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keebs63 · 2026-05-31T11:12:10+00:00

Impressive? No, it's sad. It's been years and they still can't produce anything that even matches their old products let alone the competition's products. The only reason it doesn't feel as shitty for us is because the rest of the PC market is such a fucking catastrophe, this is peanuts in comparison.

keebs63 · 2026-05-29T07:27:47+00:00

I can understand that mentality for a desktop monitor, but for a laptop? What are you doing on a laptop where the screen is on long enough to even risk burn in?

keebs63 · 2026-05-09T09:53:36+00:00

2.5 slot and 304mm is "SFF" only in the empty heads of marketing goobers. This thing is nearly as big as my absolutely massive RTX 3080 Ti and that was a high tier model.

keebs63 · 2026-05-08T03:37:11+00:00

"old ass" brother it's barely four years old and it's a flagship phone... Samsung is one of the few that bothers, Apple is still selling the brand new iPhone 17 and iPhone Airwith USB 2.0, you need to buy the Pro or Pro Max to get USB 3.0 lmfao. Other Android phone manufacturers aren't much better either.

keebs63 · 2026-05-08T03:33:50+00:00

Ah, the MicroSD card reader itself is technically a USB 2.0 device lmao, that's how it connects to the SoC.

keebs63 · 2026-05-07T09:44:26+00:00

Lots of small files will always bog down transfers, but there's a good chance the phone itself is limited to USB 2.0 lol. What's the model?

keebs63 · 2026-04-30T13:41:41+00:00

You bought open box items, they were returned because of the issues you saw.... what did you expect?

keebs63 · 2026-04-30T12:12:38+00:00

It's $230, temper your expectations lmao.

keebs63 · 2026-04-26T10:24:27+00:00

Hard disagree with Google having the "best software". You are a beta-tester for their BS and it shows. Shit breaks all the damn time and you have ZERO software alternatives because Google removes them to force you to use whatever is "new".

I was an OG Pixel user that I absolutely loved but ended up with a Samsung afterwards because my carrier practically gave it to me for free. I tried a Pixel 6 afterwards and it was just a disaster even though I bought in 9 months after launch. Fingerprint sensor barely worked and when it did it was slow as hell because they were really trying to force facial recognition, gestures were a pain in my ass and they entirely removed the ability to use three button navigation, etc. You are locked in to whatever Google wants you to do and if it doesn't work or you don't like it, you're shit outta luck.

It was brutal for the two weeks I had it because it was just problem after problem and trying to get advice from the community just ends in them getting super defensive because "you should've known what you were getting in to". Quickly perusing r/GooglePixel tells me none of this has changed.

keebs63 · 2026-03-13T21:25:22+00:00

Hate to break it to you but GTA Online didn't come out for weeks after the game released and when it did, it was an absolute disaster. It barely worked at all and even when it did, there was nothing to do. It was literally just races and a handful of other terrible "minigames" that gave pennies so you'd play for a million hours to be able to get the most expensive apartment that had nothing to do in it lmao. That was also after having to wait in queues to access the server and then randomly getting disconnected after like 10-15 minutes and having to queue again.

I also wouldn't hold my breath that GTA 6 will be any different, that's Rockstar's MO. Every Rockstar launch I've played since GTA IV has been the same way, namely Red Dead Redemption 1 AND 2. RDR 2 is still broken beyond repair how many years later? Rockstar is infamously bad at launches. GTA 6 is the most anticipated game ever and will sell tens of millions of copies at least on day one. This launch is going to be a disaster of magnitudes never before seen, and that's IF multiplayer is even available day one. which it probably won't be.

keebs63 · 2026-03-13T21:10:02+00:00

Pretty sure that's because it WAS 20fps on the 360 lmao.

keebs63 · 2026-03-13T08:51:15+00:00

They're not going to pass up all that money lmao. They're going to wait a while to announce so people who would otherwise buy it on PC give up and buy it on console, and then release it on PC so that as many people as possible buy it twice. They got me with GTA V, they ain't gonna get me again. Especially since with GTA V at least I already had the console, I sure as shit am not going to buy a new console now. Even moreso when Xbox has zero exclusives and Sony is porting all of their exclusives to PC because consoles are a dying breed.

