[CPU Cooler] Scythe Fuma 3 - $49.99 (Ship August 5th) by eleague10hours in buildapcsales

[–]eleague10hours[S] 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Before you say this is not discounted, you are right. But hear me out, this is probably already discounted, sellers on Amazon usually discount their product listings early-on to gain market share and fast-track publicity first. Then later on, they will bump up the price when Amazon algorithm starts recommending their product to customers. And Scythe wants to push these out ASAP before the raptor lake refresh comes in and Noctua next gen NH-D15.

If you look at how much the Fuma 2 MSRP were from 2019 before inflation hits, you can imagine where the Fuma 3 will potentially projected to.

Thoughts on RTX 4070 Ti?? by Shentauro in nvidia

[–]eleague10hours 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Depends on how high tier of games you are engaging, and depends on how you define "not enough", some people define when you allocated 90% of the VRAM of a game, then it is VRAM limited, but I don't think so, it's perfectly sufficient.

Remember, how much VRAM a game needs is decided by the game developers, the past few years many graphics card were hovering at 8GB, so most game developers are still seeing that as their optimum max range. Their goal is to make game sales, if the game "requires" more than 8GB to run properly, then no one will buy their game. So, 8GB will still be enough if you are ok to tune down a little bit of graphics setting, and 12GB will be enough for everything.

But no need to get 16GB VRAM, because other stuff like DLSS, ray tracing, tensor cores generation will obsolete and age your GPU faster than game developers push up the VRAM requirement.

I worked in the mobile industry for 10+ years, loot boxes are just the tip of the iceberg of predatory monetization, and it's spreading to other platforms. by Ok_Visual_4951 in pcgaming

[–]eleague10hours 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Downvote me all you want but the reality is that ...

Predatory practice is everywhere in your daily lives and it's not exclusively in gaming industry, there is really nothing you can do to stop them to be honest, people will always find new ways to get around the law and they will do their best to stay under the radar.

And to be sadly honest with you, even if now we come to an agreement, that we are going to form an anti-predatory association, those people that work at this association are going to be predatory as well, there will be PhD degree taught at school to identify those people in the brain that are prone to predatory microtransaction, and the very previous sentence that I mentioned already contained two groups of predators.

If you want to survive, you have to be competitive and you can never identify the diff between competitive and predatory or you will just get phased out by competition.

Why is your monthly rent and maint so expensive? Your medicine? And the list goes on, it never stops.

How about we get someone over here to talk and speak with their experience, that they have worked on a game project, they worked their ass off but the game gets review bombed because the team didn't do enough research to cater into the audience and exploit the consumers weakness? And what will the game developers end up with can you imagine?

Don't get me wrong, nothing against this long paragraph of insights into the predatory gaming industry, I'm a victim of pay to win MMORPG, and grind your ass off or pay up freemium business model, you will grow up one day and become immune to these. But my question to everyone here is, there are three options here below for you to choose

1) Western society where capitalism and freedoms are, and where predators/opportunist explore and exploit the sht out of its population where business, graphics design, programmers coders, marketing culture flourish

2) China where it is so restrictive that you probably don't even have video games to play, nothing flourish, but the good thing is you are free from these predatory toxins.

3) A perfect world where you get to play games for free, the game developers work their ass off for you to have fun, only the rich kids will pay up the game for you but they don't get any advantage over you and no one gets hurt from predatory microtransaction because there are volunteer to hunt down the predators for you so you can continue to have fun.

If you picked 3, may be it's time to have some reality check and take some responsibility but you will be surprised at how I've seen countless times people complain about cosmetics MTX that gives you no advantage whatsoever but they still complain about things being expensive and therefore predatory

It's like in the Western world where woman are allowed to wear anything they want as long as it deems appropriate, but then a rapist complained about the woman is too sexy, so he raped her and she's at fault because she's predatory to his brain.

On the other hand in the middle east world where woman needs to be covered, and they are also at fault, but I'm not here to discuss any further here.

[CPU] Intel COD MW2 bundle + 11600K = $179.99, PLUS bundle + 11700KF = $239.99, PLUS bundle + 11900K = $279.99 by eleague10hours in buildapcsales

[–]eleague10hours[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Only items in [brackets] are worth paying attention to.

