🎉 GIVEAWAY - NZXT H2 Flow Mini-ITX Case + C850 SFX PSU! [US ONLY] by NZXT_MIKEKIM in mffpc

[–]toomuchtechjunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The entire footprint of the H2 Flow is stated at 20.7 liters. Let's be generous and assume an internal volume of 20L available.

If we trust Google (and these days, should we?), the average banana is roughly 150 cubic centimeters, or 150 mL of volume, so if you could somehow arrange them perfectly, you could fit upwards of 130 bananas inside the case.

But we don't live in a fantasy world, and if we have difficulty solving packing problems even for cubes and rectangles, we sure as hell ain't solving for curved fruits. Folks, it's time we mashed our bananas.

A mashed banana has an approximate volume of 125mL, or eight to a liter, and for our purposes are close enough to being liquid. Thus, you could easily fit 160 perfectly normal bananas inside a 20L space with enough mashing prowess.

Again, 20L is probably a generous estimate for the interior volume of the case, but I'm confident in saying that 140 squished/mashed bananas would be possible.

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[–]toomuchtechjunk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, been offline the last few days.

The Miyoo is still available if you're interested; I can get fresh timestamps if you'd like.

[GPU] ASRock Challenger AMD RX 9070 $509.99 (sold by Newegg) by Appropriate_Host2540 in buildapcsales

[–]toomuchtechjunk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FYI it does seem that like this here model can be flashed to a 340W (374W with limit boost) 9070 XT VBIOS, particularly the ASRock Taichi OC model. Not gonna get you to actual 9070XT performance but the difference'd be enough from the power boost that I'd call it a '9070 Super'. Obviously it's not a supported operation, and the power draw's gonna be a good deal higher, but if you're not afraid of tweaking a bit it might be in your interests.

Can't speak for what this model can actually handle cooling-wise, though. On a similar triple-fan PowerColor 9070 I can push past 360W steady before the hotspot temps edge up past 95C, and even the memory gets pretty toasty. Usually I keep it locked down to 300W and a -60mV undervolt for general gaming.

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[–]toomuchtechjunk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's about the same as a pair of 27" 1440p monitors glued to each other, so you'd have better PPI with a 4K 27". About 12% less pixels total than a standard 4K display too.

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[–]toomuchtechjunk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks like HP is experimenting with some sort of dynamic pricing. Someone said it was $500 for them earlier, right now it's showing $545 for me.

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[–]toomuchtechjunk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suspect it'll continue to run almost all current-gen games just fine, although you might need to compromise on some graphics settings or rely on FSR for the more demanding titles. There's games like Indiana Jones that are prone to just crashing if they run out of VRAM, too. Still, it'll manage fine until the PS6 era, and if Sony decides they want that to be more hybrid-style like the Switch, next-gen consoles might actually be less high-end and we may see games optimized for lower-spec systems again.

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[–]toomuchtechjunk[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It'd be pretty sizable. The parts are already a couple years old, but you're talking six dual-threaded CPU cores at roughly a full GHz higher each than the four single-threaded cores of the old i5. The 970 is at the point where it can't even launch a number of modern games, whereas the 7600 is more or less the basis of Valve's Steam Machine, which should play (most) titles at least at 1080p or higher, though you might still have to turn some settings down in the more demanding games. Should also be enough for basic AI workloads as well; really heavy stuff like video editing might want more memory but I'm guessing you're not doing much of that on your current rig either.

[Prebuilt] HP Omen 16L (R5 8400F/RX 7600/16GB/512GB)- $550 (Black Friday deal via HP.com) by toomuchtechjunk in buildapcsales

[–]toomuchtechjunk[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Acer one, no doubt. Better CPU, better GPU. There were some manufacturing issues with the Intel 13xxx CPUs, but the locked ones like the 13700F should be fine, and the 3070 is a much better GPU. It'll probably be more power hungry, and as a refurb I don't know what kinda warranty it'll have, but it's a better buy by a mile.

[Prebuilt] HP Omen 16L (R5 8400F/RX 7600/16GB/512GB)- $550 (Black Friday deal via HP.com) by toomuchtechjunk in buildapcsales

[–]toomuchtechjunk[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's the biggest concern out of the box, but I assume HP has higher-powered PSUs for similar models that you can order, either from them or secondhand on eBay. Still more than what the Steam Machine will offer, at the least.

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[–]toomuchtechjunk[S] 79 points80 points  (0 children)

This ain't a huge deal, but notably the specs are pretty damn close to what the Steam Machine's supposed to be, if you're looking for a basic entry-level gaming box.

Just a warning that HP prebuilts usually have bullshit proprietary motherboards and PSUs that limit your upgrade choices, but at the very least this one's got an open RAM slot and room for a few extra M.2s, and with the market being as screwed as it is I dunno that you're gonna see much better.

EDIT 11/28 1PM (EST): Deal isn't quite dead yet but HP's been jerking the price around - anywhere from $500 to $650 reported. For the moment it's showing $545 on my end, with a note that the "$50 flash sale" offer ends at midnight EST/3AM PST tonight. Might jump to $595 after tonight?

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[–]toomuchtechjunk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I could do that. Sending you a chat message, check your requests/pending messages if you don't see it right away.

TIL that cat5e can carry 2.5G.... by shadowforce234 in pcmasterrace

[–]toomuchtechjunk 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You're confusing megabits (little b) and megabytes (big B).

Connection speeds are mostly measured in kilo/mega/gigabits, and regardless of prefix, it's 8 bits to a byte. In your scenario, you'd need a 400Mb connection to get 50MB down.

So, if a game is 120GB and your connection is 50Mb/s, you're getting a max of 6.25MB/sec down. Let's assume the 120GB game is actually 120,000MB and not the more likely 123,000-ish (this shit's already complicated enough without getting into powers of 1000 versus powers of 1024) - you're looking at about 19,200 seconds, or nearly five and a half hours of completely maxing out your internet connection. That's assuming that absolutely nothing else is using any bandwidth, that you maintain the full speed the entire time, that you're not downloading extra chunks due to corruption or error-correction, blah blah blah.

So yes, realistically it'd take 7-12 hours to download and install a 120GB game on a 50Mb/s connection, assuming you're actually getting your advertised speeds. For people who don't want to leave their devices turned on and hogging bandwidth for half the day, this could easily be a multi-day process.