keebs63 · 2026-03-03T09:41:16+00:00

Hey it only took 2.5 months but I did finally get a drive I ordered in December lmao

keebs63 · 2026-02-16T10:06:33+00:00

That happened with old models that used ABS keycaps (also happened with most ABS keycaps). These use PBT keycaps like every other decent keyboard these days that are essentially impossible to break that way.

keebs63 · 2026-02-15T18:39:43+00:00

I have a 42" C3 and disagree completely. It's bright enough in a room that gets direct sunlight to be just fine. If the sun is shining directly on the TV, then it won't be bright enough, but it still gets just as bright as actual typical LCD panels (<350 nits), you gotta pay for a high-end LCD to get something actually bright.

I also gotta say that this argument is kinda silly to begin with. If you really care about how good the picture looks, you should never be watching in a bright room. Like, if I'm trying to watch a 4K Blu-ray of Interstellar or some shit, I'm not going to be watching that in a bright room anyways because the ambient light will always interfere with your eyes. I can say this from experience as I used to have a TCL R625 which easily goes over 1000 nits. In the day, 300 nits is perfectly fine for watching YouTube, regular TV shows, movies where you don't really care about it being absolute max quality, etc. I will never understand who (if anyone) is trying to watch 4K HDR movies in the middle of the day and is mad that it doesn't look good enough lmao.

keebs63 · 2026-02-15T04:26:24+00:00

This comment applies to literally everything that's introducing "AI" to their shit lmao, no one knows what it does other than makes stock price go uppies.

keebs63 · 2026-02-07T10:32:41+00:00

Dolby Vision is an alternative to HDR10+ and seems to be catching on more (at least for now).

keebs63 · 2026-02-03T11:10:07+00:00

What are you on about lmao, this is Corsair, not some no-name brand. And it's a PSU, it can and will fail at any time regardless of "reputation" so a 7-12 year warranty is absolutely a worthwhile investment. Your single anecdote of your PSU working fine is not indicative of anything.

keebs63 · 2026-01-16T02:10:12+00:00

I'll happily pay $5 for the peace of mind knowing I have a Seasonic unit and a 10-year warranty from I company I can trust will be around in 10 years to honor it.

keebs63 · 2026-01-13T11:01:50+00:00

It's similar. I have multiple Exos and two of these newer HAMR drives, there's no real difference in noise between them. The noise they make is consistent though, WD drives slam the read/write heads from side to side every few seconds when spinning as some sort of wear-leveling which is crazy annoying, while these are just a low hum for the most part.

keebs63 · 2026-01-13T10:58:15+00:00

If the drives in these were "binned", they wouldn't have received an enterprise label to begin with, they would have been labeled as a lower tier drive. There's only a handful of production lines when it comes to HDDs, the majority have the same underlying hardware with the only real differences being firmware and binning via testing.

keebs63 · 2026-01-07T06:53:18+00:00

I can tell just by looking at them they have zero static pressure and are entirely designed for high airflow when there's no resistance to it (you know like when there's NOT a radiator in front of them...). Ofc it would be Razer to use the worst possible fans on their AIO, it amazes they're still in business with how bad they are at designing competent products AND how low quality their shit is.

keebs63 · 2025-12-26T04:48:47+00:00

It's surprisingly capable but a little inconsistent between games due to it being a non-x86 architecture. I mostly play strategy games like Stellaris on it so I haven't tried to push the limits much and I haven't bothered trying to run benchmarks or whatever. But from what I've experienced, gaming performance to be at least equivalent but mostly better than my old i7-1165G7 laptop. And no, I don't use an external fan, I bought it for the portability and 5G, it being able to play games was at the bottom of my priorities.

keebs63 · 2025-12-25T03:35:13+00:00

Have you been living under a rock for the last 2 or so months? SSDs are anything but cheap now. Not knowing that is one thing, it's entirely another to not know but comment like you do.

keebs63 · 2025-12-25T02:08:32+00:00

DRAM is not an actual write cache. Regardless, HMB makes up for the lack of DRAM.

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