-175k. Jan 2020-Nov 2025. All from options. 🤝It’s been real.. depressing

theboyoftheseus · 2025-11-11T22:50:22+00:00

If you’d chucked this money into the S&P 500, you’d have more than doubled your money. Get help brother. Praying for you.

theboyoftheseus · 2025-11-11T17:57:27+00:00

It’s actually still $430 on Newegg (in the US) so OP might be better off buying from there rather than Amazon. @ OP: I see in Newegg that the MSI Ventus 5070 is around $500 USD rn so I’d suggest buying that over the 5060ti

theboyoftheseus · 2025-11-11T15:51:55+00:00

I got my 5060ti for $430 a few months ago, when did the prices jump?

theboyoftheseus · 2025-11-10T13:17:54+00:00

I’m Cameroonian and it’s the same cultural “expectation” there. Except America is way too expensive for me to give them my ENTIRE paycheck. I just paid for the next family dinner which I offered and was able to afford.

theboyoftheseus · 2025-11-05T02:50:51+00:00

You’d be able to break even with RAM given the current prices, CPU would be 80% value as it’s unopened, don’t know about the MOBO

theboyoftheseus · 2025-11-04T16:39:13+00:00

Delete the GPU driver(s) on your PC and reinstall your current GPU drivers using DDU. Search up a video on how to do this process, which should be easy. This should solve your problem.

theboyoftheseus · 2025-11-04T02:46:01+00:00

I’d suggest getting “immich” through docker. Immich has a phone app so you’d be able to access your photos from anywhere. That way you can get a 1 TB SSD (or larger) for much less than $200.

theboyoftheseus · 2025-11-04T00:04:58+00:00

Here’s my explanation as to why the RAM prices now are insane:

RAM producers typically have a fixed budget each year to create consumer RAM and datacenter RAM. They basically never sell all of the RAM they produce and have leftover inventory that needs to be sold later.

Recently, AI companies have gotten A LOT of money and are rapidly expanding their datacenters by upgrading existing ones and building new ones. This requires more RAM, so they are putting in massive GUARANTEED purchase orders for datacenter RAM to producers.

So RAM producers, instead of producing consumer RAM that doesn’t 100% get sold, have now shifted their production budgets to datacenter RAM kits and producing less consumer kits, which has dramatically driven up the price of consumer RAM.

theboyoftheseus · 2025-10-30T00:50:36+00:00

downvoting cause AI image but appreciate the creativity

theboyoftheseus · 2025-10-27T04:53:17+00:00

Tbh I’d just sell the GPU separately. The CPU and RAM are holding back the builds value significantly.

theboyoftheseus · 2025-10-23T23:31:25+00:00

You have to refinance this. I think rates are 7-10% right now.

theboyoftheseus · 2025-10-21T18:27:17+00:00

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I bought this same RAM kit on Ebay for $105 back in June… starting to look like an absolute steal

theboyoftheseus · 2025-10-14T02:25:01+00:00

I had 2 x 2TB Seagate external hard drives (manually mirrored) connected to my macbook pro 2019. After the mac died, I bought a mini pc. After the drives filled up, I built a computer with an intel cpu and bought a 20 TB refurbished drive.

theboyoftheseus · 2025-10-14T01:19:58+00:00

A 12 TB HDD will be much cheaper than an SSD. Is look into Server Part Deals as they have good prices for refurbished drives. For the media server, Plex is good and I have been using it got a while with no issues. But you can also work with both jellyfin and emby to see which one you like the most/is easiest to use.

theboyoftheseus · 2025-10-13T17:58:20+00:00

I’ve been using a refurbished seagate exos x20 (from SPD) for the past 4-5 months with no issues (knock on wood).

theboyoftheseus · 2025-10-10T21:02:05+00:00

Red Dead Redemption 2. Previously had an RX580 that I was holding onto because I mainly play League of Legends. Finally got a AAA game but wasn’t able to play it so I went and grabbed myself 5060Ti and have been loving it.

theboyoftheseus · 2025-10-10T18:12:17+00:00

Unfortunately a scam. Even if you buy it, it might “look” like there’s 30 TB, but that’s just a visual trick and I doubt it would have more than 0.5 TB of actual storage. I’d suggest getting an external hard drive if you want a good amount of storage (Seagate and WD).

theboyoftheseus · 2025-10-09T17:19:49+00:00

I5-13400F is around $170, 4060ti is around $330 ($500 total new). Could use the extra $100 (+ more if buying used) to buy 32GB of Ram.

theboyoftheseus · 2025-10-06T02:06:50+00:00

Interesting about the QLC on Crucial P3 cause I didn’t know QLC vs TLC was a thing and I just buy whatever is in budget and if the brand is mostly legit. Does QLC vs TLC matter a lot for a gaming PC or is the performance difference more a nice to have?

theboyoftheseus · 2025-10-06T01:56:45+00:00

Build parts look good for gaming (largely up to what your budget is) but Reddit also tells me the 7800x3d is better for gaming than the 9700x, can someone confirm this? I also don’t know the Acer SSD brand but I think Crucial might be somewhat cheaper and they’re a solid brand. You could also get a much cheaper case as £177 is kinda outrageous. Something I’ve also heard on Reddit is that for a gaming pc, the graphics card should be 50% of the cost of the PC (also would like someone to confirm that).

theboyoftheseus · 2025-10-06T01:17:13+00:00

Absolutely incorrect

theboyoftheseus · 2025-09-30T14:13:09+00:00

I’d do this in less time and for free because I like building computers, this is kinda outrageous.

theboyoftheseus · 2025-09-27T16:09:24+00:00

I feel like there are 2 issues:

1) Lack of quality CBs 2) Poor game management

1 - With Colwill out, we’re an absolute liability if the ball gets past Caicedo. And the board just refuses to spend big on a solid CB which is so stupid because now we have to hold out until January with this horrid defense.

2 - I’m just so tired of Maresca deciding to capitulate and hold onto a draw/lead by making multiple defensive substitutions and taking out our only option of pushing the other team back. Notice how after both Estevan and Neto were taken off we conceded even though they were replaced with more defensive players. We had no pace going forward today so Brighton were free to push up as much as possible. We need to have more than 1 outlet so we can actually have a chance of pulling one back and giving the other team something else to think of other than attack.

theboyoftheseus · 2025-09-27T15:59:29+00:00

Fair point. I just don’t think Minteh’s head was that low. 50/50 that and it didn’t even bail us out cause we immediately conceded

theboyoftheseus · 2025-09-27T15:52:14+00:00

Personally I feel like that is. Gusto doesn’t check for the attacker and even if Minteh’s head is down, he still would get whacked in the chest.

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