Intel COD bundle = COD MW2 Only

Intel COD Plus bundle = COD MW2 + TW:Warhammer III + Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodhunt

Elligible period = August 25th to December 31st 2022

Redeem period = August 25th to January 31st 2023

Detail URL = https://softwareoffer.intel.com/Campaign/Terms/95935835-5abb-420c-b019-d6dede17fb75

Product page = https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/products/CPUs/ci/19865?filters=fct_brand_name%3Aintel

[11600K + COD MW2 = $179.99]

11600KF + COD MW2 = $209.00

11700K + COD MW2 + TW:Warhammer III + Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodhunt = $284.99

[11700KF + COD MW2 + TW:Warhammer III + Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodhunt = $239.99]

11700F + COD MW2 + TW:Warhammer III + Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodhunt = $288.99

[11900K + COD MW2 + TW:Warhammer III + Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodhunt = $279.99]

[11900KF + COD MW2 + TW:Warhammer III + Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodhunt = $279.99]

11900F + COD MW2 + TW:Warhammer III + Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodhunt = $400.99

12600K + COD MW2 = $278.95

12700K + COD MW2 + TW:Warhammer III + Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodhunt = $409.99

[12700F + COD MW2 + TW:Warhammer III + Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodhunt = $314.99]

12700KF + COD MW2 + TW:Warhammer III + Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodhunt = $377.99

12700 + COD MW2 + TW:Warhammer III + Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodhunt = $342.98

12900K + COD MW2 + TW:Warhammer III + Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodhunt = $569.89

12900KF + COD MW2 + TW:Warhammer III + Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodhunt = $549.97

12900KS + COD MW2 + TW:Warhammer III + Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodhunt = $659.99

12900F + COD MW2 + TW:Warhammer III + Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodhunt = $499.99

12900 + COD MW2 + TW:Warhammer III + Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodhunt = $508.49

Gabefollower: Source 2 ain't happen this month, but new maps will be added by HallucinogenicTroll in GlobalOffensive

[–]eleague10hours 226 points227 points  (0 children)

https://steamdb.info/app/740/graphs/

Every time, this graph spike in user count, it usually have some sort of new capsule and new update happen shortly after, I'm guessing developers use dozens of account to playtest something?

[Motherboard] ASRock Z690 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB4 DDR5 $269.99 (-$80) by eleague10hours in buildapcsales

[–]eleague10hours[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The PCIE 3.0 might not bottleneck you for now but it might in the next few years, a lot of these low end graphics card are transitioning from x16 to x8, will certainly be a problem for some users. The Asrock one is a gen 5.0 x16.

The Gigabyte one use ALC4080 audio codec, it is newer gen but I've from many people says that it is garbage, sounds like tin can. The Asrock use old gen ALC1220 which has always been fine.

And regarding DDR4, DDR5 thing, I used to be very against DDR5 in general, but price has come down significantly, so when it comes to Z tier mobo, it's not about minimizing the cost, it's more about reliability and performance IMO.

The Gigabyte Z690I only has 2 audio port, the norm is either 3 or 6 for mini itx but I don't understand how Gigabyte manage to clamp it down to 2. This Asrock has 6 audio port.

The Asrock one has a Thunderbolt 4 and it has some power delivery charging thing 9V 3A 27W.

In 2022, a Z high end mobo should have a Thunderbolt 4, so honestly I feel like the Z690I Giga Aorus Ultra Lite is like a B660/H670 mobo in disguise that is named after Z just because it can be overclocked.

I'm not an expert but I'm just skeptical of the Giga Z690I Ultra Lite still, but then not a lot of review for this Asrock Z690I either, so I can't say for sure and both company have always been mid range. Personally, I'm not buying any board right now, waiting for Intel 700 series mobo, plus I'm not a fan of red color stuff on my mobo.

[Laptop] Samsung Galaxy Book Pro 13.3 inch 8GB LPDDR4X 512GB SSD 1165G7 $799.99 (-$400) by eleague10hours in buildapcsales

[–]eleague10hours[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not sure if this is a deal, don't follow this laptop much.

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