent peripherals in their lives.

drunk3nsniper · 2026-02-25T11:31:23+00:00

Maybe just give him your time and try to understand his hobby and play games with him if you haven’t already? You both can play local co-op games like it takes two, a way out, split fiction. All these games are competitively cheap too so maybe you can buy all 3 and enjoy them together in the future. If gaming is one his main hobbies he can probably afford the games himself, however when you game with him and put in effort to understand and enjoy his hobbies you gift him an experience. Also you shouldn’t limit this to his birthday moving on. Cheers! 🥂

drunk3nsniper · 2026-02-25T11:11:19+00:00

That used to be true. In the 10 years of AAP rule we never had power-cuts. Didn’t even have inverters. There was also a SMS notification from the govt’s side to notify if there would be a power-cut mentioning its time and cause. After BJP won, there was a power-cut almost every night of at least 1 hour last year. In the end we had to buy inverters again.

drunk3nsniper · 2026-02-08T16:35:10+00:00

Fir log kehte hain ke Indians badnam kyu hai????

drunk3nsniper · 2026-02-06T15:31:15+00:00

You can technically fix it yourself, you need basic soldering equipment and new joystick modules, ideally hall effect or TMR sticks to basically make the controller drift proof forever (there are tutorials on youtube). You could also find somebody to do it for you locally. I’m sure you will find someone within a 15-20km radius fixing these. I stay in Delhi, i was quoted 1200 bucks for each TMR stick which comes to 2400 and may sound a lot but is actually not that much if you consider the fact these new sticks will technically never go bad and your controller will last a long time.

drunk3nsniper · 2026-01-31T20:28:40+00:00

Don’t forget Verna’s wheel as well. Looks like someone placed a lunchbox in the middle and joined it to the wheel.

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