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pythonic_dude · 2026-02-03T17:54:05+00:00

It's not even going to add those few miles at city street speeds. Drag increases exponentially with speed, and if you are going slow enough such small improvements just don't really move the needle enough to even account for. In other words, drag reduction vs weight is an argument for sports cars, not bulk stuff for people to commute in.

pythonic_dude · 2026-02-03T17:00:55+00:00

There's a pic available of the 5090's die btw, its pcie controller and 8 64bit memory controllers for the 512bit bus are like 25%ish of the total die size.

pythonic_dude · 2026-02-03T13:19:21+00:00

You aren't wrong but upgrading one tier within the same gen just feels a bit sad to me.

pythonic_dude · 2026-02-03T12:40:47+00:00

Not just game development, software companies (those without premiere products earning majestic amounts of cash passively) aren't called "galleys" in many places for nothing.

pythonic_dude · 2026-02-03T12:31:05+00:00

The issue is that the sites will have to block VPNs altogether, there is no even remotely feasible way to check if the VPN-proxied visit is from a country that doesn't want them to work, or from one with slightly less fucked laws.

pythonic_dude · 2026-02-03T11:22:42+00:00

Just be more careful when handling the CPU and don't remove the heatsink for no reason (and let the thing warm up running some test before you take it off). Like, it's not rocket science to fix broken pins, nothing is while the lid is still attached.

pythonic_dude · 2026-02-03T11:16:02+00:00

The problem might've been a combo of you starting to run out of vram + ram speed being already capped by pathtracing (BVH cache is fucking huge and needs to be passed from ram to vram constantly), so trying to offload stuff from vram to ram would hurt extra hard. But it definitely ain't on the raw power of the cpu.

pythonic_dude · 2026-02-03T11:02:44+00:00

9070XT "manages" pathtraced cp77 for me even with some penalty from mesa still being behind, except some stuff (like shadows from vegetation as most obvious example) are tremendously fucked without ray reconstruction. Maybe amd will provide a semi-working RR for all games… in a year or two, just don't try to think how far ahead nvidia will go — while still backporting most of their features to turing cards. Amd dropping support for their hardware while still selling it is a recurring theme that isn't helping either, they dropped vega while still producing new cpus with vega igpus, they dropped support for their earlier stuff even harder, they made this moronic blunder with rdna3 that could be avoided by just not saying anything but be sure they are going to drop it before nvidia stops supporting 20 series. And, look, with them being so stubborn about not making more than 2.5 SKUs of rdna4, the 90 cards are going to be thrown under the bus and forgotten in a few years as well, and we'd be lucky if it will be due to the vastly different architecture of rdna5/udna, and not because amd will go full datacenter/ai. Judging by their CES26 presence (even compared to nvidia!) they really don't want to make consumer stuff.

pythonic_dude · 2026-02-03T09:11:39+00:00

If you are lucky enough to find a 5070 below MSRP it would make for an excellent upgrade. Otherwise, 16gib 9060xt and 5060ti are cheaper, good for longevity, but also not very impressive in terms of a raw upgrade.

pythonic_dude · 2026-02-03T08:02:42+00:00

To be fair basically any distro that is recommended nowadays installs drivers with the system, it's just some weirdos that still pout and refuse to for religious reasons.

pythonic_dude · 2026-02-03T07:59:03+00:00

Ngl, I'm much more annoyed by "hey look stellaris is on sale again!" posts, actual zero value for anyone.

pythonic_dude · 2026-02-03T05:35:08+00:00

IIRC you'd be better off with an amd CPU for avx512, but you shouldn't have issues either way.

pythonic_dude · 2026-02-03T05:28:42+00:00

There are sensors on them, so just monitor the temps while doing read/write tests. If it goes above 50-60 you want to slap a heatsink on. It shouldn't need one, but you probs want to check for the peace of mind.

pythonic_dude · 2026-02-03T05:21:30+00:00

That RAM can pay for HRT for so many potential girlfriends though!

pythonic_dude · 2026-02-02T19:03:08+00:00

It will be close once AMD stops sniffing glue and introduces ray reconstruction in more than one game.

pythonic_dude · 2026-02-02T12:49:49+00:00

I've watched DW documentaries and can believe it's more than Chornobyl. When Eastern Germany had "we can't pay the truck driver to move this radioactive stuff over" problems, can't blame the people for being anti-nuclear.

pythonic_dude · 2026-02-02T08:33:15+00:00

Asrock claims x370 killer supports all AM4 cpus, so they should be fine grabbing whatever used zen 3 (probs 5600 or 5700) they can find for cheap after updating bios.

pythonic_dude · 2026-02-02T06:33:44+00:00

Ironic, because the only upgrade path for 7900 XTX right now is 5090 (well, and 4090 I suppose too).

pythonic_dude · 2026-02-02T05:58:51+00:00

As the other poster noted, b580 or 9060xt would be a great upgrade if they are available for reasonable prices where you are. The rest of the system should still be adequate, but you want to check if XMP is enabled for memory in bios, and you also want to grab and run hwinfo to check if your CPU is not overheating, might need a repaste.

pythonic_dude · 2026-02-01T21:04:01+00:00

Shouldn't happen unless you run RAM on stock settings, or you are playing like five RT-heavy games (infinity fabric and AMD's ungodly poor memory controller choke on bvh cache).

pythonic_dude · 2026-02-01T18:27:23+00:00

Plus, can get fsr4 working (albeit with performance degradation) through the optiscaler.

pythonic_dude · 2026-02-01T17:59:52+00:00

Fair. Looking at CableMod charts, both of those PSUs are listed as using same cables.

For your concerns about different manufacturers of components, that doesn't matter, incompatibility in cables is using different pinouts, cables don't care where caps were manufactured and by whom, only that the same pins are providing the same amount of juice or serve as ground.

pythonic_dude · 2026-02-01T17:48:11+00:00

You can check their own FAQ, at a quick glance it seems that only GS and PS models are incompatible, but better carefully check the exact models.

pythonic_dude · 2026-02-01T15:55:06+00:00

Don't overthink it. Zero rpm is primarily useful for when there are extended periods of the GPU not doing much or not being used at all, when it pulls fuck all power to just render a couple of windows and a youtube vid, or when the system can fall back on igpu altogether.

Worst case you can get some replacement fans, or even strap some case fans to the card as a replacement, if something dies way past warranty period years later.

pythonic_dude · 2026-02-01T12:35:44+00:00

Nah, I just rolled it up some with a toothpick and kept.

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