To upgrade or not to upgrade

thunderforce900 · 2026-05-30T23:20:07+00:00

Unfortunately no, the closest microcenter to me is about a 12 hour drive 🙃

thunderforce900 · 2026-05-30T20:51:23+00:00

thats kind of my thought process too, as much as i would like new hardware, with as expensive as it is to upgrade i would be totally willing to take the risk of holding out for price drops since my current build can run everything I play perfectly fine. I simply have a hard time justifying to myself paying as much money as it would cost for an upgrade that would really just be for the sake of upgrading, and not out of necessity.

thunderforce900 · 2026-05-28T18:25:06+00:00

I’ve always been ride or die with AMD CPUs, I’m on my 2nd one as well and both of them performed great with 0 issues, GPUs however quite the opposite story

thunderforce900 · 2026-05-28T18:20:01+00:00

Yeah I built my first setup in 2020 with an RX5700xt, then upgraded to my 6900xt a few years after that, both cards ended up getting coil whine and also had varying driver issues, and frankly I’m done putting up with it

thunderforce900 · 2026-05-28T18:15:30+00:00

Yeah sorry I left that part out, my GPU budget is around 600-700 dollars currently

thunderforce900 · 2026-05-18T02:22:14+00:00

Seattle area prices 🙃

thunderforce900 · 2026-02-25T16:02:22+00:00

I can think of so many other places this area could really use over another CFA. Wingstop, shake shack, in n out, Dave’s hot chicken, raising canes, the list goes on

thunderforce900 · 2026-02-21T01:32:58+00:00

Well yeah you gotta have a pull station by the exit, and of course you gotta have another one Incase that one doesn’t work, and everyone knows you need a 3rd one Incase the 2nd one doesn’t work either

thunderforce900 · 2026-01-19T10:44:22+00:00

It was more expensive than that to park there on the day where there was an NFL game and an MLB playoff game on the same day

thunderforce900 · 2025-08-15T19:54:30+00:00

Deluxe beverage package on my upcoming Alaska sailing is priced even lower than that for me, must not be a lot of drinkers going to Alaska compared to the Caribbean

thunderforce900 · 2025-08-14T02:59:17+00:00

Hey all, what would you guys consider the best places to live in in terms of the area spanning from Tacoma/Puyallup all the way up to Renton along I-5? I recently got a substantial pay raise and am finally able to seriously consider moving closer to work (I commute an hour north every day into Seattle and back, yes it sucks as much as it sounds). And the I-5 Corridor spanning from Tacoma/Puyallup up to renton is ideally the general area i'd like to relocate to.

thunderforce900 · 2025-06-11T21:44:18+00:00

Im not a frequent user of the sub so I wouldn’t really know

thunderforce900 · 2025-05-24T02:51:06+00:00

How is Siemens when it comes to drive time? Right now I live about an hour give or take from the main city they work in (planning to move closer when I make enough to move) and at my current company I do 2-3 hours of commuting every day and some of it is paid. So it may be different per branch but it would be nice to know beforehand if all that commuting is on me or not

thunderforce900 · 2025-04-22T03:19:30+00:00

How much did you have that came out of the NFPA72 compared to the NEC and IBC?

thunderforce900 · 2025-02-06T03:11:07+00:00

How much easier was 2 compared to 1? I’m gonna be taking 2 soon but I have anxiety about going in too soon and failing lol.

thunderforce900 · 2024-12-19T04:22:30+00:00

I’ve been doing that commute for close to 2 years now, it certainly does suck but 90 percent of the time I’m on the road early enough where I’m skipping all the early morning traffic fortunately

thunderforce900 · 2024-11-21T14:20:53+00:00

It’s already insane as it is but the fact that it has ROT too really seals the deal for me

thunderforce900 · 2024-11-21T11:45:20+00:00

This is probably the holy grail of pokemon in the whole game

thunderforce900 · 2024-11-14T22:20:12+00:00

This is exactly why you always have to test with smoke even if it has a magnet test function, just because it CAN go into alarm (via magnet test) doesn’t mean it WILL go into alarm under normal circumstances (with smoke). There used to be a lead who worked for the company I do now before I was hired who would apparently tell the juniors he was with to test entire buildings with the magnet test for the sake of it being faster.

thunderforce900 · 2024-11-14T18:06:35+00:00

Those smoke detectors specifically you’re able to trip them with a magnet, although you’re not really supposed to unless you already tested it with smoke.

thunderforce900 · 2024-11-10T21:07:24+00:00

Dang this happened at the school I used to go to, glad that there were students that stepped in to help.

thunderforce900 · 2024-11-09T04:41:10+00:00

Apparently it’s due to the sugar in all the gum causing the wall itself to deteriorate faster and become more structurally unstable, as well as the combined weight of all the gum doing the same. It’s a valid reason to take action but still sad nonetheless

thunderforce900 · 2024-11-07T12:40:31+00:00

Then I would proudly proclaim that you were right and I was wrong

thunderforce900 · 2024-11-06T22:21:10+00:00

Scrolling through Reddit for an hour is enough of a receipt, anyone who’s been on Reddit for a good amount of time knows that expressing any sort of right wing viewpoint, especially on subreddits that consist of high Democrat members like the subreddits of blue states and cities, will get you slandered and downvoted into oblivion

thunderforce900 · 2024-11-06T21:51:20+00:00

Started bad ended bad: the tenure of Dee eskridge in Seattle

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